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Sept. 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 12, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know who the happiest guy in America Thursday night probably was?
Obama.
And you know why Obama Thursday night was a happy because he knew that I wasn't going to be here on Friday.
And talk about that debacle of a stupid speech, but I'm here today.
Oh.
And now we've got a replay.
Pomp and circumstance in the in the Rose Garden this morning where Obama little little little Barry had a bill.
Little Barry had a bill.
He waved.
I've been reading, people say, I don't have a bill.
Well, here it is.
There was applause.
How about our budget next?
How about a budget?
Greetings, my good friends, and welcome, L Rushball.
And by the way, you Republicans, I'm going to warn you about something here.
I've not endorsed anybody, and this is not an endorsement, but be very careful if you start attacking Rick Perry on Social Security and a Ponzi scheme.
There are too many of you out there who have already said that yourselves, Mitt Romney.
You have already called it a Ponzi scheme, and worse, I've got a whole list of people here, media and outside in politics, who've referred to Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.
And I'm hearing that Michelle Bachman is preparing to lay into Rick Perry on his comments about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme.
And I would like to warn everybody be careful here because you're pandering to the media.
You're pandering to the left-wing media by jumping on Perry on this Ponzi scheme.
But do you think that Social Security had been honestly described as what it was that well, if somebody came to you and say, we're going to create this Ponzi scheme that you're not going to have any choice, will you want it?
Will you like a program that's going to guarantee your retirement?
Yeah.
Fine.
It's all in how the whole thing was put together and sold.
Anyway, folks, as you can see, a lot to do here on the EIB network.
George W. Bush.
Yesterday, the 9-11 memorials.
You know, a friend of mine observed this is true.
Obama, but what did Obama do?
Obama went to a soup kitchen.
9-11, a day of service, as though we've got something to apologize for.
For what happened on 9-11, a friend of mine observes Obama and Bloomberg both acted like it was a natural disaster.
Bush, George W. Bush, who, by the way, stands tall.
In retrospect, 10 years.
Not one attack.
Great statesmanship.
If somebody told me today they wanted to put Bush's face on not Rushmore, I'd be in there supporting it.
I know he got a plea.
I saw the applause he got.
I mean, it was well deserved, too.
Um kept thinking of those miss me yet billboards, you know, the popped up all over the place.
At any rate, uh, as you can tell, friends, we have much to do on the uh busy broadcast today.
The um pep rally this morning in the uh in the uh what was I guess the Rose Garden?
It was so high school.
Here's the pre by the way, I'm Rush Limboy.
Here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882.
You know all of that.
This pep rally was was so high school.
And here the president has his props.
And he had a bill.
And it bill, he was proudly waving his little bill.
Look at it, little Barry's got a bill.
He's waving his little bill around, holding it up like it was his first term paper.
And I'm kept saying, well, where's your budget next?
How about a budget, Bear?
How about a budget?
Too bad his parents weren't there to uh say our Barack has a bill.
Our Barack has a bill.
We've never been so proud.
Our Barack has a bill.
Everybody's been asking where the bill is.
Even on Thursday nights have passed this bill.
Where is it?
Well, there is one now.
We got a bill.
He had to have those huge props behind me.
This guy has, I'll tell you, it's it's um is not working.
He's coming off.
Well, I'm not going to dispute whether it's a bill.
You didn't want to.
You you you you wanted me to speculate here that it might not just been a piece of a bunch of paper.
How do we know it's a bill?
We saw a cover.
We saw a stack of paper.
We didn't actually see a bill.
Well, we'll know soon enough whether or not it was a bill.
It could have been, it could have been the instruction documents for covering up what happened to Cylindra.
And they could have just gotten it mixed up with the White House.
Who knows?
Oh, look, there's Cylindra on TV right now.
At uh at any rate, uh now is the time for the official rebuttal of Obama's job speech.
From the titular head of the Republican Party, that's me.
And you will get it during the course of the program today.
Still hadn't said how he's going to pay for his jobs, Bill.
And that won't happen for a couple more weeks.
The fierce urgency, folks, the best way to describe this, the fierce urgency of three weeks after a vacation speech.
Well, how's oh, tax increases on the rich.
Yeah.
But did you also know, did you also notice?
Now this is key as I weave my way back to Social Security.
You may think this is all disjointed here, folks, but it's all setting up here to unfold before your very eyes and ears of the program today.
Did you notice how he wants to uh reduce payroll taxes?
Yeah.
Okay, now that's fine and dandy, except when you consider payroll taxes are the only funding source of Social Security.
Payroll taxes, FICA, the only funding source for Social Security.
So tell me it's not a Ponzi scheme now when we, when we can cut in half, or whatever his payroll tax would be, if it ends up being, and I can see people signing on to it.
If we let's let's say it is a 50% cut in the payroll tax for a while.
Um, then tell me it's not a Ponzi scheme.
The only funding mechanism cut in half.
And yet, benefits are still gonna flow.
Ha ha.
A lot of seasoned citizens are complaining, they have a had a cost of living increase under Obama.
If the payroll tax is cut, now see if I'm a seasoned citizen.
This is what I worry about, not these charges that Republicans are gonna kick me out of my house.
Or they want to if if I hear there's gonna be a cut in a payroll tax, say, wait a minute, that's how my program's funded.
That is the only way my program's funded.
We're gonna stimulate the economy that way.
No, I'm not saying whether I'm for it or not yet, folks.
I'm just putting all of this on the table.
The American Jobs Bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the American Recovery Investment Act, names to mislead, lies, deceit.
I I've I feel sorry for anybody who follows this stuff and the media, they lap this up like hungry cats and dogs.
They just lap it up, whatever it is.
These are job killing bills with names so fraudulent.
We ought to be able to bring lawsuits against the president.
Anybody else connected to it?
We can't, but I mean, this, if this went on in the private sector, it wouldn't be permitted.
They don't do what they promised.
These bills, the American's Job Act, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, right?
They don't do what they're advertised, kind of like Social Security.
So I really, for those of you who watched this today, or even the president's speech on Thursday, I did, even though I knew I wasn't gonna be here Friday.
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This is Little Barry has a bill.
This is Little Barry walked out with the.
You know, he lined all these people up, everybody in uniform.
He had a cop in uniform, he had a teacher in uniform, a nurse in uniform.
And all these people were going to be benefited by the American jobs bill or job act, whatever he's calling it.
But he had these people standing out there in the hot sun for like five, maybe seven minutes before he strolls in from the shade with plugs Biden.
They walked in from some trees, what appeared to be just to the left of the uh of the podium area, and old Barry got up there, and that's what he said.
On Thursday, I told Congress that I'll be sending them a bill called the American Jobs Act.
Well, here it is.
This is applauded.
He actually, he actually got applauded.
Limited applause.
It's a small group, but Little Barry was applauded for having his bill.
And like I say, we don't know that it was the bill.
It was just to be one.
Now, a little bit about 9-11 and the uh and the memorials that took place over the weekend.
When you hear when you hear Americans reliving 9-11, I mean real people.
Real people that were citizens of the country, not media people or sports stars, but real people.
You have to wonder.
I mean, at some point will George W. Bush be on Mount Rushmore.
Look at what this nation witnessed shock, the horror, the terror, the doubts, the confusion, the fears of what's next.
And out of that day and out of that treachery and confusion, we got the most implausible result.
No more attacks.
Quite a job, Mr. President Bush.
Quite a job.
And through those ten years, George W. Bush was criticized.
He was mocked.
He was smeared.
He was the butt of late-night so-called comedians.
They did assassination movies and books about George W. Bush.
There's a picture.
I don't know if you've seen the picture.
Bush and Obama standing side by side while a memorial service is going on and prayer taking place.
Bush is appropriately bowing his head.
Obama is looking up at his son, God.
Or if you want his father.
But it's not an accident.
Now some people have said Obama looks like he's trying to figure out what he's going to wear on the golf course later.
But no Obama has his habit of looking up and looking up above and Bush is bowing his head, and Obava's eyes are closed looking up.
That's quite striking.
I think it quite, quite telling.
They got all over Bush.
He didn't leave the school the moment he heard.
He didn't come back to Washington soon enough.
I remember Peter Jennings saying, eh, you know, some presidents are just better at this than others.
In expressing his disapproval, the way Bush was handling the post-9-11 period.
And then they said it was all his fault, not the Clintons.
And then they said he was violating civil rights, And he was listening in on liberals' phone calls and wiretapping their lives.
He was rounding up citizens.
He was torturing.
He was invading your library records.
And we had 10 years of no attacks.
But we you either Rumsfeld put out a tweet today, or somebody in Rumsfeld's office put out a tweet that he's canceled his New York Times subscription because what Paul Krugman wrote about 911, but 911 on Sunday.
Krugman, I have it somewhere here in my stack, but not all of it, but some of what he wrote.
It really is repugnant.
But Rumsfeld has canceled his subscription.
I said, What took you so long?
Why is anybody on our side still reading the New York Times?
I know, I know they're hopefully going to find themselves in praise.
No, I know the people on our side read the New York Times, Washington Post hoping and hoping that they'll be praised.
We had 10 years of no attacks because of the way George W. Bush and his administration oversaw our safety.
And they left a plan for Obama to follow, which Obama did when he wasn't complaining about what he inherited.
In the meantime, 9-11 yesterday...
And where does Obama go?
He says that 9-11 is a day of service.
The best way to remember 9-11 is a day of service to commit to service.
That's right.
The New York Times in a sane and just world would owe George W. Bush a huge apology.
Instead, they published Paul Krugman's insane rant.
I guess I should find that since I've referenced this a couple of times here.
By the way, the New York Times is scared to death about Obama losing.
I had a piece yesterday.
I'm going to spend some real time on this.
Democrats fret aloud over Obama's reelection.
This is a warning to Obama that you better get serious.
You better get real.
You better pull out all the stops.
You are losing and you are losing in landslide proportions.
I mean, this is a huge warning, the New York Times has put out there.
So I gotta get to that as the program, but I'm looking for the Krugman piece, and it's somewhere.
Here it is.
Is it just me or are the 9-11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don't think it's me and I don't think it's odd.
What happened after 9-11, and I think even people on the right know this was deeply shameful.
The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.
Fake heroes like Bernie Carrick, Rudy Giuliani, and yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.
And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war.
The neocons wanted to fight for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behave badly.
How many of our professional pundits, people who should have understood very well what was happening, took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity.
The memory of 9-11's been irrevocably poisoned.
It's become an occasion for shame.
And in its heart, the nation knows it.
Paul Krugman.
By the way, Sunday night football had their best opening night ratings-wise in 15 years.
A series high for Sunday night football.
Last night.
Last for Cowboys fans, it was not the best of nights.
Started out great.
You just Pittsburgh.
But I mean, everybody's been asking me about the Steelers what I think.
And I think I got I've got two words.
DBs.
DBs, DBs.
They don't have any defensive backs.
Their defense is over 30.
You can throw on them.
It's been shown.
I'm not surprised at what happened, Steelers.
The question's going to be whether or not it was just an oddity or portends a trend.
They got the Sea Hags coming in, so we'll find out.
Seahawks.
Anyway, folks, there's something going on here.
Thursday night, the opener was near record highs for NBC on the season over the NFL.
Tonight the Republicans have a debate up against Monday night football.
And the game they're going up against is the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins.
Now I'm going to tell you, I that there's a reason why these numbers for football are so high.
And it's it's not, it's not just that people.
I mean, I look at Obama is clearly has people hungering for an escape.
But television's on every night.
And television's not drawing these kinds of numbers every night.
But the National Football League is, and I think A, it's new.
It's not a rerun.
It's drama, it's unscripted.
It's genuine reality TV.
Everything on television's fake and fraud and phonia.
Everything.
Even reality TV is scripted.
But sports, whether it be football or baseball, it's unknown.
It's drama.
And the only people can screw it up are the announce crews.
But it in the case of football.
What is the thing about football is power, it is strength.
I believe that watching football is nostalgic for people.
I believe that it uh it helps people remember what America is.
It helps people remember what America was.
I don't think there's nothing different about football this year than from last year and in previous years.
Average.
A number of superstars spread out the league and so forth.
I think there is this a mad desire to escape from what this country has become, and the horror each and every day of having to live through whatever policy or plan Obama has for people.
There's a genuine unsettledness.
Or worse.
And so, you know, sports has always been an escape, but never more so than now.
And in the case of football, power and strength.
And a nostalgic reminder of what the country is.
And you compare that.
Here's this.
Let me read this from Paul Krugman, but I don't have to race through it because of an obscene profit heartbreak.
What happened after 9-11?
And I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not, was deeply shameful.
The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.
Fake heroes like Bernard Carrick, Rudy Giuliani, and yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.
And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war.
The neocons wanted to fight for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behave badly.
How many of our professional pundits, people who should have understood very well what was happening, took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption, lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity.
The memory of 9-11 has been irrevocably poisoned.
It has become an occasion for shame and in its heart the nation knows it.
Remember how many times we've been lectured to by the great news media and the rest of the Democrats about not politicizing 9-11.
And here come these guys, Krugman and so forth.
And there's a there's a piece that Richard Trumke, the head of the AFL CIO, posted on their website.
This is the union that took hostages and beat up some people in Seattle last week.
Who didn't get the memo on Obama's civility.
September 11th, 2011, a day to commit activism is Trumpke's essay title.
I would like to reflect on doors that were opened on 9-11, 2001, and what has come of them in the ten years since working men and women rushed through doors to danger.
Became America's everyday heroes, firefighters, construction workers, nurses, EMTs, all kinds of professionals and volunteers.
We swore we would never forget.
Wealthy CEOs, anti-government extremist front groups, and frothing talk show hosts.
From the Rush Limbaughs, there's only one me, Mr. Trump.
There aren't.
I wish there were another me.
From the Rush Limbaughs in the Glenn Beck to the Koch brothers, Carl Rove's American Crossroads Groups, Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth Freedom Works.
The American Legislative Exchange Council also pushed open the door to hate after 9-11.
So Krugman's demanding unity, Trump is writing about all the hate that was spawned.
And of course, anybody accurately remembers there was Trump, what was it, a week or ten days, there was some semblance of unity.
And then I'll never forget the Democrats began to politicize it.
The Democrats on a Saturday, maybe it was a Sunday.
The Democrats opened fire on Bush for not retaliating.
Soon enough.
Yep, that was Tom Puff Dashel.
He went out, said the president wasn't responding quickly enough, soon enough, whatever.
And of course, within hours the attack on Torobora was announced.
But it was the it was inevitable that this would be politicized.
Everything in our country always is politicized.
The idea that there was unity was the fantasy.
Not permanent unity, not everybody agreeing on everything.
All we have are contrasts.
And I'll tell you someday, 9-11 afforded us some fabulous ones.
The President of the United States on 9-11.
The president who wrecked our economy shows up at a soup kitchen on 9-11 to honor.
What?
What do you honor?
What does a soup kitchen have to do with 9-11?
What are you honoring?
That our country has no jobs.
A soup kitchen.
All for the purposes of spreading his notion of what we should be doing on 9-11, a day of service.
President Obama and his family volunteered at a soup kitchen to help underscore his call to a national service that he's emphasized as a way to commemorate the terror attacks of 911.
Now, doesn't it doesn't make the anniversary of 9-11 into a day of service make it seem like we're the ones who have to make amends?
Community service, that's in many cases part of a punishment that's handed out to people.
Or a deal that's made with them.
We have something to apologize for, to be sorry about, that America was somehow in the wrong, that we have to do something to make up for it, so we must have a day of service.
I'm going to tell you, 9-11 is always going to be a day of remembrance.
And when Obama shows up at a soup kitchen, it reminds all of us to remember that it is Obama who put all the people who were in the soup kitchen, in the soup kitchen.
Obama is going to the soup kitchen to visit the beneficiaries of his policies.
On 91.
Even if that, folks, even if that was not Obama's intended purpose behind calling for a day of service on 911.
Isn't that how it would be perceived by a lot of people around the world, especially in the Muslim world?
Isn't this the same White House that's so obsessed with creating precisely the right optics?
How can they be this tone deaf?
911.
Nearly 3,000 Americans murdered for doing nothing more than going to work, not going to a soup kitchen.
They were going to work.
They were murdered.
The President of the United States says we need a day of service.
He goes to a soup kitchen.
Either this is intentional or they're tone-deaf.
And his personal penance, his day of service is to help make meals for the poor.
Was that what nine eleven was all about?
The poor not having enough to eat.
The unjust distribution of food, is that what nine eleven was all about?
The lack of social justice in the world.
In actual fact, most of the nine eleven hijackers were from quite wealthy families.
We know this now.
They came from a country, Saudi Arabia, where nobody goes hungry.
They may have an appendage cutoff here and there, but nobody goes hungry.
There is not food insecurity in Saudi Arabia.
You talk at a place where practically no one has to work.
It is Saudi Arabia.
Obama's claims to the contrary, the nine eleven hijackers were not motivated by poverty or any lack of opportunity or anger at economic injustice in this country.
They were motivated by hate.
And they didn't just hate us because of our freedoms either.
They hated us because of what we're not.
Muslims.
So helping to make meals for the poor, while a noble gesture in itself, nothing to do with why we were attacked on 9 11, and it has nothing to do with protecting the nation from having habitat again.
It's misleading.
Just a subtle form of agate prop.
You talk about politicizing an event for the President of the United States at a soup kitchen on 9-11.
Thank you.
To the phones we go.
I want to get some phones in now because next hour is going to be pretty busy, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Where are we starting?
Jane in Rockford, Illinois.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB.
Now, Jane is one of my all-time top ten favorite female names.
Oh, Russ, I love you.
Hey, Russ, I just, you know, so many things go through my mind, 9-11 and that.
And as I told Snurley, you know, I I found your show on September 12th of 2011, I'm sorry, 2001.
Um, I I was just stunned and mortified by what happened on that day.
It was my dad's 60th birthday.
And so every year when his birthday comes around, of course, it conjures up all these memories.
And yesterday I spent the day just rifling through the TV station trying to find George Bush on something just because that feeling of security that he gave us after 9-11, um, just his his stoicism, just everything about that man and his wife brought peace and security to me, especially.
Um I had a young daughter, she wasn't even one yet, and I remember that day um holding her crying, just wondering what kind of world have I brought you into.
And you know, it's just President Bush on Mount Rushmore, I'm all there.
I'm right with you.
I he is the greatest president in my lifetime.
I only wish I knew twenty years ago what I know now, and I would have found your show so much earlier.
You know, I uh I often hear people say that I can tell you it is a beautiful thing to know now what you knew twenty years ago.
I do.
Yeah.
Uh know now what I knew twenty years ago, and it's something to aspire to.
And I tell you you um uh have just you've you've captured this.
You've your your daughter is one.
You're wondering what kind of world you brought her into.
Now you got Obama, and you're really wondering what kind of world you brought her into.
Absolutely.
I mean, now I'm even more fearful than I was then, actually.
You know, isn't that ironic, isn't that?
That's what I mean by knowing then what you know now.
Yeah.
But I love your show, Ross.
I love Snerdly, I love everything, and I'm so glad I found you.
I not that I wish 9-11 would happen all over again because that's how I found you, but um keep up the great work, and I I just love everything about you.
Thank you very much, Jane.
I appreciate that.
You're very sweet.
I uh I you know the this so-called unity after 9-11, you know, the the real reason that there was a semblance of any unity after 9 11 was that the uh the Democrats thought that the Republicans were gonna blame Bill Clinton.
And they sat around and waited for that to happen.
And that didn't happen because of Bush's class and dignity.
So after a couple weeks went by, and and actually it wasn't even a couple of weeks right after 9-11.
Like September 12, 18, and then that range, Congress refused to give Bush some wiretapping authority.
Congress explicitly refused to grant Bush administration the authority to conduct wireless wiretaps, warrantless wiretabs and surveillance operations against U.S. citizens in its resolution authorizing the uh youths of military force against terrorists.
There was a lot of stuff happening in the immediate days afterwards.
And uh Congress stood up again.
I'm not debating whether they should or shouldn't have.
That's not the point.
The point is there wasn't all this unity that you hear all these pundits now waxing eloquent, just winging their hands, oh, wish they could go back to who it never was the way that anybody thinks it was.
And don't doubt me, because I am one of the few who knew then what I know now.
As I mentioned a little while ago, the New York Times is in a panic over Obama's reelection.
They had three people, three writers assigned to the story.
Democrats fret aloud over Obama's chances.
And it is a warning.
It is an all-out warning to the uh to Obama and to the regime that they had better pick it up, that that uh no holds barred, all bets are off.
And if you don't do it, we will.
Because they know their ideology is on the line here.
This is key.
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