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March 6, 2009 |
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Story #1: WH Calls Obama-Limbaugh Debate "Unlikely"
RUSH: By the way, the White House has made it official. I'm stunned and saddened by this. The White House has rejected my invitation to President Obama for him to debate me here at the EIB Network. From ABC News: "If you were already preparing to set your DVR to record the big Obama vs. Limbaugh debate, you may want to put down the remote. To nobody's surprise, we got our first official word from the White House [yesterday] morning that it is unlikely President Obama will accept Mr. Limbaugh's invitation. 'Well, it's an interesting invitation,' said White House Domestic Policy Adviser Melody Barnes in an interview with NBC's 'Today' show. 'I think that Rush Limbaugh does not represent the rest of the American people and the president. We have to succeed,' Barnes added ..." So we "probably" are not going to debate.
Story #2: Scrappleface on Obama, Rush and the Russians
 RUSH: I don't know how many of you see ScrappleFace, the great parody site on the internet, but Scott Ott runs it and he has a great post: "Obama to Drop Missile Shield if Russia Helps with Rush Limbaugh -- President Barack Obama has reportedly written another private note to his Russian counterpart offering to halt deployment of a defensive nuclear missile shield in Europe, this time in exchange for Russia's help in dealing with U.S. talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. The White House immediately denied the existence of the letter to President Dmitry Medvedev, but acknowledged 'ongoing internal deliberations over a measured response using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy.' Dealing with Mr. Limbaugh has taken the Obama administration's focus off of other global trouble spots like North Korea, Iran and Chicago.
"The rift between President Obama and Mr. Limbaugh started in January when the radio kingpin said of Mr. Obama 'I hope he fails.' Tension escalated when Democrat pollsters discovered that Rush Limbaugh is the only remaining divisive Republican with name recognition higher than 10 percent." Ha, ha! It's actually 11%. "White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, during his daily review of cable TV and radio personalities, said that President Obama won election, in part, 'on a promise to be more inclusive, to talk with enemies, and to present an American face to the world that is more about dialogue and multilateral solutions than confrontation.' 'If President Obama intends to find common ground with the Mullahs in Iran,' said Mr. Gibbs, 'He can certainly find a way to appease Rush Limbaugh.'" So they want the Russians to try to deal with the Limbaugh problem.
Story #3: Twitter CEO Advises the President on Economy
RUSH: How many of you people out there are on Twitter? The White House has invited the cofounder and the CEO of Twitter, a guy named E.V. Williams, to join in a discussion with young business leaders on the economic crises. E.V. Williams, Twitter, has six million members, and a 700% plus growth rate. However, they make no money in the in the United States. Heh-heh. As the Twitter guy said, "They must be really out of ideas if they're having me up here."
Now, again, they don't make any money. So why is the guy there? There is a reason. You've heard about Obama's Internet army. They Tweet. Obama's entire operation is based on instant messaging to hundreds of thousands via Twitter to destroy Joe the Plumber, Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer -- their failed attempt to destroy me... The attempt is just to destroy with these little one-line character assassination thoughts that go to these millions of people who use this, and that's where the Democrats are way ahead of the Republicans on all of this.
But anyway, one thing about this Twitter business... We found out that there were four people impersonating me on Twitter. There were four pretenders out there. Our IT people at the EIB Network grabbed control of those, and we now control the Rush Limbaugh Twitter account, although I don't Twitter. I haven't put any Tweets out there. But we did get control of it. Wait a minute... Well, now I'm told that they're still not shut down. Okay, I'm getting confusing data because my IT people told me we had gained control of the phony Rush Limbaughs on Twitter, but now my computer geek says no, they still haven't shut 'em down. These instant messages during the show are a distraction! And I'm beginning to think so is e-mail during the show. Bottom line, I don't know if they're still being used or not; I don't care. For any of you who Tweet, it ain't me if anybody says they're me Tweeting. I'm not Tweeting.
Story #4: Ledeen: Alexis de Tocqueville on the End of America
RUSH: I had been meaning all week to share with you something that Michael Ledeen posted at his pajamas blog called Faster, Please! Michael Ledeen is a genuinely brilliant conservative, and he doesn't go in for dividing the movement. He used to write a lot of National Review Online, now has his own blog. He's been reading de Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville who came to the United States in our early years and tried to figure out what made us work, and he did. And in the process, he prophesied what would be our downfall, how would a nation this great actually cease to be? It's a long, long story, but my buddy Andy McCarthy as National Review Online has chosen an excerpt for his post, and I wanted to share this with you.
"The tyranny he foresees for us does not have much in common with the vicious dictatorships of the last century, or with contemporary North Korea, Iran, or Saudi Arabia. He apologizes for lacking the proper words with which to define it. He hesitates to call it either tyranny or despotism, because it does not rule by terror or oppression. There are no secret police, no concentration camps, and no torture. 'The nature of despotic power in democratic ages is not to be fierce or cruel, but minute and meddling.' The vision and even the language anticipate Orwell’s 1984, or Huxley’s Brave New World. Tocqueville describes the new tyranny as 'an immense and tutelary power,' and its task is to watch over us all, and regulate every aspect of our lives. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. We will not be bludgeoned into submission; we will be seduced. He foresees the collapse of American democracy as the end result of two parallel developments that ultimately render us meekly subservient to an enlarged bureaucratic power: the corruption of our character, and the emergence of a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives."
That is what de Tocqueville envisioned for the eventual end of America, that we basically give ourselves away, that we would allow ourselves to be seduced by promises of eternal prosperity, fairness, equality, and in the process, there are so many regulations and such a blanket of restrictions on people that not even the smartest can penetrate it, not even the best and brightest can penetrate and stand out. So to make this happen, we have to get rid of our character and we need a vast welfare state that manages all the details of our lives. I must say that I have been among the most prescient in suggesting that the real motivation for Obama's economic policy -- and there are policies: destroy the market, create massive unemployment, return the wealth of the nation to its rightful owners. We don't have enough wealth to make everybody millionaires. We don't have enough wealth to make everybody earn $250 grand a year in perpetuity. What we have, ladies and gentlemen, is a giant welfare state that's in the process of being manufactured, that the Democrat Party will preside over forever, because everybody, or enough people, are going to need the goodwill of Democrats in power in order to get by. You're going to have to see the first lady behind the counter at McDonald's when you go in there as your poverty stricken day drags on, take a picture of her with your cell phone while you go in there and get your McNuggets or whatever is being handed out that day.
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