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Oct. 17, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2008, Friday, Hour #3
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Look, I can only do 14 things at once in here, and I've got everybody bleeding on me like you can.
You need to read this, you need to read that.
You need to see this, you need to see that.
You need to print this.
Let me get something I just printed here.
Okay, welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and it is Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know what that means when we go to the phones?
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The email address is LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Let's see.
Hang on just a second here.
There we go.
Found something interesting here about the page six business regarding the Obamas at the Waldorf Hysteria Hotel.
They said this happened on Wednesday.
There was a meeting there on Wednesday.
And the Alfred E. Smith dinner was last night, which is Thursday.
Anyway, this is the page six report.
Though he's battling Republican accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous, like Robin Leach, who always signed off champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf Asteria at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne.
This from a tipster who called page six.
Now, the first thing about this is, if I'm the Obama, some say, who the hell called the newspaper on this?
These people, these hotels are not supposed to say a word about what goes on in these hotels.
Trust me, they do.
You know how, I mean, folks, you may not be aware of this, but I am as a powerful, influential member of the media.
You know, if somebody's throwing a party like down here or in New York, and if they're getting a caterer, I won't go.
Because what happens is that tabloid reporters and other reporters will call some catering companies, and they'll offer big money to let the catering company hire one of their reporters.
And the reporters then show up as an employee of the catering company, and they start taking pictures with their cell phone or whatever.
Or they overhear things that are being said.
And that's how these things sometimes happen.
Not all catering companies.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not trying to impugn them all, but it's a reporter tactic.
And I'm sure the Obama's saying, how the hell did this happen?
Somebody, hotel staff, had to call page six.
What we did here, Steve Gilbert, sweetnessandlight.com, went back.
He remembered a passage in Obama's book, Dreams from My Father.
Page 239.
Obama wrote in that book what passages of Reverend Wright's sermon, Audacity to Hope, most inspired him.
And this is one of them.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another.
That's the world on which hope sits.
And so while he's lamenting all the food the cruise ships throw overboard and all the apartheid that was out there, here's his wife ordering all this stuff.
I mean, it's hypocrisy.
But Obama, have you ever wondered why Haiti's in such a mess?
Have you looked at who's run the place for the last hundred years?
It's a dictatorship.
How do you explain, Obama, that on the other side of the mountain range, when you get to the Dominican Republic, it's the same island?
How do you explain all the burgeoning capitalism in parts of the Dominican Republic?
How do you explain all the major league baseball players that get out of the Dominican Republic?
They have facilities there to play in the Dominican.
They get good.
They're scouted by Major League teams.
They end up in America playing Major League Baseball, earning huge money.
Now, it's the same island at Hispanolia.
How does this happen?
It's the same island you had the Duvaliers, Baby Doc and Doc, and you had, who was that?
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
And we had to send Colin Powell and so forth down there to bail this guy out.
You wonder why there's poverty in places around the world?
It's governments Obama set up exactly like you want to set ours up.
He thinks it's white greed.
He wrote about it in his book, White Folks Greed Runs a World in Need.
Baroque Obama in his book, in case you didn't hear this, Hawaii, this is big, is ending universal child health care after only seven months.
Hawaii dropping the only state universal health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
You know why?
People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so that they could get it for free.
People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free, said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for MedQuest at the Department of Human Services.
I don't believe that was the intent of the program.
Oh, really?
Yeah, of course it wasn't the intent of the program.
Lots of stuff that goes wrong with liberal programs was never intended.
Ha ha.
State officials said that yesterday they're going to stop giving health coverage to the 2,000 children enrolled by November 1.
We're only talking 2,000 kids.
They couldn't even afford that because everybody gave up.
And this is what Obama wants to do throughout the United States.
Now, we don't want to forget this.
This is the UK Telegraph.
It's Mark Stein writing on March 8th, 2004.
John Edwards' campaign theme is a slice of warmed over Disraeli.
There are two Americas, one for the rich, one for the poor.
And even though he's part of the former, he wants you to know that he started out in the latter.
Friday was the Edwards' 27th anniversary, so in keeping with tradition, they hit the Newburgh Wendy's, along with the Carey's, campaign mascot Ben Afflock, or Affleck, and accompanying press crew on their anniversary.
They went to Wendy's.
The photo op did not go smoothly.
Kerry went over to say hi to some Marines who turned out to be Bush supporters and resented the interruption to their lunch.
More telling was Teresa Heinz-Kerry.
She pointed to the picture of the bowl of chili above the clerk's head.
She said, what's that?
The clerk said it's something called chili, and she said she'd like to try a bowl.
Senator Kerry ordered a Frosty, a chocolate dessert.
They toyed with him after a fashion, and they got back on the bus.
It then emerged that Wendy's had just been an appetizer.
The campaign advance team had ordered 19 five-star lunches from the Newburgh Yacht Club for Carrie Edwards Affleck and company to be served back on the bus.
Shrimp vindaloo, grilled divers sea scallops, prosciutto wrapped stuffed chicken, and etc.
Not sure whether Ben had the shrimp and Teresa the scallops, but either way, it turns out John Edwards is right.
There are two Americas.
One America where folks eat at Wendy's, another America where they'll eat pass.
An amusing half-hour slumming among the folks at Wendy's, then chow down on the Newburgh Yacht Club's special of the day.
The Elizabeth Edwards anniversary at Wendy's shtick was meant to emphasize her husband's authenticity, but it now looks as inauthentic as Carrie's own blundering regular guy routine.
Don't forget, Carrie was the guy who walked into a famous Philly cheesesteak shop in South Philly and ordered a cheesesteak and then asked for provolone.
He asked for Swiss.
That's right.
Provolone's for Swiss.
He asked for Swiss.
And they didn't have any.
Put Swiss on a Philly cheesesteak.
Anybody that's a real American, average American, would know this.
And so here are now the Obamas.
Oh, here's old Barry writing about the starving in Port-au-Prince because of white greed.
And old Michelle, I guess they let her out of the closet, took the duct tape off long enough for her to eat because she ordered some lobster horses d'vores and then two steamed lobsters and what else?
Rainy and caviar and champagne.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Must have been tea time.
Must have been tea time at the presidential suite at the Waldorf hysteria.
All right.
Quick soundbite here.
Last night, late show David Letterman.
McCain decided to go back over there, try to make peace.
And Letterman says your running mate, Governor Palin, she's the one, I think, who says that Obama pals around with terrorists.
Has she, in fact, said that at rallies?
Yes.
And he did.
To terrorists like that.
Who did she refuse to acknowledge?
Who did he powl around with other than William Ayers, who said on 9-11 that he wished he had bombed more?
Okay.
His wife was on the top ten of the most FBI and most wanted.
But this all took place when he was inactive, when Barack Obama was eight years old.
He was old, and Mr. Ayers on 2001, September 11, 2001, said, I wish I had bombed more.
But what is the relationship, John?
What's the relationship?
That's all we need to know.
That's what Senator Clinton said.
We need to know about the relationship.
First, he said he was just a guy in the neighborhood.
And so it's a matter of trusting the word.
That's McCain on Letterman last night.
Now, look, he can go where he wants.
But trying, I've been on with Letterman, and you may as well be talking to a wall.
You know, it's there's there's literally no curiosity about this at all.
But he felt he had to go there and his Letterman's been dumping on him and so forth.
Anyway, we have a brief timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
Sit tight.
We're coming back with right more after this.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh here.
McCain spoke this afternoon in Miami.
I mentioned he was going to come to the defense of Joe the Plumber.
Here's how he did it.
You ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.
The question Joe asked about our economy is important because Senator Obama's plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million Americans.
He could have had a simple answer to Joe's question.
All he had to do to say to Joe the Plumber and millions of small business people around this country, I won't raise your taxes, but he couldn't do that because he's going to raise their taxes.
My friends, when politicians talk about taking your money and spreading it around, you better hold on to your wallet.
And they went nuts again.
So there's McCain defending Joe the Plumber.
Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.
Democrats, they just have to go out and destroy these people left and right.
Average Americans, this could resonate.
This actually could resonate.
Now, folks, I have opined today, and I have opined earlier in this week, that Obama is in trouble.
These polls are narrowing.
They're getting tight.
And despite the stories, there's actually a story out today that drive-by network executives are really concerned that this is going to be such a landslide.
The election's over before most of you eat dinner, and they're worried about how to keep you watching all night.
And of course, you've seen all the other evidence that the drive-bys think this is over.
But these two important polls are tightening up.
Now, I just saw something, and it's about Obama today in Roanoke, Virginia.
This tells me that he is definitely in trouble.
He has pulled out a page from the 30-year-old Democrat playbook.
John McCain will cut Medicare.
All of a sudden, Obama's pulling that.
He's supposedly up six to ten points.
He's supposedly in a prevent defense.
He's supposedly coasting, trying to make no mistakes.
The race is over.
And he's out saying John McCain will cut Medicare.
What's next?
John McCain's going to cut your Social Security?
These are items for the Democrat playbook.
Here's the AP Obama story.
Barack Obama accusing John McCain of wanting to cut $882 billion from Medicare and claims that that would mean that seniors pay more for drugs, receive fewer services, and get lower quality care.
In remarks prepared for a rally in Red State, Virginia, Obama said McCain is seeking the cuts in order to pay for his health care plan.
It's entirely consistent with Senator McCain's record during his 26 years in Congress, where time and again he's opposed Medicare.
No immediate response in the McCain campaign.
This is the surest sign yet that he's in trouble.
I mean, this is a standard.
This is what you do at the last minute when you're having all kinds of trouble because this stuff hasn't worked in a long time.
Then, from the Los Angeles Times, you know, how I've been saying for the longest time to people who call her, we can't afford Obama.
We can't afford Obama in this way, that way, or this way.
Obama today criticized McCain's health care plan, saying that if enacted, it could lead to all these cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.
And they got a TV ad now called It Gets Worse.
It's going to air in key battleground states.
The Obama campaign cites a Wall Street Journal report that McCain would finance his healthcare plan in part with major reductions, quote unquote, Medicare and Medicaid.
The ad concludes, John McCain, taxing health benefits, cutting Medicare.
We can't afford John McCain.
They're responding to this program, ladies and gentlemen, where we have said we can't afford Obama.
So it won't be long before we're going to cut Social Security as well.
And then we're going to cut school lunches.
And we're going to start McCain's going to cut all kinds of.
This is not what you do when you're six to ten points up.
Here is Gia, pronouncing it right in San Diego.
Hi, Gia, nice to the E, and I have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, I knew I was going to get on today.
I'm so excited.
Good.
Okay.
Well, I was thinking, okay, somewhere back, I think it was in the early 70s, didn't wasn't McGovern, didn't he try to get the vote, like the 18-year-olds and get it so that 18-year-olds could vote?
And they were saying, oh, you know, he's going to win because he has the young vote and peace and love and all that stuff.
And he lost.
He lost in a landslide to the hated and despised Ricardo Nixon.
Oh, okay.
So here we are.
Well, there are some celebrities.
I think the Democrat Party has been McGovernizing itself throughout their demonization of the Iraq war.
You know, they've been taking satisfaction in the defeat of the United States.
They were reliving their Vietnam glory days during the Iraq War period, trying to gin up all this anti-American support for the war, opposition to the war, and they really failed to do that.
McGovern also wanted to give $1,000 to everybody.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yep, and that didn't.
He wanted to get everybody $1,000.
Because if you go back any campaign, how old are you, Gia?
Do you mind my asking?
Oh, no, it's okay.
I am early 40s.
Early 40s.
All right.
Well, you go back to any campaign throughout your life and read whatever Democrats are saying about the economy.
And it'll sound no different than what they're saying today.
The economy is always falling apart.
America's best days have always been behind us.
Only Democrats can fix it.
The Republicans want to cut Medicare and Social Security, blah, Now, I think there is a better comparison.
Jimmy Carter.
I think Obama is closer to Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was heralded as a new fresh face, somebody outside Washington, peanut farmer.
The only difference is they praised his religion.
With Obama, they're trying to ignore it.
But they also talked about how fresh he was and his intellect and how bright he was, and he had these great, great ideas.
And he ended up destroying the U.S. economy, making it even worse than it was.
We had a big inflation problem when he won the election.
Gerald Ford was having all kinds of problems.
We had a big inflation problem coming out of Watergate and so forth.
And the Vietnam War, and Carter made it worse.
That's the best analysis to Obama.
It's Open Line Friday.
It's Rush Limbos serving humanity.
How, you ask?
It would be better if you didn't ask and just accepted it.
But since you ask, I serve humanity simply by showing up brand new, brand new hit destined for number one, Barack Obama Sings.
Clinton is the radical Barack Obama.
We have, ladies and gentlemen, an EIB twin spin.
We cannot leave the lovely Michelle Maybell out of this.
Well, the demands to play that one again are already floating in, both from the staff, whose contribution to the program, by the way, frequently overrated, and the emails are already pouring in for a replay of Michelle Mybel.
We'll do that before the program ends.
Connie, Springfield, Ohio, you're next on the EIB network.
Thank you for waving and hello.
Hello.
How are you?
Fine.
Thank you for asking.
Just want you to know I started listening to your program two weeks ago.
You are a great American.
Thank you very much.
And I am so upset with what's happening here in Ohio that I just had to call you.
I got on her website and it says Jennifer Bruner has pledged elections for Ohio that are free, fair, open, and honest.
She has made it a top goal to ensure confidence in Ohio's elections.
And I want you to know I called her office and I raised Holy Cain.
I voted for her and I will never ever vote for her again.
I told Ted Strickland, who I voted for, I will not vote for him again, and I am voting complete Republican ticket all the way down.
They have really ticked me off.
All right, how?
And for Joe the Plumber, I wished his middle name was David because he's going to take down Goliath.
Listeners out there, we will win.
That's all there is to it.
McCain is going to pull this one off.
Now, Connie, why are you mad at Jennifer Bruner?
I mean, you voted for her as Secretary of State.
Yes, I did, and I thought she would do her job, and she's not.
As far as I'm concerned, she should have embraced trying to find all the fraudulent applications, and she's not.
She's taken it to the city.
Connie, you know, when you say she should have embraced it, who the hell do you think was behind it?
What, true?
Look at what's happening in Ohio is John Kerry lost by 118,000 votes.
The Democrats were saying after Ohio in 2004, if he had just won 55,000 of those votes, he'd be president.
Now, they got everybody ginned up on the debold voting machines, and they were trying to tell everybody that Ohio cheated.
Now, Republicans got thrown out because of all this corruption and tax increases on the Republican side, and it didn't help that DeWine was part of Gang 14 in 2006.
So the Democrats are in the Democrats have got themselves believing that Republicans only win when they cheat.
And Jennifer Bruner and these people, there's a coordinated effort here with Acorn and all these people in all these states to register fraudulent voters.
Here you have 200,000 fraudulent voters.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal says, you better verify them.
You got till Friday to do it.
I can't, she said, I don't have time.
Goes to the Supreme Court and basically says, please, Supreme Court, let me cheat.
They said, okay, you can cheat.
Yeah, I agree.
So what we're up here is there's another story today.
There are in six Alabama districts, maybe it's precincts, six Alabama precincts, there are more voters, registered voters than there are voters.
We have, what was it, the governor of the state of Washington was elected by the, they had ahead of recount.
She demanded a recount in King County.
They gave her 138 more votes than there were Democrats than there were voters, period.
Wow.
And that's how she won.
I mean, this is the Democrats.
Connie, they can't trust the elector.
They don't trust the elector in any way.
Look at the way Obama has to destroy Joe the Plumber.
Yes, yes.
And I think that is so sad because he is a true, honest, hardworking American just trying to make it in this world.
Well, they're trying to discredit him.
He doesn't have any, he's got liens.
He owes money.
His middle name is, you know, he's really, his name is Samuel.
His middle name is Joe.
At least he uses his middle name.
We can't even use Obama's middle name.
Exactly.
This is, you know, it's peddled to the middle time.
The Democrats, they're in trouble, I think.
They know that Obama is not a slam dunk, never has been, really.
Yeah.
And so this is, Acorn's been at this for 30 years.
You want to hear something?
Now, get this, Connie, while I have you on the phone here.
Greta Van Susteren did some amazing work.
She posted this on her blog at the Fox News channel.
And this directly relates to what you called about, Connie.
Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Bruner, filed a request to the Supreme Court relating to the underlying claim in her state that there's been voter registration fraud with ties to the work of Acorn.
Now, there's a group called the Service Employees International Union, S-E-I-U.
They filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to rule with the Secretary of State of Ohio and essentially asking for a ruling that would be favorable to Acorn and that would call off the dogs.
Supreme Court has since done so.
Greta says, you know, I thought it curious that the service employees international union would file an amicus brief for Bruner.
So I did some quick research, and now I need more in-depth research.
According to my quick research, the same person who started Acorn started the service employees international union.
His name is Wade Rathke.
So then I wondered, who is Wade Rathke?
Well, Wade Rathke has a brother who embezzled a million dollars from Acorn.
And the Acorn gang is having their annual meeting in New Orleans this weekend where they're going to address this.
So Greta did some more quick research.
She found that this Wade Rathke was a member of the anti-war group, the Students for Democrat Society, SDS.
Now, if you know 60s history, you know that the Weather Underground was an offshoot of the SDS.
There was some disagreement in the late 60s.
Members of the SDS, Bill Ayers and his wife left and they formed to join the Weather Underground.
So now, do Rathke, founder of ACORN, former SDS, and Ayers know each other from SDS Weather Underground days.
And if so, what's the connection now, if any, between them?
And what's the connection between ACORN and the service international service, whatever, can't find the SEIU, the Service Employee International Union.
What's the connection between them and ACORN and Senator Obama?
Might be no connection.
But you get all these radical leftists that are inexorably tied back to the 60s.
And here they are coming of age.
Finally, they found a front man in Obama to put all this stuff into play.
Acorn working, Ayers working, all to promote Obama.
And you got the Secretary of State of Ohio, Jennifer Rubin, figuratively speaking in bed with them.
The radicals are trying to take over.
They know they can't do it fairly at the ballot box.
That's the key.
Connie, thanks much.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away, folks.
This afternoon, Roanoke, Virginia, campaign rally, here is Obama.
Hear it in his own words.
This tells me that he knows he's in trouble.
When they go back and grab something 30 years old from the Democrat playbook, McCain going to cut Medicare.
They're in trouble and he knows it.
Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare.
This should come as no surprise.
It's entirely consistent with Senator McCain's record during his 26 years in Congress, where time and again he's opposed Medicare.
In fact, Senator McCain has voted against protecting Medicare 40 times.
Come on.
40 times.
Nobody's done that.
That's what Senator McCain's cuts mean for Medicare at a time when more and more Americans are relying on it.
It would mean a cut of more than 20% in Medicare benefits next year.
If you count on Medicare, it would mean fewer places to get care and less freedom to choose your own doctors.
You'll pay more for your drugs.
You'll receive fewer services.
He's lower quality care.
He's describing the Hillary plan.
In fact, it ain't right.
He's describing the Hillary plan.
Won't be able to choose your own doctor, fewer places to get care, voted against Medicare 40 times?
And was the audience?
I didn't hear them much.
I was a pretty muted reaction.
Speaking of health care, you know, I came in here on Tuesday and I wasn't feeling well all night long.
I felt, I'm coming down with a cold.
You can just tell, you get this little tickling in the upper respiratory tract.
That's where all my colds start.
And some of them, you just, you know, you're not going to be able to stop.
Sometimes it goes to something and not a cold, just flu or something.
So I came and took some Zycam.
Well, I got up in the middle of the night, took it.
First time I, I do this now.
Whenever I think it's coming off, swab the nose with Zycam every four hours.
And I came in here on Tuesday when I told the story.
The next day, I get in here, I get an email message from Cookie, are you feeling okay today?
Brian comes, how you feeling today?
Snurdy's, how are you feeling?
Fine.
Why were you fine?
Well, I mean, if it was going to be, I think it was going to be a cold.
How are you feeling?
And just all this concern, but I don't have a cold.
I am convinced I was coming down with something, but I don't have it.
Remember, I was hoarse those two days, Monday and Tuesday.
And I swabbed the nose for three days with Zycam.
Here it is.
I have had no recurrence of this.
I'm telling you, this stuff works.
If you get it early enough, you can't take it.
The first sign you think you've got a cold, not an allergy, first time you think you've got a cold, you've had them enough to know.
Start swabbing.
It may not stop it, but it'll certainly reduce the severity and the length of time that you have a cold.
By popular demand, we're not going to be able to get it all in, but some people want to hear some of it again.
So here we go, Michelle My Bell by Paul Shanklin, portrayed vocally here as Barack Obama.
Rush Limbaugh program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, both Michelle My Bell and all my radical friends are coming over tonight.
You'll be able to hear them at rushlinbaugh.com later this afternoon when they update their website to reflect the contents of today's program.
All right, folks, have a great weekend.
I'm going to Green Bay on Sunday for the Colts and Packers at Lambeau Field.
We'll be back here Monday to kick it all off again.
See you then.
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