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Dec. 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 5, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Oh, hi, welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the E. We're going to do Tebow later.
I've got some things I want to share with you about Tebow.
As usual, people try to tell me how to do the program here.
Are you going to talk about it?
Yeah, but not now.
I'm going to get to it.
Sit tight.
Hang in there.
Be tough.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Obama is now calling himself the new Teddy Roosevelt.
So how many past presidents does that make that he's pretended to be like FDR, Truman, Reagan, JFK, of course, Lincoln?
Now he's adding Teddy Roosevelt.
He's even going to Osawatomi, Kansas to replicate a speech made there by Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, which led to Roosevelt losing the presidential race.
And I have two stories on that right here in the patented stack of stuff.
But first, Obama is now 40 minutes late for an appearance on extending the payroll tax cut extension.
I have a question.
And I've asked this question on previous occasions.
If, as the liberals say, there is a Social Security Trust Fund, and if it is funded, as the liberals say, by direct payroll tax deductions, and in fact, folks, Social Security is funded by only one thing, payroll taxes.
FICA.
That's the only way Social Security is funded.
So the question then begins: how does Obama get away with arguing that we need to cut payroll taxes that cut Social Security funding so that individuals have $1,000, but then he also gets to claim to defend Social Security, which he is depleting by his own logic.
Extending the payroll tax cut depletes the Social Security Trust Fund.
For those of you seasoned citizens, you have to understand the language.
The payroll tax cut is cutting taxes paid into the only mechanism that funds Social Security.
It's the Republicans that always want to cut Social Security.
It's the Republicans that always want to kick seasoned citizens out of their houses.
But here's Obama 40 minutes late now to a speech where he's going to lobby for an extension of payroll tax cut.
And you notice how the drive-bys completely ignore this hypocrisy.
And the liberal Democrats completely ignore this hypocrisy.
And notice how the Republicans are incapable of making this point.
The Republican leadership goes along with it because it's a tax cut and it puts money in the pockets of about $1,000.
The payroll tax cut is said to add $1,000.
But it's been in place for a year and it has not stimulated the economy.
So why are we going to extend?
Why this tax?
Could somebody explain to me why this tax Obama's willing to cut?
He will not cut income taxes.
He will not cut corporate taxes or capital gains tax, but he will cut the payroll tax.
Well, I don't give me that because a lot of people don't pay income taxes.
You think he's getting a better, bigger bang for the buck by cutting payroll taxes because everybody supposedly pays them.
Fine and dandy.
He's defunding Social Security.
Well, why didn't somebody on our side make the freaking point?
Why do I have to be the one that does all this every day?
When did that job become mine?
Seriously.
I mean, I don't mind doing it, but why am I the lone voice on this stuff?
Where are the Republicans on this?
Why can't we make, look at, I am so fed up with being told that I want to cut Social Security for the elderly and that I want to kick them out of their house.
Obama's doing it.
Where's our side making the case?
In the process, defending themselves.
All right.
Now, I've got two stories here.
No, no, I don't mind doing it.
Don't misunderstand me.
I'm just, sometimes I think that I give these guys a work holiday.
They sit there, oh, Limbaugh will attack Obama now.
We don't have to.
The other talk show, host, I'll attack Limbaugh now.
We don't have to.
Hell, people talking about a third party.
Somebody give us a second one?
Can we have a second party, please?
That's not talk radio?
Sorry, folks.
Not bleeding on you here.
Now, I have a couple stories here about Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas tomorrow.
First is from Zeke Miller at thebusinessinsider.com.
Obama about to give a huge class warfare speech in Osawatomie, Kansas to emphasize the need for Americans to pay their fair share.
Do you realize who the enemy in this country is today, folks?
The enemy today is people who work.
Listen to the Occupy Wall Street people who Obama supports.
The enemy today are people who work.
The enemy today are people who are producing things.
The enemy today are people who are building things.
The enemy today are people drawing a paycheck.
They are the enemy.
They are not paying their fair share.
They are the reason this country is in deep doo-doo.
Not the lazy losers who are not working, who are defecating and urinating all over themselves and everything else.
Not the lazy losers who are the product of a decrepit, corrupt educational system that's taught them by doing nothing that they're special.
No, the problem is the producers.
The problem is people who are working.
The problem is backbone of America.
They aren't paying their fair share.
And the president of the United States is going to exploit this.
Now, we've always had, we've always had envy and jealousy aimed at successful people.
But we've never had a president who's also made them a target like this.
We have never had a president encouraging the losers to remain losers.
We've never had a president encouraging losers to remain losers and join him in going out and attacking the winners.
That's a first.
And he's going to go to Osawatomi, Kansas tomorrow to redouble his efforts on this.
Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech in Osawatomie August 31st, 1910, 31st, 1910, called Roosevelt's New Nationalism.
It called for new government reforms to level the playing field for average Americans against a class of industrial barons.
Here's what Teddy Roosevelt said that Obama's going to echo tomorrow.
Right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
Teddy Roosevelt said, the essence of any struggle for health...
Folks, this is going to make you choke.
And this is a guy John McCain idolized.
This is a guy John McCain hoped to be.
The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been and must always be to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power or wealth or position or immunity which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows.
This is what you fought for in the Civil War.
This is what we strive for now.
Let me read that again.
The essence, Teddy Roosevelt, 1910, the essence of any struggle for healthy freedom, liberty has always been to take from people the right to enjoy power or wealth or position when those people haven't earned all of that by service to his or their fellow men.
Now, how do you see what's shaping up here?
You own a factory, you own a business, you've gotten successful or wealthy.
Obama has the right to take it from you because you did that while not being in service.
You profited.
You took money from people.
You took money from people when they bought the dishwasher from your shop.
You didn't give it to them.
You took money from them.
You harmed them.
So it's only right that we take it back from you.
That's what Teddy Roosevelt said in 1910, and that's what Obama's going to say tomorrow in Osawatomi.
Teddy Roosevelt called out special interests who pulled the strings of government, a message we'll likely hear Obama adopt.
Roosevelt used his new nationalism speech to launch his failed bid for the presidency in 1912.
It's safe to say that Obama's speech on Tuesday will draw from Roosevelt to lay much of the intellectual framework for his re-election bid.
Now, there's a second story on this.
It is from the Daily Caller.
Obama rolls out new 2012 theme.
The White House is highlighting a new theme for the 2012 election this week by holding a meeting with university leaders on Monday, giving a speech in Kansas on Tuesday, and by lobbying to win a high-stakes Senate vote on Thursday.
Obama's Kansas speech will follow his vision, as a quote, his vision of an America where everyone engages in fair play, does their fair share, and gets a fair shot, said Josh Ernest, Obama's principal deputy press secretary in a Sunday press briefing.
The slogan sidelines older themes, including we can't wait and pass this bill.
So Obama's vision of an America where everybody engages in fair play, does their fair share, gets a fair shot, which translated means we're going to take it from the producers and give it away to those of you who don't do anything.
So get ready.
And there's a 12-point list of things here that list the efforts involved.
Number 12 is this one, his vision of an America where everyone engages in fair play, does their fair share, and gets a fair shot.
So it's socialism on the agenda, furthering the notion that people who work and produce are the enemy and encouraging voters to vote for him on the basis that he is going to continue to take from the winners, well, the producers.
Teddy Roosevelt was a 1%er, by the way, is from a very rich family.
And he was one of the first progressive Republicans, by the way.
Just so you know.
No, what Obama wants to do in order to pay for his Social Security tax cut is to raise taxes on the rich.
That's how he's getting around this notion that there really aren't any social security reductions.
He's going to raise taxes on the rich, but there are social security cuts because FICA is the only funding mechanism for Social Security.
So he raises taxes on the rich.
You're not going to transfer that money to Social Security account.
They didn't want any way.
It's all just to penalize the achievers.
These are the same rich people whose Social Security benefits Obama would like to cut.
Now, my example about the enemy being the people who work, I use the example of you go in and buy a dishwasher from somebody.
We're going to punish those.
The reason that we're going to punish the guy who sold a dishwasher is because he sold it for more than it cost him.
He sold it for profit, and that's evil.
He screwed people.
He made money off of that.
He made money off of them.
Those people needed a dishwasher.
He should have let them have it for what it cost him.
That's the thinking today.
No, I kid you not.
That's the thinking.
If you he's supposed to stay in business because it doesn't cost him anything.
He doesn't lose anything.
So is he supposed to stay in business?
If he charges exactly what it costs, that's fair.
So everybody gets a dishwasher for real cost, a car at real cost.
There's no profit in it, and therefore nobody's getting screwed or taken advantage of or what have you.
The purpose of a business is to create health care in the community.
That's what these people think.
If you go out and tell them, people like there's a movement on to strike the word capitalism from our lexicon.
And the next thing I'm going to hear is somebody send me a note.
You know what?
We need to stop talking about profit too, Rush.
We just need to focus on economic freedom.
We're losing the argument on capitalism.
Capitalism is a horrible term.
It means people get screwed.
It didn't mean that until two years ago.
So the left comes along and distorts the language.
We cave to it, so we can't use capitalism.
We're supposed to talk about economic freedom now.
The next thing, I'm going to get notes from people.
You better stop talking about from friends of mine.
You better stop talking about profit.
Profit, that's a loaded word now.
Don't mention there's profit in anything.
We can't keep talking about profit.
How come we don't get government services at their real cost?
How come the government can make profit left and right?
Government can screw people left.
How come the same standard is not applied?
Anyway, I grow weary.
Yeah.
The Democrats love Teddy Roosevelt.
Yeah.
He was the first progress.
Teddy Roosevelt gave us the minimum wage.
He busted up the big corporations, trust busting.
He gave Food and Drug Act, Federal Reserve Act, 16th Amendment income tax.
Teddy Roosevelt and his stooge Taft.
Government control of corporations versus trust busting.
And that's that's that's my model.
That's my hero.
Teddy Roosevelt, yeah, yeah.
Erft Riders, Cuba, yeah.
Taking it to Castro.
No, Castro wasn't 11.
Oh, well, you know what I mean.
Robert, San Diego, California, welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Ditto, Robert.
And Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Prize, too.
Yes, Robert.
Hi.
Hi.
Can I make two points with you today?
Yeah, make three.
I just wanted to point out: I'm a software engineer.
I've been unemployed for almost a year.
I'm finding that a lot of the IT jobs that I wanted are being outsourced to India.
Even if the Democrats got everything they wanted with the class warfare, their payroll tax and everything else, it still doesn't do any good for the jobs.
That's right.
America is still not competitive with the world.
And at the same time, could I make my second point?
I just wanted to point out that Obama's, by the way, Obama is not trying to make America competitive with the world.
Obama is presiding over our decline.
Obama thinks we need to be punished because we have made a profit off of the world in the past.
I agree.
And if I could, on my second point, I just wanted to point out that with Romney, we may win in the short term, but in the long run, I think we lose.
I blame George Bush a lot for the reason why we have Obama.
He never defended himself or conservative ideas.
I see the same thing in Romney.
He doesn't advocate conservative positions, and he only speaks up when it's to his benefit or he has to.
Well, I think Romney tries to express fealty to conservatism.
uses the word, he describes himself as conservative, and he cites examples of...
Is he an advocate of it?
Yeah, that's another.
See, there you go.
Is he an advocate?
And there's a reason.
Folks, I just report in here, as I remind you, I've chosen no one yet.
No, I've not played golf with Romney.
I don't know that Mitt plays golf.
I don't know if he plays golf.
Anyway, there's a reason that he can't top out over 30% in any Republican poll.
New Hampshire is it.
But nationally, no, no, no, don't laugh.
I'm not putting him down.
There's a reason that people old Robert here.
Robert here just said it.
There's a people don't, since he's an advocate.
That's a good way of putting it, an advocate for conservatism.
They do think Newt is salvageable and could be because they remember Newt as having been way back in the good old days.
Anyway, Robert, thanks for the call.
We got to go, but we'll be back.
No, I didn't.
I did not see that.
Michael Strahan talking about McNabb yesterday.
Oh, snerdly telling me that Michael Strahan, this is a Fox pregame show, was urging McNabb not to retire.
Oh, explaining why they can't give it up, why they just can't walk away from this two hours.
Oh, okay.
Well, it was sad.
These guys had they can't walk away, can't walk over the money, the applause, the cheers, the well, you know, it is terribly sad.
Very, very sad.
Speaking of sad Chicago Bears, for those of you Bears fans, you got a coach that doesn't think quarterback matters, Lovey Smith.
I remember back in the days of, I don't even know who the quarterback, oh, it was Rex Grossman.
And of course, they did go to the Super Bowl with Grossman, but Grossman was not the reason.
I remember Lovey Smith press conference, the quarterback position, and he'd talk about it as though it was just any other position on the field.
So they've got this back up to Cutler, Caleb Haney.
He's had three NTs, I-NTs, the past two weeks.
It doesn't look promising.
The Bears did this.
So after the action yesterday, the word spread that Bears might rethink, calling McNabb to come in.
And Lovey Smith's press conference is no way we are not calling anybody.
We're not bringing anybody in.
We're going to use what we've got.
So you Bears fans, I feel for you.
But Lovey's being consistent.
The quarterback position is the same as any other position on the field.
Yeah, I saw the Denver.
I see every game, Snerkely.
I direct TV Sunday Ticket.
And interesting here, speaking of that, there's a great piece, and I mentioned this earlier, that somehow made it into USA Today.
Now, I'm sorry, USAToday.com.
That explains it.
I don't know that it made the Dead Tree version of the paper.
I haven't seen the Dead Tree version.
I was thinking to think the other day, the last time I actually read a newspaper, it has to be years.
I do it all now online, as a lot of people do.
Anyway, this is a piece by a guy named Larry Taunton, T-A-U-N-T-O-N.
He is the director of Fixed Point Foundation, the author of The Grace Effect, How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief.
And he has a piece here on Tebow at usatoday.com.
Riding a Bronco to the rescue is former college football superstar Tim Tebow.
Now, here's a young man of whom we can all be proud.
He's clean-cut, articulate, humble, gracious in victory, hardworking.
And if that weren't enough, he's a humanitarian.
No, not one of those humanitarians who does his giving in the public eye, but a humanitarian who gives quietly in the orphanages of the Philippines.
There's only one problem.
Many in the news media don't approve.
Yes, these same commentators who bemoan the decline of football civilization continually tell us that Tim Tebow isn't good enough to be in the NFL.
Now, that alone is not unusual.
The list of Tebow-hating commentators is long.
Boomer Isiazen, Colin Coward, Merrill Hodge, to name just a few.
Of course, we expect our sports jocks to give us their opinions.
Sometimes that means evaluating the prospective talent of players coming up from the college ranks.
Tebow's no exception to this.
And while still a quarterback at Florida, there was some question about his ability to play that same position in the NFL.
Only here's the thing.
The current wave of criticism leveled at Tebow is not about football.
Not really.
Oh, they all swear that it is.
Tebow's shortcomings, a football player, expounded upon every week.
He lacks accuracy, experience, football IQ.
Like we all know that you have to be an intellectual to play football.
The offense that he is best suited for will never work in the NFL.
He can't adapt to the professional game, on and on and on.
On Q, however, Tebow's numerous critics aren't motivated by a desire to protect the integrity of the sport from unworthies is revealed in the manner of their critique.
To say that they've reserved a special kind of venom for Tim Tebow is an understatement.
Indeed, to hear them speak, one imagines the Denver Broncos are quarterbacked by Betty White.
Only here's another thing.
Tim Tebow's football credentials are impeccable.
And by the way, there's a website called Cold Hard Football Facts.
And it's run by a guy named Kerry Byrne.
And Kerry Byrne, as you know, they get the quarterback rating or the passer rating.
Now, the NFL quarterback, is it passer rating or quarterback rating?
I forget what it's called.
It's what everybody reports.
They've added to it.
They've added a couple of stats to it beyond passing, turnovers, this kind of thing.
And according to their analysis, and it's a few games, not a lot Teemo's played, he's outperforming every quarterback he faces.
He's playing better than every quarterback he faces in the games that they've won.
He's 5-1 with the Broncos.
It's inescapable.
Tebow is playing.
The idea he can't play is ludicrous.
This is this guy's point.
Now, Tebow isn't playing at the level of Drew Brees or at the level of Aaron Rodgers, but who is?
But at the same time, this is a great question.
Do we hear lengthy discourses on Curtis Painter's or Tyler Palco's ability to play in the NFL?
Painter is the quarterback in Indianapolis for Manning.
Tyler Palco, the Chiefs.
They're not having him.
Tebow's out playing them like the lights out.
But the sports media is not telling us how these guys can't play and they got to be run out of the league and they are worthless and they don't have what it takes.
But they are telling us this about Tebow.
Despite the fact that Tebow's winning, how dare he?
Who does he think he is?
He's 5-1 as a starter.
His critics are indignant.
They didn't pack his cleats and go home the moment they declared him inadequate.
The simple fact is they want him to fail.
And now, after so much ink and victory all predicting he would fail, they need him to fail.
Just like I said, they needed Sarah Palin to fail after setting that up.
So what gives?
Why does even Tebow's own coaching staff and management offer so little public support for the guy?
Well, you and I all know the answer here.
Jake Plummer, the latest to take pot shots at Tebow, might have been speaking for the anti-Tebowites everywhere when he said in an interview that he would like Tebow more if he would just shut up about his faith in Jesus Christ.
Just shut up about that and it's okay, Tim.
And with that little comment, the cat was out of the bag.
Plummer said what the commentators wouldn't say.
Their dislike for Tim Tebow is not, as they would have us believe, about his throwing motion or his completion percentage.
It's all about his open professions of faith and his goody two-shoes image.
When it comes right down to it, American culture today doesn't want heroes who are truly good.
Instead, we're waiting for evidence that he really isn't that good.
We hope to see him kick a player on the ground.
We hope to hear him drop the F-bomb on TV or to tweet pictures of his private parts like Anthony Weiner.
In the meantime, we always have Penn State's Jerry Sandusky to make us feel better about ourselves.
Because in the end, Tim Tebow makes the sports media realize you fill in the blank.
Now, Larry Taunton, director of the Fixed Point Foundation, author of The Grace Effect, How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief.
Now, obviously, this guy is also a man of faith.
But aside from that, the reason why this piece appealed to me is that this one thing here at the end, our culture does take people, set them up to knock them down.
And there is a psychology behind that.
And the psychology is rooted in inferiority.
We don't want anybody to be better than we are so that we don't have to deal with how bad we are.
If everybody's a scumbag, then everybody can be a scumbag.
But if there's somebody who's not a scumbag who does well, then maybe it's okay.
Maybe it's not okay to be a scumbag.
It's the whole liberal thing about not wanting judgment out there.
It's also about the fact he's highly visible on his love of Jesus Christ.
That just makes them nervous.
Because the people who don't believe in Jesus Christ are the one, they may even go to church every Sunday, but they don't really believe in Jesus Christ.
Tebow smacks them in the head with that, too.
That makes them uncomfortable.
But this guy's right.
There's everything in the world to admire about the guy, except that Jesus business.
That just drives people nuts.
He says thank you.
He calls reporters Mr. He does all this charitable work behind the scenes.
He gives credit to his teammates.
He has no ego whatsoever.
He's got his own general man.
John Elway is hoping he fails.
Well, it appears that way.
It appears that Elway, there was two games ago.
Tebow scores a winning touchdown and Elbay is applauding like he's at a golf tournament.
And they asked Elway, have you found your quarterback of the future?
No way.
He has to be better on third downs.
He's got to throw the ball better.
Damn it, he's got to throw the ball better.
Got to be better on third down.
No, we haven't found our quarterback yet.
And despite that, despite that, you think your boss hates you?
Despite that, Tebow's out doing what he's doing and not whining and not complaining.
And that people don't like.
In the meanwhile, we're romancing the Occupy people.
We're romancing Obama.
We're romancing society's corrupt, perverted losers.
Because in a comparative thing, who doesn't look better than somebody defecating or urinating all over themselves?
So we're kind of happy to have them out there.
In comparison, we look pretty good.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Do you know what I saw today?
I saw the most amazing story.
Do you know that the United States is exporting gasoline?
We are exporting gasoline by the train load.
I saw a picture of tanker after tanker after tanker filled with gasoline.
We have a surplus of gasoline in this country and we are exporting it.
And I was thinking, why don't we save this?
Why don't we bank?
Well, because we're selling it for profit.
You know, see, when you sell your dishwasher to the customer at a profit, you're not supposed to do that.
You're profiting.
Yeah, but if you naturally, everybody's supposed to participate in the win, but nobody's supposed to participate in the loss.
You don't share the loss if the dishwasher store owner loses his shirt.
You're not supposed to help him out there.
You're only to make sure he doesn't earn a profit.
No, we're exporting gasoline.
We've got a surplus of gasoline.
Gas prices are down again.
Like 18 cents a gallon over the past couple of weeks.
Now, that's still up 15% over a year ago, but gasoline prices are down.
Carolyn Pontiac, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Honor to be here.
Thank you very much.
Well, I was calling earlier in response to one of the callers was talking about his idea that maybe the Rhinos and the liberal media were conspiring sort of to help eliminate the conservative candidates and end up with either a very liberal candidate or just a bad candidate who would lose.
Right.
And I guess I had an epiphany the other night when Herman Kane is announcing that he was suspending his campaign.
I was very sad to hear that.
I was a Herman Kane backer.
And on that same time frame, I was at a gathering where there were some Illinois GOP folks there, and I had heard that they were kind of maybe the word is crowing.
They were happily commenting on how the conservatives were dropping out and it was going to end up being Romney.
And my thought was, well, I've learned to not listen to what they say, but watch what they do.
And sometimes it really does seem like the party is the same as the Democrat Party.
And I've heard other people say that.
Aha!
So you are wondering if the left might have actually infiltrated our party, if they're actual liberals acting as Republican political consultants.
Liberals in the GOP hierarchy.
I can't say for sure that that's not the case.
We know that they infiltrate anything else.
College Camp I. They're everywhere else.
Why not the Republican Party?
Well, there you have it.
Another exciting, brilliant example of broadcast excellence.
Total la completa.
Three hours.
Feeny in the can.
And we will be back in 21 hours.
Revved up, ready.
Do it all over again with whatever happens between now and then at the top of the list.
You have a good one, folks, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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