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June 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 10, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Great to have you.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the one and only EIB network, the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am Rush Limbaugh, the reason God created radio in the first place.
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That's old hat.
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It's it's braggadocio, and it will really scare the 24-year-old women.
The reason radio was really invented by God, not Marconi.
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I mentioned Liz Sedotti, maybe Sedati, the AP political editor.
The uh with big promises often come big failures.
This is a piece on Obama and the trouble that he's in.
It for AP is a hard-hitting Obama column.
If he can't convince the American people they can't trust him, he could end up damaging the legacy he has worked so hard to control and shape and be remembered even by those who once supported him as the very opposite of the very type of leader he promised to be.
That's a pull quote from the Liz Sedoty piece.
But I think this next, just to show you how out of touch she is.
She also wrote this paragraph.
If the controversies drag on, morale across America could end up taking a huge hit just when the mood seems to be improving along with an economic uptick.
Or Americans could end up buying Obama's argument that safety sometimes trumps privacy, that his regime is taking action on the IRS, and that he's doing the best he can do to forge bipartisan compromise when Republicans are obstructing progress.
I mean, how out of touch do you have to be to write that?
America's morale could end up taking a huge hit.
That happened about four years ago.
The morale has not had an uptick yet.
There isn't any real economic uptick.
Not that is there's not an economic uptick that everybody senses and feels and thinks, you know, we're coming out of this.
That's that's not happening.
And then they might end up buying Obama's arguments that uh he's taking action on the IRS.
He's gonna get to the bottom as though he's got nothing to do with it.
Limbaugh theorem right there.
And then she writes, Obama has waning opportunities to turn it around.
He's halfway through his fifth year, and with midterm elections next fall, there's no time to waste.
So I think all this is is a uh misapplied focus.
And now, granted, his acolytes in the media, they're worried because they're looking at this through the prism of conventional wisdom.
Because they know that were it any other president, he would have been in deep doo-doo long ago.
They know that it is so bad that he is living in their world of conventional wisdom on borrowed time.
And so they're actually wondering how in the world he has managed to skate by with all this damage to the economy and all of these things that nobody is none of his agenda is supported by a majority of the American people.
So Liz here is obviously unaware of the not the existence of the Limbaugh theorem.
She's unaware of the the actual theorem itself.
She's unaware of why Obama's untouched.
But the again, I'm gonna sound like a broken record here, but I think the focus, at least for us folks, needs to be not on Obama.
I share this stuff with you only because I think it's fun.
And it's interesting to see the media starting to get worried.
But Obama at This point is not the focus.
The focus needs to be wherever you would say Obama, say liberals or Democrats or whatever.
Because it's one and the same.
And going forward, the uh you know the object here persuading Americans, it's not going to happen.
You're not going to talk people against Obama.
Just too many factors that stand in the way of that.
But you can persuade people that Democrats are a problem.
You can persuade people that liberalism isn't good for them.
You can persuade people to vote against the Democrat Party.
You can persuade people to vote against individual Democrats or the Democrat Party at large.
But there's no point in trying to get people to disavow their support for Obama right now.
That isn't going to happen.
Other items in the news, Washington Examiner, why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression?
This is the truth.
An uptick in the economy, morale coming back, morale is subject here to being blown down.
The real story is why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression?
According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it isn't because the federal government failed to borrow.
It's not because they failed to spend too little.
They didn't spend enough, let's put it that way, during the height of the economic downturn.
The Federal Reserve study, and by the way, there's nothing federal about the Federal Reserve.
It's a name that's meant to fool you.
The Federal Reserve is not part of the government.
There's nothing federal about it.
It's an entirely independent agency.
But that's for the today.
This report from the Federal Reserve Bank out of San Francisco says that tax increases are what's slowing the economy.
Not that the fact we haven't spent enough, not the fact we haven't borrowed enough, not the fact that we have had too little Keynesian economic activity.
No, it's the fact, basically, without saying it this way, they're saying Obama's policies are retarding economic growth.
And it just shows that if you look hard, you can find it.
Did you hear Obama says that Democrats do not want to tax all businesses out of business?
He says, I know there's some Republicans here in the audience.
This was a fundraiser on Friday in Palo Alto, Democrat senatorial campaign committee fundraiser.
And he said, I know there are a few Republicans here in the audience.
If you talk to us, it turns out we're pretty common sense, folks.
He means liberal Democrats.
We don't think the government can do everything.
We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go.
We believe in the free market.
We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulation.
This is the folks, I got this is I can't give you a better illustration of how Obama himself implements what I call the limbaugh theorem.
Here he is at a Democrat fundraiser in Palo Alto.
Now here you've got some these are people who've gotten rich, filthy rich because of the free market.
These are people of individual entrepreneurs exercising a great deal of freedom and ingenuity and entrepreneurism in a highly competitive, open and free market.
None of these high-tech people have gotten anywhere near where they are because the government spending, government policy handouts, uh tax increases or anything.
It is strictly the result of capitalism.
So what does Obama go out and do?
These are people, I have a name, not a name for them.
These are people who are brilliant in their field.
But politically, they are either blind or ignorant, or they lie to themselves.
Or they simply love being close to power, and they're willing to overcome whatever problems Obama causes for everybody else in order to maintain their close proximity to power.
Because they are all leftists.
Remember the big piece that we did last week on California and how the left in this country wants California to be the model for the way the rest of the country is.
The high tech people out there, the Hollywood people out there, the finance people out there are all doing phenomenally well despite the taxes, despite the government that's in debt to the tune of 16 billion, despite the poverty, despite the division between rich and poor, it is emphasized like nowhere else in California, maybe New York and Boston as well, but the division between rich and poor is starkest out there.
But they're on the rich side, and they're cool with that, of course.
And we've learned how many of them, corporate wise, don't even report their taxes in America.
So they're not all that affected by tax policy.
But they are in the midst of really, I mean, the competitive nature in the high-tech field right now in that field, it is cutthroat.
It is capitalism times ten.
It is it is people wouldn't believe how vicious the competition is.
There's nothing socialistic about it.
So what does Obama do?
He goes out and he says, we don't think government can do everything.
We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go.
We believe in the free market.
We believe in light touch when it comes to he doesn't believe in any of that.
His administration's policies are the exact opposite of that.
But here he is talking to people who I'm convinced are somewhat ignorant when it comes to ideological politics.
I mean, they're all liberals, but they're liberals for social reasons and feel-good reasons and but when it comes to their business, it is cutthroat competitive capitalism.
So Obama comes out and tells them that's what he's about.
And they don't know any different or any better.
So he goes back to Washington, and these people all think he don't want tax businesses.
He doesn't want to overregulate anybody.
He uh he doesn't think top-down solutions.
The architect of Obama, the guy that took over one sixth of this economy, the healthcare industry took it over in the process of fully implementing it, telling these people he doesn't believe in doing just what he did.
And they sit out there and they believe it.
This is how he does it.
He goes out and he tells these people that he is in favor of things that he would no more implement than I would implement liberalism.
It's astounding to me.
Why would the president say we don't want to tax all businesses out of business, but we do think that there's a role to play for government?
Why would the president say we don't want to tax all businesses out of business?
Snerdley take a step.
Why would he tell these people that?
Why would he why would he say that to anybody?
We don't want to tax all businesses out of business.
Well, the reason is is because it is obvious he does want to tax all business out of business.
He certainly wants to tax the health care business out of business and convert it to government control.
He certainly would love to put the oil business out of business if he could.
That's what Cylindra and green energy and wind and solar is really all about.
How about the coal industry, folks?
Here's an industry that he promised he would he would sink.
So it's another example of the Limbaugh theory.
We don't want to tax all business out of business, and these high tech guys in his audience, oh good.
Yeah, see, those right wingers like Limbo, they don't know what They're talking about.
The president just came out here and told us he doesn't want to tax businesses out of business.
What about taxing them 50%?
What is taxing them out of business?
But we do think there's a role to play for government.
What role?
What possibly could people at Apple learn from you, Mr. President?
What could anybody at Google learn from you?
Why are you hiring Google to do your data mining?
Why aren't you showing Google how to do it?
If there's a role for government.
Why aren't you showing Bill Gates and Microsoft how to do it?
Or I'm sorry, Steve Ballmer.
Or why haven't you come down here and shown me how to do what I do?
What role for government is there in the private sector?
When it comes to running businesses, seeking success, producing profit, tell me what role for government is there?
In his view, the government is there to regulate it, supervise it, and tax it.
And if it gets too big to punish it.
Hello, Apple before the committee explaining why they aren't paying any more in taxes when what they're paying is fully legal.
The president's remarks came at a private residence during a fundraising tour last week for the 2014 midterm elections, which is what it's all about.
As far as the Democrats are concerned.
Obama says that the Democrats don't want to tax all businesses out of business.
Just the conservative ones then, huh?
He just wants to tax the Tea Party businesses out of business.
He just want to tax Tea Party fundraising groups out of business.
He might tell this to Gibson Guitars.
He might want to go tell people in Las Vegas how he doesn't want to tax people out of business.
What did he say with his first three months in office?
The days of getting on your private jet and going to Las Vegas, those days are over.
What business is it of his where anybody goes to spend their money?
It's none of his business.
But the real question is, what does Obama know about the healthcare industry?
Who in the world can he tell how to improve that business?
He doesn't know the first thing about it.
What he knows is what he thinks is compassionate liberalism.
And that is that the business is in healthcare a bunch of cheats.
And he's fair, and he'll see to it that everybody gets health care or a pain pill if they're denied health care.
But he'll do about it a fair way.
We don't want to tax all businesses out of business.
What a thing to say.
There must be some fear that that's what he wants to do if he's going to go out there and deny it.
News item here from Eli Lake at the Daily Beast.
Which is Tina Brown, it's a left-wing uh website.
And Eli Lake is reporting that the CIA has been after Edward Snowden since back in May, when he left Booz Allen out in Hawaii.
No.
You're going, yeah, C Rush, yeah, they've known it.
Well what good is all this monitoring?
They can't even they can't even find one of their leakers.
They've been looking for him since May.
He had to come.
The CIA has not been able to find him.
He finally said, I'm here.
I'm out here in a hotel room.
I'm I'm gonna get in room service.
I'm here in Hong Kong.
I'm in the CIA stations right up the road.
Come get me.
I'm worried that you are.
I'm really worried you're gonna come get me.
I'm in Hong Kong, noted Bastion of Freedom, by the way.
I think it I no, I think it's a good question.
They've been after Snowden, the CIA since back in May.
This is about a bit look, I guess about a month they've been looking for him.
My question is, what good is all this monitoring if they can't even trace one of their leakers?
Inside the Q group, the directorate hunting down Edward Snowden.
From the article, the top secret Q group has been chasing Edward Snowden since he disappeared in May.
The people who began chasing Snowden work for the Associate Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence, according to former U.S. intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The uh uh Q group is the NSA's internal police force in effect.
That's what the Q group is.
They have their own cop force there, and they've been looking for the guy for a month.
I'm sorry, I'm not I don't mean to laugh.
I know it's our nation's security here.
If what?
Well, it's okay.
If he were Tea Party, would they have found him the next day?
What you're saying is that they let him slide.
Nah.
They had they had trouble finding it.
Here's by the way, we've got the soundbite of Obama at the Palo Alto fundraiser Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
I I just want you to hear him say this.
He's talking to these high tech people.
This is the this whole appearance, tell them what a free market guy he is.
He doesn't believe in very much government, just a little overlook here or there.
I mean, it just mind just abject lying to these people about his entire government philosophy.
And that's when he said this.
We don't think government can do everything.
We don't think that top down solutions uh are the right way to go.
We believe in the free market.
We believe in a light touch when it comes to uh regulations.
We don't want to tax all businesses out of this.
Oh, we do think that there's a role to play for government.
I we don't want to tax all why you say that.
That that is the most I mean, out of the we don't want to tax all businesses on there must be some fear that that is a desire for him to have to stand up and deny it.
Peter in Seattle, I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Rush, it's good to be on.
Uh at times like these, it's obvious why you are a living national treasure.
Well, I sir, if you knew what was going on today, uh you you would understand why I really appreciate you saying that.
You will never know why I have so much appreciation for you saying that today, but I want you to know that I really do.
Rush, nothing can make me happier than making you happy.
Well, you did, you really did.
What I wanted to say and why I called is I agree with you.
I don't believe the American people will ever hold Obama responsible for his activities.
However, I believe the Chinese may have found Obama fiscally irresponsible for his profligacy in spending and in quantitative easing.
I believe Snowden has been backed by the Chinese.
He's in Hong Kong.
The Q group couldn't find him.
China engages in intensive data mining.
They have obviously come across fellow miners in their travels.
And how long do you think China's known about Prism?
Probably years and years.
What China is experiencing is internal instability caused by inflation, hot money moving through the economies of the developing world.
And if you ask China what they're mad about, all you got to do is read the paper.
They've been complaining about quantitative easing for years, and that it's going to destabilize their country and other developing countries.
Now let me step in here for just a second, because there might be people in the audience who are scratching their heads and saying, why do we care if the Chicons are mad at us?
If we're acting in our own best interests, why do we care if a bunch of communists are ticked off?
What would you say to somebody who said that to you?
Well, I think the American public probably doesn't care, but the reality is Obama does, because what's been revealed is sources and methods, which is the most important thing an intelligence agency has.
How do they collect data?
Further, China has basically put out a welcome mat for people who would defect.
And I believe it's a shot across the bow of the Obama administration to say restrain the money printing.
You're going to internally destabilize China.
And I believe that they've How could you get even get into Hong Kong and expect that you've said that Snowden's a smart guy?
How would you show up in Hong Kong and expect that they'd provide you any cover if the entire United States government was asked?
Well, that's I don't know who's providing him cover.
You know, when he says he's staying at a posh hotel and uh room service, if he was making two hundred grand, I mean it's a lot of money, but it's not enough money to live ongoing the way he is, somebody has to be bankrolling him.
But as to your other question, you know, the the the fact that we keep printing money, eighty-five billion dollars a month, China owns a lot of our debt.
There's that that's a reason why they would be livid.
Uh the the uh you know the I mean if you look at this objectively, as objectively as you can, given that the Chicons are communist country, they should be furious about what our Federal Reserve is doing, printing eighty-five billion dollars a month, uh uh i in a sense devaluing their currency, while at the same time, we've got people here in this country upset at the Chinese for playing games with uh with their currency.
So if I could just add my concern is for the American working public.
Yeah the w the results long term of this kind of monetary expansion are going to hurt ranking while other people.
There's no they're all they already are.
And you are exactly right, printing all this money to prop up the stock market so as to allow Obama to claim an economic recovery or a strong economy or whatever.
Yeah, you're absolutely right about this.
And the other thing is he keeps his own base happy, twenty-three million people on food stamps.
Where's all the money come from for that?
Well, not just that.
Look at the look at the numbers on disability now.
We got more people on disability and Medicaid rather than the populations of some European countries.
And my people not working who are eating and phone calling and watching television and driving cars.
And somebody's providing the money for that.
You're right.
That's Obama.
But people's people's savings, this is your point.
People's savings are being raped.
Right?
Absolutely.
And I believe that the Chinese are uh the one thing about the Chinese activities relative to Americans is it's kind of in some very distant analogy, it's kind of like the French during the Revolutionary War.
Were they really, the French really motivated by how much they uh were impressed by our ideals, or did they have an ongoing struggle with the British and not want the British to have a colony that was resource resource rich and basically further empowered the Brits.
They made a decision based upon their own interests, which happened to provide an opportunity for Americans to be to maintain and gain liberty.
Well, it's amazing how things work out.
And the ch the Chinese activities may, you know, I don't I love America and I want America to prosper, but I think that it's a message that you have to it's unimaginable that they could not get to Sky if he didn't have some type of national support.
By the way, you're back to Snowden.
Um according to the latest reports we have here that buzz in over our various information.
We have our own Hoover system here.
We sweep a lot of data in here ourselves.
Uh and according to what we have late we the latest uh the latest uh Hoover we have here is that Snowden has left his hotel in Hong Kong.
Nobody knows where he is.
After divulging that he was in a fine suite with room service and mounting bills, he's now vanished from that hotel.
And nobody knows where he is.
Well, I I I fear that he's a uh idealistic person that doesn't know what he's gotten into.
And and I hope that now the way no, what see that's it does to me sound like exactly he knows what he's gonna now maybe he doesn't know the full scope, but he knows he's hunted.
He knows his family is up deep doo-doo, he knows that he thinks he's might he thinks he might be killed.
I mean that's a reasonable assumption.
And I my my fear is is that when he becomes no longer you Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Reasonable assumption to be killed, re in your mind reasonable that who would kill him.
Oh, I'm not gonna make any uh that the reality is is that he has ruffled a lot of feathers, and uh the fact is he's uh he's a whistleblower.
How many whisp whistleblowers have preceded him that weren't quite as smart, That didn't go to the right paper, that didn't go to Hong Kong, that didn't do everything right, and the Q group came across them before they said wordwide.
I don't want to nitpick here, but he really didn't whistleblow.
He should have whistled.
He did he technically it's complicated, but he he actually didn't um engage in whistleblowing.
Uh the LA Times is saying that Edward Snowden is gone from his Hong Kong hotel, whereabouts unknown.
How anybody knows that, I don't know.
I mean, how do you know he's gone if you don't know where he is?
But look at what we're talking about here.
The guy, you just agreed.
Oh, the likelihood, yeah, he's dead.
Somebody's gonna kill him.
Are we talking about our country?
Are we talking about our government?
Listen to this.
Listen, how acceptable it is.
That's right.
We can kill America.
All we gotta do is find this guy with a drone, and poof.
As Lanny Davis says, Poof, he's gone.
If we got a drone anywhere near where the dude is, Obama's got his finger on the trigger, they keep telling us that.
I'll bet you if they find this guy, we'll know where Obama is every second of the day as they're tracking him.
It'd be totally unlike Benghazi.
Diane in Austin, Texas.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
I really appreciate it.
I appreciate you.
Thank you very much.
I just want you to put in my two sense about the impeachment thing.
I think that's the worst thing we could do as conservatives uh to even talk about it.
To do it to anything.
I think I think we just got to get off the Obama thing because it's it's got to be the worst thing we can do.
Let's just get on to the Democrats.
Let's just get on to the Yeah, I agree.
She's she's reacting, folks.
Diane, thanks very much.
We had a caller in the first hour.
Who thinks for the sake of the country, we have to state who we are.
We have to plant the flag and tell everybody who we are, what we stand for, what we will not tolerate.
And for that reason, we need to begin impeachment proceedings against Obama.
And that's what Diane's reacting to.
And it it politically it would be disaster.
Because it isn't gonna happen.
It ain't gonna go anywhere.
It doesn't have a chance.
And Obama, folks, uh as much as you uh don't want to hear it, he should not be the focus, at least in terms of of uh persuading people.
It's got to be the Democrat Party and the ideology, liberalism, uh socialism, big because all of this that's happening can be tied directly to a political party.
Obama needs allies for this to happen, and he's got them.
This is what happens, and you can point it out city by city, where liberals have run the place unchecked.
You see literal ghost towns.
You see bulldozed uh third world type locations.
And this is linked to a particular political party, and that I think is where attention needs to be focused.
Agree with you, Diane.
I'm glad you called.
I gotta take a brief time out, folks, back with much more after this.
Well, folks, that's it.
A wonderful way to kick off a busy week of broadcast excellence here on the Rush Limbaugh program.
And of course, we'll be keeping a sharp oh, what?
No, it's a total rebuild.
I've Snerdley just asked me about uh the new operating system for the iPhones and iPad.
It is a total rebuild.
It I looks great.
That's about all I I mean, I haven't had a chance to look at very much, obviously.
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