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Oct. 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Let's see, where's this from?
What do I have?
DailyCaller.com.
Here's the headline.
Ladies and gentlemen, top Christie donors told ahead to Trenton.
Top Christie donors told a head to Trenton.
Speculation mounting over a possible presidential run for Chris Christie.
A reliable source emailed a reporter at the Daily Caller that big potential donors to Christie have been told to prepare to go to Trenton Thursday to stand on stage with him for the announcement if he decides to run.
He's not yet decided, but they've sent out the call for donors.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, a brand new week of broadcast excellence coming to you live and direct from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies or ideological purity as it's also called.
Who gathers their donors to stand beside them on a stage announcing you many people try to hide their donor, but what you do is you gather your supporters.
Mr. Limbaugh, don't you know that donors can also be supporting?
Yes, yes, yes, of course donors are supporters by definition, but normally you don't put them on stage up there with you.
I don't know.
It's still undecided.
Undecided out there, but donors, he's gathering his donors for a possible announcement.
I think it's, I don't know, it's just a little strange.
You gather your supporters.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's a story here.
What is this, AP?
How did it get this bad on Capitol Hill?
Why does Congress barely function today?
You know, there was a story last week in the USA Today.
It was a front page story in their A section.
I call USA Today McNews.
But they had this long story, which is unusual for USA Today.
Most of their stories are a couple paragraphs, you know, reading level IQ of a fifth grader.
But this was actually like 10 or 12 paragraphs.
It's a long story for USA Today.
And it was all about what, and it was by Susan Page, what can we do to stop this horrible gridlock?
What can we do?
And it was just horrible.
And they didn't know what we could do.
And somebody, I didn't read the whole thing, but it was about, there were three, it was a three-pronged plan.
The AP story just is quite direct.
You have to stick with it for a while to get to what AP thinks is the reason why it's so bad on Capitol Hill.
Why does Congress barely function today?
The legislative branch of the world's most powerful nation, now widely scorned as it lurches from one near catastrophe to the next, even on supposedly routine matters, such as setting an annual budget and keeping government offices open.
Well, it's a Democrats that have not presented a budget in over two years.
Somehow that never gets mentioned in this story.
What they claim is the problem is this, at the core of this gridlock is a steadily growing partisanship.
Couple that with a rising distaste for compromise by avid voters, unswerving conservatives and liberals dominate the two parties' nominating processes, electing lawmakers who pledge never to stray from their ideologies.
So instead of a two-party system, American government has become a battle between warring tribes, says Mickey Edwards, a former Republican congressman from Oklahoma, who may as well be a Democrat, who has taught at several universities.
You keep reading.
If you stick with this to the second page, you encounter this.
The media world has been reshaped by a decline in traditional straight news outlets and the rise of opinionated blogs, cable TV shows, and talk radio.
Republicans, quote, live in mortal fear of Rush Limbaugh outing anyone, close quote, for being insufficiently conservative, said Representative David Price, Democrat, North Carolina, former Duke University political science professor, which means he's socialist.
Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat, Tennessee, one of several essays on Congress's decline, writes that Fox and MSNBC, certainly inflamed partisanship, are to blame.
And social media has a popularized non-fact-based reality.
So there you have it.
Republicans live in mortal fear of me outing anyone for being insufficiently conservative.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
You stick with this stuff long enough and you eventually do get to the truth.
And you know how it ticks off A. Peter?
They want this kind of power.
That's the reason I'm writing this.
AP jealous.
They want this kind of, they want people to live in mortal fear of what AP is going to say about them, which people used to have mortal fear.
Who am I going to out today?
Well, I'm going to out a lot of stuff today.
Somebody is going to have to put the brakes on this out-of-control misrepresentation of the booing that went on at the last Republican debate, ostensibly aimed at a gay soldier.
That booing was not, and Obama's trying to capitalize this.
He was at the human rights dinner, gay, lesbian, transsexual bunch dinner on Saturday night, trying to make big hay out of this.
And there were two or three people booing.
We got the soundbite coming up.
There were two or three people booing, and they were not booing a gay soldier.
They were booing his question.
And now Herman Cain has jumped on this.
You know what?
I should have really ripped into my colleagues on stage for ignoring this.
And Kane's also, what else is he saying?
Oh, yeah, this is this is I'm going to tell you, this is really disappointing to me because Herman Kane, I liked Herman Cain, like Herman Cain.
The Washington Post has it as a macaca story about Rick Perry.
Apparently, back when Rick Perry was a Democrat, there's this woman at the Washington Post who's written a story with traditional journalism.
It wouldn't even pass the first review by an editor.
But apparently, back when Perry in the 80s was a Democrat, he and his dad would go hunting at some place, and there was a rock that had the N-word on it that somebody had painted over.
Somebody had painted over.
The Perrys didn't like it, and they turned the rock over so nobody could see it.
Giving it a short cliff notes version here.
And when they what?
Yeah, when they started leasing it themselves, they painted it over, and then they turned the rock over.
didn't like the word, the N-word something about this whole place.
And they were trying to write a story here that the Perrys loved going to the place because it did use the N-word.
It's 180 degrees out of phase.
They're trying to say that Perry's a racist.
And Herman Kaine has jumped in and basically joined that chorus.
And this is absurd.
It is absurd.
They painted over it.
They tried to, when they leased it, they tried to paint over it and cover it up.
And then they eventually turned it over so that people wouldn't see.
And I think Perry, back when this happened in the 80s, was a Democrat.
And I just, it's fascinating.
This is, you know, I told you last week, two weeks ago, that I had had a revelation.
For 23 years, I've been entertaining calls from frustrated members of this audience.
Rush, why don't the Republicans say X?
Rush, why don't the Republicans do that?
Rush!
How come the Republicans always do that?
Why don't they?
And I've always sat here.
Why are you asking me?
I can't explain it.
I don't know.
But I finally came up with as good an explanation as there is out there, and that is they still view the mainstream media as the primary group they have to convince that they are legitimate.
They still think that's the mainstream media that they have to get their message out through.
And this is evidence of what I mean.
So here you have the Washington Post with an unsupported non-story.
And here comes Herman Kaine piggybacking on it, trying to capitalize on it, essentially letting the mainstream media, in this case the Washington Post, set the narrative.
It's exactly what I mean.
There's this, I don't know, whether you call it a fear or just a mistaken belief that the power in media still exclusively relies or resides in the mainstream media.
And it's those people that you have to get on your side, those people you have to use to get your message out or what have you.
And so that leads to pandering to them.
Kane is doing it in this case.
The Republican leadership, both the House and Senate, renowned for doing it throughout all of our lives.
Even some Republican presidents have done so.
There are no on-the-record sources for this.
Kane's out there saying that Perry's rock stuff was insensitive.
Perry and his dad tried to cover it up.
And Herman Kane's out there saying that Perry's insensitive.
There are no on-the-record sources in the Washington Post for this story.
It is, you remember Macaca.
They got George Allen out of the presidential race, senator from Virginia, by claiming that he uttered some racial epithet insult with the, you know, called some traveling Democrat troublemaker Macau.
It's a good thing the rock didn't say Hymie Town.
Yeah, or white interloper.
I mean, well, the Reverend Jackson has famously referred to New York City as Hymie Town.
And Reverend Sharpton has been on the record berating white interlopers in Harvard, in Harlem.
So it's just, you know, and it's insulting to everybody's intelligence.
It is part of the Democrat Party media template or playbook from 30, 40 years ago.
It's a stretch.
It's a grasp.
It is certainly no substance to it, and there was no reason for Herman Kaine to try to piggyback this.
Nobody, nobody on the record will say that they saw the word on the rock after 1983.
Nobody will even say on the record that they saw it, and yet we've got this big story here about it.
I don't remember the Washington Post turning over any rocks when Obama was running for office.
In fact, stick with me.
I got an idea.
Do something.
We come back from the timeout.
Don't go away here, folks.
We'll be right back.
The Washington Post will not even publish a photograph of the rock at Harry Perry's hunting spot.
They say it's a year-old photograph they claim to have seen that even after having been brushed clean of dirt, only the N and two Gs were faintly visible.
So why would the word have been more visible years ago when the paint was fresher?
And where are these old photos?
Why don't they publish them?
Wouldn't they help support the story the Washington Post is trying to do here?
That why they couldn't be printed?
Or are they just too inflammatory?
Maybe the photographer is afraid for his life.
This is such an obvious smear, even by the Washington Post's standards.
The worst kind of this is McCarthyism, Charlie McCarthyism.
It is an absolute joke.
It's just, it's hilarious.
They interviewed, the Washington Post interviewed more than 24 people for their rock story, and not a one of them would go on the record to disagree with Rick Perry's timeline.
The Post says they're afraid for their lives.
Anyway, the whole thing is a setup.
It's just so obviously and patently absurd.
And this is all they've got.
This is all they've got to defend the one.
They can't defend him.
They can't defend his economy.
They can't defend his policies.
They can't defend him personally.
Nope.
They got to run out and try to personally destroy Obama's potential opponents.
We all knew this.
It's just happening and it's happening early and is an indication of the weakness of the Democrat Party and their state-controlled media position.
Now, I want to go to this Republican debate, September 22nd, Orlando.
Here is the gay Army soldiers named Stephen Hill asking former Senator Rick Santorum the big question.
In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job.
My question is, under one of your presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?
Okay, what is it?
One or two booze.
They're booing his question.
If they were going to boo him, they would have booed him earlier when he identified himself as a gay soldier.
They were not booing a gay soldier.
I know it sounded like two people.
We don't know who these two people are.
We don't know anything about them.
So in addition to the Washington Post trying to make hay out of a non-existent story involving a deteriorated rock At a hunting camp in Texas.
Now we're treated to them trying to keep something alive that happened to the Republican debate September 22nd.
A gay soldier gets up, asks a question that takes, well, I don't know, 19 seconds.
And there are a couple of people booing.
Listen to this one more time and listen and see if you hear any booze when he identifies himself as a gay soldier.
In 2010, when I was deployed to Iraq, I had to lie about who I was because I'm a gay soldier and I didn't want to lose my job.
My question is.
Stop tape, stop tapes, stop tape.
Any booze?
Anybody heard any booze yet?
No, no.
Just identify himself as a gay soldier.
A bunch of racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes supposedly in the audience, and not one boo when the soldier identifies himself as gay.
Dear presidencies, do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military?
What is that?
One or two people.
One or two people.
And now Herman Kane has joined this.
Herman Kane is saying, I should have defended that gay soldier, booed during the GOP debate.
So what is it about the lead that some people cannot handle?
Kane ends up being launched into the top tier as a result of his performance, this debate.
Now his whole demeanor changed.
He's got to weigh in on all this stuff.
Act like he thinks he's reached the top tier.
Now he has to act like what he thinks a top tier candidate would do.
That is really misreading this.
Now here's Matt DeLong, The Washington Post.
Obama blasts Republican candidates for failing to defend gay soldier.
Speaking of an event hosted by prominent gay advocacy group, President Obama Saturday night chastised his Republican presidential rivals for failing to speak up when some members of the audience at a debate last month booed a gay soldier.
Okay, I read that, no comment.
I'm going to read it again with comment.
Speaking of an event hosted by a prominent gay advocacy group, President Obama Saturday night chastised his GOP presidential rivals for failing to speak up when some members of the audience at a debate last month booed a gay soldier.
After 20 years of listening to the rantings of his reverend right and failing to defend his country, Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called a nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty in white America, US of KKKA.
Black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America.
God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America.
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to loose.
So Obama goes out and milks the gays for this boo at the Republican debate, and yet he sat in that man's pew for 20 years.
On the cutting edge, a societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
So here's Barack Obama.
Away, Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com, is reporting he's got new pictures, new photographs obtained exclusively by his website, biggovernment.com, revealing that Obama appeared with and marched with members of the new Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in 2007, or March of 2007.
Now, find a dandy.
President, as a candidate, march with whoever he wants.
He sits in Reverend Wright's church for 20 years while Wright is spouting utter vile hatred for this country.
Obama says, I didn't hear it.
I was there.
I didn't hear it.
Muchow didn't hear it.
Kids didn't hear it.
Nobody heard it.
Everybody's heard it except Obama.
So you have this event at the Republican debate, which has been totally misrepresented and is being lied about by the media.
Two people in the audience were not booing a gay soldier.
They were booing a question that he asked.
Obama knowingly lies about this, goes to a human rights dinner on Saturday on Human Rights Group, which is a gay lesbian organization.
He milks them for all that they're worth, fundraising and this and that and the other thing, then perpetuates the lie.
And yet, here he is soaking up Reverend Wright's hatred for 20 years, marching with the new Black Panther Party in 2007.
And somehow a couple of people at a Republican date, a debate booing a question becomes all news.
Of course, it's all newsworthy because Obama right now is land slightable.
Obama right now is in deep doo-doo in terms of his reelection chances.
Internal White House polling is disastrous.
If you know who to listen to and you know how to listen to what they say, top Democrats are even admitting this.
Let's listen to a little more of Obama on Saturday night, the human rights campaign dinner.
We have, let's say, one, two, three, a couple of soundbites.
Here's the first of two.
We don't believe in a small America.
We don't believe in the kind of smallness that says it's okay for a stage full of political leaders, one of whom could end up being the president of the United States, being silent when an American soldier is booed.
We don't believe in that.
We don't believe in standing silent when that happens.
We don't believe in them being silent since.
You want to be commander-in-chief?
You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.
Holy cow, that's so this became the standard line.
America, Republicans believe in a small America.
That became his standard line at that fundraiser stump speech.
And if there is anybody who believes in a small America, it's Obama.
If there's anybody who's presiding over one, it's Obama.
Obama happily presiding over an America in decline.
But anyway, you see how this non-event from that Republican debate is being jacked up here into something that it wasn't.
And I have to laugh.
Obama start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States.
Oh, you're the standard bearer for that, Mr. President.
You're the guy who stands up for the men and women in uniform.
You and your Democrats, you love those people, right?
You know, Obama wants a big tent.
Pro-life Democrats not even allowed to speak at their conventions.
He wants a big tent.
He's talking about all these people who must be involved.
We've got to accept all these different ways that people speak and different ways that they live and so forth.
This is the most restrictive bunch of people, the Democrat Party that purports to be something else I've ever seen.
Here's the next bite.
We don't believe in a small America.
We believe in a big America, a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America that values the service of every patriot.
We believe in an America where we're all in it together and we see the good in one another and we live up to a creed that is as old as our founding, e pluribus unum out of many one, and that includes everybody.
That's what we believe.
That's what we're going to be fighting for.
Whoa, listen to this.
It finally comes filled with energy at this place.
Again, this is at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner.
It's an association of gay lesbians and transgender people.
It was in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night.
So, big America, tolerant America, where pro-lifers are not allowed to speak at the Democrat National Convention, an equal America.
This is the party that considers conservatives and Tea Party members to pose a greater threat to them than terrorism and terrorists around the world.
Where's Obama's tolerance of rich people?
Where's Obama's tolerance of successful people?
Where is Obama's tolerance of those who achieve great things?
Where's Obama's tolerance of the Tea Party?
Was it Obama who described and defined for us the bitter clingers?
Basically, you, people that cling to your guns and your religion, when people like Obama get power and start taking everything away from you.
Yep, the tolerant Democrats, they are the ones.
Here's Herman Kane.
This is yesterday on this week.
ABC's This Week with Christiana Manpoor.
She interviewed Herman Kane.
She played that soundbite that we've been playing for you this morning from the debate.
And then she said, In retrospect, Mr. Kane, would you have done something given the controversy that it's created here?
In retrospect, because of the controversy it has created and because of the different interpretations that it could have had, yes, that probably would have been appropriate.
But at the moment, it was not the focus of the people up there on that stage, I can assure you.
Yeah, but I would have should have defended the gay sold.
The gay soldier wasn't booed.
Mr. Kane, why do you think nobody on stage came to the defense of the gay soldier?
The gay soldier wasn't booed.
A gay soldier wasn't attacked.
The gay soldier was not put upon.
That's why you didn't come to his defense.
Mr. Kane and the rest of the Republicans in that stage, if that audience had really attacked anybody who asked the question, knowing how well politicians pander, there would have been a race to defend the poor questioner, whoever it might have been who was attacked.
But this guy wasn't attacked.
He wasn't booed.
His question was booed.
That Obama tried to make hay out of this through his entire Saturday night appearance at the human rights dinner.
Even Brett Baer, this is last Monday, Fox News Radio Killmead and friends.
Brian Kilmeader has got a radio show on the Fox Network and spoke with the six o'clock TV show anchor Brett Baer, who was a moderator at the debate where this supposed affront to the gay soldier took place.
Here's what Brett Baer said about it.
The audience was, I think, 5,500, maybe.
Huge, huge audience.
And the booze on that gay soldier, I would say there may have been two people, maybe three out of 5,500.
Now, it was loud, it was audible.
It was a cavernous facility, the Orange County Convention Center.
But it would be painting with a broad brush to say that this crowd booed the gay soldier.
Yeah, they didn't boo the gay soldier.
I still submit to you that had they booed the gay soldier, Herman Kane would have piped up, and so would all the other candidates.
But he identified himself as a gay soldier and kept talking, and there were no booze.
They were just booing his question.
Pure and simple.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back.
Might even get to some of your phone calls in this hour.
We'll find out soon.
Okay, I don't want to belabor this, but I do want to make the point, and I'll tell you why.
Back in the old days, before there was any new media, all you have to go back just to 19, well, Fox started in 97.
97, maybe later than that.
Somewhere in there.
You realize in 1988, when I started this program, I was it in terms of national conservative broadcast media.
You had ABC, CBS, NBC, the two newspapers, the magazines, and CNN.
And it was that way through the mid-90s.
Then other syndicated, nationally syndicated radio shows began.
96.
Fox News launched in 1996.
So for the first eight years of this program, I was what sufficed as equal time.
And that's when this roller coaster, the seesaw, began to switch.
That's when their monopoly ended.
Back in the old days, if this were 1980, if this were 1993, folks, aside from this show, Obama would be getting away with making this country think that Republicans at a debate booed homosexuality.
He would get away with it.
He's not going to get away with it this time.
There is an entire alternative media that is going to see to it that a majority of Americans understand exactly what happened.
Now, whereas I say the Republican leadership and too many Republican candidates still think that the only way they can get their point across, the only way they can get their point of view aired is through the mainstream media.
The Democrats are the same way, but for them, it makes sense because they own the media.
The Democrats and the media are the same thing.
So they continue to use the mainstream media.
What they fail to realize and take into account is that it isn't a monopoly anymore and it doesn't enable them to establish public opinion issue by issue by issue.
Everything's a battle for them now in establishing public opinion and they don't like it.
That's why you get an AP story blaming me for congressional gridlock.
That's why, here, listen to this.
Grab soundbite number seven.
Yesterday, before Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer for some of the big markets will go on half hour early on a local affiliate to promo what's coming on Face the Nation.
And he did that for CBS2 Eyeball News in New York yesterday.
They had their eyeball news TV show before Face the Nation.
So Schaefer, Schieffer, appeared on it with the anchor of that show, Don Dollar, D-A-L-E-R.
And Don Dollar, talking to Schieffer to promote Face the Nation, said, So, Chris Christie got to be the talk of Washington this week, eh, Bob?
Russ Limbaugh has already started in on Chris Christie, as maybe he said early this week.
You know, I'm hearing a lot of John McCain in that.
So that's what we're going to be talking about this morning on Face the Nation.
Yeah.
Why are they talking about me?
Because they no longer have a monopoly.
No longer have a monopoly.
So here's Obama trying to make hay out of this.
Let me ask a couple questions here.
Let's start a little brush fire in our own media.
When citizens were called racists by the Congressional Black Caucasians, Obama was silent.
You remember during their march to Washington, the Capitol building during health care, Obamacare?
Here's Pelosi carrying a giant gavels.
You got John Lewis marching next to her and say they make up this story about being spat upon and the N-word being used.
So the Congressional Black Caucasians were calling American citizens, Tea Party people, racists.
Obama was silent.
He didn't say anything.
He didn't care.
He didn't go to a Tea Party event and make a speech about how we all stop calling each other names.
We all ought to just get along and accept our differences.
When citizens were said to want to hang black people from a tree, that happened the last couple of weeks.
Obama was silent.
Some member of the Congressional Black Caucasians said, Yep, the Tea Party had its way to be hanging black people from trees.
What Obama's?
He didn't say anything.
He didn't go out to a Tea Party and make a speech trying to curry their favor and say, I think it's unforgivable what people are saying about you.
When James Hoffa Jr. referred to the Tea Party and other Republicans as sons of bitches, not only was Obama not silent, he probably smiled because Hoffa got the line right.
Obama probably wrote it.
Now, how about Obama trying to make everybody think he cares about the media in the first place?
Mr. President, if you and your party care so much about the military, will you promise to count their absentee ballots this coming election?
Remember in the Florida recount back in 2000, how they tried to disqualify absentee military ballots?
Yeah.
Grab a call, as I promised, Marilyn in Columbus, Indiana.
Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thanks very much.
I'm calling about Herman King.
I did see him on Chris Wallace, and he said, if what you're saying is true, it's unfortunate.
But he did not go for it completely.
He was just saying, because he hadn't had time to check it out, he said, if what you're saying is true.
All right.
Unfortunately.
Okay.
Grab audio soundbite number five.
I'm not, may sound like I'm trying to pick on Herman Kane.
I've actually got something larger in mind.
But here's Herman Kane on this week with Christiana Munpoor.
In retrospect, would you have done something given the controversy?
In retrospect, because of the controversy it has created and because of the different interpretations that it could have had, yes, that would have been appropriate.
But at the moment, it was not the focus of the people up there on that stage.
I can assure you.
So he said, look, I'm not trying to nitpick here.
No, that's about the gay soldier.
That's about the gay soldier.
That's right.
Right.
I'm calling about the remark about the end on the Herman Cain has got to know it's BS.
It's the Washington Post.
It's a campaign.
He's got to know it's B.S.
Intellectually, I mean, he's got to know that.
But I think partially in that case, I think what happens is when you think you're in the top tier, now it changes the way you act.
Yes, of course I will condemn that because I'm looking down on everyone else now because I'm a, of course I would condemn that.
It's just human nature, I suppose.
American parents in certain places in this country are being charged with felonies and threatened with jail time for sending their children to better schools.
It is in the Wall Street Journal.
It's coming right up when we get back from the top of the hour news break.
Sit tight.
We will be back before you know it.
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