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July 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 1, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings.
Welcome back, El Rushbo, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And it is Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
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I'm just pouring through some of the entries here from Joplin that we had suggesting that Landreth Park in Joplin on the 4th of July would be the place for our truckload of two if-by-tea to roll into, which is where we're going to go.
Just announced it Monday night.
We'll be there.
I will be there celebrating with everybody else in Joplin Independence Day.
Landreth Park, by the way, they call their 4th of July party Freedom Fest.
They call it Freedom Fest, which is just ideal.
So that's where we're going to be with our giant truckload of 2F by T on Monday night.
And as I say, I'm going through some of the entries.
There's really a dynamite one here.
Try this entry from Joplin, Missouri.
I'm not going to mention any names.
Sometimes I mention names, people 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, 8,000, 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 4th 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 tea 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 in 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 4th of July celebration.
And I saw a little bit of the Banner ad that they have running in the area promoting all the activities that are going on.
A bunch of country music bands will be there.
It's a 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 are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
You're a huge fan.
Listen every day.
I even named my dog after you.
Just want to let you know that you're actually not playing the full clip of the Mika and Joe excerpt there with Halpern.
I think that, speaking of sabotage, they sabotaged him.
Even Joe goes, oh, we got your back.
They panned to the camera pans to the JB production staff back there.
Oh, yeah, we'll hit the button.
We'll hit 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?
I'd like to get your feeling on that.
Well, two things there.
You are right.
We didn't play the whole clip because, I mean, you know, brevity is the salt of wit.
We get to the meat of things here, the EIB network.
That's the first thing that we do.
We don't dilly-dally around in all the extraneous stuff.
But you're right.
He did say, are we going to be delayed here?
And Scarborough, they thought that they had a competent production board op back there that was going to bleep it.
But that's still no excuse.
You just, you don't take the chance.
Folks, 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 claiming that their board op failed and didn't know how to implement the whole thing.
I don't think they said him.
I think they like Halperin.
But let's go to the soundbites on this since you bring it.
Start with number six.
This is Mika Bzinski.
And this was this morning on Morning Joe.
They were talking about the warning, waning support 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.
But 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.
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. 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 Halperin'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 on behalf of the White House, I expressed that sentiment to executives at the network.
We just expressed our concern about the inappropriateness of the comment.
Is that how you sounded when you called?
Okay, I'm Jay Carney going to call MSNBC.
Phil Griffin, please.
Yes.
Yes, I wait.
Jay Carney, the White House.
Yes, yes, yes.
I'll wait.
Jay, what'd they say?
I'm on hold.
You let them have it, Jay, when they pick up the.
I'll handle it.
Ahi, Phil Griffin.
Yeah.
Phil, Jay Carney, White House.
No, we met at a party.
Dan Snyder's suite.
The Redskins, you remember?
No, I'm at the White House now.
Jan, I'm the press spokesman.
You know, Phil, really concerned here.
Well, Halperin, that was, I really wanted to express our concern about inappropriateness.
You know, the dick thing.
Yeah, that'd be good.
Yeah, suspend infra.
Okay, okay, yeah.
Thanks, Phil.
Anytime.
Is that what that call was like?
Jay Carney, 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?
Seriously, now, where does the White House get off thinking it can call a news organization and saying, I don't like what you're saying?
Let Richard Nixon try that.
Let Dick Nixon try that sometime.
But the point is, they don't call Fox.
They call their buddies.
MSNBC is their buddies.
That's what they call.
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.
Here's another entry that we got from 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.
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 of course, Obama took a week.
We'll do whatever it takes.
We'll be there for you.
He was over in Europe and he eventually flew over.
Didn't matter.
They weren't asking for anything.
They didn't whine.
They didn't wait.
They didn't wonder why no one came.
The strange thing is, people came anyway, says this entry.
People just like him.
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.
There are 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'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 4th 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.
We, 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-tea being part of our celebration.
Warms our hearts here.
So this is something we are 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 just a little sidelight.
A semi of two if-by-tea.
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 me a favor and ask him in Joplin how many other countries came to help.
But my comment was from earlier this week that when Obama was talking about Raising taxes or this or that on a billionaire or anybody else.
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 could be wrong on this.
But 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.
No, I know exactly what you're saying.
What Elliot is saying here, he is adequately describing the dynamics that accompany a policy.
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 going to go out.
We're going to raise taxes on people.
They just assume that people are going to, oh, aren't my taxes are going to fine?
And we're going to, in order to get the money, we're going to raise taxes on yachts.
That's what we're going to 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, which are no longer being bought, get fired, get laid off.
So 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 bought 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, Rush Lindbaugh, the center of the center, 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 of the support that they're getting.
Here's 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 ran 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 flood reliefs.
Those are not jobs.
You're talking about.
No, no, no.
Those are not jobs that build and grow an economy.
You're talking about the federal government coming in with disaster relief, which is temporary.
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 removes shackles from businesses and how they can conduct themselves is a jobs program.
Republicans haven't introduced a 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.
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.
And 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 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 en masse 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 reelection, 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 reelected, 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 reelection 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 Nebraska, 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 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 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 4th 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 layrid.
Oh, no, no, 4th 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: 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.
Well, 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, 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.
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 revenues bigot 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.
Askamazon.com.
California said, you know what?
We're going to start demanding sales tax.
Anything Amazon sells in California?
Amazon says, 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 timeout.
We'll be back.
El Rushbow Open Line Friday.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me address something that 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 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 snurt what's new.
No, no, snurdly, snurdy, back off in there, back down in there.
There are 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 only give away your tea.
For everything you give away, that's a concessionaire that's losing out.
No, no, I'm not going to get into details, folks, but that I want you to trust me, that is not going to happen.
Not one concessionaire is going to lose anything because we are going in with a 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 4th of July celebration.
It's going to be big.
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 nuts.
He says, everything you do, people have to find a negative with it.
Also, I also want to, you know, as I have mentioned from the start, the Two It by T, our sponsor is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
And we are bound by certain legalities in how we can describe our relationship with tea sales and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
I'm just going to tell you that our first donation, and these will happen frequently, our first contribution from the sale of two if-by-t to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, $100,000.
So everything's cool.
We're going in there to join everybody else and just have 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 this is not to slight any of the other people from any other parts of the country who sent entries.
We were just overwhelmed with entries from Joplin and from outside of Joplin who suggests that that'd be a great place for us to go.
Look, everybody that shows up at this at Landreth Park, I guarantee it's going to be a win-win no matter how you slice it.
Who's next?
Where are we going next?
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 let leak the Indy Bank situation that caused the 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 U. Schumer who actually started that whole mess with the run on banks.
And you're right.
What was it, Indie Bank?
Yeah, Indie Bank.
Yeah.
I wanted to talk about shared sacrifice, too.
I did run this by Snarly, 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 and their earnings?
Why can't they pay at least 5%?
Wouldn't that be shared?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, shared sacrifice to Obama is simply tax increases on the rich redistribution of wealth.
I mean, that's all shared sacrifice is.
I'm going to tell you something else is going to happen at Landreth Park in Joplin on Monday night.
We're going to grow the Republican Party.
It's a 4th of July celebration.
We have the Harvard survey from yesterday.
4th of July parades breed Republicans.
Young kids at 4th of July parties tend to end up being Republican.
4th 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 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, 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.
It's America at its best as we chug our way into the Independence Day weekend in a giant trailer truckload 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, going to be great fireworks.
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