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Sept. 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, all everything.
Maha Rushi.
Here behind the Golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the big program 800-282-2882 and the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Yes, it is an unsightly site.
Obama's biggest union supporters, the teachers' unions, in Chicago, on strike.
They don't want to be accountable.
Rom Emanuel wants them teaching more frequently.
What is he with seven?
Uh what does what is Rom want?
Seven-hour school day.
This is one of the worst performing teacher systems in the country.
They're one of the highest paid.
Emmanuel wants a seven-hour work day, and they're on strike over that money and accountability.
And Obama lurks in the sidelines, waiting for the right opportune moment to move in.
And of course, it's been predicted by me, L. Rushbow, that the whole thing's a setup.
You think Obama wants this dragging into his campaign.
You don't want it to become a factor in the election.
And already is perhaps becoming that with Ryan and Romney coming out in solidarity with the kids.
And with the with the mayor.
But that's going to tick them all off.
That that they may, Rom and the teachers and Obama may unify.
They hate us.
They despise us.
You think Rom Emanuel's happy to have Ryan and Romney on his side?
He doesn't want that.
They hate us.
They hate us more than they hate Al Qaeda.
They would let the militant Islamists have a mosque at at ground zero faster than we'd let us build a church anywhere.
It's going to be fascinating to watch how this thing uh manifests itself.
I mentioned earlier that Bob Woodward's book is out and that it's got a lot of unflattering things about Obama in terms of leadership.
There isn't much.
Decision making.
There isn't much.
Oh, by the way, I just remembered to tell you this.
Paul Bedard last night in the Washington Examiner reported, get this now.
Pay attention here.
Department of Health and Human Services and the IRS have just released the regulations defining a full-time employee.
Now that's very significant.
What is a full-time employee is very important under Obamacare.
The regulations defining what is a full-time employee are 18 pages.
Did you not?
18 pages just to define a full-time employee.
That is your federal government and IRS in action.
Speaking of regulations, did you hear this?
Cybercast News Service is reporting that over the past three years, the code of federal regulations has increased by 11,000 pages.
7.4% increase from January 1st of 2009 through December 31st of last year.
11,327, to be precise, new pages of regulations.
Anyway, Woodward, he was on Good Morning America today, George Stephanopoulos interviewed him.
He said Price of Politics.
That's uh Woodward's book.
Your bottom line, uh, Bob, is that uh successful presidents like uh Reagan Clinton largely work their will, but you reached a conclusion in this case in this struggle that Barack Obama did not work his will.
Yes, simply because our financial house is not in order.
This isn't a budget issue or uh credit rating issue.
This is is the government gonna have its money to pay its bills.
And in the end, that's the president's job.
Yes, it's Congress's job too, but there is such a thing as presidential leadership.
Look, it's quite obvious that uh Obama has a distance from these people.
He doesn't spend their time, he hasn't built the relationships, and those human relationships uh matter.
This book is a warning document.
We are right back in the problem, and this can affect everyone in a very serious way.
He talked about the debt deal last year.
That's what he's talking about.
There was no Obama leadership.
He didn't even know how to get hold of Boehner after 2010 midterms.
Debt deal comes up.
Obama hasn't cared about these guys.
There's no bipartisanship, there's no cooperation.
He doesn't even care who they are.
He doesn't care where they are.
He doesn't even care how to get hold of them.
Debt deal comes up simply paying bills.
Woodward makes it clear here, he's not talking about credit rating issue, the budget issue, just simply paying the bills.
That Obama was not showing any leadership on this at all.
And Stephanoples here is beside himself that Woodward is doing this fifty-six days before an election.
Stefanoplas says, as you know, Bob, a lot of your critics have said the president was facing an implacable foe, the Republicans on a crusade.
So what should voters take away?
We're only 56 days away here, Bob.
What the hell are you doing?
You studied this for a couple of years.
What what should voters take away going to the polls now?
People have read it uh the other way and said uh look, the Republicans are brick wall, which they are, and it's really hard to get around them.
But you know, World War II was hard to win, but President Roosevelt made sure that we won it, and that's what presidents are there for.
And it depends on how you're gonna raise the bar and what your level of expectation is.
And I think the public uh should have the highest expectation of their leaders.
Oh man, this is not going over well at ABC.
Woodward is engaging here in racism.
There's no question about it.
That's right.
It's very clear.
FDR, white president, won World War II.
Obama, black president, can't pay the bills.
Racism.
Simple.
And here's Woodward, uh apparently unaware that this charge will be forthcoming.
He's just out there, he got his book coming out, and it really it it's not favorable to Obama at all.
And these ABC guys can't believe that Woodward is say they think he's on their team.
They can't think they can't understand why Woodward would put this book out now of fifty-six days to go, basically saying Obama phones it in.
Half the time.
Half time he didn't even phone because he didn't know how to phone.
And they're beside themselves.
Diane Sawyer asked Woodward you're delivering ammunition to the opposition.
Do you know what you're doing here?
Here's what she said.
Here in an election year, there are gonna be people who say that you're delivering some ammunition to his opposition.
I am not delivering uh ammunition.
I am trying to describe what happened.
So these people, ABC can't figure this out.
It's Diane Sawyer.
Bob, you really know what you mean you're supplying a Republican's ammunition here, I guess.
Obama, what the hell are you doing?
Recycling.
And Woodward says, well, I'm not doing that.
I'm just trying to describe what happened out there last night on World News tonight on ABC during a report about Woodward's book.
There's an interview.
Uh and and uh in this interview, Obama was talking about a speech that he delivered criticizing Ryan's budget plan.
I was not aware of that speech with Jack Ryan was gonna be sitting right there.
We've been saying now uh explain this.
The point of contention, the bone of contention is that Obama's a mean guy.
That he was gonna rip Ryan's Medicare reform proposal budget plan to shreds, but lied and invited Ryan to come over to this big moment where Obama's making a speech about it,
where it and they they lured Ryan there, as I understand it, with the idea that he was uh uh going to be treated as a not an equal, but given some respect by Obama as somebody seriously engaged in trying to reform a problem, a situation to fix it.
And instead, what Obama did, what really happened was he tore into Ryan and tore into the plan with Ryan sitting in the front row.
So they asked Obama about that, and he said, no, no, no, I didn't know that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting there.
We made a mistake.
Now, Ryan's first name is not Jack.
Jack Ryan is a character in the Tom Clancy books, The Hunt for Red October, uh, and oh, this is Paul Ryan, vice presidential candidate with Mitt Romney's from Wisconsin.
So Obama's now done the double insult.
First, he invites him and then reams him and embarrasses him in the front row and calls him out.
Then when asked about No, no, I didn't know Jack Ryan was going to be there.
And this is the nice guy.
This is the Romney camp, says this is a nice guy.
Republican consultant is a nice guy.
He's just over his.
He's not a nice guy.
He is a cutthroat.
Vicious politician.
He's not a nice guy.
He's not cool, comical act.
He's a very cold guy, actually.
So I uh this by the way, the Ryan is doubled down on it now.
There's a tweet out there.
Paul Ryan said he stands with Rahm Emanuel.
Stands with so they're doubling down on this, siding with the mayor and against the uh the teachers, standing with Rahm Emanuel.
I don't know why that's sign that Rahm's wrong, but not anyway.
He's he's they're doubling down on this bipartisan business.
That they are cooperating, that they are showing that there are areas of common ground and commonality.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
Sit tight the fastest three hours and media rolls on right after this.
So what's happening is a Democrats are out there tweeting that Ryan's support of Emmanuel is proof that Emmanuel is wrong.
Wacko Democrats are tweeting.
Oh, this is working out well, folks.
Wacko Democrats are tweeting, and probably all over Democrat underground, they're bugged.
This is proof that Emmanuel is wrong and that the teachers are right.
So Democrat base voters, Obama-based voters lining up behind the uh behind the teachers.
But a Jack Ryan.
When Obama said he didn't know that Jack Ryan was in the audience.
Jack Ryan was Obama's original Senate opponent whose divorce records Obama sneakily uncovered and released and made public, forcing Ryan out of the race, standard modus operandi for Obama.
Clear the playing field, not level it.
Just get rid of your opponent.
And that's what they've tried to do with Romney.
That's why all the character assassination adds against Romney.
Romney's squeaky clean.
He's Mr. Clean and Fure as the wind driven snow.
Romney's a felon.
Romney killed a guy's wife, Romney's this, Romney's that, Romney's a Mormon.
That's the standard modus operandi.
Obama clears the field.
He tries to eliminate any opposition, not beat them.
And Jack Ryan, in addition to being a Tom Clancy character, was actually the name of his Senate opponent in Illinois whose divorce records he unsealed.
That's why I had Jack Ryan on his mind.
All right, here's Wayne, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Wayne, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Isn't it though?
Thank you very much.
You are the George S. Patent of the Airways.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, by the way, I hated uh Bologna as a kid, too, and I despised it.
You know, mayonnaise didn't even help it.
The two things I wanted to bring up.
One was the the pizza guy yesterday.
Uh I I I find it very hard to believe that uh he wasn't tackled by the Secret Service.
How did somebody pick up the president of the United States, lift his feet off the ground and give him a bear hug?
Well, I mean if it's prearranged.
That's what yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And I I can tell you that if that happened, my security staff would stand there and do nothing too.
I doubt that.
No.
You uh you have a great point, though.
You have a great point.
Here's this guy, and this guy was not tiny.
This pizza guy is pretty substantial.
And he's picking up the waif like Obama waving him around in there, could have body slammed him up against the wall for all anybody coming.
It just it it it had to be uh prearranged or at least set up.
Yeah, and now what do you think about the pizza guy is being boycotted?
The pizza guy's business being boycotted by people who don't like the fact that he hugged Obama, so the pizza guy's asking people not to boycott his restaurant.
Honestly.
And yet this is the guy supposedly leading in the polls, and yet this guy where was this?
Was this in Fort Pierce?
It was in Florida.
Fort Pierce, Florida.
Yeah.
It's not all that close to Port St. Lucy.
It's close enough, but I mean it's still there's enough distance there that this is a self-contained incident in Fort Pierce.
I had a second question or point.
Fort Pierce is where I clear customs, by the way, now.
When I come back in the country from uh Europe or I clear in Fort Pierce, not here.
And they're great there.
They're the greatest guys at customs there at they're fabulous.
Yeah, they got foot airport at Fort Pierce, damn straight they do.
How would I land if they didn't have an airport?
Yes, they do.
And they got a pizza shop, and this guy hugged uh uh was it being boycotted?
People were not going to his restaurant after this show of affection and support for Obama.
I'm sorry, what else were you gonna say, Wayne?
Well, uh actually I have another point, and then I'd like if if I could take a shot at why you did your prediction.
Yeah.
But uh the second point, uh I'm somewhat of a student of American history.
And uh President Obama uh is comparing himself to some of the uh presidents, the great presidents, one being Abraham Lincoln.
And I have never ever read where President Lincoln uh blamed his predecessor, President Buchanan on a civil war.
No, you're right.
And and that certainly was uh You know, Obama couldn't write a Lincoln-esque speech if he had to.
He couldn't Obama couldn't even conceive of the concepts of uh of say the Gettysburg Address.
Right.
By the way, since you're a student, a you said somewhat student of American history.
Yes, sir.
Pop quiz.
Okay.
Who was George Santayana?
George Santaena, who was George Santayana.
I'm gonna take a guess uh shot here.
I wasn't he um uh uh a union officer that uh at Aphomedic Courthouse wrote the uh helped the uh surrender uh agreement.
Oh, you're very close.
George Santayana is a professor who said those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
He's often confused with uh Santa Anna, the uh the Mexican Mexican, right?
Uh uh at at the Alamo, but George Santiana.
Now that's it and we're I tell you what, we're right in the middle that is exactly what Obama's doing.
Ignoring history and destined to repeat it.
I don't know if history repeats itself.
Stupidity does.
And we're uh we're witnessing that too.
Wayne, thanks for the call.
This is Al in um in Olsip, Illinois.
You're next on the program.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, good to be with you, Rush.
Rush, my comment was about that Rick Warren canceling the uh the civil forum.
Yeah.
I was wondering the way they they the way they dumped it on a Friday afternoon before the convention, the hurricane coming, it just had liberal footprints all over it.
I was wondering if it was that uh Rick Warren didn't want to talk about gay marriage or abortion.
And then I was wondering last week after after they took God out of the platform and all of that.
I was wondering if maybe he didn't cancel, maybe they canceled him.
If maybe he agrees with Obama, and he just doesn't want to come out and have to have to say that he agrees with with uh he wouldn't have to do it.
Last year when he when he asked Obama the question about abortion, Obama said it was above his pay grade.
And we knew that was a lie then.
Right.
I have no idea, right, why why Rick Warren cancel the thing.
I'm sorry.
I have no idea why he canceled it.
It just seems like it's got it's got uh I'm told the candidates never agreed to show up.
Okay.
Yeah, and he he said because it was uh discord again between the campaigns.
Well, I mean, isn't that the reason you have a civil forum?
Is because there's discord and you try to have a see that this is why I civil forums crock.
There was no such thing.
And in politics, there isn't ever going to be what what the dreamers think of when they think of civility, and particularly from the left.
Expecting civility from these guys.
The whole thing was was uh phony.
I'm I'm glad that it uh uh didn't come off.
Hell everything's above Obama's pay grade when you get right down to it.
Whoa!
Whoa, hold on to your hats here, folks.
According to Horet's Daily Israeli newspaper, the White House has declined BB Netanyahu's request to meet with Obama during a UN conference in New York at the end of the month.
The request came today.
Netanyahu asked for a meeting with Obama, the White House turned him down.
Now let's go back to the Democrat Convention.
You know, a lot of people focusing on the fact that the the Democrats had a meltdown over the word God being reinserted in the party platform.
But there was also a second part of that, and that was Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
I'm gonna tell you who blew up at that.
The Democrats have a sizable contingent of Islamists and Muslims, Palestinians and so forth, and just plain liberals in their coalition.
There is the Democrat Party is as anti-Israel as I've ever seen it.
I think there is rampant anti-Semitism in elements of the Democrat Party.
And here is Netanyahu has asked for a meeting with Obama during United Nations conference week, and the White House said no.
What they try to tell us that uh taking God uh Jerusalem out of the party platform is a clerical error or something.
Folks, I'm a the this this Democrat Party, I if any of you in this audience are part of the precious independent group of voters in this country.
I you please be independent and open your eyes to the modern incarnation of the Democrat Party.
This this is a really radical group of people all the way through.
This this is not your grand grandfather's Democrat Party.
This is not your father's Democrat Party.
I mean, it is a strikingly radically left-leaning party.
And they are, I'll tell you what they're getting by.
They're getting by on uh on branding.
The whole notion of Democrats care and Republicans don't is all that's sustaining them.
That and and uh everybody thinks Obama's a you know likable, nice guy, an historical figure, the first black president, but I'm telling you, this party is made up of really they're not nice.
I mean, uh uh how else to say it.
They are not nice radical Extremists.
How do you tell the Prime Minister of Israel?
that.
Don't have time for you, bud.
The strongest ally in the region.
It used to be.
And then, ladies and gentlemen.
Demonstrators have stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo and have ripped down the American flag.
How's that Arab Spring working out for you?
How is the spread and the love of democracy in the Middle East working out for you?
The American flag was ripped down, a black flag has been raised.
They are shouting and screaming, there is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger.
And Obama tells Netanyahu to take a hike.
Even those of you are not independents, and even some of you just if you just don't decide it, you really don't take my word for it.
Open your minds and take a look at what's happening to our economy and listen as Obama promises a longer road and a harder path, meaning more of the same.
Ask yourself, is this really what you want and you and more of it?
Is this what you thought you were voting for?
At some point you're gonna have to conclude anything would be better.
We've never seen this kind of radical progressivism.
I don't even think, you know, Woodrow Wilson, it might be a competition, a little toss up a hundred years ago, but I I that was then this is now.
FDR Piker compared to what this guy's plans are.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
The Vice President Joe Bite me was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania today at the 9-11 memorial there.
I want you to listen to the vice president in this soundbite.
We wish we weren't here.
Wish we didn't have to commemorate any of this.
It is uh bittersweet moment for the entire nation.
Bittersweet.
What is bittersweet about 9-11?
You know, Clint Eastwood is right.
This guy is the intellect of the Democrat Party.
What is bittersweet about 9-11.
What did what did Joey's dad tell him about bittersweeter going away?
Joey, let me tell you about bittersweet.
What what does he think it is?
9-11, it's all bitter.
What's bittersweet?
Oh, Rush, that's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
Networks will tell you.
Media, it's just Joe, it's just Joe.
He's just his intentions, he really means well.
He's got a big heart, really cares.
Okay.
Okay.
Fine.
Who's next?
Ladonna in New Windsor, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rosh.
What an honor.
Thank you.
Um, I wanted to say that I was one of the people that didn't vote last year.
And I'm a good conservative.
I'm not sure what I'm saying.
You mean oh wait?
Yes.
Okay.
And um I listened to the media, I listened to the polls, and I just got depressed.
He's gonna win anyway.
Why should I vote?
And I didn't go vote, and I was not raised that way.
I was raised in a good patriotic family, and uh I just want to stress to listeners how important, and I bet there are a bunch of us out there that sometimes we don't take the time to vote, and you have to do it this year.
It's imperative.
Thank God you said what's changed your mind.
What changed my mind?
Well, I always knew it.
I live in New Windsor now, and I drive by the last encampment every day to go grocery store, Walmart, whatever.
It's always there.
And I've read about it in my screw books, and it's just there, and I said, What one day I said, I'm gonna stop here, and I pulled over, and there was just a little sign.
It w it wasn't an amusement park, it wasn't all this.
You know, you would think it'd be Disneyland or Virginia.
Yeah.
And Nobody was there.
Nobody was there.
It was empty, and I walked around that place.
It was just a couple of cabins.
And I tried to remember about the stories that I heard when they didn't have any shoes when they were cold.
The people in 9 11.
Well, no politician ever had any shoes when he was born.
Did you?
Yeah, how that's right.
They're in the politician alive and had shoes.
In fact, most politicians are born in some little shack that they built.
That's what Mobile Show Obama said uh uh his shoes were too small, weren't they?
Well, I got an idea for you.
Since you didn't vote in two thousand eight, then you should vote twice this time to make up for it.
You know what?
I could probably find a way to do it.
I'm sure you could.
If you tell them you're Democrat.
That's right.
Well, you're an illegal immigrant.
Yeah.
That's the way to do it.
Well, Donna, thanks.
When you when you walk around that place, I encourage anybody.
If you live up here, stop by there and remember the people in 9-11 died innocently.
They didn't have a choice.
But there were people that picked up their arms, they they they went to war, they fucked.
And did Benjamin Franklin, I'll give you a republic if you can keep it.
These people died for us, and you need to remember.
How in the hell did you not vote?
As fired up as you are.
I can't believe that you didn't vote.
I i uh I'm I'm a f well, I don't I don't know how afraid I am.
There's some the um point of the point of the matter is no matter how ticked off you are at politics in general, if you ha or if you ticked off at Romney or ticked off at the Republican Party, it doesn't matter this time, folks.
This is not one of those times where you let them win so everybody can see how bad it is.
It's happening.
We don't need any more proof.
We don't need four more years to open people's eyes.
Uh there's no reason not to vote this time around.
Thanks, Ladonna to Steve in uh Lewis, Delaware.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Yes, I'd uh I'd like to take a crack at um uh why you uh threw out that speculation regarding Obama and uh and the Chicago teacher strike.
Okay.
I am guessing that and you know that the the Democrats monitor everything you say.
Oh, that's right.
Democrats also know that you have a huge audience.
That's correct.
And that much of what you say ends up elsewhere on various uh networks.
I'm speculating, or I think you are saying, uh, and why you're saying that is because you're actually preventing them from carrying it out.
I'm saying that you are absolutely right.
I'm I think they had that in mind.
But by by your speculation, and you're putting that out there, you're keeping them from doing it because what they would have to do then would be to admit that you were right.
It would be a feather in your cat.
I have to hand it to you.
You nailed it.
You nailed it.
It took us two hours and forty-five minutes, but we got somebody who knows the game.
Rush, I have to tell you that as soon as you threw that out there and made that challenge, I knew exactly why you were doing it.
And and it's because and and if if you know the liberal mind, and it's not too hard to figure out, it's a pretty simple thing.
It's it was it was an easy it was an easy answer.
It's exactly right.
By accusing Obama of interceding by politicizing the strike, uh the teacher strike Chicago.
My attempt is to make it very difficult for him to do it because then it makes me look brilliant.
Makes me look which they don't want to do.
Bingo.
The last thing they want is for people saying Limbaugh called it.
The last thing they want to be said, Limbaugh said you would do this, and so they don't do it.
Absolutely right.
You got it.
You got it.
So but the media will never figure this out.
Even though I've just explained it, because they don't listen.
They'll get this from somewhere else, and this won't be reported.
Yep.
Okay, door number one, door number two, door number three, behind one's a new well, uh soon to be old iPhone 4S.
Uh iPad 3, latest one engraved, or a MacBook Pro 15 inch retina display, door one, nor door number two, door number three.
You pick a door, and I'm gonna give you whatever's behind the door.
Well, I'd like the door that has the iPad behind.
Number two.
Number two?
Yes.
That happens to be the iPad.
I mentioned them in the order.
Door one, door two, door three.
Okay, so do you want black or white?
Uh black.
Black.
Yeah.
We got black back there.
Okay.
I'm gonna send Brian back.
I want to make sure we got black.
If we don't, you got no choice.
You get a white.
Uh but uh uh the black one that's either gonna be Verizon or ATT, and that's for the LTE, cellular.
And that's optional.
You don't have to hook that up with an iPad.
It's not a contract situation, it's month to month that you can cancel any time.
Uh and that's totally up to you.
But it's Wi-Fi, and it's fully loaded otherwise.
Good.
So uh hang on, and Snerdley will get your FedEx address, and uh we'll get it out to you, and you'll have it tomorrow.
What happened?
What happened?
Obama went over, gave the Cairo speech.
He celebrated the Arab Spring.
It was it was uh it was an offshoot of his own campaign and ripping down the American flag, and there are pictures of this, by the way.
Pictures of the American flag being ripped down.
And Netanyahu wants to meet with Obama.
Obama says no.
So what's Netanyahu to do?
I got two ideas.
He can either buy a pizzeria and ask Obama to come in for a fundraiser, or he can just send a $3 donation to Anna Winter and maybe end up having dinner at Sarah Jessa Parker's Jessica Parker's place where Obama will be.
Or Clooney, or wherever.
That's how you meet Obama.
You pay him.
It's 9-11.
Obama laid a wreath and left.
Obama made a wreath and left.
Biden said it was bittersweet.
Romney addressed the nation on 9-11.
We don't have time, but we will play a couple sound bites of President Romney's Address to the Nation tomorrow.
Uh which is also iPhone 5 days.
Um Christmas for a lot of people tomorrow.
We'll see you then.
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