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Sept. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, but just so you know, I haven't gotten it.
It hasn't shown up.
I haven't received it.
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And a special welcome to all of you welfare recipients.
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And get moving.
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Congratulations to Herman Kane and the 999 plan.
Herman Kane, the big surprise winner of the Florida Straw Poll on Saturday.
Folks, do you realize?
I mean, Herman Kane won big.
And think about this.
We could be on the brink of an historic election.
Think about this.
Let's say that Herman Cain goes all the way, wins the Republican presidential nomination.
By the way, do you think Tea Party people, what?
Did you have any idea how much they hated women voting for Herman Cain like this?
I thought last week they hated blacks.
This week they were racists.
This week they're sexists.
At any rate, Herman Cain goes on to win the Republican presidential nomination and then goes on to be elected president.
Herman Cain could be our first authentically black president.
Stop and think about that.
It's great to be back, folks.
I must admit to you, though, late, late night, actually early morning night, had a rock and good time in Indianapolis in town for the Stevers Colts and basically got betwixt and between the sheets about 5 o'clock this morning for a couple hours.
There's Rachel in there rolling her eyes.
Now, these are always fun shows.
With that little sleep, if the voice holds up, you never know.
We get giddy and genuinely literally more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Speaking of the Republican primaries, Larry Flint, I see, is offering up to $1 million for details of sex with Rick Perry.
Have you heard that?
This is, you know what I'd like to, what?
You don't, you mean if you had details, you wouldn't pass them on?
No, no, no, no.
Details of sex.
Yeah, if you're a woman, if you've had sex with Perry, yeah, he's willing to pay you.
But if you've also got, if you've got details of somebody else having sex with Perry, they can follow up.
I want to make a counteroffer.
Ladies and gentlemen, I today would like to offer up to $1 million for any details of sex with Warren Buffett's secretary.
But Rush, but Rush, but she's not a public figure like Rick Perry is.
The hell she's not.
She's now the most influential woman in America, Warren Buffett's secretary and her tax rate.
Anyway, I'll tell you, folks, the president of the United States, with some of the things that he has been saying to the black congressional Caucasians in the last couple, three days, it is, in fact, we are going to have in this hour a special edition of the official Obama criticizer.
Mr. Snerdley, both snirdly, official Obama criticizer will be along in this hour to really get to the bottom of all this.
But during his speech before the black congressional Caucasians, Obama had a number of slips of the tongue out there.
He was going through his usual claptrap about Warren Buffett paying less taxes than his secretary.
And he went off teleprompter, we think, and said that a billionaire shouldn't pay less taxes than a Jew.
And then he corrected himself and said, no, I didn't mean Jew.
I mean janitor.
And no wonder.
Just think about this.
What was in his mind when he actually said that?
So what's in his mind?
A billionaire shouldn't pay less in taxes than a Jew.
And he corrected himself very quickly, said he's meant janitor.
So he was confusing Jew with janitor.
And he admits that.
And just think how outraged the Reverends Wright and Farrakhan would be if they heard Obama say that Jews were paying too much in taxes, like he thinks the janitors probably are.
And then during his same speech to the black congressional Caucasians, he said, I listen to some of y'all.
Stop complaining.
Stop grumbling.
Stop crying.
You could tell he was trying to sound down for the struggle.
He was dropping the Gs.
But can you imagine?
Can you imagine if a white politician spoke to a black audience in that manner?
Hillary did, I ain't no way tired.
Hillary Clinton tried it.
But it was so pathetic.
It was embarrassingly pathetic.
People actually felt sorry for Hillary that she couldn't do a better impression than that.
But if a white politician talked to a black audience the way Obama did, why they'd be tarring and feather that politician as a racist, if not worse.
Of course, I can't imagine a white president speaking to the Congressional White Caucus anyway, so it wouldn't happen.
I can't imagine there even being something, the Congressional White Caucus, or the Congressional Caucasian Caucus.
But give it 50 years.
There might need to be one.
The way the demographics are going.
Okay, so I had to leave last Thursday.
And it was nothing secretive.
A lot of people got worried when I said I had something to do on Friday that could only be done during the time the program was.
By the way, thanks very much to Mark Stein for sitting in on Friday.
And if you have, you may have just noticed it today or over the weekend.
We have totally revamped RushLimbaugh.com, the website.
And I will give you the details and explain that at some point during the program today.
Anyway, I had to fly out to the left coast.
And when I arrived, it was about the time the debate was starting, and I was unable to see or hear the first 45 minutes live.
But maybe the first, actually, maybe the whole thing, first hour and a half or something like that.
And at some point during the debate, my email inbox started going nuts.
And I started getting text messages out to Wazoo.
And it was that Gary Johnson had used my line.
And I had people from the Huffing and Puffington Post calling me, like people from the political calling or emailing me.
Nobody calls me.
They email me.
What's your reaction to this?
And I had not heard it.
I didn't know what this was all about.
Then I did hear it.
And I thought, well, this isn't, I mean, if you're going to steal somebody's line, you know, make it a Jewish janitor somewhere in some small state where nobody has ever heard the line used.
Well, you think I'm on a thin ice with Jewish janitor?
Wait till I hear the official Obama criticizer.
Yeah, that's coming up in this hour.
Anyway, here's Gary Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, and this was what he said during the debate.
And yeah, I'm going to tell you what I thought of the debate.
The overview, it was pathetic.
It was Herman Cain and Santorum were fabulous.
The rest of it was pathetic.
It was embarrassingly pathetic given all of the meat, given all the opportunities to rip in to the administration and contrast ourselves with what's going on, not just in the country, but in the world.
I thought it was a step backward in any number of ways.
Anyway, we'll get to all that as the program unfolds.
Here is Gary Johnson.
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
And the applause and the laughter went on and on and on and on and on.
It was the line of the night.
Now, that was Thursday night on that, I guess it's the same day, that same day, earlier in the day, at a busy broadcast day on this program.
This is what I said.
My dogs have created more shovel-ready work than Obama has.
Just this week alone, the new puppy, honest to God, more shovel-ready work for me this week than Obama has created all two and a half years ago.
And Gary Johnson, play it again, just so we get the timeline right.
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
So even when I am away, I am in the news.
Even when I am away, I determine the news.
The big news is that Gary Johnson lives next door to me.
No, because I don't live in New Mexico and he doesn't live in Florida.
Anyway, the media went nuts over this.
Did Governor Johnson steal a joke from Rush Limbaugh during last night's debate?
Rush Limbaugh used a strikingly similar line.
The scoop on the poop joke is that Rush Limbaugh made the crack first.
He ripped off from Rush Limbaugh.
It was a great line when Rush Limbaugh said it that morning.
Rush Limbaugh said that first.
After the debate, Gary Johnson said that he heard it on a New Mexico radio show or that the host of a New Mexico radio show gave it to him.
I hope that's not why I gained national attention is because of that.
But if that ends up to be the case, fine.
No, I didn't hear it from Rush Limbaugh.
heard it from my buddy.
Jim Villeneuve, radio talk show host in Albuquerque, texted me about eight one-liners that maybe I could use.
So it was one of those things where, wow, that was really funny.
So is there copyright infringement then on Rush Limbaugh thing?
I don't know.
I didn't hear it from Rush Limbaugh.
Maybe he did.
No, there's no copyright infringement.
People just think, like I say, I mean, nobody stole Johnny Carson jokes because everybody heard the joke.
Well, you know, this is what I had.
I can't tell you, Snurdley.
The Huffing and Puffington Post, I had Brian Maloney, the radio equalizer.
I had somebody from the Politico, and they thought that I'd be outraged.
You know, when I wrote back, no big deal.
It happens every day.
It happens multiple times a day, and it's been happening for 23 years.
And the last thing I do is get upset over stuff being swiped.
I mean, it happens too frequently.
And it's almost impossible for it not to happen.
There's so much stuff being set out there.
It's almost impossible.
It's very difficult for any other conservative out there to be considered original with me on the scene.
So I cut all these people slack.
I steal stuff from me all the time.
Do you think it's a sincere form of flattery?
I don't even look at it that way.
It's something that can't be avoided.
It's just you go out there and you speak for 15 hours a week.
And you're sucking up a lot of oxygen, a lot of opinion.
It's going to be very tough for anybody else to be original.
And so anyway, the drive-bys couldn't let go of this.
This was, I guess, the next morning.
And this was on Scarborough's show on MSNBC.
This is from Rush Limbaugh.
Whoa, Rush.
My dogs have created more shovel-ready work than Obama has just this week alone.
What?
Wait, wait, no, hold on.
I don't understand.
I didn't stole it from Rush.
No, wait, no, wait, wait.
Yesterday, Rush went on to say last night, I guess I've become show prep for the GOP debates now, too.
Wow.
Gary Johnson says somebody fed him a line he didn't know where he's from Milklin Burrough the Republican with talent on loan from God.
That's so bad.
How can you plagiarize the line of the night from Rush?
Stole it from Rush.
It's got a lot of gray lines.
I'm just saying that.
I mean, I'm just saying that if you're not.
If you're a Republican, you steal from maybe like some obscure source.
You're stealing from Russian market.
That's exactly right.
Poor Gary Johnson, he's got the line of the night, but it wasn't his.
And when everybody's talking about the line of the night, they're not talking about him delivering it.
They're talking about me delivering it.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
Great to be back.
Full week, broadcast excellence.
And we'll come back and get started with all the rest of it right after this.
Tried to get a ticket on the Intercontinental Railroad over the weekend.
It's sold out.
You can't.
Did you know that you cannot get a seat on the Intercontinental Railroad?
Obama said that's one of the great things that America used to do.
Yeah, we built the Intercontinental Railroad.
I'm going to tell you something.
You understand why that's not possible.
Or is it?
Maybe there is one of them.
The tracks where they leave from New York or Boston, go across the Atlantic to France.
He meant to say transcontinental.
He said intercontinental.
I don't know when the next Obamatown hall is, but I have the question.
If any of you happen to know and happen to be planning on going to the next Obama town hall, I got a question that you can ask him.
Mr. President, was it fair that Jewish janitors had to build the intercontinental railroad from the 57 states all the way to the country that speaks Austrian?
Was it fair that the Jewish janitors had to build it?
Is that not a sign of the systemic racism and bigotry that's always existed in this country?
The Jewish janitors had to build the Intercontinental Railroad.
Great to have you back, Rushland Boss, serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
I was in Indiana, actually, Indianapolis Saturday night, Sunday, for the Colt Steelers.
There's a story out of Franklin, Indiana.
In the business of selling sentiments, there's a card for everything from traditional occasions to unique needs.
Cards with sound, cards for holidays, cards for losing a tooth.
Now, Hallmark has unveiled layoff cards for the unemployed.
Hallmark recently rolled out a new line of layoff greeting cards.
Stores have a specific section for job loss and recession humor offering words of support and encouragement.
With the unemployment rate at 9%, Hallmark says that customers called in the need.
One card says, Don't think of it as losing your job.
Think of it as a timeout between stupid bosses.
Don't think of it as losing your job.
Think of it as a chance to run around the house in your bedroom slippers.
Yeah, I mean, that would be clever to give to somebody, said Linda Ralph of Martinsville, Indiana.
It would have to depend on the person or situation.
Getting a card like that, somebody caring, that's fabulous, said Michelle Crowders Lucinski.
The crazy part to think about this is there's so many people laid off.
Stop and think about layoff cards.
The new Americana courtesy, Barack Hussein Obama.
Unemployment and layoff cards are now a big deal.
Ladies and gentlemen, Gallup, you know, I see the opinion polls that the networks put out, Obama's approval numbers.
I don't think they're nearly as high as they're being reported.
This Gallup poll, Americans express historic negativity toward U.S. government.
It's fascinating numbers.
Share them with you when we get back.
There's a town hall going on right now.
Obama's doing a town hall right there.
Bill Russell.
So if any of you, I think this is an online town hall.
Any of you out there, here's the question, Mr. President.
Was it fair that Jewish janitors had to build an intercontinental railroad from the 57 states all the way to that country that speaks Austrian?
Oh, no, it hasn't started yet.
It is going to start.
Well, maybe it has.
Tough to tell.
But he's out in California, and it's a Jobstown hall out there.
So there's the question.
Here are the highlights.
These Gallup numbers, 49% of Americans.
Folks, I have not seen numbers like this.
49% of Americans see government as an immediate threat to rights and freedoms.
81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed.
69% say they had little or no confidence in the legislative branch.
57% have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems.
53% have little or no confidence in the men and women who seek or hold elected office.
Americans believe on average the federal government wastes 51 cents of every tax dollar.
49% of Americans believe the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.
In 2003, it was 30%.
So in eight years, it's gone from 30% to 49%.
Now, I don't know how Obama can win with numbers like this.
And there is a poll out from The Economist.
The Economist is a European magazine.
It's a favorite of the GOP establishment.
It's a favorite of the conservative intelligentsia.
And in this poll, Obama's approval is at 36%.
Random sample, 1,004 adults asked to compare the 43rd and 44th presidents.
34% said Obama has been worse than Bush.
22% said he was about the same.
And overall, in The Economist YouGov poll, Obama's approval is at 36%.
He's at 40 to 42 in some of the other polls out there.
And it's not improving.
And this is what was so frustrating about the Republican debate last Thursday night, but that is sort of ancient history.
We'll comment on it a little bit later.
First, here is Obama Saturday night in Washington at the awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus.
I know at times that gets folks discouraged.
I know.
I listened to some of y'all.
I understand that.
And nobody feels that burden more than I do because I know how much we have invested in making sure that we're able to move this country forward.
Hell, do they?
You know, more than a lot of other folks in this country, we know about heart.
Loyal.
The people in this room know about heart.
Hard.
And we don't give in to discouragement.
Peace is hard.
Peace is hard.
Sex isn't any good unless it's hard.
Peace is hard.
And now Obama says we know about hard.
And then he tells him to stop complaining.
Stop complaining and get on the march with him.
I don't have time to complain.
I'm going to press on.
I expect all of you who want to win me and press on.
Take off your bedroom slippers.
Put on your marching shoes.
Shake it off.
Stop complaining.
Stop grumbling.
Stop crying.
We are going to press on.
We've got work to do.
CBC.
He is ticked off at these people.
Folks, he is ticked off at these people.
They're running around last week and the week before, and they're saying if president's skin color was anything other than what it is, we'd be marching.
But we don't want to give the Obama haters any added info or any added ammunition.
So they're holding back.
Maxine Waters and others have made it plain they don't think he cares about African-American unemployment.
So he goes out to the CBC meeting and he is ticked off.
Can you imagine any president telling a group of people to get out of your bedroom slippers and start marching?
This is community organizing, by the way.
This is what it is.
This is agitation, pure and simple.
Maxine Waters, not happy about the scene at the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday.
This morning on the early show in CBS, Erica Hill talked to Maxine, said the president told the audience to stop complaining and to put your marching shoes on.
What was your reaction when he said stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, Maxine?
He would never say that to the gay and lesbian community who really pushed him on don't ask, don't tell, or even in a speech to APAC, he would never say to the Jewish community, stop complaining about Israel.
So I don't know who he was talking to because we're certainly not complaining.
We're working.
You are complaining, and he was talking to you, Maxine, and you know it.
And they all know it at the Congressional Black Caucus.
CNN newsroom this morning.
Suzanne Malvaux talked to the Reverend Jackson of the Monochrome Coalition.
She said, Reverend Jackson, what do you think needs to happen to create more jobs for the African-American group specifically?
And then also, well, for the African-American group, period, a 17% unemployment.
What do you think needs to be done out there, Reverend Jackson?
People on welfare can't own the car.
They don't have public transportation to where the jobs are, then they're resegregated and locked into poverty.
And so public transportation is a piece of this.
Some direct jobs, not just indirect jobs, I think, are from tax cuts.
And so for our policy have tended to favor those on the deck of the ship, but not those in the hull of the ship where the waters come in.
Many people lost their will to work, the will to vote.
They've been beaten down by poverty.
Well, who did that to you?
I don't know what all he said there.
I tried to keep track of it.
I tried to keep up with it.
But remember here, I'm working on about two hours' sleep.
And, Dell, that's what I was afraid of.
Even if I had a full six hours, I doubt that I could have kept up.
But anyway, he's complaining.
I heard him talk about people of welfare can't own a car.
What is that?
I think people on welfare have an average of 1.6 cars and a plasma TV.
We went through that the other day.
What does he mean they can't own a car?
Anyway, all of these complaints.
Reverend Jackson, who did this to you?
Who did this?
Liberalism did this, Reverend Jackson.
The Democrat Party wrote this script for you.
The Democrat Party.
That's who is the architect of the circumstances you're complaining about.
Here's back to President Obama Saturday night.
Go back to the awards dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
Whoa, play that again.
That kind of went by there pretty quickly.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jute as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
What was he going to say after Jew?
It says here, play that again.
One more time.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
As a Jew, what?
Didn't it sound like there was another word coming there?
Listen to it again one more time, just to make sure.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
Right.
And now he's out there confusing Jews with janitors.
These are the people found on the Intercontinental Railroad.
Various cars.
And here, by the way, here is that gaffe.
We used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in America.
We're the country of the Billboard Intercontinental Railroad.
I mean, all the gaffes that this guy has come up, 57 states, Intercontinental Railroad.
I mean, the list is long.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll do it.
By the way, folks, California Democrat Party among Solyndra's credits.
This remember, I've told you that the Democrat Party and state and local union workers is a money laundering operation because the money ends up back with the Democrat Party.
This is it.
Nailed this one.
I mean, this is a Washington Times.
Out of the hundreds of out-of-work employees, vendors, investors, and other creditors in the bankruptcy of government-backed solar panel maker Solyndra, one name stands out: the California Democrat Party.
Why the California Democrat Party would be a creditor to a company that received more than a half billion dollars in federal loans isn't clear.
Even party officials say they're not sure.
Yeah.
Shazam, they don't know how this happened.
The Democrat Party is a creditor.
The Democrat Party is a creditor of Solyndra.
It's a money laundering racket, is what that was, as is much of what the Democrat Party is doing in other areas, financial support.
But we got to take a timeout.
Now, we'll get to that when we come back.
The official Obama criticizer.
Stop complaining.
Press on.
Take off your bedroom slippers.
Put on your marching shoes.
Shake it off.
Stop complaining.
Stop grumbling.
Stop crying.
We're going to press on.
If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jude janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor.
We used to have big infrastructure builders in this day in the Intercontinental Railroad.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a task for the official Obama criticizer, Mr. Bo Snoodley.
Good afternoon.
This is Bo Snirdly, official Obama criticizer, certified black enough to criticize with 100% pure organic slave blood in the mix.
I have a statement, y'all.
Refreshed from his most recent vacation to Martha's Vineyard, Mr. Obama is now concerned with jobs, or more accurately, the lack of jobs under his administration.
At the CBC Awards dinner, he promised that very small business owners, including 100,000 black-owned businesses, will get a tax cut under his so-called jobs bill.
This is a victory of sorts because finally, Mr. Obama has rediscovered there are black people in America.
Whoa!
And then he told his rediscovered black audience to take off their bedroom slippers, put on their marching shoes, shake it off, stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.
We've got work to do.
We have to press on.
How utterly sad.
There is no other audience who rates this unseemly presidential lecture from Barack Obama.
And yet, the pushback from the CBC has been tame.
And now a translation for EIB brothers and sisters in the hood.
Oh, no, he didn't.
Oh, no.
He gets.
Oh, yeah, he did.
You heard him, B.
He and Shelly partying like it's 1999 every week up in the White House, up at Martha's, on the Cape.
And now he's in our grill telling us to shake it off, stop whining, stop complying, stop crying.
What's up with that?
You better step off, yo, until we look at this situation, dog.
First of all, you know what it's like out here?
We got massive, yo, jobs, no, okay?
Massive, no jobs, yo.
Check that out, okay?
We got so many empty houses that have been foreclosed on, man.
We could start a new hood in the old hood.
And homie's talking about stop crying, stop complaining, stop grumbling.
Check this out.
Do you go to the Hispanic audience, Obama, telling them to stop whining about jumping the fence, yo?
No.
Do you tell the Jew janitors, yo, to you know, stifle it?
No.
The soccer moms?
No.
Your Wall Street posse?
No.
Do you tell them to shut up?
No.
Stop complaining.
No.
But you come to our leaders.
Well, you come up to our, well, you show up at the CBC, and then all of a sudden, you tell them, in other words, STFU, y'all know what that, well, never mind, okay?
Check this out.
Y'all right.
It's time to take off the bedroom slippers, put on them boots, but we're marching with you down to the White House, yo, to protest you and what you've done.
You hooked up your union boys, you hooked up your Wall Street posse, you hooked up your crew, but you left the hood out of it till right now.
And the only thing you got to tell us is shut up, stop complaining.
You better come better than that, bro.
Otherwise, next December, next November, it's going to be real cold up there.
And you can't run to Martha's in the winter.
I'm out, yo.
Peace.
And that is the official Obama criticizer, Mr. Bo Sturdley.
We will be right back.
Washington Times has the story out of hundreds of out-of-work employees, vendors, investors, and other creditors in the bankruptcy of government-backed solar panel maker Solyndra.
One name stands out: the California Democrat Party.
Why California Democrats would be creditors to a company that got more than half a billion dollars in federal loans to build a solar panel plant isn't clear.
Even California Democrat Party officials say that they're not sure.
Really?
They're not sure.
Folks, the stimulus was a giant money laundering scheme for the Democrats and for Obama.
And this is just more proof.
We already have the proof, and it is proof.
All the bailouts for the states that went to keep teachers and other public sector unions employed because they pay dues, and those dues end up back to the Democrat Party.
Obama gives half a billion dollars to Solyndra, and guess who one of the creditors is?
The California Democrat Party.
And nobody can figure out how Solyndra came to list the Democrat Party of California among its creditors.
Of course, the purpose of this, it's ideal way to launder money for the California Democrat Party.
The idea never entered their heads.
Just another way to recycle the money, folks.
But it's not rocket surgery or rocket science.
Solyndra slipped up.
They were just too honest.
In fact, it probably didn't even occur to the Solyndra execs that anybody wouldn't have already known that this was their only real reason for existing in the first place.
A repository.
This was part of the slush fund.
And it's more and more coming to light that this is precisely what most of this stimulus money is, or what a great deal of it is for, anyway.
Okay, we got much more straight ahead.
Plus, your phone calls are coming up.
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