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Sept. 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, ladies and gentlemen, it must be a real dilemma for Obama.
A real dilemma.
Does he keep trying to destroy the U.S. economy and capitalism in general in order to get even with this country?
Or does he actually try to improve things temporarily with deregulation, lower taxes, and all that, so he can get re-elected, so that he can do even more damage in his second term.
What do you think he's thinking?
No, seriously, because here here is a guy.
Here's a guy who's been schooled in radicalism, not Americanism.
Shelby Steele's exactly right, I'm exactly right.
The guy's got a grudge.
He thinks this does this country is uh its exceptionalism and greatness is uh illegitimate.
Uh he views the misery of others as necessary steps that must be taken to change the country.
No level of unemployment or homelessness or deficits will deter him, and yet he's got to get re-elected.
So the dilemma that he faces must be a big one.
Does he keep trying to destroy the U.S. economy and capitalism in general, or does he actually try to temporarily make it look like things are getting better?
You know, some deregulation here, maybe lower taxes for a while over there so they get re-elected and then return to the original agenda.
I just gotta it's gotta be a real dilemma for them there in the White House.
Because they know he can't get re-elected on his record.
And you know he's not gonna get re-elected on this job speech.
Well, they may not know that.
They may who knows that it's clear that that we have um a bunch of childish and immature people and sycophants themselves who are around Obama.
Obama himself said he's only 70% done.
So he's got 30% more destruction to go.
House Speaker John Boehner, get this.
House Speaker John Boehner will deliver his own jobs speech at the Economic Club of Washington September the 15th, one week after Obama plans to address a joint session of Congress on the issue.
The House Majority Leader Eric Cantor outlined the upcoming Republican jobs agenda in a memo earlier this week.
A key element of the Republican plan will be to head off or repeal the number of job destroying regulations proposed by the administration.
They've got to repeal Obamacare as well.
They've got to try to defund it as part of the legal process that is uh is finding its way through the courts now as well.
Uh September nobody's playing on September 15th.
There is no National Football League game on September 15th.
The NFL season opens traditionally on Thursday.
It features the previous Super Bowl winner against the best team on its schedule that year.
So in this case, it's the New Orleans Saints, who won the Super Bowl two years ago at Green Bay to play the Packers on September the 8th.
September the 15th, the following Thursday, there is no NFL game.
The Thursday NFL package doesn't resume until around November, Thanksgiving sometime, on the NFL network.
The first round of Sunday games is on September the 11th.
And one of the biggies is the Sunday night game, the Dallas Cowboys against the Rex Rions and the New York Jets at Snoopy Stadium.
MetLife Stadium.
MetLife bought the naming rights.
But there is no game on September 15th, so Boehner has that date all to himself.
I am reminded that uh I haven't had a chance to comment on the Steve Jobs resignation since I was away when he happened when it happened.
I was away.
He resigned as CEO.
He's staying on as chairman of the board.
TMZ, the gossip site, published a picture of Jobs a couple of days after he resigned, ostensibly a couple days after his resignation, which portrayed Jobs as very ill and not looking good at all.
I've I have told people, in fact, I was in Hawaii last week when all this happened, and I when it happened, I said my golf buddies, Steve Jobs is one of the five people that I haven't met that I would like to meet.
They said, Who are the other four?
I don't know.
I can't name them off the top of my head.
But I I want to reserve my comments on jobs.
Everybody is talking about jobs writing obituaries practically, and I don't want what I would have to say sound like that at uh at this stage.
But what he's done is amazing.
Uh and his stated philosophies.
If you haven't seen it, one thing you should try to find.
You know what we'll do?
We'll we'll find it.
We'll link to it at rushlinbaugh.com.
He did the commencement speech at Stanford, I believe, in 2005.
And it is in the annals as one of the all-time great commencement speeches.
And one of the things that he said he learned in the commencement speech, he said he learned is that you cannot connect the dots going forward.
You can only connect the dots of your life looking backward.
And it is from the backward connection of the dots that you learn where you should go.
But he said something that it resonated with me because in my case it happens to be true.
He's telling these assembled graduates that this is the closest he's ever come to a graduation ceremony because he quit.
He was a dropout.
That he was very lucky.
He found what he loved.
And once you find that, once you find what you love to do, once you find what you love you want to do, if you stick with it, you generally are going to have a satisfying and happy life.
You have ups and downs.
And uh not everything is going to go your way, but said the trick for all human beings in their lives is to find what you love.
To be honest about it, and if it doesn't make itself, if it doesn't reveal itself to you automatically, search deep.
Find out what it is that you love.
Now he doesn't um say this.
I do, but the reason that's important is if you end up doing what you love, you're really never working.
It doesn't strike you as work.
There's nothing really arduous about it, has its challenges, it's tough days, but nothing, I mean you don't get up every day saying, gosh, I wish I didn't have to do this.
You get up every day looking forward to doing what you're going to do.
It's a shame so few people actually find out what it is that they love.
But the whole commencement speech is very much worth reading, learning from.
He also said, not in a commencement speech, he has said that profit, that's not what we're interested in, Apple.
We're interested in building products we love.
So there's not one committee at Apple.
We don't do market reading.
The customer doesn't want, doesn't know what he wants two years down the road.
If we if we sat around and we did focus groups and asked customers what they want, we would never have existed.
If the customer knew what he wanted, he'd be building it himself.
It's up to us to figure out what the customer wants.
And what he did was simply build stuff he loved.
It just stuff that he loved.
He was, if you believe the mythology, you know, there's there's always mythology associated with singular figures who are founders of corporations or companies or what have you.
There's a lot of mythology that attaches to them, meaning that they end up being built up to be bigger than they were, but in Jobs' case, he clearly was the energy behind the new Apple when he uh took over.
He was actually ousted from the company he founded by John Scully.
John Scully was a CEO of PepsiCo.
Jobs recruited him.
He said, You really want to spend your life selling sugar water to people?
Or do you want to really matter?
So he got Scully to leave Apple and eventually a boardroom coup ousted Jobs.
And Jobs went on to found Pixar, which is the nation's number one animation movie studio in the world and owned by Disney after they bought it from Jobs for something like seven billion dollars.
And is such jobs, I think, is the largest Disney stockholder.
Larger even than Warren Buffett.
And he's on the Disney board.
The other thing he did was build a high-end for its time computer system called Next.
And one of the Apple CEOs following Scully, Gil Amelio, ended up buying next, i.e., buying jobs, bringing jobs back in in the 90s, and jobs then ousted Emilio, and ended up back as the CEO.
There's a guy at Apple who designs all their stuff.
His name is Jonathan Ive.
He's a Brit.
Johnny Ive.
There's a story that when Jobs came back into Apple in the 90s, the place was dispirited.
Management was not focused at all on products relating to customers and so forth.
It was typical know it all management.
It was arrogant.
So he was taking a tour of what Apple had become in his absence.
And he ran across this guy, Jonathan Ive.
And he was sitting in front of some prototype computers, and Jonathan Ive had been there about a year and was ready to quit because he was getting no support with his prototypes.
Jobs looked at the prototype and apparently, according to the story, was dazzled by it, and put his arm around Johnny Ive and said, You and I are going to be working side by side together for a long time.
That product was the iMac.
Now the original iMac was the first one-piece computer with everything but the keyboard in it.
It was weird looking, looked like a reverse teardrop or a sideways teardrop, and came in a bunch of different transparent colors.
Even a Don Imus advertised it that first came out.
For a while.
The iMac is now the second in their top-of-the-line computers.
It's it's it's just a it's a piece of art.
Johnny Ive designs the iPhone.
Johnny Ive designs the iPad.
He's the design, he's the industrial guy.
He designs the shell.
He designs what you look at.
And then the engineers design the guts.
And he's one of the guys that jobs saved.
And I'm sure there are many more.
These stories are plentiful out there.
But I look at, I look at Apple, and I'll just, I'll describe myself as an Apple consumer to you.
Ladies and gentlemen, I myself am a marketing specialist.
None of them being serious about this.
I'm a marketing specialist, as you well know, as you will acknowledge.
As a marketing specialist, I am supposed to be immune from the marketing efforts of others.
And of course, what is the effort?
What is the prime purpose of marketing?
They separate you from your money happily.
And the one thing that's incumbent of the way you don't tell people how you're going to do it.
You just you don't prepare them.
You just do it.
You have your marketing plan, everything that's incumbent with it, and you execute it.
Remember with the uh my first stab at genuine marketing was when I was with the Kansas City Royals, and every season we had a marketing plan, a theme to the season that could not be related to how well the team was going to play because nobody knew.
So the marketing plan had to be oriented toward having a great time at the ballpark no matter what happened on the field.
We'd start the marketing plan the day the season ended.
And about January, February, the media would come, what's a marketing plan, mission?
I'm going to tell you what the marketing plan is.
Why should I give people a chance to oppose it or to build up a resistance to it?
We're just going to exist.
We're just going to implement it at some point.
Well, here I am a marketing specialist, supposedly immune to the tricks of the trade.
I spend, I'm almost afraid to admit this.
I spend 10 to 15% of my working day trying to find out when the next iPhone's coming and what the next operating system is going to be.
Rather than just wait for it.
I think the stuff that Apple does.
I've not used an Android phone, so I don't I've I've read about them.
I know what Android has, and I know that the things that they do that ostensibly are ahead of Apple.
But as a Mac guy, you know, I've tried Blackberries, and I the process of syncing calendars and address books is not worth it.
Once the iPhone hit, that's all I needed to sink everything and keep it done.
The things that they have coming in the next two months for somebody like me are going to improve my productivity tenfold.
And at the same time, they are going to increase the fun factor I have doing it immeasurably.
With the new operating system, this OS 10 lion on the computer is just I'm dazzled by it.
I'm just a consumer.
I'm not a fanboy.
I don't know how this stuff works.
And that's another brilliant thing about Apple.
It just does.
You don't know how it has to, or you don't know what's going on underneath the shell.
It just does.
And all this, I think, is Steve Jobs with a lot of great support people that he's inspired, motivated, and I'm sure got his share enemies inside the place as well.
That's common in every place you go.
I got to take a break.
I'm a little long here, folks.
Sit tight, don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Okay.
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The Wisconsin NBC affiliate is from the Milwaukee Urinal Sentinel.
If there is a conflict between Obama's planned speech to Congress and the Packers Saints game next Thursday, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Green Bay will show the football game.
No doubt about this, but I just wanted to make this official.
Steve Wexler, the vice president of radio and TV operations for Journal Broadcast Group, said today that Channel 4 had asked that both Obama's speech and a football game be made available to NBC affiliates across the country.
That way each station can make a decision on which event to broadcast.
In the case of the Milwaukee market, Wexler said the WTMJ would show the game set for a 730 Central Time kickoff.
The president's speech would be carried on a secondary digital channel.
Ha ha.
The SAP channel.
This is an NBC game, not a WTMJ game.
We know the NFL, the White House are talking last night about what they will do if the NFL moves this to Friday night, folks.
I tell you, I just don't be shocked if that happens.
I don't know anything.
The views expressed by the host on this program, now documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time, Andre Carson.
Grab audio soundbite 13.
And they will do 11 and 12.
Andre Carson, proud member in good standing, Congressional Black Caucus, August 22nd in Miami during a congressional black caucus town hall.
This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Cole.
Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second class citizens.
Some of them in Congress right now, and it's G Party Movement would love to see you and me.
I'm sorry, Chairman.
Hanging on a tree.
Yep, Tea Party wants to see black people hanging on trees, i.e.
being lynched.
Last night he went on CNN the Situation Room and tried to explain what he meant.
I stand on the truth of what I spoke.
My intentions weren't to hurt anyone or any group.
The only thing he didn't say was that wasn't me.
What do you mean I stand on the truth of what I spoke?
My intentions weren't to hurt anybody or any group.
Of course they were.
Then he continued.
My language was, of course, figurative.
But having said that, I still my intentions weren't to hurt anyone, but I want to see that we're one America.
White brothers and sisters, black brothers and sisters across the racial spectrum coming together to help create jobs, to help us power small businesses, to help bolster our educational system and move this country forward and reclaim the crown as the greatest nation on earth.
That's not what you said.
He didn't come close to anywhere saying to that.
My language was, of course, figurative, but having said that, my intentions weren't to hurt anybody, but I want to see that we're one America.
How do you how do you get from they want us hanging from trees to I want one America?
How do you get there?
You know, Andre, it'd be better if you just stuck with it.
You get a lot more respect if it just stuck with it.
Truth of the matter is that it's us, conservatives who want to see all Americans become first class citizens.
And frankly, Mr. Carson, we look at people like you as a roadblock.
I don't know what you've been doing, but the people live in your district are not doing well.
Nor are Maxine Waters'people.
Nor are John Conyers'people.
Yet you've been looking out for them for who knows how many decades.
He'd blame everybody else for it.
Thank you.
You and your president have been schooled in radicalism, not Americanism, radicalism, Americanism, do not mix.
I don't know about you, Mr. Carson, but I know that President Obama views the misery of others as a necessary step that must be taken to change this country.
I can tell I look at the record, I look at what he's done, I look at his policies.
No level of unemployment, homelessness deficits will deter him.
He's gonna keep going.
I'll tell you this too.
When it comes to racism, I can't think of a single conservative I know who would not be thrilled to see the ability to detect skin colors simply disappear from the human race.
And I frankly, as a conservative and all the conservatives I know, can't think of a single one that would not be thrilled.
If there were a revival of economic triumphalism in the black community.
Because we want a great country, and we want everybody in this country loving it.
We want an exceptional country, and we know that that can only happen with exceptional individuals.
Not exceptional government.
I can't think of a single left-wing race baiter who would want any of this.
The left-wing race baiters that I know are comfortable with the status quo because it gives them their platform to exist.
I think the only reason that race is still an issue in this country is the left keeps it as an issue.
Real Americans judge each other on merits, and they want to judge each other on merits.
Real Americans are sick and tired of all this racial division.
Real Americans are sick and tired of things like affirmative action.
Any other policy that separates and segregates people.
Because it hurts a country.
does not advance anything other than the left-wing race-baiting industry and government, socialism and these kinds of things.
Look at this.
Worker productivity fell this spring in the United States at a faster pace than previously estimated while labor costs were rising at a faster clip.
Thank you.
And it says here this is uh this is AP, both developments could pose threats to a fragile economic recovery.
There is no recovery.
And they do pose threats.
Productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.7% in the April-June period, a bigger drop than 0.3% decline reported a month ago.
Labor costs rose at an annual rate of 3.3% faster than the 2.4% increase originally reported.
Declining productivity if it persists for a prolonged period would represent a serious economic threat, while rising labor costs would cut into corporate profits.
Sounds like a perfect storm to me.
Thing is, I like rising labor costs.
I like people earning more money as a result of greater productivity.
I like it because everybody wins.
Okay.
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Alright, Jay Carney just said the President's speech will be over before the kickoff.
He wasn't asked about whether it'd cut into the pregame.
This is all such a joke.
By the way, if uh if you're finding the twoif by tea.com website slow, but we're just being inundated.
And we've we got our farm and our firewall cranked up to zero.
Just hang in or be tough.
You've got until 11.59 tomorrow night.
Dinner contest and make your order.
If you're if you're finding it slow, we we're aware of that.
If you're not, then you got a good socket.
But um we've we've ramped it up as um we've I mean it's it's pedal the metal out there.
All right, who's next?
Chris in Tampa.
Chris, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Wow, Rush.
Uh megadas, it's an honor and a pleasure.
Thank you.
Um a few weeks ago, you had a caller on, a very obnoxious caller named Carl.
And you threatened Carl.
You told him that you were gonna play John F. Kennedy's speech to the economic club of New York in 1962.
Yeah.
I waited for the speech.
I had the speech.
I waited for it.
I mean, I know the speech inside and out.
Um, and you never played it.
And I noticed that during the whole debt ceiling debate, no one invoked John F. Kennedy.
Yeah.
You know, I must have just overlooked that, and of course, the highly overrated staff forgot about it instantly, too.
Uh, and therefore didn't remind me.
We've got it.
I mean, we've got it in our archive of audio sound bites.
I believe it would put the Democrats in their place.
Yeah, it won't.
It's a different Democrat Party.
It is a different Democrat.
JFK is not.
JFK serves as a martyr and an icon for a whole bunch of different reasons, but not policy anymore.
I know.
This is not, this is not your father's or your grandfather's Democrat Party.
I know.
And it and another thing, uh, and I didn't ask snerdily about this, but um, the other day you also said the problem with capitalism is that it's not taught.
Uh not accurately taught.
Well, I went to a business school and I got to learn it, you know, just 101.
But it it's what opened my eyes and caused me to be able to see the hypocrisy in the left wing media.
Cool.
I'm just telling you, it's not taught in high schools.
It's not taught in junior.
It's the the the the concepts of capitalism, rugged individualism, uh, individual liberty and freedom.
That stuff's not taught now.
You know the difference is.
I w I didn't take a course in capitalism.
I mean, I didn't, it was not formally taught.
It's just the way the country was.
No, teachers weren't socialists, but I mean it's just the way it was.
You went to work, you knew what it was.
The values they were inculcated.
Go to work, you work hard.
You're the first guy in, the last guy out.
It was not necessary to be taught.
I mean, the point is today it is necessary to be taught.
Pure and simple.
Glad you called out there, Chris.
Richmond, Virginia.
Hi, Karen.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Oh, Russ, thank you so much for taking my call.
Tea Party or ditto to you.
And before I make my main point, let me just say what you were talking about earlier, the black caucus.
If any of these people had ever bothered to attend a rally, which I've been to all of them, they would know that there were plenty of blacks in the crowd and plenty of Latinos.
It doesn't matter.
They would beat them up.
Well, they were.
That's what happened in St. Louis.
A poor black kid in a wheelchair got beat up by Obama union thugs.
Well, that's...
There's no...
Look at...
There's no convincing these people...
We're not going to convert them.
They have to be defeated.
Pure and simple.
They have to be defeated.
And it shouldn't be that hard.
They represent 30% of the thinking in this country.
They are not anywhere near a majority.
Tea parties represent the majority of thinking.
Socially, fiscally character, morality, all the Tea Party represents the vast majority of thought.
And they know it, and that's why they're threatened by it.
They know that they're a minority movement.
Irritates them to no end.
But they have to be defeated.
They're not going to be.
If they were to show up at a Tea Party thing, if Andre Carson showed up at a Tea Party meeting, wouldn't change a word of what he said.
He'd call the blacks that were there Uncle Tom's.
They'd be no different than Clarence Thomas.
Or Condoleezza Rice.
Okay, another exciting excursion of broadcast excellences in the can.
The only regret I have is I got some pretty good sound bites that I didn't get to today.
They were held over from yesterday.
So hold over yesterday to tomorrow.
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Friday already.
Wow.
That's uh.
What did you say?
It is Friday.
Uh oh, yeah, Labor Day.
Everybody's.
That's national holiday.
Thanks for reminding me.
Thanks for underwise I'd have shown up here.
I guarantee it.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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