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RUSH: No longer in love with myself. Barack Obama\u2019s seen to it the last two days. We teach self-esteem in this country, kids gotta love themselves, whatever they do, it\u2019s great. He just ripped me to shreds, ripped you to shreds, ripped our history to shreds, ripped the kitten to shreds. I don\u2019t know how we can go on. I just don\u2019t know how we can go on, and it\u2019s especially going to be tough for the children when this speech is played for them, mandatory viewing in schools over the next couple of days. I feel like I\u2019m in a James Bond movie. I feel like Ernst Stavro Blofeld has taken over the UN and the world and the best spy that we have, me, is headed for the gulag, and Eric Holder holds the key. They\u2019re going to get rid of the best spies this country has. I mean the UN is filled with genuinely insane people, and they are being inspired by our president, a legitimate kook, insane people. It\u2019s a James Bond movie coming to life except the bad guys win.<\/p>\n

All right, to the phones. People have been waiting patiently. We\u2019re going to start in Rochester, New York. Michael, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s good. Let me throw a couple of things at you and you come back at me if one sticks, okay? First of all I heard Obama this morning talking, and I got a different view on it than you did. And before you reply, what he said, that you even just played on your bite, we respect their rights to be a community of nations.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, you said earlier that he did not — that he respected the elections in Iran, and I never heard the word election all through his speech. Now, wait a second. Then you said —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, wait just a second. He didn\u2019t say it in this speech. He did, in previous speeches, refuse to condemn the fraudulent election in Iran. He refuses to stand up and support the people who want to overthrow the dictator regime there. Look, Obama sides with the wrong side. He sides with the wrong people in Central America. His best friends, Hugo Chavez, give me the old days, folks, give me the old days. Where a genuine lunatic kook, Hugo Chavez shows up, says he can smell the sulfur in the room after George Bush has spoken because that means the devil had been there. And the place starts laughing. That was just, what, a year ago or two years ago? Was it one year ago? Now look at what\u2019s happened in one year. <\/p>\n

Now the Chavezes of the world have taken control of the place, inspired by our president of the United States. And I have a first caller here who wants to say, ‘Oh, no, Obama didn\u2019t disrespect.\u2019 I do not understand. You know, I\u2019m an adult; I\u2019m mature; I\u2019m educated; I\u2019m informed; I\u2019m a patriot. I\u2019m never going to be able to get my arms around the concept, understanding why people born in this country hate it. I\u2019m never going to understand it. And even if it\u2019s not hate, they don\u2019t like it. I\u2019m never going to understand it. The greatest country that\u2019s ever been, and somehow that\u2019s offensive to say to people, it certainly is offensive to Obama. I got calls from people saying, ‘Hey, I didn\u2019t hear him trash the country, I heard him say what needed to be said.\u2019 I want to reach through the telephone line and I want to grab these little pencil-necked geek people around the neck and say, ‘Would you wake up?\u2019<\/p>\n

Tiffany in Powell, Wyoming.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush it is a pleasure to speak to you. I\u2019m honored.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just had a couple of things to say to you. As I was watching this whole circus unfold today I thought of a line as Obama was speaking from my favorite movie which was Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off, and it says you can\u2019t respect someone who kisses your ass. And I am appalled that my president, the person that was elected by people in my country, would lower us down and basically sell us out for his version of respect. I don\u2019t think that those people will ever respect us. I mean for God\u2019s sakes we\u2019re sending them money and they\u2019re not respecting us —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course they\u2019re not. They\u2019re laughing at him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean some of these kooks think it\u2019s good. They\u2019re laughing at him. Khadafy thinks it\u2019s great that such a lunatic is running the country. We\u2019re weaker. The Iranians love it. The Russians love it. Obama is before our very eyes weakening the country. I haven\u2019t seen Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off. Now, I\u2019ve tried to watch it a couple times. Everybody said you ought to watch it because it\u2019s practical jokes, it\u2019s right up your alley. I tried to watch it a couple times, it didn\u2019t grab my interest, but that\u2019s a great line. You can\u2019t respect somebody who kisses your butt. You said ass, but I\u2019m host, I do not lower the standards of my own show, callers can but I won\u2019t. The only time I say ass is talking about Hillary\u2019s being too big to fit in a military uniform. But that\u2019s a true philosophy. In my own life, you can spot people that are brown nosers or suck up to you, and you don\u2019t respect them. And here\u2019s Obama, he\u2019s out kissing these lunatics\u2019 butts and they\u2019re not going to respect him. He doesn\u2019t understand why they like him. He thinks they like him because he\u2019s a fellow academic, finally got a smart guy, hated Bush, hate the war in Iraq, hate American imperialism. They like him because he doesn\u2019t like the country either just like they don\u2019t and the weaker America is the better off for them, that\u2019s what they all think, and he\u2019s fulfilling their desire, only he doesn\u2019t see that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Rush, I\u2019m a flight attendant. I\u2019m appalled that they let someone come into this country and respect him, Khadafy, who supports people blowing me out of the sky. I\u2019m appalled at that also. So I just wanted to give you those two points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. You know, that is also a good point. It wasn\u2019t very long ago they let the Lockerbie bomber out, the Brits did, and he goes home to a hero\u2019s welcome, and Khadafy\u2019s kid is on the plane taking him back to Libya and there\u2019s a big cheer for the guy when he gets off the airplane and Khadafy shows up and speaks for 90 minutes today, gets some applause — Craig, did you hear me say that he demanded a new investigation of the JFK assassination? Because the Jews were behind it. We gotta find out, the Israelis were behind it. He also said don\u2019t worry about the swine flu. Fish flu is coming. <\/p>\n

All right, who\u2019s next? We\u2019ve got time for one more before the break. Tawana in Atlanta, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, it just occurs to me that if Barack Obama were the leader or prime minister of any other country, our own delegation would have got up and walked out on his speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s an excellent point. In the days where the United States had self-respect, anybody trashed us at the UN, our delegation did, they got up and walked out. I think if Obama showed up today from another country and gave this speech, our delegation in the old days would have walked out. That\u2019s a brilliant observation out there, Tawana.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think it\u2019s also frightening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s very frightening.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean I\u2019m thinking, you know, if I were a delegate, I would be sitting there having a huge conflict, because I would be saying, well, you know, what this person is saying is against everything that our country stands for, he\u2019s trashing my nation, he\u2019s trashing my allies, but he\u2019s my president. So do I get up, walk out based on principles —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Or do I sit there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no. His delegation agrees with him. I\u2019ll tell you who ought to be afraid, is our genuine allies in the world, the Brits, sitting there listening to this. Anybody depending on us for economic and military security ought to be scared out of their wits after this speech today. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Katherine in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Something you said earlier really struck a chord with me because for the past few weeks I\u2019ve been telling anyone who will listen that everything Obama has been doing the past nine months, nationalizing the banks and industry and health care, it isn\u2019t merely chipping away at our democracy and our freedoms anymore, it truly is far more insidious, I really think tantamount to a coup. And just because he hasn\u2019t gathered up the villagers to storm the castle doesn\u2019t make it any less of a coup. I don\u2019t have my dictionary, my Merriam-Webster with me, but I do know that this guy is using his influence and his resources and his moronic followers to effect a profound change in our government. And it\u2019s even worse today because he has now thrown the United States of America under the bus on the world stage. The only thing I agree with Obama about is that we\u2019re not better. We are the best. And honestly, any American who doesn\u2019t know that and understand that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me address two things. You are right, and it did strike a chord. I did refer to this as a coup, a bloodless coup. He has delivered the United States to the global powers without firing a shot. Nobody fired a shot at us and he\u2019s surrendering. He\u2019s giving up the country so he can lead the world. Now, this business of when he says that we\u2019re no better, and your rejoinder is that we\u2019re the best, this is something that, when I rarely go out there and make a speech in public, I ask people to consider. I\u2019m still in awe of it. There are nations, populations, groups of people, who have been around for who knows, thousands of years. We\u2019ve been around for less than 250. In less than 250 years, less than 300 million people have produced a lifestyle and a country of roaring opportunity and prosperity, a living standard the likes that the world has never seen before. And we have shared our greatness, the things that we have learned and done with everybody around the world, we have shared our prosperity, we have shared our abundance. <\/p>\n

And I asked myself, how did this happen? Because in terms of DNA, we are no different than any other human beings on the planet. Just because we\u2019re born here, and just because as a result of being born, that we\u2019re Americans, doesn\u2019t mean that as human beings we\u2019re better. We\u2019re not healthier, we\u2019re not fitter, I mean coming out of the womb there\u2019s nothing special about us. There\u2019s not a special American gene that God decides to implant in people before they\u2019re born, it\u2019s not that way. So how is it that if we\u2019re really no different, how did all this happen? And the answer to me is very, very simple, and it\u2019s what leads to the concept of American exceptionalism. And the whole notion of American exceptionalism is that we are an exceptional people because we were founded under principles that allow individuals to achieve the best they can. We have freedom, and we acknowledge the source of our freedom is God. And it\u2019s these unalienable rights: life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, they come from God, they are part of our creation, our freedom, the yearning to be free. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s our spirit. It\u2019s our soul. We\u2019re all born with it, all around the world but the rest of the world has never been invested with that responsibility and freedom. The rest of the world, the history of the world is torture, rape, mayhem, dungeons, prisons, totalitarianism, thuggery. The exception to the normal human nature that has characterized human beings from the beginning of time, the exception is the United States. And this is what is so saddening, to watch it being torn apart, ripped to shreds, criticized, and not even understood because Obama is saying, no, there is nothing exceptional about our country. In his view, we are tarnished. In his view, we are stained. In his view, we have been immoral and unjust and our Constitution is flawed. It is negative. It is imprisoning. It doesn\u2019t recognize the concept of civil rights and human rights and all these other little bywords that leftists throw around and don\u2019t even understand the true meaning of. So while as individuals, as human beings we\u2019re no better than anybody else in the world, as a people, constituted as Americans, living under our Constitution, which gives us the freedom to be who we are, to do whatever we want to be the best we can be or to screw off and not do anything, we have had that freedom. And that has led to some of the most incredible inventions, the most advanced. <\/p>\n

Look at what happened in the twentieth century in this country. Look at all the things that were invented that made lifestyles expand and grow and prosper, and life expectancy ditto. It\u2019s just amazing when you stop to think about it, and there have been people on this planet for thousands of years and never got close to us. This nation is truly blessed. What happened in Philadelphia with the Founding Fathers, a miracle \u2019cause that\u2019s not the history of the world, and that\u2019s the whole root, folks, when you hear the term ‘American exceptionalism,\u2019 it\u2019s not an ego thing. It\u2019s not anybody saying, ‘We\u2019re better than you.\u2019 It is that we are the exception to the rule of human nature. Study world history and you\u2019ll find out life was not a bowl of cherries. People around the world since the beginning of time did not have time to start things like the Center for Science in the Public Interest and run around and tell people to stop eating Chinese food and stop eating coconut oil-popped popcorn. But we have such abundance, so much prosperity, that worthless busybodies can become rich by defrauding people into contributing to their stupid scams from the contributions they derive their salaries and lifestyles and then they stick their noses in everybody\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

People around the world didn\u2019t have time for this. They had to work to feed themselves first and foremost and then they had to stay alive. And we don\u2019t worry about any of that. Well, I take it back. We do worry about it to the extent that you listen to some of these nannies who tell you that caffeine is going to kill you or that cholesterol is going to kill you or that that green tea is what you gotta drink to stay alive. People are pounding this every day how we\u2019re going to die and yet the life expectancy keeps going up. American exceptionalism, Obama is just ripping it to shreds, tearing it down, and in essence saying it never did exist. We weren\u2019t and aren\u2019t exceptional. We\u2019re imperialist thugs. We torture people. We\u2019re closing Guantanamo Bay, we\u2019re getting out of Iraq, we are destroying the planet, he says. Our lifestyle, our SUVs, our carbon footprint is destroying the world, the climate. The man is a kook and he is a menace and he is purposely attacking the very foundations and institutions that made this the greatest country on earth. And he\u2019s inspiring our enemies at the United Nations to agree with him and speak up even louder.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Burn in Salt Lake City. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Primo dittos. Lived 20 years in New Madrid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. By the way, New Madrid is a little town south of where I grew up. It\u2019s the site of the New Madrid fault. They\u2019re worried about an earthquake there someday that rivals the San Andreas. But I wanted you to know what New Madrid was because some of you might have thought he was talking Spain and didn\u2019t know how to say Madrid. There is actually a place in Missouri called New Madrid. You don\u2019t want to go there but it does exist. Okay, back to the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, I escaped. Michael Moore has his new movie coming out Capitalism, and yesterday the president of Bolivia called capitalism evil. I\u2019m ready to give up. Okay, it\u2019s evil, it\u2019s horrible. Can somebody name one thing that works better? Anything?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. But, you see, the problem with capitalism is it doesn\u2019t empower government and it doesn\u2019t empower people who run government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t really care about that, Rush. I just want to be okay. So if capitalism is so evil, and if everything that we\u2019re doing is wrong, what are we going to do that\u2019s better?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama! You don\u2019t get it. Obama is going to make it all better.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess I don\u2019t, Rush. I got a couple things for you. I got one other thing. I called the DNC and asked them how — my wife has chronic health issues and I don\u2019t have insurance. So I asked them specifically, how is this gonna work for me, how is it better for me? Can you name one government program that\u2019s not full of waste, fraud, and abuse? Can you name one government program that is run efficiently? And the lady said, ‘Is that a question?\u2019 And I said, ‘Yes, ma\u2019am, it is.\u2019 She said, ‘Just a moment.\u2019 She forwarded me to the White House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: To the White House, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The DNC couldn\u2019t answer your question, they forwarded you to the White House.<\/p>\n

CALLER: To the White House. Let me transfer your call to the White House.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did they tell you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, nothing. It was just a comment line there. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, so you didn\u2019t even get to talk to a human being, they passed you off to a machine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I called Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office and it went right to voice mail and my first thing I said, ‘My God you sure have your finger on the pulse of your constituents.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mentioned Pelosi. Before I went to the golf course yesterday I went by the Universal theme park out here at Universal Studios, and I ran into the shark from Jaws, and the shark from Jaws told me he\u2019s thinking of suing Pelosi for copyright infringement. <\/p>\n

Rudy, South Bend, Indiana, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, how are you today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I was in DC last weekend, I went by the Lincoln Memorial and I swear Lincoln\u2019s face in the memorial moves more than Pelosi\u2019s does. Yes, Rudy, what\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, listen, I was listening to Obama\u2019s speech today and he was talking about the fact that the United States is ready for some international cooperation. Well, to heck with cooperation. What cooperation really means is we\u2019re going to sit on our hands and look around at each other and wait for somebody else to do something. What the world needs to be ready for is the United States to lead. Leadership gets things done. Cooperation, at least Obama\u2019s version of cooperation, has never gotten anything done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, depending on whose perspective. I think this whole notion of cooperation is absurd, as you do. But I still don\u2019t know what the objective is here. I know Obama is educated but I don\u2019t know how smart he is. There are people from his side of the aisle, people on the left who really believe that if we just show our enemies that we really don\u2019t dislike them, we don\u2019t harbor any ill will against them, and we\u2019re not George Bush anymore and we\u2019re not the old United States, that somehow they\u2019re going to turn around and like us. And that\u2019s, frankly, just absurd. The people that he\u2019s going to behave that way to are going to rub their hands together in glee, and they\u2019re going to say, ‘What a sap we have to deal with.\u2019 I wonder, ‘Does Obama know that? Is there some other agenda?\u2019 Because clearly, for whatever reasons — and they\u2019re diabolical, no matter which reasons you analyze — whatever reasons, he is purposely deconstructing this country and taking the elements of greatness out of it. <\/p>\n

Now, is he doing this because he thinks this will promote world peace, other countries will like us, or is he doing it simply because he despises the country as it was founded? It really doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s the fact that he\u2019s doing it in general, but I\u2019ll tell you, regardless his reason, it is weakening our security, it is making us far more vulnerable. Remember, Osama Bin Laden granted an interview to the guy now with the FBI, used to be with ABC News, John Miller, and Osama Bin Laden told John Miller, (paraphrasing) ‘When we saw you cut-and-run, when the United States and Bill Clinton pulled outta Somalia, that\u2019s when we knew you\u2019re not ready to bleed for your country anymore. You\u2019re not willing to fight for your country. That\u2019s when we knew you\u2019re a paper tiger.\u2019 I mean I\u2019m paraphrasing, but people who are hell-bent on evil — and there are lots of them out there; we are a nation at great risk in a dangerous world — are not going to be mellowed and tamed by some smart-sounding academic running around apologizing to them for all the evils his country perpetrated before he assumed office. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m back to imagining I go to the UN, I give a speech and I\u2019m followed by Moammar Khadafy who endlessly praises me and asks that I remain president forever, and here\u2019s a guy, a well-known terrorist murdering thug who celebrates with gigantic hero welcomes the guy who blew up the Pan Am flight, the Lockerbie Pan Am flight, I wouldn\u2019t be happy about that. I\u2019d be mad, I would be worried. If I were a Democrat Senate majority leader or if I\u2019m the Democrat speaker of the House and I hear the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, basically parroting everything I say about the United States, we\u2019re causing the world to come to an end because of global warming and all this rot, I\u2019d be very worried that totalitarian thugs and dictators sound like me. If I were Barack Obama, I would not be happy that somebody like Fidel Castro is singing my praises. Yet, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. If I were Barack Obama, if I were president, I would not want to be caught dead in a picture laughing, smiling, and yukking it up with Hugo Chavez. I wouldn\u2019t be caught being given a book by Daniel Ortega. But Obama did all of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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