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Oct. 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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I know, I know.
It's Friday.
It's Friday, folks.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
President Obama has deployed troops to another war in Africa, ladies and gentlemen.
Jacob Tapper.
ABC News is reporting that Obama has sent 100 U.S. troops to Uganda to help combat Lord's Resistance Army.
Two days ago, Jake Tapper reporting today, two days ago, President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat equipped U.S. forces to uh to help regional forces remove from the battlefield, meaning capture or kill Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Coney and senior leaders of the LRA.
The uh for I wonder how the Wall Street crowds gonna react to this when they find out that Obama has sent troops to another war.
Mr. Limbaugh, just 100 peacekeepers, the 100.
Yep, yep, yep, that's how Libya started.
Uh and by the way, there's no end in sight for Libya.
The forces will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democrat Republic and the Congo with the permit a hundred people gonna go to all those places.
The president made the announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner this afternoon saying that deploying these U.S. armed forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy, and it'll be a significant contribution toward counter LRA efforts in Central Africa.
LRA is Lord's Resistance Army.
And it doesn't mean God's resistance army.
Lord is some lord, some guy.
Defense department official tells ABC's Luis Martinez at the Pentagon the U.S. troops will be in Africa for a few months in an advisory role.
One hundred troops.
In an advisory role.
So nothing to worry about here, folks.
Only going to be for a few months.
Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat Lord's Resistance Army.
And here we are at war with them.
Have you ever heard of Lord's Resistance Army, Don?
How about you, Brian?
Snerdley, have you?
You never heard of Lord's Resistance Army.
Well, proves my contention.
Most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them.
Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.
It means God.
I was only kidding.
Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.
They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan.
And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them.
That's what Dolingo means.
To help regional forces remove from the battlefield, meaning capture or kill.
So that's a new war.
A hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda.
No, no, I'm not kidding.
Jacob Tapper just reported it.
Now are we going to help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians?
Wouldn't you say that we are?
I mean, the Coptic Christians are being wiped out, and but it wasn't just Obama that supported that.
It was our bunch of the conservative intelligentsia thought it was an outbreak of democracy.
Now they've done a 180 on that, but they forgot they supported it in the first place.
Now they're criticizing it.
Lord's resistance army objectives.
I have them here.
To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people.
Now, again, Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama has sent troops to help nations wipe out.
The objectives of the Lord's resistance army, what they're trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following.
To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people, to fight for the immediate restoration of competitive multi-party democracy in Uganda, to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans, to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda,
to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology.
Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.
The government of Uganda claims that Lord's Resistance Army only has 500 or 1,000 soldiers in total.
So what's the threat?
If that's the maximum size of their army, what's the threat?
A thousand soldiers?
Now 1,100 soldiers, because we have said a hundred.
I'm not making this up.
This is Jacob Tapper.
ABC News had reported that Obama got a letter off to John Boehner a couple days ago announcing this.
It's just for a few months until Lord's, the Lord's resistance army is uh eradicated.
That's all.
Just a few months.
Not much of a not much of a threat.
By the way, folks, the White House is uh denying that there were ever any plans for Obama to apologize to the Japanese for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The uh regime claiming now that the WikiLeaks cable has been misread.
The regime says it was anti-nuclear groups who were speculating that Obama might apologize, and Obama never was going to apologize.
They claimed that the idea never came from the uh regime.
And if you read the cable, I've got the cable here, and it that does seem like this is uh possible, according to Fox.
What is that?
Oh, oh, oh yeah.
Oh, do you know what happened here?
The South Korean high up.
Is he the prime minister or some Korean?
I just he's in Detroit wearing a Detroit Tigers cap, but I it didn't it didn't look right.
I didn't know who it was.
Then it then it finally hit me when I saw a graphic, but here's what I just read.
Obama fed the guy Japanese food.
No, I'm not telling you, gotta find it.
Yes, he fed the guy Japanese.
He fed the South Korean high up Japanese food.
I just I just read that during a commercial break.
I just it just went in and out.
I didn't spend a no, I was there a state dinner.
Well, I think that yeah, then that's where he served the Japanese food as a state dinner, served Japanese food.
Serve Japanese food to the Korean guy state.
There he is, where it is Detroit Tigers hat.
You first glimpse it, I said, what is this?
Some union guy?
What's uh and then President Obama and South Korean president toured a uh regime auto plant today.
General Motors Auto Plant.
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna find this.
Uh now I don't remember where I read it.
It just one of these things.
I glanced at it, hardly maybe halfway even believed it.
Obama served the Korean South Korean president Japanese food.
At any rate, the WikiLeaks cable the cable at WikiLeaks Leak does read in such a way that it was not Obama who was going to apologize.
One of the Japanese ambassadors uh Yubanaka said uh the Japanese public will have high expectations.
This is a cable I'm reading.
It's leaked toward President Obama's visit to Japan in November, this 2009.
As the president enjoys an historic level of popularity among the Japanese people, anti-nuclear groups in particular will speculate whether the president would visit Hiroshima in light of his April 5 Prague speech on non-proliferation.
He underscored, however, that both governments must temper the public's expectations on such issues, and the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a non-starter.
So it does read as though it wasn't Obama's idea that there's some some wacko environmental groups were wanting that to happen, and the official cable here was no no no.
That uh it just simply isn't uh going to happen.
Consumer confidence, Rasmussen Consumer Index measuring the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis dipped five points today to 58.1, which is the lowest level measured since March 11th of 2009.
Consumer, that's the consumer confidence lowest level in two years.
It's down seven points from a week ago and a month ago.
Now what happened over two years ago?
What wasn't happening is this lowest point in two years.
Let me see now, when two years ago was uh Oh yeah.
Obama's immaculation was that's that's that's the yeah.
The cheap thrill of Obama's immaculation wearing off.
When people realize they hadn't just been voting for American Idol.
Okay, quick time out, my friends.
More of your phone calls as open line Friday kicks going back after this.
See, my instincts never fail me.
Always listen to your invisible voice.
The voice in your head.
Always listen to your heart.
Your heart will never lie to you.
And I read that story that Obama served the South Korean present Japanese food, and I just walked right by it.
There's something I can't even remember where I read it, but the source was also something that I questioned.
It was some, I don't even remember what it was.
I'm just telling you, I wasn't even going to mention it.
Because it seemed bogus.
And so I finally see the South Korean guy up there, and I'm reminded what he was served was Texas wagyu beef.
Now that's a stretch to say that they served Japanese food to the South Korean guy.
Wag you beef is the American version of Kobe.
And Kobe beef is sort of like champagne.
You can't call sparkling wine made in California champagne.
Champagne can only come from France.
So they think Kobe beef can only come from Japan.
If you want to do your own version of Kobe, you've got to call it something else.
So we call it Wagyu.
So we served at the White House State Dinner last night for South Korean guy, WAGU Texas, Texas Wagyu beef.
Now, it is a copycat of Japanese Kobe.
But it wasn't Kobe.
It wasn't from Japan.
So the guy wasn't.
In fact, they're also putting out the word that the vegetables and stuff came from Muchell's garden.
Yeah.
Do you know you know what makes Kobe beef Kobe beef snurdly?
You don't eat beef so you probably are not up to speed on what makes Kobe beef Kobe.
No, no, no, no, no.
Kobe, the uh the the cattle, the steers are massaged.
They are fed, they're fattened up with uh they're fed tremendous quality food, but they are massaged and treated like royalty before they are slaughtered.
And uh short version here is that Kobe beef is ostensibly the most flavorful and tender you can get.
Because the steers have been massaged and all that sort of stuff.
But that's what and it's highly expensive.
It is it can cost in restaurants two hundred bucks a pound.
Very expensive.
And that was uh there was a great steakhouse in New York that ended up closing.
It was a Jeff Chadaro place.
They closed it the uh when the Obama recession set in call a Kobe Club.
There was one down in South Beach uh as well.
And it was just one of the best steakhouses I have ever been in, the varieties of beef that you could order, and genuine Kobe and they had Australian wagyu and American wagyu, and you could buy samples of each and taste them side by side.
And nothing compared to Kobe, even the American wagon didn't even compare to it.
American waggy is good.
Uh Allen Brothers sells it.
Uh they also sell uh Wagyu uh ground beef, which is our version of Kobe ground beef, and it is different.
It's it's it's it's fabulous, but it's ridiculously expensive.
And it's it's not the kind of stuff that's gonna survive during a huge uh economic uh turn down.
So anyway, long way around of saying it's a real stretch to say Obama served a guy Japanese food.
Because he he didn't.
Here's Mike in Youngsville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, this is Mike, how are you doing?
Uh very well, sir.
Thank you.
Let me just uh say thank you so much for uh just uh your dedication and um just teaching uh the principles and the truths of current events today, and I'm a longtime listener, first time caller.
Thank you, sir very much.
I sincerely appreciate it.
Yeah, I wanted uh talk to you, I told Son early, I want to get to my point quickly, but just the difference between uh the n um the tea party and um the occupation wall street crowd, and that is that you know I'm gonna be sixty years old this year, n just in a few weeks.
No, k ye not you don't sound that old.
Yeah, I'm gonna be sixty and uh I've got four children, uh thirty-two, thirty, uh twenty-nine and twenty-seven.
Um I just thank uh God for this country.
I thank God for all the military people that are listening right now serving our country and uh presently and in the past.
My parents, both my mom and dad served in World War II.
Uh they met on a blind date.
Uh my dad passed away in two thousand three.
They would have been married sixty-five years uh this year.
Well, uh that's something I can't even imagine.
Yeah.
And uh Rush, you know what?
I uh went to a tea party rally in Raleigh uh last year.
And uh the clientele of people that were there uh were uh older.
You know, I I I was uh you know, fifty-nine at the time, and there were a lot of people my age, there were a lot of people right up until that World War II uh generation, people that had served.
Uh they were polite, they were kind, uh they were orderly, they were clean.
I mean, you you could uh we we left uh uh the Capitol and um you could have eaten off the ground.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
And you know, Rush, I I grew up uh I was privileged and my parents sent me to a parochial school, and uh you know, this ADD that they talk about, you know, people say A D D, A D D, everybody A D H D, whatever.
Yeah.
You know what I call that?
A D D being a kid.
Uh yeah.
Absence of discipline disorder.
Well, that's what it is.
I like it.
I had it.
I had it when I was young.
But the nuns beat it out of me in about two weeks, along with all the other kids that were unruly in the class.
And we were taught to be obedient.
We were taught to respect our elders.
You know, I I w Rush, I grew up in I went to h high school when you did.
I had to wear a suit coat and tie and ki at a public school and have my hair cropped, you know, so it didn't go over the collar and didn't go over the years.
And these kids today, I've seen it for thirty years since I've started having children of my own, and my wife and I would take our kids out to public restaurants and and uh and public places, and we made our children obey.
We made them.
You know, they knew that.
Well, you know, that's that's that's the old days.
I mean, th th now parents really be friends with Yeah, they want to be their friends.
They want to be their friends.
And this is the result of it.
We have this these kids that they they think they're entitled to everything.
You know?
And and we've seen it for 30 years.
To this day, you go into any shopping center or store or restaurant, and these young children are so unruly, they're crying, they're screaming, and and it just reminds me.
I knew there was going to be a payback, and and this is it.
This is the payback.
You knew there was gonna this is it.
We're seeing it.
Well there is a lot of spoiled bratness.
Yes, uh question.
How do you feel about the news?
I want to go back.
You you you're you your extensive military uh background.
How do you react to the knowledge to the to the news that uh Obama has dispatched a hundred soldiers to fight radical Christians in Africa?
That's that's that's amazing.
That that, you know, I can't I can't believe he's doing that.
And you know You can't you know Rush, our parents, my mom and dad both serve in World War II.
I forget how many million soldiers that we sent overseas, and we lost four hundred and fifty thousand lives in forty-four months.
You know, and uh they came back, they didn't complain, they they went, they ob you know, they served their country, you know.
We we uh we kept our freedom.
We we we freed uh all those people that were in those uh camps uh of of m many nationalities.
I know there's no question that times uh times are different, and child rearing has uh is it it has changed.
Not everywhere, though.
Anyway, Mike, uh I'm grateful you're in the audience.
I'm glad you called.
Thanks very much.
On sending the soldiers to fight the Christians in Africa, here is how Obama ends his letter to John Boehner, justifying sending troops to Uganda.
I have directed this deployment, which is in the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States, pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations, and as commander in chief and chief executive.
Would somebody explain to me what you think our national security interests are in Uganda?
Now keep in mind, folks, this is the same Barack Obama who said that we had no national security interests in attacking Iraq.
After they were shooting at our planes and trying to kill our president, and Allah knows what else.
Obama said, We got no national security interests in Iran, they don't threaten us.
What do we do?
We've got 500 to a thousand soldiers in the Lord's resistance army, Uganda trying to wipe them out, and we're sending a hundred soldiers to help them.
Vital national interests are at stake, according to Obama.
Here's Ralph in Youngstown, Ohio.
Hi, Ralph, great to have you on open line Friday.
Uh I'm trying to work right now, so I'm I'm sorry, but I'm gonna try to rush here.
My question for you is this when do I get to get pissed off?
Me and many other Americans are out here so busy rowing the boat that we don't have a chance to rock it, occupy Wall Street, row the damn boat.
You know, we're busting our butt out here.
I've been working since I was 12.
Let me tell you something.
You and a gazillion other Americans are asking the same question.
You're asking, and it's a legitimate question.
At what point here you are, you're paying taxes, you're going to work every day if you're lucky enough to have a job, and you have to sit around and listen to the media talk about how worthwhile and valiant these protesters are, these spoiled kids.
and so forth.
I've got to take my two-hour lunch.
I'm driving home.
I'm seeing all these unemployed people playing with their kids or not playing with them.
Their kids are out in the yard, and they're just messing around.
I don't get to spend that kind of time with my family because I'm trying to make this American machine roll because I believe in being a productive, godly citizen.
You know, the symptoms that we see today are the cause of a godless, unproductive society, and it's frustrating.
I know.
Well, um, we protest at the ballot box.
I agree.
That's where we protest.
And when we and when we succeed, when we when we vote for Republican majority, guess what?
News media people like the late Peter Jennings had a people had a temper tantrum today.
When we uh throw Democrats out of power.
Let me tell you about Obama, too, with he's looking towards the civil defense force.
I've been in the military, spent the first six years active duty, Marine Corps, small you Haiti, Sierra Leone.
Then I've been in National Guard, been Iraq and other places.
We're going for a civil defense force.
This Occupy Wall Street.
We're talking about this don't ask, don't tell.
You should see the policies that I'm having to read to my soldiers.
Pertain into how we have to treat homosexuals in the military.
Now I'll probably get in trouble for talking to you about this.
Well, my guys, we get a shower hour rush.
That means all my guys got to go through showers at a certain time because we can only run water for moments a day.
I'm not allowed to segregate homosexuals from straight men.
You know what?
This just talks into a volunteer army.
We're not going to have enough people volunteering once they realize what's going on.
Moms and dads aren't going to send their kids.
Well, who would that not bother?
You know who the civil defense force.
Now you got Occupy Wall Street.
You're going to look at stuff like Kent State.
The military's going to look like this mad mental machine, and he's going to get his will.
He's going to push his policies through.
He's making us look like idiots.
Yeah, I'm just, well, but my point is that be perfect for Obama.
Then he could institute the draft if the volunteers, if there's not enough people volunteering for the Army for whatever reason, then he would be at a crossroads.
Because he would love to defund the Army, but he's got to put up the appearance otherwise.
You know, all of this talk about wanting to create jobs.
Do you realize how funny that is?
He doesn't want to create jobs.
That goes against everything Alinsky talked about.
It goes every not when you're trying to reorder and transform a society.
So you have to go out there and talk about it and you wave around your jobs, Bill, but you don't really care about creating jobs.
In fact, your objective is to do just the opposite.
The only jobs you care about are union jobs in government, primarily.
Those are the jobs you care about.
You want to hold on to those and even increase their number.
But private sector jobs, you're really not interested in those.
And the policies that have been implemented are evidence of that.
But he couldn't stand a prayer of getting re-elected if that's what he said he was doing.
So he has to go through the motions here of acting like he cares about all this stuff.
When he really doesn't.
The whole thing is a very unfortunate sham.
I mentioned earlier in the program today, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame.
Notre Dame, the revered, veneered Notre Dame University.
Has a philosophy professor by the name of Gary Gutting.
And what he's teaching students in his class is how evil and rotten corporations are.
James Taranto.
Best of the web today is his blog at the Wall Street Journal.
And it is one of the best blogs out there.
Taranto is brilliant and funny.
And his uh his lead piece yesterday was The Truth About Advertising.
I've been fascinated by advertising as a cultural thing my whole life because advertising will tell you where a culture is.
Advertising will tell you what a culture is.
Because the people who advertise are trying to sell things, and they have to reach the people and convince them however, and they have to find ways to relate to them.
And the professionals that do this, in large part, have to make quick judgments about the culture, where it is societally in other ways.
And it's always a tell.
You can always watch advertising, you'll get a good indication of where we are as a culture.
So here's Taranto.
This piece is actually brilliant.
They call themselves Krugman's Army, as in Paul Krugman, but they're really just college know-it-all hippies.
See, the corporations are trying to turn you into little Eichmans so that they can make money.
The corporations run the entire world, and now they've fooled you into working for them.
We spent we spent our first semester in college.
The professors opened our eyes.
The government's using its corporate ties to make you sell magazines so they can get rich.
Or as former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman himself puts it, these people are destroying the world, meaning corporations.
The New York Times Company, the corporation that employs Krugman to help sell newspapers, has invited one of those eye-opening professors to expound on the ideas that animate the college know-it-all hippies.
His name is Gary Gutting.
He teaches philosophy at Notre Dame, and he makes the following claim.
Corporations are a particular threat to truth, the value essential in a democracy, which places a premium on the informed decisions of individual citizens.
The corporate threat is most apparent in advertising, which explicitly aims at convincing us to prefer a product regardless of its actual merit.
Professor Gutting goes on to argue that it is even more insidious for corporations to try to influence debates over public policy, apparently oblivious to the irony that under the aegis of the New York Times Company, he's doing just that.
By writing a column in the New York Times which sells advertising and which itself tries to convince people it's the best newspaper.
This guy writes a piece on how everybody involved in that is a fraud.
And yet he needs them to get his message out.
But this notion, I'm gonna go back, corporations are particular threat to truth, the value essential in a democracy which places a premium on the informed decisions of individual citizens.
I would submit to you that college professors are a particular threat to truth, a value essential in a democracy, which places a premium on the informed decisions of individual citizens, because college professors are not, in many cases, producing informed citizens.
I give you the Wall Street protests as an example.
A lot of them are college students, and they're dumb.
They are stupid.
They're robots.
They're being programmed.
The last thing they know how to do is think.
And they're being taught that by people like this guy, who's out trying to inculcate in them the notion that corporations are evil.
Corporations destroy democracy, corporations destroy truth.
It is at best an overgeneralization to say that advertising aims at convincing us to prefer a product regardless of its merit.
It's ludicrous to say, as gutting does, that it explicitly does so.
To see why consider a familiar slogan of a well-known media company, all the news that's fit to print.
A gutting style slogan, by contrast, would be something along the lines of biased and poorly written, subscribe today.
But Gutting's throwaway line about advertising is what got our attention, for it reveals more than we suspect he realizes.
For one thing, it reveals that he's fallen short of the assignment the Times has given him, which is to apply critical thinking.
A moment of critical thinking applied to his description of advertising shows it to be nonsense.
In reality, advertising seeks to persuade consumers of a product's merits.
Often, as in the case of all the news that's fit to print, these merits are intangible.
Status, image, reputation.
Although Gutting, the professor isn't clear on this point, we gather he means to draw a distinction between such intangibles and actual merits, which can be quantified or at least described in concrete qualitative terms.
Now, the ultimate irony here is, despite it all, I'm jumping forward in the piece here, and I'm going to lose some context for just a second.
Despite it all, the Republicans have a solid chance of winning the White House next year.
Obviously, they're counting on the collective attention deficit disorder of the American voter who will naturally forget about how the Senate Republicans filibustered the American Jobs Act.
To put it more concisely, Democrats were counting on the voters to be stupid enough to clamor for stimulus too because the Democrats had named it the Americans Jobs Act.
So here's what the point here is they've got this professor from Notre Dame writing about the evils of advertising because it lies to people, convinces them to buy Things they don't need and lies to them about the merits of a particular product or service.
Jump forward to the Democrat Party, which has named a tax and spending bill, the Americans Jobs Act, as false advertising.
Is exactly what it is.
Something this guy ought to be railing against.
If he were honest in teaching his students about false advertising, he'd be citing that.
But their plan may be undone because the voters are even more stupid and will have forgotten all this a year from now.
This is what the Democrats always count on is you forgetting their transgressions.
And what they never count on, and what they always misjudge is the intelligence and the informed status of a majority of the American people.
See, the Democrat Party lives in the world where everybody is like the Wall Street crowd.
And you can't blame them.
They used to have a news monopoly, and it was much easier to create my numbed robots than it is today.
But now there's the evil Fox News.
There is Rush Limbaugh.
There's an entire alternative media, which has destroyed that monopoly, but they act as though the monopoly still exists, even though they know it doesn't, and it frustrates them.
Quick timeout.
Back with more after this.
I wonder when the Nobel Committee is going to call Obama and ask for the peace prize back.
You think this is what they had in mind when he got the peace prize?
Remember, he got that prize on the cum.
He hadn't done anything for peace.
And since then, how many wars are we in now?
Five.
And he hasn't gotten us out of any of these wars.
I know I isn't gonna happen.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, here's the end of Taranto's piece.
The efforts to sell stimulus junior and global warming have been ineffective precisely because the public is smart enough to see through the deceptions.
They are when the public is told the truth, they get it.
They get it.
Now the New York Times, back to them.
The New York Times is rebalancing their workforce.
Do you know what that means?
They are buying out employees.
They are going to cut twenty jobs.
You know why?
Their advertising rates are going through the floor.
The New York Times is cutting its workforce even as we speak because their advertising rates are plummeting.
Is that right?
The Lord's Resistance Army is being accused of really bad stuff.
Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff.
Well, we'll find we just found out about this today, and we're gonna do, of course, our due diligence uh research on it.
Uh but nevertheless, we got a hundred troops being sent over there to fight these guys.
And they uh claim to be uh Christians.
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