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July 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, I just got my latest copy of the Fox News poll, and I haven't had a chance to go through the whole thing obviously, and I never do go through the whole thing.
I look at a couple of pages and that's it.
I'm not a polling statistical guy.
Crosstabs and stuff bore the hell out of me.
You need real wonks for that stuff.
But Obama's approval number in the in the Fox News poll.
Among independents is at 25%.
25% approval rating among independents in the Fox News poll.
And again, I have to point out that that number is a total reflection on Obama.
The Republicans haven't done anything to cause that.
The Republicans aren't pushing back.
The Republicans, and even if they were, they're not being covered, but I bet they're not.
The Republicans are not presenting an alternative.
It maddening, I know, and it's frustrating as it can be.
And where would we be if they had been presenting an alternative?
Good lord.
I I just look at.
Sometimes I sit and I think about this lost opportunity here, and it's inexplicable to me.
Because we're no longer talking about predictions of what might happen if Democrats win.
We're not talking about, we're not trying to warn people about what successive years of Democrat presidents will mean.
We're living it.
The predictions made in the 90s have come true.
We're in the middle of it.
The middle class is being shredded.
The Pew Research Center published in if you printed out, it's 80 pages.
And the subject is the lost decade of the middle class.
They track it starting back in uh in 2000.
Let me just give you one pull quote from this long piece.
Since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some of its characteristic faith in the future.
Not all of it, but some.
The middle income tier defined in this analysis as all adults whose annual income is two-thirds to double the national median is the only one that also shrunk in size, a trend that has continued over the past four decades.
Now, this was released a year ago.
Just now stumble across it.
It was uh August 22nd of 2012.
As the 2012 presidential candidates prepare their closing arguments.
They're courting a group that has endured a lost decade for economic well-being, and then the quote that I just read you is mentioned 12,000 people or 1,200 people.
1,287 people are uh surveyed.
And the subhead is fewer, poorer, and gloomier.
And yet Obama is out uh talking about the middle class and how we need to uh oh his policies are really the crossing of the T and the dotting of the I on this.
And it's a crying shame to watch this take place.
And the now the the president's approval numbers, and it by the way, the in Fox poll independence 25%.
I forget the other poll that somewhere here in the stack is at 45% in uh it's either NBC or or CBS.
Race relations have plummeted since Obama took office according to a poll.
This is from the uh from the Daily Caller.
Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, and in fact, let's go to the audio sound bites on this and let's start with number 15.
I want to take you back February 22, 2008 on this program.
This is in the midst of the Democrat primaries.
Obama has not yet even won the Democrat nomination.
In fact, Operation Chaos had not even begun.
Or maybe it had.
If it had, we were right at the very beginnings of Operation Chaos, which was this program and this audience's effort to keep the candidacy of Hillary Clinton alive through to the Democrat Convention in 2008.
We need to relive this again.
Because I'm folks, this was right on the money, and it sets up some things that were said on television yesterday.
If Obama gets elected president, wouldn't it be good to just get this done, Russia, and we can end the civil rights squabbles that were having it wouldn't do that.
Folks, it wouldn't do that.
It might even exacerbate them.
Let me explain how.
It takes somebody like me who can read the stitches on the fastball.
Let us fast forward to January of 2009.
Obama has been inaugurated president.
And he proposes his first bit of legislation.
And let's say that it's I don't know, some civil rights-oriented thing, and a bunch of people start howling.
You know that the race industry can't wait for this.
Any criticism of Obama, the first black president, is going to be met with charges of racism by the likes of the Reverend Jackson and Sharpton.
It will make their race business all that much more prominent.
And the point is that back in 2008, I predicted that Obama's election would not ameliorate race problems.
It would not eliminate them.
It would not remove from this country the tag of racism and slavery and racist and prejudice that it would exacerbate it.
Because no criticism of Obama would be permitted.
Any criticism of Obama would be called racism.
And I predicted it'd probably get worse.
And I knew, everybody else knew there were a bunch of uh white voters that were going to vote Obama strictly, hoping that doing so would end racial strife.
The theory was that the election of the first black president would signal that this country's race problems have been put to bed.
And that's why I was warning about.
Ain't no way, Jose, that it couldn't possibly be that way because the left does not want race problems to be solved.
They want them exacerbated.
Too many people make money off of racial strife, and therefore they're always going to promote it.
So the election of Obama as the first black president was a gold mine for people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
So let's now cut to the present day.
Yesterday in Washington on Capitol Hill, Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys held its first hearing on the status of black males in the U.S. And during the hearing, Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson testified.
And we have let's see one, two, we have three sound bites from Professor Dyson.
The great Thomas Jefferson, the architect of Monticello and the Declaration of Independence, also wrote notes on Virginia, where he questioned the cerebral abilities and the intellectual acuity and the reason of black people, even as at night, retiring from his study, engaged in relations with a young woman whose loins trapped his logic.
So that the reality of our humanity being under suspicion is critical as the backdrop to understand the unfolding and evolving perception of black people in America.
Our humanity has been questioned, and our intelligence has been questioned.
Now, for those of you in real, I'm gonna have to translate something for you here.
Um Professor Dyson here, Georgetown University sociology professor, said of Thomas Jefferson, even as at night, retiring from his study, engaged in relations with a young woman whose loins trapped his logic.
I realize many of you in real linda uh maybe scratching your heads over this.
What Professor Dyson is saying here is that after Jefferson had done all these brilliant wonderful things during the day, he picked up the nearest black slave on his plantation and headed to bed.
And she enveloped him with her thighs.
And what she enveloped was uh is male member.
And the male member is where Jefferson's logic was.
According to Michael Eric Dyson.
Did you not pick that up, Don?
Is that not okay?
You got it.
Well, you're looking like you're in disbelief in there.
Oh, you can't believe I'm saying it.
Oh.
I thought I said it in a rather classy uh erudite way.
Yeah, the challenge was to explain this in a way that people of Rio Linda understood it without being vulgar.
Anyway, that this the point is that here we are in 2013.
We have the first African American president in office.
And up until today, he's been liked and popular by apparently a majority of the country, and all we can talk about is Thomas Jefferson and slaves.
Thomas Jefferson, by the way, was a Democrat.
But we we can't talk about we have to talk about Thomas Jefferson and what he did back then and how that's still relevant and what Jefferson did still informs.
Actions of today.
What Jefferson was doing is no different than what's happening today in the United States of America.
So rips Thomas Jefferson in the next bite, guess who's responsible for black on black crime?
Now our friends on the right suggest it's black on black crime.
Where you been, we've been talking about that.
When Newtown happens, cameras are there.
When Aurora happens, cameras are there.
When Chicago happens, cameras are not there.
But now we pathologize those young black people, and by the way, black people have been marching from time immemorial against the vicious legacy of white supremacy that occupies black minds that leads us to kill each other, to hate each other, to despise the very presence that we represent.
So white supremacy alive and kicking today in 2013 is responsible for the occupation of black minds leading to black people killing each other, leading to black people hating each other, and despising their very existence.
White supremacy makes all that happen.
When some white kid blows up a school, cameras are there, he says.
When Aurora, same thing happens, cameras are there.
But when Chicago happens, cameras are not there.
That's the problem, Mr. Dyson, Professor Dyson.
The problem is that what's happening in Chicago, there doesn't seem to be anybody concerned about it, sir.
Who owns the cameras, Mr. Dyson?
In what kind of cities do they own the cameras, Professor Dyson?
If you ask me, it's your buddies, liberal Democrats who own the cameras.
In cities run by your buddies, liberal Democrats...
Who runs Chicago?
Who runs Illinois?
Who owns the media in that place?
Your buddies, the Democrat Party.
Why aren't your buddies taking the cameras where you want them to go?
The fact of the matter is your buddies don't want that kind of crime scene.
They don't want that kind of crime on television.
That kind of crime is supposed to be uncommented upon.
That kind of crime, the crime that's happening in Chicago, we're not supposed to see.
We're not supposed to talk about it.
Nobody's supposed to bring that up.
Looks bad.
Haven't figured out a way to blame white supremacy for that.
Mr. Dyson wasn't finished.
We come now to my prediction.
Made back on February 22nd of 2008.
Here is Michael Eric Dyson again yesterday.
This is at the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys first hearing on the status of black men in the United States.
Not only could you have been Tremon 35 years ago, you Trayvon now.
Why?
Because they are profiling Mr. Obama in the White House.
Asking about your transcripts from a man whose hair is thinner even than his skin, questioning you, trumping you in a very serious and vicious fashion, from people asking to see your birth certificate as if you're not American.
You did it the way people said they wanted to be done.
You went to Columbia, graduated, Harvard Law School, and graduated.
You don't wear a hood.
It can't be about a hoodie.
It can't be about the demonization of a certain kind of sartorial choice.
It is about the way in which black masculinity expresses a menace and a threat in American culture, both consciously and unconsciously, that needs to be decoupled in the collective imagination of America.
All criticism of the first black president is racist.
He's being profiled in the White House.
He did it the way we whites say it's supposed to be done, and then when he did it that way, we don't accept it.
And we don't believe it.
And we demand proof.
Like we do of every other president.
and All of them prior to this one white, by the way.
And anyway, you see the anger, you hear the rage.
The election of the first black president hasn't solved anything.
Sounds to me like it's made it worse.
Sounds like there's more anger and rage out there.
And by the way, these criticisms of the president are chump change.
There are substantive ideological policy-oriented criticisms of this president that are also not permitted.
Gotta take a break.
Sit tight, we'll be back much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
You have a new poll here from the NBC News Wall Street Journal, and it says that public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of Barack Obama.
Here are the numbers.
52% of whites, 38% of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country.
According to the poll, which has tracked race relations since 1994.
These numbers, folks, are a sharp drop from the beginning of Obama's first term.
When Obama was immaculated in January of 2009, 79% of whites had a favorable opinion of race relations.
Today it's 52%.
63% of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations.
So we've had a drop of 27 points in whites and 25 points in blacks in four and a half years of the first black presidency in America.
You know what's kind of stunning about this to me?
You would think, and I hope all of you white people voted for Obama hoping it was going to end racism at 63%.
Why isn't that higher?
I mean, it was truly historic.
Electing the first African American to the highest office in the land.
I mean, it was an historic thing.
And yet only 63% of blacks held a favorable view of American race relations at the time of the president's emaculation.
Shouldn't that have been in the 80s?
But it wasn't.
Whatever it was, it's down 25 points after four and a half years of Obama.
Among the black population, 27 points in four and a half year plummet.
Among white people.
Now the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People, which steadfastly supports the regime, distributed pro-Obama election flyers in 2012 with lynching and Ku Klux Klan imagery.
Although these efforts may have helped boost African American turnout to record levels and deliver states like Florida and Ohio to Obama.
The NAA LCP's efforts do not appear to have done much for black Americans.
The black unemployment rate in the U.S. is currently 13.7%, six points higher than the national rate, which uh stands at 7.6 percent.
So everything is worse.
Everything is worse, including the one thing Omaba might have actually fixed or been able to fix.
Everything regarding race is worse in this country.
And I remind you, February 22nd, 2008, I, your host predicted it.
Back to the phones we go, folks, to uh Rich in Clarkston, Michigan.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
You are my political pastor and a gift from God.
Thank you, sir very much.
I appreciate that.
I really do.
It's truly, and you're on my prayer list.
Uh Detroit's decline is actually started with capital flight and not white flight.
Uh it began with Detroit Democratic mayor Jerome Kavanaugh, who was elected around 1961 or 62, and with Lansing's approval, they imposed a Detroit City additional income tax of about one and a half percent, a property tax of one and a half percent, and a utility tax.
And so on top of all the regular taxes everyone pays, now Detroit had this additional taxes.
So uh Kavanaugh thought himself like a young JFK and wanted turn wanted to turn Detroit into an Oz.
Actually it became an ooze, and the Capitol began with the wealthiest, who, if they moved out of Detroit, could save that three or four percent in taxes, and so then their property was.
But now wait, wait, wait, hang on just a second.
The the wealthy were always in Gross Point.
What what do you uh uh the what what percentage of the Detroit population actually the wealthy actually lived in the city limits?
Well, there's right downtown, just outside the very uh city center, are districts called Boston Street, and there's huge mansions, and uh there was a lot of mansions like where the mayor lives, the Manoogian Mansion.
There's a lot of wealthy areas, very wealthy areas still in the city.
Uh they're declining, but they're still there.
So back in the day, um there was Indian village, and there's um I can't think of all the names of them right off the top of my head, but there's a lot of wealth in the city and homes, and plus their businesses.
So their businesses got hit, their property personal property taxes got hit, real estate taxes, and so it was capital flight.
I read this in an article at a local college I went to back in the 90s, and uh, and so then those property values dropped, and nobody with that kind of money was going to move into the city at and lose that kind of money due to the tax, and so all the property values began to decline, and so people just kept fleeing.
And then, of course, the 67 riots didn't help, and Coleman Young didn't help, and everything else you've been talking about.
But but that's the real genesis of it is the capital flight due to the income tax.
And the um the city of Pynac and Lan and Flint also have these same taxes, and they're both the same.
They're all now uh, but you know, wait, I think um you're saying it in a different way, but I think that I covered this because the the city during the time you're talking about was completely segregated, right?
I can't answer that.
I mean, when uh I was a child at that time, and my dad worked at the World Litzer building right downtown, it's still there, it's ready to come down.
Well, but there was a lot of urban renewal that was taking place.
This is prior to Coleman Young.
There was a lot of urban renewal taking place, and all of the blacks uh ended up being crowded into very small neighborhoods, and there was racial tension in Detroit.
I mean, it can I look I'm not disagreeing with you that that that money fled the uh the the inner the city uh everybody everything fled this everybody could everybody that could get out did is the bottom for whatever reason uh but but after that happened what is key about Detroit after the flight happened nothing took place to reverse it.
It remained segregated, white versus black, poor versus wealthy, wealthy was in suburbia and outside of town, north of eight mile, and Coleman Young had his little fiefdom in town that was just going downhill rapidly, and he kept exacerbating racial tensions.
I mean, you can't I'm I'm not trying to stoke any fire here, but I don't I'm just I'm I'm trying to to to to uh honestly reflect uh what what I've read about this period and what happened.
Um I think it all combines to lead to this mess, and there's there's no way to sugarcoat what happened or what is happening.
No.
Well, Rush, to this day, in 2010, the the Michigan legislature, which was taken over by Republicans and Governor Snyder had to approve the extension of that law, especially with Detroit's declining population.
So here you're still taxing the poorest of the poor.
You drive in Detroit and you've seen the pictures on television, but you've got these little ladies living in these little run-down homes, and they have to pay this additional property tax if they're working and income tax and utility tax, and they need that money to fix up their own houses.
Well, hey, welcome to America.
Yes.
I mean, that's that's not just that's Detroit will never recover until they get rid of that tax.
That's good.
But that's not exclusive to Detroit.
That's happening everywhere.
Governments are just Chicago, it's irre governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things that no, no, don't close my fire station.
What in my house?
Okay.
All right, we won't.
But we can't cut the budget.
Okay, well, don't cut the budget then.
One of the outcomes, folks, by the way, of Detroit jacking up taxes so high.
Less than half of the of the Detroit property taxes are even being paid.
They've got the the collection rate is abysmal.
People just don't have the money.
There's nothing they can do.
You can send people a bill for their property tax.
If they don't have the money, that's it.
That's gonna get, and the collection rate on property taxes in Detroit proper 50 percent.
Sorry, that isn't uh not workable.
I need to say something, and by the way, thanks, Rich for the call.
I appreciate it.
Um Detroit News.
It's a it's a story.
Half of Detroit property owners don't pay taxes.
From February 21st of this year, half of Detroit property just don't pay their property taxes.
I'll tell you, if if I didn't pay mine, I'd get kicked out.
If if I didn't pay my property tax, my house will be auctioned on the courthouse steps.
Wrong.
Let me tell you what do you mean they wouldn't let it almost did.
Let me tell you a little so people understand that this happens everywhere.
Not long after I moved here and uh purchased the estate, for a bunch of reasons, the property tax bill was sent to a financial firm in New York City.
And the financial firm in New York City, some secretary, didn't know what to do with it, just sat there.
I never got the bill.
Three days.
You get the bill in November here, and you can pay it all then, or you can wait a month and it goes up by two percent, another month it goes up.
But and you have until May, I think, to pay it all off.
Three days.
And I I I was it was it was early in in my residency here, and I was not familiar with how the whole system works.
So I was not aware that the bill arrived in November, so I wasn't even looking for it.
It wasn't even on my mind.
It's ultimately my fault.
But I want to tell you what happened.
Three days before the due date, the final due date, I get a phone call from somebody who will not tell me who they are, saying if you don't pay your property tax, your house is going up for auction on the courthouse steps, essentially, next week.
And I had no idea what he was talking about.
Well, who are you?
Well, I I don't want to say.
I'm I'm just it turned out to be a friend of somebody who worked in the assessor's office.
There were people in there hoping I wouldn't pay it, so they could take the house away.
It would have been auctioned.
That's what happens here when you don't pay your property.
Take your house away from you.
So fortunately, because this guy called, was able to had to run down and get a uh cashier's check for the amount, had to hustle and get it done.
And ever since that bill comes in November, I pay it.
But I almost lost the property here just simply because I was not the system, and I didn't know that, and nobody in New York knew what to do with the bill to know what it was.
But so I'm only telling you story guests nerdly said, nah, that would never happen.
You're too big to fail.
Wrong.
There were people hoping.
You know, little liberals that work at a little lady, they were hoping.
That's what this guy told me on the phone.
I still don't know who it was.
I thought he was calling from the FS.
I said, Well, can I can I send you a check?
No, I don't have anything to do with it.
It took me about a half hour to figure out who he was.
I thought he was coming from the assessor's office.
He was just a good Samaritan who had heard what was going on.
Uh one thing I wanted to tell you about Zeb Chaffitz's book.
Um this is really an amazing story.
I grabbed a copy of it.
It's called Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit, and it it my my scan of this book has been my source material this week for explaining what happened to Detroit.
The book is not in print.
People have been trying to buy it, and of course it's it's 23 years old, it's out of print.
Guess what?
There has been so much interest expressed in the book that the publisher is going to reissue it.
Now, I'm told that's going to be two to three weeks.
And I can't keep talking about this for two to three weeks, so you people are going to have to remember this.
That if you want to get a copy of this book, because it is it is um written by Zeb Chafitz, who did the biography of me and Roger Ailes, the biography of me titled An Army of One.
And it's his contention that Detroit's core problem isn't liberalism or unions or the decline of the auto industry, those are factors.
But he said it's race that led to Detroit's current problems, including bankruptcy, and his book makes the case for it, and it's uh quite in depth review of the mayoralty of of Colem Young.
So I just wanted to, you know, I'm inadvertently I have been touting the book and people have been trying to buy it, and you can't.
But because so many of you have expressed a desire, they're gonna reissue it, but it's gonna take them two to three weeks.
Now, I don't know if you can pre-order it.
I don't I haven't looked, don't know that much if it's an e-book as well as paperback.
I don't know how they're gonna reissue it, but they are.
But it's gonna take three weeks, so just be Patient.
It's worth waiting for.
Even if you have no relationship to Detroit, the fact that many people say that Detroit is a forerunner of what could happen in additional American cities.
It's informative in that context alone.
Again, the title Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit, and I've got to take a break.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Man, this is incredible.
Used copies of Devil's Night are going for $2,000 and up on Amazon.
You believe that.
Used versions of Devil's Night going for up to $2,000 on Amazon.
Now, what you can do, I'm told, is add the book to your wish list on Amazon at the Amazon website.
So if you have an account there, well, if you don't start one, but you get an account, add it to your wish list.
And when it comes in, then Amazon will inform you.
But used versions of Devil's Night going up for $2,000.
Wonder how that happened, Snerdly.
What how the how how did that happen?
Used copies of a book.
Up to two grand.
By the way, I got a note.
Rush, auctioning off your house on the courthouse steps doesn't apply in Detroit.
The median home in Detroit is worth $13,000.
Your house is worth more than the courthouse steps or even the courthouse.
No, what does it mean?
Means I could buy Detroit with my house.
Could buy all no.
But there are houses.
If what?
If if if if reaction if Rio Linda I offered to move to Rio Linda if they'd rename it Limbaugh, California, and they said no.
Maybe if I offer to buy Detroit, if they name it Limbaugh.
Well, no, no, they're not all 2,000.
There's like $325, other copies for $325.
But there's one listed up there for $2,000.
Um, let's see.
Here's uh here's Gene Sun City in West Arizona.
Great to have you on the program.
Sun City West, great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to make a point.
That Dre do you remember when Tammy Wynat came out with the song Stand by Your Man, and the left went nuts over it, made fun of her, drug it through the streets.
It was awful.
I think that could be the new democratic themed song.
Wait a minute now.
I uh here's what I remember.
In the 92 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton somewhere said, Look, I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man baking cookies here.
Oh yes, you were.
As it turned out, oh yes, you were.
And you should change your bumper music to Tammy Wynett's Stand By Your Man.
Stand by your man.
Yeah.
May I make one other quick quick point?
Uh that's right.
Go ahead.
When I when I lived in California, I was cleaning houses, two to three houses a day.
Hardcore liberal.
I went to work for a young woman that had two children by two different fathers, and she was on welfare, and she asked me to clean her house.
I came home and turned around my whole thinking.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
You were the one cleaning houses?
Yes.
You went to work for two.
A young woman had two children by two different fathers.
She was on welfare, and she had enough money to pay you to clean her house.
She also had an air-conditioned apartment, and I had a small mobile home cooled by a swamp cooler.
Oh no, I hate those.
Oh my awful.
You ever had a swamp cooler?
Oh, that is they're terrible.
That is oh my, I am sorry for you.
I Feel so bad, just thinking about that for you.
I am so sorry.
A new statistic, uh ladies and gentlemen, for every job the administration says it has created.
And that's an important distinction.
For every job the regime says it has created, two Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls.
That's something to be proud of, isn't it?
For every job they admit having been created, two Americans are added to the food stamp rolls.
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