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May 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 13, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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It is Friday.
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It's open live Friday.
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And I'm just looking here at the uh Cudio Soundbite Roster.
Grab grab audio soundbite 15.
That's kind of an Oh!
Oh, yeah.
And 16.
Audio Soundbite 15 and 16.
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Again, the telephone number is 800 28282, the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com, setting the terms for increasing the government's borrowing capacity.
The Senate's top Republican yesterday called for cuts in the day-to-day budgets of government agencies as well as in long-term spending programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Mitch McConnell laid out his demands to President Barack Hussein Obama in a White House meeting a few hours later.
Vice President Biden, who, by the way, Osama said was not worth killing, expressed confidence that bipartisan talks to tame the nation's growing national debt can't achieve a significant down payment toward four trillion dollars in deficit reduction over the next decade.
Now, to be fair, Osama didn't say that Biden wouldn't be worth targeting.
He said the vice presidency wouldn't be worth targeting because it's such an inconsequential job in the constitutional sense in our country.
But nevertheless.
No, he didn't say stand-up Joe.
The UK telegraph, our old buddy uh Toby Harden headline, Osama bin Laden to Al-Qaeda, don't bother assassinating Joe Biden.
Is the headline in the UK paper?
U.S. officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden's diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that uh bin Laden did not think Biden was worth bumping off.
According to ProPublica, the Obama regime is briefing that Obama was bin Laden's top target.
Well, many military chiefs, like the chairman of Joint Chiefs and the defense secretary were also major targets.
But uh Biden?
Apparently not so much.
Counterterrorism officials said there is a note indicating that the vice president is not an important target because that position has less weight.
And to be fair, Bin Laden did not name Biden.
He just talked about the uh office of the vice presidency.
Associated Press has uh uh interesting story.
A pair of suicide bombers attacked recruits, leaving a Pakistan paramilitary training center on Friday today, killing 80 people in an especially deadly strike that the Pakistani Taliban claimed it carried out to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.
So the Taliban wipes out eighty Pakistani military recruits.
And the theory is that the Taliban's upset here because Pakistan didn't do anything to try to defend bin Laden.
What's crazy about that is that the Pakistani military hid and protected bin Laden for years.
They went they went uh well above and beyond in protecting bin Laden.
But it turns out they're mad because they didn't actually fight back when the SEALs attacked.
But I mean, isn't that Obama's fault?
I mean, it was Obama's brilliant.
Remember, only Obama had the foresight and the raw mental acuity to come up with this.
Obama doubled the size of the number of seals in the raid, thereby making any response from the Pakistanis doomed from the start.
But I guess the uh AP was the first news agency that the Taliban called.
Say, look what we did here.
We just wiped out 80 Pakistan paramilitary people because they didn't fight back and helped to save bin Laden.
The blasts in the Northwest were a reminder of the savagery of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan.
The hell you say, really?
They're all they're savage?
We needed a reminder.
By the way, could they could you guys in the media make up your mind?
Is the Taliban and I Al Qaeda one and the same, or are they two different groups?
Depends on the uh depends on the news story.
Okay, to the audio sound bites.
Bernard Hopkins, former world middleweight champion, Bernard Hopkins in Philadelphia, last Tuesday at his training gym, spoke to reporters, and had a comment about the Washington Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb.
McNabb was the guy in the house while everybody else was on the field.
He'd the one got the extra coat, the extra servants, you are boy.
Then McNabb felt betrayed because he wanted to be and he thought he was one of them.
He got a suntan, that's all.
This is just the latest in what has been a long line of attacks on Donovan McNabb from black individuals and organizations.
There's a black preacher in Philadelphia dumped all over McNabb for not being black enough.
I think the local NAA LCP chapter in Philadelphia might have weighed in at some point.
Now this guy, Bernard Hopkins.
McNabb's not black enough.
And you know what the argument is?
Here's the here's here's what it is.
They have accused, and I can't use the term, it's a gr it's it's a purely totally unacceptable term.
But they refer to McNabb by using the N-word.
And they say he's a sellout.
That McNabb befriends the white power brokers of the Eagles when he was with the Eagles and was the Redskins, that he's not down for the struggle with the players, that he ingratiates himself with the powers that be.
They also, this guy, Bernard Hopkins got mad at McNabb's parents for raising him in an unconventional way, meaning not their traditional hood way.
It's just, and then the final line here, uh, he got a suntan, that's all.
He's not really black.
He's just got a suntan.
And another controversy has arisen, this time out of Washington, and it's kind of big in the DC sports media.
Apparently last season, a coach of the Redskins, Mike Shanahan, wanted McNabb to wear a list of plays on a wrist bracelet.
Tom Brady of the Patriots wears one.
Rothbusberger of the Steelers where a lot of quarterbacks wear a wristband, large wrist band that has all the plays on it.
So the coach calls in the play on the helmet radio.
The quarterback looks it up here, figures out what it is, and transmits it to the rest of the team in the huddle.
Now the story is that McNabb refused to wear this play bracelet because he said that he was afraid it would make him look stupid.
So he didn't wear it.
Meanwhile, Shanahan once took McNabb out of a game, saying publicly he didn't know our two-minute offense.
So Shanahan said, yeah, he doesn't know the plays.
Well, he wasn't wearing the wrist band that had the plays on him.
DC Media is all up to up the snuff on this because the Redskins owner, Daniel Snyder, is said to be livid when he found out about this.
At the coach at Shanahan for not making McNabb wear the wristband.
Wouldn't you be mad at McNabb rather than the coach?
Anyway, McNabb can't cut a break here.
And of course, all this ends up being discussed on ESPN Bob Lay.
Yesterday afternoon on ESPN's outside the lines, they had the ESPN senior NFL writer Michael Smith on.
They had a discussion about the Bernard Hopkins remarks that McNabb not down for the struggle.
He's not black enough.
They said the same thing about Obama.
Liberal blacks in the media during the 2008 presidential campaign said the same thing about Obama.
That's what the Magic Negro column in the LA Times is all about.
So they bring in Michael Smith.
Bob Lee and Michael Smith have this conversation about Bernard Hopkins' comments on McNabb.
There's so much to talk about, Michael, but what was your reaction?
We sitting knee to knee with him when Donovan McNabb, who has been dragged, I think, reluctantly to talk about things, and you think about the Rush Limbaugh incident and the entire team.
Donovan McNabb is one of the few, if only African American quarterbacks to really walk in both worlds as a bona fide franchise quarterback, drafted second overall, given the 100 million dollar contract, an endorsement guy, the face of a franchise.
You look at other African American quarterbacks, traditionally either journeyman or had to struggle to get to that point.
McNabb tried to walk in both worlds between being one of the fellows or one of the brothers, if you will, and a face of the franchise, which is a which is traditionally the extension of a head coach.
Yeah, and it didn't pull off being one of the brothers, apparently.
That's that's what's uh that's what uh all this means.
He didn't succeed in being one of the brothers.
Now, CBS, CBS.
Bernard Hopkins, the boxer got all this started Tuesday.
CBS described Bernard Hopkins' rant this way.
Quote, in fact, this was more of a Rush Limbaugh style rant.
No, I said nothing close to what Bernard Hopkins was saying.
I never said a word about McNabb and blackness, African American.
I was talking about the media from start to finish, as you all uh know.
Rush Limbaugh style rant.
So that was the uh season that I hijacked, by the way.
Ralph Wiley, great, great sports writer, sports illustrated, a number of other places, now deceased.
I became uh somewhat friendly with him via email during that ill-fated season.
And uh he laughingly, well, I don't know if he was laughing at other people in emails to me laughingly uh accusing me of hijacking the NFL season that year with my comments on ESPN about McNabb.
But this poor guy cannot, he cannot catch a break.
And it's it's uh it's disgruntled African Americans that are jumping down his case and about the way he was raised, his parents are out there.
It is horrible.
It is a distasteful stuff.
His parents are out there having to defend the way they raised him.
And all they tried to do was uh give him opportunity after opportunity, expose him to various things.
Uh he and his brother to various things in life.
And it's just amazing to watch this.
We got to take a break.
Sit tight, my friends.
I don't know if see, this is how my trusted and loyal staff.
See, it's never their names in these media tweak stories.
It's always me.
So I'm asking me now If McNabb is as black as Bill Clinton.
I don't know.
I'm not the guy to ask.
Hey, you got that, somebody 15?
Yeah, everybody else trying to tell me what to do here.
You got it.
You got 15.
Okay, cool.
Welcome back, open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I want you to listen to this.
You know, th th this I um I have an affinity for uh shall we say think comments.
Comments to make you stop and think.
And this is one of them.
Rand Paul, Wednesday in Washington, during a health education, labor, and pensions subcommittee hearing.
Rand Paul said this about the whole point, the question of the right to health care.
With regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies.
It's not an abstraction.
I'm a physician.
That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me.
Means you believe in slavery.
It means that you're going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses.
You get his point.
You get his point?
You don't look like you understand his point.
He's saying if you tell people that health care is a right, that means when they show up at his office, he has to provide it.
And everybody in his office has to stop what they're doing and provide it.
If it is a right.
Of course, it's not a right.
Because a right is not something that can be granted and taken away.
But interesting way to look at it.
He's going to lose people comparing it to slavery.
But conscription?
I kind of know what he's saying.
I understand what he's saying.
Uh doctors in Cuba claim that they're slaves.
That's why some of them are leaving.
Doctors in Cuba well, that and a number of other reasons.
They say that they are escaping slavery.
They have no choice.
They have to provide the service regardless.
Open line Friday, we continue.
San Antonio, Texas, this is Nick, and it's great to have you with us on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
For me being a Hispanic man and openly saying I'm a biggest biggest fan for uh you.
Um I I want to get on the topic because I heard you on a radio right now, and it just really got my blood going in a good way.
But yet, in a way to a point where when I was listening to you, it's like how much does Rush really know about his fan bases of the Hispanics?
I mean, what I'm trying to get at is just like, Obama's promised so much to the Hispanic voters, but yet he's never done nothing to them.
Your word is actually being heard by the Hispanics.
You're being heard by us.
Well, what was it I said that got your blood going in a good way?
Well, just you know, hearing you about, you know, uh the Hispanic voters, you know, just on that.
Let me help out.
Was it when I was saying in response to a question, how would we protect the Hispanic demographic as Republicans?
I don't look at them that way.
They're Americans, they're human beings.
I would just approach them with the right message.
I don't look at people as members of groups.
Was that what you were referring to?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Well, thank you.
Um, see, the thing is that you know, Hispanics, we're not really into the whole politics things, but we do listen to what you know the politicians are saying.
And that's what that's what the words for example, Obama, his words are what got the Hispanics to vote for him.
But yet, we don't ask for much.
Well, look, human nature is human nature.
This is the big problem with Democrat Party.
I I don't care, and liberalism, I don't and I don't care who they're speaking to.
They'll promise anybody anything.
And they do look at people.
In fact, they want people to be victims.
And they want people to think they're victims because the Republicans have made them that.
And the Democrats will say, We'll give you this, we'll give you that, we'll protect you here.
It doesn't matter whether they follow through on it.
I mean, I I if if if I don't know why they still get ninety percent of the black vote.
Black people, for as long as I've been alive have been complaining about the same injustices and the same economic in uh uh problems.
They've been voting Democrat for as long as I've been alive, and and and they're not they're not improving even the Congressional Black Caucus goes up and complains to Obama.
Look, uh male unemployment, African male unemployment, 54%.
What are you doing?
Now they want more money.
You know, they're not innocent here.
They're just looking for more money for themselves, but the point is it isn't getting better.
The Democrats don't make life better for anybody other than themselves.
Right.
Agreeable.
But you see, here's the problem with the Republicans.
They need to step up.
Because like I say, and do what?
The world, they need to start going out there and they need to start being aggressive.
They need to be aggressive.
Especially if they want to start winning back their votes.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that Hispanics never really gone with the conservative way, and they've always listened to the liberal, but still, time to step up.
Well, they're attacking and start going after these votes because we Hispanics, even the gay votes, it don't matter.
Any any votes out there that were turned on by Obama's words, they're not there no more.
Now step up and start attacking.
Go after it.
You know, don't let this vote go away.
Because one thing of experience, Rush, is that once a Hispanic gives up on a politician, they won't go back and vote.
They won't.
And I know this for experience because I've always preached to my parents, my family.
You keep on going.
We need it both.
Well, here's what I know.
Here's what I know.
Hispanic governor New Mexico, Hispanic governor Nevada, Hispanic Senator Florida, all Republican.
This notion that they're they're they're just one way of thinking is absolutely wrong.
You know, what are you talking about Hispanics or any other quasi minority group?
One of the truths of life is that the Republicans are never going to be able to outbid the Democrats with freebies.
It's never going to happen.
To go down that road is an absolute loser.
A total waste of resources and time.
It's a waste to even make the Hispanics or whatever minority group you're talking to think that you're going to enter the contest.
There's no way.
The Democrats will give away the country to get those votes, which is what is happening.
It is a mistake to pander to minority voters in that way, period.
It certainly is a mistake for Republicans to think that.
And this is this is why I've I've always disagreed, one of many reasons.
Why I've always disagreed with the Republican idea of illegal immigration, how to reform it, which is basically amnesty.
It's a race for those voters, and it's disingenuous.
It's an insult, if you if you ask me.
Now, when you hear these people talk about path to citizens, when you hear Obama talk about path to citizenship, which, you know, at his campaign stop at the Hispanic prayer breakfast yesterday.
Obama said a path to citizenship is a moral imperative.
That's amnesty.
That's what he means.
Now just think about that for a moment.
Think about how out of whack Obama's moral compass is if he really believes that.
If he really believes that amnesty is a moral imperative.
Well, whether he means it or not, he's saying it, and he wants them to believe he means it.
There is no way the Republicans can outbid that.
It is silly, therefore, to even get in the game under that pretext using those rules.
And I fear that many on the Republican side think that that's how they are going to have to compete for Hispanic voters.
The Democrats, the aggressors, in any conflict set the rules.
Democrats are offering the store.
Democrats are offering freebie here, freebie there, whatever.
Institutionally, the Republicans can't outbid because they will never give more than the Democrats would be willing to.
Because the Democrats will give the country away in terms of destroying our fiscal solvency.
They'll do it.
We can't, we won't.
It's silly to even target Hispanic voters that way.
I wouldn't.
I I would I would respect just the way I approach each of you as members of this program's audience, and that is with a profound respect for your intelligence, your awareness, uh the fact that you were informed and uh involved that you're engaged, and to not be condescending in any way, shape, manner, or form to look down upon you or to think that you're incapable of understanding something, I would say.
There's too much of this that goes on in uh in politics in terms of wooing voters.
Uh and of course the Democrats have it as a policy to dumb down.
They do it in the education system, and this has to stop.
And you don't compete with it by being Democrat light.
It isn't gonna work.
They're not gonna be persuaded anyway.
Meaning whatever minority happens to be the target.
They simply won't be persuaded.
The Democrats are who they are.
There's plenty of evidence of it, and it's the wrong way to go about it.
And I think treating them with uh approaching them is adults with respect.
Not gonna get all of them.
Don't misunderstand.
The objective here would be to bust up the near monopoly, which is not now.
I mean, the the the Democrats in the midterms in November got sixty percent of the Hispanic vote.
That's not ninety.
That's not the percentage that the Democrats get of the black vote.
If you look at the black vote, what would happen?
What do you think would happen in a presidential race if the Democrat candidate only got 75 or 80 percent of the black vote instead of the 92 percent?
It would make a pretty big difference.
Have you heard this?
A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of bin Laden by U.S. commandos who killed him.
This from former U.S. officials.
I I, aside from the substance of that, I can't believe how much we are giving away about this raid.
I can't believe how mu stuff that should not be being said is being broadcast and blabbered all over the world.
Everything should be kept secret, classified about this.
We're just broadcasting it all over the place, and we all know why, don't we?
Build up Obama.
Gotta build up the man child president.
That's why we're doing this.
We're we're subordinating every foreign policy interest policy, what have you, in the interests of building up Obama.
Anyway, the pornography recovered in bin Laden's compound in a Badabad Pakistan consists of modern electronically recorded video.
It's fairly extensive, according to these officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
Now, how does that jive with Islam?
Isn't Islam totally against pornography?
Isn't there a total proscription against it?
And we're learning a lot of things here about bin Laden that would cause true believers to uh question.
You well, where's the nags on this?
The National Association of Gals.
I mean, even now the nags might have something nasty to say about bin Laden.
Obviously, not much respect here for women.
Oh, if they find episodes of Jersey Shore, if you think you think bin Laden was watching Jersey Shore, huh?
What do they find out?
He's watching the real housewives of Miami.
Who knows what he was watching?
Johnny in uh Prairieville, Louisiana, is that right?
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Yeah, thanks for taking my call, Rush.
You bet, sir.
Uh, three quick points.
Um, the black vote.
I'm a black male, and I don't see where everybody's getting the debt.
He's gonna get all the black votes.
I is not happening.
Well, he does, though.
He did.
That's why what he's saying.
All my friends, I call them Obamaholics.
They was all drunk off of hoping change.
Now that uh he's been in office two years, it's like they went to rehab.
They don't they're not voting for him.
It's not gonna happen.
And um everybody say that he's disingenuous, untrue.
Why not call it what it is?
He's a liar.
Everything from him with the drilling moratorium, um border secure and all that.
It's not.
Let me ask you a question, Johnny.
Let me ask you a question.
As answer this best you can.
I know that you don't know every black person in the country.
But what were they expecting?
These friends that you do know who are disappointed in Obama, what were they expecting in their personal lives?
What kind of changes did they think Obama was going to bring that haven't happened?
Huh.
Everything from um I guess welfare to just free stuff.
They want I believe y'all have a clip.
Did they really think that I don't have to pay my rent?
I don't have to, I'm gonna get free gas and all this stuff.
It's not gonna happen.
Really?
No, wait, I mean, be serious.
The people you know, your friends, they thought that it would mean more freebies, more welfare.
Did they think that that was gonna be because Obama was gonna finally uh uh make things fair, make things right for all the past discrimination.
Why did they think that?
That's a good question.
I have I couldn't really say answer that, but you didn't think it's not tried to tell him.
No, I tried to tell them.
I tried to tell all of them, and they hate to see me coming now.
Because I laugh at him, you know.
I'll let hope and change working for you.
Hope and change don't fill up my tank, you know.
And well, no, no, though, Mr. I know some did.
I mean, we've played we've had audio sound bites from Detroit and and uh even even we had a he had a town hall meeting in in Tampa or Fort Myers not long after he was elected, where there was a you know a woman who actually made it sound like she was expecting a new kitchen, but uh I didn't really think that would be the majority of the black population thought that.
Yes.
Yes, I really do.
I really do believe that.
Yes.
Well, I had a different idea.
I I I thought there might be things that they thought Obama would do that would level the playing field in ways they think it's unleveled or unfair.
Well, what I was telling them, Obama want to tax the rich.
I had a construction company.
I've never worked for a poor person.
Everybody that hired me, they had money.
Right.
So as soon as poor people start hiring, well, uh I I'll work for 'em.
You know, start paying.
I I'd be more than happy to work for him, but it that won't happen.
It's not it's not gonna work.
That's all a good point.
I can't dispute that.
I've never worked for a poor person either.
And um I've never had a poor person work for me.
Yes, and Obama keeps talking about this lavish mansion that uh um that been Osama was living in.
Well, now that it's empty, why don't Obama let his brother go live there?
Yeah, exactly.
That's another thing.
I that uh circumstance with his brother, that's uh it's clear he wants other people paying for these kinds of things.
Johnny, I appreciate the call.
I uh I I really do.
I got a brief timeout, my friends.
The the uh hours and minutes are just zipping by.
We'll be right back after this.
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Here's Josh, Mineral Wells, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hey, for having me, sir.
Uh my question for you is why did Obama deny emergency aid to Texas during the wildfires?
To Red State.
Well, yeah, I know, but still the state's on fire.
Ain't that gonna hurt himself politically?
Why did Obama sue Arizona?
Well, no, he figures Texas isn't gonna vote for him anyway.
Texas didn't vote for him.
This is punishment.
This is how politicians like Obama work.
But I mean, wouldn't other states look at them and say, hey, he's not gonna help them.
You know, why should we assist uh support him?
No, it's the other way around.
Next time you support him, he'll help you when you have a disaster.
Okay, so he's just playing sides.
Total.
Total.
It's not just look it.
This is punishment.
The state of Texas also happens to be where Bush lives.
The state of Texas did not vote for Obama.
There's plenty of other states that did, and they're going to get the money first.
It's no more complicated than that.
Obama is president of Obama.
I'm surprised anyone would have this question.
Could somebody point to me one thing he's done for the country at large?
Isn't everything Obama's done harmful to the country?
One way or the other.
He's got his crony capitalist buddies that he helps out.
But the country?
Is the country better off economically because of Obama?
Is our foreign policy better off?
By the way, new policy in Libya, guess what?
Remember when Obama said his original announcement?
Days.
No, now there's no end.
We are there until somebody, not us, gets Gaddafi.
Just announced.
The real question is.
Why are you surprised that he's sticking it to Texas?
He's sticking it to everybody else every chance he gets.
And I mean that.
I'm not trying to be extreme with it.
I kid you not, I have it right here, my formerly nicotine stained finger.
An organization in Boston.
After extensive research, I am not kidding.
After extensive research, a study of twelve elementary schools in Boston shows that chronically absent students don't do as well as those who show up.
They did a study on that in Boston.
Have a wonderful weekend, Miami ghosts.
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