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May 11, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Rush Limbaugh fighting fatigue while serving humanity simply by showing up.
That's all it takes.
Showing up and turning on the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute, the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
No, no, I did not have another nightmare.
No, I did not, I didn't remember.
Catherine said, what was your nightmare last night?
I don't know.
It's really weird, too, because nightmares what wakes you up.
You uh you really remember nightmares more than dreams by definition.
I don't remember what this was.
I all it all I know is it was a nightmare.
No, no, no, no, no.
It wasn't anything like that.
Playing golf with Mitch Daniels.
You're gonna get me in trouble.
You guys keep throwing that stuff kind of like out there.
I don't know why.
I am in trouble in Indiana.
You know, I I I I I don't understand why.
Well, look, okay, I understand why I'm in trouble in Indiana, but I shouldn't be.
Now that speaking of Mitch, I mean, I I got a picture here.
You you Daniel supporters, you ought to be outraged at this.
This is not accidental.
AP has published a picture of Mitch Daniels being greeted by Obama on an airport tarmac somewhere.
And the caption, Obama is greeted by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels as he steps off Air Force One in Indianapolis, Friday, May 6, 2011.
Now, this picture shows Obama leaning way over, way down, with his hand on Mitch's shoulder, as though he's talking to a little boy.
Let me let me turn the camera off.
I'll zoom in here on the ditto cam for those of you uh watching so that you can see it.
I mean, this kind of stuff is not accidental.
See these kind of pictures, they took the picture.
All right, here we go.
There's the there there's the there's a picture.
Right there it is.
See that.
Okay.
So they put this kind of stuff out.
Now they're running, now they're running the story.
Uh Huffing and Puffington Post has this story that Mitch Mitch and his wife divorced in the 90s and she married somebody else and took the kids and they got remarried later on, and that she's not particularly excited about being first lady or or the whole rigors of the campaign.
You know, so they're putting that kind of stuff out there.
So somebody is worried about him out there.
There's no and uh as I said last uh or yesterday, maybe the day before.
One thing that is true here.
I mean, we could mention Huckabee or Romney or even Palin, it doesn't matter.
We don't get any reaction.
We mention Mitch Daniels, and everybody in the state of Indiana stops what they're doing and tries to call here.
So it does.
Is Mrs. Daniels proud of the country?
Oh, I'm sure she is.
I'm sure she wouldn't have to say so.
Muchel Obama said so because it was the first time in her life when uh Lou Barack was running.
You know, she has to lean down to talk to Barack.
I mean, she's like 6'1 or 6'2.
But you don't see those pictures.
They don't publish those pictures where somebody's leaning down and putting their shoulder on a little Barack shoulder.
Okay, by the way, folks, a quick turnaround.
New in the EIB store in our club Gitmo line, a brand new t-shirt in jumpsuit orange.
Obama killed Osama.
That's what it says on the front.
Click at Rush Limbaugh.com.
It's right in the banner at the top of the website, you can see it.
Uh and on the back of the t-shirt, remember the front, Obama killed Osama.
On the back it says, and 10 Somali pirates, three Kadafi grandkids, two Osama wives, the U.S. economy, and got a peace prize for doing it.
And the sizes range from small to 4X.
And the price basically 1995.
The uh 3X and 4X a little more expensive.
Because it basically takes a tent worth of cotton to make the 3X and the 4X size.
But we have those sizes available in honor of Muchell Obama's view of the country.
Speaking of which, speaking of which, I've got something in here about obesity in the sack.
I've got a lot.
Ah, here it is.
It's this is a story actually from St. Louis.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Illinois lawmaker says raising obese kids should cost parents at tax time.
State Senator Shane Coultra, a Republican from O'Narga, Illinois, said it's the parents' responsibility that have obese kids.
Take the tax deduction away for parents that have these fat kids.
Cultur has not introduced legislation to deny parents the $2,000 standard deduction, but he floated the idea yesterday when lawmakers took a shot at solving the state's obesity epidemic.
With one in five Illinois children classified as obese, and 62% of the state's adults considered overweight, health advocates are pushing a platter of diet solutions, including trans fat bans and restricting junk food purchases on food stamps.
And now eliminating the standard deduction for kids, two grand if they're obese.
A Republican, certainly.
With this idea.
We've already got the fat police.
We're just moving them to the IRS now.
We've already got the fat police.
Speaking of all of this, interesting reporting on the oral arguments yesterday to the Fourth Circuit on Obamacare.
They used the vegetable argument.
I've got two stories here.
The first one is from USA Today.
About 20 minutes into Tuesday's hearings, appeals court judge Diana Gibbon Motz told Liberty University lawyer Matthew Staver that she was surprised a certain topic had not yet come up.
The broccoli question.
She said, Yeah, there's a lot of talk in the papers about if Congress can do this, then it can require people to buy broccoli.
Talking about here the central point of Obamacare, meaning the mandate that you have to buy health insurance or get fined or go to jail.
And the constitutional question is can Congress, can the government, can anybody order you to do that?
Because if they can order you, this is her point, they can order you to buy health insurance, can't they order you to eat your vegetables?
Can't they demand that you eat broccoli?
Where does this stop?
The judge was telling the lawyers, why haven't you asked me this?
I've been waiting for this question.
I've been waiting for this analogy.
Why haven't you asked me?
She said she had a broccoli question herself for the lawyer.
She didn't wait for the question.
Could the Congress prohibit people from buying broccoli?
Or to make it more real world, prohibit people from buying trans fats because of its bad effects.
Now, if you have to change the question, that's what's happening here.
The question before everybody is, is it constitutional to mandate the purchase of health insurance?
So in order to advance the argument or to uh illustrate it, let's change the question.
Let's let's change health insurance to broccoli.
Now, if you have to change the question to fend off the unpleasant conclusion, aren't you in trouble?
It would seem to me you're in trouble.
Now the analysts say, interesting, even though and and uh there's a the another judge had a different question, a different story, from the politico.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals peppered the health reform laws challengers with intense rounds of questioning on Tuesday, suggesting it could rule against both Virginia and Liberty University, two of the four cases racing toward the Supreme Court this spring and summer.
Oral arguments in both cases were held back to back on Tuesday in front of a randomly selected panel of three judges who all happened to be appointed by Democrat presidents.
And the vegetable question, broccoli or asparagus, depending on the judge, continues to be the most significant obstacle for the law's supporters.
Now, both of these stories say, the authors, the writers of both stories say, as they watched and as they heard the questions, it seemed to them that the judges are going to rule for Obamacare here and against the states who are suing it on the basis of unconstitutional.
But they won't answer the broccoli question.
They won't answer it.
That the the the you've got a questionnaire central to the argument.
The judges don't want to answer.
The lawyers won't answer.
The judges are asking.
The lawyers will not answer it.
The Obama lawyers will not answer the question.
So I don't know.
How can you sit there?
This is this is central to the whole thing.
How can you sit there?
The judges.
Well, I guess you can say that they're going to fight for Obama because two of them are appointed by Obama.
We know how this works.
But still.
And they can say, yeah, well, we asked the question.
Don't accuse us of being judicially biased here.
We explored every avenue here.
Say this in the aftermath.
But still, isn't it legitimate question?
They can make you buy health insurance worse at stop.
And if they can make you buy something, can they also, by the same token, order you not to buy something?
This is well, they do do that.
I mean, it telling a woman what she can't do with her body.
We do that in the prostitution laws.
I know it changes the argument.
They take the see they're taking the argument away from health care and they're substituting vegetables for it.
Now, my point is when you do that, you're losing the argument.
And that's why the Obama lawyers don't want to answer the question.
And yet, the reporters say it's a slam dunk for the Obama team.
Now, let me tell you the the the uh the regime's argument on this the whole food question, broccoli asparagus versus having to buy health insurance, the way they are dealing with this in their uh in their oral arguments before the Fourth Circuit, and the way they're trying to slither with this, what they're what they're arguing is that Obamacare does not force you to buy anything.
That you are instead, as a human being, going to need health care.
All they want to do is make you pay for it.
That is their argument.
They're not forcing you to buy a single cotton pick and thing, but you're gonna need health care, and they're tired of people getting it who not paying for it.
So that's that's their argument up against the opponents, the enemy, who is suggesting that it's unconstitutional.
And it, by the way, that is a slither argument because it is a mandate that we buy it, and it's none of their business.
Okay, who's next?
Janie in Soda Springs, Idaho.
Great to have you on the EIB network, Janie.
Hello.
Hello, and thank you for taking my call.
And thank you for being there, because I don't know what we'd do without you.
Thank you, madam, very much.
I appreciate that.
Do you remember the first Rush Tea Party in 2007?
The first Rush Tea Party in 2007.
Yes, sir.
Refresh my memory about it.
Uh the first Rush Tea Party.
Yes, you started it in uh 2007.
It was the first Tea Party, I think.
We mailed pink slips to Washington, and the amnesty bill was defeated.
Oh You even we even saw uh mail trucks with bags and bags of the case.
Yes, I remember this now.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I I now totally remember this.
This is uh you're very kind out there, Janie.
You uh you what snurly, what are you talking about?
She is right.
Well, what of course I know she is saying that that was the genesis of the Tea Party movement, is mailing in all these pink slips, and the amnesty bill was defeated, and and uh and and that that finally was when the House Republicans broke from Bush.
Uh and it was they were heading into the campaign, and well, it was midterm, but they were heading into it, and yeah, uh, she's she is saying, everybody's trying to say where did the Tea Party start?
It just it had to start somewhere, and we've always said, no, it just effervesced.
It's it's a it's a natural creation here of opposition to Obama.
What Janie is suggesting here is that I. I think that's the great thing about the Tea Party is there's not a single person that you can take out and destroy the Tea Party.
It is made up of the essence of grassroots.
The Tea Party is the people who make this country work.
People in many cases, it's both parties who had never been involved in politics before.
Speaking of all this, here we got you got a great sound by audio summary number 13, Mark McKinnon, who ran Bush's media.
Bush 43's media, as you know that Mark McKinnon is is one of the architects of the new no labels bunch, which the no labels crowd is a bunch of disaffected liberals.
And they know that being called liberals is the kiss of death.
I mean, it's a it's a losing thing to be called liberal.
So no labels, these are people.
Can we just can we can we just talk to each other as human beings and stop categorizing ourselves?
Because they're really holding ourselves back.
Uh McKinnon was on MSNBC today on Scarborough Show.
And Willie Geist asked him a question about amnesty.
He said it's gonna come up on the presidential election.
It's been on the back burner lately, but it'll start to rise to the surface.
We saw it yesterday, the politics of it now coming out.
The president courting Hispanic voters.
You made a point, Mark, that as a Republican, we can stay on this path and watch demographics and the country run away from us.
I don't know what the question is.
I don't know what it means, but McKinnon did, and here was his answer.
In 2000, when President Bush ran, we realized that in order to win, assuming we've got all the typical sort of votes that we got, we had to get 40 percent or 41 percent of the Hispanic vote, which he got.
Four years later, we realized fairly early on that if he got the exact same number of Hispanics, we would lose because of the growing Democratic.
And we had to get 43 percent, and President Bush got 44.
John McCain got 29% of the Hispanic vote.
Republicans are not gonna regain the presidency on that kind of a path.
Okay, so you see how the no labels group talking about the Hispanics.
Is Hispanics not a label?
Certainly is in political context.
But here you see the Republicans simply can't win without them.
This is this is the no labels group advocating for Republicans to get on board with immigration reform.
Now I guarantee you what's gonna happen with this.
Above all else, above all the other substance, and don't doubt me on this.
They supporters of this from all spectrum, both parties, wherever they come from, are going to bend over backwards to make sure this is not called amnesty.
Even if they have to put things in this bill that directly contradict amnesty, they know that that word will kill it.
That's what to look out for.
Anything to avoid that label.
Unemployment rate or employment rate for black men in America is at a record low.
If the election of America's first African American president was expected to give blacks an economic boost, it hasn't emerged yet.
Indeed, the percentage of African American men with a job has dropped to its lowest level since records began in 1972.
According to the government's monthly jobs report released last week, even as the economy added a better than expected 244,000 jobs, the percentage of black males over 20 who are currently employed dropped slightly to 56.9%.
For whites, the equivalent figure 68.1%.
Before the recession, the percentage of black adult men with a job had never dropped below 60%, according to labor department stats.
Now, they're gonna say, well, yes, it's exactly right, and it's worse than we thought, and it is what we inherited from Bush, and we're starting to show progress though.
Look at it, 244,000 jobs.
Nobody expected that.
Uh things are looking up here.
We don't want to change horses in the middle of the stream.
We really, now that we got this correction going, and now that we got our recovery, we just that's gonna be the campaign.
These Republicans are gonna come in and they're gonna undo everything we've done.
That's finally now taking us out of this deep problem that was worse than we ever knew.
We had no idea how bad this was.
We knew it was bad, but they hid it from us.
And it's taken much longer than we expected for our policies to start showing uh positive impact.
I know how this is gonna go.
You're probably upset that I'm giving it away.
No, if anything, folks, they'll change the campaign now they know that I'm on to it.
One thing I know about marketing campaigns, they are to be executed, not explained.
So the regime does not like me.
Uh explaining this.
Here's Steve in Pensacola, Florida, you're next on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Mega Ditto's rush, and if Russia's right, rush on, rush on.
Thank you very much, sir.
Well, my question is, how can they justify being on the Pakistan border?
And we have, since, if my numbers are right, Russia, 24,000 or more people since 2004 have died on our own border.
It's not about letting people into this country to work.
It's about these drug dealers that are coming in setting up shop in all these cities, and we can't protect our borders or allow the states to protect their own border.
Uh well, it's that there are some people coming into work.
Uh we know that.
But it there's also uh a huge drug trade that's going back and forth.
In fact, we're running sting operations giving them guns.
But no, what did you say about Pakistan?
Uh your opening you you're comparing.
What do you you said about the Pakistan border?
No, well, the the Pakistan and uh the Afghan border.
Having them on the border patrolling, keeping Al-Qaeda out of Pakistan, and here we are thinking.
Oh, oh, oh, you want to know why we're sending the military to try to keep uh the Taliban in Afghanistan so they don't move into Pakistan.
Correct.
But we won't exhibit similar effort here to protect our own borders.
Correct.
That's because Obama wants a welfare state here.
You got two different foreign policies at play here.
He doesn't want a big fence, he doesn't want more border patrol agents that actually are effective.
He wants a bigger welfare state.
He needs more dependence arriving here.
It's inarguable, folks.
I get the question.
Obama is more concerned about Pakistan's national sovereignty than he is concerned about America's.
No question about it.
Arthur in Beaumont, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Thank you for your patience.
Great to have you with us today on the program.
It's an honor.
You know, everyone seems to be missing a point.
Republicans aren't gutless, they're not aimless.
They don't want to be the majority.
They don't want to win.
I mean, they they showed that after the 94 election.
You you took the words right out of my mouth earlier.
Uh the only people that hate conservatives more than Democrats are Republicans.
What do you mean they don't want to win?
Well, they've got the same power, the same influence, the same graft, the same money, everything, and they don't have to do squat.
The conservatives upset the apple card in 94.
Oh, I see where you're going with this.
And they did they did it again in 2010.
The Republican establishment, you know, Mitch Daniels, uh, Mitt Romney, Lindy Graham, they don't they don't like it.
You know, stop saying for them.
They don't like it.
I got you there.
I guess.
So if you folks, here's what he's meant.
Winning is a hassle.
That means you gotta govern.
That means you gotta work, you gotta, And that means you take the lion's chair to blame.
Why win?
Go there, be in the minority, you still get to participate in all the perks, you still get all the graft, you still get you still get to play all the funny money games.
Uh you still have your own little universe of power, but you can't do anything because you're a loser, and so really you don't get blamed for much.
All you gotta do is put up with your own voters being ticked off at you once every two years, and you go back and collect the graft.
You know, you cozy up with the lobbyists, they take care of you under the table.
Uh let the Democrats run a show, let them have all the hassles.
Um his theory is that if the Republicans win, then they have to put up or shut up.
If they lose, they can just go through the motions.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Or his mouth, uh, he said when said that the and the establishment Republicans, they get ticked off because conservatism is what wins, and that's what they don't that's his theory.
The reason they don't like us is because we win.
Which causes them trouble.
They gotta work too hard.
They gotta take more arrows.
The media is meaner to them.
So forth and so on.
Thank you.
Okay, just a few comments on this um hip hopper, the rapper.
Common.
Apparently there's some poetry reading at the White House that Muchell Obama is sponsoring.
And they've uh they got this guy Common showing up.
Now, Common is uh an artiste.
That's what you must know.
He's an artist.
He's also a member of Reverend Wright's church.
Uh he's a big fan of Reverend Wright.
In fact, I think I have a soundbite here of Mr. Commons saying so.
Yes.
Audio soundbite number 23.
This is from May of three years ago, 2008, during an interview at HipHollywood.com, the rapper poet Common.
By the way, birth name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.
He said this about the former pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, Pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Reverend Wright is an intelligent, strong individual, a great man and a conduit of love, man.
And I know that from being in his pews since I was eight years old.
Every Sunday, my mom had me at that church.
So I know you know from what it helped shape me to be, that he was always preaching about love.
And when he speaks about the government, is speaking about situations that are oppressing people and situations that are bringing negative things onto people.
Reverend Wright is all good with me.
I'm I'm you know, I'm a full supporter of him and definitely a supporter of Barack Obama.
Okay, now in addition to being an artiste and an avid advocate of Reverend Wright, he's also a rapper.
And he has uh written poems and songs in support of cop killers.
And this has angered New Jersey police officer organizations and practically a lot of other people as well.
Asking why would this guy be invited to an arts thing at the White House?
Not the question.
The question is, why wouldn't he be?
I'm kind of surprised that people are surprised.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, all sincerity here.
For two and a half, three years, we here at the EIB network, which means me, because I'm the only one who has access to the golden EIB microphone, and trying to tell you, you know, that there are various things that animate the Obamas.
You know, Muchell has her own angers and rages.
I mean, she's she's not hidden them.
First time she was ever proud of her country was when Barack was running for president.
We know that Barack himself has some chip on his shoulder about this country.
You know my theory about it.
That he doesn't think there's anything particularly special or exceptional here, that we're a colonialist or imperialist nation which has oppressed the poor.
We've stolen resources from lesser nations around the world to enrich ourselves.
That we have a slave past.
From his view, what he's been taught, how he's been mentored.
There's nothing particularly special about this country.
In fact, this country needs to be taken down a peg or two.
This country needs to find out what it feels like to be somebody other than the United States of America.
It's time that we find out what it feels like to be treated by us.
And it's it's hard for a lot of people to believe this.
We think this is the greatest country ever.
Blessed, as it were, by God.
And we certainly don't want to believe that somebody who's been elected president doesn't see it that way.
But they do.
So this invitation.
Obama campaigned with this guy.
Common was out there on the campaign trail.
Why wouldn't he be invited?
Eric Holder in this Justice Department has made certain that the new Black Panthers are not going to be tried.
His people not going to be tried.
I mean, this is uh we pointed out during the campaign, where there is race in this country, this regime and the Democrat Party are the ones who inject it.
And they're the ones who profit from it.
Or try to.
This is not his first White House visit.
Our old buddy Common's been there before.
So he's got a couple songs.
He's got a song about uh happily killing a cop.
He supports a cop killer.
Actually, two of them.
One of them that's now taken up refuge in Cuba, and Abu Mumia, was it Jamal, whatever this uh the the Philadelphia cop killer.
So I mean the real question is how many songs by Common do Obama and Holder have on their iPods?
Anyone want to take a wild guess?
Oh, you don't think they have songs by this guy on their iPods?
I wonder if the uh iPod that Obama gave Queen Elizabeth had any common tunes on it.
Might.
Well, it contained a lot of his speeches.
We know that.
I don't know if I think he shared some of his favorite music with her.
I'm not sure about that.
But Michelle and Obama had to know Common from the church days.
Reverend Wright was Commons' spiritual mentor too.
The only difference between Common and Obama in this regard is that Common proudly admits having heard the sermons.
Obama denies having heard Reverend Wright's sermons.
The real question is, not that he would be invited, but why wouldn't he be?
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
No, I didn't mention it, but I will mention it now.
Mr. Common, the rapper also suggested that President Bush should be set afire.
George W. Bush should be set on fire.
And he will read poetry in the White House and maybe do some rap tunes.
To no doubt thundering applause.
After all, look what these four people inherited from Bush.
All right, that's it, folks.
Already through and finished with Wednesday, already in the can.
It is Wednesday, right?
Yeah, I knew it.
Knew it.
I know my days.
Tomorrow's Thursday, and we'll see you then.
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