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RUSH: John in Punta Gorda, Florida. How are you? Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you doing today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir, thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I\u2019d like to talk to you for a couple of minutes about honesty and integrity versus the culture or the spirit of deception that we seem to see with Obama. I\u2019m a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and I have three sons who also attend service academies — either the Naval Academy or the Air Force Academy — and we all each in our term have come to understand that lying is an intent to deceive. And any intent to deceive at the service academies is considered to be an honor offense. When I look at Obama — who rides a cult not only of personality but also a culture of deception; when I look at the Saul Alinsky connection deceptions, the Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and Jeremiah Wright; more recently the birth certificate falsification question; the stimulus lies; the health care results lies; the ACORN connection lies; the firing of the inspector general; and his agenda for us, which he\u2019s just not being forthcoming about — all of these things fall into, in my opinion, this culture of deception. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s very difficult to listen to our president without feeling that he is either out-and-out lying or he is posturing something, getting ready to lie. I believe polls are falling not only because the economy is not responding to the stimulus, but also because people are sensing that this cult of deception and lying is, in fact, a big part of who this guy is. I think his moral authority is going fast. And now when he needs to advance his own agenda, he\u2019s in fact reaching a tipping point, and people will not have anything to do with what he says because they simply don\u2019t trust him. When you\u2019re at one of these service academies here, you\u2019re an officer in the service. When you lose your honor and you lose your integrity, you simply lose other people\u2019s trust. And you\u2019re of no use to anybody. Integrity is a mind-set. It\u2019s a mind-set the same way deception is a mind-set. And people who deceive have a pattern of deceiving over and over and over again. I think in his case that this stuff is directly related to a highly dysfunctional family background where he was abandoned by both parents, and his radical early influences. But I also think that this cult of deception on his part is approaching a word that I have not heard relative to this administration, and that is ‘treason.\u2019 I believe that this inability of his to be honest and to be forthcoming and rather to be devious, constitutes serious acts of disloyalty to our sovereign nation. What do you think of that, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I think that you are well spoken, you\u2019re articulate, and I think you\u2019re very honorable. And I think you mean everything you said, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019re making it up, and you\u2019re certainly not trying to deceive anybody. I don\u2019t know. You know, I get a little worn out on the family-made-me-do-it excuse. I have a much simpler explanation, and I am with you. He has to be deceptive. If he were to tell everybody who he really is, what he really thinks and what his agenda really is, he woulda never gotten the Democrat Party nomination, much less been elected president. All liberalism is deceit. All communism is lies. All of socialism is lies. The promises, I should say. The promises of communism, the promises of socialism, the promises of liberalism, are all lies. And it\u2019s all out there to see. But we don\u2019t examine the results of these people. We give them credit for great big hearts and for having wonderful intentions. <\/p>\n

One of the interesting things that\u2019s happening now, however, John — and I addressed this elegantly yesterday. The liberal Democrats over in the House and Senate, they are so cocky, they are so arrogant that they are more open about who they are and what they think than ever before — and this will be their undoing. Liberalism has always had to be disguised to win national elections in this country. It\u2019s always had to have been disguised, and Obama knows it. So I think this guy has been well taught. You talk about service academies. I think he\u2019s been groomed for this. I think he\u2019s been taught, groomed, mentored to be able to reach this height in the middle of deception by pretending and convincing people he\u2019s something other than what he is. For example, he\u2019s not a moderate; he\u2019s not unique; he\u2019s not above politics; he\u2019s not postpartisan; he\u2019s not postracial.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s just the most radical liberal Democrat that has ever attained the White House. Now, he is still practicing the deception. The liberal Democrats over in the House and Senate, not so much. The Barney Franks are pretty out in the open about what they want to do and what they want to say. The Barbara Boxers, ditto; and a lot of his cabinet people, ditto. But he is still practicing the art of deception. When you get into ‘treason,\u2019 that\u2019s a specific criminal charge. I wouldn\u2019t go there. I think this is just politics. He\u2019s supposed to be above politics. But I agree with you that his agenda, his designs on this country are nothing — nothing anywhere close — to his stated designs, desires, agenda, or what have you. It is why I say (to the shock and chagrin of many) that rising unemployment is something being done purposefully. <\/p>\n

It is why I say that anybody with an economic brain — with any economic education, with access to the finest economic brains of the country — knows full well that doing what they\u2019re doing is not going to create a growing economy. They know this, like my analogy earlier in the program. I came up with this on the fly, but I wanted to come up with an analogy because I really feel it important to persuade people of this. This purposeful destruction of the US economy can be illustrated this way. Imagine a giant airplane. You got a hundred thousand… Well, put 500 people on this airplane, and it\u2019s up flying. The plane is being flown by Obama and Biden\u2019s in the copilot seat, and back in the cabin as the flight attendants and the people running the plane. You put whoever you want in there. Put in cabinet secretaries.<\/p>\n

Put Barney Frank in there, put Harry Reid, put Barbara Boxer. And they are ordering people on the airplane to jump off, to jump out without parachutes. And they\u2019re saying, ‘You\u2019ll be fine, you\u2019ll be fine. Just hope. Just hope. Just be patient. You\u2019ll be fine,\u2019 and they keep pushing people out of the plane with no parachutes. Now, anybody would know if they push you out of an airplane without a parachute, you\u2019re dead. If you implement policies as Obama has to stimulate the economy you are not stimulating the economy. You are forcing people out of an airplane without a parachute. And then you land and you get another 500 people and take them up and do the same thing, and you keep promising, ‘It\u2019s gonna work if you just have faith. Just trust me. It\u2019s gonna work. Eventually we\u2019re going to push people out of this airplane and they aren\u2019t going to die.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And you keep landing and filling the plane back up, and you keep pushing them out with no parachute. You say, ‘Rush, nobody would ever do that.\u2019 I know nobody would ever do that. ‘Well, Rush, nobody would ever purposely destroy the economy.\u2019 Au contraire! It\u2019s happening. That\u2019s the point. They are pushing us out of an airplane with no parachute. Or try we\u2019re on the Titanic. We\u2019ve sunk. We\u2019re aboard but we\u2019re at the bottom of the ocean. They finally show up to rescue us, we\u2019re dead, we\u2019re drowned. But they claim they\u2019re saving our lives. It is deception. There\u2019s no question it\u2019s deception. But it\u2019s a deception for an end that people don\u2019t even want to contemplate. Like I told you — I\u2019m giving some of this away — I sat for one hour today (looking good, by the way) for a television interview with Greta Van Susteren that will air in two parts starting tonight on Fox. The whole notion of Obama failing came up again.<\/p>\n

She said, ‘But I don\u2019t understand why you keep saying you want him to fail.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘Well, it\u2019s like too late now, he has failed. He\u2019s failed!\u2019 <\/p>\n

She said, ‘I know…\u2019 and don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not impugning Greta here. I like her very much. But she said, ‘I hope this works. You don\u2019t want it to work?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I said, ‘No. The difference is I know it won\u2019t work. We\u2019re in the middle of seeing it not working! What\u2019s going to change between now and next year with the same policy? We\u2019re losing jobs left and right.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘But don\u2019t you want people…?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Yes! That\u2019s why I wanted him to fail implementing this. His policies have led to 9.5% unemployment, on the way to double-digit. This is not, Greta, how you stimulate an economy. This is not how you create jobs. The blueprint is there. We know how to do this. This is being done on purpose.\u2019 I said, ”Hope\u2019 is an excuse for doing nothing. I don\u2019t have time to sit around and hope. I want every American to succeed! I want every American to have whatever opportunity out there they wish to access. They don\u2019t right now, and this was predictable,\u2019 and that\u2019s my point, folks. This was predictable. All of these coming tax increases, all of this mindless spending, all of this debt. The government simply can\u2019t create jobs. It doesn\u2019t happen, except in their own sector. It\u2019s just a rotten shame what is happening here, and the real crime — you want to talk treason? The real crime is all of the people who are complicit. There are hundreds of accomplices in this, and they\u2019re Democrats, and they know full well this is not going to do what they say it\u2019s going to do.<\/p>\n

And the fallback is, ‘Well, look at the rotten mess we inherited from Bush.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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