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Sept. 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 8, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, the National Football League season opens tonight in Green Bay with the New Orleans Saints in town to play the Packers, and I'm going to tell you where you can watch the pregame show.
There are five different places you can watch the pregame show instead of Obama's speech.
NBC.
This is unbelievable.
NBC's carrying Obama's speech, but they are making the NBC pregame show available on five different cable networks, including the NFL network.
They'll be simulcasting it on Versus on Sci-5, G4, USA, and uh and as I said, the uh uh the NFL network, NBC will pick it up after the uh president finishes his speech.
I don't know how he can do a speech.
They didn't do a job summit yet.
You know, how many job summits did they do?
I remember a jobs summit they did at Thomas Lupe Friedman was in one of them.
They had the study groups, the work groups.
Obama calls them into the East Room and they get sent to the corners to discuss their various areas and come back and report three hours later, bam, problem solved.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone for debate analysis and whatever else comes up today.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I got a question for uh Brian Williams.
Now, I I need to preface this by saying that I know Brian Williams.
I have met Brian Williams several times, and Brian Williams off the air is one of the funniest individuals you've ever met.
Genuinely funny guy.
But there's something that happens to people when they go to work at that network at NBC.
I don't care whether it's an MSNBC or NBC or CNBC, something happens to people over there.
Now, my question for my good friend Brian Williams is are you having trouble sleeping at night?
You and your network have supported Obama's inept budget-breaking failed economic policies.
Your network has supported encouraged, applauded, defended Obama's assault on the American way of life.
Brian, how are you sleeping at night?
I'd like to know.
By the way, you know, it's a takeoff.
He asked Rick Perry last night if he had any trouble sleeping because of the numbers of people executed in Texas via Capital Punishment.
And I don't know if you did that that was I had a lot of favorite parts of the debate last night, but one of my favorite parts was the audience response to Brian Williams' litany of the Texas executions.
The audience applauded.
And Perry didn't back now.
You come into our state and you kill a cop, and you come to our state and you kill a kid, and you are going to pay the ultimate frame.
The audience applauded.
And here comes an edit NBC.
You've got Brian Williams and this John John Harrison Politico.
When they brought out this Jose Diaz Del Bart, what what the Telemundo guy to ask questions about illegal immigration.
I warned you people what was going to happen in this debate.
Why didn't they bring Al Sharpton out to ask questions about black people?
Why didn't they bring out some feminist?
Well, I know they had him in the analysis, but I mean if you're going to bring out the Telemundo guy to ask questions about illegal immigration or whatever, why not bring out some black guy to ask questions about race and bring out a feminazi uh to ask questions about women?
What the hell was going on with this last night?
I I folks, I don't know about you.
But I I do not know why the Reagan Library people partnered with NBC in this.
I don't know why it is that our Republican candidates continue to put themselves in these situations where they're going to be queried by Democrat reporters.
Grab audio soundbite number three.
I uh say I warned you.
This is a last Friday on this program, and MSNBC last night was doing everything they could.
Or I mean yeah, MSNBC, NBC, whatever everything they could to protect Obama.
They wanted to make sure that at least as far as their questions were concerned, nobody on that panel would talk about Obama.
So here was my warning last Friday.
Audio soundbite number three.
Anything that distracts our effort from the economy, jobs, higher taxes, federal regulations is not a good thing.
We've just got 14 months here, folks.
Fourteen months to save this nation.
Fourteen months to stop the assault on the private sector.
Over the next six, seven months or longer, you're gonna see ramped up stories about gay marriage, social issues, illegal immigration, what have you, as a means of distracting the Republican presidential field from jobs, stimulus spending, higher taxes.
And now listen to a montage, a moderator montage of uh of Brian Williams last night and the co-moderator John Harris of Politico.
Where do the poor come in?
Where do they place in this party?
Massachusetts ranked only 47th in job creation during your tenure as governor.
Unemployment is better in over half the states of the Union than it is right now in Texas.
Why are so many people in Texas uninsured?
Supporting welfare for illegal immigrants and trying to forcibly vaccinate 12-year-old girls against sexually transmitted disease.
Is he less conservative than meets the eye?
Who on the stage is anti-science?
Tell us which one of these people are saying crazy or inane things.
Your state has executed 234 death row inmates.
Have you struggled to sleep at night?
You hear the audience applauding their audience is applauding.
Have you struggled to sleep?
Brian, are you having any trouble sleeping?
supporting this assault by the Obama regime on the American private sector.
Now, we have to admit, ladies and gentlemen, Rick Perry probably lost the vote of cop killers everywhere last night.
But the Democrats probably have that voting block sewn up anyway.
Chris Matthews said they're what?
What?
Over what?
Festive.
Festive over every um I I don't I don't I don't care what Chris Matthews says.
I I I don't I don't care what what they say in M SNB say.
These people have lost their sanity a long time ago.
They're poison.
They have descended into nothing but full throated hate.
They are in they they are supporting whether they know it or not, policies that are that are that are causing people to lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their faith in their country.
You had a network that's behind this and supporting.
I don't care what they say or think.
I just, you know, I I uh love Newt.
You know, Newton put these guys, you know, sit there to get us fighting with each other and so forth.
And I don't mind back and forth between the candidates.
I I I I uh when the issues uh warranted here, but but the uh the effort was clear last night.
They were to do everything they could, moderators to keep Obama out of range.
Uh make sure that Obama wasn't uh wasn't being discussed.
Now, how how timely is we got this this worthless speech tonight where he's gonna ask for 300 billion or 400 billion dollars or blame Congress again.
Even The Democrats in the Senate are getting tired of him blaming Congress.
Yeah, well, I got this right here.
This is uh from the political.
Obama's blaming Congress tires Democrats.
Maxine Waters is out there.
She's she's still revved up.
She wants to know.
Um here's the headline, uh, Maxine Waters to Obama unemployment.
Why don't you treat blacks like you treat Iowans?
Like you care.
Yeah.
Just hours before Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on his stupid irrelevant more of the same jobs plan.
Maxine Waters is demanding that the nation's first black president prove he cares as much about unemployed blacks as he does about Iowa's swing voters.
There are roughly three million African Americans out of work today, a number nearly equal to the entire population of Iowa.
I would suggest if the entire population of Iowa, a key state on the electoral map at a place that served as a stop on the president's bus tour were unemployed, they'd be mentioned in the president's speech and be the beneficiary of targeted public policy.
This is uh Maxine Waters talking to Politico today.
We have this story from the AP.
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week.
Evidence the job market isn't improving.
No, it's evidence that Obama does not deserve another term.
They even use the word unexpected again.
Weekly application to unemployment benefits rose 2,000.
Actually, they went up 4,000 and they're playing games here to a seasonally adjusted 414,000.
The report suggests that companies aren't significantly increasing layoffs despite weak economic growth, but it also signals that little hiring is no kidding.
It signals that little hiring is taking place.
When the number of people seeking unemployment benefits went up.
Really, what was their first clue?
So we get that news.
More people applying for unemployment benefits on the very day that the BAMster shows up.
Joint session of Congress.
He doesn't even deserve to be getting that opportunity.
This is a campaign speech.
It's not even relevant.
There hasn't even been a job summit preceding this speech.
They're breaking new ground out there, and Not in a good way.
How can the president possibly know what to do?
There haven't been any working groups to brainstorm the elusive question.
How is a job created?
There hadn't been anybody reporting back to the president, so he'll know how to move ahead.
Somebody, somebody that cares needs to tell Obama to call off this speech before he makes yet another mistake.
Because in order to create jobs, you have to do a job summit.
And there hasn't been a job summit.
Since the last job summit that he did.
I've got to take a brief time out here, my friends.
You sit tight.
El Rush Ball and the EIV Network back at you before you know it.
you All right, the pregame show on uh NBC.
Well, the pregame show for the football game starts 7 o'clock tonight.
Kickoffs at 8.30.
If you don't want to watch Obama and you do want to watch the pregame, which would normally be on NBC but won't be, you can watch it on the USA network, sci-fi versus G4 and the NFL network.
NBC will then pick it up after the president concludes.
Gallup news continues to be bad for Obama over the course of August.
Gallup asked 15,343 American adults whether they approved of the way Obama was handling his job as president.
What do you mean?
Why am I not talking?
I'm gonna get to the debate in a minute.
I'm not gonna be sidetracked here.
The news is Obama.
The problem is Obama.
The problem is not anybody on that Republican panel last night.
There are some far more preferable than others.
But we'll get to the debate here in just a second.
We have three hours here.
And trust me, you will not be disappointed.
Over the course of August, Gallup asked 15,343 American adults whether they approved of the way Obama was handling his job.
Final result.
Gallup reported a day.
Only 41% said they approved.
This is Obama's lowest monthly approval rating of his presidency.
It's down 25 points from the 66% monthly approval that Obama won in January of 2009, the month that he was immaculated.
He also hit his lowest monthly approval among Hispanics during August.
And tied his lowest monthly approval among blacks in August.
During the month, Gallup interviewed about 1,183 Hispanics.
48% of them said they approved the job Obama was doing.
Gallup interviewed 1,137 blacks.
84% said they approved.
So they're lost.
I mean, there's nothing much that can be done.
It's just like the cop killer vote.
We've lost that.
The Democrats own the cop killer vote.
Now, to the debate.
Target of both moderators, Brian Williams and John Harris of Politico.
Rick Perry was the target, the front runner.
They were doing everything that they could to take him out, take him down.
Understand that.
I just don't understand why we continue to subject ourselves to these debates, knowing full well that the enemy is questioning us.
I don't know why this continues to happen.
Actually, I do know why it continues to happen, and it's it's frustrating.
Well, we need we need to show that uh we're uh we're not like the Democrats.
We're uh we're we're willing to take the take the arrows from whatever direct.
I understand taking tough questions, and I understand um all that.
I don't agree with or understand this notion that we've got to do whatever we're doing to show the independence or to show the American people that we are not what is said of us, which is why we subject ourselves.
Well, we've got to prove we're not racist, they're gonna prove we're not bigots, we've got to prove we're not all this, and of course, the effort is always going to be made to prove otherwise by virtue of whoever has chosen to moderate these debates.
Now, Rick Perry, as the target last night, stumbled unnecessarily and disappointingly so at the end of the debate on climate change.
John Huntsman's out there saying something, it's totally untrue that 98% of all scientists agree that man-made global warming is real.
There's no such thing as 98% of all scientists agreeing.
And so the answer for Rick Perry is simply to say no, 98% of all scientists don't agree with this.
But he stumbled over that.
That was the it was it was disappointing to me, but that was about it that was disappointing.
I uh through the balance of the debate, I thought he hung tough on a lot of things.
I thought he looked good on his composure was fine.
Romney did well, Bachman did well.
Um she continues to impress me.
Uh and I think she's being hurt by Palin's indecision.
Or lack of announcing what she was going to do.
Well, I know, you know, the the the Fox, the Fox panel, this is a problem.
The Fox panel was actually not that much better than the MSNBC panel, but for different reasons.
The Fox panel was trying to get credit from people like those who were on the MS the NBC panel.
Um it's it's very frustrating.
We just we continue to seek the approval of the people that hate our guts.
We continue to seek the approval of people trying to defeat us.
Now, Byron York has a piece out today about how Perry has maybe ruined his candidacy by sticking to his guns on Social Security.
Carl Rove is also talking about you guys, you just you can't talk about Social Security.
Now I know that people like like Byron York and Carl Rove, I understand what they're saying about you just don't talk about social security, third reel of politics and so forth.
Now Rick Perry was close to being right when he described Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.
It's actually worse than a Ponzi scheme because Ponzi schemes are voluntary.
And Social Security is not.
I have more on this when we come back.
And we're back.
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What did he say?
Well, Rick Perry said what.
Well, I don't know that uh Snerdling is telling me that when he heard Rick Perry say what he said about the Social Security, this guy listens to Rush.
Let me just uh talk about this for a second, folks.
How many years have all of us been acknowledging, not discussing, acknowledging that Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are out of money.
How many years have millions of Americans been demanding that something be done about it?
A lot.
The answer to both questions is a lot.
So Paul Ryan, let's look at him first.
Paul Ryan proposes a budget.
He dared to discuss Medicare and Medicaid in really almost microscopic changes.
And he started out by assuring every current recipient no.
Nothing is going to change.
If you're on Medicare, you're on it.
It's not going to be taken away from you.
And he was targeted by left and right.
And he was targeted by people on the right who said, you better not do your can't, we can't win elections.
If you start making senior citizens think that they don't the program isn't any good, or you don't like the program, you're going to get rid of the program.
The same thing happened to Rick Perry.
Now, Perry stuck to his guns last night.
Perry was the main target.
They were going to prove, these two moderators last night were going to prove that Rick Perry could not stand up to them.
And their guy, Obama.
So they made sure to attack him with a bogus jobs issue, the minimum wage jobs supposedly in Texas.
You heard in the montage accusing him Texas being last in education and health care.
Sorry, that's Arkansas.
where the Clintons are from.
We know that Texas is getting killed from the influx of illegal immigrants.
You want to talk about wages, unemployment, education, and so forth.
The problem for Perry on that is that he spent so many years of...
I don't know, pandering.
He spent a lot of years not opposing illegal immigration as governor of Texas.
He has supported in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.
So it's difficult for him to answer these allegations on that issue, which is why, which is why go back and grab audio soundbite number three, which is why I have been trying to warn everybody on the Republican side, do not get sidetracked by this stuff, because this stuff is not what this election is about.
Illegal immigration is a problem, and it is a factor in our economic malaise.
But it is not why the Tea Party exists, per se, the Tea Party and the American people that are opposed to Obama are opposed because of what he specifically is doing policy-wise to their country.
And these moderators know full well that Obama is who's vulnerable here.
So that debate last night was was had one focus that every Republican that you were watching is a hater, is a killer, is a racist, is a bigot, is a what have you.
That was the message that NBC wanted that audience to come away with that debate with last night.
Can you sleep at night, the 249, whatever it is, executions in the state of Texas?
And Perry hung in there.
He hung in there on this Social Security business.
Now, Byron York's piece today, Perry grave danger, because of what he said about Social Security.
And uh Carl wrote the same thing.
Frankly, folks, to be quite honest with you, this the reaction here we we've had Paul Ryan, we've got Rick Perry.
We have some people who are willing to tell the truth about issues that need to be addressed.
And we know the Democrats are going to take them out on it, try to.
But when our own side does it, this is what causes me grave concern about the future of the country.
Look, the Social Security trustees say it is going broke.
It is going broke.
It is a Ponzi team.
When Social Security started, it took the taxes of 140 people to support the benefits for one recipient.
So that was spreading the burden around quite well.
Folks, it has always been a Ponzi scheme.
Rick Perry is right about it.
The difference is in this and other Madoff Ponzi scheme is that you didn't have to invest with Madoff.
Social Security is mandatory.
We all have to pay into it.
It is a rotten, lousy investment.
Social Security was started by Franklin Delama Roosevelt, and the real name of the program ought to be Democrat Security.
The purpose of Social Security was to make sure that Democrats were in power in perpetuity.
It was to see to it that senior citizens credited Democrats for their retirement.
That was the purpose of Social Security.
It is a Ponzi scheme.
But if you don't like that terminology, fine.
And everybody knows it.
So when somebody has the guts to bring it up, the left is going to try to take them out on it.
When our side does, as I say, it causes me grave concern about the future of the country.
A great hoax is being perpetrated on people as these politicians lie about a so-called trust fund.
They lie about where the FICA money on your paycheck, the stub, the uh the deduction, where that money goes.
They're using that money to fund all kinds of other programs.
It's why Social Security is broke.
And when they're called on it, the person who calls them out is said to be toxic or whatever.
Paul Ryan, as I say, dared to address Medicare and Medicaid, even in a modest way, he was attacked too.
Now, I I I think that this is a situation.
We're at it again.
You know, George W. Bush tried Social Security reform and used the word privatize.
And of course, the important word in Social Security is security, and it was demagogued in all this.
But we're we're we're at a point here where we've got real problems.
Our country cannot handle four more years.
Our country, as we know it, can't survive four more years of this regime and these kinds of policies.
I I I want to applaud Perry for hanging in and sticking with it.
Now he wrote the book, fed up, and he's got the description in the book of uh of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.
How could it not be a Ponzi scheme?
If we can take a payroll tax holiday from paying into it whenever we feel like it.
I mean, you realize a payroll tax holiday is exactly that.
They give us a year off from paying in to the Ponzi scheme.
Something that they sometimes throw around even from Obama.
The Democrats even throw it around as a uh as a way of getting the economy jump started.
Romney last night did pretty well.
Uh he did pretty well in the previous debate.
He dances around Romney care, and uh he's not gonna give that up, clearly.
So he's sticking to that, like Perry is sticking to his guns on the way he refers to Social Security.
The uh point was made last night that that whoever, anybody on that panel is preferable to Barack Obama, and whoever out of that panel is nominated is going to be supported by everybody else because the objective is Barack Obama and defeating him.
And this debate last night was oriented entirely toward taking Obama out of the equation and making these guys look like they're something that they are not.
Here we grab audio soundbite number three.
This this again, uh, ladies and gentlemen, it's crucial for all of us going forward in staying focused.
Anything that distracts our effort from the economy, jobs, higher taxes, federal regulations is not a good thing.
We've just got 14 months here, folks.
Fourteen months to save this nation.
Fourteen months to stop the assault on the private sector.
Over the next six, seven months or longer, you're gonna see ramped up stories about gay marriage, social issues, illegal migration, what have you, as a means of distracting the Republican presidential field from jobs, stimulus spending, higher taxes.
Anything where Obama is vulnerable, anything.
Jobs, stimulus spending, higher taxes, economic destruction, hopelessness, whatever Obama is responsible for, they are going to try to distract everybody from.
Now I know that illegal immigration is a very important issue to a lot of you.
It is to me too.
Right now, it's going to be used as a distraction.
Capital punishment, second amendment, give me a break.
What does it have to do with anything going on in the country right now?
As they hit with Perry, how do you sleep at night?
Gay marriage ditto.
Gay marriage ditto.
Now, overall, I don't misunderstand.
I thought that I I felt better about last night's debate than I did the one out in California.
For some reason that one just was you remember that one fit to be tied after that one.
The first debate felt great.
Conservatism on parade after the first.
I thought conservatism on the parade last night was obvious and it was good.
And aside from a couple of examples, a couple people, it was well articulated last night.
Properly so, responsibly so.
And there were some people last night on that panel with some guts that stuck to what they believe.
Despite the barrage, and that's exactly the kind of people that we need.
All right, a little long in this segment too.
We're going to get to audio sound bites, which will provide me, the big barbarian at the gate, an even greater opportunity for on the spot analysis.
We'll also get to your phone calls as the program unfolds right before your eyes and ears.
So sit tight, folks.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Now we'll get to the audio sun bites of the debate and other audio sunbites are once again I, El Rush Bow, am being discussed.
Folks, look, look, frankly, the best thing you could be doing with your time right now is listening to me anyway.
So you you know that we we've got another two hours and ten minutes to go here, so be patient.
It's all gonna get done.
It's all gonna get done in a right way at the right time, and you're gonna be imminently satisfied and pleased.
Um Snurley wants to know who do I think.
I have the strong well, let me let me review that.
I thought the first thing I want to say is it's it's hard to proclaim a winner last night.
Perry was the target.
Rick Perry was targeted.
If you're looking, okay, how did Perry bear up onto the target?
Romney clearly uh came away unscathed last night.
Perry was not unscathed.
Perry had problems with the climate change thing.
It was very frustrating to me.
This is a hoax.
You got this guy Huntsman out there spreading a bunch of garbage at 98% of all scientists agree that man-made global warming statement.
That's just it's a hoax.
It's bogus.
And Perry knows it, and there was some reluctance to say so.
There was, I mean, I'm not, I'm not expecting to say it's a hoax, but there was there was there was clearly some some reluctance here to say what he really thinks about it in uh in that answer, which came at the end of the debate.
But before we get into there, look at Governor Walker in Wisconsin.
Look at him.
He his decision to speak openly, factually about how state worker pension plans are bankrupting Wisconsin paved the way for others to do the same thing.
And he was a pioneer, and he took the arrows, but he prevailed.
I have explained to you how all this state workers and their pension plans and their lifetime health care benefits are nothing other than a money laundering operation for the Democrat Party.
Now, Governor Perry, you could say is following Governor Walker's lead.
He may not think of himself as as following Walker's lead, but he's walking the same path.
Governor Perry wants the country to solve a problem that's bankrupting us all.
And he wants to do it with facts and a considerable amount of political courage.
Social security.
I think he should be encouraged and defended, not proclaimed a political fool by people on our side.
I happen to think the country's at tipping point.
I also happen to think that the seasoned citizen population of this country fully understands.
The Tea Party is made up largely of seasoned citizens, and it is seasoned citizens because of the breadth of their life experiences who understand better than young punks the irresponsibility of spending money that you don't have, assuming debt that you can't repay.
They understand it.
They're worried about their kids and grandkids.
I don't think that the seasoned citizen population today is as pliable and malleable as it was 20 or 30 years ago to Democrat charges.
I think they see Through all of this.
I think they full well understand, and I think they can deal with an honest discussion of the problems of Social Security.
Because we all know, and they do too, that the country is at a tipping point.
And if we want the country to survive as you and I grew up in it and know it, it's time to do the right thing and tackle this stuff.
And when somebody's got the guts and courage to do it, don't take them out.
We know the Democrats are going to do that.
I guess I'm saying get rid of politics as usual for a minute.
Back in a second.
Okay.
Brief timeout here at the top of the hour.
Busy broadcast hour.
But there's much more right around the corner.
More debate analysis plus the audio sound bites, and your phone calls.
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