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May 29, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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It's Friday, live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
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What do they do with it here?
Uh the United Auto Workers has just settled with the General Motors in advance of bankruptcy filing on Monday.
Uh let's see.
I thought I printed it out, but I didn't.
UAW has ratified a package of concessions designed to reduce General Motors' labor costs.
Yeah, but some union people are going to have seats on the board.
Some union people are going to have ownership of this new entity that they're going to sell.
So the bankruptcy will happen on Monday.
So what about all that money we threw away for nothing?
What about all that money to bail them out?
What about all the money to save them?
What happened?
Where is it?
Do you realize we can't find the 50 billion that Bernie Madoff swindled?
You know what else we can't find?
The two trillion Obama spent so far.
Because wherever it's gone, it hasn't had any positive impact whatsoever.
And if I get to it, I've got a couple of stories in a stack of stuff today that illustrate that.
One more thing on Soda Myor, then we're going to move on to other things.
I have a two points to make here.
She said that because she is a Latina, because she is a an Hispanic woman, that she, because of the richness of that experience, she'd be a better judge than a white guy.
What if she had said because of her rich experiences as a Latina, as an Hispanic woman, did she be a better judge than a black guy?
What do you think the reaction to that might have been?
You think there might have been some people even on her.
You think the White House would have tamped that down pretty quick?
You think the White House would have moved and no out of context.
All right, if it's out of context, what was the context?
All you people who think that this comment's being taken out of context anyway, but her rich experiences make her a better judge.
What's the context?
What is the context?
Explain it to me.
You know, if I were an Hispanic male, I would be pretty ticked off because I don't see myself getting a break.
I see Hispanic males nominated to high posts and they get destroyed.
An Hispanic female gets put up there, and why gosh, it's uh Madonna has arisen.
If I'm an Hispanic guy, I gotta be curious about this.
And if we want to talk about richness of experience, there's a group of people that were here before we got here, gang.
The Indians.
The Native Americans, the Chiefs, the Redskins.
I don't see any of them being put up on the courts.
We're talking about a richness of experience.
Hell, these clowns beat Custer.
They have cred.
You don't see them being put up, do you?
Wonder if she said, you know, I have my richness of my experience, makes me more qualified, a better judge than Native Americans.
Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online, in every trial, every single trial, judges solemnly instruct American citizens who are compelled to perform jury duty that they will have a sworn obligation to decide cases objectively without fear or favor.
If a person's unwilling or unable to do that, if the person believes he or she has a bias or prejudice, especially one based on a belief that people are inferior or superior due to factors like race, ethnicity, or sex, that person is not qualified to be a juror.
Indeed, prospective jurors are told that they are not qualified if they harbor even the slightest doubt about their ability to put such considerations aside and render an impartial verdict.
If the judge or the lawyer for either side senses bias, the juror is excused for cause.
The parties are not even required to use their discretionary or peremptory jury challenges to strike such a juror.
Rather, the judge makes a finding that the juror is not fit to serve.
The stress on impartiality does not end once the prospective jurors are finally selected to sit as trial jurors.
Instead, the admonition to consider the case fairly, impartially and without bias of any kind is often repeated many times throughout the trial, and even after that, it is standard procedure to drum the obligation into the jurors again right before they retire to deliberate on a verdict.
Here are the standard instructions.
You have two duties as a jury.
Your first duty is to decide the facts from the evidence in the case.
That's your job and yours alone.
Your second duty is to apply the law that I give you to the facts.
You must follow these instructions even if you disagree with them.
Perform these duties fairly and impartially.
Do not allow sympathy, prejudice, fear, or public opinion to influence you.
You should not be influenced by any person's race, color, religion, national ancestry, or sex.
So let's forget labels like racist for a moment in our society, racist or radioactive term, whether or not it's applied accurately.
I want instead to home in on the premium our law places on impartiality, how noxious it regards the very notion that any important decision might be influenced by any person's race, color, religion, national ancestry, or sex.
No one's saying that those attitudes don't exist, or even that somebody's necessarily a bad person for having such attitudes.
Sometimes such attitudes are fostered by bitter life experiences that people find themselves unable to get over, but we strive to keep those attitudes out of our law.
Now now.
We want somebody who probably couldn't pass muster to be a juror, to be a Supreme Court justice, because as President Obama said to the assembled multitudes in Los Angeles yesterday, I want to see her march up those steps and start handing out some justice.
That's it was quite a telling.
Okay, moving on to other things, because there are other things, and your phone call.
Oh, oh, what I uh sorry, sorry, a political point, political point, White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that she agrees with Obama's belief in constitutional protections for a woman's right to choose, facing concerns about the issue from reporters rather than detractors.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama didn't ask Sotomayor specifically about abortion during the interview, but Gibbs indicated to White House is nonetheless sure that she agrees with Roe v.
Wade.
He didn't ask her, but he knows.
How does he know?
Come on, fellow travelers know each other.
But you will notice that the pro-abort crowd, they couldn't care anything about anything she said.
And nothing that she said is about whether she's going to legislate from the bench or whether she's a better judge than a white guy, doesn't matter.
She doesn't have an abortion record.
And that's what they care about.
They are deathly afraid that she could turn into a suitor.
You know, have some clause.
I'll tell you, can be there's another concern they've got.
And you've you've seen this reported if you've been paying any attention.
She's not an intellectual heavyweight.
They are thus afraid that Scalia and Thomas and Roberts might get her mind right.
They're worried about this.
That's why they confronted Gibbsy on the whole notion of whether she stands on abortion.
So the left has their own concerns about this nomination.
Not the same concerns that uh that I have.
But believe me, they are there.
Uh story from the Miami Herald.
Uh it's a poll, as most of today's news is.
The results of a poll.
And the poll results are that most coastal residents here in South Florida are unprepared for hurricanes.
The obligatory one week to go before hurricane season starts.
Story.
Hurricanes may flood entire cities.
They may rip off roofs and level trees every year, but when it comes to overcoming public apathy, they're stunningly powerless.
Two-thirds of residents in Florida and other coastal states feel no threat from storms.
More than half would not evacuate in the face of a major storm unless ordered to.
Nearly half don't even know whether their homeowner's insurance covers storm damage.
The six-month hurricane season starts Monday.
The annual Mason Dixon poll of residents from Maine to Texas found that many major people, uh many, I'm sorry, people remain unprepared, even unconcerned about a strike from a major hurricane.
Well, now this just won't do.
You know, in the drive-by-s they invest a lot of time in getting people concerned.
The drive-bys invest a lot of time in creating panic.
The drive-by's invest a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of man hour reporters in getting you scared to death, and you aren't scared, and you aren't concerned.
This will not do.
See, most people right now, it's May the 29th.
They're going about their business.
They're just worrying about the normal things.
They're worried about pig flu.
They're worried about their house being foreclosed on.
They're worried about their taxes going up.
They're worried about having health, no health insurance.
They're worried about global warming.
They're worried about pet doors and their little kids going outside pet doors and falling asleep in the gutter.
They're worried about the Norks and nuclear bombs.
They're worried about gay marriage.
They're worried that they might have the wrong light bulbs in the house.
They're worried they might be eating too much salt, not exercising enough, exercising too much, eating too much sugar, drinking too many cokes, and worrying about whether the tax and all that's gonna go up.
They don't have time to worry about hurricanes when the season hadn't started.
Drive-byers find this unacceptable.
They got them worrying about all this other stuff, but not hurricanes, won't do.
So you people from Maine to Texas, be ready.
You are going to be deluged with video tape after video tape and suffering story after suffering story of what it was like after Hurricane Katrina, until you pass the poll that says you're worried and that you're concerned and that you blame Bush for it.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers in the Justice Department and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the new Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last election day.
Now, this incident, everybody saw it was on YouTube, it was on TV.
This is where uh people were intimidated with guys, uh Black Panther members, uh weapons and so forth.
This prompted the government to sue the men, saying that they violated the 1965 voting rights act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, with racial slurs, with military-style uniforms.
Career lawyers in the Justice Department pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as the most blatant form of voter intimidation that he had seen even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi 50 years earlier.
But now the Obama Justice Department, the political appointees, have dropped it.
They've dropped the case.
Now, this is the same Justice Department that Obama told us was no longer going to be politicized.
Now, an added little bit of information here about this new Black Panther Party.
If you go to the Obama 08 campaign website, you will see...
Well, Steve Gilbert from Sweetness and Light got a screen capture.
I don't know if it's if it's still up.
But the new Black Panther Party has an endorsement of Obama on his website in 08.
So I'm certain it's been decided by Eric Holder that you don't put some of your earliest supporters in jail for helping you win.
So the case has been dropped.
The rumpod drumroll.
Here is Travis in uh western Kansas.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey Rush, how are you today?
Good, sir.
Thank you very much.
Uh Rush, this is I know you've heard it a million times, but it really is a thrill to speak with you.
And I don't think that you realize how much of an inspiration you are to millions of us across this country.
And there's a there's a very short list of people that have been a profoundly positive effect on my life, and you sir are right there at the top of that list.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thank you very, very much.
Very much appreciate you saying that.
If we contrast the message that you're giving us every day, uh self-sufficient, self-reliance, get out there, do what you love, be aggressive, be bold.
Uh if we live our lives by the principles that you are espousing, we'll all be successful.
If we listen to those, the liberals out there that are beating us down, tell us who can't do it, everything's against us.
Um, you know, this country's gonna be headed in the wrong direction.
And I just I I don't think you realize uh what an inspiration you are to so many of us, you know.
You you've you've always been there, and I don't think that I would be where I'm at today um without some of the things I've heard you say through the years.
Well, I do appreciate that.
I've um I've I've had people in my life about whom I felt that way, so I know I know how you feel.
And uh I was uh I was always excited when I had a chance to tell them, you know, the positive impact they've had on me.
Now most people would be filled with false humility.
No, no, no, no, I haven't done anything but I mean I'm I'm uh I'm willing to accept your compliment because I know you mean it.
Yes, sir, I I certainly do.
I I really do from the bottom of my heart.
And uh I was I was in an industry, I was a loan officer in a bank, was not terribly happy with it, I was good at it, but not really happy.
And uh part of the encouragement that I've taken from li listening to you all these years gave me the uh the encouragement to step out and do something that I truly love and uh rush, I've never been happier, I've never looked back, I've never worked harder.
Um, and you're a big reason for part of that success.
Well, I appreciate the thing.
Yeah, what are you doing?
Um I am a professional gun dog trainer.
I I train those dogs that uh run around the field and and find birds, and then us uh, you know, terrible hunters go out and shoot them.
So now that that to me is just fabulous, quintessentially American.
Here's a guy, folks, undoubtedly working in the bank, loan officer.
This this is part of some formula.
This is this is what you did wherever he lived, this is the the kind of job that you sought job of the community and so on.
But what he really, really liked was working with dogs.
But to tell people that, I mean, might laugh at you uh dog trainer.
I mean, they make jokes about dog trainers in movies.
The guy finally did it.
Now he he he he trains dog trainers that run around in the field and find birds when people are out there hunting, doing what he loves, working with dogs he loves us.
That's that's absolutely fabulous.
I uh I'm glad you called.
I really am, Travis.
Thank you so much and continued good luck to you.
Remember, luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
And you obviously prepared yourself for this.
You created the opportunity out of necessity.
Bam, you struck gold.
I was reminded mere moments ago by uh Dawn that I've been promising all week to share with you the story, the eight health risks in your own backyard.
Dawn was reminded when I went through all of the trials and tribulations that we are suffering before we have time to worry about hurricanes that I had not shared this story with you.
I did keep it in the top of the uh the the yesterday stack, and I've been seeing it every day, just things have uh have superseded it.
But basically, it's a story from uh let's see, where is it from?
It could be anywhere.
It's uh that's MSNBC, so it could be AP or it just could be NBC.
Eight health risks in your own backyard.
Some of them are an unfenced swimming pool, toxic plants, and charcoal.
Dangerous grill placement.
Wait till you hear some of these.
But then after you hear what's lurking outside your house to kill you, then we have to remind you all the stuff inside your house that they have told us will kill you.
So we'll do that and get more of your phone calls when we come back.
That's right, a man, a legend uh way of life.
Eight health risks in your own backyard.
Dangerous grill placement.
Is your grill right next to the edge of your deck?
If so, you may want to move it.
A charcoal grill next to combustibles, say a wooden deck, rail, or low-hanging tree branches, is a leading cause of barbecue fires.
Toxic plants, more than sixty-eight thousand people a year are poisoned by plants.
Most end up with nothing worse than an upset stomach or an itchy skin rash.
However, some plants can be fatal, especially to pets and to small children.
Easy fix.
Do your homework before choosing backyard vegetation, says Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers.
Tiny pools of water.
Even the smallest amount of standing water can give mosquitoes and a hospitable place to multiply.
This raises your risk of annoying bites and even infections like West Nile virus.
Easy fix.
Do a weekly check of buckets and plastic covers and dump any water to keep pests away.
Also change the water in bird baths and fountains.
Not quite extinguished charcoal.
Tossing still warm coals can spark a fire.
Did you know that?
Charcoal may feel cool to the touch, but if you throw away coals while the insides are hot, you risk starting a fire.
Easy fix.
When you've finished grilling dinner, soak the coals with cold water and then place them in a non-combustible metal can for safe disposal.
Keep the can on a non-flammable surface, such as the driveway or a cement patio.
Where some animal or kid can step or trip over it.
According to the Home Safety Council, nearly a quarter of all drownings in the U.S. happen near home, even if your kids are older.
Consider this.
Easy access to your pool may lure neighborhood children or pets into the water when you are not around.
Easy fix.
Whether your pool is built in or above ground, install a four-sided fence that is at least five feet high with a self-latching gate.
Don't use the house as one side of the fence because an open door provides an easy entry.
Pesticide residue.
Misusing bug killing chemicals may make you sick.
Homeowners often use too many pesticides or apply them incorrectly.
And not only wastes money, but in extreme cases allows chemical levels to get.
So, folks, outside, oh, I'm sorry, weather worn deck.
We have two more to go.
Weather worn deck.
When was the last time you waterproofed your deck?
If you don't do it every two to three years, moisture can seep in and warp the wood wood, upping your risk of falls.
And finally, two short ladder.
This tempts you to overreach and increases your risk of falling.
Use a ladder that lets you work while standing four steps from the top.
Your max reach should be no more than four feet above the ladder.
Easy fix.
If you're going up eight feet, choose a ladder that's at least four feet high.
Thank you.
Thank you, MSNBC.
Now, okay, we're not this is why we don't have time to be worried about hurricanes because nothing got everybody afraid to go outside.
But what's inside?
What happens?
What's threatening you in your house if you don't go outside?
You could slip in your bathtub and crack your head open.
You can cut yourself shaving.
You could fall down your stairs.
What's the easy fix for any of this?
These compact fluorescent bulbs.
Let one of those things break, and you've got mercury poisoning all over your house, and you need a hazmat team.
Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Do you know how easy this is to happen inside your house?
And what if one of your little kids, one of one of your little kids, who is now afraid to go outside, or you're so afraid you won't let them go outside, turns the gas on in the stove while you're watching all my children.
The house could blow up the minute you light up your doobie.
So, I mean, folks, there it is risky to stay inside your house.
There are allergies from carpets, allergies from pets, contaminated kitchens from raw chicken, mold, endless cable news shows you've got the tragedies of inside.
Watching TV can make you want to kill yourself.
And how about all those cables laying across the floor?
Just waiting to trip you up and split your head open on the TV when you fall.
And TV, by the way, if you got one hanging on the wall, we had a story the other day, it just fell on a kid.
It just fell on a kid.
It was a bad thing.
It was a bad scene.
And then, of course, the pet door.
Have you heard the latest about pet doors?
Your kids can figure out how to get out the pet door.
And if they get out the pet door, they might not come back because of all the dangers lurking outside in the backyard.
So what are you to do?
You trust the candy man.
You just trust the candyman, ladies and gentlemen.
That is white comedian Paul Shhanklin as Sammy Davis Shanklin Jr.
And Barack Obama and Obamacan.
I got an email last night.
Dear Rush, BG products are great.
I had to drop a note to you to let you know how great BG frigiclean is.
My AC malfunction, it wasn't draining properly.
So an odor developed, a horrid, putrid, disgusting odor.
That's another thing lurking to go wrong outside.
After the repair, the odor remained.
I couldn't stand to be in the car.
I had to take it back to the dealer.
My husband was concerned that the cure would be worse than the problem.
He had heard that most products used to clean and disinfect AC systems leave behind a nasty smell themselves, but I'm glad to report after the BG frigiclean treatment, the car smells normal.
No chemical smells, no foul, rotting smells.
BG products are great.
God bless you.
Thank you for telling us.
Lubrication failure.
Lubrication failure, the main cause of engine failure, and using BG products helps prevent it.
BG products keeps vehicles running worry-free.
As we've discussed today, folks, you have enough to worry about out there.
And with hurricane season coming up with the media upset, you're not prepared, they're going to make you be worried about that.
The last thing you need to be worried about is your car.
BG products, available at a majority of automobile dealerships and automotive service centers nationwide.
You can get the best oil change possible by servicing your car at a location that uses BG products.
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You do not want.
Trust me on this, folks.
Lubrication failure.
Let's see.
and As election day was approaching last fall, the Obama campaign went big.
The 30-minute television ad that profiled four American families struggling to keep afloat in a worsening economy.
Between each of the American stories, as Obama called them, the video showed the candidate on the hustings promising a rescue plan for the middle class.
Six months into the Obama presidency, only one of those folks has seen anything resembling a rescue, and it wasn't because of any government program.
After the ad aired, a mysterious angel donor helped to cover the cost of surgery and copayments for the Ohio retiree who suffered from crippling rheumatoid arthritis in her right hand.
But not much has changed for the New Mexico educator.
And the Ford employee in Kentucky has been anxiously watching the administration as it guides GM into bankruptcy, a process with ripple effects that could cost him his job.
Things are bad enough for the fourth person featured, Rebecca Johnston, a 34-year-old mother of four in Missouri, that she has come up with a rescue plan of her own.
Obama said in the ad Johnston's all about her family.
That's why next week she's joining the Army Reserves.
You know where I found this?
You'll never believe it.
I found it's a Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post has a post here by Arthur Delaney about how these people Obama promised wonderful things with his stimulus package are worse off.
None of them have been helped by a government program.
I didn't need the story to know this.
I just need to look at the labor department data, and you know that it's the economy shrank 5.7% in the first quarter.
Five point seven percent.
That is huge after all of this bailout money has been spent, all the tarp money, all of the porculus, all the stimulus, all of the stuff.
He hasn't done anything but make it worse.
Suzanne Blunt's Creek, North Carolina.
Hi.
I cannot believe this.
This is just the thrill of a lifetime.
But I won't let me get to my point really quick.
So uh I don't tie you up.
There is no racial division except the division that is created by those who make money off of it.
This is about right and wrong, not black and white.
And I must say you are brilliant, and that's why they're afraid of you.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
Um effective, brilliant, whatever.
I mean, I I uh I'll tell you what's happened today.
We've been monitoring it.
I get scolded by all of the learned people on my side who say tisk tisk.
We must raise the level of debate.
We mustn't use words like racist.
Guess what?
It's all over MSNBC.
They can't get away from it.
The Obama administration is going to regret, Suzanne, that they didn't tamp this down the first day.
Get her out there and address this.
Miss Spoke could do something.
Just like they did yesterday.
The liberals concerned that she didn't have an abortion record, they took care of it that day.
This is being allowed to fester out there.
This is a this is a uh a political mistake.
So Exactly.
You know, you know what Jesus said about lukewarm water.
He will spew it out.
Lukewarm moderate call it what you know, whatever.
Lukewarm moderates exactly right.
Well, I love the patent quote.
The two patent quotes.
Pressure makes diamonds.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Thanks very much.
Ken in uh Farmington, Missouri.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Top of the day to you.
Thank you, sir.
Please don't shut up.
Hey, I love your TSAs and commercials on hold.
Matter of fact, when I get off the phone, I'm gonna run down to Spatula City and do my Christmas shopping early.
They're only open for 60 seconds.
Oh my god.
During during the commercial, so I've been a fan of yours since uh day one when you went national.
I heard you on K and S T and Tucson, your moving van experience.
Um got a question, uh comment on a question.
Uh couple days ago, our senator here in Missouri, Claire McCaskill, was uh being uh interviewed by uh a radio person, and uh they brought up the statement made by uh Miss Soto Mayor uh about uh the Latina women and white men,
and Claire McCaskill misunderstood who said what, and she was awfully offended right off the bat until her interviewer explained her no, no, no, it was her that said that, not white.
You know, I regret we had that soundbite.
It's another one I didn't get to because uh people thought I was talking about sodomyor too much, but that that is true.
She's asked about this, and she had the the typical lib knee-jerk reaction.
That's outrageous!
That is outrageous!
And then she was told, no, Judge Soldomayor is oh, oh, oh, oh.
Then it became okay.
Yes.
Take it out of context, take it out of the content.
Okay, okay.
Right.
Uh we're about the same age.
Uh we're both unviable tissue masses at the same time.
And I'm wondering why uh us white men can't have any richness of experiences.
Well, uh, why can't white men have uh rich experiences?
We can.
It's that we did it illegally.
Or that we stole somebody else's riches to have the experiences with, or some such thing.
I have to run.
Thanks, uh, Ken.
We'll be back in a wrap it up in the Uno Momento.
Barney Frank is very upset over how these Chrysler dealerships are being closed.
He wants to know how it's being decided.
The White House says Chrysler's doing it.
Lawyers for dealers say nope.
The White House is determining which dealers are closed.
So, Barney, ask them.
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