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April 25, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, Snerdley, are you going to get up in time to watch the royal wedding?
Dawn, you're going to get up at 4 o'clock or 6 in the morning on Sunday, or Friday.
Friday takes place at 6 in the morning.
You're not going to be watching it, Snerdley.
There's a couple journalists I know who are going to cover the wedding who attended mine.
And they sent me a note and said, you know, this is going to be such a letdown compared to your wedding.
We're going to go cover this thing.
And all we get to do is see Elton John sitting in a pew watching it.
At your wedding, he performed.
I thought, well, that's cool.
Hey, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Speaking of the wedding, by the way, folks, there's a little bit of controversy here.
You have heard by now that the Queen has invited a number of dictators, but left out Obama.
The Queen has invited the leaders of Bahrain, Swaziland, and Saudi Arabia, all of whom preside over severe human rights abuses, including the repression of protests.
But for some odd reason, the Obamas still didn't make the list.
And then, you know, this is still a sign how life is unfair.
You know, you think that the ruling class and the upper crust, that they all hang out together, and once you're a member of that crowd, that you get invited to everything.
But Obama and Muchel left off the list.
And it's really got to bother them, really got to offend them.
They had some other dictators there, but somehow they didn't make the cut.
Gaddafi was invited.
No, his invitation was rescinded.
Kid you not, officials said it was because of the fighting in Libya.
I think it's because they couldn't find out how to actually spell his name on the invitation.
So they gave up.
So it is.
Why do I think the Obamas weren't invited?
Well, you know, we can only wild guess this.
It might have to do with the fact that the Queen didn't really appreciate all those speeches on the iPad that he gave her.
It could be that the Queen wasn't particularly fond of Obama ditching the Churchill bust in the first 10 minutes he was president, throwing it out of the Oval Office and giving it back to the Brits, not relocating it at some American museum.
It could well be that she was offended that the Obama gift to the Prime Minister was 25 DVDs of American movies recorded for Region 1, which means they won't even play on the Prime Minister's DVD system in the UK.
And then the Queen may have had nothing to do with it.
Hell, you know, Tony Blair's not invited.
The two, yeah, John Major and one other, Margaret Thatcher are invited.
Thatcher can't go because of bad health.
But Tony Blair and some other Labor leader, they weren't invited.
And the official reason given, well, this is not a state event, and they're not Knights of the Garter anyway.
So they're not invited.
We don't know if that Prince and Kate Middleton decided they didn't want the Obamas there if that was a queen decision.
But it's got to, look, I don't care.
It has to bug the Obamas because they did invite other dictators.
I don't think, I have not seen Clinton's name on the list.
The original Knight of the Garter.
It is, I'm, you know, the media is always funny at this kind of thing.
The media only wants for depravity, debauchery, and excitement.
As such, they want a guest list of some of the biggest ne'er-do-wells in history.
And it's a very tame list.
You got Beckham and his wife.
You got the guy that plays the actor Mr. Bean.
And those are the big names.
Charlie Sheen not invited.
Trump not invited.
Yeah.
It's a shocking thing.
New York CNN.
Oh, I'm not going.
What do you mean I go?
I wouldn't be invited to something like that.
I don't have connections with the Royal Family.
I'd have connections with anybody over there.
No.
No, I had a big, big spring-fling golf buddy weekend coming up.
No way I would fly over for a wedding.
No way.
I mean, even if I were.
No.
No, I don't think I would have canceled a golf buddy weekend ago.
Don't think it would have.
I don't know them.
I don't.
It's a thousand people.
It's a tuxedo for an 11 o'clock in the morning wedding.
And they happen to do this thing at 11 o'clock in the morning because they got a full day's worth of activities that they've got to cram in here.
Anyway, CNN money.
Drill, baby, drill will not lower gas prices.
That's the theme of the story.
Every time gas prices reach record highs, the calls go out for more drilling.
This year is no different.
Washington Republican Doc Hastings said the Gulf is ready to get back to work to help create jobs and lower gasoline prices.
But the drilling, no, it won't work.
It just won't work.
Yeah, of course, drilling now was not going to have any effect on tomorrow's oil supply.
But let's go back.
How many years have we been suggesting, hey, let's start drilling.
Let's expand our drilling.
It's easily 15 or 20 years.
If we had started drilling 15 or 20 years ago, drill, baby, drill would have been an impact, would have made an impact by now.
It is intellectual dishonesty for the left to continue to say drill, baby, drill won't work.
It'd be no different than saying, let's go to the moon.
Oh, we can't get there tomorrow.
Okay, we're not going.
Oh, okay, fine.
JFK had a plan to get to the moon.
We can't get there tomorrow.
Going to the moon, it's silly.
Of course, it's going to take some time to get the supply, but what's the point?
How many decades have we had to listen to elected leaders tell us we need to end our dependence on foreign oil?
Think we might have made a dent on it in the last 15 years if we would have started drilling, baby, drilling.
I'll tell you what else would happen.
And there's a lot of ancillaries to drilling.
One of them is jobs.
Okay, so let's say we start a policy of opening up drilling in the Gulf and in Alaska.
We do it tomorrow.
Now, admittedly, it's going to be a while before any oil is produced that'll have an impact on world supplies, but think of the impact that it'll make on attitude.
Think of the impact it'll make on positive attitude, plus the jobs it'll be created.
It's a win-win.
No, can't do it.
It's going to lead to pollution, and it's going to delay our arrival at the clean energy objective that the president has.
And there is no clean energy alternative that replaces any energy supply or use that we have now.
I don't know about you, but when I hear the left say more oil will not lower prices, and I hear this constantly, it's the same, I have the same reactions when I say Obama's a shoe-in or when I hear Obama's a shoe-in for re-election.
Really?
He's a shoe-in right now.
It's just the exact opposite.
Obama would lose in a landslide at the election we're today, and everybody on the left knows it, which is why they're concocting this image, this ruse, this perception that his election is a luck.
Re-election's a foregone conclusion.
If drilling for oil will not lower oil prices, if more oil will not lower oil prices, would somebody explain to me how green energy that is decades away will lower our energy costs?
I need this explained to me.
More oil will not reduce the price.
More oil will not expand our domestic supply.
But investing in green energy that has no payoff for 30 years will somehow lower our energy costs.
It is, it's absurd.
Five years ago, folks, five years ago, I think it was, Democrats fought the expansion of offshore drilling because it would take five to ten years to see results.
Now they're fighting it, saying we need to invest in solar and wind, which will take decades to even put a dent in our energy needs, if it ever will.
And we were told, price of oil has nothing to do with supply and demand, Mr. Limbaugh.
Oh, really, Mr. New Castrati?
That's right.
The price of oil, nothing to do with supply and demand.
The price of oil is totally dependent on the attitude of those greedy self-speculators.
Oh.
Well, then, if that's true, Mr. New Castrati, how is it that our drilling for oil wouldn't put the fear of the Lord into the speculators?
How long did it take for Reagan's announcement that we were going to start drilling to drive down prices back in the early 1980s?
How long did it take for Reagan's talk of lower taxes?
How long did it take to start spurring a rebounding attitude in this country of greatness, exceptionalism, positive thinking?
When Reagan announced that we were going to start drilling for oil to drive down prices back in the early 80s, the Carter oil crisis was over, overnight.
And we had a couple of contrived shortages during the 80s, but they were contrived.
They were not actual shortages of supply.
Here's Britt Hume, by the way.
I want to get to this sound before we go to the break.
This yesterday on Fox News Sunday.
And it's an overused cliché, but this really was a breath of fresh air.
Because I'm sitting here literally pulling out what little hair I've got left as I listen to the conventional wisdom say that Obama's a lock.
His reelection is a lock.
He's a shoe-in.
And here are the reasons why.
Big business is a total support.
This is happening.
This is the Electoral College here.
If you look at leaning versus committed, in these states, red versus blue, yellow versus brown.
How in the world, if Obama's a lock for re-election, how the hell did November happen?
And what has happened since November to make things so much better to cancel the elections of November?
Nothing.
It's gotten worse.
So here's Britt Hume.
This is during the roundtable discussion.
Chris Wallace, talking to him about the economy, Wallace said, when Obama was sworn in, a gallon of gas was $1.84.
Now it's $3.85.
That's over a 108% increase.
A New York Times poll this week showed how much this is hurting Pharaoh Obama.
70% now think the country's on the wrong track.
57% now disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
Brit, those are the most negative numbers since a couple of months after Obama took office during the very depth, the low point of the recession.
What does all this mean?
People's feelings about the economy, despite declining unemployment, despite the fact that there is now steady growth, have not improved.
And when the conventional wisdom in Washington settles, as it seemed to recently, on the idea that the president is a sure bet for re-election, I think it's upside down.
If the election were held today, in my view, Barack Obama would lose.
He would lose big.
Obviously, he's got some time.
Events change.
He would lose to any reasonable nominee from the Republican Party.
The Republican Party might be able to lose this election if they nominated some extremely colorful, freakish candidate.
Might be able to lose if they nominate some extremely colorful, freaky.
I think he's talking about Trump there.
That would just be my guess.
But you heard Juan Williams say, see, that's even while this is going on, I'm watching Fox earlier today, and the guru of polling and projections, election results, Charlie Cook, was not talking about how poorly Obama's doing, not talking about the New York Times poll.
70% think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
No, no, no.
They were talking about how disappointing and empty, vacant and all that the Republican field is.
And while in a vacuum, in a static sense, that's true, I mean, we didn't a whole lot out there to excite us, the fact of the matter is that there wasn't a single Republican figurehead leader in the November elections either.
Those elections were, we all know, votes cast against Obama and the Democrats, purely based on the fact that, and it was largely independents, didn't like what they were seeing.
Anything would be better.
And that's largely going to survive all the way through.
It's a year and a half.
There's not much that can be done to turn this around.
Even they can lie about inflation.
They can make things up about unemployment numbers and so forth.
They can't lie about the gas price and they can't lie about food prices.
And they can't change the reality of people's costs of living.
They can tell people that it isn't as expensive as they're finding it and people aren't going to believe it.
So now you have two people going against the conventional wisdom that Obama's a shoe-in.
Me and Britt Hume.
By the way, it was Juan Williams there who wanted to know who Obama was going to lose to in the Britt Hume soundbite.
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In support of the notion Obama is not a guaranteed lock to win.
Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal.
Last Thursday, Obama's likability gap.
The fact of the matter is we don't really need to get all that many votes to win.
The percentages here are very narrow.
Henninger says, remember that the historic 2008 victory came with 52.9% of the total vote and 52% of independent voters.
David Axelrod recently noted how small the margin for error is on the Obama side.
Now, Henninger points out that presidential personality is important and it's well inside the margin of error for 2012.
But the one on display recently has not been attractive and it's happening a lot, meaning there is a huge likability gap.
The Obama running around the country now is not the same Messiah who was running around in 2007, 2008, and he can't be ever again.
The blooms off that rose.
Can't go back and recreate 2008, cannot erase from people's memories the last two and a half years.
He's got a record, and it's a dismal one, and it's going to get even more dismal by the time the official re-election campaign and election comes up.
We'll just keep a sharp eye.
In the meantime, Saratoga Springs in New York.
Brian, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hopefully, this call will pump you up.
First of all, you're absolutely right.
I agree.
Obama is going to lose in the landslide.
Well, he would lose in a landslide if the election were today.
Correct.
We don't know what's going to happen.
It's simply delusional to say that he's got it locked up today.
No, he will lose.
And getting back to what you said, we have a great educational moment coming up in the presidential election because I'm pumped and my family's pumped and friends because it's an educational moment because we've got a few particular candidates, Rush, who are going to educate the American worker and the American people about how great we are.
And also, I think they're going to educate the Republican establishment.
Well, you know, I don't count on the Republican establishment is going to be every bit the obstacle here, depending on who the nominee is, as will be the Democrat establishment, pretty much.
I mean, if we have a genuinely conservative nominee, which we need, the Republican establishment is going to fight that person throughout the nomination process.
Going to fight everything they can.
Absolutely correct.
But I think the real education has already taken place.
It says every time you go buy gas, five bucks a gallon, $480.
Nobody needs to explain a thing.
You don't have to go to class.
You don't have to listen to a lecture.
All you have to do is see $4 a gallon, $425, whatever it is, and then turn on the TV and listen to Obama tell you you should be thankful for that because we're going to make it worse.
There's nothing we can do.
Well, yeah, well, that's not.
The American people still, I firmly believe a majority, do not respond favorably to, hey, this is the best we can do.
Best education system is reality.
And it's happening right before people's very eyes.
And it's going to continue to happen because a sour economy is the objective to this administration, this regime.
This is precisely what they want.
Don't forget how we opened the program today, folks.
It's the very first thing that we started with today.
The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell.
For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the age of America will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by the CHICOMs.
This is the era of America's decline, and it is being shepherded as a decline purposefully by Pharaoh Obama.
It's time we learned what it's like.
It's time we got paid back for all this wealth we've stolen from the poor all over the world since our founding.
He's happy to see this.
Right here it is, Snerdley.
Right here it is from the UK Daily Mail.
Is there anything they don't know?
Now websites can track your IP address to within a few hundred meters of where you are.
Websites, it's not just Apple.
Besides, Steve Jobs came out today ostensibly in an email and said, hey, we're not keeping track of where you go.
Google is, but we're not.
Oh, they don't get along.
Anyway, let's see.
Howard Feynman, folks, this is hilarious.
This is hilarious.
This was Friday night on PMSNBC.
The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
Now, Howard Feynman used to be at Newsweek.
Now he is at the Huffing and Puffington Post.
He's a senior political editor there.
And we're discussing the new poll from CBS New York Times that was just devastating for Obama.
70% think the country's in the wrong direction.
52% think Obama's whack or whatever it was.
It's bad news.
So Donald said, Howard, the president does have some high disapproval numbers in there for a president running for re-election, but the Congress has disapproval numbers 75%.
Now, how do you think voters are balancing that out?
How do you explain it?
Now, listen to this, folks.
People are a little disappointed in the president because he hasn't been able to change the way Washington works at all.
Indeed, Congress is even more poorly regarded.
Everybody wanted a bigger deal than was done on the last budget go-round.
And so in an odd way, the fact that the Republicans and Congress are so poorly regarded, that the whole system is so poorly regarded, drags everybody down, including the president.
See, there you have it.
The reason Obama showed so poorly in the New York Times poll is because the Republicans are doing so poorly in the polls.
The Republicans happen to win big in the election.
Now, Congress was at 14, 10, 12% approval when Bush was in the 30s.
Did they ever say that Bush low approval in the 30s was due to Pelosi being low?
Of course not.
But see, as far as these sycophants are concerned, and I hate to say it, folks, these people, if they keep this up, are going to die of anal poisoning.
As far as they're concerned, everybody thinks Obama's the end of the world like they do.
Everybody thinks, like they think, that Obama's just the Messiah.
And so it doesn't compute that 70% think the country's going in the wrong direction.
How can this be?
It doesn't compute that 52, 55% don't approve of what Obama.
That doesn't compute because 100% of them love Obama.
So it has to be the Republicans.
It just has to be the Republicans.
Also, Obama, March 20th of this year, had a video message to the Iranian people for the Muslim holiday Nowruz.
Today I want to extend my very best wishes to all who are celebrating Nowruz around the world.
With the coming of a new season, we're reminded of this precious humanity that we all share.
And we can once again call upon this spirit as we seek the promise of a new beginning.
Thank you.
And Ed A. Shoma Mubarak.
Shoma Mubarak.
No, Mubarak's gone.
You dispatched him.
But there is something about Naruz.
But here was Obama a Nauruz message for the Iranians.
So, this afternoon in the White House, the press secretary Jay Carney held a daily press briefing.
Unidentified female infobabe said, hey, quick question.
You guys traditionally put out statements or proclamations on various religious holidays.
I don't think I saw one from the president on Easter yesterday.
And I was just wondering if there was any reason that the president didn't have an Easter proclamation yesterday.
You know, the president went to church yesterday.
It was well covered.
I'm not sure if we put out a statement or not, but he obviously personally celebrated Easter with his family and went to church to celebrate that.
And Christian Holiday, you don't know if he put out a statement?
Jay.
I'm glad you're asking these key important questions, guys.
The fact is the president took his family to church in a very high-profile way to celebrate Easter.
I think it was highly visible to most Americans.
And he, as a devoted Christian, he believes it's a very important holiday for him personally, for his family, and for Christians around the country.
Wow.
Did you hear the press guy say, Jay, come on, Jay?
The highest Christian holiday, and you don't know if he put out a statement?
You're in the press office, Jay.
Come on.
And so, you know, I'm glad you guys are asking me these key questions.
Carney clearly ticked off here.
So, yay, president went to church.
Let me tell you about that.
I wasn't going to mention this.
Glenn Beck's website, The Blaze, they got a story about Obama's pastor.
Yeah, the new one, Charles something wrote.
This guy on Easter Sunday compared me by name to the KKK in his Easter sermon and talk radio as nothing but a bunch of racists with the President of the United States sitting in the congregation,
Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., in an Easter Sunday sermon, saw fit to compare me to the modern-day KKK, when in fact the only members of the KKK ever been in politics are Democrats.
Robert Byrd, so forth.
Hey, yeah.
Hey, remember now, don't a guy came from the hills and the hollers of West Virginia, and he had to do certain things and went elected, like join the Klan.
Remember, he did it for you.
That's what Clinton said in the eulogy.
So at an Easter Sunday sermon, Obama chooses a church with essentially a Jeremiah Wright Jr. as a preacher, and I am called out as the equivalent of the modern-day KKK.
While a press corps in Washington, and by the way, Obama has not missed a commemoration on every Muslim holiday.
He's not missed one.
What are you saying without Mr. Lump?
Nothing.
I'm just saying.
Every Muslim holiday come down the pike, he's had a proclamation for it.
But he didn't have a proclamation for Easter.
But I know why.
It's because he already told us about Easter last Tuesday at a prayer breakfast.
He'd already issued his Easter proclamation.
This was it.
As busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, 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.
That's the Easter statement.
There's something about the resurrection.
There's something about the resurrection of Jesus Christ that puts everything else in perspective.
So I guess we finally President Obama has found his replacement for Reverend Wright.
Oh, I tell you, we do have an audio clip of this.
We don't have it here.
I've got access to it.
Walter Wallace Smith is the pastor.
Wallace Smith.
I don't know if this clip is from church yesterday.
We'll find out.
I just sent a flash note here that we've got an audio soundbite.
Anyway, I got to take a brief time out at obscene profit timeout.
We'll be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, a correction.
I, in my haste, and through a little bit of confusion, got the Blaze website story wrong.
Obama's minister did not mention me in yesterday's Easter sermon as a modern equivalent, KKK.
That was back in January of 2010.
And Cookie has the bite.
She's editing it now.
I don't know if we'll have it before the program comes to a screeching halt.
It was January 15th of last year.
And the Blaze site points this out, but in sort of a convoluted way.
So, frankly, I'm a little relieved.
I mean, that would be an Easter sermon.
But the guy has said it from the pulpit before.
Anyway, so no difference, you're saying?
No difference.
Alturus, California.
Hi, Jerry.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks very much for taking my call.
And I hope my mom's listening.
She turned me on to you back in the early 90s, and I've been listening ever since.
God bless your mother.
Get her 100 blooms of love.
You know, I will.
We just came from her house and did a bunch of work for her and doing what we can.
I'll get right to my point.
I've been a firefighter for 36 years, like my father before me.
And for the last 27 years, I've been represented by a union, and I have most certainly benefited by that union representation.
However, I do agree with you 100% of your assessment about what public employee unions are doing to our country.
And I think that it does not need to be stopped, but some things, some aspects of collective bargaining need to be curtailed.
In particular, the deduction of dues from paychecks, like you mentioned earlier.
Yeah, it's a money laundering operation.
I want to take the occasion of your call to try to clarify something.
Nobody here, certainly not me, is opposed to anybody earning a living.
The beef here is that the salaries, the benefits, the health care, all of that for public union employees are being paid by taxpayers.
And these people are losing their homes.
They're out of work.
And they are being taxed at levels necessary to pay public sector employees twice what they are earning.
And that automatic union deduction simply goes straight to the Democrat Party.
It's a money laundering operation.
What's missing here is a sense of equilibrium, is a sense of proportion.
And there isn't the money to pay for it anymore.
It just isn't there in more and more states.
They're bankrupt or soon will be.
The money just isn't there.
And the states, unlike the federal government, can't print it.
They have to borrow it.
And that only exacerbates the problems.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
We're down to it here on the hard brick.
I got to take it.
We'll be back to wrap it up right after this.
Don't go away.
Well, another excursion into broadcast excellence.
Sadly, ladies and gentlemen, has to come to a screeching halt.
There are tears in some parts of America this time, each and every day, but they're only temporary.
It's just essentially a 21-hour break.
We come back.
Nothing really ever ends here.
Just take the longest break of the day here.
We'll come back and resume.
21 short hours.
Thanks for being with us.
It's always a thrill and a delight.
And we will see you tomorrow.
Same time, same place.
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