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Ladies and gentlemen, I think that I have discovered, I think I have found out just who the Grim Reaper is.
We've all heard of the Grim Reaper.
You see the Grim Reaper, you know that death is near.
It's there.
And ladies and gentlemen, I am convinced.
It just hit me here at the top of the hour.
I'm in there watching in Snurdley's office and watching the news monitors.
And as you may have heard, they have discovered the skeletal remains of the little girl, Kaylee.
They think it's not confirmed, but they think they have found the last name, Kaylee Anthony, Kaylee Anthony, yes, near Orlando, near her home.
And right there telling us about it was Geraldo Rivera.
Now, Geraldo Rivera works weekends at Fox.
He doesn't have a, and this is Thursday.
This is not the weekend.
So what it means is that they found somebody's remains.
What's the thing?
Speed dial Geraldo.
Whenever you see Geraldo Rivera on Fox News, it's death.
Death destruction.
Somebody's died.
Somebody's dead.
Death on Fox.
You can guarantee Geraldo Rivera gets the speed call to show up and get on camera, even if it didn't have time to put on a tie.
I think we've identified the Grim Reaper.
Chicago politics.
Cut me in or cut it out.
Love that.
I'm sitting around, folks.
The drive-bys are portraying Blagojevich.
We've played the audio for you here as a lunatic, insane, wacko.
He's the delusional psychopath, sociopath, insane.
His wife is a cussing, loose-lipped slut.
I mean, and I'm saying, what is Blagojevich?
He's going to work.
He's defying Obama.
Our president-elect asked him to resign.
Blogovich said no.
He's got up and went to work.
He's sitting there.
You know he's watching all this stuff.
What is he thinking?
What's Blagojevich thinking?
And then you ask, what does he know?
What does he know about all of these people that are now trying to bury him?
He's thinking, if I get an invitation to the inaugural in Washington, I'm not going.
That means I got to get on an airplane to get there.
If I know Blagojevich and if I know Chicago politics, I don't think he's thinking anything differently than he was before all this broke.
What was he thinking before this broke?
This is worth a lot of money.
This Senate seat is worth a lot of money.
I'm going to score big.
I'm going to get my wife out there in a nonprofit job.
I'm going to get myself in a union job.
I'm going to finally get rich.
I'm going to finally get wealthy.
I think he's still saying the same thing.
He's saying, they know what I know.
They know I can take them all down.
They're going to pay me to shut up.
I'm going to get he's still thinking the same thing.
He's looking at this as they say it's just a different opportunity, but with the same end result.
He's not depressed.
He thinks it's a golden opportunity has been handed to him.
And they shut down the investigation before he had actually sold anything.
He's thinking about sipping piña coladas on the beach down at St. Thomas, getting paid for it.
Everybody thinks that the Reverend Daxon's son, Jesse Jackson Jr., had a bizarre press conference yesterday.
We have audio soundbites of this press conference.
Let's listen to the sound bites that we have.
Here's the first.
I reject and denounce pay-to-play politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing.
I did not initiate or authorize anyone at any time to promise anything to Governor Blagoevich on my behalf.
I never sent a message or an emissary to the governor to make an offer, to plead my case, or to propose a deal about a U.S. Senate seat, period.
Maybe not, but somebody did in your name because it's in the complaint.
You have been identified as Senate candidate number five, and you have been identified as somebody who could come up with $500,000 to $1 million up front.
Now, Congressman Zach remembered that it was your father who wanted to deep, well who wanted to cut off the President-Select's genitals.
And your father apologized and appropriately cried on the night of his acceptance speech when he won the election.
But it looks like the President-Select still has his genitals, but you may not.
So you may not have authorized anybody to do anything in your name, but somebody did.
Here's the next bite.
I met with Governor Blagojevich for the first time in four years on Tuesday.
I presented my record, my qualifications, and my vision.
The media saw me enter the governor's office, and after a 90-minute meeting about my record, my qualifications, the media saw me exit Governor Blagovich's office.
Despite what he may have been looking for, that's all I had to offer, and that's what we discussed.
I've retained the advice of legal counsel, Mr. James Montgomery Sr., who held his own press conference earlier this afternoon in Chicago.
On his advice, and due to the ongoing investigation, I will not be taking any questions.
Here's the final portion of the remarks by the son of the Reverend Dax.
Watching the president-elect carry himself in such an extraordinary way across this country to build bridges that had never been built in this country, even I have become inspired.
Wow.
And so somewhere along the way, over the last two and a half years, I got the idea that if a skinny kid with a funny name could be president of the United States, that a short kid with a somewhat controversial but certainly a high-profile name could be a senator from Illinois.
This is bizarre.
Very, very bizarre.
I don't know what bridges have been built yet.
I have no doubt that the President-Select can build them.
I have no doubt that the President-Select can unify our country, as he's done throughout his life, unified all those in his orb.
But I don't know that it has happened yet.
And I don't know how you get away with calling the president-select a skinny kid with a funny name and expect to get the skinny kid with the funny names Senate seat.
Here now is the lawyer for the uh Congressman Jackson.
His name is James Montgomery.
Held a press conference, unidentified reporter said, How did he learn about the involvement with this?
Did it have to come to him?
What happened here?
I believe he received a call that he did not actually get himself on the eve.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
I want you to re-cue this.
He received a call that he did not actually get himself.
Here we go.
I believe he received a call that he did not actually get himself on the eve preceding the arrest of Governor Blagoevich and was advised by the U.S. Attorney that that arrest was imminent and that he was not a target.
When the governor told you that he was not a target of this, do you take that to mean he's not a direct target or that there will never be any charges in connection with this against Congressman Jackson?
Well, I don't think the government would ever tell anybody that they would ever say never.
They used the term target, and that's the only one that I could use.
And now, Audio Soundbite 14, and this is a little interesting as well.
An unidentified reporter said, What would you do if Blagojevich offered to appoint your client, Jesse Jackson Jr.?
Accept it.
Why?
Why?
Because he's campaigned for it.
He wants it.
He's entitled to it.
He's qualified for it.
Yes, he would accept it.
Okay.
So after all this, he's still campaigning for it.
He's entitled.
Yes, that's exactly right.
He's entitled to it.
He's entitled to it.
He wants it.
He's entitled to it.
He's qualified for it.
Yes, he would accept it.
Now, I have, I want to give you a little test.
The test is entitled, How Gullible Are You?
Are you gullible enough to be a liberal?
Are you gullible enough to be a New York Times reader?
Here's the test to help you find out.
Did you believe Bill Clinton when he said, I did not have sex with that woman, not a single time, ever?
I never asked anybody to lie.
Did you believe Bill Clinton?
Did you believe Bob Torricelli when he denied all the things he had to leave the Senate for?
Did you believe David Axelrod when he said Obama and Blagojevich discussed his Senate replacement?
Did you believe Obama's Axelrod when he said he misspoke about Obama and Blagojevich having that discussion?
Did you believe the reporter at the Quincy TV station when she reported that the day after the election, Obama spoke with Blagojevich?
Did you believe the Quincy TV CBS reporter when she said, nope, that didn't happen?
Did you know that the TV station has taken down all stories?
That website has been scrubbed.
There is no evidence.
I happen to have the cash, the cashed websites, but they have scrubbed that whole story.
Did you believe Jesse Jackson Jr. When he said he met with Blagojevich for 90 minutes and pay to play never came up.
Now, if you answered yes to all five, you are a liberal for life or you are a drive-by journalist.
If you answered yes to two or three of these questions, you are a moderate.
And there remains hope for you if you remain a regular attendee at classes here at the Limbaugh Institute.
If you answered no to all five, you are grounded in reality and are thus cursed because you will be forever hounded, frustrated, and driven to near insanity by the gullible who did pass this test.
One more question.
When Obama promised hope, when Obama promised change, when Obama said the sea levels would stop rising, when Obama said things will get better, did he mean it?
Or did he misspeak?
Ha!
How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Here are the details.
Ladies and gentlemen, apparently the email I got was flawed, which is why I asked for immediate research on this.
It is an AP story.
December 1st, 2004, the Blagojevich administration on Wednesday, this is about four years ago now, defended its decision to stop distributing flavored and colored condoms that health activists consider helpful in fighting AIDS, even as dozens of people rallied at the Capitol to remember victims of the disease.
Blagoyevich called it a time to reaffirm our commitment to promoting HIV AIDS awareness, education, and prevention.
Some health workers said they were disappointed that Blago had ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health not to buy any more condoms in bright colors or flavors for distribution to clinics and local health agencies.
The original email said that it was his wife that was in charge of this.
This turns out to be, well, if that was true, we didn't report that.
The first I've heard of it.
Don't think it happened.
Wouldn't be surprised if the drive-bys try to find out now, though, because the idea here is to destroy both Blago and Patty, his wife.
Heraldo's a weird guy.
You know, it's the Grim Ripper.
He opens up tombs and vaults and there's nobody there, and he walks around all over the place, and people do die.
Or he shows up.
He finds bodies laying out in the open wherever he goes, but when he opens tombs, there's nobody there.
Very, very splonge.
Here is Ferris in Hartford, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's professor, and many thanks for the privilege of talking in today's class.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
Just an aside to test your theory on Geraldo.
Where was he when they found James McDougall and Vince Foster?
Were you around on your screen?
You know, that's, well, that was, no, that was not, there was no Fox News then.
Obama's working at MSNBC at those days.
Ah.
And they were discussing this, yes.
Interesting theory.
But on your gullibility test, I think James McDougal's demise is number one on anybody's gullibility test.
How a man can die the day before he's to testify against the Clintons due to ill health is another question on your test.
But I wanted to talk about something that...
You know, I have to put my foot down here.
We...
We're spending an awful lot of time here besmirching the character of a former president and a president-elect.
And I just don't, I think that's beneath us as Americans to do that.
And I just, especially the president-select.
I mean, there's no evidence whatsoever that he has done one corrupt thing in his life.
And it's just so sad that all these people around him here have been so tainted.
He's trying to walk a straight line in a crooked stick, crooked world.
It's got to be a tough navigational problem for him.
But the media has caught Obama doing the same thing that they caught Clinton doing, and that is talking lawyer speak.
I'd like to remind you that this is our latest lawyer turned president-select.
And when he first denied talking with Governor Blago, and you can replay the audio tape, what he says, and he corrects himself.
Yes.
It says, we have not spoken.
He said, excuse me, I have not spoken with the governor about this.
Yes, he's just being honest.
Yes, but he had to change it.
And that's the same thing that Clinton did when he said to Jim Lehrer, there is no relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
And I could hear that clear as a bell.
He didn't say there was none.
He said there is none.
And of course, there wasn't at the time.
Exactly.
That we know of.
So in your excellent investigation of this situation, you will hear.
We had the audio yesterday, or maybe the day before, I forget.
We did parse it exactly as you are.
Well, that's excellent.
And he's admitting that, or actually what he's doing is a very brilliant thing, and it's very typical of a very brilliant man.
He can't possibly know with all the people in his organization who might have talked to Blagojevich.
He can't go out and issue a blanket denial that nobody in his orb did.
And frankly, because he knows that somebody was, because he knew the thing was for sale.
And Blagojevich knew that Obama wasn't going to play it.
That's all in a complaint.
So everybody knew what was going on here.
But our president-elect decided when he first heard this to stay totally above it and not get anywhere near it.
And for that, we can be proud.
Well, I'm a little concerned about this Ferris doctrine, but I thought I'd put that point out there anyway.
And I missed class yesterday, so if it wasn't.
No, no, no, I was not chastising you.
And I'm just letting you know that we did indeed note that lickety split correction made by our president-elect, knowing full well he doesn't know 24-7 what all of his people are doing.
We'll be back.
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By the way, Patty Blagojevich, just in passing here, I don't think we can make anything of this, but she worked in real estate with Tony Resco.
No, he's the AP told us yesterday, Tony Resco is, well, apparently he's been charged with all kinds of crimes.
He's trying to negotiate the plea down.
He is talking to the prosecutors to try to lessen his, he's giving up other people.
He's going to lessen his sentence out there.
And he and his wife had some arrangement, I'm told, that helped the Obamas, which I think is a very compassionate thing to do, by the way, helped the Obamas buy their house when they didn't have a whole lot of money and couldn't pay what it was really worth.
I mean, it was just a forerunner to what's happening now.
At least the Obamas paid something.
Some people are paying nothing for their houses, folks.
And also, people are stunned that the way Democrats talk to each other.
You know, when you listen to the tapes that have been released of Blogojevich talking to these other people, the F-bomb is everywhere.
F this, F that, and even MF that.
And why are people stunned?
These people, especially these Democrat politicians, the way they talk to everybody, what do you think the language you're going to use is when you're demanding cash from somebody?
You're going to threaten them.
You're going to do all kinds of things.
That's what makes it so that's what's so frustrating.
Anytime some Republican comes up and mentions Obama's middle name, all these holier-to-now Democrats demand that person be renounced, denounced, thrown away, thrown overboard, or what have you.
And of course, and then the Republican candidate says, I agree.
That's just, that's just horrible.
I'm not going to tolerate that.
You know, I campaign.
He's gone.
Meanwhile, these Democrats have just thrown the F-bomb at every place.
And Patty Blagojevich's family is shocked.
It's not the Patty Blagojevich they knew.
This is from Fox 5, Eyeball News, or I don't know what Channel 5, Fox Eyeball News.
I see AP.
I'm sorry.
It's AP Obama.
Patricia Blagojevich's father, sister, and brother are refuting the foul-mouthed portrait that's been drawn of Blago's wife since his arrest, saying the first lady has been living in a pressure cooker.
Chicago Alderman Dick Mill, state representative-elect Deborah Mill, and Rich Mill told the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC Eyeball 5 in an exclusive interview Wednesday that profanity-laced comments recorded by federal prosecutors do not reflect who Patty Blago really is.
That's absolutely not my sister, Deborah Mill said.
Patty is a mother, a sister, devoted wife.
She is particularly protective of her family.
Debbie Mill said, I can understand it, though.
I mean, she's living out there in a pressure cooker.
To the Obama press conference sound bites from this morning, here is a portion of our president-elect's opening statement.
I was as appalled and disappointed as anybody by the revelations earlier this week.
I have never spoken to the governor on this subject.
I'm confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat.
I think the materials released by the U.S. Attorney reflect that fact.
I've asked my team to gather the facts of any contacts with the governor's office about this vacancy so that we can share them with you over the next few days.
See, it didn't have anything to do with this, and I'm confident that when his team gathers all of the information, we will see that he was so above this.
He's appalled by it.
He's our president-elect.
Here's another port.
Well, actually, this is from the question and answer period.
Jackie Combs of the New York Times.
Senator-elect, given in your statement when you addressed the controversy over Governor Blago, you did not repeat what your spokesman said yesterday about having him resign.
Why did you not?
And could you tell us what contacts, if any, you know that your staff or any emissaries for you have had with prosecutors of the FBI?
See, now this is press badgering because Obama said his opening statement and nobody and his staff had ever talked to Blago and he hadn't talked to Blago and nobody talked to anybody about this.
And here's this punk reporter from the New York Times demanding to know again who and his staff might have spoken to the prosecutors of the FBI.
So this is pure, this is immediate harassment of our president's elected.
Here's what he said.
In terms of our involvement, I'll repeat what I said earlier, which is I had no contact with the governor's office.
I did not speak to the governor about these issues.
That I know for certain.
What I want to do is to gather all the facts about any staff contacts that may have taken place between the transition office and the governor's office.
And we'll have those in the next few days and we'll present them.
But what I'm absolutely certain about is that our office had no involvement in any deal making around my senate seat.
That I'm absolutely certain of.
And that would be a violation of everything that this campaign has been about.
And that's not how we do business.
See?
See?
There it is.
Now, some of you, I know some of you are very cynical out there.
You might be asking, how can he be certain that nobody was involved in deal making if he's still gathering the facts?
Well, no, that's not the question.
He's certain that nobody in his office had any involvement in the deal making around the Senate seat.
But he doesn't know if they were talking to Blagoevich about anything else.
And I think what he may find, he may indeed find, because, you know, it's tough.
This man is a very charismatic figure, and there are all kinds of hero worshipers, you know, celebrity hangers on and so forth.
Who knows the kind of people that have convinced him they want to work for him because they believe in his great vision.
They may just have a bunch of groupies in there, and who knows what the groupies are doing trying to get close and be powerful.
Some of them may get in trouble.
Some of them may, in fact, have done something that he'll be shocked to learn of.
And in this instance, I would suggest keeping Club Gitmo open because we might need somewhere to put some of Obama's associates who have been engaged in embarrassing him.
If that turns out to be, to embarrass him like this during his transition, to force him in to answer questions like this, whoever is responsible for this needs to be hung up, strung up.
Whatever we do to him at Gitmo.
And he's got a tough time closing it anyway, so it's an ideal place.
Now, the next question from an unidentified reporter.
Have you or anybody in your transition or campaign been interviewed as it relates to the criminal complaint?
And who is the transition advisor referenced in the complaint?
I have not been contacted by any federal officials.
And we have not been interviewed by them.
As is reflected in the U.S. returning's report, we were not, I think, perceived by the governor's office as amenable to any dealmaking.
And, you know, I won't quote back some of the things that were said about me.
So this is a family program, I know.
So, you know, so beyond that, I'm not really certain where the investigation is going forward.
I'll leave Mr. Fitzgerald to address those issues.
Now, remember, ladies and gentlemen, it's not what President-select Obama says.
It's how he says it.
And he didn't say that very well.
Even I will have to admit that that came out kind of garbled, jumbled, and with not a lot of confidence.
Would you not agree, Mr. Snerdley?
No, a lot of stuttering in there.
Well, there is a family program.
He called me an MF for me, but I'm not really certain where the investigation is going forward.
Now, there is a potential problem, and I'm confident that this is not going to directly affect our president-elect, but there was a two-hour conference call between Governor Blagojevich and Democrat and Obama officials, a two-hour conference call where they were in Washington and Blago was in Chicago.
Now, nobody knows who was on the call.
People were coming in and out of it.
Nobody was on it full-time except Blago.
But it went on for a long time for two hours.
Back in November, I believe this is when this happened, maybe early December.
A very, very long conference call.
Well, that's what the president-elect is doing, his team is gathering facts to find out who was on that conference call.
He doesn't know who the transition figure is that was named in the criminal complaint.
That's what he's doing.
He got his team out there trying to get up all the answers to this.
But we'll get them when he finds them.
He's been forthcoming.
Well, he'll, well, because I know the press will continue to press him.
That's how I know that he'll tell us.
The press will continue to demand answers on this.
And I think we should sit back, let them do their work, let Obama and his team do their work.
And I'm utterly confident that this is nothing.
Look, I just told you.
I just told you, Snerdley, stop harassing me.
The New York Times harassed Obama.
He already told him nobody was involved, and they asked him again who was involved.
They are doing their job.
They are harassing him.
You didn't see the press conference, obviously.
Well, I just played his soundbites.
There's obvious press harassment going on.
They're not cream puff questions.
They are harassing our president-elect, demanding to know again what he's already denied, asking him to say the same thing over and over again, which is that he doesn't know anything and he didn't do anything.
And if he doesn't know anything, he didn't do anything.
And I'm confident he didn't know anything or do anything.
He's president-elect.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want you to misunderstand here.
I am troubled by some of the entanglements here involving the president-elect.
I had such high hopes for an administration of a country free of this kind of stuff.
Well, I was, I wasn't hoping for change.
I mean, I'm not blind.
I'm not an idiot.
I'm not a naive National Honor Society candidate.
I'm just seeing I do have a substantive problem here, and it is this.
When you make deals, what are you talking substance?
Deal-making goes to substance, correct?
So, if Obama does not know about contacts between his people and the governor's people, if he doesn't know about that, if his team is investigating, how can he then say that there were no substantive discussions about selling the seat?
He can't say that if he doesn't yet know what happened because dealmaking is substance.
And he says he doesn't know that yet.
There are problems here.
It's sad.
It's disappointing.
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Matt in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
How are you, Rush?
Fine and dandy, sir.
I appreciate you taking my call.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, quick question.
I noticed that in the industry I work in, there's a lot of subsidizing going on from foreign countries such as China, Korea, and Japan, where they subsidize their own businesses to compete over here.
Why is it that we don't do that here to keep the companies here from sending either manufacturing or assembly overseas where it's cheaper?
Well, we are, I think, doing that.
We're more than subsidizing.
We are buying.
The U.S. government's buying the car business, and the U.S. government's going to pretty soon own the mortgage business, and the U.S. government's going to own the lending business.
The United States Car Company, you'll go to them to get your car, and you'll finance it to the United States bank.
The Chinese, and we had this story earlier, the CHICOMs are cutting business taxes to spur economic growth.
They need economic growth to continue.
They need their population to increase its wealth for a host of demographic and cultural reasons.
They have to keep their population that lives in the countryside out there.
They can't afford for the population to move to the cities.
The cities is where the money is.
They've got big problems in controlling the population.
So they're cutting business taxes.
They're doing everything they can to encourage business expansion.
The ChiComs, the CHICOMs are leading the way in capitalism.
The United States has chucked it in preparation for the inauguration of Barack Obama.
We're doing more than what you want.
We're not just subsidizing.
We are buying businesses.
Question, Obama's still a senator.
He's not president.
Why shouldn't he talk to Bulgojevich about his replacement?