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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 gonna be any spending cuts.
Even with a sequester.
Hi, folks.
It's Friday.
Let's keep it rolling.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
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.
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.
The telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
We go to the phones, and that's going to be real soon.
We're gonna take phone calls here in the monologue segment in this hour.
Uh 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 Jake 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 gonna detail it.
It's 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, um you um uh let me bring you in that you wanted to talk about this, so I may bring you in on it, get your thoughts on it.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Well, thanks, Rush.
Uh, being you're an aircraft owner, I am sure you had something to say about it, and you pretty much covered what I was gonna say.
And of course, I never heard this on uh NBC News or anything, but uh being part of the industry, I hear it in the industry news on the internet.
What do you do in the industry?
Well, I work for a commercial airline all my life.
And I was a mechanic for uh 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 um, I know this.
The day he isn't president, and he's gonna go to his golf match.
He's not gonna do it on Southwest, he's gonna do it on Tiger Woods' new G-250.
Uh uh Tiger.
Tiger wouldn't be flying at 250.
Something less or something more.
Oh, the Tiger'd be in a 550.
Tiger sent his plane over to Austria the other day to pick up Lindsay Vaughn.
You can you can't get there and back, you can't get there and back in a 250.
No, that's just another seven or eight million over a 250, I guess.
Well, that's a little bit more than that.
But anyway, I think Tigers with net jets anyway.
Yes.
Which is uh Warren Buffett's timeshare uh plan.
Warren Buffett owns net jets.
But we can't get a bigger one.
And I guess what Tiger has is...
...is 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 uh uh 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, this is here now.
Keep in mind, I want to do the juxtaposition you.
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 gonna be a disaster if we only spend fifteen 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 gonna 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 gonna cause people in the private sector to lose their jobs.
Well, that ain't a big deal.
Jay Carney said, I 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's all about government spending.
It's all about uh folks, I'm sorry.
I'm I'm violating my own promise not to not to address this stuff.
It's it's it's just I don't know.
Tired of having my intelligence insulted.
The what I want to focus on here is this.
This is the line from Jake 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 hell with them.
We're gonna 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 in 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 gonna take them from somebody he thinks does have enough and he's gonna 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 Manufacturer Association CEO Pete Bunts said that people in his industry are not special interests.
These statements he said that are coming from Jay Carney are ridiculous.
Kearney 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 uh this Jenny in Winston Lenny, Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, this is Lenny, L E N N Y. I don't have my glasses on, so the Licculate.
We've got a 1992 computer program here.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Um, Russia, I just wanted to share with you that um 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.
Um 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 to draw it all in that they just hear this, hear this, and hear that, and they just keep going on, and that and the White House just keeps throwing more and more stuff in them.
Well, I think I think he's got a point.
I mean, you're saying they're just overwhelmed.
Yes, yes, that's exactly every day.
It whatever it's a new crisis here, knew this, knew 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 and it's like slipping a coin.
He's on every side of every issue.
And so since the media's complicit, they're gonna continue to uh just go with what they hear the most as being the truth.
And since they're in line.
I think I mean 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 that's what I call them.
I see I see them as that, you know, and and I have children like that, you know.
I just because of all of the technology and you yeah, I think you have a point.
It's it's all sound bites.
I mean, uh the the regime just floods his own.
That's what you're basically talking about here.
Yes, sir.
It is, Rush.
And Rush, I'm a twenty-five 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 uh try out that that you have uh that brought to us.
I really appreciate that.
Uh thank you so much.
I was hoping, Rush, that as I I have a small business, and I was hoping that you and the ditto heads would crash my site for me.
I I like to let all the dittoheads.
It's a it's a business that Well, you want your site shut down?
Yes, sir.
Go give the web, we gotta give you one, you give the web address one time.
Yes, sir, it's W W W dot M Y T H I R T Y O N E slash L E N N Y. All right.
So it's 331.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.
Well, uh it it so my 31 slash Lenny.com, that's what it is?
My 31.com slash Lenny.
What is my 31?
Uh my thirty-one is a faith-based company that brings organizational products to uh women in their households.
Yeah, but why what'd you choose my 31?
31 what?
Uh my thirty-one.
It's it's actually comes from the book of Proverbs.
It talks about the virtuous woman.
It's a company that represents the virtuous woman.
Oh.
I know all about those.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I do.
I I 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.
Well, just give we'll see.
We're we'll be happy if we shut down your website here.
My 31 slash Lenny.com.
It's probably shut down now.
We gotta take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks, right after this.
Okay, now uh, 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 fifteen billion dollars more this year than last.
Now fifteen billion when compared to three thousand seven hundred billion chump change.
But we're still going to be spending three thousand seven hundred 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 level?
Oh no, no, no, okay.
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.
Remember I was on one night with uh oh one of Clinton's early Roger Roger Altman and Tony Quella, a couple other guys on the 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 inflation.
You let the government grow at the inflation rate every year, but that's it.
Back then, this was in the nineties, it was said that we could balance the budget in five years doing that.
So I threw that out.
Oh no, no, no, no.
I don't know who's telling you that.
See, this is why, Charlie, you you you can't let people don't know what they're talking about on your show, Charlie.
I mean, that's just that's a talk show ho.
That's that's absurd.
I've never 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, you know call somebody to 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 and no Medicare cuts, no nothing.
And the you you'd be 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, uh 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?
Why that's that's absurd.
Government can't function without a new spending.
But it could.
If we get by every year with what we're spending, then don't spend anywhere.
You really how many 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 the credit cards anyway.
It can be done.
But not when we're talking about government.
They can't ever no, 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 a cake for sheer mendacity because the 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 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 gonna 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 Sturdley tells me here during the break, I just want to bet on you.
And I didn't know they'd made the bets, I didn't know what he was talking about.
And then he told me, and then I wonder what else are they betting on in there.
You know.
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 gonna 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.
Look at you, Super Bowl, you can bet on which team's gonna 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 outdos.
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, Well, 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 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 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.
To be born 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.
Exactly right.
And I 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.
Well, it's always fun to do that, though, isn't it?
It was.
I had a blast.
The scares were unmistakable.
Well, here's the thing.
They're out See what 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.
If if let me just be blunt, let me let me tell you what the belief is and what the 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 loin cloths and ran around with bows and arrows and frolic 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, 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 conkydory.
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 he uh he ended up down in the Caribbean, Hispanolia, uh Hispaniola, uh Cuba, cigars, and that stuff.
Uh pilgrims can't.
Actually, you know, before Columbus, the Vikings were here.
Uh the Norsemen and uh they came at a time where the 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, and 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 they're still at Plymouth Rock here.
So they put the Indians in jail.
They start practicing their religion.
They set up their communes and stuff.
They start growing corn and stuff.
And of course, that that depleted the Indian supply of this stuff.
And the Indians starved while they were in jail.
The ones that are 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 in the turkeys, the pilgrims 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 the uh 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 built 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 a 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 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 supervised, 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 that 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?
That's what they think.
They do movies about it.
We'll be back.
By the way, by the way, back when it was a pristine paradise, there wasn't any pollution either.
The waters were crystal clear, the rivers and the lakes.
There wasn't any pollution.
The Indians did not relieve themselves in the in the uh in the lakes and the rivers.
It was, 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, is 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?
It's a list of some of the performances.
Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vetter, Viggo Mortenson, Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Marissa Tome, Don Cheadle, Sandra O, they all appeared in a documentary talking about how all these white discoverers ultimately destroyed North America.
And they 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 for these guys, actors and so 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 uh one when Reagan was assassinated.
It was that a show's got its its moments.
They just renewed it uh for next year.
Remind me to talk about this when we get back on Monday, because it's it's an interesting object lesson.
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