Orwell in America: All Obama, all the time, everywhere.
Posted on 06/16/2009 3:31:04 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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Once again the White House has given us a Message to the World from President Obama regarding Iran.
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Another exclusive Message to the World here on the EIB Network direct from the White House and Rahm Emanuel and President Obama, who promised in that statement not to take over Iran's oil production, and admitting the election in Iran was all about him and how the Iranians have embarrassed him. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to go back, I want to play for you what I said on this program March 26th of this year.
RUSH ARCHIVE: For those of you who read the book 1984, Big Brother was everywhere no matter where you went. Big Brother was on television, on the radio, didn't matter where you went. I have a simple question. When do all television sets just eventually default to the Obama Channel? There has to be an Obama Channel now, and at some point the government, the FCC, is going to encode broadcast signals so that your TV or your receiver defaults to the Obama Channel all the time. Same thing with your computer defaulting to the Obama Page. I don't know how many of you read Orwell's 1984, but the supreme leader was Big Brother, and not only was he on TV 24/7, you couldn't get him off of television.
RUSH: And that prediction has now manifested itself in truth. ABC has turned over programming to Obama. Eight days from now, the night of June 24th, the media and the government cement their relationship as one. State-Run Media, ABC, will broadcast the World News Tonight from the Blue Room of the White House. That will be followed by a primetime special entitled Prescription for America, which will originate from the East Room, and it will exclude opposing voices on the debate. 1984. I predicted this March 26th. People say, "Why did you stop calling them the Drive-By Media and you start calling them the State-Run Media?" Well, this is why. This is government-controlled media. A primetime special in the East Room after the news from the Blue Room and no opposing voices in the debate will be featured on the program. The Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to David Westin at State-Run ABC.
"Dear Mr. Westin: As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform 'town hall' at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news 'will all feature special programming on the president's health care agenda.' This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president's health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming. ... In the absence of opposition, I am concerned." That really is going to penetrate, by the way. The RNC is concerned about this.
"In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this prime-time infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform," but he does hold a monopoly on the media, which is all he cares about. "The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this prime-time event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime." Westin, the president of ABC News predictably said, hey, no big deal here, we haven't compromised our objectivity. And they haven't. To compromise their objectivity ABC would have to put on opposing voices. The objectivity of State-Run Media is to promote the state. ABC is state government-controlled media, as is NBC, particularly NBC. They do a better job of it than ABC. CBS, gotta throw them in there. CNN, no question about it, and all the derivatives of ABC, CBS, and NBC, along with the Washington Post, New York Times, State-Controlled Media.
So to be objective, they would have to put -- (interruption) do I think it will get ratings? Well, I've been asked by the official program observer if I think that this will get ratings. You know, interestingly, on Thursday or Friday night of last week, whenever the DTV switch was, whenever they turned off analog and if all you have is an analog TV with rabbit ears, you got snow, you didn't get anything, ABC's World News Tonight audience plummeted from seven million to four million in one day, or 4.9 million and ABC has asked Nielsen to review the numbers because they don't think that that's possible, even with the DTV switch. Will it get ratings? Yeah, it will get some ratings, but, remember, now, it's eight days, so it will be a Wednesday night. There won't be any other original programming on the networks that night, I don't believe, everything's reruns or summer series that nobody watches anyway. So I don't know if it will get ratings or not. With President Obama on it? That's a good question, too, because, as Bill Maher pointed out recently on his show, there's beginning to be Obama fatigue out there. He's everywhere. He's Big Brother. He's 24/7.
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Letterman Pulled a Katie Couric
June 16, 2009
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RUSH: Over on another State-Run Media network, the David Letterman show last night, Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin. It was a real apology, but it was also couched in this continuing excuse that he thought he was talking about an 18-year-old, not a 14-year-old. The bottom line here is the joke's inappropriate whether the age of the woman is 14, 18, or 40. But he goes on, we've got tape of the apology and I think everybody is missing what happened here. I gave the Drive-Bys, I gave State-Run Media a week head start on this, and they still don't get it. All Letterman did was pull a Katie Couric. He did what Katie Couric did. She was desperate for attention, her ratings were plummeting, and they have plummeted now to an all-time low for the CBS Evening News, she got Sarah Palin on, and remember that interview ignited everybody because she supposedly embarrassed Sarah Palin, one of the worst interviews Palin had done, her star rose, Katie got an award after that. She made fun of Sarah Palin.
Now, here comes Letterman, the same week that Conan O'Brien is starting to take over for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show so you've got Conan O'Brien replacing Jay, you've got media bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz. Everybody asking, how is Conan going to do? Bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz. How is Conan going to rate against Jay? Bzz bzz bzz bzz. How is Conan going to rate against Dave? Bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz. Now, the formerly original David Letterman stole a tactic from the Couric playbook: If you need liberal attention, if you need the attention of the State-Run Media, make fun of Sarah Palin. Just pull a Katie Couric. He got away with it for five days, news flashes, split screens, expert opinions, debates on State-Run Media. Letterman was everywhere. He got exactly what he wanted out of this. I didn't track his ratings, I don't know how much they improved. Conan continually plummeted for a while which is natural. Was it just a joke? The bottom line was this whole Letterman thing just a joke? Remember, now, this was a written joke in the afternoon. It was put together; it was intended; it was not a stream of consciousness comment that wasn't written on a cue card or a teleprompter.
So now did he mean Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, did he mean her 14-year-old, is Sarah's family fair game, are only Republicans members fair game, conservatives too sensitive, all this. And then you had people out there defending Letterman. They're the ones thrown under the bus today. But you had a bunch of leftists defending what Letterman did. Then enough people, after five days of this, got disgusted enough with this joke which was not joke, there was no truth in it, so it's not funny. But Dave in the end got what Katie Couric did not get. Katie did not get a trip to the woodshed. Dave did. Don't tell me that this thing was arrived at on his own. You've got people, I'm sure, that are bombarding CBS management with complaints about this. (interruption) Well, yeah, I think they do care. I've met Les Moonves. It didn't go away. It kept simmering out there. But whether or not there was pressure on Letterman from higher-ups, the bottom line is he got what he wanted out of it. He pulled a Katie Couric.
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RUSH: Jacksonville, Florida. This is Anaheim, nice to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Yes, sir. Hello there, Rushbo.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Super intelligent one, hyper-intelligent one, how did you not parse Mr. Letterman's remarks yesterday? Listen carefully. He said -- and it was just a joke, and I just read it, and I'm sorry that it was a bit out of line, and I apologize that you were too stupid to understand it.
RUSH: Well, frankly, I've got the sound bites here, I've got Letterman's apology, but I don't want to fall prey to this like everything else did in the media and just give him more publicity for it.
CALLER: You said that he apologized and the point is that he didn't. He said I'm sorry you were too stupid to understand --
RUSH: Look, he did two things. It was a real apology. Palin's accepted it, but then he excused it after he apologized it, he excused it again by getting into this business of whether or not the girl he was joking about was 14 or 18. As I said at the beginning of the program, that is irrelevant. A joke like that about any woman is just in bad taste and it's not funny. Now, when he says that what turned the light on for him was Mark "Maxi" Shields on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer? Come on, give us a break. That's what he heard, when Mark Shields said this is indefensible, that's what woke Letterman up about this, Mark Shields on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer? That happened many days after this. But I mean to sit here and parse it is to just give the guy a little bit more publicity about this. He did two things. It was an apology, there's no question. Palin's accepted it. But he then excused it. He excused why it happened, missing the whole point that it's not about whether somebody is 14 or 18.
The only reason that he's harping on this 14 versus 18 business is because somebody -- and it wasn't just Mark "Maxi" Shields -- somebody pointed out that A-Rod knocking up a 14-year-old is statutory rape and here's Letterman making a joke about it, and I forget the guy's name but way back in the seventies there was a New York TV anchor, do you remember his name? He told an innocent little joke on television news about rape and he was never heard from again after that. Tex Antoine, the weatherman, ABC 7, Eyeball News on Channel 7, WABC TV. So Tex Antoine tells this joke about rape and he hasn't been herd from since. He was gone. Letterman told a joke about rape. And the point is, oh, oh, no, I meant the 18-year-old, oh, then it would have been okay? No, it wouldn't have been okay. That's the excuse for the joke. But he did apologize. He said it was a bad joke and all that. But they knew it was a bad joke when they did this. Don't forget when this happened. This happened the week that Conan O'Brien debuted subbing or taking over for Jay Leno. There were all kinds of bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz about that. And Letterman hasn't been close to NBC, The Tonight Show in ratings in many moons. Hell, folks, Nightline has been beating Letterman. And who among you watches Nightline anymore? The same people that watch The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.
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RUSH: This is Rick in Chicago. Great to have you here, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. You're the suma cum laude inspiring ambassador of conservative thought.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Which actually means political thought altogether, I'm sure you're aware. But I have a statement in light of Letterman's latest so-called apology and his inability to express any contrition about celebrating the defilement of young women.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: I'd like to go back to the early nineties when he made the following statement to you. He said on his show to you, "Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and ask yourself, 'Am I just full of hot gas?'" I think it's time -- primetime -- to turn around that statement to him. "Are you full of hot gas, David, considering that you're now the Hindenburg of late night talk shows?"
RUSH: Now, my memory of that is a little different from yours. He said that. There's no question he said it. But I was there.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: And I know that statement he made, the left-wing blogs have loved it and lived on it for years, but what he said, I think... I could be wrong but I think that before he said that, he said, "Are you like me? Do you ever go home late at night and say, 'I'm talking to all these people and I'm just full of hot gas.' Do you think you're ever full of hot air?" and the audience just erupted. They just loved it. They thought it was fabulous, and when that happened Letterman started going, "No, no, no, no, no," as though that's not what he meant. And after that happened, he invited me back two times, I think, maybe three. Not to be a guest, but to appear in fake, phony commercials. And he was very kind every time on those two or three returns. I've never been invited back on the show since, and I don't think I ever will be. I'm too famous to go on that show. Those kinds of shows, they're not... Those are the kind of shows Obama goes on. There's too much substance and all that I have to waste time on shows like that. But my memory of that instance is a little bit different than that. He did say it, but I think he prefaced it by saying, "Are you like me?"
CALLER: And you don't think that was a setup, because I remember you seemed to be really caught by surprise. It was kind of an insulting thing to say to a guest, I really thought, and then that's kind of the way I remember it.
RUSH: Oh, I remember what I said to him. I said Dave, "Isn't it a wonderful thing people like you and I growing up in this country can have shows like this and just be, you know, be this successful," this kind of stuff. Of course, yeah. We were just hitting light speed at that time; the program was just taking off. Now, here's another thing. At that time... I'll give you some details that people don't know. At that time, I lived in a building in New York that Paul Shaffer lived in and I saw Paul Shaffer all the time, Letterman's music director. I'd see him coming in. They tape at five o'clock in the afternoon. I'd see Paul Shaffer at six or seven if he happened to be coming in the building at the same time. I'd talk to him and at that time Letterman was on NBC, but he had just gone to CBS when this had happened.
But I remember, I gave Paul Shaffer a box of cigars. At the time, Letterman was a big time public cigar smoker. Gave a box of cigars and a note that said, "Please, I think Dave's one of the most funny, creative people there is," and Schaffer gave him the box, and I got a nice thank-you note from Letterman from this. I remember when I got there for the appearance on that show, Schaffer came up to me and said, "Boy, the street's really wired about this." I said, "What are you talking about?" "Your appearance, the street's hot," meaning everybody is buzzing about this, as though it was going to be some kind of confrontation. The reason I don't go on these shows... If you've noticed even when they drag out a politician, it's not all political discussion. When they have some actress, I mean, it's always...
These are comedy shows. But when people like me are invited on these shows, it's bare knuckles, clenched fists, and, "Who the hell do you think you are?" kind of stuff. And there's no interest in showing the humanity of a guest such as me, and I have lots of humanity. It's all about other things. So it's a waste of time to go on. But, you know, I had no indication prior that there was going to be any kind of a cutting comment because of all the polite and nice things I had said. Even during the interview, I tried to say to him on the show, I said, "You know, I think you're the best at what you do and you". "Nah-nah-nah, we don't need that," as though he were embarrassed to be complimented and so forth and came out with the thing. So it is what it is. You live and learn. What I learned is shows like that are beneath me.
CALLER: I think (garbled) more contentious, because you remember you being a gentleman, and I don't recall the reciprocation, but I stand corrected on that but at least you cleared the record for me.
RUSH: I understand. I felt it was contentious, too, don't misunderstand and I can understand why you think so because of the hot gas bag comment. Everybody else thought that, too. Letterman, you know, got a bunch of gold stars from the left even back then, before there were blogs. They were all hot to trot about it and it's still one of the most favored quotes trotted out. It's shown up if you looked at the right blogs in this Palin business. As people have sought to defend Letterman, they have brought that appearance out and talked about, "See, he's a good guy. He's got these people down pat," meaning me. This is what I mean. He's not what he once was. He's turned cynical. He's not creatively funny anymore. He just seems angry and he's turned really 100% political, which he stayed away from. So it is what it is. These things happen. You always take a risk when you go on these shows. But I appreciate your comments. Don't misunderstand. I'm not arguing with you.
CALLER: I know you're not. It's just always a pleasure to listen to you. I'm a great fan of yours and listen regularly and have called numerous times.
RUSH: I appreciate it, Rick. Graziate, thank you very much.
CALLER: Okay, Godspeed to you, Rush.
RUSH: You bet. Thanks so much. You know, sometimes I say "graziate" to people. I'll tell you where I picked that up. Back in the late eighties. Still in Sacramento, I hosted one of these listener tours to Italy (laughing) and we stayed in some college dormitory. It was a horrible place to stay. It was just a trip on the cheap. But my brother and a couple friends of ours decided, "You know, to hell with this cheap stuff." We went to the Hotel Hassler, which we had seen on Robin Leach. What was that show? (interruption) That's it, yeah. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Hotel Hassler. So we went there, and they had a restaurant up at the top of it. And we're having lunch, and the waiters were very nice. And my brother, David, every time the waiters would come up and fill the water or take an order, my brother would say, "Graziate." It's "grazie" in Italian. He said "graziate," and every time he said it, these waiters would just start chuckling with each other, kind of bow their heads and go, "Hee-hee-hee," and walk away. And after about ten times of this, I finally pulled one of the waiters aside, "What's so funny about 'graziate'?" I'll just tell you what the waiters told me. The waiters said, "Well, that is a former of 'grazie' that is really, really familiar male-to-male." (laughing) So I've never heard that since but that's what one of the waiters said, so my brother and I still say "graziate" to each other sometimes in public or even in e-mails.
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Obama to Iran's Supreme Leader: We Won't Meddle in Your Election
June 16, 2009
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RUSH: President Obama just finished a brief joint appearance and miniature press conference with the Republic of Korea, South Korean, leader Lee Myung-bak. And during the press conference Obama had this to say about Iran.
OBAMA: You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that, uh, indicates, uh, he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election. Uh, it's not productive given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling --
RUSH: Whoa!
OBAMA: -- the US president meddling in Iranian elections.
RUSH: Whoa!
OBAMA: What I will repeat and what I said yesterday is that when I see violence directed as peaceful protesters, when I see peaceful dissent be suppressed, wherever that takes place, it of concern to me and it's of concern to the American people.
RUSH: He says, "It's not productive given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling, the US president meddling in Iranian elections"? What did he do last Friday when the exit poll data showed that the challenger was going to win? He went out there and started claiming credit for it because of his Cairo speech! He was meddling even then, claiming credit for this massive result. Remember, we have this exclusive statement to the world from President Obama sent to us by the White House this morning.
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RUSH: That's President Obama and his Address to the World via EIB, but yet in his press conference this morning he said this.
OBAMA: My hope is is that the Iranian people will make the right steps in order for them, uh, to be able to express their voices, express their aspirations. I do believe that something happened in Iran where there is a questioning of the kinds of antagonistic postures towards the international community that have taken place in the past and that --
RUSH: What?
OBAMA: -- there are people who want to see greater --
RUSH: What?
OBAMA: -- openness --
RUSH: What?
OBAMA: -- and greater debate, uh, and want to see greater democracy.
RUSH: Whoa!
OBAMA: How that plays out over the next several days and several weeks is something ultimately for the Iranian people to decide, but I s-stand strongly with the universal principle that, uh, people's voices should be heard, uh, and not suppressed.
RUSH: Can I translate that for you? Let me translate that. Basically what he says is he's standing with the Iranian people but whatever the government there decides is fine with him. Which means he's not standing with the Iranian people. Now, since when did Barack Obama become concerned about democracy? Barack Obama opposed Iraq. He opposed the plan to bring democracy to the Middle East in Iraq. Now all of a sudden he's worried about democracy? That's because of his speech. He's burned, folks. He's burned. He thought that speech... I mean, he's got a complex. He thought that speech was going to have a massive impact on the Iranian leaders and the people, and all it did was arch and stiffen the backs of the mullahs. You know, this guy, I tell you, he keeps whining. He keeps moaning and complaining.
He's dealing with all this stuff that he "inherited." Have you heard that, Rachel? Have you heard him complain about that? Did you ever hear George W. Bush complain about 9/11? What if Bush had spent the months and years following 9/11 whining and moaning about it, that he didn't bargain for that, that nobody told him that was going to happen? But you know what? He didn't. Ever. All he did was roll up his sleeves, got the country out of a serious financial crisis after 9/11, and pretty damn quick. Now, Obama knew exactly what he was getting into here with Iran. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, he knew. He knew exactly what he's dealing with with Hamas.
He knows exactly what he's dealing with with Hezbollah, and he seems to side with them, particularly over Israel. Now, if he thought this was going to be so difficult and so horrible, be it the economy, be it foreign policy, then he should not have asked to be placed in the office. If he keeps complaining about what he inherited and keeps crybaby whining and moaning about it, somebody at some point is going to tell him to just shut the hell up and man up. Like I just advised the gay-lesbian- transgender community to do: Man up in dealing with this guy being somebody other than what you thought.
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RUSH: All right, I want to go back to a sound bite here, folks. Something just occurred to me. Well, it occurred to me during the top-of-the-hour break. This is Obama this morning at the White House in the middle of a joint press conference, he's talking about Iran here.
OBAMA: You've seen in Iran some initial reaction from the supreme leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election. It's not productive given the history of US-Iranian relations to be seen as meddling, the US president meddling in Iranian elections. What I will repeat --
RUSH: That's enough. Now, I'm going to be honest. He says we're not going to be seen as meddling, the US president meddling in Iranian elections. Now, mostly you can go back and look -- some bloggers have found this, Reagan talking about what happened in Poland, supporting Lech Walesa when the unions, they rioted against the communist government. Whenever Reagan, Bush, whatever, whenever there was an outbreak against freedom in the world they went out and made a statement, because we played a sound bite from Bush yesterday from his second inaugural telling anybody in the world you stand for freedom, you stand with us and we stand with you. It's a tradition for the United States president to signal people all over the world that we stand for liberty, your liberty and ours, we stand with you. This man cannot bring himself to do it. He says we're not going to meddle; we're not going to meddle in their elections.
Does that mean we're not going to meddle in what they're trying to do with nuclear power and nuclear weapons? Does that mean if they get nukes we're not going to meddle given our history with this insane regime? You know, it's very interesting who Obama chooses to impose his values on. He had no problem telling Israel to stop settlements in the West Bank, and I loved it when Netanyahu basically said, screw you, buddy. Now, given our history with Iran, does that mean that they have a permanent get out of jail card? What does this mean, not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling? The consequences of this statement, even if he did later specify elections, the consequences of this statement are breathtaking to me, stunning statement, because if he says we're not going to meddle in the elections it means we are going to excuse brutal authoritarian behavior because the regime is firing on protesters. He goes, I don't like that, but we're not going to meddle. An amazing thing to say. A rationalization, in other words, for not speaking up for liberty, which is something traditional that United States presidents do. It's as revealing as anything about Obama.
I will guarantee you, my friends, I know these people like I know every square inch of my rapidly shrinking but yet glorious naked body. Sixty-five pounds, by the way, now, 225. The shirt I'm wearing today fit Omar the tent maker. At any rate, we did a parody here on his address to the world. I will guarantee you that Cairo speech he fully expected the world to snap to. He expected free elections in Iran so much so that last Friday when there were exit poll reports -- (laughing) -- he goes out and starts talking all the new democracy and how it's great, and there may be change coming, all because he made a speech. This man's ego is not containable. There is no container in the world that will contain his ego because it's constantly expanding anyway. You could find a container large enough to put his ego in it would eventually be blown up with the expanding ego. This guy's ego is expanding faster than the Soviet Union was expanding back in the sixties and seventies, but there's no telltale birthmark on Obama to indicate it like there was on Mikhail Gorbachev.
So that election was about him. It was supposed to be a new day just because of his words, and it didn't happen. And now he's fumbling around trying to, A, excuse what he said last Friday, and, B, we're not going to meddle, we don't like it when they fire on people, we don't like it when they repress the vote blah, blah -- and now, folks, now the mullahs -- these will smart people because they know what dummkopfs they're dealing with with worldwide journalists. The mullahs are now saying we're going to have a partial recount. So the idiot community of journalists, "Oh, this is wonderful, look what Obama's forced, he's forced a recount," a partial recount? These people know exactly who all of the useful idiots in the world are and they play 'em like Stradivarius. You think there's going to be any change? The UK Telegraph has a story today about how there were leaked reports that Ahmadinejad actually came in third in this election. I am looking for it even as we speak. Sit tight and I'll find it as I go through this. See, I jump around here. I had this Iranian stuff at the bottom of the stack today but the way things unfold, where did I put it?
By the way, the Democrats very upset that Robert Byrd's health is improving. They are. They're upset that his health is improving because he opposes the czars, he opposes Obama's czars, thinks they're unconstitutional. He opposes this health care stuff that Obama is trying to do. Here it is. UK Telegraph: "'Iran Protest Cancelled as Leaked Election Results Show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Came Third.' -- Iran's reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has called off a major rally to protest last Friday’s election results, amid claims police had been cleared to open fire on protesters." It's by Colin Freeman. It goes on to say that he got "a statement on Mr. Mousavi's campaign website announced that the demonstration had been postponed." Leaked figures, authenticity cannot be confirmed, leaked figures say Ahmadinejad came in third. No surprise. It didn't matter what place he came in! Didn't matter what place anybody came in. It doesn't matter what the recount's going to say. The recount is for the benefit of dolts like our State-Run Media.
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RUSH: I want to play you an audio sound bite or two. They're hilarious. First the greatest press secretary ever, that would be the stumbling, bumbling Robert Gibbs in his press briefing this afternoon. Unidentified reporter said, "Robert, are you at all concerned that the president's measured response, the measured response of the United States so far to the Iranian election could harm the Americans, the president's image not only in Iran, but around the world?"
GIBBS: No, I -- I think, uh, this administration's commitment to democracy has been demonstrated in the commitment in resources that, uh, that we've put forward. But at the same time, I think it's important that I reemphasize what the president said about sovereignty, but more importantly, that I emphasize that this is a debate inside of Iran for Iranians.
RUSH: Okay, so the estimable Robert Gibbs had no problem, we're not going to meddle, we're not going to meddle. They're sovereign. If they want nuclear weapons, they can have nuclear weapons. They want nuclear power, they can have nuclear power. We've already told them they can go nuclear power. Oh, no, no, no, no, we're not going to meddle. Smartest, greatest press secretary ever.
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Obama's legal beavers have attacked out there. They cited Catalano vs. Catalano. These two guys say, "Oh, we got married, the Defense of Marriage Act, Obama is breaking a promise." Here's what Obama's lawyers went in to dispute this case. The first thing they did was cite a called Catalano vs. Catalano that involves a man who married his niece in Italy, and sought to have the marriage recognized in Connecticut. The - courts told him to stuff it. His lawyers then cited a case of an Indiana marriage of an underage woman that New Jersey courts red-lighted. This is a woman married to David Letterman! She's under age... I'm just kidding. But the New Jersey court said you can't marry somebody underage. The third case that legal beavers of Obama cited involve the marriage of first cousins in New Mexico. That was blown out by the Arizona courts. So the lesbian, gay bisexers, the transgenders are fuming that Obama isn't dismantling the Defense of Marriage Act.
They are livid that his beavers would cite cases involving incest and people marrying children. They are also furious at Obama's limp action on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Now, as you know, we have several members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community in this audience, and you boys and girls in that community, you have to understand something here. President Obama is getting busy. I mean, he's got some things that rank ahead of you and your marriage rights. He has to finish off the economy. He's gotta destroy health care. And those are pretty big deals. In doing so, he's going to end up controlling a whole lot of money, like four to five trillion dollars currently in the private sector. He's going to get his hands on. Your little defense of marriage business doesn't get him any money. It doesn't get him in control of anything. So for the moment, you lesbian, gay, bisexers and transgenders are just going to have to do what the rest of us have been doing with this guy and that's bend over, grab the ankles. But don't doubt him. Your turn's coming. So to speak. I mean, he's one of you guys. He's on your side. You're just not a priority right now. Man up and deal with it. Like we've all had to man up and deal with this guy, it's your turn to man up and deal with the guy. Stop whining!
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RUSH: Seriously, this New York Times editorial on Obama's defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, or his support for it is hilarious. "A Bad Call on Gay Rights" is the headline, but then they say, "If the administration does feel compelled to defend the [Defense of Marriage] act, it should do so in a less hurtful way." What the hell is that, a "less hurtful way"? I guess they mean, "Well, you could defend it without citing cases on incest, stuff like that." You can imagine his supporters in the gay, lesbian, and transgender brigades would be upset about this.
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HERRIDGE: They say the worst moment at Gitmo came when the US allowed Chinese interrogators to question them.
INTERPRETER: They were really harsh. They were threatening.
HERRIDGE: Camp Iguana, the camp with the least restrictions, was the men's most recent home. Asked which was worse, life at Gitmo versus China?
INTERPRETER: Of course it's Chinese. There's no guarantee for a human rights there.
RUSH: So right out of the mouths of terrorists, right out of the mouths of the Uighurs, they were treated pretty well there. The worst moment at Gitmo came when the US allowed the ChiComs to come ask them questions. (laughing) Then, this is hilarious. This is Norah O'Donnell, doesn't know what to do with this story. America's paying for this, Norah, this is what you have to note. But she's talking with a reporter for the Bermuda Sun, James Whittaker, about the four Chinese Uighurs now in Bermuda. She said, "Are these Uighurs, are these four guys mad at the United States?"
WHITTAKER: They said there's no hard feelings towards the US and despite the fact that they believe they've been wrongfully imprisoned for seven years.
O'DONNELL: Hmm. And where are they staying? At a nice hotel? And who's paying for it?
WHITTAKER: Well, I believe the US government is footing the bill at the moment. They're staying at a guest house on the north shore, which overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. It's a nice place. I was up there on the Saturday and met with them. It's nice traditional Bermudan cottages overlooking the ocean. It's somewhere most of us would like to go on holiday.
O'DONNELL: Hm-hm. I mean it is interesting when you see these pictures, they're strolling, it looks like they're on vacation, I mean we even got one picture of them eating ice cream.
RUSH: Why are you surprised, Norah? Your president has talked about how mean the United States is; your president has talked about how vicious Club Gitmo is. Your president has talked about how un-American Club Gitmo is. These people have been wrongly imprisoned by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. They ought to be in vacation cottages in Bermuda; they ought to be swimming in the ocean, and they ought to be eating ice cream. We Americans owe this to them, because Bush was mean and destroyed American values and America's reputation, and Obama's gonna reestablish.
So the United States is paying for four Chinese Muslim terrorists to vacation, basically, having been released from Guantanamo Bay, and in an open-ended interview they say the worst moment we ever had there was when the ChiComs showed up to ask us questions. Some days, some days, you know, I'm tempted to say just how stupid is 53% of this country. But I don't understand why Norah O'Donnell -- you can tell she's having trouble with this. And my question to anybody in State-Run Media, you ought to be celebrating, you ought to have a crew in Bermuda to show these guys eating ice cream, vacationing in their cottages in the north shore and swimming in the ocean, to show how harmless they are, to show how they were wrongly imprisoned, they're just nice Chinese terrorists and Bush was wrong. You're looking at this the wrong, wrong way. But clearly they don't know what to do with it.
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CALLER: Hello, Rush. It is such a pleasure to speak with you. I have been listening to you every day during lunch for the past ten years that we moved up here to Alabama.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I just wanted to call and clarify something. I'm thinking that I heard you wrong. You were speaking about some Senator that was speaking out on all the stupid pet projects that they stuck into the stimulus plan like save the rat or the turtle crossing, but did you say that the parks facilities were included in that?
RUSH: Park facilities are included in a list people think is good.
CALLER: Oh, okay. That's what I thought. I thought I had misunderstand that because I myself I work at a plant in Fort Payne, Alabama. It's a small town. We have about 450 employees, and we are having the best year ever. Normally we're pretty seasonal, so we're like real busy for like the first quarter, then we slow down. You know, back and forth. And my husband actually works here, too, and we're just like, "Wow," 'cause we're like looking at the news and we're seeing all these poor people.
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait a second. What's that got to do with spending on parks?
CALLER: Because that's one of our things that we sell: park facilities. Park amenities, you know? The basketball goals, the tables that they put in there, the playgrounds and stuff like that.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CALLER: And, you know, we're just having an awesome year, and we're like one of like five companies.
RUSH: How many new employees have you hired since the stimulus bill was passed?
CALLER: Oh, well, no. You got me there. Probably zero as far as I know. We haven't increased our workforce any. Most of the time we're laying people off.
RUSH: This is how... Patricia I know you're a big fan, you said so but unfortunately -- I hate to do this, but -- I'm going to make you hate me for a couple days.
CALLER: Oh, no. School me, sir. School me.
RUSH: I'm not going to scold you. I'm not going to scold you. I'm gonna say, this is how it all works. See, you your husband works at a plant that makes all this stuff for parks. Not one new job has been created, which was the whole point of the stimulus. But your husband's plant's doing well 'cause they're building new jungle gyms, basketball goals and stuff to put in the parks, there in Alabama. So it's working. I would argue that it's the state of Alabama's responsibility to do that, not taxpayers everywhere else. See, the whole sales pitch on the stimulus was, "It's going to revive the economy," and it was gonna fund "shovel-ready jobs." It was about creating jobs. You haven't ramped up. I mean, you admitted your husband hasn't ramped up. But you're sold on the stimulus because in your universe, it's working great. When my point philosophically is, "This is not the role of government in the first place: to build basketball goals and park benches and jungle gyms."
The government is not to pay for that, not the federal government. So unless there are people in the park digging holes and filling them back up that weren't digging holes and filling them back up in the first place, then your business is doing well but it's revenue neutral in terms of the expressed, avowed purpose. But I know -- and I'm sure there are a lot of other examples like this, people around the country, "Ooh, our business is thriving because of the stimulus!" I would say, "Okay, fine. Then if your business is thriving because of federal stimulus money, which is taxpayer money from all taxpayers around the country, then live on it forever. You know, go ahead and live on it forever." I'm not scolding you. I'm simply trying to illustrate... Well, some parks are national. The state parks are not in the National Park sector. Now, if you're talking about a national park, well, fine. That is a responsibility of the federal government.
I would just say, though... (sigh) It's a tough one. I understand it's a tough one. I'm just remembering what Obama said. We're celebrating here the manufacture of jungle gyms and basketball goals over people getting jobs. The unemployment rate is up to 9.4%. So basically what you have here is a government benefiting from the stimulus. You have a government benefiting from the stimulus. The private sector -- your company, I guess, is private sector -- but you're having a great year and I'm happy for you. At any rate, I understand your point, and I'm not scolding you. Again, I'm just illustrating how tricky all this stuff is. By the way, one other thing, Patricia. You have to be very careful. In a period of time when people are suffering and hurting and the food stamps are running out, unemployment benefits are running out, 9.4% unemployment, people's mortgages are being foreclosed on, you gotta be very careful here calling here and talking about how great you're doing.
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RUSH: To the phones. Manhattan, Kansas, this is Dale. Thank you for calling, sir. It's great to have you here with us.
CALLER: Honored to talk to you, sir.
RUSH: I can understand. Thank you.
CALLER: My question is -- and I'm throwing this out to you -- what exactly is the crisis in health care? I've been hearing about "crisis" in health care ever since the Hillary days. And quite honestly, I don't see it. Now, I'm not among the intellectual elite in this country --
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: -- but I still can't see it.
RUSH: That means you're a real guy.
CALLER: Thank you.
RUSH: You bet. It's a great question. The "crisis" in health care is like the "crisis" in everything else: manufactured.
CALLER: Precisely.
RUSH: Take a little survey. Dale, are you personally fretting? Are you in crisis mode? Are you walking around in a general state of fear over the fact you might get sick?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Do you know anybody who is?
CALLER: Oh, there's a lot of hypochondriacs out there but --
RUSH: Yeah, but are they worried about losing everything they own if they do get sick?
CALLER: Well, sure, but there's a real easy solution to that. I'm a small businessman out there -- and by "small," I mean probably microbusiness. I employ anywhere from six to ten people depending on the economy. I am able to offer my employees at no cost to them major medical coverage through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas for $150 a month each. And I pay for that, by the way.
RUSH: Yes?
CALLER: So what's the crisis?
RUSH: Well, that's my point, that's my point. There is no... You're asking a very valid question. There is no crisis. The crisis in health care is in the UK. The crisis in health care is in Canada. The crisis in health care is in Cuba. The crisis in health care is with the ChiComs. The crisis in health care is with a lot of other places. The crisis in health care here has been manufactured. My point is, folks -- just ask yourself in your own circle of friends, your family, community, your neighborhood, whatever -- how many people do you know who are actually walking around daily in fear, constantly fear of an auto accident or a major disease is going to wipe 'em out? This is what we've been told every day, just like during the last eight years -- well, seven years prior to this year -- we were told the economy was sinking fast that it was approaching a recession.
It was horrible while unemployment was low, an historical full time low of 4.7%. Now it's 9.4%. When it was 4.7% we were all being told daily by State-Run Media that the economy was in the tank and going south and it was horrible, it was horrible. And so they go out and do surveys and polls of people: "How are you doing economically?" "Oh, I'm doing fine, but I'm worried about my neighbor. I guess things aren't so good out there." It's the same thing with health care. "How is your health care?" "I pretty much like it, but I guess there's a lot of people out there uninsured and really have a lot of trouble out there." It's just been manufactured. There is no "crisis" in health care unless you want to talk about the 47 million uninsured, then if you break down that number, you find that 60% of them are illegal aliens. Others make income over 75 grand who choose not to have it.
That's the crisis -- and there may be people that costs are a little bit high, but that's because of government involvement. Heritage Foundation today, simply to get, great stuff here. "Yesterday the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a preliminary analysis of the Kennedy-Dodd health care plan, and the results were truly frightening. Assessing just Title I of the draft legislation, CBO estimated the plan..." Now listen to this. Look at me. "CBO estimated the plan would add $1 trillion to the federal deficit while only extending health insurance to a net 16 million more Americans." Now, I mentioned this earlier: $1 trillion for one-third of the uninsured. "As scary as that is, what is even more disturbing is what costs the CBO did not estimate: 'The proposal does not include a 'public plan' that would be offered in the exchanges, nor does it contain provisions that would require employers to offer health insurance benefits or impose a fee or tax on them if they did not offer insurance coverage to their workers.'"
In other words, the $1 trillion cost to insure 16 million uninsured does not include the public option! And the public option is the deal that Obama wants. This cost doesn't even estimate that. What Obama is going to do is throw this out. He'll say, "This is not accurate. We're not going to listen to this," and he'll have his own Office of Management and Budget do it. Now... "Even without the public plan, the CBO analysis undercuts one of the fundamental promises President Barack Obama has repeatedly made about health care reform. Speaking to the American Medical Association yesterday, President Obama promised: 'If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.'
The CBO," the so-called nonpartisan CBO "disagrees. According to their analysis, while the Kennedy-Dodd bill would enable 39 million Americans to obtain health insurance, the plan would kick about 15 million people out of the system because their employers would no longer offer insurance..." The employers would opt into the public option. There are a lot of employers want to off-load this. "[C]overage from other sources would decline by 8 million." So 27 million people would be thrown off insurance rolls and have to go public option. You would lose your choice of doctor. "These numbers will only look worse once a public plan is factored in. And the public plan is just one of the biggest problems in the Kennedy-Dodd bill:
"An independent analysis by the Lewin Group, for example, shows that a public plan depending on eligibility and payments rates could result in up to 119.1 million Americans being switched by their employers from their existing coverage or transferred to government-sponsored coverage..." This is why it's Trojan horse and this is why he's denying this, saying it's not going to happen. But in the real world -- where they never score dynamics, they only score statics in these things. Score the dynamics and you got a bunch of businesses with a chance to off-load their health care expenses to the so-called public option, you don't think that some will do it? And the estimates of the numbers that want to do it will lead "up to 119.1 million Americans being switched by their employers from their existing coverage or transferred to government-sponsored coverage," the public option.
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RUSH: Back to that CBO report, the public option not even part of this $1 trillion, Obama says nobody's going to lose their health plan. That's absolute BS. UAW, the big unions, big companies, they're going to dump all their health care costs on the taxpayers. That's why Obama and company are going to fight like hell for this public option. That's why we gotta continue --
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RUSH: Washington Post today: "More Problems Than Solutions in Medicare Report." Now, this is not the CBO score of Obama's health care proposal. This is a separate report on Medicare. Now, keep in mind that Obama's health care public option proposal is essentially just expanding Medicare as it exists. In fact, they start the story this way: "Expanding access to Medicare will not solve the nation's health-care cost problem. That's the message of a report yesterday by a commission that advises Congress on the federal medical program for older Americans." Expanding access will not solve its problem. Of course not, 'cause it's broke!
"To eliminate wasteful spending, policymakers must transform economic incentives for doctors, hospitals and other providers of medical services -- though it isn't clear how, according to the report. As Congress and the Obama administration seek to restrain potentially crushing increases in health-care spending, the report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is emblematic of the larger debate: long on problems and short on solutions. ... To illustrate what it might take to save Medicare, the commission describes how primary-care doctors, specialists and hospitals could be reorganized into 'accountable care organizations' whose members would receive bonuses if the organizations met quality and cost targets." Oh, they want to have private sector incentives here, is that what they're talking about? "To ratchet up the incentives, health-care providers that fail to meet cost and quality targets could be penalized."
Now, the program here says this: "If current spending and utilization trends continue, the Medicare program is fiscally unsustainable. ... Part of the problem is that Medicare's fee-for-service payment systems reward more care -- and more complex care -- without regard to the quality or value of that care." So we have two things that hit yesterday. We had the CBO report on Obama's health care plan -- well, it's the Kennedy plan, but it's the Obama plan being run by Kennedy and whoever else in the Senate. I forget who other guy with him is. Anyway, that would take $1 trillion over ten years just to insure one-third of the 47 million uninsured. And then the Medicare report says that the government's Medicare program is fiscally unsustainable. There's no reason to do any of this. There is no reason to do any of it, fiscally, common sense. The only reason to do this is if you are an authoritarian and you want to grab as much control of the US private sector health care system as you can. That's the only reason to do this, because there's not one common sense or financial or fiscal or business reason to do either of these things that are being proposed. Like I said last week, can we just wait to see if anything else Obama does works before we mess up with one-fifth of the US economy?
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RUSH: Rich Lowry makes a good point in the column today I read in the New York Post. "Back in the mid 1990s, Gingrich proposed slowing the rate of growth of Medicare and Medicaid..." Remember the Democrats produced this fraudulent commercial Newt saying, ah, we just want to let Medicare and Medicaid wither on the vine. He wasn't talking about letting Medicare and Medicaid wither on the vine. He "was clobbered by Democrats and the press for waging war on the elderly and the indigent. Now, almost every other day, President Obama finds another hundred billion dollars to cut out of Medicare and Medicaid," in order pay for his big nationalized health care, and nobody is upset about it! Can you remember a time when a government official started talking about cutting Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid and nobody beefed? Never! Obama is getting away with it each and every day. People will takedown their security for liberty all too frequently.
RUSH: Let me ask you to consider another question, another point. Many people in this health care thing think what it's all about is them getting health care free 'cause it's unaffordable. They want their insurance free and their health care free. I'll ask you, the general audience, in addition to specifying how I just did it with people who think that health care is going to be given away. How many of you, at any time in your life, have gotten a comp of anything? Maybe it's a couple tickets to a game; maybe somebody gave you something, whatever. But just because it didn't cost you anything, did it mean it didn't cost anybody anything? Costs don't go away just because you don't happen to pay them. They'll come back and bite you in the rear end in you don't know how many different ways, what you're obligating yourself to -- or, in the case of Medicare, Medicaid, or health care, you think it doesn't cost you anything so it doesn't cost anybody anything? It's going to cost somebody something, and they're going to come back and get it from you one way or the other. Either your service is going to go to hell and you're not going to get as good coverage 'cause you're not paying anything for it.. It's like Thomas Sowell said, he said this in a column in 2005: "Costs don't go away because you refuse to pay 'em any more than gravity goes away if you refuse to acknowledge it." Thinking that something doesn't cost you when it does have a price is the same thing as thinking gravity isn't going to kill you when you jump off the mountain.
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RUSH: He's Alex, Flushing, Michigan. You're up next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing today?
RUSH: Great, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Good. I'm glad you're there. I enjoy listening to you.
RUSH: Thanks so much.
CALLER: Listen, I wanted to comment on that thing about Flint that you've been bringing up. And I'm a Republican, so don't doubt that one bit. But I wanted to say that definitely there's areas of Flint that really need to be torn down, and that city really needs to be cleaned up, and they need to do something in that city that's going to help them generate tax dollars as far as... Get new businesses in there and just so they can even pay the public service people as far as the police department and the other services that they need to take care of, you know? But other than that, you know, I mean I lived --
RUSH: How far is Flushing, Michigan, from Flint?
CALLER: Flushing is probably about, oh, five miles, eight miles outside of the city. I've lived in that area all my life.
RUSH: So you are in Flint frequently?
CALLER: Oh, yes. Well, I'm an over-the-road truck driver so not as much as I once was. I mean, I'm gone for a month at a time but even when I'm home --
RUSH: See?
CALLER: -- I don't like going into the city.
RUSH: Look at what just happened. I said, "Oh, you're in Flint frequently." "No, no, no, no, no, no!" You didn't want to be identified as being in Flint very often, even though you're only eight miles away.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: Give the excuse you're an over-the-road truck driver. So you live in a suburban of Flint?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Yeah. And you agree...? The story is that 40% of the place needs to be bulldozed.
CALLER: Well, for the areas that I'm thinking, Rush, that could be 40%. There's part of the city -- and not to be disrespectful to the people that live in that part of the city, but there's areas that just, you know, make the city look in pretty bad disarray.
RUSH: Who's the mayor? What political party is the mayor in Flint?
CALLER: Well, it's a Democratic, and there was a guy named Don Williams and he recently just got out.
RUSH: And the city council is dominated by which political party?
CALLER: Democrat.
RUSH: Democrat. And is state government in Michigan dominated by which political party?
CALLER: Democrat.
RUSH: Yeah, and for a long, long, long, long, long, long time, right?
CALLER: Yes, except for the good years of Engler.
RUSH: Yeah, there was an interlude in there. You're absolutely right. Well, you lived there and say 40% of it needs to be bulldozed so that people will move back.
CALLER: Well, I don't think they're going to move back. I think there are nice suburbs of Flint where people are much happier and they can be there with their families. Probably some of the schools are better than what's in the city of Flint.
RUSH: Look, if you're going to bulldoze 40% of Flint and bulldozing 40% of Flint will not cause people to return and have it grow, why not bulldoze it all? If everybody prefers to live in cities close to it?
CALLER: Well, there's people that probably enjoy living in the city. They've been there for years and I'm sure they would want to see the city improve. They probably wouldn't be against this plan. I mean, no one wants to see a bunch of people be forced out of their homes because of this, you know. But if it can eventually improve things to where people want to move there then by all means. You know?
RUSH: Now, wait. This is a new twist because the story I read said that 40% of the town needs to be bulldozed because 40% of the homes and other structures are unoccupied. Now you're talking about bulldozing homes that are occupied as well.
CALLER: Well, the areas that you're speaking of... Okay, now, I mentioned the northern part of the city, okay? There's areas where I grew up in when I was a child that now are much worse. Like I took my children into an area where I grew up when I was a baby just a couple months ago, and I want to tell you what, Rush. I was scared. I drove down that street...
RUSH: Okay, fine. Now, we can say, "Okay, it needs to be bulldozed," but nobody is going to go back there precisely because no changes will be made that led to the fact that 40% of the town is a ghost town or what have you. What bothers me about this is that this is a country that has always prided itself on growth, economic growth and economic opportunity. Now, I understand. We hear of hurricanes wiping out towns. There was a Kansas town wiped out by a tornado, and they rebuilt it. It's amazing to listen to Democrats say, "We don't have any interest in rebuilding Flint. We want to bulldoze it," and then the guy come up with the idea. Obama says, "Hey, apply your theory to 50 our cities."
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RUSH: All right, folks, I have thought about it, I've given this considerable thought. I've given this more thought in the last ten minutes than most people think about anything in their life. And I am ready to change my mind on bulldozing Flint. I say go for it. Let's just bulldoze it. Well, what made me think of this was my answer to the guy's question on bankruptcy. By the way, the first purpose of the TARP bailout was to buy up all the toxic assets, and then it was to get credit going. We haven't done either with the money. But now I'm sort of looking at bulldozing these cities as bankruptcy. They should have been let go long ago. They were down the tubes long ago. We tried propping them up with urban renewal and it didn't work. We were hoodwinked into being called names if we just let these cities go. So we kept pumping money in there, we kept pumping welfare, food stamps, all these things 'cause we loved 'em and we cared for them, but the proof that a government can't revive anything is Flint, Michigan.
What really sent Flint south was when GM shut down there and moved or left. Well, I better check. I better check if there's still GM operations in Flint. If there are, they've really been downsized. But whatever, if GM's not involved in it, whatever is the problem in Flint, Michigan, what have we done to try to save it? Every government program under the sun, and what's happened? We got boarded-up houses that now the leaders of the town say need to be bulldozed, forty percent of the town. Now, this is probably what needs to happen to a lot of California, folks, and other places where we're going in debt propping up failure. It is what it is. We can't keep pumping all this federal and state money in because we have proven that pumping federal and state money doesn't spur growth in cities or anything else. GM, I mean, if $50 billion in bailout or 20 can't save 'em, let it go. And then if Flint rises out of its own ashes, fine and dandy. There's another added benefit. Every damn one of these cities is a blue city, I'll guaran-damn-tee you, meaning mostly Democrats, so you bulldoze it and you disburse a bunch of Obama voters, it has great political future ramifications for the Republicans. Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.
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RUSH: Dave in Pittsburgh, I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Greetings from the City of Champions. I called regarding bulldozing 40% of Flint, Michigan, and I have a thought about it. Maybe this is what President Obama really meant by "shovel-ready jobs" from the Porkulus package.
RUSH: (laughing) Shovel-ready jobs, bulldozing Flint and other American cities. (laughing) You think it's a terrible idea to bulldoze these places?
CALLER: Oh, it's an awful idea. I guess it would be the easiest way to tear our American cities down that have been being mishandled by liberals for years, and obviously they won't have a chance to prosper under Obama.
RUSH: The point here (there is a point) is when you let liberals decide what's going to be bulldozed, then anything is up for grabs. Now, right now what's being talked about in Flint, according to the report that I saw -- and I think it was the Los Angeles Times yesterday. What's being talked about being bulldozed in Flint is unoccupied houses, boarded-up houses. And, you know, general neighborhoods where nobody is. Now, if there is talk about bulldozing neighborhoods where people live that's a different thing. But this guy that's in charge of this is a big lib and he's in city council, and the Obama people have asked him, "You know, hey, apply your theory here to 50 our cities." Once the libs start talking about bulldozing things, that's a good point, excellent point.
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RUSH: Yesterday I posted on the website three pictures of our new little puppy, an old English sheepdog by the name of Abbey, 12 weeks old. They were cute little pictures, cute little dog. Everybody who has dogs understands. This is an exuberant little puppy, curious about everything, already loyal, already devoted. But I got a lot of questions from people: "What about Punkin? Have you just thrown Punkin away? Have you thrown Punkin overboard? What about Punkin?" No. Punkin is fine and dandy. I even mentioned this a little bit. Punkin is fine with the new dog. It was actually kind of funny, because Punkin will be 11, I think, in August, and she'd never seen a dog until this one. She had never seen a dog, except on TV, and she didn't know that she was watching TV when she was watching TV contrary to what -- (interruption) she doesn't know how to hate. My cat is not a hater. My cat is like every other cat, a superior being, indifferent to most everything, very loyal to me, but couldn't care less about anything.
So the first thing I did, we got the new puppy in the house. We got it close to where Punkin's two rooms are, but we didn't take the dog in there. We just wanted Punkin to be able to whiff the scent. This is what I've been told by all the experts to do. If it's another cat or a dog, let it get a whiff of the scent, but don't let the cat see the intruder. Do that a couple, three days, get them used to the scent, which is what happened. And then, quite by accident, we're in the library with the new puppy, and in strolls Punkin. I said to Katie, "Here's what's going to happen." I know exactly what's going to happen here. When these two meet, the cat's going to walk in the room, and your dog, little puppy, is going to go absolutely bonkers that there's an animal in the room, going to go running around like an absolute teenager with all this boundless energy, running around, a little moaning, a little barking and so forth, go up and try to sniff the cat. And the cat, Punkin, is going to look at this new creature just as you would look at a rambunctious four-year-old, like, "Ah, what have I gotta be bothered with this for?" And that's exactly what happened.
Punkin looked at this new dog like, "Ah, gee, what the hell is this?" She just sat there and stared at it like, "You little idiot, when are you going to calm down and stop making all this racket here in my house?" So then finally the dog got up the courage to get close to Punkin and start doing the sniff routine and I wish I had the camera to show you this, I wish I'd had the camera but I was too busy standing guard. I had to make sure that nothing happened here. I was the guard, I did not have any camera with me and I was afraid if I left the scene to go get the camera the puppy would follow me. So we haven't got any pictures of this yet, but the puppy kinda tiptoes up and starts sniffing around and Punkin just sits there and takes it and so forth. Then Punkin gets up and the puppy starts sniffing the rear end and I said, "Uh-oh, no, this could be problematic," but it wasn't. I was stunned. I was literally stunned. But then all of a sudden out of nowhere Punkin turned around and hissed. Bam, that dog made a beeline, a 180 in the opposite direction and then tiptoed back and Punkin finally got tired of it and left and went back up to her two rooms.
So later we followed. We took the dog up to Punkin's two rooms and Punkin was in her hammock. I have a little cat toy that's a hammock and she's sitting in it with one paw out. The dog sniffs and Punkin does not leave the hammock. She just looks at the dog like it's the biggest idiot on the face of the earth. The dog goes in and starts eating some of Punkin's food. Punkin walks out of the hammock and sees this. After the dog finishes she goes in and sniffs some of the food, I go, "Ah no, now the food's corrupted. Punkin's not going to eat this," but she did. So the bottom line is they get along fine. They get along famously well, which was surprising to me. It was fun to watch, but I still don't have any pictures of it, but I promise that I will try to get some pictures. (interruption) What? You don't believe me, Brian? The look on your face, you don't believe me? Punkin has not been altered, but there were no swipes. There were no swipes, just a little hissing. (interruption) Scratch boards and so forth. She's a good cat, what can I tell you? She starts doing something, I say, "No," she looks at me like, "Screw you," and leaves anyway.
They're so indifferent, you know, no matter how much cats have been domesticated they still have this air of superiority over everybody. But, no, it was funny to watch. We're just doing it, you know, little tiptoe type steps. They're already, I'd have to say, peaceful in their coexistence. I'm hoping that down the line they'll be buds, so forth. The thing is this dog is going to get up to 70 pounds and Punkin weighs about eight. But that won't faze Punkin, she'll hiss. By the way, it's the first time I've ever heard her hiss, first time. In 11 years she's never hissed, yeah, first time I've ever seen her do it. It was fun to watch.
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RUSH: I was not worried at all about mixing the dog and the cat. Not at all. I understand these animals. If you understand one simple truth then you'll have no problem mixing cats and dogs in your house. Dogs have masters and cats have staff. Once you understand that -- you can't make a cat be a dog or vice-versa -- then everything's cool, everything's fine.
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RUSH: Mark Levin just sent me a very insulting note. Levin said, "I just saw pictures of your new puppy. Looks like Obama's dog." And I was insulted. Obama's dog has a tail; it's a Portuguese Water Dog; it was given to him by Senator Kennedy. Senator Kennedy has a Portuguese Water Dog named Splash. I kid you not.
Our dog is an Old English Sheepdog, much, much, much nicer. I don't want to put down Portuguese Water Dogs, but I mean to have my dog compared to Obama's, that was a bit much. (interruption) What do you mean, notice how quickly it became our dog? Well, I love the little thing. It's our dog. I do, I love him. What's wrong with it being our dog? I was there when we picked it up. You know, I didn't leave it. You know, I got a big yard. It's going to be a big dog, let it run around there. I'm not like some fathers, you know, leave the waiting room and head out and have a cigar and so forth. I was there the moment of delivery. (interruption) No, we're not into the parent thing. Don't take this out of whack.
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RUSH: Palm Coast, Florida. Emmett, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Never better, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Yeah. I recently wrote you the letter called Middle American, and one of the things I didn't get quite to get to on that was, everyone's so concerned about this bailout and all -- and these companies made bad decisions and poor decisions that we bailed 'em out on. What would have happened if we just let it go? I mean, there's a doomsday theory that all America would have just crumbled beneath everything if we hadn't have jumped in and paid our taxes to get these guys out of trouble.
RUSH: That is an excellent question. Now, which bailout are you to... There have been, what? Four of note. Which one specifically? Are you talking about GM? Are you talking about GM and Chrysler? Are you talking about banks? Are you talking about TARP? Which one are you specifically referring to here?
CALLER: Well, to get specific, we'll do the GM bailout. I mean, they made poor choices on financing the wrong people and people who aren't ready to finance, so in my way of thinking...
CALLER: Okay, here's the thing on that. In a normal capitalist economic system, if they can't make it they file Chapter 11. Which they shoulda done in the first place. How many billions did we throw at both companies to save 'em. It didn't work and they both end up going modified Chapter 11, written and dominated by Obama? And now Obama controls them, which is what he was after from the start. And I know that Bush was the guy that actually started the first bailout of GM, but Obama during the transition called Bush and urged him to do it. And Obama was trying to play hide-and-seek during the transition but he was in on this. He wanted Bush to do it. Bush was, I think, just trying to be cooperative -- he's a class guy -- with the incoming chief of state.
The TARP bailout, that was a ruse from the get-go. We have since learned... Look at what we were told about that. We were told if we didn't do the TARP bailout that the country would cease to exist and the country would default and we would all be essentially penniless in 24 hours! That's how they sold that. Remember Hank Paulson was running around with Ben Bernanke? We've bailed out all these banks and all it's done is led to government control of the banks. Remember the original purpose of the TARP bailout was to get credit going again so people could borrow? It still hasn't happened. It still hasn't happened! The whole thing, the whole thing was a ruse, folks. I don't know what the purpose is.
I mean, you could speculate and say this was about Wall Street being made whole with your taxpayer dollars. It was about Paulson trying to take care of his buddies so they didn't lose their homes in the Hamptons. But we know it wasn't about saving the economy. It wasn't about saving the country. We've done far more than TARP now. Obama has spent -- over ten years, if he doesn't spend another dime -- $12 trillion! Money we don't have. What we've done in response to whatever financial crisis there was, was compound the crisis by a multiple of ten if we'd have just left it alone. If things are that bad and if things are running irresponsibly, people are running business irresponsibly, it happens in small business people all the time.
It doesn't work. They have to shut down. But somehow when it's large and so forth... We wanted to save it, right? The theory was we wanted to save the banks, save Wall Street, get credit going again. What's happened? What's happened is that Obama's now setting payment, compensation schedules for people on Wall Street -- and he's talking about doing it in businesses that have nothing to do or have not even taken any bailout money. This whole thing was a ruse and a scam from day one. People, one of our great problems in the United States, people will trade their liberty for security. Even though the natural yearning of the human spirit, as created, is to be free, security is a big competitor to liberty. That's why they are able to sell this health care crap. That's why they're able to sell the bailouts.
Because it was about security and about people not "getting hurt" and about people not losing their jobs and people not losing this or that. We just can't stand after all of this self-esteem education that we've been pummeling our kids with for 35 or 40 years and all this stupid, rotten conflict resolution stuff. We can't have any pain -- and we've got more pain ahead of us than you can possibly imagine because of the steps taken to eliminate pain at the moment. And we still have a lot of pain! It's 9.4% unemployed. We've got a lot of pain. Look at the latest numbers here. "The value of loans held by the 21 largest institutions getting support from the government $700 billion bailout fund fell," the value of the loans fell "in April, the fifth decline in six months. The bottom line is that more than 9% of all mortgages are at least 30 days late now. People in 9% are 30 days late behind payment." None of this was supposed to happen! We were supposed to fix this.
And remember the people who were in trouble? They were supposed to even go to an Obama website and stay in their house without being foreclosed. None of it's happened, every bit was a lie! The stimulus was a lie. The stimulus package. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has found "Repairs for rural bridges, an under-highway safe crossing for turtles and efforts to protect the sage grouse population are among 100 projects a [he] pointed to Monday as questionable federal stimulus" money. Stimulus money was supposed to get you a job! It was supposed to put people back to work. Instead, we passed stimulus and have 9.4% unemployment. "The list by Senator Coburn includes projects others would identify as ideal for creating jobs and benefiting generations of Americans." Skateboard parks? I mean, would not be ideal. Skateboard parks, streetscrapes, upgrades of park facilities, bike trails, parking garages? That's what's being built with stimulus money. Stimulus money was to stimulate the economy.
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It's a coincidence that Democrat areas lag, right?
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RUSH: I saw something a couple days ago in the Sacramento Bee that's just amazing. If I showed you the map on the Dittocam, it wouldn't do any good. You're going to have to go to our website, we'll link to this story. It's Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers, in the Sacramento Bee: "It'll Be Years Before Jobs Return to Much of U.S." There is a map of the United States, and it says the year this area will return to prerecession employment peak, and then color-coded regions of the country. I am certain it's just a sheer coincidence that all of the red areas in this chart, which are the blue states, it's just sheer coincidence that all of these areas which will not see jobs return to prerecession levels 'til 2014 are Democrat strongholds. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. You ought to see this. California state's going to go up to 12%. There's one part of California that will rebound by 2011, and it's Central Valley, central part of the state.
We're screwed, Snerdley, here in south Florida, all along the south Florida East Coast all the way up to Naples, 2014 before jobs return to prerecession. New York, Chicago, Detroit, most of California, Oregon, Minnesota, New Orleans, I mean it's just bad out there. You'll note also as I look at this chart, that the District of Columbia will rebound next year with jobs at prerecession levels. They've got big stimulus, yes. However the state, 2009 or 2010 the state with the most green areas -- that's job recovery -- prerecession levels, Texas, southern New Mexico, Wyoming. I'm sure it's just a coincidence these are Republican states, just a coincidence up there. As I say we'll link to this at RushLimbaugh.com. What it also shows is that with the exception of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, the Midwest and the south are where to be if you want to get a job before 2011 or 2012, 2013, certainly 2014. I'm not suggesting you move here, folks, don't misunderstand. Michigan's all red at 2014, and that's being generous. We're bulldozing Michigan, for crying out loud, let's be honest about what's happening out there.
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always!
Bookmarked for rereading. Thank you GOP_Lady and thank you Rush Limbaugh!!! ;)
3rd Quarter, 2012 for employment in my area to return to Pre-0bama levels.
THREE YEARS. And we’re one of the ‘lucky’ ones.
Man, I LOATHE the Socialist in Chief!
“This man’s ego is not containable.”
BUMP!
2014 for my area.
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