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April 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 2, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
And that's no mean feat.
I am Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman.
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The email address, lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
So capitalism, the most successful economic system ever created by man.
Look, this is actually, you stop and think of this in more than just political terms.
Think of it in terms of whether somebody's smart and knows what they're talking about.
The greatest economic reality in the history of mankind in 300 short years compared to the length of time other nations have been on earth, societies, cultures, none ever got close.
Standard of living, economic output.
We start with 13 colonies and become the only genuine world superpower.
We create a standard of living for our citizens and others around the world.
We feed much of the world.
We are the first on scene for disasters that happen anywhere else around the planet.
It's striking to look at the history of the United States and call it a failure.
But that is what our president is doing.
And he's doing it as part of his reelection campaign.
The United States of America is a failure.
It's a failed experiment.
It needs to be cast aside.
Now stop and think of that in real world terms.
We have to throw it out and replace it with what?
Six decades of failed liberal social programs.
The New Deal, FDR.
We had the great society, LBJ, the war on poverty.
All of these things did what?
Did we reduce poverty?
No.
Not with liberal programs.
The abject failures, demonstrable, provable failures, are the things Obama believes in.
But it's not just ignorance.
It's not just arrogance.
It's not just conceit.
What is happening under Barack Obama is a willful destruction.
Barack Obama really believes.
He's not just saying, he really believes, and he is campaigning on the premise that the United States is a failure as founded.
And the last three plus years, we have been involved in a purposeful, willful transformation of this country from what it was that made it a failure in his mind to what it will take to make it successful or morally just.
You see, in his world, the United States is immoral and unjust.
The wars that we have fought are immoral and unjust.
And our superpower status did not arise out of our own creativity, industry, and production.
It only happened because we stole the resources that we don't have from other people around the world.
We stole their oil.
We stole their best people.
We stole their best ideas.
We stole whatever.
And we made people poor.
We took other people's wealth.
We stole it.
Meanwhile, we didn't steal anything.
People from all over the world have wanted to come here for as long as this country has been the United States of America.
Capitalism is the most non-ideological, non-racist, most successful economic system in the history of the world.
What's worked better?
Capitalism of the New Deal.
Capitalism of the Great Society.
Capitalism or Obamaism?
Capitalism or the Soviet Union.
Capitalism or Communist China.
Capitalism or Cuba.
Capitalism or Venezuela.
In every one of these countries, where I've offered a comparison, I'm comparing a land of freedom and economic liberty to tyranny and totalitarianism.
China, the old Soviet Union, the current Cuba, the current Venezuela.
Wherever you go, that there is entrenched socialism, you have tyranny and totalitarianism.
And you don't have life, human life, anywhere near as just flat out enjoyable as it is in the United States.
And that might be part of the reason Obama and people like him are mad.
It could well be that they look at it just not fair that the United States has such wealth, such opportunity for contentment, pursuit of happiness, enjoyable lifestyle, expectation of all that.
Maybe that's what bothers them.
It's unfair.
In fact, I think it is.
I think a lot of Obama's belief is rooted in it's time we found out what it's like elsewhere in the world.
Problem is, he thinks that the way it is elsewhere in the world is our fault because we've taken, we've stolen, or we've conquered, or what have you.
Boil it all down to a very simple explanation.
And Obama is running for re-election on this premise that the United States of America is the problem in the world, not the solution.
And that, folks, scary.
That's frightening.
That we have a president of the United States who thinks that his country is the problem in the world.
Time that this country was knocked down a couple of pegs, find out what it's like to be exploited by other people like we did to the rest of the world.
Every previous president in this country, every, well, take it back.
Certainly not Woodrow Wilson.
But I would dare say 99%, 98% of all American presidents have believed with every fiber of their soul that the United States was the solution to the world's problems.
We have one who believes it's the problem.
We and everything about us are the problem.
Why else apologize, folks, to all of these world leaders in his first year?
Why bow down to these other leaders?
Why run for office on the premise that the United States will once again be loved if we have a president who also dislikes this country like other foreign leaders do?
Yeah, I was going to add Jimmy Carter in there.
I mean, we wouldn't want Jimmy Carter in charge of desert rescues, would we?
I still look, I just, there's a degree of difference between Carter and Obama.
I still look at Jimmy Carter as just a bumbling fool bouncing into the walls, trying to get around the house.
I look at Obama knowing exactly what he's doing, where he's going, what his plan is, what he intends on doing.
And I think he told us when he didn't know the microphone was on talking Dmitry Medvedev.
What was it he exactly said?
I don't remember what he exactly said.
I'll have a little bit more flexibility after the election.
I got to get re-elected, Dmitry.
Tell Vlad.
Tell Vlad, as in Putin, tell old Putin, get me some slack.
Be patient.
And everything will be cool.
I'll get rid of our nukes then.
And of course, Medvedev, we will gladly wait eight months for you to disarm, and then we will nuke you.
Jimmy Carter was the same intentions as Obama, but even Roseland knew that he was just bumbling around in there, incompetent, wearing the cardigans and lowering the thermostats, you know, giving speeches on malaise.
Those of you new to the program, this is a fun story.
Actually, I think it's, well, it's true, but I think if there's more to this than we know, and I think what I know is, or what I suspect is true, it was at Nixon's funeral.
You got to understand now, Richard Nixon was hated and despised.
But when he died and they had the funeral out next to the little house where he grew up, every respected American political leader shows up to eulogize Nixon, and they all talked about how great he was.
Clinton, Clinton flew a whole bunch of these people out there, big party on Air Force One, flying out to the Nixon funeral.
Clinton eulogized Richard Nixon.
Henry Kissinger eulogized Nixon.
Ronald Reagan was there.
He didn't speak, but he was there.
George Bush eulogized Nixon.
Liberal Democrats eulogized and just said the greatest things in the world about Nixon.
Jimmy Carter sitting there with Rosalind.
And what I am convinced happened, because at the time, Jimmy Carter was putting houses together at Habitat for Humanity.
That was his attempt to rehabilitate his poor image coming out of the worst presidency anybody could ever remember.
Here's the hated Richard Nixon.
And everybody's eulogizing, and the Carters can't believe this.
Particularly, Rosalind just jabbing Jimmy there in the elbow in the ribs.
Look, can you believe this?
You believe what they're saying about this slime ball, Nixon?
You think they're going to say stuff like this about you?
And from that moment on, after the Nixon, that's when Jimmy Carter put down the hammer, stopped focusing.
He still went to Habitat for Humanity, but it didn't become the.
That's when he started ripping his country.
That's when he started campaigning for the Nobel Prize.
That's when he started joining the Democrats.
And that's when his legacy and his image began to rise.
And then he was given the primo seat at the Democrat National Convention in Boston when John Kerry and his swift boat buddies retook Boston Harbor on the night that Kerry was to go there, accept the Democrat coronation.
And who did he invite to sit with him in the box up there?
None other than Michael Moore.
And it's what the whole Jimmy Carter thing is what led me to evolve the theory that failure, embarrassing, dismal failure, is a resume enhancement for the left.
It's like when Dan Rather got caught making up documents about Bush and the National Guard Service, George W. Bush.
That's a great story.
Wasn't true.
It's a great story.
And even after it was proven that the documents that they used were forged and could not have possibly been created in the era that they were created, Rather hung in there.
It's a good story.
The documents may be false, but the story is true.
Then I remember, I remember somebody, maybe it was a Fox News crew or somebody confronting Rather.
He has gotten out of the airplane.
He got out of the airport and he was walking to his cab or his car out in front of the terminal building.
And this news crew walks up to Rather and they say, well, what about this been established?
These documents were forged.
And Rather said, I want to break that story.
Dan, it's been broken here and asking you if that's true.
I want to break that story.
But what did they do?
Rather had a party thrown for him by Brokaw and Peter Jennings and the rest of the lib media.
And they gave him an award for something in the middle of all this.
Failure gets promoted.
Failure, the more embarrassing the failure, the greater the elevation of the resume.
The more prominent the award.
It's funny.
That's what happened.
So I guess whoever doctored this tape at NBC is going to get a Pulitzer before it's all said and done.
Calm down in there.
We're working on the videotape.
We'll get the audio.
Obama's got a press conference going on with Felipe Calderon from Mexico and Cameron from Canada.
They're doing a thing on, I guess, trade.
Harper, Harper, right, from Canada.
And Obama just lashed out at the Supreme Court.
Lashed out may not be the right characterization, but he certainly attempted to influence the way they're going to vote.
He said things, look, even if some of the justices are not sympathetic to me.
And that, in his head, that could mean anything, folks.
They ought to still obey the law.
And he lied about public sentiment being in favor of his health care law.
It isn't.
I got Cookie working on the soundbite even now.
Ann Romney, CNN is reporting that Ann Romney has a suggestion.
I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.
She was on the radio today.
CNN's reporter.
She was on the radio.
The ABC, I guess, had the story first.
Ann Romney says campaign will unzip the real Mitt.
My gosh, I didn't think he was that stiff.
Hey, they got to go for the zipper here.
I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney.
I love Ann Romney, by the way.
I think this woman is cool.
She's cool.
And this is gutsy.
I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.
Okay, back to the phones.
We go, who's next?
Holly in B Cave, Texas.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you so much, Rush.
You bet.
I'm so nervous, but I'm so excited to talk to you.
I read the article in the USA Today poll about the Gout poll about the women shifting to Obama.
Yeah.
And I was telling Mr. Sharley, I was so furious, and I couldn't wait to hear what you had to say about it.
I feel like as a housewife, raising a family, supporting my husband, who is a small business owner in the natural gas industry, I feel like I'm at constant war with this administration.
I'm at war with them at the gas pump.
I'm at war with them at the grocery store.
I'm at war with them at every single Disney movie I take my kids to see.
That's exactly right.
That was my point.
You go to the gas station, too.
You shop for groceries.
The idea that you can listen to a Trumped fake made-up so-called war about taking away your birth control pills and you running to Obama is foolish.
It's sophistry.
That's why we can't find the internals of this poll.
We don't know if it's likely, registered, or whatever kind of adults, voters, what have you.
But it's absurd, and I think it's insulting.
It absolutely is.
And every woman, every friend of mine that I speak to, we talk about these issues all the time.
And it was flabbergasting to me to see that because that is not what is going on in the pulse of America.
In the pulse of every family out there that's working hard to provide a great future for their children.
And we work our tails off.
And my husband is constantly having to defend his occupation.
I'm having to explain to my kids when we come out of the movie Cars or The Muppets or anything like that that your daddy's not a bad guy.
You know, I mean, it gets a little exhausting.
But you know what?
The feminists of this world can be.
Wait, wait, wait a second.
Now, you are more informed than I.
I have not seen the movie Cars nor The Muppets in a long time.
What are they doing?
Why, when those movies are over, do you have to tell your kids your dad's not a bad guy?
Well, the bad, evil guy in the Muppets is a big oil man, and he's going to tear down the Muppet studio so he can drill for oil underneath it.
You've got to be kidding me.
I didn't know this.
I'm sorry, folks.
I should know these things.
I don't know these things.
Yeah.
The Muppets?
The Muppets have got an evil oil man that's going to drill for oil in their studio?
Yes.
So he's trying to destroy the whole Muppet industry, the whole Muppet, you know.
Their house.
He's trying to destroy the Muppets' house and their trees and everything.
Everything.
They're a total existence.
And what about the cars?
What the hell happens there?
Well, the cars is the same situation.
It's the guy who's trying to promote good, clean energy is being destroyed by the evil guy who doesn't want this guy to win because if he wins.
Oh, jeez.
I thought it ended with Captain Planet Saturday morning cartoons.
Look at that, Holly.
Hang on, Holly.
Hang on.
Don't hang up.
And we're back.
We've got Holly from Bee Cave, Texas, as in Bumblebee Cave.
Yes.
Or Wasp Cave, Texas.
I am embarrassed.
I did not know that the Muppets were doing this.
During the break, I did a Google search and I found a Houston Chronicle story back in November.
Muppets reunite to take on big oil.
Basically, a big, bad Texas oil man played by Chris Cooper plans to drill beneath the Muppet Theater, and their only hope is reuniting the old Muppet crew for a one-night variety show fundraiser.
Exactly.
I'm embarrassed.
I know everything, and I didn't know that.
And that's because I don't have kids.
It's not worth having kids to know it, but I still didn't know it.
And I've never seen Toy Story or Cars or any of the Pixar stuff.
Well, I take it back.
I saw Finding Nemo.
I did see Finding Nemo.
But that's the only one.
And it's everywhere.
And we have constant conversations about it because this is, you know, it's what their daddy does, and it's their livelihood.
Their dad's in the oil and gas business, right?
Yes, he is.
And so their dad now is the equivalent here of the big bad Texas oil man who wants to destroy the Muppets thing.
Exactly.
And it is, it's really tough.
And I will tell you this, a funny story.
My daughter told me yesterday.
We were on our way back from visiting family for the weekend, and we went through McDonald's, and she got the new small McDonald's thing, French fries, and she was very upset about it.
And last night, during our prayer time.
Wait, wait, no, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold it.
Wait a minute now.
Are you telling me I'm more informed than you are?
No, wait a second.
No, wait, wait, wait, no, hold it.
I haven't been to McDonald's in a long time either because I got spies that would report me if I did that.
Why was your daughter upset at the french fries?
Is there something about the Muppets on the French fry box?
No, the French fries are smaller than they have ever been, and they come with apples.
And it's a drastic serving.
Wait, wait, hold up.
You mean the container is smaller or the actual French fries are smaller?
The serving size is changed.
Serving size is smaller.
Because of Michelle Obama and her initiative to get a chance.
And they're serving french fries with apples?
Yes, and she was so upset.
And we said prayers last night, and she said, I pray that my mama will not vote for Barack Obama because he changed the size of our french fries.
Hallelujah.
So your daughter, but this is probably because of you.
Your daughter is associating Obama and Michelle with getting screwed on the french fries serving size.
Well, she asked me what happened.
And so I explained it to her.
And I said, listen, she wants us to eat better, and I'm all for that.
I said, but, you know.
Well, come on.
Was the apple deep-fried at least?
Well, I mean, they just have as much sugar as anything else you want to give your kid.
I mean, they're not, you know, they're not an apple you pick off the tree, that's for sure.
So it's just something that we have to do.
Well, wait, it had to be on some tree somewhere.
I don't think that, I mean, for me personally, you know, giving my child a treat every once in a while at McDonald's should be my prerogative.
And I don't think...
Okay, but now, did the price stay the same?
The price is the same.
Oh, so you just can't buy two servings and make up.
Oh.
Exactly.
So those kind of things, when it shifts down to, you know, that kind of stuff, it's really, it's infuriating that they are really blowing this into something that is not real.
Well, how old are your kids?
I'm going to call you today and talk to you about it.
How old are your children?
Well, I have two girls and they're eight and seven.
Eight and seven.
Well, you know that means you have to be at least, what, 20?
So I'm 38 years old.
Well, then you know this has been going on a long time.
It absolutely has, and it's gotten to the point where I feel like I talk about it all of the time, and I'm really frustrated.
And this is not, this is what's happening.
This is the conversations I have with all of my friends.
Anybody at school trying to raise money for things at school.
It's hard for people to donate now.
I mean, it's a totally different world than it was three years ago.
Yeah, it is.
There's no question.
But this attempt to use pop culture to propagandize kids and indoctrinate them, that is not new.
When you were their age, what was it might have been the forefront of it?
Ted Turner had a cartoon on Saturday morning called Captain Planet.
And this guy was, Captain Planet was a superhero saving the world from major corporations who were destroying the planet by exploring for oil and all this other.
So this Frank Oz, the guy that does the Muppets.
But the difference between them now and me then is 24 hours.
And it's at school.
And it's everywhere we go.
That's a good point.
It was not the situation back in the 70s, in the early 80s.
It just wasn't.
In other words, you can't avoid it, and they can't avoid it.
You can turn off Saturday morning cartoon, but now your teacher, their teacher is filling them with this kind of papers.
Exactly.
I just can say this, Resh.
My daddy used to make me listen to you when I was a teenager.
He used to record your show on a little tape cassette thing, and it was mandatory that I had to listen to it.
And it's one of the greatest gifts I was ever.
I was going to say, look how well that turned out for you.
So thank you so much.
Well, Holly, just a second here.
You need some encouragement here because you're single-handedly.
Your kids now, they recognize this.
They're complaining to you about it rather than accusing you of being part of the problem, right?
Absolutely.
You've got to understand a lot of kids come see the Muppet movie and they go, if situation is the same, but the kids have not been alerted, would really hate their dad because of this.
Right.
Would really hate their dad if they believe what's in this movie.
This is what these people are doing.
I know.
And you are, I guess this is a full-time job just countering the garbage that they see.
It seems like it nowadays.
So we definitely have changed our thoughts on certain things that they do watch.
Well, look at the story out of North Carolina that was maybe six weeks ago, the little girl who had the government agent take away her boxed lunch from home.
Remember that?
And what was the message there?
Your mommy doesn't care for you.
Your mommy is not putting a healthy lunch together for you.
We will do it.
That was the message that the school, it was Hulk County or Hulk Public, whatever it was in North Carolina.
That's the message sent to the kids.
They're really trying to divide kids from their mothers and fathers here.
This is, it's reprehensible.
It really is.
Absolutely.
And I'm just blessed that, you know, I can be at home with them and talk to them about this stuff when the questions come up and the things happen.
And, you know, unfortunately, not everybody could do that, especially nowadays.
So.
Well, I'm glad you called.
It's not often that a caller tells me something I don't know.
Oh, thank you so much.
But you've done it.
In fact, I want to give you a prize.
I want to give you a little gift.
And maybe you can use it.
Maybe it'll help you in your effort here to keep your are they both daughters?
You're two little both girls.
I want to send you a new iPad.
Oh, Rush.
Yeah, they're great.
They're great.
I want to tell you one thing about it, though.
I don't know how much you've heard about the new iPad and its display or its screen.
Everybody's raving about it, how great it is.
Do you have an iPad now?
I have, yes, I do.
It's an old one.
You have the iPad 1 or the iPad 2?
I have the iPad 1.
In fact, the new iPad is on my Mother's Day wish list.
Okay.
Well, this new screen called the Retina display is the finest you have ever seen on any electronic device.
But it's going to take you a couple of days of using this for that to hit you.
It doesn't scream.
It might if you're using the old iPad, the very first one.
But it took me when I first unboxed mine and hooked it up on the first day, I was a little disappointed because I'd heard all this hype.
I'd heard how great it is.
And I thought it would just leap out at me.
It took me a day and a half.
And I don't know why, I don't know how, but a day and a half.
And finally, it hit me just how awesome this screen is.
It is flat out amazing.
But give yourself some time with it for that realization to hit you.
But it's a 64 gig.
It's got Wi-Fi.
Would you prefer white or black?
Oh, gosh.
I don't prefer.
I don't know.
Whatever you decide.
Okay, do you?
Well, it has LTE 4G cellular capability, too.
What large city is B Cave next to?
Austin.
Austin.
Okay, I'm going to send you a Verizon one, unless you want ATT.
Oh, that's fine.
I'll send you a Verizon.
It'll be black.
I don't have any white ones.
So I'll send you a black Verizon.
And you can choose to hook that up on a month-to-month basis if it doesn't require a contract like a phone does.
But it's Wi-Fi, and it's just awesome.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
And I'll tell you what else, too.
I'm going to enroll you as a complimentary one-year subscriber to my newsletter so that you can, because you'll be able to get the website on the iPad.
But we'll send you the newsletter.
It's the largest political newsletter in the country.
It comes out monthly, and you can use that with your daughters, too.
So hang on, Holly, and Mr. Snerdley will get all the information necessary.
We'll have that iPad to you tomorrow.
It'll be at FedEx.
And we'll be back more right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Let's go to the audio tape.
Here's Barack Obama.
He got a question this afternoon.
After last week's arguments in Supreme Court, many experts believe there could be a majority five-member vote to strike down the individual mandate.
If that were to happen, if it were to be ruled unconstitutional, what would you do?
Would you still guarantee health care to the uninsured and those Americans who have become insured as a result of the law?
Ultimately, I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.
It was.
I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint.
An unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law.
Well, a good example.
And I'm pretty confident that this court will recognize that.
That's none of what he said is true.
He didn't define judicial activism properly.
Judicial activism is writing new law.
This is not judicial activism if they overturn it.
It's supporting the law.
It's confirming the law.
There was not a large majority.
This was not a bipartisan victory.
Here's the next soundbite.
I'm confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld.
And again, that's not just my opinion.
That's the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academics and judges and lawyers who've examined this law, even if they're not particularly sympathetic to this particular piece of legislation or my presidency.
What is that?
not sympathetic to my presidency?
Yeah, the people who thought it's constitutional are shocked, and now they're beginning to look at it.
We went through all this last week.
I don't need to retrod past ground, but folks, he also went on to talk about how unelected officials should not have any say-so in this matter.
It's almost like he expects this thing to be found unconstitutional.
It's almost like he expected to be struck down.
And he's the real question here, the real question, here's a constitutional law professor, Barack Obama, and he doesn't know that his mandate's unconstitutional.
And the truth is he doesn't care.
He really doesn't care.
But this is there are more sound bites.
His answer rambled.
It went on and on and on.
We'll have more on this tomorrow, folks.
But it appears that he's crossing the line separation of powers here and wants to run against the Supreme Court.
That has not worked for presidents in the past.
Hey, Mr. President, last time I looked, a bunch of unelected people created a national abortion law.
And I think you were pretty cool with that.
Roe versus Wade, 1973, a bunch of unelected people created out a whole cloth of right that doesn't even exist, not even show up in the Constitution.
So, as usual, hypocritical as possible.
Great to be with you today, folks.
Look forward to being back tomorrow.
We'll see you then.
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