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Oct. 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 20, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi.
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Rush Limboy.
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But half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
You know who's really looking bad today is Qaddafi's female bodyguard.
In fact, there are a bunch of them.
Female bodyguard team.
And do you know that they wore high heel Sanders sandals?
Qaddafi had an all-female bodyguard team.
They're not looking good today.
Anyway, welcome back.
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Uh L Rushbow at uh what?
EIB Net.
What L Rushbow at EIBNet.com is the uh email uh address as the staff continues to interrupt me uh as I open the third and final hour of the busy broadcast today.
Marco Rubio on Fox this afternoon said that the French and the British deserve credit for leading on the fight that resulted in the death of Moamer Qaddafi.
He said, Well, first of all, today's not a day to be pointing fingers.
I'm glad it's all working out.
Ultimately, it's about the freedom and liberty of the Libyan people.
But let's give credit where credit's due.
It's the French and the British that uh that led on this fight, probably even led on the strike that led to his capture or to his death, Rubio said today.
Rubio said that um Barry Obama did the right thing by bringing the U.S. into the multinational intervention effort in Libya, but he just took too long to do it.
Just took too long to do it.
By the way, Senator Dick Turban is circling the wagons around plugs Biden.
Durbin was on MSNBC this afternoon, and they were discussing Biden's remarks uh about Republicans not passing the jobs bill, leading to an increase in rapes and murders.
You know, where is Biden saying this stuff?
He's saying like Flint, Michigan.
Who's running Flint, Michigan for decades?
Democrats.
Everywhere Biden is going and making this claim.
Everywhere he's going, and Democrats have run the show for um who knows how long.
Obama's not late.
He was right on time, right when the show started.
There's no way he was gonna start at two o'clock.
A, he's never on time.
B, he walked out as soon as the show opened began for this hour.
There's no mistaking.
There's no coincidences in politics.
Everybody knows what's going on.
We're rolling tape, we're not gonna gyp this.
Uh in fact, the president has just said something profound.
He said, today we can say the Qaddafi regime is ended.
A profound statement from the president of the did you know that?
We we can say the Qaddafi regime has ended.
Anyway, here's Durban talking with Andrea Mitchell.
And she said that Joe Biden's being roundly criticized by Republicans for having suggested that the failure to pass the jobs bill could lead to rape and murder, that there's been more crime because of police and other security officials being laid off.
Is that the kind of language we should expect to hear more of from the vice president?
Let me tell you what the vice president said and make the record clear.
When we have fewer cops on the beat, we have more crime on the street.
That's a fact, and the numbers back it up.
We have an amendment for the Senate to vote on today that's part of President Obama's jobs package that will make sure that we save the jobs of thousands of cops and firefighters and teachers across America by imposing a one-half of one percent tax on millionaires.
I think it's far better for America to have safer streets for our homes to be protected and for these teachers to remain in the Classroom.
The crime rate that the vice president referred to is a matter of fact.
This is unbelievable.
It's just unbelievable, and it is it is entertaining as it can be.
By the way, just just so you know, John McCain is being reported by the New York Times as giving Obama direct credit for the death of Qaddafi.
McCain says the credit should all go to Obama.
That's why McCain's not president.
Things like that.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Trying to gain the favor of the media.
I mean, that's pure and simple butt kissing.
And whose butt is being kissed here.
Why does McCain think he's got to kiss anybody's butt?
And whose butt is he kissing with that comment?
Obama's?
Obama doesn't have a butt.
Compared to his wife, he really didn't have a butt.
Have you I'm well, there's these things I noticed.
By the way, good news for you, Social Security recipients.
In fact, I've we all go through life wondering what it would be like if we were different.
I would love to know what it's like not to have a butt.
That'll never be the case.
Never will.
Back on track here.
Social Security recipients.
Good news for a couple of seconds.
Then I have to blow it wide open for you.
This is from USA Today for the first time since 2009.
American retirees, seasoned citizens, will receive an increase in their social security benefits of uh what is it, 3.6%?
Yes.
Social Security recipients to get 3.6% more.
But even before it appears in their January benefit check, it could be wiped out by an increase in Medicare premiums.
Because Obamacare is going to come through here and lower.
Oh no, wait, that's not that's not happening, sorry.
The cost of living adjustment of the COLA will be an increase of 3.6% for Social Security recipients.
It'll affect about 55 million recipients and another 8 million Americans who received supplemental security income.
Compared with previous increases, it's fairly moderate.
Uh says a research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
The last cost of living adjustment, January 2009 was an uncommonly large 5.8%.
Earlier increases uh 2.3 to 4.1%.
But the increase may lose some of its luster because retirees may not see a lot of it, if any of it.
Because the Medicare premiums they pay also will increase by about the same amount of money.
So it's a wash.
It's a net zero.
From the politico, the death of health reforms long-term care insurance program was so unceremonious that its supporters got about 30 minutes' notice of the funeral.
Last Friday afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report that said there was no viable path forward to implementing the now infamous Class Act.
A major, if little advertised piece of the administration's signature affordable care act.
The news was a slap in the face to class advocates who knew that a report was imminent, but they didn't suspect it'd be a death certificate.
Representative Frank Pallone, a Democrat from New Jersey, champion of the Class Act said, I don't know what happened.
I didn't find out until a half an hour before it came out.
I don't know what happened.
Obama Pelosi Reed lied.
That's what happened.
Before it's all said and done, nothing that they said about the Obamacare bill is going to turn out to be true.
Plain and simple.
And by the way, grab audio sum by number 46.
I may have spoken too soon, Snerdley, when I said that I Wasn't blamed for McNabb being benched in Minnesota.
Last night on ESPN Sports Center, here is the anchor Stuart Scott.
It's never really been about football for Donovan McNabb.
He was booed by his hometown fans the day he was drafted.
He was the focal point of a Rush Limbaugh controversy that he had absolutely nothing to do with.
His perceived or real feud with Terrell Owens stole headlines for a while.
Is he or is he not a Hall of Famer?
Maybe one of sports burning questions.
Will we ever see him start again is now another.
Well, uh, never really been about football for Donovan McNabb.
Now, Brian, you're a sports fan.
Let me ask you, this is the way my brain works.
If it's never really been about football for Donovan McNabb, then what is all the talk about the Hall of Fame?
It's never been about football.
It's never really been about football for Donovan McNabb.
And some of the things that these sports anchors come up with.
Mind boggling.
Okay, brief timeout.
Sit tight, folks.
Your phone calls and more debate sound bites are is Obama already finished.
He's been finished five minutes ago.
Is this a quickie spike of the ball?
Wow.
Okay, cool.
Okay, cool.
I am holding here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A uh uh a piece here from the uh uh NRA National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action website, FBI statistics show a decline in the U.S. crime rate.
With gun ownership at an all-time high in the United States.
The most recent FBI stats contradict the anti-gun rhetoric about more guns causing more crime.
Last month the FBI published their most recent findings on the U.S. crime rate, and for a fourth consecutive year, the crime rate has dropped.
Big time.
Now this juxtaposed against plugs Biden running around talking about we need money.
We need thirty-five billion dollars by Friday.
Otherwise, rapes and murders and robberies are gonna skyrocket.
And Dick Durbin decides he's out there walking the plank on his own.
I'm gonna go out and rescue him.
I'm gonna go say the same stupid thing.
Thirty-five billion dollars by Friday, otherwise rapes go up, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
And we told you.
Meanwhile, a crime rate in America is plummeting as gun ownership skyrockets out there.
All right, here's Mary in Killeen, Texas.
Mary, thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Pretty good.
Thank you.
Um, listen, I I'm a first-time caller, and I wanted to call because uh my husband was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Oh, geez.
And uh it's really really upsetting me seeing time after time these stories about people poping on the flags, burning the flag.
Regular citizens can't fly their flag because their poll is too high, or their homeowner's insurance says they can't have it in their district, or people getting fired because they got a lapel pin on or you have to fly the Mexican flag.
That's right, or recite the the uh anthem for the Mexico.
Um it's really upsetting to know that my husband and so many others have died defending the American flag and that how patriotic feelings are just dying in this country.
And it's why do you think that is?
I don't think people respect what's going on because first it starts at home, then it starts at the schools.
Um I worked for the school district for a very long time, and to get the kids even to say the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning is a struggle.
We don't teach um American history.
Most kids don't have any idea what what happened during colonial times.
It's very upsetting, and it's like I I when I was a child, we learned all this in school.
I grew up in Ohio, and and it's like now I I live here in Texas, and um it's just all change.
It's like they don't have time for it in the curriculum.
No, no, no, no, it's worse than that.
It's worse than that.
The agenda today is that uh America isn't all that wonderful stuff.
You and I were taught lies.
America uh we were imperialistic, racist, bigoted country.
We became a superpower by conquering uh innocent people and stealing their natural resources and using it ourselves, and uh we became this giant militaristic power that worked our way around the world.
We are CIA killing people left and right.
We're we're we never were that great country.
That's the people in charge of the agenda, uh, education agenda in uh high school, junior high, middle school, college, that's what they believe.
That's that's what I mean.
Listen to what some of the people at the Occupy Wall Street uh uh protesters saying.
I mean, the the attitudes they have about the country.
It just makes me sick.
See those reports.
If they only knew, and I just wanted to let your listeners know that that families like myself, uh it's very hurtful to us.
It really is.
And and I'm a very private person, and I don't like to do this kind of thing in public, but I just I've had enough rush, and I just I I can't take it anymore.
I don't like what people are doing to this country and what they're doing to our value.
It's going to keep up.
It's I uh I don't I don't foresee a day where it it it vanishes.
There's always going to be, even if it ultimately is a tiny minority, you're still going to have people with the attitudes that so offend you, and they're still going to get media coverage.
And I think, you know, the people that uh uh join the military, they I know what's up.
Protecting that freedom to think and say those things is what uh it's all about.
It it cuts both ways.
I'm not defending them.
Don't misunderstand it.
It didn't it infuriates me too.
And it's uh it can it can be as well as infuriating painful.
You scratch your head.
I ask myself every day, it's just how can there be I don't understand how it could be one person to hate this country.
Maybe somebody wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years.
But that that would be a specific rather than an institutional thing.
I intellectually don't understand it.
But my mind wasn't polluted.
My mind wasn't perverted.
I wasn't taught what a rotten place this country is.
A lot of kids have been and are being.
And it's I think it's probably even worse than what you think.
And it's probably more widespread than what you would believe.
It is happening, and it's primarily an educational problem.
People that have control the education system are using it summarily to teach lies about this country and to uh dispirit people from thinking there's anything unique or exceptional or special about America that we've we don't deserve this.
We've we we've got to now pay our price.
We've got to pay our dues.
That's that's what cutting our economy down to size is all about.
So we find out what the rest of the world has to live like because of us.
That's the agenda that's being taught today, among many other things.
Glad you called.
We'll be back and continue shortly.
An unofficial gauge of human misery in the United States rose last month to a 28-year high.
As Americans struggled with rising inflation and high unemployment.
This is the misery index, simply the sum of the country's inflation and unemployment rates.
It rose to 13.0, pushed up by higher price data the government reported on Wednesday.
Last time the misery index was at current levels, was in 1983.
However, in 1984, an improving economy probably helped President Reagan win a probably he ran a landslide for crying out loud.
Won 49 states in 1984.
So here's this is a Reuters' story.
And of course, the message here is well, yeah, misery index right now, 13%.
But same thing Reagan faced Reagan, look if he won 49 states, rebounding economy.
So they're out there holding out hope at Reuters.
That history is going to repeat itself.
While the misery index rose in September, many economists expect some respite in coming months, driven by a softer inflation.
Wednesday's price data showed inflation outside food and energy, and who needs that rose at the slowest pace six months in September.
So if you if you throw food and energy out, inflation, no big deal.
So it's really no big problem.
And we don't need to get anywhere.
So really, see, it's it's not a it's not a problem.
Everything's looking rosy.
Andrew Stiles, National Review Online, it appears as though the Obama regime has been caught red-handed trying to cover up evidence in relation to the green loan programs that helped finance Cylindra.
CNBC reported that a number of press releases posted by the Department of Energy have been retroactively altered to remove the name a solar company thought by many to be the next green failure.
The changes occurred in two press releases from the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program, the same program that has been at the center of controversy surrounding Cylindra.
Both were changed to remove the name of a company that's received negative press attention in recent days, Sun Power, and replaced it with the name of another company, NRG Energy.
So they're they're they're they're retroactively altering loan program documents.
NRG recently finalized its acquisition of the California Valley Solar Ranch Project from Sun Power in September.
However, at the time of the press release in April, Sun Power still controlled the project.
Anyway, Mr. Stiles goes on to document uh all of the changes and all the alterations that are taking place here.
Just blatantly discoverable.
They're not even bothering to uh to hide it.
Because they know that nobody's gonna press them.
They know that nobody's gonna ask, particularly in the media.
Nobody's gonna demand answers.
They're not gonna have to explain themselves here.
It's just gonna be little old Darrell Isa.
As far as they're looking at that's not my characterization.
That's the way they're looking at it.
Okay, who's next?
Jim Bethany Beach Delaware.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Good to speak with you.
Thanks for your hard work.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Listen, I agree that uh Biden's remarks about uh rape going up and all that were outrageous and stupid, but they do communicate well with the intelligence of the average voter.
I mean, after all, there are a lot of mushheads out there that voted for those these guys in 2008, likely to in 2012.
But then uh comes along uh O'Connell with his response.
What does he say?
Uh something to the effect, I wish the administration would stop orchestrating political theater.
I mean, what's that?
It doesn't really say anything.
I mean, they lob a missile and we send back a hand grenade.
Uh BB better than that.
You mean Mitch McConnell?
Yes.
Yeah.
Let me tell you something.
I uh it's it's it's popular to think that the stuff Biden says is going to resonate with a lot of Americans, and a lot of people believe, and a lot of Americans are dumb, stupid idiots, and that they're gonna vote for Obama again just as they stupidly idiotically voted for him in in 2008.
I I really believe that uh a majority of people voted for Obama in 2008 for reasons having nothing to do with policy whatsoever.
It was personality, it was dreams, it was hope and change, it was guilt, it was uh uh people thought they were uh wiping out the uh uh vestiges, last vestiges of slavery and all the negativism attached with that.
Uh hatred for Bush, change, what have you.
That is why there is such opposition to Obama now.
Because nothing, nothing prepared people for what this country's turned into.
This is not what people expected.
And the the the whole idea here that uh give us 35 billion dollars by Friday or rapes are gonna go up.
I will grant you we have our share of IQ challenge citizens, but they are nowhere near a voting majority.
Of that I have faith.
Of that I'm confident.
I hope you're right.
Now I will agree, don't doubt me on this.
And I will agree with you that the response was tepid.
Um who is it that uh I've got to find something in the stack here.
Somebody is describing the regime perfectly, and I wish that a Republican would do it.
The Republican National Committee, somebody officially would talk about how dishonest and incompetent these people are.
And we just don't.
We we come up with responses such as the one you just cited from Mitch McConnell.
We wish the president would stop engaging in political theater.
The vice president would stop engaging in political theater.
And a lot of political theater, where don't we're where's the political theater?
I want to go see what's showing there.
Don't have any clue what uh what he's uh what he's talking about.
At any rate, I I I don't think that Biden is gonna be this is not persuasive.
This is not um something that's gonna rally people to this bill and to its passage.
Uh certainly rapists, let's look at it this way.
In our country, there's a certain number of rapists.
We don't know how many, but they're out there, right?
Do you think that if this bill is passed on Friday, America's rapist community is gonna say to itself, well, that's the end of us.
Our goose is cooked.
Why Washington's gonna spend $35 billion, gonna hire some more cops, no more rapes from us?
Is that the way this works?
I mean, this is this is if if you want to play this out, okay, you got the rapist community out there, and they're they're supposedly quaking in fear right now that the bill might pass.
Now, does anybody really think that rapists who are paying attention to this are going to be deterred at all if this stupid thing passes Friday?
Are rapists gonna stop raping on Friday if the bill passes because they think more cops are gonna be on the streets?
Tell me, Snarly, answer the question.
Of course not.
Our bank robberies, quickie shop robberies, murders.
Are these criminals gonna say, up, that's it for us?
That's it for Democrats just spent 35 billion dollars on more cops, we're finished.
Is that the way this works?
Some of you rapists out there, give us a call and tell us how scared you are about this thing passing.
Baba dooba doop, dip, dip.
It was Steve Wynne.
It was Steve Wynne, the Democrats are bankrupting this country.
Why can't somebody at the Republican National Committee say this?
Why can't Mitch McConnell say it?
Why can't Boehner say it?
Why can't one of the presidential candidates say?
Well, one of the I think that's the candidate's uh keen.
I guess some of them are getting close, but it's real simple.
The Democrats are bankrupting this country.
I'm sure you've heard about Steve Wynne's rant.
Uh he was he was he's he's ticked off again.
Deficits are killing us, our dollars are worth listen, Democrats are bankrupting the country and vilifying anybody who's successful.
So naturally people are protesting.
The Democrats are bankrupting this country.
It's not hard.
It's very simple.
Yeah, we could ask Kathleen Willie what she thinks of Biden's remarks.
We can ask Juanita Bodrick what she thinks of Biden's remarks.
Yeah.
$35 billion of Democrats want to spend on Friday, and rapists say, okay, that's it.
No more from us.
Did he rapists call you?
Have any of any rapists?
Well any bank robbers?
I mean, anybody, uh uh quick store uh uh robbers, and you people that commit crime, uh are you living in fear of what might happen on Friday here, $35 billion uh passed uh for more cops and so forth, doctors, nurses, clean water from the uh from the Democrats on Friday.
I don't know.
That'd be the group to talk to.
The plug says that if we get the $35 billion, this stuff's not gonna happen.
And by the same token, by the same token, you're rapists.
Let us hear from you, murderers, purse snatchers, any of you.
If the Senate doesn't pass the $35 billion, are you gonna really start committing crime on Saturday?
Are you sitting out there waiting?
Chomping at the bit.
Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna sit out there, you're gonna be watching the vote on C-SPAN.
You're gonna be nervous as hell watching the Senate vote on his $35 billion, and and you're counting every vote, and you see the votes tally up, you go, Oh my god, are you gonna get nervous if it looks like it's gonna pass?
That'd be a great picture.
America's rapists tune into C-SPAN in fear that the Senate might authorize $35 billion.
Because the Vice President of the United States says they're gonna go to town unless we pass this bill.
Here is Ben in Myersville, Maryland.
Welcome, sir, to the program.
It's great to have you here.
All right, greetings from one of the last remaining pockets of conservatism in the state of Maryland.
Ah, I didn't know there was one.
Well, it's almost a conservative pocket.
Uh, but uh liberalism is bleeding into here like everywhere else.
Yeah.
But I just wanted to uh point out an obvious uh example of hypocrisy from the media, what they choose to harp on and what they choose to let go.
It's not just Obama and his whole administration and the media that thinks we're as dumb as a rock.
But uh for Harry Reid to think he's gonna get away with saying that the private sector is doing fine right now.
I mean, he has to willfully suspend any competence in the intelligence of the American people to say that, or just know that the media is not going to call him out on that whatsoever.
Uh when I remember in 2008 in one of the presidential debates, John McCain made the mistake of saying that fundamentally the economy is strong right now.
And uh he got laughed out of the election by the media and by the Obama administration.
Well, there was no Obama administration at the time.
Well, the pending new Obama Obama campaign.
What happened?
Well, there were two things.
McCain temporarily suspended his campaign to come deal with the crisis.
And then said in the midst of it, the fundamentals are sound.
And that was like defending Bush.
And if you did that, your goose was cooked, and that was over.
But there's a two-way street.
I don't care whatever what m McCain has never said anything as outrageous, offensive, wrong, stupid, silly, as either Biden or Harry Reid.
And they are not being covered.
There is uh John John Sassel, the senator from uh Basso from uh from uh uh Wyoming.
Uh Fox is covering a press conference.
There are some Republican senators talking about how ridiculous what Biden's saying is.
But now they're talking about it.
And and Biden has a couple of defenders on Fox.
Oh, yeah, oh yeah, it's exactly right.
Uh we need more cops, or the rapes will go up.
But this is a it's a it's uh yeah, they'll circle the wagons like Durbin.
They'll circle the wagons and and uh and and protect their people uh no matter how ridiculous or outrageous that they get.
But it's only Fox that's calling any attention to this.
You're not you're not gonna see anything of substance in the New York Times or the Washington Post or ABC CBS NBC about this, unless it is to credit Biden.
Unless it is to encourage Biden and to talk about the guts that somebody finally has to point out the relationship between $35 billion in new spending for teachers and stopping incidences of rape.
Anyway, I'm glad you called uh then I gotta take quick time out here.
The constraints of time are such that I don't have any left.
Let's see now.
The AP, the New York Times, best I can tell, have not reported plugs Biden's claims about rape.
They haven't reported Dingy Harry's claims that the private sector's doing great.
We really need to work hard to shore up public sector jobs.
So, as we all know, the news media is the Democrat Party's safety net, pretty much their hammock safety net.
Okay, folks, 21 hours, and it's open line Friday.
See you then.
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