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April 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 26, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, get to issue a clarification, ladies and gentlemen.
Once again, a researcher totally screwed up.
Everybody's asking who did it this time?
Thirdly, it may as well be you because everybody thinks you're the only researcher here.
No, nobody's screwed up.
I'm just having fun.
I got something wrong.
Mark Noller reported that Obama is calling for the end of $4 billion in subsidies at the end of his speeches.
He's not yet ordered it.
He is simply calling for the billions of dollars in subsidies for big oil and gas to be ended and to be used for clean energy alternatives to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
So he hasn't ordered it, but he has suggested it.
He is also Obama has written a letter to congressional leaders calling for immediate action to eliminate unwarranted tax breaks from the oil and gas industry.
Okay, fine.
If we had, as a previous caller stated, if we had anybody on the Republican side with balls, you know what the answer would be?
Okay, fine, Mr. Obama.
What about ending the tax breaks for General Electric?
The oil companies are paying taxes.
The oil companies are paying hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes.
General Electric paid nothing.
Why isn't that a top priority?
Well, we know the answer because GE is being paid.
And that's what that means.
They're being paid to do all this stupid, ideolic, idiotic, ideologic, idiotic, non-existent green energy B-U-L-L.
It's absolute it's a scam.
It is a hoax.
It is every bit as fraudulent as global warming, and GE is being paid to pretend that they are developing it.
So they have no tax breaks.
Or no, they get total tax breaks, they pay no taxes.
How about unions paying taxes, Mr. President?
Why do they get a pass?
Unions don't need tax breaks.
If we're gonna go down this road, and this is and this road is called punishing achievers, then why don't we touch on all the groups that aren't paying taxes?
All of the industries that get a pass under this president.
Obama wants to give the $4 billion in subsidies that the oil companies get now to GE.
That's what his speech means.
And of course, this is really gonna drive the price of oil down, isn't it?
He wants $5 a gallon prices on gasoline, folks.
Do not doubt me.
He wants it.
And if he believes this green energy business, then he's a fool and he's nothing more than a than a faculty lounge theoretician sitting around with a bunch of like-minded eggheads who wax eloquent about all this non-existent, wonderful utopian stuff, but it doesn't exist.
Barack Obama, I I I am so worn out.
Having to hear how brilliant and how smart and articulate this man doesn't know anything.
It's no more complicated than that.
He doesn't know beans about what he's talking.
Barack Obama doesn't he does not know what he's talking about.
There is no green energy solution to anything.
There is no replacement for oil.
There is no replacement for natural gas.
It's not out there, folks.
If it were out there, the market would have found it.
And somebody would be really rich now, and Obama would hate him, and he'd be taxing the hell out of them.
So now in his stump speech, he wants to remove the $4 billion in subsidies the big oil gets, which will raise their prices, and he wants to give that money to GE.
He wants to transfer the subsidies to the green energy industry.
Driving down the price, or driving up the price of oil all along.
How about we stop all the tax breaks for General Motors and Chrysler?
Look at the tax breaks his companies get.
You know, the oil companies, they are not the enemy for crying out loud.
Why anybody in the world has bought that?
They are not the enemy.
We don't even have any buddy on our side to defend them.
Geez oh man.
Meanwhile, here's General Electric not paying a diamond taxes.
And Obama wants to give them another four billion dollars.
On top of what he's already giving them.
Crony capitalism.
Audio sound by time.
Donald Trump.
Last night, Anderson Cooper 20.
Anderson Cooper said there's not that many people in Hawaii who have knowledge of his birth certificate, Donald.
We've talked at a former director of the highway or the Hawaii Department of Health.
He's a Republican.
One of two state officials actually seen the birth certificate you're talking about.
She says that she hasn't been contacted by your people.
Isn't that somebody that your people should talk to if they're out there?
I've been told very recently, Anderson, that the birth certificate is missing.
I've been told that it's not there and it doesn't exist.
I don't want to say who, but I've been told that the birth certificate is not there, it's missing.
And I feel badly about that because I'd love him to produce the birth certificate so that he can fight one on one.
If you look at what he's doing as president with fuel prices and everything else, you can do a great fight one-on-one.
You don't need this issue.
But I've been told that the birth certificate is either missing or not there.
So now the uh the the media they've had their fun with the Trump fascination.
So now on the syndicated TV program Access Hollywood, they followed uh Trump around when he went to vote.
This 2004.
So they went back to their archival footage.
This this is from the Department of Trump is a mean SOB.
This is Trump being followed around by the media 2004 when he went to vote.
His bodyguard took him to the wrong polling place three times.
It wasn't pretty.
You figure out where the f you're going, okay?
You come back here and figure it out.
I'll come back later and vote when you figure out where the f we're supposed to be going.
You know this.
Sounds like Clinton.
Well, Obama blows up too sometimes.
No, it was Clinton.
You're right.
It was Clinton.
Some poor lackey in Baltimore sent him to the wrong place.
Clinton took him aside.
Well uh never.
Yeah, we're gonna skip number uh number six.
No, do I want to skip do I want to uh let me get I don't know if I want to do I got the preacher here from uh from 2010 uh Obama's Easter Sunday preacher calling me the KKK back in 2019.
I don't know if I want to waste time on that.
Yeah, why not?
Why not?
Well, let's do it because we got something funny to follow it.
Okay, so January 15th, in St. David's, Pennsylvania, Eastern University's Windows of the World Convention.
Washington, D.C.'s Shiloh Baptist Church pastor Wallace Charles Smith was the speaker.
Anytime you can have the kind of hate mongering that continues in the Halloween halls of talk radio.
It shows that Barack's presidency has not solved the problem.
Now Jim Crow wears blue pinstripes.
He doesn't have to wear white robes anymore.
Because now he can wear the protective cover of talk radio.
Or can get a regular news program on Fox.
Even such venerable saints as Rush Limbaugh know the lines that they are not to cross.
But any of their constituency can hear clear the same vile filth spewing forth in their statements that was once the purview of Robert Shelton and members of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council.
That's the Easter Sunday pastor of Obama.
His name is uh Wallace Charles Smith.
That's who did Obama's Easter Sunday sermon.
But that bite was from January 15th, 2010.
Quaining me with a KKK.
Meanwhile, let's go back, shall we?
To about six months after that, July 2nd of 2010, in Charleston, West Virginia, Bill Clinton eulogizing a former Glenn Grand Cleague of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Byrd, who served with distinction and honor in the United States Senate.
There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with uh Klu Klux Klan, and what does that mean?
I'll tell you what it means.
He was a country boy from the hills of West Virginia.
He was trying to get elected.
And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up.
And that's what a good person does.
There are no perfect people.
There are certainly no perfect politicians.
All right.
So at the eulogy for Byrd, Clinton felt compelled to bring up his Ku Klux Klan past, referring to it as a fleeting association.
There's nothing fleeting about it.
Byrd was a recruiter.
He when I recruited people to join the Klan.
Grand Cyclops.
I keep saying Cleague, but he was a Grand Cyclops.
That means his hood had three eyes.
One in the back of his head, too, to see if it are people heading for him in that direction.
Robert Byrd.
So basically here's Clinton.
He's basically saying, hey, look, hey.
Yeah, so what?
He's a member of the Klan, but where's he from?
He's from where you're from.
Right here.
You Hayseeds and you Hicks, he did it for you.
You're all you're all the members of the Klan.
And that and that's what he had to do.
He had to pretend he was in a Klan just to get elected because you wouldn't elect anybody else.
He did it for you, he did it for himself.
And then he spent the rest of his life apologizing for it.
That was Clinton's message.
Yes, let's applaud Bill Clinton, just calling us all a bunch of hicks and hay seeds.
And Klan sympathizers.
All right, we are back, and back to the phones we go.
It is Ken in Pittsburgh.
Ken, welcome to the EIV network.
Great to have you here with us.
Hi, thanks, Russ.
It's a pleasure to be here with you.
It's an honor to talk to you in the first place.
You bet, sir.
Hey, what I call about Rush.
You know, uh Donald Trump, everybody's making a big big issue at him.
I really think he's a showboat, but let me tell you something.
The Republican Party is starving, starving for somebody with backbone to stand up and say what he thinks.
He doesn't worry about being politically correct.
Well, there are a lot of opinions on Trump out there, and it's early, and there's a lot of things, uh are a lot of things left to uh to shake out.
Uh everybody has uh their opinion on Trump.
I just was reading a piece by Thomas Sowell.
Uh let me let me give you the pull quote from from Thomas Sowell's piece.
Trump has what so many other Republicans are so painfully lacking.
The ability and the willingness to articulate arguments clearly, forcefully, and in plain English.
Too many Republicans talk like the actor of whom a critic once said he played like he played the king like he was afraid that someone else was going to play the ace.
And it's it's it really is no more complicated than that.
I can't tell you that that right now with Trump, it's not even about issues, it's that he's got the guts to take it to the Democrats.
Right now, it's it's at this stage.
I've been hosting this program for 23 years, and every week, almost every day, every week.
I have had the question when are the Republicans going to say X?
When are the Republicans again?
Somebody that does why.
When are the Republicans to stand up and say?
Um it's it's it's why Perot captivated people.
Um it's it's really not complicated here at all.
Yeah, he of course he's a showman.
Well, so was Clinton for crying out loud.
You know, I see this all this talk about Trump's not serious.
And I put, by the way, I have a different context, I guess, than most people on this.
Like I heard the Venerable Charles Krauthammer say that Trump's not serious.
As opposed to what?
Obama.
When did serious become the number one qualification?
Obama is an absolute disaster.
And Obama is a fraud.
He has one of the greatest pseudo-intellects that's ever come down the pike.
He doesn't know anything.
And the great intellects that were praising Obama were doing it on the strength of his crease in his slacks.
David Brooks in the New York Times recently had a piece saying that Obama is so complicated because he's multiple personalities.
He's so brilliant and so hard to keep up with because there's so many wonderful aspects to Obama.
Folks, that is just I don't have a word for how silly and stupid that is.
David Brooks.
David Brooks had a piece.
Yeah, he's so complicated.
He's got so many personality, he could be serious, it could be funny, it could be it's just mind-boggling the way the ruling class intelligentsia sets up qualifications.
Brooks said the same thing about Trump.
He's complicated, has many aspects.
Now, when I listen to Trump, I hear somebody who's pretty serious about whatever it is he believes.
Discounting that for a moment.
I'm not yet on this page of annoying some conservative leader here.
I'm I'm fascinated by the reaction that he's getting.
But more than that, more than a what I just myself, I'm not articulating this well.
We we have perhaps the worst president or second worst president in a hundred years.
Certainly eighty.
And yet people think he's a serious man.
Quality intellect, Harvard, Yale.
He doesn't know anything.
He hasn't the slightest understanding of how this country works, of how it was founded.
He doesn't know what it takes to bring a product from invention to market.
He doesn't know anything.
He doesn't know how to create a job.
He has resentment for those who do.
Now why is anybody being measured against that standard?
John Edwards.
Look at all the people at the John Edwards, oh you talk about somebody whose extra men didn't stink.
Oh man, brilliant guy, two Americans.
That guy's an ab it's a retrobate.
And a fraud.
Who cares what's in his brain?
The guy is a moral fraud.
I I just my patience wears thin on all this.
He's serious.
He's not serious.
Serious can't.
Based on what?
It's um.
You know, so Trump's a showman, okay.
He's uh doing all these things, getting noticed.
All of that's true.
I don't I don't uh I don't deny it.
But at the same time, there are serious people who are very excited about Trump.
How does that sound?
Serious people are very excited about Trump.
Since serious seems to be the word that nails it down here as legitimate.
And they're serious about Trump because I'm telling you just 22 years here.
Why don't the Republicans do that?
Where is the Republican?
Where is why don't I I still haven't had the answer?
I mean I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
We'll continue in a moment.
Now, by the way, let me uh clarify something.
Uh Thomas Sowell is not a supporter of Trump's.
Don't misunderstand.
Uh Thomas Sowell is worried that Trump is going to go far in the Republican nomination process.
And so he's asking, okay, why the appeal?
Because Trump has been all over the board politically, as everybody knows.
I mean, he donated to Ram and Manuel.
He's on the program, I asked him about it.
His answer was unsatisfactory to a lot of people.
He's been pro-life, he's been, he's he's obviously, he obviously has a uh version or a view of conservatism where somebody's told him that the fringe of conservatism is the base.
So anyway, Seoul, a lot of people are are worried that if Trump's been all over the board and all these places, but now he's saying things that charge people up, what's he going to be like if he wins?
Who is he really?
If if he were to become president.
Uh it's a it is a legitimate fear.
And some people don't want to take any chances anymore.
Some people are through taking chances, like with McCain, they're through taking chances with Dole.
Just look at there are enough decent legitimate conservatives out there, just give us one.
Or would one of them rise up and do something?
Now, here's a here but here's on the other end of this.
If you look at the kingmakers in our media, the crowdhammers and the Bill Crystals and the um uh uh the the the print media inside the Bellway conservative print media, none of the candidates they back, and none of the rhinos are slamming Obama the way Trump is.
And that's why they don't like Trump.
But they also don't like Bachman and Palin or Santorum either.
I have uh mentioned on several occasions on this program that the fights within the so-called Republican establishment are pretty serious, and they have there are a lot of factions.
There's by no means unity on the Republican side, even against Obama.
By no means.
The inside the Bellway guys are rhino Republican guys.
That's why serious.
That's why the desire for seriousness.
Serious means dull.
Serious means I don't know, bookish, studious, uh maybe a couple other characteristics.
The arguments that are taking place within the Republican Party, both uh the establishment side and the conservative side are many and they are varied.
And Sowell's point is of course of all of the candidates, why is Trump?
Why is Trump selling out eight appearances?
Why is why are they scalping tickets?
Well, the answer's obvious.
You know, he's he's he's firing people, he's saying things voters want leaders to say.
He's saying things voters are thinking.
He's saying things voters would say if the media put a microphone in front of them.
Trump looked at another way.
Trump is validating what they Believe.
The question is is he making converts?
You know, who knows?
But there are enough people out there who have enough frustration that he's validating what they think, and so they glom on and uh and they sign on to it.
But look at the birther thing for just a second.
Now very simple way of looking at this or analysis of this.
Whatever you think of Trump and this birther nonsense, whatever you think of it.
Trump presents a really simple question.
Mr. President, if you have nothing to hide, why are you hiding everything?
Presidents don't get away with this.
In our country, presidents are vetted.
They don't get away with hiding things.
Well, Clinton did.
But there was still an effort to find the things out.
It but the question, why are you hiding things?
Why won't you show the birds a day?
It's it's a it's a very basic question.
It should have been asked three years ago.
It's something the president knows is lurking out there, doesn't seem at all interested in solving it, as though he likes controversy, which means that some think he's waiting to spring it at a right time to just destroy the whole birther movement.
There's all of that happening with it at the same time.
But I'll t I'll tell you what what it's time for.
You have i i it it's it's time for the freshmen, the Tea Party Republican people stand up and forget waiting for their turn.
It's time to just stand up.
Here we are, we're conservatives.
It's too serious right now.
The country's future is in too much doubt.
We're gonna throw the rules away.
Rules that say I have to wait.
The rules that say I've got to do X and Y, make the leadership happy.
It's too serious.
No, Obama didn't wait his term, but Obama was anointed.
Obama was chosen.
Oh m Obama was picked and groomed.
We groom our people for caskets.
They groom theirs for the uh for the White House.
Uh Charlie in Omaha, Nebraska.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Uh great to have you here.
Hi, Russ Megadeth.
It's actually Carly.
Carly, sorry about that.
You're right.
That's okay.
So I want to tell you I started as a huge Obama supporter.
I voted in every election since I was eighteen years old.
And then when I was at um my online one day, and I took a test that was telling you what oh candidate you should vote for, because they're trying to decide between Obama and Hillary.
And then much to my surprise, the top three candidates that came up were Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and McCain.
And I kind of had a sort of identity crisis.
So does that mean I'm not a Democrat?
What am I?
So I was searching, like you said, for a leader, and I really felt during that election there wasn't a leader that I found identified with my values.
So luckily enough, I stumbled onto you, even though I get a lot of flack for listening to you.
I love you to death.
And you know, so now my eyes are open and I have a lot to learn, and I listen to you, and like I've heard you say before, you don't need to go out and read or do anything, just listen to you all know all we need to know.
Um, but so what I've I've always wanted to call and talk to you.
But today, you know, you're talking about we need a leader.
Yes, I want a leader.
There's no leader out there for me to look to.
Um I had a question, you know, I used to work for Herman Cain.
I worked for Godfather's Pizza, that's you know, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Right.
And I I've always loved him what he took for us.
You know, I got to work with him directly and still keep in contact with him.
What do you think of him as a leader?
I have so many questions for you, but I guess I just you know I'll start with that.
I love Herman Cain.
I like uh Her Herman Herman is obviously a leader.
Herman Cain led Godfather's Pizza, he's uh uh great guy, fine guy.
I've played golf with it.
No, I haven't, I've not played golf.
I'm not I just love to tweak him out there.
Oh, this is the point.
We have We have a lot of great potential leaders out there.
In a better world, Herman Cain would be seen as one of our foremost candidates.
He's a guy who's got it all.
Right.
Absolutely.
Okay, so what can I ask you another question?
Yeah.
So if we're talking about solving, you know, the economic problems in here on the local radio station, yeah, on the conservative radio, they talk about flat taxes.
And what do you think about that?
Well, do I think about flat taxes?
Mm-hmm.
I like a common flat tax, fair tax, I like it.
I like it.
The current the current tax system is not productive.
It's a joke.
It's rife with favoritism.
It's rife with opportunities for fraud.
It's so complicated, nobody can figure it out.
Nobody knows whether they're violating the law every time they file their return or not.
It's it's confusing as it can be by by design.
The tax code, uh Carly, you have to understand that the tax code is used as the greatest form of social architecture the government has.
And that's why they're not going to give up the power of going flat tax.
Uh that nobody is now.
Uh I I think you if you hear uh politician campaign on it, be very, very insistent that they are serious and not just mouthing the words.
But it's going to take more than one person to make that happen.
Uh the entire lobbying industry is built around the tax code.
The entire lobbying, and we're talking trillions aggregately of dollars.
It is built around the tax code and rewriting it and massaging it each and every year.
Uh politicians use it to structure society to grant favors or to punish opponents.
Uh it is this the tax code is one of the single greatest sources of power.
Elected officials in Washington have.
And if if we if with a flat tax, politicians would have to use their own money to buy votes.
Right now they can use the use the Federal Treasury to buy votes.
If with a they would have to use their own they they wouldn't with a flat tax with with with uh no complication, very simple.
Here's what you make, here's the rate, just what you owe, send it in.
One page.
It would be really difficult to camouflage a whole lot of government spending as slush funds with I mean politicians buy votes these days with the tax code.
They buy votes with uh with government programs.
The the simpler the tax code becomes, the fewer government programs there are related to it, and the fewer votes you can buy.
So politicians have to give their own but it's uh it's a way of saying that the tax code today is is it's an insidious device of power maintenance.
It is not at all about raising revenue to fund the government.
That's the last thing it's concerned with.
And of course, the flat tax idea and the fair tax is all oriented toward creating revenue to run the government.
But that's not what the tax code's about.
That's not what it's evolved to at all.
And don't anybody try to tell me it is.
Nobody cares a whit how much money is raised via the tax code.
If it's not enough, we'll just borrow it.
If it's not enough, we'll just spend it.
The tax code is used to reward and punish, to shape, to uh motivate, inspire whatever.
Social architecture.
I just it I asking these these guys to vote to give that up would be akin to getting Hu Xin Tao to sign over Chicoms to a totally market-based capitalist system.
Not saying we shouldn't aim for it and go for it.
I just I'm I'm I just want to be honest with you here about what it is.
It's easy to say if we're a flat tax, and I am.
I'm much for simplification.
Fairer, everything else.
I'd be happy to pay taxes 20% of what it is, 15% and be done with it.
Everybody would.
And by the way, the amount of revenue that would be generated going that way would double.
If people only had to if if people got to keep 80 cents of every dollar they earned, you would not believe all the new income that would be discovered.
That wouldn't be hidden, that wouldn't be sheltered.
My God, the government would make out like bandits, but that's not the purpose of the tax code.
I gotta go.
Carly, I'm glad you call.
We'll be back.
Wrap it up.
Couple more segments to go after this.
Tim in Salem, Oregon.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you.
Uh thank you, sir.
What characteristics will you look for in a Republican candidate that would convince you that when elected president will follow through on our conservative values?
Uh first thing I look for is fearlessness, conviction, uh, and and and unafraid to express the core beliefs, a willingness to teach, an enthusiasm to convert.
Um somebody is not concerned, will welcome media attention, will welcome the media's attention as an obvious opportunity to expand the number of people who understand what he believes.
Somebody that's optimistic, somebody believes in the country, somebody is unafraid of talking about the greatness of the country and is unafraid of talking about what the risks are that we face with four more years of this guy.
I've already got the campaign slogan, we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama.
That's it.
And then see people say why, and I'm off to the races with my reasons.
And I got an hour's worth of reasons with an entertaining speech of why, informative and so forth.
That person, there has to be somebody out there that can do that.
That person has to be there.
And that person has to have that in his heart and in it or her heart in his book.
I know this is I get in trouble.
I know that there are people who are exactly as I've described.
There's communication skills might not be what you would want, but they're there.
These people have what I just mentioned.
They're fearless, they are optimistic and so forth.
I'm out of time.
Give you names tomorrow.
Don't go away.
Well, here you have it, another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can.
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