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May 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hiya, folks, I'm Rush Lindbaugh, the big voice on the right.
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You know, it's funny to me how the Republican establishment guys, they seem to always go to Politico to make their case.
You know, Politico is a liberal site, and he's inside the Belway Republicans.
They always go whining to the Politico about how dull and boring their nomination process is and what they're afraid of.
Well, we're really, gosh, we don't think we're going to win.
We really can't win.
We're really going to lose if it's Santorum or Palin or whatever.
Why are they going to the Politico to tell these things to?
I assume they're going to, maybe Politico is calling them and they are answering.
Nevertheless, I did get a note from Newt about a quarter of one, 45 minutes into the program.
Dear Rush, my sister was just listening to you and said that you were saying nice things about my past conservatism.
Well, just for the record and for the present and the future, I oppose cap and trade.
I testified against it.
I helped defeat it.
I oppose Obamacare.
I've spent three years opposing it.
This week's stories are just wrong.
I work with Paul Ryan.
He and I are working together on his Medicare ideas.
If you read what I actually said Sunday, it had no reference to the Ryan budget, which I would have voted for and have publicly praised.
Okay, but people thought he was talking about the Ryan budget because he referred to the Ryan budget and the Medicare fix as right-wing social engineering, and he disagreed with that as much as he does left-wing social engineering.
And he called Ryan to apologize, which Ryan accepted.
I said that we should communicate with the American people until we and they have developed a better Medicare program, which they support us in passing and implementing.
And please tell your audience, I am for zero capital gains, 12.5% corporate tax rate, abolishing the death tax, 100% expensing to write off all new equipment in one year, replacing the EPA with a totally new environmental solutions agency, repealing Sarbanes-Oxley, having a contract in 2012 with a 10th Amendment Enforcement Act, which would take huge amounts of power out of Washington.
Which of these are not conservative?
Newt.
He didn't say global warming in here, Snerdly, and he didn't say the era of Reagan is over in here.
He's taking the occasion here.
He sent me a note to explain, elucidate his positions in an attempt here to establish his conservatism.
So I'm just sharing you with you note.
Like I told you, what got all this started was that in cookies searching the archives, it's just going to be the C-SPAN archives in the 80s, the special orders.
I really want people to hear some of that.
They went on for a number of months, these special orders.
It's going to be tough to cherry pick this stuff and turn it into one minute, two minute audio sound bites.
Yeah, I know he did the couch with Pelosi and the healthcare with Hillary and Silver.
He's explained the reason for those things.
By the way, you should want to throw things into the mix.
Remember, he was Speaker when Clinton was elected, and they did joint public appearances at places.
Well, but nobody had a problem with that.
Whatever.
Because then he was fighting Clinton.
Well, at any rate, he heard here what was going on and he responded with this note.
And it's obvious that he is attempting to burnish conservative credentials with people who think that he is not as conservative as he used to be.
So from the Washington Times, he's not on the ballot for 2012, but Texas Governor Rick Perry strongly impressed a gathering of top Republican officials here yesterday, with many high-ranking Republican officials saying Rick Perry would be their top choice if he entered the presidential race.
Now, this is interesting.
This is the general counsel of the Republican National Committee saying this, Bill Crocker.
I'd love to see a movement to draft Rick Perry for the nomination if that's the only way we can get him to run.
This was after Perry delivered a luncheon address that had several hundred party officials attentive throughout.
The comments I got after his speech made it clear I'm not alone, Crocker said, at the meeting of Republican state chairmen and other RNC members, meaning outside the Beltway Republicans.
These are not the Republicans talking to Politico who are having the reaction, the thought that they had to Rick Perry as he addressed the group.
Let's go back.
Audio soundbites.
This mandate business.
I just, people have been all over the board on this.
Obama was against the individual mandate during the presidential campaign in 2008 because Hillary was for it.
February 5th, 2008, CNN's American morning, had a discussion about health care and mandatory health insurance.
This is what Obama said on CNN.
If a mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house.
The reason they don't have a house is they don't have the money.
And so our focus has been on reducing costs, making it available.
I am confident that if people have a chance to buy high-quality health care that is affordable, they will do so.
And that's what our plan does, and nobody disputes that.
Okay, so Obama's opposing a mandate that is now part of Obamacare.
He opposed it as a means of differentiating himself from Hillary, who was for it.
So my point on this is: once again, why believe anything that comes out of Obama's mouth?
Honestly, why?
A, he's a liberal, and we know that liberals lie.
Here's April 20th.
The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the.
Oh, we do have, this is, this is Newt in 1983.
April 20th, 1983, Washington, on the House floor.
This is during a debate on freezing the development of nuclear weapons.
Oh, yeah, the nuclear freeze.
Yeah, that was a big liberal Democrat issue in the 80s.
That was how they were one of the many ways, avenues, they were attempting to oppose Reagan.
Here's Newt on the House floor April 20th, 1983.
There is a very great likelihood that the KGB embassy detachment in Nicaragua is involved in Central America, that the Soviet brigade in Cuba does have meaning, and that there's a real linkage between, for example, last week's anti-Israel PLO meeting in Nicaragua and this debate on nuclear freeze.
And as John McCloy said to President Reagan, all things are connected together on the planet.
I would hope that our colleagues would have looked over the weekend at the debate on the freeze and recognized that we are in grave danger of committing this nation to a policy which would guarantee obsolete weapons by the early 1990s.
This is indeed a dangerous step, and I think the weekend's behavior on the part of Nicaragua and the Soviet Union should only remind us how truly dangerous the world is.
Oh, man, this goosebumps here, folks, when I think back to what was going on then, the Contra battles in Nicaragua.
It had Daniel Ortega running the Sandinistas.
Snurdly, were you old enough paying attention that you remember?
I have to tell you, folks, I was, I was, this is even before I moved to Sacramento.
I moved in 1984.
And that's only important because that's where my career that led to this program began.
But we had the Democrats in the House aligning themselves with the Sandinistas, the communist regime.
You had Danielle Ortega, who would come to New York, and Peter, Paul, and Mary, honest to God, would take him on shopping sprees on Madison and Fifth Avenue.
Yeah, buying sunglasses.
Absolutely right.
Buying sunglasses.
And this guy would, after the Democrats in the House would oppose aid to the Contras, Ortega one time, got on a plane, flew to the Soviet Union to celebrate.
And so the Democrats, there was a guy, there was a Democrat liaison.
His name is George Miller.
He's still a member of Congress, I think from Martinez, California, somewhere, even in the Bay Area.
Miller was the point man.
He was the liaison.
Jim Wright, Jim Jones, who left the House to run the American Stock Exchange.
He's from Oklahoma.
They sent Miller down there to slap Ortega's hand.
How dare you embarrass us this way?
These are bad optics.
You can't accept the victory we give you to go fly off to the Soviet Union for $500 million.
Bob Torricelli wrote a letter to Danielle Ortega, dear Comandante, warning him about the evils of Ronald Reagan.
It's like Ted Kennedy.
We learned this after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ted Kennedy had actually gone to the Soviet Union, talked to the KGB and others to warn them of Ronald Reagan.
We've been playing for keeps for a long time here.
And that's why a lot of us folks just will never intellectually understand how it is that there is a major Republican establishment that does not look at the Democrat Party as a threat to this country, not just a political opponent that you face every four years in a presidential race and every two years in congressional races.
I think that really does explain the differences that exist.
The Inside the Beltway Republican elites simply don't agree with us about the threat posed to the country as founded by today's Democrats, as led by Barack Hussein Obama.
And by the way, Daniel Ortega is in power in Nicaragua even as we speak.
And he is surrounded by other communist countries.
He is a blood brother of Hugo Chavez.
In other words, in South America, the era of Reagan really is over thanks to the Democrats.
By the way, as a side note, I happen to see that the Venezuelan economy grew by 4.5%.
The public sector grew by the high fours.
The private sector grew by the low threes.
It averaged out to something like a 4.5% growth rate.
So even that nutcase socialists can grow an economy, even while he's nationalizing things.
Our guy can't figure it out.
Oh, by the way, folks, I don't know if you've figured this out.
If you're paying attention to the housing market, you might want to consider a possibility.
You might want to consider that one of the real objectives of the regime is to just do away with the concept of home ownership.
And I think when you hear the regime talking about eliminating the deduction for home mortgage interest, when you hear other urban policies that they come up with, and you hear them talking very, very, very softly now, but you hear them talking about the advantages of renting.
I think there is an attack on the premise of homeownership.
I have seen, I can't tell you how many stories in the past couple of weeks about the hassles of owning a home and the ease of renting.
Who needs the hassle?
It's easier to rent.
When the roof springs a leak, call the landlord.
You need to worry about it.
Who wants that?
You got time for other things.
There is a move.
Also, quickly, before we take quick time out, I have a number of people asking, what is this Arab Spring?
Do you really want to know what the Arab Spring is?
The Arab Spring, there are two definitions of it.
The Inside the Beltway intelligentsia, both Republican and Democrat, says that the Arab Spring is an uprising of democracy from Middle Eastern country to Middle Eastern country.
That it is the flowering of democracy that's finally taking hold.
The truth is, if you are interested in the truth, the Arab Spring is a unified uprising against Israel.
It's taking place in Egypt, Libya.
The Palestinians are getting back into gear and action.
Hafez el-Assad, that's what the Arab Spring is.
And their timing couldn't be better.
Here these guys are unified opposition to Israel while the intelligentsia of the world tells the rest of the world, no, no, no, no, this is a democracy uprising.
Oh, these guys want democracy?
Fine.
Israel?
Fine.
Okay, who cares?
Democracy is what counts.
So the flowering of democracy is allowed to overshadow the truth, which is an uprising against Israel.
Quick time out.
Back with much more after this, my friends.
Don't go away.
I was reading something this morning.
Howard Stringer, who runs Sony, they are still wringing their hands over The theft, the loss of the hacking of so much private information of Xbox, PlayStation rather, customers.
This is the most massive hacking that's taken place.
They're devastated by it, and they really don't offer much in terms of solution.
And Simon Cowell, would-be contestants of this show, Simon Cowell's U.S. X Factor.
They might have got more public exposure than they bargained for.
The news is out that details of 250,000 of them have been lost after an attack on the TV show's database.
And this show doesn't start for months.
These records were stolen from the TV network Fox Broadcast.
Heck, you know what else?
Animated people.
I ran into this.
You know, I've done some work for Seth McFarlane at Family Guy.
And the Fox animated division was hacked.
I got, you know, I have some contractual information and documents with Fox because of my involvement there.
Speaking of Seth McFarlane, Fox has just contracted with Seth to be the executive producer of the revival of the Flintstones.
Oh, yeah.
And a Flintstone, The Flintstones, one of my all-time favorite childhood cartoon shows, along with Yogi Bear.
Friday afternoon after school, get home and watch the Flintstones and Yogi Bear Jetsons and all that.
Seth MacFarlane.
Now, there's going to be...
You imagine the outcry, the Seth MacFarlane treatment of the Flintstones, what people think it might be.
Oh, yeah, it could be fun.
Can't wait for that.
But this is like 2013.
It takes a year to animate one episode.
I went out, I laid down the tracks for my episode for the family in which I was the star.
I laid down tracks in August.
And the episode aired the following October, 14 months later.
And the animators are, they're all over the world.
They're not just in the United States out in California.
They got a whole stable of them.
A year to animate a 30-minute, well, 22-minute animated TV show.
Donna Brazil, mention this at the top of the program.
Across America, Republican lawmakers have talked a big game about cutting budgets, but they also are seeking reductions to something much more fundamental, Americans' voting rights.
From coast to coast, the GOP is engaged in what appears to be a coordinated, expensive effort to block voters from the polls.
This is Donna Brazil writing at USA Today.
I guess the theory here that the best defense is a good offense.
So she ginning up the lies about how evil Republicans are trying to take away the vote from the poor and from minorities.
And I could go through this.
Every point she makes is an easily refutable lie.
All of her numbers are made up out of whole cloth.
It's amazing.
There's no evidence that any significant number of people have ever been turned away from voting due to lack of ID or because of skin color or whatever.
That's what she wants to believe.
This also tells me they think they're in trouble at Obama re-elect.
We return to the phones Rush Limbaugh serving humanity.
And there's a lot of humanity to be served.
By the way, the Flintstones, you know what the inspiration for the Flintstones was?
That's right.
That's right.
I knew Mamon, if anybody would know it, would get it.
It's The Honeymooners, Jackie Gleason.
The Honeymooners was the inspiration for...
Yeah, that was a...
The Honeymooners was a great show.
The lost episode.
Which, of course, were never lost.
It was just a brilliant marketing scheme.
You don't lose episodes.
It's absurd.
Ferris in Hartford, Connecticut.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Just nearing completion of my Ph.D. from the EIB Institute for Advanced Conference.
Well, be very, very aware that there are no degrees.
Well, they say all but dissertation.
I'm told that the abbreviation ABD indicates where I am with those studies.
But you got my interest right at the outset, the first thing out of your mouth today, and thank God for your mouth today.
Mention Donna Brazil's mention of the thing that has most concerned me about this upcoming election and the thing that got me four square behind Donald Trump of New York, because vote fraud buried us in the last election.
Vote fraud in spades will find its way into this next election.
Yes, it will.
And I think that there's nothing more disconcerting to an electorate than the fact that we have lost our franchise, that we have polls in East Philadelphia guarded by Black Panthers with batons.
We have machines that are rigged.
We have Facebook contrivances and other social media that with the flip of a switch, he can organize a group.
And we have the tactics such as Harry Reid employed in Nevada when he said to his followers the night before the election, he didn't ask them to go out and vote for him the next day.
He asked for them to go out and work for him the next day.
And that work consists of the most blatant form of vote fraud in all of its elements, which was first instituted in Chicago.
And that's why Emmanuel was moved to Chicago to conduct this reelection fraud so as not to invite impeachment proceedings.
You're making it sound like you believe the Democrats can only win if they cheat.
I believe that's true given nominees that remain.
And thanks for mentioning Rick.
He wrote a book called On My Honor about the Boy Scouts of America, which tell of his character.
But the concern about vote fraud rush has to be ubiquitous.
Here in Connecticut, where the commander-in-chief has visited today for another campaign speech at the commencement ceremonies of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, we had the polls that were vacated by the authorities in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
You people in Connecticut would have a prayer.
It's over.
I mean, you would talk about Republicans winning anything there unless they're rhinos.
Yeah, I feel for you.
Every time I go to Connecticut, I go there every summer.
They're the most depressed Republicans in the country.
I mean, they outdepress even Republicans in California.
Well, one of the reasons is that we've prevented vote fraud here.
Can you imagine leaving the polls open in Bridgeport?
People walked away and let those Obamaites take over the polls and print extra ballots, make copies, and totally defuse the system.
We have Richard Blumenthal, for God's sake, United States Senator.
We have Joseph Lieberman.
Oh, my God, who could have stopped health care with his single vote, not to bring that to committee.
Are we in bad shape in Connecticut?
This state is a disaster.
And thank you for recognizing that, and thank you for mentioning Gene Pitney the other day as the man behind the man who shot Liberty Balance and the parody that you did on the Obama shooting of Osama.
The man who shot Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, that's definitely in the groove you're already forgotten favors.
Speaking of which, I thought we had another one here, but we don't.
I got to run on.
I appreciate it, though, Ferris.
Thanks very much for the call.
Here's Rich in White Plains, New York, just down the road.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I was wondering if you might be able to tolerate a little bit of criticism.
No.
I think you're allowing what you call the drive-by media, what I call the liberal lamestream media, to dictate the discussion on the 2012 election.
It seems all we're talking about are the Republican candidates.
And I do recall two and a half years ago, both Republican and Democrat pundits saying that if the president doesn't improve the economy, he's going to have a hard time getting elected in 2012.
What happened to that analysis?
You really want to say what I think you're about to say?
There is one voice who has been leading the charge here that Obama is beatable, that the wisdom that he can't be precisely because of the economy, I am the one who has alerted everybody to what their campaign is going to be.
Axelrod last night on CNN confirmed that I was...
You think I'm not discussing the Obama campaign and how vulnerable it is?
Oh, you are, but you're also discussing in length the Republican candidates.
And we're so far out away from the election that it's, you know, anything's possible.
Any candidate could emerge.
I think there should be more of an emphasis of what Obama hasn't done to earn reelection than, you know, what are the Republicans going to do and who are they going to put up?
Gee, I don't know.
I've just this week made the point that I don't think it even matters who the nominee is, that it's going to be a referendum on Obama.
And that there's nobody that's going to convince me that this record is one that guarantees re-election.
Elmer Fudd could win this election.
That's a dirty little secret here.
Now, the discussion of the Republican nominee happens to be of paramount interest to people in this audience.
But we're not giving short shriff to the incompetence that is Obama.
Gee, whiz, what does it take?
I'm the one guy.
I am the one guy that from the get-go led the charge against this guy, failed to drink the Kool-Aid, refused to.
On this historical business, first black president and all that.
I am not being driven off course here by your lamestream media.
And by the way, that term is owned by Bernard Goldberg.
That's his creation.
I mean, you can think that you came up with it, but I heard him say it before you say it here.
If I were like you, I would accuse you of stealing it from him.
Well, I'm not going to go there.
But I just want to, I know you probably can't listen every day, but trust me, there is one voice not drinking the Kool-Aid.
There's one voice telling the people of this country that this regime is easily beatable.
St. Louis, up next is Thomas.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Purple crack old dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I understand we do have a national health, national insurance program.
It's called flood insurance.
And for some reason, the government cannot mandate that.
So people can continue to live and farm and recreate.
And if they get the insurance 30 days before a flood, we'll bail them out.
And even after the flood, we'll come and bail them out.
But if we got a national flood insurance, why not mandate it?
You know, I kind of like the thinking here.
People on the Mississippi know that it's over.
Let them go out and buy insurance right now if they don't have it.
We've got to do it 30 days in advance.
Exactly.
That's all the time you need.
Yeah.
Excellent thinking out there.
Way to go, Thomas.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks very much.
I like to hear examples of thinking.
The way people think in this audience.
I really do.
Moving right along of the fastest three hours in media.
Rush Limbos starting a million conversations with mind over chatter.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Hi, Jim.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, Rush, Navy Reserve did owes to you.
Thank you, sir.
Got a question for you.
Obamacare.
Obamacare.
They force you to buy insurance under the threat of going to jail or a fine.
And that's considered compassionate.
But Paul Ryan's plan, which gives everybody $15,000 to buy their own insurance, is considered throwing grandma to the street and killing people.
Well, of course, Paul Ryan does not, his plan does not create one change for anybody 55 years of age or older.
So it's impossible to throw grandma under the street and kill her.
The only people going to do that will be the Obama death panels.
Paul Ryan and his Medicare reform plan do nothing, change nothing with current enrollees in the program, age 55 and up.
Zero NATA.
Unaffected.
It may as well not.
Why do you think they support it?
They support it in drones.
Northridge, California.
Hi, Julie.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, Mega Dittos.
How are you?
Fine.
Thanks very much.
I'm calling regarding the comments that Donna Brazil made.
Yeah.
You know, what really irritates me about her?
It seems like, you know, they trot her out every, you know, four years when we're going to have a.
Well, she trots herself out.
I don't need much pushing there.
Yeah.
But it seems like, you know, since 2000, I mean, was that what Y2K was all about?
I mean, did we forget how to vote?
Yeah.
I mean, because it seems like since 2000, you know, we haven't been able to vote right.
I mean, I don't know what it is.
I don't know how hard it can be to go in, put it in the future.
There's one quick fix for voter fraud.
It's called a photo ID.
Oh, I agree with you.
One quick fix.
Now, guess who leads the opposition, Donna Brazil?
Yeah.
And people like that.
State after state getting close to authorizing photo ID to vote.
That's the show in the cross to Dracula.
I mean, when I was 18 and I voted for the first time in New Jersey, I had to show a county ID, which had my picture.
I had to show my driver's license.
And then I had to show a third form of identification.
And the same thing when I voted in Florida.
I had to show my driver's license.
I came out to California and it was like, no, you don't need it.
And I'm like, what do you mean I don't need it?
How do you know I'm not the person I say I am?
I mean, there was no way of knowing.
They didn't care.
No, they didn't.
And there's rampant fraud.
I mean, you can stand in line and watch it.
Photo ID is an idea catching on, including even really among rank-and-file Democrat voters.
But you need a photo ID to buy any histamines over the counter.
Do you know that?
Because you can make crystal meth with it.
They can cook somehow.
But photo ID to vote?
No way.
That's a violation of civil rights, the Reverend Jackson said.
We will have Nude Gingrich on the program probably in the second hour tomorrow at their request, plus lots of other stuff.
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