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Nov. 20, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 20, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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What is this I just saw?
Get it from Lima, Peru.
It's Lima, Ohio, but Lima, Peru.
Gang, gang accused of killing to sell human fat.
Yeah, for cosmetics.
I mean, gang.
Well, who knew?
There's a free market for used fat.
Out there.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Nothing stops us, folks.
We just keep rolling right on down the tracks of truth.
Rushland Ball, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Happy to have you here on Open Line Friday.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
Okay, here is the winning video.
Organizing for America website, BarackObama.com released the winner of the Organizing for America Health Reform Video Challenge.
Here is an audio portion of the winning video.
A year from now, I'll break my leg and my parents will have to sell our house because we couldn't afford health care.
Three months from now, I'll need surgery.
And my parents will go bankrupt because they couldn't afford health care.
Two years from now, I'll be diagnosed with leukemia and I'll die because we couldn't afford health care.
I deserve health care.
I deserve health care.
We all deserve health care.
There are over 8 million uninsured children in America.
8 million.
We all deserve health care.
Ah, my friends, this is just, this is, isn't this wonderful?
Exploiting kids like this, lying to kids, and then making the kids go out and lie, scaring the kids.
This is from the president's website.
This essentially has his endorsement.
This is just sick.
Yeah, let's go back and listen to the kids of the staff at the World Wildlife Fund back in early November.
The world's top scientists agree that climate change is the most serious threat to ever face our planet.
It's coming faster and hitting harder than expected.
Droughts and floods and hurricanes are getting worse.
It's affecting our water supply and our ability to grow crops.
America the beautiful might not be so beautiful anymore.
Important ecosystems like the Amazon and the Arctic.
They'll be damaged forever.
Really cool animals like polar bears and walruses will lose their habitat.
We're pushing our planet past the point of no return.
Of course, the children of EIB did not stand for that.
He can't.
The right way, at any rate.
I want to go back to this business.
There's a theme out there.
We had this guy call about Sarah Palin and obviously afraid of her.
We had Nora O'Donnell ambushing a 17-year-old girl in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and really pounding this girl.
Obama supported the bailout.
Palin supported the bailout.
I don't think he did.
Yes, he did.
She supported the bailout.
She said that McCain supported the bailout.
It was a crisis.
He supported the bailout.
I find this interesting.
The media is harping on this, that Sarah Palin supported the bailout.
It's funny how Sarah Palin is getting more press about her comments about the bailout than Obama did.
Remember now, Obama was fact-checked by the AP and got almost no coverage on this.
It's from the AP on Wednesday, April 29th.
That wasn't me, President Obama said on his 100th day in orifice, disclaiming responsibility for the budget deficit waiting for him on day one.
It actually was him and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years who shaped a budget so out of balance.
Look at some of Obama's claims Wednesday.
Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit.
That wasn't me.
Number two, there's almost uniform consensus among economists in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis since the Great Depression.
We had to take extraordinary steps.
So you got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package.
We had to do something about the banks.
AP says the facts are Congress controls the Pearl Springs, not the president.
It was under Democrat control for Obama's last two years as Illinois senator.
Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush's final months.
It was Obama, by the way, who urged Bush to bail out the auto companies.
It was a package that Democrat leaders wanted to make bigger.
The economy has worsened under Obama, AP wrote back on April 29th.
And yet, it's Sarah Palin getting all this press on her position on the bailout.
The Oprah, ladies and gentlemen, leaving Chicago.
She's not just quitting her TV show.
She's going to quit her show in September of 2011.
And she's going to announce it on her show today.
But she's also leaving Chicago.
Mayor Daly is upset about it.
Mayor Daly is blaming the media for forcing the Oprah out of Chicago.
Apparently, during her season premiere week in September, they shut down the Miracle Mile up there for a while.
It caused all kinds of traffic snafus and other problems.
The Oprah reimbursed the city for all that was shut down, but apparently the Oprah took a lot of heat.
And Mayor Daly is blaming the media, but Oprah, she's going to start a cable network, and she wants it based in Los Angeles, not Chicago.
She said, why would anybody stay in Chicago?
It's freezing here, and I have a mansion in Montecito that I haven't been able to enjoy.
Why would anybody want to stay here?
It's freezing here.
And I have a mansion in Montecito I haven't been able to enjoy.
Quote, unquote, the Oprah.
So, well, I don't know where the Oprah's bailing.
It's 25 years.
Maybe there's a magic number.
Judge Judy, that show is getting higher ratings than the Oprah.
And yeah, yeah, it did recently.
And I think also, you know, when all else is failing, you go to cable.
And she wants to do her own cable network.
And I think that I'm not going to speculate on that.
I have no idea.
I'll wait for her pronouncement to see if she explains why.
Other than that, just be idle speculation.
What do you think?
You obviously have a theory.
Why do you think the Oprah's packing it in a year from now?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hell.
All right.
Here's, yeah, see, you guys, you people in the audience do not know what it's like to be me.
You all think you want to be me, but you do not know what it's like to be surrounded by my staff.
They are the finest, most underworked people you will ever find.
Sometimes overrated.
But nevertheless, their loyalty is just over the top.
For example, Snerdley thinks that I'm the reason the Oprah quit.
Snerdley believes, and he believes that I have far more impact and power over things happening in the country than I ever would think I have.
I don't even contemplate that.
That's not even part of my makeup.
Snerdley thinks, and I disagree with this, but I just want you, and I tell you this to show you how hard it is for me to keep a level head.
A lot of people in my position will be walking around with a head and ears bigger than Obama's.
If I believed everything my staff told me about me, I would need to drill a giant hole in the wall because I wouldn't be able to fit in a door to get in here.
So yesterday, I made mention of the fact that Sarah Palin got Oprah her highest ratings in two years, but it was not comfortable because Oprah got creamed by her own audience when it was announced.
She got creamed in emails and phone calls and so forth.
Her audience didn't want to hear Sarah Palin, didn't want to see Sarah Palin.
And the Oprah is not used to that kind of criticism.
The Oprah is one of these media people that gets constant adulation, adoration, and love built up living on a pedestal, goddess-like.
That has been the rarefied air in which the Oprah has lived.
And she just, people who don't get the kind of criticism from their own audience and perhaps other political quarters that the Oprah got on this, if they're not used to it, they don't know how to deal with it.
So Snerdley's theory is that that criticism, not that I had anything to do with here by mentioning it, that the Oprah just doesn't, this is not where she's, the numbers aren't there.
And now she's getting creamed and complained at, bitched at by her own audience.
This is not the world that she's been living in.
And so, so, yeah, that's another aspect.
Now she needs conservatives to build her audience.
Oh, not good.
If she needs conservatives to build her audiences, she's going to become distant from her own cocktail crowd circuit and so forth.
They're not going to be happy about that.
So there's a number of factors here, folks, and they all could be relevant in their own way.
Okay, quick timeout.
We'll come back.
We'll get more of your phone calls in right after this.
Don't go away.
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You know, the Obama administration, the whole leftist bunch in this country using these kids in global warming ads and making them watch Al Gore's lying science fiction movie, getting scared to death the polar bears are going to die and all this, and now putting these kids on health care.
You know, I grew up in the 50s, and we had all these duck and cover exercises when I was in grade school.
We actually did have tests, little drills in case the Russians launched a nuke at us.
We had to run to an auditorium or run to an assembly center or run under our desks or do something practicing for a nuclear attack.
And everyone over a certain age always talks about how they were scarred forever by that.
I happen to have a very, very strong psychological constitution.
Was not scarred by it at all because I had the sense to realize that a desk was not going to protect me from 10,000 zillion degrees.
My father and mother were actually thinking of, we went and looked at bomb shelters.
Now, this did not scare me.
Well, I think at the time it did, but I don't suffer any lasting effects from it.
But a lot of people do.
Now, what about these kids is my point.
What about these kids that are being lied to and are being forced to lie about I'm going to get leukemia in six months and I'm going to die because I am going to have health insurance.
Hey, kid, have you ever heard of S-CHIP?
You are covered under S-CHIP in your state until you're 26 when you probably will still be living at home with your liberal mom and your liberal dad.
Ever heard of S-CHIP kid?
Just nothing but lies and propaganda.
I'm going to break my arm.
I'm going to thaw and break my arm and concrete.
They're going to sue me and my parents and we'll be out of our house and we'll have to become homeless and live on pork and beans in the dunkyard.
That's what they have these kids out there saying.
And they're giving awards for this kind of tripe.
My mommy is going to have a car crash and she's going to lose her face, which will make my dad happy, but it's going to bankrupt us because she doesn't have health faith insurance.
What about these kids?
Aren't they going to be scarred forever having been told all these nightmares about health care and having to go out there and spread the nightmares themselves on top of the end of the world because of global warming?
Liberals are, look at the psychological damage they are inflicting on their own kids.
All right.
To the phones, Patrick in Erie, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush Buddy.
This is a real privilege.
Thank you for my call.
Thanks very much, sir.
Hey, listen, I was listening to your show.
I think it was this week you were talking about how your earlier days at the radio station in California, you kept track of the income that you brought into the radio station and so forth.
I loved the point.
It was a great point.
I share your philosophy on that.
I thought it tied in closely with what that caller, I think, Katie yesterday, you called.
And that is nobody really pays you.
No employer pays you or hires you or contracts you or anything along those lines for what you do, but rather what you bring, what you're able to procure.
And, you know, as far as demand for yourself or your business, it's a lesson that's just totally lost on a lot of people, a lot of good-meaning people, but particularly liberals.
And I think I guess I'd like maybe to hear you expand on it a little more.
Your show serves as an enlightening program for me and most of your listeners.
And it's a point that just does not get made.
I just wonder if you can maybe expand it.
I'd be happy to.
It was an anniversary show that I did, my 25th anniversary on KFPK Sacramento.
By the way, I have not announced that I'm leaving Sacramento, nor have I announced I'm moving to cable on my 25th anniversary in Sacramento, just to differentiate myself from the Oprah.
And this was my last shot at radio.
I had been fired for cause one time and the other six or seven times for the vagaries of the business.
You know, format changed to Chinese opera and they were going to automate, didn't need DJs, and I didn't speak Chinese anyway.
So stuff happens.
So this is my last shot, and it's a talk show.
And talk shows, as you know, feature endorsements, live commercials.
And I was talking to the business editor there, Tom Sullivan, who now runs the official auditing firm that audits my opinions.
And I said, Tom, I've gotten nailed by the vagaries of this business too many times.
You can't control ratings, where they put the diaries, how many people actually participate.
Do they honestly report what they're listening to?
So I've got to find a way to get myself in the revenue stream here.
I've got to find a way to make sure I can point to X number of dollars I am generating as insurance against this.
And in the process of talking my way through this, it was a great learning experience because I then found out what my real purpose was.
A lot of people, as an employee, a lot of people think the purpose of a company is to provide jobs in healthcare.
And that's not why people form businesses.
They form businesses because they have a passion to provide a service or manufacture a product that they love, that they think would sell big time and they can make a profit at.
And then if they get lucky, sell it to some bigger corporation down the line and invest in something new or go sip piña coladas in the Virgin Islands while watching the Clintons dance with no music.
So it was a it's a lot of people just misunderstand the whole purpose of companies and what they're for.
They're not there to help a community.
They work hand in hand, but companies don't form in order to make sure a community stays vibrant.
They do contribute and donate to it, of course, but the purpose is the ongoing success of the company.
And whatever you as an employee contribute to that ongoing success is how your value is going to be assessed and how your compensation will be assessed.
Now, of course, not everything is fair at every step of the game, but that's the theory.
And a proper understanding of that would help so many people who don't even get that much about it.
Well, it seems like everybody's got a book out there.
I was just walking out top of the hour break and see Snerdley in his office.
John Gibson's got a book.
John Gibson, Fox News Radio, Fox News Channel.
And I got this week, I really want to suggest this one to you.
Steve Forbes has sent me a copy of his book, How Capitalism Will Save Us.
Why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy.
I'm saddened that this is necessary, but it's kind of like these books on the power of positive thinking.
You've got to keep reading them.
You forget how to think positively.
We're in such an educational decline that the real engine that made this the greatest country in the history of human civilization is not being taught.
It's being maligned.
It's being impugned.
It's under assault.
It's under attack.
And Steve's book, he wrote it with Elizabeth Ames.
And it is not in any kind of wonk language or economist speak that you can't understand.
It's just this straight down-the-line layperson language.
And it's called, and I'm here.
I'll show it to you people watching on the DittoCam.
It's got a very, very strikingly bold yellow cover.
It's called How Capitalism Will Save Us, Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy.
So while you're out there trying to thumb through Palin's book without buying it, I know how you people are in the bookstores.
I've had books.
Pick up a copy of Steve's because it is good.
You know, Thomas Sowell has a bunch of great books on economics.
I know.
Yeah, and that's right.
Soul has a.
I can't wait for this one.
He's got one coming in in January on the elites, the intellectual class, and what they have done to American culture, American education, American politics.
That's going to be a biggie.
Bob in San Antonio as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Thoroughly enjoy your show, and I still thoroughly enjoy a couple ties that I have of yours.
Well, thank you.
And I hope we get a chance to bring it on in terms of Sarah.
But you know, part of the reason I think that they fear her, she's not a soccer mom, as I heard on the recordings while I was waiting.
She's a hockey mom, and they're much more vicious.
Yeah, this is irrational.
Their hatred for her is irrational.
A woman can't do anything to anybody right now.
She can't do anything for anybody right now, other than your family.
But it is, you know, she has absolute values.
She has no doubts about what she believes.
She has no lack of confidence.
And that just bugs them.
It bugs them all to hell.
And that's why she connects so well.
But the reason I called, I'm not sure that the Democrats think they're committing suicide, as you mentioned earlier, with what they're doing with this bill.
Because what I keep wondering is all of these districts around the country that are getting all these funds that Congress passed earlier this year, except that these districts don't exist.
It makes me wonder where all these funds are going to and where they're going to appear next year and if they think they have a chance.
Well, there's two things here.
I know what you're telling you.
Yeah, you're basically saying we have a giant slush fund here, and it is being used to buy these votes.
You know, made-up congressional districts, non-existent congressional districts.
You know, Mark Stein had a great line.
He said, Acorn, why worry about registering individual voters when you can register a whole district?
I mean, this is made to order for Acorn.
You've got people voting now from these non-existent districts.
So there's no question votes are being bought.
Mary Landrew got $100 million in the Senate health care bill from Dingy Harry.
And by the way, Dingy Harry is now going to go down to New Orleans for a fundraiser hosted by Mary Landrew.
I mean, we're dealing here with in our face, right out in the open, corruption.
They're not even trying to hide it out there, Bob.
It is just, it is in your face corruption.
And they're saying, you can't stop us, and we're going to do this.
Now, you may be right that they don't think they're committing suicide.
Some of them know that they are in the House.
But Nancy Pelosi is happy to lose some of her herd.
You know, thinning the herd.
She'd be happy to get rid of some of these blue dogs, have them go back home and lose.
Blue dogs and pro-lifers.
Yep, she'd be happy.
She'd be happy.
Oh, she'd love to get rid of Stupek.
Oh, yeah.
But in the Senate, it's a little different because these guys are only, you know, only a third of the place is up for re-election every two years.
And Dingy Harry is up next year.
And he's going to have some trouble in Nevada.
And Ras Musson put out a poll today, by the way, that J.D. Hayworth, who I'm not, I don't think J.D. Hayworth has announced that he's going to run, has he?
But Ras Musson did a poll out there, and he's only two points behind McCain in a Republican primary poll for the 2010 Senate Republican nomination in Arizona.
Now, here is the reason that they probably do not think they're committing suicide.
You've heard that the bill doesn't get implemented until 2013.
Now, what's magical about that is, is that 2012 is the presidential year.
That's interesting because the impact of this bill will not be felt before the presidential race in 2012.
Then we heard, and we know it's true, that when they send these bills down to a congressional budget office to get scored, they have to score them in 10-year increments.
I guess that's Paulo's name.
And the way they come in with these low numbers like we'd got for $848 billion is that the health care aspect doesn't start.
The benefits, the spending doesn't start until year three or four.
But the tax increases and everything else start immediately.
For example, there's a one that's going to start in January if the thing passes, a new marriage penalty in the health care bill imposes a tax on individuals who make a couple hundred grand annually, but married couples making just $50,000 more.
That's one of 17 new taxes imposed by the bill.
Also creates a levy on elective plastic surgery, Botox, the Botax, and places a 40% excise tax on those who have generous or Cadillac health care plans.
And some of these bills, some of these taxes will go into effect pretty soon.
Now, Snerdley asked me yesterday.
It's a long way, Bob, of getting to the answer you want, but I need to set it all up.
Snerdley asked me yesterday, I don't understand how it is that if the tax increases, say, start in 2010 and the health spending doesn't start till 2013, I don't understand how the Democrats aren't going to be hurt.
I mean, people's taxes start going up, all these new fees, you have to have insurance, and if you don't have it, you go to all that stuff starts in 2010 or even 11.
How can that not have a negative impact on the Democrats?
And that got me to thinking.
I wonder when the 10 years actually begin.
What if when they say the bill isn't implemented until 2013, what if they mean the tax increases aren't implemented until 2013 and the health spending doesn't start till 2016?
Now, I don't know if that's the case.
I'm going to endeavor to find out because it is crucial because if they pass this thing anytime in the next six months, Obama's going to sign it and the tax increases start immediately, then there is going to be a negative impact on these guys.
And they are playing kamikaze with themselves.
They are committing suicide.
And I don't believe they're going to, hard for me to believe that they would think they could withstand that because these tax increases are massive.
They are all over the place.
They're on everybody.
They are punitive.
The IRS fining you for this, inspecting you.
I mean, it's just, it's, folks, it's insidious.
So if they put all of this off until 2013, that gets Obama re-elected.
They hope they're out of the recession by then.
And then after Obama's re-elected in 2012 and these guys get elected next November and a couple of years after that with Obama, then, as they say, the excrement hits the fan seven years from now.
Now, I think it's a little, I just can't believe they're going to wait that long to start the tax increases.
So that's how if these tax increases start immediately and the health spending part doesn't start till 2013, then there's going to be plenty of ammo that people are going to be fired up with and angry about because your taxes are going up and they will be committing political suicide.
We'll just have to see how this shakes out.
One other thing, a Senate.
Yeah, here it is.
I want to make sure I get this right.
The Senate Republican Communications Center has put out something that says this.
A new study of Senate voting patterns shows that the Senate has approved more than 97% of bills subject to a cloture motion to begin debate.
A finding, they say, here, that could undercut Democrat efforts to paint the key health care vote Saturday as procedural or as a test vote, which is what the media is calling it.
Congressional Research Service put this out.
Now, that is not good.
If 97% of all bills pass after the first procedural cloture vote of 60 is achieved, then that's not God.
That statistically indicates this thing is going to become a done deal at some point.
This vote Saturday does not pass the bill.
That just starts the debate.
But history shows that 97% of such bills do become law after successful procedural or test votes, like the one that's going to come up on Saturday.
The Democrats are out there.
Oh, no, no, no, this is a procedural vote.
It was a little big deal.
We just want a test vote.
Don't be worried about this.
Let's just see what our strength is.
Now, the Senate Republican Communications Center is putting this out, trying to undercut the Democrats and what they're saying.
That ain't going to matter.
The point is that Reed's going to get this done Saturday.
I got Ben Nelson.
You think there's any hope?
You think there's any hope now, Sterling?
You think there's even a shrivel, a shred of a chance they're not going to get their 60.
I mean, they just, they just, Roland Burris, you know, he was an obstacle.
They just gave him a little slap on the wrist for what his purported, I don't want to say crimes, well, his purported indiscretion, ethical violations.
Yes, they slap on the wrist, so he's he's good to go.
Landrew, apparently in locked in with, here's the story on that, of some ABC, amazingly.
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here's a case study.
Page 432 of the Reed Bill.
There is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for certain states recovering from a major disaster.
The section spends two pages defining which states would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that during the preceding seven fiscal years have been declared a major disaster area.
I'm told the section applies, as Jonathan Carl, by the way, applies to one state, Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
Other words, the bill spends two pages describing what could be written with a single word, Louisiana.
Senator Reed, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost?
According to the CBO, this provision for Landrew, $100 million.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
A quick question before we grab the next call.
Okay, we've got pretty good evidence today.
By the way, thank you for shutting down Mark Morano's website, climatepot.com.
We love doing that.
I love shutting down people's websites.
It doesn't last long, but a lot of people flooded his server, climatepot.com.
They've hacked into some major global warming scientist computers, and they've found email evidence, thousand over a thousand emails, that the science is ginned up, that the people are making it up, doctoring numbers and so forth.
Now, you know, I love to study human nature.
The dead giveaway that the left is lying about global warming is before us today.
There has been solid scientific evidence, irrefutable, that global warming has come to a halt.
Even the global warming guys, we had a story earlier this week.
Like, oh, what happened?
The world's not getting warmer.
Oh, no, our models can't figure that where we're stumped.
Remember that story earlier the week?
It might have been yesterday.
They're trying to isolate the reason for that.
Lack of sunspots, solar cooling, probably the most likely explanation.
They're looking at ocean currents.
We have pictures.
The lack of sunspots is not a theory.
There aren't any sunspots, and that's potentially bad news.
Now, normal people with no agenda who have been warning us of the dire consequences to animal life, plant life, plankton, scum, and everybody else from global warming, we're all going to perish.
We're going to die.
Cuba is going to be underwater.
So is Denver.
The sea levels are going to rise.
The polar bears are going to get so hot that they are going to come shed themselves in front of us to make us and attack us for doing this to them.
It's going to be utter disaster central.
You would think they'd be happy.
Normal people without an agenda would be relieved to discover this decline in temperatures.
After all the theories and the computer models predicting global warming, we now have solid scientific evidence that temperature readings here on earth are falling.
That's holding steady at least.
A normal person wouldn't lash out.
A normal person wouldn't try to bury the evidence.
A normal person would not exploit children to advance what is now known to be a lie.
We have comforting evidence that for some strange reason has made statists uncomfortable.
That's how we know they're liars with fixed political agendas.
Now they actually want this destruction.
They want it.
They want the polar bears to die.
Because now they're not going to die.
And we're not going to die.
And sea levels are not going to rise.
And you would think they would be happy.
But they are not.
By the way, Mitch McConnell had a great line to describe the timeline on health care tax increases versus healthcare spending.
It's like this.
You go in, you buy a house, the bank gives you a mortgage, and you have to pay four years before you get to move in.
That's what's facing us.
Pay four years before you get to move in, all so they can hide the actual cost of this monstrosity.
Washington Post today, angry Congress lashes out at Obama, politico.
Obama takes friendly fire on the economy.
The Democrats are just getting paranoid over their reelection bids in 2010.
They're asking, what are Pelosi and Reed doing to us?
Much of the criticism of the leadership has poured out in the last 48 hours.
These people fear getting wiped out in the 2010 congressional elections.
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