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April 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And here we are back at it, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush Limbo.
Your bulwark from the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you with us for another three hours of broadcast excellence.
Telephone number as always.
You want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
I want to take you back to me.
I love going back to me.
Love going back to me as much as I love going back to anybody else.
They're going to go back to me March 5th of 2010.
Just a little over a year ago on this program from this very studio behind this very golden EIB microphone.
Well, it's going to be an ongoing daily struggle because these people are on the march and they have only one intention, and that's to manage America's decline and see to it that it happens.
Because they think we deserve to be a nation in decline.
If I could wave a magic wand one time and make everybody believe something for just two minutes, it would be this bunch of people in the White House and throughout Washington, who are with Obama, been appointed by him or whatever, do not like this country is founded.
They resent it.
They think it's unfair, immoral, unjust from our military to our capitalist system, and they are out to change it because we deserve a comeuppance.
We've been too rich.
We have stolen all the goods and services from around the world.
We've kept the rest of the world poor while enriching ourselves.
And even the people who really made this country, they've gotten the shaft too.
The blue-collar world, these people are going to fix it.
They're going to give this country a bitch slap.
Exactly right.
Preside over America's decline.
Here's the headline from Market Watch.
IMF bombshell, age of America near's end.
The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell and nobody noticed.
I don't know who nobody is, because we've noticed ever since the Obama regime was immaculated.
For the first time, the IMF has set a date for the moment when the age of America will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of the ChICOMs.
According to the latest IMF official forecast, the ChICOM economy will surpass ours in real terms in 2016.
Five years from now.
It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington right now.
It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years.
And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world's hegemonic power.
According to the IMF forecast, whoever is elected U.S. president next year will be the last president to preside over the world's largest economy.
Most people aren't prepared for this.
They aren't even aware.
It's that close.
Listen to experts of various stripes, and they'll tell you this moment is decades away.
The most bearish will put the figure in the mid-2020s, but they are miscounting.
They're only comparing the GDPs of the two countries using current exchange rates.
That's a largely meaningless comparison in real terms.
Exchange rates change quickly.
This is all, you know, gets into minutiae here.
Forget exchange rates.
Forget the value of the dollar.
Well, you can't really forget it.
We have a purposeful destruction of the U.S. economy taking place.
Right before our very eyes.
We've got rising gasoline prices.
We're approaching five dollars a gallon.
What's the template?
Obama's gonna make sure there's any gouging out there.
And of course, the oil companies are beginning to report their profits now, and that's a big target, so Obama's gonna go after that.
The oil companies are the big problem.
Uh Forget the fact that the printing of all of this money is leading to all of this.
All of this decline is traceable to the Obama administration.
Every policy they have implemented has led us to this point.
And we folks, there can be no doubt among the intellectually honest.
It is the preferred policy.
The president of the United States routinely now gives speeches encouraging us to be happy with downsizing our lives, downsizing our cars, downsizing our economic expectations, downsizing our travel plans, downsizing everything.
As though it is a moral imperative.
We've lived too well for too long at the expense of others.
You see, that's the key.
Everything this country has done has been on the backs of the disadvantaged or of the poor or minorities or whoever since we were founded.
Never understood how the math on that works out.
The rich got rich on the backs of the poor.
I've never understood the mathematics of that, how it all works out, but they still persist with it.
The age of America nears an end.
If if we had a traditional president in the White House in a story like this, there would be outrage.
There would be news conferences and press conferences about how this is not going to happen.
There would be inspirational press conferences.
The president of the United States would be urging the American people to roll up their sleeves, let's all get to work.
Instead, we have a president who is excusing sloth, who wants to reward it, who wants to convince everybody else that the working people are the targets.
The people who are working and paying taxes are the problem.
The people who are not working, can't work, won't work, what have you.
They somehow are the chosen ones.
Grab audio soundbite.
Let me find it here.
This is this is uh it's Christian Amon Poor.
Yeah, grab audio soundbite number nine.
The favorite tactic of the left.
You know, when it suits them, they'll talk about Jesus Christ.
When they can convince or try to convince everybody, Jesus Christ was the patron saint of liberalism, then they will herald Jesus Christ.
That's what he's good for, as far as the left is concerned.
The great socialist, Jesus Christ, he knew he knew who to punish.
Jesus Christ knew it was the rich that were the targets.
Jesus Christ stood up for the downtrodden.
Jesus Christ stood up for the slothful.
Jesus Christ knew that's how they cite Jesus Christ.
And so yesterday morning on ABC's This Week with Christiana Munpoor, she opened the show by saying this.
As Christians around the world celebrate Easter, we are some of America's most influential pastors.
In these turbulent times, has America lost its way.
Taxes and budget cuts.
What would Jesus do?
You know what the real question is, Ms. Amanpoor and the rest of you who seek to co-opt Jesus Christ as simply another prop in your march toward the decline of America.
The question is not what would Jesus do?
The question is not what would Jesus cut.
The question is what would Jesus take?
That's the question you never want to answer.
That's the question you never want to ask.
Who would Jesus Christ cite as the enemies in the United States and the world today?
Who would Jesus Christ decide they got too much and we're going to take it from them?
You can you can try to co-opt Jesus Christ for your cause politically all you want.
What would Jesus do?
Has America lost its way?
No, Ms. Amon Poor.
It's exactly on the path you and your friends in the media and your president have chosen the path toward decline.
Right on schedule.
Taxes and budget cuts?
What would Jesus do?
Oh, what would Jesus take?
That's the question people need to ask to put this in perspective.
Of course, the answer is nothing.
You want to start equating yourselves and your policies.
Jesus Christ, you better first start asking, what did Jesus take?
From whom?
How did he go about it?
What was his plan for redistribution?
Who were his targets?
You want to be like Jesus Christ?
You tell us.
So there you have it.
The age of America nears an end.
And it says here that IMF dropped a bombshell and nobody noticed.
A lot of people have noticed and are noticing, and they're doing everything they can to stop it.
Pure and simple.
Here's the state-run media setting up Obama's attack on the big oil profits.
We have a montage from all over the place.
CNBC, ABC, MSNBC, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Listen to this, it's audio soundbite number two.
11 billion dollars.
That's what Exxon's revenues are expected to be.
Any anger you feel is like it arise this week when oil companies report what are expected to be record profits.
We're expecting for oil company profits to come out.
They're gonna be up companies are announcing their first quarter profits, which are record profits.
Speculation and oil company profits, and that's just inappropriate.
No one's ever heard of a poor oil company.
As oil prices continue to climb, look for profits to soar at Exxon Mobil and Chevron.
$10 billion, $6 billion in profits.
That's awkward timing.
You can't expect the president to come out swinging against big oil.
Yes, you can, of course, because it's right on schedule.
It fits the template.
Come out, big oil's the problem.
It always is.
Even Fox.
Even Fox gets sucked in.
Try this miniature headline on Fox all morning long.
It's uh to the to the uh let's see, Democrats, uh let's see, what is the Democrats call for tax hikes on rich GOP calls for entitlement cuts.
Now, what do you think the result of viewers looking at that headline is Democrats call for tax hikes on rich Republicans call for entitlement cuts.
What Democrats support is the collapse of entitlements.
Democrat policies bring about the collapse of this country.
That's exactly what's going on.
Even the headline writers at Fox can get this right.
And...
Yeah, the oil profits, really bad.
How about all of these uh you you people in in uh public sector private sector unions where your pensions are invested, you know a lot of your pensions are invested in oil stocks.
The same thing with uh seasoned citizens.
So you um you're gonna sit by while the ruling class makes a big show of going after oil profits, and if they succeed in skimming them or doing whatever, that's your retirement.
That's your portfolio value they're going after.
If you own oil company stock, you shouldn't mind a big profit.
One of the reasons that profits are up is that prices are up, and the reason prices are up is because we're printing money.
Let's say we want to take away all the oil profits.
You know, isn't it?
It's amazing.
There were several stories uh in the news over the weekend that claim drilling for oil in the U.S. will not help lower gas prices, but the same media assures us that raising taxes on the rich will solve the deficit.
So how is it that more oil in the marketplace will not lower prices, but higher taxes on the rich will provide more dollars to reduce the deficit?
How does this work?
It only works in Liberalville, where lie after lie after lie to promote the agenda is the agenda.
Just today, I saw everybody's favorite quote unquote liberal, Bob Beckle, once again demeaning the whole notion of drill baby drill.
Right.
We have been saying drill baby drill for 15 years.
If we'd have started drilling 15 years ago, then drill baby drill would have been a factor.
As it is, shell oil has been told by the EPA, not the Congress.
Shell oil has been told by the EPA, sorry, you can't drill offshore in Alaska.
You can't do it.
The EPA's just shut them down.
Who gets hurt?
The people who would have jobs working for shell oil, drilling for oil off the coast of Alaska.
Relatively poor people.
Who do liberals' policies actually hurt?
The very people they claim to want to help.
So in the EPA to protect the world from pollution, ostensibly, tells Shell Oil.
Sorry, bud, you can't drill.
You can't drill.
Who gets hurt?
People who would have jobs in that industry.
Ergo, the drilling moratorium in the Gulf.
Who gets hurt?
In the meantime, get this.
This is from the AP today, New Orleans.
Scientists say it's taking far too long to distribute millions of dollars in British petroleum funds for badly needed Gulf oil spill research.
It could be too late to assess the crude's impact on pelicans, shrimp, and other species by the time the studies begin.
The spring nesting and spawning seasons are crucial time to sample a reproduction rates, the behavior and abundance of species, all of which could be altered by last year's massive spill.
The oil, from which, by the way, nobody can find.
Because the ocean ate it up.
Yet no money has been made available for this year.
It could take months to determine which projects will be funded.
Oh no, no!
Months before we figure out what kind of money from BP gets distributed to the latest bunch of shameless beggars who claim that their results are oriented in research.
Actually, all they're gonna do is provide the granters with the news they want.
It's called earning a living, not research.
The people who distribute the money want to find out that the oil destroyed pelicans.
Fine.
Here's your research.
Thanks for the money.
We don't know, but that's what you wanted, isn't it?
Now pay us.
Dana Wetzels like a murder scene.
She's a she's an ecotoxicologist at the Moat Marine Library, Florida.
You have you have to pick up the evidence now.
It's like a murder scene.
You gotta pick up the evidence.
They need the money to get paid for looking for all the missing oil.
And it's missing effects.
Doodoodle.
Thank you.
And we're back.
You remember the old joke, ladies and gentlemen, that uh I've told it year after year after year on this program.
And it's a joke that accurately, and the reason why it's funny is because it has elements of truth in it.
It's a joke about the way the media is locked into narratives and templates.
So one day God's watching Oprah Winfrey and says, you know what?
Humanity has blown it, and I've had it.
I can't take it anymore, so I'm gonna end the world.
So he picks up the phone, makes some phone calls, and he calls.
New York Times, he calls the Wall Street Journal, he calls USA Today, and he calls the Washington Post.
And all the reporters beg for an exclusive.
God says nope, no exclusive.
World ends tomorrow.
I've had it, you're hopeless.
So the New York Times headline is God says world to end tomorrow.
On section B, page eight.
USA Today headline says we're gone.
Wall Street Journal, God says world to end tomorrow, markets to close early.
Washington Post, God says world to end tomorrow, women and minorities, hardest hit.
I kid you not, from MSNBC.
Minorities and women hardest hit by iPhone tracking Technology.
Women and minorities, hardest hit by virtue of Apple's iPhone tracking technology.
They're so predictable, they're so loony, it's it's it's hilarious.
Women and minorities hardest hit by iPhone tracking technology.
By this tracking technology, it's getting even better.
Do you realize you don't even need an iPhone or an iPad for Apple to know where you are?
They can track you by virtue of your IP address in your desktop or laptop computer.
They can pinpoint your location within a neighborhood based on that.
I know it's none of this is anything new, just the fact that it's being reported on a wide basis has people in a state of panic.
Let me ask you a question.
How much how much profit has uh General Motors made?
You know, we're sitting here talking about the evil oil company profit.
We never talk about the real profiteer, and that's the U.S. government via taxes.
But how much profit did General Motors make?
If we didn't pour tens of billions of dollars into General Motors, it would have failed because it wasn't making profits.
So it has cost us a fortune as a nation to support a company that does not make profits.
Now, what of these profits?
When will the media tell us how much these companies net from sales after paying for the crude, the related expenses and massive taxes?
When they do these stories, why won't they tell us how much the government is taking from all of this?
What is Obama's take?
What's the states take and so forth?
When you start talking about all the profits of the oil companies, what you know, how the feds doing, how are the states doing on this?
Oil companies want to drill, they're not being allowed to drill.
And yet, we're getting stories of how they are gouging us.
They're gouging us, they want to drill, and they're being shut down by this regime from drilling.
It's unbelievable.
The End Grab audio sound by number nine once again, Christiana Monpoor opening her program ABC News this week, yesterday morning.
As Christians around the world celebrate Easter, we are some of America's most influential pastors.
In these turbulent times, has America lost its way?
Taxes and budget cuts.
What would Jesus do?
Imagine, folks, here we are.
We we are being lectured about morality by a party that stands for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.
We are being lectured to on morality by a party that supports partial birth abortion.
I'm not going to get graphic and describe what that is, but you know.
We are being lectured about morality by a party led by a man who believes a baby who survives an abortion shouldn't.
Because that was the wish of the mother.
Barack Obama is a state senator in Illinois.
So what would Jesus do?
Folks, I cannot tell you how righteously offended I am that these people who 364 days a year try to make a mockery of Christianity and Christians on one day a year now try to come out and appropriate Jesus Christ as their own.
Not because of his message, but so they can manipulate it and further their agenda.
What would Jesus do?
Would Jesus approve politicians spending money we don't have on programs we don't need?
Jesus warned against sloth and self-bondage.
Would he approve of the Democrats creating an entire underclass dependent on government?
They think so.
That's how they define compassion.
Would Jesus approve of people wasting their lives, sitting around blaming all the problems on everybody but themselves?
Would Jesus approve of Democrats fanning the flames of class warfare for the sole purpose of being re-elected?
We could go on and on and on with these questions.
What would Jesus take?
They don't want to ask that question.
That must be what Obama was talking about.
Let me find that sound bite.
We've got it.
I've kept this one going.
This is uh it's going to be toward the last page if I just get the number here.
No, it's not the last page.
Where is it?
I thought it was the last page.
It's the soundbite where uh Obama talks about there must be something about the resurrection.
What number is it, Cookie?
I know you're listening.
I can't find it on the list here, and I want to I want to play this because it uh dovetails.
I can't find it.
Nobody's answering my question.
Uh well, I saw it on the on the soundbite roster, and now for some reason I can't.
Number eight, here it is.
Yeah, number eight.
Here we go.
This is Obama last Tuesday at the prayer breakfast in Washington.
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.
Well, now we know what Obama was thinking about.
Not only Christiana Manpore, the way she opened her program, now we know what Obama was thinking about.
He must have been thinking about how the resurrected Jesus would raise taxes.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
Thinking about how the resurrected Jesus would raise taxes.
What would Jesus do?
And then, of course, who do we crucify next?
That'd be the next question the White House would be asking.
Now, if they believe that Jesus would raise taxes, then we shouldn't raise taxes.
Otherwise, we're establishing a government religion.
Isn't it interesting?
These people want to go on and co-opt Jesus Christ one day of the year to advance their agenda.
Find an ending when they somehow think that they can use it for a political purpose.
Now the oil companies, back to this, I made I made a point here about the fact they want to drill, they're not even allowed to drill, and we're being accused of gouging and so forth.
Let me tell you, if the oil companies wanted to create shortages and wanted to drive up the price, they wouldn't be seeking all of these permits to drill for oil.
Which they are doing.
It's a sad state of affairs, folks, that we find ourselves in.
I don't think I have ever read a piece of reporting like this, where the reporter is writing about a coordinated effort to destroy somebody's character and reputation as if it's some kind of a game.
Kenneth Vogel in Politico meet the anti-palin crusaders.
This is how the story begins.
She is a promiscuous, petty, unintelligent yet deviously conniving warmonger intent on capturing the oval office and from there the world.
Those are just some of the opinions about Sarah Palin, held by members of a small but extremely active network of gadflies, bloggers, and authors who have devoted much of the last two and a half years to proving their case to American voters.
This self-styled anti-palin movement, whose members span the globe and are mostly, but not exclusively liberals, has been behind some embarrassing revelations about the former Alaska governor, her family, and allies, but some of their leading theories have been thoroughly discredited and earned them widespread criticism,
yet it only seems to have hardened their commitment to accomplishing what they profess to be their ultimate goal, the absolute complete exposure of Palin as a fraud, unworthy of a role in American civic life.
And now, with Palin edging back into the political spotlight in the face of flagging poll numbers, they believe they are closer than ever to destroying her.
St. Martin's Press has scheduled a May 10th release of the Lies of Sarah Palin, the untold story behind her relentless quest for power.
You have here, folks, this is a story about a serious worldwide effort.
Coordinated effort to destroy Sarah Palin's character and her reputation.
And this story is written as though this is a fun game.
Can they pull this off?
Gosh, we hope so.
Man, we hope it could pull this.
This is really fun.
We're going to sit around here.
We get to watch all these people come out trying to destroy Sarah Palin.
Gosh, we hope they succeed.
Second book, a couple weeks later, Stamen und Schuster imprint, set to offer a tell all memoir by Frank Bailey, a disgruntled former top aide to Palin, using her personal emails to paint an ugly portrait of her as a vindictive and vain dilettant, obsessed with her public image, who allegedly broke election laws and targeted a state trooper by leaking damaging information.
And then in September, Crown will release the rogue searching for the real Sarah Palin by journalist and author Joe McGuinness, whose decision to rent the house next door in Wasilla last summer prompted Palin to warn him to leave her kids alone.
I've always said they will tell us who they fear.
But now this, folks, this is this has gone beyond rational.
Actually, it was gone beyond rational a long time ago.
Well, I was I was thinking, I I um I was thinking of that snurly.
How would I compare this to the hatred of Reagan?
I've I'm wrecking my brain, and I want to be I'm tempted to say I don't recall.
I don't recall such a coordinated effort for so long to destroy anybody.
Now, the real target of leftist vehemence would over a long sustained period of time be Richard Nixon.
That's probably still number one, even but just simply because of the length of time and the intensity.
That was an ongoing effort to destroy Nixon.
But this I in the case of a story like this, I don't think I've ever read a piece of reporting like this where the reporter is writing about I mean there is an ongoing effort to destroy this woman.
We're talking, forget anything about Sarah Palin other than the left always talks to us about compassion.
Here is a she's a human being.
She has kids.
She's got a family.
She's, yeah, she seeks public office, but there's no sense of proportion to any of this.
No sense of proportion whatsoever to any of this.
I'm racking my brain trying to think of a period of time where, or anybody else other than Nixon, where there has been anything like this.
I mean.
Oh, I don't even compare.
Snurtly what they've done to me, doesn't.
It doesn't even compare to what they're doing to Sarah Palin.
What they've done to me doesn't compare to what they're what they're trying to do here to Sarah Palin.
This is um.
We've got a vast real conspiracy here to destroy a political figure.
This is not not the imagined fantasy from Hillary Clinton who said that the Monica Lewinsky claims are made up by a vast right-wing conspiracy to discredit.
This is a genuine, existing.
It's right in front of our eyes, real conspiracy.
Now, Reagan was attacked by Republicans, too, and hard.
People forget that he was an outsider, threatened the establishment GOP base.
The Democrats and the left attacked him too.
But Palin seems to be in a class of her own.
I'm I'm really, and it just keeps ratcheting up.
It just keeps becoming even more intense.
The attack on her daughters, her down syndrome child is beyond anything I've ever seen.
And I folks, I can just tell you that this kind of stuff does not happen to people about whom you don't care.
There's got to be, it's almost personal.
And you know, it can't be.
It can't be, Prasheed.
She doesn't know all these people writing these books personally.
It's beyond my ability to comprehend it.
Well, not beyond my ability to comprehend it.
But to put it in an explained perspective, I got to take a brief time out.
We'll do it and be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Greetings, welcome back, El Rushbo, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Europeans shift long-held view that social benefits are untouchable.
Washington Post story yesterday.
From blanket health insurance to long vacations and early retirement.
The cozy social benefits that have been a way of life in Western Europe since World War II increasingly appear to be luxuries.
The continent can no longer afford.
In the new reality, workers have been forced to accept salary freezes, decreased hours, postponed retirements, and health care reductions.
Employees at Fiat's historic Mirafiore plant in Turin, uh Turin, rolling back a tradition of union privileges, even pledged to cut back on the number of workers who call in sick.
When the local soccer team has a match.
Do you believe there was an approved number of sick days?
Thank you.
For soccer games.
Unlike in the United States, where conservatives are so resolved to cut spending, they threatened a government shutdown.
Western Europe's generous welfare programs had generally been embraced by the right as well as the left.
Against that background, the new wave of cutbacks seems to signal a dramatic shift in attitude toward benefits that many Europeans had come to see as a birthright, and that politicians of any stripe could challenge only at the risk of their careers.
Well, let me summarize this.
It says, Many other people resigned to the new reality of globalization have come to view the shift as the end of a golden era, perhaps never to be revived.
So the IMF says the era of America is over in 2016.
We're no longer going to be the leading economy of the world.
Everything is finie.
We're not it anymore.
America as something exceptional, leader of the world economically every other which way is over.
And now the European welfare state.
Collapse is seen as the end of another golden era, perhaps never to be revived.
The social welfare system no longer plays its role.
What's your reaction when you hear something like this?
A I read something like this.
Have you told the people in Greece about this?
Because I don't think they got the memo.
And I don't think the people in Spain or Portugal have gotten a memo here.
I mean, I I don't see any acceptance of this.
Well, I take it back.
We don't see any acceptance of it among public sector union workers in Greece and Spain.
There might be widespread acceptance of it among the general population.
Regardless, the reality is it's over.
The reality is there isn't the money.
The reality is it can't go on.
The reality is it's unsustainable.
The reality is it ain't real.
The reality is there's no money.
It's amazing.
There are so many years ahead of us providing an example that we're ignoring.
We're just running around and and uh and emulating everything that they're doing.
Europeans shift long held a view that social benefits are untouchable.
Don't you know the students haven't figured that out.
I mean, the students in the UK were burning down buildings and throwing rocks through grass windows and everything.
Britain's conservative-led government decided in the fall to attack deficits by cutting more than $130 billion over the next five years, hitting welfare bennets hard, benefits hard, and setting off protests of students by raising university fees.
I don't know how widespread the message is.
Then Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, unions on the ropes.
Public employees are fighting back, but they seem almost certain to lose.
And he's talking about labor unions in Wisconsin.
They're fighting there as the Germans did during the bitter winter of 1944-1945.
But the war is lost.
So Mr. Kelly, in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, either accidentally or intentionally, is comparing state labor unions to the Nazis.
To see how grim is the outlook for public employee unions, let's go to Detroit, where Mayor Dave Bing proposed Tuesday a budget which would cut contributions to public employee health plans by 20% and would skip a payment to city pension funds.
That's the reality, folks.
The states can't print any money to cities, but does it affect the federal government?
Nope, they just keep on.
The media terrified gas prices are harming President Obama.
We'll discuss his reelection chances also in the next hour.
Washington State, we predicted this.
Washington state considering an annual flat fee for electric cars to make up for less revenue in gasoline taxes.
You knew it was going to happen.
Be right back, my friends.
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