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May 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 3, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
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It is Friday.
Let's hit it.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And we are going to get to your phone calls at telephone number 8002822882 and the email address.
Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
The mainstream media told us that it's a myth and Obama apologizes for this country when he goes abroad.
He just apologized to students in Mexico City at the Anthropology Museum.
I mean, they told us that he doesn't apologize, and we just make that up.
It's just a myth.
Now, I'm going to, folks, let me tell you something.
This sovereignty business, this is significant.
This is not a throwaway.
That's a dog whistle.
You know how we are always accused, that's the latest term that we conservatives are sending out dog whistles, you know, things that only other conservatives translate and recognize when they hear.
It gets them whipped up into a frenzy.
And the media claims we dog whistle on things about race and sexual orientation and all that.
Let me tell you something.
Obama telling these students, apologizing to these students for America imposing its sovereignty on Mexico, that, folks, is a huge dog whistle to radicalized young Hispanic voters.
What Obama has just done is send signals to that voting block beneath the radar because most people are not going to, well, they're not even going to pay any attention to it.
They're just, oh, wow, it's really great.
Our president was talking to some Mexican students.
I thought that was really cool.
And the Mexican students loved our president.
Wasn't it really neat out there?
Did Jay T go with him, I wonder?
Was Beyonce there?
That's going to be the extent of it.
But to people like La Raza, radicalized young Hispanic voters.
And Obama's always done this.
If anybody engages in dog whistles, it is President Obama.
And this radicalized Hispanic voting bloc that's out there under the radar.
He usually does this in Hispanic media.
Telemundo.
Yona Vision.
He counts on the mainstream of America not hearing or understanding what he's saying.
But we just blew his cover decoding this.
I won't be surprised if we get some blowback on this.
Like I'm, you know, start calling me a bunch of names and accusing me of making things up or accusing me of harboring hate for all these people.
Accusing me once again, Limbaugh goes off on an extreme tandem.
Expect something like that.
Because this is huge.
There are radicalized Mexicans who have Mexicans never have accepted.
California is still theirs, particularly Southern California.
Arizona, New Mexico, radicals.
And Obama's just fueled them.
He just told them he agrees with them.
When he goes down there, when he apologizes, what did he say?
And let's admit it.
Some Mexicans think that America disrespects Mexico or thinks that America is trying to impose itself on Mexican sovereignty or just wants to wall ourselves off.
So I've come to Mexico because I think it's time for us to put the old mindsets aside, recognize new reality, pressing progress today in Mexico.
And he apologized.
So he's dog whistling to them.
He's letting them know he knows what they think, and he's on their side.
No, no, no.
When he talks about putting old mindsets aside, he's not talking about them.
He's talking about us.
This is a big deal.
He didn't talk about Mexico immigration policy.
He didn't talk about Mexico's need to reform its government, its socialist policies.
He didn't talk about how America helps Mexico financially.
He didn't talk about how we feed and clothe and educate and provide health care to even those from Mexico who are illegally in the United States.
This sovereignty business.
If you wanted to go to an extreme, you could almost say that Obama has it actually backwards.
That it's Mexico imposing its sovereignty on us because we are being made to feed, clothe, and house, and provide health care for its citizens.
Is Mexico doing that for American citizens?
Try to go down there and become a Mexican city.
You can't do it.
Their immigration laws, you don't even want to mess with it, folks.
You do not want to mess with it.
They do not play games with their immigration.
Well, I guess everybody, other Hispanics, peoples, but Americans, it doesn't matter.
When has a president of the United States ever attacked America's sovereignty?
I think this is a first.
I am not aware of any president ever attacking America's sovereignty.
And in coded language, which is what this was, he's winking and nodding and dog whistling to the radicalized, it's not all of them, the radicalized Hispanic.
I get it.
I get it.
We should have never taken Mexico.
It's really yours.
I get it.
I get it.
We've been mean.
We've been imposing that too long.
Time for a new mind set.
So we have a story here from April 5th of 2011.
Most illegal immigrant families collect welfare.
Judicial watch, surprise, surprise, Census Bureau data reveals most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.
Not to mention the chain.
So we're not a bad people.
We are not a bad people.
We're the most compassionate people in the world.
And the president of the United States has to go down and apologize for it.
But again, let me say the Limbaugh theorem.
Obama was speaking to these people as though he's got nothing to do with what he says is wrong here.
And it's exactly what he does: speaks in stereotypes, creates straw men.
And today's straw man was America.
The whole country.
So he's down there.
The attitude in this speech was: he's better than America.
He's bigger than America.
He's working hard on fixing it.
He's doing everything he can, but man, there's a lot of blockheads in my country.
And there's a lot of racists in my country.
And there's a lot of bitter clingers in my country.
A lot of people harbor old stereotypes about you in my country.
I'm doing everything I can, but boy, it's hard.
Really, a bunch of blockheads in my country.
But I'm trying to drag my country in the 21st century so we'll be as progressive as you are.
That's what he told them.
That is what his message was.
Let's go back, shall we?
In 2008.
No, take it back.
It doesn't make sense.
This is not what I soundbite four.
Wrong page.
Soundbite number four.
One more soundbite from Mexico.
This is the final portion of his remarks to the students at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City today.
The immigration system we have in the United States right now doesn't reflect our values.
It separates families when we should be reuniting.
It's led millions of people to live in the shadows.
It deprives us of the talents of so many young people, even though we know that immigrants have always been the engine of our economy, starting some of our greatest companies and pioneering new industries.
That's one of the reasons I acted to lift the shadow of deportation from what we call the DREAMers.
Young people brought to the United States as children.
And that's why I'm working with our Congress to pass common sense immigration reform this year.
I'm convinced we can get it done.
The immigration system that we have in the United States right now does not reflect our values.
Now, the immigration system that we have is a set of laws which are not being enforced.
And those laws do not reflect our values.
Any promises this time?
We're going to really get it right.
We did amnesty once back in 1986, and we're going to do it again for you.
Yep.
Not only are we not going to enforce the laws we have on the books now because they don't reflect our values, we're going to sue any state that tries to, like I did in Arizona.
Right now, our backwards immigration law separates families when we should be reuniting them.
It's led millions of people to live in the shadows.
And it's depriving the United States of the talent of so many young people.
What a rotten place is the United States of America.
What an absolutely rotten place.
Now, I know I've been president of it for four and a half years, but don't hold it against me.
I'm better than America.
I'm bigger than America, and I'm trying to drag America in the 21st century so they're just as progressive as you are.
I realize that you're embarrassed by my country.
I'm embarrassed by my country, but I want you to know that I'm working as hard as I can so that you can be as proud of America as you are of Mexico.
I realize you're angry.
I realize you're embarrassed.
Realize you know that we are imposing our sovereignty on you by claiming California and Arizona, New Mexico as our own.
I agree with you that that's not right.
And I agree with you that our immigration policy stinks, that you ought to be able to come to our country anytime you want and leave anytime you want and get on any welfare plan or any job or whatever that you want just because you want it.
And I know my country's ass backwards because it won't let you do that, but I'm trying to fix it.
I've been president for four and a half years, and because I'm so ineffective, I haven't been able to.
But I'm working very hard, but I've got these people called Republicans standing in my way, and I got this thing called talk radio standing in my way, and I got the bitter clingers in my country, a bunch of hayseeds.
But I'm working on it.
And I want you to be proud of me.
Because, like you, I'm not proud of my country.
That's what he told them.
That's exactly what he told them.
By the way, just so you know, none of what has happened on the program today is the result of any show prep that I did yesterday, last night, or this morning.
All that got broomed when I found out what Obama said in Mexico City.
I still have that stuff, and we'll get to it.
I just was making a point about how adaptable or adaptive, whatever we are here at the EIB network and to the phones to Riverside, California.
Hi, David.
You're up first.
It's great to have you.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How's it going?
Very well.
Thank you.
I'd like to talk about what you were talking about earlier, how Obamacare affects the 40-hour work week.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was just wondering how much of the supposed job growth is actually from the workers who've lost their hours looking for additional employment.
And if anybody's looked into that.
Well, I don't know specifically how many numbers on that play out.
What I can tell you is that 273,000 jobs are part-time, under 27 hours a week.
Now, whether they're people working second jobs, don't know, but they are people.
Many of them are people who have been cut from full 40-hour weeks or even 35-hour weeks.
Point is that the majority of the new jobs created are not career-oriented, they're not full-time jobs.
They are the result of employers either paring down or only hiring part-timers so that they limit their exposure to Obamacare.
And that really is all you have to know about this.
But you also have to know this: the drive-bys are desperate, particularly this week, for any positive Obama news.
So all you're going to hear is whatever the new job number, 266, whatever the number is.
Let me get it rather than make things up here.
I have to go back to the very first page here, but I've gotten the very bottom of my stack here.
And I still haven't got there.
Whatever the number is.
Let's see.
I don't know what it is.
U.S. job growth beat economic expectations.
Payrolls rose $165,000.
Jobless rate, 7.5%.
The 165 is what you're going to hear because they're expecting 140.
But really, what you're going to hear is the unemployment rate dropped 7.5%.
That's all you're going to hear.
You're not going to hear any details about part-time versus full-time of people being let go because the media this week is desperate for positive Obama news.
Here's Tom in St. Louis.
Tom, hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Two quickies.
Help me understand economics.
First, they said a $500 billion stimulus was going to create employment and increase gross national product, and it didn't.
But if we take $85 billion out of the government, it's going to be a disaster.
And secondly, if we took payroll taxes back to people for the last year, sales would go up and consumer confidence would go up.
But it didn't.
And since then, consumer spending has gone up and consumer confidence has gone up.
Help me.
Okay, I'm trying to follow you here.
First off, it was $900 million of the stimulus.
The payroll tax cut was reinstalled.
I mean, so the full payroll tax, it was actually a tax increase.
It wasn't a tax cut.
And so I've lost you there.
Run that through me.
Run that by meeting slower so I can keep up with you.
Well, it certainly said it had to be fast.
Okay, if the payroll tax decrease was supposed to increase spending and consumer confidence.
Didn't happen.
And it didn't happen.
Right.
Okay, now they've taken it away, and it was supposed to take a half a percentage point off a gross domestic product.
But consumer confidence is up, spending is up, and gross domestic product is up.
And then the stimulus: $500 to $600 billion we put into the economy to help gross domestic product and employment.
GDP went down, unemployment went up.
Now we're going to take just $85 billion from government spending, and it's supposed to kill the economy.
Gross domestic product is going up.
Consumer spending is going up.
Help me.
Okay, so you don't understand why consumer spending is going up and the GDP is going up and all these other things are happening?
Or are you making a facetious point?
No, it's just the inconsistency of it, Rush.
All these things that were supposed to help.
Well, but here's my problem: none of that is real.
Do we all think we're living in an expanding, growing economy all of a sudden?
They can put out these consumer confidences up based on what?
The payroll tax cut didn't amount to anything, but when it was reinstated, when the full payroll tax was reinstated, it resulted in smaller paychecks.
So we're supposed to believe consumer confidence went up as a result of that, and that GDP went up because of that.
And we spent $900 billion in the stimulus.
It didn't grow anything, but $85 billion is going to.
I get your point.
I think.
It's open line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network in Tyler in Vancouver, Washington.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
Hello.
Oh, my gosh.
I just started listening to you a number of years ago.
I grew up listening to you because of my grandfather, and I am beyond thankful for that.
I wanted to ask you a question.
It comes from both him and I. He's out of Bakersfield, California.
We want to know: you know, in other countries, when someone speaks out against the government, and you touched on this in the first few minutes of your show yesterday, and I was so excited.
But when someone speaks out against the government, they could be locked in jail.
And so I wanted to know what you think is going to happen to people like you and the few others out there that have the guts to step up.
As time goes on, when we become more of a socialist country, because that's the direction we're heading towards, what do you think is going to happen to media, anyone who speaks out against the government?
Now, here's the thing about that.
We are still at the stage, Tyler, where the average low-information person, hearing somebody express that fear, will be laughed at and thought to be ridiculous and paranoid and foolish.
Yet, slowly but surely, we are creeping in that direction.
If you take a look at the mayor of New York and the things that you are not permitted to do, the things you're not permitted to eat, the size of things you're not permitted to drink, the idea that government knows best and must protect you from yourself, and by the way, protect itself from you, is something that's creeping.
It's very, very slow.
At the same time, as this stuff ratchets up, more and more people who eventually figure it out are not going to support it.
We'll start laughing at it and making jokes about people, which is starting to happen with Bloomberg.
They're now parodies.
I saw a parody yesterday, a website that made to look real.
That was a total hoax, but it was extremely creative.
Bloomberg had walked into a pizza place and they wouldn't give him a second slice because it would be bad for his health.
And he, in the story, has a conniption fit and blows his stack and says, Who do you think you are denying me a second slice of pizza?
And so it was to make a point about the way he is governing.
Now, people have always, this is nothing new, people have always been uncomfortable hearing things that they don't agree with or hearing things that they don't want to hear per se.
Political correctness is all about that.
Political correctness is nothing more than the censorship of free speech.
And as you know, it's rising.
And it's not the government.
Political correctness is happening within the bowels of our culture.
It's happening everywhere.
It's happening in schools and universities.
It's slowly permeating everything.
And nobody can put their finger on actually, you know, everybody speaks out against political correctness.
It doesn't have one advocate by name.
There's not one person stands up and says they're in favor of PC, but everybody's scared to death of it.
It has no advocates.
We are led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with it, but yet everybody's scared to death of it.
So who is it?
Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.
If you're in college, it's the classroom, the professor, the administration.
If you're at work, it's the boss.
In some places, it can be the government, but mostly that's happening within the bowels of our culture.
Now, I know, you ask about me specifically.
Let me tell you how it's going to happen, if ever it does.
It isn't going to be the president, at least in my case.
I know that if Obama could get rid of me, he would.
And if he could shut me up, he would.
But we're not to the point where he can.
We're not to the point where he can even try and get full-fledged support.
Now, we may be trending that way, but I think we're a long, long way from that.
But the trend can't be denied.
But yet it could happen in many other ways.
And I don't want to detail them because I don't want to give people any ideas.
But I have, let me remind, I've said something over the past couple of years.
I've mentioned it here and there, now and then, very informally.
But I'll mention it again.
I fully expect down the road at some point to be, and not just me, but I fully expect to be denounced and held up as the primary problem for either people that agree with me or believe what I believe or same party, what have you.
I fully expect that.
It's just, it's the nature of things.
Everybody wants to blame somebody else for their problems and so forth.
So there's always pressure on free speech.
There's always pressure on freedom of thought.
There's always societal or professional pressure.
I've always been amazed at how people open themselves up to be offended.
I've always been amazed how people give that much power away to other people.
I've always been amazed at how words are so damaging.
They're just words.
Whatever they are, whoever says them, they're just words.
But be the right person saying the wrong thing, and you can create an absolute avalanche.
And it stuns me.
Whereas people who commit deeds actually do things that really hurt people, are excused, or have excuses made for them, or it's a well, we must understand that.
But words are an entirely different thing.
Speech is an entirely different thing.
So it's a constant concern.
And I know, I'll get, look, I can't tell you the number of times the staff holds their hands up.
Don't say it.
Don't say it.
They know where I'm going.
They think they know where I'm going.
Don't say it.
They're going to come after you.
They're going to destroy you.
They're very, very concerned because what they know is that there are people who would be really happy if this program didn't exist.
They think that they would have a much clearer road to what they want if the program didn't exist.
And they think that what I know there are people laying in wait for that one thing they think I can't recover from.
They think they've had me three or four times just in the last two years.
They can't wait.
I, ladies and gentlemen, am fully aware of it.
I know all of these things that are laying in wait.
I know all the things.
I know the people that are behind it and doing it and why they're doing it and so forth.
It's just a testament.
I mean, there are reasons for it.
And again, I've had to learn to accept that all that exists as a measure of my success.
It was hard at first, but I finally have learned, I did learn how to do it years ago.
Now it's gotten to the point where I have fun tweaking all these people, knowing full well what their reaction is going to be, tweaking the media, tweaking Obama, tweaking Republicans, whoever it is.
But in terms of, to get to his specific question, in terms of thinking that one day I'm going to wake up and Obama or somebody in government will have outlawed this program.
Believe me, that's not the way it's going to happen.
It could, but there'll be other people that get to me first before the government does, is my only point.
Some of them in radio.
Some of them in the Republican Party.
Some of them in the media.
Long before Obama does.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
It's open line Friday.
El Rush Ball on the cutting edge.
This is Danae in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Welcome to the—oh, it says she's 15 years old.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Mr. Limba.
I'm fine.
Thank you.
I wanted to call and talk to you because when I was a kid, my mom would listen to you all the time on the radio.
And for some reason, you really scared me.
You always sounded very angry to me.
Yeah.
But now.
Well, I still do.
Waven, you've got nine more years of being afraid of me.
No, I was actually going to say, I took a class on government, and now I get your passion for what you say.
Oh, cool.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, I just wrote a paper on one of the principles that the founders originally set to protect our freedom, which was the freedom of equal opportunity rather than equal things.
That's right.
Equal opportunity rather than equality of result.
Yes, because it made me think about it.
And as you let the government control your life, when you ask them to take care of you, the more they do take care of you, the more control they get of your life.
Now, wait a minute here.
Wait a minute.
What in the first place, why were you reading about the Founding Fathers?
Was this something to do with school?
I took a class in my co-op about a book called The 5,000-Year Leap, which talks about all of the original principles and things the founders set forth to protect our freedom in our country.
Okay, I'm sorry if I hear it.
You took a class in what?
I took a class on a book about the principles of the school.
Oh, a class on a book.
But the class was not part of your day-to-day schooling.
I'm it was, actually.
It's my government class.
I'm homeschooled, so I get.
Oh, okay.
That's what I wanted to know.
So you're homeschooled.
Because this doesn't happen in the public educator.
What I was getting at, what the hell do you know about the founding fathers?
No, they're not taught.
The founding fathers and how this country came to be isn't taught anymore.
Not in too many places.
So that's good.
See, you were immediately, probably because of your parents, but you were drawn to it for some reason.
At 15, you've already been able to make an important distinction between the difference in equality of opportunity and equality of result.
We live in a country where most people, or way too many people, think that freedom and equality mean everybody is the same.
And it's not fair if somebody's better or has more than everybody else.
And so they agree with policies that we'll take away from.
And also, what I think, when someone, when everybody has the same stuff, there is no motivation to do better.
When you're guaranteed the same pay and the same amount of everything as everyone else, what's driving you to be better?
Well, that's exactly right.
But in the socialist utopia, you're not supposed to have ambition.
And the reason is that everybody has different ambitions.
And ambition is the root to evil in a totalitarian or a utopian statist society.
Wanting to do better than what you have or are is what they consider to be a major problem they have to deal with.
So they need to wipe that out in people.
They need to curb this desire that people have to do better, to improve, to acquire more, to achieve more.
They have to chill that.
And that is why you'll hear President Obama in talking about retirement income.
And nobody needs more than $2.5 million.
That's all anybody needs.
Well, frankly, it's none of his business what anybody needs.
It's not his job to determine it.
He doesn't have the power, but he wants it, and the Democrat Party does.
But you really have steered yourself here at this important concepts.
And it's good.
At 15, the fact that you understand them is heartening to me because you've stated these things in extremely logical, understandable ways, in ways most people don't even understand.
Your age, particularly.
I mean, you don't know how right you are.
If everybody has the same thing, and then the idea is that nobody's going to want more.
Well, somebody out there is.
Somebody's always going to want more.
Somebody's always going to want to be better.
No matter what the utopians try, somebody's always going to screw it up.
That's why it never works.
That's why it never has worked.
People are always going to yearn for more freedom, for more liberty, to be whatever they want to be, the best they can be.
And that's why governments have to put people in dungeons if they get too uppity.
And that's the history of the world.
And that's why the United States is such exceptional, so exceptional.
The United States is the first nation in the history of the world, which was formulated, founded, assembled on the context, on the precept of human liberty and freedom.
That's why we're exceptional.
Not that we're better people or smarter or any of that.
We're the freest people that have ever been.
That's why we're the lone superpower of the world.
And that's why so many people are worried about what's happening.
Because that freedom and that liberty and that ambition, those things are the greatest threats to big government types that you can imagine.
That's what they have to quell.
That's what they have to erase from people.
And they've been successful.
They have done that.
They've destroyed people's dreams and ambitions way, way too successfully in this country.
It's a shame.
And that's why we conservatives are always opposed to liberalism and socialism, because it ultimately is dehumanizing.
As opposed to being compassionate, as opposed to being loving, it's the exact opposite.
It imposes things on people against their will.
It is a structure that violates, in my estimation, the very, the very aspects, the notion of human creativity and creation.
It attempts to limit and rein in and control the natural yearnings, the human spirit, the human being.
And that's why it has always ultimately failed.
It's why it has never, ever worked.
But they don't stop trying.
Anyway, congratulations to you for picking it up at your age.
Don't lose it.
We'll be back.
Hey, folks, a pop quiz.
Prior to capitalism, how did anybody get rich?
How did anybody get wealthy?
Prior to capitalism, they had to steal it.
They had to commit crime.
No, no, seriously.
They had to commit crime or steal it.
Capitalism enabled people to get wealthy by providing services and doing things for other people.
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