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April 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
And it's Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Looky here, folks.
According to CNN, Pelosi says Obama would veto the Republican student loan plan.
Sort of tells you how important it is to it.
What is the Republican student loan plan?
Well, I'll tell you what it is.
The Republican student loan plan is a piece of legislation that would prevent the interest rate from doubling.
Student loan interest rates supposed to go up.
It's supposed to double on July 12th.
So John Boehner and the House Republicans have proposed legislation to prevent that from happening.
CNN reporting that Nancy Pelosi says Obama would veto that.
Why?
This is so brazen and blatant.
He wants the issue.
He's going to veto this so that student loan rates will go up so that he can blame Republicans for it.
He is counting on the fact that the media will not significantly report the Republicans tried to stop it.
Pelosi is attacking the Republican bill.
And this is what they're saying.
Because this is PAYGO.
Okay, how are we going to pay for this?
The student loan interest rate.
So the government runs it now.
So the higher the interest rate goes, the more the government gets.
So if you're not going to have the student loan rate double, then the government says, oh, we're losing money here.
So Boehner and the boys, to make up the loss, take $5.8 billion from Obamacare.
And Pelosi is attacking Boehner's bill because it uses that $5.8 billion from Obamacare's preventive health program.
She's calling it an attack on the health of American women.
Apparently, only American women benefit from preventative health care.
Now, never mind, never mind that Democrats voted earlier this year to take money from the Preventive Health Fund to help pay to keep doctors' Medicare reimbursements from doctors dropping.
And never mind, Obama's own budget proposed cutting $4 billion from the same fund to pay for some of the other stuff that he wanted.
The GOP has always been against the interest rate on student loans going up.
They just want to pay for it.
Again, folks, just so everybody's clear, the student loan interest rate is scheduled to double because of legislation the Democrats wrote in 2007.
The Republicans, and since the government runs the student loan program, all the interest payments go to the government, not private sector banks.
So if the student loan interest rate's scheduled to double, then the government's telling itself it's going to have that much more money coming in as people pay off their loans and pay the new interest rate.
So the Republicans come along and say, oh, we're going to make sure the interest rate doesn't go up.
Well, no.
Well, that means the government's going to lose that money.
Oh, no.
The government can't do with a penny less than it has ever spent.
It can't be.
That's right.
It's different when Obama does it, but when they're, because Obama can spend all kinds of money he wants.
It doesn't have to be paid for.
The Republicans have to pay for what they do.
So the government is not going to do without the money that's supposed to be flowing in with the interest rate doubling.
So Boehner's going to go get it.
And there's plenty of it, by the way, from Obamacare.
It's got so much wasteful spending in it, it's obscene.
And Pelosi's, oh, no, we're not supporting that.
You're not going to take money from the Obamacare.
Why?
That's going to hurt women.
Here's breaking news.
This is the way the AP is reporting this.
House ignores Obama's veto threat.
Okay's bill keeping federal student loan interest rates from doubling.
The bill passed 215 to 195, which means some Democrats voted with the Republicans.
I'm assuming so.
I'm assuming it's bipartisan.
In 2007, it's important to remember this so you can tell all your friends.
In 2007, the Democrat-controlled Congress could have made this interest rate permanent.
Nobody could have stopped them.
They had a veto-proof majority.
The Democrats are playing a political game.
212 is an election year.
Student loan interest rate doubling in July of an election year they can blame on Republicans.
They wrote that into the law.
They could have kept it permanent.
So the Republicans want to lower the student loan interest rate, quote-unquote, pay for it by grabbing $5 billion from Obamacare.
Pelosi says, nope, nope, not going to do that.
And Obama's threatening to veto it now.
I think Republicans next ought to go after Obama's $8 billion slush fund, which he implemented that to keep from gutting Medicare advantage before his elections.
I think I'd take the gloves off.
I just go for everything now.
But all you need to know is, here's Obama's out campaigning to every college student audience he can find, trying to scare the heck out of them that their student loan interest rate is going to double in July because of the Republicans.
The Republicans have just voted to prevent it from doubling, and Obama's promising to veto it.
So that's that.
Is it any wonder government favorability is at a 15-year low?
A decade ago, Americans felt pretty much the same about their local, state, and federal governments, but no longer.
Now, a decade ago, George W. Bush was president.
There was not a TSA.
There wasn't Obamacare.
Well, wait a minute.
10 years ago.
Yeah, there was a TSA.
TSA after 9-11.
Yeah, we got to throw it.
There was.
Bush did it.
There was a TSA, but there weren't thousands of IRS agents being hired.
States weren't being sued.
The deficit was $10 trillion less than it is now.
First ladies were not taking lavish vacations.
The president wasn't slowjamming the news.
Look at all that's happened in the last 10 years.
And is it any wonder that government favorability is at a 15-year low?
And folks, you can, I know what the media is going to do.
They're going to blame this on a Republican Congress.
They're going to tell us that that's what this means.
Government now is Congress.
Yes.
Because the House is what the Republicans control.
So that's the government.
But Barack Obama is the most hyped, the most visible, the most protected president in history.
So who's he going to blame for this?
But all you need to know is, A decade ago, Americans felt the same about state, local, federal government.
Now, federal government favorability at a 15-year low.
And just to review again, the last 10 years, George Bush was president.
We had no Obamacare.
We didn't have 4,000 new IRS agents being hired to make sure you buy your health insurance policy or pay a fine.
The states were not being sued by the federal government.
The deficit was $10 trillion.
There's no question, folks.
This is it dovetails with what we were talking about yesterday, my vision, where this country is, where the people are, and what the November election could end up being, a landslide.
I don't care where you look.
You've got economic growth at 1.7%, basically.
No jobs, $5 or $6 trillion in new debt.
All these new IRS agents.
Health care bill that 70% of people don't want.
The federal government suing the state of Arizona.
Michelle Obama, $500,000 vacation to Spain, and all these other things.
I don't care what they try to tell us.
Government favorability at a 15-year low is a direct correlation to Barack Obama's presidency.
Today, just one in three Americans has a favorable view of the federal government, lowest level in 15 years.
This according to a Pew survey, the majority of Americans remain satisfied with their local and state governments, 61% and 52% respectively.
Only 33% have a favorable view of the federal government.
And that's about the percentage of people that will vote for Obama.
Democrats own the federal government.
The only thing I don't have is the House.
They can try to blame this on Bush, but that's not what's happening.
They can try to blame it on Boehner and the Republicans, but that's not what's happening.
As things stand, more than three years into the Obama disaster, Americans are fed up.
They have had enough.
And every poll that is a legitimate, honest poll about that tells the truth.
Here, in 2002, 64% viewed the federal government favorably.
Americans held their local and state governments in similar esteem, 67 and 62% respectively.
Who was president in 2002?
The supposedly reviled and they hated George W. Bush.
Brief timeout, and then we get back to the phones.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
Okay, before we go to the phones, these two sound bites.
Last night on the CBS Evening News, they played a couple clips from 60 Minutes Sunday night, an interview Leslie Stahl did with former CIA interrogator Jose Rodriguez, who I know people who know this man.
He's a patriot, he's a hero, he is a great guy, and he's one of the vilified CIA interrogators at Club Gitmo.
He participated in the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, waterboarded him, so CBS tracked him down.
Leslie Stahl says, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tough.
You had to pour water on Khalid Sheikh Muhammad more than 180 times.
This is an individual who probably didn't give a rat's ass about having water poured on his face.
He never believed for one second you were going to kill him.
Let me just tell you, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad would use his fingers to count the number of seconds because he knew that in all likelihood we would stop at 10.
So this doesn't sound like a person who is afraid of dying.
He wanted to be executed for crying out loud.
KSM wanted to be, he wanted to be martyred.
And I'm sure his wife wanted to have sex with him after he died.
Jose Rodriguez ran the clandestine service for Bush 43, the guy being interviewed here by Leslie Stoll.
So Leslie Stahl then says, so what happens?
Does he break down?
Does he cry?
Does he fall apart?
Look, he gets a good night's sleep.
He gets his insure.
By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us and he lost 50 pounds.
What, his insure?
You mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?
Yes.
Dietary manipulation was part of the start techniques.
So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation.
I mean, this is Orwellian stuff.
The United States doesn't do that.
Well, we do.
I love it.
I am.
These liberal news people can't believe he's forced to drink insure.
That's torture to them.
For those of you who don't know what insure is, it's a dairy-based beverage that's loaded with calories and nutrients for primarily cancer patients who can't eat.
It is a compassionate product.
It's a product designed to keep people alive.
I myself, I went to a golf tournament down in Mexico, Puerto Vallarta.
And I came back.
This is some years.
I came back and six weeks after I got back, I had this intestinal thing.
Painful as it could be.
So I was taken to an infectious disease doctor, a great doctor.
And of course, when you go in, they immediately think, I mean, here came Nicolon Cancer Doc, and here came the gastrointestinal.
And the first thing they think of is cancer.
Here comes the CAT scan.
I can't do an MRI because my cochlear implant has a magnet in it, and all hell would break loose, and my head would probably explode if I went an MRI.
You libs, if you ever capture me, probably be a good form of torture to put me in an MRI too.
If the Libs ever capture me.
Anyway, I was given Insure for nutrients.
So we're giving this guy insured, Leslie Stahl.
What?
That stuff they give people in hospital?
That's Orwellian.
We don't do that.
Well, we do.
I love Jose Rodriguez.
He came to us.
He was very heavy.
He got healthy.
Club Gitmo is a spa.
Rush Limbaugh has a licensed merchandise business at Club Gitmo.
We do.
If you go to the EIB store, you can buy Club Gitmo merchandise.
We got t-shirts and caps and all kinds of stuff there at rushlimbaugh.com.
I don't tout this stuff, but it's there.
It's one of the greatest websites any media figure has.
And you should, I mean, we've got our virtual Limbaugh Broadcast Museum there.
I'm going to listen to this again because number 21 Ed.
So what happens?
Does KSM break down?
Does he cry?
Does he fall apart after a waterboarding?
No, he gets a good night's sleep.
He gets his insurer.
By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us and he lost 50 pounds.
What, his insure?
You mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?
Yes.
Dietary manipulation was part of these start techniques.
So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation.
I mean, this is Orwellian stuff.
The United States doesn't do that.
Well, we do.
And you know something else that Jose does here?
He really, Leslie Stahl has no clue what's happening.
I'm convinced.
He's old yes.
Well, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.
Die.
Dire techniques.
Dire technique.
Insure sleep deprivation.
Dire techniques.
He is, he's just having fun with her.
Yes, they were part of these dire techniques.
And she's buying it.
That's Orwellian.
By the way, you know who else does dietary manipulation?
Try Michelle Obama.
She is leading a movement of dietary manipulation in this country.
Does Leslie Stahl not know anything about U.S. history?
How does she think that we treated German and Japanese prisoners who had intel information that we needed?
She didn't ask, no, she did ask if he was waterboarded 180 times.
She says here, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tough.
You had to pour the water more than 180 times.
I don't think that's true.
I don't think he was waterboarded 180 times.
I think that is a claim that's nowhere near accurate.
New York Times, by the way, claims that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 266 times.
That's not even physically possible.
But despite that, Jose Rodriguez, oh, he didn't give a rat's ass about having water poured in his face.
He counted to 10.
He knew this is an illustration of the two different worlds.
Here is Jose Rodriguez, who lives in a really dangerous world, keeping this country safe.
Here's somebody who lives in the equivalent of a penthouse, never leaves it, has no clue what goes on really outside the CBS penthouse, and is astounded that a prisoner would have to drink insure.
That that's dire.
A dire technique.
So here's the headline that CBS has on their press release for 60 Minutes Sunday night.
Here's the headline.
Ready for this?
CIA spy behind the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on al-Qaeda detainees talks about those harsh methods and defends them for the first time.
60 Minutes Sunday.
Ex-clandestine service head Jose Rodriguez also questions the White House's drone strike policy that has killed Al-Qaeda leaders instead of capturing them.
Insure.
Got a plate.
Grab somebody 21 again.
This is an all-time greatest hit.
Leslie Stahl says, so what happens?
Had you waterboarded him?
Did he recycle?
Did you recycle at club?
Wasn't he recycling?
And when Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, did he cry?
Did he fall apart?
No.
He gets a good night's sleep.
He gets his insure.
By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us and he lost 50 pounds.
What, his insure?
You mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?
Yes.
Dietary manipulation was part of the start techniques.
So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation.
I mean, this is Orwellian stuff.
The United States doesn't do that.
Well, we do.
Yes, it was all part of these dire techniques.
Insure.
It's part of these dire techniques.
You know what else they did?
I'm told from a reputable source.
They also played that song by Barney, the kid character.
I love you.
You love me.
They played that over and over until it drove these guys nuts.
Just played the Barney song on a continuous loop.
Drove them nuts.
Okay, to the phones.
Open line Friday.
This is Paul in Los Angeles.
He is 18 years old.
Paul, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Megadox for California.
Thank you, sir, very much.
All right.
So I am a high school senior, and I'm doing a report on racism in the media and mainstream news media.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You are a high school senior.
You're doing a report on racism in the media and mainstream news.
Were you allowed to pick that topic?
Yes, sir.
I had to argue with my teacher for a little bit.
Well, what did the teacher actually assign?
What was the umbrella assignment?
You had to do a report on something and you got to pick the topic.
Yes, sir.
It had to relate to art or justice.
And this was the topic I was a little bit more passionate about.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
The teacher assigned a report that had to relate to art or justice?
Yes, sir.
Okay.
And there is no justice in art.
Have you ever seen Piss Christ?
See which, sir?
That Andres Serrano, a famous leftist artist, submerged a crucifix in a jar of urine, and it was highly acclaimed by the left in the media.
It was put on display at museums, and that was the name of it.
That's what it was called.
I'm quoting it.
It's not, don't get mad at me.
That's what it was called, folks.
I'll say Urine Christ, but that's what it was called.
So anyway, so from Art and Justice, then you chose something you're passionate about, which is racism in the media and mainstream news.
Okay, so that's, well, that's cool.
That's good.
So you're going to do that report.
Yes, sir.
And I wanted to do sort of an on-air interview with you and ask you four questions or so about your experience with racism in the mainstream news media.
Oh, another question.
Were you, as part of the assignment, told you have to interview somebody?
I was, sir.
You were.
Were you assigned to interview me or did you pick me?
Oh, no.
I picked you because my teacher has some leftist leanings, and I think this would be the thing that would anger you.
You want an automatic F here.
Okay, well, I'm flattered.
So you want to interview me?
You've got four questions for me on racism in the news media.
Yes, sir.
Oh.
Well, I'm going to take this very seriously.
I'm honored that you've, I'm honored that you chose me.
Your teacher's left-leaning, and I interrupted you.
You were going to say that you think this would be what?
Meanwhile with regards to my teacher?
Yeah.
Oh, well, since he has some leftist leanings, I wanted to present the truth to him in a manner to which you would be least agree.
And you have chosen a source which will have instant credibility with her.
There's no question about that.
Me.
All right, let's do it then.
Let's hit me.
Hit me with what is the class?
Is it an art class, a sociology class?
What's the class?
Oh, it's a history class.
History class where you have to do a report on either art or justice.
Yes, sir.
Figures.
Okay, hit me with the questions.
Okay.
So, first one is: do you think that the mainstream media has an agenda and are using race and racism as a tool to accomplish goals, or are they just sort of being racist without realizing it?
Okay, it's a three-part question.
Is that the first question, or is that three of the four questions?
That's the first question.
Okay, do I think the mainstream media has an agenda and are using race and racism as a tool to accomplish goals?
Yes.
I'll explain here in just a second.
Or are they just sort of racist without realizing that too?
They are what I call reverse racists.
The first part of your question: the mainstream media does indeed have an agenda.
The agenda is the advancement of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
The purpose for this is to advance the whole concept of big government, which they wholeheartedly believe in as the best instrument for people's affairs to be managed.
The mainstream media is no different than your average Democrat.
The mainstream media individuals in it are no different than your average liberal.
And as such, Paul, they do not have respect for average people.
They look at normal people, the people who I think make the country work, look at them with a little bit of contempt.
They look at them and see incompetence, inability, and they think they need to be managed.
They have to be helped because they're not capable of helping themselves, making the right decisions in life.
They have to be taken care of because most people are not capable of taking care of themselves.
That's why Michelle Obama is deigned to tell everybody what to eat because they're not smart enough to figure out for themselves to eat the right things.
And these are people who are obsessed with power over other people.
They want to tell other people how to live because they don't think that people have the ability to make the right kinds of life decisions themselves or on their own.
Now, the way the racism is a tool here is the mainstream media looks at minorities as especially inept, especially incompetent, because they are, not have been, are continually discriminated against.
The mainstream media, for the most part, the exceptions to this, of course, person to person, but by and large have people who think that all minorities are at an automatic disadvantage simply because of the color of their skin, not being white.
They look at all these minorities as the same, monolithic.
They don't see individuals.
They see groups of victims.
And since they believe people in general are incompetent and incapable, they look at minorities as especially so because they're so discriminated against.
That takes us back to why they like Democrats and Obama and big government, because it is there.
They have the power to implement the things they believe.
And one of the things they love to do is to punish the people who are not minorities for the way they think they are treating minorities.
And they relish the opportunity to use the power of the federal government to punish members of the majority, by definition people who are not minorities, for all of the mistreatment, for the discrimination, pilfering of their money, this kind of thing.
The truth of the matter is that while they believe their intentions are good, and they will tell you that they are doing all this because of compassion for these poor disadvantaged people and because of their big hearts and their love, what they are actually doing, and I mean this, Paul, and Paul's teacher, as you read this, I mean this in the bottom of my heart, they are destroying these people's lives by denying them their dignity, their individuality, and their own humanity.
They are making them not individuals, but members of groups.
They're treating them as members of groups.
And they are not permitting these people to be all they could be as individuals.
If, in the eyes of a liberal, be it a media person or other, if you are a minority, you don't have a chance in this country because this country is racist and discriminatory.
So you need advantages.
You need help.
You are judged to be unable to help yourself.
So we need affirmative action and other programs to help you out because, see, all of this so-called compassion and big-heartedness is actually insulting and demeaning to the people they claim to be helping.
They're actually victimizing them and relegating them to lives of very little meaning because they end up serving as pawns for the media and for Democrats and liberals as means to advance their agenda.
If you can convince everybody that every person of color, every minority is poor and incompetent and blame the majority for that, blame the Republicans for it, blame conservatives for it, then you can use the power of big government to punish conservatives by giving the minorities advantages based on your own view that they're helpless.
That's the answer to first question.
You have three more questions?
Oh, that sort of answered the second one more eloquently than I ever could have possibly imagined.
Okay, well, you're going to have a hell of a report here.
That probably would do it right there, is getting your automatic F when your teacher reason.
You hang on.
I got to take a break.
We'll come back into the other questions when we get back, okay?
Yes, sir.
You bet.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
And we are back to Paul, 18 years old, writing a report, interviewing me for it.
He's from Los Angeles.
Paul, are you blowing some ashes away from the show preparation?
Are you recording this by any chance?
Well, in a way, my father is a Rush 24-7 member.
I was going to suggest, you'll have a transcript of this that way, so you'll be able to get it word for word.
Cool.
All right.
Yes, sir.
What is the second question?
Well, the second question you sort of answered when you answered the first is what do you think the cause of this racism is?
Let me just I'll tell you what it is.
The left in this country, the media, views slavery as this country's original sin, which, of course, you never get over.
You never get over original sin.
They don't want us to get over original sin.
The race industry doesn't.
Here's the thing, Paul.
I can't think of a single conservative that I know who would not be thrilled to see the day where skin color didn't matter a whit.
We conservatives is not, that's not what we first see it when we see people.
We don't see groups.
We don't see sex, race, gender, orientation, any of that.
We see potential.
We see Americans.
We see human beings.
We want the best for them.
And the view of people you're asking me about, they don't even conceive of the best.
They don't think these people are capable, not just minorities.
You must say that liberalism requires as part of its belief that nobody is capable of helping themselves.
The vast majority, that's why liberals are needed.
That's why big governments needed.
But slavery is our original sin.
And it serves a daily purpose for the American left for the Democrat Party, which is the media.
Okay, what's the next question?
Okay.
The third question is, what do you think the effect of this racism is?
And is what the mainstream viewing creating a more racist America Well, the effect is to keep the country divided purposefully.
The effect is to keep Americans at war with one another, to promote division by class and by race, which is hideous.
They want various classes of people to exist, and they want the delineations to be on race and income, class, everything else.
They want to divide us in these ways.
Karl Marx saw history as a war between the classes.
And if you can position yourself as the referee or as the arbitrator of all of this, then you can see to it that the game never ends.
You can see to it that there's always somebody being discriminated against, needing federal action, always somebody being mistreated, requiring a big government to come in and save the day, which it never does, by the way.
All these programs in the great society, the war on poverty, none of them have worked.
They've been bottomless pits of money.
But the left tells you, don't look at the results.
Examine our good intentions.
Look at the size of our hearts.
Look at how much we care.
Well, I would submit they don't care.
And like I told you in the answer number two, what they're actually doing is demeaning people.
And they are preventing people from reaching their full potential.
Now, whether creating a more racist America, I don't think that is a purpose.
I think they think it already is.
I think they look at this country as flawed from its founding.
They look at this country as unjust and immoral from its founding because of slavery.
And since it's a sin, it can never, ever end.
It never goes away.
Sinners are sinners.
There's no redemption for it in their religion.
So It's really depressing to me and most people the way they constantly try to keep people antagonized and angry at each other.
Now, I've got to take a break.
You've got one question left.
It's up to you if you want to hold on for a little while to get to the next question.
You can talk about that with Mr. Snerdley.
In the meantime, we'll be back here in just a second.
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