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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 so eagerly anticipating the day after the election in November of 2012, a new uplifting happiness will sweep across America.
And we haven't felt in, folks, 10 years or longer.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbo at EIVnet.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 it, what you realize is that our politics, engaging in partisan brinksmanship and potentially seeing the first default of the United States of America, that that has no place in how we move forward together.
Wine and wine.
When this country is operating off of 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 we're 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 soundbite.
Warren Buffett he not paid enough taxes.
And Obama, do it a Clinton.
I don't want a tax break, as lucky as I've been.
If that tax break means that a senior citizen is going to have to pay an extra $6,000 for their Medicare.
We had that soundbite mere moments ago.
So here we have Obama complaining that Medicare doesn't pay $6,000 for some treatment or benefit.
Or might not.
It's an arbitrarily chosen number.
Where does the $6,000 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 $6,000 Medicare denies as 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 another off-prompter, non-sequitur that is just liberal walking, talking cliché.
No substance to it whatsoever.
It's only because of Medicare that America is 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 full disclosure requires that I admit that I have met Mr. Thiel.
In fact, I have attended dinner, Mr. Thiel.
I've not played golf with Mr. Thiel, but at a fascinating dinner one night, Conrad Black was there.
And Peter Thiel and Conrad Black, toward the end of the evening for me, got into this discussion on China.
You know, and 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 couldn't handle it anymore.
So I started yelling about America.
I said, you guys, China, I know you're a rat river.
China is 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 know Peter Thiel.
I've been around a couple of times.
He's really, he's, as it says, a Silicon Valley billionaire.
And he is free-spirited, almost one of the eccentrically brilliant kind of people.
No, no, no.
I'm not.
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.
But anyway, that's another time.
I want to talk about Thiel's idea here because he's put $1.25 million 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 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 Patriot 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 going to start off with an office park.
Thiel made news earlier this year putting a portion of his $1.5 billion fortune into an initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to skip college.
Remember, 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 clock is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years and will be built in a mountain in West Texas.
Nothing to do with Peter Thiel's idea.
Now, what, when you boil it all down, I'm fascinated by the concept here of just, okay, starting over.
We're going to build an oil-rig type platform.
We're going to have another libertarians out there and screw morality, screw any existing laws, screw building codes, nothing.
We're just going to go there and we are not going to have any welfare.
We're not going to be taxes.
We're just going to be ourselves to be libertarians.
Okay, but when you read what the description is here, stymied by indifference to 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 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 starting over.
Not here in America, but if some people did it, set up 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.
And just leave us alone.
You got the best way to do it.
Form your own little island nation or what have you.
Anyway, I got to 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.
Here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, back after this.
By the way, Patrick Friedman, working on these ideas of the libertarian islands of utopia, Milton Friedman's grandson.
He's also won the World Series of Poker four times.
One of the guys that's behind this utopian island idea.
So you might have some casinos on these islands.
Might have some gambling.
Hey, folks, you know, we started the program today with Maxine Waters, essentially seeking permission from her constituents, even though she was in Detroit, from black voters to go after Obama.
So now all of Nets have caught up with us.
Fox is running stories.
Maxine Waters attacking Obama.
So I said, Cookie, if there's some new audio on this, give it to us.
It'd be good folks.
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 got to 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 Obama.
Here's Mike in St. Louis.
Mike, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
You know, yesterday you played the recording of that.
You referred him as a prop at the Obama town hall making that comment, that very supportive comment that just seemed so staged and famous.
Yeah, yeah, that's a, you're working so hard and you're such opposition and standing so tall for, yeah, I remember that, yeah.
Well, you know, I was listening to it and the tone of voice 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 that it could be a prayer.
We got to go get that bite from yesterday.
I remember watching it.
It's a cookie find that bite.
And we'll listen to it.
I might not be able to find it by the time, or we 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 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 you'll see what I'm talking about.
Well, we'll get it, and we'll call attention to your – we got it.
Here us.
Fast.
Here's the bite.
This is from, I forget what this was in Illinois yesterday, but 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.
So 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.
That's something the regime wrote for the guy.
It 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.
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 anything.
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.
Well, yeah, we'll leave it at Kennedy seat.
They had supermajorities.
What opposition?
It's just I don't know 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?
He didn't really seriously try cap and trade.
He didn't really seriously try somebody that bothered a lot of the people.
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 that's just a 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, Roch.
Obama is on his misery tour, black and red misery tour.
You know what the colors black and red represent to the socialist, the international socialist movement?
What do the colors black and red represent to the international socialist movement?
It's a symbol for them.
No, you'll have to tell me.
Fidel Castro, 26th of July movement.
Sandinista, Acorn, the Red Brigade, on and on.
He's showing his true colors, Roch.
Showing his true colors.
Yeah, why couldn't you have a red and blue bus?
No, it has to be black and red.
It has to be black and red.
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 wises 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?
49 years.
Left 10 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, all right, next year I get to go back to Cuba?
When did you think?
No, I'm a realist.
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 out of the world.
Right, by the way, it happens.
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.
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, 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 independents.
So this bus tour is really 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 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 have spoken before me and 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.
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 cool.
This afternoon, PMS NBC, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
She went live for a moment to cover Obama 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, I get, wait till Maxine Waters sees the Drudge report.
This is great.
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 Andrea Mitchell, NBC Neils, in Washington, covering the white like me tour, and 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's 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 cover.
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's speaking on his bus tour.
Let's listen.
I travel through downstate Illinois.
When I travel through Iowa.
Did I say that?
When I travel through the Midwest, I am absolutely confident about this cover.
She is 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 clichés.
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 reelection 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 independents love 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.
Gonna 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.
Everything 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 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, his 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 Reid in November of 2012.
Permanent vacation for Obama is the best jobs plan this country could have.
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Rush Limbaugh to Loca, Tennessee.
Rich, thank you for calling.
I appreciate your waiting, too.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How you doing?
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 if it's a landslide, they can't cheat enough to overcome a landslide.
So you think there's no way they can get away with it?
Not if it's a landslide.
No, there's not that much cheating they can do.
Remember, he's the if circumstances don't change, and that's such a huge, if I there's so much is going to change, but there's not a whole lot of enthusiasm for Obama right now.
That's why the bus tour, there's fraud and all that does happen in close races.
It can make a difference, but it's not, they can't cheat enough.
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.
You're going to see the polls change.
All kinds of stuff is going to happen to try to dispirit you, Rich.
Democrats are going to 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 2 o'clock wave, and it had Kerry winning big.
And a 5 o'clock wave, the exit polls came out, and Kerry winning big.
And Bob Schrum walks into Kerry as a 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, Kerry's been elected, it's two or three in the afternoon, 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, and all to overcome a landslide.
Close race, yeah, but not in a landslide.
Donald Trump says that Barack Obama has taken more vacations than any human being he has ever seen.
And 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 at Martha's Vineyard.
That that just makes it easier because he actually does go on vacation, he doesn't really work when he's on the president.
Who you got a guest toast on Friday?
Well good, who?
Mark Davison.
Okay, cool.
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