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Aug. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
El Rushbo back at it in the saddle, ready for broadcast excellence, a full week of it here.
Yeah.
Why wouldn't it be a full week?
Well, you think an earthquake or something is going to happen?
Was there a hurricane?
That was a hurricane, really?
They call it a hurricane.
I saw, I got to be very, very careful about this because there was, you know, Vermont is flooded.
For you people that haven't heard of it, Vermont is a state, and there's a city there called Montpelier, and it's underwater.
And Brattleboro is underwater.
It really, this is more of a flooding and power outage storm than it was a wind storm.
You know what I did?
By the way, phone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Politics is part of everything.
The weather's been politicized.
The climate's been politicized.
Hurricane track forecasts have been politicized.
I was over in Hawaii and it's okay, Hurricane Irene.
And they start the first tracks.
And I look at it because, okay, if it's going to target my house, I got to leave Hawaii early and come home and get the family out.
So I'm looking at it.
And lo and behold, on the first day or two of the track, dead hit Palm Beach.
I said, okay, we're out of the woods.
Ain't going to happen.
And I know damn well it's not going to happen.
They're going to move that track.
They're going to be moving it east.
I'm looking at the models.
I'm looking at the hurricane models, and they got the track on the far left side of the model guidance.
They've got to have this track over land, over populated areas to get people to pay attention to it.
After Hurricane Katrina, everybody is just on politically correct alert, fearful of what's the funniest thing.
There's so many funny things.
People went out, television networks went out and actually got Ray Nagan as a preparedness expert to advise other communities in the path of Hurricane Irene what to do to get ready.
What's he going to tell them?
Yeah, leave your school buses parked so that they get flooded.
There was damage from this thing, but it was not nearly as bad as they said.
Some guy did something interesting, and I decided to check it myself.
He's a doubter, and he's watching the reports of 75 to 85 to 100 mile an hour winds in Virginia, North Carolina.
So he went to the Weather Underground site, and he went to a bunch of cities and towns that were where the hurricane was.
And the highest wind speed he could find was 33 miles an hour while they're reporting 75 to 85 to 95 mile an hour winds.
So I said, well, you know what?
I'm going to check myself.
I went to Weather Underground and I went to places like Newbern, North Carolina and Goldsboro, North Carolina, Virginia Beach.
And lo and behold, the guy was right.
I found a town where the wind was eight miles an hour while they were reporting hurricane winds in excess of 80 miles an hour.
So, and then poor the grim reaper Geraldo, you saw this Saturday night out in a little mist in the streets of New York City, abandoned this mayor telling everybody to get out of town.
Folks, I tell you, it was a storm, but my gosh, the overreaction, the politics, the New York Times is trying to say that this violent hurricane is indeed indicative of global warming.
I was a tropical storm when it left New York when it hit me.
I have friends in Connecticut.
They were diverting the bullseye in the path, and they're out there waiting for the winds, and they're waiting for the winds, and there weren't any winds.
And they finally went out and they staged some pictures of barely holding on the lamp posts and so forth as though the wind was blowing when there wasn't any wind.
It was a rainstorm.
And there was a lot of flooding and there were deaths associated with it.
But the hype, folks, thought, I'll tell you what this was, was a lesson.
If you pay any attention to this, the hype, the desire for chaos, I mean, literally the media desire for chaos was a great learning tool.
This is a great illustration of how all of the rest of the media in news, in sports, has templates and narratives and exaggerates beyond reality, creating fear so as to create interest.
Anderson Cooper, I think we got soundbites somewhere.
I've got so many soundbites.
I'm going to have, I have no way I can keep track of what's where here.
But there's a soundbite where we have Anderson Cooper in a light rain being told by Jackie Jarius, the weather babe at CNN, that he is in the worst of the hurricane.
And he's, really?
I mean, it's barely raining here.
Yeah, well, Anderson, you're in the worst of it there.
And he can't believe it.
So Toby Harding, the UK Daily Mail or the Telegraph, whichever.
I'll tell you something.
Folks, it's a national embarrassment.
The hype over this hurricane.
What we have with the media, I'm going to tell you something else.
Obama comes off a vacation to lead his nation to the response to Hurricane Irene, to draw a contrast with Bush and Katrina, part of the reelection effort.
You know something?
Do you know, speaking of Obama, he and Michelle are something up there, folks?
I don't like commenting on this kind of stuff, but they went to Martha's Vineyard same day, four hours apart on different airplanes on their vacation.
There are stories throughout the media about Michelle spending money like there's no tomorrow.
$10 million on one vacation.
But what I mean, she leaves four hours.
Now, it's fine if they're paying for all of it, but they're not.
The optics, the optics here, as they now say, about Shelmy Bell are not the best.
But this hype over Hurricane Irene, to me, is a national embarrassment.
The media, the government are out there peddling fear when facts and calm would make for much better investments and would result in much more credibility for these people reporting this stuff.
Well, I'm going to tell you something.
Hurricane Obama, this Irene, whatever this Irene is going to cost us, it pales in comparison.
That has been the hurricane of the Obama administration.
The Obama administration is a hurricane, has cost us far more.
And Byron York, while I was gone, great story, fabulous story on the source of all this deficit spending under Obama, the $4 trillion of new spending.
Everybody's focused on entitlements.
And he correctly points out it's not entitlements that have busted the budget here.
Entitlements are known.
The spending and entitlements are known.
What's been added to the entitlements is where we're in trouble.
The purposeful spending, the stimulus, the porculus, the tarp, all of these things above and beyond the entitlements.
Now, one of the tricks in this is to distract people from that, get them focused on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid as the source of the problem.
And they're problems.
They have to be dealt with.
But they are not the culprit here.
Obama is.
And all the focus on he's not serious about entitlement reform.
Well, that's simply a way to distract people away from what Obama has actually done.
This is just another media frenzy without any results, just like the Obama presidency.
Obama's economy.
Look at it this way.
Obama's economy has millions of people out of work, millions more living paycheck to paycheck.
Millions are getting deeper in debt as every month passes.
So all it takes is an unexpected expense.
Say, for example, a heavy rain to sink the family ship.
Oh, and by the way, story.
The drive-by is all excited.
Consumer spending way up.
Yeah, it's called back to school happens every year.
Nothing new here.
There's not a trend.
Celinda Lake, pollster, extraordinaire Democrat Party, 10% chance the Democrats will ask Obama to step down, do an LBJ, 10% chance.
Celinda Lake, she's part of a Battleground poll team with Ed Goaz.
Very respected.
Gallup Paul Obama at 38%.
63% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
And make no mistake, that remains the story.
By the way, Politico Jonathan Martin's story is Rick Perry dumb.
This is a recycle.
Same thing they tried against Ronaldos Magnus back in 1979, 1980.
Is Ronald Reagan dumb?
It's amazing.
Nothing new.
Media cycles, media templates, media narratives being repeated, recycled.
Here it is.
French news agency Obama takes charge at Hurricane Command Center.
U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama on Saturday personally led his government's response to Hurricane Irene, marshaling top officials and visiting a disaster command center as the storm roared ashore.
Obama returned home one night early on Friday from his island vacation and appeared keen to be visibly in charge as the response to Hurricane Irene unfolded.
So, I mean, the fix is in.
The campaign's underway.
Al Gore says that if you oppose global warming, you're a racist.
I mean, we're loaded here today.
I don't know, even if I didn't take a phone call, I don't know that I could get it all in today.
That's how much, because even while I was away, I was prepping.
I can't avoid it.
Such is my commitment.
The backdoor amnesty.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Backdoor, yeah, just refusing to deport people.
Just backdoor.
Yeah, in fact, you know, I was on a golf vacation and my friends all teased me.
We get back from playing golf.
We'd leave every morning around 10.
Early bus would leave at 10.
We'd get back about 6.
And then I'd go to my room and not be heard from two hours.
And so, what were you?
On the computer?
They all tease me.
No, yeah, I was on a computer, but I was doing a little, what's going on?
They relied on me to tell what's going on.
Well, I just want you to know that Obama has just secretly, basically, executed amnesty for illegal immigrants.
What do you mean?
And I explained it to him.
Just refusing to deport.
Basically, we've got amnesty as now an immigration policy.
It just happened out there.
Anyway, just barely scratch service.
Also, going to go back.
I asked Cookie to go back and get the audio from my guest shot on William Shatner's show, the biography channel, Shatner's Raw Nerve.
You know, when he just, he got, I love Shatner.
If.
Funny is a funny guy.
But if you remember that episode, if you saw it, he was just looking frustrated.
How do you know?
Frustrated.
How do you know?
Because I was being so confident in my analysis and assessment of Obama and the country in the future.
How do you know?
Why are you so confident?
How do you know?
So I'm going to replay that answer.
So there's lots to do here today, folks, in addition to taking your phone calls.
I've got Maxine Waters and a tea party go to hell.
I got Axel Rod saying the Black Caucus can go to hell.
He doesn't say that, but that's what he means.
So we're loaded.
All we got to do is get to it.
And we'll do that after our first obscene profit timeout right now.
We're getting a new puppy today.
Getting a third sheepdog puppy.
I will not be present at the time of delivery, but I hope to see the dog sometime this week.
Cambridge is the name of our third female sheepdog.
Go along with Abigail Wellesley.
And now Cambridge.
No, no, I don't think.
No, no, we're not going to start breeding them.
Wellesley went through heat.
That was enough.
Oh, Pumpkin's ecstatic.
Oh, yo, yo, I've never seen a happier cat than Punkin.
Anyway, what was that?
Yeah, that's right.
Great to have you here, folks.
Seriously, we're back.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Honestly, the guy that was tracking wind speeds in hurricane locations intrigued me, and I went and checked it myself.
The media and the National Hurricane Center reporting 75 to 95 mile an hour sustained winds.
Not gusts, sustained winds.
Do you know what the sustained winds in Central Park were?
16 miles an hour.
16 to 18 miles an hour.
Now, that's, folks, that is a huge, huge gap.
Now, you in this audience, because of me being host, you know how the media lies.
You know how politicized everything is to push the leftist agenda.
You know how the media distorts.
But I'm going to tell you something.
The hysterical reporting on Irene, they couldn't wait for this storm.
Obama, I'll guarantee you this.
I'll guarantee you Obama was hoping this is going to be a disaster as another excuse for his failing economy.
I mean, if he's out there blaming tsunamis, if he's blaming earthquakes and whatever other natural disasters there are, I mean, this one made the order, but it just didn't measure up.
Now, you know how they lie and distort, but I'll tell you, the historical, hysterical reporting on this hurricane has exposed the media to many people who might not have really noticed it before.
For instance, our old buddy Shep Smith at Fox News was gloating at all the people who said that Irene would hit New York City as a tropical storm.
You were wrong.
He was just waiting for it.
You know, Ship's been through natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina and so forth.
He claimed the winds were 75 miles an hour, which made it a hurricane.
But again, I checked NOAA.
I checked whether underground.
The wind speeds were 16 to 18 miles an hour.
This was another media frenzy without results.
Just like the Obama presidency.
I mean, the real category five here is Obama when you boil it all down.
See, one of my favorite quotes from the weekend came from Shepard Smith Sunday morning.
He said, just as expected, the rainfall totals are lower than expected.
Just like the employment numbers, lower than expected.
Not one thing that was forecast about this turned out to be, except they got the track right.
They got the track right.
But the intensity and everything totally, totally blown.
You know, it's a national embarrassment, folks.
It really is.
We will be right back.
Here's that Anderson Cooper bite, the Sunday morning, CNN Sunday, during coverage of Hurricane Irene.
The meteorologist Jackie Jarris, and she's talking to Anderson Cooper 29 host, Anderson Cooper.
I think overall, we're going to be experiencing the worst of those conditions now.
All right.
So, I mean, the good news is that it's, I mean, it's an annoying rain, but it's not even a sideways rain.
It's not a rain that hurts as you're standing in it.
She tells Anderson Cooper that he's standing in the worst of the hurricane and he can't believe it.
It's not even a hard rain.
So he had to cover for it somehow.
See, Governor Christie in New Jersey telling people, get the hell off the beach.
You had reporters on the middle of the street warning everybody it was Armageddon while pizza delivery guys are on bicycles behind them and people walking down the streets, people in their cars.
And casinos in New Jersey were closed for the first time, whatever, 35 years.
Turns out for no reason whatsoever.
All this hype, all this panic, all this helplessness.
Well, we're going to die.
I'll tell you, folks, it's an embarrassment to me.
The whole thing was an embarrassment.
And at the same time, it was laughing about the whole thing.
Economic growth second quarter, slightly weaker than previously estimated.
Slightly.
According to revised U.S. government data released on Friday, the GDP, which is the broadest measure of our economic health, rose at an annual rate of 1% in the second quarter.
The CHICOMs are growing at 9.5%.
The Cuban growth rate's higher than ours.
The Cuban economy is growing faster than ours.
1% revised down.
This is a piece of news from the usual Friday evening dump, further buried by the hysteria over coverage of the storm of the century brought on by global warming.
God, folks, the lies that have become rote, the lies that appear as news in every one of these stories.
Just amazing.
Gross domestic product, 1%.
In July, we were told it was 1.3%, but they revised it down.
Economists were expecting the rate to be revised down to 1.1%, according to consensus estimates from briefing.com.
Well, imagine that economist getting it wrong.
I'm stunned.
I can't believe it.
And then we're told in this story that slowdown's here to stay.
The slowdown is here to stay.
Now, that's true, and I think you and I know that it is.
What does this portend for the presidential campaign?
Dirt.
Pure, unadulterated dirt.
The regime cannot and will not run on its record.
The best that this regime can hope for is to say that their record would have been astoundingly good were it not for Republican obstructionism.
But that's going to be a tough sell because the Republican presidential nominee will have had nothing to do with any obstructionism.
The second point is there wasn't any.
The Republicans didn't have the numbers to stop anything.
There wasn't any obstructionism.
Obama, the Democrats got everything they could get.
They could have gotten more if they themselves had been unified.
If this slowdown is here to stay, Obama's gone.
Unless he can create so much unrest and chaos throughout the culture.
I personally am very worried and concerned for what's going to be happening one year from now, 15 months, nine months from now in this country.
Because that's all they're going to have at their disposal.
They can't run on their record.
They can't run on, we know what we're doing, just give us more time.
All they can hope to do is try to destroy whoever the Republican nominee is and create so much hell.
Think Chicago, 68 Democrat Convention nationwide.
Think that.
That's what has me concerned.
Think race card.
These people are playing.
They're already starting to.
Somebody said to me, Rush, I'm really worried there's going to be race riots.
There are.
What do you think these flash mobs are?
There already are race riots taking place.
Small in comparison, not reported as such, but they're happening.
63% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
This is the AP.
GFK poll.
President Obama began the summer, 52% job approval, 46% disapproval.
Numbers that mirrored his performance in the 2008 election.
He ends the summer with 47% approval.
52% disapproval.
In Gallup, it's at 38%.
We know the AP is adding 10 points just because they like the guy.
However, 63, even in the AP poll here, 63% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
92% say the economy is an extremely or very important issue.
86% say the economy is bad.
75% think the nation's headed in the wrong direction.
If the slowdown's here to stay, Obama's gone, unless Obama can do something or his party or the regime can do something to create so much.
I don't even know what the word is.
Be very careful about it.
Unrest.
Anything is anything's possible.
There was a story.
What's the date of this thing?
This happened, I think, either the day I left for vacation that Friday, the 19th, shortly thereafter.
The UK Guardian.
Serious story.
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilizations, say scientists may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a preemptive alien attack.
Scientists say, you had, who was it?
Oh, it was that idiot Krugman advocating for a space alien attack in the New York Times as a way to get the economy to rebound.
You had a serious story here in the UK Guardian, watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilization growing out of control and take drastic steps to keep us from becoming a more serious threat.
Researchers explain the highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a NASA-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Penn State that while it, honestly, I'm reading this verbatim, while considered unlikely, they say could play out where humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.
Sean Goldman of NASA's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter to help humanity prepare for actual contact.
In their report, would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity?
Basically, you have here a crackpot leftist scientist and influence in NASA coming in the form of an actual NASA employee producing actual NASA documents warning that if we don't adopt lunatic global warming policies of Al Gores,
that space aliens will invade us to wipe us out to prevent us from destroying our climate.
Here's a quote from the story.
Folks, this is in the UK Guardian.
This story is presented with all the sincerity of any news story that you might find on the front page of any newspaper any day of the week.
Here's the poll quote: Green aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth.
Wipe us out to save the planet.
These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems.
It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets, the authors write.
Honest to God, NASA scientists say we're being observed by space aliens.
And if we don't dial it back on the greenhouse gases, they're going to invade us and wipe us out as a civilization to save this planet.
We're being observed.
And we're getting stories today from the politico asking, is Rick Perry dumb?
Back in a second.
You know, folks, every science fiction movie in the 50s, the 60s was based on space aliens coming to Earth to prevent us from developing the nuclear bomb.
The nuclear bomb, we're going to wipe ourselves out.
Space aliens, always smarter than we were, would show up.
And that was the plot.
Remember, Michael Remy was in the original having a metal block on the name.
Yes, the day the Earth stood still, that stupid robot, Gort, whatever it was, was all about we're developing a nuclear bomb.
Now the aliens are getting us going to get us to stop doing global warming.
And this gets passed off as straight news.
And wait till you hear what's that.
By the way, Colin Powell was on Slay the Nation yesterday.
He said that he's not sure that he would vote for Obama again in 2012.
Now, folks, that has to set off some warning bells out there in the Democrat Party.
Because if the titular head of the Republican Party, Colin Powell, remember, we were told back in 2008 that the ideal Republican is Colin Powell.
That's, if you need a model of who the ideal Republican is, that's who it is, General Powell.
A guy endorsing the Democrat candidate, Barack Obama.
But now General Powell, who's also upset at Dick Cheney if you're taking cheap shots at him in his book, who, by the way, Dick Cheney, will be here on this program tomorrow to talk about his new book.
With General Powell saying that he's not quite sure that he would vote for Obama, that's got to set off some warning bells of the Democrat Party.
Because as I say, if the titular head of the Republican Party is starting to have doubts about your candidate, you know that you are in trouble.
But, snerdly, you know I'm right here.
In the end, Powell will vote for Obama.
There's no doubt of it.
The titular head of the Republican Party, the ideal model Republican, will vote for Obama.
Melanin is thicker than water, folks.
And that's what will happen.
Do you remember?
Many of you in Kansas City and in Sacramento will remember.
One of the things I've did as a highly trained broadcast specialist established me as a great thinker was a commentary entitled Ban the Ugly.
In Kansas City, I first did this on radio station KMBZ, too much consternation and then ultimate praise when people figured it out.
Ban the ugly from the streets in the daytime so as to speed up the economic recovery.
And people said, well, how do you do that?
I said, well, the first thing we try is we make it voluntary.
The ugly know who they are.
And if that doesn't work, then we've got to take more drastic steps.
I revived it and modified it when I later went to Sacramento.
And then it showed up in various elements of this program starting in 1988, revisions of the 35 undeniable truths of life.
The term uglo-American created by me and used on this program.
Cutting edge of societal evolution.
There was a story in the New York Times over the weekend.
Should ugly people get affirmative action?
I kid you not.
There was an economist, Daniel Hammermesch, author of a new book, Beauty Pays, Why Attractive People Are More Successful, said in the New York Times, beauty is as much an issue for men as for women.
While extensive research shows that women's looks have bigger impacts in the market for mates, another large group of studies demonstrates that men's looks have bigger impacts on the job.
Why this disparate treatment of looks in so many areas of life?
Well, it's a matter of simple prejudice.
A more radical solution may be needed.
Why not offer legal protections to the ugly as we do with racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, women, and handicapped individuals?
I'm not kidding you.
This was in the New York Times on Sunday.
Affirmative action for ugly people.
Ugliness could be protected generally in the United States by small extensions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Ugly people could be allowed to seek help from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies in overcoming the effects of discrimination.
We could even have affirmative action programs for the ugly.
New York Times, in 2011, I.L. Rushbo first broached this subject in Kansas City in 1984.
I get you not, folks.
Affirmative action for uglo Americans.
Now, they don't deal with defining the ugly.
I had the courage to do that.
They don't.
You make it voluntary.
The views expressed by the host of this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
Understand that while I was away, the D.C. establishment, Republican establishment, was warning Rick Perry to tone it down.
Yeah, well, we'll talk about that, and we'll get to your phone calls, and I'll try to make some inroads into this magnificent audio soundbite roster I've got here.
Sit tight, folks.
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