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Nov. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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I got some emails.
People want to know what do they make at the Target Factory in Modesto.
They make targets.
We looked it up.
Somebody, what do they make at the Walmart factory in uh in Modesto?
They make walls.
We looked it up.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Now, look, we're sitting here laughing, but folks, folks.
That caller represents millions of people.
That caller represents millions of people.
Every job created or filled is due to Obama.
Every job lost or position eliminated is due to Bush, the rich, lazy Americans, Wall Street, what have you.
This is the this is the argument that Obama's feeding his followers.
That's what they end up believing.
This guy called here in pure defiance.
I mean, he was not trying to be funny.
This guy genuinely believes it.
I'm telling you, this is what if you read with um well, if you read the left-wing blogs, if you read the Obama-inspired websites, that's what you're going to see.
That Obama is creating all these jobs.
That's what these websites see.
And Obama's trying to fix and replace all the jobs that Bush lost.
That's what his followers see.
That's what they believe.
This guy calling me from Modesto, he thought he was going to get me over the barrel.
He thought he knew something I didn't know.
He thought he was catching me in a misrepresentation of a fact.
He thought he was catching me in a lie.
He thought that he was going to tell me something that was going to totally confuse me.
He really believes it.
This is what Obama and the boys have got their followers believing.
And they're not just a scattered few out there.
They are they're plentiful.
There are a lot of them out there.
That caller is a success story for the Democrats.
The Democrats listening to this program hearing that caller, they happy.
That guy gets it.
And they're not worried at all that I'm going to change the guy's thinking.
That guy is totally devoted and loyal to Obama.
So he's a product of the Democrat media machine.
And I said, we had fun with it, because what else could you do?
But I'm telling you, there are millions out there like that.
Well, you mean the Occupy kids?
Oh, oh.
Well, you know, I've had that story in this stack for the longest time, and I haven't gotten to it about how the youth have abandoned Obama.
He's no longer the Messiah to them and uh and all that.
That's that's true.
Uh the Messiah aspect of uh the regime is gone.
That whole magical mystery tour thing that was Obama is uh is gone.
But you know, you look at you look at the occupied groups, you look at what their encampments become.
These people, you know, we we sit here and we marvel at at what we think is their stupidity or their ignorance or what have you.
But it's real.
It's real.
They actually folks believe that everybody could do nothing, and there would still be iPhones, and there would still be computers, and there would still be phone networks and cellular networks to log into to get information.
It that stuff somehow it in their mind it just happens.
And if anybody makes a profit on it, then they are the enemy.
That stuff should happen for everybody.
There ought not be any profit, but you see where civilization goes.
You see what happens when encampments Or populations of these people get together.
It descends into not just anarchy.
I mean, these Occupy encampments really are filth personified.
They are that's just it's it's pathetic.
You know what happens.
And this is who they really are.
That's how they think everybody should live.
And I think the intellectual leaders of this movement, I genuinely believe this.
I know that I'm going to be a lot of people disagreeing with me on this.
But I really think that the intellectual left, like the Obama people, for example, who've never worked in the private sector, who've never created a job, never have started something from scratch and thus don't know how to do it.
I think they really do believe.
After years and years and years of just sitting around talking about it in the faculty lounge or wherever, that if they got a chance, they could do it so much better.
So here they are.
They finally got their chance to do it.
Run the car companies, whatever else they run as part of the regime, and look at that.
Everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
And they're genuinely surprised.
Some of these true believers are genuinely surprised.
It's like they believed all along the Soviet Union did not fail because of its own immorality, its own corruption.
It failed because the wrong people didn't have enough money.
But if the right people had been there with the right amount of money, why it would have been nirvana, it would have been utopia.
That's how they look at themselves and Obama's presidency.
So they look at what happens when something they fervently believe in occupy Wall Street or occupy Oakland or whatever, whatever, when it descends to the lowest common denominator, base human level.
They're genuinely shocked.
I think they are genuinely surprised.
I think it puzzles them, and they struggle to explain it because it's not supposed to be.
Why, these Occupy encampments are the epitome of everything they believe.
Everybody's equal, nobody produces anything, and nobody's exploiting anybody.
There is ostensibly fair and equal redistribution of everything that's there.
But look how quickly it was corrupted.
Once it was learned that freebies were there, every reprobate in town within 10 miles gravitated to the place, wanting something to eat.
And the occupied's own chefs decided to hell with you.
You're not part of our group.
We're not giving you anything.
Well, what happened to fairness and equal redistributions?
Well, they're not part of us.
Amazing how it all breaks down so quickly and so fast.
This is the stuff that community organizers teach.
And they teach it as utopia, nirvana, panacea, what have you.
It's amazing.
It never works.
And I really think that a number of these people, particularly the so-called intellectuals in academia, I think they're I think they're genuinely surprised when it falls apart.
I think they're stunned.
I really do.
I think they they cannot believe that Obama's stimulus package didn't create a lot of jobs.
No, I'm serious.
I know that some of them don't know that that money was just a slush fund.
They don't know that that money was to prop up union workers to pay dues and send the money back to the Democrat Party.
They really true believers thought that this was how you create jobs, good jobs, fair jobs for everybody.
The government does it.
I can't.
I think they're genuinely shocked and stunned when it doesn't work, including some of the teachers, the Elizabeth Warrens of the world.
I think they're genuinely stunned when it falls apart.
So then they start hustling around trying to find a explanation for it.
And it's always their explanation's Always going to focus on the flaws of the people who are actually living it.
Not the theory.
The theory never fails.
Liberalism cannot be allowed to fail.
Socialism cannot be allowed to fail.
So something else must be blamed when it doesn't work.
In Obama's case, it's in the fallback is blame Bush.
Blame your predecessors.
Problems worse than we even knew.
Columbus, Ohio, as we go next to the phones to Jonathan.
Great to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, rush, rush.
Why do you keep attacking the first lady, man?
What is up with that?
Uh why do I attack the first?
I didn't attack the first lady.
Yes, why do you do that?
I didn't.
Yeah, you uh are acting like she's making people do certain things with their children.
Now, if you want to send your child to school with a whale blubber sandwich with whale oil dripping from the bag, who's gonna stop you?
All she's doing is making wise suggestions, follow them or don't follow them.
I don't get it.
Why do you doing a little bit more than that?
Uh did she go and make someone?
Nope, nope, you have to understand these people the way I do.
I'm trying to help you out here.
You obviously not going to be open to this.
Um give Muchell half a chance, and she would be dic dictating everything on sale or available at school lunch cafeteria.
That's what she's doing.
Her own husband has to have foreign dignitaries and he goes to us to a fast food joint to get away from her dictates.
But despite, she's making them follow her edicts on menus.
She's out dictating to people what she thinks people ought to eat or not.
But it's I went through the whole routine.
I don't want to have to repeat this.
There's there's any number of reasons why the NASCAR people would have booed.
Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden.
And uh it was a great monologue, and uh, you know, you can't do great things twice, they stand on their own.
But it it there's no question to people here, Jonathan.
Uh she doesn't mind her own business.
You know, pure and simple.
And she doesn't.
You know, first time she's been proud of her countries when her husband runs for office.
People remember these things.
That's all.
She shows up at NASCAR, a part uh an organization a Democrat Party is mocked and made fun of.
Not hard to understand in any way.
Well, let's go to audio sum by its grab number 21.
This is Newt.
And this was Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.
They had a Thanksgiving family forum.
The presidential candidates had a faux Thanksgiving dinner at a Thanksgiving dinner table where they discussed things back and forth.
And this is what Newt said about Occupy Wall Street.
All of the Occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything.
They take over a public park they didn't pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn't pay for, to beg for food from complaces that don't want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes.
Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath.
Now, Newt's catching flack for this for being uh that direct and uh and that blunt.
And it wasn't just the bath business.
It was the go get a job.
And I am share a personal experience with you.
Way back, I mean, we're into our 23rd year now, I guess our 24th on this program.
I can remember we started 1988, so it had to be around then, late 80s into the early 90s, homelessness was always a uh uh a big issue.
And when talking about it on this program, and sometimes during the rush to excellence tour, you know, I would say just you people ever thought about getting a job.
And I remember the reaction I got to that.
More often than not was oh, easy for you to say.
As though it was insulting and insensitive To suggest that people get a job.
And we're seeing the fruition here of 20 plus years of that kind of thinking.
Newt says, okay, you people want access to all this.
You want the public park you didn't pay for.
You want to use bathrooms you're not paying for.
You want to beg for food from corporations that you won't pay for.
You obstruct those who are going to work who will pay the taxes that ends up feeding you.
Yeah, that's a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed in a moral system since in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as go get a job right after you take a bath.
That is considered short-sighted, insensitive and insulting to suggest they go get a job.
Even in this economy, even in a good economy, I should say, the left was, oh, easy for you It's very insensitive.
This is this is a it's I I think it's a it's a serious thing when you can't say something, well, go get a job then.
When that is insulting, when that is insensitive.
What if everybody decided to live like the people that occupy Wall Street or Oakland or wherever decided to live that way?
What would happen?
Now I'm convinced that some of these uh kids at these Occupy movements, some of it just there for fun of it.
Their kids, parents are rich and they feel a little guilty, so they're just having some fun.
Others are there because they're true believers.
But regardless, they all think that the stuff that they have every day would continue to be there.
I am convinced they have no clue how it comes to exist.
They're not taught this.
They're not taught economics 101.
It is genuine news to them when it's explained.
Yeah, I'm looking at Fox right now.
Gingrich rips Occupy Wall Street movement with bathroom marks.
Since when is personal hygiene ripping somebody?
In other words, what gives these people the right to urinate all over themselves and to create a public health menace?
Why is it offensive?
Why does Newt have to defend himself?
Why is it ripping these people to tell them to clean up?
Parents tell their kids all the time, little Johnny, little Adolph, or go take a bath.
Why does Newt have to defend himself on that?
Why should anybody have to defend themselves when they say, hey, Wall Street cook, go get a job.
You know, take a bath and go get a job.
Take a bath and go do a job interview.
Well, they have a right to their lice.
They have a right to the vermin among whom they live.
They have a right to the scabies.
The right to lice movement.
They have a right to this stuff.
No, I'm serious.
I really am.
I I I think you talk about moral decay, moral decline, and so forth.
When all of this is good advice.
Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Gingrich would not think they would give them good advice.
He was insulting them.
No, no.
Okay, wait a minute.
Mr. New Castranti, wait a second.
Wait a second.
You may have a point.
That's right, Mr. Lamont.
Mr. Gingrich was doing nothing but insulting the brave protesters that occupy Wall Street.
So urinating on yourself and urinating on other people, creating diseases, spreading diseases.
That's something you people want to have the right to do, and it's insulting when people tell you that you ought to clean up.
Is that what you want us to believe?
Because they do.
Snerdley, how long ago was it that we on this program described people in dire economic straits as living in Obamaville.
That goes back a year.
At least a year.
Because I just got an email.
You want to call these uh Occupy things Obamaville?
Well, we've been calling the general state of economic melees in this country Obama.
We've basically basically been calling the country Obamaville for over a year now.
It uh it sees, seems like.
So a new uh a new pro-lice movement.
Uh at Occupy Wall Street Pro Lice, and uh they could sing a song.
All we are saying is give fleas a chance.
Oh, we are seas.
Give fleas a chance.
Obamaville since 2010.
I know it it's what we've been anyway, um a lot of email on this.
And uh there is a ban on this program on anything MSNBC, and it's we actually haven't had anything from MSNBC on this program, audio soundbite wise for three or four days, and hasn't it been refreshing, folks?
Well, we've had plenty of other sound bites, just not from MSNBC.
Exception time.
There's an exception to everything.
Yeah, yep, yep.
Now I think a lot of people are misunderstanding.
I think Matthews has a book coming out.
I'm not certain about that.
Uh and it, but but if he does, I think partly what we're hearing here is is book promotion.
But maybe he doesn't.
Um I'm I'm not really sure.
But Matthews was being interviewed on MSNBC.
That's what makes me think he's got a book coming.
Why interview a guy that's got his own one-hour show?
Well, it's not that nobody watches.
He's got 500,000 or so viewers on his show.
It's and he's been holding steady for 10 years at that number.
But they were interviewing him, and he went off on Obama in a number of ways.
And so I know I've got that in one town.
But we're not talking about me, snurly.
So he goes off on Obama here for not liking the job and not being interested in the job as opposed to Bill Clinton.
Is it in fact, okay?
Jack Kennedy.
Matthews' book is called Jack Kennedy Elusive Hero.
I knew there's a book out there, and that's partly what this is.
Yes, another Kennedy book.
But let's go back to uh uh February 12th of 2008 to set this up.
I'm sure you all remember this, but let's just listen to it together anyway.
February 12, 2008, on MSNBC's coverage of the Potomac primary, after hearing Obama's victory speech, Chris Matthews said this.
I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case, this election.
The feeling most people get when they hear a Barack Obama speech.
I felt this thrill going up my leg.
I mean, I don't have that too often.
I felt this thrill, this tingle going up my leg.
I don't have that too often.
So you remember Matthews saying that, we all do.
So we play that to put what he said Saturday morning in perspective.
He was on a show called Weekends with Alex Witt.
She is an infobabe that used to do the news during the day on MSNBC, and she's got, I think, moved aside for what would Tamra Tamarin Hall.
Tamron Hall and and uh some of the Ken dolls that they have over there.
And in this series of sound bites, Matthews is begging Obama to lead.
He's begging him to get back in the game that he's losing everybody.
I'm not sure he's able to move the country.
He had that ability as a candidate, and then the day he was inaugurated with a mall filled with people, African Americans and everyone else, he sent us all home.
It's the worst mistake of his presidency.
The day he got inaugurated, he sent us all home and said, Thank you now.
Watch how smart I am.
That's the worst kind of a notion of the presidency.
The presidency is not about being smart.
Most of our great presidents have not been that brilliant.
Kennedy wasn't brilliant, Roosevelt certainly wasn't brilliant.
Truman wasn't.
But what they did was they they led the American people.
They led us.
This is so simple.
If I can say one thing to Barack Obama, is stop showing us how smart you are and lead us.
Chris.
Psst.
He's not really that smart either.
See, that's the great unspoken reality.
Marilyn Monroe didn't think Jack was so exclusive, by the way.
Or elusive.
Nor reclusive.
None of the elusives.
Maryland didn't think he was elusives at all.
Now this, but this is this is interesting.
Kennedy wasn't brilliant.
Roosevelt certainly wasn't brilliant.
Truman wasn't.
There's something else about those guys.
They were not intimidated by smart people either.
And that's key, folks.
They were not intimidated by the smart people they hired as their advisors.
They were not.
I think Matthews is on to something.
I think I think Obama is totally in to being the smartest guy in the room, even to the point of knocking down others in the room who are as smart or smarter.
But that's a psychological analysis, and I'll leave that to others.
The point is, you hear this?
The worst mistake of his life, the day he got inaugurated, he sent us all.
By the way, in this interview, Matthews throws all caution, all pretense of objective newsman to the wind.
Lest any of you had any doubt.
But the worst kind of notion of the presidency.
Don't just don't just send us home.
Use us.
Engage us.
Don't sit there and be alone figures how smart you are.
Notice he has not shown us his college transcripts.
We do not have a measure of how smart he is.
The only reason we think he's smart is because the establishment has proclaimed him smart.
Here's the next soundbite.
What are we trying to do in this administration?
Why does he want his second term?
Would he tell us?
What's he gonna do in his second term?
More of this?
Is this it?
Is this as good as it gets?
Where are we going?
We gotta do something in the second term?
He has yet to tell us.
He has not said one thing about what he'd do in his second term.
He never tells us what he's gonna do with reforming our health care systems, Medicare, Medicaid, how he's gonna reform Social Security.
Is he gonna deal with long-term debt?
How?
Is he gonna reform the tax system?
How?
Just tell us.
Why are we in this fight with him?
Just tell us, Commander, give us our orders and tell us where we're going.
Give us the mission.
And he hasn't done it.
And I think it's the people around him.
Too many people around him, little kids with propellers on their heads.
No, it's him.
Note the still at the end of the day, after all these criticisms, it can't be Barack.
It's gotta be the eggheads around him.
But can I go back and parse this a moment here?
What are we trying to do in this administration?
Why does he want a second term?
Would he tell us what's he gonna do in the second term?
Uh forget the us and the what are we gonna do?
The acknowledgement that Matthews and Obama the same team.
We all know that.
I don't want to comment on that.
It's is this as good as it gets?
Where are we going?
We're gonna do something a second term?
He has yet to tell us.
He can't, Chris.
If he had told us, Chris, I'm I'm saying this with all sincerity.
Man, I really, with every ounce of sincerity I've got, if he had told us in 2007-2008 what he intended to do with his first term, he'd never gotten elected.
He can't tell us what he's going to do, Chris.
All he can do is try to paint a picture, abject fear of the Republicans.
All he can do is tell the country that he's gonna save them from the Republicans.
That's all he can't tell us what he's gonna do, because he'd never get re-elected.
Wouldn't he gotten elected in the first place?
He never tells us what he's gonna do reforming our health care system.
Chris, pst he thinks he's done that.
That's over with.
What do you mean reform the health care system?
Chris, it's called Obamacare.
He's done that.
Now it's move on to other things.
Medicare, Medicaid, how's he gonna reform Social Security?
How's he gonna deal with long-term debt?
Chris, he created.
He gave us more long-term debt than all long-term debt in our nation's history up till his election combined.
What do you mean?
What's he going to do to deal with long-term debt?
He's going to create more, Chris.
He's it has no intention of reducing long-term debt.
Chris, he's really got horrible plans for a second term.
That's why he can't tell anybody about him.
But what's he gonna do about long term debt?
Does it does it really Chris honestly from the bottom of my heart?
Does it not occur to you he caused it?
Does it really not strike you that he made that happen?
That he created this long term debt.
Why would he want to deal with it?
When the debt is what he wants.
And more of it.
And we got more Matthews when we come back.
And make sure Monty hangs on out there.
In Modesto.
Monty has not seen the jobs.
Created at the Walmart or Target Factories.
More Matthews, two more sound bites.
I get these emails.
You probably get them.
I'm tired of getting them.
Stop giving to me.
I want to meet people.
Their idea of running a campaign is a virtual universe of sending emails around to people.
No, it's not.
It's meetings with people.
It's forging alliances.
It's White House meetings and dinners parties that go on till midnight, and he should be sitting late at night now with senators and members of Congress and governors working together on how they're going to win this political fight that's coming.
I don't have a sense that he's ever had a meeting.
I hear stories that you will not believe.
Not a single phone call.
They don't call.
He never calls.
That's the message.
Members of Congress, I keep asking, when did you hear from him last?
He doesn't like their company.
Yeah, I this is uh Chris obviously wants to be included.
He's being left out, but everybody's being left out.
Obama doesn't call anybody, doesn't have him up to the White House.
No dinners.
Um this doesn't at all.
And this this thing about uh I hear stories that you would not believe.
We can only imagine what that is.
Maybe he's seen internal polling data.
Uh maybe he's he's heard stories of uh Obama's behavior in the White House that would shock people.
Maybe I don't want to speculate.
I don't know what it is.
Uh but it certainly has to do with some of with Matthew's thing.
He doesn't like the job.
He doesn't like people, he doesn't like hanging around with people, he doesn't want to be with them.
Uh and that just not, you know, it's supposed to happen.
He's supposed to be hanging around, jumming around with people all the time.
Have up the White House, talk policy.
Talk about how you're gonna win, talk about how you're gonna do this and do that, bring everybody up there and be involved like Clinton did.
Clinton loved or loved it.
Just loved it.
Obama's a loner, doesn't need anybody.
Matthews, I don't know if he's worried about the country or not.
Clearly he's worried about Obama's reelection.
There's one more bite.
Once having won the office, he seemed to think that was the end of it in terms of his connection to the American people.
Don't you feel I mean, I think everybody feels an absence of communication from the time he's been elected.
And it's not about not being left-wing enough or being too left.
That's not his problem.
It's connection.
And Mrs. Obama, she's an amazing asset.
And what has she done?
Obesity?
How about connecting with the American people about being Americans?
I don't think she's happy.
I don't think they like being in the White House.
And the American people can tell that.
They don't seem thrilled at the fact that American people have selected them as our first family.
I don't sense the gratitude, the happiness level, the thrill of being present.
He goes on to say that Clinton loved it.
And I think he's right about this.
I folks, I've said this before.
Uh I I I don't think the White House is anything they're honored to be in.
I that White House represents something entirely different to them.
At White House, that's that's where evil happened.
That's that's not they don't like it.
Uh their historical perspective on the country is not yours and mine.
And Matthews is right.
Is she not happy?
He's not happy.
He's right.
They don't like being in the White House.
That's they don't have parties up, they don't like bringing people up.
They don't like being in there.
Like I said, I if I were elected president, you couldn't get me out of that place.
I would be giving guided tours to everybody I know every night.
After I had been given every guided tour to learn everything I could about the place, all the secrets, all the stuff, I'd be No, no, no, no, no.
Not national security secrets, just the you know, the the legendary secrets, stuff that happened in there.
I can't I can't relate somebody not wanting to be in the White House.
I just can't.
But they don't.
Here is Monty in Modesto, California.
Hi, Monty.
Monty Russell, How are you doing?
Are you there, Monty?
Hello.
Yeah.
Monty, go.
Just want to tell you about uh all the jobs being created in Modesto.
And the Sunday Modesto B tells about a company that went out of business in Modesto, pretty large place, that is being systematically stripped of everything in the building, including support bins.
Part of the building has collapsed.
Wait a second.
Police can't do anything about it because they are protected by law.
So these thieves do this in broad daylight, having wives and girlfriends bring a bunch, just like a regular job.
Wait a minute.
Monty, you're telling me that thieves are stripping the factories?
In Modesto.
This guy says that he knows a guy who got a job there.
It's in the Sunday paper.
We've had to close down city parks.
Well, wait a minute.
Was the guy who got the job in the factory in the paper?
Well, you better got that Walmart job with cost tripping walls at this factory.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
All right.
All right, thanks, Monty.
I appreciate it.
Well, we try to get perspective on all this as best we can.
The unemployment rate uh in Modesto, California, 15.1%.
This is according to the uh Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And that counts.
The 15.1% counts the two guys.
Uh one that got the job at the Walmart factory building walls, and the other at the Target factory making targets.
No, I don't know targets on what.
I just know that that's what they make at the Target factory.
Still 15.1% Modesto.
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