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Sept. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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And we are back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy, here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
And ladies and gentlemen, I am here, and I am doing a credible and response, well, far more than credible and far more than response.
This is what you usually expect, but I am here.
Fighting fatigue, nevertheless.
Had a raucous great time in uh in Indianapolis over the weekend for Steelers Colts, got in very early this morning, and I should not have gone to bed.
I actually sometimes when you go to bed, you get an hour or two, you just be better to stay up.
But I went ahead and got the hour or two, and uh, gosh, it was a great weekend.
And I did have a chance, and I do this more and more now, uh, talk about the Republican primary, the debates, uh trying to go to people, they're unaware I'm doing this, by the way, into being honest about what they think and who.
And this is from not just conservatives, but from across the spectrum.
And I have found that there are a lot of disaffected Democrats who like Romney.
It would, that's point.
And I found a lot of squeamish Republicans who like Romney.
And in both cases, they tell me, yeah, it's because Romney can beat Obama.
Now, who is it that's putting that thought out there?
What what are they saying?
What they're saying is, yeah, the the Democrats, I like Romney, he's a centrist, he's a moderate.
To a lot of Democrats, Romney is not the conservative.
But you start talking Santorum or uh Michelle Bachman.
Oh, those are conservatives.
Herman Kane, those people can't win.
And it's those people who can and will win.
We've already gone the centrist route.
We've already tried the Republican establishment tries that every cycle.
They try to give us a Bob Dole, God bless him.
I know him, he's a nice guy, but McCain, same thing.
They just nothing's changed.
The Republican establishment, which is now trying to deny deny that they exist, by the way.
There is no Republican establishment.
Now, this is a little inside baseball, but uh no, they're trying to co-op the word conservative.
The Republican establishment wants you to think that they are conservatism today, and of course they're not.
The reason these people tout Romney and they follow it up, is yeah, yeah, Romney can win.
Well, why?
Well, you know, he's a centrist, he's uh not extreme and this sort of thing.
And those I'm telling you folks, those are the people that have the greatest likelihood of losing.
This country is I'm telling you, this country does not want from the Republican Party, a centrist or a moderate, or any of uh anybody that that is looked upon favorably by that group of people.
This is a time and a place that calls for unabashed, unapologetic conservatism.
And if such a candidate wins the nomination, this candidate could win the general election in a landslide.
The Tea Party is portrayed by both the Republican and Democrat establishments in Washington.
Tea Party's portrayed as kind of fringe right wing.
A Tea Party, if you wanted to say that there is a centrist position in American politics today, and by that I mean a majority position.
Tea Party is it.
Tea Party conservatism is the majority position in America in terms of reflecting not only the way people live their lives, but the way they think.
It's hard for people to believe this if their primary exposure to media is with the three networks or either news or their primetime entertainment offerings.
I mean, the pop culture and the news culture dominated by liberals, and it makes it look like that's what the whole country is, but it isn't.
And we talk about this a lot.
It's an effort to stay confident, even circumstances like this.
But if there was ever a time to be confident, this is it.
The challenge remains, though, nevertheless.
Nothing in the Republican Party is different today than it was in 76 or 1980.
The conservative nominee is considered a threat to the Republican establishment.
must be done away with.
I saw what was it?
Um the days run together.
It might have been Friday, the day that I was out.
Ken Langone, one of the co-founders of uh Home Depot, with Arthur Blank, who was the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, by the way, Ken Langone is just lining up donors to do everything he can to influence Chris Christie to get in the race.
Now, Langone is great guy, you'd like him.
He's a take no prisoners Republican.
But he's he's uh he's not he's he's not a conservative republican, although he probably thinks he is.
He's more of the uh for example, I ran into him when I was not endorsing anybody back in uh in 08.
I ran into him at a golf club.
Clubhouse.
And he came up, look, you're gonna get on McCain Banwagon.
I mean, we're gonna need you.
You are gonna be there, aren't you?
And I said, I don't know.
I I certainly not in the primaries.
Remember, I had gone out to Palm Springs and I had was asked to address uh uh a group out there, and I and McCain's one of his chief money guys was in the audience, and I launched.
And I said, This is this this is not how we're gonna beat Barack Obama is is is trying to you know make excuses for ourselves and go moderate, go centrist, go tippy toe.
Uh like we have something to excuse ourselves for or to apologize for.
This is uh in the Tea Party now represents the majority of thought, but it's like every other similar circumstance of the Republican Party.
Reagan, just for this for the simplicity here of explanation, Reagan was the equivalent of the Tea Party in 76 and 80, and the Republican establishment was as lined up against him then as they are against the Tea Party today.
The Republican establishment, which they hate being called that, by the way.
I'm since learning this.
They hate being called the Republican establishment.
But that's why they're trying to co-op the term uh conservative.
But regardless, uh there is an effort underway here to get Christie in this.
Uh I don't know where Christie is in in where his thinking is.
I don't know that he's changed his mind from what he's said all along that he's not ready.
He doesn't think he's uh quite qualified yet and all that.
And he might be looking at the Perry situation.
Perry got in late compared to the others, and he might say, yeah, it's getting a little late.
Maybe I'll wait.
I think there are other reasons if Christie doesn't get in, there are other reasons why he won't.
But clearly there's even within the establishment side, the fact that there is now an effort being made to get Christie in this means there's some nervousness about Romney in terms of his being able to win.
And it's, I think, justifiable.
We've done the centrist route.
We've gone the moderate way.
We've gone with the guy who can cross the aisle and work with the other side.
Uh it it it is never gonna win.
This is uh particularly now.
Boldness, fearlessness, well, at the same time being filled with optimism and good cheer.
That's what's called for right now.
More Americans, the one thing the Republican establishment does not get, and I don't even think they think it.
I don't think they think the country's threatened.
I don't think they look at it nearly the way you and I do, in terms of the future for your children or grandchildren.
The fact you know, for example, that your grandchildren's lifetime income has been spent.
Not just what they would be taxed, your grandchildren's lifetime income has been spent the last two and a half years.
The debt that this country is in, and you know that it's going to get almost insurmountably worse if Obamacare is fully implemented.
The Republican establishment is not of that mind.
It's government's always there.
It's always going to be big.
We want our turn to run it.
We're not interested in making it smaller.
We'll talk about it getting smaller on the margins, but we're not really interested in making it smaller.
We're interested in running it.
We're interested in having control of it.
Power over it, being in charge of it.
We want to be the ones that can buy votes.
We want to be the ones that can buy that.
That's and they trade off with the Democrats, and that's every four years, sometimes every eight years.
Whereas we are not interested in the seesaw of politics.
We're interested in saving the country because we think it needs to be.
The country's at risk.
So it's it still efforts are underway to undermine those of us who think this way.
What was your question?
Ill Snerdbow, you had a question for me.
If I had my way, yes.
Which I'm not gonna fall for that question.
Why do you want to set me up that way?
Why you're just you're just you want to come in or you want to stir the pot.
Snurdy just asked me if I could wave a magic wand if I can have my way and get rid of half the Republican field.
Who would it be?
Yes.
Um clue you in on that.
The time will come for that.
It is already overpopulated, overcrowded.
But I'm gonna tell you something.
One thing that Perry did with his poor performance, elevate everybody else.
Everybody else uh came off a little bit.
Santorum came off great, Kane came off great, and you got previous debates, they didn't stand out.
They did in this one.
It was well, I know the see.
That's not it.
Here's Perry, who's everybody thinks is a uh rock ribbed conservative, and here he comes with the language of the left.
If you oppose an immigration bill, you don't have a heart.
What is that?
That's that's not about it's not about that at all.
That's that's the same as George W. Bush back in 1980, so I'm not gonna balance the budget on the backs of the poor.
You know, we don't need to go out and use the language of the left.
I don't know, I don't know.
Well, this is not big news to me, but there's a big drudge headline out there, taxpayers paid for fast and furious.
What don't we pay for?
Who else was gonna pay for it if the taxpayers don't pay for Fast and Furious?
Who is gonna pay for it?
It's from Fox News not only did U.S. officials approve, allow, and assist in the uh in the sale of more than two thousand guns to the Sinaloa cartel.
The federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals, and then watched as the guns disappeared.
Well, yeah.
Of course they did.
Where else is the government gonna get the money if they don't print it?
This disclosure revealed in documents obtained by Fox News could undermine the Department of Justice previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a botched operation where agents simply lost track of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another.
But now the federal government used taxpayer money to buy the weapons that were then transferred to criminals, drug user, well, the drug cartel bigwigs.
I don't have any doubt in my mind that Fast and Furious was a backdoor way of sabotaging the second amendment.
There's no doubt in my mind that's what the regime had planned for it.
You know, talking about these debates and and and uh the Republicans, this is the way to look at this.
The Republicans are answering more questions about Obama's policies than he is having to answer.
Meaning they, the Republicans are explaining in these debates and wherever.
Republi me are explaining Obama's policies more than he's being asked about them.
The man most responsible for this disaster is the least available to answer for it.
He doesn't take questions about it.
Yet you go to these debates, and the Republicans are put on trial as that they're suspects.
And what they would do, and of course, anything they would do to ameliorate, fix the situation, they're looked upon as suspects.
Meanwhile, the guy who's actually engaged in all this destruction never or very seldom has to answer any questions about it.
And it's going to be the same thing here with Fast and Furious.
He's not going to get any questions about this.
This happens to be a Fox News.com story.
But the regime bought the weapons.
Up till now, the story was all these people were allowed to buy them.
The cartel was allowed to buy them.
Come across the border, buy them in the gun shops in Phoenix and everywhere, wherever, and then take them back across the border and so forth.
And we were going to track them.
We're going to track them down.
We're going to find out what they're doing.
That wasn't what this was about.
Now we find out the government bought the guns for the cartel.
The government paid for them, essentially.
By the way, folks, I mentioned to you earlier today, Rushlimbod.com has been revamped and reworked.
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This has been one of my big bugaboos.
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It was it was nobody's fault, it was just the nature of the beast.
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Here is uh Will in Amanda, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey uh wanted to ask you do you think the NFL uh in their collective economic wisdom is making a big mistake by requiring these homeland security style searches before you get in the game?
Um no, well, how do you define making a mistake?
I mean, I'm sure they're irritating people.
Is it gonna keep people away from the games?
I don't I think anywhere you go, Rush, you can't take your wife or your kids without worrying about them getting groped up by some stranger anymore.
And I think that we're losing the battle.
I think the terrorists are winning, they're getting exactly the kind of society they hope for.
Well, we're just getting used to it now before it actually takes place.
What was it that happened?
Something happened at some NFL Stadium and I forget what it was that prompted them to do this.
Somebody got got got past the uh security as it was.
Oh, somebody got a taser in uh new metal land stadium and started tasering fans in the stands.
Well, what do you think about are they gonna have the same policy as far as if you wear a burqa, you get a free pass uh from the screening?
Because it's oh I got a business idea for you, Rush, but you'd have to handle the licensing end of it.
But we could come out with Dallas Cowboy Burkas and Dolphin Burkas and you name it.
Yeah.
Well, I'm I myself.
Might turn that particularly uh licensed merchandise area over to uh uh someone else and get myself some Yeah, let Obama handle that one.
Uh he's gonna have to have some way of generating income when he leaves office.
Uh and then you know, might not be a bad idea.
Full body pat downs to find tasers and so forth.
I uh I don't know, I I I have not seen any complaints about it.
Not that there aren't any, just haven't seen any.
Uh in terms of the pat downs being similar to what we have heard happening at the airports.
Um Snerdley wants to know if uh if I think that Vic, Michael Vick has a point uh that he's uh not having penalty flags thrown when he gets roughed up.
Uh Brady Breeze, you so much as breathe on them, you get fifteen yards with Vic.
Um I don't think so.
I mean Rothlassberger could make the same beef and doesn't.
I I I thought any time somebody says, Look, I'm not gonna whine about it, and then whines about it.
That's what he did.
Look, I don't know, I'm not here to complain.
I don't I'm just trying to alert the reps to what's going on.
I I th I think look, if you don't want to get hit, don't hold the ball so long.
If you don't want to get hit, don't run it so much.
Take your three-step three-step drop and get rid of it.
If you're gonna hold a ball in the National Football League and start dancing and running around, you're going to get hit.
Well, it could be the offensive line's fault.
I mean, if you want to say breakdowns in in there Yeah, but I mean it's I just start complaining about roughness in the national football.
You ought not to be in the league.
You know, it's just it's the nature of the nature of the beast.
Now, there are a lot of guys, a lot of players who think that the league targets others and ignores others.
The Steelers.
The Steelers to a man think that they're targeted.
And a couple of them have been uh very very vocal in saying so.
But I don't think the way to go about it is to whine about it at press conference, and that's how it came off to me.
Who is Nick?
Where are we going?
Um This is Will.
Nope, James, Las Vegas.
James, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You ever notice that when the Democrats are in the White House, that it's always the government or Washington...
Uh it's never the administration, it's never the it's never like the Bush administration when the Republicans in the White House.
Even our own side doesn't say it.
Our own side, the only publicans say the White House.
They don't.
They say the government.
Or they say Washington.
I mean, uh, when are we going to smarten up and start knocking the Obama administration and specify it's the Democrats, not just Obama.
It's the Democrats that got us into this mess.
Well, who are the only one that remembers the nineties, ninety-four, the contract with America and how we got um uh Clinton elected.
Well was wait a minute.
Contract with America, what was that?
That was that was uh New Gangrich's contract with America.
The hundred days when we balance the budget.
Clinton said we can't balance the budget, it'll take us till two thousand eleven Democrats said what's the big deal about the budget?
But no, we balance the budget.
It's the Republicans.
Right by crying out loud, we have we have uh Hannity's giving uh Bill Clinton credit moving to the Senate.
He didn't move to the Senate, he was dragged to the Senate.
He didn't do anything.
We have our own people saying that are giving him credit for welfare reform.
Yeah, it's kinda like it's kind of like when's the last time you heard about hamburger flipping jobs, or when was the last time you heard about homeless or when the Democrats are in there, you're right.
You there's a there's a whole different set of uh different language homelessness, caused AIDS.
I mean, it's it's it's now in two thousand six.
Nobody brings up that George Bush in two thousand six we had four point five percent unemployment.
The stock market was at fourteen thousand.
This is before the Democrats took over in two thousand and seven.
That's right.
It's after two thousand and seven that everything that was the debt really stuff shot up when the Democrats took over.
Nobody brings it up on our side.
Nobody.
I mean, maybe you once in a while, but not enough.
No, but look it.
Uh once again, I can I can be uh sure Snerdley is going to give me a call like you at least once a week.
He's been doing it for twenty-three years.
Why do the Republicans do this or why don't they do that?
I'll tell you my latest theory.
Uh, and I think it's a good one.
I I think the reason why the Republicans don't use the language you want, or they don't satisfy you, is because I don't believe that the Republicans in Washington understand thoroughly and fully the new media.
I believe that they still operate under the premise that they have to get their message out through ABC, CBSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times.
I think there's some exceptions, obviously, but you have um members of the House leadership who will call uh and appear on new media programs.
But I th it the leadership at large in both the House and the Senate believe that they've got to get their mess out again.
They've got to convince Brian Williams.
They gotta convince George Stephanopoulos, they've gotta convince that's who they've got to get their message out.
And there's a certain way you talk to those people.
You don't want to make those people mad at you.
You want it's a mistake.
Don't I'm not I'm not supporting it.
I'm trying to explain to you uh why it is that they say and do things differently now.
You know why the media does it, you know why the media has different sets of terms, uh, depending on who's in office.
But why don't the Republicans call they're not combative.
They they're not they don't they don't they don't think they're gonna get a fair shake being combative with the media that hates them to begin with.
And they have they think they've got to get their message out through that media, and that's why they say or don't say whatever it is they say or don't say.
That's my um that's my latest theory.
Elizabeth in Allentown.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Um, just a thought or two, please.
Yes.
Okay, uh, I'm I'm a registered independent, and since February of this year, I have received eight mailings of two and three page letters from Democratic National Committee, three signed by the president, who should be called the present, two signed by Pelesi, and three or four other men associated with that group.
All Asking for bread.
And it makes me think about what is in the letters.
Which makes me think about my raising as a kid.
My Graham always said.
Wait a minute.
Let me ask you a question.
Is that you're a registered independent?
I am.
And you're getting junk mail from Democrats.
Does that not tell you something?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And that's why I'm thinking about the Democrats.
Don't you think you should be getting junk mail from independents?
How in the hell are the Democrats getting hold of you?
No, I've never gotten any any contribution request from the Republicans or anybody else.
Right.
What does that tell you?
And that was you never get close to or be friendly with a liar.
Because a liar will thieve, and a thief will kill.
If that isn't the current administration, I don't know what it is.
Well, now, no.
Let's let's go easy on the thievery.
Um, yeah, go easy on the theory.
Go easy on a thievery allegation.
Now, what fascinates me about what you're talking about here is Elizabeth.
I mean, you're not you're not going to get away from liars if you're gonna piddle around in politics.
But you are a registered independent, and you're being inundated with Democrat stuff.
Now, what is what does that tell you?
You think you're an independent, you send up as a moderate, registered this or that, and who is bombarding you?
The Democrats are.
That's quite instructive.
In other words, who's getting hold of you?
You're a registered on the voting registration with independent, and who's finding out how to reach you?
Democrats are.
Very interesting.
One more.
Tim in Minneapolis.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hello, Rex.
You bet that.
First of all, there's a lot of French words that start with J E U X or J E O U. Maybe he was trying to wax provincial, but what I think was really going on is he was thinking the Jews and the billionaires are uh the same, and it just kind of slipped out.
But really, for a definitive answer, we have to check his teleprompter to see what was on there.
Uh this sounded like he went off teleprompter.
Um I've never I I can't imagine him ever doing that.
That's a possibility, I suppose.
Well, it's it's happened.
He's he's no, he's he's gone off prompter before, and you can tell.
You you can tell when he does.
Um the you know, all the great oratory ends and the stumbling around in vain search of uh coherence and uh and even uh uh uh single single thought is obvious.
But no, that that uh just the way it came out.
Uh as I say, I I don't know if he was you know pandering or attacking, pandering or accusing.
That's why I played the bite a number of times.
Trying to seek the input of those of you in the audience.
I appreciate the call, brief time out, back with much more right after this.
So Bomb is out there in his town hall right now, and he just said about raising taxes.
It's a question of how we can afford to continue to make investments to propel American forward.
To propel America forward.
So he's basically saying that it is government spending that propels America forward, America forward, which we know he believes it's just important he says it every day because it's not something most Americans agree with.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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