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Feb. 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Look at CNN.
Look at Obama up there.
Obama warns of harsh spending cuts.
There aren't going to be any spending cuts, even whiff to sequester.
Hi, folks.
It's Friday.
Let's keep it rolling.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open lines.
I don't even know why I bother to talk about this.
The low-information voters don't even believe me.
They don't believe a word I say.
They don't believe a word you say about any of this.
They see Obama.
They see the media's in drastic spending cuts, and that's all.
It's it.
Anyway, great to have you here to telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address El Rushmo at EIBnet.com.
We go to the phones, and that's going to be real soon.
We're going to make phone calls here in the monologue segment in this hour.
You get to talk about whatever you want.
Just one other thing before we go to the phones.
This is a political story.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney did not ooze sympathy Wednesday for the thousands of employees who build private jets who could lose their jobs if Obama succeeds in eliminating a tax break for corporate and private jet owners.
This is not the sequester.
This is Obama seeking to eliminate a tax break.
Not going to detail it.
It's part of the depreciation schedule for corporate and private jet owners.
And just as they started raising taxes on yachts and boats, the people who build them lost their jobs.
Jay Carney was asked about this.
He said, well, you know, I'd say that making choices about budgets and deficit reduction always involves difficult choices.
In fact, we got a guy who wants to talk about this.
We do.
Bob in Cleveland, you, let me bring you in there.
You wanted to talk about this.
I may bring you in on it, get your thoughts on it.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Well, thanks, Rush.
Being you're an aircraft owner, I'm sure you had something to say about it, and you pretty much covered what I was going to say.
And, of course, I never heard this on NBC News or anything.
But being part of the industry, I hear it in the industry news on the internet.
What do you do in the industry?
Well, I've worked for a commercial airline all my life.
And I was a mechanic for a major airline.
Mechanic for a major airline.
Yes.
Well, it used to be Northwest.
Now it's a new Delta Corporation.
Oh, yeah.
But I know this.
The day he isn't president, he's going to go to his golf match.
He's not going to do it on Southwest.
He's going to do it on Tiger Woods' new G250.
Tiger.
Tiger wouldn't be flying at 250.
Something less or something more.
Oh, Tiger would be in a 550.
Tiger sent his plane over to Austria the other day to pick up Lindsey Vaughn.
You can't get there and back on a 250.
No, that's just another $7 or $8 million over at $250, I guess.
That's a little bit more than that.
But anyway, I think Tigers with NetJets anyway.
Yes.
Which is Warren Buffett's timeshare play.
Warren Buffett owns NetJets.
And I guess what Tiger has is.
Obama's going to get to his next golf match when he's not a president anymore.
Oh, well, how does Clinton fly around?
Same way.
Same exact way.
He flies around on the corporate jets of people that he knew when he was president, people that were donors or, you know, celebrity.
Oh, man, did I get close there?
Al Gore, he's a good person.
Celebrity intercoursers.
The same way Al Gore gets around.
That's the way all these people get around.
Here's the rest of this story.
Now, keep in mind, I want to do the juxtaposition here.
You've got Obama and the media and everybody running around trying to scare the hell out of people because these government people may lose their jobs.
These government departments may shut down.
This over here, that over there, it's going to be a disaster if we only spend $15 billion more.
Meanwhile, Obama has a tax change that he wants to implement that could literally throw thousands of people who manufacture corporate jets out of work.
I mean, this is real.
This is not some phony government sequester business that is not going.
Everybody in this sequester, if there is anybody, gets furloughed, they're going to get their back pay.
They always do, folks.
We had a federal employee yesterday who admitted it.
They get their back pay.
And the government shut down in 1995.
Every federal employee who was laid off for a while, furloughed, got back pay.
As soon as they went back to work, they got their Thanksgiving turkeys and all that.
So this is all smoke and mirrors.
But yet in the real world, where Obama's policies are going to cause people in the private sector to lose their jobs, well, that ain't any big deal.
Jay Carney said, I would say that making choices about budgets and deficit reduction always involves difficult choices.
Carney went back to the regime's usual argument on how to avert the looming sequester, that the debate is a choice between special tax breaks versus national defense, Head Start for Children, Jobs for Teachers.
That's not what this is about.
There aren't any special tax breaks anybody's trying to defend here in the sequester.
The sequester is all about government spending.
It's all about, folks, I'm sorry.
I'm violating my own promise not to address this stuff.
It's just, I don't know, tired of having my intelligence insulted.
What I want to focus on here is this.
This is the line from Jay Carney.
When it is a choice between laying off teachers, affecting our national security, or maybe reforming the tax code so that the special interests don't get a tax break, the question is, what choices do we make?
Who do we protect?
The special interests and their loopholes.
So what Carney is saying here, to hell with private jet makers, to hell with the assembly line workers and everybody else involved in putting together and manufacturing corporate jets.
Hell with them.
We're going to side with teachers, and the federal government doesn't even pay teachers.
And we played this soundbite for you yesterday in a televised interview with Cake TV Wichita.
Obama said, well, we want to give more tax breaks to all the aviation companies of Kansas so that they're hiring here, producing there.
What we don't want to do is give somebody who's buying a corporate jet an extra tax break that ordinary people can't get because they don't need it.
None of his business who needs what.
It's none of his business who needs or has what.
But he's the world's foremost authority.
He wants to determine who has enough and who doesn't.
And then if somebody doesn't have enough, he's going to take it from somebody he thinks does have enough and he's going to give it away.
So if you happen to work at a company that makes jets, Obama is targeting your industry.
Again, this is the second time.
First time was shortly after he was inaugurated.
He's doing it again.
General Aviation Manufacturers Association CEO Pete Bunce said that people in his industry are not special interests.
These statements, he said, that are coming from Jay Carney are ridiculous.
Carney should apologize.
It's completely offensive to refer to hardworking Americans as difficult choices.
The fact of the matter is, it should be nobody in government's business whether or not people have jobs on the assembly line where corporate jets are made.
That's a market decision.
I just want you to realize what Obama is doing here because the people who buy jets are his enemies, the rich.
They have more than they need.
They're the reason this country is unfair, illegitimate, and unjust.
And so they are the enemy, and he's got to go get them.
And if that means that the little guy gets hit in the process, well, that's just too bad because these tax breaks are unfair.
And yet these little guys all think Obama's on their side.
I appreciate the call.
Here is this Jenny in Winston, Lenny, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, this is Lenny, L-E-N-N-Y.
I don't have my glasses on, so they all look like we've got a 1992 computer program here.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Rush, I just wanted to share with you that I know that we are calling those that don't listen to your program or even listen to Fox News low-information voters, but I have found the populace to be more in line with Barack Obama being an ADD president for an ADD nation.
We just have a whole bunch of people that have so much stuff thrown to them and they don't have time to investigate or have the attention span to draw it all in that they just hear this, hear this, and hear that, and they just keep going on.
And the White House just keeps throwing more and more stuff at them.
Well, I think he's got a point.
I mean, you're saying they're just overwhelmed.
Yes, yes.
That's exactly every day.
Whatever.
It's a new crisis here, new this, new that, and they can't keep up.
So what they do is tune out and find out what the Kardashians are doing.
That's right.
And it's like flipping a coin.
He's on every side of every issue.
And so since the media is complicit, they're going to continue to just go with what they hear the most as being the truth.
And since they're in line with the problems.
I think it's exactly right.
They're just in line.
So you call them ADD, attention deficit disorder, as opposed to low information.
Yes, sir.
That's what I call them.
I see them as that, you know, and I have children like that.
You know, I just, because of all of the technology.
Well, you know, I think you have a point.
It's all sound bites.
I mean, the regime just floods the zone.
That's what you're basically talking about here.
Yes, sir.
It is, Rush.
And Rush, I'm a 25-year listener.
I cannot thank you and appreciate you enough for everything that you bring all of us diddleheads.
I love every product that I've been able to try out that you have departed to us.
I really appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
I was hoping, Rush, that I have a small business, and I was hoping that you and the Dittoheads would crash my site for me.
I like to let all the diddleheads.
It's a business that...
Well, you want your site shut down?
Yes, sir.
Go ahead and give the web.
You give the web address one time.
Yes, sir.
www.m-y-t-h-i-r-t-y-o-n-e slash l E N N Y dot.
All right.
So people31.com slash Lenny.
Okay.
And all the men and all the women will love it because they'll be able to get gifts for their wives and significant others.
All right, okay.
All right.
So my31 slash Lenny.com, that's what it is?
My31.com slash Lenny.
What is My31?
My31 is a faith-based company that brings organizational products to women and their households.
Yeah, but why'd you choose My31?
31 what?
My31?
It actually comes from the book of Proverbs.
It talks about the virtuous woman.
It's a company that represents the virtuous one.
Oh.
Her being.
I know all about those.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I do.
That's cool.
Okay.
And I'm like one of the only men in the company, so I would like to make an impact.
And Rush, I know that you could help me in the major way.
We'll see.
We'll be happy if we shut down your website here.
My31/slash Lenny.com.
It's probably shut down now.
We've got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks, right after this.
Okay, now, ladies and gentlemen, everybody agrees.
They might not all say it, but everybody now agrees that even with the sequester, the government is going to be spending more money.
You heard Jonathan Carl of ABC News admit that even with the sequester, the government will spend $15 billion more this year than last.
Now, $15 billion when compared to $3,700 billion chump change.
But we're still going to be spending $3,700 billion this year.
We're going to be spending more this year than next.
And even with sequester now, people are admitting it.
But here's the AP's contribution to the sequester story today.
And it's all wrapped up in their headline.
Government downsizes amid Republican demands for even more cuts.
The government isn't downsizing.
The Republicans are demanding more cuts.
At some point, we're going to have to.
If we don't, we are going to become Greece.
If we don't downsize and seriously do so, then all of these dire predictions that you're hearing today are going to become a fact of life every day.
Right now, we still have a choice.
The longer we go, the less choice that we're going to have.
And eventually it is.
All of this crisis, this fear-mongering is going to manifest itself as reality.
And do you know all we would have to do to get started on this?
We don't even have to talk about real cuts.
All we have to do, if we could just freeze the federal budget for five years, that would be such a profound start on fixing the problem.
Do you remember, or do you remember hearing the Democrats talking about how great the economy was during the Clinton years?
The reason they do that is because the Clinton years featured tax increases on the rich.
And the Democrats love to run around and talk about the boom economy of the 90s, and they try to relate it to Clinton's tax increases.
Okay, fine and dandy.
They're wrong, but fine and dandy.
But then say, well, why don't we also return to Clinton-era spending levels?
Oh, no, no, no.
Why not?
If we had a boom economy during the Clinton years with government spending what it was back then, why can't we go back to that and still have a boom?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, you can't do that.
I remember I was on Charlie Rose one night back when I used to be invited on that show.
I lived in New York.
I remember I was on one night with one of Clinton's early Roger Altman and Tony Quella, a couple other guys, all Democrats.
I was only conservative.
And I had just read and had talked to some think tank budget people, and they had explained to me how a five-year freeze, budget freeze, with factoring in inflation.
You let the government grow at the inflation rate every year, but that's it.
Back then, this was in the 90s, it was said that we could balance the budget in five years doing that.
So I threw that out.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Who's telling you that?
See, this is why, Charlie, you can't let people don't know what they're talking about on your show, Charlie.
I mean, that's just a talk show.
That's absurd.
But they were all nervous as hell when I mentioned it, and they were nervous as hell rejecting it.
But you go talk to any, call somebody at the Heritage Foundation, you ask them a five-year, maybe seven now, but just freeze the budget every year, allow for increases every year equal to inflation so that there aren't any cuts.
There's no Social Security cuts, there's no Medicare cuts, no nothing.
And you'd be amazed at how quickly we could start to turn things around.
And I think it's a little worse now, obviously, than it was then, back in the 90s.
But that would have been a relatively painless way to go about this.
It was sensible.
But, boy, it just didn't fit the political template of the Democrat Party.
You just, what, freeze the budget?
No new spending?
Why, that's absurd.
Government can't function without new spending.
But it could.
If we get by every year with what we're spending, then don't spend anymore.
How many families in this country have to live on the same amount of income every year?
We know that not very many people are getting raises, and the raises they're getting are not very big and manage.
They've got no choice.
They can't go print money.
Most of them can't borrow any.
They're maxed out in the credit cards anyway.
It can be done.
But not when we're talking about government.
They can't ever, no, no, no, no.
We can't do with less.
We can't even do with the same.
We have to have 10% more every year.
We can't get by with any less.
And the proof is this.
We're going to spend 15 with the sequester, $15 billion more than we did last year.
And we have these forecasts of abject destruction.
The end of the world.
And so the AP contribution, government downsizes amid Republican demands for even more cuts.
Now, this takes the cake for sheer mendacity because AP is trying to confuse either the low-information voters, the ADD voters.
They're claiming the government's already shrunk even before the sequester.
And it hasn't.
And of course, at the AP, there's no shame.
There's no they lie, they misrepresent.
And if they don't know when they are informed how wrong they are.
It doesn't matter.
They don't care.
We'll be back.
How about this?
The staff had a little wager on the other side of the glass over there when I said, closing out the previous hour, that I was going to take a call in the monologue segment of the next hour.
And Snerdley bet that I would, and Dawn and Brian bet that I would not.
And I took a call during the monologue segment.
So Snerdley tells me here during the break, I just want to bet on you.
And I didn't know they'd made the bet, so I didn't know what he was talking about.
And then he told me, and then I said, I wonder, what else are they betting on in there?
And I, yeah, really.
You guys think of wagers on all that?
How soon will my quotes pop up on MSNBC?
How long will it be before I get in trouble over what you think I've said that I'm going to get in trouble over?
I think there's a whole, there is.
There's an entire little miniature little gaming system among my staff.
You can bet on anything.
Super Bowl, you can bet on which team's going to score first, what the first score will be, touchdown, field goal, safety, what have you.
Who knows what all these people are betting on?
I'm just finding out about it.
Okay, Tim, Allensburg, Washington.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, top of the morning to you, Rush.
Thank you.
Spotted Al Diddles.
It's a privilege to talk with you.
And I want to thank you for the last 24 years of keeping us conservatives with you.
Without you, we would be done.
Well, I don't think that's true, but I appreciate it, nevertheless.
Thank you so much.
White privilege.
White privilege.
I was talking with the co-worker yesterday about it happening in Wisconsin.
And she said, it's happening here.
I just had a class where they had white privilege books.
And I go, what do you mean?
And she says, well, we'd get in a group and talk about how only white people were allowed to talk and they never felt bad for talking what they wanted to say.
And I said, well, I would call that liberal privilege because when I'm with a group of liberals and I talk, I am lambasted out of there.
So I refer to it more as liberal privilege and white privilege.
Well, you know what this was about?
This is the University of Wisconsin, and they borrowed it from the University of Minnesota.
This was not so much white privilege.
This is teaching white students.
I forget exactly what the verbiage is, but they were teaching white students how unfair it is to be white or how bad it is to be white.
That's exactly what she was saying is that that's what they would go through, that we had all the advantages in the world just because of our skin color.
Yeah, they're basically teaching white guilt.
That's exactly right.
And I went on to tell her a story.
I was a Toastmaster for many years, and during the last 2008 cycle, they got into politics, which they were not supposed to do.
But it was a bunch of government workers, and they got to me and they asked, where did I lean?
And I said, I lean a little to the right of Rush.
And you would have thought that I dropped a bomb in that room.
I can imagine.
It was fun, though.
Shortly thereafter, went to a different group.
Well, it's always fun to do that, though, isn't it?
It was.
I had a blast.
The stairs were unmistakable.
Well, here's the thing.
This is not isolated, and it's not standalone.
It's not something that some educator just thought of.
This is part of the entire belief system of the illegitimacy of the founding of this country.
Let me just be blunt.
Let me tell you what the belief is and what the underbelly of the course is.
Country was founded by rich white guys.
They set it up for themselves.
They founded a country whereby rich white guys would be able to hold on to all the stuff, for lack of a better word.
They set up a system where anybody who wasn't white never had a chance.
And in fact, this predates the founding.
This is how the multicultural curriculum teaches the discovery of this country.
This was once a great place.
This was once a pristine paradise.
It was populated by the indigenous peoples who wore loincloths and ran around with bows and arrows and froliced with buffalo and stuff.
And they were at one with nature.
And there was no pollution.
There was no destruction.
There was no homophobia.
There was no racism.
There was no sexism.
There were no wars.
There was no death.
There wasn't any murder.
There was no sickness.
There was love and respect for animals.
Animals and the Indians and the indigenous peoples were all at one.
They hung around with each other.
And then all of a sudden, that changed.
The white Europeans arrived with that racist homophobe, Christopher Columbus.
And he brought all that stuff.
He brought racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia.
He brought horses.
He brought syphilis.
With horses came the ability to kill the indigenous peoples.
And he brought weapons.
The Indians didn't have any weapons.
They didn't kill anybody.
They didn't kill themselves.
They weren't at war with each other.
All the tribes got along.
The only problem was when Geronimo started rattling feathers, but that didn't last long.
Everything was kunky-dory.
They were just fine and dandy.
They got a little bit of revenge when Custer got too big for his britches.
But other than that, everything was fine.
I mean, it was pristine and it was paradise.
And then Columbus brought, and these guys, they didn't bathe.
I mean, how would you smell after three months in the Atlantic with no shower, no bath?
You get off the boat.
You could kill people just standing next to them with your body odor and wearing all that conquistador uniform stuff.
So that was the beginning of the end of this great pristine place.
And after Columbus came, see, Columbus, he actually didn't make it up here.
He ended up down in the Caribbean, Hispanolia, Hispaniola, Cuba, cigars, that stuff.
The pilgrims came.
Actually, you know, before Columbus, the Vikings were here.
The Norsemen.
And they came at a time where it was much warmer then than it is now.
And the Atlantic Ocean was much less treacherous to travel.
And they came here and they didn't like what they saw and they left.
I mean, they left some people in what is now Minnesota, but other than that, they all left.
And that left the place wide open for the pilgrims.
Now, the pilgrims got here.
Now, who were they?
Well, the pilgrims were a bunch of people who didn't like government in the United Kingdom, telling them what religion they could and couldn't practice.
So the pilgrims came over here, they got here on the Mayflower, and they immediately set up a society of aristocrats.
Right-wing religious fanatics, exactly what the pilgrims were.
They landed at Plymouth Rock and they came ashore and they saw the Indians, and the first thing they did was put them in jail.
Put the Indians in jail.
Then they set up their trading posts and so forth.
They stole, well, yeah, they stole Manhattan.
It took a while.
It took a while.
Look at this still at Plymouth Rock here.
They put the Indians in jail.
They started practicing their religion.
They set up their communes and stuff.
They started growing corn and stuff.
And of course, that depleted the Indian supply of this stuff.
And the Indians starved while they were in jail.
The ones that were not in jail, there was nothing left to hunt.
The pilgrims got all the turkeys, for example, and ate them.
And there weren't any left for the Indians.
And then the turkeys, the pilgrims then started playing with, well, they then attacked the beavers.
I mean, environmental destruction began almost immediately.
But then they set it up for only white people were allowed to do good things and have nice things.
And then the pilgrims set up the cavalry, you know, the blue uniform guys that went out and started having wars with the Indians.
And they built forts out there.
And they sent people like Davy Crockett and a Lone Ranger and stuff out to kill the Indians.
And that's when it all started going downhill.
And that's why they're teaching in Minnesota, the remnants of the first guys that got to the Vikings, how being white is horrible and what it means.
This was a pristine paradise, and all these white people from Europe came here and destroyed it.
And so now it's time to take it back.
Now it's time to get even.
Now it's time to take away all the stuff that all those white founders and discoverers and explorers ended up arranging for their ancestors to have.
Now it's time to take it all away.
The original pilgrims, who do you think provided the impetus to invent and found the company Cessna, where they build private jets, for example?
So it's time to take it away from those people.
And it's time now to teach all of this.
It has been.
This is pretty much the multicultural curriculum that I've been giving you here.
And now they're just, they're not even making any pretense.
They're telling white students in class, you are the problem.
You have been the problem.
And it's time you knew it.
And you are going to now think of yourself as the problem.
And you are not part of the solution.
And that's what they're teaching.
Started University of Minnesota, a bunch of guilty ancestors of the Vikings.
And the people in Wisconsin heard about it.
They've now imported it.
And the caller says, same thing's happening in the state of Washington.
And it's spreading out there.
And it's probably happening in more universities, high schools than you probably would believe.
And that's how American history, I'm going to give you a brief overview, but that's basically how it's taught under the multicultural curricula.
And I'm telling you, it is what the leaders of this country believe.
It's how they were educated.
It's what they were taught.
They've grown up believing it.
That's what they think of this country.
That's why they're in the process of getting even, cutting this country down to size.
We never did deserve to be a superpower.
Hell, the Indians, if anybody deserved to be super, it was them.
They were here first.
And then you know what?
After we got here, we weren't content.
Then we left again and we went around the world.
We took things from other parts of the world and brought it all back here.
And that's how we became a superpower.
And then we created a CIA and the purpose of that was to run around and kill other people around the world.
And then we, then we really, what really, the last straw, the final straw for these people was when we targeted the communists.
The communists were their friends.
The communists were their heroes.
And we started targeting communists.
That's when the multiculturalists decided they had to organize and start fighting back.
And that's when it began.
I mean, what's his name?
Men Affleck and Matt, that's what they think.
They do movies about it.
We'll be back.
By the way, by the way, back when there was a pristine paradise, there wasn't any pollution either.
The waters were crystal clear, the rivers, the lakes, there wasn't any, any pollution.
The Indians did not relieve themselves in the lakes and the rivers.
And neither did the animals.
It was pristine.
And as all these white people brought over all the pollution, environmental destruction, I left that out.
Now, Howard Zinn, who's a textbook author, has put together a documentary based on one of his books, The People Speak.
And The People Speak was about the people who have fought back against the oppressive conditions in the U.S. over the course of history.
And it's about the native indigenous people who fought the conquerors, the white conquerors of Europe.
And you know who appeared in this documentary?
There's a list of some of the performances.
Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vetter, Viggo Mortensen, Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Marissa Tomei, Don Cheadle, Sandra Oh, they all appeared in a documentary talking about how all these white discoverers ultimately destroyed North America.
And they were taking the side of the Native Americans and indigenous peoples who were fighting back against these oppressors.
And this stuff is taught, these documentaries with these guys, actors, and so on, in schools.
Have you seen the new TV show on FX called The Americans?
It's about Soviet KGB agents living near Washington as Americans.
Man and wife.
It happened.
It really did.
But this is a show about it.
Last night, the episode was when Reagan was assassinated.
It was, and this show's got its moments.
They just renewed it for next year.
Remind me to talk about this when we get back on Monday because it's an interesting object lesson.
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