Folks, I want to tell you something I'm very serious about this.
This business of all these Democrats defending Romney and defending Bain, defending private equity.
If it were just that, that'd be one thing.
But in doing that, they are undermining their president.
They are undermining Obama.
And Obama had better do something about this, or it's going to spin out of the control audience.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny, South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
This is a much bigger deal than it appears.
We're all getting our chuckles out of it.
We're all getting our yuckyc out of it.
But this is insubordination.
This is political insubordination.
Involving the president of the United States.
Public.
Humiliation of the president of the United States.
And if he doesn't do something about it, it's going to spin further and further out of control.
I'm glad to have you back.
It's open line Friday, and I'm going to take phone calls in this segment.
I just realized I only take one so far.
That's I'm sorry about that.
But I'm just loaded here.
And you know me, I always have so much to say.
800 282 2882, if you want to be on the program.
So this is a quick little monologue, a couple sound bites, and phone calls.
Look at this as a as a well, football team, mafia family, what I don't care.
You've got the president of the United States and his number one campaign premise is destroying Romney, taking Romney out by virtue of his being a huge capitalist, pain capital, private equity.
And in the midst of your attack, prominent Democrats, including a former president, come out and defend Romney, essentially endorse Romney.
Corey Booker, the mayor of Newark, a rising Democrat star, fast Eddie Rindell, entrenched, the governor of Pennsylvania's done everything in the Democrat Party.
Lanny Davis, number one defender of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton.
Stennie Hoyer has come out and said that Clinton was right in what he said about Romney.
Now, folks, the Democrats, the White House here, somebody, Axelrod Fluff, whoever, they had better start disciplining these people.
I mean, it's woodshed time.
Well, look at what happened to David Stockman when he when he back in the uh in the 80s undermined Reagan and supply side economics.
Look what happened.
It was very public trick to the woodshed here.
Now the Democrats had better start disciplining these people, and it's going to be tough.
How do you discipline a former president?
How do you discipline the sitting governor of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?
How do you discipline the mayor of Newark, who is one of your rising stars?
Because they are telling the truth, and the truth is a slippery slope for Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
They are not often found on the same side as the truth.
That's what's so remarkable about all this in one way.
Admit it, aren't you, you're shocked just because the Democrats are opposing Obama.
They're supporting Romney.
But the double shock is they are telling the truth at the same time, which they don't, they're not known for telling the truth.
Can we just be honest here?
The Democrats in the truth are strangers.
The Democrats normally can't use the truth.
The truth about what they are and what they want to do would kill them.
As evidenced by this.
When's the last time the Democrats came out for capitalism, private equity, Wall Street?
When have they done it?
Well, the only time they've done it in recent years is to defend the Republican nominee.
Now it could well be, and I think it's it's we must consider this.
Clinton might be doing it just because Obama's black.
I don't know.
Fast Eddie Rendell, Lanny Davis, they might be just not like Obama because he's black.
There might be racism causing them to do it.
But that will not explain, Daval Patrick, Corey Booker.
Well, I'm telling you.
The only time I can recall in many years prominent Democrats defending capitalism is in the context of endorsing the Republican nominee while undermining their president's primary re-election strategy.
Once you admit one truth, others are likely to follow, and the truth will doom the Democrat Party.
And before you know it, the whole edifice of liberalism and progressivism slides down the hill to the bottom.
These people, folks, I'm I am I'm not trying to be funny here.
I'm I'm trying to get everybody to realize how profound what's happening is.
They're not just defending Bain, and they're not just defending Romney.
They are defending capitalism.
They are defending the number one enemy of their sitting president.
Whether they're aware of that or not, I don't know, but they're doing it.
And in the process, they're not just undermining liberalism or Obama, they're undermining their whole ideology.
I'm not trying to make it bigger than it is, and I'm not saying it it's it's uh turn things around.
Well, I'm this is profound for Obama.
This is profound for the presidential re-election effort.
Once you admit one truth, others are likely to follow.
I don't know how you let this go if you're Obama without disciplining these people.
But then again, I don't know how you discipline them.
What does he do?
But I'm gonna tell you if if if Barack Obama causes a worldwide depression, the Democrat Party is not going to survive it.
And the Bill Clintons will be forgotten, footnotes in history.
The Democrat Party be in the ash heap of history if this guy is allowed to do what he wants to do.
It isn't Bush, it's not Reagan, it's not any of Obama's enemies.
Barack Obama is the one that put us on this path, and he's driving the car, he's got the keys, and he's got the pedal to the metal.
You remember what happened?
Illustrate my point.
When Gorbachev came out with perstroika and glasnos.
What was Gorbachev trying to do?
Save himself, save a Soviet Union.
They knew it was over for whatever reason.
It was Star Wars, but they knew it was over.
They didn't want to give up communism.
They couldn't, so they tried to parcel out a little freedom.
And they told a few little bits of truth, and it all imploded.
Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, and all it took was for one Marxist to admit that it didn't work.
All it took was for one Marxist to admit they needed to change, and suddenly it all went down to drain.
At least as far as the Soviet Union is concerned, not all of capitalism, but that branch of it, which was pretty important and big at that time.
So what what is happening here is of profound weight.
A little honesty is a dangerous thing for Democrats.
But even if they were lying, still the fact that they are publicly undermining Barack Obama, and for all intents and purposes endorsing his opponent and his credentials, qualifications.
And this is not happenstance.
It's not coincidental.
What do we have?
Here's number nine.
This is Davalpatrick, the governor of uh Massachusetts.
Last night, CNN.
Again, nobody saw it, so I'm gonna play it for you.
Anderson Cooper said.
You have said that some of the attacks on Bain Capital have been distorted.
Some of the ways that Bain Capital has been portrayed have been distorted.
How so?
I don't think Bain is a bad company.
I don't think that uh that private equity has an un inappropriate role in the private economy.
The question is, uh, what was Governor Romney's record when he was at Bain.
He's a good thing.
But the Obama campaign has had people coming forward saying this is vulture capitalism.
You haven't heard Anderson, you haven't heard that from me.
I spent most of my life in the private sector.
I respect Bain and I respect Bain's role.
He doubled down.
Here's Anderson Cooper doing his best.
Come on, just tell it's vulture capitalism.
Please just just parrot Obama just as vulture cap.
Uh-uh, I like it.
You might not have heard this because Cooper was talking over him, but but Deval Patrick said Romney created a lot of wealth.
Now the White House message is Romney destroyed jobs.
Romney destroyed jobs, destroyed companies, but took profits out for himself.
That's what the White House wants the Democrat Party saying.
Here's Daval Patrick after the controversy has erupted, doubling down on it, saying, no, no, Romney created a lot of wealth.
Anderson, you haven't heard vulture capitalism from me.
I spent most of my life in the private sector.
I respect Bain.
I respect their role.
Starting to make me wonder about Bain, to tell you the truth.
Just kidding.
One more bite.
This is kind of funny, I'm told.
CNN this after CNBC power lunch this afternoon.
Tyler Matheson breaks away from Obama's speech.
are covering Obama's fundraising appearance in Minnesota.
We're going to break away from the president's remarks at a Honeywell manufacturing plant in Minnesota.
We should note, and we're going to monitor that speech as he uh concentrates on new initiatives uh to put uh veterans back to work.
We should note that the Dow Industrials, when the president began speaking, were down about 220 points on this really uh down day in the marketplace, and now down about 252 points.
Folks, they cut away from Obama to tell our audience the economy's tanking.
CNBC, that's GE, that's NBC, that's in the tank for Obama.
They cut away from his big speech about how the economy they're going to bring him to Congress's fault, whatever he was saying about his fundraiser in Minnesota, to point out that the market is plummeting.
And they go on to say, yeah, it was down 220 when he started, and now it's down at 252.
Holy schmole, let's go to the phones.
Dimitri in Houston.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts with the audience about the.
Thank you, Dimitri, very much.
Uh well, I was on hold here.
I wrote something in my book here on my uh light piece of paper that the private equity is probably the spine of capitalism.
And I wanted to connect that to my history.
I come from a former Soviet Union.
I grew up and uh left the country right around the Berlin Wall falling down.
And I wanted to tell the audience that back in the Soviet Union, you could not go and borrow money from the government.
You cannot go borrow money from the bank because the government and the bank didn't allow you to have anything private.
You have to have a special permission from the uh the Politburo from the secretary of the party for you to buy a TV to buy a refrigerator.
You have to wait 20 minutes to get a vulgar.
Wait, wait a minute.
Who who had those kind of connections?
The average citizen didn't have connection to the uh Pulit Bureau or the secretary of the party to buy a fridge, so nobody had them.
The local the local party.
So you had to go to local commissar, in other words.
Commissar, yeah.
And he's the one that is going to sign off a piece of paper so you can put your name on the line so you can get six or eight or twelve months later a refrigerator or a TV.
They did not want you to have anything private because everything was a commune.
And the Congress resided every five years, and they put this plan what's going to happen in the next five years and how much how much rice and how much steel and how much coal we'll produce, and then if this doesn't happen, we blame someone.
Right.
So capital was outlawed.
Money was out.
The only way you can have money is if you go to the government to get it, and they wanted you realizing it.
You only had anything because of them.
No other source provided you anything but the government.
But the reason I called and they put me through is the fact that we're experiencing something very unique back as far as media and as far as propaganda is concerned.
You know, the uh there was Joseph Gilbelt and Molotovs and Gorkies of the world back in Russia and the Nazi Germany.
There was a one guy running the entire uh propaganda machine.
Here we have something unique.
We have all those cohorts of CNBCs and TVs and radios and NPRs and Oliver Stones and Spielberg and Bloomberg and everybody running in sync, and they throwing all those numbers and they speculate and they and and all of a sudden when everything tumbles down, then they come and revise the numbers.
They throwing all kinds of information subliminally.
Sometimes they show a little commercial, and the next is oh, this is happening so subliminally, they put their message so calculatively using terms like education and information and public relations.
But this is a very calculative way of delivering an information because people going by their day, driving up their car, and listening to this message after message after message, they all of a sudden start believing that this is the greatest.
Not just one guy, but an entire media network.
And it's unique that back in the day, during the Soviet days, the government owned one paper, the government won one TV station and one radio station.
And over the you know, seven or eight or nine time zones, all that information was delivered over and over and over again.
They put those big pictures of Lenin and big pictures of Stalin, the big children of Gorbachev in our schools, in our restrooms, in our libraries, and and then we sang the song.
Toilet lids, too.
I saw them there.
And that's how they were able to achieve that.
Here we have uh we have this millions of uh small networks are c like like a wasps.
They they they fly and sink.
This is what's very unique.
How these people hate capitalism, how they hate uh the the the very principle of this country was found.
This is an interesting point.
Dimitri, thank I'm I'm up against it on time here, but I really appreciate your call.
He's making an interesting point here.
The Soviets have one TV station, and every time they had one newspaper, and they were still able.
They the TV station was seen everywhere and nothing else.
Same with the newspaper.
He said, What's unique here is we've got an entire industry of propagandists that are linked.
He's right, too.
And he's also, you know, Obama, Obama wants you thinking everything you have comes from government.
No question about.
I gotta go.
Thanks, Dimitri.
Excellent.
Back after this.
So to sort of illustrate Dimitri's point.
Here you have Davalpatrick on CNN with Wolf Butcher, uh, doesn't matter who, but it was Anderson Cooper last night.
And Anderson Cooper is not interested so much in what Deval Patrick says as he is interested in making sure or seeing if he can get Deval Patrick not to undermine Obama.
The role of the propagandist is the point.
We got a newsmaker on Davalpatrick.
He tried to steer Dvalpatrick into criticizing Bain as vulture capitalism as Obama wants it criticized.
Now let me ask you a question.
We have Bain, and we have people with opinions about Bain.
We have Obama and then everybody else.
Who's the extremist?
Obama.
Obama's the only guy.
Well, plus his unnamed minion, the pluffs and the axorods, but Obama's the only guy who holds his opinion on Bain.
Now the media, this is why they're depressed at MSNBC today.
It's why they're it's the jobs numbers, but this Bain thing, we're all invested in it, And it's not working out.
And they can't get these guys to walk it back.
They can't get Deval Patrick to walk it back.
They can't get fast Eddie Randell to walk it back.
They can't get Corey Booker to walk it back.
They can't get Clinton to walk it back.
In fact, more people end up echoing the Clintons and the Duvall Patricks and the Cory Bookers.
Chris Matthews called Cory Booker a traitor.
So Dimitri's point really being illustrated with this one episode.
But stop and think the Soviet Union had one paper, one news agency, one television station that they boomed everywhere.
We got thousands.
We got thousands of propagandists working for whoever the Democrat president happens to be at any given time.
Back to the phones on open line Friday.
We have Karen in Albuquerque.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I had an experience a couple months ago.
I was getting on an airplane and Dallas and I was heading for Albuquerque and I was the second to the last person.
There was a guy behind me getting on board the aircraft.
And he I said to him, Are you getting off in Albuquerque?
And he said, No, ma'am, I'm not.
I'm going to San Diego.
And I said, Are you in the military?
Because I'm a military brat.
And he said, Um, yes, ma'am, I am.
And I s I said, Well, and I was gonna thank him for being in the warrior class for our country, but I before I even got a chance to do that, I I was talking to him and I said, you know, I'm doing everything I can.
I'm as busy as as active as possible with the Tea Party, and I've gone to the National Tea Party events and you know, I do everything I can, and he said, Well, I want to thank you for being part of that and your service,
because he said, I I I want you to know that when we're over there and we're getting shot at, we wonder we see the um Occupy people and we wonder what in the hell are we doing over here?
What are we over here for?
I'll bet they do.
I'll bet they do when they see that.
And he says, and then we see the Tea Partiers.
And he said, and we know what we're over there fighting for.
How did that make how did that make you feel, Karen?
Here is a military man thanking you for your service in the Tea Party.
How'd that make you feel?
Oh, you can't imagine.
I was just shocked.
I was I've been spat on, I've been flipped off, and I just it made it all all worth it.
And when I got on the airplane, there were only middle seats left, and I sat in the middle seat and he sat right behind me.
And before I got off the airplane, he thanked me again.
Did he pull your ponytail or anything?
No.
But I tell you what, I was just it made me even more determined to do what I can do.
I'll bet it did.
Oh, I was just i he did you have no idea.
Because sometimes you, you know, you get frustrated because you're out there and you hear what the media is saying about you and and then you other people and what they're what they and and you're working so hard.
And he made me realize that I'm fighting for my country just like you know, my dad was in Vietnam and and the Berlin Air Last.
That's profound in Vietnam.
And and I feel like I'm doing my part.
You know, I had a I had a similar experience to that once, and it it it humbled me like I can't tell you.
Exactly.
Told it before.
It's very brief story.
It was at the was in Washington at some museum type Stad building.
It was the fiftieth anniversary dinner for National Review, and they had a bunch of guests, wounded warriors from Walter Reed.
And I walked over to say hello.
And they started thanking me.
And I I put my hand up and I said, No, no, wait a minute, guys.
I mean, it w one guy didn't not have an eye.
What missing an arm.
I mean, these are really wounded people.
And I said, Wait a minute, I uh uh uh all I do is talk.
He said, sir, we all have our role.
And that's what that guy was telling you.
You know, I see you.
I I can understand it when they said say it to you because I feel the same that they feel when it comes to you.
But you're right.
It it we do all have our role.
And if we don't fight for our country now, when are we gonna fight for it?
Well, I think I I I can't think of uh more heartwarming thing to happen to you because I know that people in the Tea Party and just conservatives in general often feel alone, even as uh part of the group.
You still feel isolated because the media coverage they're laughing at you, they're making fun of you, impugning you.
They are lying about your strength, they're lying about your existence now.
Exactly.
Uh and and you know that other people watch that and you're afraid that people are gonna believe the lies they're being told about you, and so this is a a great reinforcement thing that happened to you.
It is, and it's for all those people out there for the Tea Party.
I want them to know too that those guys are over there thanking us, thinking of us.
It means like you said, it meant everything.
I just couldn't believe it.
I still uh you know, I'm not an emotional person usually, but I still get a lump in my throat when I think about that kid.
It's just it was wonderful.
Well, you know, I I'm I'm not trying to trump you here.
I'm trying to relate to you.
I've had the same thing happen when I did my little troop visit in Afghanistan in one of the Kellogg Brandon root cafeterias on the that they had news, cable news networks on, and I can't tell you the number of uh military men that asked me why aren't they talking about what we're doing here?
All we ever see is what's going on in Iraq.
And I said because you're winning.
Right.
You're not news to 'em.
We're having a little trouble in Iraq, and they can't wait to report that.
But the point of all this is that they do know, they do pay attention.
They're very much attuned to what's happening here as it relates to what they're doing.
So uh I know he meant every word of what he said to you.
Well, and those people that said it to you do, and and I want to thank you too for your service because I tell you what, uh I you make my day every day.
Well, thank you very much.
I I appreciate that.
And I've I really appreciate your call.
I'm glad you got through, and I'm glad that happened to you because it's um you share that story with as many people as you can, because it'll inspire everybody you tell it to.
I will.
And have a good weekend.
You too, thank you, Rush.
Okay, it's Karen and Albuquerque, who's next is Brandy in Louisville, Texas.
Not Louisville, it's Louisville, Texas.
Hello.
That's right.
It's Louisville, Texas, and I want you to know that I have been listening to you since September of eighty-eight when I was in high school.
And I just adore you.
I've prayed for you, I've cheered with you through victories.
I'm just I'm just so glad that you are part of America's history now.
Thank you very much.
Whether you like it or not, but my, I have rush babies, and My rush baby sign was stolen out of my car.
Um I I used to love getting your newsletters.
That was the highlight of the month.
And my oldest rush baby just voted in the Texas primary.
Well, what you used to get the newsletter?
What is that?
Well, you know, it's uh it's a sucky economy.
So we had to make some budget cuts, so this is intolerable.
Oh I'm sorry.
This I I'm trying to tear you up.
Why didn't you do a bake sale or something?
To get the money for a subscription.
I could have sold one of my kids.
I get to listen to you.
I have the privilege, you know, since 88, uh, this is twenty-three years I've been trying to call you, and this is the biggest thing I can never imagine.
Just getting to talk to you.
I just I just adore you.
I can't say it enough.
I can't say that.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I I want you to hang on when we finish because I'm gonna we're gonna comp you on a uh limball letter.
That's that's that's that's unacceptable.
give that up.
Well I'd rather have your autograph so I can photoshop myself next to you.
Well I'll tell you what, I'll I'll I'll I'll sign one here.
We've got uh the the latest issue.
I'll sign one.
Yep.
Snurley's got a bunch of them in there.
Well I'll I'll send I'll send you one.
So don't hang up, don't hang up when we get through.
Okay.
Is that is that all you wanted to say?
It's perfectly fine if that's all you wanted.
Is there is I could I could gush on you some more, but I know other people don't want to listen to that.
But what I wanted to say yesterday I tried calling in and um you were talking the abortion issue and the select births and all of that stuff.
Sex selection abortion.
Yes.
And uh that reminded me of uh one of my duties as a mom going to l lessons and I was talking to this woman from Finland and we were comparing, you know, our children and lifestyles in Finland versus America.
And she said that uh in Finland they get uh monthly paycheck for every kid that they have.
But if they have a kid with dark eyes and dark hair, they get more money from the Finnish government.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
They get a paycheck?
That's how sh that's what was her word uh a stipend, I think is paycheck per child and dark eyes and dark hair get more money?
Yes, and so those with money will go and have the you know, sperm and infertility clinics go there and have the the sperm and egg wash so they can get a genetic child that has dark hair and dark eyes.
So they can get more money a month.
Well that just sounds wonderful.
And you know, uh um this is why our election is even more important because it's only America's morals that prevent us.
Because legally she said you couldn't do that in America.
We're headed that way though.
So that's what all of us that's the thing that troubles me about the the same s the sex selection.
Um abortion in and of itself is yeah.
But when you start yeah, i i it starts at well, rape and incest okay, well okay.
Now we come up with other well, inconvenience.
Now it's well, I really wanted a boy.
Uh it's just it can't be good for the culture.
It because it it it ends up cheapening the sanctity everybody holds for life.
Well, and you don't know if somebody was a boy that was supposed to do, you know, find a cure for breast cancer.
Or you know, I mean we just lost it.
See, that's th I I can't tell you the number of times, Brandy, in the heat of this debate in the early nineties.
I have people calling it rush.
You really we don't need more children born into poverty and despair.
As though we're doing them a favor.
So that made me start looking up how many of the world's most renowned people were born into great wealth.
And the vast majority, of course, aren't a lot of people who have become great and historic uh were born poor.
It was silly.
It was a cheap excuse and so forth.
It's um I don't know.
It's it's it's unpleasant subject for for a lot of people and it it does portend a story uh out of Chicago, I think uh beginning of the week.
What was it, forty-two people shot over the Memorial Day weekend or some such thing in Chicago?
And everybody's asking why.
What?
Gang gang activity.
Well n the story I saw did not mention gangs or race or any of that.
But uh life must not be worth much.
And what is it that leads to that?
Any number of things.
Anyway, Brandy, hang on.
Uh Mr. Snerdley needs your address so we can copy a subscription to the uh to the limb.
Brandy, what I got you.
D do you uh you use a computer?
Uh I do I do.
What do you mean you think you do?
Do you No, I do technically.
I I know how to Facebook.
I'm uh Rush Babe for America.
And so I Facebook and I joined a Twitter account for you.
Okay.
So you have a computer.
You you know how to use it.
I have a little yeah, I have a little one.
What kind?
You know, it's a little phony little seven inch screen thing.
Uh Unacceptable.
Yeah.
Una unacceptable.
Look.
I'm I'm gonna send you a an app.
I'm gonna send you a MacBook Pro because I've I've got some here and and uh I I've got to clean out my inventory because the uh the refurbishes are coming soon.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no, no.
These are these are these are top of the line.
These are top of the line, and I've I've I've got them here for this express purpose.
Oh, you're so thoughtful.
Thank you.
Okay, so remember one more question really quick, though.
No.
Okay.
No, yeah, of course.
What is it?
I was just wondering why brandy has never been in your top ten names, favorite girl names.
Because I drink brandy.
It's I don't know.
I guess it could work.
I guess it could be.
George Zimmerman's bond has been revoked in the Trayvon Martin shooting case.
George Zimmerman must surrender himself to the authorities uh within the next forty-eight hours.
Now you're probably saying, well, why?
Well, according to the breaking news, they have found out that George Zimmerman had more money in his PayPal account that his wife realized.
And because he has a second passport.
So his bail has been revoked.
He's got more money as PayPal account than his wife knew, and he's got a second passport.
So we are getting a very important lesson about what social justice looks like.
And it ain't blind.
Here's Joe in Glendora, California.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here with us, sir.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor and privilege to speak to you.
Uh my comment is no one could be this stupid like Obama.
He's doing this completely by design.
He has too many people surrounding him, as as an Enod Dunn and Van Jones and Michael Ayers and and uh old Drive Shaft, I mean Axelrod.
All these people are avowed communists.
And you don't surround yourself with people such as that unless you're that way too.
All this is designed to tear down capitalism, to tear down our country, so everyone will have to depend on the government.
That's all it's for.
Look at he's got a he's got a good point here, folks.
I have can't tell you the the Van Jones thing, when it happened, I can't tell a number of people.
How did a guy like that get get by?
Obama's how'd he get by Obama wanted him there.
So old Joe here is right.
This guy at the EPA that couldn't wait to crucify big oil.
Gosh, how did some extremist like that get past Obama?
He is Obama.
Obama is that guy.
But this is hard for people to get their arms around.
By the same token, Joe, you should know that most of the original members of Obama's economic team have left.
They got out of there.
Some got out because I'm sure they wanted no part of where it was going, even though they're Democrats.
The others got out maybe because they were sent to other areas to uh do their jobs.
But some of them got out of there clearly because they wanted no part of where it was going.
So the the but the people that remain, you're exactly right.
They're all true believers.
There's nobody in there by accident.
Here's another way to look at it, folks.
If all of this economic destruction of Obama's were accidental, then now and then he would do something that's good for the economy.