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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 help regional forces remove from the battlefield, meaning capture or kill Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.
I wonder how the Wall Street crowd's going to react to this when they find out that Obama has sent troops to another war.
Mr. Lembois, Tuth 100 peacekeepers, the Tuth 100.
Yep, yep, yep, that's how Libya started.
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 of the Congo with the permit.
Was 100 people going to 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 will 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, U.S. troops will be in Africa for a few months in an advisory role.
100 troops.
100 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, Dawn?
How about you, Brian?
Snurdley, 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 the lingo means.
To help regional forces remove from the battlefield, meaning capture or kill.
So that's a new war, 100 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, but it wasn't just Obama that supported that.
It was our bunch of 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?
1,000 soldiers?
Now, 1,100 soldiers, because we have sent 100.
I'm not making this up.
This is Jacob Tapper.
ABC News reported that Obama got a letter off to John Boehner a couple days ago announcing this.
It's just for a few months until the Lord's Resistance Army is eradicated.
That's all.
Just a few months.
Not much of a threat.
By the way, folks, the White House is denying that there were ever any plans for Obama to apologize to the Japanese for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The 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, that Obama never was going to apologize.
They claimed that the idea never came from the regime.
And if you read the cable, I've got the cable here, and that does seem like this is possible.
According to Fox, what is that?
Oh, oh, yeah.
Oh, do you know what happened here?
The South Korean high-up.
Is he the prime minister or something?
The South Korea, I just, he's in Detroit wearing a Detroit Tigers cap, but it didn't, it didn't look right.
I didn't know who it was.
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.
I've got to find it.
Yes, he fed the guy Japanese.
He fed the South Korean high-up Japanese food.
I just read that during a commercial break.
I just went in and out.
I didn't spin a.
No, was there a state dinner?
Well, I think, yeah, then that's where he served the Japanese food at a state dinner.
Served Japanese food.
It served Japanese food to the Korean guy.
There he is, wearing his Detroit Tigers hat.
You first glimpse it.
I said, what is this?
Some union guy?
And then President Obama and South Korean president toured a regime auto plant today.
General Motors Auto Plant.
Yeah, I'm going to find this.
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 South Korean president Japanese food.
At any rate, the WikiLeaks cable at WikiLeaks leaked does read in such a way that it was not Obama who was going to apologize.
One of the Japanese ambassadors, Yubanaka, said the Japanese public will have high expectations.
This is a cable I'm reading that'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 nonproliferation.
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 some wacko environmental groups were wanting that to happen.
And the official cable here was saying, no, no, no, no, that just simply isn't 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, the 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 happened is his lowest point in two years.
Let me see now.
Two years ago, was this?
Oh, yeah.
Obama's immaculation was.
That's the cheap thrill of Obama's emaculation wearing off when people realized they hadn't just been voting for American Idol.
Okay, quick timeout, 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 president Japanese food, and I just walked right by it.
Something I can't even remember where I read it, but the source was also something that I questioned.
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.
Wagyu 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.
Saying 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 a South Korean guy, Wagyu 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 Moochell's garden.
Yeah.
Do you know what makes Kobe beef Kobe beef, snurdly?
I mean, you don't eat beef, so you probably are not up to speed on what makes Kobe beef Kobe.
No, no, no.
That's veal.
Kobe, the cattle, the steers, are massaged.
They are fed, they're fattened up with, they're fed tremendous quality food, but they are massaged and treated like royalty before they are slaughtered.
And the short version here is, 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.
There's far more to it than that.
And it's highly expensive.
It can cost in restaurants 200 bucks a pound.
Very expensive.
And that was a couple years ago.
There was a great steakhouse in New York that ended up closing.
It was a Jeff Chottero place.
They closed it when the Obama recession set in call a Kobe Club.
There was one down in South Beach as well.
And it was just one of the best steakhouses I have ever been to.
The varieties of beef that you could order.
And it had 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 Wagyu.
It didn't even compare to it.
The American Wagyu is good.
Allen Brothers sells it.
They also sell Wagyu ground beef, which is our version of Kobe Ground Beef.
And it is different.
It's fabulous, but it's ridiculously expensive.
And it's not the kind of stuff that's going to survive during a huge economic turndown.
So anyway, long way around of saying it's a real stretch to say Obama served a guy Japanese food because he didn't.
Here's Mike in Youngsville, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, this is Mike.
How you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Let me just say thank you so much for just your dedication and just teaching the principles and the truths of current events today.
And I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I sincerely appreciate it.
Yeah, I wanted to talk to you.
I told Snerley, I want to get to my point quickly, but just a difference between the tea party and the Occupation Wall Street crowd.
And that is that, you know, I'm going to be 60 years old this year, just in a few weeks.
No, not, Paul.
You don't sound that old.
Yeah, I'm going to be 60.
And I've got four children, 32, 30, 29, and 27.
I just thank God for this country.
I thank God for all the military people that are listening right now, serving our country presently and in the past.
My parents, both my mom and dad, served in World War II.
They met on a blind date.
My dad passed away in 2003.
They would have been married 65 years this year.
That's something I can't even imagine.
Yeah, and Rush, you know what?
I went to a tea party rally in Raleigh last year.
And the clientele of people that were there were older.
You know, I was 59 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 generation people that had served.
They were polite.
They were kind.
They were orderly.
They were clean.
I mean, you could, we left the Capitol, and you could have eaten off the ground.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
And, you know, Rush, I grew up, I was privileged, and my parents sent me to a parochial school.
And, you know, this ADD that they talk about, you know, people say ADD, ADD, everybody, ADHD, whatever.
Yeah.
You know what I call that?
ADD?
Being a kid.
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.
Rush, I grew up, I went to high school when you did.
I had to wear a suit coat and tie at a public school and have my hair cropped so it didn't go over the collar and didn't go over the years.
And these kids today, I've seen it for 30 years since I've started having children of my own.
And my wife and I would take our kids out to public restaurants and public places.
And we made our children obey.
We made them.
Well, that's the old days.
Now parents want to be friends.
Yeah, they want to be their friends.
They want to be their friends.
And this is the result of it.
We have these kids that they think they're entitled to everything.
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 it just reminds me.
I knew there was going to be a payback.
And this is it.
This is the payback.
You knew there was going to be a payback.
This is it.
We're seeing it.
Well, there is a lot of spoiled bratness.
Yes.
Exactly.
How do you feel about the news?
I want to go back.
Your extensive military background.
How do you react to the knowledge, to the news that Obama has dispatched 100 soldiers to fight radical Christians in Africa?
That's amazing.
I can't believe he's doing that.
And, you know, Rush, our parents, my mom and dad both served in World War II.
I forget how many million soldiers that we sent overseas.
And we lost 450,000 lives in 44 months.
And they came back.
They didn't complain.
They went.
They served their country.
We kept our freedom.
We freed all those people that were in those camps of many nationalities.
There's no question that times are different.
And child rearing has changed.
Not everywhere, though.
Anyway, Mike, 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 1,000 soldiers in the Lord's Resistance Army.
Uganda trying to wipe them out, and we're sending 100 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.
I'm trying to work right now, so I'm sorry, but I'm going to 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.
When I 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, we protest at the ballot box.
I agree.
That's where we protest.
And when we succeed, when we vote for Republican majority, guess what?
News media people like the late Peter Jennings people had a temper tantrum today when we throw Democrats out of power.
Let me tell you about Obama, too.
He's looking towards this civil defense force.
I've been in the military, spent the first six years active duty in Marine Corps, small Yahiti, Sierra Leone.
Then I've been in the National Guard, been in 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 pertaining to how we have to treat homosexuals in the military.
Now, I'll probably get in trouble for talking to you about this.
But 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 talks into a volunteer army.
We're not going to have enough people volunteering once they realize what's going on.
Moms and dads are going to send their kids.
Well, who would that not bother?
You know who it wouldn't bother.
The Civil Defense Force.
Now you've got Occupy Wall Street.
You're going to look at stuff like Kent State.
The military is 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, my point is that'd 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.
Not when you're trying to reorder and transform a society.
So you have to go out there and talk about it and 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.
This whole thing is a very unfortunate sham.
I mentioned earlier in the program today at 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 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 advertise.
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 fool you into working for them.
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, a 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 going to go back, corporations a particular threat to truth, a 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 the one thing that they are constantly stranger to is the truth.
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.
It'll 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 the point here is, 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: 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 mind-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 time out.
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 come.
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.
It isn't going to happen.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, here's the end of Toronto's peace.
The efforts to sell Stimulus Jr. 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 20 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 going to do, of course, our due diligence research on it.
But nevertheless, we've got 100 troops being sent over there to fight these guys.
And they claim to be Christians.
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