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Nov. 10, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2008, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Wow, what a weekend, ladies and gentlemen.
The Obama campaign called a timeout to news coverage.
They called a timeout to anything regarding news over the weekend so you could all get a rest.
And there's more news that took place over the weekend than I've seen over a weekend in a long time.
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Well, Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy.
Why won't the Obama people, why won't the Libs and the Democrats in a government bailout Circuit City?
They just gave AIG another $25 or $50 billion, which means that more and more of you people will be paying my insurance policies, as will I.
And it's an interesting story here, too.
I love this story.
This is just, well, Fannie Mae has reported a $29 billion loss in the third quarter.
And remember now, who used to work at Fannie Mae?
Rom Emmanuel, Jamie Gerellic, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank.
They didn't work there, but they all had a role in propping the place up.
And of course, let's see, Frank Raines and Jim Johnson and so forth.
Fannie Mae with a big loss, $29 billion.
This is from the Washington Post.
Yesterday, a quiet windfall for U.S. banks.
The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry.
In the midst of this late September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.
This, folks, is delicious.
Corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document.
Administration officials had just given American banks a windfall of as much as $140 billion.
Now, you will remember on several occasions on this very program, I read to you the preamble, as it is, as it were, of this bailout bill, and it gave the Treasury Secretary sole power.
The Treasury Secretary became the most powerful man in the country, and he was given sole power to ensure domestic tranquility, to ensure the economic well-being of the American people.
And so he decided to stick in a huge tax break for his Wall Street banker buddies.
The sweeping change to two decades of tax policy escaped the notice of lawmakers for several days as they remained consumed with the bailout bill.
When they found out, some legislators were furious.
Some congressional staff members have privately concluded the notice was illegal, but they have worried that saying so publicly could unravel several recent bank mergers made possible by this change and send the economy into an even deeper tailspin.
What the Treasury Department basically, by the way, when they say the administration did something, yeah, technically they're right, but this was Paulson.
Because Paulson's a Treasury Secretary, he's given total power to mess with this $700 billion or $850, whatever it was, the way he wanted to.
Basically, what they did from George Yin, the chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation, they basically repealed a 22-year-old law that Congress passed as a backdoor way of providing aid to banks.
They got rid of a big tax.
They eliminated a tax on banks to the tune of $140 billion.
Paulson did.
Look, I know, I know, I know, but you just have to laugh about this.
the sight of legislators just now discovering this while they were immersed in the bill.
Little five, what is it, a five-sentence five five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.
Apparently it attracted no attention from the legislators who were voting on it either.
Oh, my friends, I don't think they knew about the subprime crisis either.
Why won't if they're going to do all of this, if they're going to bail out the banks, if we're going to bail out this, you're going to bail out that, why not bail out Circuit City?
After all, Obama's going to need people to have televisions to be able to watch him.
And, you know, we've got to go digital TV next February or something.
That's a drop-down date for everybody getting rid of your old analog sets and going digital.
And here's Circuit City filing for bankruptcy.
I don't know if they're unionized or not.
Maybe they're not unionized.
That's why.
McDonald's big profit, Walmart, big profit.
Huge, huge, huge profits.
8.1% for McDonald's.
They don't have unions either.
This is not going to sit well with the Obama team.
We cannot have businesses doing well during this period.
I mean, Obama ought to be applauding this recession if he were intellectually consistent.
Businesses are hurting all over the place.
They're losing money.
They're not making profits like they once did, except for Walmart and a few others.
McDonald's, they're seeking bailouts all over the place.
I would think Obama and his team would be applauding all of this, is spreading the wealth around and empowering the government.
I mean, he ought to be pointing to decades of big government policies and taking credit for all of this because this is exactly what's going to happen on a grand mass scale if he does succeed with what he wants to do.
And they're apparently going to hit the ground running.
I mean, there's no centrism here at all.
Executive orders, they're going to do the tax increases on the rich no matter.
By the way, I have to share with you the funniest story.
I hope you find the humor in this.
I live here in Palm Beach, Florida.
We have a local paper.
It's called the Palm Beach Daily News.
The nickname is a shiny sheet.
And it's exclusively tailored for the people who live in Palm Beach.
And during the winter, there's about 40,000 people that live here.
And during the summer, they all flee.
And there's about, I think, 19,000 or so that remain.
I, myself being one of them.
And this paper is just, got the Sunday edition yesterday.
And there's a front page story where you would never see this anywhere else in the country.
A front page story on how the wealthy are going to deal, what they are doing, how they are planning ahead for the Obama administration.
Normally you see stories in papers, like the Washington Post today has got another story.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
The poor hardest hit because of the economic slowdown.
But here's how they went out and they talked to people and financial planners about what they're planning.
And I guarantee you that the answers to the questions, all everybody down here is talking about trying to accelerate income, get it into this year, report it as quickly as you can.
Everybody's talking about charitable donations might have to be cut back.
People are not going to wait to see what Obama does because they think that they know.
But it just struck me as funny.
How are the wealthy are in trouble?
How are the wealthy going to deal?
And they talk to Democrats and Republicans as well.
You will not believe this.
This is from the New York Times today.
I cannot believe that this is actually happening.
Headline says it all.
Bake sales fall victim to push for healthier foods.
This is a story out of Piedmont, California.
Tommy Cornelius and other members of the Piedmont High School Boys' Water Polo team never expected to find themselves running through scruple in their speedos to promote a bake sale across the street, but times have been tough since their school, a Piedmont High School, banned homemade brownies and cupcakes from the bake sale, the old-fashioned school bake sale, once as American as apple pie.
Remember, Bill Clinton used them to help balance the federal budget.
Dan's bake sale.
We used the bake sale here to rally conservatives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The old-fashioned school bake sale, fast becoming obsolete in California, a result of strict new state nutrition standards for public scruples that regulate the type of food that can be sold to students.
I kid you not.
The guidelines passed by lawmakers in 2005, they took effect in July of 2007.
They require that snacks sold during the scruple day contain no more than 35% sugar by weight and derive no more than 35% of their calories from fat and no more than 10% of their calories from saturated fat.
The Piedmont High water polo team falls woefully short of these standards, selling cupcakes, caramel apples, and lemon bars off campus in a flagrant act of nutritional disobedience.
right here it says it's the new york times today Flagrant act of nutritional disobedience.
I know obesity is a big problem.
It's a good the school cares, says Sam Cardoza, Sr., who briefly became an entrepreneur last year when chocolate chip cookies were banned from the cafeteria.
At the same time, you shouldn't stop a kid from buying a cookie.
California is a hatchery for food trends, but its regulations are not the country's strongest.
There are 500 to 600 scruel districts nationwide now that have policies that limit the amount of fat, trans fats, sodium, and sugars in foods sold or served at scruel with the strictest rules directed at elementary schools.
This is from Jamie Trickey, senior research scientist, the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
This all goes all roads lead to Chicago here.
The idea is that policy interventions to reduce consumption will do for junk food what smoking bans and taxes did for tobacco.
Right.
I've noticed all those kids getting thin out there.
I've seen as a wave of thinness.
We have a plague almost out there of malnutrition that's happening.
If bake sales are out, healthy fundraisers like car washes and balloonograms are in.
In Oakland, new traditions are replacing old ones, healthy Halloween vegetable platter for kindergartens.
Vegetables, a vegetable platter for kindergartens at Montclair Elementary in Oakland, California.
I kid you not.
In California, bake sales are waning because ingredients cannot be regulated.
Sales are banned during school hours, but may be held a half hour before or after school.
Ms. Wong, who is Ms. Watt, Berkeley, Anna XL Wong, a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary, incorporates good food versus bad foods into the curriculum and offers her students healthy snacks, including I never heard of this.
E-D-A-M-A-M-E.
You ever heard of that?
What?
Soybeans?
Well, how do you pronounce the word?
Nobody knows.
It's okay.
Soybo.
She says, healthy snacks, including soybeans.
Her version of preventive medicine.
We talk about the word courage, Ms. Wong said of her young students.
That means being brave enough to try new things.
So bravery and courage, new things involving the diet and so forth.
So bake sales falling victim to a push for healthier foods.
Students have been found in flagrant acts of nutritional disobedience at Piedmont High School in California.
know it's it's it's not fun it's scary as it can be but i mean it's just people are the strangest weird And I know soybeans, you know, I grew up in Southeast Missouri and we'd drive down to Kennett, Missouri to visit my grandparents.
My grandfather down there ran a cotton compress.
And we go to the soybean fields, and I loved the smell of soybeans in this soybean.
But you eat one?
It's worse than eating a raw chestnut.
You just wouldn't want to do it.
And I checked the email during the break.
Rush, why are you laughing about all of this?
They're canceling bake sales with baked goods in it.
These are traditions.
Why are you laughing?
What else can you do here, folks?
We've been sounding the warnings on this kind of encroachment by these wackos on the left for all these years.
If people want to go out and vote for people who are then going to appoint people in the education system or wherever that are going to enact these kind of things, then fine.
If this is what people want in California, this is what they vote for, and if this is who they vote for, then all you can do is laugh at it and anywhere else as well.
If this is what people want, let them have at it.
At some point, this is all going to come back and bite everybody in the rear end.
They're not going to know what happened.
And the only question is going to be, is it going to be too late to really roll any of this stuff back and change it?
Will the left have so much entrenched power, unelected entrenched power for generation after generation, that will there be any chance to roll it back?
At some point, you know, red lights are going to go off.
The brains are going to start functioning normally again.
And people are going to realize where all this is headed.
The danger, of course, as we've been discussing, is when you have 47 million Americans that pay no income tax, and whatever percentage of voters that is, 35, 40% of voters, when they figure out that they can vote themselves a mortgage or whatever they want without having to pay anything for it, you're not going to get them back.
And as long as we're talking about bailing this out and bailing that out and making the government in charge of more and more businesses, as long as there are significant numbers of Americans who apparently are in favor of this, you're just going to have to wait till the whole thing collapses because it will.
Things like this cannot be sustained.
And by the way, I keep hearing people say, well, you know, these buyouts and these bailouts and these government taking over this business and that.
These are just temporary rush.
I mean, they're going to roll these things back in the private sector.
Oh, really?
Government gives things up?
Government gives things away.
We shall find out.
The drive-by media is livid at me, ladies and gentlemen.
The New York Times mentioned over the weekend that I am the lone member of the conservative media that has not congratulated Obama, although I did.
I am the lone member of the conservative media that's not showing the proper deference for the historical achievement, even though that I did.
I am the lone member of the conservative media that is not kowtowing and giving Obama a chance to settle in and become president before criticizing him.
That's true.
I know who he is.
They're telling us they don't know who he is.
Brokaw, the guys at Newsweek, they don't know who he is.
I do.
I'm not going to be surprised by anything that happens.
But nevertheless, the thing that really set them off over the weekend was when I referred to Obama and Rahm Emanuel as Chicago thugs.
Let's go to CNN's reliable sources.
The L.A. Times Doyle McManus and Michelle Martin from National Public Radio are discussing media coverage of the incoming Obama administration.
Doyle McManus says: if you're worried about predominantly liberal reporters going into the tank for a president that they're disposed to like, look at Bill Clinton's first six months.
Absolute chaos.
And it was covered as absolute chaos.
But look, for every Chris Matthews, there's a Rush Limbaugh who called the new incoming chief of staff and the president elect thugs.
So I think that there's these dual narratives going on all the time to sort of pretend that this is all one big soup and everybody's just kind of a little vegetable in that soup is just wrong.
Whatever that means, now we go to the McLaughlin group.
This is John McLaughlin talking with Eleanor Clift of Newsweek.
Rush on Rom.
He is good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug.
On the night of the Clinton election, Rom Emmanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign.
Rah Emmanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers.
And as he listed their names, he shouted, dead, dead, dead, and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name.
Question: Are conservatives up in arms about the Obama triumph?
And does the manual appointment only add fuel to the fire?
That's the most enforced listening to Rush Limbaugh I've had in my lifetime.
Rahm Emmanuel helped Bill Clinton put through the trade deals, welfare reform.
He is a pragmatic politician.
Okay, yeah, pragmatic politician.
From the liberal point of view, pragmatism is doing everything as far left liberal as you can.
But this Chicago thug business, it even had the skirts over at The View all in a Twitter today.
They couldn't believe that I would refer to the Messiah and the newly elected Obama as a Chicago thug, nor could they believe I would say that about Rah Emmanuel.
I must confess, ladies and gentlemen, thinking of them as Chicago thugs was not my idea.
I, Norman, I'm a very original guy, as you people know, come up with my own stuff, my own observations, but I must admit that I stole the Chicago thug business.
Let me give you a quote from the Politico, August 26th of this year.
Bill Clinton believes the Democrat nominee, far from practicing a unifying transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of a Chicago thug.
One longtime associate said, Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress Hispanic turnout in the Nevada cauckey and played the race card in reverse against the Clintons in South Carolina and other states.
So when I saw that story on the Politico by John Harris, August 26th, that's the first time I made the mental association of Obama and Chicago thug.
But actually, we've been talking about thugs on this program for the longest time, the union thugs.
We finally found out last week the root of the word thug, a bunch of renegade robbers and murderers in India known as the thuggies.
They would befriend people traversing the countryside.
They would walk with them, offer to help them.
This goes back 17, 1800s.
And they'd befriend them and make them think that they were their allies and helping them in any danger.
And after they'd befriended them a while, the thuggies would rob them and murder them and rape them and so forth and move on down to the next unsuspecting bunch of people.
And so the thuggies, it's a thug with two E's on the end.
The thuggies actually form the root word and the origin of the word thug.
But I don't like admitting to copying people, but I must tell you I got this from Clinton during the primaries.
Back after this.
An excellent role model for the Utes of America, Rush Limbaugh and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now, this is just delicious as well here.
From the Salt Lake Tribune, for nearly a year, Salt Lake City's One World Cafe, founded on the altruistic goal of letting customers set the price for their own meal, has been on a crash course with business reality.
In mid-October, employee paychecks bounced, and the longtime manager was fired.
Bo Dean's dismal angered the, or dismissal rather, angered the rest of the staff enough that they walked out in protest.
Founder Denise Soretta was forced to call a temporary staffing agency so she could serve customers.
Inexperience seems to be the main problem for the non-profit cafe at 41 South 300 East Street as the restaurant grew.
I didn't have the expertise at running a kitchen, acknowledged Soretta.
We needed more structure and a more professional kitchen.
That's not the problem.
They ran a non-profit.
They ran a non-profit one-world restaurant.
Anybody from anywhere could come in there.
You pay what you want as a customer.
You go in and you order the soybeans or the watercress vinaigrette, whatever you're going to have, and then you pay them whatever you want.
You walk, wow, this place is great.
Then the owner finally figures out she's not making a profit and blames it on the fact she doesn't have enough business experience and so forth.
Try your ideology.
Non-profit eatery cannot bring home the bacon.
Now they're several thousand dollars in debt and they're non-profit.
Rush, you sound happy, but I am.
I'm just ecstatic when stupid people learn that they've done something stupid.
I don't think this woman understands she's done something stupid yet, though.
I think she still thinks that she's God's gift of food.
I think she still thinks that she was doing a very altruistic, very compassionate, humanitarian thing.
And now we just need more structure and more professional kitchen.
Well, how are you going to do that when you let the customers decide what they're going to pay you?
Where are you going to get the money?
You're in debt.
Maybe they can get bailed out.
Maybe, what's the name of this place?
The One World Cafe.
Maybe the One World Cafe can get bailed out.
A recent review of the business showed the restaurant was overstaffed.
Management of employee time was poor.
It never even had an employee time clock.
The restaurant also had failed to keep concise records of food costs and fixed costs.
All told, mismanagement costs the restaurant $8,000 to $10,000 a month.
It's not just mismanagement.
These are a bunch of liberals.
These are liberals playing games with the reality known as life.
These are liberals playing games with the reality known as business.
And these are the same kind of people we've just put in charge of much of the federal government.
During the past week, the One World Cafe has implemented new kitchen procedures.
They've hired a new executive chef and a new sous chef.
We were financially shaky.
We'll be fine, said Seretta.
We're in no danger of us closing.
Really?
I don't.
You kidding?
Dawn just said maybe they need Allen Brothers.
You think that the One World Cafe serves beef?
You think you can go in there and buy.
And do you think, oh, of course it'd be profitable.
But do you think that people would actually go out and I just if they did if these guys at the One World Cafe would how they did this is just I don't know that I want one Allen Brothers anywhere near this place to tell you the truth.
I love Allen Brothers too much.
I don't want Allen Brothers to get their reputation.
It stinks.
I mean you don't want your food if you're the primary supplier of food you don't want the restaurant serving it to go bankrupt.
And certainly you don't want to sell it to a non-profit one world cafe, a non-profit restaurant.
Oh, yes, we're just being compassionate.
So while it's a nice try for Allen Brothers to go in and save the place, I don't want Allen Brothers anywhere near the One World Cafe because the One World Cafe is not going to make it.
I doubt that they even sell beef in there anyway.
I got to get a picture of this place.
I want to see where it is.
I want to see where it looks.
I'm probably doing more for the One World Cafe than anybody possibly could.
I'm sure there are people in Salt Lake that listen to this program and despise me and hear me making fun of this humanitarian effort here that is an embarrassment to American business.
And they're going to go flood the place now and make sure that it stays open.
I'm giving them free advertising.
I mean, if they're going to flood the place, they'll probably overpay for what they're getting.
I doubt that.
The liberals don't go that far.
They still want other people's money to pay for what they do and for what they get.
But they'll still stream in there to show a measure of support with bodies.
But no, see, this is why, ladies and gentlemen, many of you have said over the course of the past week that you enjoy the technical malfunction.
It was allowing Snerdley to be heard chatting with me during monologues here.
We finally got it fixed, Brian, over the weekend, didn't we?
We finally got it fixed.
And one of the reasons why I do not want Snerdley to be heard is because this is his brainchild, Allen Brothers, at the One World Cafe.
And it's an idea that stinks because this place is a failure.
Allen Brothers couldn't, a bunch of liberals in there.
They'd probably attack the Allen Brothers shipment when it got there if they found out someone's coming.
Besides that, there's only 2 to 3% of prime beef available to people in this country.
Allen Brothers gets it and they sell it to people like me.
I don't want it wasted on a bunch of long-haired maggot-infested dope-smoking FM types walking in to the One World Cafe.
The last thing we need is to deplete the supply of the great food at Allen Brothers.
I got a bunch of golf buddies coming in for the annual Limbaugh Open this weekend.
It's going to be four nights in a row of stuff from Allen Brothers, and I'm not going to have my supply.
I don't want the day to come where I call them up and order.
Sorry, Mr. Limbaugh.
We're a little short this month.
A new restaurant, the One World Cafe in Salt Law.
It isn't happening.
Bobby, New Jersey Turnpike, driving around the fruited plan.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Rush, what a pleasure to talk to you, man.
It's amazing I got through.
I just wanted to comment on the bailout of the auto industry.
My opinion is it's just delaying the inevitable.
I work for a company that calls on both the final assembly and tier suppliers.
And, you know, it's sort of the unspoken secret amongst everyone in management and running the place is that their costs are just prohibitive with what they pay hourly workers and the union workers compared to the transplant companies, Nissan, Honda, et cetera, that are mostly in the South and not.
Yes, it's not just that.
It's also the fact that the Japanese companies that manufacture here in the United States do not have to pay, do have to factor in health care costs to the extent General Motors and the Big Three do as well.
You know, I understand what you're saying.
This kind of cuts both ways.
General Motors and Ford, they made the deals management was weak.
They were short-sighted and didn't have the backbone to instill lasting or practices that would be lasting as a business model.
They just mortgaged the future to, I guess, prevent the business.
So, what do you think ought to happen?
You think just let the market take care of itself and let the new auto company emerge?
I'll say this much.
I'd rather be, you know, I would never buy a non-American car at this point in my life.
I'd be sickened by it.
But at the same time, I think it's just unsustainable.
It cannot endure.
I think the union needs to be busted.
And that's just the reality of it.
Well, that's not going to happen.
The fact that the exact opposite is going to happen is that more small businesses are going to end up being unionized by virtue of Obama's ramming everybody's throat down this Employee Free Choice Act, the no-secret ballot in whether you unionize a shop or not.
Now, this is one of the plans.
That's why I think Obama ought to be celebrating all this stuff because this chaos, as you say, provides excuse and an opportunity for the government to bail out even more.
Well, we can't let that go busy.
Look at all the employees that be out of work, and look at all the health care we do.
Oh, God, I've got to prop that up.
Can't let AIG go bankrupt.
You might have to miss their spa treatments out in California.
We can't let Bear Stearns go.
We can't let these people go.
We can't let anything go.
It's too crucial.
So the government's going to be investing practically in an ownership role in everything out there.
Not everything, but I mean in a significant number of important businesses, and they're going to be unionizing even more of them.
This is going to be one of the most radical transformations of our culture and society that we've ever seen in our lifetimes.
Right.
And basically, you know, you can point to any industry that's unionized.
And those are the industries that are really struggling right now and cannot compete with, you know, especially foreign competition, but just can't compete in general.
Their cost bases are just unrealistic and unsustainable.
Well, it's going to get worse because the people, the financial services isn't unionized.
It's just run by liberals, just like the One World Cafe in Salt Lake City.
But I know what you mean.
Automobiles are unionized.
Healthcare has a lot of union workers in it.
What's the third?
I'm having a middle block.
I know what it is.
There's a third one.
Well, not including government.
In fact, last year, last week we got the unemployment numbers out.
Government was the only sector where employment grew.
It was.
I kid you.
I'm sorry, folks, to laugh at this.
But government was the only employment sector that grew of any significant size.
I got to go.
Quick timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
Scott Rasmussen has an op-ed piece today in the Wall Street Journal, and it confirms my instincts, and it confirms what we've also learned from exit polling.
The polls show that Reaganism is not dead.
Down the campaign home stretch, Obama's tax-cutting promise became his clearest policy decision.
He stole the tax issue from the Republicans.
Heading into the election, 31% of voters thought that President Obama would cut their taxes.
Only 11% expected a tax cut from the McCain administration.
The last Democrat candidate to win the tax issue was also Bill Clinton.
In fact, the candidate who most credibly promises the lowest level of taxes has won every presidential election in at least the last 40 years.
Now, here's the thing.
And I keep talking about this.
We have brewing problems on the right because so many of our so-called intelligentsia are totally misreading the reason for this loss, for this defeat.
They're wanting to throw in the towel and become liberal light.
The fact is, Reaganism hasn't been tried in 20 years.
They want to say that the era of Reagan is over.
Rasmussen himself says the polls show that Reaganism is not dead.
The Democrats have stolen it.
This gives you an idea of just how hapless the Republican Party has become.
Now, I know a lot of you were saying, but Rush, but Rush, McCain was talking tax cuts, and he wasn't using numbers.
People's attention span is people's attention span.
As far as most people who voted or believe are concerned, Obama's going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans.
You know, we're running around saying, well, but that's okay, but 95% don't pay taxes.
It doesn't register.
95% versus whatever McCain was saying one day and then the next day and then the next, there was no consistency of the message.
But losing the tax cut issue and then thinking conservatism's dead when Obama, one of the reasons he gets elected is because he's perceived as the number one tax cutter of the two candidates.
I mean, is that incompetence or ineptness on our side or what?
To lose it to a socialist, to lose the tax cut argument to a socialist.
Now, if he follows through and starts raising taxes on people, then there's going to be a little hell to pay because people do think that Obama was a tax cutter and not just raising taxes on the rich.
95% of Americans are going to get a tax cut.
And we'll see how he manages to pull this off.
He can do that.
He can create the illusion of that with the redistribution of wealth, spreading it around.
Let's go to Ella in Meridian, Mississippi.
Great to have you on Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I love your program very much.
I was just going to make you be aware that some of the ladies on the view this morning were having a conversation of why you were calling Obama a thug.
Maybe you should let them know where you got it from.
I did in the first hour of the program, Ella.
All in due course, Barbara Walters has invited me.
They do this.
She has this series, or this, it is a series.
Every December, the 10 most fascinating Americans or fascinating people in the country.
And I have been on that list once.
I am on it again this year.
She has named me one of the 10 most fascinating.
And the interview is coming up soon because the show airs in December.
So I've heard all about the view today.
I think with what's happened here with the election, if I were to ever shut up, they'd have nothing to talk about on this.
That's right.
That's good.
Okay, I just wanted to let you know.
I appreciate that, Ella.
It's because the only one that I'm not bending over in gravity ankles.
That's exactly right.
New York Times did the story.
Everybody else on our side's caving in.
Everybody on our side's caving in one way or the other.
I am treating him.
As I said last week, I don't care what his skin color is.
I don't care what his wife wears.
I don't care where the kids go to school.
I don't care where he was born.
I don't care about any.
He's my president.
I don't care where he goes to eat dinner.
I don't care what kind of airplane he flies on.
I don't care where he grew up.
I don't care where his grandmother lives.
I don't care where his aunt lives.
Well, I do care about his aunt and his brother living in squalor.
For some old-fashioned reason, that's important to me and meaningful.
But what I care about is Barack Obama's ideas.
I'm not caught up in the historical nature of this.
I'm past it.
We can't get caught up in the historical nature of this and let that overcome our common sense.
This guy is president of the United States.
He is the most powerful man in the world now.
His ideas and what he's going to do and how he may reshape the country are what's most important to me.
Not sitting around and telling myself, gee, what a good person I am because my country elected a black man.
I'm over that.
That's good.
We did that.
But you can't sit around and pat yourself on the back for too long because this stuff's all going to matter.
Now, as I said, Barbara Walters, the whole media apparatus, the drive-bys are all in an uproar because last week I referred to Obama and Rahm Emanuel as Chicago thugs.
Do we remember all the times the left, I'm looking it up, I'm going to be armed.
All the times they call Cheney a thug, Rove a thug, Bush a thug, and a murderer?
Hitler, I mean, this one-way street stuff, it may silence other people, but it isn't going to silence me.
As to the Chicago thug business, I'm actually kind of embarrassed.
I'll admit this again.
I'm going to say this one more time.
Because Barbara Walters said, Rush, you know the question we're going to ask you now.
I'm going to ask you one question.
You said we'll get the soundbites coming up.
I stole the Chicago thug business.
Normally, most of my stuff here is original, and I take great pride in it.
But this I stole.
I must give credit where credit is due.
One longtime associate of Bill Clinton said that Barack Obama has the instincts of a Chicago thug.
So I, you know, I should have, I should have given credit to Mr. Clinton.
Well, I did mention that he said it when he first said it, but when I stole it, I did make it sound like my own, and I'm pegging it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, being considered for the Obama cabinet, tells the losers in Prop 8 in California to keep trying.
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