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Jan. 21, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 21, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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No, sir, I've not forgotten it.
Science doesn't lie.
Modern mothers are lazier.
I got a story right here.
We'll come to it when we get to it.
Hang in there, be tough.
We got that.
We got millennials unhappy with Obama, and they think he's conducting a war on the young.
Um hacking expert claims that he cracked healthcare.gov in four minutes.
You know, the re the regime is out there telling all these uh high-tech young people, hey man, it's secure, you can feel safe, you can log on, you can sign up, and you become a practicing member of Obamacare, and a hacker went out there and he got out there, he cracked it in four minutes, meaning he's a white hat hacker, meaning he was able to collect user information for a whole bunch of people that have enrolled.
Uh and you know, I guarantee it, young, healthy people are going to see things like a white hat hacker was able to crack it in four minutes, and they're gonna go anywhere near it.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
By the way, have you heard Carl Lewis?
The great Olympian.
He's gay.
He's black.
I think he's gay.
I uh uh did uh some I I think so.
The five I thought that was.
Regardless.
Carl Lewis, nine-time Olympic gold medalist.
Maybe I'm confusing him with somebody.
You should have seen the wide-eyed looks I got, so maybe I'm confusing him with somebody.
Doesn't matter.
Okay, that's what I reckon.
It was alleged, and it was there were rumors going, never confirmed.
Okay, so I withdraw it.
It doesn't matter to me.
Here's what matters.
Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says that Governor Christie dropped a plan to appoint him Carl Lewis as New Jersey's first physical fitness ambassador when he launched a political campaign against a Christie friend.
Lewis said yesterday that the governor called to dissuade him from running as a Democrat for the state Senate in 2011 against the Republican Senator Don Adeigo.
Lewis says that he was told the fitness program that they'd been developing would not materialize if he ran.
And Carl Lewis says that the governor felt the post was a carrot he could pull away, and Lewis withdrew from the Senate race after a court ruled that he didn't meet a residency required.
He now lives in Houston, so he couldn't run anyway.
Which is ironic given that he's Carl Lewis.
What do you mean he can't run?
Of course he can run.
He's just not for office.
But uh notice that this is not much of an artic article.
It appears to be solely based on the word of Carl Lewis.
So Christie's in a little trouble here, and here comes Carl Lewis saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the governor tried to dissuade me from running for office, and he was gonna make me the physical fitness director of the state and then threatened to pull it away.
So it's pylon time, it's pylon time.
Now, at a caller who heard the Wolf blitzer soundbite praising the Christie speech.
And the caller admitted that he's always viewed liberals as filled with deceit, which I understand.
And so his uh pregunta was is Wolf trying to deceive us?
Is Wolf by praising the Christie speech, trying to get a bunch of people to support him knowing he can't win?
That was the question.
Before I explain it, let's go back and listen to what Wolf said.
He's following a Gloria Borger comment on CNS after Christie's inaugural speech today.
Gloria Borger made a big deal about how Christie is in trouble.
He's losing independence left and right, it's uh looking hopeless.
There are other uh drive-by media types claiming that uh moneyed Republican donors uh losing interest in Christie.
And so she was saying he's in big trouble, and Wolf came in and said, you know, it's that's just a shame because man, what a speech, what a great speech.
Here's exactly what he said.
I think it will help him.
Uh I think it was a powerful speech, and he delivered the proper tone.
It would have been a really amazing speech if he didn't have these clouds of these current scandals in New Jersey hovering over him that would have been a nice step in the direction potentially toward a 2016 presidential run.
He's got a lot of problems right now, but I think on the whole, it was a very strong speech, a powerful speech that will help him.
Okay.
So here you have an accredited member of the drive-by media praising a speech made by a Republican.
The question is, is he deceiving us?
Is he really believing?
No, in Wolf Blitzer's case, here's the answer to the question.
Wolf believes it.
I don't think that Wolf engages in deceit.
However, Wolf does believe that Republicans are the clichés.
He believes the cliches, bigots, uh they're hated, uh extremists, and thus Wolf believes that Republicans have to prove they're not.
Republicans have to prove that they are willing to work with Democrats.
Republicans have to prove that they are willing to compromise with Democrats.
Republicans have to prove that they are not close-minded bigots.
Republicans have to prove that they are not haters.
And so in Wolf's worldview, Christie did all that.
And he thinks that Christie, with it within that framework, hit a home run.
Now, Wolf does not want Christie to be president.
He just thinks this is what Republicans have to do to change in order to be more liked.
Because in Wolf's world, being accepted by the media is the coin of the realm.
And Christie was with that speech, I mean, he was on the way to accomplishing that if it weren't for this cloud of scandal hanging over him.
But Wolf was not praising Christie when he didn't believe it in order to convince people to support Christie because Wolf knows Christie can't win.
Wolf believes that the Republicans' big problem is that Hispanics hate them and that women hate them, and that they're justified in it, and that young people hate them, and that blacks hate them, uh, and that single women hate them, and that gays hate them.
And so anything a Republican can do that would dispel that notion, and Wolf thinks the Republican has gained ground.
That's my interpretation of Wolf praising Christie.
You have to understand the starting point for something like this.
You have to understand from Wolf's standpoint, what does a Republican have to do to prove he's not like all the other Republicans?
And Christy in his mind did it here.
Because in Wolf's worldview, like what everybody else in the media, Republicans, most of the Republicans the way they naturally are can't win and won't win, and are always going to be hated and disliked and suspected and all of that.
Christie.
Now there's a guy.
He the short version, Christie sounded more like a Democrat than most Republicans, in Wolf's view.
See, Wolf also has a totally distorted, convoluted view of the Democrats.
He also believes the cliches about them, that they are loved by everybody, and that they in turn love everybody, and that they're open-minded and that they're not partisan and they and and they're not mean and that they're not political, and they're not even ideological.
They're not liberals.
They're they're just they're just decent good people.
And that's what Republicans have to become.
And Christy, he was on the way.
But Wolf was not trying to deceive you.
Uh Now he he may be unique in that regard, but he's uh I I just I know him a little bit, and I don't I don't think that that would be in any way an attitude that would influence or shape his opinion or reaction to something.
But he is locked squarely in the cliches that are attached to uh members of both parties.
Now I'm gonna take a timeout, we come back, we'll do the science doesn't lie, modern mothers are lazier than they've ever been.
But I also have some other sound bites I want to get to here with uh uh reaction to Obama's interview in uh New York.
I always get confused.
It was New Yorker.
Always get confused, New York and New Yorker.
This was the New Yorker, and we'll do all that when we get back.
Let me give you let me give you the short version of the analysis of Wolf Blitzer praising Christie's speech.
It's real simple.
In Wolf Blitzer's worldview, the Republicans have to prove they are not ex racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, mean, extreme, partisan.
The Democrats don't have to prove anything because they are ideal.
The Democrats are not perfect, but they're not racist, they're not mean, they're not sexist, they're not bigoted, they're not homophobic, they're none of that.
Republicans are all of that, and they have to prove that they're not.
And that's all Wolf was saying.
That in his view, Christie went a long way toward proving or establishing that he's not a real Republican.
But uh Democrats, they don't have to prove anything ever.
They just are.
You'll notice, for example, there are never any clouds of scandal hovering over Hillary.
No matter that four people died on her watch at Benghazi when she's Secretary of State.
She wasn't there.
It's not a problem.
There was no scandal.
Um Christie has to prove that he is not partisan.
Christie has to prove that he is bipartisan.
It is assumed by people like Wolf that the Democrats are already bipartisan and open-minded and willing to compromise and work with anybody, as Obama says, he'll work with anybody that's got a good idea.
And Wolf believes that.
Wolf believes the Republicans won't work with anybody because they're partisan, racist, sexist, bigots, he might not think they're racist, but bigots, extremists, mean, and all that.
And so in his view, Christie went a long way to proving he's not a real Republican.
Ergo, Christie got praised.
True and simple.
Carl Lewis, I said that's why he's gay.
Vegan.
That's what I was getting at him.
He's a vegan.
And no, I'm not equating the two.
Besides, there's nothing wrong with it anyway, right?
Okay.
I mentioned earlier in the busy broadcast, Juan Williams read the 18-page interview, David Remnick's interview with Barack H. Obama.
Mm-mm-mm, and is not happy.
Juan thinks that Obama sounded defeated.
Here's what he said.
This was on a special report with Brett Baer on the Fox News channel during the Fox All-Stars.
I didn't, I you know, I didn't know there was anybody else on the All-Star.
I don't know Juan was still there.
I thought the Fox All-Stars were Dr. Knoudema and George Will.
I didn't know that Wolf was still among the All-Stars.
So I'm happy to hear that he's still on the roster there.
I thought this was interesting.
I had a sense that I've never had before from the president of being defeated.
That he felt like, you know what, I can't really make a big difference in this office.
He spoke about the stream and being part of a stream In history and you can't turn things around.
He does say at one point, you know, he says to his staff, we run the biggest organization and most powerful organization in the world.
But on the other hand, he speaks as if he's a man caught in the maws of a larger machine, and he is not able to make a difference.
And I thought, boy, that's not the Obama that I heard of in 2008.
Now what do you think of that?
Is that is that how you view Obama?
You know, people on the left are mad at him.
They think he's blown all this in many regards.
Now, of course, you and I don't see it this way at all.
I don't see Obama as somebody who thinks he's defeated.
I I see Obama, I think Obama privately can't believe how much success he's had.
Because I think Obama privately can't believe how little opposition he's had.
I mean, look at what he's done.
He has nationalized one-sixth of the U.S. economy.
Who cares if it's bollocks up right now?
He doesn't care about that.
He pulled it off.
He doesn't matter.
Whether it works or not, he pulled it off.
This quote that he says to his staff, we run the biggest organization, most powerful organization in the world.
Who do you know?
What president looks at the United States government that way?
We run the most powerful organization in the world.
And then speaks as if he's a man caught in the maws of a larger machine, not able to make a I I think Obama's frustrated that he has to deal with the Constitution.
And I think that ticks him off, but I uh the idea that Obama's running around feeling defeated, I think this is the opposite.
I think Obama has succeeded to some degree or another on all fronts in his project to transform the country.
And I bet if you can ever get him really honest, you'll give him a couple of doobies going to be really honest, he would tell you he is stunned that there hasn't been any opposition.
Now, publicly, he'll complain and whine about uncooperative Republicans.
Now they stand up privately.
He and his uh consigliary in the organization have to be telling each other to various degrees of disbelief that they can't believe they've been able to do all of this with no opposition.
And believe me, folks, they want to win the House in 2014 so that there, yeah, I mean, it it's smooth sailing.
That's just rubber stamp, whatever's left to transform.
It may well be that Obama was a little surprised that it takes a long time to change the direction of a country this big.
I mean, he might think that, you know, in a messianic mindset that just showing up that a hundred percent of the people would agree with him.
I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility, seriously.
But feeling defeated, uh that tells us more about one, I think, and other Obama supporters, than it tells us about Obama.
They're thinking that.
And I guarantee you, you know what it is?
Juan sees the approval number of 38 percent thinks failure.
These people in the Beltway, they're totally, totally influenced by polling data.
Because I guess if if Obama was sitting at 51 percent, you wouldn't have Juan talking about Obama thinking it's a failure.
Guarantee you.
Now, here's Remnick.
This is the author of the stories on Charlie Rose last night, PBS.
And Charlie said uh 2013, oh, it was a horrible year for Obama as you describe it.
Terrible.
And the biggest wound was the self-inflicted wound at toward the end of the year, which is the rollout of Obamacare.
And this is his greatest domestic achievement in his terms.
It was a disaster.
And he has to then go out and do what does not come naturally to him, which is to perform his anger about this.
This is not a publicly emotional man in most certainly not for the media age.
He's cool and collected.
He's almost above the obscene.
But he has to perform, even for his supporters, the idea of how annoyed he is and how quickly it'll Get fixed, just like Social Security was fixed after a bad rollout in 1937.
You hear Charlie Rose said, Yeah, he's uh he's almost above the scene, but Remnick is saying Obama had to fake the anger.
Now I'm confused about something.
If you are going to say that Obama has to fake the anger, then he's not really mad.
And how can he not be mad if it is a disaster?
Because Remnick says, oh, the biggest wound.
Oh, whoa.
The rollout of Obamacare, greatest domestic achievement, it was a disaster.
Really?
And then he has to go out and fake anger about it.
I mean, if it was a genuine disaster, wouldn't he be really mad?
Somebody.
He'd be mad at whoever did the website, he'd be mad at whoever's responsible for the disaster.
Of course, not him, because he's perfect.
But he's now having to fake anger.
Now, why is he having to fake anger?
Well, because he's not really mad.
And why isn't he really mad?
Because he doesn't care.
He signed it into law, and that's it.
It'll take care of itself.
It isn't going to be repealed.
It isn't going to be rolled back.
We're going to end up with single payers sooner than he thought is what he's telling us.
What in the world is there to be mad about?
Maybe the approval numbers.
Maybe the fact that people are not bowing down, kissing his feet with this rollout?
Maybe, but what's he mad about if he's having to fake it?
Now maybe he has to fake the anger in order to relate to other people who are, in other words, limbaugh theorem, they're angry.
I better be angry.
Make it look like I've got nothing to do with this.
Obama has to perform his anger.
Who talks like that, folks?
Have you ever heard that phrase?
I mean, you might have heard it in the context of real actors and actresses in the performing, but I haven't even heard it in that context.
Who talks about it in police performing their anger?
And here's the thing.
Social Security did not have a terrible rollout in 1937.
That is a bunch of revisionist history.
I didn't see Obama have any trouble performing his anger over the BP oil spill.
He said that he was looking for somebody's ass to kick.
He has to perform his anger.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have in the stack here, there are one to this uh three, maybe four stories on the on the rich that I don't know if I'm going to be able to get to them today.
I'll keep them aside, if not, for tomorrow, because the rich, as you know, are under assault.
And the point of these stories is how it ought to be just the opposite.
That, you know, we have this liberal created image of the rich as idle coupon clippers.
They don't work, they inherit, they uh they're unfeeling, and they have no compassion, and they have no understanding of what life is like for the poor, for the middle class, and they just keep taking money from them left and right.
And the fact of the matter is, and we've done this, I can't tell you how many times over the course of 25 years.
There used to be bank, U.S. trust, it may still be around.
I don't know.
Um asset management for the wealthy kind of bank and other institutions have surveyed the rich, and every one of these, there have been books about it, experts in it.
Every one of these surveys and in-depth studies of wealthy people has found that most of them worked their tails off, that they're not idle, and that they do not live in mansions and flit around in a jet set, party after party after party, as is the impression given if you watch entertainment television.
That is that that in fact the wealthy, the rich, the achieved ought to be the role models for everybody, particularly in an economic recovery.
They ought to be pointed to and highlighted and said, do this to other people.
If you want to get out of the mesh, you're in, be like this person.
Do what this person.
They're busting their rear end.
They found somebody loved and they're working hard.
We have three, I think, different stories on this today.
And it's gonna it it's important because you've got Obama out.
He's gonna have a meeting with the Pope now.
I wonder why, on this whole notion of inequality.
Born of capitalism, income inequality, and all the rest of it.
And the rich will not speak up for themselves.
They think there's nothing to be gained.
They won't defend themselves.
They they they just stay away from it.
But rich America happens to be working America.
And most people think that rich America is idle, partying, jet setting America or whatever, but it isn't.
Wealthy households.
This give you one one staff here just to tease this, but I'm not gonna go into the in depth right now, because I can't won't be able to say everything I want to say about it.
But it says here that wealthy households contain, on average, more than four times as many full-time workers as do poor households.
And surprisingly, inherited wealth constitutes a smaller share of their assets than it does for middle class and poor households.
In other words, the latest survey says the middle class and the poor the a greater percentage of their assets come from inheritance than from working rich Americans.
A country would be far better off if more people actually lived the way the top 20% do.
If they actually worked like the top 20 percent.
Instead, the top 20 percent, top 10 percent, top one percent, they are maligned, criticized, ridiculed, impugned, and instead they ought to be held out and up as the role models.
But then, of course, if you do that, you undermine the entire message of the Democrat Party.
So we can't do that.
The rich can never be, or the wealthy, or the successful, can never be seen in an admirable positive light.
Not and have a functioning, winning Democrat Party.
Because the fact of the matter is the idle rich are not idle.
Rich America is working America.
Now back to the audio soundbites.
Charlie Rose, this after Remnick talked about how Obama has to uh has to uh perform his anger.
And Charlie said, yeah, yeah, he's almost uh above the scene.
You know, Charlie still doesn't quite know who Obama is.
He's still on his quest to figure out who Obama is.
And Remnick, in this interview, laments that Obama doesn't have the power of a king.
If he had that, we could really straighten this country out.
So it's last night, the Charlie Rose show, Charlie interviewing David Remnick, and this is the exchange about which I just talked.
I just found I I knew him much more because I read this piece.
Uh one of the things that I've learned to appreciate more as president is you are essentially a relay swimmer in a river full of rapids, and that river is history.
Yeah.
Like the language, too.
Yeah, and you you get a brief shot at it.
There are things that a president or maybe not like a king, but a president can do.
But it's limited.
There are limitations in terms of time.
And that's why we need him to be a king.
Now, Charlie just was just I mean, orgasming here over the uh the way Remnick wrote this.
Oh, yeah.
One of the things I've learned to appreciate more as president is you are essentially a relay swimmer in a river full of rapids, and that river is history.
Oh.
And Charlie is swooning because that will help him in his quest to better understand who Obama is.
You may have forgotten this.
October 30th, 2008.
This is uh roughly a week before the election in 2008.
Before.
A week before Charlie Rose and Tom Broco on the Charlie Rose show.
They have both endorsed Obama.
It's well known.
Well, you might say Brokaw doesn't endorse, but come on.
Everybody knows that Brokaw's never gonna vote Republican, and neither's Charlie Rose.
They're gonna vote for the guy.
He can't wait to vote for the guy.
And that's what's if it's a week before the election.
They think Obama is the only choice anybody should make and yet listen and remember this.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't either.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
But you should vote for him.
Because Republicans suck.
We don't know who his foreign policy advisors.
We know what books he's read.
We don't know how he has informed himself.
We don't know how he motivated him.
We don't know anything about the guy, but we love him.
Now let's go to after the election.
Evan Thomas of Newsweek, who once said that John Kerry would win in 2004 because the media would be worth 15 points in the election.
John Meachum, who was the editor at Newsweek, and Charlie Rose.
And this is November 5th.
And uh Obama has accepted the victory.
He's done his appearance at Grant Park in Chicago after the election.
They're talking about that.
And after the election, these three guys admit that this Obama guy is really creepy.
But they voted for it.
They couldn't wait to vote for him.
They told everybody else to vote for him.
He's really creepy.
So went from not knowing a thing about him beforehand to think he's creepy afterwards.
Listen.
He is very elusive, Obama, which is fascinating for a man who's written two memoirs.
In Grant Park, he walks out with the family, and then they go away.
Biden's back, you know, locked in the bar or something.
You know, they'll let him out.
And have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else on stage?
No adoring wife, no cute kid.
He is the message.
There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this.
I mean, he's such an slightly creepy cult of personality.
Yes.
What's slightly creepy about it.
And it just makes me a little uneasy that he's so singular.
He's clearly managing his own spectacle.
He's a deeply manipulative guy.
And they went on to say, kept talking, and they said, you know, it's like Obama is risen above us.
And he's looking at all of us as we look at him, and he's laughing.
It's like he's elevated himself with the angels.
And he's looking at what's going on at Grant Park, and he's watching us watch him, and he's just having the biggest time.
Because he thinks he's pulled one over on us.
Some such thing as that.
But it's really creepy.
No, where was the wife?
Where were the kids?
Where was Biden?
Biden locked in a bar.
Way so singular guy wants all the credit himself.
Wow.
And yet, to these people, greatest politician we've ever.
I mean, this is just this is sick, if you ask me.
It's it's a little perverted, corrupt, what have you.
You ever um you ever remember these clown Democrats?
Concerned that George Bush never had enough time.
Never had enough power.
I don't uh I don't remember that.
I'm trying to now envision Obama swimming the rapids, the river of history.
And I'm saying I'm hoping for a dry bed.
Or maybe a fork in the river.
Or maybe a dam in the river.
Yeah.
De River Duvac and Zeti, a famous inaugural poetner by Maya Angelou.
Here's William in Baltimore.
William, glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rosh.
Yeah, yeah, I'm calling to say uh why I think they're going after Christie.
Uh basically, I don't think that um uh Hillary Clinton is as strong a candidate as a lot of people think she is, because it yeah, because I remember reading back in uh 2008.
Yeah.
That I mean, even women were saying, you know, unkind words about her, you know, and she was on the cover of uh of I think it was Fortsch Magazine and all that.
You know, through big big business was claiming her and everything, and then you know it collapsed against Obama, who was an unknown.
Yeah.
Then we're just repeating history.
Now we're back.
I'll never forget it.
In uh let's get the year right, February 2007.
A very famous person who was in a state of great fear, said to me, there's a 75% chances we sit here right now.
Hillary Clinton's gonna be the next president of the United States.
I said, Well, we have to stop that.
He said, damn right we do.
It was just assumed.
February 2007.
Hillary's the next president, just assumed.
And then out of nowhere, as you say, here came the Bamster.
And upset all of these supposedly etched in stone plans.
And guess what?
We're back there again.
And all of a sudden, it's and I'm gonna ask you when is the last time a Democrat front runner outside of an incumbent got the nomination.
We just acting on the same stuff, it's just history repeating.
Hillary's automatic.
And Christy was the only guy beating her in Paul's have take Christie out.
I you know, I try not to get caught up in this theme stuff, folks.
Folks, that's it.
Um we're out of time, but I'll give you details tomorrow on uh Modern Mothers Lazier Than Ever.
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