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June 10, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So I got a note from Newt this morning.
Newt Gingrich, about a half hour ago, 45 minutes ago, he says he's in this for the duration.
He's in it for the long haul.
He didn't explain what happened here.
Well, he just wanted to tell me that he is in it.
And a drive-bys are saying that Gingrich's staffers, and there's 16 of them that flew the coupe, did so because he took a two-week cruise vacation.
And you just don't do that presidential campaign.
And the media is saying that, and others are saying a disagreement over the direction of the campaign or what have you.
Anyway, folks, it's Friday, and we never phone it in on Friday, so get ready.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Never phone it in on Open Line Friday.
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New York Times telling us that they just agonizing over how to cover Huma being pregnant.
One of the toughest editorial decisions they've ever had to make at the New York Times.
Well, Huma's pregnant.
You got Weiner out there.
And by the way, Mayor Koch essentially said there will not be a Mayor Krotch that this guy does not have a prayer.
Ed Koch, get out of here, Weiner.
Weiner can't quit.
He doesn't have any other job.
He doesn't have a law degree.
It just goes to show that a lot of these guys in Congress show up.
All they can do is go join a lobbying firm when they leave.
So Weiner can't afford to quit.
He makes, what, $154,000, his wife, Huma, something close to that.
They're right in there in that rich category that Obama's going to tax everybody at.
So that's really a taxonomics warden elsewhere why Wiener will not fly the coop.
Also, the New York Times and the Washington Post both are begging readers to help them sift through 24,000 emails of Sarah Palin's from her time as governor of Alaska.
Now, they're not going to let these people into their newsrooms.
They'll have to do this from home in their pajamas.
But they're soliciting help from their readers to pour through these Palin emails.
I don't recall this happening when we have that email release from the Headley Climate Center, University of East Anglia, that demoed the hoax that illustrated, that foretold the hoax that his man-made global warming.
There was an effort to bury those emails.
But now, the New York Times and Washington Post want their readers to help them sift through these 24,000 emails.
This is an obsession.
It is an obsession.
And I'll tell you, this is all going to end up backfiring on these people.
It's just too much.
You watch.
Don't doubt me on this.
Utility giant American Electric Power said yesterday it is going to shut down five coal-fired power plants and spend billions of dollars to comply with a series of pending EPA regulations.
The company's dramatic plan to comply with the regulations could give Republicans and moderate Democrats ammo in their ongoing fight against EPA's efforts at Obama's efforts to impose new regulations aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
So Obama, San Francisco Chronicle editorial board promises to put the coal business out of business by making it impossible to do business.
Yeah, I'm not going to stop you from starting up a coal-fired plant, but you'll go bankrupt doing it.
That's 2008.
Three years later, his EPA has instituted regulations that make that real.
And so here comes the first coal energy company, coal energy company, shutting down five coal plants.
How many jobs are involved here?
Story doesn't say.
Just shutting down, folks.
600, 600 people will lose their jobs just because this giant, American Electric Power, they're going to have to shut down five coal-fired power plants.
And even beyond that, spend billions of dollars to comply with the new regs.
Now, does somebody want to argue with me about this not being intentful and purposeful?
Try this.
Unless shares recover sharply on Friday.
This is Wall Street.
Unless shares recover sharply, they are on track for their sixth straight weekly loss.
The longest down series since the fall of 2002.
And the DJI did, I don't know if it's still below 12,000.
It's flirting with the 12,000 level.
It's been below it, been hovering just above it.
But regard it is plummeting.
Now, let me take you back.
Do you all remember in 2009, the first year, the first, actually first six months, Obama does the stimulus.
And there's a great fear.
The political analysts on our side have this great fear that the U.S. economy is resilient.
The American people will not be held down.
That despite all of this, the economy will, on its own, rebound and credit will accrue to Obama that he doesn't deserve.
I remember Republican consultants and pundits and analysts all over television worried sick about that.
And we all knew Obama's policies were destructive, but the economy, look, Rush, you know, it's going to happen.
There's going to be a recovery.
And it's going to be timed in such a way that it'll help Obama electorally.
It'll either happen starting in late 2009 or 2010 for the midterms or at the latest in late 2010, we're going to start seeing an uptick right going to the 12 election and Obama's going to benefit.
Remember, people worried about this.
The reason they said this is because historically that's been true.
Historically, the United States economy has been resilient.
It does not stay in recession this long if left alone.
The U.S. economy, if left alone, recovers these recessions.
The 1991 recession, remember, there were two recessions in the early 80s.
And we came out of both of them in a period of time that's predictable.
And that's why people were predicting that the recession that we're in now would end, it would bottom out, and the trends toward recovery would begin.
Hasn't happened, has it?
So, even when everybody acknowledges the natural resiliency, the buoyancy, if you will, the dynamism and the power of the American economy, it hasn't shown itself.
Where is it?
What's reality?
Reality is that we are headed, we're talking about now double-dip recession.
Some people are starting to talk about a genuine depression.
If the U.S. economy would just be left alone, it would have rebounded from this months ago.
And we would be on a positive track.
And people would be worried to death that Obama's leftist policies would be getting the credit for it.
This was the great fear.
The great fear was that socialism would appear to be the answer.
Guess what, folks?
We're seeing right in front of our faces here that socialism, Marxism, whatever you want to call Obamaism is the cause.
Because the reason this country has not rebounded in its normal and timely, dynamic, and resilient way is because, precisely because, of policies initiated by this administration to prevent that recovery, you know, and I know to just say it again: if this economy is left alone,
you know, don't start tinkering with things anyway.
You know, don't lower taxes, don't raise taxes, leave it alone, it rebounds.
We should be historically showing an uptick now.
We should be on a positive track, but we are not.
This is a willful and purposeful suppression of the U.S. economy.
And all the evidence confirms it.
I don't even think that it's arguable.
And you know, the word failure, people are starting to bandy that word about more and more now.
Even Mitt Romney, in his announcement, said the president has failed, the American people.
I said that I hoped he would fail.
And he has.
If failure is defined by policies improving the U.S. economy, if the measure of truth is policies designed to suppress our recovery, to weaken this country, to hand it off to somebody else in a very weakened state, that he succeeded.
So it depends on how you define success as to whether or not Obama has failed.
I said, I hope he fails because I knew that this that we have now is exactly what he intended as a liberal, not even him personally.
It was not based on Obama personally.
There were some things maybe.
You know, you can't avoid what he learned from Reverend Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers.
But still, it was an uber leftist, a liberal.
It means something.
It means something very specific.
And I don't want liberalism because it never does work.
Liberalism fails every time it's tried.
It's historically proven.
And that's why I wanted the country to be better than Obama.
I wanted the country to be more dynamic than Obamaism is.
I wanted the country to survive.
And that's what I meant by hoping Obama failed.
Because a socialist agenda is not this country.
A socialist agenda fails everywhere it tries.
I said that I hoped he would fail because if he succeeded, the nation would be in deep trouble and we are.
And everybody knew back then what I meant, even those who acted outraged, shocked and stunned.
Well, Limbaugh's really done it now.
We know he's capable of some of these over-the-line statements, but this, this, this is just unacceptable.
Remember all that?
And we had Republicans and even pundits in a mad dash for microphone.
I want the president to succeed.
We all want our president.
No, my friends, we didn't.
We don't want socialism to succeed.
But it is.
You just stop and think.
You know, and you know that I know, that the resiliency, the dynamism of this economy is such that left alone, we're already coming out of this.
We would be on an uptick, but we aren't because there's a giant boot on the threat, the throat of the country.
And it's only going to get worse.
Bush tax cuts will eventually expire.
New tax increases associated with Obamacare, Obamacare in general.
There's nothing on the horizon if Obama remains president.
Nothing on the horizon that indicates an improvement for where we are.
Nothing, folks.
Not a thing.
So how was your Friday?
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and resume.
Lots to do today.
A lot of great audio soundbites.
Media, by the way, media now loves Romney.
This is going to be quite instructive, ladies and gentlemen.
Media loves Romney over his climate change comment.
All of a sudden, now Romney's the guy on the Republican side.
That's their guy.
Some fascinating soundbites coming up.
Plus, your phone calls, as always, on Open Line Friday right after this.
Apparently, folks, believing in one of the most preposterous hoaxes in the history of the planet, man-made global warming, is all it takes to convince the state-controlled media that you are a serious candidate.
We go back to last Friday, a week ago, Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, Manchester, announcing his candidacy.
And he was asked a question by somebody in the audience who has since called us, by the way.
Question, nearly all the other candidates suggest that there's no scientific consensus on climate change.
By the way, there can be no consensus in science.
Explain this again, if I must.
Science is not up to a vote.
There's no majority in science.
You get five people, three of them think that the sun orbits around the earth does not make it so, even though there's a consensus.
In fact, the very notion of a consensus in science renders whatever you're talking about to be unscientific and unrelated to science.
There's no vote.
There's no democracy.
There's no consensus.
And there's no majority.
Not in real science.
So the guy goes on to say, will you, sir, state now that under a Romney regime, global warming will be accepted as reality, and this reality will form the foundation for all climate and energy bubbles.
I believe the world is getting warmer.
I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer.
And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that.
I don't know how much our contribution is to that because I know there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but I believe that we contribute to that.
And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you're seeing.
Right.
Okay.
So the media was listening intently as I played the soundbite this week, Monday or Tuesday, and said, well, bye-bye nomination.
Remember that?
I said, bye-bye now.
Well, the media has glommed on to that.
They are thrilled.
Listen.
Romney stands by his view that the world is getting warmer and that man is an important contributor.
Then how will he fare when so many Republicans believe that global warming is, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, a complete hoax?
You've got 99.9% of the scientists in the world in one camp, but you have Rush Limbaugh in the other camp.
The Republican primaries probably Limbaugh wins against all science and facts.
Rush Limbaugh saying bye-bye nomination.
Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, all of these Republican candidates are terrified of reaching out to mainstream voters.
Rush Limbaugh to declare him bye-bye Ville.
Nomination over.
Man-made global warming is a hoax.
This is all Rush Limbaugh.
It's amazing how utter, utterly uncurious these people are.
And look at this was the guy that had this 99.9% of scientists agree.
Purely untrue, bogus.
And the guy that said that was Cink Uger.
I don't know what a Sink Uger is.
I don't know where a Sink Uger works.
C-E-N-K, so you pronounce the first name.
I'm not even sure I'm pronouncing a last name right.
It's U-Y-G-U-R.
I'm just guessing it's Sink Uger.
99.9% of all statistics are made up.
There aren't 99.9% of all scientists.
But anyway, this sets up soundbites that are yet to come.
As we hear from Jennifer Granholm and any number of people, as well as Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is getting serious apparently about throwing his hat in the ring, back with much more on this in mere moments.
Welcome back.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
You know, folks, belief in man-made global warming is a lot like believing in Santa Claus.
It's fun.
It's fun to believe in it for a while when you're a kid, when you're a child, but it's a costly myth to continue believing in as you grow older.
And it's certainly not the kind of thing any serious political candidate ought to believe in.
I continue to be struck by just how imprisoned the so-called informed and educated, smart people among us are.
All the people in this soundbite montage that we just played, some leftist somewhere someday said there's global warming.
There is.
Don't even question it.
It just is.
Don't even challenge it.
As a journalist, you don't even have any curiosity about it.
Somebody comes along and says it is a true and automatic crackpot oddball.
And notice that what do you have to do in order to earn the approval of people in the media who will eventually seek to destroy you?
You have to adopt their causes, and it really helps you if you take a position opposite me.
So now Mitt Romney, who prior to this was a laughing stock to many in the media.
Nitt Romney, somebody just your typical Republican target.
All of a sudden, Mitt Romney comes out, oh yeah, the earth's getting warmer.
No question about it.
I don't know, but I don't know, but I don't know, but we got to do something about it.
I come along and say bye-bye nominate.
All of a sudden, Romney is serious simply because I said bye-bye nomination, and he has the right view to satisfy the left on this issue, which is nothing more than an issue to expand government, raise taxes, and control people's lives.
So that's what it takes to be loved by a media which will eventually seek to destroy you.
Hardball.
Last night, PMSNBC, Matthew is talking to former governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm.
And Matthew said, what do you make of Mitt Romney?
Grew up as a moderate Republican, partly out of Michigan, now being basically kicked out of the party by Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh, I'm a Democrat, but I have too much respect for the Republican Party to say that Rush Limbaugh speaks for all of Republicans.
Rush Limbaugh is in his game to make money and to be controversial.
I just think he's a bloviator off to the right.
I respect Mitt Romney for actually saying what the overwhelming body of science says, which is, of course, that human activity is contributing to climate change.
The overwhelming body of science has been bought.
The overwhelming body of science has been purchased.
Everybody needs coin flakes or beer if you're in Rio Linda, but everybody has to eat.
And we know that fewer and fewer people actually know how to go out and work and earn a living.
It's much easier to siphon off grants.
And people are willing to pay you for a belief, willing to reward you for producing a paper, even if it is based in junk science and hoax.
So all of a sudden now, Mitt, top of the heap, numero uno, bo ku respect.
Listen here to F. Chuck Todd yesterday, MSNBC's daily rundown.
Mitt Romney is, frankly, a stronger frontrunner than we in Washington sometimes want to believe.
How strong is Romney as a frontrunner?
Well, he is much stronger, like you said, than we thought.
He's much stronger.
He's got a clear message.
That was a national political correspondent, Washington Post, Malika Henderson.
Oh, all of a sudden, Romney's what's stronger than, oh, God, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
One statement on global warming and one bye-bye nomination from me.
And now the mitster has been launched to the top.
And of course, nothing about this is related to being right or accurate on policy at all.
What a laugh it is for media types.
Accuse me of only being in it for the money.
What do I do?
I challenge people whose only source of income is grant money for saying global warming is real.
I'm only in it for the money.
You can't listen to them, boys.
It's a bloviator on the rain.
He's just in it for the money.
They go back and forth.
One day I'm so serious and I'm so relevant that I'm the leader of the Republican Party.
The next day, I'm just a bloviating entertainer in it for the money.
And literally, I can be both multiple times a day.
Let's go back to our archives.
September 7th of 2007, Indian Wells, California.
Palm Springs, essentially.
California Republican Party Convention.
Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Since when did the field of science become the sole purview of left-wing politicians?
I don't know about you, but I've heard Al Gore talk about man-made global warming so much I'm starting to think that his mouth may be the leading source of all this supposedly deadly carbon dioxide.
Almost every day, there is another scientist that leaves the global warming bagwagon.
But you won't read it in the mass media out there because they've already invested in one side of that story.
When politics hijacks science, it quells true scientific debate, and you can have dire consequences for the future.
Exactly right.
There is no consensus in science.
There is no majority.
There is no.
This is absurd.
You don't arrive at what is scientifically true by taking a vote.
Another portion of Governor Perry's comments, again, September 2007, Indian Wells, California.
It is a sad state of affairs when liberals campaign like Republicans to get elected and Republicans govern like liberals to be loved.
That's a bad day.
We need to hold the line on what it means to be a Republican, being conservative.
If you see a candidate who wants to tax like a Democrat, regulate like a Democrat, educate like a Democrat, they should not have the honor of having the name Republican bestowed upon them.
Rick Perry, speaking four years ago in California at the California Republican Party convention, there's big sort of funny little controversy taking place out in Hawaii.
The governor there is Neil Abercrombie, who's a real nutcase.
I guess I shouldn't say that because I go to Hawaii now.
He used to be a member of Congress.
Abercrombie is the guy who intent, was intent on just getting rid of the birth certificate issue for Obama.
So he said, I'm going to go, I'm going to find it, and I'm going to release it, and I'm going to put this issue to bed.
And he couldn't find it.
He couldn't find the birth certificate.
Everybody started suspecting a trick.
But Abercrombie's been a big leftist as long as I've been paying attention to politics.
And he's upset.
He's upset that predecessors have paid the NFL $4 million to bring the Pro Bowl out there this season and next.
Abercrombie said he opposes a deal made in 2009 to pay $4 billion per game for the rights to hold the all-star game in Hawaii this year and next year.
Abercrombie said you can't do things like give $4 million to a $9 billion football industry and not give any money to children.
Not give any money to children.
This is a state that has pioneered a furlough program, only having school four days a week.
They have spent money in Hawaii on education out in the wazoo, like every other state has.
So, anyway, somebody said to Governor Abercrombie, well, wait a minute.
Yeah, the $4 million that you pay the NFL, but what about the economic impact?
You got people flying in from all over the mainland to watch the game.
They're there for a week.
What about the economic impact?
And Abercrombie said, to hell with that.
Same-sex civil unions will do just as much on economic impact as the NFL will.
People say, well, what did you say?
He said, oh, yeah, please.
We'll get more money out of civil unions in a weekend than we'll get out of the NFL in a week.
We're going to market that.
We're going to market civil unions.
That's what's going to bring people to Hawaii.
He's upset at $4 million going to the National Football League.
Open line Friday.
We'll get to your calls right after we get back from this obscene profit timeout.
Now, it is funny.
I'm only in it for the money.
Jennifer Granholm, I'm only in it for the money.
Not, of course, like these scientists who are going to be bought off with a grant who come up with a point of view, a scientific view that they claim is based totally and rooted totally in science, but is bought totally with money and grants from other people.
I don't know what makes Granholm an expert.
Well, she's a favored status.
She is unique among Democrat women in one way, sort of.
And so she's telegenic on TV.
They bring her in there.
And she was one of these.
She was the Schwarzenegger of the left in the sense, oh, gee, wouldn't it be nice if she could run for, if our Constitution weren't so restrictive?
So forth.
All right, the news is flitting out now.
Fred Barnes Weekly Standard blog about Gingrich.
The problem was the wife.
Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, Newt's wife since 2000.
Now, this Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard.
The euphemism offered by departing staffers was that they disagreed with Gingrich's strategy for the campaign.
Indeed, they did disagree, but it was a strategy that Gingrich's wife favored, and it was a part-time campaign.
She just didn't want him to vote in full-time this part-time.
And apparently, according to Barnes, she insisted that they take this two-week Mediterranean cruise together in the midst of launching a campaign.
Didn't go well.
The launch was not all that hot.
The staff felt, you know, you better be here every day working on this.
And Newt said, nah, Callista wants to go on the cruise.
So they went on the cruise, and the staff said, well, he's not serious about this.
So they're leaving, and many of them, it is said, are heading over to Rick Perry, who I now have a story that says 90% he's in.
And if Perry gets in, it will reorder everything.
But he's got his own baggage, folks.
I mean, as governor of Texas, some of you are not going to be happy to learn that he's a big advocate for in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.
And people are going to have to have to understand, well, it's a lot of Hispanic votes in Texas.
That's one of the things you have to do.
But that then becomes something people innately hate about politics.
Is having to do this or do that because that group demands it or that group wants it, or you need the vote of that group.
It rubs people the wrong way.
A couple of other things that Perry has done that conservatives will have to get past.
The one thing you can say about Palin, she's never going to have a wife problem.
I mean, you look at Mitch Daniels, he didn't get in because his wife didn't want in.
And now, here's Newt.
But in Palin's case, she is the wife.
She's already running the show.
So we'll see.
Who are we going to on the phone?
Is where we started here.
Jan in Martinez, California.
Great to have you.
Or is it Martinez?
How do you pronounce it out there?
It's Martinez.
Martinez, how are you?
I'm great.
And I just want you to know that when I put my girls to bed every night, we pray for you and we pray for our country.
Thank you very much.
One and the same, and I appreciate that.
All right.
And we're praying that God would rise up a candidate who could help our country out here.
So I'm calling about all this Sarah Palin hoopla that you've had on your show the last few days.
I would have to say that I am, I'm like Sarah Palin.
I'm six months older than her.
I didn't hang with girls in high school because they were too catty for me.
I didn't carry a can of hairspray around in my purse.
We actually have the same degree.
We actually both have husbands that love us and we love them.
I don't care what people think about me.
I'm a black and white person.
I'm very conservative.
You don't have to be my best friend.
If we don't agree on things, you know, that's okay.
I've heard Sarah Palin speak.
I've met her.
I've also heard and met Rick Santorum and Herman Kane.
I heard Paline that he took off after the speech.
I couldn't sink my claws into him.
But I've also met Sharon Engel.
And what I want to tell people, these people are not anything like the media portrays them.
They're good, decent, honorable people that the media has shredded.
And that is the point of my call.
Most conservative women that I talk to, I am in a Republican Women's Federated group rush, and I also go to tea parties.
These are good, solid women, and they've bought the line from the media that they always say the same thing.
Oh, she's great at rallying the troops.
We love her enthusiasm, but we just don't think she can recover from that media onslaught.
Yeah, that seems to be, that's what Vinny from Queens said.
A lot of people say it to me.
Others say she's not qualified.
Others say that she's too stupid.
And people who have a conservatives who have a natural, instinctive distrust of the media seem to believe everything the media says about her.
Now, there's a fascinating story here on the AP Wire today.
And it caused my antenna to go up.
Headline alone.
Top Democratic women dodge tough call on wiener.
Pursed lips, frosty glares, polite demurals, icy silence.
Women in politics are grappling with the distinctly unfunny choice of restraining themselves or letting rip what they really think about Anthony Weiner.
And this story essentially is about Democrat women not dumping on Weiner.
Democrat women going out of their way not to be critical of Weiner because he's one of them.
They not dumping on Weiner because he, in fact, Barbara Walters, it's amazing some of the things Barbara Walters is saying.
He was just trying to show his wife how much he loved her and how much he was thinking about her.
Honest to God, Barbara Walt.
Yeah, that's the picture was when the early stages when everybody thought they had been hacked, he took the picture.
He wanted his wife to know how much he loves her and how much he was thinking about her.
There have been, folks, the leftist things that women, the things that leftist women have come up with to defend Wiener.
Meanwhile, as we have heard on this program, and I understand it's now bled over to other programs around the country, conservative women are dumping all over Sarah Palin, but Democrat women are circling the wagons to protect Wiener.
That's right.
That's right, to protect their wiener.
It's a fascinating case study, folks.
We'll delve deeply here, but not right now.
That's it, my friends.
The first hour broadcast excellence open line Friday in the can.
And we even got a phone call in in the first hour, which doesn't always happen, but we make an attempt to make that happen on Fridays.
Really, I'm not kidding.
Democrat women circling the wagons like in the old pioneer days around their wiener.
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