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RUSH: We have some more differences for you here between President Obama and God. God asks for only 10% of your money. God gives you freedom to live your life as you choose. God's plan to save us is actually written down for people to read.
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RUSH: We have some more differences for you here between President Obama and God. God asks for only 10% of your money. God gives you freedom to live your life as you choose. God's plan to save us is actually written down for people to read.
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| • NewsBusters: Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God' • Commentary Magazine: Obama, a "Sort of God"? - Peter Wehner |
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RUSH: Reverend Wright is back. Yes, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back. The Hampton Roads Daily Press has a little blurb today. "The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama. … Wright also said that he had not spoken to his former church member since Obama became president. … 'Regret for what... that the media went back five, seven, 10 years and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons to hear what I've been preaching for 20 years? Regret for preaching like I've been preaching for 50 years? Absolutely none,' Wright said. … Asked if he had spoken to the President, Wright said: 'Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ... They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do.'"
So the Reverend Jeremiah Wright told the Hampton Roads Daily Press that "them Jews" are not going to let Obama talk to him, Reverend Wright.
Now, "them Jews" in Israel are a little upset today. You know, Israel is in the Middle East, and the Middle East has the -- remember when some malcontent Iraqi threw a shoe at President Bush? The sole of a shoe, showing the sole of a shoe is a primary insult in the Middle East, in Arabic countries, in Islamic countries, and in fact, to illustrate this, do you remember back in the first Gulf War during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, do you remember how he kept calling Saddam Hussein "Saddam"? We kept saying, "What the hell? He's president of the United States, doesn't he know how to say Saddam?" Saddam in Iraq is a shoe shiner or some such thing, it has to do with the shoe. It was an insult to say Saddam
Hussein's name that way. The shoe and the sole of the shoe is a big insult. And there's a picture, the White House released a picture taken by the White House photographer of Obama on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the prime minister of Israel, with his feet up on the Oval Office desk, the focal point of the picture is Obama's shoes, the sole of his shoes. And "them Jews" in Israel think that this is a subtle insult from Obama to Netanyahu and Israel.
I'm not going to sit here and say, "Come on, 'you Jews' are being too insensitive about this." I think this guy's got a huge problem with Israel, I think he's got a huge problem with Judaism, and Reverend Wright, I mean this is the guy who Obama listened to for 20 years -- "them Jews." "Them Jews" won't let Obama speak to him, Reverend Wright.
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| • Hampton Roads Daily Press: Rev. Wright Says He Doesn't Regret Severed Relationship With President • ABC: Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11 |
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RUSH: Did you hear about David Letterman and Sarah Palin? She went to the Yankee game the other night. During the seventh inning, A-Rod knocked up her daughter. That's what Letterman said on TV. "She went to the Yankee game the other night. During the seventh inning stretch, A-Rod knocked up her daughter." Could you believe David Letterman would insult A-Rod that way? This stuff is just going beyond the pale. I mean, A-Rod is playing a game. He doesn't have time to knock up anybody's daughter. That's for after the game. If you're going to talk about A-Rod knocking up somebody's daughter, say it happened after the game, not in the seventh inning stretch. There's no truth to that.
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RUSH: You've gotta hear this. This happened an hour ago, sometime between 11:30 and noon Eastern Time. John Ziegler was on MSNBC with Contessa Brewer. This is just fabulous. It runs about four minutes we've cut it up into four sound bites here's the first.
ZIEGLER: Thanks for having me. Always interesting to go out with the people with Barack Obama's official network.
BREWER: N'yeah, I know. You're very critical of the way that journalists in general have dealt with Governor Palin. I want to ask you today about your interview with Sarah Palin. So --
ZIEGLER: Gee, I wonder why.
BREWER: So let me begin with -- Do you want to do the interview? Do you want to talk about this?
ZIEGLER: Yeah --
BREWER: Okay.
ZIEGLER: -- I'd be thrilled to. Yeah, let's go for it.
BREWER: Let me ask you what Sarah Palin's problem with Letterman was. What was it about the top ten list that hurt her feelings?
ZIEGLER: Well, I don't know if her feelings were hurt. You'd have to ask her. She called David Letterman "pathetic," which I think was an understatement because not only did he call her "slutty," you left out the part where he also joked about her teenaged daughter being "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she was at the game. By the way, I also happened to ask her about Keith Olbermann blatantly lying about her allegedly plagiarizing a speech, which she didn't do. I doubt that that will come up on this particular network.
RUSH: Once again Letterman making fun of A-Rod in this way "knocking up" Sarah Palin's daughter during the game. That just wouldn't happen. It might happen afterwards, but not during the game. Here's how the rest of this went.
BREWER: It -- well, it's certainly not going to come up other than your mention in this particular interview because I want to ask you about David Letterman --
ZIEGLER: Gee.
BREWER: -- and Sarah Palin. But -- But again, if you'd like to talk about that, I'm -- I'm willing to go forward with the conversation. Yes?
ZIEGLER: I'll talk about whatever you want.
BREWER: Okay. Perfect.
ZIEGLER: Hit me with your best shot.
BREWER: Good. So, in this case, it's comedy. To talk about her real itinerary in New York is kind of serious, not really funny. Why did she take such offense? She called him "pathetic," so she obviously took offense. Why was she so offended by David Letterman?
ZIEGLER: Well, Contessa, uh, since you're a female, you might be a better expert on whether or not it's appropriate to call a public figure "slutty" for no apparent reason -- and to joke about her daughter being knocked up in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she's at the game.
BREWER: Yeah, you know what? It's actually happened --
ZIEGLER: How would you feel about that, Contessa?
BREWER: John, that's actually happened to me, and I'm fine. I'm still here. I'm, uh, uh --
ZIEGLER: Really? David Letterman joked about you being slutty --
BREWER: No, not David Letterman.
ZIEGLER: -- and about your daughter being knocked up?
BREWER: Not David Letterman, but it's happened to me publicly. Okay, we'll -- we'll change topics.
ZIEGLER: Okay.
RUSH: This is John Ziegler with Contessa Brewer, who was hopelessly outmatched on MSNBC less than an hour ago.
ZIEGLER: Let me get this straight. You find this surprising or shocking that because you and the media portray Republicans as old white men, that the public perceives Republicans as old white men, and you destroy and in that blatant character assassination --
BREWER: John, in your interview -- in your interview --
ZIEGLER: -- Sarah Palin's character and the public thinks --
BREWER: In your interview --
ZIEGLER: -- that she's not worthy of that, at least in some terms.
BREWER: John?
ZIEGLER: Yes. Go ahead.
BREWER: In your interview with Sarah Palin, did you ask her any tough questions, or are you functioning now as her spokesman?
ZIEGLER: Yes, I did. This was a great interview. I urge anyone who's interested in the real Sarah Palin to go to HowObamaGotElected.com. You can listen to the whole 16 minutes. One of the questions I asked her was whether or not she felt dissed by John McCain when he went Jay Leno, also on NBC, back when he was the host of the Tonight Show --
BREWER: Wow.
ZIEGLER: -- and basically league dissed her.
BREWER: All right.
ZIEGLER: And surprise, surprise -- surprise, surprise -- she gave an incredibly classy answer, - showing far more class than clearly most people on this network have.
RUSH: This is John Ziegler talking to the clearly outmatched Contessa Brewer the anchor babe, infobabe on MSNBC. Here's the final sound bite where Contessa can no longer take it and demands that Ziegler's microphone be cut.
BREWER: I -- I don't really know what to do with that. You know what? I was... Honestly, I'm here to give you an opportunity. I consider myself a common-sense thinker.
ZIEGLER: Mmm-hmm.
BREWER: I -- I haven't attacked you.
ZIEGLER: Riiight.
BREWER: And for you to come on and use those sort of insults, insults me. Thank you so much for your time. I do appreciate that.
ZIEGLER: Okay. Well, you guys are certainly deserving of all --
BREWER: Much more news ahead on M --
ZIEGLER: Okay. Well, you guys are certainly deserving of all --
BREWER: Cut the mike! Please!
RUSH: (laughing) That was just less than an hour ago, John Ziegler on MSNBC slicing and dicing the infobabe Contessa Brewer. I don't know why they invited him. They had to know what they were getting. At any rate, that was just an hour ago.
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RUSH: This is from the Late Show with David Letterman on Monday night, a montage of his remarks about Sarah Palin, and you'll also hear Paul Shaffer in here.
LETTERMAN: You know who was in town this weekend, went to a Yankee game? Sarah Palin --
SHAFFER: Right.
LETTERMAN: -- governor of Alaska.
SHAFFER: Right.
LETTERMAN: Do you remember Sarah Palin?
SHAFFER: Yes. (applause)
LETTERMAN: I always thought she was very appealing. Did you think she was very appealing?
SHAFFER: Yes.
LETTERMAN: I thought she was attractive, an attractive woman. I think she would have been the most attractive vice president we've ever had, probably, don't you? (laughter) One awkward moment, though, during the seventh inning her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez. (laughter) Number two: Got makeup at Bloomingdale's to update her slutty flight attendant look.
RUSH: We'll take a brief time-out and be back after this.
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RUSH: Late this morning, on MSNBC, former KFI radio talk show host John Ziegler, who's now got a website featuring movies and stuff, he's zeroing in on covering Sarah Palin. He appeared with the haplessly inept and overmatched infobabe Contessa Brewer on MSNBC this morning. He was invited to come on and talk about, among other things, David Letterman referring to Sarah Palin as a slutty flight attendant in her wardrobe, and then Letterman had the audacity in New York to say that when Palin went to the baseball game at Yankee Stadium the other night with Giuliani, in the middle of the game Alex Rodriguez knocked up Palin's daughter. I mean, you start insulting A-Rod in New York that way... (interruption) A-Rod can't knock up anybody during the game, Dawn, it has to happen after the game, there's not enough time there in the seventh inning stretch for that to happen. Anyway, Ziegler was on with Contessa Brewer, and here is how it went.
ZIEGLER: Thanks for having me. Always interesting to go out with the people with Barack Obama's official network.
BREWER: N'yeah, I know. You're very critical of the way that journalists in general have dealt with Governor Palin. I want to ask you today about your interview with Sarah Palin. So --
ZIEGLER: Gee, I wonder why.
BREWER: So let me begin with -- Do you want to do the interview? Do you want to talk about this?
ZIEGLER: Yeah --
BREWER: Okay.
ZIEGLER: -- I'd be thrilled to. Yeah, let's go for it.
BREWER: Let me ask you what Sarah Palin's problem with Letterman was. What was it about the top ten list that hurt her feelings?
ZIEGLER: Well, I don't know if her feelings were hurt. You'd have to ask her. She called David Letterman "pathetic," which I think was an understatement because not only did he call her "slutty," you left out the part where he also joked about her teenaged daughter being "knocked up" by Alex Rodriguez in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she was at the game. By the way, I also happened to ask her about Keith Olbermann blatantly lying about her allegedly plagiarizing a speech, which she didn't do. I doubt that that will come up on this particular network.
RUSH: Well, this did not sit well with the haplessly overmatched Contessa Brewer who was offended that anybody would dare discuss her network the way Ziegler is.
BREWER: It -- well, it's certainly not going to come up other than your mention in this particular interview because I want to ask you about David Letterman --
ZIEGLER: Gee.
BREWER: -- and Sarah Palin. But again, if you'd like to talk about that, I'm -- I'm willing to go forward with the conversation. Yes?
ZIEGLER: I'll talk about whatever you want.
BREWER: Okay. Perfect.
ZIEGLER: Hit me with your best shot.
BREWER: Good. So, in this case, it's comedy. To talk about her real itinerary in New York is kind of serious, not really funny. Why did she take such offense? She called him "pathetic," so she obviously took offense. Why was she so offended by David Letterman?
ZIEGLER: Well, Contessa, uh, since you're a female, you might be a better expert on whether or not it's appropriate to call a public figure "slutty" for no apparent reason -- and to joke about her daughter being knocked up in the middle of Yankee Stadium while she's at the game.
BREWER: Yeah, you know what? It's actually happened --
ZIEGLER: How would you feel about that, Contessa?
BREWER: John, that's actually happened to me, and I'm fine. I'm still here. I'm, uh, uh --
ZIEGLER: Really? David Letterman joked about you being slutty --
BREWER: No, not David Letterman.
ZIEGLER: -- and about your daughter being knocked up?
BREWER: Not David Letterman, but it's happened to me publicly. Okay, we'll -- we'll change topics.
RUSH: We'll change topics, don't want to talk about Contessa Brewer being called slutty by David Letterman and being knocked up by Alex Rodriguez during a commercial break. It then continued.
ZIEGLER: Let me get this straight. You find this surprising or shocking that because you in the media portray Republicans as old white men, that the public perceives Republicans as old white men, and you destroy and in that blatant character assassination --
BREWER: John, in your interview -- in your interview --
ZIEGLER: -- Sarah Palin's character and the public thinks --
BREWER: In your interview --
ZIEGLER: -- that she's not worthy of that, at least in some terms.
BREWER: John?
ZIEGLER: Yes. Go ahead.
BREWER: In your interview with Sarah Palin, did you ask her any tough questions, or are you functioning now as her spokesman?
ZIEGLER: Yes, I did. This was a great interview. I urge anyone who's interested in the real Sarah Palin to go to HowObamaGotElected.com. You can listen to the whole 16 minutes. One of the questions I asked her was whether or not she felt dissed by John McCain when he went Jay Leno, also on NBC, back when he was the host of the Tonight Show --
BREWER: Wow.
ZIEGLER: -- and basically league dissed her.
BREWER: All right.
ZIEGLER: And surprise, surprise -- surprise, surprise -- she gave an incredibly classy answer, - showing far more class than clearly most people on this network have.
RUSH: And finally that was the last -- Contessa could not take any more, and in this last sound bite you will hear her demand that Ziegler's microphone be cut off.
BREWER: I -- I don't really know what to do with that. You know what? I was... Honestly, I'm here to give you an opportunity. I consider myself a common-sense thinker.
ZIEGLER: Mmm-hmm.
BREWER: I -- I haven't attacked you.
ZIEGLER: Riiight.
BREWER: And for you to come on and use those sort of insults, insults me. Thank you so much for your time. I do appreciate that.
ZIEGLER: Okay. Well, you guys are certainly deserving of all --
BREWER: Much more news ahead on M --
ZIEGLER: Okay. Well, you guys are certainly deserving of all --
BREWER: Cut the mike! Please!
RUSH: Now, here's a woman who just got through saying it's no big deal, she's a public figure, call her a slut, call her slutty, talk about her daughter being knocked up by Alex Rodriguez, no big deal, she's a public figure and she ends up saying, "I don't appreciate these insults, I don't appreciate these insults, these insults of me, I don't appreciate these insults." Glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. They all are.
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RUSH: Hey, folks, did you hear this? The other night, during the first feed of the Chris Matthews Show, during a commercial break, he knocked up Contessa Brewer? Did you hear about that? The slutty Contessa Brewer, Chris Matthews knocked her up. That's exactly right. He did it in a commercial break during Hardball. He coulda done it during the program and nobody would have seen it but they still thought, to be safe about it, to do it during the commercial break.
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| • NewsBusters: Brewer Spars With Ziegler About Palin, Shuts Off His Mike • NewsMax: Palin Calls Letterman Attack 'Pathetic' |
RUSH ARCHIVE: He doesn't know anything about the automobile business. He doesn't know how to change a tire. The automobile business needs car guys, people that love grease, get in there, manufacture these engines and cars, great designs, lines, make people want to go out and buy these cars. Car companies have to be run by financial people today because they're basically health care and retirement funds.
RUSH: Okay, that's me March 30th talking about the future of General Motors, Obama Motors, and Chrysler, and how nobody that Obama's put on his task force has the slightest idea or understanding
about the car business. So today they have named a CEO of General Motors, Edward Whitacre Jr. He built AT&T into the biggest US provider of telephone services over a 43 year career. Edward Whitacre Jr. the new chairman of General Motors and he said this.
WHITACRE: I don't know anything about cars. I do know about business and I know about big business. And, you know, employees and all that sort of thing.
RUSH: San Antonio, Texas on our affiliate there, WOAI-TV, Barack Obama has chosen somebody who said again -- listen, recue that. Edward Whitacre talking about the automobile business. He's the new CEO of GM.
WHITACRE: I don't know anything about cars. I do know about business and I know about big business. And, you know, employees and all that sort of thing.
RUSH: I don't know anything about cars. That's the new CEO of General Motors, predicted by me, El Rushbo, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
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| • Bloomberg: Whitacre Vows to 'Learn About Cars' as Chairman of New GM Board • Wall Street Journal: GM Needs a Political Strategy |
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RUSH: Ty in Woodbridge, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Mega dittos, Maha Rushie.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I was just calling to sound the alarm on the election in Virginia for governor being just like the election for Obama for president.
RUSH: Well, how?
CALLER: Well, in Virginia, they're trying to raise our taxes as much as they can, as quickly as they can. We're one of the only viable states left in the country, and they're gonna come in and raise our taxes just as much as they're trying to do to everybody else in the nation. I went to a
RUSH: Wait a minute. Obama promised to only raise taxes on the rich. You say they're rerunning the Obama campaign. You mean you've got a governor who's gonna redo Obama's policies?
CALLER: No, they're phone continue to do Obama's policies. We had Obama One with Warner. We had Obama Two with Kaine, and now Obama Three -- now that Obama is in office -- is what we'll have with the next Democrat. They've incrementally raised our taxes. Warner was like the first, the highest tax increaser in tax history. Kaine tried to get it passed, but the recession and all the economy hitting the tanks luckily hit first before he had a chance to do that.
RUSH: I have a sound bite here. James Carville on CNN this morning said that this Virginia governor's race is "the Democrat versus Rush Limbaugh." James Carville said that. I'll play the sound bite for you when we come back.
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RUSH: This is on CNN this morning, John Roberts, the cohost, was speaking with James Carville about the Virginia govern's race. And John Roberts said, "What happened to Terry McAuliffe?" He got blown out, by the way, in the primary. The Punk lost. "[A]nd the fact that Creigh Deeds lost to Robert McDonnell back in 2005 and they were battling each other for AG, attorney general, what does that say about the Democrats' potential to hang onto the commonwealth come the governor's election?"
CARVILLE: It's a classic matchup, uhhh, because Deeds a kind of a Virginia Democrat and McDonnell is a Pat Robertson-Rush Limbaugh Republican, and it's gonna be -- we're gonna see what happens when this thing comes down the stretch.
RUSH: Yeah, so Deeds is a Virginia Democrat versus me, according to James Carville. This is actually the Republicans versus James Carville in Virginia if you want to know the truth about that race.
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RUSH: Ted in Virginia Beach, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hi.
RUSH: How you doing, sir?
CALLER: Good. Nice to speak with you, Rush. I really think that it's going to be a referendum here in Virginia. I'm from Virginia. And I believe that Bob McDonnell is going to wipe Creigh Deeds, he's going to win by double digits.
RUSH: Meaning that there's going to be a referendum on Obamaism and that the Democrats are going to lose big?
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Based on what? Are you just hoping?
CALLER: Well, yeah. But no, really, as I've been watching the news and, you know, Bob McDonnell beat Creigh Deeds in the last attorney general race by a slight margin, but the way things are going, you know, and with taxes being raised and with the other guy that was from Virginia talking about --
RUSH: Yeah, but, you know, the whole problem, Virginia is the northern part of the state, everybody works for government, everybody works for Washington, everybody is an Obamaite, everybody is a Democrat. Virginia is on the cusp here, well maybe past the cusp. For what you say to happen, the turnout outside of northern Virginia is going to have to be close to record, and you're going to have to have some defections in northern Virginia, people that don't like what's happening with the federal level and don't want to see it replicated in Virginia. It will be interesting to see, but it's going to depend on how that campaign is run. It's going to depend on how the Republican runs the campaign. And we won't know 'til it actually starts.
CALLER: Well, at least Terry McAuliffe didn't win, so that was good news.
RUSH: Yeah, I know, I took about a second's pleasure out of that but then I said to myself, "I have not gotten so low that The Punk losing an election makes me happy." If I get to the point where The Punk losing an election while the country is being destroyed makes me happy then you can take me away. Go get Ted from Miami to come in here and host the program and I'll get out of your way. You know, the thing about truth, people who don't like the truth, like Ted and that other guy that you found, Snerdley, people who don't like the truth consider the truth to be hate. They consider the truth to be hate speech, people who don't like the truth, people who are enmeshed in political correctness and don't like the truth. When you utter the truth, that's when they hate you. They consider the truth to be hate. And, of course, I love tweaking these people.
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| • Washington Post: Can Virginia Be Obamacized Again? • Los Angeles Times: Creigh Deeds trounces Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's Gubernatorial Primary |
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RUSH: Timmy Geithner, the tax cheat, held a press conference to talk about the Obama administration's plans to "rework" executive compensation rules. Geithner tried to pull an Obama. He tried to do doublespeak, like Obama does. Let's listen together and see if Little Timmy was able to pull it off.
GEITHNER: Looking forward, we're going to support giving SEC legislative authority forrrr say-on-pay legislation. What we're not doing, we're not proposing ongoing government role in setting policy on compensation. We do not believe it's appropriate for the government to set caps on compensation. We are not going to be proscribe (sic) detailed, uh, proscriptive rules for compensation. We think all those things, uhhhhh, would be ineffective, could be counterproductive in some ways and we're going to try to find a right balance looking forward.
RUSH: This is just unbelievable. See, Obama can get away with this. Obama can get away with saying he's not going to do something while announcing that he's going to do it. Timmy can't do it. What they're trying to say is they're going to walk back on this notion that they're gonna cap executive compensation. "Yeah, we're not going to..." They're going to let Congress do it. Obama's walk... The Obama administration, "Oh, we're not going to do that," is what Little Timmy's trying to say here. So they're going to leave it to Congress to handle it on the bonus side but they're not walking back from anything here. To the extent that they're making the announcement, they want everybody to think they're walking back because they're panicking in the Obama White House, trust me. They are in trouble. They don't have universal love and support backing everything he's doing, despite... You won't know this because the government-controlled media does not report such things. Now, the next phase of this was, reporters wanted to ask questions. A reporter said, "How does this reconcile with the TARP guidelines on executive compensation, Mr. Secretary?"
GEITHNER: I'm not going to take any questions on that! But we're going to be laying out, uhhh, relatively soon the detailed regulations to apply to congressional conditions on, uh, compensation for companies that have capital investments from the government. Thank you all for coming.
RUSH: I'm not going to take any questions on that. Obama did the same thing the other day, "Come on, guys. I'm not talking about that." "Oh, okay! Sorry. We didn't mean to offend you." So let's go over to the authority on all of this in Congress -- executive pay, compensation and bonuses -- none other than Barney Frank. He was on MSNBC this afternoon. Andrea Mitchell and her show, and her question: "I know a lot of this legislation is legislation you proposed back in 2006 that in fact then-Senator Obama joined in the Senate. Why don't you tell us what you've done today and how it comports with what you're doing on the Hill."
FRANK: No one is setting pay caps. No one is -- at least that I'm aware of, is -- trying to put any limits on the actual amounts. We are saying that shareholders should have a major say. The problem has been that boards of directors and CEOs are each other's best friends. They've picked each other. Boards of directors have not proven to be a really independent check in this regard. So we've adopted what the British have had for a long time called say-on-pay. When you have the annual proxy vote -- that has to be sent it out to the shareholders anyway, no extra funding is required -- you give them a chance to say whether they approve or disapprove the total compensation packages.
RUSH: The Banking Queen, Barney Frank, has just told us how it's going to go down.
(playing of Banking Queen)
RUSH: Barney Frank with the vocal portrayal there. (snorts) Sheh! What a bump! What a bump to come out of there at that one, rinky-dink, Dave "Baby" Cortez, 1963, I believe.
Okay, folks, just to repeat now. It hasn't been posted yesterday, but it's soon coming. A congressman says that captured terrorists -- in fact, high-value detainees; high value detainees in Afghanistan, terrorist detainees -- are being read their Miranda rights on orders from the Obama administration. Now, I want you to stop for just a second here and imagine the ramifications of this. If this is true, if we're reading noncitizens Miranda rights and thereby granting them citizenship, then how can we deny citizenship to illegals working and living in the United States?
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RUSH: By the way, Barney Frank in that last sound bite we played said, (paraphrasing) "No, we're not gonna have pay caps, we're just going to have the shareholders, we're going to have a chance to do what they do in Great Britain, it's say-on-pay. Give them a chance to whether they approve or disapprove the total compensation package." Barney, the big difference is that shareholders don't pick the CEOs and the board of director doesn't choose the CEO, Obama is choosing CEOs! Now, this next bite, this is Barney Frank, CNBC this afternoon, and the guy questioning Barney Frank is Roben Farzad. He is from BusinessWeek magazine, and this is pretty good.
FARZAD: Do you look back at your career and ask yourself, why are we always so late to the game as regulators? Whether it's the S&L crisis, you clearly could have seen all this stuff in '05 and '06.
FRANK: Oh, I did see it in '05 and '06.
FARZAD: Why didn't you say anything else?
FRANK: I did, because the Republicans were in control --
FARZAD: No, you can't blame the Republicans.
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FRANK: I'll tell you what you can't do, you cannot ask me a question and interrupt me three words into the answer. The answer is I can blame the Republicans. In 2005, several congressman from North Carolina and myself proposed a bill to restrict subprime lending, and we were rejected by the Republican majority. In 2007, when I became the chairman and we became the majority, we regulated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and we passed a bill through the House to regulate subprime mortgages. Yes, I will show you things that I said about subprime mortgages and a bill we tried to pass in 2005 when the Republicans were in control and wouldn't allow it to happen.
RUSH: I think this is sorta just the opposite of what really happened. It was the Democrats who were making the regulators pound sand during committee hearings. The Bush administration tried numerous times to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who stood in the way, didn't want it to happen. Anyway, it's a good question, why do guys always get away with acting like innocent bystanders, why didn't you do something about it, you guys are always late to the fire. It's a great question, you could see old Barn didn't like it one bit.
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CALLER: Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: One of the things I wanted to point out, I've been an auto analyst for 25 years and one of the things that's been missed by the media --
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait just a second. What is an auto analyst? Like, where do you work, what's your job?
CALLER: I'm an analyst. I analyze the auto industry and recommend the stocks to institutional investors.
RUSH: I see. Okay.
CALLER: One of the things the media has missed on this whole automotive situation is the UAW claims that both Chrysler and GM that were given priority over the debt holders, that money is going to be used to fund longer term health care liabilities. If national health care is passed the UAW won't need the money, it becomes a windfall.
RUSH: You know, that's an excellent point and it does become a windfall. We're getting to the point with all of this, you know, in the United States when you go out and buy a bond, a T-bill or something, you always say "backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government," pretty soon those bonds are going to say "backed by the full faith and credit of the United Auto Workers," because that's how much of the government they're having handed to them by President Obama. That is an excellent point that you're making, that if we get nationalized health care, they're not gonna need their fund.
CALLER: They're not gonna need as much, that's for sure.
RUSH: For health care.
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: True windfall. Appreciate that, Mike. Excellent observation.
CALLER: Thanks for taking the call.
RUSH: And a breath of fresh air, compared to some of the ninnies on the left that Snerdley has leaked through here today.
Erie, Pennsylvania, Laura, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hi. Mega optimistic dittos, and thank you for taking the slings and arrows from the other side for all of us.
RUSH: Thank you, madam.
CALLER: Oh, you're just our hero. I listened to Governor Dean this morning and there were some new things on this government health care proposal that he supports Obama's plan. He said that definitely he believes that illegal alien children should be covered, but not the adults. He said that you will have an option to join the government plan or you can stay with your insurance that you have through your employer.
RUSH: That's not going to happen.
CALLER: Well, I was going --
RUSH: Once the public option -- see, this is a trick that they're all using to get people to go along with this. They're going to try to convince people that they're still going to be able to opt out of the government plan and have their own private -- and that won't happen. They're going to close 'em down. And once they get national health care, businesses are going to get rid of their health care plans. They want to. They want to off-load them. They're going to be happy for the government to take it over.
CALLER: Well, that's what I would think, but wouldn't that destroy the private insurance companies and more unemployment with all those people that are, you know, employed trying to provide good insurance for --
RUSH: It depends on how the insurance company voted. If the insurance company voted for Obama, then they'll probably get some sort of a participatory role in administering the whole government-run health care plan. If the insurance company has people that did not contribute or endorse Obama, vote for him, then they could be in trouble.
CALLER: Well, and he proposed a ten cents raise in the gas tax to pay for some of this. I don't know if you heard that.
RUSH: Oh, the ten cent tax on the gas tax; we're going to tax employer-provided benefits; we're going to raise tax on sugary drinks; we're going to raise taxes on everything! We're going to raise taxes on what you exhale. We're going to raise taxes on carbon dioxide in order to pay for all of this. Brace yourselves, folks. You're going to be saying someday, "Why didn't somebody tell me?" I'm telling you.
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RUSH: Sherry in San Antonio. Sherry, you're next on the EIB Network. It's great to have you here with us.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Good afternoon. How are you?
RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you.
CALLER: I've been listening to you for a long time, and Joe from Miami just kind of doesn't have a clue. I am originally a Michigander. My father retired from General Motors. When I was four years old I stood in a picket line with him and watched him collect his $2 for the day that he stood in the picket line. There was a time where the union had a cause. There was a time for the union to be of need, and back then there was a time. I watched in the seventies and the eighties how that union was overcome with greed and basically took out General Motors and Chrysler. On top of that came in some poor management, which fell in line with it because of greed. When Lee Iacocca took over Chrysler, he was a man of honesty, of integrity --
RUSH: He was.
CALLER: -- and he took that company from where it stands today, and revived it back into a living, breathing, freedom company.
RUSH: Sherry, I have to stop you there because of the constraints of time. I appreciate the comments. I know a lot of people agree with you.
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Obama promised and assured Americans when he signed the stimulus bill that he would be the perfect trustee for our money. Do you remember that? (interruption) What? I was not at the Doubletree. Was Dawn's car parked at the Doubletree, did I miss her? I was not at the Doubletree. I don't even know where it is. I'd have to put it in my nav system in my car to find it. I could fit the Doubletree on my property, why would I go to the Doubletree? You know, this happened the last hour, trying to do a serious program here, and I keep being interrupted by a staff showing me no respect, which seems to be a common recurring theme. No respect. Anyway, where was I? Oh, yes. Obama promised and assured Americans when he signed that stupid Porkulus bill that he would be a perfect trustee for our money, that we should hold him accountable for results, remember that? That he had a team of people that would guarantee our money would be spent carefully and wisely. He is going to go through the budget line by line. He's going to get rid of things that are wasteful and necessary. He had it covered. We needn't worry.
Now he says he needs a law because he can't be trusted. Paygo is the answer. Not his team of doctors, not his team of tax cheats, not his team of people that have no idea what they're doing. No, we need a law now to rein in Congress, not him. If Obama can get Congress to hold itself accountable, then everything will be fine. Now that the American people are finally holding Obama accountable, Obama runs away and admits that he isn't trustworthy with our money. That's what he's saying here when he says he wants a paygo law. On February 17th Obama demanded accountability for the American people and now that we're holding him accountable Obama is childishly and immaturely crying to Congress, it's their fault, they didn't pass a law that prevent him from signing laws that wasted trillions of dollars which didn't create one stinking job of any substance. In fact, in the last five months we've lost 1.8 million jobs. He has the audacity to talk about $68 billion payback on TARP money and a profit to the American taxpayer.
Not only that, we have a deficit that's not going to be paid off for at least two generations, and that's, of course, not all Congress' fault because they didn't pass paygo. He's a crybaby; he's just a grown crybaby. We've run out of money and now it's Congress' fault. Guess who's next, folks? Us. Obama will say we haven't paid enough in taxes for his brilliant plan to remake America. If we just pay more taxes, that's it, that's what will make the plan work. Paying more taxes is more like the final nail in the coffin of the United States economy. We are soon to be buried. Reverend Obama is about to do the eulogy, and when you hear him start sermonizing about tax increases, you will know that he's getting ready to hammer the last nail in the coffin of the US economy. He's gonna come after us because he's not accountable. You see, we are the real problem. We haven't been patriotic. We haven't paid our fair share. What paygo will actually mean is the American taxpayer will pay as Obama goes on spending our money. He is wrecking the economy, and somehow it has to be stopped.
RUSH: Candy, one of my all-time top ten favorite female names. Candy from Tucson, Arizona, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, how you doing?
RUSH: Pretty good.
CALLER: Well, it's an honor to talk to you and I appreciate it.
RUSH: I know. I just said that for Joe in Miami's benefit.
CALLER: I am absolutely furious about this Chrysler decision by the Supreme Court not to take the case on it. I'm wondering why as an investor in the stock market and potentially an investor in bonds why would anybody be interested in investing in anything if all of a sudden being a secured investor means jack crap, basically.
RUSH: Jack crap, I like that. That's Chuck Todd's nickname.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Jack crap, F. Chuck Todd.
CALLER: But you know what I mean? It's like all of a sudden there is no such thing as a secured debtor for --
RUSH: Look --
CALLER: -- you know, and they're printing all these dollars up now for our country, they've written IOUs and they're printing money --
RUSH: I know.
CALLER: -- and then asking you to buy bonds --
RUSH: I know.
CALLER: -- and invest in this country --
RUSH: Don't you feel like you're on the TV show Lost and they keep messing with the time machine? I do. I got a note this morning. This will indicate just how pitiful it is for people out there. I got a note from a friend of mine who was just so excited, he thought the Supreme Court would hear this Chrysler case and rule nine-to-zip in favor of the investors and when it didn't happen I got an e-mail, I could almost feel the tears coming out of my computer monitor, "I can't believe that the Supreme Court didn't stop it." We've got a lot of people investing a lot of hope in institutions that have been under assault by the left for years and they have been corrupted. Folks, we can sit here all day long and we can complain about that, yeah, but something's going to have to be done. You know, elections have consequences and the soonest people are going to have to do something about this is 2010. And it's really time to start gearing up for that.
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CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the only desert southwest red state.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey, earlier you had said there were certain people that had kind of ruined I think it was the Republican Party? McCain, Colin Powell --
RUSH: No, there's a story today in USA Today, and it's based on a Gallup poll that suggests that the party's in trouble because its leader, me, and all the other so-called leaders, according to the poll, are bald white guys.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: And what I said was that this is a party out of power, not because of me or bald white guys. This is a party out of power thanks to McCain, thanks to Colin Powell, and the moderates.
CALLER: Okay. Well, that's where I wanted to touch on real quick. I'm a white guy, fortunately I'm not bald, I'm 47 and I still have all my hair.
RUSH: Doesn't matter. Sonia Sotomayor still has you in her crosshairs.
CALLER: (laughing) Okay. Well, what I wanted you to do is give me a litmus test. Give me a litmus test. I believe I'm a true Republican. I have as much disdain for Barack Obama and his policies and all of his knuckleheads in the White House as much as anybody in the conservative movement, but I just want to make sure I pass the litmus test because I don't know. Sometimes I feel like I don't.
RUSH: Well, I don't have litmus tests.
CALLER: You don't have --
RUSH: I don't have a litmus test. I just know a moderate Republican from a conservative Republican but you're going to have to tell me what you believe.
CALLER: Okay. I believe in gun ownership. I don't think that there's an issue with gun ownership.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: I don't believe in abortion, but --
RUSH: Hang on just a second. I'm going to make a little column here.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I'm going to put an M and a C, and I'm going to check these off as you go along and I'll tell you after if you pass or fail the test.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Okay. So you oppose gun control?
CALLER: Yeah, I oppose gun control. I mean I think you have a right to own guns.
RUSH: Okay. That's good, 'cause the Constitution says so. What did you say on abortion?
CALLER: Abortion, I don't believe in abortion with the exception if a mother's life is in danger --
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: -- or a woman has been raped. With those extreme exceptions.
RUSH: In the case of rape though it's not the baby's fault, but I don't want to argue abortion. What else?
CALLER: I don't believe in higher taxes, that's for darn sure.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: You know, A, I believe in our country. I've always been very proud of our country.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I'm a little disgusted by our politicians.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: You know, I believe in people's right to work. I believe in, you know, the right to work. I don't believe that just because you're part of a union that, you know --
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: -- you're given a free ride.
RUSH: You've done a pretty good summary here of your views. Let's go to people. Colin Powell.
CALLER: Well, let's put it this way. Before he backed Barack Obama in the presidential election, I would have voted for Colin Powell. I used to have people say, "Oh, is the reason why you're not voting for Barack Obama is because he's black?" No. 'Cause I would have voted for Colin Powell because I thought the man --
RUSH: Okay, all right.
CALLER: -- but now I'm not sure know I'm not so sure because I think he's double-crossed the Republican Party.
RUSH: Okay. Now, let me ask you as a subset of the Colin Powell question, what specific policies and agenda items of General Powell's have you heard that you agree with?
CALLER: Well, I believe he's for a strong military. I believe he's, you know, protection for the United States. You know, as far as other policies, I really can't go into them that in depth and I apologize.
RUSH: No, you shouldn't apologize. He hasn't said, that's why you don't know.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: And you're even guessing about his supposedly support for the military because he wears the uniform. But you really haven't heard him say anything about any of the issues you've listed. You could not tell me -- and nobody can -- you could not telephone what Colin Powell thinks of gun control, what he thinks of abortion, what he thinks of taxes. You could. I'm sorry. Take it back. Colin Powell did come out for bigger government and higher taxes when he endorsed Obama.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Okay, John McCain.
CALLER: John McCain, well, I believe he's a true and blue American. I voted for him personally, but who was I going to vote for otherwise?
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I mean, was he my first choice --
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: -- for presidential candidate? No, he wasn't but --
RUSH: Sarah Palin.
CALLER: I believe she's a great American as well. I believe she's come from nowhere to be somewhere.
RUSH: Okay. Me.
CALLER: You?
RUSH: I'm serious. What do you think of me and my radio program and the way I conduct it?
CALLER: I think you conduct a fairly honest radio program. Every now and then I do get a little frustrated at some of your ramblings on but --
RUSH: About what specifically?
CALLER: Well, sometimes I think you just carry on too much about certain things. You just pick a subject and you keep beating it to death. Rush, don't get me wrong.
RUSH: No, no.
CALLER: I believe in your message.
RUSH: No, I understand, I understand -- there's a specific reason I'm asking. There's no wrong answer here.
CALLER: No, I understand that. I understand.
RUSH: But give me an example of something that I just don't let go of, I just beat it to death.
CALLER: (laughing) Oh, man now you're gonna really put me on the spot.
RUSH: It should be easy to remember because somebody that won't let go of a subject, somebody just beats it to death irritates you and people generally remember why they're irritated.
CALLER: You know, Rush, over the years of me listening to you in the car and whatnot, you know, I can't give you any specific things.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I just felt like sometimes you get on something, you start beating it to death, you know what, it's in a funny way and I'm not patronizing you, by the way. It's in a funny way and I know a lot of times it's very serious. Well, for example, I know for right now you -- today, for example, you've been harping on the thing about A-Roid [sic], and you've been talking about him knocking up Sarah Palin's daughter. Now, first of all, that's a huge insult. You kept referring to it, and I know it was a pun. I know you were saying, "Oh, well, that's a huge insult to A-Roid [sic]," you know?
RUSH: A-Rod.
CALLER: I understand that. But, you know, where I come from he's A-Roid. I'm a true and through baseball fan, so --
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: But anyway --
RUSH: So basically I haven't mentioned Letterman and what he said about Sarah -- see, are you irritated at Letterman for saying it?
CALLER: Oh, I'm hugely irritated, and I used to like David Letterman, I used to love to watch his show. But I gotta tell you, he has gone off and taken the other train. I mean he's just horrible.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And to make a comment like that, I mean slutty airline outfit, and then to also --
RUSH: Be careful -- wait. We've talked about it enough, you're beating this subject --
CALLER: I'm sorry. (laughing)
RUSH: We've talked about this. I think, you know, Letterman, when his train came in, he was at the airport. And you say he took the wrong train, he's not even on the train. Here's the results of your test.
CALLER: Okay, I'm all ears.
RUSH: You are not in the slightest way a moderate Republican.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: So I'm curious why you call yourself one.
CALLER: Well, you know, I mean there's certain things that I like. For example, solar and alternative energies. I like that. Do I want it crammed down my throat? No. But I think for people that can afford it, you know, go out and get it.
RUSH: But it is being crammed down our throats and so is the stupid windmill garbage. It is being crammed down our throats. Every aspect of our lives is going to be crammed down our throats once they get health care nationalized. All right, well, look, I appreciate your subjecting yourself to the test. Most people wouldn't have done it and you were very honest about it. I just want to tell you, you probably call yourself a moderate because you think you deviate from the conservative stance on global warming or environmentalism. I'm like you, if somebody wants a windmill, fine, just don't make me do one and keep the government out of my backyard with one. Don't ream me for using the electricity I pay for. Don't ream me for using the water I pay for. Don't tell me how to live. If you want to buy a lawn mower with two seats on it thinking you're saving the planet, that's fine, I'll try to tell you you're not saving the planet, you can still buy the car. But that's the big difference. We don't tell anybody how to live their lives. We get out of people's way, as conservatives. We're dealing with people who want as much control over the way we live our lives as possible. All right, a brief time-out. We'll be back and continue, and, by the way, if anybody else out there can tell me, other than being for high taxes and bigger government, what Colin Powell stands for, issue by issue, I would like to know.
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I looked at it and I said, "No."
This was yesterday in the Detroit News, a story by Gordon Trowbridge, who I don't think wrote the headline but the headline is: "Right-Wing Radio Hosts Hewitt and Limbaugh Back GM Boycott -- A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there's only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry: Boycott GM." Now, for the record, ladies and gentlemen, I don't do boycotts. I do not sponsor them; I do not encourage them. I never have. I think it is media childishness when people start urging boycotts. I have never, ever done such a thing, and I didn't do this with General Motors. All I did, to clarify, was report a poll that said X number of Americans -- what was it, 18 or 20% -- say they are not going to buy a GM car anymore, after this bailout.
Or a Chrysler. They're not going to do it and then I said after that that I could understand it, and I had received e-mail from people who were not going to buy a car from General Motors anymore and they gave reasons. The reasons I got from people who just sent me e-mails was they don't want to support Obama's socialism. They don't want to support the notion of government running the car companies, and they don't want to patronize companies that have been bailed out. People are coming up with this on their own. I don't know what the percentage is, but I urged no boycott of GM. General Motors is a sponsor here. (interruption) I bought a General Motors -- That's right! I bought a new Suburban last week.
I bought one. This is absolutely absurd. This is just typical of the irresponsibility of the media. Now, it just so happens here that I have... Let's see, there's one, two... Well, there's two of them here but I've only got one of them. It's from the AmericanThinker.com by Gary Jason, "The Ethical Case for Boycotting Chrysler and General Motors." Now, I'm not going to read the whole thing to you. We'll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. But it's different. This article is almost like a paper that somebody would write in a law school class, but it outlines the moral justifications for never buying a government-owned car. So we'll link to it at my website so you can see it later on in the program. But just for the record: I don't do boycotts. I didn't encourage one. I never have done so. The Detroit News -- or whoever they get their news from at the Detroit News -- got it wrong.
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RUSH: Yes, I saw it. I'm going to talk about it, the USA Today cover story today. It's kind of interesting in a way. I'm going to get to it here in just a second. They keep recycling this garbage. Here's the bottom line: Obama is hurting. His policies are crumbling. He is in panic mode in the White House and yet the State-Run Media, government-controlled media focused on the GOP and how hurting it is and in what pain it is. Where is the cover story on the failed policies of Barack Obama, 9.4% unemployment? Where are the stories on all the newly homeless? There have to be millions of newly homeless people. We have more people being foreclosed on and kicked out of their houses than ever before. Where are these stories on all of these people who have lost their jobs, who have no plan, no future, bright future with a job down the road, near term, where are all these stories?
No, they focus on bald white guys leading the Republican Party. It's a Gallup poll, and guess who is the number-one spokesman for the Republican Party? Yours truly, I, all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha Rushie at 13%. Sarah Palin doesn't even show up. Michael Steele is at 1%. And so they focus here on the aging, balding white guys that lead the Republican Party and how that is horrible for the future. What do they care at USA Today about the Republican Party that has no leadership? It's a permanent minority, as they suggest and hope. What do they care? Isn't that what they want? Don't they want the Republican Party to be a permanent minority?
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RUSH: It is another story that quotes inside-the-Beltway operatives, so-called experts of a party out of power. Why is the Republican Party out of power? Let's be honest about why the Republican Party is out of power. It is out of power thanks to John McCain, thanks to General Powell, thanks to the Republican moderates.
The Republican Party is out of power thanks to McCain, thanks to Powell and thanks to the moderates and a party out of power would not have a "spokesman" yet. It's absurd to have to even discuss this. A party out of power needs to organize and develop talent. Who was the Democrat spokesman when Bush was president? Who was the Democrat leader? Do we get stories on this? Did we get stories on Democrats were wandering aimlessly through life, they couldn't find a leader? Were similar polls taken and where were the stories? The Democrats had to organize and they organized around John Kerry and then they organized around Barack Obama. They organized around Algore.
In the eight years of Bush, who was the Democrat Party leader? Who was the spokesman? There was none. Obama was largely an unknown junior senator of no acclaim for most of Bush's presidency. It wasn't until 2004, after Bush's first term, that Obama made his speech at a Democrat convention and people started to go bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz. But they were wandering in the woods aimlessly for four years, and here we are not even six months into the Obama presidency and the State-Run Media thinks they're onto a big story, a big hook here: Republicans have no leader. Look who the writer for the story, Susan Page, turns to for comment for the most part. A former advisor to McCain, a former advisor to Bush, and a couple of other hapless commentators, none of whom have shown any propensity to winning anything.
So not only is the party out of power because of McCain, Powell, and the moderates, the people that Susan Page talks to about the Republicans Party's problem are the authors of the Republican Party's losing defeats. As for "balding white men," this is a comment from Ed Gillespie, by the way, "The Republican Party can't continue to be seen as being led by balding white men." Joe Biden is a balding white guy, last time I checked he was vice president of the United States. This is not about hair or skin color or nonsense like that. They continue to smear Sarah Palin who would be treated by the media as a rock star if she were a liberal Democrat. But government-operated media, government-controlled media, the effort now is very clear. They want to demoralize all of you. They want to demoralize conservatives. They want to foment division in the Republican Party, as it tries to rebuild, and they want to create a public perception of conservatism as narrow and exclusive, not mainstream. So while Obama's policies are falling apart -- while he's in panic, while the American people are hurting -- not one story about that. It's about burying the Republican Party.
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RUSH: What I want to see, where are all the stories on the people who have lost their family businesses because of Obama? You see it on Fox. You see Gretchen Carlson talk about her family who for 90 years owned a GM dealership in Minnesota, wiped out by Barack Obama, not the economy. Where are stories like this in the government-run media? People who have lost their family businesses when Obama, just with his empirical will, closes them down? What is the effect of that, these dealership closings in thousands of American communities? What about the effect on the charities these dealers support, sports teams? How is it going to impact unemployment?
By the way, what is going to happen to the price of automobiles with fewer dealerships? Do you realize what's going to happen to the price of automobiles? They're going to go up. Prices of cars are going to be higher because there are fewer dealerships. It's a supply and demand thing. How is all this going to affect the tax base? There's a wealth of angles out there for what used to be the Drive-By Media, now government-run media. Not to mention all the people that have lost their homes because foreclosures, all the newly homeless. If you dig deep, you can find local media doing stories on these kinds of things. For example, from the Birmingham News in Alabama yesterday: "Thousands Line Up in Birmingham for Section 8 Housing Applications."
They have a picture of it here. "More than 1,000 people line up Tuesday morning at the Smithfield public housing office on Eighth Avenue West in Birmingham, the line snaking around the block to apply for Section 8 housing. The line for Section 8 housing applications stretched this morning more than three blocks from the door of the Smithfield public housing office in Birmingham, Alabama, as hundreds showed up for the program's first open enrollment of 2009." So the local media is doing the story on the pain and suffering out there that's being brought about specifically by Barack Obama and the Drive-Bys, State-Run Media, ignoring it.
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RUSH: To the phones we go. Debbie in St. Paul, Minnesota. It's great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hello.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I love your show, love to listen to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: And I have a question.
RUSH: What's that?
CALLER: My question is, this morning on Fox News there was some interviews done with some of the dealerships that were shut down. I don't remember what town they were filming them at. But there was a lady that they interviewed and she was saying how it was a sad day that these dealerships are closing, all the people out of work and said that this is not the "hope" we voted for. So my question is, do any of these people -- since he's done a lot of damage in the less than six months he's been in -- regret voting for this man that they now are seeing the clearer picture?
RUSH: I think that remains the question of the day, and you're basically asking about Democrats and independents who voted for the guy. "What are they thinking? Is this what they bought? Is this what they bargained for? Is this what they thought they were getting?"
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: And of course there's no poll on this, government-run media is not going to poll this question.
CALLER: Definitely not, no.
RUSH: Let me tell you something. You know, I'm going to pass something on here. This is anecdotal and it was repeated to me by a friend who was in Washington recently at a restaurant and overheard two people talking about the upcoming health care plan. Now, I trust the person who told me this, but I must say that I didn't hear it myself. But it relates to your question and what I was going to say is: there is a palpable fear throughout this country of speaking out against Obama, from the Republican Party on down through the rest of the country. There is a palpable fear of doing so. Two guys were in this restaurant in Washington and one of them is a former hotshot on the Hill or something was talking about how he's been talking to Republicans and they're not even going to oppose Obama on health care with much certitude. They're just afraid to.
They're just afraid, here looking at polling data. They see Obama's approval numbers and they're just afraid. So you ask the American people, "Is this what they bargained for?" The closest we can get to discerning the answer to that is, if you look at approval numbers, Obama's approval numbers, depending on the government-run poll that you look at anywhere from 60% to 63%, if you go to Rasmussen, it's 54%. And then the Rasmussen survey also has an index of favorability, and what he does is tabulate the people who strongly approve and strongly disapprove and gets an index with the difference. A couple days ago it was zero; now it's up to plus-three on the positive side. If you look at other polls you'll find that a lot of Americans in many instances, in a majority, do not agree with Obama's policies.
They don't agree with deficit spending, don't agree with bailing out businesses and the auto companies. They don't agree with all of this debt that we're piling on. But, they still approve. So there's going to be a meeting at some point on the graph of these particular sentiments. This approval number of 63%, 64%, if we are to believe it, has got to give away at some point if the other polls are accurate, that people don't like what he's doing. At some point they have to merge and the approval number has to come down. I think the Obama administration is falling apart. I think it's in panic. I think, based on what they're doing yesterday, they are responding to the criticism that they are getting -- which is primarily coming from here. There's not much criticism of Obama in Washington. He announced paygo now? Paygo?
This is the biggest sham. This after he has busted the budget -- after he's broken the bank, after he has destroyed this nation's economy, after he has wrecked the future of children not yet born -- now all of a sudden it's time to get serious about the way we spend money. It's just a ruse in order raise taxes. Here, look at these two headlines. Reuters: "Obama Seeks Fiscal Responsibility Mantle -- President Obama sought on Tuesday to show he was serious about improving the US budget picture as he called on Congress to pass new limits to tax cuts and spending programs to avoid adding to deficits." This is absurd. Government-run media. "After $12 trillion of budget debt that's forecast," it's going to be higher than that, "over the next ten years, after a budget deficit this year of over two trillion," totally irresponsible, authoritarian spending, designed to destroy the private sector in this country, they now run a story how Obama wants to seek this responsibility "mantle" on spending?
"The pay-as-you-go principle is very simple," Obama said. "Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere." Yeah, well, he didn't put any limits on himself. He's spending money and taking over business without legislation to back it up, but now he's putting limits on Congress. This is just an excuse for liberal Democrats to go out and raise taxes. The Heritage Foundation has a story on the Obama paygo farce. But then after that -- after the Reuters story and after all the government-run media, hosannas of yesterday, "Oh, yeah, paygo! Budget responsibility! We love Obama! -- President Obama then "later in the day Tuesday proposed budget rules for his health care plan that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration's emerging health care overhaul. The pay-as-you-go budget formula plan is significantly weaker than a proposal Obama issued with little fanfare last month.
He "wants to carve out here about two and a half trillion dollars worth of exemptions for his priorities over the next decade." It's okay to borrow for health care, but nothing else -- after saying paygo, after saying we gotta be responsible. Later in the day, he just... You couldn't get away with this to your wife. You couldn't get away with this with your husband! You couldn't get away with this at school. You couldn't get away with this kind of thing with your parents. You couldn't get away... Your dog wouldn't buy this. Your cat might because cats are indifferent, but nobody else would. Try this. Try this in your family. Go out and buy a new car. Go out and buy a $140,000 new car. Here's what you do. You try it. At breakfast, say, "This family is going to get in a budget. We're going to rein it in. We're going to make sure we don't have any more debt. We're tearing up the credit cards, blah, blah, blah." Then at five o'clock you come home with a new $150,000 car, and when your wife or your husband says, "What the hell are you doing?" you say, "Well, it's okay to bust the budget for a car I wanted." See if you get away with it. Criminetly!
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My God doesnt have big funny ears....
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RUSH: Ted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How's it going?
RUSH: Well, pretty good, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Well, I just wanted to call, and I -- I listen from time to time, and I wanted to call and ask you based on your characterization of Letterman's comments how do you view what you do every day to the Democratic leaders and whatnot with the same kind of comments? How are you different than Letterman? So aren't you pathetic as well?
RUSH: Uhhhhhh, give me an example of something I've done that is related or similar to Letterman calling Sarah Palin "slutty" and saying her daughter has been "knocked up" at Yankee Stadium by Alex Rodriguez while hitting a home run?
CALLER: Do you listen to your own shown or maybe you -- I dunno.
RUSH: You say you listen to it, so you tell me.
CALLER: You tell meeeee! The Kennedys, Clinton, all the... You can't think of one thing? Hair plugs for Biden!
RUSH: I don't have to think of anything. You're the one making the charge. I stand behind everything I say. I love hearing myself say what I say, and I say it because it's right. By the way, do you know...? Hey, Ted before I let you go here, do you know --
CALLER: Yeah, before you hang up you mean?
RUSH: No, I don't hang up on people.
CALLER: Yeah, well, you start giving, "How are you?"
RUSH: Ted?
CALLER: It's so lame!
RUSH: Ted?
CALLER: and then that's how you win!
RUSH: Ted, dial it back, buddy. Dial it back. I didn't get much sleep last night. I got little patience for pea brains like you.
CALLER: Oh, yeah.
RUSH: Give me another similarity between God and Barry Obama.
CALLER: I -- I -- See -- Here you go right now.
RUSH: Another similarity. Give me another similarity between Barack Obama and God.
CALLER: Don't know.
RUSH: "Obama gets better media."
CALLER: (silence)
RUSH: You want to run through these again? Here we go. What Obama and God have in common: God doesn't have a birth certificate, either. A way that God and Obama differ: God does not think that he is Obama. Another difference between God and Obama is that liberals love Obama. And another difference is that Obama gets better press. Thanks for the call, Ted. I appreciate your being able to really call back from your memory there all these examples of me saying things like Letterman did. Josh in St. Augustine, Florida, hi, you're next on the EIB Network. Great to have you here.
CALLER: (click)
RUSH: Well, he went away. Was he a lib, too? He's sayonara. Get rid of him. Who's next on the program? Keep up with me, Snerdley! Who's next where we going? (interruption) That's where we were that's the guy that hung up. I'm the guy that got two hours sleep last night and everybody's lagging behind me.
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RUSH: We're going to go to Miami. This is Joe. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Fine and dandy.
CALLER: Rush, I have a question. I'm an independent. I'm not either side, but I listen to your show, uhh, once in a while when I'm driving, and I -- I -- I just -- I -- I just wonder. I mean, when you wake up in the morning, you look in the mirror, do you throw kisses at yourself? I mean you -- you -- you sound like you're in love with yourself.
RUSH: I do love myself.
CALLER: Yeah, but -- but -- you're -- you're ridiculous the way you go about things, and you -- you act like --
RUSH: I think it's healthy --
CALLER: -- you're so good.
RUSH: No -- now, wait a minute, Joe.
CALLER: Yeah?
RUSH: It's very healthy to love yourself. If you don't love yourself, nobody else is going to.
CALLER: Yeah, but -- no, no, no, not the way you -- you just wish --
RUSH: Well, what am I supposed to do? You asked me if I love myself. I'm answering the question, and now say, "No, no, no, that's not what you mean."
CALLER: You're in love with yourself. You wish you had a body in front of you and you'd probably do it. I mean --
RUSH: Are you asking me, Joe, if I make love to myself?
CALLER: (chuckling) I'm sure you do.
RUSH: No.
CALLER: (laughing) Anyway --
RUSH: No, Joe.
CALLER: My question, my question for you is very simple: Why are you so (pause0 hateful? Why do you -- that's all you do, spew, spew, spew. Why can't you just live and let live? I mean, you act like --
RUSH: It's an interesting question. It's an interesting question.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Do -- do you think Ted Kennedy is hateful in what he said about Robert Bork?
CALLER: I -- I -- I -- I'm talking about you right now.
RUSH: Well, no, because, I -- I don't -- I don't think I'm hateful at all.
CALLER: I listen to you. I listen to your show.
RUSH: Well --
CALLER: I'm not talking about Kennedy. I'm talking to you.
RUSH: Yes, I know, and I'm answering your question. I'm not hateful. I don't say one hateful thing about anybody. I love everybody. I only want the best for everybody in this country.
CALLER: Yeah, but the way you talked about everybody else, you --
RUSH: Okay, give me an example of my hatefulness.
CALLER: The way you talk about Obama is God. You're acting like you're God. You're acting like you're so better than everybody else, but -- but -- but you don't --
RUSH: Well, I am better than most people, but I don't --
CALLER: -- you -- you -- you -- Your voice doesn't get Republicans elected. You -- you -- you -- you -- you lis- -- people listen to you but nothing happens!
RUSH: You're starting to stutter on me out there, Joe. You need to dial it back here. I am better than most people, but I don't think I'm God. Obama does.
CALLER: No, Obama doesn't say it. You say it.
RUSH: Obama's got a messianic complex. He does.
CALLER: No, no. You say that he's God. He's not God, but you act like you're God.
RUSH: By the way, I don't hate President Obama at all.
CALLER: Yes, you do. You know you do.
RUSH: Joe, you must be a hateful person. You have to hate in order to be able to recognize hate, Joe.
CALLER: Yeah, but you know, you don't have to. He's a human being just like -- and he's trying to do --
RUSH: Let me ask you something, Joe.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Whatever I have said about President Obama pales in comparison to the --
CALLER: It's about -- about anybody that you say anything against.
RUSH: Joe --
CALLER: You -- you -- and here you are, you're pushing for Sarah Palin, who's a total joke.
RUSH: I'm going to do a Contessa Brewer -- cut his mike for a minute. Joe, you've made me have to emulate Contessa Brewer. Do you not realize what a professional come-down this is for me? Now I really don't like myself now, Joe, because I had to pull a trick that they use on MSNBC. I did cut your, mike, Joe. Nobody can hear you. Now, I don't hate anybody. I criticize Obama, and I'm one of the few who does, and that's what outrages you. But let me tell you something. If you want to find hate in American politics, go to the party you probably vote for. That's the Democrat Party. Eight years of unadulterated drivel, outraged hate aimed at George W. Bush. We had to hear about books written on his assassination. We had to hear about movies that were produced and shown in Canada about the assassination of George W. Bush -- and it went downhill from there. Nothing of the sort ever happens on this program. You need to man up out there, Joe. You need to be able to handle a little criticism of your god, of your messiah, because he's not what you think he is. My comments on Obama are based on love: love of this country, love of my job, love for the opportunity that I have each and every day to come in here and do this. No program would be as successful as mine for as long as it's been if it were based on hate. So you need to man up, Joe. Bring his mike back if he's still there. Joe, you still there?
CALLER: I'm still here. I'm listening to you.
RUSH: All right. Okay, go ahead and respond.
CALLER: Now, now, you -- you -- okay, my response to you is very simple. Obama's not my God. My God is Jesus Christ upstairs. I'm a Christian. Okay? Obama's not my God. But we have -- what -- what we going through expense the Republicans and George Bush, okay?
RUSH: Obama --
CALLER: Hold on.
RUSH: Obama gets better media coverage than Jesus got. Did you know that?
CALLER: Now, I -- I cannot cut your mike because you don't let me talk. Now, let me talk. I listened to you because you cut my mike.
RUSH: Okay, cut my mike. Cut -- cut -- cut my mike. Cut my mike, and let Joe have it. Go ahead, Joe.
CALLER: No, I don't. I just want to hear why you are being... You're -- you're pushing Sarah Palin, who is a total joke. This -- this girl is... She's like a cheerleader for the Republican Party. She will never be unelected. (sic) You got -- you got Gingrich.
RUSH: Joe, Joe --
CALLER: Romney is the only person that is good.
RUSH: Joe.
CALLER: Hold on!
RUSH: Joe, I'm sorry.
CALLER: Yes?
RUSH: I'm sorry. I can't abide this anymore. You want to excuse me of hate and say what Letterman said about Palin is just a joke. (sigh) Joe, you're what's wrong with Miami.
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RUSH: Boy, I'll tell you what, a lot of frazzled nerves out there on the left today. You know, I mean just some good-natured jokes about Obama and God, at least, you know, Obama, they both don't have birth certificates and man, they just go nuts out there, they've been calling here and they have lost their minds. They can't stand even any comedy about Obama. The libs are getting awfully feisty out there. Obama's responding to the criticism. He's in full-fledged panic mode. Unemployment continues to rise out there, bipartisan displeasure at the level of spending authored by President Obama.
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Rush,
Stop making fun of Del Rio, TX.
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RUSH: Last night CNBC, they have a show called CNBC Reports, the co-host, Dennis Kneale, said this...
KNEALE: This, uh, Republican attack machine in full force once again. Outspoken Republican brass like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh weighing in. Newt said President Obama's "stimulus has already failed." Rush Limbaugh is comparing the president to Mikhail Gorbachev -- and he means that in a negative way. So they're mounting a vigorous and informed opposition. Now, I think that's part of democracy. That's great. But where do you draw the line between that and cynical, negative nattering that seeks not to change or reform, but simply to damage the other side? Is it time for Rush Limbaugh to shut up?
RUSH: (laughing) Who is this guy? I never heard of Dennis Kneale. Dennis, let me clue you in here. It was Gorbachev who compared himself to Obama! It was Gorbachev who ripped an American economy which made CNBC possible. It was Gorbachev who said the United States in the Twentieth Century was evil and guilty and it was time to change like he did to bring glasnost and perestroika, and he praised what Obama is doing. I simply brought it to everybody's attention. I did it humorously in the form of a Gorbasm. By the way, Dennis Kneale this is like the sound of me shutting up: "Screw you!" He had somebody else on this show: Joe Watkins, a rare Republican not intimidated by the State-Run Media. After the cohost spoke about me, he then said to Joe Watkins, "Aren't you even a little bit uncomfortable with the rancor of some of the criticism from the right?"
WATKINS: Criticism is good. It's what makes America a great country. I mean, speaking truth to power is what makes us great, and certainly the Obama administration like past administrations could stand some constructive criticism.
RUSH: A rare Republican who didn't cave under pressure on national media.
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| • Washington Post: We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours - Mikhail Gorbachev • Pravda: Barack Obama Becomes USA's Mikhail Gorbachev |
Okay, I’ll ask Rush (along with everyone else) to stop picking on Cleveland, Ohio.
A thing of beauty . . . thanks for posting!
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