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June 2, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 2, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Oh, yeah, it's gonna be big.
It was it's gonna be huge.
Guys, I'm excited.
Folks.
No, the thing I did yesterday, Snerdley, I'm not talking about anything else.
No, no, and you know this Wiener business.
Um understand that Stein had uh three hours worth of fun with us yesterday.
You know, I never, you know, I I didn't, I didn't wade into this until my third hour on Tuesday.
This whole thing is uh it's so juvenile.
You know, it the Democrats folks are gonna have to figure out what it is that they are most proud of.
Are they most proud of the culture of corruption or the culture of erection?
Now their culture of corruption is well known.
The economy, Obama, ever the culture of erection is Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd Clinton, Anthony Wiener, uh Elliot Spitzer, and so forth.
But there's something serious about this.
Sign from all the jokes culturally that that I I want to get into here, and interestingly, it involves a piece I read The American Thinker by about Charles Krauthammer and uh and Sarah Palin and you know what's going on in this country.
I mean, this this Wiener thing.
I understand that the Democrats seek to destroy us with this kind of stuff.
Oftentimes have to make it up.
And this is a little uh this is a little tit for tat, but this is just folks, this is just juvenile.
Go out and ask any woman, and Snerdley, this may disappoint you.
It may distress you, it may ruin you for the next couple of days, hours, or what have you.
But photos of this kind do not arouse women at all.
This is this is juvenile stuff.
This is, you know, go talk to any woman and she will tell you that that this isn't exciting.
This is whatever the desired effect here was, it was the exact opposite that was achieved.
It's just it's just it's I don't absolutely.
You know, there's there's there's nothing to all of these jokes.
But in the meantime, folks.
The the Wiener situation matters to me because what does it remind us of?
It reminds I'll tell you what it reminds me of.
It reminds me that these people who seek to rule over us.
You know, when this when this Wiener thing first hit, you know, I I was not interested in it in any way, shape, manner, or form because this guy did not have my respect before this happened.
The guy is not helpful to the future of this country.
He is not helpful in fixing the problems.
This guy represents the problem, the ideas side of problems.
This guy is a Democrat and is a liberal and represents, he's trying to get Clarence Thomas forced off a Supreme Court on health care issues because of Clarence's wife and her jobs.
Well, who the hell is he to be demanding this kind of stuff?
If anybody needs to recuse themselves, it's a lady Kagan, who actually argued health care cases for this regime before the Supreme Court.
So to me, Anthony Wiener was a problem long before this, and he's not worth laughing at.
This guy needs to be properly explained and understood by people as as the ideas problem that he represents.
This reminds, and I'll I'll go ahead and say us, because I know after I finish with this, you're going to agree with me.
Reminds us that these people who seek to rule over us, who seek endless power over us, Wiener is part of this Democrat cabal that wants total authoritarian power over the people of this country.
They are bullies.
And yet, what do they do?
They pose as wise, intelligent people, smarter than everybody else, so special like Geithner.
We were told we had to put up with his cheating on his taxes because he's the only guy in Washington that could have shepherd us, shepherded us through the TARP business.
A guy who's never had a job in the real world, never had a job in the private sector, was the only guy capable of shepherding this country through this uh mess that was TARP in the financial crisis.
But Wiener is just part of this crowd that we're told, better than us, more special than we are.
We dare not even look at them in their presence.
We don't have that right.
They are so elevated above us, so wise, so intelligent beyond the people that they seek to control.
But really, what are they?
They're flesh and blood, and they are flawed like everybody else.
They are perhaps more deeply flawed than everybody else because they bring with them the baggage of hypocrisy.
They're no better than anybody else.
Wiener's no better than anybody else, just because he says Clarence Thomas should recuse himself, doesn't carry dimes worth of weight with me.
In many cases, not only are they not better than we are, they are worse people than we are.
The idea that we should continue to allow people like this to dictate to us, to tell us how to live, is simply ludicrous to tell us what our health care ought to be, to tell us what our energy ought to be and where we ought to be able to get it and what it ought to cost.
Who the hell are these people?
This is what bugs me about Anthony Weiner long before this silly juvenile photo shows up out there.
In all the deserving but juvenile jokes that attach themselves to this guy.
The idea that we should allow these people to dictate to us, to tell us how to live.
Sorry, folks, not my cup of tea.
What this points out is we actually know very little about these rulers, about these people who claim to have all of our answers.
We know very little about them, other than what they want us to know via their carefully shaped images and propaganda.
But here we get to look behind the curtain, so to speak, at one of the loudest of these people.
And this is what I take out of this.
Now, I mentioned the American thinker and Crowdhammer.
There's a piece out there, and unfortunately, I don't have it in front of me.
I can't cite the author simply because I don't have it in front of me.
But it's a piece questioning, you know, analyzing the analyst.
Crownhammer, the other day on Fox, I happen to see it, said that Sarah Palin still hasn't cut it for him.
She's got good instincts, but she just not properly schooled.
And he said, I don't mean schooled in the right places.
She's just not learned.
She's had two and a half years to school herself on matters of policy.
She hasn't done it.
She can't demonstrate it.
She just not properly schooled.
And this guy says, Well, why are we accepting, I wish you can remember this guy's name.
I'll find it for you.
Somebody's going to probably shout it at me here in just a second.
Tom Rowan.
Tom Rowan, analyzing the analyst, the American thinker.
Says, uh, why, and this is this is Rowan, right?
Why in the world do we sit here and bow down at the opinion of somebody who used to write speeches for Walter Mondale?
Now, Rowan's theory is that people's pasts matter.
So here you had Dr. Krauthammer, who was a speech writer for Mondale, who obviously at that point in his life thought Ronald Reagan was a total idiot, you know, probably not schooled.
So Rowan's theory is, analyzing the analyst that he probably sees Krauthammer sees Reagan and Palin, and wasn't particularly enamored of Reagan.
George Will was not an early Reaganite, for example.
Became a good friend and associate later on.
But this got me to thinking about this whole notion of who earns respect and why.
And Mr. Rowan, the American thinker said, why is it that everybody stops what they're doing, and when Krauthammer issues an opinion, that's it.
So he got me to thinking, yeah, why is that?
With anybody, not Krauthammer.
I don't mean to be focused on Krauthammer here.
That was just the jumping off point here for me, the piece by Rowan here at the American Thinker.
And, you know, there many everybody wants this kind of respect, by the way.
Everybody seeks it.
Everybody would love to have it.
Krauthammer, in many ways, uh has acquired this respect because in many of the venues he appears he's the only conservative.
On the local Washington opinion show on Friday night, he's it.
Not so much on the Fox round table, uh, but he's he's close.
They've they surround him with a number of libs in the show.
So he's unique in that sense.
So he used to, and in the in the old days, Krauthammer used to say things that nobody else thought of.
He did have unique takes on things.
And so the perception was that what you got from Krauthammer was the truth.
This guy points out as recently as earlier this week, Krauthammer was assuring us in no way would the Republicans hold firm on his debt limit, but that they would cave because the debt limit's got to go up anyway.
Republicans would realize, well, uh sorry, not true.
The Republicans held firm, and the debt ceiling ain't gonna go up, and it's uh looks like Democrats are gonna have to be the ones to cave here with spending cuts, and a lot of Democrats join the Republicans in that vote.
So it got me to thinking about pondering this thing about respect for as long as I've been behind this microphone.
And when it comes to Krauthammer, I don't think he's got earned the respect simply because he's a truth teller, is because he always managed to position himself on these shows as the lone conservative, like George Will has done, and people are drawn to that.
And he has the ability to come up with uh points of view, uh sides of things, analysis that uh nobody else come up with.
And he earned the title Intelligent, Reason, Smart, and this kind of thing.
But there aren't very many, when you look at the American political world today, and in fact, when you look at all of American culture, you can probably count on one hand the number of people who have universal respect, who are untouchable.
It isn't very many people, which is not good, folks.
Ultimately, it is not good.
My grandfather used to have the kind of respect I'm talking about, a universal admiration.
Now, granted, there's always mythology associated with people's grandpatriarchs, their families.
Such is the case with mine, too.
In the case of my grandfather, however, when you say never uttered a curse word, it's true.
Never drank an adult beverage, true.
All of these cliches about clean living with my grandfather were true.
Universally respected, loved and adored.
Very, very true.
Everybody in his family urged to emulate him, be just like him.
True.
Nobody listening to me who knows or knew my grandfather will disagree with me on any aspect of this.
But I don't think it's possible anymore to have or earn that kind of respect.
Certainly not with national figures.
Maybe somebody living in a small town about whom little is known outside of that town, and certainly where there is no Intense media coverage of people.
But I just don't think it's possible anymore to earn universal respect because now there is not a criticism, just as observation.
So much media that is exposing everybody's flaws.
In the old days, people who had universal respect had flaws too.
We just never knew.
Now everybody's flaws are there.
In fact, it's gotten so bad that many people's flaws are purely made up and manufactured.
Because we have a political party who cannot win in the arena of ideas.
And the only hope they have is to destroy the very character and reputations of their opponents.
And so that's what they do.
They will lie.
They will make up things that people like us have never said.
Do not believe.
They will put it out there as though it is fact and any error evidence of the contrary is studiously purposely ignored.
So with so much media now constantly exposing everybody's flaws combined with the left's mission to personally destroy everybody, not in their club.
What chance does anybody stand of having respect or earning universal respect?
Like I didn't care.
Again to reiterate, I really didn't care about this wiener business.
Because I didn't need this Twitter news to know that I oppose this guy, and I oppose this guy in areas of substance, and I don't need some juvenile picture.
And I don't want to have to require or need some juvenile picture that he sends out on the internet to get people to understand that I'm right about the guy.
I'll take it, but I don't, I'm not crazy about it.
And I don't want to have to sit here and intellectually examine this like it's been going on in me for the last two days.
Did he say it?
Did he not say it?
Wolf blitzer.
Would you know if these were your underpants?
Well, what is this?
We're talking about people who claim to be a cut above all the rest of us, smarter, brighter, better than totally qualified, capable to be our betters, our rulers.
So it's unavoidable.
This thing gets out there, you have to use it.
The left, on the other hand, lives to expose this stuff about us, even make it up.
We would rather defeat these guys in uh lasting and permanent ways, the arena of ideas.
We get dragged into this cesspool on this stuff.
But my point here, folks, is that nothing and no one can ever really be sacred or respected today because everybody is flawed, many people deeply so.
Nobody, there aren't any secrets anymore.
So now virtue, virtue attaches itself to those least deserving of it.
Virtue attaches itself to those who cleanse themselves of their demons, except conservatives who are not allowed to cleanse themselves.
Their rehab is not permitted.
Process we learn that very few people are worthy of any real respect, and I think this is dragging the country down as well.
I really do.
When nobody is worthy of any respect, when that's the message everybody gets that an entire industry is totally corrupted, such as politics.
It's not helpful, folks.
It just isn't helpful.
My point is, and by the way, welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
What other program can get away with not identifying itself for a half hour and still everybody knows what they're listening to?
People still need heroes.
We still need people to look up to.
Still need people that we uh strive to want to be liked, emulate.
When nothing is admired, what is there to strive for?
And our culture is tearing down everything in a foolish attempt to make everybody and everything the same.
Make everybody equal.
We're tearing everybody down, tearing them apart.
I'm not, no, no, no, this is not I'm not excusing Wiener at all.
Weiner is a classic illustration of the kind of thing I'm told.
He's a guy that did not deserve being built up.
Obama doesn't deserve being built up.
Crownhammer said, this was on Meet the Press November 2008.
Crowhammer said, with him Obama, we get a president with a political intelligence of a Bill Clinton harnessed to the steely discipline of a Vladimir Putin, and I say this admiringly.
With these qualities, Obama will now bestride the political stage as largely as did Reagan.
Sorry.
Didn't happen.
It wasn't right then, and it isn't right now.
Not even close to being.
By the way, the economy's tired.
That's a latest from AP.
So Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney today said that Barack Obama has been a failure.
Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney's saying Obama has failed the country.
Haven't heard that before.
It's out there.
That's part of his official kickoff to his presidential election.
Presidential campaign, the AP.
Economy, the economy is tiring again.
Just this week.
Just this week.
They're so so depressed because Obama had a week of no negatives.
There were no neg, and then all this rotten economic news hit.
This rotten economic news never went away.
This rotten economic news has been what has defined this administration since the stimulus bill.
There hasn't been any good economic news since this bunch assumed power.
One of the biggest lies, one of the biggest myths in the last two and a half years is that there has ever been a recovery.
There has not been, statistically or otherwise, in terms of real people and their lives, there has not been an economic recovery.
The AP says today that the economy is tiring again.
Reports Wednesday on manufacturing and company hiring were so weak that many economists immediately downgraded their forecasts for Friday's jobs report for May.
Some analysts also slash their estimates for growth in the April to June quarter.
Now you have people out there talking about another recession.
You've got some Democrats talking about perhaps a Great Depression.
So now the doom and gloom is uh is surfacing, and believe me, this is not this is not what the regime wanted.
This is not part and parcel of the of the giant plan here.
You don't have miracle economic recoveries from this baseline.
If they're trying to set something like that up.
Here are three examples, for instance, of the bad economic news over the last few days just from CNBC.
Horror for U.S. economy as data falls off cliff.
Wall Street baffled by slowing economy, low yields.
Trader, prepare for more money printing.
Analyst.
This last article reported that QE3 is about to sell.
It's quantitative easing three.
This is like a heroin addiction to people on Wall Street.
It is the printing and money, quantitative easing two that kept stock prices up.
You saw what happened.
Stock prices were down demonstrably lower yesterday.
This creating a panic.
They're down again today.
And so now the Wall Street P, hey, give us more money, Ben.
Pump some more money in.
Start printing some more money.
All of these artificial fixes Have done nothing to revitalize the economy.
Let's go to the audio sound bites and give a listen to this.
We have here, I mean, a panic is beginning to set in out there.
The media spin is that we're in recovery.
They couldn't sustain it.
The numbers don't lie.
We have never been in a recovery.
This is CNBC's squawk on the street today.
What we've got right now is almost mere panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money.
Van Bernanke's not a magician.
We're on the verge of a great Great Depression.
The Fed knows it.
We have many, many homeowners who are totally underwater here and cannot get out from under.
The technology frontier is limited right now.
We definitely have an innovation slowdown, and the economy's going to suffer.
And all the Fed tweaking and all the interest rate tweaking and all of the tax adjustments are actually not going to be able to save us if we cannot get a cost of labor that's in line with the rest of the planet, and we can't get our productivity levels high enough to justify the wages we're already getting paid.
That was uh Peter Yastro, by the way.
That's the uh the guy he Pierre Yastro.
Um he's a uh market DT trading market strategist.
We're gonna panic out there.
Nothing's working.
The recovery is gone.
There never was one.
Who are these people?
To miss real life right in front of them.
Here's uh former labor secretary, Robert B. Rice.
Shh.
Last night on MSNBC during a discussion about the debt ceiling.
Host said, explain what uncertainty is over the debt limit deadline and what it could do ultimately to the economy if we drag this out until August 2nd.
This debate is becoming increasingly disconnected from where most people in this economy are.
I mean, the reason that the stock market plunged today is because uh ADP, which is a payroll employee payroll firm, uh, projected that in this month, that is last month of May, uh, there were only 38,000 jobs created.
We're in an economic crisis right now.
We're heading back toward a double dip recession.
The whole recovery is stalling, and Washington is debating budget deficits five or ten years from now.
This is ridiculous.
It's not what Washington is debating, Secretary Rice.
We are in this mess precisely because of economists like you.
We're in this mess precisely because people with your beliefs have been running the economy and running the show for two and a half years now, and actually longer in the House of Representatives, starting in uh in in 2007.
It's an abject mess because your ideas are flawed and do not work.
We can't continue to raise the debt ceiling.
We cannot continue to spend money we don't have and borrow money we don't.
We just cannot continue on this on this path.
We can't kick this can down the road.
It's what everybody seems to want to do.
Who you know nobody expected a debt sitting vote to be the way it was.
Everyone expected the Republicans to cave.
And it was the exact uh the exact opposite.
Here's David Rodham Gurgen last night's CNN in the arena.
The Democrats and a member of their client culture of erection, Elliot Spitzer, asked David Rodham Gurgen.
Isn't there a problem now?
Because the president's uh entire political debate relates to the deficit.
And yet, in order to get out of the economic quagmire that we're in right now, he may need a second stimulus, a second round of fiscal policies.
But there's no political argument that he's making, or that'll carry Congress toward those policies right now.
Isn't he sort of in a bind right now?
It is really as this picture darkens, and it is.
It was particularly stark today with uh manufacturing, with housing, auto sales, jobs, all of these issues.
We obviously have an economy that's stalling out, and we're in very great danger of a double dip.
Here now, which would be a very big disaster for an awful lot of Americans.
As the news comes in, there's going to be a jolt out of this.
I mean, all of us are looking at this and say, oh my goodness, this is terrible.
We've got to get this economy up and running again.
You have to have a good running economy.
You've got to get some growth in order to deal with the deficits.
Such wizardry.
Well, you believe that you got to get some growth in order to deal with what happened to the uh increased taxes argument, Mr. Gurgan.
I guess that's kind of out the window now.
Yeah, growth is a new idea to you guys.
All of a sudden now we need growth.
Where's that been for the last two and a half years?
Oh, we've had growth.
Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, we have been in a recovery.
Right.
Let me tell you something.
Obama's stimulus plan has had about as much effect on this economy as the Wiener photo would have on a woman.
Zilch Zero.
In fact, it's a turn off.
Not a turn on.
What a derelict.
So now there's this abject panic setting.
Look at the lies these people are willing to tell themselves.
You have to be filled with self-loathing to lie to yourself these past two and a half years that we have been in a recovery.
Well, you talk about a major, major disconnect.
Looks, folks, it looks like even Obama's staunchest acolytes in the media are giving up trying to spin these unemployment numbers now.
The AP has come out with an article this morning, basically says the unemployment numbers are only as low as 9% because of all the shirkers who aren't even bothering to look for work.
They actually have a story about all the people who quit looking.
They can't carry the water anymore.
They have run out of unexpectedly, surprisingly, they've run their gamut on it.
But earlier this week, Michael Baron had a had a column in which he chronicled all of these instances where the media's experts have expressed shock and surprise over the uh performance of the economy as though somebody had just discovered that.
And we've been having fun with that for how many years here?
However, But they've they they can't even go back to that well.
In surprisingly unexpected news, job creation was uh unexpectedly lowered.
They've expired.
They have run through every possible credible explanation.
Now AP finally says, you know, uh it's really even worse than this because people have stopped looking for work.
Something else we've known for a long time.
Yep, unemployment only as low as 9% because all the shirkers who aren't even bothering to look for work.
AP tells us if everybody who had given up looking for work, that was counted, the real unemployment number would be 11.5%.
This is from the AP.
These are the shock troops from Obama's Praetorian Guard.
And they can't carry the water anymore.
Speaking of uh unemployment, there were only 422,000 new unemployment claims last week.
By the way, remember Biden?
500,000 new jobs a month.
That's what was going to happen here.
I got quotes.
We went back.
I got I got quotes from Biden here.
Can't believe how great the stimulus is working.
Never dreamed it would work this well.
I've got it all here, but we're gonna run through it.
Obama, we've begun remaking America.
April 29, 2009, President Mark's end of a hundred days says he's pleased with progress, but not satisfied.
Newsweek, the Macho Democrat.
Obama looks unbeatable now, but the GOPC's weak spots.
The fast fix is Obama now unbeatable.
That's uh this is CNN.
Cancel the election, CNN anchor asks of Obama unbeatable in 2012.
That's one series of stories.
Then we've got Biden and his promise of 500,000 jobs.
The AP headline is more job seekers give up.
Finally admitting what we've been pointing out for a year and a half.
Now they say that there were only 422,000 new unemployment claims last week.
That means that they're down by what, a whopping 6,000 claims.
And never mind, folks, that the previous week's number was quietly revised up by 4,000, just like it always is.
But there's no hope, and I keep this in mind, there's no hope for any real reduction in the unemployment rate as long as that number is above 400,000.
And economists are saying it will be for years to come.
That 400,000, you know.
you have to get significantly below that before you even start talking about replacement level jobs.
It's it's a disaster.
The real question is whether or not this is what Obama intends.
The real question is, is this the objective?
I still maintain that that must be seriously examined.
Because nobody in their right mind with a modicum of experience, economic intelligence, and education would ever double down, triple down on failed policies like this, to whom this mess can be directly traceable.
Something is really drastically wrong with all of this.
And it's not the United States of America.
This is not deserved.
This is not called for.
This is not just what happens to be up next for us.
There's more going on here than just the cyclical nature of economics.
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Here's uh here's David in Norwood, Ohio.
David, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, uh, I wanted to know how do we fix this horrible economy?
David, how old are you?
I'm uh 43.
You're 43.
At what age were you?
There's no wrong answers here.
Don't misunderstand.
I just I'm trying to ascertain what what might be your baseline of uh experience, knowledge and paying attention to things.
At what age were you when you started caring about any of this?
Uh twenty-eight.
Twenty-eight.
Okay, so you you roughly been paying attention here for what, fifteen years.
Yes.
Okay, so those 15 years takes you back basically to the Bill Clinton administration.
You know nothing prior to the Bill Clinton administration in terms of No, no, I'm I'm quite affiliate.
I'm a teacher.
So yeah, I I'm I know all about all of that, but I'm scared.
Because lately, in your life, I want to try to help you come up with this here.
So I could tell you this in 30 seconds.
I want you to come up with yourself if I can guide you through it.
At what point in your past was the economy healthy, in good shape, roaring, and very little of it concerned you.
How old were you?
What were you doing, and where were you?
Well, it was during the uh Reagan administration.
I I was fine with Reagan.
And then something keyed off.
Something went off kilter.
And I uh suddenly, as a teacher, uh, for you know, I've been teaching for let me tell you bluntly what went off kilter.
Um it was it's a long story.
No, it's very simple.
What went off kilter was uh divorce.
Uh no, two things.
Reagan's policy Reagan worked.
Reagan's policies were and Reagan's policies posed the biggest threat to the Democrat Party that could ever imagine.
Democrat Party right now needs Reagan, Obama needs Reagan.
That's why these clowns are all of a sudden starting to talk about growth.
Because they got re-elect numbers internal.
I finally heard Pat Cadell say this.
I knew it was the case.
Pat Cadell has said that the internal re-elect polling numbers in the White House are awful.
They are awful.
And what they need is economic growth.
That is what and now that's what Reaganomics gave us.
But re economic growth with uh reduced tax rates, smaller government, less government involvement, people's lives, argues against the need for liberals.
They could not allow that.
So revision history began.
Writing about what a Dunch Reagan was, how bad those policies were, killed America, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
If you want to fix the U.S. economy, then you defeat every person with a D next to their name every November election there is.
We were told during the campaign that Barack Obama would fundamentally change the way the United States economy works.
And he has.
We are finding out, getting to see exactly what he meant.
I gotta take a brief pause here, folks.
Sit tight.
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