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Aug. 10, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 10, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Uh stand by uh audio summites one, two, three, and four and uh five.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're gonna do Sharpton again.
They're gonna do Sharping him because we got they got a journalist, not happy.
And that Sharpton's even got the gig.
They're at MSNBC.
Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
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White House, President Obama to meet with Fed Chairman Bernanke later today.
Yes, ladies, it looks like they're still trying to tease the market up.
Obama and the bearded one.
We'll meet later this afternoon.
I I got an email from a friend of mine earlier this week, who said a friend of his had sent him something.
And now I've seen this all over the place.
Out there on the but it's it's it's pretty good.
The federal budget related to a normal family.
Even though the USA has no budget on paper for over 800 days.
Do you realize that it's pretty accurate to say?
800 days, almost three years.
The U.S. and I has not had a budget since Obama was president.
That is that is one way of looking at it.
U.S. Congress sets forth a budget every year into trillions of dollars.
Few people know how much money that is.
So federal spending needs to be broken into simple terms to be understood.
Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective.
And then I I don't know these these U.S. income 2.17 trillion, federal budget 3.82 trillion, new debt 1.65 trillion, national debt 14.271 trillion, but it's now closer to 17 with the debt deal.
Recent budget cut 38 billion, which is about 1% of the budget.
That that the debt deal, the budget cut was 1% of the budget.
$38,500 million dollars.
That's what everybody was celebrating in high-fiving over.
Okay, but trillions.
What this piece does is to help think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to.
Therefore, let's remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend that this is the household budget for the fictitious Obama family.
Total annual income for the Obama family is $21,700.
The amount of money the Jones family spent was $38,200.
The amount of new debt added to their high interest credit card, $16,500.
The outstanding balance on their credit card with an annual income of $21,000 is $142,000.
That's how much they owe.
And because the Obamas realize they're in real trouble, they decided to become responsible and cut their spending.
And after a lot of posturing and wrangling, they agreed to cut $385 from their budget.
I know it look spoken word, it's still tough to follow a lot of numbers.
But that is a pretty good illustration.
They're making these trillions understandable.
A family of $21,700 income, spends $38,000, adds $16,000 of debt on their credit card to a balance already at $142,000, and decided to get serious to they cut spending $385.
That's what we just did.
Except we did it with trillions instead of hundreds and thousands.
Get this.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Maureen Dowd, recent piece, Hollywood is going to use SEAL Team 6 to boost Obama's re-election prospects.
Apparently, uh Catherine Bigelow, who was the director of the Hurt Locker, and I guess the writer, the screenwriter, Mark Bowl, and they have become an item.
They're doing a movie on the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
They are preparing that movie for release in October of 2012, a month before the election.
The White House, this is Maureen Dowd.
The White House is counting on the Catherine Bigelow, Mark Bowl, big screen version of killing of bin Laden to counter Obama's growing reputation as ineffectual.
The Sony film by the Oscar winning pair who made the Hurt Locker will no doubt reflect the president's cool gutsy decision against shaky odds.
And just as Obama Land was hoping, the movie scheduled to open on October twelfth, twenty twelve, perfectly time to give a home stretch boost to a campaign that's grown tougher.
The White House has provided access to the film company.
They've let them in the way they're letting them see confidential stuff files.
Um all kinds of exclusive access.
To see what Obama did and all of its being incorporated in the movie, and it's gonna make him look like Superman.
October twelfth release date.
What's it what's the title of this movie?
Is there a title of this stupid thing yet?
Not that I can see here.
I'm very uh speed reading, but I don't see a title for this.
But at any r you wonder what what um the military thinks of this.
SEAL Team Six thinks of this.
Being used to boost Obama's re-election chances.
In a movie made by the team that did the Hurt Locker.
Uh let's see, but it's let's go to the audio sound bites.
I'm looking for a story here, and I don't have it because it's buried in my stack.
I'll find it as um program continues to unfold.
This again is Al Sharpton.
And with with the with with the help of Reverend Sharpton, we have a new motto here at the EIB network.
Resist we much.
I'm sure we'll have a great graphic at Rush Libblot.com later today to illustrate our new motto.
Resist we much.
This is Reverend Sharpton last night filling in for Sync Uger on MSNBC reporting on the Wisconsin recall election.
Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back, or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance, but resist we much.
We must and we will much about that be committed.
Folks resist we much and when and and we will much about that be committed.
So obviously somebody, I don't think there's any doubt.
It's one of two things.
There's either total illiteracy and incompany at MSNBC among people who write for the teleprompter order sabotage of the Reverend Sharpton's chances to get this gig.
And question is, did somebody screw up Sharpton's prompter on purposes?
Lots of grumbling in the journalism community that qualified black journalists were passed over in place of the Reverend Sharpton getting what is it, the three-month tryout for this gig.
Or two months however long it's been.
Last Sunday on CNN's reliable sources, the host Howard Kurtz interviewed St. Petersburg Times media critic Eric Degens.
And Kurt says uh Al Sharpton on the verge of getting the MSNBC job.
He'd be the first African American with a nightly show on cable news in years.
And yet he's not a journalist.
He's a liberal activist.
He's a former candidate.
What do you say to that?
Exactly.
And I think that's something that's what worries uh some black journalists, you know.
We have been pushing hard to try and have diversity, particularly in cable news prime time.
We don't have a person of color who's really hosting a show on any of the major cable uh news channels in prime time, and to have that one slot go to someone who's more of an activist and not a journalist.
Yeah, it just doesn't sit well.
Not sitting well.
You mean her?
Tamara.
What is her last name?
Tamara Hall.
Tamara Hall.
Tamron Hall.
Tamman Hall resists with much.
Uh why don't they give it to her?
Maybe she doesn't want to work nights.
Well, you stop and think about this.
Now that's quite a statement.
I mean, here we are the socially conscious, the race conscious, left-wing media, and not one African American primetime host or host debt.
That's what I'm saying.
There's nothing new about that.
That's what's my whole point.
But these are the people supposedly have all the sensitivity.
They're the people that aren't the racists.
are the people that, they don't look and people see color and orientations and stuff like that.
That's right.
Diversity.
I know.
Focus on diversity.
Uh well, whatever.
Um resist we much.
Now folks.
Um I remember the first time this happened, I got in a little trouble, but I'm an I'm gonna risk it again.
Uh we're gonna go back to this 2008.
Yeah, we're gonna go back to the campaign two thousand eight.
Now, I'm gonna replay myself saying some things about Sarah Palin.
And I got in trouble back then, even before I was married for these things.
But I'm gonna run the risk of it here again, because Gloria Steinem has brought it back up.
Gloria Steinem of the Nags, the uh National Association of Gals was on the Joy Behar show last night on headline news.
Joy Behar interviewing feminist Gloria Steinem about Republic.
Jay I don't you don't ask me why Joy Behar got a job.
Diversity.
Uh she only had two jobs, so she deserved another one.
Anyway, uh Joy Behar said to uh the the Nags uh big wig Gloria Steiner.
Well, what about the fact that people talk about how attractive they are?
Like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, both very good-looking women by American standards.
But that's also why they're there.
Because as Rush Limbaugh, your friend and mine said that he was for Sarah Palin because she wore skirts and had good legs, so she should be vice president.
He was against Hillary Clinton for president because she wore pantsuits and must have bad legs.
This was his whole basis.
Now, of course, it never said any of that.
That's not that's not what I said.
We're gonna play for you what I said.
That's not what I said.
I didn't say they're qualified for any of those reasons.
You want to hear what I said?
This is what this is what Gloria Steiner remembers.
Uh this is September 2nd, 2008.
She's a woman's woman and she's a babe.
She can wear skirts.
She got definable ankles.
She's high heels, and she had her baby four months ago.
Well, look at that comment may bother some of you, but we're talking about why they're mad.
Don't forget undeniable truth of life number 24, folks.
Written by me in 1987.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
It's almost like Obama all over, except this woman is young, Obama was young.
This woman's clean, articulate, looks good, all the guys Swoon, and the Hillary Babes are stuck at the secretary's desk again.
With no chance to move up and get promoted because somebody's always coming along.
It's so unfortunate.
I think a lot of militant feminists are trying to change basic human nature because they think nature was so unkind to them in the first place.
So there's a lot rolled into this.
But it is clear one thing is unmistakable.
They hate Sarah Palin.
They hate her.
And if you want to be honest with yourself, there's more than just politics involved as to why.
And that's all I'm telling you.
I'm sharing with you how they think, not I think.
Folks, don't doubt me.
You should know by now.
That's what Gloria Snyder is.
So what did she hear?
What did Gloria Snydom hear me say in that comment?
That Hillary has no ankles and that Sarah Palin does.
That Sarah Palin can wear skirts and is a babe in them in Hillary Clint, and therefore Sarah Paler should be elected and Hillary shouldn't.
I never said it, but that's what Gloria Snyum heard.
And all it takes is recounting undeniable truth of life number 24, and it's over.
You know, that that sends them into orbit.
You know, I got on this on this movie that Catherine Bigelow and Mark Bowler doing for Obama in the campaign.
Is that going to be a campaign contribution?
They told Bush he couldn't use 9-11.
Remember that?
They told Bush he could not use 9-11.
That was official.
He could not use 9-11 in the campaign.
Who are they going to go get to direct this thing?
Lenny Riefenschnall.
And I wonder, will there be a will there be a um every good like this is a sequel to uh the Hurt Locker?
Will the Obama movie have a sequel?
The Chinook shoot down.
If you're going to do a movie on Obama's great military leadership, let's go all out here.
Now we, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, we uh here, I speaking personally, I have a great love and affection for the broadcast business.
And I want everybody who enters it to represent it well.
Uh I want everybody who is in broadcasting to be a credit to the industry.
I I don't want it to have a poor reputation.
That's why I cringe when people with no experience are given jobs.
That's why I I cringe when psychologists are given radio shows and they've never done it before.
Uh, or what have you.
And I have a long record of this.
Uh the Reverend Sharpton, what does he bring to this gig?
What really, in terms of broadcast uh experience and talent, what does he bring?
No, well, radio, but but uh you know, he had more people voted for him for president than listen to his radio show.
No, the Reverend Sharpton's area of expertise is the protest march.
And when Reverend Sharpton appears on MSNBC, it just sounds flat.
It is something missing.
It's it's not the Al Sharpton everybody is familiar with.
So we have, in an effort to help, run a little filtering on that Al Sharpton soundbite where somebody sabotaged his teleprompter.
And if he if if if he would try this, maybe he would have more luck.
Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back on whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance, but resist, we much.
We must, and we will much about that.
Be committed.
You see, it sounds better.
Regardless what's said, it's a little bit more dynamic.
Little bit more dynamism to it.
Let's go to the phones.
People have been waiting uh patiently.
Lubbock, Texas.
Hi, Brian.
Thanks so much for waiting.
Great to have you here.
Hello, sir.
I'm elated to be speaking with you.
Um, before I get in trouble, I just am required to give a shout out to my mother-in-law in Anchorage.
She's listening to you.
Um, I'm going today.
Uh, my mom sent my younger sister down here to finish up her summer school.
I'm tutoring to her through her online chemistry course.
And uh I I've kind of about had it with the teacher.
She can't uh write.
She can't read the answers that we provide, and she can't perform basic algebra like isolating variables and writing equations different ways.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
You uh your young sister's teacher can't write.
No, she's got words that are just completely wrong.
I mean, sometimes What does she teach?
What what is chemistry?
And she can't read apparently not.
Does she know how to make crystal meth at least?
Uh I haven't asked that one.
You better find out, because there's a reason she's got the gig.
I've watched a show, Breaking Bad.
You ever seen that show?
No, sir.
Well, uh, check it out.
It's about a chemistry teacher who's diagnosed with cancer, and he realizes he doesn't have anything to leave to his family, and his original diagnosis is uh is is not long.
Is it so he starts he sees a crystal meth deal goes down, so he starts cooking crystal meth and ends up making the best stuff in New Mexico.
It's kind of a crazy premise, but it and it's on I think it's on um AMC on uh on Sunday nights.
So you better ask that have you got a chemistry teacher that can't read?
Well, I mean, she told us in one of our answers to a uh test that I helped my sister draft that we didn't use a concept and we very clearly defined it and used it.
And so she either didn't bother to read the answer or she doesn't know enough chemistry to identify.
Audio sound by number five last night on the Situation Room on CNN.
That's uh Wolf Blitzer show.
Genie Moss had a report on the stock market.
This is a report on the stock market on CNN.
People like Rush Limbaugh like to coin names when the market tanks.
Obama get what we have witnessed since Friday.
Barack Elipse Now.
They did that in a report on the stock market on CNN.
They left out debt man walking.
Kansas, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback yesterday, Kansas became the second U.S. state to return a large federal grant meant to help it create a prototype health insurance exchange as part of the regime's health care overhaul.
Governor Brownbeck said the state of Kansas would give back the thirty-one and a half million dollars it got from the U.S. Department of Uh Health and Human Services to become an early leader along with six other states in establishing health insurance exchanges that other local government uh could use a model.
Now, I have a question.
We we keep hearing this term exchange.
Federal exchange, the state health exchanges, the local exchange.
Do you know what an exchange is?
You better learn because before all is said and done, we're all gonna be going to them.
If you want to have health insurance, and a law is gonna require that we have it.
And ex exchanges are are meant to provide an open marketplace of competing insurance plans that allow uninsured peoples and small businesses to band together negotiate cheaper rates.
That's what exchanges are meant to do.
They will not do that.
There's gonna be nothing free market about the exchanges when when when when they're all implemented and operating.
The whole point of the exchange is it's the only place you're gonna have to be able to go get insurance, and the state or the feds are gonna be the only people selling it.
That's the underlying purpose of Obamacare.
Who's next?
Tracy in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Welcome, and it's great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you.
I love you, and thank you for covering Wisconsin the way you do.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate your saying that.
Uh question, uh, President Obama says daily is uh primary he's laser like focused on job creation.
Could you answer me a question then?
Why does he send organizing for America, SEIU, Richard Trump, and all the rest of the thugs that he hangs out with to my state to destroy my Republican governor who has done nothing but turn the state around in six months has created 39,000 plus jobs, reduced a 3.6 billion dollar deficit, put us in the black for the first time in 15 years.
We have a triple A credit rating, which President Obama does not.
Uh he paid back all of our debts.
Uh the collective bargaining is uh profiting every single school district in the state that took advantage of the tools he gave them.
They're actually hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of where they had been, which is putting money in the state.
Okay, well, that class is a very good thing.
Right.
Then let's answer the question, because Obama doesn't want any of that.
Oh, but Obama doesn't want 39,000 private sector jobs created.
He wants union jobs.
It's the only jobs he cares about.
Union jobs pay dues that end up back in his campaign coffers, the campaign coffers of other Democrats.
He likes money laundering operations.
Obama doesn't care about private sector jobs.
Those are a threat.
You know, Governor Walker's agenda, successful agenda, is a threat to Obama, a threat to liberals everywhere, a threat to the government.
And you've you have done a great job of recounting the success that Governor Walker's had to date.
And there's many more.
We're calling it the miracle in Wisconsin.
And those crazies in Madison, that's not what democracy looks like.
It was at the voting booth yesterday, sir.
That's exactly right.
And I'll tell you, it's it's it's even more important to uh to say this again.
You know, I I folks, I had people in the last week or two sending me emails in the uh my website email.
Rush, this is a recall elections in Wisconsin.
We can't afford to lose these, Rush, we can't afford to lose these.
Why are you not talking about it?
And I, folks, I must tell you, this is very hard for me to not talk about.
I itched.
But I had a theorem.
I had a gambit.
I had a stratagem.
I had confidence that the recall elections would be won by Republicans.
I had confidence that the Republicans would hold the state.
And I wanted those elections to take place without any outside influence.
I didn't want it's it's great today that all these union people and all the Democrats are not running around saying that they they're charging fraud, which of course they always do, but they're not saying that this vote was not legitimate opinion of the people of Wisconsin that voted.
They're not able to say, well, they're just doing what Limbaugh told them to do.
They're just doing what somebody else told them to do.
They can't say that.
It took a lot of discipline to stay out of it.
Because it was crucial.
If the Democrats had won that, if they'd won the state Senate back and had succeeded here in this recall, oh, I h I shudder to think.
It was crucial.
But I also wanted to get a genuine reading of where people are with uh with all this going on.
You know, sort of to to counter the polling data out there.
I appreciate the call Tracy.
Uh, you want to know why Obama sending his SEIU thugs to you.
London is here in its own way, folks.
London is here.
It's just that the media mostly ignore it.
Here's a story from uh Andrew Breitbart's big government website by Peter List.
Union extremists using children, harassing and menacing replacement workers in Verizon strike.
It's only been a few days Since 45,000 communication workers of America and IBEW, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members walked off their jobs at Verizon.
However, incidents of harassment, sabotage, and illegal picketing have already begun to pile up.
On Tuesday, Verizon obtained an injunction in Pennsylvania and filed for one in Delaware to prevent illegal and reprehensible strike activities, such as keeping managers out of buildings in one deplorable incident.
A foul mouthed IBEW member in New Jersey put his young daughter in front of a rise in front of a Verizon truck turning into a driveway as he berated the driver using expletives.
So it London has been here a while in the form of union thuggery.
Remember during the 2008-2009 financial crisis protests and all of the AIG bonuses, Wall Street bonuses, all of the uh acorn types and union thugs that were going to the front yards of AIG executives to protest over bonuses and so forth.
I have I've been thinking about something here.
I when I was explaining in our last busy broadcast hour, when I was explaining the reason for the London riots, the whole concept that we have, according to Max Hastings in the UK Daily Mail referring to the protesters there as fearal humans.
They're just barely on the human side of animal.
Look, there are a bunch of people who have not been educated, they've been propagandized, indoctrinated, and they think that there's a certain amount of stuff.
You and I call it national wealth.
But they look at it, there's a certain amount of stuff out there, and that everybody gets their portion, whether they do anything for it or not, they've been raised, that's economic justice.
And when they don't get their stuff, then they think they're being cheated.
They see a business owner, a corporate jet owner, somebody has stuff, and wait a minute, wait a minute.
How come they got their stuff and I don't know?
Because they don't understand the concept of work.
And they think that people who have jobs also are being treated unfairly.
It's not fair that they have all that stuff plus a job, and these old people don't have anything.
I mean, it's kind of it's hard to understand if you don't, if you can't, if you will not admit what socialism or liberalism are all about.
But what underlies it all is uh these protests, these leftist rallies is a tribal philosophical belief that what's yours is mine.
That's what they think.
And not because they've worked for it.
Whatever you have that they don't have is theirs.
When you see these fires in London, what are you actually seeing?
You are seeing private property burn.
When you see protests in Israel, you are watching mobs demanding that more private property be turned over to the government so that the government can redistribute what was your property so that your property can become theirs.
Why?
Because liberalism's quiet message is that whatever is theirs is really yours.
That's what people are taught.
Those who have more than you do are greedy, they've cheated, they've stolen it from you.
They've been taught that there is an immorality to the fruits of your labor.
Somehow that it is not fair, it's not right.
So when we see protests and rioting in Greece, Spain, Portugal, London, we are witnessing mobs demanding something for nothing.
And the something they want is private property.
Because of this tribal philosophical Belief that what's yours is theirs.
And personifying it, if I'm them, what your what you have is mine.
And I don't have to work for it.
Everybody is supposed to have everything equally.
What they've been told.
So these screaming, guttural demands on taxable income, the threatening demands for higher taxes on stocks and homes and businesses.
The outright looting of homes and businesses is an all-out assault on private property.
And liberalism has promoted the idea that what is yours is really theirs.
They are all money is Washington's.
What you end up with is what they graciously decide you're going to get to have.
That's liberalism.
Everything is theirs, and you are assigned what you get.
And we in this country have a president who uses private property as props to sell his plan to confiscate even more private property.
There's nothing sinister about private jets.
But they have become the symbol for the reason to raise taxes and they get angry and have riots and make no mistake, higher taxes are a government approved confiscation of private property.
Money is private property.
I've got to take a break.
There's much more of this, but we'll continue when we get back.
Jerry in Hermitage.
A rush.
Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
I know.
Thank you very much.
And I just wanted to say this.
I've been listening to you for 22 years, so I I want to go back to the ditto.
Uh triple L dittoes to you and your brother David.
Thank you.
That's long live Limbaugh.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
Okay, Rush, you said about an hour ago or so about uh the only way the Democrats and Obama can win is through fraud.
And you're right about that, but there's another way they can win.
That's what I'm worried about.
Donald Trump.
He says he's gonna run, it might run as an independent.
Yeah, I saw that.
I I did I if the Republicans don't nominate the right guy, Trump said that he might get back in and do it as an independent.
Don't worry, I'm gonna talk to him about it.
I'm glad about that.
But he's gonna determine who the right guy is.
Well And he also said one other thing.
He said he'll run if the economy's bad.
Well, what does he expect?
Obama is still gonna be president, the Democrats are still gonna control the Senate.
Of course the economy's gonna be bad.
Yeah.
I know a lot of people are concerned uh about uh well, you know, some people are uh do want a third party, they just don't want it to be Trump.
Others are worried about third party altogether.
Um I did hear him say that.
Um but I'll have a talk with him.
It'll be okay.
No, no, I'll talk to Trump on a golf course.
Uh simplest way to do it.
Snurdley remind me I wasn't finished with the private property.
I don't think people understand uh regular listeners of the program do.
Uh I talked about it enough.
But I uh the the importance of private property to our way of life to freedom to uh founding fathers as important as the freedom speech uh and other things.
And I want to complete my thought on it tomorrow.
We'll see you then.
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