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Aug. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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I am your host, El Rushbo, having more funny human being should be allowed to have.
The doctor of democracy, America's truth detector, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, Maha Rushi.
Now that thought-provoking scenario.
Space aliens monitoring our carbon emissions does appear in a joint study by Penn State and the NASA Planetary Science Division entitled Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity?
A scenario analysis.
It's in the New York Times.
Oh, UK Guardian.
And they are identified as people with the NASA Planetary Science Division.
But you can't make this up.
Somewhere Paul Krugman's gonna be shot and bring it on, bring it on because he was all for a space alien attack two weeks ago.
Anyway, great to have you back.
Jonathan Martin Politico is Rick Perry dumb, another Texas governor who drops his G's and scorns elites, is running for president, and the whispers are the same.
Lightweight, incurious, instinctual.
Strip away the euphemisms in Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question.
Is he dumb or just misunderestimated?
Who's asking this?
The people on the left.
Doubts about Perry's intellect have hounded him since he was first elected as a state legislator nearly thirty years ago.
In Austin, he's been derided as a right place, right time politician took the part, but isn't so deep.
Governor Goodhair.
Now with the chatter picking back up among his enemies and taking flight in an elite Republican circles, the rap threatens to follow him to the national stage.
Now, of course, there's an unspoken part of this, and that is that Obama's brilliant.
I'm gonna tell you so Obama drops more G's in a week than Perry does in a year.
But putting all that aside.
Where is this notion that Obama's smart?
Well, why is it just accepted?
Because of the way he does speak.
Is Obama smart economically?
Or is he dumb?
Is anything Barack Obama is doing?
Are his policies?
Are they smart?
Are they wise?
Here's a guy for a three-minute announce.
He announced some another professor is joining his economic team.
Some Princeton professor, a guy named Krueger, is joining the economic team.
Another academic, someone who has no experience, private sector, joining the economic team.
How bright is that?
And it took two teleprompters for Obama to do a three-minute announcement.
Now, how bright is that?
Put another way, how stupid must you be if you need a teleprompter in a classroom with a bunch of kids?
Or if you need a teleprompter for a three-minute announcement of somebody joining your economic team.
So here we have this story is Rick Perry dumb, and of course, unspoken is Obama is Mr. Brilliant.
And of course, Reagan was dumb, and Reagan was incurious.
So it's a template that is repeating itself.
Washington Examiner, there's a piece here.
Let's see.
Don't know who wrote this.
Might just be an editorial.
Playing the crazy card on Rick Perry won't save Obama.
When the American people are itching to throw a party out of office, portraying the challenger as too extreme is generally a losing strategy because the challenger has to meet the lower threshold of merely seeming reasonable.
Incumbents in modern elections have repeatedly tried to make their challengers seem unfit for orifice.
It worked for LBJ and Richard Nixon against Goldwater and the government, but in both those cases, the incumbents had stronger approval numbers than Obama.
So you're going to try to say Perry's dumb.
He's extreme, crazy.
It's going to drive the independence away.
You know what's going to drive the You if this election, whoever the Republican nominee is, keeps this focus on the economy.
You can forget about the independence going anywhere.
The independence will stay locked solid with the Republican nominee if the focus of the campaign remains on the future and economics and unemployment and spending and debt.
That's how you're going to own the independence.
That's what they care about.
You get, you know, talking about other things.
Yeah, you might run the risk of disinteresting them.
But APGFK poll.
Obama faces trouble with key voters.
Whites and women.
It's an AP story, by the way.
Whites and women are a re-election problem for Obama.
Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent.
All are important Democrat constituencies that helped Obama win the White House in 2008, and whose support he'll need to keep it next year.
An analysis of Associated Press GFK polls, including the latest survey released last week, shows that Obama has lost ground among all those groups since he took orifice.
The nation's high unemployment is weighing on Obama, dragging down his marks for handling the economy.
dragging down and justified.
63% disapprove of the way Obama's handling the economy.
That's justified.
It makes total sense.
His overall standing has slid to...
After a difficult summer marked by contentious negotiations over the country's borrowing limit, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it goes on to say that white independent voters may be the president's biggest challenge now.
Just three in ten white independents say that Obama deserves to be re-elected, and only 41% say he understands the problems of people like them.
You know, folks, let's be honest about something that happened in 2008.
White guilt was what propelled a great percentage of the white vote for Obama.
All right.
Tell me, El Snerdbow, why are you laughing at that?
Well, it is.
White white guilt wasn't me, by the way, it was Shelby Steele who said it.
Thomas Sowell has said it.
White guilt.
Shelby Steele wrote several columns.
I think even a great book about it.
White guilt propelled the vote for Obama, the white vote for Obama.
Well, white guilt, that was the source of the magic Negro column in the LA Times, if you'll recall, white guilt.
Here come the and then the white guilt, of course, is over what?
Discrimination.
Slavery, this kind of.
So we can we can assuage, we can assuage our guilt by voting for a black candidate and proudly telling everybody we did.
And that sends a signal we're not racist, and you get rid of your guilt.
Well, they can't count on that, but they're gonna try to rev it up, I guarantee you.
Well, I can't guarantee.
My wild guess is at the White House, the president's campaign is going to be oriented around trying to gin that back up.
I don't know how they're going to do it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
White guilt.
They'll try to revive it.
I think they're gonna go back.
I think they're gonna try to recreate as much of 2008 as they can.
Messiah, coupled with Republican extrumptionism, um all that.
Here, I got a sound bite here.
I have a sound bite here.
Uh, this from yesterday morning's C SPAN Washington Journal.
The guests are Michelle Bernard, president and CEO of the Bernard Center for Women Politics and Public Policy, and the author Leonard Steinhorn, the book is by the color of our skin, the illusion of integration and the reality of race.
And it was a discussion about the Tea Party and race.
Now, I could be mistaken.
I didn't have the video, so I I haven't seen this.
But I think I know this Michelle Bernard.
If it's the Michelle Bernard that I know, she used to run the Independent Women's Forum, which is a conservative or is a conservative group of women.
And if it's the Michelle Bernard, I know she's a commentator on PMSNBC.
And if it's the Michelle Bernard that I know, I've been around her several times, and she has been extremely.
Well, I've always thought we're on the same side.
Let's put it that way.
I've always thought she was a conservative.
With a couple of instances where I might have doubted it.
Don't remember what they were.
But anyway, get this.
Washington Journal yesterday, Leonard Steinhorn, his book again, By the Color of Our Skin, The Illusion of Integration, The Reality of Race, They're talking about the Tea Party and race, and Steinhorn says the Tea Party really does represent this very partisan side of the Republican Party.
They are very angry their country is changing, and they don't want to let it change.
And here's Michelle Bernard.
If you look at Rush Limbaugh, who I believe went on his radio show and said that he doesn't want the president to succeed.
All of us have a moral obligation as Americans to respect the president and to respect the presidency.
And how you go out and say, I don't want this president to succeed, it's beyond explanation.
I hope this is not the same, Michelle Bernard.
I know maybe it is the same one.
Okay, then she'd done a 180.
She's she's uh she passed herself off as conservative.
Okay, she still passes herself off as conservative if she's saying this.
She knows exactly what I meant by that.
Who I believe went on his radio show said he doesn't want the president to succeed.
I didn't do I have to explain this again.
Everybody in the uncle knew what I meant at the time.
Nobody, nobody really thought that I meant that I wanted the country to fail.
I wanted the country to be saved from the guy by virtue of his policies failing.
I didn't want him to succeed in implementing his policies, and I think I have been vindicated.
Barack Obama has destroyed via his policies the United States economy.
I did not want that to happen.
I wanted him to fail in the implementation of his policies.
And this, if this is the Michelle Bernard that she knows that's exactly what I meant.
And yet, here, here it this, I think, folks, this is the beginning of the ginning up of the race machine.
This the translation here is Limbaugh wanted Obama to fail because he's black.
I'm telling you, that's where this is headed.
That's all they've got in this campaign is to play.
Well, may not fly, but they're gonna play the card and they're gonna play it as often as they can.
Any opposition to Obama is race-based or racist or what have you.
That's all they've got.
And that's how they hope to gin up the white guild.
I don't doubt me on this snerdly.
I know these people like the back of my hand.
I know them like every square inch of my shrinking again and glorious naked body.
I know what they're gonna do before they do it.
How are they going to face the people unemployed?
They're gonna blame that on the Republicans' obstructionism.
You know, you are, again, you're getting lost in something.
Forget truth.
You are expecting them to say something that's truthful.
They are not going to be truthful.
They are liberals.
They are going to try to convince people of lies again.
You say, how can they convince the unemployed?
They probably won't be able to, but they're going to try to suggest that the unemployed are unemployed because of racist opposition to Obama and his policies.
That there is a desire for him to fail because he's black.
That's what this was.
That's I am I am almost as cert as I can be that that's what this little soundbite from Michelle Bernard is setting up.
And she knows what I meant.
She knows exactly what I meant.
I've I've had lunch with this woman.
She's a good friend or was of one of the most conservative women in the country, Heather Heather Higgins.
This is, I mean, this is way, way off the reservation.
I guarantee I know what this is about.
This is about the opposition to Obama is based on race.
And you people who don't have a job, it's because Republicans want to see a black man fail.
Rush Limbaugh said so.
That's what that is.
That's what's being set up here.
Do not doubt me.
Now this is the same Michelle Bernard who commended me for Operation Chaos.
That's why I say something's up here.
Michelle Bernard of the Independent Women's Forum, Limbaugh did something positive which helped Barack Obama because he's said to uh African Americans, asked the Democrat Party, what have they done for you lately?
Encouraged African Americans to force Republicans and Democrats to compete for the black vote.
Isaiah Rush Limbaugh, good job.
We all know what's coming here.
Pure and simple.
Let's take a break here because I'm getting close to when I have to.
By the way, uh, President Obama, if you doubt me on any of this, folks, President Obama, and this is uh this happen back on August the 18th, and to very little uh fanfare.
President Obama has signed an executive order directing the federal government to design a new strategy for hiring, promoting, and keeping workers of diverse backgrounds.
A three-page order released Thursday directs the head of the Office of Personnel Management, a deputy director, the Office of Management and Budget, and two other agencies to develop the strategy within 90 days.
Agencies then have 120 days to implement it.
So another new plan to diversify federal workers.
More race-based hiring in the federal government.
Aurora Colorado, Lee, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Lee.
Hi, uh Rush.
I just wanted to make a comment.
I'm very sorry for the people on the East Coast who got hit by that quote unquote hurricane.
But you know, there's a great segment of our population that are still suffering from when they released the levees in the Missouri and Mississippi River.
I understand that there are parts of Iowa and Nebraska still underwater.
Now, Rush, this is our farmland, and these people have not been able to farm all summer.
Their highways are still dismade, uh undriveable.
Where's the help for them?
Exactly.
As well as the people in Texas and the Four Corners area that lost so much to the fires.
Exactly.
I guess we don't vote for Obama, so we don't get any consideration in all the aid.
You're more right than you know, and by the way, get this.
FEMA has taken, I kid you not, FEMA has taken money from little Joplin, Missouri To use for selected victims of Hurricane Irene.
Oh, I believe it, Rush.
I totally believe it.
These people have no concept.
If it means buying votes, well, that's what we'll do with the money, regardless of whether the intent is to help people.
It's by those votes.
That's what they view the purpose of the office as the power to spend money to keep themselves in power.
That's precisely what is going on.
Go ahead, folks.
Cast it all aside.
Feel free.
Admit it.
You are addicted to this show.
It's a healthful addiction.
It's an airborne phenomenon spread by casual contact.
It's known as EIB.
And if you get it, you are cured.
Tropical storm Jose.
You remember Sheila Jackson Lee the other day, or the other year.
She's at Doofus Congresswoman from Texas.
She's all been out of shape one day that the hurricanes and tropical storms are not named after people of color.
Remember that?
Well, we got one.
Tropical storm.
Here's the headline.
This is from the New Orleans Times Picky Un website, NOLA.com.
Tropical Storm Jose passing west of Bermuda.
Subhead.
Some night when we're not looking, he's gonna hop the fence and hit Arizona.
Just kidding, folks.
Still tell anybody I said that.
I was just just kidding.
Tropical Storm Jose in Arizona.
It's not possible.
Just a joke.
And by the way, another thing.
Michelle Bernard and all the rest of you who are out there purposefully mischaracterizing me.
And this whole Obama fails business.
Let me turn the question around on you.
Do you want Obama to succeed in destroying the U.S. economy?
Is that what you want, Michelle?
You want more of this?
You want Barack Obama to destroy the business climate in this country?
Do you want Barack Obama to spend this country into such debt that even sperm cells face a tax rate of 78%?
Is that what you want?
You want this?
You want this kind of decline for your country?
Is that what you want?
You want a president who punishes the successful and the achievers.
Here, I'll give you another example of how this is all starting, how it's all being set up here.
This is uh this is last Monday, so a week ago today.
It was on NPR's on point.
And the host there, Tom Ashbrook, interviewed Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy.
And they were talking about Obama and the politics of race.
And the host, Ashbrook said, now look at the whole spectrum of white response to this president of color.
Where do you see evidence that we have evolved in some direction in terms of racial attitudes, and where do you see evidence that we have not?
On inauguration day, a day when there were some people who did not vote for Barack Obama, but who said, you know, there's a wonderful day, and you know, this on inauguration day, we're all joining together.
There were a lot of people who took that position, but you just played someone, pretty important personage, Rush Lembaugh said on inauguration day.
He hoped the man failed.
He wasn't alone.
He wasn't alone.
I'm sure Rush Limbaugh will say, not because he's black, Randall.
Yeah, of course he will say that.
The question is, is that true?
And I don't think it's just because he's black, but is blackness one of the ingredients of the opposition in the far right wing of the United States.
Yes, it is.
So that's last week, and you couple that with Michelle Bernard, and I'm telling you, this is what this campaign is is shaping up to be.
Snerdley, you don't get bogged down in whether what these people are saying true or not.
Whether the saying is true or not is irrelevant.
It's what they can make people believe.
And so the effort is officially underway now.
So I would I would once again ask the guest here, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kennedy, do you want unemployment for blacks to be at depression levels?
Do you want to support black unemployment at 51%?
I do not, and I hoped that that didn't happen.
Do you support the assault on the American business claim?
Do you do you support the assault on success and achievement in this country?
Do you want more of the economic destruction that we have had in the last three years?
Turn the question around on these people.
Yeah, Russ Limbaugh, the president failed.
Okay, so you want more of what we got.
You like what Obama's done.
You are what in the 38% who approve of this, according to Gallup.
Is that what you want us to know of you?
You know, you people can try this.
But you are not dealing with somebody who's afraid of you.
And who's going to beg you to shut up and stop talking about me and gonna cower in the corner in fear over your attempt at branding me racially motivated.
I don't have to ask permission to be unleashed.
Remember, Maxine Waters, she went up there to Detroit, and she's talking to some of her constituents as a representative of black caucus.
And she had to ask permission to be unleashed against Obama because of the sad state of black unemployment in this country.
And her audience said, You're unleashed.
Well, I don't have to ask to be unleashed to ask questions of our president.
Uh pure and simple.
Speaking of, I said to Colin Powell earlier, on sure.
He was on Slay the Nation yesterday, Bob Schaefer said, let's talk a little bit about this book at Dick Cheney.
Himself said is going to cause heads all over Washington to explode.
I guess I guess I'd ask you, General Powell, is your head exploding?
My head isn't exploding, and I haven't noticed any other heads exploding in Washington, D.C. And the explosive part of the book is what Mr. Cheney says is explosive.
But from what I've read in the newspapers and seen on television, it's essentially a rehash of events of seven or eight years ago.
What really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it.
It's going to cause heads to explode.
That's quite a visual.
And in fact, if the kind of headline I would expect to come out of a gossip columnist, or the kind of headline you might see one of the uh supermarket tabloids right.
It's not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former vice president of the United States of America.
Oh, wow.
So we're getting now down to the nub of it here.
General Powell, not a big fan of Vice President Cheney.
And we know why.
We know why.
By the way, Vice President Cheney on this program tomorrow.
Well, we got him at one o'clock, right?
One o'clock Eastern Time, Vice President Cheney here.
Well, he'd be on the phone.
But part of this, you gotta go back when Powell ran the State Department, Richard Armitage leaked the name Valerie Plain and Scooter Libby, a trusted aid of Dick Cheney had to take the fall for this.
And of course, General Powell has never gotten over the fact that the Bush administration sent him up to the uh United Nations to do the slide show presentation on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
So uh General here, uh General Powell, a former chairman of Chief Joints of Staff, says his little squeamish over heads exploding.
Seems a little squeamish over it.
But how about this petulant question from Schiefer?
Here's your head exploding.
Oh, my head's not exploding.
I haven't seen anybody else's heads exploding in Washington, D.C. Schaefer said, well, so you just label all this stuff uh cheap shots?
They are cheap shots.
He goes on to talk about the Valerie Plame affair and tries to lay it all off on uh Mr. Rich Armitage in the State Department and me.
But the fact of the matter is when Mr. Armitage realized that he was the source for Bob Novak's column that caused all the difficulty, and uh he called me immediately, as we call the Justice Department.
They sent over the FBI.
The FBI had all the information about Mr. Armitage's participation in this immediately.
If the White House operatives had come forward as readily as Mr. Armitage had done, then we wouldn't have gone on for two more months with the FBI trying to find out what happened in the White House.
Nothing happened in the White House.
It all happened in the State Department.
Armitage sat there and let Scooter Libby twist in the wind.
Now, if the maybe some news here, if the FBI knew all along that Armitage had given it up, why didn't they tell Patrick Fitzgerald so that he would stop pursuing Rove or uh uh Libby or anybody else at the White House?
That would be my pregunta.
So now I'm I'm I think I'm learning for the first time here from General Powell that Armitage, when he found out he was a source, he called the uh Justice Department and laid it all out for him.
And somehow the Justice Department didn't tell their special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald.
Seems to be some bad blood here.
We have the titular head of the Republican Party, Mr. Powell, going after the former vice president of the United States, uh Mr. Cheney.
Uh why why is the leader of the GOP, Mr. Powell, always involved in these kinds of things with these underlings.
The Schaefer said, well, you you voted for Barack Obama the last time out, even though you're a Republican.
Uh you're going to vote for him again?
I haven't decided who I'm going to vote for, just as was the case in 2008.
I'm going to watch the campaign unfold.
In the course of my life, I have voted for Democrats, I have voted for Republicans.
I have uh changed from one four-year cycle to another, and I've always felt that it is my responsibility as a citizen uh to take a look at the issues to examine the candidates and pick the person that I think is best qualified for the office of the president in that year, and not just solely on the basis of party affiliation.
Right, right, right, right, right.
So that he wants to stand by that as the reason he voted for Obama.
He examined the issues.
He examined the candidates, he picked the person best qualified for the office.
How'd it work out for you, General?
Uh uh last time.
I I I I don't I'm sorry, I just don't buy that as the um rationale for his vote.
Which uh so stated.
Uh I got a little trouble.
I said I I said, look at we all know why Powell voted for Obama.
It was racially based vote, all hell broke loose.
Okay.
Why?
What was Michelle Bernard got to do with it?
What's she got to do with this?
What?
What?
Colin Powell just said what?
Oh, oh, Michelle Bernard is not going to be happy if I questioned Colin Powell's Varass.
Oh.
Probably not.
Probably not.
And I wouldn't have even thought of it or cared about it had you not brought it up.
Here's Bert, Greenbelt Maryland.
Hi, Bert, great to have you on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh Rush, if we end up with the uh affirmative action ugly doctrine that the New York Times argued for today.
Yeah.
Do you realize that the first on the list would be every African American Democratic candidate prior to Barack Obama?
Remember, according to um the Czar of Ugly, uh Joe Biden, uh Barack Obama was the first clean and nice-looking African American candidate on the scene.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I hadn't thought of that.
But now that you now that, you know, now that you mention that.
I mean, that is risky ground, but uh uh Biden did say that.
That finally the Democrats had a clean and articulate candidate.
African candidate.
He's wrong.
I know many good looking black social figures, but you know, yeah, they're mostly conservative.
Yeah.
And uh two other uh questions to ponder.
Would this not be uh an extension of liberal feminism, a la undeniable truth of life number 24?
Yep.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women.
I look at I've been all over this.
There's you know, it's it's it's uh it's amazing how ahead of my time I am and have been.
Folks, I mean the New York Times did have a story Sunday.
Affirmative action for ugly people.
I'm not you'd think this guy is just trying to be funny.
It happened.
Obama did not mention ugliness in his diversity executive order uh in terms of uh new federal hires.
But that was before the New York Times came out with a story about I'm just wondering if um he will appoint an ugliness czar.
Uh now to handle it.
It's a big problem out there.
And there's a lot of ugly people.
You we all know this, and they vote.
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