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Sept. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, I'm beginning to think all this talk out there about Obama being depressed may well be true.
But if he is, he's not the only one.
I think the drive-bys are depressed.
I really do.
I think the media is depressed.
I think they are among the chief Obama supporters who are just beside themselves.
This is not how it was supposed to be.
And now they've thrown their integrity to the wind and they've thrown every ounce of credibility they once had because they're doing nothing but trying to prop this any other president with this kind of record, and they would be in the process of destroying.
It's Friday.
Let's continue.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday telephone number to reach me at the EIB Network, 800-282.
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And I know we try to take a call in the first hour.
On Open Line Friday, we didn't get to it.
But we will in this hour.
I promise you.
Now, if Obama's depressed, why would he be depressed?
Well, uh, he's a liberal.
Liberals are never happy.
They're incapable of it.
But with Obama, if he really is depressed, it could be a little bigger.
He has had, he has had people paint on his little black blank canvas all of his life that he's wonderful, awesome, smart, historic, change-making, handsome, whatever anybody wanted him to be.
He was the one.
He was the Messiah.
Greek columns.
He bought this.
He has been treated in a special way all of his life.
This is a new life experience for him.
Only 38% like me.
Only 42% approve what I'm doing.
it can't be.
He's finding out he's not all that.
You know, These narcissists hit the brick wall of reality, folks.
You uh you know, you want to scatter out there.
That that could be very depressing.
Kind of like all those students, all those kids in Atlanta, who for a decade took all the tests.
Remember the teachers were phonying up the results?
The teachers were giving them grades much higher than they deserved just so the teachers would look good.
And as a result, all these kids in Atlanta thought they were really smart and that they had learned a lot of stuff.
Then they find out when the scandal broke, they hadn't been taught anything, or very little of any value.
Found out the teachers had changed their answers, and they really weren't so smart.
And I frankly was uh heartened by their reaction.
They were upset about it.
They felt like they'd been shortchanged, and they had been.
Back when I went to school, if you got an A, you didn't care how.
You take it and move on.
And count the days till you get out.
The Obama regime moving to finalize as many as 15 loan guarantees for renewable energy companies before the stimulus program ends on September 30th, and Republicans are questioning whether that could lead to more failures like Cylindra.
Well, how could that be?
How could rushing through questionable loans to a failing industry be a problem?
How could speedily quickly irresponsibly rushing through 15 more highly questionable loans to a non existent solar industry be a problem?
This article is from the Associated Press.
They quote Fred Upton, the guy who um supported the incandescent light bulb ban, he's a Republican.
They quote Fred Upton as saying the U.S. government shouldn't be acting like venture capitalists.
That's true.
But the problem is that the regime is acting like crony capitalists.
In fact, better than that, the regime is acting like the Politburo.
They're out there picking which companies are going to win, which companies are going to lose in the next five-year plan.
This AP story also notes how the Democrats claim the failure to invest in the solar industry will be a death sentence for our country.
Just it's amazing.
Obama and his policies are the death sentence for America, and the investment in a non existent business, the solar industry business, is precisely emblematic of this failure.
Tell it to Spain.
Spain preceded us.
Spain has tried all this.
Spain is in a world of hurt economically, unemployment.
Everybody's worried about ChICOMs, the solar panel business.
Do we really have to worry about the ChICOMs cornering the market on sunlight?
I mean, it's not as though the sun only shines on the ChICOM.
But still there's no business there.
And yet we're funneling all this money to them.
White House is worried about the Cylindra default.
This is from another, again, a mildly concerned AP.
But AP's concern is about the effects on Obama's re-election campaign.
Matthew Daly, the stenographer here.
White House officials discuss the political ramifications of a possible default by Cylindra.
According to newly released emails, emails released last night show that Obama regime privately worried about the effects of a default by Cylindra on the president's reelection campaign official from the OMB wrote in a January 31 email to a senior OMB official, the optics of a Cylindra default are going to be bad.
The timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up.
So you see, folks, it's not the waste of a half billion dollars of taxpayer money that bothers them.
It's the optics.
Might hurt Obama's re-election chances.
Can't have that.
No, no, no, no.
AP says, even as Obama praised the company's plans to hire more than a thousand workers, warning signs are being sent from within the government and from outside analysts who questioned Solyndra's viability is a going concern.
The question comes frequently here.
Are they just amazingly incompetent or are they just corrupt?
Or maybe a combination of both.
Because this Cylinder story is getting bigger.
Now you even have the Treasury Department investigating Cylinder.
Yeah, I know.
I know it's it's got to be depressing to find out that you're not universally beloved.
Got to be when you genuinely believe that you are universally loved, and then you find out you're not.
I mean, it's a huge blow.
Whatever, you know, Obama's approval numbers and the fact that nobody's fainting at the town halls, nobody's swooning anymore.
That's that's a blow to a wildly inflated self-esteem.
You know, I wouldn't mind, folks.
I I wouldn't mind us throwing away 500 million dollars on Cylindra if we learned something from it.
If we learn that green technology was a fraud, just like, by the way, there was a story in the UK Guardian yesterday.
Some guy watched Al Gore's 24-hour presentation, his new PowerPoint presentation, and he's he said, Oh, I couldn't, that made me sick.
It was so bad.
Oh, Jesus.
He starts spinning.
has Al Gore become a problem for the climate change movement.
Has Al Gore become, because he's now so polarizing, is Al Gore now a problem for the global warming movement?
They were all depressed after watching Al Gore's new PowerPoint display over this.
Apparently it's a doozy.
It's just filled with wild claims by people from all over the world that not they're not backed up by anything.
See if we you throw 500 million dollars uh down the drain and cylinder, if we learn, if we can be honest with ourselves and learn that green technology was a fraud, and that Obama funneled tax dollars to his contributors.
If we learn that what this is, that what liberalism results in, among many other things, is the central government picking losers rather than winners.
That the sun is great for growing plants, but a lousy substitute for gasoline.
If we would learn that capitalism redistributes money much smarter than socialism, then there'd be a silver lining to this.
But that doesn't appear to be the lesson, unless, oh, we got unspent stimulus money, we've got to we've got to ram that through there before the stimulus ends on September 30th.
Let's grab a phone call.
Open line Friday.
I promised.
And here we go.
Anita in Howell, New Jersey.
We start with you, you're up first.
It's great to have you with us.
Thank you.
It's a great to speak to you.
I'm a longtime listener and a first-time caller.
So I'm a little nervous.
You don't sound nervous, and it's great to have you here.
It really is.
Thank you.
Um I am not you're happy with Perry.
You seem to be happy with Rick Perry.
And you also seem to be happy with Chris Christie if you were running.
And I live in New Jersey, obviously.
And I hate to tell you this, but I don't know.
I don't agree with you.
Personally, I'm I'm voting for Mitt Romney.
But my problem with Rick Perry is that he's for in-state tuition for illegals.
I'm very much against it.
Well, first off, I haven't endorsed anybody yet.
I haven't made a choice.
Um so you might be assuming, given when you listen, there's some days we talk about what is happening.
Rick Perry might be in the news or doing things.
I talk about it, you might infer uh endorsement type support or enthusiasm.
The same thing for Christie.
I I don't I don't even think Chris Christie is a full-fledged conservative.
And I and and if you know Perry, um they all have defects.
They've they've all got well, like like Perry, um, he's not totally anti-government, but he is anti-federal government.
But if you look at him as governor of Texas, he's been fully willing to use the power of the state government to advance his beliefs when it comes to the federal government, he wants no part of them.
Don't know how he would be when he ends up there if he ends up as president.
Romney's got his own problem.
You you you cite illegal immigration as a flaw that that that uh and the in-state tuition for for uh Perry.
I got Romney care as an albatross around Mid's neck.
Yeah, but Mr. Romney, this has been going on forever with Mitt Romney and Romney care.
I mean, he he was dealing with his state with Massachusetts.
Yeah Well, so is Perry's dealing, you know, you Texas uh you that's a whole different dynamic than say in Nebraska or even in New Jersey when you're talking about immigration.
Uh, we're a sanctuary state, which everybody, you know, come on over, especially the illegals.
Now, um, with Chris Christie, I I still prefer, even though everybody has the flaws that they have, I still prefer Mitt Romney, and I think he's the only one that could beat Obama, regardless of Romney Kierr.
Well, but I disagree with you there.
I don't think he's the only one that can beat Obama.
Um but look, I uh you're you're f look, I I'm not I'm not gonna get drawn into ruling anybody out right now.
That's that's you know, I I I want to keep focus on Obama.
Well, did you see by the way Barry Manilo has endorsed Ron Paul?
Barry Manilo said that he agrees with everything Ron Paul said.
I wonder if uh they played any Barry Manilow tunes to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during the uh enhanced interrogation technique.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was just told during the recent obscene profits I am out that Mr. Snurdley stopped attempted sabotage on this program.
Our next caller is a nice woman from Greenville, South Carolina named Vicky.
Snurdley tells me that uh replacement uh stenographer today, uh, Wendy was going to attempt to pick up the phone and tell Vicky you really don't want to do this.
I've never dealt with attempted sabotage like this before.
Snurdley shut it down, but Vicki's still there.
No, no, she did, she just hung up.
Oh.
You know what?
That's probably my fault.
I probably she's probably listening on hold.
She heard me say that a member of my own staff was going to warn her not to do this, so she hung up.
She was a nice what would you guess her age is, Snurdley?
We're not gonna 40-ish, 50-ish in South Carolina.
She's uh liberal, and she was going to uh very polite me asked me, why are you talking about our president like this?
It's wrong for you to talk about our president like that.
I she and I and I said, Wait.
Yeah, I'm nice and polite.
Yeah, I know what was this about any specific all the time.
It had nothing to do with the gauker New York Times speculation that Obama might be depressed.
Nothing to do with that.
She wants me to stop talking about Obama.
Okay.
Oh, she give him a chance.
Oh no.
I wish she wouldn't have really wish I could have had her stay on the phone.
Say that to me.
Give him a chance.
Give him a chance.
Okay, well, let's let's uh let's push Obama aside for a while.
Let's talk about something else here.
What do I have?
Ah, here we go.
Celebrities are gabbing about it openly.
Vicky, this is for you in South Carolina.
Celebrities are gabbing about it openly.
A growing number of grooming products cater to it.
And a recent TV commercial hails it as the cradle of life and the center of civilization.
The vagina is becoming big business.
A generation that grew up with more graphic language and sexual images in the media is forgoing the decades-old practice of tiptoeing around it in favor of more open dialogue about it.
To reach digital age 20 and 30-somethings who have uh shortened attention spans, marketers are using ads that are edgier, more frank, sometimes downright shocking.
Generation Y people are more relaxed about their bodies, so there's more attention to products that people would have been embarrassed to talk about before, said Deborah Mitchell, the executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin Scrual of Business.
Part of this trend of women saying, hey, we're not embarrassed to talk about this.
So the AP has a story.
The vagina is becoming big business.
In fact, I didn't know this.
Uh the term Vijay became popular after Oprah began using it on TV in 2007.
Did you know that, Snurdly?
That's the first I've heard of it.
Okay, so we didn't talk about Obama for a minute and a half.
In honor of Vicky from uh South Carolina.
Uh the well, you know, if if if the vagina is becoming big business, clearly, let's look at the left.
The left's gonna want their share.
The left's gonna want their fair share of the vagina business.
And then Obama is gonna have to find a way to tax it.
He can probably consult with uh Elliott Spitzer on that.
Here's another one, folks.
Democrats slam Obama for going A-Wall on mortgage crisis.
This is the Hill dot com.
And uh name names again ticked off leftists, uh uh Democrats on on the record, upset that Obama doesn't seem to care about any of the pain and suffering that he's caused, joblessness, the uh mortgage crisis, the uh general devaluation of homes in the country.
He's out trying to rev people up against the Republicans by showing up at bridges and so forth.
If here's the thing.
If you look at all this, starting yesterday with the New York Times, uh, going to all these Democrats who oppose Obama's jobs bill.
The Hill.com, any number of other places in the media quoting Democrats, doing stories on Obama.
We've got we've got legitimate, apparently a legitimate investigation in the New York Times about whether Obama's depressed or not.
It does seem to me, and I say this with reservation, and I say this with my antenna fully raised.
I say this is the red flags up, so don't misunderstand.
But the the outward appearance here is obvious.
That the White House has totally lost control of the Democrat Party.
You've got Harry Reid and and Democrats in the Senate promising that this jobs bill isn't gonna go anywhere.
The only place you're hearing any signs of of cooperation with the White House from John Boehner and Eric Cantor.
And you got this uh Bloomberg poll, which says it's this cock-eyed.
Fifty-four per no, forty-five percent of the American people blame the Republicans for all the discord, and yet it's Republicans who keep winning elections.
And you've got James Carville.
Let's go to James James Carville is is is is now going verbal to back up what he wrote, CNN.com.
This is last night with Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room.
Blitzer said, James Carvel, you created quite a stir in this article you've written for CNN.com.
What are you talking about, sir?
We lost two elections uh Tuesday night.
We lost sixty-five elections in November.
The economy is sliding out sideways, if anything is sliding back.
Macroeconomic advisor says one third chance for going into another recession.
You look at how crazy the opposition party is, chaired death and everything else, and you say, hey, we gotta change direction here.
We've got to do something different.
This is not working, not politically, not economically, not anything.
So bring in a new team and indicate to people that you get it, they understand that you were dealt a very tough hand, but you just keep playing the same hand over and over again.
It's not working.
It's not working.
Carville on a rampage, and he wasn't through.
Blitzer said you've got two specific recommendations in your CNN column.
Fire somebody and indict people.
Well, let's talk about both of those.
What do you mean fire somebody?
Who should be fired?
Well, we lost all the seats in 1994.
A lot of us got fired.
That's what happens.
That's what President Reagan did in 1980.
How many generals did Lincoln fire?
Even Rumsfell lost his job.
The Republicans fired Newt Gingrich.
When things are not going well, I'm sorry that the coach, the manager, we're both sports fans.
You gotta do something, you gotta try to change direction here.
He's not gonna fire himself.
He's not gonna fire the vice president.
So who does he fire?
You're right.
The president can't fire himself.
He's not gonna fire the vice president, but he's gotta signal to people.
I know that what we do in here is causing a lot of hardship.
We keep losing elections and we keep having the same people.
I'm telling you, folks, if you listen to this, this is your father's Democrat Party speaking.
They are look at Carville understands he's he's he's a legitimate consultant.
He's right.
They lost 65 elections.
They are losing them in droves.
They lost New York nine.
That is so huge.
I cannot overemphasize it.
So is losing the New Jersey governorship along with Virginia.
The midterms in 2010.
Well, the problem is he can't fire the economic team.
They all quit.
They did.
Gouldsby was the last one out of there.
Or maybe he's still there, but the economic team has all quit.
Um, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what, Geitner's the only one left, and and and Geitner wants out, and they're not letting him leave.
But but the point is, no, no, no, Carville recognizes they are heading down a sinkhole.
You know, you throw this stupid Bloomberg poll out, most Americans blaming Republicans for the discord, and why people aren't concerned about the discord in Washington.
And Obama clearly, he either has no desire to actually create jobs in this country, or he doesn't really have a clue.
And at this point, it doesn't matter what the answer to the question is.
What Carville knows is that there is no way.
Look at Carville got Bill Clinton elected with the motto, it's the economy stupid.
Carville capitalized on economic circumstances that were one-tenth, if that, as bad as this.
Economic circumstances in 1992 that were nothing compared to this.
And he knows how easy it was to beat George H.W. Bush with an economy that was actually in recovery back then.
This is a disaster.
You've got Obama and the Democrats have run the show for two of the two of the three years that, or two of the two of the two and a half years of the Obama regime.
He knows he's he's trying to warn everybody.
I think fire somebody, indict somebody, I think that's just flailing away.
He knows that firing anybody isn't gonna make any difference because the guy that really is the root cause of this is Obama.
Yeah, well, you can you could.
You could you could take one of his hundred dollar bills and go running them through a trader park and wave it around to see what you get and put them on the economic team.
If they would accept the job.
Here's one more blitzer said, Well, you want to name names, people that ought to be fired or indicted.
Maybe there's a deputy secretary.
I have no idea.
That's really not what I'm trying to say.
I'm not trying to get into the details.
Somebody, somewhere, no, more than somebody.
I talked about the battle of Stalingrad, but I was not certainly advocating this, but you know, in a Tea Party drainage Russian Colonel in the 64th Division just started shooting every 10th person.
Now I don't know he's losing it here now.
But uh, you know, that's what I said yesterday.
What is Carville doing?
He's clearly panicking.
So, you know, he and Mary packed up the kids and they moved to New Orleans.
Because they they figured it's a better place to raise kids.
They figured Archie Manning raised their kids there, they turned up pretty well, so let's go back to New Orleans.
So Mary goes to bed, kids go to bed, Carville's still up by himself, poor's little maker's mark, maybe Knob Creek, sits there.
What does he think about?
What would Stalin do?
That's where he is.
What would Stalin do?
Stalin purged everybody.
Well, now, this isn't sitting well with Bob Schrum.
Bob Schrum, who has never run a successful political campaign.
He ran Kerry's campaign, presidential campaign.
He may have run Other campaigns where his candidates won, but he's not ever succeeded as a presidential campaign consultant.
He was on uh with Andrea Mitchell in BC News in Washington this afternoon on her show on uh on PMS NBC.
And she said that Democrats, as you point out your latest column, Bob, are going after each other on the president.
You call it the Democrats self-defeating Crybaby chorus.
What is your advice to Democrats?
Uh the president is vulnerable.
I don't think it's helpful, for example, for James Carvel, who's a friend of mine to suggest the president fire everybody who works for him.
A, he's not going to do it.
And B, I seem to recall that in June or early July of 1992, Bill Clinton was running 22% in the polls, third place behind Perot and Bush.
Carvel was running the campaign.
He didn't panic, and he didn't fire himself.
All right.
So I know a lot of you think, Rush, you're missing it, and you shouldn't be.
You should be the guys warning us this is all a trap.
They're acting all this out.
Not all of this.
There's genuine discord.
Genuine, genuine discord.
There is, I mean, there's there's no masking this.
There aren't a whole lot of Democrats going to run for re-election 2012 who want to tie themselves to this record.
You know, they got what they wanted, but it didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
They got all this spending, and they thought that would lead to utopia and vast new jobs and wealth and so forth, people that never had it before.
They're staring point blank into the reality that their ideas are utter failures.
Okay, so in the case of Obama, he may be happy about what's going on, chip on his shoulder about this country, thinks that we have to pay a price for all of our illegitimacy as a great nation.
Who knows?
These guys that have to get re-elected.
No, they can't run on this record.
That's a far cry from 2008 when it could run around saying they were best friends with Obama and all that.
The only part of him.
So there's there's there's genuine problem out there.
What that does not do, and what what what none of what's going on with the Democrats has any effect on who we nominate.
And I'm gonna tell you something.
That's crucial the opportunity that we have here is once in a generation.
The implosion of the American left, the implosion of liberalism, obvious to everybody now.
Some people like it, some don't.
Some people are always going to be supportive of leftist causes.
Some will move out of it.
But the point is, no longer is it just a bunch of people trying to tell Americans, you know, look, if you elect these Democrats, this is what's going to happen.
Ah, no, that can't happen.
Now it is happening.
Despite what anybody says, it's happening.
People are living it.
They're living the loss of their job.
They're living the prospect of not finding one anytime soon.
They're living the loss of the value of their home.
They're living the loss of the value of their 401k.
They're living all of this.
They are living now the inflation of the dollar.
They are living all of this.
They don't need to be told.
On the other side of that is the fix, the repair.
And the repair is not a rhino in the White House.
The repair is not a moderate Republican in the White House.
The repair and the golden opportunity here is a conservative, a movement conservative.
Somebody's proud of it, somebody who can proudly exclaim it, explain it, articulate it, happily, cheerfully, confidently, doesn't have to have notes, doesn't have to have a teleprompter, doesn't have to be reminded what to say because it's in his or her heart.
So regardless what all's going on with the Democrats, and whether all this is a giant uh game or whether it's real, whether this discord in the party with Obama's real or whether it's made up of the tactic doesn't matter.
Cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from what we have to do.
It's not enough that they took action that might result in them defeating themselves no matter what we do.
What does matter is that we end up nominating the right person and electing the right person as president and get similar type people leadership positions because this is the first of many elections are going to have to be won.
Even if Obama loses big, and if it were today he would lose in a landslide.
Don't forget the bureaucracy and the judiciary and federal level, state level still populated with career leftists who will revel in undermining and sabotaging.
Anything that a new Republican or conservative president would want to do.
There's a lot of hard work to do here, regardless of what's happening and the fun it is to watch all this.
But we still have to stay focused on what our move is and what will best bring about this landslide.
And we, you and I, know what it is, and that is a genuinely conservative candidate.
Gotta take a break because I'm long.
We'll be back in a second.
It's open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is James in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
James, hello.
Yes, hi, Rush.
I want to be the first to offer you uh giga ditto.
That's much bigger than mega ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Yes.
Um wanted to bring to people's attention the uh recent uh resignation by Ivor Gaver from the American Physical Society.
Uh Ivar Gaber is a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
Uh he got his Nobel Prize in 1973 for work that he did on uh tunneling of electrons in superconducting uh states.
Right.
I've read the paper.
And um he is you know, he is uh you know, he he went on from the General Electric R D Center where he did his um Nobel prize winning work to become a professor at uh Rensselaer Polytechnic.
And so far as um first of all, uh uh I was at the RD Center back in 73 when he got his award, and um he was a straight up guy, okay.
Uh he was not an activist, he was not a political um you know uh he's not political at all.
That's why he what what he's done, folks.
If if if you haven't heard, Dr. Ivor Gaver has resigned he's he's he's he's resigned his whole involvement over global warming, the anthropological or anthropomorphic man-made global warming.
He's he's it's not there.
The warming that's happened is minimal, and it's there's increased happiness and all this.
He he uh he hadn't used the word hoax or scam, but he wants no part of it.
Yeah.
Um just quoting uh one sentence from his um resignation email to the American Physical Society.
Um in the APS it's okay to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible.
You know, question mark.
And um, you know, he'd be it basically says, you know, you guys are um you know, it's just right.
Now what's important to remember about this is that the pro-global warming crowd, they're out there saying 98% of scientists agree.
And these deniers and so forth.
It's nowhere near a ninety-eight percent consensus.
We've been to the whole notion of consensus anyway.
But here's a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has rejected all of it.
Not being paid to do so, integrity intact, not a coke.
Uh just uh every day or every week new things happen To confirm what a fraud and hoax this whole man-made global warming effort has been.
James, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back right after this.
Okay, that's it, folks.
Another exciting hour.
Busy broadcast hour is in the can.
The fastest three hours in media.
I don't know about you.
I feel like I just sat down here.
I got swamped here within 30 seconds of starting a show with a bunch of stuff.
I still got 80% of what I prepared for this show still to go.
So there's still plenty of stuff out there.
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