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Feb. 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 9, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
The telephone number is 800 282-2882.
The email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I'll tell you who was largely behind this whole subprime mortgage scandal and Obama's announcement today for giving even more loan.
Whatever, whatever it is, foreclosure assistance program and $25 billion shakedown of the banks.
It's Acorn.
Acorn is behind this.
Acorn's behind the foreclosure deals.
A payoff for them.
Obama's community organizer buddies.
Acorn was tricking more people into mortgages, anybody that the bang, they were getting a cut on each one of these.
Acorn calling themselves the bottom line.
They've had to change their name in a bunch of different places after they said we're going out of business out of too much controversy.
They just reformed under different names.
One of them is the bottom line.
One of the groups that wanted the settlement to be for $300 billion instead of $25 billion.
And from Acorn's website, we've helped over 50,000 families to achieve their dreams of homeownership since 1986.
Acorn counselors make the home buying process more accessible to first-time buyers.
Instead of having to approach bankers or contend with brokers, first-time homebuyers can meet our counselors in a local acorn housing office to pre-qualify for a mortgage.
If you have credit problems, you'll learn ways to resolve them.
Yeah, we'll just pretend that you don't.
Acorn is as involved in this as any evil banker.
And in addition to that, Acorn is a bunch of thugs who was acting, who were acting as enforcers for Obama, where all these banks are concerned.
This whole thing is just hideous.
And the way Obama and the Democrats continue to lie about this to this day, they better not get away with this.
I'll tell you, getting tricked is believing that Obama is going to bring us all together.
Thank you.
So Obama's on TV bragging about his no child left behind waivers now.
Oh, yeah.
A bunch, what is it, uh ten states.
And there was a big Chiron graphic up on uh MSNBC.
Obama frees ten states from no child left behind.
There he is, the great emancipator.
It's an election year, and so basically every liberal program people will be exempted from for a while.
So that the pain and suffering inherent in them will not be felt and have a deleterious effect on Obama's re-election.
Rick Santorum, this is a national journal.
Santorum unloads on Romney's gotcha politics.
No more Mr. Nice Guy for Santorum, the newly energized Santorum today launched a full-throated attack on Mitt Romney, saying that Romney's campaign has been about serially tearing down opponents without offering any kind of vision for what he wants to do for this country.
This is the gotcha politics of Mitt Romney.
He's not interested in talking about the issues.
He's interested in trying to pander, make political sauce when there's real substantive issues about how we're going to try to change this government.
He's on the wrong side of it.
It's interesting.
You know, Romney and his super PAC.
Doesn't matter whoever the non-Romney is that emerges, that super PAC gets in gear.
They teared down Newt, it teared down uh Herman Cain, they tear down uh uh Perry and then turn their sights all of a sudden on Mr. Nice Guy, Santorum.
You know, Santorum and nobody up until past month or so, and just really this week.
And so they weren't running any attack ads.
As far as anybody knew, Santorum, nice guy, maybe needs to smile a little bit more, but he's a nice guy.
Then one day, everybody wakes up and Santorum wins three primaries, and the next thing we know, he's the biggest wandering shred of human debris there ever was from the Romney campaign.
And amazing how that happens.
Then Santorum now is fighting back against this stuff.
He's not complaining about it.
He's not running.
This is unfair.
This is unright.
These are ebject lies.
Everybody.
He's just, okay, you want to play this way.
Well, let's talk about you, Mitt.
That's what Santorum's out there doing.
Folks, I want to go back.
This is the CPAC weekend.
The Conservative Political Action Conference, big weekend, conservatives get together, and they're gonna have a pretty good lineup even without me.
Well, this time around, they got Sarah Palin there, the presidential candidates, Marco Rubio went off today.
I wanted to go back.
The grooveyard, uh, not in this case forgotten favorites.
February 28th of 2009.
I was the keynote speaker at the CPAC, and I learned that day, maybe the day before, uh, that all the cable nets were gonna telecast my speech live.
And I had no idea that that big a deal was being made of it.
Outside the uh hotel.
I think it was the Shoreham Omnishore where the convention was.
So driving in town about two hours before I'm scheduled to speak.
Uh I landed at Dulles and driving into Washington, I'm thinking, okay, what am I gonna say?
I never think about a speech much in advance, because I just can't.
I don't can't write speeches, so I never think about it till the right before it, so that what I think about is fresh in my mind, don't forget it.
So driving in, I said, you know what?
I'm gonna treat this as my first national address to the nation.
It's on television.
And that's what I did.
And after 45 minutes or an hour, they said, could you keep going?
The place is pretty hopped up.
Can you keep?
I said, sure.
So I went for an hour and a half.
Now I gotta play all that.
We got some excerpts since this is CPAC weekend, and let's just start and relive the speech that framed the 2012 presidential campaign.
And since it was my first national address to the nation, and I knew that people outside the ballroom would be listening, I thought it would suffice to explain conservatism.
Let me tell you who we conservatives are.
We love people.
When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans, we see human beings.
We don't see groups, we don't see victims, we don't see people we want to exploit.
What we see, what we see is potential.
We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work, we do not see that person with contempt.
We don't think that person doesn't have what it takes.
We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path, like onerous taxes, regulations, and too much government.
We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be.
We recognize, we recognize that we are all individuals.
We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
We believe that the preamble of the Constitution contains an inarguable truth.
That we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life.
Yes.
Liberty, freedom.
And the pursuit of happiness.
Now those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded.
We conservatives think all three are under assault.
Thank you.
Now, by the way, the applause were even longer.
We edited the applause here, folks, for brevity.
Here is the uh the next excerpt.
I think even more relevant today, when we are discussing the importance of articulating conservatism.
For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I am Rush Limbaugh, and I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed.
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed.
And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching big government that would stop your success.
I want that organization, that element, or that person to fail.
I want you to succeed.
Again, we edited the applause.
Thank you.
to make it shorter than it was.
I mean, it kept going, and on and on and on.
Thank you.
Also, for those of you in the drive-by media watching, I have not needed a teleprompter for anything I've said.
Thank you.
And nor do any of us need a teleprompter because our beliefs are not the result of calculations and contrivances.
Our beliefs are not the result of a deranged psychology.
Our beliefs are our core.
Our beliefs are our hearts.
We don't have to make notes about what we believe.
We don't have to write down, oh geez, does I believe it do I believe?
We can tell people what we believe off the top of our heads, and we can do it with passion, and we can do it with clarity, and we can do it persuasively.
Some of us just haven't had the inspiration or motivation to do so in a number of years, but that's about to change.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes, I think it's time.
I keep forgetting we edited the applause for brevity's sake here.
Let's do one more before we go to the break.
And this is, I addressed the whole controversy.
Remember, it's still brewing.
This is this is February 28th.
It was January 16th, 2009, where I'd famously said, I hope he fails.
When I was asked for the Wall Street Journal to write 400 words, I said, I don't need 400 words.
I hope he fails.
So it was at this element, this point in the speech where I explained this.
Uh and it's important that this, if you listen to this, remember, turn on cable news any night of the week, and you can still hear liberal commentators still fuming that I said it.
Believing that I wanted the country to fail.
This notion that I want the president to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we've got.
That's nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it.
Why in the world do I want what we just described rampant government growth, indebtedness that has not be wealth that is not even being created yet is being spent.
What is in this?
What possibly is in this that any of us want to succeed?
Did the Democrats want the war in Iraq to fail?
Well, they certainly did.
And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure.
There's dingy Harry Reed, raving a white flag.
This war is lost.
This war.
They called General Petraeus a liar before he even testified.
Mrs. Clinton.
Says she had to suspend, willingly suspend disbelief or whatever to listen to Petraeus.
We're in the process of winning the war.
The last thing they wanted was to win.
They hoped George Bush failed.
So where is it?
What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation.
Why would I want that to succeed?
And we take a brief time out and be back with much more right after this.
Now back to my uh CPAC.
Do I have time to get this up?
What?
I don't.
That's right.
The bites are longer to we have.
Let me grab a phone call.
Hazel, Wichita, Kansas.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to EIB Network.
Hello.
Oh, what an honor.
Thank you.
I, even though the first time I listened to you, my husband made me listen, I didn't think you would last.
You were the one.
Made me listen for a week.
And I'm still listening, and I love you so much.
Thank you very much.
I really thank you very much for that.
My question is I've got a dilemma.
I we always have big family reunions.
And we have a lot of progressive Democrats in our family.
Yeah, we all do.
Would it be the right thing to serve them your tea?
Right thing?
Uh yeah, heck yes.
Oh my gosh, yes, absolutely.
You think one of the no pun intended, it could be one of the greatest icebreakers there is.
And if it's not an icebreaker, what an interesting conversation your reunion will have.
Oh, yeah, that's what I thought.
Because I guarantee you, the libs, sorry, the progressives in your family don't like me, will not be able to help themselves.
They're going to love the tea because it's the best tea out there.
I think it I think it's a wonderful idea.
I thank you very much for even considering that.
Cannot go wrong doing it.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, despair.
Grrrr.
there.
Lying.
And even the good times, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, um, I have to tell you this this woman that once served two if by tea to her progressive family reunion.
Think of it.
Think of it, madam, as like a peace pipe that you don't have to smoke.
It's exactly what it's gonna end up being.
It's happened before.
People have served to it by tea to their communist family members, and it has worked out.
People, they're shocked.
Frankly, they're stunned that uh that it's that it's good.
Back to my CPAC speech.
This is CPAC weekend.
We're gonna go back to uh February 28, 2009, relive um elements of the speech.
It's hard to say highlights because the whole thing was a highlight, so you can't say that, but we're just picking various uh parts from it.
This is uh adding more to this whole notion of wanting Obama to fail, a country to succeed.
My friends, I know, I know what's going on.
I know it's I know what's going on.
We're in the um we're in the aspects here of uh an historic presidency.
I know that.
But let me be honest again.
I got over the historical aspects of this in November.
President Obama is our president.
President Obama stands for certain things.
I don't care.
He could be a Martian.
He he could be, he he could be from Michigan.
I don't know.
Doesn't matter to me what his race is.
It doesn't matter.
He's liberal, is what matters to me.
And his articulated, his articulated plans scare me.
Now I understand, okay, we can't say we want the president to fail.
Mr. Limbaugh, that's like saying this is the voice of the new Castrati, by the way, guys that have lost their guts.
You can't, you can't say Mr. Limbaugh that you want the president to fail, because that's like saying you want the country to fail.
No, it's the opposite.
I want the country to survive.
I want the country to succeed.
Another caveat.
Thank you.
February 28th, 2009.
This three years ago.
Three years ago, and I forecast exactly what I thought would happen.
Do you know that President Obama in six weeks of his administration has proposed more spending than from the founding of the country to his inauguration?
Now, 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.
There are going to be more controls over what you can and can't do, how you can and can't do it, what you can and can't drive, what you can and can't say, where you can and can't say it.
All of these things are coming down the pike because it's not about revenue generation to them, it's about control.
They do believe that they have compassion.
They do believe they care.
But see, we never are allowed to look at the results of their plans.
We are told we must only look at their good intentions, their big hearts.
The fact that they have destroyed poor families by breaking up those families by offering welfare checks to women to keep having babies, no more father needed, he's out doing something, the government's the father, destroy the family.
We're not supposed to analyze that.
We're not supposed to talk about that.
We're supposed to talk about their good intentions.
They destroy people's futures.
Thank you.
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 is not new.
It's not change, and it's not hope.
Thank you.
Spending a nation into generational debt is not an act of compassion.
All politicians, including President Obama, are temporary stewards of this nation.
It is not their task to remake the founding of this country.
It is not their task to tear it apart and rebuild it in their image.
Thank you.
And we have one more.
This is from my February 28, 2009, CPAC speech in Washington, the last excerpt.
So as you leave here, as as you leave here, optimism, confidence, not guilt.
It's not worth it.
There's nothing to be guilty about.
Don't treat people as children.
Respect their intelligence.
Realize that there's a way to persuade people.
Sometimes the worst way to just get in their face and point of finger.
Set up a set of circumstances where the conclusion is obvious.
Let them think they came up with the idea themselves.
Then they'll think they're smart that they can figure it out.
Who cares how you persuade them?
The fact that they can be persuaded is factually correct.
it's possible.
The main thing to do here, stop thinking that we are a minority.
Stop thinking.
stop thinking that it is being in the minority that liberates you.
It is your beliefs, it is your core principles, it is your confidence that liberates you.
It is not being in the minority.
We, in fact, for those of you watching my first national address, you're still hanging in there.
Um we really not that happy about being a minority, and we're out to change it.
So that's um that CPAC speech, you're gonna think about it this way, was so long ago Congress had just passed their last budget.
That was it.
The last time we had a budget.
Three years ago, Congress passed their last budget.
And uh the media reacted to this afterwards, and we put together a montage of a whole I'm not gonna mention all names here, it would take way too long, but you might recognize some of the voices.
It was passionate, it was intelligent, it was everything we've come to expect Rush Limbaugh to be.
Man did he bring down the house.
Arousing red meat speech that had the fateful jumping out of their seats in rapture.
A fiery hour and a half speech.
I think he did a home run.
He rocked the crowd.
The stem winder of a speech.
Rush Limbaugh, he was the one that wowed the crowd.
Rush Limbaugh fired at the crowd.
He got pretty much a standing ovation throughout that speech.
People on their feet, fist bumps, pounding his chest.
What do you make of all this?
Ross Limbaugh is quite the entertainer.
A fire brand speech many times, standing ovations.
It was a fabulous piece of entertainment.
It was the beginning, if it hasn't started already, of the Rush 2012 presidential campaign.
Now that was Julia Piscatelli, and uh she was from American University.
If you're wondering, the last comment.
Ju uh Julia Piscatelli.
There you got it.
Okay, we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back and there's other stuff.
I was gonna squeeze as much as we can in our final exciting busy broadcast moment.
By the way, I knew that I said earlier that uh was gonna play some excerpts of Marco Rubio's CPAC speech today, and I fully intended to, but we just didn't get to them, so I'm gonna carry those over to tomorrow and open line Friday, because it was bang up jobs.
Uh Marco Rubio is terrific today at CPAC, and we'll have those excerpts for you tomorrow.
See you.
I get you gotta hear a couple sound bites here.
From the Zbigny F. B. Zhezinski.
Now, Zibbi uh Z Big was uh Jimmy Carter's national security advisor.
First guy that Jimmy Carter met with every morning, 7:30, and he oval orifice.
Z Big is the father of Mika Bzhinski, who works with Scarborough on MSNBC.
Z Big was on the news hour with Jim Lara.
Is he still on the news hour or did he quit to retire?
Does it just the news hour?
It's a Jim Alara, nothing.
Gwyn Eiffel, in fact, was was uh was hosting.
Uh and it's nope, Jeffrey Brown was the correspondent talking as Z-Big.
Question Um, how do you define this shift?
There's is it the balance of power in the world in the West and is it a slow rebalancing, or is it a true tipping to power in Asia?
Are we losing ground to the tricoms?
It means the end of global supremacy by the West.
The whole concept of global power, one power dominating the world eventually, is associated with the West.
That today is no longer attainable because the West has declined in its influence.
For the first time in all of human history, the publics of the world, the population of the world, is politically awakened, restless, stirring, resentful.
In many parts, increasingly motivated by an anti-Western narrative.
Oh, yeah, and Zibig is not unhappy about this.
You hear the happiness in his bond villain voice?
He's very happy that the West no longer has this kind of global dominance.
And he's happy that the population of the world is politically awakened and motivated by an anti-Western narrative.
Oh, he's never been so excited.
And so the uh question, well, do you think the American people, the American political system, Z-Big, is prepared to respond to this crisis that you're talking about?
You're talking about you use words like diminishing power, a partner rather than leader.
These are new terms.
I wonder if people are prepared for, are able to respond to Z big.
We are a democracy.
We can only have as good a foreign policy as the public's understanding of world affairs.
And the tragedy is that the public's understanding of world affairs in America today is abysmal.
It is ignorant.
It is probably the least informed public about the world among the developed countries in the world.
There you have it, folks.
You're just a bunch of ignoramuses, a bunch of idiots, and you're responsible for this rotten foreign policy.
Now, I can understand him saying this during the Bush years.
Why say this during the Obama years?
Uh you know, I this is this is just a maid.
The public's understanding of world affairs is abysmal.
It's probably the least informed public among the developed countries in the world.
Right.
Yeah, and uh I guess these same stupid idiots elected Obama.
These same stupid idiots elected the Democrats.
Who's next on the phones?
Mike in Madison, Wisconsin.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, you're the man.
Nice speeches at CPAC.
I love them.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Sorry about the wind noise here.
I'm trying to get my dog back inside quick.
Uh I can't hear the noise.
I got enough noise that I'm hearing, and I can't hear yours.
He doesn't listen anything.
He's kind of a mutt, so I named him lefty.
Here he is.
See, I you kind of touched on it a little bit before with the uh with the auto auto dealerships and the auto salesmen, so I you know I didn't have a whole lot more to say on that, but you know, that was what the predatory lending stuff you were talking about.
So I guess the only thing that I was going to leave you with is just a comment that who needs a super PAC when you got uh, you know, the the state treasury to send out two thousand dollar checks to buy votes.
Um, basically that's what he's doing.
We're borrowing money from China, boystering their military, and buying Democrat votes.
In a sense, uh exactly right.
There's no question.
I I think I think what Obama's doing uh with uh with all of this uh is is is just hideous.
But his other super PAC, he's got two, he's got the media, he's got big labor.
And I guess you could even call Acorn a super PEC, even without forming any.
And he they're out there running around how unfair it is.
You know, Obama is on record as hating super PECs.
I disavow them, I don't like them, the only part of them.
And all of a sudden he's changed his mind.
They're gonna have super PACs.
And Axelrod was asked about, well, we have to win.
We have to do whatever it takes to win the hell with our core policy.
The hell with our core beliefs.
If they're gonna be super PACs out there, we're gonna get in on it, which is uh understandable.
Who's gonna be paying for his is the uh that's the question of the day.
All right, folks, that's it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence, total la complete.
But there's more in 21 hours, as we are here in uh in Los Angeles tomorrow already, already Friday.
So we're looking forward to uh open line Friday for tomorrow, and there's a lot in the stack.
For example, Gallup, Obama's approval numbers are below the re-election standard.
I've got to save a bunch of stuff from today for tomorrow, plus Marco Rubio's CPAC speech, or whatever happens now between now and then.
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