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Aug. 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I thought we're going to stop messing in other countries' affairs.
That's what Obama said.
He said, can't be cowboy in things like Bush did.
We got to stop messing around.
Now, Obama has demanded that Hosni Mubarak leave.
And of course, Mubarak's now in bed in a jail cell under trial.
He's told Gaddafi to get out.
And now he's told Basher Assad to give up power.
And I thought that it's the same Obama who has declared that we can no longer tell other countries what to do.
We had to butt out of the internal affairs of other nations.
We condemned Bush for his cowboy diplomacy.
So we've apparently now practically declared war on Syria.
Probably only a matter of time.
Remember now, who was it?
Called for spake.
Paul Krugman, his space alien invasion in order to gin the economy back up.
So Obama goes to Marsha.
Is he there?
Has he arrived in Martha's Vineyard?
Is he, I think he's, well, you know, I'm confused.
Drudge has a picture of him riding a bicycle with those stupid-looking peanut helmets on, those bike helmets.
He's riding with, I don't know if it's a picture from last year or if he's there already, but he gets there, the market down 416.
Call your broker.
Utter chaos.
Utter chaos.
What's the economic news?
Economic news today.
Consumer prices rise in July.
Here's an interesting piece from Time magazine.
They don't want him on Martha's Vineyard, by the way.
Jobless claims, inflation rise more than expected.
More people sought unemployment benefits.
The list goes on from the Daily Mail, UK.
One in five American children now living in poverty despite food stamps.
So he's not there yet.
He's on the wicket.
One in five American children now living in poverty, according to a new report, UK Daily Mail.
Folks, greetings and welcome.
Rush Limbaugh here and the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Ideological Purity.
Great to have you along.
We're going to do Open Line Friday on Thursday today because tomorrow begins the annual Hawaii golf trip that I take every year, leaving first thing in the morning.
And we'll be back on, I think it's the 29th, whatever the Monday is, Monday the 29th.
Unless, you know, Sterdley came to me today, said, you know, you're always getting jipped out of vacation time.
I mean, you miss all these national holidays everybody else focuses on.
They sneak up on you.
You always end up working national holidays because you don't even think about holidays.
He's right.
I think about work.
I think about working and being here.
And folks, actually, the burdens of this office never vanish.
I am never really on vacation.
When I'm even on the golf course, I carry the burdens of this position with me.
And so Snerdley said, why don't you just, you know, the ratings in August, nobody pays attention to them.
I don't even know if they take them anymore.
Congress is out.
Obama's going to be on Martha's Vineyard.
Everybody until Labor Day, why don't you just take the second week?
Why don't you just?
And I said, because I didn't even think of that.
I didn't even think of that.
See, I don't even think in those terms, vacation time.
And Snerdley said, well, there's nothing going to be going on.
I said, yeah, but I don't.
It's very rare, very rare.
I mean, you could count probably on one hand.
A number of times in 23 years that I have taken two weeks in a row, I just have never done it.
And all the while, all the while, I'm thinking Snerdley is being benevolent.
All the while, Snerdley is really looking out for me, like my own personal Bill O'Reilly.
And then I realized when I'm gone, so Snerdly.
Oh, not this time?
Oh, really?
Then I take it back.
I take it back.
Snurdly, you're going to New York right after the show today because you've got to do it tomorrow when I'm not here?
Well, it's about time.
Okay, so, yeah, Dawn and Brian will be off.
But you didn't come and suggest to me that I take an additional week.
Snerdley, again, is my own personal Bill O'Reilly looking out for me, walked in the door today and said, why don't you just take it through Labor Day?
And so I don't know.
I must tell you, there's a tinge of guilt that comes in if I do that.
Yeah, but if I'm going to call in, see, that's exactly my point.
If I'm going to call in while on vacation, I'm not on vacation.
That's precisely what I mean about carrying the burdens of this program with me.
What do you mean, if something big?
It always does when I'm gone.
Something major is going to happen.
It always, without fail, is going to happen.
Anyway, Open Line Friday and Thursday today because they're not going to be here tomorrow.
So pretend today's Friday and whatever you wish to talk about on the phone, feel free.
Hardly any limitations at all.
And again, the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Let's pick up where we left off yesterday.
Remember, on this program, after playing a couple of Maxine Waters soundbites and after finger to the pulse, ear to the ground, nose to the grindstone,
getting the lay of the land, quite obvious that the civil rights leadership, that would be the Reverend Zach and associated reverends and the Congressional Black Caucus, not happy, not at all happy, not just with Obama, but with the circumstances in the country, black unemployment, the fact that Obama doesn't seem to want to hang around with them,
the fact that Obama doesn't do anything for them.
This is not the way they envisioned it and so forth.
And so Maxine Waters, as you know, was in Detroit yesterday and basically asking for permission from her constituents to unleash.
And they said, you're unleashed.
So she has been unleashed, which prompted me.
See, yesterday, Drudge, is that picture still up here?
Let me check real quick.
No, but there was a picture yesterday.
Drudge had a picture of Obama surrounded by white school kids.
I forget what his headline was, but I think it was a Maxine quote.
He's not going to black neighborhoods or communities on the bus tour, the misery tour, debt man driving tour, whatever, prompted me, ladies and gentlemen, to observe this.
You know what I think the dynamic going on with a bus tour here is 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 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, 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.
That's the dynamic that's happening here.
The white like me tour.
I think that's what we ought to call this.
Drudge's picture is by, I mean, folks, I can't wait till Maxine Waters sees the drugs report.
She saw it.
She saw it, and I nailed it.
All about Obama trying to shore up his position of white voters.
When I call it the white tour, white voter tour, white like me tour, nail on the head.
This morning on MSNBC Morning Joe, Maxine Waters showed up and the author Wes Moore was there, said to her, look, he spent time in Minnesota.
They have 6.7% unemployment.
He went to Iowa, 6.7% unemployment.
He went to Michigan, 10.9% unemployment.
The rate in Detroit's almost 50%, and he didn't get to Michigan.
Of course, that caught our attention.
We've been in Cleveland.
We were in Detroit.
We're in Atlanta.
We're going to Miami and Los Angeles.
The lines are long.
Thousands of African Americans in particular and others are coming out to try and get connected with a job.
The tour that you're talking about, take a look at this headline in the Wall Street Journal.
Obama aims to keep white voters on board.
Well, we want to be on board too.
Right on.
See, folks, this little indication here, you can count on the fact that it is much, much worse in private than the way she's acknowledged.
I mean, to acknowledge it this much publicly means behind closed doors, they're throwing shoes.
They are shouting obscenities.
They may be throwing darts at pictures of Obama's face.
Who knows what's going on behind closed doors?
They're cursing up a storm, I guarantee, if they're willing to go this far in public.
So she has acknowledged that the bus tour was the white like me tour.
So after she made that comment, guest panelist Andrew Mitchell said, do you think that the president's taking a black caucus and the larger scale of black communities for granted in the fact that he's not gone to inner city Detroit, to African American or Hispanic communities traveling through mostly white Midwestern America?
We have not been privy to which way the president is going and why he's doing it.
But it's time for us to step up and note that our communities are not being dealt with and to make sure that this administration understands that we cannot continue to go on this way.
That while this devastating unemployment is in our communities, we cannot be quiet.
We have decided that not only are we going to remind the administration about the devastation and the pain that we're experiencing, but we want to be a part of helping to develop the solution.
Whatever the plan is that's going to be unveiled in September, we intend to be a part of that.
All right.
Now, that's a threat, a little gauntlet being thrown down.
You know, since stimulus one works so well, why didn't he just double down and do it again?
You know, I'll bet you that that's what the September plan is going to be.
Why, to this day, Obama and regime members are running around talking about how great that worked, how many jobs created and saved.
The only problem was it wasn't big enough.
So why not come back and ask for $1.6 trillion in stimulus instead of $790?
Hey, he said, Snurdley, wait a minute, you're looking at this in the wrong perspective.
You're looking at Obama coming up with an idea that he knows the Republicans will pass.
That's not what this is about.
He's campaigning.
He's going to put forth something that's designed to make it look like the Republicans are obstructing him so that he can say, gosh, if it weren't for these guys, my record would have worked and we wouldn't be in this mess.
So it would be totally predictable, natural, explainable, understandable if he comes out and proposes a $1.6 or $7 trillion new stimulus package since Porculus One works so well.
It's just too small.
And of course, the Republicans won't go for it, which is right up his alley.
And then by asking for something that big and letting Maxine and her cohorts in on it, look at all those goodies.
Just beyond their grasp if not for the evil Republicans.
See, see how it works.
Maxine's setting up here to be part of this.
But she wasn't through, still over on MSNBC, that they had somebody else.
They got more people hosting this show than I can count.
Author, sorry, anchor Craig Melvin then said, well, you were fired up two days ago in Detroit.
I would imagine the White House has seen that clip over and over and over.
Have you heard from people White House yet?
No, I've not talked with anybody from the White House, but I'm more concerned about the people out here than I'm concerned about anybody else.
These job fairs have asked the employers from all over the country who come to Washington and lobby us all the time for tax breaks and other kinds of things.
We've got to say to them, bring the jobs to the people.
Many of them are hoarding cash like the banks are hoarding cash.
We want that money in our communities, in our country, stimulating the economy.
We want that money.
I am not a socialist.
We want that money.
Now, Obama knows he's already got the black vote, no matter what.
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?
This is what he knows.
Maxine, listen to me.
Anybody knows Maxine Waters?
Please pass this on to her because I'm just trying to help.
He's ignoring you because he knows he's got you.
He's ignoring the black community because he knows he's got their vote.
Why spend any money or time with the cow when you already get the milk for free?
Now, he doesn't get their votes for free.
It costs, but it doesn't cost him.
It costs us.
He uses taxpayer money.
Mounts to the same thing.
Now, there's, you remember, we've talked in the past, ladies and gentlemen, about a website called Hillbuzz.
And during the 2008 campaign, and particularly during Operation Chaos, we quoted extensively from Hillbuzz.
And at the time, I didn't know who it was.
I knew it was in Chicago.
I didn't know if it was one person.
I didn't know if it was male or female.
I couldn't tell.
Turns out it's a guy by the name of Kevin Dujan, or Dujan.
I'm not sure how he pronounces his name.
It's D-U, capital J AN.
And he's got a post here today.
What's the difference between slaves?
And he's a Democrat, pro-Hillary in 08.
What is the difference between slaves on plantations and blacks who blindly vote for Democrats?
His answer is really not much at all.
And I will explain when we get back.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limbov, Kevin Dujan says it actually didn't write it.
It sits, he just posted it from an email that's been going around for some time, but never stops being thought-provoking or true.
It's just a Democrat, a gay male Democrat, posts this on a pro-Hillary Clinton, or at least former pro-Hillary Clinton website.
What is the difference?
And I only bring this up because of what Maxine Waters and the CBC, they're being ignored.
They're being totally ignored, taken for granted.
What is the difference between slaves on plantations and blacks who blindly vote for Democrats?
Well, what does a slave owner have to provide free for his slaves?
Free housing, free food, free health care, and a menial education sufficient to the task he requires the slave to perform.
What is the one thing a slave owner required of his slaves?
One unquestioning loyalty.
Now, what do the Democrats always promise to provide free to blacks?
Free housing, free food, free health care, a free menial education sufficient to get them to the voting booth.
And what is the one thing Democrats require of their constituents?
Unquestioning loyalty.
The only question black Democrats have to ask themselves is, who's your master now?
The Democrat Party survives because it keeps blacks poor and dependent on Democrat handouts to survive.
And they did a similar thing with gays, says this guy, Kevin DeJan, at his website, Hillbuzz.com.
So, yeah, why spend any time in black communities?
He's got the vote.
He owns it.
Just a little more here from the Hillbuzz post.
So this Kevin guy, who is Hillbuzz, after posting that frequently seen on the internet comparison between blacks on the plantation and blacks in the Democrat Party and how there's no difference, then says, Democrats do something similar with gays.
They keep us in check by scaring gays into believing Republicans are evil and want to kill us.
So the only protection we have is to vote Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.
Democrats keep Hispanics under control by pushing Spanish as much as possible so Hispanics never learn English and don't progress as much in society.
Women are kept in line by Democrats through cultural wedge issues like abortion, where once again people are convinced to vote against their own economic best interests because Democrats create bogeymen to scare them into believing conservatives are evil and want to harm them or take away their rights.
If even one of these groups, blacks, gays, Hispanics, one of these groups above could be reasoned with and would actually see what the Democrat Party does to them, the fragile identity block coalition that makes up the Democrat Party would collapse on itself.
If you blindly vote Democrat year after year without ever asking what you really get out of it, you're either a slave or a damn fool.
Now, I happen to agree with this.
This is the thing that, well, I know I've said it over and over and over again, in different ways, but the point is that the Democrat Party dumbs people down, keeps them stupid, keeps them poor, keeps them dependent, all in the name of compassion.
It's one of the most amazing hoaxes and frauds that's ever been achieved.
And they've been getting away with it for 50 years.
I've, on this program, asked frequently, I have black callers on the phone, Democrats, supporters of whoever Clinton, Obama.
I ask you, do you realize you've been complaining about the same things your whole life?
You've been complaining about the same economic circumstances or the same bogeymen out there that are going to get you.
You keep voting for the guys that promise to fix it all, and they never do.
All they do is keep warning you of all the bogeymen out there.
But your plight, if you're totally dependent on them, never changes.
Why do you keep voting for them?
And it is the fear that Democrats have successfully, I think with the liberal Jewish people, it's much the same thing.
They have been scared to death by Democrats over the years over what conservatives intend and what conservatives will do and who they are, this kind of thing.
When in fact, the reality is it's the opposite.
The real compassion to be found in this country is among conservatives.
The group of people in this country who really want the best for everybody is conservatives.
And why?
Basically, because we love people.
We love this country.
We understand what it takes to have a great country.
Everybody's all in.
Everybody's pursuing their own dream, their own definition of excellence, using whatever ambition, desire, or lack of they have.
We don't want to dumb anybody down.
We don't seek power over people.
It's the exact opposite.
And yet, the media, because they are Democrats themselves, liberals themselves, have succeeded in convincing all these groups That it is conservatives and Republicans who intend all this ill will, ill will, and evil for them.
When in fact, the people who have brought that on and made that part of these people's lives is the Democratic Party.
The Reverend Jackson, ladies and gentlemen, not happy as well.
He's in the same camp as Maxine Waters.
He also was on MSNBC today on Jansen and Company, the hostette, Infobabe, anchorette Chris Jansing, interviewing the monochrome coalition's Reverend Jackson.
And during a discussion about Obama in a 2012 presidential race, Jansen said to Jackson, 90% plus of African Americans have supported the president.
Do you feel he can do more and needs to do more?
Black brothers gave the first votes and the most votes and I have the most pain.
The highest infamous mortality rate, the shortest life expectancy, least access to jobs and capital.
So obviously it must be targeted for more than just for votes.
If I can use the analysis of the Great Titanic, there are those of the Tea Party who want to destroy the captain and preserve those from the deck and preserve those in the cabins.
But the water is gushing in from the bottom and more and more people are falling in the sink.
What in the world is he talking about?
This is the when Ed Myte first started, I'd say, whoa, I've never heard this before.
We got Jesse Jackson ripping into a black president, a Democrat president, for the following circumstances: highest mortality rate, shortest life expectancy, least access to jobs and capital.
Obviously, they must be targeted for more than votes.
If I could use the analysis of the Great Titanic, those of the Tea Party want to destroy the cap.
So somehow it's not a Tea Party's fault that the highest mortality rate and shortest life expectancy is the black community and least access to jobs, capital, black community, the Tea Party's fault.
And then I want to destroy the captain and preserve those on the deck and those in the cabins, but the waters are gushing in from the bottom and more and more people are falling into the sink.
Now, you know, I don't want to nitpick here, but the Titanic was never in a sink, but it is what it is.
Let's go back in time.
We won't forget this: July 6, 2008.
No, I don't know that that's true, Sturdley.
July 6, 2008, Fox and Friends Sunday.
Monochrome Coalition Chairman Reverend Jackson and the United Health Group Executive Vice President Chief of Medical Affairs Reed Tucson appeared.
And while waiting to talk to the anchors, while in the green room or somewhere offset, the Reverend Jackson's mic, unknown to him, was live.
And if you see it, he gave it a little oomph there with his right hand.
Doesn't want to cut his by the way.
Reverend Jack, you couldn't understand what he was saying because he was whispering.
Here's a transcript of what the Reverend Jackson was saying.
He's whispering to Reed Tucson.
You see Barack been talking down to black people on this faith-based?
You see that?
I want to cut his nuts off.
Barackie talking down to black people.
Well, it got out there, and then everybody, everybody except the iceberg started apologizing.
Fox apologized.
The microphone apologized.
By the way, I don't know if this has ever crossed the Reverend Jackson's mind, the Titanic analogy.
Iceberg was white.
Little story here from Salon.com.
An Austin, Texas Ron Paul supporter.
Austin, Texas Ron Paul supporter has taken out a full-page ad in the local alternative weekly newspaper seeking any stripper, escort, or young hottie who has slept with Rick Perry.
Robert Morrow describes himself as a self-employed investor and political activist, as well as a three-time delegate to the Texas State Republican Convention.
The ad, full-page ad, says, have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?
Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a young hottie impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas?
If so, contact Cash, and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian buzzword spouting family values, hypocrite, and fraud.
Now, Cash is the Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy, and this guy, Robert Morrow, is president.
Yeah, it's a real group.
Nope, it's just me, he told Salon, which has republished the ad, which the newspaper has confirmed running today.
Now, Salon feels compelled to say here that there is absolutely no evidence that Perry has had extramarital affairs, but Morrow has written a screed currently circulating online that denounces Perry both for his policies, labels him a crony capitalist and a neocon, as well as his alleged dalliances.
Morrow claims that he knows strippers in Austin who have stories about Perry, but none of them are willing to come forward to the press, hence the need for the ad in the newspaper.
Yeah, I think it's only a matter of time until somebody credible comes forward, said Mr. Morrow.
You ever had sex with Rick Perry?
Supposedly a Republican running the ad.
It's a Ron Paul guy.
Okay, Open Line Friday on Thursday, meaning we take phone calls in the first hour.
We'll start with Stephen Columbus, Ohio.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi, how are you doing today?
Hey, I'm just kicking back and doing great.
How are you?
I'm good.
I have a question.
I just want to know, why do you think, I want your opinion on why our conservatives seem to be so threatened by labor unions?
I'm a member of a labor union, and it's a multi-generational thing.
My family's been involved with the labor union since I can remember.
But I just want to know why it's so threatening to some people to go after better working conditions.
Well, it's not.
It's not?
It's not threatening.
It's not threatening after better working unions.
No, no, no, no.
To some people.
No, it's not threatening to people.
That's not that unions don't.
Now, some people are threatened by Obama's union thugs, like the SEIU people who beat up black people in wheelchairs at campaign events in St. Louis.
But you have to specify, are you a private sector union member?
Yes.
Okay.
Most of the attention on labor unions in the past 12 months have been focused on government union, particularly state union workers.
Right.
They and their federal cohorts earn, on average, twice what similar workers, the private sector, earn.
Now, you may say, well, that's cool.
We all want people to make more money.
No, the problem is, is that they are being paid by their private sector cohorts.
The public sector workers are being paid by their neighbors.
But the problem is that it's a political thing.
It's not working conditions.
The public sector worker unions, state and local, almost all vote Democrat.
Their dues are siphoned and end up in the Democrat Party campaign coffers.
It's a money laundering scheme.
Public sector unions are basically a Democrat Party money laundering scheme.
But you tell me why somebody on your street should pay you twice what he earns and then promise you health care and salary for the rest of your life after you quit working.
Well, I think that it should be a give and take, Rush.
I really do.
I think that the person that's that's I think that providing that stuff to an individual is okay, but I think the individual should also be putting into that as well.
I don't think it should be expected that the Well, welcome to the club.
But the fight in Wisconsin was totally about the fact that the state union workers didn't think they should have to pay a dime toward their own health care or retirement.
They eventually agreed to.
They lost the fight.
And then they lost their collective bargaining rights.
But that's because they were bargaining against the citizens of the state.
Public sector unions are not bargaining against some fat cat corporate jet cigar chomping guy staying in hotel suites drinking booze all day long.
You know, the caricature of the big corporate boss.
They're two separate types of unions that were being discussed here.
But the whole idea of being threatened by people who want better working conditions is not at all what this is about.
It's about fiscal responsibility.
It can't be sustained.
Situations where the people paying salaries are paying twice what they earn and then are being told you got to pay that for as long as that employee lives.
It can't be sustained.
It's not fair.
It doesn't make any economic sense.
That's what the battle was about.
The Democrats want all of that money because it just ends up backing their campaign efforts, pure and simple.
Okay, got to take a brief little hiatus here, top of the hour.
The Rush Limbaugh program will be back and open line Friday on Thursday today, which means when we go to the phones, you don't have to talk about anything I care about.
Whatever you want.
If I don't care about it, I'll fake it.
Unlike we usually do.
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