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June 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 24, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, you have one big exciting hour to go.
There's not a whole lot of time in an hour.
Well, depending on who's in charge of it.
Sometimes an hour can sound like it, sometimes it can sound like five hours, sometimes you don't even know it's been an hour.
That's how it is here.
So we gotta get going quickly, and you gotta listen fast.
It's Friday live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
That's exactly right.
We are here at Satellite Studios in Los Angeles.
But our telephone number remains the same for those of you that want to risk it.
800 28282, our email address, L Rushbow at EIB net dot com.
The White House spokesman Jay Carney, also known as Mr. Claire Shipman, just said in his daily briefing, raising the debt ceiling is not a vote for spending.
You people don't understand.
We don't want to raise the debt ceiling, so we want to spend.
It's a vote to meet our obligations and to pay our bills.
There's still haggling out there, and the fact that the Republicans are resisting raising the debt ceiling is where the Democrats are focusing in now and saying, see, see, they're sabotaging the economy.
They want unemployment to be high.
They the Republicans are purposely destroying the economy.
That's result of the debt ceiling arguments.
But isn't the point, folks?
I'll speak for myself.
I I don't want to speak for the GOP, but it comes to me, am I thinking on the on the debt limit?
Isn't the point that we have to lower these obligations that we have?
We have to lower the costs of our debt service.
We can't keep raising it.
To me, this is not about paying our bills and meeting our obligations.
It's lowering all of that.
Smaller obligations.
That's that's what this argument's all about.
Instead of trying to find new and creative ways to pay for more and more stuff.
The bottom line is even even now at this late date, and we are literally here at the 11th hour.
The Democrats will not admit that we don't have a revenue problem, that we have a spending problem.
We that the it is so obvious now that this is a spending problem, and they won't admit it.
We have a spending problem, and that's not how they look at it.
They look at it, we don't have enough revenue flowing in now there.
We need more revenue flowing in.
And no matter how much more revenue flows in, we're still going to stay in debt with these people in charge of the debt service or in charge of the spending.
So there means needs to be some massive intervention here.
There needs to be just a giant slow down, a timeout on this.
We can't afford this anymore.
That that's and I know I speak for gazillions of you when I articulate this whole debt ceiling discussion that way.
We're not doing anything here except taking serious, taking very serious the notion that we need to reduce our obligations, and set we we need to spend less.
I mean, it's no more complicated than that.
Ladies and gentlemen, the verdict is in, and I've I say this with great pride.
I'd hoped this would be the case.
It was the case in our house.
But our brand new tea, which have been out there now ten days.
We we uh introduced this tea to the world on Wednesday, June the 15th.
It's now been what, ten or nine or ten days.
And the tea has exceeded all the projections and expectations that we have.
We were very realistic about it, by the way, too.
That's the one thing we are, is that we are profoundly honest with ourselves, talking about projections and so forth.
But this tea is the best iced tea you have ever tasted.
And I say this with entire confidence.
I thought it when we finished all the taste tests.
Why would I think otherwise?
We spent two months taste testing this stuff.
I can't tell you the number of recipes we tried, or yeah, mixtures.
Uh with the various levels of sweetener and how much tea dealing with whatever aftertastes that might incur.
It was a long, a monthly process, multiple month process.
And the things that we were insistent on at the end of it was whatever flavor, be it regular or raspberry, and there will be additional flavors come down the pike.
Whatever they are, you better be able to still taste the tea in it.
We're not making fruit juice here.
This is tea, because we have a love tea.
So both the flavors that we have diet, well, well, regular and diet, uh sweetened and uh and and diet in raspberry and regular flavors, and as I said, are more to come.
This raspberry, I'm violating my own tenant.
I said I wasn't gonna hype one particular flavor because we would have a run on it.
People would go after what I but I there's I have never tasted a better tea than our diet raspberry.
And the the sugared raspberries, not high fructose corn syrup either.
It's sugar.
The sugared version of raspberry tastes just like the diet version, just like the regularly sweetened standard tea tastes just like the diet tea.
And now we're getting email feedback from people who have had the tea delivered, they have tasted it, they've sampled it.
They're sending us pictures of what they're doing.
This is exactly as I thought.
They're not throwing the bottles away.
They're using the bottles for flowers and any number of things.
Because the artwork is the finest that you will see in any tea that's out there.
The packaging, the shrink wrap.
The tea itself, there's nothing better.
We are jazzed about this.
It's called two if by tea, TWO.
You know, one if by land, two if by tea.
We got so much stuff planned as as this rollout continues, but it's primarily for sale at our website, twoif by tea.com.
And there you'll find the answers to a lot of questions you have about why this and why now.
You will also find the prices.
$23.76.
The shipping is free.
And let me say something about that.
You know, gives people a number of snide comments, even from friends who think they know how we're running the business.
Hey, Russian, it's really clever of you to say free shipping.
The word free people think that they're actually not paying for it.
But uh it's really clever the way you've done it.
Uh, folks, uh, we did a lot of research here, you know, tea beverages are primarily purchased at the store.
You walk in, you walk down the aisle, there's the beverage you want or not, and you walk out with it.
Well, we're not gonna get shelf space all in the every 50 state in every town at first, we're never gonna try that.
That's a whole different game.
So, here we are, cutting edge, doing something in the unusual nonconformist way we got a beverage.
And you don't get it the minute you pay for it.
You have to wait for it to be delivered.
So, how do we price point this stuff so that we don't take a bath on it all plus the shipping?
Everybody works out that we still have a price that people will pay.
It's been it's been actually kind of fun to put this all together, but the uh the entire shipping price is not built in.
I'm not gonna go into a whole lot of detail here, but we are doing a lot of things here public service-wise, customer service-wise, that uh enhance the value here, but most important is the tea itself.
It's just delicious.
It's it's served in twelve packs, sold in twelve packs, uh, and there are no returns.
We knew people would try that.
Take a sip of one bottle and want to I don't like it, so no returns, folks.
We're not gonna get take back returns.
Uh you won't want to return it.
You are going to be chugging it.
You don't even think about returns.
Twoify tea dot com.
There's also a phone number if you don't have a computer, or you d you don't like uh ordering on computer, telephone numbers eight six six six six two seventeen seventy-six.
Also at our website, you will see we've got I don't know if we've closed this or not.
I haven't a chance to uh uh so many entries, but we're gonna send a refrigerated two if by tea truck into some winner's town, and we're gonna we're gonna provide the uh fourth of July barbecue and picnic uh with a free two if by tea, and people are submitting entries on our website as to why their community to register.
What's that?
What's that?
Yeah, okay.
That's why I said it's still open, still open.
We have not closed that down.
And it does not mean that you have submitted uh uh applications are bad.
Doesn't mean that your applications are lacking.
We're just keeping it open for as we've got thousands of thousands of these pouring in.
And we're gonna make a determination.
We're gonna tell you how, but we're gonna make a determination as to who wins.
So the opportunity to register for a truckload of two if by tea for your town on Fourth of July, still wide open at two if by tea dot com, as our general over the counter sales via the website at two if by tea dot com.
And it is start time to start thinking about fourth of July and afternoon barbecues, and this tea will be perfect.
And if you serve it and people who've not tasted it before are going to absolutely freak and love it because I'm telling you, it is the best iced tea you've tasted.
You won't put it down once you've opened it up, and you won't throw the bottle away.
And you're gonna find a way to want to keep the shrink wrap that it comes in.
You're gonna want to keep every aspect of this product as close by as you can.
To if by tea.com or 866-6626.
Our Fourth of July uh contest opens till June the twenty-ninth at six p.m.
You have until six p.m. on June 29th to fill out the form at 2 if by tea.com to explain to us why your town's the best town to receive a truckload of chilled refrigerated 2 if by tea for your 4th of July bash.
And it will announce the winner on uh July 1st, right here on this program.
It's open line Friday, and who's next?
Richard in Nantucket.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
Comment and a question.
Yeah.
I am both a social and fiscal conservative, and I worry greatly about our country's accelerated demise with uh the socialists in the White House.
I agree we should not nominate candidates who are either near Rhinos or middle of the road because we need a return to conservative values.
But given how leftist Obama is and the need to beat him, doesn't it make marketing stents to at least position the Republican more to the center and to the right of Obama in the campaign rather than the far right?
Stated differently, the farther we go to the right, the more votes we risk losing.
And frankly, as a conservative, and I think there are a lot of people out there like me.
I'd I'd vote for almost anyone against him, so my vote's not at risk, and yet the independent's votes might be.
Well, tell me who give me a um definition, if you will, of far right.
Give me a person who is far right.
Well, I'm far right in that I I believe in uh No, but you're not gonna be nominated.
You're you we want to nominate somebody who is to the right of Obama, but we don't want to nominate somebody far right that's gonna tip off the independence.
In my view, the farthest right candidate out there now is probably Michelle Bachman.
And you think she's too far right to get the nomination.
I I think that a lot of independents would uh not vote for her.
Why not only for her ideology ideology, but also for other reasons.
Well, okay, but but but no.
Well, come on.
No, no.
What what other reasons?
I can't read your mind.
She's a female.
Oh, okay.
It's okay.
So we're not ready for the first female president, particularly a right winger.
Correct.
Why?
What does that mean?
Well, I I think it's a double standard.
I think if you're uh is in a lot Of other things.
If you're a uh Democrat or a liberal and you're a female, that's a plus.
If you're a look how the uh female Republicans are treated by the media and by by virtually everyone who isn't a conservative, they're an object.
Okay, now let me just ask you a couple quick.
I've this what I ran into last night.
We gotta focus on winning.
Whatever it takes, we've got to get rid of Obama.
And the assumption is, and I think it's incorrect.
The assumption last night, the assumption in your call is that a conservative is gonna is not gonna win.
Because that's what you mean by conservative.
You mean when you say far right winger, I know what you mean.
You mean a conservative.
And it's my point of view is that if we don't nominate one of those, we can kiss a goodbye.
If we try to go Obama light to please these mythical independents, we lose.
Yeah, well, if we lose the election, I think we lose the whole country.
Yeah, but I'm telling no, I'm telling you to disagree with you.
If we nominate the person you want, we lose.
If you if we nominate a watered down anything, if we it's because we don't, we're afraid to be who we really are, because that'll turn people off.
I just that's that's Well I wouldn't like it, but I I I would hold my nose like I did the last time and still vote for the Republican.
Where else am I gonna go?
Well, look at you know we we find ourselves in a in a in a real dilemma here in this country.
We on on on one side of our mouth, we say we've got to get rid of this guy or we're gonna lose the country, and then we want qualifications on saving the country.
Now, either you are for the Constitution or you're not.
Either you are for traditional values that have defined the institutions and traditions that have made this country great, either you're for them or you're not.
You are either for capitalism or you are not.
Uh you know, we we we when we start calling ourselves what the left calls us, when we start saying we can't nominate one of us is too far to the right, we are responding to the characterization that the left places on us, and we are accepting this assault, we're we're and and and legitimizing it by responding to it.
Where is it written that a woman would not appeal to independence?
I think that a woman could appeal to the so-called independence.
I also don't think.
You know, it's another thing.
I've been told, Rush, you ought to act like you love the independence.
You ought to act like they're your favorite people.
That way they do what you want.
You ought to, Rush.
You I mean you if you criticize the independence rush, they're just gonna run away from the Republican Party.
I don't really criticize them.
I criticize the way they are characterized.
Um at any rate, we've been there and done that.
I just I I I think a woman would appeal to these so-called independents.
The fact that the fact that media liberals trash our women doesn't mean they can't attract votes.
But I'll tell you that's what so many of our people think.
I can't get away from it.
I can't get away from people who think Palin's a guaranteed loser.
And they're and they're okay, they're cool with it.
I say, you you know, I take it out to the logical next step.
You're telling me we're gonna have to nominate somebody the media doesn't dislike.
We're gonna have to nominate somebody the media doesn't criticize.
Sorry, it isn't gonna happen.
Uh a lot of contradictions in what people tell me.
Now, if we uh if we had nominated, let's say this, if if we had nominated Gerald Ford against Jimmy Carter, rather than Ronald Reagan, what do you think the outcome would have been?
Remember, Ronaldus Magnus was said to be too far to the right.
Ronaldus Magnus, the Republican mainstream, say he's wait.
He's just too far out there.
He's it's a guy that did the Goldwater speech.
You know, come on.
This guy's he's too unstable.
We want this guy in charge of nuclear weapons with Republicans saying that.
Right, okay, so let's go out and find the equivalent of Gerald Ford to put up against Barack Obama.
And you tell me what happens.
You just tell me.
We go out and we find your favorite moderate up against Obama, and you tell me what's the outcome.
I just this notion that traditional conservatism, fealty to the founding of this country can't win.
Is uh I think it's I think it's preposterous.
I think it's responding in total defense to the left.
Exactly how they want us to.
Who's next?
Jerry.
Jerry Little Rock, Arkansas.
Hi.
You're on open line Friday with El Rushbow.
Great to have you here, sir.
Rush, good to talk to you.
Megadetos.
Thank you, listener.
First time calling.
I think you have left your putt a little bit short on your analysis of Herman Kane, though, and why the media is ignoring him.
I agree.
I agree with your first premise that hey, they don't think he's going to win, so you know, let's ignore him.
But I think the overriding factor is the traditional media sees the world through this prism of liberalism, and they can't see straight.
Yeah, they see a black man with conservative articulate values as a threat to Obama.
And that's why that's why they're ignoring him.
I mean, can you imagine Obama and Herman Cain having a debate with the topic of race in the United States or minorities in the United States?
Kane would school Obama just like Nemnachi schooled him on the Palestinian issue.
I hope you I hope you made a point.
I hope you're right about that.
I think that's exactly right.
I mean, this is how these people think.
I know how they think.
Obama, I told your screen of this.
Obama went to Oxford College for two years.
Yeah, I know how they think, too, and I'm uh in in a lot of cases they're they're not really threatened by some of our nominees.
In other cases, they are.
I hope you're right about that with Kane.
You could well be, too.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
Opening my mouth one syllable at a time.
Let's see.
Not good, not good news here.
This is from the American Spectator blog.
Have you ever there's a Norwegian electric car company uh called Think.
Think Global.
You ever heard of them?
Think Global, the Norwegian electric car producer that styled itself as a pioneer of battery-powered driving, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday afternoon after failing to find long-term financing for its business.
Or this is what happens when you can't find a government grant to support your losing idea.
This is a U.S. lithium ion battery producer, Enert, uh, which had a uh led a capital increase of think last year, said that it planned to take charge on the take a charge on the earnings worth about 35 million dollars relating to loans receivable from the the uh company.
So more green jobs go poof before there were any green jobs.
Another electric car.
Uh poof kaput.
And this would never had a chance because it never had subsidies, never had government financing, never had government money to make up the slack for the lack of public money.
Because nobody wanted the product.
So I get we could say the electric cars on a bumpy road went into the ditch.
Not being driven by the Republicans.
Wall Street Journal, why Americans are so unhappy with this economic recovery.
The Federal Reserve ending its second round of quantitative easing this month.
And Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked recently if he thought the $600 million in bond purchases had worked.
Yeah, he replied because the stock market had risen sharply in value.
Then this week, Mr. Benocke was asked why the economy was lagging.
Well, we don't have a precise read on why the slower pace of uh of growth is persisting.
Well, folks, maybe uh we shed a little light in this uh in a way that explains why so many Americans feel so unhappy about this economic recovery.
This is the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. Bernanke was right about stock prices.
Uh there's a chart that accompanies this story and it shows a steady climb in the SP 500 following the QE2 announcement of Jackson Hole, Wyoming at the end of last August.
Bernanke was attempting to promote what economists call wealth effects, or an increase in spending that accompanies an increase in perceived wealth.
Watching their assets rise in value, the argument goes Americans will consume and invest more.
And by the same token, if you tell Americans that their neighbors are losing their jobs and their neighbors are out of work and the price of everything's going up, you're going to have people cutting back their own lifestyles.
So what Bernanke is essentially said here was that we wanted to create the perception, because in politics perception is reality.
We want to create the perception that our quantitative easing is working, that it is resulting in newfound wealth.
This is also, I think, why Obama's releasing the oil reserves as prices are going down.
Obama releases oil from the strategic reserves while the price is going down.
This also helps explain the demonization of the Republicans on the economy.
Here's a quote from the story.
The monetary policy, so favored by liberal economists and the White House, has actively favored the wealthy over the middle class, which has been their goal all along.
The Democrats have an unholy alliance with the rich on Wall Street.
We've pointed out to you who gives to who?
Who donates to who?
Who is it that populates Obama's civilian boards on job creation and so forth?
In that case of Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE.
I mean, these guys are they're they're uh soulmates.
Bed mates, blood brothers, if you will.
The idea that the Democrats are hated by big business and vice versa is one of the biggest jokes being perpetrated on the American people.
It's a symbiotic, almost uh uh uh almost an incestual relationship that big business on Wall Street has with the Democrats these days, particularly in the White House.
So Americans are perceiving that they have no wealth, which is why they're crabby.
That's the point.
Americans are perceiving that people at Wall Street are doing really well.
Americans are perceiving it.
Some people are really driving bigger cars and buy bigger houses, and really it's going well for them, and they're not.
And so they're unhappy with the recovery.
And of course, most of this is the result of imagery.
Really, if you haven't done it, I suggested that you do this.
If you haven't rented wag the doll and uh wag the dog and watch that movie again, go do it.
It's hilarious.
And it still plays today, it's still relevant.
Who's next?
Uh Derek in Ozark, Missouri.
Derek, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, just want to remind everybody again to go to 2 if by T.com.
Get that T. I haven't got it yet, but it sure sure sounds good.
Uh thank you, sir.
That was unsolicited, by the way.
Uh I I just wanted to uh second I wanted to discuss an article, and third, I wanted to throw out a challenge to all your listeners.
All right.
Okay.
The the article is by Alex Johnson from MSNBC.com.
Have you heard of him?
No, but that doesn't mean anything.
Okay.
Well, I'm not sure what political leaning he is, but uh uh the the uh title of the article is Prices Sore on the Used Car Lot.
Now now why do you think that is?
Cash for clunkers.
There you go.
But it takes him two-thirds of the way through the article to mention that.
He starts with the tsunami in Japan.
But who do who depends on the used cars?
The poor people.
and uh and so there's there's seven hundred thousand less used cars on the market.
So all the used cars are are going up, and and the poor people depend on the used cars as they get older they get should get cheaper, but now they're skyrocketing.
And you've also got the problem with uh parts.
If you got fewer uh used cars, you got fewer parts of the city.
I know some people have had to go to Cuba to get parts for 57 Chevies, it's bad out there.
Yeah, that's uh so I mean whenever the government gets involved in the private sector, they mess it up.
Big time.
Hey, uh the challenge I wanted to throw out there is uh the real estate market's in the dumpers, right?
Theoretically, yeah.
It's it we we need to get it going, and I know the the they've made the loan requirements so hard now it's it's hard to get the houses sold.
No, no, no, no, no.
If you're the right qualifier, it's as easy to get a loan as it was when they're passing them out for nothing.
I'm not kidding.
They it you might think that they have tightened up on lending uh requirements and certain people they have, but if you qualify by virtue of uh you don't have enough uh income.
Uh if your job is not steady, in other words, if life's not treating you fairly, you may in fact qualify for at least a mortgage, maybe not a loan to start a business, but you could get a mortgage and you don't even have to lie.
That's uh what uh the the market needs to get uh something uh a fire lid underneath it, and uh uh if you allow me, um uh there's an ultimate real estate website called looky los.
L O K K E E L O U U S dot com and all real estate agents, buyers, sellers, renters, and landlords can put their information on there throughout U.S. and Canada for a 30-day free trial, and uh it's only seven dollars per month.
All right, I gotta stop I got I gotta stop.
We we we can't we can't uh uh we can't give away that kind of uh uh information.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Thanks so much.
That was a long circuitous way around getting to the guy's website.
Uh I checked it.
You can't get any two if by tea at the guy's website, so it's up to you as to whether or not to here we are.
We are smack dab in the summertime.
Uh June the twenty-fourth.
And the time is just is is going by here.
I mean, I you start thinking you realize the days have already started getting shorter.
That's uh amazing.
June twenty-first, the longest day of the year.
Now the days are shortening.
And we haven't even gotten into the worst part of the summer.
Much less the hurricane season.
But here we are, just chugging right along.
I remember when I was a kid, uh summertime working in radio started when I was sixteen.
Every day of the summer I was cognizant of.
So into it.
Uh every day I was well aware of it.
Now, just they just go by so quick.
They just go by so fast.
Okay, Skip, in uh in Middle Middletown New York, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Pick my call.
You bet.
Um TA tax in New York for you know, people in Orange County, Rock Rim, up state.
Yeah.
Sure, Sheldon Silver won't let this come to the floor for a vote.
Now, common sense tells me if it doesn't come to the fore, it don't get voted on.
Therefore, to me that's uh taxation without representation, because my elected official cannot vote on it.
It or it already passed in the Senate, but the assembly won't he won't let it come to the fore.
Am I wrong or right?
I don't know.
Well, no, you're probably right, but good luck with it.
That's that helped me a lot.
Yeah, well, you're no, you are probably right, but you're gonna have to have a whole lot of people carrying the water on that uh and then and making uh an issue of well you you are you talking about the uh uh the MTA tax?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's it passed the Senate already, but it won't but uh show you film a won't let it come to the fore for in the assembly.
So therefore, if it doesn't come to the fore, they don't vote on it and it just falls.
Where, yeah, where it effectively is implemented, even though there hasn't been a vote on it.
Right.
So you ticked off about it.
Common Simpson tells me that I'm being, you know, the MTA tax is a taxation without representation, in my opinion.
Oh, common sense.
It sounds to me like it too on the surface.
Yeah, it's on the surface, without without knowing what intricacies they may have written in legislation that accommodate this.
I don't, you know, every piece of legislation has its own set of rules.
And without seeing the rules that have attached itself to this piece of legislation, nor the signing statements.
Uh I really am not equipped to comment it, but I a comment, but I can understand why you'd be ticked off about it.
Well, I appreciate that.
I mean, because the way you're looking at it, and this is where I have to agree with you.
The way you're looking at it, you're represented, but you're screwed nevertheless.
This is okay, yes.
You got it.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Yeah.
All right.
I got a gun.
Uh I gotta run.
I'm glad you called.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Okay, programming note and reminder.
And that is this.
Uh Monday and Tuesday, I uh El Rushball will be out, and we'll have Mark Davis in from Dallas on Monday and Tuesday.
On Wednesday, we're back in it, and we've got the DittoCam back up and running on Wednesday.
Promise you that.
Uh, look forward to it all.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.
We will, and uh look forward to joining you here again on the EIB Network, back from our Southern Command on Wednesday.
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