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Dec. 15, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 15, 2009, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I meant to mention this a couple hours ago, but I just slipped my mind with so much going on.
The uh Centers for Disease Control, Federal Government, American government health care in action.
It is being reported that 800,000 doses of children's swine flu vaccine is being recalled.
Apparently the dosages are incorrect.
They're not strong enough.
800,000 doses being recalled.
Mind you, this is after last week's stories that four out of five diagnosed cases were not actually the swine flu.
There is no epidemic.
There is no pandemic.
It's a phony crisis to get everybody all juiced up, crisis-oriented.
Feel like a puppet.
We're just being manipulated.
We're Marionette.
They're puppet masters with uh with our emotions.
Snerdley reminded me of something that I saw on TV today, and it was just a flash glance.
Um I've looked up in the midst here of showprep and uh one it was either Fox or MSNBC had a graphic up there.
And I'm not sure what the question was, but it was something about if you are planning on switching parties, to which party would you switch.
I mean, it couldn't have been that because the Democrat Party was at the top, and that just doesn't jive with any of the generic ballot polling or whatever.
But the the point of it was that whatever the question was, more people in this poll found favor with a third party called a Tea Party than with the Republican Party.
More people were and I warned you people about this months ago.
This is this and by the way, that the reporting on this was how wonderful the Tea Party is.
If I want to warn you again, if you start seeing news coverage along the lines of the Tea Party becoming a third party, not just a protest group, you are going to all of a sudden see a reversal in the way it is covered.
The state-controlled media will be praising members of the Tea Party as great patriots.
They'll do anything to destroy the Republican Party.
They know that going third-party Tea Party, and and question was one question I did see was um uh damn it, I wish I could remember this.
But it was it had to do with uh projecting total dissatisfaction with the Republican Party.
But they they were they were last on the list of people's preference for whatever the question was.
So the point is just keep a sharp eye in state control media.
If you start seeing a total reversal, Tea Party people as wonderful patriots, concerned Americans, rather than the malcontent racist, sexist, bigot homophobes that you've always been portrayed as since last August, then you will understand what's going on.
The media in conjunction with the White House will be pushing the notion of a third party that takes votes away from the Republican Party more than the Democrat Party.
I think that's what it was.
I think that's what it was.
If a third party formed for the Tea Party uh uh more people would leave the Republican Party for it than would leave the Democrat Party for it, which is why whoever was reporting this was ecstatically excited.
So if you see this, this is how you will know it's a bad idea for us.
If they start praising the Tea Party in the context of it becoming a third party, you will know.
Now, the uh the Heritage Teletown Hall was that was not last night, it was it was a couple weeks ago, sometime ago.
And somebody called in and asked if if if uh parts of the bill, the health care bill could be repealed, because everybody's asking this.
Can we roll it back?
And whoever answered the question from Heritage on the Telotown Hall meeting said that, yeah, if we win some control of Congress in 2010, that there are ways to get parts of the health care bill repealed.
Now, I don't know, you know, like I'm not a political strategist.
All I know is these elections have got to be nationalized in November, and they've got to be big, uh, and they have got to be focused on uh reversing government run health care.
With it reversing cap and trade, blocking the Obama leftist agenda, protecting the dollar, the currency, stopping the hemorrhaging of the debt.
It needs to be focused on the spending.
Elections have consequences.
They really do.
We need an election that's based on strengthening the private sector, creating jobs and opportunities there, creating wealth, empowering the individual, protecting the family, protecting future generations.
Liberty versus tyranny is the message.
It needs to be oriented around liberty and freedom.
Restoring America to its greatness, protecting it, saving it.
Believe me, that would resonate.
I don't know if you want to have a campaign based on like one word, um reverse or repeal.
If you uh if you go out and say repeal, if that's if that's our one word slogan, repeal, meaning repeal health care or parts of it.
Um, it might become an easy target for for those who want to just characterize uh the Republican campaign as one of negativity and uh opposition and so forth.
That's why it has to be positive.
It has to be unabashedly unafraid positive and bullish on America.
Too many of us have let political correctness silence us in speaking of things about which we're proud.
America in the multicultural curricula in schools, America as talked about by Barack Obama, is an America of guilt.
An America that's guilty of racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, discrimination, imperialism, colonialism.
It's gotten to the point where some people are actually afraid to say great things about their country because they are afraid they're going to be attacked by their friends and others who don't agree with it.
There's no time to be afraid, there's no time to wallow in political correctness.
This this strategy, this plan B. If uh if health care passes, has got to be implemented and its scope must be national in terms of local House and Senate races.
And I'm gonna tell you something else.
I don't, folks, I do not believe that Obama is as popular or as liked as everybody says.
I think it's all part of the hoax.
It's all part of the myth, but the key for the Republican Party down the road is no more rhinos, no more moderates, no more Republicans in name only.
They are killing us.
They are why we're where we are.
We we could blow the most important election cycle in decades if we win these races, but have more of the same kind of leadership.
A leadership typified by our presidential campaign, reaching across the aisle, showing the country that we are not all these horrible things said about us.
There are no moderates in the Democrat Party.
There aren't any.
I don't see the independents running to them.
Democrats make it out like they're moderates, but they're not.
Whatever moderates, meaning the blue dogs, do exist, believe me, the Democrats are going to target them for destruction more than we are.
Nancy Pelosi cares more about defeating them than we do.
She didn't like them around.
They get in her way.
I'm sure you've seen this.
No, maybe you haven't.
If you haven't, here goes.
From the state controlled associated press, taking an important step on the thorny path to closing Quantanamo Bay.
The White House plans to announce today that the government will acquire an underutilised state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held At Club Gitmo.
Administration officials, as well as Illinois Senator Dick Turbin and the Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will make an official announcement at the White House.
They may have done it, I don't know.
But it is uh happening today or will happen.
Officials from both the White House and Turban's office confirmed that Obama had directed the government to acquire Thomas, sorry, Thompson Correctional Center in Thompson, Illinois, a sleepy town.
What is the hell is a sleepy town?
Sleepy town near the Mississippi River, about 150 miles from Chicago.
A turban aid said the facility would house federal inmates and no more than 100 detainees from Club Gitmo.
Mitch McConnell said the American people already have rejected bringing terrorists to this country.
He accused the administration of failing to explain how transferring them here would keep the public safer than keeping them offshore in Cuba.
Senator Roland Burris, Democrat Illinois, said this morning he had full confidence that the facility will hold these terrorist suspects safely and securely.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Of course he would say that.
Now I remember Obama and others touting all the jobs that will be created.
All the jobs to bring these detainees to this sleepy little town and its sleepy little prison.
What jobs?
Prison guards.
Now let's hope Senator Turbin can keep his state's prison guards from acting like Nazis are pole pot in their handling of these delicate Gitmo detainees.
I remember them saying, all these jobs are going to be created.
Wherever we bring the detainees.
I thought, well, who needs green jobs then?
They're not working out.
I had a story in a stack of stuff yesterday.
All these windmill farms shutting down.
All these green jobs are shutting down.
There's no green jobs industry.
It ain't there.
But apparently there's big job creation in bringing terrorists to prisons in this country.
So forego green jobs, let's go orange jobs for the jumpsuits they wear.
And a way to create jobs according to Obama and Dick Durbin is to bring terrorists to U.S. jails.
So we need to round up every terrorist we have wherever they're held in the world and bring them to Illinois.
What a perk Illinois got.
Can you imagine, speaking of nationalizing elections?
Can you imagine Dick Durbin running around for re-election or whoever the congressman is in uh in the district where the sleepy little town Thompson, Illinois is?
Can you imagine his campaign?
And look what we did for you.
We expanded the vital prison in our sleepy little town of Thompson.
We brought Al Qaeda terrorists to this prison.
Look what we did for you.
That's something could be hung around their necks.
And what a shock, by the way, to see this perk, and they're looking at it as a perk.
These perverts are looking at this as a perk for Obama and his home state.
But speaking of benefits, and the benefits we're talking about here are the benefits that the uh uh prison guards would get, health care, all this.
How is it that imprisoning terrorists in the United States is good for the economy?
But imprisoning regular run-of-the-mill drug users and and other criminals is a drain on our economy and should be curtailed.
The two don't go together.
We're being told we got too many people in prison.
We gotta we gotta relax.
We can't afford them anymore.
We're breaking the bank here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's talking about letting people out of prison.
We just can't handle it anymore.
So all these terrorists in jail is great for the economy.
But drug kingpins and other criminals is a drain on the economy.
How many more jobs would be saved and created if we started locking up illegal aliens?
I mean, if if if locking people up, if putting them in jail is the way we're gonna revive the job market, why stop at terrorists?
Let's put illegals away around, let's put them in jail.
Now you watch how this gets reported.
Everything I've said leading up to this will be ignored in the headline, limbaugh, imprison illegal aliens.
They will leave off the fact that I am joking here and illustrating absurdity by being absurd by pointing out the pure folly of the notion that bringing al Qaeda terrorists to Illinois is good for job creation.
Mr. Obama is insisting we stop jailing illegal aliens.
Why is that?
If you'd put them in jail, they can't vote for you.
Well, at least not easily.
Be right back, folks.
Stay with us.
Ha!
Welcome back, Rush Lib Boa.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
All right, folks, here's the blueprint for our future.
Now, um, remember the mammogram study that came out of the the uh suggestion.
Some government agency said we're gonna have to cut mammograms.
We're gonna start mammograms at age 50 now, not 40.
Uh too much screening uh produces too many results that cost money, then they're really not serious results.
And everybody had a cow.
Wait a minute.
And we this is before healthcare even passed.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
How in the world we're gonna do this?
You're telling me I can't go get a mammogram.
Yes, if you use an insurance program overseen by the government in any way, shape, manner, reform.
Medicare, Medicaid, what have you.
You are subject to these guidelines.
Then they pulled him back, remember?
They pulled him back.
Who was it?
Kathleen Sibelius that went out there and announced this?
Some it was I think it was HHS.
Anyway, they pulled him back.
There was such a public outcry that uh somebody said, never mind.
We'll get this.
State controlled associated press.
As the economy folders and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away, are put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings, according to the American Cancer Society.
In the unofficial survey of programs for July 2008 through April 2009, the organization found that state budget strains are forcing some programs to reject people who would otherwise qualify for free mammograms and pap smears.
This would have been the third straight year receiving a free mammogram.
Forget that.
New York used to screen women of all ages, but this year the budget crunch has forced them to focus on those considered at highest risk and exclude women under 30.
Minnesota is among the states to cut cancer screenings, as is New York.
Now everybody believed that the no more screenings for people under 50 had been pulled back.
It's already been in place.
A full 20 states have now cut funding for mammogram screenings for low-income women after a government task force last month made its recommendation that women in their forties should stop having annual mammograms.
So just the suggestion, the possibility, states jumped into action and said, okay, that's how we can save some money.
You think there aren't death panels in this health care bill?
Twenty states went ahead and implemented mere suggestions before they became law.
So now who I mean, this is the blueprint to our future.
Who will they sue?
You know, tort lawyers are lining up for these women that have been turned down and turned away.
Here's more on the uh woman in Wellington, number 14.
Her name is uh Teresa Rogers.
She's 47.
She doesn't look 47.
I got a picture of her here.
Jose Lambier, page two live, Palm Beach Post.
I could show you, but we're retrofitting the Ditto Cam this week for the high definition camera.
So I can't use it.
She had uh she had denied this, apparently when first asked about it.
No, no, no, I'm too old.
I'm just I'm 15 years older than Tiger is.
She's uh single mother of a teenage daughter.
She told Jose Lambier last week she was flattered when he called her to inquire about rumors that she'd had a fling with Woods, but she said that she had no idea what uh what Lambier was talking about.
After all, she pointed out she's much older than Woods.
She's a jewelry maker.
She uh she bought a $400,000 home last year in the Versailles development.
And she lives near uh where Vanilla Ice, the 1980s uh rapper, lives.
So that's the um that's what is she free now mean free for what?
You mean no spell it.
I don't know what you're asking me.
She's shall she's available because she's not going with Tiger.
Available for who?
Snerdly!
Snur Snerdley, if you want to ask her out, I got all the data here.
You could drive by her house.
You don't live far away from here.
She's in the Versailles development of Wellington.
You know where that is.
I assume she's available.
I know I don't uh I don't look at women that way, Snerdley.
Are they available?
You know who's writing an advice column?
Spit Spitzer's Paramour, Ashley Dupre.
The uh the uh love, love interest, the the the whatever, client number nine, she's now writing an advice column for women on sex.
By the way, this story says that this babe from Wellington taught Tiger all of his hot sex moves.
By the way, folks, in this third party business, let me remind you of something.
The Democrats have a third party.
You know what it's called?
The Green Party.
Ralph Nader's party, they have a third party.
Do you ever see them promoting it?
Do you ever see the drive-by media or anybody else supporting the expansion of the Green Party?
They never promote it in this country.
Which just goes to show you what they're doing when they promote a third party, i.e.
tea party, in the Republican side of things.
Oh, this is really.
I missed this.
This is from yesterday.
This is again from Jose Lambier, page two live in the Palm Beach Post.
Officials with the Department of Children and Families reportedly paid a visit to Tiger Woods, uh Tiger Woods House in uh in Windermere, Orlando, on Saturday for a well-being check.
A spokesperson with the oft-criticized bureaucracy confirmed only to Orlando TV station, WFTV, that a home in a neighborhood of Isleworth was indeed visited.
TMZ claims that an undetermined complaint naming the Woods household was filed with the agency by somebody whose identity was not released.
Orange County Sheriff's Deputies assisted the Department of Children and Families workers into the gated community.
It is unclear what action, if any, they took.
Whoa, that's humiliation.
Here's more on the swine flu vaccine.
The hundreds of thousands, eight hundred thousand uh swine flu vaccine shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine lost some strength.
The shots were distributed across the country last month.
Most have already been used, according to the Centers for Disease Craig.
How the hell do you recall an already used vaccine?
You know.
We're living in the age of insanity.
800,000 vaccines have been recalled in the same story.
Most of them have been used.
God help us.
Somebody needs to.
I want to give you a different perspective on Obamacare.
And try to illustrate in another way without delving into the guts of the actual legislation just how bad it is.
Worse even than you think.
Because I don't think A whole lot of people grasp just how bad it is.
A lot of people know it's bad.
But this might make it easier to understand.
The Senate Democrats started with 60 votes, a filibuster-proof majority.
If that wasn't enough, they also had much of the $600 billion in unspent porculus money to spread around to buy votes, and now they've appropriated a couple hundred billion dollars from unspent TARP money.
The promise of that 200 billion TARP money that they planning the C's added to the $800, $600 billion gives a total of $800 billion to use for slush fund purposes, including making sure that Ben Nelson's hospital gets built and making sure that often Air Force Base doesn't get closed.
If all that wasn't enough to get these 60 Democrats to vote for this bill in the Senate, they also had the all-out support of the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC.
Even with all of that elite political power and financial power and public opinion power to fabricate phony polls on the issue.
They still, as we speak today, cannot get the 60 votes they need.
The 60 votes they started with.
They had the 60.
They've always had the 60.
There are 60 Democrats in the House.
Now in the Senate, any sane person would say, hey, wait, let's let's back off here a little.
It's time to start over and come up with some real solutions to real problems.
But a snorting bull, on the other hand, like Dingy Harry, would force through as much of this bad plan as they can.
And what my only point here is is that they have they've had the total support, the propaganda support of all the media on their side.
All this money they've got to buy off, and they still had four recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate.
That's how bad it is.
Speaking of polls, more Americans, and I I simply refuse to believe this, and the timing of this is just sweet.
It's an AP poll, it's a report on their own poll.
More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it.
It's a sign the public is showing more faith in Obama's economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs.
Isn't the timing of this just perfect?
The week of Copenhagen.
In an AP Stanford University poll, 40% said U.S. action to slow global warming in the future would create jobs.
Slightly more, 46%, said that it would boost the economy.
By contrast, less than a third said curbing climate change would hurt the economy and result in fewer jobs.
A message Republican members of Congress plan to take to an international global warming conference in Copenhagen.
Now, of course, the first question that comes to mind is where did the AP find such obdurately stupid people?
I wonder what the uh qualifications for participants in this poll were.
Only a high school education, recently graduated from a public school.
Have you had to watch Al Gore's movie in order to be a respondent in the poll?
Do you have to have been made to believe that polar bears are wandering around on little slivers of ice up near the North Pole about to die when they fall off?
How can anybody believe that green jobs will suddenly appear out of thin air when there are no signs of any such jobs even after Obama has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into these so-called new technologies?
The survey's results seem to boost Democrat efforts to curb global warming pollution and sign on to an international agreement to reduce heat trapping gases, Despite the concerns many Americans have about the recession and the high unemployment rate.
In case there's any doubt about what the AP wanted from this poll.
For some, the recession has manifested itself in a nothing left to lose attitude when it comes to tackling climate and is sparking a revolution in where and how the nation produces its energy.
Now, I'm not going to read you the whole thing here.
It's very long.
The AP quotes not one, but two people, Hornbeak and Mr. Fletcher, supposedly Republican, and on the other side of the issue, who nevertheless cannot help but be swayed by the inevitable truth of man-made global warming, and they go out and find a couple of Republicans I've never heard of, so, oh yeah, yeah, I think this is probably accurate.
And then there's a little story here on how it was conducted.
Of course, the poll was taken November 17th through 29th.
We're only hearing about it two weeks later.
In contrast, the New York Times CBS news poll was conducted between December 4th and 8th, that it doesn't show the uh the same results and detail.
By the way, there's a there's a there's a there's another story here, I think it's in the New York Times about the trauma of uh joblessness.
Yeah.
Poll, poll reveals trauma of joblessness in the U.S. Now, isn't it curious also here?
This is a New York Times CBS poll.
Isn't it curious how the New York Times and CBS waited until the recession has been declared officially over, and unemployment numbers are supposedly going back up to take such a poll.
It's almost as if they didn't want us to dwell upon our misery in its darkest days, just like they downplayed the non-recession under President Bush.
So the New York Times all of a sudden now concerned the poll reveals trauma of joblessness when we are being told that jobs are now finally being created.
They uh they're playing us like suckers.
The news is no longer about news, it's about polling, and it's about advancing the Democrat Party's agenda, and it's been that way for a long time.
Uh the uh since we're talking about this polls and studies and so forth.
SOFOS is a uh uh uh polling group, investigative polling group, and they did some studying of Facebook users.
And in the results of this study, 41% of Facebook users blindly accept friend requests from unknown contacts.
The probe by by SOFOS also looks into what data users make readily available.
And what's really scary is almost all users display their full date of birth and email addresses, which are two pieces of information which make identity theft incredibly easy when combined with a full name.
And I've always thought, I've always been leary of Facebook, MySpace, my fame, whatever these things are.
We have a culture of young people obsessed with fame, with everybody knowing who they are and what they do and what they like and what they don't like.
And they're just opening themselves up to fraudsters like you cannot believe.
This Sophos group says that it uh ten years ago it would take a private eye or a con artist weeks or months to garner the information people are volunteering on Facebook.
They're giving their identity away.
They're gonna get nabbed, they're gonna have their identity stolen, unless they get life luck.
No one's gonna totally stop it, but with all the news that's about that's out there about people's identities being stolen, and it is a disaster to restore your identity.
It is something you do not want to go through.
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We'll be right back.
You know, I just got a funny note.
This is this is this actually is hilarious.
A Rush.
Uh would Life Lock have been able to restore Tiger Woods' identity.
Could life lock perhaps put in their commercial restoring your identity as a real pain in the neck, just ask Tiger.
I don't think it would work.
Not to put down life lock, but I I don't think life lock can restore your identity that way.
But maybe they can come up with a way.
All right.
How long has it been?
I'm sorry, folks.
Uh you realize I've had I have the health care stack at the global warming stack and the general news stack.
I haven't even gotten to the general news stack.
And it's loaded with great stuff.
But I and I'll just I'll just save it for tomorrow.
They believe in fortune tellers, they believe in uh uh ghosts and all this stuff, and Republicans by a much smaller number do not believe in that stuff.
It just goes to show that when you believe in nothing, you will believe anything.
All right.
So it's it has to be at least an hour and a half since we've been to the phones.
So we're gonna go there now.
Walter in Butler, Indiana.
Great to have you.
I'm really glad you waited.
I thanks for your patience.
Rush, it's a pleasure.
I've listened to you for twenty-some years, and you are truly a patriot.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh, Rush, I have to confess to you, um, I'm living in fear right now, and I'm very confused, and I'll tell you why.
I woke up this morning and I felt brave and I felt intelligent, but I'm sitting five feet away from one of these window blinds, and I'm not sure what to do.
It's looking at me, and I don't know what to do if I should get a manual.
I'd tell you, it may attack.
Well, that's what I'm sort of thinking.
I'm not sure if I should uh call somebody.
Is there like a commission that could take care of this blind for me?
Because they've been recalled.
Fifty million sets of window blinds have been recalled because kids might strangle themselves on the cords.
Well, you know, that's a whole nother issue.
Well, Russia, I want to tell you I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty good, and then after realizing I have to live in fear with these window blinds, that made me afraid.
And then I turned on the television and I see Mr. Obama at a home depot.
And he's going on, treating us like infantile little morons that we we can't understand or comprehend the idea of weatherproofing, even though I built my home with my own two hands.
And he has to use an analogy to tell people.
Now remember, people, think of it this way.
If you seen the window open and there was a $20 bill and it was blowing out the window, wouldn't you want to grab it?
Well, that's why you have to weather clock.
And it's funny, with all the hot air that's coming from Washington, I'd like to send them a couple of these window blinds myself.
You know something.
This is a um this is just it's fatuous.
Cawk.
Cawk your windows.
Obama said insulation is sexy.
I wonder if it's sexy to Tiger.
Insulation is sexy.
We're not gonna have to worry about it, are we?
With all the global warming that's coming.
Jim in uh Lavonia, Michigan.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, Rush, long time listener, and I'd like to also continue on that caulking.
Okay.
What they don't explain very well is the reason the outside air comes into your home.
And stopping it can make the home unhealthy.
For example, when you have the furnace come on or the dryer come on, air's leaving the home and must be replaced.
So you mentioned earlier about radon.
So if they cock all the openings above ground, the only way that the air can come back into the home because it can't go into a vacuum, is below ground bringing in radon.
So it's just another example here where the devil's always in the details.
They don't explain the reason that the air comes in and why it's healthy to have it come in.
It's because it's not what it's about.
This this is it's like health care is not about health care, it's about tax increases and control over people.
And uh caulk windows uh.
I mean, that that's that's just it's like Jimmy Carter's in Drive 55.
I mean, it it's it's the previous caller had it right.
This is simply Obama telling us how stupid he thinks we are.
This is this is one of the results of the jobs summit.
Somehow this is gonna create all kinds of new jobs.
Yet your windows caulked.
It's insulting.
The whole thing is insulting.
Ladies and gentlemen, If the President of the United States considers caulking and insulation to be sexy, then the President of the United States must be a very lonely man.
By the way, Fidel Castro says that Obama, he's dissing the Messiah.
Fidel Castro says Obama's friendly smile and African American face are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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