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Aug. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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You know, I don't know about you all.
But I think my voice today sounds exceptional.
And I pay attention, things like that.
Hi.
How are you, Rush Limbaugh?
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
But there's still room for more fun.
And I'm I'm so eagerly anticipating the day after the election in November of twenty twelve.
A new uplifting happiness will sweep across America.
We haven't felt in folks ten years.
Or longer.
Telephone number is 800 282-2882 and email address L Rushbow at EIV net.com.
Hear one more Obama soundbite from Atkinson, Illinois and the bus tour that not a whole lot of people are attending.
When you look at this debacle we had with the debt ceiling and raising, what you realize is that our politics engaging in partisan ranksmanship and potentially seeing the first default of the United States of America.
That has no place in how we move forward together.
Wine and wine when this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us.
But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-infected problems.
We've been divided since our founding.
This notion that would be operating off common ground, the definition for that is when you have no opposition.
Look, this is exactly this guy is a walking complaint.
The tsunami, the Arab Spring, stupid Europeans can't get it right, and now the Republicans.
Not to mention Bush.
And pretty soon Perry and Romney and all that.
If not for the Republican obstruction.
Okay, so step back.
Obama is complaining.
We had that sound bite.
Warren Buffett, he not paying enough taxes.
And Obama doing a Clinton.
I don't want a tax break as lucky as I've been.
If that tax break means that a senior citizen's gonna have to pay an extra six thousand dollars for their Medicare.
We had that sound bite mere moments ago.
So here we have Obama complaining that Medicare doesn't pay six thousand dollars for some treatment or benefit.
Or might not.
I don't arbitrarily chosen number.
Where does the six thousand dollars come from, anyway?
But that's not the question.
Question is who runs Medicare?
I think he does.
Is Medicare not the greatest program ever invented if you listen to these leftists?
How does raising taxes pay the six thousand dollar Medicare denies us some benefit payment?
Nothing to do with it.
How does Obama taking $500 billion out of Medicare help pay that $6,000?
He's the guy who cut Medicare $500 billion.
This is a this is another off prompter non sequitur that is just liberal walking talking cliche.
No substance to it whatsoever.
It's only because of Medicare that America's great, according to the Rock Who's Sane Obama.
I don't know what debacle.
The debt ceiling got raised.
We didn't default.
So what are all these complaints about?
And if we are the ones we've been waiting for, why is Obama always blaming somebody else?
Remember that?
We're the ones we've been waiting for.
Still always blaming somebody else.
Wants to do all these wonderful great things, but gosh, there's always somebody standing in his way.
All right, PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel.
And uh uh full disclosure requires that I admit that I have met Mr. Thiel.
Uh in fact, I have attended dinner, Mr. Thiel.
I've not played golf with Mr. Thiel.
But uh fascinating dinner one night, uh Conrad Black was there.
And Peter Thiel and Conrad Black, uh toward the end of the evening for me, got into this discussion on China.
You know, and I'd I'd had a couple of adult beverages.
So I'm saying I'm listening to this and I'm listening to it and I'm listening to it, and finally I just I could I couldn't handle it anymore.
So I started yelling about America.
I said, You guys of China, I know you're a ratchet.
China's an American and I got up and left.
Because it was late.
I'm not rudely.
I just I said, okay, I'm out, I'm out of here.
But I've I know I know Peter Steele.
I've I've been around a couple of times.
He's he's really uh he's uh as I as it says there's Silicon Valley billionaire, and he uh is uh uh free spirit, almost one of the eccentrically brilliant kind of kind of people.
No, no, no, I'm not Conrad Conrad Black is no slouch.
Conrad Black.
You talk about well, that's a whole nother subject, what happened to Conrad Black and the corruption of our justice system.
Um that's another time.
I want to talk about Thiel's idea here.
Because he's put 1.25 million dollars behind this.
It's an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters.
This comes from a profile of Peter Thiel in Details magazine.
Peter Thiel has been a big backer of the seasteading institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law of the sea treaties.
The idea is for these countries to start from scratch free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place.
The experiment would be a kind of floating Petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians.
I hope Ron Paul runs one of these things, by the way.
A kind of uh floating Petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance.
This is what they hope that their floating utopia islands will feature.
No welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
Peter Thiel said at a seasteading institute conference in 2009, there are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible.
That's a good thing.
We don't really need to worry about those people very much because since they don't think it's possible, they won't take us very seriously, and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.
Seasteading Institute's uh Patrick Friedman says the group plans to launch an office park off the San Francisco coast next year with the first full-time settlements following seven years later.
They're gonna start off with an office park.
Thiel made uh news earlier this year putting a portion of his one and a half billion dollar fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.
Remember, we we reported on that.
Another Silicon Valley Titan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced in June that he would be funding the clock of the long now.
The uh the clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years and will be built in a mountain in West Texas.
Uh nothing to do with Peter Thiel's idea.
Now, what when you boil it all now, I'm fascinated by the concept here of just okay, starting over.
We're gonna build an oil rig-type platform, we're gonna have another libertarians out there, and screw morality, screw any existing laws, screw building codes, nothing.
We're just gonna go there and we are not gonna have any welfare, we're not gonna be taxed, we're just gonna be our source to be libertarians.
Okay.
But when you read what the description is here.
Stymied by indifference of the voting booths.
They've been unable to advance their primary desires of no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
What does that mean that they are escaping?
They want no Democrat Party.
That's what they're saying.
They may not know that.
They may not look at it that way, and they may not appreciate me putting it that way.
But they're trying they're running away from the Democrat Party.
Now a lot of them, hey, we're running away from the Republicans, too, you know.
I'm sure you think that.
But they're running away from the Democrat Party.
The concept has always fascinated me, the the starting over.
Not here in America.
But if some people did it, instead of a little island somewhere.
I can think of a lot of people I'd like to send.
And you do it your way.
You go ahead and you do it your way.
Just leave us alone.
You got the best way to do it.
Form your own little island nation or or what have you.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out here, my friends.
We will do that.
Be back in mere moments as we continue with your phone calls here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, back after this.
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By the way, uh Patrick Friedman working on these uh ideas of the libertarian islands of utopia.
Milton Friedman's grandson.
Uh he's also won the World Series of Poker four times.
One of the guys that's behind this uh uh utopian island idea.
So you might have some casinos on these islands, might have some gambling.
Hey, uh folks, you know, we started the program today with Maxine Waters, apparent uh uh essentially seeking permission from her constituents, even though she was in Detroit, but uh from from black voters to go after Obama.
So now all the Nets are caught up with us.
Fox is running stories, Maxine Waters attacking Obama.
So I say, Cookie, if there's some new audio on this, give it to us.
It'll be a good following.
No, no, no, it's the stuff we played when you started a show.
Then I turned to Drudge.
Drudge is on a roll.
This, folks, you gotta see.
Red font headline, black caucus on Obama, we're getting tired.
The picture.
The picture is of Obama surrounded by all white school kids.
And then the headline at the top is Maxine Waters saying he's not in any black community.
So the Congressional Black Caucus, led by Maxine Waters on the prowl now at uh at Obama.
Here's Mike in St. Louis.
Mike, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Raj.
You know, yesterday you played the recording of that um you referred to him as a prop at the Obama uh town hall making that comment.
That uh very supportive comment that just seemed so staged and famous.
Yeah, yeah, that's uh you're working so hard and you're such opposition and uh standing so tall for yeah, that I remember that.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I was listening to it in the tone of voice and and the way he was saying it and the words.
I thought, you know, this sounds like a prayer to Obama.
You changed just a few of the words around, and it could be a prayer.
We gotta go get that bite from yesterday.
I remember what you're saying.
And we'll listen to it.
I don't mind not be able to find it by the time or we can find it, but not be able to have it ready by the time I finish talking to you, but we'll get it before the end of the show.
Because I want to listen to it again now that that was your take.
That was my take on it, yeah.
A prayer, almost like a prayer.
It was it it sounded to me like something nobody would speak or say extemporaneously.
It had to be written.
Right.
It was unnatural.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, anyway, if you listen to it with that mindset, maybe uh maybe you'll see what I'm talking about.
Okay, well, we'll get it.
And uh we'll call attention to your uh we got it.
Here us.
Fast.
Here it is.
Here's the bite.
This is uh uh from I forget what this was in Illinois yesterday, but uh or Ohio, maybe it was Minnesota.
One of the first days of the tour.
Listen.
I want to echo the sentiments of those who've spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you've tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition.
But thank you.
Yeah, you're right.
Almost like a prayer.
I want to echo the sentiments of those who have spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things you've tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the that's something the regime wrote for the guy.
Sounds like that's my suspicion.
But I have to Mike, we have to admit, sadly, there are people, I'm sure, who still view Obama that way.
Mm-hmm.
That's true.
No question.
All praise to Obama.
I still want to know what opposition.
He had supermajorities in the House and the Senate.
The Republicans did not have the numbers to stop any folks.
People have forgotten.
During Obamacare, the Republicans didn't have the numbers to stop anything the first two years.
In the House or the Senate.
They had 60 votes in the Senate until Scott Brown won the Kennedy seat.
Uh well, yeah, we'll leave it in Kennedy seat.
They had supermajorities.
What opposition?
It's just what the opposition is, it's me.
And the conservative talk radio community and the bloggers and so forth.
What did Obama try to do in his first two years that he didn't do?
I mean, he didn't really seriously try Cap and Trade.
He didn't really seriously try somebody that bothered a lot of the people with uh the there are some pet issues that he didn't get to.
But everything he took, he got his porculus, he got his stimulus, he got all the other stimuluses he wanted, he got health care.
What opposition?
I don't know.
That's just typical myth.
Poor beleaguered Messiah.
People just don't have any appreciation for how hard it is being so opposed at every turn.
Here's Ray in Miami.
Ray, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rog.
Uh Obama is on his uh misery tour, black and red misery tour.
You know what the callers black and red represent to the socialists, the international socialist movement.
What are the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?
It's the symbol for them.
No, you'll have to tell me.
Fidel Castro, 26th of July movement.
Sandinista, Acorn, the Red Brigade, on and on.
Be showing his true colours, Rush.
Showing his true colors.
Yeah, why couldn't you have a red and blue bus?
No, it has to be black and red.
Has to be black and red.
Yeah.
Yeah, symbolism is very important to the socialists.
Well, you sound like you would know.
I surely do.
I'm sorry, but I do.
I saw my country being ruined by people like that.
And I hope that the American public wise up and get this guy out of there before he completely ruins his country.
Are you Cuban?
Yes, I am.
How long have you been in the States?
Forty-nine years.
Left ten days before the missile crisis.
How many years did you think you would be able to go back?
How many of these 49 years have you thought?
Okay, next year I get to go back to Cuba.
When did you think No, I'm a realist.
Even even if this guy, you know, even if he disappears from the face of the earth, him and his brother, it will take a couple of generations to train the place up to the first time.
Right, then cultural.
Then Hugo Chavez is going to move in and try to take over the place.
Yeah, that's a sad, sad situation.
Thanks, Ray.
We'll be right back, folks.
We'll be right back.
You know what I think the dynamic going on with the bus tour here is.
I think I think Maxine Waters knows it.
See, one of the things that's happening in the polling data, I mean, when you're Barack Obama and you're down at 39%, you're losing support.
He's losing.
I've looked at it in the as deeply as you can go in Gallup, as much as they publish.
He's really losing white voters that he had wrapped around his finger in 2008.
That's who is abandoning.
And many of them are independent.
So this bus tour is really, you know, an effort to win back the white voter tour.
And the Congressional Black Caucus sees that.
And they haven't seen this kind of effort made for them.
So that's that's the dynamic that's happening here.
I want you to listen to this again.
Because this guy from St. Louis really nails this.
This was Monday, Cannon Falls, Minnesota, where this audience member got a chance to ask Obama a question and said this.
I want to echo the sentiments of those who've spoken before me in praising you and thanking you for all of your efforts and all the things that you've tried to do during probably one of the most difficult situations faced by any president in the face of unreasonable obstruction and opposition.
So thank you.
That sounds like a prayer.
Also sounded like Neil Cavuto.
I know it wasn't Neil Cavuto.
Because he was on TV that day.
Now you want to hear something else funny?
This is this is cool.
This afternoon, PMS NBC, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
She went live for a moment to cover Obama's speaking in Atkinson, Illinois at the White Like Me Tour.
I think that's what we ought to call this.
Drudge's picture is.
I mean, folks, wait until Maxine Waters sees the drugs report.
Oh, Jesus, this is great.
*laughs*
I mean, not a word is said.
Black caucus on Obama, we're getting tired.
And a picture of Obama surrounded by white school kids.
With a sub story, he's not coming to the black community.
And then there's another picture where he's eating vanilla ice cream.
So we can call it the White Like Me Tour.
So uh Andrea Mitchell, NBC Neels in Washington, covering the white like me tour.
And uh she didn't realize her mic was hot.
We might have to listen to this a couple times to hear it all.
And now the president speaking on his bus tour.
Let's listen.
I travel through downstate Illinois when I travel through Iowa.
When I travel through the Midwest, I am absolutely confident about this country.
Okay.
Her mic's hot.
She didn't know it.
Were you able to understand what she said?
Well, let's listen to it again.
She's talking to her producer.
And now the president speaking on his bus tour.
Let's listen.
I travel through downstate Illinois when I travel through Iowa.
When I travel through the Midwest, I am absolutely confident about this country.
She's asking her producer, did I miss any substance?
I thought it was all substance with Obama.
Did I miss any substance?
Andrea, not a chance.
It's Obama we're talking about here.
There is no substance.
You're covering cliches.
It's the white like me tour.
I guarantee you.
Here is what it is.
So, folks, we need to define what Obama is doing with this latest phony effort at a jobs plan that now he wants everybody waiting breathlessly for on September the 5th.
It can be said that virtually every prior so called stimulus or jobs plan that Obama has wanted has been passed.
What opposition he has gotten whatever he wanted.
And every one of his plans have been disasters.
Every one of them.
They have been frauds, they've run up the debt, they've killed jobs.
Every single Obama plan.
Now he's going to have another plan just in time for his re-election effort.
And this is not going to be a jobs plan.
It is a re-election plan.
It'll be poll tested.
It'll be a grab bag of populist talking points.
It'll be designed to pass one of those frank lunch colored graph chart things that they do on Hannity.
That's how poll tested it'll be.
Whatever it is, it's going to call a jobs plan, but it's a re-election plan.
Poll tested, so that when Lunts and his crowd puts it up there, it's going to make it look like the independence of Obama again.
Get ready for this.
It's all part of the smokescreen.
He's going to throw all kinds of stuff against the wall in this plan, claim that it is the answer we've all been waiting for.
That it came to him while sitting next to the flowing brook at Martha's Vineyard.
And he will use it to attack the Republicans in Congress for blocking job creation.
That's where this is headed.
Going to run on his record what it would have been were it not for Republican opposition.
But the thing you must never forget is there hasn't been any, or first two years there wasn't any.
They didn't have the numbers to stop him.
So this is not a jobs bill coming up.
It's not a jobs plan.
It's not a jobs program.
It is a campaign effort through and through.
Obama surrounded by political hacks, not prominent economists and business people.
And it must also be remembered and repeated endlessly that Obama will be proposing yet another plan to address his own screw-ups.
Every thing that he's going to be addressing is his own screw up.
Every plan that he has put forward has resulted in lost jobs, higher spending, larger debt.
Sum total of Barack Obama's presidency.
We need a deficit plan because of his irresponsible spending.
We need tax cuts because of his tax increases, especially those associated with Obamacare that haven't hit yet.
They by design are going to hit after 2012 when he will no longer be accountable and can't be made to pay a price for it at the ballot box.
You don't you don't even want to contemplate what your back pocket is going to look like after 2012 when Obamacare kicks in if it isn't repealed.
We need a jobs plan because Obama has destroyed jobs.
I think it's ironic and even hilarious in a pathetic sense that Obama is trying to position himself as a leader when in fact he is in truth confirming, demonstrating his own lack of leadership and failed policies.
Because he's, as I say, how many jobs programs has he done?
How many laser-like focuses have there been?
And how many resulting disasters have we had?
And so now here comes Obama with another one, admitting in the Real world is total failure.
And this is the point that needs to be made clear by Republicans and others.
That better not be any Republicans that take this plan seriously, analyze it seriously, give it one ounce of genuine economic respect because it is not going to be an economic plan.
I hope we don't see all these blog analyses of the intricacies of the plan because it's not worthy of that.
There's one job plan that should be on every Republican's table.
One job plan that needs to be in every Republican's arsenal.
And that is defeating Obama in November of 2012 and removing Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
That is the Republican jobs plan.
Get rid of Obama and get rid of Reed in November of 2012.
Permanent vacation for Obama is the best jobs plan this country could have.
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Rush Limbaugh to uh Loca, Tennessee.
Rich, thank you for calling.
I appreciate your waiting, too.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Uh first off, kudos on giving Ryan Rhodes the iPad and the Mac yesterday.
He earned that.
Thank you very much, sir.
Okay, my question is you and all of the rest of us who are conservative know the election should be a landslide.
Yeah, that's right.
But what's to keep the Democrats from dirty tricks and tactics like the Panthers or screaming foul after Obama loses re-election?
Absolutely nothing.
But I tell if the if it's a landslide, they can't cheat enough to overcome a landslide.
So you think they there's no way they can get away with it?
Nah, if it's a landslide, no.
There's not that much cheating they can do.
Remember, he's the the the um if circumstances don't change, and that's such a huge if I uh it there's so much is going to change, but there's there's not a whole lot of enthusiasm for Obama right now.
That's why the bus tour.
There's there uh there's fraud and all that does happen in close races it can make a difference, but it's not they they can't cheat enough.
Yeah, but there aren't enough dead people in Chicago and West Virginia to overcome a landslide.
Our candidate's not just running against Obama, though, he's running against the entire media.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
And you're gonna see the polls change.
You're gonna all kinds of stuff is gonna happen to try to dispirit you, Rich.
Democrats are gonna be oversampled in polls.
And what's been happening in recent elections, you remember what happened in 2004?
When I think back to this, I just laugh myself silly.
The exit polls came out, the two o'clock wave, and it had carry winning big, and five o'clock wave, the exit polls came out and carry winning big.
And Bob Schrum walks into carries and may I be the first to say, congratulations, Mr. President, and so forth.
Then the real votes started being counted, and it wasn't even close.
Kerry wasn't even close.
They even rigged the exit polls to try to dispirit turnout later in the day, because they knew that the exit poll wave would be reported.
And so if you hear that the election's over, Carrie's been elected, it's two or three in the afternoon, and you haven't voted yet, why bother?
And then after the results, the real votes came in, then the left, Some of the kooks on their blogs on the left thought that there had been some fraud.
And that the exit polls were right, and that the actual vote count was wrong, and they wanted all kinds of investigations.
There's not if it's a landslide.
If it's a landslide, there's not enough to fraud and deceit cheating at all to overcome a landslide.
Don't close race.
Yeah, but but not in a landslide.
Donald Trump says that Barack Obama has taken more vacations than any human being he has ever seen.
And uh he's right.
He's exactly right.
I'm actually kind of happy that uh my annual Hawaii golf vacation coincides with Obama's at uh Ed Martha's Vineyard.
That just makes it easier.
Because he actually does go on vacation.
He doesn't really work when he's under the president.
Who you got a guest host on Freddie?
Well, good, who?
Mark Davison.
Okay, cool.
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