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Jan. 2, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 2, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And happy new year, ladies and gentlemen, to 2013.
It is Dugar Bansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh will be back behind the Golden EIB microphone tomorrow.
The Doctor of Democracy will be here to explain everything you I'll be listening with you tomorrow to hear what he has to say about the fiscal cliff You know ladies and gentlemen this fiscal cliff has an interesting nuance to it get this for every one dollar of spending cuts tax revenues will be increased by $41
Just sharing it ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the show It's a Rush Limbaugh show Dugar Bansky here filling in for Rush 1-800-282-2882 the president has got the headlines he wants out there politico says GOP anti-tax policy goes over the cliff story goes on read their lips Republicans just voted for higher taxes That's the headline they wanted.
That's the headline.
In other words, the Republicans, the GOP, has violated the thing that has been Republican orthodoxy for 20 years, no new taxes, no new taxes.
And as some people say well, these circumstances here are very unique.
They're very unusual.
The Republicans have been caricaturized as the party of the rich, the party of the powerful, unbelievable.
And they and now they have all co-authored these upcoming these, what they're gonna these, these next things you're gonna be hearing about are these upcoming physical showdowns, the coming fights over sequestration, the coming fights over the debt ceiling.
You'll be hearing all about this.
Meantime, the.
You don't have to go any further than the, the to see the kabuki dance in full, in full glory, than to go over to the NEW YORK Times.
The NEW YORK Times is unhappy.
This is how left, how far left.
The NEW YORK Times and Obama's party is.
The NEW YORK Times is not happy with Obama.
The view from the left is that Obama just kept giving stuff away to the Republicans and his liberal base has got has given him some withering criticism, according to the NEW YORK Times, for caving into the Republicans and not taxing the rich more.
I mean, how much more absurd can all of this get.
Ladies and gentlemen look, this is look.
It is time to reflect.
Shall we reflect for a moment on the complete lack of ability demonstrated by well, first off, and most importantly, demonstrated by the Democrats.
They had four years, two of those years, with complete control and they did nothing except pass Obamacare, which the Americans did not want and which is a disaster, before it's even fully implemented.
And yet we, we do spend a lot of time here pinning this on Democrats maybe that's a waste of time.
Maybe that's a waste of time or pinning it on specific politicians.
I mean, I think, ladies and gentlemen, that the whole thing is perhaps much bigger than that.
Maybe, in the grand scheme of things, we are psychologically brutalized by certain ideas, these ideas I was talking about in the last hour, collectivism egalitarianism, Dare I say it, cultural Marxism, statism, some people call it.
This is not by particular individuals per se.
Maybe it's just part of the culture now.
Maybe it's just part of the culture.
So, how do you fight this?
And that goes to my point earlier.
On a bigger scale with bold and transparent and revolutionary ideas that people can understand.
Obama and his administration, together with his helpers in the mainstream media, they told us that the taxes would go up on just the rich.
And we knew that was a lie going in.
They've got to raise taxes on everybody because that is where the money is.
The use of the words the rich, it is a marketing term to these class warfariers.
And they love that it means something different to everybody.
Fair share, fair share, fair share.
Another phrase they love.
Beware of these characters.
Beware of them, ladies and gentlemen, who use these words, the rich, use the words fair share, beware of them.
Beware of them.
We need people on our side who can communicate the bold ideas that fight these things.
And we don't have one of them that I can see.
We're still tinkering around the margins.
We're caught up, Ryan, Cantor, Ryan, Cantor, Ruby.
We're all caught up in the margins.
And then we've got liberal states, blue states, like my beautiful state of California, in such terrible trouble, taxing itself to death.
Followed by Illinois and New York, taxing themselves to death.
And yet those states are run by the smarties.
They're run by the smart Democrat politicians.
They're so smart that every one of these states, ladies and gentlemen, is going to end up begging for a bailout by the federal government.
And not just the federal government.
When you're bailed out by the federal government, you're bailed out by the red states.
Take my state.
Take California.
Perfect example.
The federal taxes are going up for the first time in 20 years.
We have the outrageous tax rates in California that take us to the over 50% mark when you combine them together.
The wealth is needed to come into these blue states to support the high cost of living, which is fueled in turn by out-of-control government spending.
And we're supposed to, we're told that we have the most educated leaders in these states.
We are told, and I have to ask you, what intelligent person would hold up California as a state government of a model of how it's done?
Look, it's really working out well here.
Every state, without exception, that has been completely controlled by Democrats for any extended period of time is a complete mess.
A complete mess.
And maybe, maybe it's just true that many of those voters who returned Obama to office, maybe they're not affected.
Maybe they are the takers.
Maybe they're not the givers.
Maybe that's just how it is.
And where are the spending cuts?
That's the other question of the story.
Where are these cuts?
What are they cutting?
Where are they cutting the waste?
Where are they cutting the frivolity?
Where are they cutting the pork?
Yet they talk about cuts to defense, cuts to Medicare, cuts to Social Security.
These are the only cuts that are ever mentioned.
And of course, we know why, because they're class warriors and they want to frighten citizens.
That's all.
Obama focused on taxing those making more than $250,000.
But no one truly believes in it.
In other words, Obama has intentions of raising taxes on everyone.
That's what they've got to do.
That's what they want to do.
It's all fine.
If people want bigger government, fine.
But there's going to be a moment of pain that we will feel as a nation when we're paying for such a larger government.
The increases are all small to start with.
We woke up with a physical cliff.
We went over.
We didn't go over.
We got voted.
There's a new, whatever.
It's all small.
You don't feel it.
You don't feel it today.
You don't wake up here on January 2nd and feel it.
But you will realize eventually that the increase in taxes will not fix the deficit.
It will not start paying down the debt.
And hopefully, eventually, you'll understand that the only solution to our fiscal problems is less government, more growth in the private sector.
Precisely what government does not do, precisely what the law does not do.
Contrary to what Obama and his cronies believe.
The people who want bigger government, they think they're not going to feel any of the pain wrong.
The whole country is going to feel it when it hits them.
The issue is that the number of people producing, ladies and gentlemen, the number of people producing starts to shrink with higher taxes.
So in the end, economic growth suffers.
And the people who want bigger government soon find out that eventually the government is not there.
Think Greece, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Bolivia.
They've all shown us the way.
And yet there's people out there saying, well, the U.S. is not those countries.
And you're right, you're right.
But we are moving in that direction.
If there is no course correction that takes place, we'll be there in one or two decades.
No avoiding it.
And the fallacy that people don't want to change their behaviors based on taxes, that's been proven wrong again.
We've seen it in Britain proven wrong, in France proving it wrong.
There are lessons all around for us to learn.
I spoke one hour ago, ladies and gentlemen, going 90 miles from Miami Beach to Cuba.
There are lessons for us to learn.
The left is adding all these new regulations every month, imposing all these new taxes, hammering the economy from two directions at once, maybe from three directions if you add in Obamacare.
That's all.
That's all.
I mean, is it cynical of me to say this?
This debt ceiling nonsense, the physical cliff.
These are distractions from the real problem.
The real problem still exists.
We still have 48 million people on food stamps.
We still have the real unemployment rate, probably higher, probably higher than 15%.
We have people who have lost their jobs to China, and those jobs are not coming back.
Foreclosures are still increasing.
The dollar is still being devalued.
So where's the spending cuts?
No spending cuts.
No spending cuts.
Where are the cuts in the rate of growth in government?
It doesn't exist unless you go to Cuba.
Freeze on payroll increases for federal employees.
Okay.
Okay.
We got 300 million people in this country, ladies and gentlemen.
How many of these people, how many are actually in the workforce or should be?
We've got the smallest workforce in 30 years.
In 30 years.
Heartbreaking.
Sad.
I'm going to take your calls.
I promise I will want to return.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Dugar Bansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back after this.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's Dugar Mansky filling in for Rush 1-800-282-2882 is the phone number.
Look, central to Democrat philosophy is class warfare, the notion that redistribution of wealth, redistribution of your earnings, state control of vital industries, central planning, social engineering.
These Democrats tell you that all of this would have worked in the USSR if it had not been except for the obstructionism of the Russian Tea Party, which.
All right, let's go to the call.
Let's take a call, shall we?
Let's go over to my old home state, New Jersey, River Edge, New Jersey.
Joe, you've been holding for a long time.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you today, sir?
I'm all right.
I want to try to cheer you up a little bit.
The sky isn't really falling.
You seem to be preaching a line of gloom and doom today when actually things are getting better.
Yesterday's tax increase was a sign of progress.
And also, please don't refer to the Democrat philosophy.
It's democratic.
When you use Democrat as an adjective, a lot of people take offense.
Is that the whole lecture, sir?
No, it isn't.
Here's the thing, Joe.
If you use the term class warfare, you might encourage bad people to do bad things.
Oh, Joe, Joe, Joe.
I'm very worried about you.
You're a low-information voter, obviously, Joe.
No, obviously I'm not.
I watch Fox all the time.
Well, and that means what, exactly?
I'm not sure.
Here's the thing, Joe.
Joe, anybody who begins by applauding tax increases already, you know, I got to start questioning your sanity.
Well, no, you don't have to question my sanity.
We can debate the issue, but I'm quite sane and so are you.
Don't insult me.
Well, don't insult you, sir.
I'm one of the most polite people you'll ever find, dear Joe, and I'm not insulting.
However, however, you need clarification, sir.
You throw around these sweeping things.
You start loving tax increases.
You reveal who you are in the first instant.
You open your mouth on this microphone.
I will tell you something, sir.
You're not entitled to your opinion.
You're entitled to your informed opinion.
Nobody's entitled to be ignorant.
Now, if you want to lecture me about not using words class warfare, and if you want to celebrate tax increases, please do all you want.
Do you know what class warfare would be like?
Well, yes, we're living through it, sir.
Have you studied the Russian Revolution or the French Revolution?
Sir, is your suggestion that I'm not well read on these topics?
Is that what you're trying to say?
No, I'm trying to say class warfare is a bad term to use and you shouldn't encourage it.
I love how you folks on the left love to control the language.
You don't like it when we actually speak with clarity and in bold colors.
You don't like it.
It makes you uncomfortable, doesn't it, Joe?
No, it doesn't.
Actually, it makes me confident that I can defeat you in a fair debate.
That you can defeat me in a fair debate.
Well, we're talking.
Joe, do you have anything else you want to contribute to the Limbo Show?
You've told me already you don't like anyone using you don't want anyone to use the words class warfare.
You tell us we don't know what it means, and you tell us you applaud tax raises.
Yes, I think they should increase the taxes a little bit more on people like Mitt Romney.
How about just a tax for Mitt Romney himself?
Well, that would be a start.
They could turn him upside down, hold him by his ankles, and shake him till all the money falls out of his pockets.
Now, you wouldn't be just I have to ask the question, you wouldn't be practicing a type of class warfare, would you now there, Joe?
Oh, that wouldn't be class warfare.
That would be fair.
That would be fair.
Why would that be fair, sir?
I think people should pay their fair share.
And guys who have decided the fair share, Joe?
Don't you think so?
Who gets to decide fair share, Joe?
The people.
The people of the Congress of the United States.
We're a democracy.
Well, we're Greece.
Well, we're a republic, actually.
We're both.
Well, we're a republic.
You can't actually be both, Joe.
Well, it's Democratic Party.
Can you at least remember that?
Don't call it the Democrat Party anymore.
Sir, I'm delighted to call them anything I want.
And if I was off the air, there's a few other choice words I have for them.
Joe, I wish you had something constructive and helpful to contribute to the conversation.
I'm from New Jersey and love talking to people from New Jersey, but since you have nothing to contribute in a good way here on New Year's Day, I think we're just going to have to move on.
Joe, thanks so much.
I want to be polite to you for calling the Rush Limbaugh show.
You know, I don't like being lectured by ignorant people, ladies and gentlemen.
And I try to be very polite, and I don't think this is a downbeat show.
I'm already telling you, think in bold colors.
Think of how to replace the people in Washington.
Think of term limits.
Think of flat tax.
Think of bold things to make it all transparent to save the Republic.
Only, only the mind of a hardcore leftist who's in New Jersey, who's telling you not to use words like class warfare because they love to dictate the language, who's telling you that he's applauding higher taxes, who's telling you that he wants to turn Mitt Romney upside down and shake all the money out of his pockets, and tells you with a straight face that he's not practicing class warfare.
You see, only the demented mind of the leftist can really exist in that bubble, ladies and gentlemen.
That's all.
That's the demented mind of the leftist.
And I hope, Joe, that you don't think we were impolite to you.
We gave you a few seconds to see if you had something good to contribute.
You didn't.
And I do heartily believe that people are not entitled to their opinion.
They're entitled to their informed opinion.
You know, when we talk to these characters like Joe, it reminds us again of intellectual laziness.
When they ask me if I know what the Russian Revolution is, ladies and gentlemen, don't challenge me on this stuff.
I'd be delighted to talk about it.
I'd bore you way out of the studio, though.
Yes, Joe, we do know about that stuff.
And yes, Joe, we're not going to be told by you to not use the words class warfare when, in fact, that's happening.
When, in fact, it's you who want to turn Mitt Romney upside down and see what money he can get out of his pockets.
We could have wasted a lot of time.
But ladies and gentlemen, I let him talk for a little while.
And you know why?
It's very important that you hear, that you hear the mind of the leftist unleashed even for three or four minutes.
Because that's what we're up against.
And you can't convince them.
You've got to beat them.
Convincing them doesn't work.
Beating them is the only thing to do.
That's it.
Speak boldly, clearly, and broad, big colors and ideas.
Speak over the heads of the media and get these people like Joe beat them at their own art.
I'm still chuckling, ladies and gentlemen.
Douglaski here, filling in for the great Rush Limbaugh, the Doctor of Democracy.
Who will be back tomorrow?
I'm still chuckling over the caller.
Was his name Joe H.R.?
His name was Joe.
Telling us that we shouldn't use the words class warfare, telling us that he would like to take Mitt Romney and shake him upside down and see what money falls out, telling us that he'd like to decide, he would like to decide what's fair, what's fair.
Where is this idea of fairness?
Who says it's fair?
Who says life is fair?
Who says anything is fair?
And by the way, what is fair?
There's Joe telling us not to use class warfare, yet he practiced it right on the...
I love when you let libs talk, ladies and gentlemen.
You hear them themselves doing exactly what they don't want you to do.
And I get wrong to you that this character, Joe, would also be defending the Occupy movement as non-class warriors.
Would that be right, H.R. Or the people who were marching on the bankers' homes, non-class warriors?
Look, ladies and gentlemen, it's very simple.
Very, very simple.
You take money away from the job creators.
They hire less people.
Now we've got all these new regulations.
What do they hear?
Something like 5,000 or 6,000 in the past 90 days?
You've got fines and penalties of every size, shape, and imaginary idea.
You've got the Obamacare taxes about to hit.
The government itself, the Obama government, the whole government, has thrown in the towel on job creation for the unemployment and the underemployed, the underemployed.
Those numbers of Americans that just vanish as if a spaceship just lifted them up and they no longer counted.
Welcome, welcome to the new America, the new normal.
The amount of people on food stamps, the high gas prices.
Welcome to the new normal.
You can have a career making minimum wage.
That's all.
Look, the American people did indeed, by a slender margin, vote Obama back into the office.
And they did vote for a status quo government.
And Boehner has not lived up to that requirement for sure.
But we are watching something akin to what we would have called in drama school a Greek tragedy in progress.
Obama, with his friends in the media, has convinced most Americans that we just need to pay just a little more taxes.
And if you pay a little more taxes, that will get us on the road to recovery.
That's right.
That's right.
Spend and tax our way to success.
It is frankly disgusting.
Doesn't matter now that they've got a majority or not.
The Democrats have had their way on this vote.
It is to the detriment of America, this last-minute kabuki nonsense.
I don't envisage that the country will or can prosper or grow robustly under this bill.
We end up like Europe, as everyone predicted.
We'll get all excited when the GDP growth exceeds 1.5% over in Europe.
That is considered a major victory.
How can you be resigned to accepting such things when three decades ago, not very long ago, following the 81-82 recession, which was bad, we had 7% growth.
We added 300,000 new jobs a month for nearly two years on a population base of 70 million smaller than it is today, all that in the 80s.
That was brought to you by the GOP.
And the caller, Joe, accuses me of being pessimistic.
Just the opposite, ladies and gentlemen, trying to motivate you with optimism, trying to motivate you to understand that there are ways to fix this, but we've got to wake up and fix it.
If we're asleep, if we're hypnotized, sedated, homogenized, psychoanalyzed, pasteurized for all I care, nothing will change.
We just go along, just go along, get along.
Today we've got 8% unemployment.
We've got record poverty, another new normal of Obama.
Record food stamp usage.
That is the legacy.
That is the legacy of the Democrat Party, Joe.
That is the legacy of the Obama administration.
Joe, does it make you not happy to hear me say it, sir?
Is that class warfare when I recite the facts to you, sir?
So, Joe, I wish you'd read a book.
I wish to goodness, Joe, you'd read a book or two.
And what happens to American exceptionalism in the process of all of this?
What happens to it?
Adios!
Adios American exceptionalism!
Adios American economic might.
Goodbye to the world-booming economy.
Goodbye to the fast standards-growing standards of living around the world.
We just might be in the spot here where we start saying hello to long lines.
For sure, hello to poor medical care.
For sure, to rationed medical care shortages, inflation, hordes of government bureaucrats regulating each and every aspect of your life.
That's all.
That's all.
Now, this bill, this bill, changed the tax on rum.
It changed nuclear weapons policy.
It gave money to dairy farmers.
It added tax breaks for coal mining, motorsports, renewable energy.
This bill is 30,000 words, by the way, which the senators voted on, and we know they didn't even have time to read it and know what was in it.
What a disgrace.
Now, that is the kind of irresponsibility.
You know, we hear about how vilified the Tea Party is.
The Tea Partyers promise to stop that kind of thing.
Something is terribly wrong with Washington with a class of people.
And there Obama sits as if something is wrong with Washington and as if he is not a part of it.
He's somehow separate from it, removed from it.
It's all happening over there, complaining about Washington.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is called Obama's leadership failure.
O L F, Obama's leadership failure.
You start to wonder how many of these politicians are gutless, how many are craven, how many are useless, how many are mindless.
You start to wonder what their conception of duty and honor is, because there's a lot of self-serving, self-aggrandizing going on.
Remember Stanley Baldwin, Churchill's opponent?
Well, anyway, it doesn't matter.
Stanley Baldwin would be very proud.
There are Republicans who have the courage, the integrity to vote no.
They deserve our thanks.
Of course they do.
We need to discuss comprehensive tax reform, and we need to have somebody brave enough to do it.
We are, Joe, moving towards a new form of oppression.
And it is called classism, whether you like it or not, Joe.
That is where we are.
And it's a type of insanity.
So we say to you here, wake up America.
Wake up Congress.
Reduce the debt, for goodness sake.
Take a good look at government handouts.
Unemployment extensions.
Crony capitalism by looking at the entire tax code.
Baseline growth.
What about the concept of taking all revenue and having all revenue being used to pay down the debt?
Just broad ideas, ladies and gentlemen.
Just broad ideas.
No time for a call.
I'll do that when I get back.
HR, okay?
Ladies and gentlemen, Douglas Rebansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Doug Urbanski here filling in for Rush.
Let's take a call from Studio City, California, Brian, very near to where I live.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you today, sir?
I'm doing well, sir.
First of all, I want to just tell you that we do have a mutual friend, Kathleen Antrim, the author of Capital Offense.
But my point is, I was just dying for you to ask Joe what constitutional right that he can name that gives him the right to Mitt Roundy's money, to what Mitt Roundney should do with his money, where he should spend it, what charitable causes he could give to it.
But where do these people get this entitlement to somebody else's money?
Well, he got it from the amendment that addresses fairness.
Yes, right, exactly.
I read that somewhere on a graffiti wall.
You know, the problem is that they talk themselves into all these circles.
There's another problem here.
Maybe you're familiar with this, Brian.
Have you seen some stories?
I didn't have a chance to get to it today.
There is a real hatred for the Constitution that these people have.
There's now a professor at a university in Washington, D.C., who is saying it's time to rip up the Constitution.
And you've heard Justice Ginberg's comments that it's not a good idea for other countries to use the American Constitution of a model.
Have you heard this?
Yes, I have heard this.
I heard that six months ago.
And then we've got the constitutional scholar and expert, Piers Morgan, out there talking about the Constitution.
And I love England.
I have a great part of my life, half of my life and my career is British.
But they have no Constitution there.
They have no guarantee of freedom of speech.
And yet here's Piers Morgan saying the Constitution is an inherently flawed document.
Obviously, a constitutional scholar.
So this goes back to their hatred.
If we had talked to Joe about that, I think giving Joe the three and a half minutes we gave him was about as much as I had because, you know, the other thing, Brian, I don't want to start being rude to these people when they call.
I'm a guest host here, and it's not my job to be rude to them.
But, you know, it is interesting to hear them talk when they think they are unfettered and unchallenged.
Well, he certainly was one of the most articulate.
He certainly wasn't the most intelligent, but he certainly was one of the most articulate, arguing his point.
But his point was it had no weight behind it.
Hey, did you hear the little comment he made when he said, I could beat you in a fair debate?
We already know his view of what fairness is, which is to shake me upside down and get the money out of my body.
That's right.
They stack the debt and then they call it fair.
There's no fairness on their side.
Well, Brian.
It's all an illusion.
Brian, what do you think about this deal?
What's your view of this whole deal that Washington has made, Brian?
This whole deal with what?
That Washington has made.
What is your view of this deal?
I don't know.
I opened up my email this morning and I saw a photo of Barack Obama, and he had a smug look on his face.
And the interesting thing to me was that Yahoo, which is the homepage that I have, chose that smug look on Obama's face to put on their website.
In other words, sort of like he got away with something.
Oh, yes, they're very brazen.
This is what the nuns used to call brazen when I was growing up.
Very brazen.
Let me ask you something.
Brian, I don't know how long you've been listening to today's show, and I was talking about the tax code being 71,000 pages long.
I was saying that every single page of it is a payback of some sort to lobbyists and the simplification of the tax.
So do you think it's time for us to get into a national conversation about such things as term limits and flat taxes?
And do you think the way the GOP has to start thinking is in a way that things are so very simple and reliable and understandable so that these characters in D.C. just don't have this unlimited power to keep pulling the levers of spending and taking and laws and regulations.
What do you think?
Well, of course I think that we should go back to simplifying themes.
The Constitution was one of the greatest documents ever written, and it was only 17 pages long.
We need 71,000 or 1,800 pages about a health care bill.
We need 71,000 pages to tell us how to pay taxes.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
What Washington does is confuses the public to the point where they don't know how to decide when it comes to re-electing.
Well, you see, I think this is Washington.
You see, we talked, Brian, about, I'm sorry, we talked, Brian, about the low-information voter.
Washington, by design, with their friends in the media, have created the low-information voter.
But the minute you start talking about things that are very simple to understand, it pierces through the noise.
Absolutely.
You say, let's talk about term limits.
Half of your conservative friends say, oh, my goodness, don't talk about that.
But everyone else knows that the minute you start talking about it on a national scale, it takes off like a brush fire, especially given the times we're in.
And the same thing to do with flat taxes.
You saw how when Herman Cain brought up 999, the whole country talked about it for eight, nine, ten weeks.
Yes, exactly.
But here's the problem.
And it's always been my argument that Mitt Romney lost partly because of his campaign, but mostly because of the media.
The media did not articulate his point.
The media articulated Barack Obama.
Well, of course, Brian, I would debate that with you.
I did a show about that point three hours here on the Limbaugh Show right after Thanksgiving.
We can talk about it another day because I'm running out of time.
But I really believe that devising the ways to speak over the heads of the media is something our side is woefully bad at, and it is easy and possible to do.
And unfortunately, I hope you don't think it's rude of me, Brian.
I've got to scoot.
I'm a little bit late, and the show is going to be over very shortly, but I'm very grateful you called.
So please let's speak again, Brian.
All the best.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dougar Baski, filling in for Rush.
We'll be right back.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's been a real pleasure here spending the first Limbaugh show of the new year with you.
I had intended to speak about motion pictures a little bit, being a Hollywood producer.
And this is the first year in two years that I would actually be allowed to, that I'm not connected directly to an Oscar race because of in 2011 it was the social network and last year it was my own film Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy.
So this is and when you're involved in the Oscar race, I don't know if you know this or not, you're not allowed to speak about other people's movies.
This is the year where I'd love to have spent, if you were interested, a little bit of time with you talking about the really good films.
And I want to mention to you Zero Dark 30 as one of the best films of the year.
It's masterful.
It's a masterpiece.
It's one of my two favorites.
It's a film that, well, let me put it this way.
The left are going crazy about it.
They're trying to kill it.
The New York Times has gone after it.
They don't like it because it shows the use of torture.
It is, well, let me put it this way.
The man who made the film that was shown on YouTube, the one, the video that Hillary Clinton and the president told us caused the Benghazi attack.
I mean, I asked myself, what are they going to do with Catherine Bigelow, who made this film?
I was one of the few conservatives a year and a half ago who, when they were all saying, oh, my goodness, she's going to make a pro-Obama film.
I predicted then she wasn't going to do it.
And it is not a pro-Obama film, my friends.
Go see it if you have a chance.
Anyway, we don't know what the damages being done to each household are going to be by this bill.
We're going to have to wait until they can read it.
That's a familiar old song.
It gives me a headache.
Ask yourself this.
What would have happened if the Republicans just had packed up, gone home, left D.C., and let the Democrats do whatever they wanted to do by not being in Washington at all?
So the Republicans could have been blamed.
Food for thought, eh?
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