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April 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 20, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, man, we love anniversaries on this program, and there's a big one today.
This is the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, the media going nuts out there, one year anniversary today of the explosion.
Which uh of the rig, which which started the uh the spill.
You remember we were told at the time how the Gulf might never recover.
And they sent a little school kids down there from St. Louis to investigate the damage to see the evil that oil is up close and personal.
Well, guess what?
The Gulf region has recovered, in fact, it recovered a long time ago, within months, just as we said it would.
If you watch a cable news networks today, it turns out that the real scandal is that the ex-CEO, Tony Hayward is still alive.
Still a free man.
He's not in chains somewhere, he's not in a dungeon.
He's not in prison.
He hasn't been executed for his crimes against humanity and Mother Nature.
In fact, uh Mr. Hayward was the only man, aside from me, who accurately described the very limited extent of the damage, and the only guy who accurately predicted how quickly it would be cleaned up, besides us, of course.
And yet he is villain number one.
Well, no, Trump.
Trump is villain number one, Tony Hayward number two today.
How are you, folks?
Great to have you here already the middle of the week.
It's hump day.
Great to have you here.
Our telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882, and the uh email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
I was talking about gas prices with Snerdley.
In fact, I've got a number of people emailing me uh and instant messaging me about gas prices, the price of gasoline per gallon finally hit five dollars uh in Washington.
But big whoop, how many politicians there will even notice?
How many of them drive their own cars or pump their own gas or even pay for their own gas?
Uh and if they do, they're reimbursed for it.
I was talking about it uh with with Snerdley, he came in here.
I said, Boy, you know, I tell you what, this gas price, it's just getting bad out there, and everybody's talking about it.
So are they really?
Is everybody talking about it?
You know, here we're getting close to five dollars in many parts of the country.
We've gone past it in Washington.
We are well over four dollars in many parts of the country, and yet you don't see anything about it on the news.
And it's a you know, it's a sad reality.
If you go back during the Bush years, when the gasoline price exceeded three dollars and started its incremental rise on the way to four dollars, the oil price itself was skedaddling upward on its way to $150 a barrel.
It's all we heard about.
The oil speculators came in for a shellacking.
The CEOs of major oil companies, Rex Tillerson and Exxon Mobile, and all the rest of them were vilified.
We heard never-ending stories on windfall profits.
And now none of that.
None of it.
We're not hearing.
In fact, the stories, and I've shared them with the stories we're getting on the gasoline price approaching five bucks a gallon is you know, we had one yesterday.
Here are some of the positives associated with this.
Here's some of the things that we should be happy about for this.
And I was reminded all during the Bush years we were in a roaring boom economy, yet the media was reporting that we were on the verge of a recession.
They were trying to create a recession in people's minds, day in and day out.
And you talk to people, and they thought we were in one.
So we'd ask them, well, how are you doing?
Oh, God, I'm doing fine.
I mean, I'm having uh one of my best years, but my God, I watch the news, my neighbors must be in really big trouble.
Well, have you asked them?
Well, no, but the news says that it's really bad out there.
So whereas individuals may be complaining, they may be feeling the pain of rising gas prices, they're not seeing it in the media.
And so, there's no sense of Shared experience.
So if you are a person that's been profoundly affected by rising gasoline prices, you might think you're the only one because you're not seeing the pain and suffering stories.
It's just like we have an incompetent boob in the White House, and yet we continue to hear nothing other than how eloquent he is.
And how elegant and how much smarter than all the rest of us he really is.
We just can't keep up.
In the meantime, we've got that we're in the midst of an utter economic disaster.
If if this were a media that were at all interested in journalism, what they did during the Bush years, which was phony, made up and exaggerated, all they would have to do is report the truth today.
But they're not doing it.
So it remains a curiosity.
A friend of mine said, you know, it you you wait rush.
I mean, it's gonna get really wild out there as these prices keep going up because that's causing the price of food to go.
I know I don't disagree with any of this.
I know it's gonna get wild, but is it going to be reported that it's getting wild?
And thus, you know, people somehow are reluctant to assume that what's happening to them is happening to everybody else.
They have to be told that it is.
And if they don't see it, if they don't see in the news, if they don't see it reflected by the media, they may not think that it's that widespread, so they're not going to run around and complain about it because they don't want to be thought of as whiners.
So the bottom line is the media is doing everything it can to make sure Obama is untouched by this.
Look at Libya.
LBJ was driven out of office for essentially micromanaging the Vietnam War.
Here Obama starts wars and then runs away from them.
Now the Brits are starting to send in ground troops.
Uh hello, that's how Vietnam started escalating.
The French, the Brits, NATO starting to escalate the war in Libya.
Where's Obama?
He doesn't know.
He doesn't care.
He's uh, you know, he did what he could to get his PR spin and value out of it, and he's off to other things.
He's got a Facebook deal this afternoon.
What's he doing?
That question and answer session today on Facebook at 445.
He never talks to adults anymore.
And I found out, by the way, that the number of friends, Facebook has friends, we have a bunch of them on our own Facebook page.
In the White House, Obama has his own Facebook page.
And I'm told that just one percent of the friends on Obama's Facebook page have signed up essentially to be part of this question and answer session today on Facebook.
So aside from talking to union goons, he never anymore talks to adults.
There must be some kind of fancy psychological name for such a syndrome.
You could call it cowardice.
But he's not out talking to adults about any of this.
So the gas price is uh is rising.
We've got the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill.
The media is trying to tell us, and I've got stories here, they're still looking for that oil.
It's there.
That spilled oil, it's there, and it's wreaking havoc somewhere.
They just don't know where it is, but they're gonna find it.
Meanwhile, they have not noticed the rising gasoline price.
They're still trying to make hay out of a one-year-old oil spill that never amounted to much, and it was not destructive.
Not nearly in the terms they described.
And we've got a montage of media people attempting to claim that Bill Clinton's tax increases are what led to the economic boom of the 1990s.
So additional assaults on individual liberty and freedom, still the order of the day of the Democrat Party.
There's a poll out, ABC News, Washington Post poll, and apparently, folks, I mean, it's bad, but the drive-bys are really uh they're depressed by this.
It is apparently even worse for Obama than it appears to be.
His approval number is plummeting.
F. Chuck Todd offered an opinion today that, you know, one of the reasons Obama's opinion number went down after his speech with Paul Ryan in the audience, and where he got exceptionally partisan and mean spirited, the approval number went down, and F. Chuck Todd at MSNBC says, you know, it's just it doesn't work for Obama when he goes partisan.
He says he's he's gotta stay above the phrase.
When he goes partisan like that, starts getting into partisan attacks, it just doesn't work.
Yeah, they're doing everything they can to do everything they can to advise this guy on how to avoid the quicksand.
No, when is he not partisan?
When is he not partisan?
This is but this all part of the uh uh the notion that we've got this elegant, eloquent uh Messiah who's still way above it.
By the way, this Messiah said something.
I've uh this just sounds strange.
Let me find it.
It's Obama talking about Easter.
And it is grab but grab somebody 21.
Now, it's risky.
You know, whenever you start talking and reacting to other people's expression of their religion beliefs, religious beliefs.
It's it's dangerous territory to wait into.
But I don't care that this still strikes me as strange phraseology.
It's just uh well, I've I've never heard people discuss the resurrection the way Obama did.
This was yesterday in Washington, the White House, there was a Easter prayer breakfast, and here's just a portion of what uh of what Obama said.
I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason.
Because as busy as we are, as many tasks has pile up during this season, uh we are reminded that there's something about the resurrection.
Something about the resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ that puts everything else in perspective.
There's just something about the resurrection that puts everything in perspective.
I don't know what that would be.
I I this I've again I've I've just not heard it.
The I mean, usually that's how they title movies.
You know, there's something about Mary.
There's something about Snerdley, but you just don't hear there's something about the resurrection.
What about the resurrection?
What is it, sir, about the resurrection that puts everything else in perspective.
That's just something about the resurrection.
Can you imagine I Mr. Lumbo, are you leveling a disguised alligator act?
No, no, Mr. New Castrati.
I'm I'm just never heard.
I've never heard it discussed this way.
I when he discusses the call to prayer in the Muslim world as being one of the sweetest sounds in the world, I mean, that's an eloquent way to describe the Muslim call to prayer.
Here we return the resurrection.
There's something about that.
You know what?
Michelle and I were talking about it.
Something about that that just puts everything in perspective.
All right, a brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, Wiffleball is back at summer camp in New York.
Did you know, by the way, if you have an iPhone, and a lot of you do, if you upgraded to the latest iOS system 4.0 or 4.x, your iPhone is keeping track of everywhere you have been.
It does it in two ways.
It keeps an internal file on the phone, and then when you attach the phone to your computer via iTunes to sync it, it transfers the file as part of the iPhone backup file on your computer.
Meaning that if your spouse has, and and the story with this has a program you can download to uncover this file and read it.
If your spouse has access to your phone, your spouse can find out where you have been everywhere you've it doesn't matter.
It does it via latitude and longitude.
It just reports whether you've got location services turned on or not.
You can't turn this off.
Wherever you've been, by virtue of latitude and longitude, a record is kept since last June, which is the new software Rev came out.
Apple will not tell anybody why they've put this in there.
Android software supposedly doesn't have it.
People are speculating, well, maybe Apple has some new app coming or new use for the phone in a later software rep that will take advantage of this feature.
Now it doesn't report it to anybody.
No, no, it doesn't send the news to Apple.
It keeps it on your phone and on your computer when you've synced and done a backup.
It doesn't transmit it anywhere.
But you can, once you download, and once you get the program that'll unlock this backed up file, and the app that does this juxtaposes it on a map.
You don't have to go look at the latitude and longitude and figure out where it is, it juxtaposes it on a map.
So yeah, it it's it's um pretty startling.
Just thought you should know about that.
If if some of you people are going places that you don't want anybody to know, your phone knows, and therefore somebody can find out.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back.
It's Rushland Ball behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number 80082-2882.
The iPhone saves every detail of your movement to a file on the phone, and then transfers that file to the backup file when you connect your iPhone to your computer via iTunes, it does an automatic backup before it starts sinking your latest data.
There's no way to turn this off.
You cannot, it is not related to the location services button.
No way to turn it off.
The only way that you can get rid of the file is to eliminate the backup file on your computer, but you can't eliminate it from the phone.
All you can do is eliminate the backup file, which you don't want to do.
You want to keep your phone backed up, your pictures, everything else.
In case you lose it, you have to restore it at some point.
So right now there's no way to turn it off.
What if you get this?
And you can download a program, it's very easy.
You run the program and it automatically finds the file from your backed up iPhone file on your computer and it displays it on a map where you've been.
And just if you do this, wouldn't it be funny if your phone has been places you haven't been?
Well, people are going to start thinking of ways to beat this.
You know, put the phone on the dog collar and send a dog out a couple of days and make sure that you're not with the phone when the dog runs around.
But nobody, nobody can get any word out of Apple on why they're doing this.
It's not reported anywhere.
The file is not sent anywhere.
They found that out.
It's just it's kept solely on the phone and then on your computer as a uh as a backup file.
Story is in the uh the UK Guardian today with all the details and all the explanations, and that story then will take you to a link, has a link that'll take you to the researchers and their page where you can download the app that will translate the file for you, so you can actually see on a map where you've been with your phone.
It'll tell you that.
And there's a timestamp, so it tells you where you were and when you were there.
So if people get hold of your file, people get hold of your your computer, your backed up file, or get hold of your iPhone.
This is something they can now learn from it.
Phone gets stolen or whatever, and you can't turn it off.
Now I checked the email during the break, and some people rush, you know, why you why why do you jump on Obama's case here about what he said about Easter?
Folks, look.
Um without without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is no Christianity.
Without that, Christianity isn't true.
And Obama, when he says there's something about the resurrection that puts everything else in perspective.
Here he is talking about Easter.
You know, after hearing him describe it that way, I'm actually surprised that Obama doesn't think of Easter as the day the big rabbit comes out of this hole.
And depending on whether he sees his shadow or not, we're in for a long winter.
That's the groundhog, Mr. I know it's the groundhog.
I'm trying to tell you what I think Obama probably thinks.
Easter is the most sacred, most important Christian holiday, and this is just a strange thing to say about it.
As busy as we are, as many tasks that pile up during this season, we're reminded there's something about the resurrection, something about the resurrection of our Savior puts everything else in perspective.
What is it about the resurrection that does that?
Okay, we'll get to the Obama polling data that the drive-bys are in literal panic over.
Ladies and gentlemen.
The iPhone story I'm told is also in the Washington Post, if you want to dig further.
Brief timeout, we'll be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Talent on loan from God.
Ella Rushbow at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
New York state health officials have yanked a set of proposed guidelines for what were initially deemed risky.
Camp day games like Tag, Red Rover, and Kickball.
Health Department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton says the rules and the list of games and activities were sent out to municipalities and other camp operators under the previous regime.
So Mrs. Hutton is blaming a blind black guy, the former governor David Patterson for these rules.
She says that after a review, spurred by a lawmaker's questions Friday and his subsequent news reports, they've been judged too detailed and amount to micromanagement.
So they weren't wrong.
They were just too detailed.
She said yesterday that the department will continue gathering information during a comment period that ends in May and will formulate new safety regulations that are broader.
So, Red Rover and Wiffleball will be allowed now at Summer Camp.
But I guarantee you this, if there had not been any report, what happens is this was reported and parents, everybody else reacted in utter outrage.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Stop wiffle ball?
No wiffle ball?
That's dangerous.
It's plastic for crying out loud.
You couldn't hurt anybody with a whiffle ball if you tried to.
And you'd have to work pretty hard to hurt somebody with a wiffle ball bat.
So now here the bureaucrats of this current regime in New York blame the previous administration, David Patterson.
And there's nothing wrong with the guidelines except they were too detailed.
But people found out.
So they promised to put the rules back in later when nobody's looking.
But I mean, this is what they would get away with if they were able to.
Don't.
These people are only acting ashamed in that they were caught, not because they think that this was outrageous in the first place.
They knew what the rules were, and they were going to enforce them anyway.
They'll find a way.
They'll find a backdoor way to um to get all of these regulations back in at a later time.
Told you a couple days ago that the regime was scared to death over the Standard and Poor's credit rating that they got is unstable.
They were really worried about it.
Turns out that we were right about that.
The Washington Post has a has a story here that the regime privately urged Standard and Poor's not to lower its outlook on the U.S., a suggestion the ratings agency ignored Monday.
Treasury Department officials had been uh discussing with SP whether the ratings agency should change its outlook on the U.S. to negative from stable, an indication that the country could.
You know what Obama actually said to him?
Obama went to Standard Poor said you've got to understand politicians have unique methods of dealing with high deficits.
I hope they laughed at him.
Here is the architect of deficits in debt unheard of in this nation prior to his arrival.
Begging and pleading with the SP people, hey, you know, don't do that.
Just, you know, keep our rating at stable.
Politicians can do a lot to fix the deficit.
I hope they laughed in his face.
Treasury officials told SP analysts they were underestimating the ability of politicians in Washington to fashion a compromise to curb deficits.
I mean I'm not kidding.
The architects of this told the SP guys, hey, you know what?
You you are you are underestimating our ability to lower deficits.
The SP people probably said, well, we don't think so.
Can you show us where you've done anything to lower deficit?
You've done nothing but blow the lid off deficits.
But the bottom line is the regime was very panicked about this.
From the Hill.com, President Obama's approval ratings are plummeting, and the timing is terrible for the White House.
Even as Obama skewered Representative Paul Ryan in the House GOP budget plan, his approval rating dipped in a gallop poll of 41%.
That's the lowest number yet of his presidency.
Washington Post ABC News poll released yesterday shows Obama at 47%.
That's down seven points this year, seven points since January.
Worse yet for the White House.
Gallup shows the president in a nosedive with independents who are coveted by the Obama Biden 2012 campaign.
Okay, that's the Hill.com story from the UK telegraph by Niall Gardner.
The omens certainly were not good for Barack Obama last week with a devastating gallop survey showing the president with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency at just 41%, according to real clear politics.
The president now has an average disapproval rating across several major polls of nearly 50%.
The White House received another significant blow today, yesterday, with the release of the latest Washington Post ABC News poll, which revealed deep seated public unease over Obama's handling of the economy, a number one issue for U.S. voters, as the Post noted in a front page piece headlined economy is battering Obama in the polls.
And by a margin of 44 to 28, U.S. voters believe the economy is getting worse under Obama.
That is not insignificant.
The general public catching up to the Tea Party.
Perhaps most worryingly for President Obama, just 28% of Americans now say they will definitely vote for him in 2012.
Story continues with this.
It is increasingly clear that the president's heavily planned speech last week on the budget deficit has failed to convince not only the American public but the markets as well.
With the huge vote of no confidence on Monday from credit rating agency Standard & Poor's, the Obama regime is looking remarkably out of its depth in the face of a massive deficit crisis which it simply refuses to confront.
That is that is A one on the money.
Remarkably out of its depth in the face of a massive deficit crisis, which it simply refuses to confront.
Even the International Monetary Fund is laughing at Obama's deficit plans.
I've got the story here in the stack.
Folks, you can't go on television and say as he did yesterday.
You simply you can't spend more than you take in.
You just can't do it.
I don't know who writes this stuff for him.
And I know that that was a prelude to raising taxes.
That's why they said it, but somebody is totally tone-deaf.
From the architect of spending more than you take in.
After the fact, after it's done to the Point of destroying the U.S. economy, the guy goes out and says you can't do what I just did for the past two years, as though somebody else did it.
Remarkably out of its depth.
MSNBC.com, their first read yesterday from NBC's F. Chuck Todd.
Did last week's speech backfire.
They cite the Washington Post ABC poll.
47% approval.
F. Chuck notes that Obama usually doesn't get rewarded when he comes off as too partisan.
He thinks his lack of focus on jobs may have hurt him.
That's F. Chuck's opinion.
Really?
His lack of focus on jobs.
What was their first clue?
You know, this is an indictment of you people in the media, too.
You people in the media have been trying to trump up this guy and make him sound like Mr. Perfection.
The architect of reviving the Bush economy.
Obama has all the answers.
Obama's above criticism.
Obama's unlike anything we've ever had in office before.
Obama understands fairness.
Obama focusing laser-like on jobs.
You guys.
In the drive-by media, you've got to be just as concerned about your own level of influence as you are about Obama's polling numbers, because you have been trying to tell the American people the exact opposite of what these polls indicate they think.
Imagine, imagine working in the drive-by media.
And for the last two years you have made it your objective to convince the American people it's the greatest president we've ever had that this guy is so far ahead of us that we're just fortunate to be alive at the same time he is, to be able to look from afar and to marvel at his brilliance and his talent.
This is the message.
This is the image.
This is what we've been told.
We've been told to be patient.
This plan, his policy, they're gonna finally make it fair, make it even, utopia is ours.
So wherever you look today, there is panic in the drive-by media over this one poll, the ABC News and the Gallup poll, too.
So panic over two polls.
And make no mistake, it's not just panic because of the impact on Obama.
It's panic because the people in these polls are essentially saying they haven't bought the drivel.
The state control media has been telling them for two years.
Have you noticed?
I'm sure you have, but let me remind you what you've seen.
You noticed how Obama waited for the Republicans to throw themselves on the live grenade that is the budget deficit.
They waited for Paul Ryan.
Obama waited for the Republicans to come up with a plan to deal with the deficit.
And of course, Ryan has a plan to deal with Medicare and Medicaid.
I don't care where you look and what you read, you can't escape the notion that to fix this, they're gonna have to be changes in Medicare and Medicaid.
No two ways about it.
So what do we get from Obama?
We have a serious proposal that does not impact current recipients.
This is where Trump is getting something wrong here.
Paul Ryan's not throwing current Medicare Medicaid recipients overboard, nor is he throwing current Social Security recipients overboard.
But no matter.
The Democrats don't propose a budget.
The Democrats don't propose any way of dealing with it.
The Democrats have played a major role in creating this mess.
They turn over the heavy lifting to the Republicans.
Paul Ryan does the heavy lifting.
Comes up with a budget plan to save the country.
And then what does Obama do?
What does Obama do?
He attacks them for doing it.
He attacks them for how they're doing it.
That is real leadership, folks.
Real leadership on the part of our president who now will not speak to adults.
Create the problem.
Act like he is going to provide leadership to fix it.
Offer no fix whatsoever.
The Republicans offer a fix, the Ryan budget.
What does Obama do?
Attacks Ryan personally and the Republicans in general for doing that's real leadership.
Obama's speech, think about it.
Hasn't Paul Ryan grabbed the proverbial mop here?
Aren't the Republicans trying to clean up this deficit mess?
And aren't they trying to get the proverbial car out of the proverbial deficit ditch?
How come Obama's criticizing the Republicans instead of grabbing a mop himself and joining them?
How come he's standing on the sidelines drinking slurpees instead of helping get the car out of the ditch?
It's almost like he's forgotten all of his speeches in the last two years.
He probably has, because I don't think he wrote them.
He read them.
But fortunately, my friends, we have an unfettered media who will take him to task unmercifully for his rank hypocrisy.
Paul Ryan has grabbed the mop.
Ryan's trying to get the car out of the deficit ditch.
Obama's on the sidelines drinking slurpees and attacking Ryan for what he's doing.
You know, uh I have made the claim on this program that Obama is in way over his head economically.
Combined with that giant chip on his shoulder about capitalism, its inherent unfairness, and how it's time the United States finally paid a price for its unfairly gained wealth and power over all of these years.
And I have said that Obama hasn't the slightest idea about creating demand.
But actually he does.
His economic plan has created what we need most.
Demand.
Buyers buying things.
The bad news is that the demand is for gold and silver and platinum because his policies are weakening the dollar.
So the demand isn't all the wrong things if we're talking about demand that will lead to economic growth.
We've got demand born of economic fear.
We've got demand born of people scared to death of what the future holds.
We have demand of the kind that is taking people out of the game.
So, yeah, Obama might have a winning smile...
To some a loving family ability to say things that sound good, but he does not have a clue about the real world.
Whoever's educated him, whoever has mentored him, has told him things about this country and the world which are not true.
He doesn't understand the first thing about economics, business.
New York Times doesn't have anybody writing columns about business that knows what they're talking about.
All these op-ed columnists writing about business, how we ought to be emulating China for crying out loud.
Look at the phony experts the left puts forward people that have no business experience whatsoever, nor does Obama, nor does anybody in his regime, nobody in his regime has a day's worth of experience in the private sector.
Other than ML.
ML, the jobs czar now, but how's that working out?
He doesn't understand economics, he doesn't understand business, he doesn't understand growth.
And for heaven's sake, we know he doesn't understand energy.
We are in heap big doo-doo.
So what do we get?
Some of the country lining up on the left, the far left.
And what are they doing?
They're mocking Trump.
And they mock Sarah Palin.
Hell, people on our side doing the same thing.
You know, I wish some of the pundits on our side had the ability to be as critical of Obama as they do of Trump.
I wish they had the ability to say things as critical of Obama as they do of Sarah Palin.
Let me ask you a question.
Could Donald Trump be as inept as Barack Obama?
Could Sarah Palin be as inept as Barack Obama?
I submit it's not possible.
Nobody could be more inept, whether by accident or by design than Obama.
I don't understand.
When you start talking about presidential nominees on our side, I don't understand why we feel the need to beat up everybody on our side.
There's not a one of these candidates on our side.
I would not take in a day over Obama.
There's not a one of them that I would choose Obama over.
Why are we beating up people on our side?
Frankly, folks, I think Paul, I think, I think Sol Dolinsky would be looking at this and he'd probably say, My God, I never thought my plan would lead to somebody this inept.
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