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RUSH: Here's the New York Times thing on Sotomayor: "In speech after speech over the years, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has returned to the themes of diversity, struggle, heritage and alienation that have both powered and complicated her nomination to the Supreme Court." What we have found out is that I was right to stick with this notion that she is racist. She makes this reference to wise Latina woman repeatedly over the course of her career, not just twice. It is Obama who needs to retract what he said. Obama said, (paraphrasing) "I'm sure if she could say it again she'd say it a different way." She's been saying it her whole life. This woman is focused on race, she is focused on gender. There is no question anybody with an open mind looking at this, there is no question she defines herself by race. "She has lamented the dearth of Hispanics on the federal bench. She has exhorted young people to value immigration." By the way, speaking of that, Dingy Harry says he wants an amnesty bill this year.
Now, he didn't say amnesty, but we all know what he means. He wants an immigration bill this year. "She has mulled over the 'deeply confused image' America has of its own racial identity. And she has used on more than one occasion a version of the 'wise Latina' line that she has spent much of this week trying to explain." And now US Senator Bob Menendez is coming after me. He's on government-controlled MSNBC yesterday afternoon and he's talking to the government-approved anchor Tamron Hall, and she says, "Do you believe the Republicans, they might be running into a true roadblock with Hispanic voters out there if this line of talk about her being a racist continued?"
MENENDEZ: I think there's a price to be paid if that's the way they're going to take on this nominee. There's a difference between going after a nominee hard on their judicial beliefs, on the decisions they may have made if they happen to have been a district court or appellate court judge. That's different than having these people say "Latina chick," that's different than calling Judge Sotomayor a racist. I'm talking about Rush Limbaugh. I'm talking about Newt Gingrich. Those are all voices of the Republican Party and they have to be held accountable.
RUSH: They have to be held accountable. I never called her a "Latina chick," that I'm aware of. A "Latina." See, I understand the English language. "Latina chick" is redundant. Latina already means Latina chick. So I don't have to say "Latina chick" because "Latina" covers "Latina chick." So now I've been warned, I have been warned by another United States senator that somehow, somewhere, somebody in government is going to have to hold me accountable. Meanwhile, the New York Times and everybody makes it clear today, this woman is a broken record on her statement that a Latina is much wiser than a white male. She's a broken record on it. She's focused on race; she's focused on her gender. Now here's the part about me making her mad back in 1988. "Her speeches also indicate that she is not afraid to take on opponents. In 1998, after she was confirmed to the appeals court, she recounted how she was vigorously questioned by senators based on what she called 'mischaracterization and misunderstanding of three of my decisions' by Rush Limbaugh. In recent days, Mr. Limbaugh has led the fight against her nomination, calling her a 'reverse racist.'"
I've got the Sotomayor stack here. If you go through this, it is clear that they're trying to paint me as the foremost opposition and the fact that I'm leading the opposition to Sonia Sotomayor. And by default, I guess so. Everybody else is backing out. Everybody else is backing away, and I don't. There's also Byron York: "Was the White House Tipped Off About the Souter Retirement?" And we think so because Judge Sotomayor started praising Barack Obama in speeches, which is a no-no for a judge. Days before Souter announced his retirement, the White House even let something out of the bag that they knew about his retirement before he actually announced it, so there's some people looking into the fact that Souter might have let the White House know that he was going to retire.
Now, as to the aspect of Sonia Sotomayor being pro-life, there is something that's being called now in the intellectual circles of investigation "The Abortion Assurance Mysteries" that attach themselves to Sonia Sotomayor. Here is a post by Ed Whelan, who says that her response to the Senate questionnaire presents some puzzles.
"Question 26.b asks whether anyone involved in the selection process 'ever discussed with you any currently pending or specific case, legal issue, or question in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as seeking any express or implied assurances concerning your position on such case, issue, or question.' It also asks that Sotomayor identify each communication with anyone in the White House 'referring or relating to your views on any case, issue, or subject that could come before the Supreme Court.' Sotomayor’s answer to question 26.b is 'No.' But if, as reported, President Obama sought and received assurances that Sotomayor is pro-Roe, it would seem that the answer should be yes. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that Obama 'was careful not to … ask specifically how one might rule … in a case that could come before the Supreme Court,' but the scope of question 26.b is far broader than specific inquiries.
"Perhaps Obama and Sotomayor did a very clever wink-wink routine. But I’ll again suggest that, consistent with Obama’s stated commitment to transparency, the White House ought to make publicly available any record (including any audio recording) of Obama’s interview with Sotomayor so that the American people can know just what commitments and assurances he extracted or received." A great question because he told the press that he had not asked her about this, but that he knew. How does he know if he didn't ask her?
"Question 26.c asks Sotomayor to describe 'any representations' 'made by the White House or individuals acting on behalf of the White House' 'to any individuals or interest groups as to how you might rule as a Justice.' Sotomayor’s response indicates that she is not aware of any such representations. But it’s been reported that the White House has 'deliver[ed] strong but vague assurances' to abortion groups that Sotomayor is pro-Roe. Does Sotomayor really not know of those reports? Or does she somehow regard them as beyond the scope of the question?" So we've got Obama ensuring us and the group that's correct is pro-Roe, she's saying I haven't talked to Obama or anybody else in the White House about this, so there is no way to know, which leaves it an open question.
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RUSH: Here's the confirmation on the White House getting hold of Sonia Sotomayor three days before the Souter business broke. This is from TheHill.com. "The White House first contacted Judge Sonia Sotomayor three days before news of a Supreme Court vacancy became public, according to a questionnaire President Obama's first high court nominee submitted Thursday afternoon. In the 173-page questionnaire delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor revealed she was first contacted by White House counsel Greg Craig on April 27, three days before Associate Justice David Souter's resignation leaked to the media and four days before he made a formal announcement." It's just not kosher. Of course, nothing sticks to this administration.
Well, I can't really say that. I don't quite know what to make of this.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, even more has been learned about Sonia Sotomayor and abortion. And what we have learned here is from a speech that she gave in June 2001, eight years ago, in which she commends liberal lawsuits on abortion, illegal immigration, and welfare reform. Here's what she said. Now, I know they're going to climb on me for saying this. She really writes poorly, and people are acknowledging this. There were a couple stories yesterday that it's amazing how poorly written her opinions are compared to other appellate judges who are all great writers. In fact, it's one of the trademarks of an appellate judge, Supreme Court justice, is their brilliant writing. So I'll just read this passage from the speech of Judge Sotomayor in June of 2001.
"In 1996, Congress prohibited lawyers receiving federal legal services money from taking on class-action lawsuits or lawsuits involving abortion, illegal immigration, or welfare reform. Commendably --" so she agrees with that "-- commendably, I know Brooklyn law school's clinical programs have redoubled their efforts to help address the need created by this legislation. These efforts and the volunteer efforts of other law schools, bar groups and lawyers and private law firms are not enough. The need is very great." She is commending Congress prohibiting lawyers receiving federal legal service money from taking on lawsuits involving abortion. Now, what that means is that she agrees that federal money should not be used to pay lawyers who take on abortion cases. Now, what are we to conclude from this? Well, it's just more confusion. It just leads to more confusion. Now, here is a woman with rich Latina, wise life experiences, by her own admission multiple times in her life, saying she doesn't think it's right for lawyers filing suits on abortion to get federal money to do it.
Now, that would make one tend to think that she thinks one of two things: That the government ought have nothing to say about it via their money, and secondly, if these lawyers want to go ahead and file abortion cases then find the clients to pay up. Don't ask the government to do it. She is a devout Catholic. She is a devout Catholic. And, folks, I'm telling you the only evidence -- and it isn't evidence -- the only evidence we have that she is pro-Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion, is that Obama has assured us. But Obama has said he didn't talk to her and on her questionnaire that she submitted yesterday she said she wasn't asked specifically about it. But yet Obama knows specifically, but she says she hasn't said specifically or even been asked specifically. So I don't know. I know a lot of you people think this is nuts because you think that Obama would not nominate anybody to the court who was not pro-Roe v. Wade or pro-abortion. But just in a general sense I could agree and understand that, but what if he doesn't really know? What if he's just assuming? If he knows, somebody's lying about them having talked about it, because she says in her questionnaire that she hasn't. Nor was she asked, directly or indirectly.
Now, it could well be that she's told, you know, some colleague somewhere who told an Obama White House official, don't worry about it. She didn't admit that in questionnaire. She said that didn't happen. I also saw in a news story that she has spoken highly of Justice Scalia, another Catholic on the US Supreme Court who, of course, thinks Roe v. Wade is horrendously bad constitutional law. Justice Scalia, in fact, in an abortion case -- I'll never forget, give you an example of just how great a writer and thinker Scalia is, but how all of these appellate judges, most of them are really, really good writers. You have to be, when you're going to explain your opinion and so forth, you've got to be a good writer, not just in legalese, but in common sense language as well. And he said from the case that had just been decided, it was apparent to him that, "The mansion that is abortion rights law will have to be torn down doorjamb by doorjamb."
Now, nobody talks that way. If you go to a party and you're talking about abortion, nobody is going to say, "You know what, abortion's like a mansion, and we're going to have to end it by tearing it apart doorjamb by doorjamb," but people do write that way. Good writers have a flair for writing unique things. Scalia does. It's kind of like golf announcing on TV. I play golf and if I make par, I'll say, "That's four," or "That's a par," but I will not say, "I authored a par." Golf announcers will say, "Tiger Woods authored a par." If Tiger Woods bogeys a hole, they will say, "And he puts a blemish on the scorecard with a five." We who play golf do not say, after a bogey, "Well, there's a blemish on my card." We shout the F-bomb!
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RUSH: From the New York Daily News today: "Dawn Cardi looms very large in the life of Sonia Sotomayor. She constantly refers to her in speeches as her watchdog to make sure she is doing the right thing." And then there's a web link here about Sotomayor sharing joy with her best friend, and the Daily News headline, this is from Friday, May 29th: "'Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor 'Open,' Will Follow Law on Abortion Issue, Says Friend.' -- Sonia Sotomayor has never made a major ruling on the issue of abortion --" this we know, "-- and she remains mum about whether she believes in a woman's right to choose. Sotomayor understands how difficult it is for a woman to decide whether to have an abortion and she knows women who have struggled with that choice, a longtime friend told the Daily News. 'Years ago, we spoke about abortion, about how difficult a choice it is,' Dawn Cardi, a lawyer and one of Sotomayor's closest friends, told the News Friday. 'It's a very, very difficult choice, and (we discussed) how difficult it must be for a woman who has to make that choice,' Cardi recalled. ... Asked directly if Sotomayor believes a woman has a right to choose an abortion, Cardi replied, 'She will follow what she thinks is the law on that, and her personal beliefs will not interfere with that analysis because my view of her is that she does not allow her personal beliefs to interfere with her analysis of legal issues."
Now, now, now, she clearly does. She has said that her personal beliefs impact her decisions because she said that judges, appellate judges make policy. Now, the reason why I think something's going on here, Sotomayor is a liberal. She faces no problem being confirmed. She's got a majority of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a majority of Democrats in the Senate. Most libs are eager to tell you about their Roe v. Wade beliefs, their abortion beliefs. She would not. Her confirmation would not suffer had it been known over the years what her opinion on this was and yet she's gone to great lengths to keep it quiet. She has gone to great lengths, ladies and gentlemen, to have it an open question. We know what she thinks of affirmative action. We know what she thinks of a lot of other public issues by virtue of her rulings and what she's written. But on this one issue, we don't know. And I would think that if, for example, she is pro-life, she's probably calculating that could do more harm to her than by admitting she's pro-choice. Am I correct? She's dealing with liberals here that are going to vote on her. So no pain, no harm. She might get some grief about telegraphing the way she's going to rule on an issue, and I know that no nominee comes out and says what they think about this. But she hasn't said when she thinks about it ever.
My instincts tell me that it's because people who are her friends on other issues might not appreciate what she really thinks about abortion. As I have continued to delve into this, as I have continued to investigate and research this and try to get to the quick, try to get to the soul of this, where she comes down on it, I have to say that there's a better than 50-50 shot she's pro-life. She's Catholic. I know that some Catholics are pro-choice, don't misunderstand, Puerto Rican Catholic, they're devout. My gut instinct tells me that all the factors are there. It certainly could not hurt her with her own people for it to be known. It could only harm her with her own people if she's pro-life and she's staying mum on it, zipped lips.
So I can't say for sure, but it sure seems to me that it's -- well, you know, I've said that life is such an important issue. If I learned, could be relatively certain and assured that she thinks Roe is bad constitutional law and is a pro-life individual, you'd have to stop and consider maybe supporting that. You can get past the racism and bigotry and other things, but life is a fundamental issue. Once the nation -- and some would say we're there -- once the nation has thrown out the whole concept of the sanctity of life, then every other value and tenet of morality is weakened dramatically. So I know it would be controversial, but I could see being in favor of this nomination were she pro-life. Certainly could.
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RUSH: You know Scott Rasmussen has on his polling site... He keeps track of something calls the Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, the presidential approval index, and what he does is, he keeps track of the line of "strongly disapprove" and "strongly approve" of Obama and then comes up with the presidential approval index. Now, since Obama was inaugurated, his approval index has hovered anywhere from plus-20 to plus-2. Today, it's at zero. They're both at 34. Thirty-four percent strongly approve and 34% strongly disapprove.
The overall approval number is 54%, not in the sixties. It's 54%. That's just 1% over his vote percentage in the election. Now, I don't know what to make of this. This poll is different than the other polls out there. The other-government run polls, government-run media polls are all in the sixties with Obama. You know, it's tempting to take hold of a poll like this and say, "Whoa, it's finally starting to come together this tipping point!" But I'm not so sure. You know, I have an inherent -- not a distrust but an -- arm's-length on all polling data. Nothing against Scott Rasmussen here. I know he's an accurate and fair guy. So I don't doubt his results.
I just don't know that it means anything right now. But if it does, if it does mean anything, this happened five months into the Obama presidency. Now, the way Rasmussen tracks this, he says, "The president's ratings have slipped since GM filed for bankruptcy to initiate a new government bailout and takeover and only 26% of Americans believe that GM bailout was a good idea. Nearly as many support a boycott of GM products," and I know that's true! (laughing) I've been hearing from people left and right. Nobody wants to support an Obama company. For those of you for those of you that work at GM you have to understand the people angry are not angry at you. They're not angry at General Motors.
The people saying they don't want to buy anything at General Motors are not mad at General Motors. They don't want to patronize Obama. They don't want to do anything to make Obama's policies work! This is an untold story, by the way. Of course, the government-controlled media is not gonna report anything like this but there are a lot of people who are not going to buy from Chrysler or General Motors as long as it is perceived Barack Obama is running it, because people do not want his policy to work here because this is antithetical to the American economic way of life. The government does not own car companies; the government does not design cars, not in a country that works. So people aren't going to buy products from companies that Obama runs. (interruption)
What are you smiling at? You disagree with that? (interruption) Oh, you guys are... I love you people on the staff, but you are just too worried about me. Dawn is afraid that what I just said will be translated by the media, "Rush wants GM to fail." Did I say that? Did I say, "I want General Motors to fail?" (interruption) No, I didn't. (interruption) Well, yes, they can remove the... Yeah, they could clip it. They could remove the "did I say" pfft, and get, "I want General Motors," and I'm just telling you. You know, I'm looking at this poll. We've got... It's at zero here. He has 34% strongly approve, 34% strongly disapprove.
That's zero. His presidential approval index is zero. "In the Rasmussen poll his overall approval number is 54%, one percentage point above his 53% total of the vote," and Rasmussen said, "26% of the respondents in his poll are going to boycott General Motors products." I simply am pointing out here to people that work at General Motors it has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with your products. It has to do with the fact that these 26% don't want to patronize Obama. They don't want to patronize an Obama- or government-owned company because they don't want it to work. So if you say, "Yeah, but maybe the 26% want GM to fail." I would argue... Should I say this? If would argue that if Obama has to take it over and run it, could we just admit that it's failed?
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RUSH: Pepper in Houston. Pepper, thank you for calling. Great to have you with us, sir.
CALLER: Rush, I -- mega dittos, first off. I just want to say, what you were just talking about there about not buying GM products because of Obama, it's exactly how I feel. I just... I have felt this way now for weeks. I have driven a Chevy Tahoe for several years. In fact, right now I've got about 150,000 miles on it. I won't even look at another one right now, and I just want to say thanks. At least somebody understands what's going on here.
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, Pepper. Look, I know that you're out there. I think this is also why -- for those of you that work in labor unions -- I think you should understand here that one of the reasons why there may be... I don't want to say the word "animus," but why there may be opposition here to all that's going on here to build up unions and so forth is that Obama is behind it. You see, most Americans understand that it is not the America they know and love, that they understand, that they grew up in, where the government owns automobile companies. Tells CEOs what they can make and what they can't earn. Tells bondholders to go to hell. Tells people who have invested risky money in investments and then lose it all, "Just go away."
This is not how the America they understand operates so Obama is taking over all these industries, and the people in this country, Rasmussen says 26% say they're going to boycott General Motors products. The reason is because people do not want this to work. They do... (interruption) I know the story going on. This is about this schlub up in Wisconsin? (interruption) Yes, I know all about the guy. I know all about it. Look, that's not even big enough for me to worry about. That guy is such a Podunk, it's not even worthy of our time on the EIB Network. I wish you wouldn't interrupt me with this stuff. If you're going to interrupt me every time I'm on that stupid government-run channel, then I'm going to be doing nothing but reacting to the government-run channel!
All they do is run videotape of me and people complaining about me. We're talking about government run MSNBC. Some little Podunk Republican moderate liberal Republican was thrown out of his leadership post in Wausau, Wisconsin, some county there because he dared criticize me. And so this guy is now loved and adored by government-run media. Big whoop! This has been going on for three days. This is not even new news. This has been recycled. Anyway, the point is, be it General Motors, be it Chrysler -- whatever else Obama ends up controlling and running -- the American people are not going to want it to succeed. So I want all of you who work at General Motors and all of you who are members of labor unions to understand that the opposition to you is not because of you.
It's because of opposition to Obama and turning America upside down and 180 degrees out of phase from what America is.
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But the fact is that government-controlled Associated Press is trying to spin record high -- 26-year record high -- unemployment rate as good news, and so is government-controlled Reuters. "US employers cut 345,000 jobs last month the fewest since September and far less than forecast according to a government report on Friday that was more evidence the economy's severe weakness was diminishing." Can we put this together and see if it adds up to you? Unemployment, they say, "is slowing" and it has reached "a record high." Now, for those of you under 40 who attended public schools, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to you. Unemployment is slowing, the recession may be ending! Unemployment is now at a 26-year record high. And this, as I say, does not even include numbers of people who have given up. They're not even trying to find work. Those numbers were always reported when the Bush administration ran the show.
But now that it's Lord Obama, they do not report that number or even mention it. The real unemployment number, when you factor those people in, is like 16.9%. When you factor people in who are not trying to work -- we had the story in the Los Angeles Times yesterday (government-run Los Angeles Times) a big story on "funemployment," the people not trying to find work and are enjoying being out of work and they're traveling and they're staying at beds and breakfasts and they're living off their mom and dad. And they're working at nonprofits. Oh, whoopee! It's 16.9 or 17% real unemployment when you factor in the people that don't care anymore and are not trying to find work. Here's how the government-controlled media. We have a montage of government-controlled reporters, this is how they played it yesterday and today.
RICH EDSON: You put it in context, 345,000 jobs lost last month, not all that bad.
CHRISTINE ROMANS: The mass layoffs are slowing. We know it's tough out there but there are indications that maybe the worst is bottoming here.
CONTESSA BREWER: 9.4%, it's a grim number. I understand there's a silver lining to this report.
HAMPTON PEARSON: A bit of a silver lining in that we are finally beginning to slow the rate of job losses.
ALAN KNUCKMAN: We've got this unemployment number. Not great numbers, but the market's reacted to a positive, that they weren't surprised.
RUSH: So there you have it. I mean, no matter where you go in the government-run media, a record high unemployment rate equals a bottoming out. It's not that bad. Silver lining! A silver lining. If you've wondered what State-Run Media, state-run controlled media is government-run media, government-controlled media -- this is what you get. This is no different than Pravda back in the days of the Soviet Union. This is no different than Granma down in Cuba reporting on Fidel Castro. This is no different than a Hugo Chavez media. This is no different than Iranian media. This is no different than the media Saddam controlled. Government-run media. I mean we've got record unemployment, the highest rate since 1983 and it's good news! So good that Biden is going to go out there and speed up the stimulus spending. You want some more good news? Goldman Sachs is predicting that by the end of the year oil will be at $85 a barrel. Today it spiked at over $70 a barrel. Let me just check. Let me just check where it is right now. It is at 69 bucks a barrel. It peaked at over $70 today. They say $85 by the end of the year. So, my friends, the meaning of this is, if -- and I mean if, capital I, capital F. If there is any recovery, despite Obama's policies, $85-a-barrel gasoline is going to wipe it out.
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PALIN: Friends, we need to be aware of the creation of a fearful population and of fearful lawmakers being led to believe that big government is the answer. To bail out the private sector because then, government gets to get in there and control it and, mark my words, this is going to happen next, I fear -- bail out next, debt ridden states, then government gets to get in there and control the people.
RUSH: That was Wednesday and that's Sarah Palin. Bailing out the states, that's the next thing to happen, and then you bail out the broadcast companies, then you own them. And then you bail out the newspapers and then you own them. And she's warned this is about controlling people. And, of course, it's interesting to note the Republican Party despises this woman, the powers that be in the Republican Party. She also said this.
PALIN: Since when can you get outta huge national debt by creating trillions of dollars of new debt? It all really is so backwards and skewed as to sound like absolute nonsense.
RUSH: Everybody is asking this question, we're all asking, "Where are the American people?" We all know this is not how you do it. Snerdley just told me a funny story. I went back to his orifice during the break here at the top of the hour. You've got a friend working at a bank, did you say? He's got a friend working in the loan department in a bank and said people are still coming and saying, "Are you issuing mortgages, are you making home loans?" The bank says, "Yes, we are." And Snerdley's friend said people are coming in asking, "Can we still get a mortgage with no money down? Can we still get a mortgage even though we can't pay it back?" See, it's amazing what people learn and what they hear and what they think is available. "Oh, we can still maybe get a mortgage without a down payment?"
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CALLER: Great to you talk with you again, Rush. It's a rainy day here and I'm glad to talk to you about it again.
RUSH: All right. Let's get started from the very beginning of what you were talking about yesterday.
CALLER: Yeah. Well, you were talking on and off over the course of several days about the "anger," and I had a theory. I don't know why you're surprised about the anger.
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who's anger?
CALLER: Michelle Obama's and Sotomayor's.
RUSH: Michelle and Barack Obama. Right.
CALLER: Right. I grew up in New York. I grew up in -- I spent part of my life in -- the projects as well. And, by the way, I wouldn't call Co-op City the dregs of the projects where Judge Sotomayor lived, but that's a separate issue. Michelle is younger than I am. Sotomayor is sort of my age-group. We were brought up to basically, you know... You have bright people. They're going to go on to college. They're going to get great jobs. The difference was, my peers were coached to be angry, you know, "When all things were equal, you know, you're a minority. You know, get angry about it. Don't let the opportunity slip away. You know, build on the anger." So they got the scholarships, they got the internships, they got their first jobs, and so anger became a part of their tool set -- and it's so much a part of their success... You know, like we all do, if you behave in a certain way and it's successful and you get rewarded for it, you know, continue to use it. So we have a whole generation of folks who are sort of coming up that have been coached this way, you know, post the civil rights era to leverage their anger on their mistreated historical status. I don't know why anybody is surprised they continue to behave angry. They've been rewarded for being angry.
RUSH: Well, let me clarify. I'm not surprised that they're angry, and I'm not surprised to hear you say that they're coached. I would say they're taught.
CALLER: Taught, okay. Yeah.
RUSH: They're raised, and when they get to school, it's affirmed.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: They are taught to be angry. They're taught that they've been cheated. They're taught they've been discriminated against. They're taught this country's unfair. They're taught this country is unethical. They are taught that this country is discriminatory. They are taught that this country is immoral and unjust. They're taught this.
CALLER: But, Rush, there's a nuance there. Don't stop at taught. It's been reinforced with success. That's the key here. You can be taught a lot of things but if you try it and it doesn't work...
RUSH: Oh, I remember. I remember, because I did probably say, "Michelle Obama's first lady. What in the world is she angry about?"
CALLER: Angry about.
RUSH: Okay, so you're saying the success then promotes or confirms the anger, did you say?
CALLER: Yes. In other words, the anger became a viable tool. It worked. It got me to that next step. It got someone's attention. You know, it nudged me into the right spot. So like I said, if you use a tool like we all do coming up in our professions -- like I learned not to get too pissed off at people, excuse my language --
RUSH: That's all right.
CALLER: Because in business you can't go around doing that. But, you know, using that as an edge, they became successful. And like I said, "If you learn to be successful using certain techniques, you're not going to throw them away all of a sudden."
RUSH: Okay, this is pretty good. So anger...
CALLER: Has been reinforced.
RUSH: ... is a tool.
CALLER: Correct, that's right.
RUSH: It got them where they want. It got them where they want and --
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: -- in order to stay there they have to stay mad?
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: Now, here's the big question. Is the anger an act or is it still genuine?
CALLER: I don't think it... Half my friends it was never genuine. It was a tool. You know, most of them are like, "Hey, you know, I got it, I'm going to move on," and grew out of it but some of my friends didn't grow out of it. It actually became part of who they were.
RUSH: Fine. That's all I need to know. Whether the anger is genuine or whether it's a tool, the fact of the matter is, it is still being used. It's why I'm right about Obama being mad. I know I'm right about him being an angry guy; a cold, angry guy. The danger is that even those who are acting angry who really aren't, they're inspiring and encouraging rage and anger in those that support them. And that's why half this country is so bent outta shape all the time about the supposed unjustness and immorality in the country. And that makes everybody else mad.
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RUSH: Jeff in Ft. Lauderdale, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Wow. I can't believe I'm on with Rush Limbaugh. Mega dittos --
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: -- from Ft. Lauderdale. And, by the way, Rush, I agree with Sean Hannity, you look great, and keep up the good work.
RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I have to tell you, though, I look better than I looked on Fox. I didn't look bad, but TV does add ten or 15 pounds to you. I look far better -- I mean I look better on my own Dittocam than on the Fox hi-def cams. No complaint. I'm just pointing it out.
CALLER: I think it's kind of interesting now you're seeing Obama not only criticizing the United States over abroad, but now even criticizing his own host nation that's hosting him for that particular day. But the point I wanted to make, Rush, is, you know, once again we see Obama setting a dangerous precedent by kowtowing and placating to the Islamic community and it's almost like the United States has its own Neville Chamberlain but instead of, you know, giving away half the country, he's giving away his own sentiments but he passes them off as the majority feel, and that's just not right. I mean how many times did President Bush and Vice President Cheney and the Bush administration clearly make a point that we were not at war with Islam, even went out and praised its credentials and contributions, but for some reason that wasn't good enough for the left. And I guess my other point I want to also make, too, is here after we have a major superpower addressing the Islam community, you know, where is the next superpower that's going to also address the Islam community? If my memory serves me correctly, you know, we're approaching the 30th anniversary I believe of Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, another Muslim country, and I don't think you'll ever hear another superpower going to the points of what we have done and by doing so only weaken us even further.
RUSH: Yeah, those are all good points. I have a stack here, and I'm not gonna have time to get through it, I really don't want to beat a dead horse, but more and more people have now examined Obama's speech yesterday, and they're finding it reprehensible, and you can find seven or eight Islamist groups who are dumping all over it. The Iranians are saying the United States is still hated in this region, nothing he says is going to change the fact that US is hated. And I think that's probably true. Obama's words are for him. Everything that he was doing over there was trying to make them love him. He needs it. He needs the love and adulation. And the way he goes about getting the love and adulation he wants is to rip his own country because he thinks that's what his audience wants to hear and that's what they think so he's one of them. It burns me. It just burns me.
In fact, let me give you a couple of examples, George Joyce, American Thinker today: "In his much anticipated speech in Cairo on Thursday, Barack Obama signaled his willingness to consider scrapping the entire divisive edifice of affirmative action in America." Snerdley is shaking his head. That means you bought this. "While discussing the record of 'human history' as one in which groups of people have subjugated 'one another in pursuit of their own interests' Obama sought to rectify this legacy of conflict and hostility by underscoring our interdependence: 'Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.'"
So George Joyce is saying, bye-bye affirmative action because what is affirmative action? Snerdley, he's not saying that's what Obama said, he's saying if he's careful, Obama you could have made the case here that affirmative action ought to be disbanded. Everybody thinks he's so careful with his words and so precise, but the point is that you could take what he says here, okay, so he's against affirmative action, when he didn't intend to be.
Now, the Heritage Foundation. Good review, short and to the point. This is what you can get, by the way, if you become a member of AskHeritage.org. If you don't know what the Heritage Foundation is, it's a conservative organization committed to the principles of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity, and they make true on a promise to nearly half a million members to always keep them updated on events in the US with an accurate record and the research to back it up. You want an accurate account of Obama's visit to the Middle East in Europe, it's there. If you want a thorough account of that trip, go to AskHeritage.org, or you'll find an ongoing analysis of Obama's diplomacy. I happen to have that analysis right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
"The speech was also highly problematic in many ways that will end up backfiring on the President and the United States. Obama attacked the decision to go to war in Iraq as 'a war of choice.'" He did and that burned me up. Almost everything he said in that speech burned me up. Even the good things he said, he then added, "but, on the other hand," that burned me up. "Obama attacked the decision to go to war in Iraq as “a war of choice” without even mentioning the fact Saddam Hussein had failed to comply with several Security Council resolutions. This was completely gratuitous, wrong and unnecessary." Additionally, he just called the Iraq war an immoral war of choice, we shouldn't have gone there, and there are still over a hundred thousand American troops fighting there. What do you think his words will do to their morale? They won't build it up.
"Israel and Palestine. Obama tried to connect the civil rights movement in the U.S. with the Palestinians' struggle for an independent state. This was a mistake, because the American civil rights movement did not have the goal of destroying the U.S., while many Palestinians, including those in Hamas and other Islamist extremist movements, remain implacably committed to destroying Israel.
"Guantanamo. Once again the president brought up the Guantanamo/torture issue in front of an international audience, part of a ritual exercise in self-loathing that has become a hallmark of the Obama administration." He's ended torture, he has ended it. Torture has always been illegal in the United States. He didn't do one thing to make it illegal. It already is. If it was legal before he came to office, then on what basis is he suing Bush administration lawyers for violating the torture laws?
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RUSH: Leo, thank you for waiting, sir. You're next on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, you got a great show!
RUSH: (silence)
CALLER: Hello?
RUSH: Yeah, I appreciate that. I was waiting for you --
CALLER: I'll get to the point quickly since it's getting towards three o'clock. Obama goes to the Middle East to improve relations between the Moslems and us. It's impossible! It isn't just a quarrel between us and the Moslems. The Moslems are having trouble with everybody. Look what goes on in Europe. Van Gogh, a relative of the painter Van Gogh, gets stabbed to death on the street in Amsterdam. A cartoonist who pokes fun at all world figures pokes a little fun at Mohammed; the Danish embassies are torched in Islamic countries. Look what goes on in India. Mumbai, late this year. Three years ago, parliament in Indian is bombed by Moslems. What goes on in the Philippines? What goes on in Thailand? Thailand has a small Moslems minority, yet...
RUSH: This is an interesting point, because you have made me look at something in a different perspective, and that is this whole speech yesterday, because, Leo here is right. The Islamists, the violent militant Islamists base everything they're doing on their religion. They say everything they're doing is in their "Holy Koran," and people I know who have read it say that it is. So, essentially, Obama was over there negotiating with a religion. And how do you do that? How do you negotiate with a religion, especially when you claim that you are coming from a different religion? He made it a point to say he's a Christian even though he has family members who were Muslims. So he's right, Leo. The militant Muslims, Islamists don't just have a problem with us but they're all over the world raising havoc, and they claim it's their religion, we're all infidels. So how do you negotiate with a religion? Think about that. Somebody give me an answer. I don't know how you do it.
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RUSH: Do you know how sick I am of Obama? I'm going to get to Obama. I'm going to get to the sham of a show in Germany. We're going to talk more about the sham of a speech yesterday in Cairo. Did you see Angela Merkel standing next to the guy?
Put this in perspective. She was standing there, and she's not happy because they're not getting along and they haven't gotten along ever. So there he is, he's at Buchenwald today, the concentration camp, and he is beating Germany up, he's ripping them to shreds over something they did 60 years ago, one day after praising all of Islam. Now, can you imagine -- and, of course, Elie Wiesel gets up there and he does his thing. We're 65 years here, or close to it, and so she's up there, and the look on her face, it was more than just solemnity on her face. Trust me, my friends, I know these things. And he's up there and he's ripping Germany for what it did 60, 65 years ago, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. One day after praising to the hilt Islam and talking about how America is a Muslim nation and so forth. Trust me on this. She wasn't happy. If you get a chance to see video of it you'll see what I mean.
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RUSH: Today in Buchenwald, the concentration camp in Germany, Barack Obama made his usual Barack Obama speech, ripping Germany, ripping it to shreds for things that happened 60, 65 years ago. This came one day after lauding Islam around the world. Angela Merkel, the chancellor, prime minister of Germany, president, whatever she's called, the look on her face, if you get a chance to see it, she's steaming. She's not a big Obama fan anyway, and you'll see what I'm talking about when you watch the videotape. Let's go to audio sound bites about this. Government-run NBC, obviously, got an exclusive with Barack Obama while there. Tom Brokaw interviewed Obama, and they had this exchange.
BROKAW: What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchenwald and what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?
OBAMA: Well, look there's no equivalency here, but I do think that, given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships, that that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and purpose to seek a just and lasting peace. And that, I believe, will involve creating two states side by side with peace and security.
RUSH: I don't know about you, this question outrages me, and the answer outrages me. Tom Brokaw's question: "What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchenwald, and what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians? Now, to his credit, Obama said, there's no equivalency there, Tom. Then there's always the "but." But I do think -- that should have been the end of the answer. But then he went on to say, "But I do think that given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships that that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and the purpose to seek a just and lasting peace, and that, I believe, will involve creating two states side by side with peace and security." Now, anybody who's paid attention to this for the past 60 years knows that the Israelis have bent over forwards and backwards to try to come up and do things that the world has asked them to do to forge peace. They have given up land, they have been attacked. When they were attacked, they were victorious and they conquered land. They gave it back.
Israel is a nine-mile-wide country at its narrowest point. Israel can see all of its neighbors from the Golan Heights. Now, the idea that the Israelis are the ones that have to do something here to seek a just and lasting peace is offensive as possible. Because, you see, the Limbaugh Doctrine, peace results from one thing, and that's victory. We have been going through this mess of Middle East peace for I don't know how long, and back in the nineties, Bill Clinton gave Yasser Arafat everything Arafat was demanding, and he still rejected it because Palestinian leaders do not want a state side by side with Israel. They want no Israel. Everybody involved in this knows that. All of this is such a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roll political game. That question by Brokaw is an indication of the government-run media's impression of the Israeli-Palestinian fight, that there may as well be the Israelis engaging in their own reverse Holocaust now. I get really frustrated.
The Israelis do not bomb themselves on buses with Palestinian kids aboard. They don't strap their four-year-olds with bombs and send them into the Palestinian territories and say, "Blow yourself up, kid." They don't do these things. It happens to them. And then when they fight back, they're accused of atrocities. They sit there and they'll take a barrage of missiles launched from Lebanon for days and not do a thing, then they'll respond and all of a sudden the world says the Israelis are reacting out of proportion. What they mean is the Israelis should aim their missiles as horribly as the Palestinians aim theirs. These Hamas missiles and Hezbollah missiles from Lebanon mostly miss their targets but they're still harassment and they still pose a great threat. The Israeli missiles don't miss the target. The world gets mad. I don't know how they keep their patience. I don't know how they keep their decorum, but I'll tell you this. This whole business of President Obama saying, "Well, you know, given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships, that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and" -- ultimately? Ultimately? You mean eventually, as though they're not existing with strength and a sense of purpose now?
You know, you can say what you want. I don't care what you think of the Israelis. And I don't care what your religious attitudes are toward the Israeli people. But there's one thing that can't be denied, and that is that they have been, as a race of people, subjected to holocaust and genocide throughout much of their existence, and it has not torn them apart; they have not lost their moral code; they have not lost their sense of decency. None of what Obama implied about them here is true, that they somehow have to summon that? That's the reason they still exist today, is because they have not fallen apart as a result of all that's happened to them. One day after delivering a speech that talks about all the contributions to the world from Islam and all of it was made up? I don't know if you saw the second half, the second installment of my interview with Sean Hannity on Fox last night, but I said as clearly as I could, Barack Obama's got something against Israel. Now, if you look at who mentored him, Jeremiah Wright, you'll find there's a guy who's got something against Israel.
Louis Farrakhan, not only does Louis Farrakhan have something against Israel, he's got something against the Jewish people. I don't know where Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn come down on that, but I do know that they're radicals and they don't like the country, and all the people that Obama hung around with at an impressionable age didn't like the country. And most of the people that probably taught him in college had their own view of the parts of this country that fall short or don't measure up. His exposure to both the history and the reality of this country has been negative. And that's why I think when he's up there today and he's just harping on how rotten Germany was 65 years ago -- we all know this now, the world knows this. One day after going through the motions of praising the greatness of Islam and the Muslims, Angela Merkel, the look on her face, it did not sit well. Let's go back, in fact. I said, to his credit, Obama refuted the premise of Brokaw's question. Brokaw's question, what should the Israelis be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians? Obama said, ah, there's no equivalency there. But let's go be back. Here's what he said in Cairo yesterday.
OBAMA: Six million Jews were killed, more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful. On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people, Muslims and Christians, have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years, they've endured the pain of dislocation.
RUSH: Now, there is the time-honored Obama technique. Go ahead and say something that's correct and then "but, on the other hand," which then equates what comes next with what he said first. So there he is equating whatever problems the Palestinians had in the quest for a homeland for 60 years. They coulda had one at a number of points in the last 60 years. Their leaders rejected it. So he did compare in his own way the Holocaust to the 60-year plight of Palestinians. One more here before we go to the break. I wish I had saved the story. It must have been earlier this week. Obama's gonna quote his uncle in this next bite. And there are stories -- Koko, you're going to have to find them. I mean they're out there. I didn't print them out 'cause I just wanted to commit them to memory. But the uncle he cites says, and it's in a number of places, that he's never talked to Obama about Buchenwald, he's never talked to Obama about it, and Obama doesn't call him. They don't talk. So here's the question from Tom Brokaw: "Tomorrow the president goes to Normandy to commemorate the 65th anniversary of that invasion, and when we talked today he reminded me that he had been raised effectively by his grandparents both in their own way veterans of World War II and the lessons that they imparted."
OBAMA: My grandfather used to regale me with stories about his travels and what it meant to be in -- in the Army. It's a humbling experience, and it reminds me not to complain, because I think as difficult as things are now, and they are tough, especially for individual families, it's never easy if you lose a job or you lose a home, as a nation, there's nothing that we're going through that compares to the sheer deprivation that existed during the Great Depression and, frankly, the dangers that existed during World War II. And, boy, what FDR had to deal with and how touch-and-go things were at so many different junctures during that war is something that I am mindful of at all times.
RUSH: This is not the bite I had in mind. He has said numerous times that he's talked to his uncle, not his grandfather, his uncle about Buchenwald and people are sending me the story now. Let me take a break, I'll find that. In this bite he makes the visit to Buchenwald all about him and his family. It's just narcissistic. And he compares himself, of course, to FDR.
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RUSH: All right, here's the stuff on the uncle. Now, there are two stories. One's in the UK Telegraph. The other is in an interview with Der Spiegel in Germany. Here is what Obama said. This was on the campaign trail. "I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps, and the story in our family was that when he came home he just went up to the attic. He didn't leave the house for six months." Now, let's see. I guess the UK Telegraph says, "Through our own research and Obama's later correction, we eventually discovered he had meant to say 'Buchenwald' rather than 'Auschwitz,'" but then let's go to Der Spiegel interview. Spiegel says: "Mr. Payne, early in June your great-nephew, President Barack Obama, will visit the former concentration camp Buchenwald, which you helped liberate at the end of the war. Will he be traveling in your footsteps?"
Charles Payne, the great-uncle: "I don't buy that. I was quite surprised when the whole thing came up and Barack talked about my war experiences in Nazi Germany. We had never talked about that before. This is a trip that he chose, not because of me I'm sure, but for political reasons." So today he changes the story to his grandfather who told him about World War II, because his first effort to say his uncle had told him all about it blew up by his uncle saying, "Nah, we never talked about it."
Spiegel: "What do you think could be his motives for this trip?" The great-uncle: "First, I think he already had this trip in mind -- with Cairo on the one end and Normandy at the other, and time for Germany in between. Second, perhaps his visit also has something to do with improving his standing with Angela Merkel. She gave him a hard time during his campaign and also afterwards."
Spiegel: "At first Mr. Obama claimed that one of his family members was involved in the liberation of Auschwitz. How did this misunderstanding come about?" The great-uncle: "He couldn't have gotten it from me since we had never talked about this particular episode in the war. My sister and her husband were both great storytellers and sometimes made up the details to go along with it. They told him about my deployment with the 89th Infantry Division and apparently they mixed up a few details. Of course it came out immediately that he was wrong since there are enough people in America who know that Auschwitz is in the East and that the camp was liberated by the Red Army." Spiegel: "Afterwards, Obama called you. What did he want to know?" The great-uncle: "He wanted to know where this camp was that I had helped liberate. I told him that it was Ohrdruf and that it was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I described a little bit of what I had seen."
So he called after. Anyway, the uncle never talked to him about it. So the story yesterday became his grandfather told him all about it, World War II and so forth. Now, my father was in World War II, and a lot of his friends. We couldn't get them to talk about it. I've mentioned this on the program before. We could not get him to talk about it. You know, we were kids, and my dad flew P-51s in China-Burma, and we're kids, "Hey, Dad, how many of the enemy did you shoot down?" He would not talk about it, and his friend Dr. Kinder, he spent some time, I think he was in the Navy. He would not talk about it. So I think this is just narcissism. Obama just has to place himself somehow -- by indirect family presence or friend presence, he has to place himself because of his narcissism -- at the center of every place he's going. (interruption) Well, Clinton used to do the same thing, I know. It must be in the Democrat Party playbook: this is how you empathize with people.
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RUSH: I was wrong, folks, and I will admit that I'm wrong when it happens. It's not very often so it's not a problem. Obama did mention his uncle, his great uncle, who told Der Spiegel and the UK Telegraph he has never talked to Obama about his experiences liberating concentration camps. This morning in Germany, after visiting Buchenwald, Obama said this.
OBAMA: I've known about this place since I was a boy hearing stories, uhh, about my great uncle, who was a very young man, uh, serving in World War II. He was part of the 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp. Eh, they liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's subcamps. And I've told this story, he returned from service in a state of shock, uh, saying little and isolating himself for months on end from family and friends, uh, along with the painful memories that would not leave his head.
RUSH: His uncle has told the UK Telegraph and Der Spiegel, "I don't know how he knows this. I've never talked to him about it." (sigh) I said he talked to his grandfather, and he did when he was talking to Brokaw. I said he had changed from his uncle to his grandfather because the stories are confused, but I was wrong. He did mention his uncle today in the speech.
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RUSH: One more story here about Barack Obama at Buchenwald today. Actually it was in Weimar, Germany. This is from government-run AP: "President Barack Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation. … "Buchenwald teaches us," Obama said, "that we must be ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem, and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests." Evil must be confronted, Obama said. Somebody help me out. Did he say that in Cairo yesterday? Are you sure, Mr. Snerdley? Are you sure he didn't say evil must be confronted in his speech in Cairo? My memory is like yours, my memory is that was not a theme, it was not a focal point. This is why I think Angela Merkel was fuming standing there next to the guy. He's sitting there ripping Germany for 65 years ago, one day after going to the county seat of militant terrorism around the world, the Middle East, and doesn't talk about evil. If I were Merkel, I'd be mad, too. I'm mad as it is!
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HANNITY: You came on the air one day, and you said, "I resign as the head of the Republican Party."
RUSH: Titular head.
HANNITY: Sorry. (chuckling)
RUSH: Titular head of the Republican Party.
HANNITY: Quote it accurately, yes.
RUSH: Because I was not the head of the Republican Party. I was named the head of the Republican Party by the White House, by the Obama White House. What they were trying to do was get Republicans -- elected Republicans -- to throw me overboard, disavow me. What they would love to do, Sean, at the White House level is really marginalize mainstream conservatism and mainstream conservatives because that's the primary opposition to Obama. And if they could have gotten a couple of Republicans to go out and say, "Yeah, Limbaugh is off the reservation. He's a nut. He's a wacko," it would have been a success and a home run. So that's why they named me the titular head. So I decided to resign as the titular head of the Republican Party and anoint Powell as the head, since so many of our brains in the conservative -- quasi-conservative -- media and Republican Party think he's a model Republican. Okay, he's the leader.
HANNITY: Well, if he was so accurate in America's desire for more government, more services, higher taxes, "they're willing to pay for 'em," those are the comments he made. He seems to be out of sync with even the voters in California, of all places.
RUSH: Well, that's another thing. I'm glad you reminded me of that, because he did say Americans want to pay higher taxes and they want bigger government, and then the California vote came. He's clearly... This is my point. He's clearly out of touch, as most people inside the Beltway are. The longer you live in that town, that town becomes your world, and Washington is not America. I mean, it's a great city, and there are great things to do there, I don't want people to misunderstand. But the political and social structure of Washington, DC, bears no resemblance to how life in this country takes place. Government and everything there is number one, two, and three in everybody's lives, and out in the country it ain't.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: It's their job. It's their kids' future. It's these kinds of things. So the idea that somebody who believes government ought to grow and grow and grow is the ideal candidate or identity factor of the Republican Party, is absurd.
HANNITY: Do you see any leaders emerging, some people that you're watching that you like? You were pretty disposed towards Bobby Jindal for a while.
RUSH: Yeah, you know what I've learned? I'll tell you something. Because of this profile, high profile that --
HANNITY: Heh, heh, heh.
RUSH: -- has been bestowed upon me, I'm not going to mention names.
HANNITY: But are there people you see?
RUSH: Yes.
HANNITY: There are?
RUSH: There are. There are.
HANNITY: There are.
RUSH: There are.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: And I think others are going to emerge as Obamaism continues to happen. I think President Obama is an angry man. They say he's cool and calm. I think he's cold. I think he's angry. The people that he ran around with and who mentored him, that matters. You know, you tried to call attention to it.
HANNITY: I know.
RUSH: You were the first out of the box with the Reverend Wright and the Bill Ayers stuff.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: And people didn't want to hear it because they have a cult-like association and attachment to Obama. But fact of the matter is, the way to understand him is, is he wants to return the nation's wealth to its "rightful owners." He comes from a belief that those in America who have succeeded have done so on the backs of the poor and the disadvantaged. They've had their wealth stolen from them. Everybody. That's why he wants to cap CEO pay. That's why he doesn't want them, the achieved, flying their jets to Vegas. He can. He can take two GV's and three helicopters to New York for a date that you and I pay for; but if I pay for it, even myself on my airplane, I get castigated because it's somehow not cool. I think if you want to understand what this man is doing, what his policies are about, it's returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. That's how the UAW, the union, ends up with a major ownership stake in Chrysler and GM.
HANNITY: And debt holders are put aside.
RUSH: Right.
HANNITY: Hang on a second. If Karl Rove is right, and he's arrogant; and Rush Limbaugh is right, and he's angry; and Sean Hannity is right, and he's radical -- and you made the same point as I have --
RUSH: Yeah.
HANNITY: -- that's frightening for America. If all of that... Because I think it is. I think the America we knew, Rush, I think it is going away, and I don't think people see what's happening. And I think by the time it's all finished, we're going to have trouble.
RUSH: Well, you know, I'm not yet fatalistic about the country.
HANNITY: Yes.
RUSH: There's still time for this to be stopped. There are the elections in 2010; and there are the elections, of course, in 2012. If you look at polling data, his approval numbers are pretty steady at 63, 64. That is much, I think, guaranteed by the State-Run Media and the way they report. But if you look at polls on the issues -- issue after issue -- you'll find that on most of them the majority of the American people, like, don't want Gitmo closed, they don't want bailouts of General Motors. Most of the American people, a clear majority disagree policy-wise with everything he's doing. Yet, he has this widely high approval rating. He's very charismatic, demagogic, and it's not what he says that has people captivated. It's how he says it.
HANNITY: Obama said to the BBC, "The US can't impose its values on other countries."
RUSH: (chuckling)
HANNITY: You know the quote I'm saying. We cannot impose its values on other countries.
RUSH: Yeah, but see, that's a typical Obama straw man argument. He comes up and says, "America, we can't impose our values!" Well, when do we, and what are our values? The next part of the question is: What are our values? Freedom.
HANNITY: Liberty.
RUSH: Democracy. Those are universal. So after he says we can't impose our values, he then defines our values. You can't "impose" freedom. We liberate people! Somebody's going to have to tell Mrs. Clinton -- who's been marginalized, by the way. She's over at State Department with nothing to do. She's running around the world telling other countries they have to do gay rights the way we do. I think that's imposing our values, his values on the rest of the world -- and there's one other aspect of this.
HANNITY: Mmm?
RUSH: Somebody's going to have to convince me I'm wrong. I think Obama has something against Israel. You know, letting Iran do this and telling Israel it's gotta stop building? Oh, imposing values? "Hey, Mr. Netanyahu, stop doing your settlements. Stop defending yourself." Who's imposing what on whom? It's Obama imposing his view of things around the world.
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HANNITY: We saw what happened in California. You see the takeover of GM. They want to monitor CEO pay even for companies that don't get any government money.
RUSH: Right.
HANNITY: They're taking over banks. They're taking over financial institutions. It is the definition of socialism. What does this mean? Let me give you the debt numbers. You know them as well as anybody. We quadruple 'em in a year. We quadruple the deficit in ten years. We'll be paying nearly a trillion in interest of the debt in ten years. What does this mean, as you stand back? You were talking earlier about the middle class and the impact this is going to have on the middle class. What does this Obama economy look like, assuming he doesn't get a second term, after four years of Obama economics?
RUSH: Well, most of the stimulus spending, for example, doesn't go into effect until 2010. There's a chance, with those elections, to dial some of that back. But if this man succeeds, Sean, it's going to be 25 years rolling this stuff back -- and if they get nationalized health care, they are going to be able to control every aspect of our lives because you get in a car the wrong way, it can impact health care costs. If you eat popcorn with coconut oil, it could impact health care costs. If they get that, then people have no idea the control over their lives the government will exert. That's got to be stopped. That is intolerable to go "single-payer," government socialized medicine. I want to say one other thing, even if we go overtime here. People ask me about the Fairness Doctrine all the time, and I've been watching something here. Newspapers are losing money. Advertising revenues are down and circulation. But radio companies, too, Sean, television companies, their advertising revenues are down. Now, individual shows, my show is up.
HANNITY: So's mine.
RUSH: Yours, but radio station ownership groups, advertising as a whole is down.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: Now, what happens if they have to file Chapter 11? What if all these radio companies can't make their debt payments next year, the year after that, and have to go Chapter 11? If Obama is controlling the banks, and the banks then will or will not lend to the broadcasters and the newspapers to make them solvent, we could reach a point where Obama controls radio and TV, because he will own it. By virtue of the banks he controls owning it. This is a very stealth way. You don't need the Fairness Doctrine. You don't need localism. And people say, "That will never happen." Well, did you ever think that government and Obama would be dictating the kind of cars GM and Chrysler make? Did you ever think Obama would be dictating what people on Wall Street can earn? Did you ever think that the mortgage business would be controlled by a single man, Barack Obama? Nobody ever thought that. So if you think that the media in this country cannot also be owned by Barack Obama, think again.
HANNITY: It's pretty frightening.
RUSH: Well, that's the path we're headed down. We have to stop and shout and stop this and oppose it. It's very... This is not the America that you and I grew up in. I said earlier, "If Al-Qaeda wants to demolish the America we know and love, they better hurry, because Obama is beating them to it." I read that in a British column. I think it was the UK Telegraph. Now, it resonated with me because this guy is changing the America we've come to know. See, I think he's got a big chip on his shoulder.
HANNITY: It's frightening.
RUSH: It is!
HANNITY: That is frightening.
RUSH: It's seriously frightening.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: And we look out and say, "Where are the American people? The 64 million or whatever who voted for the guy? When are they going to wake up? Did Democrats really, the people that voted for him really, want this kind of America?
HANNITY: But don't you want the Republicans to wake up? You see all the contortions they've been going through about who their head is and whether or not Reagan conservatism needs to be, you know, pushed in the past and this new modern version of a watered-down conservatism or watered-down Republican Party. I think Reagan spelled it out pretty well in March of '75 when he said, you know, "No pale pastels. Bold colors, bold differences." If they can't distinguish themselves now from Barack Obama and socialism and Jimmy Carter national security...
RUSH: Exactly right.
HANNITY: This is it.
RUSH: It is the greatest opportunity they've had to draw that contrast between what Obama represents and what is traditionally the Republican Party or conservatism.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: The problem with the Republican Party is the old guard, country club, blue-blood, Rockefeller types are now running it. The Colin Powell types, the Tom Ridge types.
HANNITY: Right.
RUSH: And they want to share in the power in Washington. They're content to share it as losers. The Republican Party right now is not led by conservatives. There are plenty of conservative Republicans in the party, but it's hard for them to get noticed. But you can't wait for the Republican Party, Sean.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: At some point somebody in that party is going to emerge and carry the banner forward. Meanwhile, there's a population out there that has to be told the truth, and if the party is not going to stand up and do it right now, we have to. I think at some point they're going to get over their fear. Right now it's still early. We're just past a hundred days. Republicans are still deathly afraid of being criticized for criticizing Obama. They don't want to attach Obama's policies to him -- and Obama doesn't, either. You know, Obama is still blaming Bush. I think he's a just a sitting-duck target, politically --
HANNITY: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: -- to score major, major points for the traditions and values that made this country great.
HANNITY: Listen, he jokes about the Special Olympics. He gives an iPod to the Queen with speeches of himself. (chuckles) He flies an airplane over New York and spends 300 grand. He goes on a date with his wife to New York, as you mentioned earlier.
RUSH: And he's been to all 57 states, and he said that we need to hoist values. It's clear. I mean, he's got --
HANNITY: If George Bush did this? Come on.
RUSH: I know. I know. Well, look, we just have to come to grips. There's a double standard.
HANNITY: I know.
RUSH: There's a double standard. He's loved and adored by the State-Run Media. Obama is blaming Bush and his predecessors for all that he inherited.
HANNITY: Yeah.
RUSH: He is escaping, so far, any attachment to the disasters that he's causing. At some point that is going to change, and that, I think -- I'm hopeful -- is when the elected class of conservative and Republicans will rise up and take the baton and run with it.
HANNITY: I don't think there's any way it can't happen. You mentioned earlier, "I'm optimistic." I think there's going to be a lot of damage done in the meantime, but it's gotta happen -- and, you know what? A lot of people, I think, are going to come to you and say, "You know what, Rush? You were kind of right about all this stuff."
RUSH: Yeah, you know, I joked the other day. I told people when I claimed I'm "America's piñata," I said, "You know how people always say, 'Why didn't somebody tell me?' I'm the guy telling you, and I'm going to keep telling you." Sean, I'm optimistic, too. You look at FDR, and what did we get after FDR? We got 40 years of liberalism. We're not going to have 40 years of liberalism after Obama. There is an opposition media. There is an opposition to this kind of destruction that's being done to this country. Whatever he does, we're going to be able to roll it back, and I don't think he's going to be able to get away with as much as he would like to. There's simply too much attention being brought to bear on it. We're in America. We are Americans. We still have the freedom to do what we want and to be who we want to be, and you have to be optimistic when you have that kind of ability.
HANNITY: Rush, it's always a pleasure.
RUSH: Thank you.
HANNITY: I appreciate it.
END PART TWO TRANSCRIPT
Wow, almost gave up on you today GOP_lady. I was so busy today at work I didn’t even catch a snippet of Rush. Thanks.
The real question is, how many decisions did she make were overturned. That is the real question...
Take that, Daddy Bloomberg!
As always, you and everyone else is most welcome! :-)
Understand … and appreciate your efforts. Without you, I would miss Rush altogether most days.
At the outpost, named Oz Yehonatan, the settlers built a wooden structure they mockingly called the "Obama Hut," saying it was a sign of appreciation for the US president for his actions that had led to a dramatic rise in the number of outposts.
Overnight Thursday, settlers and right-wing activists once again rebuilt the illegal Maoz Esther outpost that was dismantled on Wednesday by security forces.
Among the structures erected was a synagogue in which activists placed a Torah scroll dedicated in the name of Yohonadav Hirschfield, who was killed in last year's terror attack at Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.
One of the activists said of Obama, "He's an Arab Muslim and a gentile, he is fighting against the Jewish people and has declared that he will continue to do so. We already stated our intention to continue to build, no matter who is fighting us - Egypt, Germany or the US."
Among the 200 activists that gathered at the Maoz Esther site was Hebron-Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, who explained why peace was impossible in the Middle East.
"It's all illusions. With these savages, there was never peace, there is no peace and there will not be peace," he said. "It's not because we don't want it, but because they are enemies of peace. We just have to hope that our entire country is cleared of terrorists, their supporters, their backers and their camels. They should all be sent to Saudi Arabia."
National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari voiced his support for the settlers' actions saying the West Bank's Jewish communities were an established fact that could not be changed.
"Obama, in his audacity, dreams that 350,000 Jews can be removed from Judea and Samaria, but they are a fact that cannot be changed," he was quoted by Army Radio as saying.
Sotomayor reversed 60% by high court
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/27/60-reversal-of-sotomayor-rulings-gives-fodder-to-f/
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