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Nov. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Hey, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh Super Committee of One.
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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 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 argument that Obama's feeding his followers.
This is what they end up believing.
This guy called here in pure defiance.
He was not trying to be funny.
This guy genuinely believes it.
I'm telling you, this is what if you read with, 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 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 the scattered few out there.
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 are 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's 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, what, 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 all that.
That's true.
The Messiah aspect of the regime is gone.
That whole magical mystery tour thing that was Obama is gone.
But, you know, you look at the occupied groups.
You look at what their encampments become.
These people, you know, we sit here and we marvel 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.
That stuff, somehow, 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 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 get 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, 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 any.
Well, what happened to fairness and equal redistribution?
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.
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 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 an explanation for it.
And it's always.
Their explanation is 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, Ohios we go next to the phones to Jonathan.
Great to have you sir, on the EYE 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 did attack the first lady.
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 going to 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?
She's doing a little bit more than that, uh.
Did she go and make someone?
Nope, you have to understand these people the way I do.
I'm trying to help you out here.
You're obviously not going to be open to this.
Um, give give Muchel half a chance, and she would be dictating everything on sale or available at school lunch cafeterias.
That's what she's doing.
Her own husband has to have foreign dignitaries in and goes to us to a fast food joint to get away from her dictates, but despite that, 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 country is when her husband runs for office.
People remember these things.
That's all she shows up at Nascar apart an organization a Democrat party has mocked and made fun of.
Not hard to understand in any way.
Well, a couple audio soundbites.
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 places they 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 that direct and that blunt.
And it wasn't just the bath business.
It was the go-get-a-job.
And I 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 big issue.
And when talking about it on this program and sometimes during the Rush to Excellence tour, you know, I would say, just 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 to say.
It's very insensitive.
This is a, you know, I think 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 at Occupy Wall Street or Oakland or wherever decided to live that way?
What would happen?
Now, I'm convinced that some of these kids at these Occupy movements, some of them are just there for fun of it.
Their kids, their 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 bath remarks.
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 under?
Why should anybody have to defend themselves when they say, hey, Wall Street, 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 think you talk about moral decay, moral decline, and so forth, when all of this is good advice.
Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Gingrich was not thinking to give them good advice.
He was insulting them.
No, no.
Okay, wait a minute.
Mr. Newt Castrati, wait a second.
Wait a second.
You may have a point.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
Mr. Gingrich was doing nothing but insulting the brave protesters of 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 Occupy things Obamaville?
I said to him, well, we've been calling the general state of economic melees in this country Obama.
We've basically been calling the country Obamaville for over a year now.
It sees, seems like.
So a new pro-lice movement at Occupy Wall Street pro-lice and sing a song.
All we are saying is give fleas a chance.
All we are saying, give fleas a chance.
Obamaville since 2010.
I know it.
Anyway, a lot of email on this.
And there is a ban on this program on anything MSNBC.
And we actually haven't had anything from MSNBC on this program, audio soundbite-wise, for three, four days.
And hasn't it been refreshing, folks?
We've had plenty of other soundbites, just not from MSNBC.
Exception time.
There's an exception to everything.
Yep, 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.
But if he does, I think partly what we're hearing here is book promotion.
But maybe he doesn't.
I'm not really sure.
But Matthews was being interviewed on MSNBC.
It'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.
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, and I know I've got that in one town, but we're not talking about me, snurdy.
So he goes off on Obama here for not liking the job and not being interested in the job as opposed to Bill Clinton.
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 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 12th, 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 with Tamara Tamron Hall, Tamron Hall, and some of the Ken dolls that they have over there.
And in this series of soundbites, 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 was 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 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 led the American people.
They led us.
This is so simple.
If I could say one thing to Barack Obama, stop showing us how smart you are and lead us.
Chris, pst, he's not really that smart either.
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.
Marilyn didn't think he was elusives at all.
Now, but 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 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 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 going to do in his second term?
More of this?
Is this it?
Is this as good as it gets?
Where are we going?
We got to do something in his 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 what he's going to do with reforming our health care systems, Medicare, Medicaid, how he's going to reform Social Security.
Is he going to deal with long-term debt?
How?
Is he going to reform the tax system?
How?
Just tell us why we're 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 still at the end of the day, after all these criticisms, it can't be Barack.
It's got to 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 going to do in the second term?
Forget the us and the what are we going to do, the acknowledgement that Matthews and Obama in the same team.
We all know that.
I don't want to comment on that.
Is this as good as it gets?
Where are we going?
We're going to do something a second term?
He has yet to tell us.
He can't, Chris.
If he had told us, Chris, 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 going to save them from the Republicans.
That's all he can't tell us what he's going to do because he'd never get reelected.
Wouldn't he gotten elected in the first place?
He never tells us what he's going to do reforming our health care.
Chris, 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 going to reform Social Security?
How's he going to 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 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 them.
But what's he going to do about long-term debt?
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, this is Chris obviously wants to be included.
He's being left out, but everybody's being left out.
Obama doesn't call anybody.
He doesn't have him up to the White House.
No dinners.
This doesn't at all.
And this thing about I hear stories that you would not believe.
We can only imagine what that is.
Maybe he's seen internal polling data.
Maybe he's heard stories of 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.
But it certainly has to do with something with Matthews thinking.
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.
And that just not, you know, how it's supposed to happen.
He's supposed to be hanging around, chumming around with people all the time.
Have up the White House.
Talk policy.
Talk about how you're going to win.
Talk about how you're going to do this and do that.
Bring everybody up there and be involved like Clinton did.
Clinton 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 the American people have selected them as our first family.
I don't sense the gratitude, the happiness level, the thrill of being president.
He goes on to say that Clinton loved it.
And I think he's right about this.
I don't think, folks, I've said this before.
I don't think the White House is anything they're honored to be in.
That White House represents something entirely different to them.
At White House, that's where evil happened.
That's not.
They don't like it.
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.
They don't have parties up.
They don't like bringing people up.
They don't like being in there.
Like I said, 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 legendary secrets, stuff that happened in there.
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.
Are you there, Monty?
Hello.
Yeah, Monty, go.
Just want to tell you about 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 bills.
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 their wives and girlfriends bringing lunch, just like a regular job.
Wait a minute.
Nobody can do anything.
Wait a minute.
Monty, you're telling me that thieves are stripping the factories?
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.
Wait a minute.
Was the guy who got the job in the factory in the paper?
Well, he probably got that Walmart job with cost stripping walls at this factory.
Uh-huh.
Aha.
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 in Modesto, California, 15.1%.
This is according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And that counts, the 15.1% counts the two guys, 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 Targets factory.
Still 15.1% Modesto.
And we'll see you tomorrow.
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