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Jan. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 19, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
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Well, it turns out, ladies and gentlemen, there will be an exit poll tonight.
Scott Rasmussen has stepped up and will pay for his own exit poll.
Rasmussen Reports Outfit will pay for their own exit poll, filling the gap that the uh the drive-by media left because they either too cheap to do it, or things were too chaotic, and they didn't think it was a close race.
They didn't set the uh progress bar in motion, or they just don't want to know what really happened to liberalism in Massachusetts.
That from John Fund, and I wouldn't discount C as a reason they didn't do it at all, not wanting to know what really happened to liberalism in Massachusetts.
Uh, let's see.
This is um the via Fox Nation.
And I got some pictures.
I can't, I can't uh obviously show them to you.
Well, I might be able to.
No, I can't I can't have the ability to zoom this camera as easy as I did the other one.
So just have to trust me.
I will link to this at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Martha Coakley can't fill a gym, and John Kerry can't fill a street.
Via Fox Nation, Martha Coakley held a rally yesterday to middle school and could not fill the gym.
It was three quarters empty.
They had to pull a curtain across the middle of the gym to give the appearance of a full room.
Meanwhile, John Kerry held a rally for Marsha Coakley this weekend in Worcester and could not fill the street.
Red Mass Group reported they had John Kerry, their sitting U.S. Senator Jim McGovern, their sitting U.S. Congressman and a supporter of terrorist Tim Murray, our sitting lieutenant governor and the former mayor of Worcester and the current mayor of Worcester, Joe O'Brien.
They still only turned out maybe a hundred and fifty people.
Two hours later, there were thousands showing up for Scott Brown a couple blocks down the street in Worcester.
We had a call from a woman who saw both of these.
It's what she was talking about.
I thought this was pathetic and showed the weakness of their campaign.
And this picture of the of the vacant street for the John Kerry rally is uh.
Let's see if I can do this.
Uh, let me see if I can zoom in on this.
That's it for you watching in high definition, if I get a good idea.
That is the uh the John Kerry rally in the street with uh less than 150 people.
We don't have a picture of the gym.
I'm zooming out now on the high definition camera to get back to the uh the normal screen fill.
What, Mr. Snerve, you're looking at chomping it a bit to say some.
Oh, I know.
Well, it's it's not that the Zoom doesn't work.
It is I used to have uh a potentiometer to do it.
Now I have a wireless uh IR remote.
It's just uh it was easy to faster the I didn't know I would have the dexterity uh to get it done, but I did.
Of course it looked sharp.
Of course it looked sharp on high definition.
There's no question about it.
Okay, John McCormick.
This is the man that one of Coakley's uh operatives, uh Meehan, knocked to the floor, knocked to the sidewalk last week.
He has a piece in the weekly standard, Massachusetts election results, what a watch for.
Assuming that the uh Massachusetts election results page doesn't crash due to a tremendous amount of traffic.
What should one be looking for after the polls close at eight o'clock tonight, and numbers begin pouring in?
The Cook Political Reports election with David Wasserman writes in an email to the Equally Standard, Western Massachusetts.
Watch that.
Coakley needs a huge margin out of what I call the Rachel Madow Belt, uh, the Berkshire's, where she has roots, the Pioneer Valley.
She probably needs a 5,000 vote lead out of Amherst and high turnout in places like Springfield, Pittsfield, and Northampton.
Watch the I-495 ring.
This is Brown's bread and butter.
He needs to rack up big leads in towns like Haverhill, Marlborough, and his home area near Rentham and Foxboro.
These are the places where Mitt Romney broke through to win the governorship in 2002.
Also keep an eye on the Cape and Southeastern Massachusetts, the Kennedy Belt.
Barnstable and Plymouth, or Barnstable Plymouth counties are presumably the places where Kennedy's memory ought to rescue Coakley in the 11th hour, if it's to happen.
Brown will probably narrowly win the towns of Plymouth and Barnstable, which are usual bellwethers.
If if Coakley carries either, she'll probably be on her way to winning statewide.
If Brown wins both with more than 55%, watch out.
Also watch for the 8th CD, the heart of Liberal Massachusetts needs to come out in a big way for Cochley.
If she is to have a shot, Cambridge should turn out dependently, but will the Boston machine crank out votes at the same rate as other places in the state?
Watch the Catholic South Shore.
The questionnaire, will working class Democrats stick with their party or defect to Scott Brown?
This is a key area to watch in that respect.
Brown will probably win Braintree in Weymouth, but uh the town to watch is Quincy.
If Coakley can't hold on to Quincy, she'll probably lose and watch the ethnic cities.
Uh does Coakley get at least half of Obama's votes in each of Worcester Fall River, New Bedford, and Lowell and Lawrence.
These are places that will vote Democrat two to one or more, but where voters need lots of engagement to mobilize.
So that's uh what to look for.
And of course, Scott Rasmussen now uh does have plans to do exit polling on the way out of the uh poll.
I I was kind of looking forward to there not being any.
Uh just to see you know, to actually have to wait until real votes are counted to have an idea of what's going on.
Because you know, it I we trust Rasmussen, but some of these other people, the consortium of exit polls that uh that is put together, paid for by the uh the big networks, cable and broadcast, and they all get the same data.
And they all get it in waves, two o'clock, five o'clock, seven o'clock, three or four waves during the day.
And you remember during 2004, the people that were releasing exit poll data gummied them up, jimmied them up, and had it John Kerry winning in Florida and Ohio and so forth.
Uh and then the votes started being counted, and the exit polls were worthless.
They were nowhere near accurate.
So much so that the Democrats started charging fraud that the real vote had to.
I mean, look at the exit.
The exit poll said that Kerry won those dates, and he didn't.
There's fraud here.
We got it.
Somebody tampered with the real vote, they said.
So now we will have exit polling data from Scott Rasmussen's group.
It would have been it would have been interesting to actually have to watch an election without an exit poll.
Watch real votes being counted as the first sign or indication.
Uh of course, exit polling data, those uh the the early releases at two and five o'clock before polls close.
They can also be used to suppress or get out the vote, uh, whichever the drive-by media consortium that pays for those exit polls wants.
Wall Street Journal today, U.S. stocks opened slightly above the flat line on Tuesday as enthusiasm for health care stocks soared ahead of the Massachusetts election today.
Financials lagged a little bit after Citigroup reported a quarterly uh loss after three quarters of profit.
Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Pfizer were each up 1.7% as the health care sector soared ahead of the key election to replace Ted Kennedy, potentially undermining the passage of Congressional Healthcare.
Bottom line here.
Let me check it here real quick here, folks.
106.
Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 106, 10,715.
And all of this is based on the thought, on the belief that a Republican will win Ted Kennedy's seat.
This is astounding.
You know this in-trade website where you can actually go and wager on the outcome.
Last week it turned for the first time to Scott Brown, and it's gotten even bigger.
This is this is people all over the country on the net putting real money on the outcome, and it's uh it's Scott Brown big time, and Wall Street apparently uh getting a head start here on the same thing.
Snerdley, if you're waiting for me to say it, I'm not gonna say it.
I'm not I'm I am I uh not gonna say it.
Not not not gonna Go there, what's what is it?
Um wouldn't be prudent.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Staff here trying to go at me into a highly controversial media tweak type comment, but I, using my instincts shall refrain.
May I have the attention of all of you business owners in the state of Florida?
I have a uh article from uh Monday's South Florida Business Journal.
This is out of Miami, I think.
Not sure where it's out of, but I think it's out of Miami.
Florida employers already have a lot to worry about in 2010, a sluggish economic recovery first and foremost.
Now, add to that an unemployment compensation tax rate or tax increase that in its worst case could increase their minimum payment by more than 1,000 percent from $8.40 per employee to $130 per employee.
The rate change went into effect January 1st, unbeknownst to many employers.
It'll cost them an additional 1.2 billion dollars this year, according to David Daniel, the vice president of government affairs at the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
To say that we're very worried about it is mildly understating it, said David Daniel.
The new rate was calculated by the Florida Department of Revenue for Florida's unemployment compensation trust fund, which uses automatic triggers to increase or decrease unemployment compensation taxes based on its current balance.
When it reaches a low of 4% of the taxable payrolls, it goes up.
When it reaches 5% of the taxable payrolls, it goes down.
When Florida's unemployment rate spike to 11.2% in October, the highest it's been 34 years, it triggered the tax increase.
Unemployment compens and these benefits are being extended now for the uh the longest time in history, breaking the record for the length of time unemployment compensation was extended through uh in 1982.
And this in is in itself leading to more unemployment.
It is contributing, always does.
It contributes more and more to people seeming uh just not seeking work, having no uh no interest in finding a job.
Try this.
Well, let me take a break, but I'll give you the tease on this.
Since 1970, and 1970 is a very, very important year culturally in the United States, 1969, 1970.
Uh, that is the point in time in American history when the modern feminazi version of feminism got started.
I first encountered it when I was my first job as a disc jockey at age 17, a junior in high school, working at the local radio station, my hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
And local radio stations, small towns have to do anything they can to scrape and save and sell advertising.
One of the things that they did was to sell remote broadcasts, which I always hated.
We had this little device, two turntables on it, little control board, and it was uh it was hooked up with a direct line to the radio station.
It was it was it was on air quality, but we had to go out there and actually do this every Saturday morning at Sears.
Uh of course the big hook there was a live broadcast would attract the local townspeople to see the star disc jockey uh actually play radio announcer uh in public.
And this particular edition went on five or six weeks.
Sears paid for it, and it was my first foray into public service broadcasting.
It was, in addition to playing records and talking about all the wonderful things going on at Sears that day, I would bring in local uh students from my junior has rule to discuss what was going on in their lives.
And one of the girls that came in went on a feminist rant.
I don't remember exactly what she said, but it was all about equal rights, how women are being trampled on, and Her focus in her life was going to make sure equal rights for women.
Uh, and I'm sitting here, what the hell is this?
At this point, I'm just a disc jockey, you know.
I'm trying to think of clever things to say over the intros to Donnie Osman Records.
And I got this, I've got this activist at Junior High, you know, ripping me apart for being a guy.
And how guys are just stepping on women and tamping them down, and it's gonna change.
This is happening Saturday morning at Sears.
There are three students on the panel, and the other two didn't know what the hell she was talking about either.
But it didn't take long for me to figure out.
After that, I moved to Pittsburgh not long afterwards, and I encountered it full speed ahead, Daddy O. I mean, you tell a woman she was good looking, and you were you were insulting her.
You were ignoring the brain, you were objectifying her.
I mean, this stuff really happened.
You couldn't open a car door.
I mean, it was militant in 1970, 71, 72.
You think you you have no idea.
It was the worst time in the world to be 21 or 22.
So anyway, here's the headline to this story coming up.
More men now get an economic boost from marriage than do women.
This is an AP story.
The subhead is Since 1970, women have outpaced men in education and in earnings growth.
Now, my first reaction to this was, other than the astounding nature of this story.
Well, when did this happen?
Because as recently as last year, we kept hearing about the pay inequity that women still only earn 70 cents for every dollar.
Men are now all of a sudden.
You know, the old one of the old uh cliches that that women hated was that women always marry up.
You've heard that snurly.
You heard that, Dawn?
Women always marry up.
Uh women hated that, but it meant that they always moved up economically when they got married.
What they're saying now is it's men who are moving up when they get married.
I'll have details, your phone calls, and uh further updates on what's happening in Massachusetts after this.
That's right, my friends.
It's all patriotic music today in a bumper rotation in honor of what might happen in the election today in Massachusetts.
And while it is still permissible and legal to play patriotic music in public over the broadcast airwaves.
My friends, I uh, as you know, am a proud holder of an MA degree.
By the way, that that feminist story was high school, it's not junior high.
It was it was Haskell.
Our high school started at the tenth grade, and that's why I got confused.
I was a junior in high school, it wasn't junior high.
It was in high school, and I I don't remember, I don't remember the what the girl's name.
Uh I just remember she was a brunette.
I just remember sitting there going, what the hell is happening here?
And I do remember getting into an argument about it.
Uh it was uh uh very, very polite and so forth.
She wasn't quite radicalized yet.
You could I could tell she had just read something on this, and oh yeah, she's going to town on it.
I am a proud holder of an MA degree, stands for Master of Analogies.
Master of Analogies.
Uh what I do on this broadcast is create theater of the mind.
That's what a really, really good radio announcer does.
There are no pictures in radio.
You paint them for the audience.
The audience helps in painting its own picture, if the radio announcer is really, really good.
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Now, historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women.
Nowadays, it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data.
The changes summarized in a Pew research center report being released today reflect the proliferation of working wives over the past 40 years, a period in which American women outpaced men in both education and earnings growth.
Well, that's because colleges have been chickafied.
Men aren't showing up in as many numbers as they used to.
Women do have greater enrollments at the institutions of supposed higher learning.
From an economic perspective, these trends have contributed to a gender role reversal in the gains from marriage, say the authors of the report, Richard Fry and De Vera Cohn.
In the past, when relatively few wives worked, marriage enhanced the economic status of women more than that of men, but that's all turned around.
One barometer is median household income, which rose 60% between 1970 and 2007 for married men, uh married women and unmarried women, but only 16% for unmarried men.
The report focused on U.S. born men and women aged 30 to 34.
This is what we have done to boys and men.
The feminists, the feminazis, have been working for years to this end.
Advance women by diminishing men.
All patriotic music all day on the EIB network, with an occasional bone thrown to the leftists in this audience to be balanced.
And so this, ladies and gentlemen, the Cuban national anthem, just for the left.
You just know when I play this, the left is out there having wet dreams about the Cuban health care system, folks.
Welcome back.
All right, that's enough of the Cuban national anthem.
Thank you.
By the way, on this on this, more men get economic boosts from marriage.
There's the dates, 1970, 2007 to the dates uh the people aged of what is it, uh 30 to 44.
The gains that women have made in earnings and education are a notable reflection of a range of efforts to promote equal opportunities, said somebody named Cohn in a phone interview, but the earnings gap has not yet closed.
Well, I can't have it both ways here.
How can the earnings gap not have closed and yet more men are marrying up than ever before?
Then women are earning more than men are.
If if the earnings gap hasn't closed, somebody named Kuntz, who's Stephanie Kuntz, C-O-O-N-TZ.
Lest anybody accuse me of saying something, but I didn't say, which happens multiple times each day on this program.
C-O-O-N T-Z.
Uh uh Stephanie Kuntz, history professor Evergreen, uh, state college in Olympia, Washington, who writes often about marriage, said that she's been struck by the dramatic loss of manufacturing jobs that in the past had enabled many men without college education to earn high enough wages to raise a family.
The loss of those jobs, said Kuntz, is something no feminist would take pleasure in.
If it weren't for the gains of the women's movement, which I've always liked when walking behind it.
If it weren't for the gains of the women's movement, which have produced a steady equalization of women's wages and new incentives for women to get more education, most families would have stagnated in their living standards even before the recession.
Unmarried men with college degrees, worthless now because of Obama, made income gains of 15%, but were outpaced by the 28% gains of unmarried women with degrees.
See, the feminists have been working for years toward this end.
The suppressing boys and men rather than lifting everybody, the feminazes make it a gender war with many battles taking place.
But all this BS anyway.
There's two reasons why there's BS.
The reason that women are working is to keep up with taxes.
Most families are two income families because they have to be.
Another reason why men more than ever before are marrying up is that many of them are marrying other men.
Which this story does not touch on.
But I would be remiss if I didn't throw it in a mix.
It does not is that no, it doesn't talk about what men lose.
Um no, it doesn't say what men lose.
Just what they gain.
Uh oh.
Jake Tapper, ABC News, Voinovich, I am not a vote for the health care bill.
Uh Senator Voinovich, Republican Ohio met with Obama today at the White House to discuss the national debt.
The main political story of the day, the Massachusetts Senate race was topic A when he spoke to reporters when he was asked about the Senate race in Massachusetts and the future of health care reform, Voinovich said he's still opposed to the pending legislation.
That's out of the question.
I'm not a vote for the health care bill, period, he told depressed and despondent reporters.
Uh Voindevich said that he discussed with the President his idea for a bipartisan commission to focus on bringing down the debt, which would be the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012 and the defeat of Barack Obama's legislation starting now.
Bipartisan Commission.
Whatever you're going to pay the bipartisan commission, pay me.
I just gave you the answer.
For hell's bells here.
Are they serious?
A bipartisan blue ribbon commission to focus on bringing down the national debt, increasing revenue.
Good.
Gully.
My friends, you cut taxes and you cut spending bills.
Just freeze.
Just every budget item just spend at the rate of inflation increase every year.
Just get rid of all these crazy baselines.
The only blue ribbon commission to focus on bringing down the national debt, increasing revenue.
He said Obama's main concern with that suggestion is whether there is support for it.
What the hell does he think the anger is all about out there?
The anger is at him and his reckless spending.
Well, you gotta hear this before we get back to the uh phones.
This is I think it's today in Massachusetts at a wherever it's at a Martha Coakley campaign office, where they're melting down out there.
Uh and it's an exchange between two unidentified men and an unidentified female reporter and an unidentified male cameraman about the reporter's presence in the Cochley office.
Number 25.
Number 25, I guess.
I forgot to tell a broadcast engineer it's number 25, so I'm vamping.
What does that mean?
It means we'd like a free unbiased press.
And we are unbiased.
Get out of our office.
You do that.
And you'll be arrested.
It's illegal to film on private property.
Private property.
We can have you arrested.
Freaking paparazzi.
Away from the door, it says private property.
Public sidewalk.
I'm gonna call it private property.
Violation of my rights.
My civil rights.
Which we still have in spite of Nazis like you.
That's cochley campaign workers calling reporters, filming them, videotaping them, Nazis.
Paparazzi melting down out there in the Cochley campaign.
I'm not sure when this is.
I just got the link today, but I don't know when it actually happened, I think today in Massachusetts.
Now the this afternoon, Washington, the White House Daily Press brief with uh the brilliant uh Robert Gibbs, Jake Tapper.
Does the president think that the fact that it's so close is any reflection at all on him or his agenda or his governing style?
I think there is obviously And this Isn't something that's known simply because there's an election in one state.
I think there's a tremendous amount of upset and anger in this country about where we are economically.
That's not a surprise to us in this administration because, Jake, in many ways, we're here because of that upset and anger.
That upset and anger, quite frankly, dates much farther back than simply the 2008 election.
We have seen an economic downturn and collapse that we haven't seen since the 19 the late 1920s and the early 1930s.
It's uh I think that is uh going to be the source of rightfully so a lot of frustration.
Okay, so uh there's Gibbs saying the anger in Massachusetts is uh anger at Bush.
Now they're in denial, or else he knows he's lying and spinning the press.
The anger is at Obama.
The anger is at health care reform and all of the spending.
The anger is there are no jobs.
The anger is that Obama's doing nothing to create jobs, only destroy them.
That's what they're mad about, Gibbs.
And I I'm not sure that they actually know that.
Their arrogance and ego may prevent them from uh delving into reality.
Here's David, Bristol, Tennessee.
Glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Yeah, Rush.
Well, just to further demonstrate that, first off, 1989 dittoes to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Is this not the same press during uh the swimmer's funeral that christened him uh meaning Obama, the fourth Kennedy brother?
Yeah.
That's right.
Chris Matthews.
Chris Matthews called Obama the last Kennedy brother.
Right.
And uh that would therefore cinch a lock on uh uh that seat.
Yeah.
Yeah, but then on the same network yesterday or the night before, Howard Feynman said this is it for the Kennedy era.
Yeah, when he passed away, that was the end of it.
And not if Obama's the last surviving Kennedy brother.
Yeah, but so what happened?
Well, I think his uh policies came into play, and then that was the end of that.
What happened was it was always a bunch of spin and PR and wish in the first place.
Obama, the last surviving Kennedy brother.
That really ticked off Bill Clinton because Bill Clinton was the first black president.
If there's ever a Kennedy brother, it should have been Clinton, his mind.
I mean, hell, he did the same kind of stuff JFK did.
He did it in the White House.
And he was at Boy State when JFK was in the uh in the in the White House, he met him in the uh met him in the Rose Garden.
So that ticked off a lot of people.
Last surviving Kennedy brother.
Barack Obama.
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From the ABC News Boston affiliate, WCVB, Secretary of State in Massachusetts, William Galvin, says he will not delay the swearing-in process if Scott Brown's elected to fill the Senate seat of Ted Kennedy, but he would only announce an unofficial winner if the results are decisive.
He will only announce an unofficial winner to Congress before the results get certified if the outcome is decisive.
So if it's close, all absentee ballots will be counted, which could take up to ten days.
Also from the San Francisco Chronicle long story on this tight Massachusetts race, alarming California Democrats.
It's not just California Democrats.
New York Democrats are alarmed.
I mean, George Pataki has not stated that he's going to run, but he's polling ahead of Kristen Gillibrand.
And Harold Ford, you know, is uh toying around with the idea getting in the race.
You imagine Republican senators in both New York and Massachusetts.
Now all of you people on the left who say, I'm gonna give you a reality check.
You say that we lose health care reform, Brandon wins and lose health care.
No.
We're going to save or lose bad health care reform.
Anyone in their right mind who would like to improve health care delivery or make it more efficient, more affordable, would not say health care reform is at risk.
They would say dumping this abomination would be step one in really reforming health care.
And Sally Quinn, well noted doyen of Society of Washington and Georgetown, and noted religion writer for the Washington Post was on the O'Reilly factor last night.
And uh O'Reilly said Carl Rove doesn't believe that uh President Obama will be hurt that much.
Uh I do, if Brown wins.
What what do you think, Miss Quinn?
I don't think he will be that hurt.
But I think that there are a number of factors here.
It's not as black and white as it may seem.
First of all, Scott Brown is a hunk.
And I think that the fact that he posed semi-nude in a magazine gave him a huge advantage.
Whoa!
There you have it, the religion writer at the Washington Post saying that Scott Brown is winning because of the arousal gap.
Now, he posed semi-nude for Cosmo in 1982.
1982.
I mean, I'm sure if if they were going to try to make that an issue in the campaign, they would have tried.
I'm sure they did.
I'm sure they polled it.
But that's 25, 27 years ago, 28 years ago, that he posed nude, semi-nude uh in Cosmo.
So the arousal gap.
Barney Frank also um listen to this.
This audio soundbite number 12 on the radio last Friday.
We have a serious constitutional problem.
It is time to shut it down.
It is anti-democratic.
I think we should now be crusading.
Maybe some republic will join us to amend the rules of the Senate.
God didn't create the filibuster.
It's part of the Senate rule.
Oh, now we got to get rid of the filibuster rule in the Senate.
We got to get rid of 60 votes.
Oh, it's just so darning damning for the Republicans and the Democrats.
The Democrats can't get anything done, but you need 60 votes.
And I guarantee if the Republicans ever take back the Senate, if we ever did get rid of 60, they'd change the rule right back to 60.
They changed the rules in the middle of the game to benefit themselves.
Folks, get this.
The Boston Globe calls the election for Martha Coakley.
50 to 49.
They actually did.
They put up an interactive map.
It's been taken down now, but they put it up eight hours before the polls closed.
And you could roll your cursor over any county, any city and find the results.
They they've pulled it down, but uh they have Cochley eking out a 50 to 49 victory.
Let's just see what happens tonight if it kind of turns out that way and the globe knew about it eight hours before the polls closed.
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