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May 11, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hey, okay, folks, how are you?
Great to have you here already Wednesday at the EIB Network and everywhere else.
Seems like only yesterday I was sitting here with you.
It's always fun.
And it's great to be here.
Telephone number.
You want to be on the program is 800 282-2882.
And the email address, excuse me, L Rushball at EIB net.com.
All right, the t-shirt is now up and ready to go for purchase at the EIB store, the Obama killed Osama t-shirt.
Now we talked about this is one of the quickest turnarounds that we've ever been able to make here.
It's the Osama Obama killed Osama t-shirt on the front, and it's in Club Gitmo colors, uh bright uh jumpsuit orange t-shirt at the EIB store now at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Obama killed Osama on the front.
You turn the shirt over on the back.
And uh it says Obama kills Osama and ten Somali pirates, three Qaddafi grandkids, two Osama wives, the U.S. economy, and got a peace prize for doing it.
All that's on the back of the shirt.
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Now, the uh the site's pretty busy.
We put the uh notice of the shirt being available before the program started today, and people obviously go to the website to turn on the ditto cam to watch today's program, saw that.
So we're getting slammed with a lot of traffic out there.
But I just want to let you know that it is up and uh and running.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, we uh we had this uh story yesterday.
I didn't get a chance to get to it, but it seems that uh Osama bin Laden's son, Omar Bin Laden, has issued a statement that has appeared on a couple important terrorist websites, including the New York Times.
And among the complaints of Omar Obama, uh Osama, saying his father didn't get a fair trial.
His father did not get a trial.
Now you got to disagree with him there, folks.
He got trial by fire.
Uh plainest day for anybody to believe, because nobody's seen it.
Uh, but that's what we've been told.
Now it was a trial by fire.
He got some kind of a trial, which is more than he gave the people he killed.
I almost fell for a hoax piece today.
I almost fell for it.
It's so good and it's so rooted, it that's there's a lot of potential truth in it.
It's a story from one of Osama's wives, how embarrassed she was, and what a mess the house was in when the seals showed up.
And I was already put it here at the top of the stack and run with it, and then I because I just, you know, headline scan at first, and I dig deep into these things as we near showtime.
And when I got to the part where she asked the seals to wait until she straightened up the bedroom, it's okay, I've been had here.
In the Nick and it was it's an hilarious piece.
One of Osama's wives asking the SEALs and and telling the world she's profoundly embarrassed at just what a what a what a mess the uh the place was.
Apparently, though, uh Osama's son Omar is upset that we would kill an unarmed civilian like that instead of doing it the good old-fashioned way, hijacking an airplane and flying it into the hut that his uh father was living in.
And the son, by the way, this is interesting.
Omar Osama.
No, Omar Bin Laden.
Have I been getting this wrong all have I really?
I swear to you, my good friends, this is never intentional.
What you've even given up correcting me now.
You leave it.
I guess it is funny.
Okay, Omar Bin Laden.
Wait till I start confusing him with Mullah Omar of the Taliban.
Meanwhile, Omar Bin Laden says he needs proof that the United States killed his dad.
And on top of that, he's upset because we buried him wrong.
Now, how could we have buried him wrong if we haven't killed him?
But this is one of the complaints from Osama bin Laden's kid.
And so he's naturally threatening to sue.
He's threatening to sue the United States, probably already retained an ACLU lawyer.
Well, I um depends on how far the lawsuit goes.
If whether or not he gets to see the pictures.
But I mean, if he if if he if he sues the United States, and is there any doubt he'll get an ACLU lawyer working pro bono?
The only question, let's say let's look, let's say this happens.
Okay, here we have the uh the bereaved son of Osama bin Laden, Omar bin Laden.
He doesn't believe that his dad was killed, but then he's upset at how he was killed and buried.
So he's filed suit against the United States.
You're gonna go out there and get a pro bono ACLU lawyer.
The real question here will be which side Eric Holder's Justice Department takes in a lawsuit.
Will Holder will Holder be on the side of bin Laden's kid and his pals at the ACLU, or will Holder defend the United States.
Talk about being on the horns of a dilemma.
If uh if you are the attorney general.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, our brave young president has added his heroic killing of bin Laden to his campaign stump speech, which means every speech that he is uh is giving he's practically dredged up the body of bin Laden so he can campaign with it.
Oh Obama and bin Laden appear in El Paso is uh is an appropriate head.
It's kind of like you remember the movie Weekend with Bernie.
You see that well, I'm starting to think that the way Obama's talking, that that's that's what this is everywhere he goes, he's gonna be taking Osama with him.
And he's gonna be reminding everybody how heroic he was and how uniquely intelligent he was after all of these people tried to get Osama, but only he, Obama, pulled it off.
Uh an event again that we have memorialized in our club Gitmo merchandise line at the EIB store.
Now don't whoa whoa, don't tell me that.
Do not my friends, a staffer, just said to me that the way I'm recounting this, comparing this a weekend at Bernie's and so forth, that this is distasteful.
Uh no, no, look it.
What I am doing is no more tasteless than what Obama himself is doing on the camp.
Goes out to the one little enclave in Texas that likes him.
Goes to the one enclave, throws Republicans under the bus in a cheap, I mean, really unpresidential.
They talk about Palin having a thin skin.
Boy, this guy's thin skin is so that you can see through it.
So he's uh if if anybody's acting tasteless here, and if anybody is acting arrogant at the same time, it is our young man child president of Barack Obama.
You you remember, you remember how the news media warned Bush how they would go after him if he even dared to mention 9-11 in any of his campaign speeches or ads.
Do you remember those admonitions?
Do you hear any similar admonitions against President Obama as he runs around and practically campaigns with the corpse?
No, you don't hear anything like that.
But anyway, Obama's strategy appears to be paying off if you believe the AP poll.
The AP and one other poll are very questionable.
AP has Obama at 60% approval.
But then we'll get into detail here in a moment.
If you look at their sample, it's like 46% Democrat, 21% Republican, a small number of uh independents and moderates and so forth and no labels people.
It's a joke.
The AP poll is an absolute joke.
Yahoo News currently listing that AP story.
Get this now.
You know, the Yahoo News asks you to rate the news stories that you're reading on their website.
And the current listing, and their top story right now, the number one story at Yahoo is the AP poll of Obama now at 60% job approval.
The next two stories in the world right now on Yahoo.
Number two, Newt Gingrich's dirty polluter money.
And he hasn't even announced yet.
He's going to announce tonight on what?
Facebook and the social websites, Twitter, whatever it is, that's how he's going to announce.
What?
Fox?
Well, yeah, he's going to be on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's going to be on with uh with with uh with Hannity on Fox, but he's going to announce it out there on the social websites.
So, number one story on Yahoo is Obama's AP story, 60% approval.
Number two story is Gingrich's dirty polluter money.
And the third most popular story at Yahoo, Bristol Palin says she's had corrective jaw surgery.
Those are the top three stories at the Yahoo News website.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of fun on tap today.
Uh a lot of serious and yet uh humorous analysis of events which have taken place since we were last with you.
We've got your phone calls, got a great soundbite roster.
Let me just give you a hint.
Audio soundbite, or an example, audio soundbite number one last night, eyeball news in Indianapolis.
WTHR TV, eyeball news.
Here's a portion.
They got a political correspondent there named Kevin Rader, and he had a report about the governor Mitch Daniels and his possible run for president.
This was a focus of Mr. Raider's report.
Not all reaction is positive.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh has taken issue with the governor on his syndicated radio show.
Serious person.
Also means boring and uh moderate.
So there you have it.
So, cookie.
That's out of all I said.
Out of all I the total 12-second bite of the 12 seconds, I'm four seconds, maybe three.
Yes, out of all I said, that's what they uh included.
I'm not even sure I was talking about Daniels there.
We were had a generic discussion about this whole predisposition on the Republican side to things to only be interested in serious people.
You know, serious is the new gravitas.
And I was simply pointing out that serious also means boring and moderate.
All right, folks, a brief.
It'll go by quicker than you can believe it.
Time out.
And we'll come back and continue here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great again to have you with us today.
I just checking.
People wanted to know what the t-shirt costs, the price.
I think it's 1995.
I don't know if we have uh if there's an additional cost to get to 3x and 4x.
Uh what was the uh the price of cotton and the veritable tents that those shirts are.
But uh basically for the vast majority of you, 1999 for the new.
Obama kills Osama.
T shirt new in the club getting all line at the EIB store at Rushlimbaugh.com.
All right, a little bit here about this Associated Press poll.
Folks, it it it really get this and put it in perspective for you.
Some of the other polling data that is out there, Rasmussen reports the Obama approval index at Rasmussen is minus 12.
His strongly approved number is 25% at Rasmussen.
His strongly disapproved number is 37%.
The overall total approval for Obama at Rasmussen is 48%.
Gallup is about the same.
Wall Street Journal's about the same.
AP is a nightmare.
I mean, AP, there are a couple of others, maybe one other that I have it in front of me which one it is, that are reporting this nonsense.
And I can demonstrate for you how nonsensical it is by sharing with you AP's own analysis of their poll.
The AP analysis says that Obama's getting such a spike, such a huge increase in his general approval numbers because of this.
He has proved now to the American people that he is a strong leader who will protect us from terrorism.
He's proven that now.
He's taken all doubt about that off the table.
But that's not all.
This AP poll is an attempt to convince us that by killing bin Laden and taking bin Laden on the campaign trail with him, that Obama has now ended the recession.
Obama has now lowered unemployment.
He has solved the housing market collapse, and he has put an end to the spiraling cost of food and gasoline.
That's the spin from AP.
All of that comprises this 60% approval number.
Thank you.
But this specific analysis that Obama's getting such a spike in his general approval numbers because he's proved now to the American people he's a strong leader who will protect us from terrorism.
President Bush ought to demand an AP poll recount.
As you recall, Bush had terrible approval numbers.
He was in the high 30s, the mid-30s.
I mean, Wolf Blitzer would spend an hour and a half counting down the next release of Bush's approval numbers, they were so low.
But what did Bush do?
Bush protected us from terrorism, and he did it much better than Obama has.
And Bush was presiding over a booming economy at the time.
Bush was presiding over a great housing market at the time.
There was almost no inflation for most of the Bush years, at least until the Democrats took over Congress in 2007.
Now, how do you explain that?
How do you explain a guy with a roaring economy, no inflation, strong credentials on keeping the country safe?
George W. Bush in the 30s, and Barack Obama, who is dithered on every foreign policy question there is, he's apologized all over the world for this country.
He has basically exhibited a lack of interest in foreign policy.
It's an inconvenience.
He even dithered on what to do about Obama.
Osama that took 16 or 8 months, 10 months, whatever, to figure out what to do there after they had the intel about where Osama was.
So here you've got a guy, the housing market is collapsing.
Food and gasoline prices are spiraling out of control.
Unemployment is holding steady at 9%, probably going to get worse.
In other words, there is no booming economy.
There is no great housing market like Bush had.
There is inflation.
And yet with the same factors, Bush is in the mid-30s and Obama is at 60%.
This proves one of my contentions for many, many moons behind the golden EIB microphone, and that polls are not a reflection of public opinion.
they are an attempt to shape it.
Make no mistake about it.
The media use these polls to promote the politicians they like and punish those that they don't like.
And it is as clear as a bell in this AP poll.
And I, folks, I'm just using their own analysis.
Everything they use, every thing they cite to explain why Obama's at 60% can be a signed President Bush in multiple times.
And yet Bush had half the approval rating in AP that Obama has.
It's just it's uh it's an amazing thing.
We know it.
We know the bias exists.
Uh we have to come to accept it and live with it, but it's still striking when you see it to this degree in the APB.
There's no way he's at 60%.
Don't doubt me.
Oh, yeah, I'm gonna get to that.
We're gonna get to this rapper.
We're gonna get to uh Obama down in El Paso.
We're gonna get to all of it today.
I can't, but I can't do it in the first half hour, Snerdley.
If it's a half-hour show, I do my best to squeeze it all in in 25 minutes or but yeah, we're gonna get to all of it.
I this is things, it's gonna be a stream of consciousness show today because there's so much out there, and all I have to do is look at one thing, and it lights a fire.
For example, instead of going to El Paso and pushing for amnesty, shouldn't Obama be going to Mississippi and all these other flooded states?
I mean, he's got the ability to lower the sea levels.
Why does he not put it to use?
The Mississippi River is flooding in historic ways, and Obama goes down to El Paso, Texas.
He's talked about lowering the sea levels.
I guess that means he can also lower a river's level.
But he seems not to care much.
I mean, isn't the flooding going on all along the Mississippi far worse than the flooding that occurred in New Orleans after Katrina?
It's certainly the Mississippi River flooding is certainly far more widespread.
Where's FEMA?
Where's the media's outrage at Obama's lack of concern and lack of action?
Where's the looting?
Where are all the where are all of those stories that we saw during Katrina all along the Mississippi River?
Where are those stories out of Memphis?
We don't see them.
We don't even have a president.
Who gives a hoot?
It doesn't appear.
In fact, I'm surprised Obama was able even to get such a such an agreeable audience for his amnesty speech.
You know, Texas is such a sensible state.
Even the Hispanics vote Republican down there.
But he did.
And yeah, we'll we'll get to all of that in um in due course.
With the sliming attack, the petulant thin skin, as I say, they talk about Sarah Palin having a thin skin.
The things Obama said about the Republicans yesterday, I mean, it is childish.
Oh, by the way, speaking of which, uh, ladies and gentlemen, in the program this afternoon, when I decide it's time for it, we will have another installment of the official Obama criticizer.
Mr. Bose Nerdly is standing by and is on tap.
Now, I'd I'd like to know.
Hijacking is a crime, is it not?
Well, with that in mind, let me share with you some other observations.
If parade hijacking were a crime, if any kind of hijacking is a crime, Obama would be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Follow me on this.
Barack Obama went from singing the praises of the president of Egypt, Hazni Mubarak, to demanding that Mubarak leave, as per the mob's demands.
And he made this switch in a matter of hours.
Obama has gone from being the leader of the party of betrayus and the party that believes the American military consists of terrorists and baby killers to now claiming the mantle of America's toughest, most patriotic cowboy.
Obama's hijacked John Wayne from us.
Obama's hijacked Bush.
He hijacked the mob in Egypt.
He's gone from being best friends with flag stomping domestic terrorist Bill Ayers to now being best friends and the leader of SEAL Team Six.
He's gone from not introducing an amnesty bill when the Democrats control Congress in the White House to now proclaiming himself the leader of illegal immigrants and their quest for amnesty.
So he's hijacking that movement.
I mean, this is simultaneously nauseating and hilarious to watch.
It depends on the mood.
He leads from the rear while the parade forms.
After the parade forms and a consensus has developed, Obama gets on the white horse and races to the front of the parade, takes credit for whatever the cause is and hijacks it.
And that's where he is now.
It's not, it's not just leading from behind, it's leading the ignorant.
Anybody who sees Obama as a leader of anything, except he is a leader in the assault on prosperity and liberty.
But if they see him as a leader in anything else, then you're not paying attention for whatever reason.
Now, it's interesting, you know, Cookie sends me the soundbite roster.
I get the soundbite roster anywhere from a quarter till noon to twelve noon each day.
And I have no idea what's going to be on it.
That's how much I trust the cookster.
I mean, back in the old days, when we're first starting, I would uh be watching television night and was going to see something, and I'd send her a note, Cookie, give me this bite for tomorrow.
I no longer have to do that.
Uh we've been working together so long, Cookie just knows what I would use.
So I don't know what I'm gonna get.
I used to be in total control of what is gonna get.
I don't know what I'm gonna get until usually five or ten minutes before the program starts.
And sometimes I don't have time to read the entire soundbite roster until a half hour into the program.
But just to show you how sometimes we're on this inexorable same page.
I had prepared a whole thought process on the arrogance, the classless arrogance of Barack Obama yesterday.
And here she's the first page of sound bites.
Uh is Cookie explaining in her words the arrogant Obama and saying this of the arrogant Obama.
She saw it as arrogant, too.
She saw Obama what he was saying as the same way I did.
Classless arrogance.
And what I've decided about this, you know, he he feels good about himself.
When he feels good about himself, he doesn't act like a cowboy.
He acts like a drunken cowboy when he is really feeling good of himself.
He can't help it.
You know, it all started back in the first congressional joint congressional meeting in the White House after he was immaculated.
That meeting where he told Boehner and the Republicans don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, that's not how things got done here.
And one of the Republicans in the meeting happened to mention the concept of tax cuts.
And Obama chuckled and said, Yeah, well, that would matter, except I won.
Which meant screw you, pal.
I won.
There aren't going to be any tax cuts.
And now he's worked his way down to moats and alligators.
With his speech yesterday, the appearance yesterday in El Paso.
Now recently, President Obama with great transparency paraded around the country on a trophy wielding football spiking victory tour that has been classless and self-aggrandizing.
I don't think this is what Americans want from their president.
This is really small narcissistic behavior.
I mean, look at in reality here, President Obama has snubbed Texans who suffered through massive losses From wildfires.
He has snubbed and ignored Texans through various natural disasters that they've had.
He even declined the governor's request for a state of emergency for Texas because of the fires.
He then launched a war on Boeing jobs in Red State, South Carolina.
He invites rappers to the White House who sing about shooting at cops during National Police Week.
This guy, common.
You know, common ABC's blog has a report on the guy, and it's so it's it's it's it's hysterically poor.
They talk about all the awards he's won.
Great sensitivities he has.
They don't mention that he is advocating the killing of cops, that he defends some woman from Philadelphia who fled to Cuba after having killed a cop.
They don't mention the ABC blog that common celebrates this kind of behavior in this woman.
Now, Obama also recently invited Republicans, including Paul Ryan to a budget speech and budget speech, and Ryan's sitting there in the front row, and Obama smears Ryan.
It was one of the most thuggish presidential speeches in history.
He supported union members trespassing on and defacing the Wisconsin Capitol building.
And I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And let's not forget that Obama's deliberate failure to thank and congratulate George W. Bush when intelligence developed under the Bush administration played such a crucial role in the demise of bin Laden.
And I think I think that classless arrogance, not cool and calm and collected.
I think we've got a cold guy here.
A very young, immature, bitter cold guy.
Classless arrogance has marked his two plus years in office.
Frankly, I don't mind that he's out there showboating and milking the bin Laden assassination.
Shows him for who he is.
The weekend at Bernie's joke works because you can almost believe it.
He can almost believe he's got the bin Laden corpse in tow.
It's who he really is.
He doesn't have the time to fly over the flooded Mississippi River and look out his window.
He can ignore unemployment, the double dip recession in the housing industry.
He can talk about taxing job creators, and he can divide the American people at every turn.
This is his way of telling us who he is.
And then I have to hear that he's unbeatable.
Then we have to hear this bit.
He can't be beaten.
And I so profoundly disagree.
He is landslidable beatable.
Running on this record.
But the Republicans are going to need a message.
And they don't have it yet.
I've got it.
You all have it.
You know what the message is.
They don't have it yet.
There is not a.
There's not a statement or two that you can come up with.
Somebody landed here from Mars and asked you who are the Republicans.
You can answer who are the conservatives.
You can answer that question, but who are the Republicans?
What do they believe in?
You couldn't tell a Martian in a couple of sentences.
So Obama's imminently beatable.
But it's going to require a message that's rooted in principle core beliefs and policy that flows from all that.
Okay, brief timeout.
We must take.
No, sturdily, I don't I can't do it now.
I gotta take the break now.
We'll do it.
We'll come back and continue with all the rest.
Everybody thinks they can do this better than I do.
No matter, no matter, you think after 23 years, people would finally figure out that I know what I'm doing.
Here's the official breakout.
On the uh AP poll that shows Obama to 60% approval number.
Forty-six percent of the respondents were Democrat, 29% were Republican, and four percent were independent.
That's it's it's uh it's a laughable joke.
Uh Jacob Tacker, uh Jake Tapper, audio side number two here.
This this morning on Good Morning America.
George Steffi Stephanopoulos talked to the senior White House correspondent Jacob Tapper about the 2012 presidential election.
Uh Newt declaring his candidacy today, Stephanopoulos said, Look, seems like Newt's not at the top.
I know you've been talking to the White House and other Democrat officials.
The Newt is not the Republican candidate they're most worried about.
Who are they most worried about at the White House, Jacob?
If they had to pick Democrats I spoke to inside the White House and outside the White House think the most formidable contender would be former ambassador to China and Utah Governor John Huntsman, but they don't think that he has a real path to the nomination.
Another Republican they consider formidable would be uh Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Right, right.
That's what they're gonna do.
Jake, you don't tell me you don't fall for this.
That you just you have to report this.
This this whole thing is part of the creation of a template of the narrative.
Who comes up with the idea?
Jay call a White House.
Maybe Jake comes up with it himself.
But no, there has to be some master comer up with because they all do it.
So Jake calls up, calls his contacts in the White, hey, tell me.
2012's right around the corner.
You got the president out there in Texas campaigning today.
Practically got the corpse of bin Laden with him.
You're down there talking about amnesty and immigration when you say you fixed the problem.
So who are you really worried about?
Who you really think could be you in 2012?
And they honestly tell us Huntsman or Mitch Daniels.
Now we know that Jake Tapper is not going to be voting for either of those two guys, do we not?
We know that Jake Tapper's not going to be voting for Newt.
We know that Jake Tapper is not going to be voting for Ron Paul or Herman Cain or Romney, Huckabee.
He's not going to be voting for a Republican, right?
He's going to be voting for Obama.
So they really expect us to believe that the names they give us in response to this question are serious?
Really honest about this.
The White House has said about Huntsman, oh yeah.
In fact, whoever at the White House, the unquoted spokesman.
I read it.
The unquoted spokesman said Huntsman's a guy really, really, really worrisome.
You know why?
Bipartisanship.
Huntsman has the ability.
He's a centrist, and he has the ability to work with both sides.
He's really the only guy that would give Obama fits.
That's what the White House is putting out.
And then Mitch Daniels next.
Let me let me try this in a different perspective.
If the Democrats, and I'm just I could use two or three names here, but I'll just use one.
And keep in mind I haven't endorsed anybody.
That's not what this is.
If the White House really thought that the biggest slam dunk opportunity they had was Sarah Palin, that's who they would have said.
But nope, they mention Huntsman.
They mention, they mention uh Mitch Daniels.
They want to pick our nominee.
The media and the Democrats want to pick our number.
You know what they know?
They know that there are a lot of conservative Republicans who desperately hope that someday before they die, the media will respect them.
You know this is true.
There are people on our side who desperately hope that before they die, the media will give our side a fair shake.
And that's what they're playing on.
They're hoping that this is one of those rare moments where the media is being truthful.
Yeah, don't tell anybody, but you know Obama's really worried about who?
Yeah, don't tell anybody.
We're getting big trouble here.
We don't, I mean, this gets out of its real trouble.
We don't want anybody to know this.
Yeah, it's Huntsman and Daniels.
But don't tell anybody.
If it's either of those guys, we are in real trouble.
Well why are you telling us this?
Well we were asked a question.
We answer the question honestly.
You are answering it honestly.
Oh yeah.
So Huntsman and Daniels, that's who you're really worried about.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wouldn't tell you otherwise.
That's what we told Jake Tapper.
Sit tight, my friends.
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