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Sept. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
We are back.
Happy to have you here.
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All right, here's Obama, and I just got through sharing with you the Republican establishment view of Ted Cruz.
I just played for you the David Brooks soundbites where, well, Cruz, he's not a legislator.
He's just trying to obstruct.
He's just trying to stop things from happening.
Well, Lord, who would want that?
The American people don't want Obama.
The American people, issue by issue by issue, Obama policy after policy after policy opposed by a majority of Americans.
Who in the world would want to stop it?
Really, even if you care if you have heard me say the Republican establishment wishes there were no conservatives, would do anything it could to wipe me.
If you haven't, if that's been a tough thing to register, this ought to be easy to hear Brooks because he's speaking for them.
This Cruz and these other guys, these Tea Party Republicans, they're bad news.
They're just trying to obstruct.
Actually, they're trying to come up with other Republicans to run against other Republicans.
They're not legislators.
They don't want to compromise.
They just want to come up here and stop things.
Yeah, that's the idea.
That's what we all thought the Republican Party did, was stop the Democrats.
It used to be that way.
Maybe it didn't.
Maybe it's been an illusion all these years.
At any rate, Obama weighs in now.
This is today from the five-year anniversary of the financial meltdown and recovery.
They're celebrating as an anniversary now because Obama's economic recovery is in full swing.
And we're roaring back, folks.
And that's what Obama said today.
But he's not finished.
There's still work to do.
And he said this about Ted Cruz.
After all that we've been through these past five years, after all the work Americans like those standing behind me have done to come back from the depths of a crisis, are some of these folks really so beholden to one extreme wing of their party that they're willing to tank the entire economy just because they can't get their way on this issue?
Are they really willing to hurt people just to score political points?
I hope not.
But in case there's any confusion, I will not negotiate over whether or not America keeps its word and meets its obligations.
I will not negotiate over the full faith and credit of the United States.
He'll talk to Assad.
He'll talk to the Iranians.
He'll talk to Putin.
He'll negotiate with any of the bad guys in the world, but he will not talk and negotiate with anybody in the Republican Party like Ted Cruz.
It's Cruz that he's talking about.
He's not talking about Boehner, and he's not talking about McConnell, and he's not talking about most of the other Republicans.
He won't negotiate.
The dirty little secret is he never does.
He doesn't negotiate.
It's his way or the highway.
He's the extremist.
He's the radical.
Ted Cruz and others like him are simply trying to preserve America as founded, pure and simple.
Operating on this myth that we've had this vast and sweeping economic recovery, and all anybody now wants to do is derail that and hurt people.
People are hurt.
People are hurting, and their futures are not getting better.
They're losing their jobs, they're losing full-time jobs and becoming part-time if they're able to keep their jobs at all.
And now they're faced with losing their health care.
I listen to this and I really almost become speechless.
Are those folks really so beholden to one extreme wing of their party?
They're willing to tank the entire economy.
He's talking about continuing resolution, maybe shutting down the government here in the effort to defund Obamacare.
That's what he's referring to here.
He's done a fine enough job of tanking the economy on his own.
The efforts engaged by Cruz and these others are to stop any further destruction of the economy.
But he doesn't negotiate with anybody.
He never has.
By the way, politically, he doesn't have to.
He's winning everything.
He won the election.
He's got the Senate.
The Republicans cannot advance anything.
All they can do is stop.
That's all that they have the power to do is to try.
And they can't do it without assistance.
It's amazing how the most powerless in Washington right now are being characterized as the evil bad guys.
So Obama is essentially claiming here that what Ted Cruz and others like him want to do is sabotage the economy.
I can't remember, this is what he said.
I can't remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos if it can't get 100% of what it wants.
That's never happened before.
Really?
See, I seem to remember that once Democrats couldn't make us lose the war in Iraq in time for the 2006 election, they turned to talking down the economy.
They've done every, I remember Dick Gephardt celebrating with every 100-point loss in the stock market, thinking of equal to new seat or two for Democrats in the House of Representatives.
But I remember the Democrats talking down this economy for three years, promising a recession, forecasting a recession, predicting a recession.
Anyway, this is what we are facing and dealing with here.
And it ought to, folks, I'll tell you what, it ought to make you have all that much more appreciation for Ted Cruz because he and occasionally Rand Paul and some Tea Party Republicans in the House, they're it.
And they have got the forces of the entire Washington establishment arrayed against them.
And the entire Washington establishment is, as you hear, impugning their character, trying to destroy their reputations, lying about their political intentions and motivations.
The last thing Ted Cruz wants to do is hurt anybody.
The last thing Ted Cruz wants to do is tank an economy.
That's happening now.
People are hurting now, and they have been for five years, with no relief in sight.
This is how difficult it is.
But this is, you know, Democrats, I think, even try to defund the military while we're fighting two wars, threatened to do all that.
Obama says he can't remember a time when one faction of one party promises chaos.
The Democrat Party gave us chaos and has sought to seek as much chaos.
In fact, Obama's policies require chaos in order for them, his policies to become passed into law become reality.
So anyway, there's a lot to really acknowledge here in terms of Ted Cruz and this little band that he's got doing everything they can to defund Obamacare in one last effort to keep it from being implemented.
It's a noble effort, and it happens to be an effort.
Whether or not they know it, 75% of the American people support by virtue of polling data, poll after poll after poll, in which vast majorities of the American people say they don't want any part of this.
They don't expect to be helped by it.
They don't expect any benefit from it.
And once it's fully implemented, there goes one-sixth of the economy.
You know the drill.
Back to the audio soundbites.
This morning on CNN, live coverage of the Navy Yard shootings.
Carol Costello, the info babe at CNN, is speaking with the correspondent, Brian Todd, about the shootings.
And if you can believe it, said this.
I used to work in Washington, live in Washington.
This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could create this kind of havoc at a U.S. military facility.
This is so unusual because this is such a heavily secured military facility.
I worked in Washington for many years.
I've never heard of such a thing happening.
You heard that right.
Carol Costello, lead anchorette infobabe in the morning for CNN, just can't believe that something like this, a random shooting, could happen at a military installation.
She can't recall it ever happening.
You ever heard of Fort Hood, Carol?
Do you know what happened at Fort Hood, Carol?
Yes, Mr. Limbo, I do.
That was workplace violence.
Oh, that was not a shooting and havoc gunman at a military facility?
How many people died at Fort Hood?
How many people were injured at Fort Hood while the perpetrator was shouting a lawakbar while pulling the trigger?
She doesn't remember that.
So after Costello says that she's never heard of a shooting on a military installation before, the CNN correspondent Brian Todd weighed in.
Well, we haven't either in this area, Carol.
This is the first time we've seen something like this, at least in many, many years.
Now, of course, you remember the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 where that was a member of the service who was convicted eventually of doing that shooting.
That's called, I'm going to try to bail my anchor out here while telling her, oh, she's right.
Of course, Carol, you're right in this area, Carol.
But of course, we all remember, and you remember, Fort Hood.
CNN.
All right.
Now, let me turn the ditto cam off because I got to zoom in and show you something here.
I'm going to zoom in and let me just position it here correctly.
Bear with me.
Okay, here we go.
What you're looking at, oops, hang on just a second, folks.
I did it very quickly here.
Hang on just a second.
Almost put my email address out there for all those nutcases on Twitter to see.
Okay, here we go.
That is a series of covers of this week's Time magazine.
And I'm sorry if you don't have the ditto cam, if you're not watching the program on our website, I'm sorry.
But don't worry, you'll find out what we're talking about just.
So you got that picture here, folks, because I'm about to put it down in order to finish the details.
There's one cover there that is not Vladimir Putin.
There are five covers that are identical.
And they're all Vladimir Putin.
And what do those five Time magazine covers have in common?
They all ran in foreign countries in the foreign country version of Time magazine.
The lone cover that is blue, and you may not be able to see it, it's an athlete on the cover, ran in the United States, or is running in the United States.
Now, I'm going to turn the ditto cam off.
What you need to know is the Vladimir Putin cover that ran in the Middle East, in Africa, in Europe, in the South Pacific, and in Asia all talks about the world according to Vladimir Putin.
And the story that accompanied the cover photo, the cover picture, tells the truth of how Putin carried the day in the whole Syria operation.
And essentially, these are my words, made mincemeat of Obama and the rest of the world.
The world according to Vladimir Putin is the headline on that cover.
And again, the world according to Vladimir Putin and the story highly praiseworthy and complimentary of Putin and how he is running the world.
In the United States, that did not run.
The cover that is running here in the United States has a college football player in the traditional running pose.
The headline, it's time to pay college athletes.
So around the world, in Time magazine, they get the truth.
The world according to Vladimir Putin, the subhead is America's Weak and Waffling, Russia Rich and Resurgent.
That's the Time magazine story for around the world.
It's Vladimir Putin's world, America's weak and waffling, Russia's rich and resurgent.
And in the United States, the cover story, it's time to pay college athletes.
Because you see, the drive-by media, the domestic American media cannot tell the American news-consuming public the truth about our president and how he got skinned alive philosophically and policy-wise over in Syria.
I mean, he was just made a fool of by Putin.
Story talks about Putin's op-ed that ran in the New York Times, praises Putin to the hilt.
He's running the world while America is weak and waffling and doesn't appear to have any policy, no objectives, but Putin does, and he's carrying the day.
In America, the cover, it's time to pay.
Is it time to pay college athletes?
And that, my friends, is the best illustration you can get of the drive-by media and their treatment of Obama, not just Time magazine, but all of them.
Brief time out.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Ha.
How are you?
Back to the phones.
People have been waiting patiently.
Let's go to Buffalo.
Kim, thanks very much.
I'm glad you're here.
Welcome to the program.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We've got a horrible horrible.
Kim, I want you to hold on, but I've got a horrible connection.
There's a lot of noise on your phone.
I will come back to you.
Nat, Gig Harbor, Michigan.
You're next.
Welcome to the program.
Thanks, Rush, Matt, Wareham, and Kick Harbor, Washington.
I want to talk briefly about student loans here, Rush.
Basically, I think they've got two ways to get around them.
Number one is they can make it so we can declare bankruptcy, but I don't think they're going to allow us to do that.
Number two, they can inflate the dollar to the point where $200,000 is equal to $20,000.
If this happens, it raises all the boats in the water.
It causes people with fixed mortgages to be able to pay their houses out early.
And it's a win-win for the Democrats, too, as well, because people who have these mortgages will be able to pay out their house.
They'll be Democratic voters.
And people who have lost and they haven't gotten into the market in time will be Democratic voters because we're looking for a handout.
So I don't know what you think about that, but that's my take on the student loan thing.
Well, I need you to back up because you were going somewhere.
I wasn't aware you were going, so I think I lost a little track.
You think what the regime will do is inflate the currency such that a $200,000 student loan can be paid off for $20,000?
Yeah, that's exactly what I think.
But that's why they're having quantitative easing.
That's why the market is rising to the point where no one can explain it.
This is where they're going to have everyone's boat float.
They can't raise wages because it would hurt the economy.
Wait a minute, but hold it a second.
Inflating the currency like that would not float anybody's boat.
It would float the people's boats who have fixed mortgages, who have fixed freight loans, who have numbers that are fixed.
So it would help them in the short run, but it would hurt everyone in the long run.
And they could turn around and blame it on whoever they wish.
That kind of inflation, that would make that I think what Obama, before he did that, I think he'd just forgive them.
You know, he runs the student loan program now.
Well, yeah, I know he runs a student loan place.
I think that he may forgive him, but I think they're looking at the bigger picture.
They're not just looking at student loans.
They're looking at housing.
They're looking at other things.
They're looking at stagnation in the wages.
And how are we going to fix this?
Just like Jimmy Carter did in the 1980s.
If you have huge amounts of inflation, your paycheck is bigger, so you think you're earning more money.
But in actuality, your dollar is worth less.
And that way they can say you're earning more money under us.
You're paying off your bills, but eventually it's going to stop.
Well, essentially, I don't mean to be throwing cold water on your idea because I understand exactly what you're saying, especially when you're related to Carter.
The sad truth is that that is happening now.
There is massive inflation, particularly in the cost of living.
It hasn't reached wages, by the way.
It's going the opposite way.
But the cost of living continues to skyrocket.
Currency manipulates.
The Chikoms are complaining about this, but it's a good theory.
Oh, yeah.
A couple things here before we go back to the phones.
I'm going to try Kim and Buffalo in New York here in just a second.
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville Township, New Jersey, established in 1810.
It has the longest-running active tackle football program in America, in America.
And Skruel officials have just decided to switch the game from full-contact tackle to flag football at Lawrenceville School.
Now, Lawrenceville is an elite place.
I once, way back a long time ago, I made a donation to Lawrenceville, not knowing what it was.
I must have heard from 20 super elite people.
Hey, man, really great.
You gave some money to Lawrenceville.
I didn't know what it was.
I was just, I forget why I did it.
It was a good cause.
Don't misunderstand.
But anyway, it's a long-standing prep boarding school type place, I think.
I'm not even sure about that.
But it has a storied past, and it is an elitist place.
And it's had the longest running tackle football program in high school.
They've just changed it to flag football.
And the director of athletics, Michael Goldenberg, said last week that he and the headmaster, Liz Duffy, decided to switch the game from full contact to flag football.
Liz Duffy cited concerns for safety as the main reason for the change.
She told the Lawrence, I guess the publication, that what we do worry about is that boys in the house will feel pressured to play house football.
Frankly, I don't worry about that as much if it's flag football because there's not the same level of danger.
Now, there is and has been a huge backlash among current students and alumni.
Jay Carney went to this place.
I knew it was an elitist place.
Jay Carney went to this place.
A Facebook group entitled Bring Back House Football was immediately created.
Many expressed their displeasure at the change.
So the headmasters, Liz Duffy, and she decided that it's too dangerous.
Did you watch any football over the weekend?
Record numbers of people did.
The afternoon game, yesterday, the Giants and Broncos, I think was, if I read right, a 15-year ratings record.
Highest audience for a late game on a Sunday.
Not a night game.
Late game on a Sunday, highest audience in 15 years.
Now, I predicted this before the season started because there's nothing else to do.
The rest of TV right now is a dearth.
Got some Sunday shows, but most reruns and most, you know, reality junk.
The new season hasn't started.
There's nothing to do.
You stay at home or go to a bar, watch the game.
Nobody's got a whole lot of money, so football is going to do well.
But did you watch?
I watched a little bit of the Redskins in the...
I'm sorry.
I watched a little bit of the Washington at Packers game.
Just trying to be politically correct here.
And the Redskins had a guy that put the helmet on two guys, bunch of concussions.
Every time the announcers went into a long discussion of the new rules and wondering whether or not there would be fines and wondering how much because these hits and these helmet hits and these concussions, oh, this is horrible.
I'm telling you, this is the subtle way.
Every hit in football, you're going to have the announcers wondering: is the league going to find that hit?
Is that guy going to get fined next week?
Maybe suspended for a week.
Every hit.
And so now some of these guys are going low.
In the Jets Patriots game on Thursday night, Nick Mangle, number 74 at the center, he went low on a late hit near the sideline, went for guys' knees, Akeeb Talib, who had intercepted a Geno Smith pass, like the 25th interception of the night.
And the Jets are frustrated.
And so the guy went low, went at the guy's knees.
That caused a melee on both teams.
Two Jets were thrown out.
And they said, well, you can't go high anymore because that's Concussionville.
So if you go low, but I'm telling you, you watch these games and every hit is now examined.
Is the commissioner going to find that hit?
Is there going to be a suspension?
Why didn't the refs call that?
That looked like a big helmet hit to me.
That looked like a violation to me, Phil.
What do you think?
I don't know, Jim.
It's a very close.
And that's what the game is slowly but surely becoming is an analysis of every hit, particularly the hard hits.
There are a bunch of hard hits in the game last night, the Fortiners and the Seahawks.
And did you watch it, Brian?
Oh.
No, it wasn't close, but there were a bunch of hard hits.
And every time there were hard hits, Chris Collinsworth would go into action and start talking about possible rules violations and wondering if there would be any sort of a fine associated with that.
And this is what it's the consciousness raising on all this is slowly but surely starting because everybody's aware of it.
I mean, you can't blame the announcers.
This is what everybody has been made aware of.
Now, even hits that are not questionable, where flags are being thrown.
Good, solid hits that are totally legal.
Oh, you know, that he hit him too hard.
It wasn't necessary.
They didn't have to hit him that hard.
You hear the announcers not talking that way.
He could have backed off a little.
There was no reason on a load like that.
There was nowhere near the play.
The play was over.
There was no, it's just a slow creep.
Slow creep.
But at Lawrenceville, ain't no creep about it.
It's flag football, baby, all the way.
12 people dead in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
The Senate has recessed.
They say it's not terrorism.
I don't know if you shut down a city.
What is it?
Okay, we're going to try Kim and Buffalo Next, go back to bad cell connection last time.
Let's check it now.
Hi, Kim.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Great, great, great.
Much better.
Thank you for letting us try you later.
Well, thanks for giving me this opportunity.
And I appreciate the way you've served our nation over the years, and you've really kept me going.
And I just want to thank you for that.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Yep.
I wanted to chat with the girl, that young woman that called earlier in the show, was a little discouraged, a little nervous and jerky about her future.
Helena, 19 years old, right.
Yeah.
If I could, I would sit her down at my kitchen table right now and I'd pour her a cup of tea and I'd look in her eyes and I'd say, let's just scrap all this garbage on the table and let's look at reality because what we're hearing and what we're being fed has nothing to do with what our country was founded on, has nothing to do with reality.
Excuse me.
56 men a couple hundred years ago sat down and they said that we the people, we the people are going to separate from England because we can do things a little different, a little smarter, a little better.
And they staked and they pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor for something bigger than themselves.
And that spirit rush still exists today.
Every time we see a serviceman in the grocery store in the parking lot, we go up, we shake their hands, and we say, thank you, sir, for serving our nation.
And we're not giving up.
We're fighting for her.
And you know what?
We've got good bones.
My husband rehabs properties and he loves disasters.
He loves a house that nobody wants, that's been neglected, torn down, hasn't been cared for well, because he sees the potential, and he goes in, and as long as it has good bones, a solid foundation, there's not a lot of dry rot.
Well, you know, that's the thing.
And I'm really glad you're saying this.
I told her, don't let what you think is happening to everybody else affect you.
I mean, you go carve your niche just as if you thought things were normal.
If you want to look at it as though you've got less competition to make your mark, go ahead and do it.
The opportunity still exists.
And you're exactly right.
There are millions of people striving to hold on to that very thing.
That's what this fight is all about.
And it's a fight that's always being waged.
It's never totally won, and it's never ever totally defeated.
Because there are always people that don't like it, the founding, the things it stands for.
And they happen to be running the country right now.
But it can be overcome.
It can be.
Particularly young people.
That's why they must get the truth of the nation, the truth of the founding.
That's why I wrote my book, Rush Revere, and the Brave Pilgrims.
Anyway, Kim, thanks much.
I really appreciate it.
Those are really right-on-the-money thoughts.
Thank you so much for being with us today, folks.
Always appreciate it more than you know.
And we'll be back revved and ready to go again tomorrow.
See you then, and look forward to that.
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