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April 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Now, this is pretty interesting.
Listen to this, snurdly.
Mark Knoller, CBS News.
Mark Knoller says, the White House says that President Obama got on the Secure Video Conference, video teleconference line today with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, to discuss the Koran burning.
Now, what does that say about President Obama's priorities here?
When did this Koran burning take place?
It was two weeks ago, right?
Nobody knew about it for a week.
So the Koran burning takes place two weeks ago.
We have already burned Bibles in Afghanistan as a matter of social, we're fine people.
We'll burn our own Bibles.
Well, don't be offended here.
We'll wreak havoc to our own side on things.
I mean, this was even more important than flying off to see Al Sharpton.
More important than government shutdown.
So anyway, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, El Rushbow and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number, March 20th was the Koran burning, and here it is, April the 6th.
Anyway, telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, L. Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Grab soundbites one and two.
This is Richard Rogers, who is the Greater Boston Labor Council Executive Secretary Treasurer.
This happened Monday in Boston at a rally called We Are One.
And to the Republican Party of Massachusetts.
If you think this is going to happen here, it's going to be over thousands of people's dead bodies.
If you think Wisconsin was anything, we need to stop these guys in their tracks now and kill their bills at the state house.
And to the Republican Party of Massachusetts, if you think this is going to happen, he's talking about Wisconsin.
It's going to happen over thousands of people's dead bodies.
They must not have gotten a civility memo out there, folks, from Obama after the incident in Arizona.
And Simon, how do you pronounce his name?
Simon Cowell, the guy from American Idol?
He's out there taking shots at my buddy Elton John.
Damn straight.
Last night, CNN's Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell, was a guest, and they had this little discussion about Elton John.
Elton John gave you a bit of a whack, yellow.
What did he say?
Saying that it was very hard for anything outside of mainstream music to get a hit record now.
Well, look, this is somebody who charges, what, a million dollars a private gig, two million dollars.
You know, I don't know whether he's concerned about himself.
Maybe it is.
But they always bleat on that we're not giving other people a chance.
And I always want to say to them, I'll tell you what, you've just made a million dollars of your last private gig.
Go and give it to a bunch of young musicians you care about.
Put them in the studio.
Go and nurture them.
Go and spend some time looking after them.
Then I'll buy your argument.
They're only worried about themselves.
Whoa.
Now, when was Elton John's latest, last known private gig?
Which, by the way, led him to a Saturday Night Live host gig.
First time he's ever gotten that gig.
I mean, he's performed on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest, but never before as the host.
Cuba.
Cuba yesterday announced plans to drill five deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico beginning this summer, expressing confidence that its efforts will be rewarded with major new energy fines.
Manuel Marrero, an official with a government authority tasked with overseeing Cuba's oil sector, said, yep, we're about to move into the drilling phase.
Now, we all know, everybody knows, that Cuba does not have a drill.
Cuba does not have a single thing.
They barely have any dipsticks left to check the oil in the 57 Chevys that are sitting on the roadblocks in the sides of the road in Havana.
So who's actually drilling?
Who's actually going to be in partnership with Havana?
It'll be the Chikoms.
So when it says here, Cuba to drill five new oil wells, that's going to be the Chikoms helping out.
And you might have Hugo Chavez in there a bit.
I mean, Hugo Chavez is big, big buddy with Fidel Castro.
I know Simon Cowell is a right-winger.
I know he's a big.
I'm not being critical of Simon Cowell.
I'm just playing the soundbite.
They're ripping into my buddy Elton John out there.
That music business, that's tough.
It really is tough.
My buddy Andrew McCarthy yesterday, Andy, very smart.
We're still looking.
We're still paying very close attention to that democracy movement in Egypt.
And we're still looking for it.
Now, we don't think there's been one.
And I'm wondering where are all of the early adopters of our supposed support for the quote-unquote peace uprising in Egypt.
Mohammed Al-Baradai has threatened war against Israel.
He did.
Mohamed Al-Baradai has threatened, and he has his eyes set, his heart set on becoming a big guy in Egypt.
Now, we've been told, I'm sure you've heard this, that there is a, they're calling it the Arab Spring, a blossoming, if you will, of freedom and democracy, spearheaded by liberty lovers, to borrow Condoleezza Rice's words.
They just want to live side by side in peace with their Israeli neighbors.
This is what we're being told.
There wasn't the slightest cause for hesitation about getting rid of that thug, Mubarak.
No, we had to get rid of him.
An anti-terrorist, pro-American dictator.
He kept the peace with Israel for 30 years, even though Egyptians had killed his predecessor for agreeing to that peace.
So it was time for Mubarak to go.
And after all, the likely new rulers were largely secular, moderate Muslim Brotherhood people, right?
Remember the Iran-friendly leftists like Baradai, who are even more progressive than the brothers, if that's possible.
What could possibly go wrong here?
They're going to be a democracy.
Even some in our intelligentsia on the right assured us that this was a pro-democracy peace movement, the Arab Spring blossoming first in Egypt.
And if a substantial majority of Egyptians denies Israel's right to exist, why shouldn't they be able to enact that policy democratically?
Don't our values require we support them in their quest to chart their own destiny?
This is Andy McCarthy National Review online.
Anyway, Albaradai has come out and basically challenged Israel's right to exist, which is not for, I mean, Israel is our ally in that region.
This is not at all commensurate with what we were told that was happening in Egypt.
An uprising of freedom and democracy.
But it appears that the Obama regime cares less about our relationship with Israel than it does with our relationship with the new tyrants in Egypt.
In the New York Daily News, overweight city councilman pushes bill to ban toys in fast food meals to promote healthy eating.
That's the headline.
A rotund city councilman who admits his eating habits are off the scales wants to make kids' fast food meals less happy and more healthy.
I am an example, said Cymri, who refused to say how much he weighs.
There's a picture of him here.
I could probably guess 350.
If you look at me, I enjoy fast food and I enjoy unhealthy eating, and I don't want people to end up like me.
According to nutrition info on McDonald's website, the happy meals range in calories from 380 for a burger, apple diapers, or dippers, and juice to 700 calories for a cheeseburger, fries, and chocolate milk.
Those are the two happy meal options that you have in New York.
But this guy's office found that depending on what choices a kid or his parents make, the top calorie count in a happy meal can go to as much as 1,090 calories at McDonald's, 1,400 at Burger King, 10,080 at Wendy's, and 680 at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
We're not trying to hurt anybody's bottom line, the councilman said.
We're trying to help people's bottoms.
Even the first lady, Mucha Obama, is taking the junk food out of Americans' kids' mouths, pushing her healthy eating campaign since she moved into the White House.
40% of city kids in New York are overweight.
The guy's name is Leroy Cymry, and he has proposed a bill banning happy meals in New York.
Meanwhile, a 13-year-old girl has been arrested on hate crime charges, is accused of helping bully and attack a Muslim girl at their New York City middle school.
This was over happy meals, I guess.
The girl and a 12-year-old boy who was arrested last week were arraigned in family court Tuesday on charges of attempted robbery, third-degree assault as a hate crime.
Both were charged as juveniles.
We're in the custody of the Administration for Children's Services.
Authorities say the two bullied and tormented a 13-year-old Muslim girl at the Staten Island Schruel.
They called her a terrorist, and they tried to steal from her.
They say the abuse culminated with the two trying to rip off her headscarf.
So, a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old called someone names, tried to take her lunch money, and tried to pull off her scarf, and they were facing 18 months in jail.
Meanwhile, the kindergarten teacher who has reportedly admitted to sending death threats to 15 Republican state senators in Wisconsin has yet to be arrested.
Or even, you haven't heard about this?
Okay, that makes my point even more.
It hadn't even been reported on outside of Washington.
Wisconsin, a kindergarten teacher, admitted sending death threats to 15 Republican senators during the time the Democrat senators split and went to the border of Illinois.
She's yet to be arrested, yet to be charged.
Kid, you're not.
I got more of your phone calls.
I do have a soundbite roster yet to explore.
Still ahead here on the EIB network with Rush Limbaugh back after this.
I don't believe what I just heard.
There's Obama.
He's out there.
He's talking right now about the potential government shutdown.
You know what he said?
If you're planning on going Yellowstone Park this weekend, you can't.
It's going to be closed.
I don't know.
You have to call that money you put in that resort, get your money back.
They may not have refunds.
And he started talking about how it's going to have a negative impact on the recovery at just this moment when the recovery is coming back.
Economy's rebounding.
Businesses don't like uncertainty.
They're going to shut down the economy.
He said he's going to shut down the economy.
Haskey keeps saying that the Republicans wanted to be my way or the highway.
When does he ever compromise on anything?
This is the guy who runs around and tells the Democrats or tells the Republicans, I won.
But folks, if you weren't around in 1995, let me tell you why this Yellowstone stuff is funny.
Because it's just, it's so predictable.
In 1995, during the budget shutdown, that happened in the wintertime around Thanksgiving Christmas.
And the first guest during the government shutdown on CNN was some guy who turned out was a fan of this show.
But the guy owned the sleigh ride concession at Yellowstone National Park.
And he was on Larry King complaining about no business because it was the government that paid him.
He owned the concession, but they paid him.
In other words, when the government shut down, so did his sleigh rides.
And that became the metaphor here for the joke.
And now, here's Obama 16 years later.
And the example he gives is if you're going to go to Yellowstone Park, it's closed.
And if you've put a lot of money into your resort rental, I hope you can get it back.
But they might not offer refunds and launches into a discussion on how this is going to damage the economy.
Tom in Jamesville, New York.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Mego Dittos from Jamesville, New York.
Thank you, sir.
Real conservative.
Listened to you for 20 years.
Thank you very much, sir.
You were talking yesterday about trying to figure out whether or not Obama was doing all of the harm to the USA intentionally or was it simply incapping it?
Yeah, no, I was not trying to figure it out.
I was asking people what they think.
Oh, all right.
Well, I've come to the conclusion finally domestically, just because of his believability with Jerome Wright of Sololinsky and the Kensington economics theory.
Yeah, right.
I think all of the domestic issue things that he's doing is intentional.
Yeah.
Well, you have to wonder because it isn't working.
Almost three years of not working.
And they're doubling down on the same policies.
They're not changing it.
A normal person, okay, this isn't working, would try something else.
They're doubling down on it and compounding the problem.
So I know, I think it's a natural conclusion to draw.
Right.
And on his foreign policy, I think he is just totally and completely incompetent.
He does not have a clue what he is doing or what to do.
Well, let me ask you this then.
If he doesn't have a clue what he's doing or what to do, do you think he cares?
I'm sorry?
Do you think he cares about foreign policy?
I do not.
No.
No, I do not.
So what is it?
It's just a necessary evil he's got to spend some time on.
Absolutely.
He tries to farm everything out, such as Libya farming that out to the UN.
If he can just get his hands off it, if it backfires, he's out of the way.
Speaking of which, thanks to the call out there, you just reminded the Tom, you just reminded me of something.
The rebels.
I'm sorry.
Everything just hits me as funny today.
The rebels in Libya are mad.
They're claiming that NATO is not responding in time.
They're sending in coordinates and targets, and it's taking NATO eight hours to respond, hit the targets, and by the time NATO responds, the targets have moved.
They're no longer accurate.
And the NATO guy is saying, well, no, look, here's our blueprint.
Here's our master plan.
You can see our schedule of attacks is the same.
Nothing's changed.
But rebels, rebels are complaining NATO's incompetent.
NATO can't do anything right.
I mentioned mere moments ago to a caller who said she was 31.
I said, imagine being 31 and being first lady.
Jackie Kennedy was, if not 31, she was very young when she was first lady.
And I don't know if you're watching this Kennedys miniseries, if you were able to find it.
Now, full disclosure here, as many of you know, Joel Cerno, who's the producer of that program, is a good friend of mine.
And so you might think that anything I say about this series is tainted because of my friendship.
But I have to say, I've been watching a little bit of it.
I want to watch most of it with Catherine, but I have watched a snippet.
I've got all eight episodes.
That's what happens when you know the producer.
Now, I've got all eight episodes, and I've watched snippets of each episode.
And it has been really hard to turn them off and wait for a time when Catherine and I could watch these together.
This thing, and I know the story.
We all of a certain age, we know the story.
We know how this ends.
And even so, there are things in this mini-series about the Kennedys that little details that I wasn't aware of, but they're small things.
But nevertheless, the production value here and the acting, it is good.
I'm going to be honest with you.
When Joel told me he's going to do a mini-series on the Kennedys, I said, hasn't that been done?
And how many Kennedys movies and so forth have there been done?
But he was intent on telling the full story in an eight-hour mini-series in a way he thought would surprise people, and it does.
It's on the cable network.
It's on his reels.
R-E-E-L-Z.
And I think they've had three episodes now.
Sunday night was two hours.
Tuesday night was last night, was one hour, and it continues tonight at 8 o'clock.
And the ratings for this thing are through the roof, too.
It is really good.
I was surprised.
Stop and think of this.
The rebels.
Sorry.
Everything strikes me this phone.
The rebels are calling.
The Libyan rebels are calling in NATO attacks, and we don't even know who the rebels are yet.
It looks like they're al-Qaeda.
It looks like that they have Al-Qaeda money or inspiration.
We've given the rebels a phone number.
NATO.
This is Obama's war.
It's Obama's other.
The rebels are calling NATO.
And then the rebels get ticked off because NATO doesn't show up.
How do you like the Obama bureaucracy?
Imagine if the rebels get a flat tire, one of the Humvees.
What are they going to do?
Matt, Charleston, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
What's the big deal with the corpses?
Just have Obama send out some corpsemen and pick them all up.
The elderly corpses.
Send some corpsemen up to pick them up.
I love it when you can laugh at the president of the United States this way.
And it's genuinely funny.
Elaine in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.
Hi, Elaine.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks for the opportunity to talk with you, Rush.
I appreciate it.
You bet.
I'm a retired teacher, and I just wanted to address what you talked about in the first hour about teachers or people planning trips to Washington.
They were disappointed because nothing's going to be open and all this because of the shutdown.
That's why a good teacher makes the best lesson she's ever had.
You take this kid on a walking tour of Washington.
You don't have to go in the bookstore and the gift shops and all these places.
You can stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and give the best history lesson ever.
You're looking out of the reflecting pool.
To your left is the Vietnam Memorial.
To your right is the Korean Memorial.
You're looking just past the World War II Memorial of the Washington Monument.
Yeah, but all that's going to be closed.
They can't close the streets and the sidewalks.
You can walk past all these things.
You don't have to go inside to the top of the Washington Monument.
Yeah, you get a great view of Washington, but you can still see the outside of all these monuments.
Yeah, that's true.
You can take a walking tour.
You want to see the cherry blossoms?
Walk at the Jefferson Memorial.
It's incredible.
The walk is gorgeous and it's beautiful.
You can have your own history lesson right there without going inside any of these places down on the street.
Well, that's, you know, that's, that's, look, that's all very true.
And what you're, like I said, go to Mount Vernon.
Right, exactly.
Exactly.
Go to the National Cathedral.
You know, we don't have to depend on our government to teach our kids' history.
Or go to Arlington Cemetery.
I know they're not going to shut down.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
The greatest place in Washington is Arlington because you've got history from every aspect.
You know, it just galled me that you'd hear somebody whining about something like that in Washington when they don't need those places.
Well, that's because these are political pawns.
This teacher is nothing more than a political pawn.
Yeah, can't go on a tour of Washington.
Can't go to the parade because the Republicans shut down the government.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
No, Elaine, you're exactly right.
Great call.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
Robert in Hubbard, Ohio.
Hi, sir.
Great you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, Hoya de Monterrey Excalibur number one, English Claro Selection Dittos.
Fine, fine tobacco, sir.
Fine tobacco.
Mr. Limbaugh, look, I called Boehner's office.
I called Ryan's office with this.
The Republicans are swimming uphill when they don't need to.
They simply have to agree to what the Democrats want with this caveat.
They need to go in and defund everything in that budget.
Department of Education, NPR radio, et cetera, et cetera, et al.
Defund it all.
Then send it over to the Senate and let the Senate say.
The Democrats in the Senate, of course, say, nay, we won't accept this and let the Democrats in the Senate shut the government down because they wouldn't accept the proposal.
Just defund everything.
Well, here's the problem that the Republicans would tell you that they face.
At the end of the day, they would get the blame that you have just said would fall upon the Democrats.
Before that budget even arrived at the Democrats, it would be reported that the Republicans want to get rid of all education for your kids.
They want to close down the schools and not just the school lunch program.
They want to close the schools.
Your kids would be dead on the side of the street along with their grandparents.
Can we agree, Mr. Limbaugh, that it is the responsibility of the states to provide education for those people that live within their borders?
No, no, I don't disagree with you at all.
I'm giving you, what I'm telling you is what's going to happen PR-wise, and that's what the Republicans care about.
It's as frustrating to me as it is you.
But that's what they, look at, they don't, the government shutdown in 95 was not a loser.
The Republicans won re-election in 96, but they took the bullet in the media and PR, and they don't want to take that again.
The Republicans, you know, I don't know how, I don't know if you would like it yourself, and I'm not challenging here, don't misunderstand, but if you got up every day and read the stuff that was written about them that said about you, if you were a murderer, if you didn't care about these kids, if you didn't care, how would you react to it?
Mr. Limbaugh, I served four years on a school board.
I did not get elected for a second term.
I served a four-year term as president of the school board.
Under my tenure, because the budget went in the dumpster, we had to do away with busing and do away with sports.
They picketed my home.
They called me every name they could think of at the newspapers.
I did not back down.
I didn't care if I got re-elected, Mr. Limbaugh.
We need people in political office with a backbone, not interested in getting elected to a second term.
Well, I totally agree with the backbone business.
And kudos to you.
You are rare if you cannot care about this.
I don't either.
But most people, do you understand?
Look, I'm just talking human nature.
And this is what we're up.
Do you understand how many people are totally governed, not by what people think about them, but by what they think people are going to think about them?
It's even worse than that.
Most people are paralyzed the way they live their lives by what they think everything they do is going to be thought of.
Well, I have to tell you that if we don't start getting individuals in places of responsibility, the country is doomed.
You have to be able to get it.
I will tell you when the country's doomed.
And it's not doomed yet.
Well, we're still in there fighting.
That's right, because guys like you are running for the school board.
You can't say the country's doomed when guys like you are still out there doing what you're doing.
Well, you know, you've got to get in there and you've got to fight and you've got to make a difference.
And the by, oh, and by the way, Mr. Limbaugh, I also fired 86 people out of the school system.
God, I love you, man.
Firing people like that, That's guts.
I mean, it's the board I served on, the people I served with.
But the bottom line is we had to reduce literally thousands of dollars out of that budget, and we did.
This is in Hubbard, Ohio.
Yes, sir.
What's the population of Hubbard?
6,800 in the city, and about another 4,000 in the township.
But that's the only thing that's a luxury community here in Ohio.
We're right on the Pennsylvania border, right on Interstate 80.
Lovely community.
Well, you fire 86 people.
That's a large percentage.
Well, it happened.
This was in 1984 when we did this.
We had to get the budget under control.
We were broke.
We had no money.
And here's the thing, too.
We did not want to go to the taxpayers and say we want more money out of your pocket.
Now, did you run for re-election or just?
Oh, yes, I did run for re-election.
I lost by four votes.
I got 2,600 votes, and my opponent got 2,603.
So clearly, you're not a career politician.
Oh, please.
No, sir.
I don't believe in career politics.
I'm a term limits guy.
I have to be very honest with you.
If I had my brothers, we'd have term limits.
Did you demand it?
I know you're brilliant in this in history.
The founding fathers didn't perceive these jobs as tenured service.
Nobody should have squatters' rights on these jobs.
You go, you serve, and you go back home.
Well, certainly they viewed the House of Representatives, as you've described.
They did view the Senate as an aristocracy.
Well, it is.
In fact, in the original days, the people didn't even elect the Senate because the founders thought they were too stupid.
Well, it's unfortunate that we have put ourselves in this position in this country.
I also served a term as director of public safety for this particular jurisdiction where I had to.
Did you demand a recount?
You lose by four votes.
Well, but I got 2,600.
And you need to look at it in that, you know, you really need to look at it from a positive standpoint.
I actually got more.
I think I got, to be honest with you, I think it was like 2,480 and my, you know, if we're talking numbers, 2,480, and the person that beat me got 2,490, something like that.
It was like a few votes.
As a matter of fact, we went to bed that evening thinking I had been re-elected.
Got up the next morning and found out I had not.
But we cut bussing, Mr. Limbaugh.
Do you know what color my campaign signs were?
Black and yellow.
Black and yellow.
Yes, sir.
Well, you're close to Pittsburgh.
We are indeed.
Yes, you are.
We are indeed.
All right.
Look.
Well, I'm going to go back and enjoy my Hoya.
I don't blame you.
Got to have your priorities.
And I don't blame you.
That's Robert in Hubbard, Ohio.
Thanks, Robert, for the phone call.
Okay, we're back and we go.
Where are we headed?
We're headed to Quincy, Illinois.
Hi, Rich.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Wonderful to talk to you.
Long, long time listener.
Finally got through.
Thank you, sir.
I am just so curious about why the people are so worried about a government shutdown.
I think the reason actually is that nobody may notice.
That's probably why the politicians are worried about it.
Well, Grab Sunby.
Nobody would actually notice that the government shut down.
Well, I think you're right.
I think, Rich, you got a point, but I want you to listen.
I don't have much time.
Grab Sunby 23.
This is Obama, what I just talked about.
He's in Pennsylvania.
Folks who were planning a vacation to Yellowstone.
Well, it turns out national parks, suddenly you're close.
You're out of luck.
You may have to try to figure out if you can get your money back for that resort you were going to stay at.
I mean, these are things that affect ordinary families day in, day out.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
This guy is so arrogant.
He doesn't realize what an idiot he is.
Redum tape.
Getting momentum.
We had the best jobs report we had had in a very long time this past Friday.
But you know what?
Companies don't like uncertainty.
And if they start seeing that suddenly we may have a shutdown of our government, that could halt momentum.
Really?
Talk about uncertainty.
How about your regime?
Your regime personifies uncertainty.
So Obama's out there wherever he is.
He's not at Al Sharpton's convention yet.
And a guy in the audience started complaining about the price of gasoline for his SUV.
And honest to gosh, Obama said, well, if you're getting eight miles a gallon, you might want to think about a trade-in.
He didn't even say, have you checked your tire pressure?
He said, you might want to think about a trade-in.
Now, that is liberal compassion.
That is feeling our pain.
And we'll see you tomorrow, folks.
Already Thursday.
Can you believe it?
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