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October 14, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Emailers are asking me, what are you grooving to there, Rush Show?
Today I'm listening to Suspicious Minds by Elvis, my all-time favorite song.
Certainly in the all-time top five.
Greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network.
Great to have you here as we meet and surpass all audience expectations every day.
January 18th, 2001, ABC News.
Moving to preempt a tabloid newspaper report, the Reverend Jesse Jackson this morning released a statement admitting he had an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter who is now 20 months old.
This is no time for evasions, denials, or alibis, the Baptist minister and former aide to Reverend Martin Luther King said he was having the affair as he was counseling Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky episode, ladies and gentlemen.
That's all you need to know about that story.
I'm sure you've heard it or remember it.
I just wanted to refresh your memory on it.
And from Jake Tapper, now this is August 17th of 2000.
Jake Tapper, who was at salon.com at the time, wrote this.
He's not ABC.
It's tough to imagine this year's Republican National Convention featuring a primetime speaker who once said that Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that's choking Judaism, or that he was sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust, or that traditional Democrat support for Israel is because of the Jewish element in the party, a kind of glorified form of bribery.
And certainly not if he had ever referred to Jews as Jaimes in New York is Jaime Town.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, of course, has made all of these comments and more.
Everything that I have said today about the Reverend Daxon and Al Sharpton has the added benefit of being true.
The things being said about me by the Reverend Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson are slanderously false, and they know it.
And they continue to spread them.
Again, from the tongue of the Reverend Daxon, Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that is choking Judaism.
Sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust.
Traditional Democrat support for Israel is because of the Jewish element in the party, a kind of glorified form of bribery.
And hymies and hymie town.
And that's Jake Tapper, and I sourced it.
One thing that we love more than seeing a self-righteous politician go up in flames is to see a self-righteous clergyman politician go up in flames.
Where's this?
This is waywardpoliticians.com.
Thursday, April 26, 2007.
In January 2001, Jesse Jackson, two-time presidential candidate, owned up to fathering an illegitimate daughter 20 months prior.
Talk about getting some affirmative action.
Of course, Jackson has been married to Jacqueline Levina Brown Jackson since 1962.
The woman Jackson did the deed with worked for his advocacy group, the Rainbow Push Monochrome Coalition.
You know, when you name your advocacy group something like that, you're just inviting trouble anyway.
Anyway, her name is Karen Stanford, and their love fest lasted four years.
He was paying her $120,000 a year from the coalition, but not reporting it on his taxes.
The Reverend Jackson then paid her $35,000 in cash to move to California and is paying $3,000 a month in child support.
That's a lot of money.
And what the blogger says he wants to know is, does this guy even have a job?
I don't know what he does for a living, and apparently neither does anybody else.
The Reverend Jackson.
Now, I want to put something in perspective for you here, folks, as we move back to healthcare.
I have been laughing myself silly today because the cable news networks have been running a Chiron graphic at the bottom of the screen all day, waiting for a meeting between White House and Senate leaders.
Waiting for me.
They're still waiting, by the way.
The meeting was supposed to happen.
I don't know when it was supposed to happen, but they're still waiting for it.
This is one of the big problems in news.
Who cares?
Well, actually, it's not true.
We do need to care, and that's my point.
It's just, it's not earth-shattering the meeting.
What is going to happen in the meeting is what's happening.
I want to put this in perspective for you.
The meeting will take place between Rom Emmanuel, Harry Reid, Christopher Dodd, and Max Baucus.
Those are the three Senate leaders.
I might note, by the way, they are all white men.
Just for the record.
Now, on the table is the discussion of health care and the bill that will come out of the Senate after this Baucus abomination gets merged with whatever else is in there.
And they come out with their final version of Sen over the House.
So here we have Harry Reid, who has had his own problems with reputed corruption, as reported, not by me, but by the Los Angeles Times, in slimy real estate swindles.
Multiple article series on it in the LA Times.
Harry Reid, the author of the attempt to smear me when I call a phony soldier a phony soldier.
Harry Reid, who said of Clarence Thomas, I don't think he's very bright.
Leverage some of his opinions, I don't think he's very bright.
Chris Dodd, participant in waitress sandwiches with the late Senator Kennedy, sweetheart recipient of sweetheart mortgage rates from countrywide as an official friend of Angelo, the former CEO Angelo Mozzillo.
Christopher Dodd, a participant, if not an architect with Barney Frank in the house, of the subprime mortgage mess that is a large factor in the economic plunge today.
And Max Baucus of Montana, who never met a tax increase he didn't like.
These three white guys, these three questionable character people, author of much of the destruction in the U.S. economy and throughout our culture with their various pieces of legislation,
these three people are meeting with the estimable Rom Emmanuel to decide how 300 million Americans will get medical care and how they will get health insurance.
Three people are meeting today and the media is breathless in anticipation of this meeting.
Oh, it's exciting.
There might be some big news that comes out of this.
There will be some big news.
The big news accurately reported would be the further attack and destruction on the American private sector, the American economy.
The blatant pilfering of one-sixth of the U.S. private sector, the U.S. economy, and putting it in the hands of Barack Obama, he with a five and a half minute career and a bogus Nobel Peace Prize.
Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Christopher Dodd are going to decide how 300 million Americans deal with their medical challenges and problems.
Those four people, and Emmanuel make it five, those four people.
Emmanuel's in there as the enforcer.
Anybody goes wayward and off track.
I don't know what you call this, but this is not democracy.
And it is not Republican with a small R. Call it what you want.
But ask yourself if you want those three people, those three senators, deciding how health care happens and is paid for and who gets it in this country.
And let's not forget the sound bites from our old buddy, Robert B. Reich.
Let me find the number of that for you, Mike, so that we can get that back on because I got my cue sheet.
Number 24, here's Robert Reich from 2007 at the University of California in Berkeley.
We are going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months.
It's too expensive.
So we're going to let you die.
The people that are meeting with Rah Emmanuel today are the we he was talking about.
It is a dark day.
These are dark days for our nation.
But folks, do not be depressed.
Be enraged and vigilant and ready for action.
I started this program 21 years ago, and this is the kind of stuff that always, when you're dealing with liberals in power, out of power, this is where they've been headed.
And now they have succeeded, largely because we have a corrupt media which refuses to tell the truth about anybody.
They lie about conservatives, and they cover and promote Democrats, liberals, and their programs.
The American people, when informed, make the right decisions.
Our country is a testament to that.
But our country is not properly informed.
That segment of it that exposes itself to the corrupt, state-controlled media is not properly informed.
Well, they know things.
They just don't know that what they know is wrong.
We'll be back.
Phone calls coming right after this.
Stay with us.
Let's see here.
Man, a story in the New York Times today.
Is this the 14th?
Yeah, it is.
All right.
The budget office said the costs of the Borkas bill yesterday, the committee bill, budget office said that the costs would be completely offset by new fees and taxes and by other things.
Cuts in Medicare, federal budget deficits next 10 years would be $81 billion lower than projected.
Douglas Elmendorf, director of the CBO, said his agency had not estimated the impact of the bill on overall national health spending, public and private, and could not say whether it would bend the cost curve.
Buried here toward the end of his story, CBO, I can't say if this is going to save citizens any money.
We really can't, we don't know.
Yet everybody's reporting that the CBO says it's going to save everybody a whole lot of money.
There's no truth.
There's literally no truth out there when we're talking about the corrupt mainstream media.
Jeff in Omaha, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hey, Rick, it's a real honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Hey, I just want to further the point you were making with the Rams deal that it's going around and what a joke it is.
And they're saying that, you know, you can't own a team because of some, you know, quote-unquote controversial things that you said, even though that everything you do say is a part of your free speech.
And, you know, with you being controversial.
No, no, wait, wait, wait just now.
Wait a second.
They are saying I said things I didn't say.
Right, but even like the McNabb thing, I mean, that's, you know, that is your opinion, and that's their opinion is not the same.
And so most of your stuff, I agree, and that's my opinion.
But, you know, why don't they start dealing with the facts like, as you were talking about, Michael Vick with the dog fighting, and now he's back into the NFL?
Pac-Man Jones, you know, Ricky Williams, Sean Merriman, you know, how do all these people who are actual criminals and that's a fact?
You know, how come they can come back into the NFL, but yet, you know, you aren't supposed to own a team because of some things that you said.
And I keep hearing people say that, you know, it's a privilege to be an NFL team owner and it's a privilege to play in the NFL.
It's not a right.
Like, well, you know, talk to these people who are, you know, committing crimes and yet, you know, they just somehow end up back in the NFL.
But, you know, somebody wants to own a team that they don't agree with.
And now all of a sudden there's this big problem now.
You know, where are those people at now?
Well, discussing I'm in a position here where I can't address, I'd love to, I can't address the thrust of your comments here.
Well, maybe I can because I have said something that they are taking out of context.
I did say, but they're not putting it in kind of Bloods and Crips comment.
Maybe I can explain that.
But look, nobody is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
And everybody gets second chances.
And people pay the price when they pay their debt.
If they are convicted of something, you wipe the slate clean.
Everybody, I don't have any desire to deny people second chances and that kind of thing.
Look, the hypocrisy, what you're really talking about here is the hypocrisy of things.
And hypocrisy is all over the place.
It's always there, but it is the reality.
It is what it is, and that has to be dealt with.
And the way to deal with it is not so much point it out as to recognize it as an obstacle and how to deal with it.
And those are the kind of things I can't discuss.
But let me take the occasion of your call to explain the Bloods and Crips comment because these guys who are now admitting, okay, maybe we can't source those quotes about Limbaugh and James Earl Ray and slavery.
But he said bloods and crips.
He said bloods and crips.
They're trying to get anything else to continue the narrative here that I am some subhuman species with no rights to exist anywhere outside this radio studio and within these radio waves.
Now, I believe the comments in 2007, and I believe the comments were made after to a phone call.
I had a phone call on the, I think to a phone.
I'd have to check the transcript of that date, which I've not done.
But my memory is it was a playoff game in San Diego between the Chargers and the Patriots, and the Patriots had a fourth down with many very few seconds left in the game, fourth and ball game.
And the Chargers held them.
Chargers win.
Chargers are leading.
Then all of a sudden, the ref throws a flag.
15 yards or something for taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct.
Some Chargers DB have gotten in the face of some Patriots player was doing that you can't diss me act and so forth.
And it lost the game for the Chargers.
And I said, you know, I praised the official for throwing the flags.
I love the game.
I love the National Football League.
We all have Walter Mitte in us.
We all wish we could do something that we can't.
Some people get paralyzed by those desires and continue to try to do things they can't.
A man's got to know his limitations.
But at the same time, you got to have a never-quit attitude.
But at some point, I mean, if you're not qualified to play in the NFL, you shouldn't ruin your life dreaming about it.
Go do what you're good at.
I would love to be able to do it.
I've always wanted to be able to do it.
I admire and respect the talent that those few Americans have to qualify for the National Football League.
And the game is about what happens on the field.
The NFL is like any other business.
It's got off-field problems.
Every business has employees that get in problems and troubles when they're away from the office.
NFL's no different there.
But the NFL wants to keep control of the game.
It's the product on the field.
And they cannot allow the tendency, the integrity of the game to be blown up by whatever cultural trends are going on.
So the Bloods and Crips comment, I think I said, sometimes the game looks like Bloods and Crips without the weapons.
Now, we had Mercury Morris, who was, I guess, on CNN a couple days ago, say, I know what he's talking about, and he's right.
I know exactly what he's talking about.
Mercury Morris played for the Dolphins back in the Don Schula era.
My comment could easily be taken as criticism of players.
What it was was, it was criticism of that kind of, it was totally unnecessary.
It lost a ball game.
Lost a ballgame, all for the purpose of strutting around.
And what it was, folks, was criticism of a mindset.
I don't want, regardless what happens here, I am a fan of the National Football League.
I devote my Sundays to it.
I travel the stadiums to be part of it.
It's fun being there in person.
I want to continue to be a fan.
I want that game to be up on the pedestal.
I've put it.
And I want the players to be on the pedestal.
And I've put them.
The players are the game.
You want the best people playing the game you can get in the league.
And that's a hard job to find them.
Scouting and all that, the draft, it's fascinating to me because everybody's trying to pick who they think are the best.
And some people are better at picking those players than others.
But why one team's better than another traditionally over the years and so on.
But that comment was more of a, oh, no, geez.
Don't let it.
Don't let this happen to the game.
I love you.
You don't want to see brawls on the, you know, you don't want to, just don't, I don't want to see it.
I have the game on a pedestal.
I have the people who play it on a pedestal.
And I just, I don't want that to change.
So I was criticizing a mindset that is destructive, and it was not helpful.
It was not racial.
Bloods and Crips makes it look racial, but the way I chose to describe it, I could have perhaps chosen a different term.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, the EIV Network.
By the way, folks, I'm actually on the same page with the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, on this aspect I just spoke of.
He's trying to protect the game, too.
I've got a stack of stories here of the way the commissioner has reacted to even off-field disciplinary problems.
I'm not going to mention any teams, but I'm not going to mention the stories, but I've got a bunch of stacks.
The people involved in the game love it and they want to protect it.
And that's me.
Now, I've been thinking about that woman we had from the Delmarva Peninsula, from the right coast of Maryland, who had her theory that Olympia Snow, what was her theory?
Her theory was that Olympia Snow voted yes on the Baucus bill to get her way because there's some things in it.
If the things that are not in it now, like public option, ha ha, not enough, things that are not in it now get put in, she can take her vote away.
So I've been thinking about this.
And the way I have sliced and diced this, this is, there are three possibilities here to explain Olympia Snow's vote.
And by the way, I think it's important to point out that Olympia Snow is not related to the great jazz singer Phoebe Snow.
I don't want any confusion on that.
You see, here's that her yes vote was not needed.
The final count was 14 to 9.
If she had voted no, the final committee vote would have been 13 to 10.
No difference.
All it did was make the state-controlled media rewrite their facts scripts from the White House.
They can no longer say not one Republican voted for it.
They'll probably say something stupid like, oh, it's bipartisan now, which they're doing.
They will say bipartisan with a straight face.
They got one Republican vote.
Obama got it.
In fact, I got a headline.
Somewhere in here, Obama gets his bipartisans, whatever the hell it is.
They can predict these people a mile away.
Now, the obvious storyline here is that Olympia Snow sold out the Republican Party.
But there are three, as I've figured them out here, three totally different motives worth considering.
She actually believed what she said.
Remember, she thought that the stimulus bill was going to create jobs.
So it's possible she actually believed what she said.
The second explanation, her 15 minutes of fame.
Up to the vote, she was the queen bee, the go-to Republican, the spot that Arlen Specter used to fill.
But Arlen at least has had the courage to admit he was a Democrat all along.
Now she's just the one of 100 senator from Maine who was one in a thousand could name.
Not one in a thousand could name it.
Now look, got her 50 minutes.
Olympia Snow, Ompia Snow, Olympia Snow.
And trust me, folks, as one in media, I know how people crave the camera.
I know how they crave attention.
That's something about our culture that saddens me.
That's given us Twitter.
That's given us Facebook.
It's given us MySpace.
Next website's going to be my ass.
Look at it.
Here it is from all kinds of different angles.
I mean, people will give up every element of their privacy for a little bit of fame.
And they don't know what's happening.
I can just see the possibility of Olympia Snow here just wanting her 15 minutes of fame.
And the third possibility, and this is where I'm going to give props to the woman who called from the Delmarva Peninsula.
And this is my hope, by the way.
I'm still having trouble getting my arms around this, but wait for it.
The third possibility is she is a brilliant strategist.
Sharper than Carville, more ruthless than Rah Emanuel, and more devious than George Soros.
I know, Snerdley, it's tough.
It's tough to accept that.
The depth question concerns me here, but this is a possibility.
She voted yes to make the left more of a laughingstock.
They now have five health piles of paper.
They got five victories for liberals, five documents, not any of them doing anything the president says he wants, not any of them reforming healthcare by the classical definition of making things better.
Five victories here, not even meaningful enough to be called Pyrrhic victories.
If objective voters ever looked at the needed reforms in healthcare, how little each of these five bills do, they'd never turn left again.
Reality didn't sink in after the first four piles, but now we have five piles, five piles of dots and blank lines, and fill in the numbers.
Connect the dots.
Maybe she did.
Best she could do.
I don't know.
Maybe the caller was right.
Maybe the theory is, give herself some power to make sure the bill is what they promised her it's going to be.
I'm using all benefit of the doubt here.
Tony Lake Orion, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello Rush, you're a great American.
Thank you, sir Jennifer Granholm.
Here in the, the wonderful state of Michigan with the largest unemployment rate in the nation is, is looking to pass a bill through.
The Senate goes this week, a 3% tax for doctors and any medical person overseen by a doctor being PAs or certified nurses of anesthesia, for a 3% tax.
Is this constitutional and how will this benefit keeping jobs here in Michigan?
Well, I don't know what you have to ask Jennifer Granholm.
She's the architect in job loss with doing exactly this kind of things.
Did you ask 3% tax for doctors?
She tried, she tried for five, they got three right now going to the Senate this week for for doctors in any person overseen by a doctor certified anesthesia.
Three percent tax.
Three percent tax.
That is correct and I think, I think your listeners need to be aware here in Michigan and we need to contact our senators and not allow something like this, because this, this cannot possibly help the economy here in Michigan.
Well, you know that, and I know that the architect of this disaster has just lit another stick of dynamite.
It's scary here, sir.
I know it is um it's, it's.
Well, I talk to people in Detroit, it's.
They describe it as devastation.
We're on a downward spiral, and uh, we're not, we don't see a ray of light quite yet.
Well, you know, Jay Leno went in there, did a couple free concerts.
How'd that work out?
You wanted to lift the mood of people.
Did it work?
Well, I don't had a job, so I couldn't make it down there.
Oh, that's right.
The unemployed are the ones that went.
Yes, sir.
Um, all right.
Well, I'm thinking my mind is racing here, but what could we do?
Maybe there's because there's you know, there's a story.
I can't.
Thanks for the call out there, uh, Tony.
I appreciate it.
Let me find this at the bottom of the stack.
There is a story about how much homeless there is.
Homelessness out there is record high in New York.
If something is in just New York City, record high homeless.
I can't believe it got reported.
I don't doubt that it's true, but I can't believe HR, I can't find it.
You remember the paper that was in Bloomberg News.
Bloomberg News reporting the homelessness is an old.
Yeah, here it is.
And CBS: record numbers of homeless in New York City.
According to the Coalition for the Homeless, more than 16,000 children were in shelters by the end of September.
Now, this group says the Coalition for the Homeless has been the number has been growing for five years.
Now, I have a question.
And by the way, before I question, let me give you some details here.
According to the new report, the number of homeless people sleeping in New York City shelters has reached an all-time high of 39,000, and many of them are children.
Mary Rosnahan, the long-time executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, used the city's own data, says homelessness has been increasing each of the last five years.
Currently, it is at an all-time high.
At the end of September, this is the Obama administration now.
I can't believe this is being reported.
But if homelessness has been growing for five years, my question is: have Tom Friedman and Tom Brokov bothered to drive through Central Park lately to see any of this destitution?
They live there.
Well, I don't think Friedman lives there.
I think Friedman lives in Maryland somewhere.
But I wonder if Brokov ever finds his way into parts of the city where these people apparently are to report the news to an eagerly awaiting public wanting to know the truth.
Hi, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
Folks, I really love you.
I appreciate everything that you're saying to me.
Snirdly, you should see the email.
You should all see the email.
I'm getting email from people reporting what this guy's saying over here.
This guy is spreading that lie, that false.
People are spying on the media and they're telling me all.
Folks, I can't mention it all.
Pointing out all of the flaming hypocrites crawling out from under rocks against me would be like trying to track down all of Madonna's sex partners.
After 100 of them, you just stop counting.
And you realize the kind of culture that you're dealing with.
Lisa, Prairie Home, Missouri.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
What an honor.
Thank you very much.
I have a question for you.
Does the government play any role in whether you purchase the St. Louis Rand team or not?
Well, they're trying to.
Members of the government are.
Sheila Jackson Lee certainly is trying to.
Well, they're trying to.
Look, let's cut to the chase here, folks.
Now, Lisa, hang on.
Let's cut to the chase here.
I can think of no liberal, no matter how foul-mouthed, no matter how hateful in entertainment or outside entertainment, who would be banned from being part of an NFL ownership group.
I can't think of one liberal, insider outside entertainment, foul-mouthed.
Can't think of one liberal who would even be treated like this.
This is all about smearing mainstream traditional conservatism.
And I, El Rushbo, happen to be the most prominent voice for mainstream traditional conservatism.
They cannot beat us, folks, in the arena of ideas.
For my entire 21-year broadcast career, they have attempted to discredit me and everybody else who is prominent. in conservatism.
And it's now descended to the point that they have to make up things, I said.
And then when we catch them making up things, they say, well, so what?
He really believes them.
He really believes the words we put in his mouth.
We know he believes.
We know who he is.
There are people no liberal would ever be treated like this.
No matter how foul-mouthed.
I mean, there are rappers that own parts of NBA teams.
Lyrics to their songs we couldn't play on this radio show.
They're celebrated.
Cool, Daddy.
Cool.
Now, Lisa, are you still there?
Yes, sir.
You sound very tired.
No, I'm just, I'm nervous because I'm getting to talk to you.
Like, you're like my idol.
Oh, that's.
I think you're wonderful.
Anyway, I just, I think that if you can purchase the team, then you should purchase the team.
And I do not understand why Sheila Johnson-Lee is talking about it on the House floor.
It's no place for me.
I just explained it.
She's not trying to keep me out of the NFL.
This is just an attack on all of us who are conservatives.
Look, they're scared.
Conservatism is in an ascendancy.
Conservatism is rising.
Conservatism is growing.
Obama's in trouble, folks.
You can't take the politics out of me in this.
This is because it's not about the National Football League.
It's just the latest vehicle for them to go after me.
Now, Lisa, I want you to hang on.
Mr. Snerdley has to get some information from you because I am going to give you your choice of a select comfort bed because I know you're tired.
You sound tired.
You're probably not sleeping well, as indicated by the nervousness you feel talking to me.
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And Lisa, you can't turn it down.
You got it?
Okay, cool.
We take a brief time out.
We'll come back and wrap it up right after this.
Remember, folks, did that meeting ever start, Snerdley?
Did the meeting everybody breathlessly awaiting start with Baucus and Reed and Emmanuel?
Did the meeting ever start?
Well, okay.
Oh, they did.
Harry Reid and Baucus and what's his name, Dad, they had a press conference.
Oh, they had a press conference the other day.
Well, I just want you all to remember three guys, All who have questionable things in their past.
Harry Reid.
L.A. Times says he's a land swindler in a multi-part series.
Chris Dodd, friend of Angelo, favorable below market mortgage rates, architect with Barney Frank of the subprime mortgage crisis, and Max Baucus.
These three guys meeting today with Rah Emanuel, maybe they already have these three guys determining the health care and decisions for 300 million Americans.
These three guys in a conference today with Rah Emanuel, probably with Obama too.
Keep that in mind and keep that in perspective.
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