Quotations from Chairman Rush: the Words of Rush Limbaugh

By R

The actual quotations of El Rushbo. Witticisms on Economics, politics, liberals, global warming, Obama, etc. etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R
• Release date: Dec 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301231553

R

R. Bremner, a former cab driver, truck unloader, computer programmer, and vice-president at Citibank, lives in Glen Ridge, NJ, USA, with his beautiful sociologist wife, their brilliant son, and their excitable puppy Ariel. A regular contributor to Poets Online and the Poetry Super Highway live radio show, he has appeared in International Poetry Review, the Journal of Formal Poetry, the Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Anthology, Yellow Chair Review, Oleander Review, the Mensa Bulletin, Paterson Literary Review, Passaic Review, Turbulence (UK), Southlit (South Asia), Shot Glass Journal, Red Wheelbarrow Anthology 7, Ancient Paths, Crab Fat, Every Writers' Resource, Sanitarium (UK), the Society of Classical Poets, and ten eBooks. He reads at many venues regularly, and is often mistaken for the mythical Jersey Devil. He has traveled extensively, especially to Sri Lanka, the birthplace of his wife. He likes you to visit him at http://www.pw.org/content/r_bremner .

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Preface

When I first came up with the idea for this book, I thought it would be fun to choose the most impulsive and nastiest quotes by this most controversial talk show host, but as the book grew, I found a different dynamic pulling at me. To choose not the simplistic quotes, but rather those that would give a fairer representation of the thought of the speaker. So I would not pick the obvious, infamous quotes of Rush Limbaugh (Donovan McNabb or Elizabeth Fluke, for example), but rather something that would give a peek into his thought processes. I think that has led to a more honest and meaningful book, and I hope you agree. And something happened to the book. It changed from being a book of nasty ridicule of its subject from one to being a respectful airing of the thoughts of an original thinker.

Rush Limbaugh, as I write this, is the most listened to radio talk show host in America. He was born in 1951 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Early in his radio career he drifted from job to job, being fired three times. But he clicked in a 1984 job in Sacramento and went on to reach the heights he now holds, working from an office near his home in Florida and reaching an audience of twenty million. He is today the paragon of witty, sarcastic right-wing radio talk. What follows are the words of Rush Limbaugh, with no interpretation or commentary.

It should be noted at this point that I attempted to obtain permission to use these quotations. However, I received no reply from Mr. Limbaugh or anyone else involved with his enterprises. Therefore I must assume that I am free use his words so long as I attribute them to him and so long as I can prove that he said them, which indeed I can. They are all in the public domain.

Economics

The government cannot create jobs. The government can only destroy wealth. The government cannot create it. The government doesn't produce diddly-squat. June 9, 2011, the Rush Limbaugh Show (as are all the quotes to follow)

You've got people who were looking for work, over three or four years, they didn't find any, so they've given up. They're still not working, but all because they say they're not looking anymore. Well, they're not unemployed, they're not even looking for work. They certainly are unemployed. They're not working. Why leave the number out in what's reported? Why hide it in some other category? The answer is obvious. To provide less pressure on whoever happens to be running the government at the time, whichever political party is in charge of things. Feb 17, 2012

Never-ending unemployment benefits is (sic) an incentive to stay unemployed, and then the more depressed you get the less inclined, inspired or motivated you are to go out and find a job because you're not even fit for an interview. So all of this promotes dependency on the state, exactly what Obama wants as they try to recreate Europe, exactly what liberals want, the erosion of the individual, the erosion of dignity and self-successful. July 21, 2011

I would expect the president to tell these Middle Eastern countries to unionize all their activities, massively grow their governments, destroy all of their private sector with regulations and disincentives. This is the road to prosperity this century as defined by this president. May 19, 2012

We all have the blueprint for coming out of a recession: 1982. In fact, we could go back to Kennedy, John Kennedy, who preceded Reagan in making the case -- the supply-side case -- for income tax cuts to create economic growth in the private sector. December 3, 2001

Mr. Bernanke, let me tell you what the factors are that you just can't seem to figure out here to explain this. Leftists, liberals, socialism, spending, spending, spending, and your printing. Does that maybe help? But on the other side of this, ladies and gentlemen, by virtue of the chairman of the Fed now -- look at me -- by virtue of the chairman of the Fed saying he has no idea what has happened, by the chairman, the all powerful chairman of the Federal Reserve saying he's clueless, befuddled, he has no idea how this can happen. June 23, 2011

I do not want a collectivist, New Deal president taking hold of this economy under the auspices of fixing it. That's not success to me. I do not want somebody who is going to have the federal government absorb more and more of the private sector on the premise that the private sector has failed here when it's the government that has failed! January 20, 2009

People do understand. They know this is irresponsible. They know we don't have the money. All these bailouts and all this stimulus money with no results from it, with no results, zero, stimulus money to recreate jobs and grow the economy, it isn't happening. February 1, 2010

Can you just imagine this? Obama gets on the phone in the Oval Office and calls China: 'Hey, Hu, uh, Barack Obama here. Yeah, how are you? Just fine. Hu, look, I need to borrow some more money. What for? Well, we need to pay some people that are not working.' December 9, 2010

I mean, here you are, a Marxist socialist, you're sitting there in the White House, and at the end of two years you have to say, 'You know what? I was wrong, the supply-side theory actually does work!' December 9, 2010

Again, it's baseline budgeting.