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Sept. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends, it's L. Rushbow.
Swamped here with 15 different things with 30 seconds left before the program starts.
But that's okay.
If there's any professional out there that can handle this, it's me.
Or I. The declarative.
That's right.
It's Friday, by the way.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
I don't care if they're legit.
What they're doing is not legit.
I have not reached out to a Tea Party group and asked to partner up with them.
There's a Tea Party group out there trying to raise money saying I called them and wanted to be part of their group.
We haven't done that.
We don't partner up with people.
The way you spell this show is S-O-L-O.
Solo.
And the way you spell Limbaugh is S T A R. Hi, Wendy.
Are you happy to be with us today?
Oh, you got your Sarah Palin look on today.
Wendy's in for dawn today, and uh when she does it, she can look just like Sarah Palin.
For a minute I was gonna ask you how it was with Glenn Rice.
Welcome back, folks.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800.
It's in the book, 800 two.
It's just it's uh This is what happens when I get swamped with stuff.
I'm ready to do the program.
I can swamp with 15 things in 30 seconds before the program starts.
800-282-2882.
The I have got my own tea for crying out.
What do I need to partner up with a tea party group?
I got my own tea.
Speaking of which, speaking of which, uh I I got I gotta we're gonna give away some tea today.
Now we're not uh it's open line Friday, and I don't want you calling specifically.
I'm just the first caller that I ask.
And it may not be until the two o'clock hour that I ask this.
So it's you know these radio contests first caller to the 17th caller.
This is not what that is, but it is to a caller, the first caller I ask who can identify because here's the story.
Tom Ridge endorses John Huntsman.
The first caller I ask who can correctly identify both guys will get some tea.
Some two if by tea.
I read that Tom Ridge endorses John Huntsman.
Well, if anybody knows who these two guys are, I'll give them some tea.
That's the way I'm looking at it.
Their choice.
So that's coming up.
Uh, let's see.
Uh it's uh uh trying to figure out what I want to do first here.
Well, there's a guy out there, I'm I'm tempted to take on this tea party thing, but I gotta wait for one more bit of information to come in before I uh before I uh before I do.
Uh Obama, I'm told today.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, Obama's taking his American jobs bill act to the Brent Spence Bridge on the Ohio, Kentucky border, some bridge that is not falling down, a bridge that is already getting federal funds.
So why was it chosen?
Well, it was chosen to be a slap in the face to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who are from Ohio and Kentucky, respectively.
But see, this is Obama's idea of civility.
This is how he thinks that you get bipartisan support.
Now that he's not trying to get bipartisan support, it's how he's taunting.
Now, here's the thing about if I if I were Boehner and McConnell, and I know this isn't gonna happen, Because I've got we got a soundbite here from uh from Boehner, how he didn't want the president to fail, they're gonna work with him.
And we got a similar thing from Eric Cantor.
Uh they want to work with the president.
They want to they want to join everybody here in having a bunch of success.
But you remember Ronaldus Magnus at the um Jimmy Carter debate, where he said I paid for this microphone.
When Obama pulls this latest Chicago stunt at the Brent Spence Bridge that spans Kentucky and Ohio.
Boehner, it never happened.
What am I talking about?
Boehner and McConnell, it'd be fun if they were both there.
Stand up and say, we paid to fix this bridge.
We gave you $800 billion to fix this bridge back in 2009.
You asked us for money to repair it three years ago.
We gave you the money.
Where's the fix?
And where's the money?
If you didn't intend to fix the bridge then, why should we believe you're gonna fix the bridge now?
In fact, we know you're not here to fix the bridge.
It's already getting federal money anyway.
Now let me see.
Did I just uh yeah, there is Ford Motor Company is running some great commercials.
Ford Motor, what the you know the the the uh the the the bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler are still quite controversial.
Properly, properly so.
And what has happened, it's in U.S. News and World Report in its most political ad in the so-called drive one ads, where real drivers are thrust before cameras to explain why they picked Ford.
They found a real Ford F-150 pickup driver.
His name is Chris.
And after he sits down, it's a fake press conference, but it's a real Ford buyer, a real Ford only, not an actor.
And they recorded these spots unscripted.
They sit these guys down, they fake a press conference, they ask the guy a question, and the buyer answers, and if it works out, they put it together and make a TV commercial out of it.
So it worked out with this guy, Chris.
The reporters, after Chris sits down, the F-150 owner, the reporters say, Chris, Chris, why was buying America important to you?
And this is what the driver says.
I wasn't gonna buy another car that was bailed out by our government.
I was gonna buy from a manufacturer that's standing on their own, win, lose, or draw.
That's what America's about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you got to pick yourself up and go back to work.
Ford is that company for me.
Unscripted, not an actor, real guy, actual Ford F-150 owner.
And a Ford spokeswoman has confirmed that this guy, Chris, is an actual Ford owner, and that those are his real words, and that the ad series is all unscripted.
So this turns out, you know, Ford's going to get a lot of mileage out of this because wherever they're buying time on this, we'll look at them.
What time on the EIB network and we just air the ad.
Which is fine.
I'm not saying it.
Uh oh, yeah, we've already did that.
I reported Chris to Attack Watch.
Uh I reported Hillary to Attack Watch.
Have you seen the front page of Drudge?
Oh, he's taking the big picture Hillary down.
There was a huge picture up there.
Now the Drudge headline, hope skids to lowest since 1980.
Uh, what is that?
Let me click on that a poll or is it let me this the uh consumer hope for the future?
It's a CNBC story.
Consumer hope for the future hits lowest level since uh since 1980.
There was a picture up there of Hillary, it's a big picture.
Now it's lower, still up there.
I saw the picture today, and I said, well, I guess that ends any chance of a primary challenge to Obama.
It's actually not that bad.
Do you know, folks?
John Fund has a story out there.
He uh he's he's uh speculating on uh what would have to happen to get Obama off the ticket.
Fund have been talking to a lot of Democrats, and a lot of Democrats are already of the belief that Obama's toast.
Fourteen months out, toast, that it's FINE, that it is over.
Now, I happen to think too much can happen in 14 months to invest in that.
I think we have to keep acting like we're behind.
I think we have to keep acting like we've got a lot of hard work to do to do this and then maintain of the the growth position that we're in.
But despite that, Funn's got this story out there.
And the theory is, just as I said the other day in the there's not there is not one Democrat alive who is going to actively compete against Obama in the primaries.
And the primary reason is race.
There's not one Democrat, including Hillary, inspired by Bill, that's gonna be responsible.
No Democrat's gonna be responsible for ending the presidency of the first black president in the country, particularly a Democrat.
So what they gotta do if they want to get rid of Obama, the Democrat established, they're gonna go there and they gotta convince him to leave on his own by offering him something, and they've got to and they gotta go to his his ego.
They gotta say, Brock, this job's too small for you.
That's why you're bored, that's why you're depressed.
You're better than this.
This job, you don't need to be worried about bridges.
What are you doing, man?
Running around worrying about bridges and stuff and shovel ready.
You are so bigger than this job.
You need the World Bank, you need the IMF, you need UN Secretary General, maybe Supreme Court.
But come on, man.
The reason why it isn't going well is because it's just not big enough for you.
Honestly, this is the approach.
Now I've uh this is only mentionable here because it's to me fascinating the way some people think.
Now attached to this story is a story at Gawker.com.
You familiar with Gawker.com?
Gawker is a uh how would you describe Gawkers, nerdly?
I mean, it's more than a gossip site.
Well, they're they're a hit piece site.
They're snarky, they're um uh.
You what?
Well, oh, I know.
Oh, I know they've said some things over.
I I can I like the Gawker guys.
I uh I I get a kick out of them.
You know, in my New York apartment was up for sale, somebody got some pictures of it out there, and they had some funny comments about the uh the decor.
The Gawker, and even the Gawker guys have a story that is linked to in a hot air story, which links to fun story about Obama's depressed.
He clinically depressed.
I mean, genuinely, if if he weren't president, he's so depressed he couldn't get out of bed.
That's out there at Gawker.
Now, Gawker is a left-wing site.
And they are a scratch.
So they go out and talk to some professional who is an expert in depression, and they say, well, it might be due to low T. Ryan, do you know what low T is?
Wendy, do you know what low T is?
Snerdley, you know what low T is?
That's exactly right.
Low testosterone.
So the Gawker guys are suggesting here, or they've talked to somebody who's suggesting that Obama's clinically depressed with low T. Low testosterone.
Well, I know it's assuming he had some.
Um, if he had some and he lost it, where'd it go?
And that answer's easy too.
Figure it out on your own.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limboy and the excellence at Broadcasting Network.
Here are the rules for open line Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Monday through Thursday.
Callers Must talk about something I'm interested in.
If they don't, they don't get any air.
Because I don't want to be bored, and if I get bored and sound bored, then people will not listen.
But on Friday, I throw all that away.
And if you want to talk about something I don't care about, that's cool.
You can talk about anything.
You can make comments, you can ask a question, it doesn't matter.
I might fake caring about what you're interested in, or I might not.
But this is why it's a huge career risk.
You don't find any other major media figure taking a risk like this.
Turning over the content, the most listened to and important radio talk show host in the world, or show in the world, to amateurs, lovable amateurs.
Now, Ford did it in their commercial.
Play that again.
This is the sound by 21.
This is this is great.
This is an actual Ford F-150 owner that they sat down in the uh in the midst of a fake press conference, and he's asked by fake reporters why buying America was so important to him.
I wasn't gonna buy another car that was bailed out by our government.
I was gonna buy from a manufacturer that's standing on their own, win, lose, or draw.
That's what America's about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta pick yourself up and go back to work.
Ford is that company for me.
Unscripted, unrehearsed, genuine buyer.
That is uh that's just that's excellent.
Because some conflicting news here.
This is Bloomberg, a Bloomberg National poll.
More Americans blame Republicans for the political fighting in Washington, according to a new Bloomberg National poll.
Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they blame Republicans in Congress for what's gone wrong in uh wrong in Washington.
Twenty percent blamed Obama, nineteen percent blame Congressional Democrats in the poll that was released yesterday.
You know, speaking of which, have you the Washington Democrats, House and Senate, it's been a long time since I have seen them this quiet.
They really aren't saying, you know, Pelosi, the bird brain of Alcatraz, she's had a couple of things to say, but where's where's Dingy Harry?
You know, Chuck Yu Schumer is out there on wait till you hear this.
That's uh Chuck Chuck Yu Schumer is is apparently the Don of the Super Committee, and he's out there saying if there aren't any new revenues here, if there aren't any tax increases, and there's nothing happening here at the Super Committee.
But more importantly here, I think this explains why we're getting the words we're getting out of Boehner and Candor.
They I think the Washington establishment, they believe conventional wisdom.
They believe polls.
They believe this stuff.
So Bloomberg's got a poll out there that says uh voters blame the Republicans more for Washington's political fighting.
Okay, fine and dandy.
But sorry, folks, I can't just leave it there.
My next story, AP, another poll.
President Obama's disapproval rating has soared to 54% in Virginia, a battleground state that the Democrat took from the GOP to win the White House in 2008 and will likely need to carry next year to win re-election.
And most troubling, this is the pull quote from this story, most troubling for Obama is his poor performance among independents.
Sixty three percent of unaligned voters, independents, sixty-three percent, disapproved of the way Obama's handling his duties.
Only 29% approve.
Obama's approval number in Gallup is 39%.
Yet we get a Bloomberg poll that says voters blame the Republicans more for Washington's political infighting.
Well, let me ask you a very important question.
Explain to me why in election after election for three years, Republicans are winning in near landslides.
Chris Christie, Bob McConnell, Scott Brown, that was he eked that one out.
But it doesn't matter.
The midterm elections in Washington, November 2010, Bob Turner in New York.
New York 9 this past Tuesday.
I need this explain to me.
How can you have a poll that says most people blame Republicans for the infighting in Washington, which our guys obviously have read and believe.
And yet Republicans win election after election after election.
And that is the only poll that matters is the one that takes place on election day.
I really wish our leaders in Washington would just stop paying attention to this poll data crap.
Now, on this Obama being depressed business in Gawker, and by the way, folks, despite the fact that I say I like the Gawker guys, be very careful if you go to that site.
Be very careful if you go to the site.
I'm not recommending the site.
I'm just telling you, Gonker guys don't bother me.
I know what they're up to.
I know what these guys are trying to do, and then and uh it's fine.
But the Gorker guys are not claiming that Obama is depressed.
It's the New York Times.
Gawker is claiming it's the New York Times that's preparing an article on Obama being clinically depressed, and that they are speculating it may be due to Obama being tired of politics or low tea.
Low testosterone.
Here from the Gawker article.
We're told by a source inside the Times that the paper is preparing a story arguing Obama's no longer finding joy in the political back and forth, has seemed increasingly listless to associates, and is generally exhibiting the litany of signs that late-night cable commercials will tell you add up to depression or maybe low T. Either way,
the investigation was described to us, the Gawker guys, as taking seriously the notion that Obama may be suffering from a depressive episode.
And now you got Bob Beckle out there.
Bob Beckle saying that Obama might not run.
The New York Times speculating that Barry's depressed, maybe due to low T. They do go on to say that his depression is so real that if he weren't president is the kind of depression where you wouldn't get out of bed.
I've never been that depressed.
But I guess that's pretty bad.
Um it's it's gotta be, folks, it's pretty bad here.
Look at it's pretty bad when when uh the metrosexual wusses at the New York Times accuse you of low tea.
And the New York Times doesn't strike me as a full-fledged testosterone place.
The New York Times is one of these chickafied places, been chicken, it's the I mean the epitome of the chicken in news media is the New York Times.
So you got these metrosexual wusses running around accusing you of having low tea.
Uh that's pretty bad.
You ever notice that Hillary Clinton never seems to be depressed?
You ever notice they never write stories or speculate that Hillary Clinton's depressed or Bill Clinton's depressed, but now we're getting stories Obama's depressed, job doesn't interest him, doesn't like it anymore, speculating on how to get rid of the guy, Barack.
The job's too small for you.
The job's too inconsequential for you, Barack.
You need something big.
You need bigger.
They desperately want him gone.
Of course, it's interesting.
And Victor Davis Hanson has a column out today, National Review, kind of makes this point.
You people on the left, and and I have actually commented on this previous occasions.
It's it's on one hand, we understand your anger, on another hand, we don't.
Look at all Obama has given you.
And yet you're angry as hell at him.
You've got daily attacks on capitalism.
You've got five trillion dollars in government spending that we don't have.
You've got nationalized health care in a matter of years if it isn't repealed.
You've got daily attacks on your enemies coming from the highest office in the land.
So why are you unhappy?
Well, there are two reasons why the left is unhappy.
A they have they're staring it straight in the face that their policies do not create utopia.
Their policies do not create happiness and wonderment.
Their policies are destructive.
Their policies cause people angst to be depressed, filled with rage or what have you.
But they've been out there thinking for all these years, like if we just get the right person in there spending the right amount of money, finally we can show the world how to do it right.
And they're staring straight in the face the fact that their ideas fail.
The second thing is that another reason why they're mad at Obama, and and Mr. Hansen points this out is his poll numbers.
Here was Mr. Hopin change.
Here was the one, here was the Messiah.
Here he's done all this wonderful stuff.
He's given all these people who got the rights, he's been fighting for the unions a lot of it.
And they're looking at him as a failure, and and his numbers 39%, 42%.
They're ticked off, and yet he's given them everything they want.
Which proves no matter what the left gets, they're never satisfied.
You can't make them happy.
They are incapable.
Structurally, institutionally, humanly, genetically, whatever.
They're incapable of being happy.
They don't laugh.
They don't smile, they're constantly angry, constantly enraged.
And if they're not enraged for a moment, they're looking for something that will make them enraged.
There's a story out there, Tavis Smiley.
And somewhere, somebody tell me what the name of the soundbite is.
We've got it here in the stack, but while I'm reading the story, tell me what the number is so Mike can get the have it standing by.
Tavis Smiley says the president is ignoring blacks, the most loyal part of his base, who ought to be looked out for.
Smiley said this to NBC's Lester Holt in April.
Tavis Smiley said the 2012 elections will be the most racist in the history of this republic.
I might take this time to share with you the latest prediction of the mayor of New York.
Right out of the New York Daily News, the headline Mayor Bloomberg predicts riots in the streets if the economy doesn't create more jobs.
Mayor Bloomberg warned today that there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn't get serious about generating jobs.
We got a lot of kids graduating college can't find jobs, Bloomberg said.
That's what happened in Cairo.
That's what happened in Madrid.
You don't want those kind of riots.
Hey, Cairo is Sharia Spring.
Madrid is failed new energy policies.
In fact, it even says here as for Madrid, the most recent street protests were sparked by widespread unhappiness that the Spanish government was spending millions on the visit of Pope Benedict instead of dealing with widespread unemployment brought about by the wanton implosion of their economy based on their investment in green energy.
Bloomberg's unusually alarmist pronouncement came as Obama has been pressuring reluctant Republicans to pass his proposed job creation bill.
Mayor said the damage to a generation that can't find jobs will go on for many, many years.
And then Bloomberg gave Obama kudos for coming up with a jobs plan.
This Bloomberg guy is uh you know, is an order of fries short of a happy meal.
Something here doesn't.
This is the nanny mayor, no trans fat, no salt, no this, wants to micromanage your life, and now he thinks Obama's got some good ideas on the table.
At least he's got some ideas on the table, Bloomberg said whether you like them or not.
Now, everybody's got to sit down and say we're actually going to do something, and you have to do something on both the revenue and the expense side.
And everybody's got to share the pain.
So you've got the mayor of New York warning of riots in the streets.
I know he's a Democrat.
He just called himself Republican to get elected after Giuliani success Julia.
Now can't remember if I said this on this program or just to friends, but um.
I know I've said it to friends.
You'll have to recall yourself if I've said this on the radio or not, but I over the last two years, I I myself have said that before all said and done, there's going to be riots in this country over this stuff, and that Obama wants it.
Not going to be upset by them.
Chaos.
It's all part of the continuing chaos.
Well, if I haven't said it, I did.
Here's Tabis Smiley, and he's talking to Lester Holt out there.
Tabas Smiley is a great example of the anger at Obama that Victor Davis Hansen writes about that permeates the left throughout the country.
Whatever happened to that notion that to the victor goes to spoils.
If anybody ought to be looked out for, it ought to be the persons who represent the most significant and most loyal part of the base.
That would be African America.
Oh, I guess Tavis gave up the poverty tour.
He was in the Who was he on that tour?
Oh, Cornell West.
Now he and Cornell West were out there on a poverty tour, and I guess that's it.
Now he's going on NBC, and he's upset that Obama's not doing enough for blacks.
Well, it's more than that.
It's it's it's I'd admit that that's part of it.
He's upset he hadn't been invited to the White House.
But it's it's more than that.
It's uh it's probably hadn't not only hadn't been invited to the White House, hasn't been invited to offer his opinion on anything.
He hadn't brought in, been brought in to discuss or contribute to policy.
Um I'm sure still a there is no difference.
That's that's exactly the point.
There is no difference between now and any other time Democrats are in charge as it relates to the condition of black people in America economically.
There's no difference.
What is different is there was all this hope that the first black president would translate into who knows what they thought.
It was gonna be certainly be different than it is.
Magical economic uh uh change for the better and look at black unemployment sky high, black teenage unemployment sky high.
Uh obvious Obama not down for the struggle.
So all the investment they had, all the hope and change, it hasn't manifested.
Obama is not even he doesn't even appear to be interested in being one of them.
So well, look, you and I know he's not, but the fact is that everybody in the campaign and all that you remember when he went down to Selma and talked about the movement and said that his dad was inspired by what went on at Selma, so he's tried to make it look like he's down for the struggle.
That was at the same time when Hillary said, I ain't no way Todd.
And she wasn't depressed when she said it.
And she wasn't low on testosterone when she said it.
Jimmy Carter ought to love.
No, I said somebody too.
Jimmy Carter ought to love Obama.
Finally, somebody come along and can take the mantle of worst president in a hundred years away from him.
Uh Jimmy Carter endorsed Romney.
All right, speaking of that, uh, this morning on uh PMS NBC's Morning Joe, the host there, Joe Scarborough, spoke with New York magazine uh editor, national affairs editor John Heileman about the 2016 presidential race and and Hillary.
This guy thinks that Obama is gonna lose in 2012.
It's a short soundbite.
Eight seconds, listen fast.
This is what Heileman thinks is going to happen.
January 23rd, 2017, after the failed Obama presidency, followed by the failed Romney one-term presidency, we'll have the inauguration of another Clinton.
So I don't care.
Don't misunderstand.
Not that this guy is a wizard of smart.
I just there more and more talk of Obama either losing in 2012 or not running.
And I am just I am begging all of you, don't get caught up in it.
I mean, it's fun, and we'll have fun with it, but do not believe this garbage that Obama is tired of the job and doesn't want to win re-election.
Don't I uh there's there's I know that like there's even another story out there now at the Hill.com, another piece naming Democrat names who aren't on board with Obama's stupid jobs bill.
Uh and and this story headline, White House works to quell Democrat dissent.
The Senators are Mark Beggage, Jim Webb, Mary Landrew, Barbara McCulski are on the record as wanting no part of the Obama jobs bill.
Mitch McConnell quoted as saying, it seems like the only Democrats who were even willing to talk about it here on Capitol Hill are tearing it apart.
Meanwhile, Obama, we talked about this yesterday, he's out going to all these bridges that are unsafe.
That he doesn't close down, by the way.
All these unsafe bridges trying to say it's the Republicans who won't work with him on this.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is undermining him on that.
Which is what spawned uh, I think a quite eloquent and brilliant discussion yesterday, in fact, on my part, about uh what really is happening here with this chess game and oh uh Boehner and Cantor out there saying we want to work with the president.
No, Bob Turner didn't say that, but then we've got this Bloomberg poll.
And I know, I I don't know, but I mean I know that that this is the kind of stuff that influences our guys in Washington.
Forty-five percent of those surveyed in the Bloomberg poll said they blame Republicans in Congress for what's gone wrong in Washington.
And yet at every election, Republicans are winning landslides.
Now explain that to me.
Why would why would anybody listen to a poll over election results?
And then here Obama disapproval soars to 54% in Virginia.
How about this?
From um the Associated Press and even the AP, state-run AP starting to sound a little uh skeptical here.
Officials hope to approve more loan guarantees.
As many as 15 more loan guarantees for renewable energy companies before the stimulus program ends on September 30th.
They hellbent on spending that you you might be surprised to learn that there's still unspent money for teachers and shovel-ready jobs and schools and roads and bridges.
Unspent money while Obama's out asking for more.
And they're out now trying to find even more windmill companies and solar panel companies to give federal money to, even though there's no business there.
And look at who all we got how many people, what role is Hadley?
FBI, FCC, AFT, the number of people investigating Cylindra is incredible.
Meanwhile, the White House, well, Jay Carney said the president doesn't even know he hadn't even been briefed on it.
I have a question for Mayor Doomberg.
Predicting riots over the economy.
Mayor Doomberg, would New York have more job opportunities for its citizens if the U.S. immigration laws were enforced.
I'm just asking.
By the way, one more thing on this Bloomberg poll that says most people blame Republicans for the discord in Washington.
This is the same poll that claims that a big majority wants Obama's stimulus bill to be passed.
So you take no wonder, no wonder our leaders in Washington are saying what they're saying.
They've been shown this poll, there's no question about it, my mind.
And they think there's probably something to it.
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