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Dec. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Ah, you know you people are so lucky.
All you have to do is listen to this.
I have to be the one to actually do it.
And it's okay.
Revved up and re What is this?
It's Wednesday.
It's a Wednesday, right?
Okay.
Pearl Harbor Day in infamy, day that we'll live in infamy.
Absolutely right.
Pearl Harbor Day.
Of course, yesterday was Pearl Harbor Day number two, the attack on the country by the President of the United States in that speech in Osawatomi, Kansas.
We, as I promised yesterday, we have the audio soundbites from that speech.
I've studied it.
It's depressing.
It's just depressing to actually have the most powerful man in the country aligned against it.
To have the most powerful man in the country seeing this country through crosshairs.
It is it is uh Well, I run the gamut of emotions.
I mean, it's anger, frustration, sadness, it's just it's just amazing.
Ladies and gentlemen, this speech, if you take this speech, we've got the sound bites coming up, but I want to do a little analysis of it even before we get to it.
And by the way, welcome, it's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 two eight two eight eight two.
Look, let me just give you a sample summary of Obama's speech yesterday.
The president of the United States, not Fidel Castro, not Kim Jong il, not Mao Tse Tung, not Lenin, not Stalin, not Gorbachev, not Saddam Hussein,
not Mahmoud Achmedinizad, not Hugo Chavez, but the President of the United States said that while a limited government that preserves free markets speaks to our rugged individualism as Americans, such a system doesn't work and has never worked.
The president of the United States said that the United States of America as founded has never worked.
Stop and think of that.
Ponder that for a moment.
The president, not the head of the SEIU, not the chairman of some congressional committee, not a Democrat presidential hopeful, the elected president of the United States said in Osawatomie, Kansas, trying to be Teddy Roosevelt, that the United States of America has never worked.
That is a quote, has never worked, quote unquote.
Really, what was the first Thanksgiving all about?
What was George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation all about?
What was 250 years of the greatest prosperity and standard of living known to exist in all of humanity?
The president of the United States said yesterday that it has never worked.
But he didn't stop there.
He said that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends more, and regulates more if the middle class is to be preserved.
I can't get my mind around this.
This is antithetical to me.
This is foreign.
This is what we have faced from our enemies since our founding, this characterization of our country.
If you just substitute the word proletariat for every time he said worker or middle class in his speech, if you substitute bourgeois or capitalists for the rich, This same speech could have been given by Lenin a hundred years ago.
In fact, it is, my friends, and don't doubt me, the same speech that Stalin always gave.
That Mao Tse Tung always gave.
That Fidel Castro and Hilgo Chavez and Kim Jong-il still give.
Communist leaders around the world give this speech constantly.
We've heard it all before.
Because class warfare is the fundamental principle of Marxism.
Class warfare is how Marx explained economics and explained history.
In fact, class warfare is how Marx explained everything.
Now, oddly enough, it's how Obama explains everything now.
He blames all of the current problems on the rich.
And to think some people still say Obama's not a Marxist.
They won't even call him a socialist.
It's willful blindness on the part of people who I I don't know what kind of state of denial you have to be in to have heard this speech yesterday or to have read this speech and to have not heard a call to arms.
This is how Barack Obama plans to win the future.
That's the remember slogan for his re-election campaign, going to win the future by channeling a president from a hundred years ago.
This Teddy Roosevelt, he gave this speech in 1910, the same place, Osawatomi, Kansas.
He then went on to Lewis on the at the head of the Bull Moose Party ticket, the presidential race in 1912.
I don't know if he got the moderates or not.
Teddy Roosevelt, I don't know.
All I know is that Obama refuses to be himself.
He's got a channel Lincoln and he's got a channel FDR's got a channel Reagan at sometimes even tries to be Reagan, it tries to be Teddy Roosevelt yesterday.
This is winning the future.
Everything Barack Obama said he was for yesterday has been tried throughout history over and over again.
The same Marxism.
It's been tried and it's failed everywhere.
It's led to nothing but untold millions of dead people and incalculable misery and suffering.
Now who wants a future like that?
He said some things yesterday that I don't know if he's really that dumb or if it was just written for him and he said it.
But sitting there and blaming economic woes on the internet and the fact that there aren't any more travel agents or telephone operators.
It's not hard to look at the internet and see how many jobs have been created, how much wealth has been created, how much growth in the economy has been created by the Internet.
The Internet is an enemy as far as Obama's concerned.
Phone operators, telephone, and he recycled his ATM business again as being indicative of lost American promise.
All this automation, all this efficiency, all of this that has led to increased productivity.
This guy finds to be the enemy.
To be a problem.
So what we have is Barack Obama, president of the United States announcing yesterday in full voice that he is running for re-election as a socialist.
You remember how in 2008 he scoffed at anyone who called him a socialist.
Remember how the media went after Joe the Plumber?
For reporting Obama told him he just wanted to spread the wealth around.
Remember how we were mocked for calling Obama a socialist during the campaign.
Well, yesterday, Obama announced to the world in no uncertain terms that he is a socialist, if not a Marxist.
News media won't notice.
Ron Fournier, who used to write for the AP, who now writes for the National Journal, wrote a piece and said that it was the best speech Obama has ever given.
Not surprising, but still depressing.
It's depressing.
Snerdley is shouting at me that he's elated over this speech.
You are elated over this speech.
Because you think, yes, you think, Snerdley thinks he's elated over this because it means that we have finally flushed Obama out.
No question now who the guy is.
No question now, what he's always been.
Obama is running against me.
The re-election.
But he's not running against me.
If he was just running against me, that'd be f Barack Obama is running against the United States of America.
This is what gave birth to Ronaldus Magnus.
I mean, I got quotes I could give you from Reagan.
I'm not going to stand by and watch a cabal of people like this single-handedly destroy the country.
That's a paraphrase, but Reagan said it.
And he said it back in the 60s.
He said it in the 70s.
He said it in the 80s as well.
But wherever you go in the drive-by media, Ron Fournier's opinion of this speech is repeated.
Best speech he's ever given.
Yeah, did you hear how Obama talked about college degrees?
Hear what he said?
He said college ought not cost $100,000.
Everybody ought to be able to go there.
Everybody ought to be able to go to college.
It ought not cost.
Mr. President, then tell all your friends in academia to start working for free.
Tell the professors to start working for free.
Tell the universities to let people in for nothing.
Show us how this is done.
Well, how it's done is to take as much money from the rich, quote unquote, as he can and redistribute it.
Barack Obama wants everybody poor.
But there's sad little reality, the only people who are going to end up poor if Obama succeeds, the middle class, the rich, are not going to get dinged.
You're going to be told, have they ever been?
I mean, all of this talk, we've had all this income gap crap my whole life.
I've been hearing about it my whole life.
I've been hearing a Democrat Party targeting the rich my whole life.
We're gonna cut them down to we're gonna.
And they all the while they continue to complain about the widening gap.
The richer getting richer.
How do you think that happens?
It's much like a Democrat Party promising black America.
You vote for us or we're gonna make sure you're never discriminated against.
And if you are, we're gonna punish those who do it, and we're gonna make sure that you're prosperous, we're gonna make sure we're gonna take care of you, and we're gonna make sure it.
And after 50 years of supposed stewardship and love, compassion, black families have been destroyed, blacks are angrier than ever, unhappier than ever.
After all this compassion, concern, attention offered them by the Democrat Party after all this help.
After all these decades of attacking the rich.
Who is it that feels like they're losing everything?
It's the middle class.
How does that happen?
Do you ever stop to think about this?
The rich are not going to get dinged.
The middle class are going to be wiped out.
The little guy, the supposed beneficiary of all this Marxism.
I want you people who believe Obama.
I want you to go around the world for me.
I want you to find any socialist Marxist communist country.
I want you to find for me a prosperous, thriving, happy middle class.
I want you to find for me a country or a wall has not been built to keep them in.
Boone Pickens was on MSNBC this morning.
He admitted that he paid over $685 million in income taxes since he was 70.
He's in his 80s.
Mika Brzezinski told him it wasn't enough.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Barack Obama yesterday said that the free market is a license to steal.
A license to steal.
A license to steal this from the guy who has stolen as much wealth from the private sector as he can under the guise of stimulus spending.
No, not personally.
I don't mean he's enriched himself.
I mean he's enriched his ideology.
The Democrat Party has grown government.
He is stealing from you and from me each and every day.
Being president is what's a license to steal.
Being a committee chairman is what's a license to steal.
Really want to start comparing corruption, the highest levels of government to the private sector.
Have the people of this country decided that they all of a sudden now want to give up on their dreams of wealth and prosperity for themselves and their kids?
Is that gone?
Majority of Americans now just want to sit around and wait for whatever crumbs are redistributed from Barack Obama and his compassionate band of bureaucrats.
Government has the license to steal.
Government gets to steal, and it's not even called a crime.
It's called liberalism.
Communism.
Marxism, and they don't want any competition.
They don't want anybody able to steal the money but themselves.
Obama's people, he occupied Wall Street crowd, heard his clarity call yesterday all across the country.
They decided to start moving into houses.
Just taking them over.
Giving these uh foreclosed houses to their leaders.
Just take it.
You're entitled.
You're entitled.
You're an American, you don't have anything.
That's not fair.
So if you see something you want, go take it.
It's unfair somebody else has it and you don't.
If you want it, go take it.
We have a president of the United States who now endorses that very way of thinking.
Here's Boone Pickens.
He was on uh MSNBC this morning on Scarborough's show.
They had a discussion about uh Obama's speech.
Scarborough said, You have a question about the president's speech.
What's your question about it?
The president's confusing me.
Every time he's on TV, he says that the rich should pay their fair share.
I don't know what fair share is.
That's what's bothered me.
I always want to be fair.
And historically I've been a very fair guy.
I'm 83.
I still go to work in the morning at 8 o'clock.
I have 150 people work for me, and someplace in here I feel like I'm letting the country down.
No, you don't feel like you're letting the country down, Boone.
You're being told that you're letting the country down.
You're being told that it's unfair.
You're being told that you are behaving improperly.
Scarborough said, Well, you know, Warren Buffett pays like 18%, 17% of what he makes in taxes.
Is that fair?
Should he pay 35%?
What should he pay?
After I was 70 years old, I paid $665 million in taxes.
Is that fair?
I don't know how much you made, Mr. Pickens.
Why don't you give me the full numbers?
You feel like I'm not paying my fair share.
After 665 million, and I'm over 70 years old.
Sir, with all the respect.
That's pretty good.
That's what you make.
Depends on what you make.
With all due respect, sir, it depends on what you make.
Our good old buddies at NBC.
Boone Pickens, 65 million dollars in taxes in the last 13 years, just since he turned 70.
Not enough.
Not enough to determine a determiner whether or not it was fair, see, because we don't know how much he made.
And unless he admits how much he made, and we can't possibly determine whether or not it's fair.
In other words, he may have to pay more.
Just so these slugs on this worthless network can be satisfied.
So the Yeah, it would if if if if if here here's the here's the thing about the, you know, I I If you if you were going to give a hate-filled, lie-filled class warfare speech attacking the foundations of the American system.
From which, by the way, if you're Obama, you benefit like few others in history have.
And by the way, Mr. President, you haven't contributed a damn thing to this country's prosperity, but you are sure benefiting from it, but you haven't contributed an IOTA.
It would at least be helpful, Mr. President, if you would get your straw men and your propaganda straight.
May I call you Barack?
You can't have rugged individualism and socialism.
Let me see if I can explain this, Mr. President, in a way that you can understand.
Something cannot be an apple and a walnut at the same time.
Point is you don't believe in rugged individualism.
You believe in massive government.
But he said during the speech, rugged individualism.
He says, I'm all for it, but then it doesn't work.
Look around you, Mr. President.
That suit that you're wearing, the tie, those shoes, the pens that you use to sign all these executive orders.
Your two Boeing 747s, lavishly furnished all of those helicopters, the limousines that you drive around in, all of which you use to excess, the fuel that is used by all of these modes of transportation.
None of it, sir, none of it was produced by your precious government.
None of it.
You played 88 rounds of golf this year.
Those golf clubs, golf balls, golf clubs, all the other equipment, the hot dogs you eat at basketball games, the hamburgers, when you have your meet the common man photo ops, none of it produced by the government, Mr. President.
And you, sir, are not capable of helping to produce any of it yourself.
You are a sponge.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God, has got a note, an email.
Rush, doesn't the White House have a television?
Doesn't Obama follow the news?
Doesn't he know what's happening in Europe?
Maybe instead of living so much in the past he ought to catch up a little on world events.
Europe's fighting a life and death battle with socialism right before our eyes.
Yeah, patently obvious.
Europe is about five years ahead of where we're going, and we are on the same track and we're on that track purposefully.
What does that tell you?
Although I I long ago gave up caring about Obama's motivation.
I know what it is.
If you can see disaster straight ahead, and you still head for it, you want the disaster.
Don't tell me this guy loves the country, folks.
Don't tell me that.
There's no evidence.
Now, Barack, if I may call you that.
The free productive, healthy country is a society of individuals.
Not a collection of departments or agencies or offices run by know nothing bureaucrats.
A free, productive, healthy country is a society of individuals working in their own self-interest, pursuing dreams, excellence, trying to be the best they can be, using God given freedom and liberty to pursue happiness, as enshrined in our Declaration of Independence.
It is not a free, productive, healthy country is not a collection of departments, agencies, offices run by a bunch of bureaucrats, a thousand federal judges, faceless, nameless bureaucrats.
Folks, I don't know if you know this or not.
The House of Representatives is attempting this is almost indescribable.
You can think I'm loopy.
The House of Representatives is trying to pass legislation to limit the laws that can be made by bureaucrats and regulators.
The only people who are constitutionally permitted to make law, federal law, are members of the United States Congress.
The House of Representatives is alarmed at how much law is being written by bureaucrats in various government agencies that are writing legislation to try to limit it, and it will not pass.
The Congress of the United States is attempting essentially to protect its constitutional role, and it will not survive.
It will not pass this round of efforts.
Because the Democrats in the Senate will never go for this.
Barack, if I may call you that.
What is your obsession with big government?
Massive deficits, huge bureaucracies, endless regulations, confiscatory taxes.
What is it about that that turns you on?
None of this creates opportunity.
None of what you love, sir, creates wealth or jobs.
Where has such an economic system ever worked?
Where has what you love and adore ever succeeded?
You say, sir, you want a more activist government.
What does that mean?
We're about five steps away from the financial cliffs edge.
Thanks to you.
Thanks to the government, the incompetent ideologues who run it like you.
What else would you like to spend money on?
What else would you like to regulate?
What else do you want to demonize?
What else do you want to cut down to size?
What else do you want to destroy?
What else would you like to ban?
What else in America do you want to smother and obstruct?
No, Barack, if I may call you that.
The problem in this country right now is one individual in particular.
Not all of the rich individuals.
The problem in the United States of America is one individual, and that would be you, sir.
You can't decide which president to be on any given day.
But one thing we can see, Barack, if I may call you that, the president you don't want to be is yourself.
The reason you try to project your own image onto Lincoln or Kennedy or Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan, is because you do not want the public to see you for who you are.
Barack Obama.
I wonder, Barack, if I may call you that.
I wonder how many future presidents will want to emulate you.
I wonder how many future presidents will try to be you in the future.
Probably about as many presidents who have tried to emulate Jimmy Carter.
The speech you gave yesterday, sir, was idiotic, shameful, actionable, incoherent, and alien to American ideals and principles, and above all else, it was pure pathetic.
But as my cohort here, Mr. Snerdley says, Barack, if I may call you that, you did the nation a great favor.
You told every patriotic American loving citizen that your view of America is not shared by them.
You finally told us, after three years, the cats out of the bag.
After three years, everybody now knows why I wanted you to fail.
Everybody that heard that speech now knows that you said America as founded has never worked.
You have outed yourself, Barack, if I may call you that.
You've come out.
Maybe you'll be on the cover of the next advocate.
Because you just outed yourself, sir.
You have nothing but contempt for this country.
You told us yesterday.
You have nothing but contempt for our economic and political system.
You told us yesterday.
So now, as my cohort and subservient employee, Mr. Snurdley has observed.
Even the least attentive citizen knows where you stand.
Even the Kardashians know.
And that's a big achievement, folks.
To penetrate the wall of stupidity surrounding that family, even the Cardas, Paris Hilton.
Even Alec Baldwin was so ticked off he gets thrown off an American Airlines flight, Barack.
Thank you.
Norman Lear is beside himself.
So is Barbara Streisand.
You gave it up.
There's nowhere for your supporters to hide.
They can't say you have a vision as a great American.
You're something else.
Your vision for this country is not rooted in any, not one American tradition.
Your vision for the future of this country is not rooted in one aspect, not one single aspect of American greatness.
That is what you seek to destroy.
Even the least attentive citizens, even if they are only half-wits, now to vote against you.
You have hastened my retirement.
I'm just kidding, Snurdley.
If you are on hold, waiting to appear on this program, you are going to remain on hold until the next hour.
Stay there.
Because you have been chosen because Snurdly has determined that you're fit.
You're worth it.
I want to go to the audio soundbites now.
And I want to preface our Obama Osawatomi speech soundbites with a little two-minute excerpt of me.
February 28, 2009, at the CPAC conference, this now historic speech that I gave.
It's tough to pick just two minutes from it.
But these are the two minutes in the speech where I warned everybody what Obama's project was.
President Obama and uh take your pick of any Democrat.
Love to say, we've tried it your way.
Meaning Reaganism.
We've tried it your way.
We tried it your way in the eighties it didn't work.
We tried it your way eight years just eight years, last eight years it didn't work.
Excuse me.
When Obama talks about past economies, he somehow always leaves out the recession of the 80s was worse than this one.
Why does he leave it out?
Because you know why he leaves it out?
America.
Leaves it out because we got out of that recession with tax cuts.
I told them to leave the applause in.
Thank you.
President Obama, in six weeks of his administration, has proposed more spending than from the founding of the country to his inauguration.
This is not prosperity.
It is not going to engender prosperity, it's not going to create prosperity, and it is also not going to advance or promote freedom.
It's going to be just the opposite.
Future is not big government.
Self-serving politicians, powerful bureaucrats.
This has been tried, tested throughout history.
The result has always been disaster.
President Obama, your agenda's not new.
It's not change, and it's not hope.
spending there you go folks thank you I just want to remind you that was February 2009.
That's uh in fact, it was February 28th, about five weeks after Obama had been inaugurated, and nobody was saying those things.
In February of 2009, the stimulus had just been passed, and the Democrats, of course, were lauding Obama's the next great thing, never before seen anything like it.
New, unique, love, unity, America loved again.
The Republicans were cowering in fear in the corners.
Nobody was saying that.
Certainly not in national fora.
Nobody was saying it.
Certain Republican pollsters today would call that a personal attack on President Obama and would argue against it.
In that little two-minute excerpt, uh told the country the what was ahead of us was not prosperity, not enhanced and increased liberty or freedom, but more misery.
And who has been right?
And who has been wrong?
Obama, the Democrats have been as wrong as anybody in history.
And I, El Rushbow, as right as anybody in history.
And now that takes us to Osawatomi, Kansas, where President Obama began by telling people where he thought he was.
It is great to be back in the state of Texas.
State of Kansas.
It's just one of the 57 states.
It was a slip of the tongue.
Doesn't mean much.
But we move on with more sound bites.
The brilliant intellectual Barack Obama blaming the Internet for unemployment.
Over the last few decades, huge advances in technology have allowed businesses to do more with less.
And it's made it easier for them to set up shop and hire workers anywhere they want in the world.
If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the Internet.
Oh we're supposed to go back to that.
We're supposed to go back, phone operators, switchboards and people with patch cords patching phone calls together.
Not supposed to be able to make a phone call without going through an operator.
You're not supposed to be able to find a number on the you're supposed to have to call information to get a phone number, spend 30 seconds or 40 seconds or a minute and a half on whole wave, somebody look up a number for you.
How many jobs, how much wealth have computers and the internet given us?
Apple, Cisco, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, Netflix, I mean, all I don't know what how many jobs, how much wealth, how much prosperity, how much technological leadership has occurred in the world via the United States and the Internet.
There's Barack Obama who wants to roll it back.
He's blaming it.
Because phone operators and bank tellers lost their last time I went to the bank, there were tellers in there.
As a side note.com, management consultancy firm.
The internet is a vast mosaic of economic activity ranging from millions of daily online transactions and communications to smartphone downloads of television shows, but little is known about how the web in its entirety contributes to global growth and productivity and employment.
New McKenzie research into the internet economies of the G8 nations, as well as Brazil and China, India, South Korea, Sweden finds the web accounts for a significant and growing portion of worldwide gross domestic product.
Indeed, if measured as a sector, internet-related consumption and expenditure is now bigger than agriculture or energy.
And the President of the United States, in his in his glory, in his in his wailing ignorance, defiles it.
In a speech to middle class people holding out himself as hope.
On average, the Internet contributes 3.4% of GDP in the 13 countries covered by the research.
That's an amount the size of Spain or Canada in terms of GDP.
It is growing.
Internet GDP, growing at a faster rate than that of Brazil, a country.
And a president who everybody says is among the smartest people in the world, spends time yesterday ripping it to shreds and blaming it for taking people backwards economically.
This is breathtaking.
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