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Oct. 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, I I I showed up here feeling quite sad today.
Yeah, I did.
Over the death of Steve Jobs.
And then they have to sit here for the last hour and then watch this excuse for a press conference.
This is a very tough day.
We're looking at incompetence on parade here.
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If you want to be on the program, if you have ABC Radio News, if your EIB affiliate carries ABC Radio News and you've been listening to it mere moments ago, they've been playing sound bites from Obama's press conference as if they're being fed those sound bites.
And then saying an angry sounding Obama.
And he has sounded angry a couple times.
And I'm thinking, what in the world does he have to be angry about?
He's the one causing all this.
He's the one screwing everybody.
He's the one happily managing the decline of the United States of America.
And these fits of rage are prompted by questions that he considers to be beneath him.
He doesn't think he should be asked.
And this whole thing is a campaign appearance.
This isn't no news in this press conference.
It hasn't been one shred of news here.
And the reporters asking questions, with the exception of two or three of them are just scared as they can be.
State controlled media on parade.
Obama's pushing hard to change uh change the facts.
Uh position himself as a man who wants to create jobs with a phony jobs bill.
This is a massive tax increase bill.
It isn't going to happen.
He's not going to get away with this lie.
This has been one solid lie after another.
We've got sound bites of it.
I I guess we'll play some of them as the as the program unfolds today.
But I I just I I marvel here at at the what I really think is profound incompetence coupled with everything else that he is.
I mean, yeah, I I know that uh he's chip on his shoulder about the country, and I know that he thinks we need to be taken down a peg or two that all of our imperialistic ways in the past, the way we've stolen resources from everybody else in the world, that's how we got our greatness.
We gotta pay the price now, we've got to find out what the rest of the world lives like, all that sort of stuff.
But it to listen to him try to explain economics is an embarrassment.
To listen to him explain how this jobs bill is gonna magically put everybody back to work and build roads and bridges and schools, and not one reporter said, well, what about the first stimulus that was almost a trillion dollars?
What happened to all the road building and school building and bridge building in that stimulus?
There wasn't any of it.
And here come the usual line about cops and firework, firemen and and teachers being laid off, and this is gonna put them back to work.
Yeah, for a year.
This bill puts them, it gives the states money to hire those workers for a year, and then what do they do?
Just like Clinton's hundred thousand cops, yeah, for a year.
You commit with federal money to hire cops and so forth, and then after a year or two, the money runs out, and then what do you do?
So anyway, we'll get into this in more detail.
Um we had it's still going on.
This thing is uh going on now an hour and ten minutes long, and we have a room full of journalists in there, supposedly in a news conference, and not one random act of journalism occurred.
I mean, that F. Chuck Todd said, uh Mr. President, you um You uh in past occasions you've urged people to call Congress and you've melted the phone lines that it isn't happening anymore.
Have you lost the ability to persuade people?
Bill Plant said, you know, uh, you're out there waving the bill around and almost sounds like it's a campaign rather than uh rather than uh actual negotiation.
You're doing a Harry Truman do nothing Congress.
Um is that what you're doing, Mr. President?
He's gonna set up a Obama got really ticked off at that, so Congress would do something.
I couldn't run against a do not in Congress, right?
If they just do something, they won't do anything.
It was and then, you know, and I'll tell you something else.
Uh he did get a question, Jackie Kalmus at the New York Times asked him about this Occupy Wall Street Munch, and we've learned a lot more about that group, too, about which we will share with you as the program unfolds today.
Jackie Kalmus of the uh New York Times asked him, uh, are you aware of this?
Are you uh you're watching any of it?
And he expressed his solidarity because those are his foot soldiers.
This thing just didn't bubble up out of nothing.
We now find out George Soros' money is behind this.
And there's no doubt in my mind that the White House is behind this.
I have wish I could tell you who, but the very prominent person asked me never to mention his name in this regard for months has been telling me you watch Rush, do not doubt me, he said to me.
Obama is setting up riots.
He is fanning the flames for riots and eventual violence.
That's all he has got.
And now you look, all of this talk about millionaires and billionaires and people not paying their fair share and this relentless assault on achievement in this country has resulted in what?
The appearance of a spontaneous combustion of angry white college students who are fed up with all the injustices that this country is famous for.
That's his base.
Occupy Wall Street is his base.
Those are his foot soldiers.
The anarchists, the union thugs who are occupying Wall Street, Obama is now going to run for reelection against Wall Street.
And all of these schlubs in this protest march don't understand that Wall Street and Obama are inseparable.
New York legislators are getting death threats now if they don't tax the millionaires.
And my very prescient friend wanted me to say on the air, wanted me to warn people, I'm not going to do that.
I'm not going to sit and predict.
President of the United States wants riots.
It's...
But very, very, very prominent individual.
And it's uh we're on the verge of it here.
You get this many people together and you whip them into this kind of a frenzy over things they don't even really know.
They're just they've got a bunch of energy, and it's gonna have to have an outlet somewhere.
And all these people down there occupying Wall Street, this is his base.
And he admitted it.
He expressed his solidarity, because those are his campaign foot soldiers down there.
He can't turn his back on them.
This close to the elections.
You'd think that he'd be embarrassed to embrace them publicly like this.
He he said, Well, those people, they're simply expressing the frustrations of the American people.
As though the frustrations felt by you and me and everybody else have nothing to do with what's going on in the last two and a half years.
He keeps saying, and it's been frustrated a long time, ten years.
American people have been mad about this economy a long time.
We need to do something now.
Pass that Jobs bill.
Who in the world thinks?
Even if just play a game here.
This bill of his is 450 billion dollars of tax increases.
He's out there talking about small business tax cuts and uh middle income class tax cuts.
There aren't any tax cuts in this bill.
It's a tax increase bill, but let's just pretend for a second that this was 450 billion dollars of just spending.
Stimulus spending.
Somebody explained to me how spending 450 billion dollars is going to get every bridge repaired, every school repaired, every road repaired, and everybody who doesn't have a job a job.
How does that happen?
This is what's on parade today.
This is utter foolishness.
This is utter incompetence, trying to sell the notion that this bill of 450 billion dollars is a magic elixir.
If 450 billion dollars would turn this economy around, which I thought it already had, we've been back from the brink.
How many years now, according to Obama?
450 billion dollars is going to turn this economy around, then why didn't the first 787 billion and then the next 50 billion that was added to it, and then the third 26 billion on top of that?
And all of the other spending that has occurred in this administration, not just the stimulus spinning.
Why hasn't all of that created this magic?
Because we had a typhoon in Japan and we had the Arab Spring.
Oh.
Oh.
We got you remind me, I got a story here in the stack.
One of these idiots down there at Occupy Wall Street claims that they were inspired by the Arab Spring.
And that that's why they are marching.
HR dug that one out in some obscure weekly publication in the Bowery.
So anyway, uh, folks, I I just I sit here and I I don't quite know how to verbalize the emotions I'm feeling over this because they run the gamut of anger,
shock, dismay, uh suspension, willing suspension of disbelief, all of it just Twilight Zone, alternate universe.
Whatever.
We have some sound bites of it, and we'll get to those as the program unfolds.
Your phone calls as well, and uh we take a break here, come back, just a short couple of comments about Steve Jobs when we return.
Don't go away.
No, no, I don't think it's gonna help him, but all I guess he's digging a deeper hole for himself with uh with these kinds of things.
This look at even the left, folks, even people on the left are fully aware, and they have buyers' remote.
I mean, you got people like Tina Brown, and you may say Tina Brown, who's interrupting Tina Brown, as far as the left is concerned, is an oracle.
She may be an absolute dunce.
She can put magazines together, but she's an oracle to these people.
Yes.
Turns out he wasn't ready.
Turns out it wasn't really.
They know.
They know, and they're embarrassed watching this garbage.
Don't doubt me.
Now, over the years, over all of the years that I've been hosting this program, 23, I have been an evangel for Apple Incorporated products.
I love them.
And one of the things that I have always done on this program is talk about my passions.
And share my passions with all of you.
That's I think a large part of life is uh is passion.
When you find it, you have it, it's fabulous.
It's a magnet for other people, uh, and it's self-invigorating.
And sharing those passions is something that I thoroughly enjoy.
Over these 23 years, each time, each time I would discuss Apple products, a new one that I couldn't wait to get, or one that I was having problems with, frustrated with, I'd always get emails from people.
Would you stop talking about Apple?
Nothing but a bunch of liberals.
I don't want to hear about Apple.
Why do you talk about jobs that is nothing but a bunch of liberals?
And I um talk about Apple and Jobs because I love greatness.
I just love greatness.
I am fascinated by it.
I am intrigued by how it happens.
I'm intrigued about every aspect of greatness and excellence because it's so genuinely rare.
It is genuinely rare and exciting.
And I am mesmerized by it.
I'm inspired by it.
I have uh many times told people that, and you too, that one of the greatest perks of the uh good fortune that I've had is to has been to meet people.
I have had the opportunity to meet people who are the best at what they do.
And that is exhilarating and fun and inspiring to me.
So I attach myself to these things that create childlike wonderment in me.
It's difficult as an adult to have childlike wonderment.
I mean, how soon do we all outgrow the excitement as children we all felt on Christmas Eve?
And how many of us wish by magic that we could recapture it to find out to rediscover that total unbounded passion of childlike exuberance, excitement, innocence uncluttered by the rigors of life lived as an adult.
And for me, speaking honestly, the introduction of every new Apple product ignited that in me.
That's just me.
I uh I am fascinated by what Apple products do, how they do it, the invention process, the the whole way I would I would have loved, and I would never get this opportunity, it would never have, but I would have loved to be the guy to write Jobs biography.
I would have loved to be the to have the chance to just pick his brain and find out what it was about him because he wasn't very self-revealing, and I guess the most he revealed about himself was that Stanford commencement speech in 1985.
It didn't matter to me that Steve Jobs is a liberal.
It disappointed me for his sake, but that is not who he was to me.
Steve Jobs epitomized American exceptionalism.
His life epitomized it.
His philosophies epitomized American exceptionalism.
The fact that he was a liberal to me was one of the greatest contradictions.
But that is of no matter and no concern now.
This past Tuesday, they introduced the iPhone 4S.
And I told you that on Monday I felt like I was Christmas Eve.
And it was for me.
At age 60, I was able to feel like I did as a kid on Christmas Eve when I was eight or nine.
There hasn't been In the last ten years, an Apple product that has not created wonderment in me, that has not exceeded my expectations.
Using Apple products is genuine fun for me.
And at the same time, they have increased my productivity.
I know making this sound a lot about me, but it's the best way to explain all this to you.
But what Jobs did literally changed the way human beings receive, transmit, enjoy all media.
One guy did this.
A lot of a lot of great people around him.
One guy did it.
One guy's vision.
To me just mind boggling.
I'm sad that he's dead.
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Yeah, I remember the rant that we aired from Elizabeth Warren running for the Senate in Massachusetts, where she said, Hey, you're a successful CEO, you have a successful factory, successful company.
Hey, hey, you didn't do it on your own.
Nobody does it on their own.
You couldn't have done it without us with our roads and our bridges and our magical infrastructure.
You couldn't have done it.
Nobody does it on their own.
If there was one person who stands as an almost total contradiction to Elizabeth Warren's ignorant anti-capitalist rant.
It's Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs and his life proves just how wrong Elizabeth Warren and the people who think like her, including Obama, really are.
Steve Jobs' life contradicts their every belief about capitalism and capitalists.
You know, you um I laugh again.
Irony.
We have all of these idiot kids occupy Wall Street being paid for in part by George Soros Money.
Where'd he get it?
They are the victims of terrible educations.
Good Lord, think of what those four people have not been taught, and instead think of how they have been propagandized in the name of education.
And they're out there and they are occupying and protesting and demonstrating against capitalism free markets that has provided all of them with their iPhones and their iTunes and their iPads and whatever other devices that they're using.
The means of transportation to get where they go, all of these things the capitalist system provided.
They are protesting the very thing that makes it possible for them to do what they do, live and feed off of other people.
And Steve Jobs stands in a stark contrast.
Steve Jobs what he did with his life and his business is the greatest, and there are many others too.
He's not alone in this, but it just illustrates the entire concept of American exceptionalism.
Illustrates the truth And the wisdom of so much that we are all taught at one time in our lives.
Love what you do and it's not work.
Have passion for what you do.
Don't live somebody else's life.
Live your own.
What do you mean by that, Mr. Limbault?
What do you mean live someone else's life?
That simply means don't try to meet the expectations of others.
Who are they?
What are you always going to assume everybody knows more than you do?
Why do we always assume that everybody's smarter than we are?
Why do we always assume that we're inferior to everybody else and well, whatever they do is what we ought to do because they're better than we all do.
Don't live somebody else's life.
And don't listen to the people who failed at something.
All they're going to be is bitter.
I know Jobs is a liberal and it's contradictory, but I don't have to look past it in this sense, because that was never a factor for me in my total immersion immersion into Apple.
I really can't explain it to you.
Other than to say I give you an example.
iOS 5, it's called, is going to be released October 12th.
I can't wait.
I can't.
It's like I was when I was 10 years old and Christmas was five days away.
I can't wait.
And then a couple days after that, the new phone is going to be available.
I can't wait for that.
And I'm wondering how hard is it going to be for me to get one?
What am I going to?
Well, it's last time when the iPhone 4 came out, I spent all day trying to buy one at their online store, and it rejected my phone number.
They were having problems on their website.
I spent 18 hours.
Not straight, but I spent 18 hours of effort trying to just get a new iPhone 4.
There's nothing else.
There's no other inanimate object in life that I do that for.
And then there's going to be a new iPad coming next year, the iPad 3.
And it's supposedly going to be just over the I can't wait for that.
To me, that's Steve Jobs.
And everybody else at Apple.
The whole company fascinates me.
The whole company ought to be a textbook example for others.
I don't know where you go in Cuba to buy a phone made in Cuba.
I don't know that anybody would want one.
Or any other pure communist or socialist country.
Much less a car or anything else made in one of those countries.
Where's the Russian iPad?
I tell you, you have to admire Jobs for a whole lot of reasons.
But one of them, he obviously did not let his liberalism get in the way of his work.
How liberal could he have been to become this classic capitalist?
This classic salesman.
Because after all, what is it the end of every Apple project?
I'm not talking about what made it, what went into it, created it, that process.
What is the end result?
Separating people from their money.
No, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Jobs was following an idealistic faction.
He had a dream to make the best product for the best people.
That's exactly right.
But he didn't give them away, did he?
And his products were not the cheapest that you could find.
It wasn't until recently that he went mass Market.
He didn't care about market share with the Macintosh.
Cared about profit.
The Macintosh with a six to eight percent market share was a more profitable machine than any of the other PCs.
Like, and I don't know, I'm not the IBM's, the Dells, the gateways, whatever the other manufacturers are.
He was openly purposely in pursuit of profit.
He was a billionaire multi times over, but he said didn't care about that.
Well, I don't know how he couldn't have cared about it.
He had to care about it in order to do what he did.
I've read a lot of the obits they say is a great salesman.
Yep.
Yep.
What's the objective of a salesman?
Separate people from their money.
Now a lot of people that, well, that's that's awfully crass.
No, it's what makes the world go round.
He did it entirely legitimately.
He created things people craved.
He created things people had to have.
In part because of his own personality, his own uniqueness, but because of the products themselves.
People had to have them.
And they still can't get enough of them.
The iPad 2 was released.
They couldn't make them fast enough to meet the worldwide demand.
And I think the figure I saw was 200,000 a day that they were making.
Steve Jobs never let his liberalism get in the way of his work.
He was practically the epitome of a capitalist.
He risked everything to start and build a company.
He was fired by that company.
And then brought back.
And now Apple Inc.
is considered to be the most valuable share-for-share company on Wall Street.
Larger market cap than Microsoft, Exxon.
It makes money hand over fist.
And it does so by providing people things that are of the finest quality and workmanship.
Products that people think they have to have, much less crave and desire to have.
To me, folks, all of it is just fascinating.
It's just the epitome of excellence, the epitome of greatness.
And for whatever reason, all of that excellence and all of that greatness is said to have resided in one man.
Now we all know he couldn't all done this himself.
Thousands, 30,000 or 40,000 Apple employees, including the retail stores.
Jobs was hit with everything, everybody else.
What do you mean, Steve?
You can't sell your products in a retail store.
You don't have a wide enough variety.
Don't go retail, Steve.
You don't know anything about retail.
You can't even mess with it.
You've got a great model going here.
I mean, my point is that even Steve Jobs, after all of these countless years of over-the-top excess, had people telling him you'll fail if you do it.
Today there are 327 Apple stores, retail stores around the world.
And starting Thursday night, people are going to be lined up for blocks around a lot of them trying to get this new iPhone.
There are people that go into Apple stores like kids go into toy stores.
And I think that's...
One of the unspoken answers to what is considered the magic of Apple and the whole aura of the place.
It's tough to get into an Apple store on Saturday afternoon.
I've only been into one.
It was in Boston.
And uh because I don't shop.
I don't, I don't, I don't do retail, but I was walking, I said, there's got to be.
I just, it was on Boylston Street and staying at a hotel.
I said, there's got to be an Apple store nearby here.
This has to be.
So I got out my iPhone and went to MAPS.
Tell me the nearest Apple store.
It was two blocks away, three blocks away.
Took the Hoof Express, went down there, and there were, yep, three three blocks wasn't big.
And there, and there were people.
I will walk to an Apple store.
Yeah, that's my point.
I barely will walk to the bathroom, but I will walk to an Apple store.
Not only was Steve Jobs a capitalist, he was an entrepreneur.
I mean, it's about as dirty as it gets to a Wall Street protester.
And yet even they idolize him.
Except I should tell you, they've got a flag.
The Occupy Wall Street gang has a flag that they burn.
It looks like the American flag, but in the blue.
Rectangly upper left-hand corner, instead of stars, they have corporate logos, and they burn that flag.
And Apple is one of them.
As is MTV.
Figure that.
Now, Mr. Snerdley just said something to me, and he doesn't know how important the point he made to me is.
He said he is a little offended at the comparisons of Steve Jobs to Thomas Edison.
And that is absolutely correct.
I I think, but I'm going to turn it into a positive.
Thomas Edison invented things that did not exist.
There wasn't a light bulb to build on.
There wasn't a phonograph record to build on.
Steve Jobs got 200 patents to his name.
Steve Jobs built on already existing platforms.
We already had Walkman's.
Do you know?
I saw the other day.
Remember the Sony Walkman, the portable cassette player?
This has to have been a misprint.
There's a comparison of the number of iPods sold.
Compared to the Sony Walkman, and this article said only 300,000 Sony Walkman were sold.
Now I can't believe that.
And maybe there was a time frame that they did not include in the uh in the article.
It was millions versus 300,000.
Regardless, Walkman existed before the iPod.
There were computers before the Mac and the Apple, the Apple I, Apple II.
So Jobs as an inventor, a bit of a stretch.
But I don't think that's a takeaway.
He took existing platforms, built on them, personalized them, and left people in the dust.
Now, Thomas Edison had 1,093 patents.
Steve Jobs had 200.
This is not to take anything away from Steve Jobs, but because I think it's it's in its own sense, it's it's his own different kind of greatness.
Which still can't be done.
All right, quick timeout.
Um I'm gonna come back because I have monopolized this hour.
I'm gonna go straight to phone calls.
Change it up, straight to phone calls at the top of the next hour when that uh first segment starts.
Uh be right back here, folks.
Don't go away.
Stick with us.
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