Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, folks, did you know that peace is hard?
Peace is really hard.
That's what Obama told him at the United Nations today.
Marriage is hard.
Peace is hard.
Yeah, it's really hard.
Really, really hard.
It's really especially hard for Jewish people.
Obama really misses the Jewish vote.
He made an appeal for it today.
It was actually kind of comical to watch.
In fact, more and more of what Obama's doing is becoming late-night joke fodder.
Who would have ever thought about that?
And folks, just to show you how schizophrenic Americans are, get this.
Gallup has a poll this morning, and it says that a majority of Americans now believe that Obama does have some responsibility for the sad state of the U.S. economy.
Imagine.
No, that's progress.
Don't get too cynical about that.
It's taken a while, but we're there.
A majority of Americans now finally believe Obama has some responsibility for the sad state of the U.S. economy.
Now, thanks.
Appreciate that.
Great to have you with us, by the way, folks.
Rush Limbo here at 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
I feel like I have been plagiarized.
Back in 1987, while toiling away as a struggling young star of the future, well, actually it had become a star out there.
I wrote a weekly column for a newspaper, and I was having writer's block.
And I just couldn't get jump-started.
So I started writing down one-sentence beliefs and thoughts, trying to spur the idea of a column.
And I just kept going.
And finally, after a while, I said, you know, I've got 600 words here.
Pretty soon I'll have a whole column out of this.
And that eventually became the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life.
And it was that, among many other things, that established me as one of the nation's great thinkers.
And one of the 35 undeniable truths of life was uttered verbatim today by Obama.
Undeniable truth of life number four, peace does not mean the absence of war.
Obama uttered those exact words in his speech today at the United Nations.
Audience is, you know, 90% of that place is gun-toting murderous thugs.
No, no, of course he didn't credit me.
No way he credited me.
Number four.
Here's the first, I'll give you the top 10.
The greatest threat to humanity lies in the nuclear arsenal of the Soviet Union.
Remember now, it's 1987.
Number two, the greatest threat to humanity lies in the USSR.
Number three, peace does not mean the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Four, peace does not mean the absence of war.
Five, war is not obsolete.
Six, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Seven, there's only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons.
Use them.
Number eight, peace cannot be achieved by developing an understanding with the Russian people.
And Obama, by the way, said that today.
He said, no treaty, no words, no doctors, they're going to lead to peace.
It's almost like somebody in the regime read this and liked portions of it and lifted it for his speech.
We have a little montage briefly here of Obama discussing and telling the world just how hard peace is.
The fact is, peace is hard.
Let us remember, peace is hard.
It will be hard, but it is possible.
Peace is hard.
Peace is hard work.
Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible.
This is the great Branigak that we elected President of the United States, the great intellectual, a guy with the perfect crease in his slacks.
David Brooks of the New York Times, a perfect crease.
I've never seen a more perfect crease in a pair of slacks, and interpreted that to mean that this guy was not only going to be president, but was going to be a good one.
Here's more.
This is a continuation here of peace is so hard.
Obama, our president at the United Nations.
The fact is, peace is hard, but our people demand it.
Over nearly seven decades, even as the United Nations helped avert a third world war, we still live in a world scarred by conflict and plagued by poverty.
Even as we proclaim our love for peace and our hatred of war, there are still convulsions in our world that endanger us all.
I took office at a time of two wars for the United States.
Moreover, the violent extremists who drew us into war in the first place, Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization, remained at large.
Today, we've set a new direction.
And now he tells us in the next bite how he changed the world and reminds us again that peace is hard.
This has been a remarkable year.
The Gaddafi regime is over.
Bagbo, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power.
Osama bin Laden is gone.
And the idea that change could only come through violence has been buried with him.
Something's happening in our world.
The way things have been is not the way that they will be.
Wait a second.
Did we get rid of bin Laden with a treaty or something?
He just said here, and buried with him is the idea that change can only come through violence.
I thought it took a SEAL team to blow Bin Laden away.
Well, guys, I'm confused.
I'm quibbling.
I'm confused.
It's been a remarkable year.
The Qaddafi regime is over.
Gabago, Ben Ali, Mubarak are no longer in power.
Bin Laden is gone.
The idea that change can only come through violence has been...
What's going on in Libya?
There's violence there.
There was some violence in Egypt as well.
We didn't use treaties to get rid of all these people, doctors, nurses, clean waters, good vibes.
Is that what we got rid of all these people with?
Let's.
Facts getting in the way of a good speech.
Here, this is the rest of the bite.
Humiliating grip of corruption and tyranny is being pried open.
Not here.
Technology is putting power into the hands of the people.
The youth are delivering a powerful rebuke to dictatorship and rejecting the lie that some races, some religions, some ethnicities do not desire democracy.
But let us remember, peace is hard.
Progress can be reversed.
Prosperity comes slowly.
Societies can split apart.
Peace is hard.
Now, he can lecture us on peace.
He's a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, don't forget.
By the way, do you think they may be regretting that decision?
I mean, they gave that award on the come.
The guy hadn't done anything.
They just figured his presence would cause peace to break out.
I doubt that his people don't make mistakes.
Anyway, there's a story in the Politico today, folks.
Speaking of warfare, there are rumblings in the media and throughout the rest of the Democrat Party that Obama's class warfare rhetoric is starting to lose him the precious independent vote.
You have a story here.
My formerly nicotine stained fingers that the Politico is running an article that says Obama sparks middle-of-road rage.
Now, remember, the conventional wisdom is that the moderates, the great independents, dislike any form of confrontation or conflict.
They don't like criticism, not of themselves, but of Democrats.
We have been told for as long as I've been hosting this program that independents, if you start criticizing Democrats, doesn't matter where, that could be president, members of House, Senate, wherever, dog catcher, you criticize Democrats and the moderators going to put their foot down and they're going to run right back Democrat Party because they don't want to hear any of that.
And I've always asked myself, who put this thought out there?
Because the Democrat Party, particularly as it's constituted today, is the biggest collection of extreme, mean, spirited, violent rhetoric that you'll find in politics today.
And I've always found it strange that the independents, say, if John Boehner were to be critical of Obama, okay, that's it.
We knew it.
We've had it with you, Republicans.
To hell with you.
We're going back to the Democrats.
Where we're treated daily to the rantings of people like Barney Frank and Maxine Waters who tell us to go to hell and worse.
And I, frankly, have never bought it.
But our side has.
The Republicans have lived because whoever tells them this, political consultants, pollsters, whatever, have always played, don't be critical of Obama.
Don't criticize them.
He lose the independents.
And of course, that's where every election's won is the independents.
And I, the consultant, I'm the only guy that can tell you how to get those people to vote for you.
And if you can't do it by constantly criticizing Democrats, I just can't do it.
So now, no less than political, the moderate elite isn't, by definition, an angry bunch.
But President Obama's pivot from calibrated centrism to soak the rich liberal populism has tapped a vein of middle-of-the-road rage and centrist angst.
Over the past two weeks, Obama has convincingly channeled FDR, winning over suspicious liberals, even if many suspect that he'll eventually return to his old compromising ways, yet to a small but influential cadre of moderates.
It's political apostasy.
An Obama-led return to the bad old days of the 70s and 80s when tax-hiking liberals drove the Democrat Party to the powerless margins of politics.
President Obama's basically tearing apart his own coalition, said Mark Penn, former top strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign.
He was also a pollster for President Bill Clinton.
He had Senator Ben Nelson, one of the few remaining conservative Democrats left in Congress, urging Obama to stick with the anti-deficit crusade that he embarked upon after last November's defeat.
And then, of course, David Brooks.
We didn't spend a lot of time in detail on this because, frankly, it was embarrassing.
Imagine the pain and suffering Mr. Brooks endured writing that column on Tuesday in the New York Times, wherein he admitted that he was a sap.
He must have called himself a sap 20 times in this piece for believing all of this talk that Obama was some great moderate.
Now, remember, Brooks is the House conservative, quote unquote, at the New York Times.
He describes himself as a centrist and a moderate.
And that's what he was convinced after seeing the crease in Obama's slacks and after having dinner with him at George Will's house.
He was convinced that Obama was a moderate.
And now he sees that he was a sap.
And now moderate elites and independents everywhere are political.
Can I help you guys out?
You haven't noticed or I guess you didn't notice that the independents abandoned Obama as far back as November 2010 in the midterm elections.
Obama hasn't had these independents for on to a year now.
And nothing he's doing is going to get them back.
He is in danger of losing his base.
That's why he has to assume in positions and speak the rhetoric that he truly believes.
We've gotten the real Obama the last seven days.
That's who he really is.
That's what his regime's agenda has really always been.
And now all of a sudden, the smartest people in the room, the wizards are smart, all these great conservative intelligentsia types, professed moderates, now they say they see the truth.
Now they say that it's all coming into focus.
And had they just listened to me back on January 16th of 2009, you know, a week before Obama was immaculated, that's the day that history will forever show that there was one man standing.
Me, who said, I hope he fails.
Nobody in the conservative movement, the Republican Party, was willing to utter even a syllable of criticism of Obama.
And even now, there's reluctance to.
I had a great email, told you from a friend of mine toward the end of the program yesterday, I get the question.
I have gotten the question every day for 23 years, why do the Republicans do X?
Why don't the Republicans do X?
And the answer, I think, in this email is pretty simple.
I think the Republicans in Washington still look at the mainstream media as the primary vehicle to get their message out.
They still see that they got to go through the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, Sunday morning shows, traditional and now marginalized mainstream media.
They do not use to their full advantage the new media, conservative media, talk radio, blogs, you name it.
There's a whole bunch of different places they could go to get coverage of what they want and what they believe and what their objectives and agenda happen to be.
But they are still mired in this notion that they've got to go through Bob Schieffer first or David Gregory or whoever happens to be hosting this week any given Sunday or CNN, you name it.
Maybe get a good profile in the Washington Post style section.
I think that explains a lot as to how they publicly behave, sometimes even vote.
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Folks, this is a little inside baseball, but it's important because He who controls the language ends up winning the debate.
And it might seem like a small thing, but I have learned, I have been given to understand that the establishment Republicans hate the term.
They don't like being called establishment Republicans.
And they are trying to change the term to establishment conservatives and in the process co-opt the definition of conservative and conservatism.
It's not something that you'll notice if you watch cable news or even read.
You have to be able to see the stitches on the fast bull.
You have to be able to read between the lines.
And you have to know some stuff going on behind the scenes.
And of course, I am in a position to know these kinds of things.
So don't doubt me on this.
The establishment Republicans are the establishment Republicans.
The Republican leadership is the Republican establishment, meaning the elites.
They hate it, and they are in the process of trying to redefine who conservatives are and who they and what it is.
And if they succeed, the conservatism that you and I hold dear will no longer be the definition of conservatism.
If they succeed, the current thinking of the Republican establishment will be what is called modern-day conservatism.
Don't doubt me on this.
It sounds like a small thing, but in a daily ebb and flow, you'll not even see any news about this.
But it's important because it's crucial who controls the language, who controls the way words are defined.
And you and I know that the establishment Republicans don't like conservatives.
They didn't like Reagan.
They were embarrassed of Reagan.
They're embarrassed of us.
They didn't like the moral majority.
They didn't like the Christian right.
They didn't like the pro-lifers.
They don't like the social conservatives at all.
They're embarrassed by us in many ways with their other buddies, the establishment Democrats, which combined gives us the Washington establishment.
And they'd very much prefer to be members of that club than ours.
But they know that it doesn't help them to be called establishment Republicans.
So they're trying to take the term conservative and co-opt it and define it as they behave, write, speak, and even vote on matters of politics.
By the way, here's Obama, grab somebody 27.
Here's Obama lifting my undeniable truth of life, number four.
The men and women who built this institution understood that peace is more than just the absence of war.
See?
A lasting peace for nations and for individuals depends on a sense of justice and opportunity.
You know.
Of dignity and freedom.
Peace is not the absence of war.
It's the presence of justice.
It's almost a direct lift.
I was just sent a web link to an hilarious picture of Obama taken with world leaders, Obama committing a major faux pas.
You're never supposed to wave in these pictures because you end up covering somebody's face.
So let me just print it.
I'll send a link to Coco, but I won't have time to do that till the next break.
And he'll put it, we'll link to it at RussianLimbo.com.
In the meantime, let me turn the ditto cam off and zoom in on this.
You have to watch the Zoom while I zoom in on this.
I'm getting close, getting close.
There we go.
All right, now turn it back on.
Here we go.
There's the picture.
You see Obama right in the middle of the picture there, just waving like some dumb hick that just happened to show up.
And when somebody's taking a picture, and here he is waving.
You're never supposed to wave in these pictures.
His hand covers up the face of some other world leader.
I mean, this is, it's just the look on Obama's face when you see this and can zoom in and up close with everything going on about the questions about his competence and everything else.
It's just, this looks, he looks like Alfred E. Newman of Man Magazine in this picture.
So I'll send the web link up to Coco in the next break and we'll have it at rushlimbaugh.com.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, back one of these soundbites that we just played of Obama talking about how peace broke out all over the world with no violence, he was taking credit for the Arab Spring, was he not?
He was taking credit for it.
Mubarak is gone.
Gaddafi's gone.
All these wonderful things are happening.
But I thought that he said the other day that it was one of the reasons that his economic policies were failing was the Arab Spring and tsunamis and earthquakes and so forth.
I probably ought to let this go.
And it isn't that big a deal.
But I can't let it go.
Because to me, it's funny.
It's the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life.
And I put these together in 1987.
And here are the relevant truths.
And by the way, it was number 24, the one that really established me as a great thinker.
The one that really put me on the map, even though I was still in Sacramento, California, my now adopted hometown, Undeniable Truth of Life, number 24, by now most of you know it.
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
That truth is eternal.
That truth survives to this day.
Of course, truths of life, it would survive to this day.
But I mean, it is something that's proven each and every day.
And this one I did get credit for.
I get credit for this one.
This one has never been lifted by anybody.
And it never will be.
Just like the I hope he fails.
Nobody will ever.
Then they're trying to horn in on it, but nobody honestly can because I was the lone wolf.
I was the last man standing.
There was nobody, nobody on January 16th of 2009, before DeFaro was emaculated, that would dare utter the slightest negative word.
Anyway, well, yeah, that was shortly after he was inaugurated.
He had the meeting with the congressional leadership, Republican and Democrats.
He brought him in there and he said to Boehner, look, you guys, you got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's just not how things get done in Washington.
And I had a meeting with Boehner a couple weeks after.
He said, I don't know why he said that to us.
And I said, well, he was hoping what you would do or somebody in your group would do after the meeting is go to the microphones and agree.
He had chosen his conservatives, George Will, David Brooks, Larry Metal Block, guys, CNBC, Kudlow, a bunch of others.
What he was attempting to do with that dinner was, okay, these are the conservatives I'm going to respect.
These are the conservatives that you ought to pay attention to.
He knew he had a room there full of mostly saps led by Brooks.
It's what he was trying to do.
And he tells Boehner, don't listen to Limboy.
That's not how things get done.
Okay, so here are the relevant truths of life that Obama has lifted.
Number four, peace does not mean the absence of war.
Number 14, to free people, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.
So basically, you have two truths there.
I'm going to read them again, and we're going to play the soundbite.
Here's number 27 so you can hear.
Peace does not mean the absence of war.
Undeniable truth, number four.
And number 14, to free people, peace means the absence of threats and the presence of justice.
The men and women who built this institution understood that peace is more than just the absence of war.
A lasting peace for nations and for individuals.
Peoples.
Depends on a sense of justice.
Justice and opportunity.
Of dignity and freedom.
Right.
So there you have it.
I just wanted to make the point one more time.
Now, that picture I just showed you, Obama, waving, he's blocking the face of the Mongolian president.
Now, you wouldn't know that.
Only I know that.
I've done research.
I could tell you who that is.
I want to go back also.
Let's see.
He made what sounded like an appeal to Jewish people today and the Israelis.
But, you know, you could look at this any number of ways, and he knows how various groups in that room at the United Nations are going to hear whatever it is he says.
And there's parts of the thing that he said in this clip that people might read as a threat to Israel.
For example, unless the Israelis give the Palestinians justice, they will never know peace.
He made it sound like today that a lot of the responsibility for Middle East peace now is on the shoulders of the Palestinians.
This is the first time he's done so.
And he would not have done this were it not for the election results in New York 9 a little over a week ago.
And I think people know this too.
So it was, folks, I guarantee you, at times in these speeches, there is applause.
There was no applause today.
This was not impressive or inspiring at all to anybody in the room.
Bumper sticker statements like peace is hard and this kind of stuff.
Here's Grab Audio Soundbite number four.
This is where Obama decides he's got a new peace plan called the shoe exchange.
Well, that's how I interpret it.
The shoe exchange.
And here's how that went.
The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland.
Israel deserves recognition.
It deserves normal relations with its neighbors.
And friends of the Palestinians do them no favors by ignoring this truth, just as friends of Israel must recognize the need to pursue a two-state solution with a secure Israel next to an independent Palestine.
That is the truth.
Each side has legitimate aspirations.
And that's part of what makes peace so hard.
And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes.
There you have it.
So the shoe exchange is now a A peace strategy.
Shoes are big.
That's right.
You got a shoe thrown at you.
That's a primo insult in the Middle East.
Shoes are big.
So now it's a shoe exchange.
And did you note here, each side has legitimate aspirations.
And that's part of what makes peace so hard.
Legitimate aspirations.
It'd be much easier if people's aspirations were illegitimate.
But the fact that they're legitimate makes peace hard.
So no, he didn't know.
No, no, he did.
No, he did not say that we want to destroy you as a legitimate aspiration.
That was my thought, too.
But later on, he did say he did chide the Palestinians for wanting to murder the Jews or else walk them into the Mediterranean.
He chided them for that.
So he did not.
No, we got to be honest here.
They cannot say that he considered that a legitimate aspiration.
Well, I don't know who.
It's a good question.
I don't know who is taking him seriously anymore.
I did not get the impression that anybody in that room was taking him seriously.
He's too all over the board.
It was a campaign speech.
And that's what everybody knows this was just another campaign speech, perverting, corrupting great institutions.
By the way, the Solyndra guys, folks, the Solyndra CEO and CFO were to testify before Congress today.
Actually, they were to testify before Congress last week.
But the Republicans, in an effort to show that they are nice people, the Republicans in the House, in an effort to show that they are not extremist, racist, sexist, bigots, and homophobes, gave the Solyndra guys an extra week to prepare their testimony.
The Soly guys announced yesterday that they will be claiming their Fifth Amendment privilege.
They will answer no questions.
It has taken them a week to come up with this strategy after the Republicans bent over backwards and forwards to show that they're not a bunch of meanies, gave them extra time.
We also learned today that the law firm representing the Solyndra guys has a bunch of members, partners, who were official bundlers for Obama, meaning they raised a lot of money.
They found a bunch of donors and pooled their donations into the bundle.
And bundlers are held in very high esteem in any campaign.
They bring in a lot of money and a lot of donors.
So the lawyers for the Solyndra guys, these are the guys, folks.
They were given, for all intents and purposes, $523 billion, half a trillion dollars.
Million, sorry, half a billion, half a billion dollars, right?
Half a billion dollars still.
And it's gone and nobody knows where.
And I keep saying, you know, $523 million, somebody wants to give me that.
How in the world could my business lose money?
How could my business go bankrupt?
Remember, this is a startup.
How could my business go bankrupt if somebody gives me $523 billion?
Here's what I want to know.
So we have the Soly guys and a fraud.
There's no business there.
There's no solar panel business.
There's no profitable business there.
Okay?
Fine dandy.
So these guys are all donors, supporters of Obama.
And I tell you, these scandals are starting to mount.
And the Heritage Foundation has put together a very good list of all these investigations and potential scandals.
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So you got the Solyndra guys taking the fifth.
Their lawyers are bundlers for Obama.
Obama's Department of Energy arranges for these guys to get $523 million.
It's gone.
The company's bankrupt.
How much of that $523 million ended up back in Obama's campaign war chest?
That's what I'd like to know.
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I'm not sure.
I read something early today that the amount of money Solyndra got is more than some of our allies get or would-be allies.
I'm going to check, but it's close.
The Palestinians get a similar amount of money from us as what Solyndra got.
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