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RUSH: Obama has done it again. He's done it again. Yesterday afternoon at the jobs town hall summit, he said this.
OBAMA: These deficits won't just burden our kids and our grandkids decades from now, they could damage our markets now, they could drive up our interest rates now. They could jeopardize our recovery right now. Responsible families don't do their budgets the way the federal government does. When times are tough, you tighten your belts, you don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage, you don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college. You prioritize, you make tough choices. It's time your government did the same.
RUSH: This guy, this guy has got it in for Las Vegas. There's something about Vegas the guy doesn't like because this is the second time that he's done this. Here's the first time he did this almost exactly a year ago, it was February 9th in Elkhart, Indiana.
OBAMA: You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime.
RUSH: Yeah, right on, right on, right on. And of course last year the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman said that's outrageous. Even Dingy Harry yesterday told the president, "Lay off Las Vegas!" And the mayor, Oscar Goodman yesterday in Vegas, we put together a montage of his not-very-happy reaction to this.
GOODMAN: He has a real psychological hang-up about the entertainment capital of the world, and an apology won't be acceptable this time. I don't know where his vendetta comes from, but we're not going to let him make his bones by lambasting Las Vegas. That's why you're here today. He didn't learn his lesson the first time, but when he hurt our economy by his ill-conceived rhetoric, we didn't think it would happen again. But now that it has, I want to assure you when he comes, I'll do everything I can to give him the boot back to Washington and to visit his failures back there, and I gotta tell you this, and everybody says I shouldn't say it but I gotta tell you the way it is. This president is a real slow learner.
RUSH: That's putting it mildly. That's Oscar Goodman who is not affiliated with a political party. But I mean that's pretty tough stuff, kick him out if he shows up, send him back to Washington to visit his failures back there. And everybody says I shouldn't say it but I gotta tell you the way it is, this president is a real slow learner. There's politics in everything Obama does. He was off the teleprompter yesterday, at least for that comment, or maybe -- I don't know if he was. But could it be -- you tell me -- because I don't understand this. He's gotta have something in for Las Vegas. Maybe he lost a bunch of money there. Maybe got rolled by a hooker there. I don't know what it is, something happened.
Or it could be this. It could be that he is trying to get rid of Harry Reid. Have you thought of that possibility? That maybe all of this is aimed at getting rid of Harry Reid? Now, you maybe thinking, "How would this get rid of Harry Reid?" Well, it makes Reid look like a sap and everybody in Vegas, in Nevada, in fact, look like a sap. Las Vegas is the seat, you know, like Hong Kong is big capitalism in China. Las Vegas is capitalism on steroids in the United States. That could be why he doesn't like it.
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RUSH: State-Controlled AP: "Obama Backs Down After Anti-Vegas Remarks." By the way, I'm just saying
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"'We report with great enthusiasm how much bankers are making, how it's out of step with reality during a recession. Well, look at Katie.' Couric's $300,000 a week paycheck has become the obsession of disgruntled CBS staff, just as deep layoffs rock the newsroom. Dozens of employees -- including staff members in DC, San Francisco, Miami, London, Los Angeles, and Moscow -- are being let go." No buyouts, no buyouts. It's immediate -- and remember, last summer was Dan Rather that called on Obama to form a White House commission to help save the media. So this is bad. I mean, she's facing trouble. Her contract's up soon; and if she stays, she'll get $7 million, which will put her in line with what Brian Williams makes, cut from $14 million. Of course, this angry newsroom source has a point.
These people are out there lambasting profits and salaries all over the place (except theirs). All of these news people think that their divisions ought to be immune from profit and loss, that their jobs are so important! It's so important that these networks ought to realize even if they have to lose money to put quality news on the air -- even while the news is losing viewers, losing readers, losing advertising support! But apparently the rubber's hit the road inside CBS. I am hearing -- and you know me. I'm pretty wired. I'm a powerful, influential member of the media. I'm hearing that Katie wants Oprah's gig when Oprah quits, that Katie Couric wants Oprah's couch. So we'll see.
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RUSH: Isn't it great, folks? Of all bureaus, CBS had to close down probably their closest and most dearest? They had to close the Moscow bureau! That had to hurt 'em. That had to just be... In addition to all the people getting fired to have to close the Moscow bureau if you're CBS? Ohhhh! Not a good week. Of course, we here at the EIB Network, by the third week in January -- this special note to CBS -- we had 70% of our entire 2009 already on the books for 2010. Advertisers still get results here (ahem!) recession or not. That's just a little inside baseball. And of course I would only take a pay cut if I ran for office. There would be no such thing otherwise.
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ANNOUNCER: Is this change you can believe in? Over the years Alexi Giannoulias has had some shady ties, including the mob. As a bank executive, he loaned 15.4 million to convicted mobster Michael "Jaws" Giorango, a crime boss that ran prostitution rings and engaged in illegal gambling. Giannoulias said, "I don't know what the charges are that makes him this huge crime figure." But Giannoulias discussed Giorango's criminal past with him. What a wise guy. And no surprise, Giannoulias is tied to corrupt ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich. Alexi's brother Dimitri was twice appointed by Blagojevich, and Blagojevich took ten grand from Giannoulias' father. What's worse, Dimitri was listed on Blagojevich's clout list and his appointment was pushed by Tony Rezko, convicted of fraud and bribery. Blagojevich, Rezko, and the mob. Alexi Giannoulias. He'd make Tony Soprano proud.
RUSH: They even went out and got a guy who sounds like he's mobbed up to do the commercial, and this is the best the Democrats can come up with? This guy? That's the best they can come up with to take Obama's Senate seat? Because that's what this is.
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RUSH: Folks, there is so much apologizing going on from members of this administration, it's just amazing. First place, there's Rahm Emanuel out there who is in big trouble for calling liberals, for calling liberal activists F-ing retards. Sarah Palin demanded that he be fired. Instead, he is apologizing to liberal activists. He was getting mad at them about health care. The liberal activists kept blaming the White House for all this health care debacle not happening and not getting done. Emanuel's getting ticked off out there saying, (paraphrasing) "What are you blaming us for? We didn't do anything about it, you F-ing retards." I think the big news is the crack-up going on. But our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are "retards," "retards." I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are Looney Toons. I'm not going to apologize for it. I'm just quoting Emanuel. It's in the news. I think the big news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters "F-ing retards."
So now there's going to be a meeting, there's going to be a "retard" summit at the White House, much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge. And then the Republican transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, he's out there apologizing because he told people not to drive their recalled Toyotas. And he said, (paraphrasing) "No, no, no, I didn't say don't drive 'em. I said take it in and get it fixed." Here's the story: "Don’t Drive Recalled Toyotas: U.S. Transportation Secretary -- LaHood called automaker 'a little safety deaf' during probe of problem. He is advising owners of recalled Toyotas to stop driving them and get 'em fixed. His warning came Wednesday in testimony before a House Appropriations Committee," but he's since gone out to a different microphone and said, (paraphrasing) "No, no, no, no, I didn't mean to say don't drive 'em." Don't forget Toyota is a competitor to Obama Motors. You can't throw that out of the equation. Obama owns GM and Chrysler, and Toyota is a number one competitor. This is no different than the CEO of Ford going on TV or buying an ad and saying don't drive a General Motors car.
Then Arne Duncan is apologizing for what he said about Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans public schools. He said Hurricane Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to New Orleans public schools. It was the best thing that ever happened to education in the New Orleans school system. He said, "the school system has improved so rapidly," because we had to rebuild it from scratch. "It's a wonderful thing to watch. The school system is strong again where it was relatively weak before." That can happen when half the population moves to Houston and you throw in even more cash. Duncan called on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to explain his remarks.
And then John Ensign, Senator from Nevada, Republican, "demanded an apology Tuesday from President Barack Obama for remarks he made disparaging Las Vegas. Ensign took to Twitter to ask for an apology for the remarks, the latest the president has made in several negative references to the city. 'Obama slams Las Vegas again. I am calling on the President to apologize for his remark. Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further.'" Reid got a letter from the president but Ensign did not. That's the news from our Las Vegas affiliate. No surprise there. This guy's an ideologue, he's a partisan. Says he's not.
From the Wall Street Journal: "Emanuel Steps Up His Apology -- Rahm Emanuel privately apologized last week to the Special Olympics after the Journal reported that he used the word 'retarded' in a derogatory manner. But advocates for people with disabilities didn’t think that apology, coming in a phone call to Special Olympics head Tim Shriver, was enough. Now, Emanuel is taking his contrition one step farther -- hosting a delegation of advocates, including two people with mental disabilities, at the White House." They're going to have a retard summit just like they had the beer summit. But folks, let's not forget, Obama insulted the Special Olympics on The Tonight Show. I haven't forgotten this. You know, here's the thing. If you want to look at how this is broken down, Emanuel compares Democrat activists to retarded people, then apologizes to retarded people. Not to the Democrats.
Normally if you call somebody a retard, you apologize to them for calling them a retard. But he has apologized to the retarded people for daring to lump them with Democrats. It's hilarious. So in an effort, ladies and gentlemen, to quell rising questions about the endless apologies necessary from Democrats, Obama is taking a short bus, little yellow bus full of retards, "F-ing retards" to Las Vegas for the weekend. Senator Harry Reid expressed appreciation for the gesture and hoped that none of the "F-ing retards" spoke with a Negro dialect. Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, will also be with the delegation in Las Vegas, bringing some undereducated children from Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. The goal is to teach them not to gamble with their college fund. I mean that's what we have learned from what is happening with this administration. If this were Republicans making these statements, there wouldn't be any forgiveness. There would be calls for resignation. There would be calls for public humiliation. There would be calls for fines.
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RUSH: I referenced a moment ago that Rahm Emanuel with his "F-ing retard" comment and Obama, you remember, had gone out on The Tonight Show and he'd made fun of Special Olympics bowlers. Well, here, let's go back in time and remember how that happened.
(playing of Obama prepping for the Tonight Show spoof)
RUSH: He said it. "I bowl like I'm in the Special Olympics," President Obama.
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RUSH: You know, folks, seriously -- and you may not know this. This uproar over Rahm Emanuel calling Democrat activists "F-ing retards," demonstrates the power of Sarah Palin. It was Sarah Palin who, on her Facebook page this week, demanded that Obama fire Emanuel. But this comment is from last August! The "F-ing retard" comment, he made it last August. Of course our State-Controlled Media buddies tell us that she's "irrelevant" and she's "stupid" and so forth and "she would be the instant death of the Republican Party." She's the one that got all this brouhaha going.
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RUSH: This is Gail, Barrington, Illinois, nice to have on the Rush-Limbaugh program, hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Love you, listened to you for lots of year but I was distressed by your comments on Rahm Emanuel's reference to retarded persons.
RUSH: Hm-hm.
CALLER: And I was distressed because you took the view as though his comments were an insult to the liberal Democrats, which I'm sure Sarah Palin wouldn't have cared about anyway. The reason they were so offensive is because by using the term "retarded" or "retards" as a term of opprobrium or derision is insulting to all persons with mental disability.
RUSH: Right. But the point I was making was that Emanuel compares Democrats to retarded people and then apologized to the retarded people, which, in turn is not a complimentary thing to say about the Democrats, either. It's sort of like if I would compare Obama to a rat and somebody said, "Don't do that, you're insulting rats." This is the same thing. Rahm Emanuel is comparing Democrats to retarded people. People say, "Don't insult retarded people that way." That's my take on it.
CALLER: I think he and a lot of people in our society use those terms as a way to denigrate those people. It is not polite. It can be hurtful. And I think that in a lot of your comments, it sounded to me as though you were repeating that.
RUSH: Well, I was. I was trying to focus attention on, once again, a loose lipped Democrat. These guys get away with insulting people left and right, they're never called on it, and so if Rahm Emanuel can say it, I'll just jump in to highlight the fact that another Democrat, this time the president's chief of staff, is out there talking this way.
CALLER: Well, and I agree with you on that point. I just felt as though your comment, it seemed to me to underline the idea that the insult was to the Democrats, and it's not, the insult is to the people with disabilities.
RUSH: No, no, no. I know the insult is to retarded people but those are not my words. Those are not my words. And, by the way, I gotta tell you something. When I grew up, this is to show you how society has changed, retarded is what they were called even by the schools. When I grew up, that's what they were called. It's only recently that that's become a pejorative.
CALLER: Well, you know, and I don't have a problem if someone is discussing an actual person with mental retardation in appropriate -- I mean, I have a son with developmental disabilities. And if I were discussing it with, you know, someone at the school or we were discussing him in a clinical way and saying that he had mental retardation, it's not the current term, but to me that would not be an insult. Yet if somebody referred to him as a retard --
RUSH: Like Rahm Emanuel did.
CALLER: Well, and the way Rahm Emanuel referred to him was in fact insulting. But I thought that your comments that the insult was to the Democrats, not to the people who were denigrated --
RUSH: Well, maybe I didn't express it right, but the point is I just found it funny that Rahm Emanuel, the first thing he did was compared liberal activists to retarded people and then apologized to the retarded people for doing that as though it's an insult to be called a Democrat. And --
CALLER: Well --
RUSH: As I told you, it's just like if I were to call Obama a rat, "No, no, no, don't insult rats that way." So here's Emanuel who has called Democrats retarded, and the retort is, "Don't insult retarded people that way by calling them Democrats." That was the point I was trying to make with the irony in Rahm Emanuel's comments. But you got to understand, look, this is not just Emanuel, it was Obama on The Tonight Show --
CALLER: Special Olympics comment.
RUSH: Special Olympics, when he bowls he looks like a Special Olympian or something, I mean the dirty little secret is all these pejoratives and all these politically incorrect terms, Democrats use them all the time in private conversation and they never get held to account for it. Rahm Emanuel made this comment back in August. Did you know that, Gail?
CALLER: I did, because I was listening to you earlier and you referred to it. Yep. No, I agree with you about the double standard, and I agree with you that it was offensive, but it is not clear from your comments that the reason why it is so offensive is because it is used as a pejorative --
RUSH: No, no, no --
CALLER: -- denigrating as an opprobrium against a whole class --
RUSH: You've gotta cut me some slack. I've been here 20-plus years. You've got to know that I know that that's a pejorative comment. It's the reason I kept repeating it is to never let people forget that it was Rahm Emanuel who said it. It's like Harry Reid and the Negro dialect, I kept talking about that, "Yeah, he's light-skinned and he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect except when he wants to." And sure enough the next day I caught grief as though I had originated the comment. That's the way the press works. Anyway, Gail, I'm glad you called. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify any confusion that existed out there.
Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland. You're next. Great to have you, sir. Hello.
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: You always catch flak whether you deserve it or not. The way I took it was that Rahm Emanuel, who's supposed to be, you know, such a masterful politician, he got caught in the act of being himself, and liberals, Democrats, to me they're synonymous, they're supposed to care for these protected classes of people like the disabled or whatever they call them, and the Special Olympics people.
RUSH: Exactly. They're the ones have all the compassion --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- and the understanding and the tolerance --
CALLER: But see, this is showing the hypocrisy --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- and I think that's what you were trying to point out.
RUSH: Right, exactly.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: And they're fighting for these people while out there calling Democrats "F-ing retards" and so forth. I mean these people are phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' rollers.
CALLER: Let me just say something about the president's poll. It seems like he still has a high likability factor. People are not crazy about his policies. He keeps on coming down on that approval rating, and unfortunately it's kind of making him out to be a Jekyll and Hyde president. And I think that's too complimentary to what this guy is all about. He's just a scoundrel, he's got a final solution for this country, he hates this country, he hates most of the people in it, and I think that he's tearing the place apart. I have a neighbor two houses away that works at the Goddard Space Center, he's been there for years, I remember when Sputnik went up and we all of a sudden went into a cash program to catch up with the Soviets. I remember in 1969 when we landed on the moon, we're supposed to have another moon shot in ten years, and the president is bringing down NASA, he's taking away our triumphalism because he hates the greatness of this country, and of course there are a lot of contractors that do work for NASA, he's canceling another fighter, first the F-22, now the F-35 is going to get canceled and little by little he's tearing the private part of the economy apart. I see the economy of this country is two glasses, one is public, in other words, the government jobs, and that's filled with water, and the private sector is half filled or less than half filled, and he's continuing to pour water or more government jobs in the glass that's already overflowing and he won't put any water in the glass that needs it. He's doing all this on purpose, and he told Diane Sawyer that if he's only in for one term he rather do that than be mediocre for two terms because his final solution --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- is to destroy the country.
RUSH: Now, you've got to be sure and watch the second bomb that I throw tomorrow on Fox & Friends because I address that very comment that he made about he'd rather be a great one term president than a lousy two-term president. Thanks for the call out there, John.
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RUSH: It looks like Eric Holder is trying to make some amends for Rahm Emanuel and his comments on the retarded. "The Justice Department is now seeking..." I kid you not. I'm going to read this in a second. They're seeking to hire lawyers with "mental retardation" and "mental illness" as lawyers. Maybe this is why they decided not to prosecute the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia. "The Civil Rights Division..." This is from Justice.gov, the website: "The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Applicants who meet the qualification requirements and are able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation are encouraged to identify targeted disabilities in response to the questions in the Avue application system seeking that information."
It's right there, folks. I'm not making it up. Holder's Justice Department is actually seeking lawyers with "mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine." If you meet the Justice Department qualification requirements, even though you might have "mental retardation, mental illness" -- and even though you're mentally retarded, mentally ill, can perform essential functions of the lawyer position -- then you are urged to apply. Yeah. In other words, what Eric Holder is saying is, "Would you fit in with everybody else in our Department of Justice? 'Cause that's who's here now. Would you fit in with us?"
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Late-breaking news: Attorney general Eric Holder, quote: "I made the decision to charge the" Fruit of Kaboom Bomber. No. You know, this administration is calling him "the Christmas Day bomber." Now, this is a bunch of people who don't like Christmas. It's "happy holidays." Notice they're not calling him "the happy holiday bomber." They're calling him "the Christmas Day terrorist suspect," and Holder now says, "It was my decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civil court. It was my decision to do that," which he couldn't have done. I mean, he can't. That's Obama. Now he says he made the decision because everybody has wanted to know -- Jeff Sessions, everybody in the Senate committee -- who made this decision? Was it made by the FBI? Was it made by the Justice Department? Who made this decision to Mirandize this guy?
Holder said, "I did it." He's taking the fall here for a lot of botched up stuff. By the way, I think I finally figured out what Obama is doing here by sending that dolt press secretary Gibbs out there to say, "Don't worry about it. The guy's guilty. He is going to be frying. He's going to be convicted and executed," and Obama saying the same thing. They're purposefully polluting the jury pool so that they have no choice but than to take this back to a military tribunal. That's what they're doing. So it looks like... They desperately wanted to stick with the civil trial but there's been such an uproar from so many quarters about this that what they're doing is, rather than saying, "Okay, okay. We're going to move it," they're making it impossible not to move it with their idiotic comments. Because if they did proceed with the civil trial on this, the lawyer for the terrorists could get this case thrown out like (snaps fingers), and if it didn't get thrown out, it's certainly grounds for an appeal.
Now, here's Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com: "What Exactly Did Bush and Cheney Do Wrong? -- As I noted several days ago, it is not only Republicans -- but Democratic and media establishment figures as well -- who clearly crave the preservation of the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and civil liberties. When Bush's popularity collapsed to historic lows, political and media elites pretended for awhile to object to his administration's fear-based and radical policies as extremist and an assault on 'our values.' But that was all just such a transparent pretense. In those few instances where Obama has rejected the Bush/Cheney template, the outrage and hysteria from Democratic and media voices is pervasive, and is growing louder. Just look at these illustrative incidents.
"Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell went on Fred Thompson's radio show yesterday to demand that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be put before a military commission -- at Guantanamo. Over the weekend, Time's Joe Klein lambasted the Obama DOJ, and embraced Bush's former CIA and NSA Chief Michael Hayden, by objecting to the criminal charges and Constitutional rights afforded the accused Christmas Day bomber, with Klein decreeing: 'the bomber is an enemy combatant. He doesn't have Miranda rights.' MSNBC personalities Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie chatted yesterday with their boss, MSNBC Washington Bureau Chief Mark Whitaker, all agreeing that the decision to grant civilian trials for 'Terrorists' is 'a pure, self-inflicted wound.'
"When Najibullah Zazi was arrested for allegedly plotting a serious Terrorist attack, The New Republic's Michael Crowley said he was so frightened by this that he was open to torturing Zazi. Democratic Senators are threatening to join the GOP in cutting off funds for civilian trials. Democratic members of Congress joined with the GOP to prevent even modest reforms of the Patriot Act and other surveillance abuses." You get the picture here? This guy Greenwald is saying (summarizing), "You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. You are sitting around doing the same thing Bush and Cheney did, and for all those years Bush and Cheney were doing it you're ripping them to shreds. So what exactly did they do wrong?"
See, because these "retards" on the left -- as Rahm Emanuel calls them. These "retards" on the left do think that Bush was over the top, that his policies were fear based and radical and that he destroyed US values and made us hated all over the world, that Guantanamo Bay was a terrorist recruitment area -- and now all the people they vote for are openly suggesting that we continue Bush-Cheney policies! There are even stories out there from the State-Controlled Media saying, "You know, it's something you learn when you get into power that you can't really know what you're dealing with with this kind of issue, terrorism, from the outside. You only know about it from the inside. People are now beginning to realize that Bush and Cheney actually had some pretty good procedures in place here, some pretty good policies."
So it's kind of laughable, if you read the whole thing -- and I'm not gonna read this whole thing. It prints out to three pages. But [Sweetness-Light.com] "9/11 turned Mr. Greenwald into a "patriot," who naturally began to worry that the people trying to destroy our country were not being given all the rights and privileges of American citizens." He thought that was "real patriotism," and so we were doing it. We were going to grant civilian trial with constitutional rights to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his boys and then the happy holidays day bomber. Now he's upset that the Democrats have gone soft. This is hilarious. "[I]t's fun to see a baying at the moon liberal point out that his media colleagues and fellow Democrats excoriated Bush and Cheney for the exact same things they are now insisting we do." It is delicious, I have to say.
By the way, there was also a little-referenced item a couple days ago that the Obama Justice Department cleared the two lawyers who approved that interrogation memo that included waterboarding. They cleared 'em. (laughing) This did not sit well with the "retards" in the kook Democrat base out there. A little Rahm Emanuel lingo there. Then yesterday in "Washington -- America's top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months. The assessment by Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, was much starker than his view last year, when he emphasized the considerable progress in the campaign to debilitate Al Qaeda and said that the global economic meltdown, rather than the prospect of a major terrorist attack, was the 'primary near-term security concern of the United States.'"
Don't forget, Obama's now got the CIA looking at potential problems caused by global warming. He shut down NASA's manned space missions and turned NASA into, basically, a global warming agency.
"At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair to assess the possibility of an attempted attack in the United States in the next three to six months. He replied, 'The priority is certain, I would say' -- a response that was reaffirmed by the top officials of the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. ... 'The biggest threat is not so much that we face an attack like 9/11,' said Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director. 'It is that Al Qaeda is adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect.'" They're in the country, we think they're here, and they're plotting events from inside. Yet the New York Times, you remember, assured us back in September: The US faces no real risk of terrorism attacks. It was by Scott Shane: "Rethinking Our Terrorist Fears -- Eight years after 9/11, the specter of terrorism still haunts the United States. ...
"But important as they were, those news reports masked a surprising and perhaps heartening long-term trend: Many students of terrorism believe that in important ways, Al Qaeda and its ideology of global jihad are in a pronounced decline -- with its central leadership thrown off balance as operatives are increasingly picked off by missiles and manhunts and, more important, with its tactics discredited in public opinion across the Muslim world," blah, blah, blah, blah. So yesterday the Senate said, "Yep, there's a pretty good chance they're going to be hit this summer in three to six months." Last September, New York Times: Rethinking Our Terrorist Fears." We don't face any real risk. Anybody who thinks so is a fearmonger -- and, of course, the campaign was already over. This was to give Obama credit for dealing with it even though he hadn't captured Bin Laden. Anyway, my guess is -- in the final analysis, my good friends -- there probably isn't all that much that's really new in yesterday's warnings except that when we got such reports during the Bush administration we were told by the media that Bush "was using unfounded threats to scare and distract us from his horrible policies." Now under Obama, our media no longer calls these warnings a "distraction." In fact, our media says, "Oooh, serious stuff going on out there! We have to be vigilant. Obama wouldn't be trying to distract us from failed policies, would he now? No, no, no!" That only is the template when you have Republicans in the White House.
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RUSH ARCHIVE: I'm a huge supporter of women! What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose and feminism has led women astray. I love women. I don't know where this gets started. I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it. This idea that I don't like women is absurd! And this is Miss America, and if there's a Mr. America out there, it's me.
CARLSON: (laughs)
RUSH: So this is a perfect fit.
RUSH: Now, this next is the bomb. This is the one that the State-Run Media is headlining all over the place: "Limbaugh Thanks God Obama is Failing!" Her question: "[W]hile you were out here in Vegas, there was a big State of the Union speech by President Obama."
RUSH ARCHIVE: State of Obama speech.
CARLSON: (laughs) Is that what you're calling it?
RUSH ARCHIVE: State of Obama.
CARLSON: So I assume you had a chance to see it even though you've been working nonstop.
RUSH ARCHIVE: Well, yeah. I gave up after 50 minutes. I heard it all before. There was nothing new in it. The only difference was the tone. I went back and listened to some of his soaring rhetorical speeches during the campaign. This was defensive, petulant, immature, childish, sarcastic. He's clearly angry that he's been rejected -- that his wonderfully brilliant ideas (health care and cap and trade) have been rejected. I saw a guy, a young, inexperienced guy just mad. I think, Gretchen -- I really do. I think this is the first time in his life that there's not a professor around to turn his C into an A or to write the law review article for him that he can't write. He's totally exposed. There's nobody to make it better. I think he's been covered for all of his life. The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing that could have happened to this country. I thank God every day that this is going down the tubes, that that Massachusetts election happened. Not that God had anything to do with it. That's just the person I thank.
RUSH: And that -- those last four lines; but all of that, that whole bite -- you know, they're acting like volcanoes today. TheHill.com started running stories about it last night. "The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing could have happened to the country." Hey, I'm just being consistent. I said a year ago I wanted him to fail for this exact reason. He's not failing at everything. He is succeeding very much at destroying the private sector and enlarging government. But for not for long.
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RUSH: Here's the third little short bite from the interview with Gretchen Carlson on Fox & Friends today. Part two, by the way, is tomorrow -- unless they edited it into one. When she told her they were going to do two parts, I think she said 15 or 20 minutes. How long was today's segment, Snerdley? (interruption) Ten minutes? It seemed like ten minutes? Well, that couldn't have been all of it, so I don't know. We'll find out. As a powerful, influential member of the media I know people over there, and I can find out what they plan on doing tomorrow.
Here's the final third little bite.
RUSH ARCHIVE: [The Scott Brown election] is just the tip of the iceberg. That's just an indication of what's coming in November. I mean, I don't think... I think the Democrats are rocked back on their heels more than they're letting on. They're shocked. This is "the Kennedy seat"! If there is ever an entitlement in politics, it's (makes air quotes) "the Kennedy seat," and it's gone, and it wasn't even close.
RUSH: Yeah, and there are more losses coming. A bunch of people looking at this. If the election were held today, some supposedly nonpartisan political consultants are saying Democrats would lose ten, would lose ten Senate seats if the election were held today.
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A number of votes are scheduled in the Senate this week, and the Senate is playing hands off. "We're not going to have anything to do with this," but they are behind this. Make no mistake about this, folks. Team Democrat is behind this. Now, Brown wants these results certified by 11 o'clock tomorrow morning "so they can be forwarded to Senate officials." The Democrats are not going to get away with this. They only get away with this stuff when no one shines the spotlight on it, and EIB has proved time and time again, the spotlight will be shined -- and once people pick up on this, it ain't going to be pretty. Obama's Democrats in the Senate are blocking the do winner of the Ted Kennedy election that took place on January 19th in the Senate.
Now, Obama went up to the Senate today. He had a big meeting, and he told 'em, "You gotta keep going, man! You gotta keep fighting. You gotta keep pulling for health care. You gotta keep doing it," and they started applauding. I don't think anybody showed him the latest poll before he went up there and talked to these guys today. It's my Andy Barr in The Politico and it basically says here: "Health Care Bill Won't Help Democrats -- Democrats will face nearly the same political environment this fall whether or not they pass health care reform legislation, according to a new poll out Tuesday. So, so much for the advice from Bill Clinton and The Forehead and rest of these Democrat consultants who were all lying to these guys. Clinton was out there saying (impression), "Y-you know why I lost the House in 1994? You know why that happened? It's 'cause I didn't get health care passed. If I'da passed health care it woulda neeeever happened."
Of course it was a full-fledged lie. If it wasn't a lie he was just dead wrong. "The national survey of 584 registered voters conducted by Public Policy Polling," which is a Democrat group, out of North Carolina, "shows that Republicans currently have a generic ballot advantage of 43 percent to 40 percent in races for Congress. When voters were asked which party they were more likely to support if a health care bill doesn’t pass, 43 percent still said they would vote for a Republican congressional candidate, while the number who would vote for a Democrat fell to 38 percent. If Democrats were able to send President Barack Obama health care reforms, 45 percent of those surveyed said they would support a Republican and 40 percent would back a Democrat. 'At this point, it looks like the political damage for Democrats on health care has been done, whether they end up passing the bill or not,' said PPP President Dean Debnam. 'Republican support for this fall is identical with, or without it.'" You Democrats better take note of this, because the greatest harm to you is passing this thing. But you're in bad shape regardless. No two ways about it.
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OBAMA: I know these are tough times to hold public office. The natural political instinct is to tread lightly, keep your head down and to play it safe. So many of us campaigned on the idea that we were going to change this health care system. There's a direct link between the direct work that you guys did on that and the reason that you got into public office in the first place. We've gotta finish the job on health care, we've gotta finish the job on financial regulatory reform, we've got to finish the job, we've gotta finish the job even though it's hard. If that's where we go, I'm confident that politics in 2010 will take care of themselves.
RUSH: Go for it. You just go for it. You go ahead and you bring health care back up. I still don't know what to make of this. You still get two stories on this, that they're working on it behind the scenes, piecemeal and they're working on it behind the scenes comprehensive, and then there's actually a third take, the third take is they're going nowhere. Lawrence O'Donnell, "It's dead." They're just saying this stuff to keep the "F-ing retards" in their base from going ballistic. And that's probably the accurate theory. Does Obama sound like rah-rah here? You guys get out there and finish the job, we gotta finish the job on health care. I don't know. It doesn't sound too convincing to me. Let's go ahead and one more bite from the president at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference at the Newseum. This is kind of funny.
OBAMA: We've gotta constantly make our case, I think, and not play an insider's game, play an outsider's game, just turn off the TV, MSNBC, blogs, and just go talk to folks out there instead of being in this echo chamber, where the topic is constantly politics. We've got to, I think, get out of the echo chamber. That was a mistake that I think I made last year was just not getting outta here enough and it's helpful when you do.
RUSH: There is such a difference when this guy's not on the prompter. He only went out there 427 times. He only had 427 public speeches. "I didn't get out there enough." But he has just told the Democrats to turn off the channel that's propping 'em all up. NBC, by the way, cut outta that speech right after that bite. He also mentioned CNN and Fox earlier but when he then told his own Democrats to basically stop watching the "F-ing retards" at MSNBC, I mean those are the only viewers they had left. I mean this network is losing audience left and right anyway, but it's the only network that Obama has 24/7 that constantly propagandizes for him and he just told the Democrats to stop watching it.
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RUSH: All right. Nobody's watching MSNBC anymore. The president said, "Don't watch it." The president told Democrats in the Senate: "You gotta stop watching MSNBC." So nobody's watching it, because Democrats believe and follow Obama like a cultlike figure. They're still broadcasting, and here's just something of what they played this morning.
REPORTER: There is a lot going on in the world. Here are some things we thought you should know. Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says he is PRAY-ing for President Obama, but it's not actually prayers of goodwill. Here's what he had to say.
RUSH ARCHIVE: The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing that could have happened to this country. I thank God every day that this is going down the tubes.
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Back, back, a way back, it's gone!
Rush hit it out of the park.
CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I'm a 20-year-listener, and I am thrilled to be talking to you today.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.
CALLER: I wanted to comment on the jobs stuff that you had talked about earlier with the new numbers coming out and so on, and I think that a gross miscalculation that the administration has made, it really goes to their arrogance, is they think that companies are going to rehire at the same rate that they let people go. And they are sadly mistaken. No one is going to hire until they absolutely have to hire because they have way too much work to handle. And there's nobody out here that I know of that's got way too much to handle.
RUSH: Good point. Good point. There is a giant misunderstanding of capitalism by people who hate it, and they look at it and they see it as a perpetual machine producing dollars and profits that they can skim and tax and take. And they look at these people as all greedy, and if they're not hiring people it's because they want their high profits to be maintained. They have an ingrained hatred for the pursuit of profit and they have a double ingrained hatred for the people that make a profit. Look, your theory is solid. It's dead on. I can't get past the fact that there's a part of me that believes Obama is very happy --
CALLER: I agree.
RUSH: -- for unemployment to stay where it is.
CALLER: Well, you know, I'm in the construction industry here in North Carolina and we're suffering. I mean it's unbelievable how bad we're suffering, and he thinks that he's gonna, you know, turn it on here before the election and put that stimulus money out, there's not enough time. There's not enough time at this point for that to happen, and it's not nearly enough money to make it happen.
RUSH: It depends. Now, remember, this bunch will manipulate numbers. We've now passed the point or reached the point where there are more government union workers than private sector union workers. And this stimulus money is gonna go to states and gonna go to cities where they're going to be able to keep people or higher new ones. He doesn't care where jobs are as long as he can say the unemployment rate is going down.
CALLER: Yeah. I agree. I agree. But I don't know that he's going to be able to take it down. Everybody is so strapped, all the government entities. I don't think it's going to happen.
RUSH: If they put out these numbers that unemployment is coming down and it's going great guns out there and people still aren't finding jobs they're going to wonder, "Well, where the hell are they? I can't find a job. Nobody I know has got a job." But see, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin yesterday in a statement after reading the Obama budget came out and said, (paraphrasing) "Look, there's no question what this is. This is an attempt to turn this country into a collectivist society that is a predominantly government-run welfare state." And I don't disagree with that. In fact, I have been one of the first to say so. The choice that we have in this budget is either the destruction of the United States as we've known it or the maintenance and the promotion of the United States as we've known it. That's what we face here.
The Heritage Foundation in their Morning Bell blog: "The President’s Permanent Political Slush Fund." And if I may remind you that I, El Rushbo, was the first to call these slush funds. "After suffering major electoral and legislative defeats last month, President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail in Nashua, New Hampshire, pitching his administration’s latest new plan to lower our nation’s double digit unemployment rate. This time, the President hopes to do for small businesses what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did for home mortgages. Specifically, he wants to create a new $30 billion 'Small Business Lending Fund' which will loan money to banks with assets under $10 billion at favorable new rates, as long as they comply with a slew of new regulations designed to incentivize them to loan that money to small businesses. Never mind that a recent poll of small business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses ranked 'Finance and Interest Rates' as the second to last most important problem facing their business."
Interest rates are low! The problem here is, they don't want to hire 'cause they have no idea what they're going to be facing in addition to Obama's massive tax increases coming down the pike. They don't know yet if there's going to be a hook and crook way to get health care. They don't know yet if Obama's going to succeed in getting cap and tax. It's that simple. But the Heritage Foundation asked a good question. Where's Obama getting this $30 billion?
"President explained yesterday: 'This proposal takes the money that was repaid by Wall Street banks to provide capital for community banks on Main Street.' In other words, TARP -- the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program first signed into law by President George Bush, and then used by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to force many financial firms into taking taxpayer money they never wanted in the first place. But if Wall Street banks are paying-back their TARP funds, then how can President Obama say the following when justifying his Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee: 'We want our money back, and we’re going to get it. And that’s why I’m proposing a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee to be imposed on major financial firms until the American people are fully compensated for the extraordinary assistance.' ... So which is it? Are Wall Street banks repaying their TARP obligations in full so that the President can afford to spend $30 billion on his new Small Business Lending Fund? Or is TARP going to lose $117 billion? The answer is both." But again, the blatant hypocrisy and lie that Obama gave for raising fees on banks has been exposed. They are paying the money back, and he's gonna take some of it to fund small banks so that they'll supposedly loan to people.
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GREGG: The whole concept of the TARP was that as we recouped the money -- because we were borrowing it from Americans and from the Chinese. That as we recoup that money, we would use it to pay down the debt. Now, that's not going to happen. It's become a piggy bank, which adds to our deficit, adds to our debt.
RUSH: Peter Orszag then decides to say this...
ORSZAG: The degree to which shifting funds, ehhh, would add to our debt or -- uh, uh -- deficits depends on what the net subsidy rate would be on that new activity. And, remember: The purpose of TARP was to address problems in our financial markets, and it has been remarkably successful in bringing credit spreads back down to normal levels. One of the lingering problems in our financial markets, however, is access to credit for small businesses.
RUSH: They continue this misrepresentation. In the first place, the inspector general, Barofsky, says that TARP didn't do anything. It has been, ultimately, a failure -- and this business about credit for small businesses? They don't want to borrow any money. They don't want to right now. They don't want to expand, folks. There's no recovery so there's no reason. So this is where Judd Gregg loses it. On Orszag, about what the TARP law says.
GREGG: No! No! You can't make that type of statement with any legitimacy.
ORSZAG: Okay.
GREGG: You cannot make that statement. This is the law.
ORSZAG: Small businesses are not suffering from access? A lack of access?
GREGG: Let me tell you what the law says. Let me read it to you again, because you don't appear to understand the law. The law is very clear. "The moneys recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for the reduction of the public debt." It's not for a piggy bank because you're concerned about lending to small businesses --
ORSZAG: Senator, this would require new legislation.
GREGG: -- and you want to get a political event when you go out and make a speech in Nashua, New Hampshire. That's not what this money is for. This money is to reduce the debt of our children.
RUSH: Now, what's being talked about here is the $30 billion that Obama says he's taking from money that the banks are paying back to set up a government agency that will "provide low-interest loans to small businesses." What Judd Gregg is saying is, "That's not the law! You can't use TARP money for that! I'm reading the law to you," and what Orszag is trying to say to you is, "But, but, Senator, this would require legislation!" No, it doesn't require legislation. The law is the law. He said, "Small businesses are not suffering from...?" So Greg is really laying it to him here. Judd Gregg has stepped up in the last couple of weeks to be a serious critic of these guys. Here's the final exchange, and Bernie Sanders gets involved here.
GREGG: Let me ask you another question.
ORZAG: Okay.
GREGG: Because clearly we're not going to agree on this and you're not going to follow the law. Secondly --
CALLER: Uhh, eh... Sorry. I do... Excuse me. We will be following the law. This would involve legislation to make extra --
GREGG: Well, then you're not going to be able to do it unless Congress --
ORSZAG: Yes!
GREGG: -- gives you the authority to do it.
ORSZAG: Exactly.
SANDERS: That is how laws are made usually. Congress passes them.
RUSH: Thank you, Senator Sanders. (impression) "That is how laws are made, Congress usually passes 'em." So he's clowns don't know what they're doing. They don't care about the law anyway, ladies and gentlemen. No question about it.
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RUSH: Judd Gregg has been going at these guys on the budget solidly for a year, and this, folks, is exactly what we need to be doing. Every Republican needs to be saying this latest Obama budget, for example, is DOA. They need to set the tone for this. And Judd Gregg seems to have discovered what I have known for decades and that is, you gotta go hard at these liberals. You don't play by their rules, which say, "Independents don't like criticism. Independents don't like it when the Republicans criticize the Democrats." No, no, no. You go after these guys hard, and the response you get will be huge. All they gotta do is look at Scott Brown. Do not hold back on these people.
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: I'm fine. Thank you.
CALLER: Good. Hey, I'm calling to see if your chin hits the floor as mine did yesterday when I read from the website of our Channel 6 which is ABC News here, reporting that Indiana's largest school district, our public school system, Indianapolis Public Schools, had announced the decision to close school -- well, actually delay school two hours on Monday following the Super Bowl.
RUSH: Yeah, I saw that.
CALLER: Yeah, 'cause they felt like, you know, it's just a little too much to ask the teachers and bus drivers to get up so early the next morning when they've been watching the football game.
RUSH: Right, when the game ends at 9:30.
CALLER: I didn't realize this, but I guess back in 2007 when we were in the Super Bowl there were so many bus drivers that didn't pick up the children and left the children out in the cold, they wanted to avoid that happening again this year, so they just decided to delay by two hours.
RUSH: Yeah, I saw that, the bus drivers just didn't show up. They must have stayed up late watching all the ESPN reruns and highlights of the game --
CALLER: Well, now, I mean, here's the thing --
RUSH: The expert commentary on ESPN after the game. Ahem.
CALLER: Well, wouldn't you, as, you know, whoever the school bus drivers and teachers' bosses, wouldn't you say, "You know, jobs aren't so easy to find and we just thought we'd let you know if you don't pick up your kids tomorrow, you won't have a job."
RUSH: Now, now, now, now -- no, no, no, no, no, no. You're so old-fashioned.
CALLER: Yeah!
RUSH: That's the way America used to work!
CALLER: Well, and then it came out today that the Department of Education has told them, sure, that's fine, but you're going to make up the two hours, and they're just floored, can't believe they have to make up that two hours that they're going to miss.
RUSH: You know, in truth, the fewer hours kids spend in a public school the better off they are. You have to do like me, you have to look at the positive.
CALLER: You know, I get this. And, frankly, it's not the two hours of education they're missing that bothers me in the least. It's the message that it's sending to these kids that, you know, God forbid they ever have a job where they have to go to a meeting, a board meeting at ten at night and then have to show up for another meeting at seven the next morning, you know, that's inconceivable for them to ever fathom --
RUSH: Now, Amy.
CALLER: -- to have to work a little more than --
RUSH: Amy.
CALLER: Yeah?
RUSH: You know, certain modern Americans would say, "You're so harsh, you're just so mean. I mean is everything so black and white to you? Don't you see the nuance and the gray here? And aren't you aware, aren't you aware that for the last ten years there have been educators slowly putting stories in the public domain that school starts too early for the kids."
CALLER: Oh, I know.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I know.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, that's too early for the kids, they need to sleep later, we're really pushing our kids too hard, we're pushing our bus drivers too hard.
CALLER: Hmm. Hmm. You know, I'm not going to spend a bunch of time on this and waste your time. It just blew my mind. I couldn't believe what I was reading. So anyway, it was great talking to you.
RUSH: Thank you, Amy.
CALLER: Have a great day.
RUSH: Same to you. Nice talking to you, too. I saw that. I didn't bother printing it out and putting it in the show prep stack. Maybe I should have. It didn't surprise me. It just didn't surprise me. This is the direction the public schools are going. What did surprise me was in 2007 the last time the Colts were in there that the drivers didn't even show up, and the poor little kiddies were standing on the corner freezing their little tushes off.
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RUSH: See? See? What I'm talking about here, check the e-mail. "Come on, Rush, it's the Super Bowl! Having a team in a Super Bowl is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity unless your QB is Peyton Manning. Even still, give the people a little break. Give 'em a break." You know, it's funny how School Bus Nagin in New Orleans did not suggest this for the New Orleans bus drivers. I mean he learned a big lesson there back in Katrina. Get the buses out of there. So no time off being late in New Orleans. At least as of now.
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RUSH: Aaron in Chico, California, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Mega dittos there, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I had a comment about the lady and the story with the school bus drivers showing up a couple hours late from the Super Bowl.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: It just kind of reminded me that it's an example about how liberals and their policies that are blamed for these ideas that they promote about not letting kids have drive and initiative and kind of like not work hard or wake up early to get a full day out, and it kind of correlates to the youth vote not coming out for the last election, except to come see a celebrity, like when they come to see President Obama, but after that it's just pretty much that's it.
RUSH: Yeah, that's true. But you're talking about the reason they're not going to come out and vote?
CALLER: Well, yeah, because the policies they set up just as far as curriculum and school and life, you know, don't work hard, government will take care of you, not to have a lot of initiative and drive, just like your parody where they keep score or what have you. It just pretty much sets them up that the only reason they come out is to see a celebrity like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton for them back in the day, but other than that, they really don't know about the issues, they aren't really educated about the issues, and, of course, the public school system doesn't really teach 'em about them. They just teach them about their feelings and --
RUSH: Well, that's not totally true. The public school system does indoctrinate these kids with liberal thought. They do. They do. They take history courses and turn them into current political events with liberal analysis. And they'll take a political science court or a history course and turn it into a one-hour bash George Bush. Oh, they do this, and that continues, that starts in junior high, they do that all the way up to high school and that's how they prepare for future further indoctrination in college. But you're right about still, they're young people. Celebrities are what attract 'em.
CALLER: Yeah. But I mean if they were to teach them the facts the kids would say, "Well, wait a minute, that doesn't sound right," but like you said I've known this for years and that's how I've learned about it, through seeing and just studying. They do this all the time. They don't teach them any facts. And I've learned so much more from listening to your program and wanting to learn more about what true definitions are and what history is --
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
CALLER: These kids aren't taught it.
RUSH: Yeah, I know, they're not taught the right things. The facts they're given are BS.
CALLER: Yes. If they were they would make a whole lot better decisions than what's being told to them, if they were given actual truth and definition about how rich people pay the taxes --
RUSH: I don't think that there's a whole lot of critical thinking taught. I don't think they're taught to make decisions. I think they're taught to feel and have reactions based on that.
CALLER: Well, that's my design I imagine.
RUSH: Oh, yes.
CALLER: By no doubt. I mean you see how when you give parents the choice of where to send their kids to school, they send them to the schools that actually teach their kids and not just shoving them in these horrible, horrible school systems in inner cities and whatnot that don't teach them.
RUSH: Well, you know, you're absolutely right. In fact, speaking of all this, I think it would be apropos at this point to share with you the information that was in today's Morning Update on all of our great radio affiliates around the country. Two liberal organizations have joined forces in a lawsuit, the lawsuit that will determine the future of thousands of kids. The teachers union and the NAALCP have filed suit to stop New York City from -- now, get this. Wait for it. Teachers unions, NAALCP filed suit to stop New York City from closing 19 underperforming schools. In other words, the lawsuit is to make sure that mediocre schools are kept open. The teachers union claims that the panel for education policy, which has the authority to close failing schools, violated state law because the panel did not consider the impact on the community. No. They're not supposed to. It's the school's failing and if nobody's learning anything in there you shut it down.
The NAALCP argues that shutting down failing schools -- get this, this is like that story we read for you the other day from the UK that's preventing advertisements asking for qualified people because it's an insult to unqualified people. Listen to this. The NAACP says that shutting down failing schools will hurt minority children. Now, the reverse of that is that keeping failing schools open will help minority children. We're talking about liberalism here. Now, Mayor Bloomberg and the school's Chancellor's Joe Klein who was, by the way, in the Justice Department, the lawyer that led the anti-trust suit against Microsoft, school's Chancellor Joe Klein, Mayor Bloomberg defended the closing of these 19 worthless schools. Now, in a sane political environment this would not be an issue. In the detested and hated private sector, a franchise store that failed to deliver service would be closed in a heartbeat. But in liberal land, where failure is what's rewarded, the NAALCP insanely claims minority children are hurt if they cannot stay in these factory failures. And the teachers union claims the community will be hurt if rotten schools are closed.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration is floating ideas to lower standards in the No Child Left Behind program to allow more leeway for failing schools to continue operations. I'm not making any of this up. Obama wants to lower standards in the No Child Left Behind program to allow more leeway for failing schools to continue to operate. This means, okay, we'll redefine what a failing school is. This after Obama cut funds for the DC school choice program that allowed minority parents to move kids from failing public schools to great private schools. It was working. The kids were performing well, getting good grades and Obama shut it down. A liberal Democrat and an African-American light-skinned with no Negro dialect when he doesn't want it shut down a program benefiting other African-Americans with or without Negro dialects.
Now, these minority kids, and that's who we're talking about here, these minority kids are being treated like second-class citizens, like the last thing anybody wants is for them to actually be educated. That's what it sounds like to me. You know, Rosa Parks, she refused to go to the back of the bus. These kids are not even allowed to get on the bus of success. Not even allowed a seat by the very people who claim to be their saviors. It's just classic because it works this way throughout all of society. Liberalism, "We're gonna help you, we're gonna bring you up from the dungeon of poverty and so forth." And they don't do it, they just make it worse. Insanity prevails.
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