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Oct. 23, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 23, 2008, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yeah, I know, I know it has to be done, but it gets a little frustrating.
Every day, we have to come in here and clean up the messes made by the most outrageously irresponsible mainstream media that anybody's ever seen.
Everybody is talking about this, even themselves.
The Pew Research Center's put out this story.
The coverage of McCain is all negative.
Of Obama, it's all positive.
They're even talking about it.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and Broadcast Excellence for three hours.
Straight to you from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So now all of these so-called leftist women and men who claim to care about middle-class people are trying to raise a stink for three days now or two days over Sarah Palin's wardrobe and the price.
Meanwhile, we still can't get them to look into Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright or Tony Resco or any of these other people.
We got to look into Sarah Palin's wardrobe.
We'll put this in proper perspective as the program unfolds today.
Obama with another big endorsement, the Iranian parliament speaker says that his country's leaning towards Obama in this election because he is more flexible and rational.
The Iranian parliament speaker is Ali Larajani, and he said yesterday Iran would prefer Obama in the White House next year.
He dismissed any idea the U.S. would attack Iran with Obama in the White House.
He said, yeah, we're leaning more in favor of Obama because he's more flexible.
He's more rational, even though we know American policy probably won't change that much.
Al-Qaeda has posted a couple things on their website saying they hope McCain is elected.
We know what that's about.
Al-Qaeda blew it last year, they think, with the bin Laden tape coming out just before the election, sort of an October surprise.
And they think they hurt John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, the haughty John Kerry.
And so they're doing a little reverse psychology at al-Qaeda.
Two-thirds of Iraq is now under security control of the United States and Iraqi security forces.
I just saw a map of the provinces of Iraq that are under, they're all under control.
Pretty much they're all, everything is subdued in Iraq.
It's a major, major victory, a major story.
Unfortunately, nobody cares.
Barack Obama says he doesn't want to make the same mistake he made with his grandmother that he made with his dying mother.
So he's going to, today he's jetting off to Hawaii to make sure that doesn't happen.
He was on the early show this morning with Harry Smith, and Smith said, Lincoln said, all I ever hoped to be, I owe to her in speaking about his mother.
Your grandmother, very much like a mother to you.
How important is this trip?
It's very important to me.
My grandmother's the last one left.
She has really been the rock of the family, the foundation of the family.
Whatever strength, discipline that I have, it comes from her.
You said in the past that you regretted your own mother's illness, and her death came so quickly.
You didn't have time to get back to seeing.
Stop, stop the tape here a minute.
Stop it.
Recue this.
Harry Smith doing everything here but crying.
Everything but crying here.
This is an embarrassment.
Do you people in the media?
You don't even care how embarrassing this is.
You do not even care.
Here it is again, from the top.
It's very important to me.
My grandmother's the last one left.
She has really been the rock of the family, the foundation of the family.
Absolutely right.
Whatever strength in Hawaii all these years that I have, it comes from her.
You said in the past that you regretted your own mother's illness.
And her death came so quickly.
You didn't have time to get back to see her.
Got there too late.
We knew she wasn't doing well.
But the diagnosis was such where we thought we had a little more time and we didn't.
And so I want to make sure that I don't make the same mistake twice.
Now, Harry Smith, very, very worried, ladies and gentlemen, that this could hurt Obama's campaign.
Some people say there's risk involved in this with so little time left.
Yeah, well, I think most people understand that if you're not caring for your family, then you're probably not the kind of person who's going to be caring for other people.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Now, I have some questions here, ladies and gentlemen.
If Obama has this election in the bag, if he has this election in the bag, which they're all saying they're all, I mean, he's building the stage.
They're already putting together this massive little stage out there in Grant Park in Chicago.
They're making all these post-election plans.
They're working on the transition team.
If it's in the bag, Obama, please stop spending money on TV and radio spots.
Stop raising more money.
You already have tons of it.
Stop campaigning all over the country.
You're wasting fuel.
You're emitting carbon dioxide along the way.
If it's over, then behave like it's over.
By the way, I'd like to be a little bit more inquisitive than the average reporter out there and observe that we have not, we've been hearing and reading for at least three days now that Obama's grandmother is deathly ill and that he's going to rush to her side in Hawaii.
Now, if he's already won the presidency, why hasn't he already gone to Hawaii?
Why is he not already there?
What's he waiting for?
If she's deathly ill, this is this, I'm just, I'm pretending to be a reporter here.
You know, they'd ask McCain these questions.
If Obama's grandmother is deathly ill, why has this been announced days ago and he's only going now or tomorrow or whenever it is?
Now, I understand, folks.
Snurdley's got, he's buried his head in his hands.
I understand this, my friends.
Anything said about Obama is going to be turned into an unfair racist attack on the man.
But am I not asking obvious questions?
Who announces days in advance they're rushing to the side of a loved one who is deathly ill, but keeps campaigning in a race that's said to be over, only to go to the loved one's side days later.
See, I think this is about something else.
You know what's really percolating out there?
And I've been laying low on this because it just hasn't met the threshold to pass the smell test on this program.
But this birth certificate business, this lawsuit that a guy named Philip Berg filed in Philadelphia in August for Obama to produce his gen, genuine birth certificate.
He still hasn't replied.
He hasn't done so.
And I'm just, you know, you've got a deathly ill grandmother.
You are going to rush to her side a few days from now.
When you first announce this, you're going to rush.
You're going to hurry.
You're going to make tracks.
You're going to get over there because you don't want your grandmother to die before you got there like your mother did.
But somehow you keep campaigning.
You take three days to get over there if he's left yet.
And this birth certificate business, I'm just wondering if something's up here.
I have no clue.
And folks, I'm telling you, this has not reached the threshold until now.
And it's popping up all over the place.
There are a lot of people now that are starting to speculate and be curious about this.
I don't know.
Let's say, for example, that somebody does come up with proof that Obama's something screwy with his birth certificate and something screwy about the fact that he's allegedly a natural citizen, American citizen, but may not be dual citizenship, born in Kenya.
Who knows?
There's all kinds of stuff out there.
So what?
What's going to happen this late in the camp?
Do you think if it's proven that they're going to dump him?
That's not going to happen.
But they're still just, these are just questions that I have.
I mean, look, both of my parents have died.
And when I was told the end was near, bam, I got there fast as I could.
And I didn't announce to the audience, I just got word my father is soon to be passing away in four or five days.
I'm going to go to Missouri.
In the meantime, I will not leave you here on this radio program.
These are just natural, natural questions.
I think any inquisitive reporter would, I know the risk I'm running here by raising all of this, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't do that brief timeout.
We'll come back and we'll try to figure out how much money's been spent on Michelle Obama's wardrobe or Barbara Walters' wardrobe or Katie Couric's wardrobe or Diane Sawyer's wardrobe or Hillary Clinton's wardrobe.
For crying out loud, do you remember?
Well, you may not have seen this, folks, but I did because I was here executing broadcast excellence on the day that Hillary Clinton was to speak in Denver to Democrat National Convention.
You know, everybody, you do a walk around, you go to the venue where you're going to speak, you stand at the podium, you check the prompter, the lighting.
They had seven pantsuits that they were holding up to see which one looked best behind the podium.
And she chose the carrot color pantsuit, if you recall, but they had six or seven of them up there.
One of Mrs. Clinton's, who is it?
Famous political fashion designer, Susan or Susannah Chung Forrest, who designed Hillary's pantsuits, which, I mean, that's got to boost the resume, says that it would be unusual for a candidate as famous, Sarah Palin, to need to buy clothes at all.
Meaning, most of these women are not buying their clothes.
They're given to them by the designers in order to get publicity.
Just as Hollywood starlets on the red carpet before the Emmys and the Oscars, those gowns are all donated.
Jewels are all donated.
And half the time, these reprobate stars try to keep the jewels rather than give them back.
It's amazing to me.
Harry Winston still stays in business.
All the Hollywood people don't give back in bubbles.
So now we find out Hillary didn't buy her pantsuits.
Who knows whoever, however many other fashion leaders in female media and politics are not buying their own clothes.
How about that strand of pearls that Pelosi wears around her neck when she shows up all over the place?
You know that strand of pearls had to cost at least as much as the $150,000 they're complaining about with Sarah Palin's wardrobe.
$150,000.
I know women that wouldn't outfoot them for one night.
And then she got six weeks out of it.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
Ladies, see, here's the difference.
I just got an email note from a woman telling me that Hillary's pantsuit color was not pumpkin, not carrot color.
It was called shell orange.
Ladies, listen to me.
When we men see the pantsuit that Hillary Clinton was wearing, we saw a pumpkin.
We didn't see shell orange.
We saw a pumpkin.
We saw a carrot.
Shell orange.
They wonder why we don't like to go shopping.
Oh, you like the carrot thing?
Get it.
Let's move on to the next aisle.
You like the lime thing?
Good.
Looks great.
Let's move on to the next aisle.
Oh, you want to go to Tiffany's?
Oh, fine.
Let's go down to Tiffany.
Oh, fine.
Let's just get it over with and go back home to turn on the football game.
It's pumpkin.
How much money has been spent on Michelle Obama's wardrobe?
Do we know?
Has anybody asked how much money's been spent on Obama's suits?
Same liberal media tell us that gay marriage, abortion, the failure to wear a flag lapel pin, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, et cetera, those are all irrelevant.
And they've now gone with this wardrobe nonsense for a couple days.
How much is spent on Katie Couric's wardrobe or Diane Sawyer's or Barbara Walters?
Palin's wardrobe costs about, I'll bet it doesn't cost much more, if that, than that pearl necklace Pelosi normally hangs around her neck.
How much was that since this is an all-important area of inquiry?
$150,000.
If $100,000, $150,000 is the amount of money, I wonder if that's, how about $100,000, you think Steve Goby might have raised $150,000 for male hookers in Barney Frank's townhouse back in the 1970s?
$150,000 amounts to the fee Colin Powell receives for delivering one speech.
How much did Joe Biden's failed hair transplant cost?
I mean, if we're going to start looking into Sarah Palin's wardrobe costs, this is ridiculous and absurd.
Where does this stop?
What strikes me about this, and this is the honest to God truth, Palin is supposedly the middle-class woman these elites claim to embrace.
Now, the fact that they are mocking her for not having a wardrobe for herself that would meet their standards is pathetic.
So the Republican Party goes out and nominates a working woman without a trust fund, without a sugar daddy.
She's a self-made woman, and this is how they mock her.
You ladies, the drive-byers are looking at this all wrong.
I want you to put yourself in her shoes.
You are minding your own business.
You're up in Alaska.
You just got back maybe from dressing a moose.
You get a phone call.
McCain wants you to be VEP.
You have got to be in Ohio in six hours.
You don't have, even if you do not have in your closet, a campaign's distance, a campaign's length worth of clothes.
You do not have it.
That is not who you are.
You have hours to get your family together, to get packed for who knows how long you're going to be away from home, to get on that airplane.
You got to fly from Alaska all the way to Ohio.
Then you go out there and you have to act fresh.
You have to act like this.
It was remarkable what she did.
It was remarkable how she has put this all together in such a short period of time.
And who cares if she had help?
For crying out loud, all these other women have these famous designers and they're always bragging about them.
All their clothes are brought to their offices or to their homes for them to try on and for them to be fitted.
You don't think they walk the aisles at Neiman Marcus, do you?
When's the last time you saw Hillary of Neiman Marcus or Macy's or anywhere else?
Or Polo.
You don't see them there, do you?
When's the last time you saw John Carriott at Turnbull and Asser buying his shirts?
He wears Turnbull and Asser shirts.
You think he walks to Turnbull and Asser in Boston and patrols the aisles?
Or do you think they might send somebody to his Beacon Hill townhouse?
And all of a sudden, we're beating up here on Sarah Palin for actually performing something that a lot of women would have panicked and crashed over.
Oh, no, I don't have the right makeup.
Oh, no, I don't have the right accessories.
Oh, no, she pulled this off seamlessly.
I get really irritated having to come in here and clean up the messes that these jerks in the media are making each and every day in order to square this and put the proper perspective on what this woman is, who she is, and how she has borne up under all this.
I dare say that not one of the reporters or reportertes that has put Sarah Pala under the lights could stand up twice to the treatment that she has received and still run around and smile and enjoy what she is doing.
Republicans have nominated a working woman without a trust fund, without a sugar daddy, a self-made woman, and look how they treat her.
And look at what John Murthy says about his own constituents.
First, they're racist and now they're rednecks.
Barack Obama in San Francisco.
Yeah, those people in Pennsylvania, they're just, you know, they're bitter.
They cling to their guns and they cling to their religion when people move into the neighborhood that don't look like them.
You have to watch these people.
This is how they treat people of modest means.
This is the arrogant condescension that I have constantly warned you about regarding the way the left looks at average, the so-called people they really care about, the little guy, the people they really care about.
Look at what they really think of them.
You.
Look at what they really think of you.
These are elitist snobs looking down on the people of this country.
This CBS story is interesting.
CBS News has confirmed the Republican National Committee spent up to $150,000 on what appears to be wardrobe and makeup spending at high-end apartment stores for Sarah Palin.
Scandal!
Scandal!
Scandal, ladies and gentlemen, scandal!
One of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forrest, who designed Hillary Clinton's pantsuits, which I am stunned that Susanna Chung Forrest would admit this, but she did.
She says that it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin need to buy clothes in the first place.
She said, why do you need to pay for it?
Her burtique, by the way, is in Beverly Hills.
She says that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free.
It's an honor.
You're going to design for somebody who could be the president of the United States.
LA Times reported earlier this year that Senator Clinton's custom-made pantsuits from Forrest were about $6,350 a piece retail.
What a shocker.
You know what the shock is?
The shock is that Sarah Palin, the Republicans, actually paid money for their own clothes.
Don't they know, like Democrats, they can get them for free?
They actually paid for it, ladies.
Why, how out of touch can you be to pay for your own clothes?
Ladies and gentlemen, it seems to me that the Republicans will pay thousands of dollars to get women into clothes while the Democrats spend thousands of dollars to get women out of their clothes.
Now, this is a way to look at this.
How about this guy from down here in West Palm Beach, Tim Mahoney?
Tim Mahoney paid off one of his mistresses $121,000 and then $50,000 for a no-show job.
That's $171,000 to get her out of her clothes and then to keep her mouth shut.
You couldn't even make a nice dent in what Jesse Jackson has paid his mistress.
Jackson had provided his mistress with $40,000 in moving expenses, a $365,000 house, $10,000 a month in child support.
Let's add this.
I mean, $10, a month, $365,000 house.
So let's add $40,000 to $400,000 for the house and moving expenses, $10,000 a month in child support.
And we're sitting here worried about what the hell Sarah Palin's wardrobe cost and whether it came from campaign funds.
Did Jesse Jackson's payments to his mistress come from slush funds?
And where did Tim Mahoney get his cash to pay off his mistress?
How about Elliot Spitzer?
He dropped up to $80,000 on sex with prostitutes.
Another Democrat, ladies and gentlemen.
Elliot Spitzer.
I'm telling you, Democrats spend money to get women out of their clothes.
Republicans spent money to put women in their clothes.
And let's, how can we forget John Edwards?
An earlier payment of $14,000 by the Brett girl to Edwards' mistress from the candidates political action committee was exchanged for 100 hours of unused videotape she shot producing short web movies.
The earlier $14,000 payment to Edwards honey is significant because its source was Edwards One America Political Action.
And how long did they sit on that story before they were dragged kicking and screaming?
Here for two days here, they're trying to make a scandal out of the fact the RNC actually bought a wardrobe for Sarah Palin.
Ladies and gentlemen, when the Democrats are running around, these designers running around bragging about how they get theirs for free.
I want to go back to this one soundbite from Obama.
Second question from Harry Smith this morning on the CBS early show.
Some people say there's risk involved in this with so little time left.
Yeah, well, I think most people understand that if you're not caring for your family, then you're probably not the kind of person who's going to be caring for other people.
Okay, if you're not caring for your family, how about George Onyongo Badongo Hussein Obama in the hut outside Nairobi living on a dollar a month?
$20 bill would double his half-brother's annual income.
Not even a sign, home, sweet hut, has been sent to George Biango Onyango Hussein Obama.
And how many other of Obama's family members are living in squalor?
Yeah, if you don't take care of your family, if you don't put that first, you're probably not the kind of person that's going to be caring for other people.
Got a half-brother living in a hut.
The Politicos has a story today.
Can't the...
I can't get the author here because it looks like, well, I'm not even going to try it.
We're using cheap fax machines these days at the EIB network, and the very small type does not carry across.
Will the election drive the Dow?
Is the election driving the Dow is the answer.
Generally, this is a paragraph from within the story.
Generally, financial analysts say the stock market likes Republicans more than Democrats.
And while predicting market movements is as difficult as predicting the winner of the World Series in August, some experts say that the market is already anticipating an Obama win on November 4th and has at least partially accounted for it.
This is the political market's tanking because it expects an Obama victory from experts.
And get this line.
Joe Lieber, a political analyst at the consulting firm Washington Analysis, who scrutinizes elections for his clients at hedge mutual and pension funds, said in an electoral lurch that gave a Democrat 60 seats could prompt a dramatic sell-off on Wall Street.
What does this tell you?
What in the world?
It's already happening.
I shared with you the story yesterday of a couple small businessmen I met on Tuesday.
And I left out one thing, by the way, that has them mortified.
It's not just Obama's taxes.
And I asked these guys, I said, okay, wait a minute.
Now, you're talking about having to lay people off if Obama's elected because of what's going to happen to taxes.
And they also mentioned, the name of this act is eluding me now.
It's the Employer Free Hire Act or something.
Basically, it is a statute that will force small business to unionize.
It will force small business to unionize so unions can go in, unionize a business, and then walk out and shut down after having created a unionized business.
And these guys are terrified of this.
We're talking small business now.
The unions, as you know, their membership has been plummeting.
It's 11 or 12% now, if that.
And the small business people, and they were speaking for a lot of them, are just petrified.
And I got, when I mentioned this story yesterday, I got some email last night.
Hey, Rush, hey, Rush, if these CEOs are so afraid of Obama, how come they're going to vote for him and are contributing to him?
We're talking small business here, and I failed to make that plain yesterday.
The large company CEOs, folks, listen, they're conflicted here because large company CEOs would love to offload your health care plan that you have if you work for a large company.
They'd love to offload that health care plan to the federal government.
But at the same time, they don't like the idea the corporate tax rate's not going to be cut or maybe intensified.
But I asked these guys, these small business guys, they said, what about Obama's got this great plan, this $3,000 tax credit for every new full job you hire?
They said, this is a joke.
And they told me what everybody in the business knows.
If you're going to pay somebody, these are rough figures, $50,000, it's going to cost you at least $65,000 to hire them.
Okay, so it costs you $65,000.
You spend that to get a $3,000 tax credit.
It's a silly deal.
Nobody would take it.
It's crazy.
And then once these employers don't take the deal, if Obama actually goes through with this, then that sets up Obama being able to point the finger at them as the reason why there is no rebound in employment.
Well, these greedy small businessmen, we've offered them all kinds of incentives to hire people, but they refuse to do it because they want all the money for themselves.
They're laying off workers, blah, blah, blah.
And that's how Obama plans to escape the rising unemployment he claims to fix during this campaign.
Now, this political story here today is fascinating in that experts are saying the market is tanking right now because it expects an Obama victory.
This is a it's already anticipating that and has partially accounted for it.
And if the Democrats get 60 seats in the Senate, then there's going to be a dramatic sell-off.
And the Washington Post today, job losses accelerate, signaling deeper distress.
Employers are moving to aggressively cut jobs.
I told you this yesterday and reduce costs in the face of the nation's economic crisis, preparing for what many fear will be a long and painful recession.
Let me redo the lead.
Employers are moving to aggressively cut jobs and reduce costs in the face of the nation's economic crisis, comma, the Obama presidency, period.
They're preparing for what they fear will be a long and painful recession about four years of the Obama presidency.
So in light of an Obama win, market is tanking, job losses accelerate, signaling a deeper distress.
And why?
It's because Obama is unrepentant about his tax increases.
And when he says that he's going to give every American, 95% of Americans, a tax cut, he's not.
And he's on the hook for this, too.
It's welfare.
He is going to take, he's going to include people who don't pay income taxes, but do pay payroll taxes, Social Security taxes.
He's going to give them anywhere from a $500 to $1,000 tax credit rebate check, what have you.
He's basically going to rob the Social Security Trust Fund, quote unquote, lockbox, what have you.
But it's a welfare program.
He's going to give welfare checks to people who don't pay income tax.
And now he's come back and said, oh, no, we'll have a work requirement on that.
We'll have a work requirement.
Well, work requirements.
I thought they already were working.
I thought these were the salt of the earth people.
They're working families.
I thought they already were working.
What do you mean they're going to have a work requirement, Obama?
I thought these people were working and they're getting the shaft by all these rich Americans who are trodding on them all day long and making their lives miserable and unhappy.
My opening monologue yesterday about the conversation with the two small business execs, you know, what was enlightening about that to me was we don't get truth from the drive-bys, yet we live in a world that's ultimately governed by reality.
I mean, propaganda couldn't keep the Soviet Union afloat, and propaganda will not protect the media from collapse either at some point.
The media, if this keeps up, will collapse of its own incompetence, its own immorality, its own injustice.
Now, their propaganda may have a shelf life long enough to elect Obama, but it won't change the realities that American businesses face as they prepare their budgets going forward.
American business is going to look at its P ⁇ L.
It's going to look at the financial figures that dominate, govern the business.
They're not going to turn on the nightly news, which fewer and fewer people are watching, and try to find out what the business climate is.
They don't live in the world of fantasy.
They don't live in the world of propaganda.
They live in the world of reality.
And here I've got these two guys sitting next to me on Wednesday, and they're giving me their reality, and I have never heard it reflected in the media.
The media is pure propaganda, pure image, pure fantasy.
Everything's going to be rosy.
It's going to be wonderful when Obama's elected.
The markets right now are not panicked.
You'd have to say they're hysterical.
Nobody can figure these out, these up-and-down swings, what's driving all this so-called daily news on jobs or credit crunch or what have you.
I'll tell you what they're doing.
They're reacting to what they perceive to be reality.
They're not reacting to the propaganda and the fantasy of the media.
I have a friend who works for another broadcast entity.
They are slashing costs.
They are firing and laying off people trying to survive.
My friend's daughter is having trouble selling yearbook ads when these are a slam dunk in any other year.
People buy high school and college yearbook ads as a matter of almost philanthropy.
From top to bottom, businesses are taking care of business.
They are in survival mode right now.
We've had a hurricane and it's been predicted.
And they see the radar images.
They see Hurricane Obama coming.
And they're behaving rationally.
Now, that makes no sense when juxtaposed with the image that's been painted by Obama and his media campaign staff.
The financial pictures painted by socialists and Marxists have no similarity to photographs.
I mean, their promises have been proven to be lies 100% of the time, and business owners understand that business has to deal with reality.
Obama's campaign has been all about imagery and style.
The markets will react to long-term stability, and they'll react to instability and volatility, too.
Tax cuts and spending cuts and a cost-aboard freeze would stop the bleeding and allow for the slow upward build.
If you cut capital gains today, if you cut the corporate tax rate, you want to see stability on the market, all you'd have to do is have somebody serious propose it.
Somebody that the markets think has a genuine chance of winning.
Markets are looking for good news, and it's not going to come in a BS New York Times poll that says Obama's up 15 points.
That's not good news.
It's not going to be good news they interpret watching the Obama channel, DNC, MSNBC-TV.
They're dealing in reality.
You work for them.
They're not dealing in fantasies and propaganda.
They have to make it all work or else they go out of business.
And then everybody at the small business is kaput.
Back after this.
Okay, so here's the triple threat.
That responsible business people who look at the PL, they don't look at MSNBC.
They don't look at the New York Times poll.
Well, they might look at the New York Times poll and get worried over the result.
But here's what American business senses.
This is what they fear as the triple threat about to hit them.
Higher taxes, less free trade.
Don't forget, Obama said he's going to tear up NAFTA and try to rework it.
And he's against opening up free trade with an ally in South America, Colombia, and a massive increase in union membership.
This is actually something of the Obama has not really been targeted on this.
There hadn't been a whole lot of people talking about this union measure that he supports.
It's named something that's the exact opposite of what it is.
It's called the Employer Freedom Act or something.
It's the exact opposite of that.
It allows unions to go in with a secret ballot and so forth and unionize any shop that they want to try if it becomes law.
So, you know, this is what they fear.
This is what they are all reacting to.
Now, about the clothes, one more thing about the clothes.
Sarah Palin, drive-by is trying to find the scandal.
Sarah Palin, 150 grand paid for RNC.
Do you realize that it's an illegal campaign contribution for any incorporated business to give away clothes to a candidate?
$6,000, the average cost of a Hillary pants suit, a little over $6,000, is over the personal limit and is thus also illegal.
So what the Republicans are trying to do is ask, okay, we bought it, we paid for it.
It's ours.
We're going to pay for it.
This is the way you do things.
To the Democrats, that's out of style.
That's out of touch.
You're actually going to pay for it.
But the thing is, if this designer is right and she's outfitting all these candidates for nothing, then they're violating campaign laws.
Not that it'll matter.
Nobody will do anything about it.
Here's Kathy in Pittsburgh as we go to the phones.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I just want to make a comment about this silly wardrobe controversy of Sarah Palin's.
You know, they did this to Nancy Reagan, only they got her using designers.
I believe Nancy paid for her outclothes, but the woman couldn't change an outfit without us knowing who it was, how much it was.
And I never heard a comment about Hillary the entire time that Bill was in office.
Yeah, that's true.
But in Hillary's case, there aren't probably too many designers who want to admit it.
That's true.
That's true.
But if Sarah, you know, if Sarah had gone to Walmart, imagine what they would say about her.
She was trailer trash.
She was common.
You know, I mean, the woman just simply cannot do anything to suit them.
Well, but see, it's really, it doesn't tell us anything about her.
It tells us about her critics and who they are.
This is just, it's just, it's mean, it's elitist, it's arrogant, it's condescending.
And the thing that I think people need to understand is this is how they look at all of you.
The elites, I don't care whether the Republican Party or the Democrat Party, they all look at anybody they consider to be an average American or not part of the smart people crowd.
You're just, you're hayseeds.
You're hicks.
And you're embarrassing, except on Election Day.
Then they want as many of you as they can get.
But here they are going out and trying to make mincemeat of Sarah Palin, thinking they're going to attract more votes from people who actually support or like her.
By the way, the Messiah is back.
Barack Obama in Virginia yesterday told the audience, there's a righteous wind at our back.
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