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June 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, you know, it's this is probably a good way to put this.
The media.
The media for two years has been trying to uh palinize Palin.
I mean, they have they've been trying to destroy her.
And what's happening here is she's turning the tables on them, and she is palinizing them.
And the Republican ruling class is furious.
The Republican ruling class is furious that Palin going to all these states on her bus tour is not coordinating with local Republican organizations.
And they're saying, this ain't cool.
This is not cool because if she turns out to be running, this is not cool, she'd only be making enemies out of out of all these people.
But there's another way to look at that is.
And that is she's not following a losing script.
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Oh, it's it's it's it's fascinating to watch this Palin stuff.
They hate her.
They despise her.
They are frustrated that they haven't destroyed her.
They can't believe she's still smiling.
They can't believe she's still drawing crowds.
They can't believe that she's enjoying life.
They can't believe her family is still together.
They can't believe her husband hadn't walked out on it.
Can't believe any of this.
Folks, you know this as well as I do.
When they set out to destroy you, they they mean just that.
And Palin's not playing along with the script.
She's not acting destroyed.
She's not asking for forgiveness.
She's not begging them to leave her alone.
She's not changing in order to make them uh uh lighten up or anything.
She she just looking at them and smiling and say, Oh, you want some more of it?
Here it is.
And they're beside themselves.
They they literally are beside themselves.
Now they're there are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who understand Sarah Palin and those who pretend they don't.
Ah, yes.
Yes, snurdly, I say what I mean.
I mean what I say.
I love hearing myself say it.
I'd be happy to explain this.
I'll be ecstatically happy to explain this.
Two kinds of people in the world, those who understand Palin and those who pretend that they don't.
And they and they, by the way, they pretend that they don't understand her for all kinds of reasons, none of them good.
Now, one of the reasons that she did, I'll explain here in just a second.
One of the reasons, they're complaining, they're whining, they're moaning.
She's so unprofessional.
She's not telling us where she's going.
We're having to get involved in road races following her bus.
Everybody's endangered on the highway.
Oh, so you're fine to do a little work.
Somebody's not doing your job for you.
Somebody's not telling you where they're gonna be, huh?
You have you sit here and you expect everybody to tell you where they're gonna be so you can show up in your good time.
Whatever happened to Pounding the Beat.
Whatever happened, the whole concept of shoe leather, being a journalist, tracking down the story.
Is that what journalism has become now?
Fax machines, press secretaries calling up a report saying we're gonna be here or there, and the reporters say, I don't care to go there, or I will go there or what have you.
And what is this about endangering people on the highways?
She's not endangering anybody, but you people getting in the caravan trying to keep up.
And how pathetic are you if you lose a bus on an interstate?
How hard is that?
I mean, you don't need to hire a bulldog guy out in Hawaii.
What is his name is this?
Um The Bounty Hunter, you don't need to hire this guy to follow a bus.
Crying out loud.
But if you don't tell, I was pointing us out to Dawn yesterday.
Don thought this is really brilliant yesterday.
If you don't tell people where you're going, then the protesters have no way of organizing and waiting for your arrival.
That's pretty smart.
What I mean by those who understand Palin and those who pretend they don't...
The people who are critical of Palin for whatever reasons.
She's not schooled.
She's uh rough around the edges, uh squeaky voice.
Uh whatever, whatever it is.
A claim not to understand her popularity or what they know exactly what it is that attracts people to her.
And that's what bothers them.
It bothers them she's drawing these crowds.
And that's what they pretend not to understand.
They want us to believe, my God, what what what kind of idiot people are there that would follow this people follow this woman around?
What kind of stupid they know, the people I'm talking about know that as elites, they are in a genuine minority.
And there is disdain.
Fly over country, great Midwest, Heartland, whatever middle class, there's a disdain for it.
Both uh social class-wise, education-wise, there's all kinds of reasons.
She owns that demographic.
She owns it.
And there's deep resentment for it.
So they pretend that she's so odd and so off the wall, so weird that I don't know what this crazy woman's up to, but they know exactly what she's up to.
Now, they don't know whether she's running for office or not, and that kills them too.
They can't figure that out.
That bugs them.
What?
Rush Limbaugh attacks Obama after poor economic reports.
Well, that's not fair.
That's not fair.
Poor Bortz, they got what's her name?
Allison Camarada on Fox right now has got Neil Bortz on, and they're asking Bortz to comment on what I said.
That's not fair to Bortz.
Bortz is a good guy.
You know, why don't they ask Bortz to comment on what he says?
Rush Limbaugh attacking Obama.
That's news?
That's news?
Oh, that's what they're saying.
Oh, they're quoting my saying that his destruction of the economy is purposeful.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Now that makes sense.
Because they've been ignoring that.
The regime has never responded even to that.
You remember I did Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace some time ago.
Uh we taped it over there at the breakers.
And I I in the opening segment of the interview with Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday, I said, Chris, what worries me is I think this is being done on purpose.
He looked at me.
Come on, Rush.
I mean, you really are.
No, I do.
I really...
See, that's another example.
They know what I mean by that.
They knew what I meant when I said I hope he fails.
They act like some great sacrilege has been committed here, but they knew exactly what I meant when I said I hope he fails.
But uh poor Bortz.
It's his turn to be on Fox.
They got to ask him to respond to what I said.
Limbaugh scholar Neil Bortz.
Where was I?
What was I?
Um, yeah, Palin, but there was there was uh I was gonna jumping off point uh uh Palin, Palin, yeah, Palin.
Uh uh Palin, you were talking to me.
Uh no, I'd explain to pretend not to.
but uh uh I think I was gonna transition into John Edwards.
I've I've I've got I've got a question.
How does Edwards get indicted and Clinton doesn't?
Uh well, but but no, but but no, no, no, no.
Clinton Obama wasn't a factor in whether or not Clinton.
Clinton uh committed perjury.
Obstruction of justice in the Lewinsky thing.
Obama was he's still a state senator voting president.
He hasn't a factor then.
Uh well, what do you mean Clinton didn't shuffle any money?
Ever hurt a Johnny Chung.
Uh the the um oh, no money for Lewinsky.
We still don't know about that.
The uh but yeah, what what Edwards did, he took the money from uh from Bunny Mellon and uh from somebody else and used it on the on the sweetie and the kid and so forth, and co-mingling funds as well as commingling other things.
You know, Anthony Wiener knows what I mean by that.
And so Edwards gets indicted and and Clinton doesn't.
Clinton's big star, Clinton big hero.
Clinton's flaws, is what we're talking about.
Clinton's flaws have elevated him into even uh larger mythological figure.
Edwards remains the Breck girl heading into prison if he's convicted.
I'm telling you, folks, you don't.
I don't even care if it's you know not a maximum security federal prison.
You know, if it's one of these country club jobs, you still don't want to go into one of these places with everybody knowing your nickname is the Breck girl with a reputation for spending a half hour every morning on your hair.
Yeah.
Don't even put those ideas in my mind.
See, this is another thing.
The staff just uttered something purely vulgar in my uh IFB that if I were to pass it on, I would be the one in deep trouble.
Um, we've got soap on a rope in the Gitmo collection, but we don't sell it in the context.
Jeez.
Anyway.
Anyway, James Arnest has uh died.
Matt Dillon, Marshall Dillon, Gunsmoke.
I love that show.
You know, James Arniss was a mystery figure because he never did interviews.
He never, never did interviews.
Now his brother Peter Graves, Mission Impossible, did all kinds of interviews.
James Arnest never did, I mean, you maybe one a year if that.
He remained this mysterious figure out there.
You didn't know they were brothers?
Yeah, the correct spelling is A-U-R-N-E-S-S.
James Arness.
They dropped the U. Uh, James Arnest did in his stage name.
But uh his brother took a totally different stage name.
Peter Graves, just uh have some distinction.
Uh James Arnest, uh, he was the thing in the one of those original ice station zebra.
Well, it wasn't Ice Station Zebra, but he was the thing in some horror movie it took place at the North Pole.
So anyway, he's um he's passed on.
One of the one of the charges in the indictment of the uh the Breck girl is lying to the FEC.
Well, which is my point.
The FEC is one thing, but Clinton lied under oath to a grand jury.
I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure the Breck girls out there sitting there know justice.
Probably will call the Reverend Sharpton.
Who has trademarked the uh the phrase.
Okay, up we come back.
I'll give you a little uh heads up on this political story.
Palin's tour, a rolling menace is the headline.
Back after this.
I don't know.
I just I can't.
I still can't get past this Thomas Friedman business and telling everybody else how to live.
The ChICOMs have all the answers and centralized planning with a select elite few.
Folks, I know who makes this country work.
And you know, you listen to me long enough, you know exactly who I'm talking about.
I'm talking about people you've never heard of.
They labor away and anonymity, they're not seeking fame or stardom or anything.
They just they have their dreams, their sense of responsibility, they have their passions, God bless them, and they go about doing things.
Now I don't know how many of these intellectual giants, these elite geniuses.
I don't know how many of them, for example, have ever started a business, or run a business, or have the slightest idea what it is to bring a product to market, and what all you have to go through to do that today.
I don't know.
I know that in the Obama administration, there's nobody among his czars or cabinet people that have worked in the private sector.
They are theoreticians from academia.
I don't know how many of them have invented anything, or have created some innovation service.
I don't know how many of them have milked a cow or fed a chicken or driven a truck, or how many of them even clean their own homes, and I don't know how many of them actually even raise their own kids.
But if you listen to them, they know how to do everything, and they're the only ones that know the right way to do everything, and they therefore know how to tell all the rest of us to live.
Now, the way you create new technologies, services, innovations, products, or what have you, is not by some columnist or government czar or some other bureaucrat telling us how to do it.
You do it by allowing tens of millions of people to make hundreds of millions of daily decisions in freedom.
You allow people to follow their ambitions and their desires.
And you celebrate that for crying out, and you get out of their way.
And then you don't punish them when they succeed.
The ruling class people like Friedman would rather see this country run by communist Chinese than people like Sarah Palin.
And don't doubt me on that.
Sarah Palin represents a greater threat to them than the Chicoms running this country.
Don't doubt me.
Okay, we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, politico.
And by the way, the I think the author of the story is a woman, Casey Hunt, K-A-S-I-E.
I did probably how a woman would spell it, but I don't know in anymore, frankly.
These days of no circle, who can tell.
Sarah Palin's bus is plastered with a mock-up of the U.S. Constitution.
But her entourage, both the three vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller two SUV versions that she uses for smaller events, hasn't been very respectful of the traffic laws.
They speed.
They run red lights and stop signs.
They make last second lane changes To get off the highway sometimes without signaling.
I am not making up a word of this.
This is the politico.
And so do the reporters following them.
Journalists in the caravan trailing her.
Describe the experience as harrowing, a rolling menace careening up the East Coast in hot pursuit.
Of the former Alaska governor who declined to provide any advanced itinerary.
As they left the clam big she attended Thursday in New Hampshire.
Palin's two SUV caravan did 52 miles per hour in a 35 zone as it peeled away from the host neighborhood.
Both cars blew through a stop sign about a mile later.
They did 70 in a 55 zone on I 95.
And then after they got off without signaling, they flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 in a 35 zone.
And that was after they'd already stormed the major cities and just missed driving through a tornado on the road into Boston.
Chicken of the news.
Anybody?
Here is the closing paragraph.
The reporters who are speeding, tailgating, cutting off other cars, blasting through roundabouts, and passing on the right in an effort to keep up say they have no other choice, since they never know what Palin's up to or where she's headed, and AIDS typically won't tell them anything.
Once they're on the road, they're filing urgent updates by phone and figuring out unorthodox bathroom breaks, like the reporter who pulled over to relieve himself on the side of the highway going from Gettysburg to Philadelphia, drawing notice from both Palin aides and the rest of the trailing press.
This is hilarious what she's done to him.
This is the vaunted politico.
Some editor read this and said, yep, go ahead, post it.
You have Obama subverting the War Powers Act.
And we get a treatise, a term paper on Palin flouting the traffic laws.
Palin's tour is a rolling menace.
They can't stand it.
You know what really bugs them?
The same thing bugs them about me.
They didn't make her.
They can't destroy her.
The press did not make me.
I'm not the result of media buzz.
I'm not the result of the media telling everybody I was hot stuff.
And she isn't either.
She is where she is despite the media trying to destroy her.
They can't because they didn't make her.
This is what they don't understand.
And the fact that they can't is going to drive them to keep trying.
And in the process, they are going to make even bigger fools of themselves.
So Cookie sends me a soundbite here from Bortz just now on Fox.
And I was maybe premature in feeling sorry for Bortz, because Bortz is accusing me of stealing his stuff here.
Yeah.
It was uh, let's see, uh Alison Camarata talking to the talking to Bortz, conservative uh radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh blasted the president on his show today, saying, quote, the president is winning his war against the private sector, he's destroying it.
That's his mission.
Neil Bortz is a syndicated radio talk show host, joins me now.
Hi, Neil.
I'm glad the Godfather's been reading my program notes.
That's great.
I've been saying that for quite a while.
It is Barack Obama's intention.
He said he was going to fundamentally transform this country to transform it from a private sector economy to a government economy.
And that's exactly the case.
But Neil, let me just interrupt, because that's exactly the opposite of the message that the president wanted to send today.
He was in Toledo, Ohio at this Chrysler plant where he said, good news, you've done better than we ever expected.
In what was supposed to take six years, only took two years.
You've repaid your government bailout loan.
I didn't want to get into the business, he said, of the auto industry, but I had to stave off a million jobs lost.
So we gave you some money.
You paid it back.
Yippee.
They haven't paid it back.
We're still owed big bucks.
But Neil is claiming authorship.
I d maybe Neil first said, I hope he fails too.
Anyway, it's all online Friday, and we people patiently waiting.
Who's next?
Where are we going?
You had somebody up there.
Uh Alex Sheboygan.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Hey, Beth, you're next on the EIB network.
Hey, how are you?
Hi, Rosh.
It's uh Ditto's from the dairy state.
Thank you.
I am uh um medium-sized employer of an industrial painting company, and I can't find employees in this economy.
What do you need them to do?
Uh hard physical labor that apparently people don't want to do.
But the weird thing is they don't know what the job entails yet until they come in.
Nobody is coming in.
Well, what what to define for me in your business what hard physical labor is.
You I know you said industrial painting, but what is it that they do?
Well, we do water blasting and sandblasting and painting and flooring.
So they show up and apply, and then when they find out what it is, they're not interested.
No, nobody's showing up to apply.
Oh.
We only have it had eight people even come in to fill out an application in a week and a half.
Uh do they you you publish what earning potentially is?
No.
No, just two full-time uh positions are available.
And uh let me help you out here.
I here's what you're doing wrong.
Here's what you're doing wrong.
You need to first tell them what the sick day schedule is, how many vacation days they're going to get, how many personal days to take the dog to the vet they're gonna get, and then you'll be overrun with applications.
Yeah, you mistook me for a government employer.
Yeah.
But the but the weird thing is I'm not sure.
Have you thought about have you thought about running ads in Spanish?
But those people only want to work eight hours a day.
Oh then they want to go home.
Wait a minute, what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with only wanting to work eight hours a day?
What kind of a slave shop are you running?
I'm running a shop where we get jobs done that the employee that uh the customers need done when they need them done.
Yeah.
That's holidays, weekends, overtime, but that's what the that's what it takes.
And I see you assume uh you you you uh you pay them fairly, do you?
Yeah, I do.
They can make probably you know, forty to sixty thousand dollars a year.
That's pretty good pay.
Forty to sixty thousand dollars a year.
Yeah.
Well, you need to do some numbers crunching and find out what with unemployment and food stamps and uh and other things.
You you you you might find people get pretty close to the 40.
Well, you know, that's one of the other things that concerns me greatly about the future of the country is the entitlement mentality and how it appears to me it's really grabbed hold because most people are making a decision.
Well, am I better staying home or working?
That never used to be a question that we had, you know, 10, 15 years ago.
What's the unemployment rate in Wisconsin?
Do you know?
It's about I think nine percent.
Nine percent.
Nine percent.
And do you happen to know uh what the weekly unemployment benefits are in Wisconsin?
Well, I think it depends on what you made at your last job.
Okay.
But I'm trying to come up.
Trying to come up with a formula where you're you're you're competing.
You're competing with me with people not working, getting paid to do nothing.
Yeah, you're competing with the sloth industry.
Yeah.
Uh and I think if you you may have to double what the unemployment benefit is to get people to come to work.
You know, I think the biggest issue here in Wisconsin is badger care.
We have free medical care for people who don't have an income.
Yeah.
And they get better insurance than I get.
You know, it's it's amazing.
It is amazing what they've done with whole people.
I have run into people who will uh if if they can be assured that their health care is taken care of, they'll forget trying to get a job.
They'll they'll do unemployment.
Health care is the big deal.
Even though it it's as though people think that every day is a medical emergency and they need emergency treatment every day.
It's not that that's always been the thing that amazed me about health care is the vast majority of people don't need it very often and yet base their life around having it.
So forth.
Anyway, I I can uh understand your your situation.
I've I've uh lot of people, a lot of business owners who have over the years called this program and and and discussed how difficult it's been filling jobs, not because of lack of people, but because people who are willing to actually work.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Beth.
All the best to you.
We'll be back.
We'll continue after this.
Here's a story I mentioned earlier in the program.
Um they're arguing at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Obamacare and the federal mandate.
Uh having to buy health insurance.
That's the focus of the 26, 27 states suing the government, and the solicitor general for the regime, the person who argues cases for the federal government.
Well, if we're gonna play that game, I I think that game can be played here as well.
Because after all, the minimum coverage provision only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income.
So it's a penalty on certain uh earning a certain amount of money in self-insuring.
It's not just on self-insuring on its own.
So I guess one could say uh just don't earn that much income, and you won't have to buy insurance policy.
Just if you don't like the mandate, make less money.
And then from uh CNBC.com, squeezed on both sides by stagnant wages and rising prices.
Consumers believe the chances of bringing home more money one year from now are at their lowest in 25 years, according to analysis of uh survey data by Goldman Sachs.
Americans are lowering their expectations for making money.
God, this is this is horrible.
And so it's if somebody wants to tell me this guy can't be beat, you get the American people thinking that their days of earning more money year to year are over and somehow this guy's a shoe-in.
In what political playbook is that written?
This is uh patently absurd.
Who's next?
Tom and Dexter, Michigan, greetings.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you here.
Hey, 24-7 Jefferson Key Ditto's.
Thank you, sir.
Uh yeah, I'm uh an architect up here by day, and I write novels at night, and I recently lost my government stimulated uh job, so I am going on unemployment just to make sure the president's unemployment numbers stayed nice and robust.
You write you write novels in the daytime.
I write novels at night.
And a day job is like done in buildings.
Uh usually a lot of stuff for universities.
So I got an NIH grant.
I was helping a university around here finish up one of those uh NIH funded era grant projects.
We finished it, so my job is no longer stimulated, so I've been destimulated.
Well, you need to talk to Anthony Wiener.
I don't need that kind of stimulation.
No, I've I'm I'm working on some novels in fact.
I just sent a political thriller, uh, an election thriller off to my publisher.
So we're working on that.
And I'm not sure.
So that's what I'm gonna do now.
Have you been published before?
I have.
I have uh five novels that have been published internationally, and in fact, AP, who you talk about quite a bit, even certified that I was an international number one best selling author for a hundred weeks in Venezuela.
My book was pirated by Hugo Chavez, the Spanish edition.
You're Kidding.
No, and I did they exported the book as well, so I did four months in uh Uruguay.
Hugo Chavez nationalized your book?
I've been nationalized by Hugo Chavez, and every time he the book is about a conflict between China and the Vatican.
And when he was having his own troubles with his bishops, and he'd yell at his bishops at home, the book's numbers would jump up.
Now, what do you mean when you say you've been published internationally?
Does it mean you can't get your books in America?
No, they're in the United States, but I've been Canada, the UK, um, I've been in seven different languages right now.
Okay, well, who are you?
I'm Tom Grace.
Tom I wrote the Tom Grace.
No, that was my last novel.
Tom Grace.
And what did you just say?
Uh my last novel was The Secret Cardinal.
The Secret Cardinal.
Yeah, which dealt with a conflict between um China and the Vatican over uh the bishops who are in prison over there.
Well, is it an e-book?
It is.
Well, I'm gonna go get it.
And it's on the iPad, and in fact, your brother right now is reading an early draft of the political thriller, my election thriller that I'm working on.
You got my brother to read one of your drafts of uh Yeah, well, Dave and I have been talking for the last couple years.
I've got a uh early advanced reader copy here of uh Crimes Against Liberty.
Very nice book.
I used it as a source material.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, good for you.
Good for you, good for him.
Good for him.
Cool.
I'm glad you called, Tom.
All the best to you.
Well, thank you very much.
You bet.
I don't know how many authors can say that they've had their books nationalized by Hugo Chavez.
That is.
That's um that just sounds funny.
Book of the nationalized by uh by Hugo Chavez.
All right, folks, gotta wrap it up here.
Sit tight.
We will be back right after this.
By the way, folks, how do we know?
That last caller, Tom Grace.
How do we know that Tom Grace has not stolen all of his book ideas from Neil Bortz?
We don't know that.
Okay, Mark Belling will be here on Monday.
I need one more day on the Super Secret Project.
And yeah, I don't mean to be stringing you along, but there's no other way to describe it.
Um What do you mean?
That there's no other way to describe.
I don't mean to be screwed.
I can't avoid stringing you along.
Not talk about it.
But anyway, I'll be back Tuesday.
Mark Belling here Monday.
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