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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's in it.
And a drive-by are saying that Gingrich's staffers, and there's 16 of them that uh flew the coupe, did so because he took a two-week cruise vacation.
And you just don't do that presidential campaign.
That's had the media 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.
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Point New York Times telling us that they just agonizing over how to cover Huma being pregnant.
Just one of the toughest editorial decisions they've ever had to make at the New York Times.
Well, Huma's pregnant, you got Wiener out there, and by the way, Mayor Koch has essentially said there will not be a mayor crotch.
That this guy does not have a prayer.
Ed Koch, get out of here, Wiener.
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 Wiener can't afford to quit.
He makes what, 154 grand, his wife Huma, something close to that.
They're right in there in that rich category that Obama's gonna tax everybody at.
So that's really it's economics more than anything, so why Wiener uh 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 Palins from her time as governor of Alaska.
Now they're not gonna let these people into their newsrooms.
They'll have to do this from home in their pajamas.
But they uh said that 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 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 I'll tell you, it's this is all gonna 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.
That's 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 clin uh energy company, coal energy company shutting down five coal plants.
How many jobs are involved here?
Story doesn't say.
Just shutting down, folks.
Six hundred six hundred people will lose their jobs just because American electric power are 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 the euro, let me take you back.
Do you 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.
Now we all knew Obama's policies were destructive, but the economy, look, Russia, you know it's gonna happen.
There's gonna be a recovery, and it's gonna be timed in such a way that'll help Obama electorally.
It'll either happen starting in late 2009 or 2010 for the midterms, or at the latest.
In the late 2010, we're gonna start seeing an uptick right going to the 12 election, and Obama's gonna bend from 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 uh these recessions, the 1991 recession, remember, the there were two recessions in the early 80s, and we came out of both of them in a 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 what 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 month 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 tax, just leave it alone.
It rebounds.
We should be historically showing an uptick now.
should be on a positive track, but we are not.
This is a willful and purposeful suppression of the U.S. economy.
Thank you.
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.
Thank you.
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 weak and 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 somebody's over the line statements, but this, this, this, This is just unexcepted.
Remember all that?
And we had Republicans and even pundits in a mad dash for microphones.
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 throat to 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's 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 sound bites 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 state controlled media that you are a serious candidate.
We go back to uh last Friday, week ago.
Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, Manchester, announcing his uh candidacy.
And he was uh 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 publisher.
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 the humans contribute to that.
I don't know how much our contribution is to that, because I know there's been there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but 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.
Uh 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, not 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 Rosh Limbaugh, a complete hoax.
You've got 99.9% of the scientists in the world in one camp, but you have Rush Limbaugh on 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, Vell.
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.
Who is there's purely untrue bogus than the guy that said that was Sink Ugor.
I don't know what a sink yuger is.
I don't know where a sink Ugh 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 this sets up sound bites that are yet to come.
As uh waiting here from uh Jennifer Granholm and any number of people, as well as Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is getting serious apparently but 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 uh 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 leftists 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 now 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 to 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 by 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, PMS NBC, Matthew's talking to former governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm.
And Matthew said, What do you uh 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 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.
Boku respect.
Listen here to F. Chuck Todd yesterday, MSNBC's Daily Rundown.
Matt Romney is frankly a stronger front runner than we in Washington sometimes want to believe.
How strong is Romney as a front runner?
Well, he is much stronger, uh, like you said than we thought.
He's much stronger.
He's got a clear message.
That was uh national political correspondent Washington Post um uh uh Malika Henderson.
Oh, all of a sudden Romney's much stronger to Oh God yeah.
Oh yeah.
One statement on global warming and one bye-bye nomination from me, and now the Mister has been launched to the top.
And of course, nothing about this is related to being right or accurate on policy at all.
I mean, what 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 abloviator on the right, he just uh just in it for the 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 abloviating 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 backwagon.
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 do 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 uh four years ago in California at the California Republican Party convention.
There's big uh sort of s sort of uh a funny little controversy taking place out in Hawaii.
The governor there is Neil Abercrombie, who's a real nut case.
I guess I shouldn't say that because I go to Hawaii now.
He used to be a member of Congress.
Uh Abercrombie's the guy who intent was intent on on just getting rid of the uh birth certificate issue for Obama.
So he said, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna find it and I'm gonna I'm gonna release it and I'm gonna 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 uh politics.
And he's upset.
He's upset that predecessors have paid the NFL four million dollars to bring the Pro Bowl out there this season and next.
Ebercrombie said he opposes a deal made in 2009 to pay four million dollars 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 four million dollars to a nine billion dollar 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 the wazoo like every other state has.
Anyway, somebody said to Governor Abercrombie, well, wait a minute.
Yeah, the four million dollars 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 gonna market that.
We're gonna market civil unions.
That's what's gonna bring people to Hawaii.
He's upset at four million dollars 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 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 can 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 it's bought totally with money and grants from other people.
I don't know what makes Granholm an expert.
Well, she's a favored uh favored status and uh she is unique among Democrat women in one way, uh, sort of.
And so she's telegenic on on uh on TV.
They bring her in there, and uh you know she she was one of these, so uh 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 uh flittering out now.
Fred Barnes' weekly standard blog about Gingrich, the problem was the wife.
AIDS 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 voting full-time to his 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 better be here every day working on this.
And Newt said, nah, Callista wants to go on the cruise.
So they went on a 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, he was as uh governor of Texas isn't he's not some of some of you are not going to be happy to learn that he a big advocate for in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.
Now, people are gonna have to have to understand when 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 that rubs rubs people the wrong way.
A couple of other things uh that that Perry has done that.
Conservatives will have to get past.
It's a it's the one thing you can say about Palin, she'll never gonna have a wife problem.
I mean, you look at Mitch Daniels, he didn't get in because the 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 we go into on the phones where we started here.
Jan in uh Martinez, California.
Great to have you or is it Martinez?
Which is what 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 uh 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 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 hoop law that you've had on your show the last few days.
Yep.
Um 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 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.
Uh you don't have to be my best friend if we don't agree on things.
You know, if that's okay.
I've heard Sarah Palin speak, I've met her.
I've also heard and met uh Rick Santorum and Herman Cain.
I heard Collin say, but he took off after the speech.
I couldn't think my claws into him.
But um I've also met Sharon Engle, 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.
Um 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 uh 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.
Uh and people who have a uh 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 it it caused uh 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 Wiener.
And this story essentially is about Democrat women not dumping on Wiener.
Democrat women going out of their way not to be critical of Wiener because he's one of them.
They not dumping on Wiener because he in fact Barbara Walters, it's 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 it w the early stages when everybody thought that he'd 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 I'm telling folks, the the the leftist things that women uh 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 uh first hour broadcast excellence open line Friday in the can.
And we even got a phone call in in the first hour.
Which uh doesn't always happen, but we make an attempt to make that happen on uh 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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