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July 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 5, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Okay, I'm restarting my computer here trying to fix the track pad.
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Welcome back, folks.
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We all know about the Algore effect.
The Algor effect is hilarious.
And now we have uh we have a troubling trend out there, ladies and gentlemen, that indicates that there is an Obama effect.
Now the Algor effect is the documented weather pattern that brings record cold temperatures and snowfall to an area where Algor goes to discuss global warming.
It never fails.
Al Gore will go someplace to discuss global warming and they'll have a record snowfall, or they will have unseasonably cold temperatures.
And of course, it never occurs to the drive-by media to comment on this.
It's left to those of us in Realville, and I, of course, am the mayor of Realville to comment on it and laugh about it.
But now is there, is there a documente weather pattern that brings or documented pattern of the Obama effect.
Now, we had an item from Industry Week that I mentioned last Friday, before the long holiday weekend, about another bankrupt company, Cardinal Fastener and Specialty Company, a Cleveland-based manufacturer of screws and bolts for wind turbines, i.e.
green energy.
No, I'm not running a beta of Lion.
I'm running the real thing.
And by the way, you know one of the great thing about Lion?
When you restart it, it takes you right back where you were.
Every iChat window opens, every app you had open and where it was, opens as it was where it was.
So no, I'm not running a beta of anything here.
Cardinal Faster and Specialt Company, Cleveland-based, they make uh screws and bolts for wind turbines.
They filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Thursday.
Now, as you recall, Obama visited this outfit, which is in Bedford Heights near Cleveland in January 2009 before his immaculation, and he pointed to Cardinal Fastener and especially as the future.
Green energy.
These are the guys that are going to be manufacturing the things that are going to hire people to work there.
These are going to be creating all the green jobs and the this steadfast devotion here to the marvels of green energy is who was it that said this?
Somebody was doing show prep.
Somebody said that what we really have here is the influence of Harvard in this administration, of the faculty lounge.
This is the kind of idiocy that comes out of there.
They get these belief systems into their uh into their into their heads.
Green energy equals future.
What is green energy?
Green energy is energy doesn't pollute, doesn't make a mess, and it renews, and it's basically magic.
Well, of course, there's no such thing.
No such thing as renewable energy.
There is no green energy.
Wind turbines are killing birds, they're irritating people, they make so much noise, and wherever we install them, the people around them don't want them because they're just they're just too noisy.
And they're ugly.
Plus they don't work.
Nobody's electric bills are going down.
And when the wind doesn't blow, then you're really up a creek.
But there's another company.
The went down the tubes, This from last week.
And here's the quote.
When Barack Obama visited struggling Allentown Metal Works in December of 2009.
Again, this is before his immaculation.
The factory's industrial landscape and its rugged workers made a perfect backdrop for the president to talk about his efforts to jumpstart the economy.
On Thursday afternoon, it's workers gone, its windows boarded up, and its lot overgrown with weeds.
The 100-year-old building again made a perfect political backdrop.
Allentown Metalworks.
So here two companies, Cardinal Faster, and specially, and Allentown Metalworks, Obama visits both in 2008 and 2009, before he's immaculated.
Well, actually, one before he was emaculated, and the other was December 2009, a year after he was immaculated, and they've both gone under.
And there's another one from ABC News, February 2009.
During a swing through Illinois to pitch the stimulus package, Obama said that Caterpillar will be able to rehire employees it had laid off.
And of course, Caterpillar has not been rehiring anybody.
And then from the business insider, May of 2009.
What infrastructure boom?
If there is one caterpillar whose CEO promised Obama that the stimulus would allow it to keep more employees, isn't seeing one.
The company just announced another 2,500 layoffs in three states.
This is the company's third round of layoffs in just a few months.
So there's an Obama effect here, and it is so potent that a mere mention has a bad effect.
June of this year.
An AP story, an Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by President Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government's Chrysler bailout will go out of business someday after a more than 70 year history.
So if you're a CEO or the owner of a small business, and you get a call from the White House, and Obama wants to come by and say hi and use your place.
Don't let him.
You are destined for the ash heap soon after Obama shows up.
Just like there's the Obama of the Al Gore effect, there is an Obama effect.
Now the source for all of these stories, Industry Week.com, McCall.com, ABC News.com, BusinessInsider.com, and the Morning Journal.com.
Every one of these examples has a solid news source.
Every one of them.
The Obama, of course, we could say, ladies and gentlemen, that the United States in general.
Overall, you want to prove the Obama effect, this guy gets elected president.
Look what's happening to the whole country.
We are being transformed in ways that nobody ever dreamed possible.
You know, it used to be as recently as 2007.
Five months to find a new job if you were laid off and fired.
Now it could be never, depending on your age.
Sadly, it could be never that you'll find a job.
If you're 50 or 60 and you lose yours.
But as recently as 2007, the average time, five months, bam, you're back at work.
Now it's years.
The job markets are being flooded every year with new college graduates, and you know what their expectations are.
There are people being laid off, the universe of jobs, total number of jobs in America being reduced by the government in their reports in order to keep the unemployment rate reported at around 9%.
The week before last, we had a story of that Danish electric car company, Think Filing for bankruptcy again.
All these green energy companies, all these things that Obama's touting, all of the methods.
Obama touts for recovery.
The exact opposite is happening.
Now, this electric car company Think had been bankrolled by U.S. battery supplier Enner 1, ENER 1, Inc., which Obama has also talked up.
And there was uh in El Cart, Indiana.
Where do you go in about uh RVs?
Wouldn't El Cart, Indiana RVs.
There's some industry in uh Elkhart.
He goes there quite often.
And it's it's not revived.
No, Snurdley, come to think of it, there was not certainly wants to know if who else was at Joplin.
There wasn't one politician that showed up, other than local politicians.
That's you know what that's right, that just struck me.
There wasn't I well now the the the state representative was there, and I think their member of Congress was there uh earlier in the day.
I in fact I think the Congressman from that area got a picture with Catherine.
But you would think that they would see that as a as a golden opportunity to go in and there wasn't one there.
Well, no, just an observation.
But no, uh Obama goes, it was El Cart, Indiana, he goes in to talk up uh green jobs.
Uh but the Obama effect is destruction.
Wherever some companies shut down, the country's in the process of shutting down.
It isn't gonna happen.
We're not gonna let it.
But that's the direction this regime happens to be taking it.
All right, a quick timeout here, my friend Zell Rushmo, barely getting started.
We're here at the EIB network, and we're coming right back, too.
Don't go away.
Have you ever seen folks the pictures or video footage of the district in Illinois that Obama represented?
It's a wasteland.
It is a wasteland.
Uh what I'm talking about.
Meaning there there's there's no there's no track record that Obama can point to that at any point in his political career has what he's said he's doing to improve America ever done, been done.
It's never worked.
Of course, his ideas have never worked, wherever they've been tried in the world.
And now he's turning the whole country into a replica of that Illinois district.
And the grating thing is he doesn't seem to care.
You know, that's what that's what becomes obvious.
He just doesn't seem to care.
Jerry in St. Louis, as we go back to the phones, great to have you with us, Jerry.
Hi.
Thank you, Raj.
I appreciate that.
Megadethos.
Thank you.
Uh first thing I want to do is I want to thank you for taking my call and thank your call screener for allowing me to talk to you.
Uh I actually called originally was uh uh about I I was at the rally yesterday, I guess you got out of the party, uh in Joplin.
I drove from uh St. Louis across the state to Joplin just to see, and it was worth it for the ten minutes.
I want to tell you that.
I've been I've been listening to you uh since 1992.
I actually found you by accident.
And uh I feel as if we're friends, not uh uh because I've been listening to you so long, and I've and I've actually uh talked to you on the radio or talk to you while you were on the radio.
Yeah, Russ, that's right, you know, that kind of stuff.
Uh, you're making you're you're you're making like I uh I know what you're talking about.
The um that's the the remarkable thing about this program for me, what it's meant to me as a person is that the relationship between my uh staff here, me, and the and and the audience of you is familial.
It is it's like a family.
It really is a deep connection there.
You drove across the state.
Tell people how long a drive that is from St. Louis to Joplin.
That's 300 miles.
So you drove 300 miles.
Now, I'd like to share with you though.
Now, I gotta be honest about this.
Uh, my daughter is uh uh my son-in-law is in the army.
He uh uh he's stationed in Fort Leonardwood.
Well, they own a house outside of Fort Linnworth in St. Barbara.
Okay.
So she's been wanting me to come down and visit her anyway.
And I was listening to you last week when you said that you were going to be uh in Joplin.
Yeah.
And so I called my daughter and I said, Well, you've been wanting to see me.
How would you like to have me for a night?
So I reserved a room and Joplin and I called my I she said, yeah, Dan, I told her I want to go see you.
My son-in-law and I and my daughter talked about you a lot that evening when I was there with her.
But anyway.
Uh so I stayed at my daughter's one night and then I drove on into uh Joplin the next day and checked in the hotel room, cleaned up and went on to the uh went to the rally.
I was there before they put the first case out.
I was at your truck.
I took pictures and everything.
No kidding.
I really was really, yeah, I was it was really exciting for me, the opportunity, and I paid or I had to stand around and you know, stand in the sun.
It was 92 degrees, but like a hundred.
It was really, but it was worth it.
And the ten minutes I think was fine.
I would have loved to I'd love to have met you.
I was within I was within twenty feet of you.
I was right to the right of you there.
There's a little is I want to share this with you.
First off, may I, before I go any further.
My best friend Milton Mennefee, who is a veteran of the Vietnam War.
He listens to you religiously.
Can I say yay oh sure, you just did.
So go ahead.
For two Rush Lumbaugh for Milton Benefit, because I know he would like for me to do that.
He's my best friend.
He's he's uh he's uh disabled, and he listens to you every day.
Well, God bless both of you guys.
I I'm I'm saying you drove 300 miles, you got to see your daughter, and the 10 minutes didn't disappoint.
That's the one thing that that that I walked out of there.
I I love I of course I uh I I love all these people.
This has been going on for 20, will it be 23 years, August 1st, and this this just humbles me.
I mean it it it it humbles me.
What we're we're listening here, these are the kind of people I always have in mind when I talk about who it is that make this country work.
These these are the people that are they they're not they're not trying to get their pictures out there in people magazine, they're not they're they're not uh running around uh uh just they're just playing by the rules and living their lives, and and they're the ones that make the country work.
I mean, it sounds a little hokey, but it's not.
It's actually true.
These are the people that make the country work.
It's disabled vet friend.
Country wouldn't be what it is without his friend Hilton.
And this uh this guy Hilton listens to me every day.
And uh here's old Jerry driving in there from St. Louis 300 miles, dissatisfied by my ten minutes.
I I really I walked out.
You should if Kathy were here, she would say we're flying back home, and I'm worried.
I'm on the airplane, and I'm I'm she she's telling me, no, no, no, it was fine, it was good.
I just I don't know, because I saw that line of cars still driving in if we were driving out, and I know that I normally go two hours and and uh there was no way I could do two hours.
I mean, they were taking us past fireworks and they'd have hated me.
Uh but I just uh you know I always want to meet and surpass expectations.
And if I think if I if I if I feel like I haven't met uh people's expectations, audience expectations, I feel like I've let them down and so forth.
So I all uh no.
I I didn't see any coverage of this at political before I got there.
The New York Times had a story about this before we got there.
The New York Times mentioned I'm going in there to hawk tea, which is not what we did.
We gave the tea away.
They they said we went in there to try to take advantage of the opportunity.
No, I didn't even mention the name of the tea when I made my remarks.
I didn't uh Is that what they said?
Politico and the Huffing and Puffington Post said that I was going in there to grow the Republican Party.
What they don't understand is we have the news from Harvard.
That happens anyway, whether I'm there or not.
Harvard University study, 4th of July grows Republicans.
Fourth of July celebrations grows the number of Republicans, whether I show up at them or not.
Now the New York Times, the New York Times story just ever so mildly snarky at the beginning.
Intimating that we're going in there to uh uh use the occasion to promote the tea, which not what happened.
I even mentioned, if you listen to my speech, I didn't even mention the name of the tea.
But then at the end of the story, the guy, whether he intended to or not, came up with a great description of two if by tea.
Iced tea packaged as patriotism.
Two if by tea, iced tea packaged as patriotism.
Thank you, Jerry, and thank you, Hilton, and we'll be back.
Finally, finally.
They've got a they've got a they got a verdict in the Casey Anthony trial.
Finally.
They're gonna announce the verdict at 2.15 this afternoon.
Uh no, I don't am I going to gym?
We haven't covered a syllable of it yet.
What are you saying?
Don't give me hand signals.
I know it's every woman in the world is going to be glued to that verdict.
I understand.
Um Catherine, Kevin's been watching this.
I don't know.
I I uh uh uh you know, I probably shouldn't admit this.
Sitting here right now, I bet I don't know two percent of what this is about.
And the two percent that I know, I know because I asked Catherine while she's sitting there watching TV.
What was this is unless it was Sunday night.
And I'm saying they had court on Sunday.
They had court.
I never heard of this.
Why?
And then I they had court yesterday.
And then all last night, that's all the cable networks did.
And I'm sitting there, I'm just I really it's not folks, it's not often I don't know something.
Sitting here right now.
I I know I know nothing about this.
I only I only have the thoughts when I look at the mother.
I have I I just don't.
Well, because I haven't been interested.
I don't know.
All I'm gonna tell you is there is some strange stuff that happens in Orlando, is is all I can tell you.
Some really weird stuff happens there in that town.
I am I gonna jip.
I'll have to think about it.
We'll uh we'll make an executive decision.
Of course, that executive decision will be uh uh made by me as to whether or not we gip the reading of the verdict.
Now the verdict's the verdict, yeah.
If I'm getting I'm getting close on trackpad, I might have to just delay fixing a track paddle after the show.
I may have to deinstall the USB override, because I think that's the problem.
USB overrides taking control here, and even disabling and a restarting machine did not put the Apple drivers back in charge.
And I I'm I'm getting really because I'm got this lap.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm I'm using my magic trackpad with my tower with my desktop.
If you're on your laptop, no, it's not a problem.
It's built in.
I'm using Bluetooth laptop.
But no.
Yeah well, then you might if you're using, if you look in your system preps, and if you're using something called USB overdrive to handle your mouse and your and your track wall, then you might, yeah.
I might be running uh diagnostics for you as well here, like I always do.
I'll go through the crap.
I'll fix it, you'll benefit from it.
Back to the phones.
Anneville, Pennsylvania.
Hi, Kevin.
Welcome to the Rush Lindball program.
Great to have you here.
Rush, I believe all of the newsies uh fled Joplin, and they dumped all the coverage on it uh uh because of the type of people that are in Joplin, Missouri.
They're doing it themselves of their own accord, and they're not demanding the taxpayer do this for them.
They lost so many friends, family, and you know, private and and commercial property there.
I I don't know if the amount is larger than that of New Orleans, but they're not demanding anything of anyone.
Well and that's why they left, because the news is into idiocracy.
And sadly, this this uh this this culture, this Midwestern culture of taking care of yourself and making things better for your neighbor, they're never gonna understand it in Washington and a lot of the other big cities ever.
Well, it parts of Washington they get it.
And and but no, I know what you mean, the elites.
You're talking about the ruling class uh uh elites.
You're exactly right.
Um I I have to tell you uh we uh flying in, I asked w we asked for permission to fly over the town at a lower than normal altitude, and they granted it to us.
I'm and we got some pictures outside the window of the airplane, which when I get the trackpad fixed, I'm gonna I'm gonna upload those pictures to the website.
But they'll be up there by by six o'clock this night when we up when we upgrade, I'll get all that done.
And you're right.
I talked to the mayor, uh, he told me specifics of the loss in people's homes, and what they're worried about is that the people who lost everything.
Their house, their business, they've had to go someplace else.
They've had to relocate.
They're worried about them coming back.
Because they're gonna get settled.
I mean, it's part of their character.
Right.
Well, well, but they have to get settled elsewhere.
They they have to survive.
You know, they have to find things to do.
They have to have jobs, they have to have places to live, and so they've they've done it and he he was very this this mayor was uh complimentary of FEMA.
He said FEMA's in there with a lot of temporary housing and and so forth.
It's just you're right.
The citizens of Joplin are not caterwalling every day on television, making a story out of it.
And that's that's your real point.
But people people can forget about Joplin because they know exactly what I said is true.
The people of Joplin are gonna take care of themselves.
They're gonna do this.
They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna use their self-reliance, which they're in the process of doing.
Not that they don't need help.
I I don't I don't want to confuse anybody here.
Uh but there you know you you won't you won't find the news story of a Joplin citizen looting or making uh a general nuisance of him or herself to attract a camera in order to attract attention there.
And as such, you're right.
Uh nothing going on in Joplin, they're rebuilding big whoop.
I'll tell you what, it speaks highly of their character, and I think uh there's a lot of places here in the in the country that can take a valuable lesson from this.
Kevin, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I think you're exactly right.
Rick in Fort Collins, Colorado.
This is the site of Dan's bake sale back in 1993.
Great to have you here, sir.
Yes, good day to you, Rush.
Thanks for the call uh taking my call.
You bet.
Um you said something earlier in reference to your visit to Joplin that sort of struck a chord with me and set me thinking about something uh when you mentioned not using any uh political jargon or uh uh uh uh talking about parties specifically.
And it uh it set me to thinking that uh maybe one of the things that we really are suffering from as a nation today is this lost capacity for an honest and rational conversation of ideas.
And what I mean by that, and I'd love to hear your perspective on this, that's why I called.
Uh it seems as though uh uh it's very easy for people to align themselves with parties, which are divisive to begin with, as I understand it.
Thomas Jefferson was very reluctant to form uh uh an organized opposition to the Federalists for exactly this reason.
But it's very easy for people to align themselves with parties, and i discourse seems to shut down.
We're right, they're wrong, no matter which side you happen to be on, uh, almost categorically, and it's just uh we all lose out because we we fail to make those connections that allow honest, genuine conversation, which is productive in a way that no one person could possibly be.
You can't benefit from the perspectives that we all bring to bear on this, and and that is our one of our strengths as a nation, I believe, is the varied backgrounds and perspectives everyone is bringing uh into play, and uh we sort of lose out on that.
But having said that, I kind of want to make a second point.
Uh this also seems to be kind of a symptom of something more at the root.
Uh in the last few pages of Walden, Thoreau writes there are thousands thrashing at the branches of evil to one who cuts at its root.
And I've sort of largely turned away from a lot of mainstream media in the last few years because it seems as though uh so much of what passes for media news is anything but and I wonder sometimes,
uh I'm I'm rambling now, but uh if if we could somehow forgive me here, I'm not real good uh let me take over because I know what you're trying to say.
And let's go back to this political parties business.
I I believe in political parties.
I did not go non-political yesterday because I don't believe things.
Um the circumstance yesterday was what guided me.
Uh I was not there.
I was not there to push a political person or I was there to push a political idea, but not by identification.
I think there were people in that audience yesterday.
Let me exclude the audience.
Let me put it this way.
When people around the country hear about my speech and how unabashedly pro-America it was, I will become their enemy.
There are people who do not want that version of America heralded.
There are people who do not believe in the greatness of this country is founded.
That's the one of the primary problems we have, and many of them are serving in power right now.
We've elected a bunch of these kinds of people.
Political parties stand for things.
One political party is rooted in 100% reality.
Another political party is rooted in deniability, total denial of reality.
Now, my decision to go non-political yesterday was instinctive.
And it was because I asked to go there.
I asked to speak.
I wanted to honor America, and I wanted to honor the people of Joplin, and I wanted to speak to them as somebody who doesn't live there, who is aware of their problem and respects what they've gone through and believes in them.
Believes in their ability to rebound and let them know that there are a number of you know, millions of other Americans who believe the same thing about them.
I wanted it to be uplifting.
I could easily, at any practically every the end of every paragraph or sentence in that speech I made yesterday, I could have launched into a political diatribe that would have made brilliant sense about things.
I could have taken the occasion yesterday to warn people of what I think are the forces in this country that are trying to retard this country's rebirth, economic growth, for whatever reasons, and warn these people.
This is I just sense this was not the case.
That's not why they were there.
In fact, they were there for a night in Joplin to try to forget all that had happened since the tornado.
There weren't even any salvation army tents or other relief organization tents.
There was no fundraising going on.
There was no donating going on.
There was nobody there asking for contributions from anybody.
They wanted a day off.
Today they got back to all that in uh in Joplin.
But I think this country, as I say here every day, we're faced with severe consequences in our future if serious changes are not made.
And I think the changes that need to be made are rooted in what I said.
Even though it was nonpolitical in the sense that I didn't mention the words conservative or liberal, I didn't mention any politicians by name, But what I did say in a lot of people's minds was highly controversial and political.
And that's a hard cold reality you've got to understand.
That to a lot of people, that was a purely political speech yesterday.
Pro-America.
You know the kind of people that I'm uh that I that I'm talking about.
But this yesterday was uh uh really an event about the people of Joplin, their problems and the birth of our country.
What it meant to me, and that's what I was telling them.
Celebrating our revolution, why we're the greatest country on earth.
I want them to know why I think we're the greatest country, because in learning that, realizing that, believing that lie our solutions, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limboy here, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now you're wrong, Snerdley Fox has sent Geraldo Rivera in there, the green ripper, the gri the grim reaper, which means that somebody's died.
And the case does feature somebody who unfortunately's passed away.
Um so it did make sense that Heroldo's covering the Casey Anthony case.
Snurdley thinks that because Harold is already there that we know what the verdict is, right?
We'll find out.
There's any number of uh uh bits of evidence that indicate that.
Here's Nancy in Atlanta.
Nancy, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
And I I just had to call and tell you that you made me feel like fifty like I felt 50 years ago.
So listening to your talk at the event in Joplin, um, I was so filled with pride and patriotism, and in this era of negativity that we're bombarded with, it was so wonderful to hear you talk.
And I just wanted to say thank you, thank you for sharing with the rest of us.
Well, you're more than welcome.
I appreciate your your thoughts on it.
I uh I really do, more than you know.
Well, I'm curious to ask, too.
My fat my grandfather graduated from Rush Medical in Chicago, and I've always wondered, are you related to that family, or is that how you got your name?
Anything with the name Rush on it has to be related to me somehow.
I mean, how many of us are there?
How many of us have there really ever been?
Well, that's what I always thought, and I was so proud of that.
No, you can I encourage you.
I and I encourage you to continue to feel that pride.
Thank you.
Well, you know, that's what you do for the rest of it.
Well, thank you.
I I I appreciate that.
I I'm struck by I'm checking emails too, and here's Nancy in Atlanta.
The point I was making about how there are people who listen to that speech and be angered by it today and think that it was political.
There are people who think that speech sounds like a blast from a long ago America.
That you don't hear that about America anymore.
Certainly not from the elected or political class.
You really don't.
And people are realizing that.
We need to get back to it.
All of us back after this.
It's the fastest three hours in media, and two of them are gone.
We got one more to go.
I want to get to this DSK lesson story, what the media does, why they just automatically accept things that nobody knows to be true, and then runs with them.
It's a great uh great piece of the Wall Street Journal.
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