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June 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 16, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, greetings and welcome back.
Rushly ball behind the golden EIB microphone, the big voice on the right.
Starting a million conversations.
Mind over chatter.
Well, Weiner has not yet begun his press conference.
I have made the executive programming decision here that we will jip it.
Join it in progress.
Well, we won't jip it.
Since he hasn't started, we'll cover it from the um from the uh from the beginning.
So Mitt Rum 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
By the way, um we have uh I can't believe it's gonna be Friday tomorrow already.
Just zipping.
And we this been a full broadcast week.
Open Mind Friday is uh is tomorrow.
So, yes, sunspots expected to disappear for years, maybe decades after 2020.
The sun, thus heading into an unusual and extended period of hibernation could trigger a mini ice age on Earth.
Scientists claim.
I don't yet know if it's a scientific consensus.
Scientist yeah, could be a consensus here.
That means it's undeniable science, right?
While the effects of a calmer sun, no sunspots are mostly good.
There'd be fewer disruptions of satellites and power systems.
It could see a sharp turnaround in global warming.
There isn't any global warming.
The uh gosh, I don't do you know how frustrating it is each and every day.
To be told we're in an economic recovery and we're not.
That there is global warming.
You know, I can understand it if it's such a brain-dead robot.
Well, I guess that's who they are, the media.
I just have this um antiquated romantic view that journalists are genuinely curious people who suspect people in power.
They are a little dubious.
And they seek to ferret out the truth.
And I'm gonna have to learn to get over it.
I mean, I've I'm over it.
I know.
But it still is it's just from the standpoint of pure intellect, it is frustrating as it can be.
Sit here, this is the UK Daily Mail.
It could be a sharp turnaround in global warming.
There isn't any.
Unemployment could put the crimp in the economic recovery.
There isn't one.
And everybody knows that there isn't one.
There are a lot of people holding out hope.
Reading something last night, an economist says, hey, you know, be very careful here.
Uh last time this happened, FDR 1936-37, and they were worried about businesses sitting on a bunch of unspent cash and uh double dip recession, and all of a sudden employment really took off.
It just skyrocketed, could happen again.
I said, Well, that's like seven or eight years into the depression when that finally and it it actually didn't happen until World War II kicked in.
But so there are people still holding out hope that what has been done is going to work.
It's to me that is mindless drivel.
If anything happens, if there is an economic rebound, it'll be because the American people simply fed up sitting here, taking it in the shorts, and decide to grab their lives in their own hands and do something about it.
Because there's not one policy from this administration that lends itself to freedom, liberty, economic growth.
You name it, not one policy.
And there isn't one policy where this regime enjoys a majority support.
Not one.
Be it health care, the economy, Libya, foreign wars, or what have you.
Obama is in the minority in every of these issues, every one of them.
And here's the unemployment report.
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, though applications remain above Levels consistent with a healthy economy.
Well, duh, there is no healthy economy, and there's nothing out there that's consistent with one.
Unemployment benefit applications fell 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted 414,000, the second drop in three weeks.
That's a positive sign that layoffs are slowing.
Just two weeks ago they had the unexpected news that it was worse than they thought, and there was no indication that the economy was.
It poured cold water on their belief that there was a recovery.
I mean, every week.
It is the same drivel.
It's the same bill.
Now, for the record, and this happens every week.
Last week's already high new claims, new claims number was revised upward by another 3,000 claims.
Last week, the report on Thursday of last week was 427,000 applications.
They revised it on Monday to 430,000.
You'd never hear about the revision.
It's reported, but it's never triumphed.
It's not reported prominently.
But every Monday or Tuesday, the previous week's unemployment numbers, the applications are revised.
Last week's number was 427,000.
They quietly revised it upward to 430,000.
So this number that's out today, 414,000, that's going to be revised upward, and probably be 417 to 418,000 next week, which you won't hear about.
Applications have been above 400,000 for 10 straight weeks.
Evidence the job market is weak compared to earlier this year.
The job market has never been strong.
There is no earlier this year when it was really hot and heavy and good.
Right.
Unemployment plunged to 8.8% during this heated economic recovery.
The four-week average was unchanged.
Okay, well, that's all you need to know.
And other words, we're still treading water.
Economists said that the report signals the job market's improving, but at a very slow pace.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Nothing says improving like staying the same.
Okay, I tell you what I want to do here.
Affiliate stations.
Board ups.
Look at me.
I'm gonna take the commercial timeout now.
Hopefully during the commercial time, we'll get back here before Wiener quits.
Before he announces his resignation.
I thought he would have started by now, but he hasn't.
So we'll take a brief time out here.
We'll come back and deal with whatever's happening at the Wiener podium when we get back.
We'll be right back.
And we're back.
Um I don't know.
We did it still hasn't pulled out there.
Wiener still hasn't pulled out.
Um I don't know if he's waiting too long to pull out a what could possibly be happening?
Why in the world would you want to delay your pull out here when you are resigning your uh your seat in Congress?
What is he doing?
Well, what are they trying to pry his fingernails off the curtains and the carpet to drag him out there or something?
Anyway.
Oh, you think they're still negotiating the deal for after you oh, you think Wiener?
You think Wiener is demanding some sort of compensation to pull out of here?
Uh okay, well what now that's fast.
Snurdy, what bargaining power could Weiner possibly have?
In two thousand.
You mean to tell me that you think Wiener thinks that he could give these guys problems in 2012.
Like campaigning, you mean running out there and making himself a joke, and therefore the Democrat Party a joke, and so there, he's negotiating his silence.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I know that they're all calling on the guy to quip.
But I don't know what yeah, what more could he expose than what is he already exposed out there, Snurdly?
What what could he do that he hadn't already done?
So what?
If he oh, you know if he doesn't learn the uh uh.
Okay, so it's the proposition on the table that Wiener is negotiating his exit deal and that he's uh sort of blackmailing him.
Look, if you don't give me what I want here when I get out of rehab, I'm gonna go back to Twitter and I'm gonna start sending this time pictures not in my underwear but in the book.
I'm gonna make it so hard on you.
I'm gonna embarrass this whole party if you don't give me the exit deal that I want.
Okay.
Your package or my package.
That's what's okay.
Wiener is saying it's your package or my package.
Well, I would have thought that they'd have had that ironed out as you were, or if you will, before this.
But maybe Wiener is uh pulling a fast one on them here and late demands right before that's uh schedule to start, you know, like making it hard on him.
I wouldn't be surprised.
You know, you may have a point, snurdly, that Wiener's out there, he's backstage right now, making it hard on them to go through with this.
Scientists see more deadly weather but dispute the cause.
The United States experienced some of the most extreme weather events in its history this spring, including deadly outbreaks of tornadoes, near record flooding, drought, and wildfires.
Damages from these disasters already past 32 billion, and the hurricane season just beginning, projected to be above average, but nobody knows.
Government scientists said that Wednesday, the frequency of extreme weather has increased over the past two decades in part as a result of the global warming caused by the accumulator.
You know?
Cannot escape this.
There isn't any.
And you know, the polling data, the American people now are up to speed.
The vast majority of American people now don't believe that there's man-made global warming and are questioning the whole process by which they were led to believe that there is.
Looking at long-term patterns since 1980, uh, indeed, extreme climatological and meteorological events have increased, said a director of NOAA's National Climate Data Center.
But in the early part of the 20th century, there was also a tendency for more extreme events, followed by a quiet couple of decades, meaning this isn't unique.
It's all happened before.
Well, we thought that man-made global warming in the extreme weather it spawns with settled science.
Well, they continue to make uh the point that even what they believe is not etched in stone from CNN.
Their website, money.com.
Oh, there he is.
Okay.
Wiener is at the microphone.
Here he is, folks.
Only my twenty years ago, I stood in this very same room here at the council center.
Yeah.
And asked my neighbors for their help to take a chance on me and electing me to the city council.
Then some seven years later, I asked those same people to join with people in Queens in sending me to Congress.
There is no higher honor in a democracy than being sent by your neighbors to represent them in the United States House of Representatives.
Yes, there is.
It is particularly humbling to represent this district because the communities and families of the 9th Congressional District are hardworking, they're patriotic, they're opinionated, they are authentic.
I have never forgotten my neighbors because they represent the same middle class story as mine.
I went to public schools my whole life.
My mother was a school teacher for 32 years.
The middle class story of New York is my story, and I'm very proud of that.
I'm here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused.
I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife Huma.
I had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do.
Yeah.
To fight for the middle class and those struggling to make it.
Unfortunately, the distraction that I have created has made that impossible.
No, not so.
So today I'm announcing my resignation from Congress.
My wife pervert.
So my colleagues can get back to work.
My neighbors can choose a new representative.
And most importantly, that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
Hey, hey, hey!
He's not with us.
To repeat, most importantly, most importantly, so that I can continue to heal from the damage that I have caused.
I want to thank my colleagues in the House of Representatives.
Democrats and Republicans alike.
They come from different places around the country, but fundamentally, we all agree.
They're all patriots, and I will miss them all.
Thank you.
I also want to express my gratitude to members of my staff.
There are young people who are not paid very much.
There are people that worked very hard in very long hours.
Ultimately, those people define the notion of service.
I want to thank, of course, the many people who have helped me.
The people who have volunteered, the people who have given me advice, the many of my constituents who have offered me good ideas.
And of course, I want to express my gratitude to my family.
To my mother and father who instilled in me the values that carried me this far, to my brother Jason.
He's blaming his folks now.
Who has stood with me in this entire difficult period?
For his values.
I got into politics to help give voice to the many who simply did not have one.
Now I'll be looking for other ways to contribute my talents to make sure that we live up to that most New York and American of ideals.
The idea that leaving a family, a community, and ultimately a country is the one thing that all unites us.
The one thing we're all focused on.
Totally.
Totally.
We will all be successful.
Thank you and good afternoon.
Oh, there you uh there you um, we were there, folks.
Uh you know, my instincts never fail me.
Something something told me.
HR been bugging me the whole show.
Look, they want to know WABC.
We're gonna jip this.
I don't know.
I don't know that ultimately the last moment I decided to do it.
You got well, I'm wondering who it is Brooklyn, but but but I was it Coden Pink that got in there?
Was it was it who's in there by pervert.
Yeah, I heard that snurkly.
I I I I heard that.
Um looking for other ways to contribute his talents, isn't that what got him into trouble in the first place?
The last question you hear the last question?
The last question that somebody shouted, will you maintain your hot physique?
Will you that whole thing?
I know it's a tragedy.
That was tone-deaf.
That was a total tone-deaf apology to talk about the values your parents raised you with.
Talk about your Republican and Democrat colleagues, and everybody is a hero and a patriot.
And working together and finding ways to do all the work for the downtrodden, the people that have no voice and so forth.
I don't know.
That that in light of why he's resigning and the fact that he is resigning.
To I guess he was struggling, Yes, he wanted to make himself sound like he's still important and plays a major role in improving people's lives to the uh to the very end.
But my how things have changed.
I don't I well I I've I've not seen a Democrat heckled like this in at his home in New York.
But I I th the the nature of the heckling.
I've also we've broken new ground here.
You you'd have to say.
Bye-bye pervert.
Are you more than seven inches?
They were shouting down Wiener.
And the juxtaposition of those insults versus his attempt to make this a uh a a lofty event with great dignity.
I mean, you couldn't have a greater contrast of reality and an attempt to make this into something that it wasn't.
So anyway, uh Anthony Wiener has resigned.
Uh I think he was just about ready to burst out crying there.
So he bowed his head.
Well, now the seven inches thing, uh there's only one way that question would hurt.
There's there's really only one way.
You know what I mean by that, right, Rachel?
Yeah.
Uh we're the guy, this whole has taken us all back here to junior high.
We're all in the bathroom in junior high here.
We're gonna change this.
We're gonna come back, we're gonna climb out of the gutter.
We get back from this time out here at the EIB network.
Don't go away, my friend.
And we're back, Rush Limboy, and we have uh safely escaped the boys' room here at junior high school.
I've never seen anything like that.
I what goes around comes around.
You know what people have not been talking about uh regarding Wiener, they've been captivated here by what's happened the last twenty days.
But in the um in the arena of partisan politics, Anthony Wiener was a vicious, mean spirited man who uh lost his temper routinely on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Uh he was um intolerant uh individual.
I it was th this has got to be for somebody with his ego a profoundly humiliating experience, especially with what happened in uh that five ten minutes.
I actually think what he intended to do with this is I've thought about it now.
I actually think snurdly what we heard there was an attempt at a campaign speech for a comeback.
I think that was a campaign speech for his next stab at elective office whenever it is that he takes it.
And the hubris that if I'm right, the hubris involved in even trying to do that during this occasion, it's what came back and uh and and bit him.
Now, if this had been a Republican, those questions would have been asked by the media.
As it was, I don't know who got in there.
I don't know who it was asking the questions and and if they were affiliated with uh with anybody.
And I don't know if any effort was being made to shut that guy up.
The camera view that we had didn't sh didn't uh didn't show the guy.
But uh yeah, I'm sure he's already planning the you know the the Anthony Wiener Comeback Kid 2 routine.
Anyway, let's go back to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
We go to Traverse City, Michigan.
Hello, Pete.
It's great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush, and thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I appreciate the points you're trying to make about people going to the government to try to solve all their problems, but I really don't think this nine one-one call is a good example.
Which one?
Uh the one where the Lady called 911 because she ordered and paid for one item and got another, and then uh retailer or the restaurants her refused to make it right.
In that instance, I personally, if it happened to me, would want to take the person to court, and I would call the police just to get a police report made out.
Now here's the problem.
In most places in the U.S., there's no outside numbers published for the police departments for non-emergency numbers.
The only choice is to call 911.
Wait a minute now.
Hold it.
Hold hold just a second.
We're talking here about a mistake.
You order egg few young and they bring you a kung pao chicken or whatever, and and the first thing you want to do is call the cops.
No, the first thing I want to do is make her right with the restaurant manager.
But in this instance, he refused to deal with her.
He refused to give her money back.
He refused to make the order correct, and basically told her she was out of luck.
Well, that that amounts to retail fraud, doesn't it?
In a manner of speaking.
If you want to do that.
I understand it's a low amount, and I understand it's not a serious thing, but still it amounts to retail fraud.
And to pursue that matter in a court, I would want a police report on record.
I don't think that this woman had one iota of that thought process firing with her neurons and her cranial uh act.
I I just I don't think the woman's thinking police report.
I don't think she's thinking cops.
Uh she's just thinking, I got screwed here, and who's gonna make it right?
I'm gonna call the number everybody knows it's government, she don't know what government it is.
Uh she just it's believe me, I I I do think it's symptomatic of decades of promulgating this notion that the government makes everything right for you.
If something's gotten right, if you're getting shafted, get screwed, call the government.
Government make it right.
That's what this woman obviously thought.
Well, we don't know that for sure.
I mean, I I'll grant you that that is definitely within the realm of possibility.
I just know that if I applied it in my instance, that's what I would have done.
And the first thing I would have done when I called 911 when they answered was say, this is not an emergency, but I do need an officer for a police report.
Are you a lawyer by chance?
Uh no, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
Just your average.
Then you've got to be putting me on.
No, no, you've got to be putting me on.
No, I'm not.
You gotta be putting me on.
The only way you're not putting me on is if you're a lawyer.
You're telling me that a woman who wanted egg foo young and got Kung Pao chicken, feels so aggrieved that she wants a police report.
You don't know her her economic condition, Rush.
This might be the one time every two months that she gets to go out for a meal and reward herself where she's been pinching pennies.
We don't know because neither one of us was there.
I mean, some of us go out to eat every night.
Yeah, we get something wrong, no big deal.
It's not uh, you know, it's nothing to it.
But this might be her only time she goes out to eat.
Oh, it's every two months.
She orders a meal that she's looking forward to.
The restaurant's her brings her.
Nothing else.
You are I loved it.
You're insist here on trying to make an intellectual case for this woman called 911 over egg foo young.
Well, I love it.
I do I'm just saying, Rush, that we don't know the circumstances.
What you're saying could be absolutely correct.
And don't doubt you.
No, we don't.
But we uh use intelligence guided by experience.
And we usually end up the right place.
But I appreciate it, Pete.
I appreciate it.
Compassionate guy there.
Travers uh Travis City, Michigan.
Pete, thanks very much.
Uh uh uh uh audio soundbite time, couple of bites I want you to hear.
Last night on CNN's in the arena, Elliot Spitzer, who's the single reason Anthony Wiener has hope.
Elliot Spitzer, client number now got his own TV show out of the deal.
He got his own television show out of his deal on CNN.
Stop and think again his own television show.
Furthermore, they paired him with a woman you didn't like and she's gone.
Kathleen Parker.
He didn't like her, she's he's the he gets the uh he gets the uh show all by himself.
Yeah.
So Wiener gets out of wherever he's going as his own TV show Wiener World.
Or maybe he'll be the co-host with Spitzer.
Wiener Spitzer.
Spitzer Spitzer Wiener, yeah, it'd be Spitzer Wiener, Spitzer Wiener.
At any rate, um CNN's in the areno, Elliot Spitzer, client number nine interviewed former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.
And this is during a discussion about the auto bailout.
And uh Elliot Spitzer said, why why is there such political opposition right now to something so manifestly that so manifestly worked and brought back a whole sector of the economy?
I'm a free market republican by trade, but I get off the boat with uh Rush Limbo and everything when they criticize they're even criticizing the Chevy Volt now as a product of the Obama administration.
Hello, I thought of that in 2006.
I think what this is is uh an unfortunate tendency to use whatever is available as a lever against the Obama administration.
Good, bad, or indifferent, and the auto bailout was absolutely and it's worked.
Look at all three companies are profitable.
That's Bob Lutz, who I've met.
I I first met Bob Lutz at uh the annual cigar dinner uh that Marvin Shankin at Cigar Ficcionado puts on for the Prostate Cancer Foundation at the four seasons in New York.
And Lutz at the time was working at General Motors, and he is you know, he's a great guy because he loves cars.
He's is it was a great car executive because he loved cars.
Now, Rick Wagner, who was the CEO at some later point in time, famously said, you know, I thought I was coming in here to run a car company, but I actually running a health care operation, because that was the primary challenge that they had.
And about, I don't know, two, three years ago, I went up to Detroit and I had a tour.
General Motors, and Lutz was the guy that gave me the tour.
And we talked about the problems the automobile industry faces, what with all the regulations and mileage restrictions and global warming, what it's uh what's all that's having.
I don't remember if he showed me the vault or not.
I don't it wouldn't have anything to show other than a prototype.
Uh I don't remember if he if he if he showed me that or uh or not.
Uh I'm not saying the vault is something Obama thought of or invented, but he's claimed it.
He's subsidizing it, and he's doing everything he can to get people in these cars uh against their wishes.
And repeat it the vault uh electric car period, just we we've not arrived in the place in the market where people actively want them.
But you know, my my problem is not Lutz, and it's not General Motors and all that.
It's it's controlling authoritarian statist regimes like Obama, who doesn't have the slightest clue about how to run an automobile company, manufacturing company, whatsoever, any kind of company, telling them how to do it and what to do, and and uh I uh uh bailout worked, all three companies profitable.
Ford did not take any bailout money.
I don't know under what measurement Chrysler and General Motors are said to be profitable.
They still owe on the original uh original loans, and we're told that they're probably not going to be forced to pay them all back.
But anyway, I I have no animus for Bob Lutz.
I respect him.
This guy is a renaissance man.
He flies fighter jets as a hobby.
His business card standing in front of one of his uh his warplanes, and he's uh guy loves cars and so forth.
But at uh at any rate, I just the electric car.
We all want General Motors to do well.
That's that's the thing that's sort of heartbreaking and troubling.
Everybody wants General Motors to uh to do well.
We all want America to succeed.
We don't want America to fail.
Now, here's uh this is uh what do we have a story?
This is in U.S. News.
April of 2009.
Government will not cancel Chevy Vault, but GM might delay it.
Despite the hype, the Obama regime's automotive task force has said the Chevy Volt is too expensive to solve General Motors' problems at a report explaining its recent decision to give GM 60 days of funding and not more, the task force wrote.
While the Chevy vote holds promise it'll likely be too expensive to be commercially successful in the short term.
However, the government apparently will not cancel the program.
Now I did say we all want America to succeed, but do we all?
That's a legitimate question.
Do we all want America America to succeed?
I think that's the problem.
There are some who don't want it to succeed, as it always has.
Brian, Iowa City, Iowa.
Hi, and welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my phone call.
You bet.
Uh I just wanted to get back to the idea that the government uh is gonna fix all the problems and take care of all of us.
Um I'm 25 years old.
I got married last August, and I quit my job in October.
Uh I was a coordinator and uh was responsible for for giving out entitlements.
So I just kind of am concerned about my generation because why did you quit your job?
Uh I refuse to put my name to things that my boss was doing.
Oh, oh, you didn't want to have I got it.
You didn't want to have to be the one giving away these entitlements.
That that and and and also, you know, my my my boss is is in my opinion was committing Medicare fraud.
Uh you know, charging for services that weren't being given.
But at any rate, uh my biggest problem is that that my colleagues, you know, me being unemployed, my colleagues have this and and people my age have this idea that that the government can save us and take care of us.
And I kid you not, I've been told more than once that right now, since I'm unemployed, uh this would be a great time for me to have children.
Because you know, you get food stamps and and all kinds kinds of government entitlement.
Well, you know, it's very s seductive.
There are people that push this, and I know that that uh they're out there.
You're describing it.
I would urge you to resist it.
Anybody who has this just the slightest bit of ambition, and you sound like you've got a lot.
Anybody who has any desire whatsoever to be productive, to accomplish things, to live uh a life of achievement, contentment, and happiness.
Do not fall prey to the notion that you are entitled to anything because you're an American citizen.
It's it it's gonna lead to a life of utter misery, disappointment, dissatisfaction.
You're never gonna reach your potential if your attitude is you're owed something by some entity in government.
And so my hats off to you.
I hope you're able to maintain uh the integrity here that you've got, because you'll be much better off for the rest of your life for having been that way.
You know, folks, there are uh dead end jobs, and then there are dead end lives.
And depending on the government for your life will lead you to a dead end life.
And some of you who have purchased two if by tea, you should start receiving your first packages tomorrow.
Like Christmas Eve tonight for you.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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