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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 the uh in Snerdley's office and watching the news monitors.
And as you may have heard, they have discovered the skeletal remains of the little girl Cayley.
They think it's not confirmed, but they think.
They have found the uh what is her last name, Kaylee Anthony.
Cayley Anthony, yes, near Orlando, near near her home.
And right there telling us about it was Heroldo Rivera.
Now, Haroldo Rivera works weekends at Fox.
He doesn't have a 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 Heroldo.
Whenever you whenever you see Haraldo Rivera on Fox News, it's death.
Death destruction, somebody's died.
Somebody's dead.
Death on Fox, you can guarantee Haroldo Rivera gets the speed call to show up and get on camera, even if it doesn'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-by is a portraying Blogoyevitch.
We've played the audio for you here as uh lunatic, insane, wacko, he's the delusional psychopath, sociopath, insane.
His wife is a cussing loose-lipped slut.
I mean, just what is what is Blogoyevitch?
And he's going to work.
He's defying Obama.
The uh 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 Blogoevich thinking?
And then you ask, what is 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 gotta get on an airplane to get there.
If I know Blagoyovich, 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 gonna score big.
I'm gonna get my wife out there in a nonprofit job.
I'm gonna get myself at a union job.
I'm gonna get a I'm gonna finally get rich.
I'm gonna 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 gonna pay me to shut up.
I'm gonna get he's still thinking the same thing.
He's looking at this as the saying 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 pina coladas on the beach down at St. Thomas.
Getting paid for it.
Everybody thinks that the uh Reverend Daxon's son, Jesse Jackson Jr., had a bizarre press conference yesterday.
We have audio sound bites 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 Blogoevich 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 grand to a million dollars up front.
Now, uh uh uh uh uh Congressman Zach remember that it was your father who wanted to de uh who who wanted to um cut off the president selects 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 Blogoevich 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 Blogoevich'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 uh son of the Reverend Zach.
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 had 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-elect 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 And I don't I don't know how you get away with it 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?
Uh I believe he received a call that he did not actually get himself on the ease.
Stop, stop, stop.
I want you to re-queue this.
Uh he received a call that he did not actually get himself.
Here we go.
Uh, I believe he received a call that he did not actually get himself on the eve preceding the arrest of uh Governor Blagoevich and was advised by the U.S. attorney that that arrest was imminent and that uh 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 and that or that there will never be any charges in connection to this against Congressman Jackson?
Well, I don't think the governor would ever tell anybody that they would ever say never.
They use the term target, and that's the only one that I could use.
Uh and now audio soundbite uh 14, and this this is a little uh interesting as well.
An unidentified reporter said, What would you do if Blogojevich 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 is he's qualified for it.
Uh yes, he would accept it.
Okay, um, so after all this, he's still campaigning for it.
His entitled.
Yes, yes, it'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 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 Blogojevich discussed his Senate replacement?
Did you believe Obama's Axlrod 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 Blogojevich?
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 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 Limboy.
Here are the details.
Ladies and gentlemen, apparently the uh email I got was uh flawed, which is why I asked for immediate research on this.
It is an AP story, December 1st, 2004.
The Glogoy the Blogoevich 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.
Blogoevich 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.
Now the original um email said that it was his wife that was in charge of this.
This turns out to be.
Well, we if that was true, we didn't report that.
Well, the first I've heard of it.
Don't think it uh happened.
Wouldn't be surprised if the drive-by is try to find out now, though, because the idea here is to destroy both Blogo and Patty, his uh wife.
Herondo's a weird guy.
You know the grim rippery opens up tombs and vault, 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 sponge.
Here is Ferris in Hartford, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh Didd's professor, and many thanks for the privilege of uh talking in today's class.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Appreciate that.
Uh just an aside uh to test your theory on uh Geraldo.
Where was he when they found James McDougall and Vince Foster?
Uh he around on your screen.
Uh you know that that that's um I uh that was no that that was not there was no Fox News then.
Uh Obama's working at uh MSNBC at those days.
Ah and they were just they were discussing this, yes.
Interesting theory.
Uh but on your gullibility test uh I think Jay's McDougall's demise is is number one on anybody's gullibility test.
How a man can die the day before he's to testify against the Clintons uh due to ill health uh is another question on your test.
But I wanted to talk about something that you know I have to put my foot down here.
I it it's that that's we we we uh we we're spending an awful lot of time here besmirching the character of a former president and a president elect.
Uh and I just don't I I I think that's beneath us as uh as uh Americans uh to do that.
And I just especially the the president's elect.
I mean, I there 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 and a crooked stick, crooked world.
It's just 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 uh talking lawyer speak.
I'd like to remind you that this is our latest lawyer turned president's elect.
And when he first denied talking with Governor Blogo, 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 uh 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 uh in your excellent investigation of this situation, you will hear.
We had the audio yesterday.
We or maybe the day before, I forget.
We did parse it exactly as you are.
Well, that that's excellent.
And uh I and I uh uh it uh he's he's admitting that uh or actually what he's doing is a very brilliant thing, and it's very typical of uh uh a very brilliant man.
He can't possibly know with all the people in his organization who might have talked to uh Blogoevich.
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 Blogoyevitch knew that Obama wasn't gonna 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 uh I'm a little concerned about this Ferris doctrine, but uh I thought I'd put that point out there anyway.
And uh I missed class yesterday, so uh if it was a no no no, I was not chastising you.
Uh uh I've uh and and I'm you know I just was letting you know that we we did indeed uh note uh that lickety split correction made by our president-elect uh knowing full well that he can't he he doesn't know 24-7 what all of his people are doing.
We'll be back.
Stay.
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By the way, Patty Blagoyevitch, just in passing here, I don't think we can make anything of this, but you know, she works, she's she worked in real estate with Tony Rescoe.
No, he's uh the AP told us yesterday, Ton Tony Resco is uh well, apparently he's under he's he's he's been even charged with all kinds of crimes he's he's trying to 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 gonna lessen his uh his sentence out there, and his his he and his wife had some arrangement I I'm told that that helped the Obamas, which I think is very compassionate to do, by the way, help the Obamas buy their house uh 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.
Um at least the Obamas paid something.
Some people are paying nothing for their houses, uh, folks.
So and also uh people are stunned that the way Democrats talk to each other.
You know, when you when you listen to the tapes that have been released at Bolgoyovich talking to these other people, the F-bomb is everywhere.
F this, F that, and even MF that.
And why are people stunned?
You know, these people, especially these Democrat politicians, it's the way they talk to everybody.
What do you what do you think the language you're gonna you is uses when you're demanding cash from somebody?
You're gonna threaten them, you're gonna do all kinds of things.
That's what makes it so that that's what's so frustrating.
Anytime some rec republic comes up and mentions Obama's middle name, all these holier than now Democrats demand that person be renounced, denounced, thrown away, thrown overboard, or what have you.
And of course, and then the Republican candidates, I agree.
That's just that's just horrible.
I don't even tolerate that.
You're right, campaign.
He's gone.
Meanwhile, these Democrats have to throw the F-bomb at every place.
And Patty Blagoyovich's family is shocked.
It's not the Paddy Blogevich they knew.
This is from uh Fox Five Eyeball News, or I don't know what Channel 5, Fox Eyeball News.
Uh I see AP, I'm sorry.
It's A.P. Obama.
Patricia Blogoevich's father, sister, and brother are refuting the foul-mouthed portrait that's been drawn of uh Blogo's wife since his arrest, saying the first lady's been living in a pressure cooker.
Uh Chicago Alderman Dick Mell, State Representative elect Deborah Mell, and Rich Mell uh 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 to Patty Blago really is.
That's absolutely not my sister, Deborah Mell said.
Patty is a mother.
The sister.
Devoted wife.
She is particularly protective of her family.
Debbie Mel 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, he it does do with this, and I'm I'm confident that uh when his team gathers all of the information, we will see that he was so above this.
He's our president elect.
Here's um another port well, actually, this is from the question and answer period.
Jackie Combs of the New York Times.
Senator Elect uh given in your statement when you addressed the controversy over Governor Blogo, you did not repeat what your spokesman said yesterday about having him resign.
Why 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 in his staff had ever talked to Blogo, and he hadn't talked to Blogo.
Nobody talked to anybody about this.
And here's this punk reporterette 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 a media harassment of our president's elected.
Here's what he said.
Uh in terms of our involvement, I'll repeat uh what I said earlier, uh, which is I had no contact with the governor's office.
Uh I did not speak uh to the governor about these issues.
Uh that I know for certain.
Uh what I want to do is to gather all the facts about any staff contacts that I might may have uh that that may have taken place between uh 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.
That I'm absolutely certain of.
And the that is that would be a violation of everything that this campaign has been about.
Uh, 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.
Um you um 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 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 but he doesn't know if they were talking to Blogoevich about anything else.
And I think what I I he may find, he may indeed find, because you know, it's tough.
Uh this man is a very charismatic figure, and there are all kind of all kinds of hero worshippers, and 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.
Uh 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 in this instance, um, you know, I would suggest keeping Club Gitmo open because w we might need somewhere to put some of Obama's associates who have been engaged in embarrassing him if that turns out to be I did 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 gonna have a tough time closing it anyway, so it's to be an ideal place.
Um 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 trans vit transition advisor referenced in the complaint?
I have not been contacted by uh any uh federal officials.
Uh and we have not been interviewed uh uh by them.
Uh as is reflected in the U.S. returning's report.
Uh we were not uh I think perceived by the governor's office as uh uh amenable to any deal making.
Uh and um, you know, I won't quote back some of the things that were said about me.
Uh so uh this is a family program I know.
Uh so uh uh you know uh so uh beyond that, uh I'm not really certain where the investigation is going forward.
I'll leave uh Mr. Fitzgerald uh to address those issues.
Now remember, ladies and gentlemen, it's not what uh President select Obama says it's how he says it.
And he didn't say that very well.
Even even I will have to admit that that came out kind of garbled, jumbled, and uh with not a lot of confidence.
Would you not agree, Mr. Snerdley?
Uh no, a lot of stuttering in there.
I uh uh uh well uh uh uh there is a family program he called me an MF for I mean whatever uh but uh I'm 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 uh going to directly affect our president elect, but there was a two-hour conference call uh between Governor Blagoyovich and uh Democrat and Obama officials.
A two-hour conference call where they were in Washington and Blogo was in Chicago.
Now nobody knows who was on the caller.
People were coming in and out of it, nobody was on it full time except Blogo.
Uh but there were, it was it went on for a long time for two hours.
Uh back in November, I believe this is when this happened, maybe early December.
A very, very long conference call.
Well, what that's what the president elect is doing is gathering his team is gathering facts to find out who was on that conference call.
Uh he doesn't know who the transition figure is that was the 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 he.
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 uh their work.
And uh I I uh I I'm utterly confident that this is nothing.
There look, and I just told you, I just told you, Sterley, 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.
I well, I just played a sound bites.
There's obvious they're 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 uh I don't want you to misunderstand here.
I am troubled uh by by some of the entanglements here involving the president-elect.
I had such high hopes uh for uh an administration in a country free of this kind of stuff.
Well, I was I uh hoping for change.
I mean, I'm not blind, I'm not an idiot, I'm not a I'm not a naive National Honor Society candidate.
I just see I do have I do have a subsidive 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, 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 he can't say that if he doesn't yet know what happened because deal making is substance.
And he says he doesn't know that yet.
There are problems here.
It's sad, it's it's disappointing.
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Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
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Fine and dandy, sir.
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Thank you, sir.
Hey, uh, quick question.
Uh, and notice that in the industry I work in, um, there's a lot of subsidizing going on from uh foreign countries such as uh 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, um, we are, I think, doing that.
Uh we're we're we're more than subsidizing.
We are buying.
Like the U.S. government's buying the car business, and and the U.S. government's going to pretty soon own the mortgage business, and the and the U.S. government's going to own the lending uh 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.
Uh 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 uh uh increase its wealth for a host of demographic and and cultural reasons.
They they have to keep their their um uh 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, so they 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.
Well, the United States has uh chucked it uh 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 Bolgoyovich about his replacement?