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June 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 30, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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So earlier, um Mitch McConnell in responding to the president, suggesting that Congress get its button gear and everybody start working together.
Mitch McConnell said, okay, Mr. President, come on up and see us here in the Senate.
We Republicans are ready.
We're ready to roam up our sleeves.
We're ready to get working with you here on the debt limit and what to do about it.
Come on up.
Jay Carney at the White House during the briefing responded.
What the Senator invited the president to do was to hear Senate Republicans restate their maximalist position.
We know what that position is.
And he also invited the president to hear what would not pass.
That's not a conversation worth having.
What we need to have is a conversation about what will pass.
So basically Jay Carney flips the bird to Mitch McConnell.
McConnell says, come on up.
Come to Capitol Hill.
You claim we're not working, we're here.
Come on up and let's do a deal.
You got you're not budging off your maximalist position.
We know what that is.
You just you just want the president to come up there to hear what's not gonna pass.
That's not a conversation worth having.
What we need to have is a conversation about what will pass, meaning you guys shut up and just sign what I want.
I'll hear about it at the halfway house.
Between nine and ten at Congressional.
So they didn't mean any of that yesterday.
It's just dealing with a man child here, folks.
We're dealing with somebody who's not serious.
Well, he's not serious about his desire to work with Republicans.
He's not serious about anything other than presiding over the decline of this country.
From the U.S. News and World Report.
Harvard University says that July 4th parades are just a bunch of right wing movements and Democrats don't even bother showing up.
Democrat political candidates can skip this weekend's July 4th parades.
A new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only Republicans.
They turn kids into Republicans.
They help to boost Republican turnout of adults on election day.
Fourth of July celebrations in America shape the nation's political landscape by forming beliefs and increasing participation, primarily in favor of the Republican Party, said the report from Harvard.
Finally they admit it.
The Democrats don't care about the nation's founding.
They admit it.
They admit that celebrating the founding of this nation is a Republican event.
It's a conservative event that liberals are not welcome, that liberals don't care and that they don't show up.
The three key findings of those attending Fourth of July celebrations.
When done before the age of 18, it increases the likelihood of a youth identifying as a Republican by at least two percent.
It raises the likelihood that parade watchers will vote for a Republican candidate by four percent.
It boosts the likelihood a reveler will vote by about one percent and increases the chances they'll make a political contribution by three percent.
What's more, the impact isn't fleeting, surprisingly.
The estimate shows that the impact on political preferences is permanent, with no evidence of the effects depreciating as individuals become older, said the Harvard Report.
Is that not stunning?
Or is it stunning?
What is this say about the patriotism of liberals?
What is this say?
Fourth of July parades make people vote Republican.
Fourth of July parades turn kids into Republicans.
Fourth of July parades do all of this permanently.
The political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the twentieth century.
Survey evidence also confirms that Republicans consider themselves more patriotic than Democrats do.
According to this interpretation, there is a political congruence between the patriotism promoted on the Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican Party.
Fourth of July celebrations in Republican dominated counties may thus be more politically biased events that socialize children into Republicans, said Harvard Kennedy school assistant professor, David Drott.
Their findings also suggest that Democrats gain nothing from July 4th parades, likely a shocking result for all the Democrat politicians who march in them.
There is no evidence of an increased likelihood of identifying as a Democrat, indicating that Fourth of July shifts preferences to the right rather than increasing political polarization.
Democrats gather to protest their handouts being cut.
That's that's that's that's their celebration.
That's their parade.
The Democrats and the unions, they get together when they think their benefits are being cut, when their handouts are being cut, when their food stamps are about to be shut off.
That's when they get patriotic.
That's when they show up.
When the freebies when they fear the freebies are about to run out, that's when they parade.
Except, theirs are not celebrations.
Theirs are instances of rage.
Thank you.
I love this.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, we have had an overwhelming number of entries at our website, twoify tea.com.
Remember what we're going to do.
We're going to send a refrigerated giant semi-truck trailer load of refrigerated chilled two if by tea iced tea to a community's Fourth of July celebration.
And what we did, we opened the website to people tell us why we should send a truckload of two if by tea to their town in their celebration.
We are going to announce tomorrow where that location is.
By rule, I could tell you now we've made the decision.
Well, what are you looking so surprised at in there for, Brian?
Yeah, we've already made the decision.
I mean, and then the the and I gotta, folks, you're you made it tough.
The entries that we got I at some point I want to share some of these somehow.
The things that people have written about their communities and about their uh about their country.
Uh melt your heart.
It just made me uh it made me feel good.
Uh I could tell you today where we're gonna send the tea.
Well, if I uh I'm I might read a couple of them.
I don't have them.
I I don't actually I do have them here.
Um I'll wait.
I'll I'll do some of that tomorrow on open line Friday when we uh when we make the announcement.
But it's Monday that that we're sending a tea in there.
They got this giant banner made for both sides of the trailer.
Uh me as Rush Revere.
Do I have the actual get up?
Do I have the wig and the hat and the Rush re Not as of yet.
Not as of yet.
I wonder there's an additional surprise attached to this.
I wonder if I should mention that now or just wait till tomorrow.
Yeah, I think I'll wait.
I just wait until tomorrow.
Yeah, since we're going to make the whole announcement tomorrow.
This Harvard survey, it's the Fourth of July every day here on the EIB network.
That's what I've learned.
Every day here is the Fourth of July.
This is really, really eye-opening.
Harvard is basically telling Democrat politicians, don't even show up at Fourth of July parades.
It's not helping.
They are exclusive Republican gatherings.
Think of this.
You know, Harvard is a gospel to these people.
And they're worried.
Fourth of July parade.
I guarantee you a Fourth of July public celebration is going to be the next target of the left, much as uh nativity scenes have become a target.
You wait with the release of this information that Fourth of July parades turn kids into Republicans.
Can you imagine the panic that's already setting in out there?
Man, are we gonna have fun with this, folks?
All right, let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and more of your f oh.
Speaking of um speaking of of food stamps and and and how the Democrats gathered Newt Gingrich has come up with something good here.
Newt said, if you are the Republicans, you should say we have more people on food stamps today than ever before in history.
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history.
We need a program to put 14 million Americans back to work.
We are committed to creating jobs.
The Democrats are committed to killing jobs.
You decide which future you want.
Paychecks or food stamps.
Republicans shouldn't flinch because Democrats yell class warfare.
Republicans shouldn't blink and run for the hills.
It ought to be calm and say this is the Obama depression.
It's gonna get worse under his policies, and we ought to change it now.
You know when Newt said this.
Remember they said this to David Gregory on Meet the Depressed?
Gregory had a cow.
Called him that's a racist comment.
And Newt said, what do you come on?
He's a president of the United States are crying out loud, Gregory!
He's the president of the United States.
He's got policies.
He's got to be held accountable.
We got more people on food stamps than in the history of the country right now under his leadership.
The real racism is Gregory charging racism because what must he think of food stamp recipients?
That's what Gregory's obviously thinking food stamp recipients are all black.
That's where the real racism is.
Uh look, and I can review yes, I do have the wig snurdly, and I do have the rush revere cap.
I I do I do have this stuff.
Of course I've got it.
It's the model.
I'm the logo.
I'm the icon for Two If By T. I'm the icon for Two If By T. Oh, you'll see you before the end of the year you want to see me in that get up in that garb on the Ditto Chem?
Oh, you'll see it long before the end of the year.
You might see it next week.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Now, couple things here about Harvard.
Harvard does what?
Harvard socializes people to the left, right?
Harvard converts people to the left.
And look what that costs.
How many thousands of dollars a year does it take to send your young skull full of mush off to Harvard to be corrupted, indoctrinated into a young skull full of liberalism.
Twenty, thirty thousand dollars.
How much does it cost to go to a fourth of July parade?
It's El Fribo.
It is the parades are free.
All you have to do is show up.
Well, I mean, there's there's concessions that you can buy.
But for the most part, you just show up at a Fourth of July parade.
You are patriotic.
Well, this is really stunning, folks.
Really stunning.
In fact, from the uh from this from the article, there is no evidence of an increased likelihood of identifying as a Democrat at a Fourth of July parade, indicating that Fourth of July shifts preferences to the right rather than increasing political polarization.
That's profound.
No evidence of an increased likelihood of identifying as a Democrat.
In other words, you if you're a Democrat and you go to a Fourth of July celebration, you're not you're not inspired.
Nothing happens to you.
In fact, you probably get a little ticked off at what you're seeing.
You get ticked off at the flag, you get ticked off at the country groups, you get ticked off at the bands, you get ticked off at all the hicks and hay seeds that you see at the parade, you get mad at all the military people you see.
If you're a Democrat, you go to a Fourth of July celebration, you get ticked off.
You might end up calling the president of like Mark Halpern did.
Grab audio somebody number one.
If you're just joining us.
Today on MSNBC, Mark Halpern with Joe Scarborough on the boys.
Sitting here talking about Obama in his press conference yesterday.
And then the seven-second delay today.
I wanted to characterize how I thought the president behaved.
Yep.
Surebub.
Dick Obama.
And the uh and that's what you feel like when you're a Democrat and you go to Fourth of July for everything about it irritates you.
Just like during Christmas time, antivity scene irritates you.
But what do you get proud of?
What are you what makes you happy if you're a Democrat?
You go to a museum and you see a crucifix of Christ in a jar of urine.
That's what you want to celebrate.
Or some performance artist laid out on a stage nude in chocolate.
That's what you proclaim as your patriotism.
Or a screaming, squawking Hillary Clinton.
So a Democrat shows up at a Fourth of July parade and does nothing but get mad.
Other people show up and love the country and become Republican.
Jeez.
And the parades are free, and the Harvard admission is a fortune.
It costs a lot to rewire Americans.
The natural thing is free.
You show up to a 4th of July parade, you get patriotic, go, yeah, America, proud as I can be, costs you nothing.
But to convert that to a liberal takes 20 grand a year at an institution of higher learning.
That story, I'm gonna tell you something, folks.
That Harvard story shows that we Americans are actually hardwired to love our country.
That's all that means.
We are hardwired to love our country as Americans.
Actually, it was Ronaldus Magnus who once said to Republicans every day is July 4th, to Democrats every day is April 15th.
In other words, for Democrats, their 4th of July is April 15th.
Tax collection day.
Anyway, uh phones, who's next?
Steven, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Great to be here, Rush.
I tell you, I've been listening to you for a long time, and I'm really shocked how few people call to take you on task of your truth.
Of what you call the truth.
Last week you mentioned uh something about the socialists don't create wealth, and today you say that Obama is wrong, saying that cutting spending will not build prosperity.
I mean, there's all kinds of example of that in the private in the private industries.
I mean GE cut spending jobs and businesses in the 90s and they have destroyed 200 billion dollars in market value.
It's hard as hard pressed to find any nation on earth that is wealthy that does not have a socialist economy.
I have uh totally lost the ability to uh keep up with you here.
Okay.
What did you you said you what did I say that I said socialism doesn't create wealth.
Yeah you said socialist it doesn't socialism does not create it redistributes wealth socialism doesn't create did socialism is a parasite well how you explain Canada how do you explain Japan, Germany, Switzerland.
How do you explain the wealth of these nations?
They aren't wealthy.
Have you looked at them?
Canada by the way is being run by a bunch of conservatives right now and has been for a long time.
These Western European socialist democracies are about broken turning around look at Greece that's what you get you got 14% permanent unemployment in the UK in France there's no wealth they can't defend themselves what are you talking about?
A good book called The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
Very powerful I recommend all you listeners read it.
Very powerful and understanding what the invisible hand really is I mean Adam Smith spelled it out.
Okay I want you to walk me through I the the the countries that are now socialist are still living off of their former capitalism.
There is no startup socialist country that you can show me that's wealthy.
Cuba, even the chai comms have had to go capitalist in order to feed their people.
Thank you.
Rush Limbaugh clear of voice, clear of mind.
This guy I don't think has read Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith.
Let me summarize.
You know, one of the great things about me.
Did I actually say that?
Make the complex understandable.
You want to know if you don't have to read Wealth of Nations.
I'm just going to tell you about it.
Adam Smith's point is, by looking out for yourself, your own selfish self-interest, the generalization,
general good is accomplished it is frankly where I learned the difference between selfishness and self-interest and the two are often combined mistakenly so interest is not selfishness a man seeking to improve his lot in life so that his family benefits is acting in his own self-interest.
If he, in his own self-interest, improves himself and his family, then the general good is accomplished.
And this pretty much is a summarization of Wealth of Nations.
The invisible hand, self-interest, looking out for yourself, not depending on somebody else.
And now that's often confused, in fact, not often infuriating, it is the Democrats and liberals today every chance they get try to call that selfishness and it isn't the guy who wants to respond to the calls Marty Fort Pierce Florida great to have you on the program sir.
Hi.
Hi there yes well you just you just said what I was gonna say which I don't know where this guy got um what is talking about the invisible hand is the essence of capitalism.
Yes and it's it's pure capitalism if I go about doing the best I can for my family for my self-interest uh um yeah I could I mean even well I guess greed would kind of mix that out but if I just go about it and do do the best I can well even greed greed sometimes is misdefined in this context.
Yeah, it is.
But uh if I go about it and just do it just to the height of my ambition, do the best I can.
Um the the way our country's set up, the way it's gonna work out, the way capitalism works, that's it's just amazing.
And he couldn't even define it, he just said it's the emergency hand.
He didn't know what he was talking.
That's why I couldn't follow him.
I I I literally, you know, my my brain and socialism, I uh it's tough to follow.
Let me quote Adam Smith.
That you you'll you'll recognize this because you've read the book.
And and this is a another just very succinct uh explanation illustration.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.
In other words, the butcher is not working in his shop so that you can eat, he's doing it so that he can.
But by virtue of him being there, doing what he does, you're able to.
He's looking out for his own self-interest, the general good is elevated.
Liberals despise that.
They despise that way of thinking.
The purpose of a corporation is to provide health care.
The purpose of a corporation is to provide jobs.
That's it.
The purpose of a corporation is to provide benefits.
Well, nothing could be further from the truth.
That's not the purpose of a corporation or a business, large or small.
The invisible hand is everybody looking out for themselves.
It's the essence of capitalism.
I I like you, Marty.
I had no clue what the guy was uh talking about.
Audio sound by time.
This is the forehead, Paul Bagala.
Last night's CNN's Anderson Cooper 32.
The guest was the forehead, Paul Bagala, and during a discussion about the debt ceiling and the breakdown in federal budget negotiations, McGala said this.
We have a debt crisis.
The American economy is facing default.
Republicans have got to agree to ask wealthy people and big corporations and big oil companies to pay a little bit more until they're ready to acknowledge the obvious.
They're gonna plunge his country.
I worry that maybe they're rooting for uh America to fail so that Obama can be defeated.
I hate to think that.
See, did I not tell you this last week?
I called it, I warned you about this.
This is the tack.
Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
The Democrats are taking and projecting exactly what they are doing and projecting it onto Republicans.
The economy is being sabotaged.
The Bagala uh the forehead here, this is just you know, I've never met the forehead.
I've had email exchanges with the guy, and he's Carville's best buddy, and he's he's a mean guy.
I mean, he's he's uh he's a naturally angry guy, but he's not stupid.
He doesn't really believe this until big corporations and oil companies pay a little bit more.
He's just he's just doing hackery there.
He's just doing hackism.
He's just spouting the Democrat Party line there.
He knows that jet owners and big corporations, oil companies paying more is not gonna make a twiddling bit of difference whatsoever.
The forehead's gonna get mad at me calling him smart, but so be it.
Also last night, CNN on client number nine's show.
Still waiting for Wiener to show up as co-host on this one.
Spitzer Weiner.
Wiener Spitzer.
Tonight at eight on CNN.
Elliot Spitzer spoke with ESPN.com's page two columnist L. Z. Granderson.
ESPN has a website called page two.
And this columnist L. Z. Granderson, they were talking about Obama's press conference.
Client number nine said at the press conference today, you thought maybe he was gonna say something about same-sex marriage.
He never quite says it.
Why?
What's the calculus that goes behind this?
Where do you think Obama really is uh in his heart of hearts?
Uh what does he think about same-sex marriage?
What Now listen to this answer.
I think in his heart of hearts, he has no problem at all with marriage equality.
He decides to play politics and sacrifice his true feelings.
Why doesn't he say it?
I think because the soundbite is a pretty powerful weapon.
I think I can hear Russ Lemball right now playing that over and over and over again to his base.
I support same-sex marriages, and I don't think he wants to give him that.
Spitzer didn't want to hear my name on his shows.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
So I'm the reason.
I, L. Rushball, harmless, lovable little fuzzball.
I am the reason Obama won't publicly come out and support same-sex marriage.
Snurdly.
Well, uh, oh, you think this guy's being honest?
Well, there's another reason, though.
It's not just me.
Oh, Snerdley, come on.
You know, Snerdley, uh, folks, you have to understand something.
I uh we we all are very fortunate in our lives if there is someone that grants us unconditional love.
And I say this with the bottom of my heart.
Both nerdly has unconditional love for me, and Bose Nerdley thinks that I have been given the short shrift of respect and all of that professionally, personally, throughout the 23 years in August of this program.
He thinks any time I am credited for something, you think it's due and uh deserved and so forth, and he has little bias in uh in this regard.
I love you for it, Snerdley.
I I really do, but in this case, I am not, I am not the main reason.
You you know better than I do.
And and and once her face uh Michelle My Bell, she won't come out and say it either.
Because it just isn't acceptable in the black community, is it?
Are they?
Are the poll numbers changing?
But then it just a little bit, it's still still a non-starter, isn't it?
It's among the older generation of African Americans.
It's um it's it's it's a non-start.
You don't go there.
They're just not into it.
You can blame me, LZ Granderson all you want, and I'll take it.
When did marriage become so important so vital to the left anyway?
Really?
When when did it become forty years ago, marriage was considered outdated, uh old-fashioned by the hippies and the liberals.
You know, go back in the 60s.
It was it was an antiquated old-fashioned monograph.
What the hell is this?
It was uh uh it only mattered if you were sincere.
After all, marriage was only a piece of paper.
Living together was good for the world.
Today, the liberals say that marriage is the most important thing you can do, but only if you're gay.
Liberals started caring about marriage when...
The gays started demanding it.
Health care benefit, health care benefits are attached.
Let me tell I'm t I know it's doing bonkers up there in New York.
Here's the break.
Take it.
Here is Harlan Garland, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
Uh hi.
Um, Obama's really waging the classic Marxist warfare, and he uses words to do it.
Yeah.
And uh it doesn't matter to him whether every word that comes out of his mouth is a flat lie, whether he knows it or anybody else knows it, he doesn't care.
Because what he's trying to do is misinform, discourage, undermine, and uh mislead.
I remember listening to Ron uh Reagan, uh, particularly in the one that you played, where he announces his candidate.
And uh Reagan was always encouraging.
I remember hearing him on TV, and I'm not sure.
Let me ask you a question.
Harlan, let me ask you a question.
Is it you know, you you you sit there and you say that uh Obama is trying to misinform and discourage undermine mislead.
Why?
Why would he want to do that to people?
Because I think he wants to undermine any kind of Um encouragement.
He must discourage.
Because discouragement feeds this.
Why?
How does he benefit from that?
Because he gains power.
It's a classic Marxist.
It's a Marxist trip.
Exactly right.
The more discouraged you are, the more defeated you are, the more hopeless you feel.
You'll turn to Obama for your solution.
Harlan is exactly right.
Exactly right.
I I must um tell you folks that the United States has decided to formally resume contact with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Group, which does not recognize Israel.
This is a move that could further alienate some Jewish voters from Obama.
So Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas Al-Assad Obama sees reformers.
And he's right, just like Obama said he would remake America.
The Muslim Brotherhood, we are going to recognize the Muslim Brotherhood.
did.
It's inexplicable.
In case you missed it, earlier today on MSNBC.
And the seven-second delay today.
I wanted to characterize how I thought the president behaved.
Although he's been suspended indefinitely for that characterization of President uh Dick Obama.
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