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July 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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I'm just pouring through some of the entries here from uh from Joplin that we had suggesting that uh Landrith Park in Joplin on the Fourth of July be the place for our truckload of two if by tea to roll into, which is where we're gonna go.
Just announce it.
Monday night we'll be there.
I will be there uh celebrating with everybody else in Joplin.
Uh Independence Day.
Landreth Park, by the way, they call their Fourth of July party Freedom Fest.
They call it Freedom Fest, which is uh just ideal.
So that's where we're gonna be with our giant truckload of two if by tea on Monday night.
And as I as I say, I'm going through some of the uh entries I wonder there's really a uh a dynamite one here.
Try this entry from uh from Joplin, Missouri.
I'm not I'm not gonna mention any names.
Sometimes I mention names people um don't like their privacy violated.
Joplin, Missouri's most recent historical event was an EF5 tornado.
Moments after the tornado ravaged the city of Joplin's surrounding areas, Sunday, May 22nd, 2011, our community set about doing what brave Americans do in times of catastrophe.
The forces of nature destroyed human lives, 158.
Homes, eight thousand, and livelihoods as well.
But moments after the tornado exited the east side of Joplin, leaving only 70% of our community standing.
Our recovery began.
The Fourth of July will have extra significance to Joplin as we proudly celebrate our American way of life and the resolve of our community to support the self-reliant people who are rebuilding their homes, rebuilding their businesses, and their lives.
Only moments after the storm, many volunteers have been in perpetual motion, helping those who suffered losses.
Someone questioned why so many people, famous, not so famous, have come from far and near to help.
I believe Americans are compelled to offer assistance because, quote, nothing feels as good as sacrificing to help others in need.
And that's why I believe Joplin deserves to be rewarded with a truckload of two if by tea.
Joplin will celebrate Independence Day in grand style this year, and we hope to relieve the stress and provide enjoyment for friends, families, and volunteer who are still here.
A giant sip of two if by T would be welcomed by all.
This is just a sample.
Here's another.
The American people come together in a time of need.
It was happened in a way that will move you to tears here in Joplin.
There are American flags flying at half-mast, in many cases on top of the rubble, to remind us that we are Americans and we help others.
And in the midst of all this, they are continuing with their traditional Fourth of July celebration.
I saw a little bit of the banner ad that they have running in the area promoting all the activities that are going on.
Bunch of country music bands will be there.
Uh it's a it's uh fireworks, the whole traditional thing, and we're just honored to be part of it.
We're thrilled to be there with our giant truckload of two.
If by tea.
Monday night in Joplin, Missouri, to the phones we go as promised, Matt, Morris County, New Jersey.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
You're a huge fan.
Listen every day, even name my dog after you.
Um just want to uh let you know that uh you're actually not playing the full clip of the Mika and Joe excerpt there with Halburn.
Uh I think that speaking of sabotage, they sabotaged him.
Even Joe goes, oh, we got your back.
They pan to the camera the camera pans to the JB production staff back there.
Oh, yeah, we'll hit the button with the button.
And they didn't.
My question on top of this is even if they hit the button, what would have happened?
Would the White House still be upset?
Well I'd like to get your feeling on that.
Well, you know, two things there.
Uh you are right.
We didn't play the whole clip because I mean, you know, we uh brevity is the salt of wit.
Uh we get to the meat of uh things here.
The EIB network.
That's the first thing that we do.
We don't dilly dally around and all the extraneous stuff.
But you're right.
He did say, are we gonna be delayed here and Scarborough they thought that they had a competent production board op back there that would was gonna bleep it.
But that's that's still no excuse.
You just you don't take the chance.
Folks, there's an old there's an old rule of thumb.
When something is on tape, you intend for it to air.
Because there's always a chance to edit it if it's on tape.
If it's not really live, the Scarborough show is not really live.
There's a 14, seven, whatever seven second delay.
They are on tape.
Now they're they're they're claiming that their bored op failed and didn't know how to uh implement the whole thing.
I don't think they said him.
I don't I think they like Halprin.
But let's go to the um let's start with the soundbites on this since you bring it up.
Start with number six.
This is uh Mika Brzezinski, and this was this morning on Morning Joe.
They were talking about the uh the warning.
Well uh waning support uh for Obama on the network.
They're being accused of not having enough support for Obama on that network.
We're getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the president.
Well, we are bringing people on, but they're not doing it as much lately.
Can you imagine this?
The White House thinks that mess NBC doesn't have enough Obama supporters.
And so Mika Bzinski says, yeah, we're being hit for that.
Uh but we're we're we're bringing people on, but they're really not sticking up for him as much.
Can you believe this?
They're not sticking up.
We're bringing in the supporters, but they're not supporting.
Here's Mr. Cl Claire Shipman, it's Jay Carney.
This is yesterday afternoon at the White House.
The daily press briefing, a reporter said, What is your reaction to Mark Halpern's comments this morning and Mess NBC issuing an apology?
The comment that was made was inappropriate.
It would be inappropriate to say that about any president of either party.
And uh on behalf of the White House, I expressed that sentiment to uh executives at the network.
We just expressed our concern about the inappropriateness of the comment.
Is that how you um sounded when you called?
Okay, I'm Jay Carney going to call MSNBC.
Uh Phil Griffin, please.
Yes.
Yes, I wait.
Uh Carney uh the White House.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'll I'll wait.
Jay, what'd they say?
I'm on hold.
I'll I'll don't don't go.
You let 'em have it, Jay, when they pick up the f I'll I'll handle it.
Uh hi, Phil Griffin.
Yeah.
Uh Phil, Jay uh Kearney.
Um White House.
You we no, we met at a party.
D Dan Snyder's sweet, the Redskins, you remember?
No, I'm at the White House now.
Uh yeah, I'm the I'm the I'm the press spokesman.
Um you know, uh Phil really uh concerned here.
Well uh Halprin, uh that was I I I really wanted to uh express our concern about uh in inappropriateness.
You know the dick thing of uh.
Yeah, that'd be good.
Yeah, suspend him for a while.
Okay, okay, yeah.
Thanks, Phil.
Anytime.
Is that what that call was like?
Is it appropriate we call and say so?
But where does the White House get off calling a news network telling it what it can and can't say?
Now stop seriously now, where does where does the White House get off?
Thinking it can call a news organization and saying, I don't like what you're saying.
That's you know let Richard Nixon try that.
Let Dick Nixon try that sometime.
Jay Well, but the point is they don't call Fox.
They call their buddies.
MSNBC's their buddies.
That's what they go.
But Mika, Mika, you know, we love you here, Mika, but you didn't do them any good there by saying you get some Obama supporters on, but you just can't get them to talk the guy up.
It does.
Here's another entry that we got from uh Joplin.
Here rush, our town is an old mining town.
We are on the mother road, Route 66.
We took on Monty and Clyde.
We are a place of hometown values.
If you drove around the sites damaged today, you couldn't go two steps without seeing a makeshift flagpole with an American flag waving beautifully in the wind.
We embody the real hope and change the other side only thinks they are becoming.
We may be a small town, but we're mighty in number, and it doesn't take a tornado to prove the American spirit that's always been among us.
Thank you for the chance to do something for the people who are too filled with humility to do it for themselves.
Thanks and God bless.
Another one.
The people in the heartland are the hardest workers in the world.
When the tornado hit Joplin, they wasted no time jumping in and taking care of whatever needed to be done.
They didn't whine.
They didn't wait.
They didn't wonder why no one came.
And you know, folks, that's true.
We all saw the pictures out of Joplin.
We were just stunned at the devastation.
Satellite pictures before and after.
And there wasn't a lot of whining, and even the two people from the rebuild committee that happened to call the program here.
Nobody was whining.
And there wasn't any looting, and there wasn't any begging, and there wasn't any where's FEMA?
And there wasn't and uh of course Obama took a week.
Oh, whatever it takes, we'll be there for you.
He was over in Europe.
Eventually flew over.
Didn't matter, they weren't asking for anything.
The strange thing is people came anyway, says this entry.
People just like them.
People that are always willing to help a neighbor.
There have been dozens, hundreds of stories of divine intervention that ultimately save people all over Joplin.
There are houses here where only one wall remained, and that was where someone sought shelter, or where someone ran from one house to another because it didn't feel right, survived while the original house had been destroyed.
They're flags all over town, stuck into dead trees, crumpled cars, vacant lots that had been home to families.
Support has poured in from coast to coast.
We we've been working to clean up for over a month now, and by the time July 4th arrives, it'll be six weeks.
The city has promised an unforgettable celebration.
People are here from miles around to help, and they'll be here on the fourth to join in our celebration, which will be especially enjoyable with your tea here.
Another one, Joplin reflects the strength of this great country.
Even when facing adversity, we will prevail and be stronger and better than ever.
In the midst of the darkest time, through the endlessly hard work, perseverance, and everlasting echoes of we can, we will is rebuilding and looking forward to a brighter future.
Not an effort to be achieved alone, but rather an effort of our neighbors, Americans from coast to coast.
Our small town of 45,000 people has had more than 45,000 neighbors come to lend a hand.
In the same way that this great country rose to the top.
Americans helping Americans.
the people.
I'm proud of Joplin.
I'm proud to be from Joplin.
I'm proud of America.
I'm proud to be an American.
I'm looking forward to two, if by T, being part of our celebration.
Warms our hearts here.
So this is something we are, we're actually honored to be part of.
And we will be there.
The American people come together in time of need, and that has happened in a way that will move you to tears when you see it rush here in Joplin.
There are American flags flying at half-mast, in many cases, on top of the rubble to remind us that we are Americans and we help others.
So look out, Joplin.
We're coming.
We'll be there to join you on Monday night at Landreth Park.
And we're bringing some tea as a, just a little sidelight.
A semi of two, if by T. Here's Elliot Wilmette, Illinois.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
A great pleasure.
One I'm afraid you will never know, and I'm going to tell you why.
Because you're never going to know this pleasure because William F. Buckley never had a call-in show.
But in any event That's right, he didn't.
But before I get to my comment, do do do me a favor and ask him in Joplin if how many other countries came to help.
Um but uh my comment was from earlier this week um that uh when Obama was talking about um uh raising taxes or this or that on a billionaire or anybody else.
Um what he's missing, and most other Democrats are missing is that taxes are essentially voluntary.
It doesn't sound like it, because you're required to pay something.
But how much you end up paying is voluntary based on how you want to live your life.
And let me know if I'm if I could be wrong on this.
But um if you don't like the taxes you're paying, you organize your life differently.
That's why the yacht builders went out of business years ago and they said, Well, people who own yachts don't pay enough taxes so.
No, I know exactly what you're saying.
What he's what what he's what he's what Elliot is saying here, he is adequately describing the dynamics that accompany a policy.
Uh policymakers in Washington sit there and they look at the economy and they see a number.
Whatever it is.
And they say, Okay, we need that number to be bigger, so we're gonna go out.
We're gonna raise taxes on people.
They just assume that people are going to oh, aren't my taxes are going to find I'll pay and we're gonna in order to get the money, we're gonna raise taxes on yachts.
That's what we're gonna do.
Well, two things happen.
The people who buy yachts go buy them where there aren't any new tax increases on them, which is in another country, which is easy to do.
And then what happens?
Not only is there not any new tax revenue, the people who are making yachts in America who which are no longer being bought get fired, get laid off.
So this j this grand plan to raise taxes on yachts to increase revenue to Washington ends up with less revenue and more unemployment.
And yet the people that want yachts still bought them.
Still got them.
They just didn't pay any new taxes on them.
That's the dynamic reaction to policy.
It's Open Line Friday.
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The keeper of the flame.
The igniter of the flame.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Yeah, Joplin, Missouri didn't even blame global warming for their tornadoes either.
That's another reason that they deserve our arrival and all the support that they are um that they're getting.
Here's uh Joel in Phoenix.
Joel, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
I don't think it's so crazy to think that Republicans are sabotaging this economy.
I mean, they were in on a platform of jobs being their number one priority, and they haven't done a single thing to, you know, even propose a jobs program.
Now, down here in Arizona.
We've got firefighters we could use.
The feds could dump some firefighters in here, hire some.
Up in Minot, North Dakota.
I'm sure they could do some uh flood relief.
Those are not jobs.
You're talking about no, no, no.
Those are those are not jobs that build and grow an economy.
You're you're talking about the federal government coming in with disaster relief, which is temporary.
That's the you say the Republicans haven't proposed a jobs program.
Every tax cut proposed is a jobs program.
Every program, every proposal that shrinks the size of government is a jobs program.
Every proposal that reduces regulations and uh removes shackles from businesses and how they can conduct themselves is a jobs program.
Republicans haven't introduced jobs program.
I just got through talking about all of these states, Republican governors states where jobs are being created left and right, many of these states with no income taxes, by the way.
Republicans are all about creating jobs.
That's Republicans are capitalists, and it's capitalism that produces jobs and creates jobs.
And capitalism, by the way, will take care of the temporary need for firefighters and whatever in Minot and in Arizona.
Government doesn't create jobs.
Government transfers wealth around.
It doesn't create anything.
It destroys it.
Pure and simple.
At the federal level, the Republicans haven't had the votes to pass anything that they've proposed since 2007.
Since 2007, everything that's happened in this country that to cause us to engage all this economic misery has been because of Democrats.
Pelosi, Reed, then Obama taking office in 2009.
Republicans have not had the votes to stop anything, and they haven't had the votes to pass anything yet.
But the November 10 elections are an indication of what's coming.
Because the November 10 elections, the people in mass in this country, federal all the way down to state elections, said they don't want any more of what the Democrats are doing.
Every cut of federal or state regulations is a jobs program.
The Bush tax cut extension was a jobs program.
Even Obama said so last December in the lame duck.
Obama himself said, because of the state of the economy, we cannot afford to sunset the Bush tax cuts for two more years.
What Obama was saying was because of my re-election, I can't afford to raise taxes right now.
So what he's doing to coalesce his base, he is promising his fringe base that once he's re-elected, he will raise taxes on the rich.
He's not going to do it now because it would further harm the economy, which would further harm his re-election chances, which are already in serious doubt.
As it is.
The Republicans are all about job creation.
The Republicans are all about freedom.
The Republicans are all about liberty.
Conservative Republicans particularly.
Conservative Republicans are going to be the ones responsible for reversing this course.
Conservative Republicans are going to save this country.
Scott Walker in Wisconsin talked about it yesterday.
Just by requiring state workers to pay a little bit into their own pensions and health care.
Has turned a $400,000 deficit in one school district into a $1.5 million surplus.
Overnight.
By cutting state spending.
Obama says you can't cut your way to prosperity.
You most certainly can and we must.
We can't afford what we're spending now.
The truth is.
Joel I got to tell you.
We don't have the money.
If you get down to Brassett.
We don't have the money to send any more firefighters to Arizona.
We don't have the money to send any more sandbags to Minot in Dakota.
We don't have the money.
We're not going to have the money to do anything if the people in charge send.
stay in charge.
Refusing to raise the debt ceiling is a jobs program, Joel.
Everything the conservative Republicans are talking about and doing in New Jersey, in Ohio, in Wisconsin, in Texas is a jobs program.
Now let's take a look at an alternative situation.
Minnesota's state government is closed.
The Minnesota state government shut down at midnight last night, the victim of an ongoing dispute over taxes and spending between the Democrat governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities.
Talks fell apart well before the midnight deadline, leaving state parks closed on the brink of the Fourth of July week in all the tears.
You see how this works.
Evil Republicans, state parks are closed.
The little kiddies don't get to have their snow cones in this lay right.
Oh no, no Fourth of July, evil Republicans.
The AP says that the shutdown in Minnesota puts road projects at a standstill, forcing thousands of state worker layoffs.
And of course, all of which we're supposed to see as a taste of the horrors the nation will face if the federal debt ceiling is not raised by Congress.
That's how all of this works.
For the record, the AP has already rewritten this article and they've given it a new headline.
The first headline was some noticeable casualties after Minnesota shutdown.
The new headline, Minnesota Shutdown prompts political blame game.
And naturally the blame falls on the Republicans.
But the whole purpose of this story is to set the stage for what will happen if we don't raise the debt ceiling in the whole country.
The whole federal government will shut down.
Oh, the horrors of it all.
And again, note what the AP highlights there is the things that are going to suffer.
Funding for the state zoo, the capital, child care assistance for the poor.
Meanwhile, critical functions like state troopers, prison guards, the courts, and disaster responses will continue, which should give the Minnesota legislature a pretty good idea what can be safely cut.
But the newly elected Democrat governor insists on defying the newly elected Republican majorities of this, but it's historic, by the way, in Minnesota.
In both houses, the Minnesota legislature, Governor Dayton would rather shut down that state than consider any spending cuts.
What he wants to do is raise taxes on all those rich people who make more than 180,000 a year.
Meaning just about every small business owner in the state.
And as usual, the AP hopes that Republican moderates will come forward to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Never mind that a record 600 state house seats went from Democrat to Republican in the midterm election last November, precisely because most people decided they're taxed enough already.
T. Taxed enough already.
This is...
I mean, you couldn't have a greater contrast.
Republican-run states.
Virginia is one of the highest-performing states in the country, a Republican governor.
Now, what do you have here in Minnesota?
Minnesota Democrat governor says achievers in his state are not paying their fair share.
You have a Democrat governor, a Democrat president have reached the same conclusion.
Job creators should do with less.
Got to be tough living in a blue state if you experience success.
You got a governor, you have a president reaching into your pocket.
If these guys get their way, America is Greece, only much, much bigger.
But here's the thing.
The Minnesota government may have shut down, but Minnesota hasn't.
Minnesota has not shut down.
Private sector is going to be open for business.
Private sector is going to be making sales, paying taxes.
taxes.
If you really want to shut down a state, have the private sector go on strike.
That's when a state shuts down.
That's when the tax revenue spigot is shut off.
If you want to shut down a state, if you want to shut down a country, then you take direct aim at the producers and the achievers.
And that's what liberal Democrats are doing.
Barack Obama and these blue state governors treat the private sector like indentured servants.
They're parasites.
As if they won't pick up and move and leave to avoid all these onerous taxes and regulations.
Every tax increase is an incentive to relocate or move assets.
Ask Amazon.com.
California said, you know what, we're going to start demanding sales tax.
Okay, bye bye, California.
Again, the dynamic reaction to an onerous policy.
Now, what do the achievers get for paying more taxes at the state and federal level?
What do they get?
The people who make the golden goose golden, what do they get?
Food stamps, public sector union salaries, benefits, dues, and pensions that far exceed anything seen in the private sector.
That's what they end up paying for.
And people have had it.
They don't want any more of it.
Brief time out, we'll be back.
Ill Rush Mall Open Line Friday.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me address something that uh I'm getting in the email here.
And this is going to sound self-serving, and I don't mean it to be.
I really I beg you.
I've had, you know, there are naysayers everywhere.
So I'm getting some emails.
Okay, so you think you're doing a great thing by taking in your truckload of tea.
Rush, don't you understand there are going to be vendors who earn their living with their concession stands, and here you are going and giving away tea.
Do you think we didn't think about that?
There's not one snur what's no, no, snurdly, snurdy back off in there, back down in there.
These they're naysayers everywhere, and they're looking for any little thing they can to provide some kind of a negative to this.
You can just, don't you understand?
You're just going in there, you and then give away your tea for everything you give away, that's a concessionaire that's losing out.
No, no.
I'm not gonna get into details, folks, but that I want you to trust me that is not going to happen.
Not one concessionaire is gonna lose anything because we are going in with truckload of tea.
We're going in to add to this.
We are happy to be a contributing part of what is already a huge Fourth of July celebration.
It's gonna be big.
It's a it's a folks, it's a I mean a miniature rush to excellence tour stop for us.
Wow.
He's going nuts in there.
He's going is going nuts in.
He says everything you do, people have to find a negative with it.
Um also, I also want to, you know, as a as I have mentioned uh from the from the start, the two it by tea, our sponsor is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, and we are bound by certain legalities in how we can describe our relationship, the T sales and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
I'm just gonna tell you that that our first donation, and these will happen frequently, our first contribution from the sale of two if by tea to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation 100,000.
Uh everything's everything's cool.
We're going in there to join everybody else and just have a uh a fine grand old time, celebrate America, celebrate self reliance, celebrate the greatness that is this country with the kind of people who make this country work.
And and this this is not to slight any of the other people from any other parts of the country who sent uh entries.
We just we were just overwhelmed with uh uh entries from Joplin and from outside of Joplin who suggests that uh that'd be a great place for us to uh to go.
Look, everybody that shows up at this at Landrith Park, I guarantee it's gonna be a win-win no matter how you slice it.
Who's next?
Where are we going next to the uh Dennis, Kansas City, Missouri?
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I just wanted to remind you about Chuck Schumer.
It was him that uh let leak the Indy Bank situation that caused a run on them banks, and I don't think he was doing that to protect the depositors.
You know, that's an excellent point.
It was Chuck Yu Schumer, who actually started that whole mess with the run on banks.
And you're and you're right.
What was it, Indie Bank?
Yeah, Indie Bank.
Yeah.
I wanna I wanted to talk about uh shared sacrifice too.
I didn't run this by snurly, but I just wanted to bring up the point.
Barack Obama is always talking about shared sacrifice.
What about the 47% of the people that pay zero income tax on their federal earnings?
Why can't they pay at least five percent?
Wouldn't that be shared?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, shared sacrifice uh to Obama is simply tax increases on the rich redistribution of wealth.
I mean, that that's all shared sacrifice is.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something else gonna happen at Landreth Park in Joplin on Monday night.
We're gonna grow the Republican Party.
It's a Fourth of July celebration.
We have the Harvard survey from yesterday.
Fourth of July parades breed Republicans.
Young kids at Fourth of July parties tend to end up being Republican.
Fourth of July celebrations do not have any patriotic impact on Democrats.
This is from a Harvard survey.
We had it yesterday.
Now you Democrats, you can throw you can try to throw cold water all you want on what we're doing.
Monday night in Joplin, but I just want to remind you that what's actually happening Monday night in Joplin, Missouri, not only the continuing rebirth of a great community, and not only the joining of people coming together for a singular purpose.
Well, actually, multi-purpose.
We're also growing the conservative movement.
Try that.
It's the fastest two hours in media.
It's open line Friday.
That's America at its best as we um chug our way into the Independence Day weekend.
In a giant trailer truck load of two if by tea refrigerated, arriving Monday night.
Landrith Park in Joplin, Missouri, personally accompanied by me.
Who knows?
Might end up having like a miniature Dan's bake sale.
I mean, the sky's the limit here.
A couple of nice country music bands are gonna be great.
Fireworks.
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