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Feb. 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 27, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rushlin Bohem, the fairest host of all.
Here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, great to have you here.
What?
What?
Am I going to watch what?
Iron Lady?
I just, my, I, Snerdley wants to know if I'm going to watch Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep movie.
She won the Best Actress Award for it last night.
She said something very curious last night, by the way, that nobody commented on immediately, and I haven't paid any attention since.
They talked a lot about other things she said in her acceptance.
For example, she stood up there and said, no, you're not half of Americans.
Oh, not her again, because she's got 17 nominations.
I was shocked to learn her last Oscar was 1982.
I read that.
It still sounds unreal.
And I guess that was Sophie's choice.
But I thought she'd won Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress since then.
But anyway, she said that it was the last time she'll be on the stage.
Now, I don't know if she's making a joke of the last time we're going to have it in that building or what else could she have meant?
It's the last time.
Is she retiring?
I can't believe that.
So I thought that was really intriguing.
This is the last time I will be here.
She moving?
Remember, Meryl Streep, what are we doing to her children?
She perpetrated that phony Alar scare.
Is that what it is?
She thinks she's too old to get a good acting.
Anyway, your question about the Iron Lady.
I know the real thing.
I have spent a lot of time with ladies that I've driven Lady Thatcher around a golf course.
And that was one of the most fun things I've ever done.
While guys are playing golf, she wanted to see, it was Eagle Springs out in Eagle, Colorado, near Vail.
And some mutual friends were staying at their place, and she wanted to go see the golf course.
So she's dressed to the nines as she always was in a dress.
And got in the golf cart, started tooling around.
And etiquette and protocol, you stop when somebody is preparing a shot, either tee off or make a putt or what have you, so that you don't distract them.
And every time we'd stop, of course, it's because there was somebody nearby.
And the number of double takes, I don't know how many people threw their necks out of joint that day doing double takes.
Is that Margaret Thatcher?
And it was being driven around the golf course.
The only thing I can tell you, Snerdley, is that Joel Cernow saw it and liked it.
And he thought that it was good.
On the other hand, I read a number of reviews in British newspapers.
Reviews, but not from movie critics, but from people, former members of her administration, former opponents in the Labour Party.
And there was a theme in all of those.
And that was that parts of it were grotesque in the way they portrayed her later years as basically a vegetable.
Grotesque was a word I read often in some of these people's descriptions of the way Margaret Thatcher was portrayed.
But when I get around to it, I'll watch it, and I'll tell you.
I've got the DVD over there.
I just haven't.
And by the way, that came in.
That's a Weinstein movie.
And somehow they sent me a copy.
So I've got it.
I just haven't had a chance to watch it.
Act of Valor.
I don't know.
I just, I couldn't wait to pop it in the DVD and watch the thing.
Okay, Danica Patrick.
She was talking to a reporter at Michelle Fields at, I guess it was Daytona, somewhere where there was a NASCAR event.
And Danica Patrick said, I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
Now, this was about the recent mandate of the Catholic Church providing contraceptions or contraceptive devices and so forth.
She was talking, Danica Patrick was talking about Obama's contraception ruling.
She was not speaking in general, although it applies generally.
Not wrong button by mistake.
She said, I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for America.
She was talking about Obama mandating that the Catholic Church provide contraception.
What do you expect from a woman driver?
I don't know why everybody is so shocked, but I'm going to tell you, her answer sums up the Democrat mindset perfectly.
Democrats want to convince us that personal responsibility is something the government ought to do for us, do they not?
Man, she's the perfect puppet.
She is the ideal perfect puppet with that answer.
Obama campaign tries intimidation to boost fundraising.
This is from one of Andrew Breitbart's websites at biggovernment.com by Mike Flynn.
Despite the Herculian efforts of the national media, Obama's reelection campaign continues to fall short of its groundbreaking Hope and Change campaign in 2008.
In January, Obama fundraising actually fell below the level raised in January of 2008.
So what's happened here, the regime has sent out intimidating fundraiser letters to people who have previously donated but haven't again.
So Obama has gone from inspirational platitudes to intimidating guilt bombs.
Here's an excerpt from the latest fundraising letter.
But according to our records, you haven't yet made an online donation to this campaign at this email address.
The kind of organization we all decided to be a part of only works if people like you pitch in to build it.
So they're disappointed they don't have repeat fundraisers, and they're sending out intimidating emails to people to try to guilt them into donating.
It's the same group of people hiring 16,000 IRS agents to enforce Obamacare, the mandate to buy health insurance.
Same group that's setting up death panels to ration health care.
People who are suing states like Arizona over immigration law.
The same people who are warning Israel not to defend itself.
The people who shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and promise to drive up electricity prices.
The same group who take lunches away from little girls and tell her what she can't eat.
The same people who inspect these little girls' lunches in kindergarten and then tell them their mommies don't know what's good for them.
These are the same people sending out intimidating fundraising letters to their own donors.
But according to our records, you haven't yet made an online donation to this campaign at this email address.
The kind of organization we all decided to be a part of only works if people like you pitching to build it.
The message is clear here.
We're tracking you.
We know who you are.
And we know that you're not giving us money.
And that had better change.
Another fundraising letter was sent out by the campaign.
It was signed by one of the campaign strategiers named Jim Messina.
This letter was an attack on the Koch brothers, Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries.
Well, the people at Koch Industries, it's KOCH, by the way, Koch companies have fought back.
They were slimed.
They were slandered.
They were libeled in this letter.
They were accused of all kinds of things that are not true in this fundraising letter.
But they are fighting back.
Their lobbyist, guy named Philip Ellender, president, government and public affairs at Koch Companies, that's basically their lobbyist, wrote a letter, Dear Mr. Messina, because every American has the right to take part in a public discourse, public discourse on matters that affect the future of our country.
I feel compelled to respond directly about a fundraising letter you sent out on February 24th denouncing Coke.
It's both surprising and disappointing that the president would allow his re-election team to send such an irresponsible and misleading letter to his supporters.
For example, it is false, Mr. Messina, that our business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump.
Our business vision begins and ends with value creation, real long-term value for customers and for society.
We own no gasoline stations.
And the part of our business that you allude to, oil and gas refining, actually lowers the price of gasoline by increasing supply.
Either you simply misunderstand the way commodities markets work, or you are misleading your supporters and the rest of the American people.
Now, this is the kind of stuff that we ask Republicans to do.
Just fight back against these lies.
So Jim Messina, this punk at the Obama re-election campaign, sends out a fundraising letter.
The Koch brothers have a business model designed to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump, and they don't even own a gas station.
They're in the oil and gas services industry.
They go out and discover it.
They drill it.
They add to the supply.
They end up keeping prices down.
The letter went on.
Contrary to your assertions that we have committed $200 million to try to destroy Obama, we've stated publicly and repeatedly since last November that we have never made any such claim or pledge.
It's hard to imagine that your campaign is unaware of our publicly stated position on that point.
Similarly, Americans for Prosperity is not simply funded by the Koch brothers, as you state.
It has tens of thousands of members and contributors from across the country, from all walks of life.
Further, our opposition to this president's policies is not based on partisan politics, but rather on principles.
Charles Koch and David Koch have been outspoken advocates of the free market for over 50 years.
They have consistently opposed policies that frustrate or subvert free markets, regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican was president.
Now, if the president's campaign has some principled disagreement with the arguments that we're making publicly about the staggering debt the president and previous administrations have imposed in the country, the regulations that are stifling business growth and innovation, the increasing intrusion of government into nearly every aspect of American life, we would be eager to hear those.
But it is an abuse of the president's position and does a disservice to our country for the president and his campaign to criticize private citizens simply for the act of engaging in their constitutional right of free speech about important matters of public policy.
The implication in that sort of attack is obvious.
Dare to criticize the president's policies, and you will be singled out and personally maligned by the president and his campaign in an effort to chill free speech and squelch dissent.
This is not the first time the president and his administration have engaged in this sort of disturbing behavior.
As far back as August of 2010, Austin Gouoldsby, then the president's chief economic advisor, made public comments concerning Koch's tax status and falsely stated that the company did not pay income tax, which triggered a federal investigation into Mr. Goulesby's conduct that potentially implicated federal law against the improper disclosure of taxpayer information.
Last June, your colleague sent fundraising letters disparaging us as plotting oil men bent on misleading people with disinformation in order to smear the president's record.
Those accusations are baseless and were made at the very same time the president was publicly calling for a more civil conversation in the country.
Now, it's understandable that the president and his campaign may be tired of hearing that many Americans would rather not see him re-elected.
However, the inference is that you would prefer that citizens who disagree with the president refrain from voicing their own viewpoint.
Clearly, that's not the way a free society should operate.
And we agree with the president that civil discourse is an American strength, and that's why it's troubling to see a national political campaign like yours apparently target individual citizens and private companies for some perceived political advantage.
I also hope the president will reflect on how the approach the campaign is using is at odds with our national values and the constitutional right to free speech.
This is a devastating letter in response to a bunch of false allegations in an Obama fundraising letter sent out by Jim Messina targeting Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries.
This is how you do it.
Now, I don't know how widespread the letter is.
This is Philip Ellender again, the president of the government and public affairs at Coke Company's public sector LLC.
But this is how you do it.
And this is what Obama's not used to.
Obama's not used to people.
The Republicans in the House don't fight back like this.
The Republicans in the Senate don't fight back like this.
The GOP and the RNC, they don't fight back like this.
Obama's not used to this.
Got to take a break, sit tight, much more straight ahead after this.
To the phones, we go, Richard, in the Keys in Florida.
It's a great place, and it's great to have you with us.
Welcome, sir.
Thank you.
Did you want me to rush?
I was calling about, you mentioned algae, and I know that Obama in his speech with me yesterday or the day before talked about algae as an alternative for fuels.
And my business, it's Kent Bioenergy, it's probably the leading company in the world, at least in the United States, in actually growing algae.
Now, I'm not.
What is the name of your company?
Did you just give me the name of it?
Yeah, Kent Bioenergy.
K-E-M-P?
No, Kent, like Clark Kent Superman.
Oh, Kent, okay, Kent Bioenergy.
Okay.
Yeah.
And most of the expertise that exists in the country, in the world today in algae, is in the laboratory.
A lot of theoretical aspects of what you can do with algae, perhaps 100 times more oil out of algae than corn, things like that.
The problem is actually implementing that in the field and doing it in real-life situations with the real circumstances of nature and so forth.
Doing it that way, you find that you can, in fact, produce algae that can produce biofuels.
The problem is you can't do it at any economical price.
There's a lot of factors that go into this, one of which, of course, is selection of algae and so forth, which obviously is part of it.
People think of algae as the scum in ponds and so forth.
And actually, that's not what we're really dealing with.
Algae, if you looked at it, living algae, is a very microorganism that's so small, when you look at it, if you had a glass of it, it would be clear like limate.
It doesn't look scummy.
It looks because it's living.
And so the big problem is getting the algae out of the water.
Now, we have certain technologies that can do that, but it's very expensive.
And then we have technologies.
The other thing you've got to do is get the oil out of the algae.
And that also can be done, but it's very expensive.
So unless oil gets to $300 a barrel, none of this technology at the moment is going to be very efficient.
Let me ask you two questions.
First question, does burning algae, using it in this way, emit carbon dioxide?
Well, yeah, it's a bio, it's a carbon.
So it emits a greenhouse gas.
Yeah, well, carbon dioxide shape.
Okay, the second thing, I read somewhere over the weekend, I don't remember the number, but it was a phenomenal number that to create a gallon, an oil or gasoline equivalent gallon of fuel from algae would take so much algae that it was preposterous to me.
What is that ratio?
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
We actually don't burn algae.
What you do is you extract from the algae that produces that you grow an algae that produces a biofuel, and you extract that biofuel from the algae, and that's what you burn.
So you have to measure that in looking at the number of acres you would need to produce so many barrels and so forth.
And that is very, it's quite variable, but depending upon the actual algae you can grow and the kind of technology that you'll have applied to it.
Right, but right now it's not practicable at all.
It isn't.
Even if you could do it, and even if you could do it efficiently and so forth, you're going to still deal with a huge number of acres in this country that you would require for that.
That's not an impossibility if the technology were there.
But you're talking about...
Well, look how much oil it takes.
Look at the oil reserves.
I mean, that's not a tiny little place where all the oil comes from.
It's huge.
This guy, Richard, thanks for the call.
This guy is so out of his league, and they just throw out there, I'm looking at algae.
That's badly absurd.
In a sane world, this guy would be laughed out of office, not voted out.
I just got an email.
I said I wasn't going to talk about act of valor anymore.
I got an email from my buddy Mark Hassaro, the retired lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Air Force, who overwhelmed me one day by flying a flag in his tanker and six other aircraft in the original invasion of Iraq in 2003.
He FedEx to me just out of blue with the certificates of all the aircraft and a letter explaining it all.
I'm blown away by it and become his friend.
And he sent me just a note about act of valor.
He said, I've been listening with interest to your commentary on the movie.
The first thing which came to my mind was that these are not actors and this is not acting and this is what it looks like in real life for the teams.
And that is the best way to describe this movie.
It isn't acting.
The SEALs are not actors.
There are actors in the movie acting, but what they do, this is not Hollywood.
It is the best way to describe it.
This is what it looks like in real life, which movies don't capture.
All right, what are you laughing at in there?
When I'm watching this movie with Catherine, and I told her before it started, there's all kinds of criticism of it from the left, and we're watching it, and she asked me to pause it.
Why do they hate this?
She knows that it's because it portrays the U.S. military in a positive light.
There's a lot of left-wing blogosphere ripping of this movie.
Folks, I'm telling you, as propaganda, it makes the military look good.
All it is, is what they really do.
But the best way to describe it is this is what it looks like in real life, and that's why I've never seen it before.
That's why when you watch this, you haven't seen this before.
Unless you're a SEAL or unless you've worked with them, you haven't seen this before.
You haven't seen this portrayed a Tom Cruise movie or a Matt Damon movie or any other action-adventure thriller type.
This is what real life looks like, whether they're in training or downrange.
Here's Bob in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Headquarters at the Democratic National Convention this year.
Rush, just an opinion on Beverly Dew.
Before Dew is the first North Carolina governor to face a Republican legislature in 144 years.
Okay, you started, so I thought you were a recording.
Could you start?
I thought we caught you in the middle of a recording.
Start, and it's not your problem.
It's my hearing.
Start again with what you said.
She's the first governor to have to deal with a Republican legislature in 144 years.
Oh, Dumplin is the first governor to have to deal with a Republican legislature in 144 years.
Correct.
And secondly, the voter ID law did her in.
Seventy-eight percent of voters wanted that law passed.
And even though the Speaker of our House...
How did that do her in?
Because 78% of people wanted it.
And she vetoed it in spite of the legislature's willingness to work with her.
Oh, gotcha.
Okay.
She said, no, I won't pass it, no matter what you do with it.
I see.
Yeah.
So that was a double whammy.
She vetoed it.
Yeah.
She had to let us vote over taxes.
She keeps wanting to raise taxes and legislature won't let her do it.
But just give me one second here, another point.
Charlotte has been bombarded with Democratic operatives.
We had Sebilius here this weekend.
Jared is coming through.
One of the Arnie is coming through.
I told you because they're not scared.
They're not losing the state.
They are losing it.
Mayor Fox was in Beverly Hills last weekend drinking pink champagne with Obama trying to raise money to pay for the convention here because they're not raising the money they want.
Let me ask you a question about Purdue.
Yeah.
Her nickname is Dumplin.
Yes.
When I hear that as a nickname for somebody, I think that's you don't call somebody who's really bright and intelligent dumpling.
It is, I mean, I don't know of a graceful way to ask the question.
Is she smart?
She's a hack.
Okay, she's a hack.
That's all.
She's a hack.
I mean, she was a lieutenant governor before that.
She's been in the government for years and years and years.
What does her husband do?
Service convenience stores.
Whatever she wants.
Convenience stores.
Convenience stores.
Okay.
Yeah.
But as I said, this is a state that's changing.
So I was really surprised in 2010 when we went Republican on the legislature.
Very surprised.
Because of the number of northerners that are coming into this city, it's really changing the demographics big time.
Well, are you confident that Republicans can win the state back?
I believe so.
The fact that they're having such problems raising money, and they said, Anthony Fox, he's a rising star.
You know, Obama keeps dragging him to Washington.
He has a lot of time at the White House.
Why would this guy be drinking pink champagne instead of the real stuff?
I don't know.
I guess that's what they were serving in Beverly Hills that day.
Yeah, but I said they're not getting the money.
And our Duke Energy people, they're guaranteeing $10 million of it.
So Duke Energy stockholders will end up paying $10 million if they can't raise it.
Yeah.
Well, I've got to tell you, 2010, those midterm elections, I'm telling you, folks, you've forgotten about it now.
The Democrats haven't, they got a shellacking from the top all the way down to the bottom of the ballot, all the way down to dog catcher, nationwide.
700, nationwide, 700 Democrat seats went Republican in the 2010 midterms.
That's how bad it was.
And of course, this isn't going to be discussed.
2010, and to the extent that it is discussed, well, you can't compare that to now.
I mean, totally different circumstances.
A congressional election, there wasn't a single person or individual on the ballot, blah, blah, blah.
Democrats are on the ballot, and they got skunked in 2010, and the Tea Party did it.
And the Tea Party is not dead, contrary to the hopes and dreams and the wishes of all these clowns on MSNBC and everywhere else in the drive-by media.
Thanks very much, Bob.
Appreciate the call.
Snerdly, do this.
Google act of valor and propaganda, and you should get about 1.7 million results.
There is an ongoing campaign on leftist websites to discredit this movie.
I just, if you go see this movie, you'll come out of there, ask yourself, why would anybody want to discredit it?
All of it, I mean, folks, it's not even a pro-America movie.
It's not the purpose of it.
It may end up being that, but that's not why it was done.
This is a Hollywood studio that did this.
It's not some fringe outfit.
This is Relativity Media.
They're mainstream Hollywood production house.
And all it is, is if you look this movie, if you read about how it came to be, it's the result of these two guys that produced it.
They actually did want to do a training film using real seals, and that spawned the idea of a movie.
But it's a fictional story.
This is like any other action-adventure movie.
There's nothing propaganda about it.
And it will.
There's nothing dishonest about the movie.
That's what's so great about it.
It's so, it's, I guess, this movie is dripped with reality, dripping with reality.
I don't want to talk about it anymore.
I'm going to destroy people's expectations for it if I keep talking.
So that's it.
I'll be back.
All right, one more time on this.
I did not like Act of Valor because I'm conservative.
I do not say what I'm saying about it because I'm conservative and there's a conservative message in it.
It is a good, maybe great movie with things I've never seen before, pure and simple.
I happen to have an awe and respect for the U.S. military.
I can't deny that.
But I don't like this because it fits my political agenda.
There is nothing agenda-oriented about this movie.
The left is scared of this and makes no sense.
And the fact that they are is quite telling.
Why do you think these Democrat governors are meeting with Obama?
They remember 2010.
They are scared to death what's coming in November.
These Democrat governors meeting with Obama to figure out how they can get things done without using Congress.
They are scared to death.
It's an election year for these people.
They see what happened to Dumplin.
They see what happened to Democrats, 700 of them all over the country on the ballot in 2010.
These guys are scared.
Look at, I'm not the one with the problem here.
It is, remember the story we had from a couple of months ago?
You show the American flag and people think Republican?
Okay, Tom in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Great honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I'm doing quite well.
Appreciate your asking.
Good.
Quick shout out to the AA community.
This is Goatman 007.
I want to say hello to all my buddies out there.
And I finally saw your episode of Family Guy and thought it was great.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Now, Bo told me to get straight to the point and apologize to him for me for not doing so.
But what I want to know is, where is the derision from the mainstream media over Barack Obama's algae solution versus George Bush's switchgrass solution?
Well, I've forgotten about that.
I haven't.
And I also remember your incident with the shopping cart.
Okay, I've been listening to you since 1986.
The homeless shopping cart.
What's that?
What did Bush say?
Switchgrass was going to be an alternative energy source?
He had proposed that we use alternate sources of energy, such as Switchgrass, as he used it as an example, to go ahead and produce biofuels to go ahead and use for gasoline and diesel fuel and whatnot.
My gosh, I had totally forgotten about that.
I haven't.
Like you are a teleton loan from God.
God has cursed me with a long memory.
Okay, I can remember pretty much everything that you've ever said.
Yeah, well, I know what that long memory thing is like.
It is a curse.
Yeah, I know.
And believe me or not, you know, believe me, you know, sometimes it's a curse.
And I'll tell you what, when I hear about things like this, I'm thinking like, okay, what is the double standard here?
You know?
It is, there's no question, but there always has been such a double standard.
Well, it's like now the gas price itself.
Now it's higher than it's ever.
We've never had $5 a gallon gasoline in this country before.
We've never had it.
Now we do.
And all the news stories are, oh, it's not a problem for Obama.
It's not his fault.
Now, here's a, poor Obama, this is what's causing it.
Can he survive this in the election?
That's the way these stories are now framed.
Yeah, I was going to talk about Calypso Louis and his fear that all that, but I'll try to carry that over until tomorrow.
I've got a lot of stuff to carry over.
I knew I wasn't going to get it all in.
We tried to get as much of it as possible, but that's it.
Time's up.
Yeah, I just sent from Coco a brief excerpt of my reaction to Bush and the switchgrass for oil.
And apparently I just ripped into it big time.
I mean, I was highly critical of it.
So, see, in addition to everything else, I, El Rochebo, am consistent.
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