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"The Audi ad is a great ad because it dared to take on political correctness.
Past editions of " RUSH IN A HURRY "
Rush Hudson Limbaugh. Mmm, Mmm, Mmm!
This is a more political ad than anything the Focus on the Family ad is."
"This audience has thinkers."
"The left is just running hog wild unchecked.
Everything they can get their hands on, and as you've seen, after just one year, folks, they literally destroy
what they set out in their mind to fix, which in truth is what they're setting out in their mind to change."
"Liberalism in the United States of America has never been a majority-held point of view.
Liberals Democrats, especially the modern incarnation of Democrats, has to always govern against the will of the people.
And when it gets down to make or break time, then they'll put the mask on, the facade,
'We need to move to the center,' make it look like they're moving to the center in order to compromise."
"The Republicans are afraid of going after Obama because of race.
So go after the Democrats in Congress.
Go after Pelosi and Reid.
They're white, they can take it, and they don't speak with a black dialect except if they want to."
"I thought Bush was a war criminal.
I thought Bush's policies made us hated and less safe.
I thought Bush's policies added up to recruitment for Al-Qaeda, and yet our president,
our young man-child president now says he's no different than the Bush administration."
"You know what Obama ought to do?
Come on this show and debate health care reform with me.
If he really wants to move this forward, do that."
"Congratulations to the people of New Orleans.
This is a great thing for them.
I was happy to see it."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: You know they're really stumped in the White House. They can't figure this out, folks, I have it on good authority the Obama administration is just stumped, I mean those that showed up to work today. Do you realize the federal government is not going to work today because of snow, but all these local people have to plow roads. I like it when the federal government's not at work, don't misunderstand me, but these people take whatever excuse they can for a day off.
At any rate, this Super Bowl last night may end up being the most watched Super Bowl ever, and Obama was not part of it, and they can't stand that at the White House, and plus he's gotten himself into a big mess with that pregame interview with Katie Couric. The Democrats don't know what the guy is doing now, the Democrats in Congress. Anyway, greetings, folks, great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, back at it behind the Golden EIB Microphone and broadcast excellence straight ahead. Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program. 800-282-2882.
I called it, I predicted the outcome last night, and poor, poor Obama. You know, when I learned he had picked the Saints I had to go in there and pick 'em. I wasn't going to pick the Colts just because of Jim "Hearsay," but as I told the Hutch on Friday I had to pick the Saints to try to counterbalance the absolute disaster it was that Obama picked 'em because Obama does nothing but pick losers. Yesterday afternoon in a pregame interview with Katie Couric he did a 180 and he picked the Colts. And right then I knew it was over.
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RUSH: I was surprised that on third and one that the Colts didn't call a plunge play, Peyton Manning got ten different passes, gain a yard, yeah, there were some things, but I mean the game is the game. This is the irony to me, and by the way, congratulations, people of New Orleans, this is a great thing for them. I was happy to see it. But the irony of the way these things play out always gets to me. For the past two weeks during all the hype every sportswriter -- it's just like when we had that montage of all those reporters talking about Bush's choice of Cheney as gravitas, we had like a hundred thousand people saying the choice was gravitas, that Bush needed gravitas. Well, for the past two weeks, we have been hearing that if Peyton Manning won this game, which would be the Colts and his second Super Bowl win, that that would make him the greatest quarterback ever -- and the Hutch even said this on Friday -- launching him ahead of Tom Brady, who's won three Super Bowls, Montana who has won four, Bradshaw, who has won four, and how does that happen?
Nothing against you people in Indianapolis, nothing against Manning, I've met him a couple of times, and I like him, and he's a great guy. I'm not a hype guy. I'm not a conventional wisdom guy. I run the other way on whatever the conventional wisdom is, and the conventional wisdom here was Colts by two touchdowns. I love being a maverick renegade in these things. Plus I was objectively analyzing it based on my look at the game. The irony here of two weeks of hype, win this game you're the best ever, and you throw the interception that loses the game, taking away the hoped-for story line of every sports reporter in America. You want my take on the game, that's my take on the game. My take on the game, my take on the news is always my take on the media. I read something today that fascinated me. Joe Posnanski, Sports Illustrated, lives in Kansas City. Peyton Manning lost five games as a high school quarterback, three of them were state championship games. He never won a national championship at Tennessee, lost two there against the University of Florida. He is in his career 9-9 in championship games. I did not know any of this. I did not know it 'til I read it in Sports Illustrated today, Joe Posnanski, and he says, "Why is this?" Why does this happen? He doesn't have any idea either. He's just putting it out there.
You know, that pick by Tracy Porter, jumped that route -- I'm not going to tell you that I was sitting there at that moment in the game shouting to everybody in my room, "We need a turnover!" bam, it happened. I'm not going to tell you I did that. I did. "We need a turnover, we need a pick. Yeah, we're down to three minutes left, they're marching. Down by seven, yeah, they came on a blitz." Another thing I don't understand, when the Colts tried the 51-yard field goal, that kicker has not kicked anything over 50 yards since 2004. So, again, I knew this. So when they line up I shout to everybody in my house -- and they're in two rooms -- and I shout, "Ain't going to happen, no way." There it goes, short, wide left. Nothing against Matt Stover, he was put in a position where he hasn't had any success.
Strange play call. Go for it. There's fourth and 11 you're at the end of the half, or close to it. (interruption) No, the offside kick was fabulous, the offside kick was great, the offside kick is the New Orleans Saint's Shock and Awe. That's the first onside kick that's not happened in the fourth quarter ever in the Super Bowl. They've got a name for that play, ambush. And the kicker had never, ever kicked an onside kick in a professional game, he's the punter and the kickoff guy, he didn't start rehearsing onside kicks until the last two weeks. I loved that call. Absolutely loved it.
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RUSH: No, I know that, Snerdley, because I read it in Peter King's piece in Sports Illustrated today. The name of the play is "ambush," and this kicker has never done an onside kick. Anyway, great game -- and now for football fans, it is bad news. For true football fans, there's nothing that matters until September now. (sigh) So you have to find other occupations. Well, some people like the Combine and the Draft but I mean there's nothing to me on the season.
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RUSH: Robert, Smithtown, Long Island, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Oh, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you. Longtime listener and, like you, I'm a longtime Steeler fan. I heard you talking earlier about the graphic they put up on CBS yesterday, it was the first onside kick attempted not in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl. And I remember back in 1980, like it was yesterday, when we beat the Rams, first quarter, Chuck Noll, after the Steelers had scored a field goal in the opening quarter, tried an onside kick, in the very first quarter of the game. And it was unsuccessful.
RUSH: That was a Super Bowl against the then Los Angeles Rams.
CALLER: The Rams, correct, --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- in January 1980.
RUSH: I had forgotten that, but something told me that back in I guess '95, the Steelers and Cowboys, Cowher did a surprise onside kick but I don't know what quarter it was in. I know it was in the second half.
CALLER: That I wanted to look up afterwards but I had no way of getting in touch with CBS at the time, I wanted to let them know that that's definitely not a true statistic that they put up there, because I remember Chuck Noll doing it and I remember being a little upset about it but the Steelers were such a dominate defense and they gave the ball to the Rams to start the game and then they drove down, the kicked the field goal, and it was a surprise move, a gamble, but --
RUSH: I've got that game on tape. I had forgotten that aspect of it.
CALLER: Yep. First quarter, Rush.
RUSH: First quarter, and it was at the Rose Bowl, right?
CALLER: Yes, it was, it was 31-19 final.
RUSH: Yeah. That was slot right 60 prevent hook and go was the 73-yard bomb --
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: -- Bradshaw to Stallworth.
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: -- that was the game winner.
CALLER: Yeah, Lynn Swann had been knocked out of the game, he had a little trouble -- he did his share before he got knocked out but you're right, Stallworth had a big game and Franco put in the final touchdown to give them that --
RUSH: Yeah, I remember, I remember at halftime Jack Lambert and Joe Greene had meeting, and they said, "This is not Steeler football, we're not playing defense Steeler football."
CALLER: Jack Lambert was scaring people in the huddle he so intense during that game. Yeah, he said they were sleepwalking. Absolutely.
RUSH: I read Bradshaw say that the Steelers flew to Los Angeles for that game on a DC-9. The DC-9 is a sardine can when you put a football team -- they had to stop in Salt Lake City to refuel.
CALLER: Wow.
RUSH: A different day in the National Football League. Now they take wide bodies everywhere they can because of the behemoth size of these guys. At any rate, yeah, that game frightened everybody, everybody thought it was going to be a walk-on for the Steelers and Vince Ferragamo had an excellent game as a quarterback for the Rams, and I think that was the game that Jack Youngblood played on a hairline fracture on one of his legs. I'll never forget that game but I don't remember the onside kick in the first quarter. I don't remember that. Grab that tape out.
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MRS. TEBOW: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn't make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well, he's all grown up now and I still worry about his health. You know, with all our family's been through you have to be tough. (Mrs. Tebow gets tackled by her son) Timmy! I'm trying to tell our story here.
TIM TEBOW: Sorry about that, Mom. You still worry about me, Mom?
MRS. TEBOW: Well, yeah, you're not nearly as tough as I am.
RUSH: Did you see the ad, Snerdley? What happened, if you didn't see the sound effect there, Tim Tebow tackled his own mom, looked like bam, she got tackled and then she pops back up. The ad then directed everybody to the Focus on the Family website where the story would be explained. So what do you think the reaction to this ad is today by the NAGs? (interruption) No. No. They are so livid because it glorified violence against women. NAG President Terry O'Neill said it glorified violence against women when Tim Tebow ostensibly tackled his own mother. She said, "I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it. That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message." There wasn't an anti-abortion message in it if you didn't know the story. "'I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.' Not all abortion-rights supporters agreed. 'It's absurd to claim that this is an endorsement of violence against women,' said Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for Choice. 'These people came across as affectionate, loving, funny and happy.'" Exactly what nobody in the left is.
They are not affectionate, loving, funny, and happy. They have to go through life miserable. Violence against women? These people have become a caricature of themselves, the NAGs. Well, the Betty White ad was good, the Betty White ad was good and the letter Leno-Letterman ad caught everybody at my house. It's only a 15-second ad and it stopped everybody dead because Leno apparently was snuck into Letterman's theater, all the guests or the audience goes on 53rd Street to catch the guests coming out of there they snuck him in in a Bill Belichick hoodie to the front door of the Ed Sullivan Theatre and they got Leno in there to promote Letterman's show, and they're going to be up against each other. It was a 15-second thing with Oprah in there playing peacemaker. Anyway, that stopped everybody at my house, and the Audi ad, though, I can't believe the NAGs. I just can't believe the NAGs. Once again, just as in global warming, ladies and gentlemen, it was I, El Rushbo, decades ago who told you what these people really were about, who they really are, and the fact that they have never, ever represented anywhere near a majority of female thinking in the country. But they were always propped up by the left-wing media as the spokeswomen, spokesman, for all women. And now they've just become a caricature -- violence against women!
Now, here's the Audi ad, and folks, you really have to see this. But the audio will suffice. We may have to play it twice because there's a lot of video noise that goes along with the dialogue here. But here, give it a shot.
(playing of ad)
RUSH: Now, the way the ad ends, aside from that, it is just hilarious. I just loved it and I'm even more amused the green Nazis out there think it's a great ad and that this is where we should be headed, the people who have the moral authority, the eco-police are dressed just like cops but they're driving around on these little segue machines and bicycles and shorts and bicycle helmets and so forth. And they've got a line of cars stopped on an interstate because they all violate some sort of green environmental regulation, and the Audi, it's the Audi A3 TDI, the cop spots the Audi, "Oh, sir, you're good to go," and the car speeds around all the other cars that are stopped. It's a great ad because it dared to take on political correctness. This is a more political ad than anything the Focus on the Family ad is. And I gotta tell you, as one who loves satire and who is artful in it, this ad is amazing because it took a political position, and no matter what your position watching it, you think it's good, you like it.
Audi realizes -- (interruption) the game's what it is.
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RUSH: Margie in Gilbert, Arizona, I'm glad that you waited. You're next on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Rush.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: Hey. Greetings to you from beautiful, sunny Arizona.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, one more, just a lighter note here on the Super Bowl commercials, the Denny's commercials, I mean it had me on the floor. They showed all these chickens, I guess they're giving away free eggs with every breakfast, but they're showing 'em on bar stools screaming, they show them in space with a silent scream, then the last one they show all these chickens in the Oval Office screaming their heads off, and then the guy at the end, just like he did on the other ones, "It's a great time to be an American, a terrible time to be a chicken." I thought, oh, man.
RUSH: Well, it worked on you. That's good. It wasn't a bad spot. The Audi commercial, to me, was --
CALLER: Yeah, it was super, it was just super. I'm going to my husband, "That's really going to happen."
RUSH: Well, some people are scared by it.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I got some e-mails from people: "That commercial unnerved me."
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Because they think that's where the green police actually want to take us, and it's true. Being arrested for buying an incandescent lightbulb? You know, using plastic and getting thrown in jail. I mean, if you listen to these people. And by the way, one of these pro-ecowacko Nazis has written on the Huffpo that it's a great ad. "Those of us with the moral authority to save the environment," they like it. But from a business standpoint, from an Audi standpoint it's a great ad because it could have offended half the audience and in fact it didn't. It appealed to everybody. Except, you know, probably some idiots out there who have never heard of global warming, but they don't care about that.
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RUSH: I'm still thinking about that Audi ad last night, because at the end of the day it leaves you with the thought that there's a great product out there. From a pure business standpoint.... Also... I really don't talk about myself much as you people know. But it is now A-okay to make fun of the left. But it used to not be fun to make fun of the left. You used to not be able to do that, but then some guy started a radio show and started making fun of them: "the environmentalist wackos," "the feminazis." He started doing satire and parodies about all these people, and everybody was shocked.
"You just can't do that! You can't do it."
"Why not? They're making fun of us all these years."
"Well, you can't! Our positions are morally superior. Our positions are sacred. You can't make fun of us! Our work is too serious."
"Your work is a joke! Your work is dishonest. The satire is easy. It's simply telling everybody who you really are and what you're really all about," and the left to this day still has no sense of humor. This business of Rahm Emanuel using "F-ing retarded" to describe his own radical leftist Democrats for getting in the way on health care and so forth... I never used the word. I never once used the word! It never crosses my mind to use the word. Yet Rahm Emanuel did it. So because Sarah Palin said, "This is making fun of people," I decided, "Well, if it's okay for the Democrats to do it, and the Democrats are out there defending Emanuel, then, okay: I'll go ahead and do it," and everybody in this audience knew full well what I was doing: Having fun with a Democrat finally in the same position they always put us in.
You know, they're the PC Police, and they hammer us outta office. They drive us out of our careers when we violate their speech codes. So here is Rahm Emanuel stepping in it big time, and I thought I would just make fun of it. And you wouldn't believe the left out there thinks -- independently of Emanuel -- that I started using the word and that Sarah Palin should demand that I get fired, just like she did of Emanuel (or apologize), when I was clearly making fun of Emanuel and everybody in this audience knew it. I actually think that most on the left know it, too. They just love all this feigned, faked outrage and they love using the Speech Police to drum people like me out of our work or out of office or what have you. In fact, let's grab number 27 first, Mike, before we get back in order at number three. Even today, on The View, Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg were talking about me as though Rahm Emanuel had nothing to do with what I was doing.
WALTERS: In this interview, they talked about Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire. Rahm Emanuel should be fired. Rush Limbaugh was using satire?
GOLDBERG: Yeah, well, when he appears at Caroline's, the comedy club, I'll believe it was satirical.
RUSH: I love these people. So you have to go to a comedy club to use satire? You have to be a comedian to get away with satire. (interruption) That was this morning, Snerdley. That was the Whoopi Goldberg who did that fundraiser for John Kerry. Yeah, that's the same Whoopi Goldberg who used the F-bomb I think a number of times at a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall for John Kerry (who served in Vietnam). Yeah, it's the same Whoopi Goldberg. (laughing) (interruption) I know. They really do. The liberal mind -- you know, it scares me I understand it. It really frightens me I understand it, because I predicted this is going to happen! I predict it every time we do it. I predict what's going to happen, and it happens. So here's what they're talking about on Sarah Palin, Fox News Sunday yesterday. She and Chris Wallace had a discussion about this. It's two sound bites.
WALLACE: Rush Limbaugh weighed in this week and he said this: "Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult has taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, 'retards.'"
PALIN: He was satirical on that.
WALLACE: Wait! Let me finish!
PALIN: Okay.
WALLACE: "I mean these people, these liberal activists, are kooks." Should Rush Limbaugh apologize?
PALIN: They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct --
WALLACE: But he used the R-word!
PALIN: He was using satire. Name-calling by anyone -- I teach this to my children; you teach it to your children and your grandchildren, too. Name-calling by anyone, it's just unnecessary. It just wastes time.
RUSH: Wallace kept going, but Palin stuck to her guns.
PALIN: I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with "F-ing retard," and we did know that Rahm Emanuel -- it's been reported -- did say that. There's a big difference there. But again, name-calling, using language that is insensitive by anyone -- male, female, Republican, Democrat -- it's unnecessary, it's inappropriate and let's all just grow up.
RUSH: Yes. So there you have it.: Sarah Palin sticking to her guns there And it did not die. It was going on all weekend; it was happening on Friday. This was this morning. The guest Political Capital host Al Hunt and the anchor babe Betty Liu says, "Moving on Sarah Palin on the tea party convention, mocking Obama. Is she serious about a presidential run?"
HUNT: This weekend demonstrated two things about Sarah Palin: What a terrific performer she is. She gave a very effective speech. She had some great lines. She delivered them very effectively. She got in trouble, however, on another issue where she said Rahm Emanuel ought to resign because he used the word "retard," and then Rush Limbaugh said something far, far worse and intentional as opposed to Emanuel, and she sort of took a dive on Rush Limbaugh. It shows she can't quite hit big league pitching when it's not put down the middle for her.
RUSH: (laughing) Far, far worse? (laughing) I quoted him. You know what, they've moved on. They have moved on, but they are livid. The left is livid over a picture in which she had written some crib notes in the palm of her hand. They were just little reminders of areas to discuss. You know, they used to make fun of Reagan for having index cards to remind himself of where he was going. Of course their guy can't even make sense without a teleprompter, and even with the right words on the teleprompter he still doesn't know how to pronounce them, as in "corpse-man." Three times he said "corpse-man." So here these spoiled brat, whiny little R-words are sitting there upset that Sarah Palin had some little notes on her hand. Well, Sarah Palin might have the Media Tweak of the Day because she's in a campaign appearance with Rick Perry, the governor of Texas. She has written "Hi, mom" on her palm, as a reminder to say hi to mom. She says, "It's right there." She's holding it up for everybody to see, clapping her hands. The media can see it. These people are so easy to tweak and make fun of, and I'm glad that somebody besides me has learned how to do it, 'cause it just agitates them even further. It just irritates them all the more. Here's CNN. They have a stalker at CNN who does nothing but follow me around: Carol Costello. She's a figurative stalker. She's not actually tried to get in my gate...yet. Don't misunderstand. (laughing) We have a montage of a Carol Costello reporting about the R-word. You'll hear some other people in this as well.
COSTELLO: The president's chief of staff called liberal Democrats "F-ing retarded." A Huffington Post columnist joked Sarah Palin would run on "a retardation platform" in 2012, and then there's this...
RUSH ARCHIVE: Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, "retards."
FRANK STEPHENS, SPECIAL OLYMPICS GLOBAL MESSENGER: It's very hurtful for those who are trying to live in this community. Let's stop using the R-word. It's time we come up with a new word: Respect.
COSTELLO: But thanks to the constant R-word banter in the world of politics, Frank might get his wish. Because of Rahm Emanuel's "F-ing retarded" remarks, Special Olympics officials were able to meet with the president's chief of staff in the White House. Emanuel and the Huffington Post columnist apologized for their use of "the R-word" but Rush Limbaugh did not telling his audience he was only quoting Rahm Emanuel and in explaining that, that that's why he used the term R-word. "It was satire," he said.
KIRAN CHETRY: Mmm'yeah, and he wasn't just quoting Rahm Emanuel. He went off on his own rant, as well.
RUSH: Based on Emanuel! Based on continuing to embarrass Emanuel! You people don't understand. You drive us out of our jobs for violating your speech codes, you drive us out of our elective offices for violating your speech codes, and this was just a golden opportunity to ram it back down your collective throats. So you sit around and you sound like stuck pigs and whining little babies. (crying) "Rush Limbaugh did it, and what Rush Limbaugh did was worse! Wah, wah, wah! It was worse, and he got on a rant, and it was worse than what Emanuel did and he didn't apologize. He's so mean."
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RUSH: Speaking of Whoopi Goldberg, let's not forget this. September 28th, 2009, during a discussion of Roman Polanski's case, she said that Polanski's rape of a 13-year-old in 1977 was "not rape-rape." Not rape-rape. She, of course, had her foul-mouthed appearances for John Kerry and other Democrats during campaigns. She's upset and says I can't use satire because I wasn't at Caroline's comedy club.
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RUSH: This is Bob in Hollywood, California. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, hey, Rush how you doing, buddy?
RUSH: Very well. Thank you, buddy.
CALLER: This one is for Whoopi: For years the left has disavowed everything you've ever said because you're a, quote, unquote, "entertainer." Now, you go on your satirical "retard" rant and suddenly you don't qualify as a comedian. I just love it.
RUSH: (laughing) You know, we've had three really sharp, brilliant callers today, and you are one of them. That had even escaped me.
CALLER: Well, it wouldn't have escaped you for long. It would have come to you eventually but I thought I'd have to just get in there.
RUSH: Oh, my gosh, that's an excellent retort! That's surpurb. You are almost as good as me at turning it around on them.
CALLER: I tell you what, Rush. I was born to do what you're doing and I can't tell you what an inspiration you've been. On unrelated topic, I've just had a book published that I'm actually sending you a copy of today, gave some of my experiences in the trenches of the Los Angeles Public School District. And I think it's something you're really going to enjoy.
RUSH: What's the title of the tome?
CALLER: The title is "Crippled by Compassion: Public Education's Model for a Whiny, Underachieving America."
RUSH: I love the title: Crippled by Compassion.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: That's a great title. I'll keep a sharp eye out for it.
CALLER: Yeah, I'm sending it to the New York address today, so have a look when you get it.
RUSH: I'll tell the people up there to keep a sharp eye on it.
CALLER: Great.
RUSH: Just like I'll be keeping a sharp eye on Biden going to the Supreme Court and the Hillary joining the ticket. (laughing)
CALLER: (laughing) All right, buddy, it's a pleasure.
RUSH: Can you say desperation? That's great, Bob in Hollywood. So all these years I don't count, what I say doesn't count because I'm an entertainer! Now, all of a sudden, I can't do satire 'cause I'm not an entertainer, 'cause I don't go to "Caroline's comedy club," quote, Whoopi Goldberg.
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RUSH: Bill in Marietta, Ohio, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Yes, sir. Rush, super mega dittos from the first government in the Northwest Territory.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.
CALLER: Yes, sir. My question for the day is, a friend and I, staunch conservatives, both of us -- I actually watched your program when I was in high school, and I was into it before I was a conservative. You were there and that's what awakened me when I was a youth, let's say.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Yes, sir. My question for you today is, a friend of mine, both of us are staunch conservatives, I'm wanting to start a business aside from the one that I work in, and he says apply for a federal grant. He said it's free money from the government, he says the man that's in the White House, he says, let him give you the money. And I say, no, because I don't want the government's handout.
RUSH: Let me tell you another reason why not to do it. And I'll back this up, I've got a story in my Stack of Stuff here.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Companies that get into business with the government, like this story's about an organic milk farmer, and all of the people that distribute his milk have gone out of business. So he's got nothing to do with his organic milk. So he's gotten some help from the government. He's a L3C, Limited Liability Corporation, and now because he's taken money from the government he is now what's called a low-profit company. The government is willing to keep him in business if he will promise to keep his profits low. You don't want any part, Bill, of this administration and any government grant of any kind. You don't need it, you don't want it, you don't want them telling you eventually how you're gonna run your business and what you can and can't do with it. Don't worry about it, don't go anywhere near it. If it's a real dream you've got and you don't have the financing yet, hold off. Be patient. We're going to rebound, and you're going to be able to get financing through regular channels at some point. But don't, don't take a grant.
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RUSH: Now, I want to go back to the guy who asked me about whether or not starting a business he should take a government grant. His partner thinks the government's handing out free money. No, that's never true. There's always a price to pay for it. Here is a story from CNNmoney.com, and the headline is: "For L3C Companies, Profit Isn't the Point -- When organic dairy farmer Vaughn Chase received a letter informing him that processor H.P. Hood would no longer be taking his milk, he feared he'd be forced out of business. Three years earlier, he had invested $25,000 in converting his 600-acre family farm to meet the US Department of Agriculture's organic certification standards. But now he couldn't find another organic processor willing to take the milk from his remote farm in Maine. With the price of non-organic milk plummeting below production costs, returning to conventional farming wasn't an option either. 'That was suicide,' says Vaughn, 54, who owns about 60 milking cows. 'I couldn't put my family through that. I might as well quit.'
"Vaughn's was one of 10 small farms in Maine let go by H.P. Hood last year; luckily, none had to quit. With the support of local government agencies and a business consultant, Vaughn and the other farmers created a company to process and distribute their milk locally under their own brand, Maine's Own Organic Milk Company -- MOOMilk. But the most unusual aspect of the venture is its legal status. MOOMilk is a "low-profit" limited liability corporation, or L3C. It's a controversial new type of business entity intended to make it easier for companies with a social mission to receive investments, including loans and grants, from charitable foundations," and government. Are you with me so far on this? "Since April 2008, five states and two Indian tribes have signed legislation enabling companies to incorporate as an L3C, which is generally defined as a taxable for-profit business whose primary goal is to achieve a stated social mission. Profit is a secondary goal."
So this is social engineering in the private sector. We're going to now reward businesses that do not make a profit if someone approves of their social mission. Meanwhile, 90% of independents and Republicans and 80% of people in general disapprove of the liberal Democrat Congress. And the liberal Democrat Congress is no different than the wackos who come up with an idea like this. This is designed to pervert capitalism. It is to corrupt the private sector and to change the mission. "An L3C, which is generally defined as a taxable for-profit business whose primary goal is to achieve a stated social mission. Profit is a secondary goal." Now, the mainstream media -- I just read TIME Magazine circulation down 34.9%. Newsweek down 41.3%, and magazines have undergone recent revampings to make them more relevant to today's consumer.
Now mainstream media companies ought to love this. Throw profit out the window? They've never liked having to make profit in the first place. I'm not talking about the owners. I'm talking about the journalists. They've always thought that profit somehow polluted the objectivity of what they did. Well, here's your chance. Simply go out there, borrow some money to grow the business back or whatever you want to do with it and say you're a L3C, and your mission is not profit. You have a social mission. And the social mission is to what? Propagandize the American people in the name of the Obama administration. "At least five other states are currently considering similar legislation, and L3C proponents, including the Council on Foundations, are courting potential sponsors on Capitol Hill for a federal bill. In Vermont, the first state to pass the legislation, more than 80 companies have incorporated as L3Cs in the past 21 months." Do you understand the ramifications of this? And of course Vermont, a very liberal state, 80 companies have become incorporated, say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, profit's not an issue, no, no, we got a social mission here."
"Robert Lang, one of the original architects of the L3C concept, 'We're trying to create an L3C whose very DNA insists that it has to put its beneficial activities in front of making money.' Lang, a former cosmetics business owner in Granite Springs, N.Y., came up with the idea soon after he was asked to run his late stepfather's small family foundation. He learned about 'program-related investments' (PRIs), which are loans or investments private foundations can offer for charitable or educational projects, such as affordable housing or health clinics, even if they are run by for-profit entities." Well, this is disturbing as all get-out to me because this is the corrupting of the private sector and to change its mission in toto and the left is just running hog wild unchecked over everything. Everything they can get their hands on, and as you've seen, after just one year, folks, they destroy, they literally destroy what they set out in their mind to fix, which in truth is what they're setting out in their mind to change.
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RUSH: Here's Larry in Moore, Oklahoma. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. I had a comment about the LP or L3PC.
RUSH: It's the L3C. It's a "low-profit, social mission corporation."
CALLER: There you go. I think the EIB Network should probably apply for some kind of a grant because you have a social objective. The idea is to get all the dysfunctional minds properly working.
RUSH: Yeah, but the problem with us is that we are oriented toward obscene profits, not small profits. We wouldn't qualify. We do both. We accomplish a social mission each and every day while making obscene profits.
CALLER: Well, yeah, but compared to the confiscatory profits that the IRS makes you guys are small profits.
RUSH: Well, yeah. (laughing) There's always somebody that does more.
CALLER: Yeah, exactly.
RUSH: Always somebody that has more, always somebody earns more. That's exactly right on the money.
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OBAMA: Pilots and air crews around the world, maybe "corpse-men" on the ground in Afghanistan.
RUSH: What is it here? Navy "corpse-men"? And they want to have fun with Sarah Palin for jotting a little note on her hand? Navy "corpse-men"? This is four times now since last October. Either his staff is too afraid to correct him or they're all ignorant, too. It's gotta be one of those two. "Corpse-men"? Is he going to call them the "press corpse"? I do.
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RUSH: I just learned this -- George W. Bush has been in the White House teaching Obama to pronounce words. And we have a renegade sample of that tomorrow.
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OBAMA: I have not ruled it out but I think it's important for us to take into account the practical, logistical issues involved. I mean if you've got a city that is saying "no" and a police department that's saying "no" and a mayor that's saying "no" that makes it difficult. But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11.
RUSH: I'm keeping my mouth closed here, folks. This is bordering on profanity time. The Bush administration wanted military tribunals. It was only because the Bush administration was forced by some courts who took over the commander-in-chief duties, but that's not even the point. That's not even the point. I thought Bush was a war criminal. I thought Bush's policies made us hated and less safe. I thought Bush's policies added up to recruitment for Al-Qaeda, and yet our president, our young man-child president now says he's no different than the Bush administration. First off it's a lie, but wait 'til the left gets a hold of this, that he's no different than Bush, they want Bush frog-marched into a jail. I'm tempted to agree with them here if Obama goes, too. But I don't want to go that far. No, no.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's the best way to explain Obama to you. When he says that he's now gonna focus on jobs, many times last week, and then on Sunday holds out this proposal for Republicans to come and talk to him at the White House on health care, you might not understand his definition of focus. When he says he's going to focus on jobs, it doesn't mean he's focusing on jobs. It means he's going to mention it. "Focus" simply means "mention" to Obama, because he's obviously not focused.
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RUSH: Yesterday in his interview with Katie Couric, Barack Obama was asked a question: "Yesterday you said, 'Just in case there's any confusion out there, I'm not going to walk away from health care,' but specifically how you gonna move forward?"
OBAMA: I want to consult closely with, uh, our Republican colleagues so they're gonna be coming in, uh, to the White House next week, and what I want to do is to ask them to put their ideas on the table and, uh, then after the recess -- which will be a few weeks away -- I want to come back and have, uh, a large meeting, Republicans AND Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.
RUSH: Now, there have been stories all weekend long: Obama realizes health care dead on Capitol Hill. Obama not giving up! He went to the DNC fundraiser over the weekend, Saturday night I guess, and he said "We're not giving up on this, gang!" The Democrats in Congress don't know what's going on. He's provided no leadership; he has never had a plan. This is one thing that we must continually emphasize. He has put it all on them. He has demanded that they do it all, in the House and the Senate. He has never had a plan, and they have taken the hit for that, not him. Well, he is taking a hit in the approval numbers, and his party is taking a hit but doesn't. He hasn't suffered from it much yet. So now they're kind of, "What? What? What is going on?" and the Republicans have to be very, very careful here because this is nothing more than a trap.
And the Republicans, I'm saying it right now: Do not be afraid of being called the party of "no" if you don't do this. Be proud of being called the party of "no." Have confidence, my fellow Republicans, that there is nowhere near a majority of people that want Obama's health care. A clear majority of people do not want it, and they stopped it. This is no time for bipartisanship. (That was my favorite part of Sarah Palin's address, by the way, to the tea party Saturday night.) "Bipartisanship" simply means Republicans compromising their core beliefs to agree with Democrats. There is never talk of bipartisanship with the Democrats giving up everything. It's always everybody joining them or caving to meet them. This is a setup because Obama wants to be able to blame this on the Republicans when in fact it is his own party that's been saying "no" to itself!
The Senate Democrats say "no" to the House Democrats. The House Democrats say "no" to the Senate Democrats. The Blue Dogs are saying "no" to everybody. A bunch of Democrats have lost elections over this; more will lose elections in November. If the Republicans get anywhere near this meeting... Obama does not care about their ideas. Obama is trying to get them on television, on C-SPAN. He has proposed a meeting at Blair House (which is across the street here; think of it as the White House guest house) and he wants this on C-SPAN because can fulfill his promise that every health care negotiation will be on TV. I was encouraged to see this story just a little while ago from State-Controlled AP: "Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation." Let me remind my dear friends the Republicans: Obama does not have a plan.
He has not presented a plan. He does not have his own sheaves of paper that he can throw out and say, "No, right here in my plan on page 2,940 it says you can keep your insurance plan." There is no Obama plan. Negotiating with Obama is a waste of time. All it's doing is helping him fulfill a photo-op promise of having this stuff televised, and it's also to set you up as the reason this didn't pass. Obamacare reality check: The Senate Democrats, the senators of "no," cannot agree with the House Democrats. The House Democrats, the representatives of "no," can't agree with the Senate Democrats. What's the result? Obama and the Democrats want to say Republicans are the party of "no." And I'm here to tell you: wear that badge with pride and honor. Wear "The Party of 'No' to Democrat Health Care Reform as We Know it" as a badge of honor, and get out of the way of the support and campaign contributions that will flood your coffers.
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RUSH: Look, for those of you Republicans in the House (and the Senate for that matter) the goal is to get our message out there and do it repeatedly and effectively right up to Election Day. Do not engage Obama in staged propaganda events. Do not do it. I'm going to tell you, all that's going to happen is here is a campaign debate. That's all it's going to be. It's not going to be a health care debate. It's going to be a campaign debate, but Obama gets to choose the talking points. Obama gets to choose the way in which it's discussed, and Axelrod will go out there. Axelrod will tell the media in advance where it's going and tell them how to handle it, all on live TV. It will be a replay of that summit where you had him come to visit your retreat in Baltimore. The -- media said, "That's the day Obama turned it around! That's the day Obama turned it around."
(sigh) Please, don't get sucked into this. Do not get sucked into this. True bipartisanship here is to say "no." Republicans and independents and Democrats across the country are opposed to this. That's where the bipartisanship is, if you care about it. If you go along with this, it's -- ooh, ooh! It's going to be squandering such an opportunity. Here's another thing: A whole bunch of members of Congress cannot debate a single president. And right now, we don't have a single political or elected leader to go into that meeting with Obama. The Democrats and the left do. It just makes no sense to waste time this way. The goal has to be victory, not getting along with this guy and helping him advance this plan to destroy this country. He's not going to be persuaded to cut taxes, you guys. He's not going to be e persuaded to open up to competition and to embrace individualism or private property. He's not gonna be open to embracing anything you're doing, any idea.
It will be folly to go up there and present the ideas. Have I made my point about this? Now, imagine you're a Democrat. Here is Obama speaking about private health insurance last Friday: "'And it may be that if Congress decides we're not going to do it -- even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear -- then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not,' the president said, 'and that's how democracy works. There will be elections coming up, and they'll be able to make a determination and register their concerns.'" He's talking like a spoiled brat complaining to Congress for not getting his little bill passed. (crying) "You're not gonna do a bill? Well, you just wait! There's gonna be elections coming up! There's going to be elections and you're going to see how democracy works to send you packing!" That's what he means.
Now, imagine the collective chill that shot up the spines (if you can find them) of every Democrat across the country, when they heard that. After New Jersey, after Virginia, after losing "the Kennedy seat" in Massachusetts, Obama promises to push this career killer and says Americans will have a chance to register their concerns at the ballot box, and he's continuing this charade that if they don't pass his bill -- and he doesn't have one, folks! He does not have a plan. He's not written it. If they don't pass his plan, they're gonna lose. So now to further taunt them, he's asking for a meeting with the Republicans. Now, in Politico on February 5th. This is before either of these announcements that Obama made, is this story in The Politico: "Democrats Chafe as White House Wavers on Health care -- President Barack Obama has left Democrats as confused as ever about how the White House plans to deliver a health care reform bill this year, after two weeks of inconsistent statements, negligible hands-on involvement and a sudden shift to a jobs-first message.
"Democrats on Capitol Hill and beyond say they have no clear understanding of the White House strategy -- or even whether there is one -- and are growing impatient with Obama's reluctance to guide them toward a legislative solution. At a White House meeting Thursday with Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed frustration with the slow pace of the negotiations and the president's decision not to weigh in publicly on a path forward, according to a Democratic source familiar with the meeting. And some Democrats feel that every time they look to White House for clarity, they hear something different," and you probably heard last week that Al Franken behind closed doors ripped into Axelrod for this very thing. (paraphrased) "You're not giving us any guidance!You guys are letting us sink or swim up here. What's the president's plan?"
So the president comes out and taunts them yesterday with this meeting with the Republicans. "Yeah, I'm interested in your ideas. I'm interested in your ideas." Well, he's not, but imagine. So to rub a little salt in the wounds, Obama then condescends by explaining how democracy works. And that's where he said, "I want to come back after the congressional recess, have a large meeting, Republicans, Democrats, go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there." You don't have to have a meeting. This is what statists do: They have meetings. They have meetings on jobs. They have meetings on shovel-ready jobs. They have meetings on everything but they don't do anything. They just have meetings, and then they bring TV cameras. The meeting is supposed to suffice for doing something. It's Community Agitator 101. You never solve anything; you don't solve any thing. They have no solutions. Community agitators are not leaders. Leaders have solutions.
Obama's not that. He's just agitating. You don't need to do a meeting. You could do a quick Internet search and get specifics on everybody's ideas on health care. He's got all the research people he wants in the White House. Send 'em out to Google. To pretend the Republicans have been hiding their plans on health care in Al Capone's vault? Geraldo opened it up and it was empty. To assume the Republicans are hiding their ideas in Al Capone's vault? I mean, that's weak, folks. Obama continues to encourage Democrats to commit political suicide. That is what he's doing here. I think the Republicans just need to stand out of the way. It's the old, "When your opponent's committing suicide get the hell out of there." You can't help it along; get out of there. You're not even going to score points if you go up there and say, "Mr. President, your plan is not gonna work. We want to do this," because it's not going to go that way.
You do that and he's just going to get sound bite after sound bite about how you're "obstructing," and right now it is the Democrats who are saying "no," and you gotta let that remain the fact. You don't want to get in a sound bite with you in room with him saying that you're saying "no." Anyway, let's see. The Morning Bell from the Heritage Foundation has a good take on this. "Right before the [Stupor] Bowl, President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform with CBS News' Katie Couric" we played the the bite: "'I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.' According to aides, the President envisions a half-day meeting on February 25th held in Blair House ... televised by C-SPAN.
"President Obama's conciliatory rhetoric aside, everyone knows this publicity stunt has nothing to do with actually considering conservative health care reform ideas and everything to do with the appearance of transparency and bipartisanship. The New York Times reports: 'In making the gesture on Sunday, Mr. Obama is in effect calling the hand of Republicans who had chastised him for not honoring a campaign pledge to hold health care deliberations in the open,'" blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. New York Times today. Oh, so Obama is brilliantly chastising Republicans! The reality is Democrats have no intention of including conservative ideas this late in the game or at any time in the game. They're not going to do it. The White House continues to operate on the assumption that the American people would support the plan; it's just that Obama hasn't explained it well enough. The American people have a great idea what's in this plan from across the political spectrum, and they don't want it!
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RUSH: Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Dean, you're up first. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?
RUSH: Excellent to outstanding. Thank you.
CALLER: Fantastic. Hey, you already alluded to the point I wanted to make but of course that's why you're the host. I think the Republicans ought to push the concept of bipartisanship because if you think about it, in the House, what do we have, one Republican who voted in favor of health care but a number of Democrats who voted against. And on the Senate side, you had no Republicans voting in favor of health care, and you had a couple Democrats who wouldn't if they weren't, you know, bought out by the kind of politics that most Americans despise.
RUSH: Well, I know what you're saying, but I still think it's risky to use the term because bipartisanship in the popular lexicon means working with Democrats. To use the term, "Hey, we're being bipartisan," you have to then explain, yeah, Republicans, Democrats, independents, all oppose. Bipartisan is a code word that the media and the Democrats use, and just don't even mention it. I wouldn't even go there. I wouldn't even talk about the desire to be bipartisan, because people are going to misunderstand. Republicans are going to think that their own guys are caving. Some Republican guy says, "We're willing to take a bipartisan approach with the president," and then start explaining, "Well, bipartisanship in this case is Democrats, Republicans, both oppose the bill." Too much detail. It's a trick word, it is a word, I've 'splained it, it's a trick word, the media always throws it out.
Here's what Republicans ought to do. When the press comes up to them and says, "Well, why are you so opposed to meeting with Obama and talking about his plan," Republicans need to say, "Would you tell me what page of Obama's plan I can find his answer to people keeping their own health insurance?" Well, blah, blah. My point to you, Mr. Reporter, is that he doesn't have a plan. He's got these debating plans between the House and Senate, both of which are dead. Well, the House plan's not. But the Senate plan is. There's no upside to this, zilch, zero, nada.
Randy, Pittsburgh, you're next, EIB Network, hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, our Steelers will be back next year, but let's talk about the Obama thing first.
RUSH: Go right ahead.
CALLER: What was CBS even doing showing him? I'm sitting there eating my pizza getting ready for the game and here he comes, he gets this national platform -- wait a minute, I thought he was on track to talk about jobs in 2010 -- boom, national platform to go right back to health care with the brilliant mind Katie Couric, editor-in-chief of CBS News.
RUSH: Well, look, this is not unusual. I mean Bush was interviewed in the pregame show of Super Bowls. It's not unique to Obama. And actually, although I understand your outrage and your hilarious regard for the brilliant mind of Katie Couric, editor-in-chief, CBS News, ahem, I'm actually thinking, the more the guy's on TV in events like that the better because people don't want to see him here. They don't want to see it. People in my house got up and left. They didn't want to see it, and especially him, he's worn out his welcome many, many, many, many moons ago. So in this case I don't think any damage was done. I mean he's out there trying to sell jobs, jobs my number one focus. I thought that's what it was last year. Oh, no, it's health care, but he says both, depends on who he's talking to.
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RUSH: Diane in Las Vegas, great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I'm calling about health care. No matter what the Democrats say to the Republicans or anything that they try to put in there, it would only be a lie. They would sneak things in that none of us want. I believe we should wait until all of them are voted out. We get people in there who care about America and believe in the Constitution and then we can listen to them about health care.
RUSH: Absolutely right. Absolutely right. The Republicans ought not get suckered by this and go anywhere near it.
CALLER: Say "no!"
RUSH: Say "hell, no!"
CALLER: Hell, no! And we love you in Las Vegas, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, Diane. I have a lot of fun when I go out there, too. I love the place, despite what the president says.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: And he's coming here.
RUSH: Yeah, I know.
CALLER: What a nerve!
RUSH: It's okay for him to go there to blow his kids' college education.
CALLER: Well, our mayor is going to take care of him.
RUSH: Uh, yeah, Oscar Goodman. You gotta love Oscar Goodman.
CALLER: Oh, we do.
RUSH: Good. I do, too.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, Diane. That's Diane in Las Vegas.
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CALLER: Can you hear me, Rush?
RUSH: Sure. I hear you fine.
CALLER: I'm calling by cell phone. I'm a Democrat, I'm nervous, and I hope I don't go too fast.
RUSH: Okay. You're not going fast. Actually, your cell phone is the best one I've ever heard.
CALLER: All right. I am disagreeing with something you said. I'm fed up with Obama and the way he's running this country. That's why I'm a Democrat and telling you right off the bat. I think the Republicans today should come out and say, "If you, Mr. Obama, would come to the table right now with whatever you need to talk about and say, 'I have heard you speak in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. I was wrong. I should not have pursued -- with the economic initiatives we had -- this health plan. I'm going to take your advice and listen to what you said. I am publicly going to admit I was not transparent in my promises. I will, in the future, do that. I am publicly announcing we are restarting the whole health plan all over again, and we will have everything up to date, and we are scrapping it and it will not be published. It will not be produced this year,' and start from there and then meet on those conditions," and I think the Republicans should accept it.
RUSH: Well, that is a huge theoretical hypothetical, and it will never happen.
CALLER: I think that's putting him on the spot because he's putting Republicans on the spot saying, "You want transparency so I'm going to give it to you now." He has to admit he didn't give it to you for years and he lied through his campaign.
RUSH: Why are you suggesting this as a Democrat? Because you want the Republicans to come out and say, "Okay, Mr. President, if you will admit you were wrong, if you admit you overreached, if you admit this plan has no chance, if you really want to talk to us, fine." Why, as a Democrat, are you suggesting that they do this?
CALLER: I told you I'm fed up with the way he's leading this country. I'm fed up with all the Chris Madam -- sorry -- Chris Mathison or Chris Mathison or whatever is on Hardball and the ex-announcer in sports that can't carry his own weight in sports and doesn't know what he's talking about. They're rallying people and talking to people and giving out falsehoods, and they make fun of somebody like Sarah Palin, who is the first unique person coming along in the patch. She can put anything she wants in her hands. She doesn't speak like he does, and he fumbles and says "corpse-man" three times, and you don't hear that anywhere at all. You don't hear that except from you and Sean and some of the other ones. I disagreed with you many, many years in the past, Rush. I've disagreed with Sean many, many years in the past, but I cannot take what they said you guys are doing with Bush, I cannot take what they're doing with (garbled). What you or anybody else was doing with Bush wasn't harming us during Bush -- I mean, backing him that much -- as what Obama's doing to our country, and it's bad.
RUSH: It is bad. It is bad. Are you alone in this view or do you know some other Democrats who share your perspective?
CALLER: I know very many people like that. I think, if you look at the polls, I think I'm not alone, Rush.
RUSH: I know. I was going to say, the polling data will tend to bear you out.
CALLER: You know, I got fed up when they got you off football. You know more than Keith Olbermann does, and what a fraud that idiot is.
RUSH: (laughs)
CALLER: I'm sorry about using certain words I shouldn't use.
RUSH: Well, that's... (laughing) Well, that's all right. You made enough great points here that you need not apologize for anything.
CALLER: I said I admire you, Rush, for what you went through. I'm glad your health is good. I'm a very, very overweight person. I lost a lot of weight, but I'm glad you went through your weight loss, and thank God you're okay after that heart problem.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I wish you nothing but the best in this world.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I really, really appreciate this.
CALLER: Keep up the good work, Rush.
RUSH: You bet. That's an interesting idea. The Republicans come out and say, "Mr. Obama, if you'll renounce yourself -- basically say your plan was horrible -- that you've learned the American people want no part of it..." It's never going to happen. The Republicans might do it, but Obama is never going to. His ego will not permit it. (interruption) Yeah, they asked him to start from scratch. They asked him to start from scratch and he won't hear of it. (interruption) Oh, that's right, it is! It's in the New York Times today. They want to start from scratch on health care and he wouldn't do it, he will not do it. This is a sucker play. It is designed to get those Republicans up there and make it look like they're the reason you can't get his precious health care done. They ought to get nowhere near it. I'm going to say it again: You Republicans, don't be afraid of being the party of "no." In fact, go out there and proudly become the party of "Hell, No." Eighty percent of independents don't like anything going on in the government. You can't lose by becoming the party of "Hell, No." It's how you win. Forget bipartisan. It doesn't work. It's a sucker ploy. It has no possible benefit to you. I think they have heard the message out there. I really do.
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RUSH: Greg in Durham, North Carolina, great to have you, sir, on the program. Nice to have you here.
CALLER: Nice to talk to you again, Brother Limbaugh.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, dittos, and it's a great time to be an American. We weren't here for the founding, but we are here to right the ship of state.
RUSH: That's true.
CALLER: I think that our Republican leaders, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell should borrow a Ronald Reagan approach on this offer to meet and raise the stakes. They should today say, "Mr. President, you spent a year trying to defend the indefensible while the country is hurting, jobless rates show no sign of decreasing. We'll meet with you to discuss getting the country back on the right track economically, but until that happens and until you scrap this divisive health care takeover, there can be no bipartisanship. So in the great words of Ronald Reagan, as he reached out to Mikhail Gorbachev, if you're really serious, Mr. President, tear down this bill.
RUSH: I like it. If you're really serious, throw away this bill. Which he's already said he won't do. But I like that idea, too. This audience has thinkers. That idea is really good. We'll meet with you, but let's get people back to work first, Mr. President, let's talk about that, then we can dump your health care bill and get started on that. I know the Republicans are going to be very reluctant to do any of that because they know the media -- they're scared to death of the media, the media's going to call a party of "no" at which point they respond, yep, a party of "Hell, No." They've got all the ammo they need. Eighty percent of Americans disapprove of a liberal Democrat Congress, what more evidence do you need that it's okay now, go after them. It doesn't say Obama. You don't have to go after Obama. They're afraid of going after Obama because of race. You go after the Democrats in Congress. Go after Pelosi and Reid. They're white. They can take it, and they don't speak with a black dialect except if they want to.
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PALIN: I caution against allowing this movement to be defined by any one leader or politician. The tea party movement is not a top-down operation. It's a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they're doing business, and that's beautiful.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
PALIN: This is about the people. This is about the people, and it's bigger than any king or queen of a tea party, and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
RUSH: By the way, have you noticed she's put the godlike echo in her speech just as Obama does? Here's the next bite.
PALIN: A member of our administration promised that it would be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. Remember? Remember Vice President Biden? He was put in charge of a tough, unprecedented oversight effort. That's how it was introduced.
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
PALIN: You know why? (doing Obama impression) "Because nobody messes with Joe."
AUDIENCE: (laughter)
PALIN: Now, this was all part of that "hope and change" and "transparency" and now a year later I gotta ask those supporters of all that: How is that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?
AUDIENCE: (wild applause)
RUSH: Yeah, she's happy. She's happy. It just drives 'em nuts. She just drives 'em nuts, and like all of us she just turns it all right back on them. She makes fun of them. You're not supposed to do that. Their mission is too important! Their mission is too sacred. You can't make fun of them. No way! And here's the next. Let's see da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, a couple more here.
PALIN: We have a vision for the future of our country, too, and it is a vision anchored in time-tested truths, that the government that governs least governs best -- and that the Constitution provides the best road map towards a more perfect union.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
PALIN: And that only limited government can expand prosperity and opportunity for all. And that freedom is a God-given right, and it is worth fighting for!
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
PALIN: Gold bless you.
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
PALIN: These are enduring truths, and these enduring truths have been passed down from Washington to Lincoln to Reagan, and now to you.
RUSH: This will get us into the coming Reagan bites. She knows, like Reagan, that simplicity and optimism is really all that's needed for America to turn around.
PALIN: Let us not get bogged down in the small squabbles.
RUSH: Right!
PALIN: Let us get caught up in the big ideas.
RUSH: Exactly!
PALIN: To do so would be a fitting tribute to Ronald Reagan.
RUSH: Amen.
PALIN: He knew the best of our country is not all gathered in Washington, DC. It is here in our communities, where families live and children learn -- and children with special needs are welcomed in this world and embraced.
AUDIENCE: (applause)
PALIN: The best of America can be fount in places where patriots are brave enough and free enough to be able to stand up and speak up and where small businesses grow our economy one job at a time -- and, folks, like Reagan, we know that America is still that "shining city on a hill." Tea party nation, we know that there is nothing wrong with America, that together we can't fix as Americans.
RUSH: Right on, right on, right on! Now that's takes us to Reagan. Now, these are fascinating bites. We're going to go back to a debate between Ronaldus Magnus and George H. W. Bush April 24th, 1980.
REAGAN: Four times in this century we have had across-the-board tax cuts, all of which have resulted in such an increase in prosperity that the government -- even in the first year -- got increased revenues, not less. The idea of a 10% cut across the board of the income tax, administered over a three-year period to a total of 30%, I believe will stimulate the economy be with will create jobs, but it will not reduce federal incomes. It will only reduce the increase in taxes. History has proven in all those other tax cuts, I believe, that will stimulate the economy, more people will be working and it will be contrary to the Carter policy now of fighting inflation by adding millions to the unemployment rolls.
RUSH: And here's George H.W. Bush, Bush 41 replying.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH: The difference we have is that it is my understanding the Kennedy tax cut implemented by Lyndon Johnson resulted in a $4.4 billion deficit and inflation then was 1.8, not 18%. Investor confidence was high, not low, and it is my perception that that tax cut applied today in the same percentages, the same numbers, would result in a[n] inflation rate of about 30 to 32%. If we risk, with investor confidence, where it is a deficit that's going to be up already -- I think, 37 billion; 30 billion on top of that -- I'm afraid we can't break inflation and we gotta do that and do it fast.
RUSH: Of course just the exact opposite happened. What was amazing... For those of you that weren't alive or weren't paying attention, the amazing thing was that inflation came down while the economy was growing as a result of huge across-the-board tax cuts. All these economists were stunned. Bush was not alone in projecting that inflation would go sky-high. It came down. It took 'til the second term for it to start, but it did come down. The exact opposite happened. Here's the final bite of this.
REAGAN: Well, George, we've gotta do that, and of course it goes without saying -- and I certainly believe in reducing the cost of government far more than the phony decrease that Mr. Carter has proposed. Let me just say one other thing. I've heard for a great many years that we can't possibly reduce taxes.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH: I agree.
REAGAN: This is Washington's cry: We can't reduce taxes until we reduce government spending, and I have to point out that government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always needs the money it gets. Now, your son can be extravagant with his allowance and you can lecture him day after day about saving money and not being extravagant, or you can solve the problem by cutting his allowance.
RUSH: That's Ronald Reagan responding to George H.W. Bush. That's April 24th, 1980. "Government does not tax to get the money it needs. It always needs the money it gets," meaning whatever amount they get they're going to spend no matter what you do. So this is just another reminder of what needs to happen here. We find ourselves with Jimmy Carter. His second term is unfolding right before our very eyes, although much worse. Carter was a bumbling idiot. This guy knows exactly what he's doing.
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SHRUM: The difference with Ronald Reagan was that he always had an alternative vision of where America should go and what we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise, masterful in paranoid politics. I mean she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an "oh, gosh" smile.
RUSH: A merchant of hate, which is one of the many left-wing cliches about conservatism. Reagan, don't forget, they said at the time was a merchant of hate. Reagan was responsible for AIDS, he was responsible for homelessness, he was a racist. This is a cliched response. These people have been knocked back on their rear ends, folks. That election in Massachusetts coupled with the other two has discombobulated them. I said at the top of the program these people are never happy. I've made this observation over many, many years of casual observance. She comes across as happy all the time, and I think that bugs 'em as much as anything -- as best as anybody can figure that out but I think that's part of it.
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They already figured this out and gave Obama a set of conditions: drop the two existing bills, take budget reconcilation off the table and invite democrats that oppose the bills too.
I was surprised that Republicans were smart enough now to fall for this like that last retreat meeting (so many freepers claimed Republicans won that day, but republicans knew they got the worst coverage.)
Good thing though, I had plenty of time to set up my Sarah altar and do some chants.........
:-)
Chant away! :-)
CORRECTION:”I was surprised that Republicans were smart enough NOT to fall for this like.. “
I'm betting on the latter..........
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