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Sept. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
The Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Plus more, of course.
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Told you about Steve Chapman.
He's a columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Couple months ago, he was talking about Obama in a very positive way, his re-election things he could do to facilitate that.
Something's changed because this week Steve Chapman had a column joining a lot of thought that exists on the Democrat side that for the Democrat Party to be saved, Obama's gotta go.
Obama should not seek a second term.
Turn it over to somebody else.
It's not making the case for Hillary per se in the piece, but it did it established folks that from the New York Times to a lot of other liberal institutions.
They understand now that it is their ideology on the line.
The days of propping up Obama for whatever reasons they ever did, and I can list them for you if you want.
Guilt, guilt, guilt, and guilt.
That is why we had the puff pieces on Obama, the fabrication of a phony image, this messianic figure, unlike anything we had ever seen at any time in American politics.
So unique, so perfect, so wonderful, so smart, so capable, so able to blur the lines of disagreement, able to unify people all over the world, not only would Americans love Americans, but the world would love.
All of that clap trap.
You remember that.
All of that was guilt.
Combined with what they thought was something unbeatable.
They didn't think that anybody on the Republican side would have the courage to actually run a campaign against the first potential black president of the United States.
And they were right.
They were right.
The Republican campaign was an exercise in caution, fear, fear.
You name it.
But it was all taking place under the umbrella of guilt.
Slavery guilt, racial discrimination, guilt, you name it, doesn't matter.
It was guilt.
And the election of Obama, the public support of Obama was a way to publicly assuage all of that guilt.
To in one feel swoop, wash it clean.
But now, since there never was anything there, there never was a there there with Obama.
The empty suit has been exposed.
They're faced every day with the hardcore reality.
That in his hands, liberalism is an abject failure.
Now, it isn't in the sense, look what he's gotten done.
But it's a failure in the sense the American people don't want it.
Now that they find out what it is, and they find out who he was and is, they don't want it.
A majority support repealing everything Obama's done with health care at the top of that list.
Well, that can't be allowed to continue.
I mean it.
We did our duty.
We assuaged Our guilt.
But now, if it means what we believe going down the tubes, ending up on the ash heap of history, we can't let that happen.
And if it means Obama's got to go to save liberalism, then Obama's got to go.
If Obama's got to go to save Marxism, if Obama's got to go to stave Stalin, whatever, he's got to go.
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune.
Has done a 180 and has now joined the chorus.
So they went at MSNBC and they got him on the air.
Wanted to ask him about this.
The anchor was Craig Melvin.
Melvin said, first, there's some precedent here.
What you write in your column of presidents who could have run for re-election but did not in the face of a hostile electorate.
LBJ, 68, Truman in 52.
Make the case for Obama sitting the next one out.
We've got about as bad an economy as we've had since the Great Depression has been going on for four years now.
Unemployment is not falling.
The economy is barely growing at all, and the forecasts are that it's not going to grow very much in the next year.
So I think given that it's hard for me to believe that the American electorate is going to go to the polls next November and give Obama another four years, given that he's had four years and the economy is no better.
It's really going to work against him.
Yeah.
Now Chapman was singing a different tune as recently as sixty days ago, two months ago.
So Craig Melvin, MSNB says, well, you mentioned Hillary Clinton in your column, too, Steve.
Yeah, you know, she's a person who's run for president before.
She's obviously very well known, has a lot of credibility.
I don't think there's anybody who would be credible as a Democratic Party nominee.
Hillary is instantly credible.
She doesn't bear any responsibility for the economic problems.
And in fact, she's associated with a period of economic prosperity in the 90s when her husband was president.
She also happens to be, according to a new Bloomberg poll, uh the most popular political figure in the country right now.
There you have it.
Steve Chapman in Chicago.
The Chicago way.
Yeah.
There was a poll.
There was a poll out that Hillary is the most popular political figure in the country.
I don't know whose poll it was.
I don't I don't uh I saw it, didn't bother talking about it.
So we've got this Chapman's just the latest, it's popping up all over the New York Times.
Obama was out on a campaign trail the other day.
Trying to get his jobs bill passed, which he has still not sent to Congress, by the way.
He's lying about that too.
In the last few days, I have said this.
He hasn't sent it up there.
His jobs bill has yet to be introduced on the floor.
But he was talking about if you love me.
Remember that?
If you love me.
So now he's even questioning whether or not the masses love him anymore.
And as well, the personality type he is.
That's devastating.
Because that's all he had.
All he had was his popularity.
He's he's this is he's typical.
Here's a guy.
Media made him, media can break him.
He is what he is in most people's minds for one reason, the media and what they said about him.
And if they start to turn, he does have a legitimate question about does anybody love him.
By the way, uh vice president, former vice president Al Gore is a board member at Apple Incorporated.
And why should maybe not for long.
He was at a conference, the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit.
I don't know where it is.
But somebody, the editor of Stuff Magazine in South Africa, was attending the conference.
The way this is written, like it was in South Africa.
It doesn't matter.
Al Gore was quoted as saying at this leadership summit, not to mention a new iPhones coming out next month.
Yes, that was a plug.
Now Apple hasn't said a word about new iPhones.
There's a tech blogger at the Wall Street Journal who today said that Apple's gonna have an event on October 4th announcing the new iPhones and whatever Else is in the pipeline.
But Apple has yet to say a word.
As far as we there isn't anything new coming.
It's all just rumors, except now it's not.
Now an Apple board member has gone out and blown the whistle on the whole thing.
This is not going to sit well.
This is a very, very secretive bunch of uh bunch of people.
Okay, quick timeout.
Sit tight, folks, my friends, and we'll be back and roll right on right after this.
And uh back to the phones we go.
This is Kevin in Brooklyn.
Kevin, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, it is an honor and a pleasure.
You are a true patriot and a great American.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
Thank you for taking my call.
Uh oh, blah blah blah is nothing more like you said earlier, a community organizer who shakes down people and organizations for what he wants.
BP as an example, you're gonna put aside 20 billion dollars for the cleanup in the Gulf.
Okay, you got it.
You know, I I I don't think this guy could organize a block party.
You mean Obama?
Obama.
And also, I I just want you to know I worked on the Well now.
Wait a second.
You're contradicting yourself.
You're c you you you said he just shook non-BP for twenty twenty big twenty big ones, twenty billion.
Now that's what community organizers do is shake people down.
With the cleanup.
Yeah.
He basically put the fisherman out of business, put the oil riggers out of business.
That's exactly what he intended to do.
Oh, yeah, that would I agree with you there.
You're absolutely right.
I'm so he succeeded on that.
He's uh my other point was I worked on Bob Turner's campaign in Brooklyn.
God bless you.
I no, uh God bless Bob Turner for s for for stepping up as a great American to say, I need to do something, my country's going in the wrong direction, and I, along with seven other concerned Americans, middle class, concerned Americans, parents, retired, uh still working middle class Americans, took part in this historic moment in New York's ninth district.
Yep.
And I am very proud of that.
And we worked on the first campaign, Mr. Lundbar, and we got 41 and a half percent.
Brooklyn came through with 15,000 votes for Bob Turner.
You were kind of like a community organizer in a sense.
Oh, I got the word out.
Yeah.
I got the word out, because I got it.
I get it, and along with the uh handful of uh concerned Americans that I worked on a campaign with, we get it.
Well, let me tell you something.
Isn't that a great feeling?
To be part to be part of a winning team, to be a contributing actual member of a winning team.
It's a it is almost it's a euphoric feeling.
Let me tell you, the hair on the back of my head stood up.
It was the kind of feeling I had when my child, my children, my two daughters were born.
Yeah.
That's the kind of feeling I had.
Because I knew the people in the ninth district got it.
They got it, they seen it, and they actually seen the true Obama for what he is.
And nothing more than a Marxist.
And I'm glad you, along with other voices in the media are finally coming out and calling this man out for what he is.
Well, and they and the other lame stream media should be ashamed of themselves.
Nah, they're never gonna be ashamed of themselves.
They're just uh are you a former Democrat, by the way?
Did you ever were you I was, and I'm glad you brought that up.
I am a former Democrat, but the Democratic Party left me a long time ago and they were hijacked by socialists.
I am now a registered independent.
Okay.
So you're a registered independent.
If the Republicans get too cheeky, they start being too critical of, say, Obama.
Is that gonna mean you're gonna run back to the Democrat Party?
No, never.
Well, because that's what Republican consultants tell Republican candidates, and people like you don't want to hear Obama criticized.
If you hear if you hear Republicans starting to criticize Obama, you're that's it.
You're gonna lose patience, and you're gonna say the hell with you guys are gonna run back and vote Obama.
No, negative.
Well, I know that I am not running back to the Democrats or Obama and criticize Obama.
I want to hear more criticism of Obama so people could wake up to what this man is done.
I think it's happening out there, Mike.
I think it's happening.
I think that the uh the this waking up, it's been slow, but it's steady, and it's been going on for a long time.
The Tea Party.
The Tea Party in a in a metaphoric sense is a giant wake up.
It's exactly why they exist.
And the primary reason they're feared is because there isn't a leader, and that they're really not a party.
There's no apparatus to go after.
Just people like you.
Uh Grassroots, effervescent bubble up simply because you don't like what you're seeing.
You probably are not like most Tea Party people, most people Tea Party people never were politically active before.
But you have been for a while, but you still fit the profile.
I appreciate the call.
Thank you, or Kevin.
I called you Mike, I'm sorry, Kevin, and you keep it up.
That's uh you know, being part of a winning team is uh you know, championship level and winning an election is clearly getting close to that category of championship level is such a euphoric feeling.
It's it's a feeling a lot of people will never have in their lives.
And I think it's one of the reasons, frankly, why so many people are drawn to sports.
The dream of being part of a uh championship team.
I don't care what the sport is.
Uh people dream about it, wonder what it's really like.
I remember one of the when I made the high school football team in uh Cape Girardeau, Missouri, I was fifteen years old.
I I I remember the the day that I actually made the team, the coach gave us, we had two a days, and the coach gave us an afternoon off, and uh most of the team decided to go to the movies that night.
We all ended up at the same place.
And it was just um I had never been that happy in my life over anything.
That one night, just being in that movie theater with everybody else on the team, and that we didn't want anything.
I just I just made it.
Uh as a uh as a long shot.
You know, I was a walk-on kicker.
All I want to do is kick.
I didn't want to do wind sprints and all that rot gut.
And of course, in high school, there's no such thing as specialists.
So they assigned me to the position of uh of offensive tackle.
I had to learn that.
Uh that was I was in for a lot of surprises.
I had no idea the physical rigors involved just practicing and all.
But uh Well, no, I didn't care about soccer.
I wouldn't no no no.
I wouldn't have there was no, there wasn't a soccer team at the time.
No, no, no, no, no.
But I mean, people who who love soccer and make the team, uh, I'm sure feel the um the same way.
By the way, the New York Times said in an article about Obama yesterday, polls consistently suggest that perhaps the only thing that unites independence as much as their desire for compromise is their inclination toward the leaders who signal strength by fighting for their beliefs.
See, this is one of the that's a huge see I told you so.
This notion that the independents are a bunch of of uh of wimps are gonna just shy away from competition, confrontation, any kind of argument is a big ruse that's been played on Republicans, and way too many Republicans have believed it.
It's just the exact opposite.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Sticking with the phones, we go to Orlando and uh Marty, Marty, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ Deaddo from Orlando.
Thank you.
On this little uh Sylvia deal.
When General Motors went through bankruptcy, the Obama administration totally disregarded the concerns of the bondholders of the investors.
And at one point, I believe Obama even warned them against being greedy.
Yet when Solender was in financial trouble, the Obama administration restructured their loan with special consideration given to the investors.
Why the difference?
Well, what do you think?
I guess they modeled money for them and GM didn't.
Exactly right.
But it's even worse than that.
You know, the the the uh it's I think it's it's worse than than crony capitalism, what's going on here, because I will never be able to prove this.
Five hundred and twenty-three million dollars, half a billion dollars goes to a company that has no business.
There is no solar panel business.
Now I would think with 523 billion dollars, I could find a way to at least break even here.
523 million.
Million billion.
What the hell difference does it make?
It's it's But we'll stick with the million.
I can find a way to break even with this.
To at least break even.
This bunch goes bankrupt in a few short years.
Now, nothing can be proven.
But I will never be shocked if we're ever established that some of that money ended back up in Obama's campaign Warchester or the Democrat Party's Warchester, what have you.
That's how this bunch operates.
That's what all the support for unions is all about.
Just a giant money laundering operation.
All those government union employees pay dues, and those dues are what gets sent to the Democrat Party or what is spent for and on behalf of the Democrat Party.
The stimulus bill was a giant slush fund.
It's the way these people operate.
The Wall Street Journal, I'm sorry, uh Heritage Foundation, a great piece today of their morning bill blog.
On all of the scandals and uh Obama investigations going on.
How many of you know that Obama's under investigation on three separate matters right now?
Let me sum this up here with their closing paragraph.
A cross-border gun running scandal.
That's Fast and Furious.
And everybody knows what that was about.
That was a backdoor attempt undermining the Second Amendment.
The purpose of Fast and Furious was to get American guns, guns purchased in American gun stores, in the hands of Mexican drug cartel thugs, who would then use those American guns to kill people.
Which they did.
The reaction was supposed to be genuine outrage on the part of the American people.
We've got to do something about these guns.
We've got the Democrats have lost the gun control issue, but they have not forgotten it.
And they want it back.
They hate folks they despise having to concede the gun control argument.
I mean, remember in the 2004 campaign, John Kerry, who served a Vietnam, shows up at some store in Iowa or Ohio somewhere, posing as as a hunter, decked out in the official garb, and shows up.
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
Is this where I get me a hunting?
That's exactly what he doesn't speak that way.
Do I get me a hunting license?
Polling data has shown for 10 years that the country doesn't want any part of the Democrat Party's gun control message.
So since they've lost it in the public mind, they're trying to shape public opinion against it with there's no question in my mind, that's what Fast and Furious is all about.
And now there are their secret tape recordings that have been made about some of the participants in this thing that indicate.
People talking about how you know this isn't going well.
This is not what we intended, or some such thing.
I don't have the exact quote in front of me.
And that scandal keeps sprouting new new branches on the tree, and that's being looked at.
So a cross-border gun running scandal, deaths in the United States and Mexico resulting from it, staff removals and resignations, secret audio recordings, complaints from foreign officials, hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, bankruptcy and FBI raid, campaign donors, allegations of inappropriate White House influence on congressional testimony.
Two people have now said the White House attempted to influence their testimony, one of them, General Shelton, another guy named Russo, and this is this is about the global positioning company that uh wanted military testing speed it up to allow this guy to have some of the spectrum.
The military said, no, no, no, if you take that spectrum, you're gonna you're gonna harm our ability to use GPS for our military needs.
And uh an Obama regime people attempted to get these two witnesses to testify, change their testimony to benefit the Obama donor, that's being looked at.
Serious questions coming out of Washington.
Time the media start demanding answers.
That's how the Heritage Foundation ends its piece, the morning bell.
And of course, the media is not going to demand answers.
The media is going to be looking to help cover this stuff up.
You wouldn't know it if you solely paid attention to the mainstream media, but while Obama attempts to sell the country on hundreds of billions in new stimulus spending and one and a half trillion dollars in new taxes.
His regime is smack in the middle of several growing scandals.
Operation Fast and Furious gun running debacle, the crony capitalism wrongdoing involving cylinder and light squared.
In the fall of 2009, AFT.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, which is overseen by Obama's DOJ, launched an effort to sell weapons to small-time gun buyers in the hopes of tracing them to major weapons traffickers along the southwestern border and into Meiko.
Their effort, fast and furious, failed terribly.
Around 1,500 of the guns went unaccounted for.
About two-thirds of those guns ended up in Mexico.
A border patrol agent shot and killed with weapons that were sold as part of the operation.
Fifty-seven fast and furious weapons have been connected to at least 11 violent crimes in the U.S. and in Mexico.
An unconfirmed toll of at least 200 people have been killed or wounded with other weapons linked to Fast and Furious.
Except for recent reports from CBS News and the LA Times earlier reporting by ABC News, the media has largely ignored this.
And the White House press corps has not bothered to ask the president or the press secretary about any of this since July the 5th.
That's 78 days.
And it's over 40 press briefings.
Not a single related question.
Meanwhile, congressional hearings were held, top officials associated with the operation removed from their positions, and a third individual quit.
In the latest news, Mexican officials are complaining that to this day, the U.S. is not offered an explanation about Fast and Furious, much less an apology.
Yesterday, CBS News reported a series of recently recorded audio tapes, thought to have been made in March, reveal that an Arizona gun dealer and an ATF agent involved in the operation worried about the unraveling scandal.
Then they go on to describe Cylindra.
And Light Squared, the story of a wireless startup company backed by billionaire Democrat donor Philip Falcone.
The Daily Beast reports that military officials feared a company's technology could interfere with GPS signals.
Two U.S. officials allege the White House tried to influence their testimony to rush testing to Light Square's benefit.
All of this is happening, not being talked about much, but it is taking place.
This is a uh a regime that is every bit.
And this is the exact kind of stuff that people thought Obama was the least capable of doing.
This is what was meant by new politics.
This kind of crony garbage was not going to happen anymore.
This was going to be a thing of the past.
We were going to have somebody so far above this.
His integrity, his intelligence, and all of these factors were such that this kind of usual day-to-day in politics couldn't happen.
Now we've got a guy who could write a book on how to do it, involved in it.
The news media's position on Obama's scandals is don't ask, don't tell.
All of these journalists get into the business for one of two reasons.
Wouldn't we do in Bernstein Watergate or 60 minutes?
They all want to be the next Woodward and Bernstein.
They all want to be the reporter that uncovers the giant presidential scandal that allows them to essentially kick a president out of office, force him to resign.
That's the reason they say.
Or if you go to a J school, say, why are you here?
You'll hear, I want to make the world a better place.
I want to improve social justice.
All these nebulous garbage reasons.
So journalists, right in front of you on a silver platter, is why you got into the business.
And what do you do?
You ignore it.
Because what the truth at the end of the day is that it has to be a Republican scandal to get their interest, and it has to be a Republican president that they can salivate over throwing out of office or forcing to resign.
Democrat president, nah, not going to go there.
The very worst that can happen is a Democrat pulls something like this.
We'll try to gingerly engineer his removal, but not if it means the destruction of our ideology.
But all this stuff is, and I'll tell you what, the House of Representatives is slated to vote this week on a proposal that mandates at least a year-long delay of two major air pollution rules.
According to senior Democrats, uh, this badly weakens the EPA's ability to limit Mercury and other air toxics from uh from power plants.
Uh this would be among the highest profile battles to date over EPA power plant standards.
Republicans have made a pillar of their campaign against Obama and his uh regulations that they allege are holding back the economy.
So if the Republicans could badly weaken the EPA.
A lot of people would take back a lot of what they said about the Republicans not having sufficient onions for the job.
Okay, I'm gonna have to explain this in detail tomorrow.
The Federal Reserve has done it.
It's essentially QE3.
They're not printing money, but they are going to increase their share of longer-term treasuries by 400 billion dollars by June of next year.
The objective here is to make credit cheaper.
They're trying to lower interest rates even more, uh, including on mortgages.
Uh this is not gonna work.
This is another attempt at stimulus, folks, and it's it's it's related to Obama's re-election.
There is no question that that's what this is uh all about.
Uh they're basically going to buy securities.
Again, they're gonna jack up and goose the stock market, but they are going to do so with longer-term treasuries.
Some cases with with payouts over 50 years instead of six and ten.
Anyway, I'll I'll give you the detail in much uh much greater detail tomorrow when I've got more time to do it.
We will, in the meantime, be revved up and ready to go tomorrow.
We get back with a full in-depth explanation of what the Fed is doing with uh this.
I'm gonna call it QE3.
I don't know if anybody else will go that far yet, but uh we'll find out soon enough.
But it certainly is it's a boost to the stock market, a boost of Wall Street campaign uh donations to Obama, no doubt, uh, and uh and an attempt to lower credit even further, because this bunch believes if they could just get people to start borrowing money, the economy will revive.
They totally miss that that's not the point right now.
Back in a moment.
Now the Republicans begged Bernanke not to do this, the Federal Reserve, they're gonna do it.
They're not they're not putting new money, they're not printing new money to put into the market.
They are shifting money into riskier investments, basically, and trying to bring down interest rates even further.
More on it tomorrow.
Be back then.
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