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April 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 27, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I ML Rushbow, serving humanity here from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Looking forward to further discussions with you on the phone, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the programming email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
We just had a very fascinating call from Tempe, Arizona, a man complaining that the Reverends Sharpton and Zax are really going to have to ramp up their street cred if they are to have any influence the immigration debate in Arizona.
And to that degree, to that, toward that end.
The Reverend Sharpton just recently in the recording studio attempting to improve his cred.
Shotgun!
Shotgun.
Junior Walker, the All-Stars.
That's uh Reverend Sharpton and taking it to the streets.
And I am Rush Limboard.
That's the EIB network.
Weren't we told uh ladies and gentlemen back in uh two thousand seven that amnesty would not be pushed through Congress until we had secured the border.
We were told this after the American people rose up and opposed amnesty.
And uh this that that that work was started under the virtual fence, right?
We're gonna secure the border after 2007.
We're gonna start work on the virtual fence.
Anybody notice how that's been going?
That's exactly right, Snurdley.
They abandoned the virtual fence, about to stop funding for it.
It's uh since it was a pretend thing from the from the get-go, it was illusory.
Of course, I said it at the time because everybody knew it was just a it was a stopgap rhetorical device.
I try to calm everybody down.
So here we are three years later, 2010.
The border is less secure than ever, and we are supposed to believe the same people now.
We're supposed to listen to Obama.
We're supposed to listen to Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton passed judgment on what's being done in Arizona.
The real truth about Arizona is that it is a testament to the incompetence and lack of action federal government on this.
And they've waited and they've waited, and they can't wait any longer.
Dingy Harry and the Democrats are running this country like some tin horn regime.
They pretend to have a representative government.
They keep putting up a bill no matter how many times it gets voted down until it gets passed.
And that's what they're doing with this financial regulatory reform bill, trying to embarrass Republicans.
All they're going for in these Goldman Sachs hearings today is sound bites.
That's all that it's a soundbite hearing.
Here, before we get back to Arizona, grab soundbite 28.
Uh, this is Claire McCaskill out of Missouri blaming America's unemployment on a few Goldman deals that uh that they described as well, the Sbrom, the S-bomb uh the the she describes here.
Uh, and and she reads their emails so forth, but that's just a soundbite hearing.
It's just for one Democrat after another to get some sound bites for future ads or for the uh state-run media to use in news reports.
We're trying to hone in on why I've got so many unemployed people in my state, and why so many people that I work for in Missouri have lost incredible amounts of money in their pensions.
I want to look at these two transactions, and I want to talk a little bit about Timberwolf.
In the document dated November 10th of 2006, this is the memorandum.
You talk about the asset selector, and that's where you learn that this firm that you picked on the asset selector on that, you had Greg, uh, who was a partner of Goldman Sachs and was co-head of the structured products group, focused on structured product opportunities.
Of the 26 members of the research investment team that were researching these assets to go into this synthetic derivative.
This is the same one that your folks called there it was.
There was the S bomb.
They're all using it today in quoting Goldman Sachs email.
So now Goldman Sachs is responsible for America's unemployment.
That's the soundbite from Claire McCaskill.
Governor Jan Brewer is dismissing the threat of an economic boycott over the new state immigration law she signed last week, appearing yesterday at an Arizona Town Hall in Tucson, she said that she doesn't believe the law is going to have the kind of economic impact some people think it might.
U.S. Representative Raul Rihava, a Tucson Democrat has called for a boycott of convention business for the state.
A guy from Arizona is asking people to boycott his own state.
San Francisco's, we're not going to send anybody to Arizona.
Arizona goes, thank God.
Finally, no more San Franciscans here.
What they ought to do is pack up all the illegals to send them to San Francisco.
Sanctuary City and all that.
The Arizona Daily Star reports that the governor, Jan Brewers' outrage over the ability of police to ask people for citizenship documentation will fade.
She recalled how another uproar faded when she was Secretary of State and rode herd over a requirement that voters show ID at the polls.
Everybody said all hell was going to break loose over that, and it didn't.
From AZFamily.com, job hunters turned out in the hundreds to fill recently vacant positions at pros ranch market stores where a federal audit led to the firing of some 300 workers.
Roxanne Neves, one of the many that came out in search of a job, said she came to apply after she heard about the layoffs.
Yeah, we heard they're firing a lot of illegal people, so we're here to apply.
Nonetheless, she and many others felt guilty about taking the jobs of the people who had just been fired.
To me, it's pretty hard to see everybody losing jobs.
About 300 of the 1,500 total employees at the six Phoenix supermarkets were let go this week after an immigration and customs enforcement audit found to be working illegally.
Now look how Arizona can turn around its economy here, trying to get jobs Americans used to not want.
Man, 300 illegals are let go because they're working illegally.
The jobs are filled immediately by Americans who refuse to do that kind of work.
Ahem.
*thud*
Moving on.
This is fat this is fabulous.
During the 12 noon hour, live coverage of Mess NBC, this was yesterday, the hapless anchorette Contessa Brewer described the fire storm over the Arizona immigration law, and then fretted, quote, does this lead to a situation where neighbors are turning in neighbors or families turning against families?
Later in the segment, a headline on the screen read, Law makes it a crime to be illegal immigrant.
It actually was on the Mess NBC screen.
Law makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant.
Now, before you laugh, well, I can't stop, you're already laughing.
Stop and think of this.
We sit here over the course of many, many years, broadcast service, and issue after issue after issue, we wonder what is it that these people on the left just don't get.
What is so hard to understand that the problem here with illegal immigration is illegal?
And do they not know that illegal means against the law?
Did they not know there's already you can't be illegal unless there's law proscribing the activity?
So they look at it as a human rights or compassionate or big hearted issue.
And I guess, folks, we have our answer here, at least in the case of Mess NBC, yes, they are that dumb.
Apparently, Mess NBC and Contessa Brewer just found out that illegal means against the law.
How else to explain this?
Headline on the screen, law makes it a crime to be illegal immigrant, as though the Arizona law determines for the first time that these people are breaking the law.
Now we sit here and we marvel at how they're on Mars And we're on Venus.
And how they don't see things that we see clearly.
And this makes it pretty obvious that it's not a question of what they see.
It's a question of just how stupid they are.
They are so caught up in their heart-filled, compassion-oriented agenda, that they do not know that somebody in the country illegally is already committing a crime because of federal law.
They look at it apparently as evil people, denying the poor people of the world a chance for a better life.
When the question is everybody in the world wants a better life.
Is it not understandable that most people in the world think that happens here?
But we can't absorb everybody here.
Anyway, I just sometimes, you know, we go to great intellectual exercises to explain the differences, and we just overlook the fact they're stupid.
They're just downright plain dumb.
It's not ignorance.
This case, folks, it is genuine, full-fledged, blockheaded stupidity.
No other word for it.
A great piece by Leo Banks.
In the American Thinker, he covers the border for Tucson Weekly.
Provides context of the immigration crackdown in Arizona.
He says listening to the national uproar, you'd be forgiven for thinking Arizona has marched into the civil rights apocalypse with this new state law cracking down on illegal immigrants.
Last Friday, the governor signed SB 1070, making it a crime to be in the state illegally and requiring cops where reasonable suspicion exists to determine a person's legal status.
The Reverend Sharpton is promising to come to Arizona to march.
The New York Times says the state has gone off the deep end.
The Nazi references are flying.
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney likened the bill to German Nazi and Russian communist techniques.
Writing the noise for political advantage.
Obama is summoning his Justice Department to look into the matter, saying the law would undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, yet 70% of Arizona residents support the law, according to Rasmussen.
So what's going on here?
Do we know something in Arizona the rest of the country doesn't?
Actually we do.
Context is everything, and it'd be nice if the national media provided some rather than simply slamming Arizona as a redneck haven filled with nativists and bubbles with a hankering for racial profiling.
An estimated 500,000 illegal aliens live in Arizona.
Many are decent people to be sure, but the border's still wide open, and many more are coming.
Last year in a border patrol 262 mile-wide Tucson sector, agents arrested 241,000 illegals, a drop of more than 130,000 from 2007.
Now it sounds great until you understand that Gotta ways outnumber the arrests by three to one.
Does the country realize this or have they bought Janet Napolitano's political fairy tale that border security has been transformed from where we were in 2007?
As Obama lectures Arizona, citizens here await his decision on an urgent request to send 3,000 National Guard troops to the border.
Senators McCain and Kyle recently asked for soldiers, as did Democrat Congresswoman Gabriel Gifford's or Gabrielle Gifford's to bring some security to American citizens being hammered by cross-border smugglers and thugs.
Now here's an important bit of context.
This isn't your father's illegal immigration when polite farm workers offer to do chores in return for some water and a sandwich as they walk north.
Today the drug cartels have taken over the people smuggling business.
They own the trails into the country, they dominate the land, the same way urban gangs control neighborhoods.
Any group wanting in has to deal with them, and the going rate's $2,500 per person.
If you don't have the cash, the cartel coyote will offer to bring you in for free if you carry his dope, his drugs.
As Cochise County Sheriff Larry Deaver testified to the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, most of the groups coming up now have a gun behind them.
Along the uh Chiracahua Bower Corridor smuggling route north and east of Douglas, Arizona residents have been screaming for some time about break-ins, threats, intimidation, vandalism, and home invasions.
But the feds did nothing to keep citizens safe.
Instead, they talked amnesty.
Then the inevitable happened.
On March 27th, Cochise County Ranchester Bob Kent, Bru Kent was murdered on his land, presumably, by a drug smuggler.
The death occurred in a well-known drug trail.
Trackers followed the killer's prints back into Mexico.
He is still at large.
By the way, there's more of this, and I gotta go to a break.
But all of you people who want to boycott Arizona, you're not gonna have to boycott.
People aren't gonna go there if it isn't safe.
It's just that simple.
And that's the primary job of the U.S. government.
The protection and safety of the citizens.
And they have failed big time.
Okay, back to uh Leo Banks and the American thinker.com.
We in Arizona have a huge problem with crooks coming up from Mexico to our cities and towns committing crimes and bolting back south of the border.
Not long ago, I wrote a story that backtracked the records of two of these border coyotes and found that between them.
They had been arrested and released by law enforcement or the courts a total of 35 times.
One was let go after a traffic stop, the other had worked construction in Phoenix for years.
If this law had been in effect, the police might have been able to get them off the street before they were able to lead more groups into Southern Arizona, break into homes and frighten citizens.
And you want to talk about civil rights?
What about the civil right of American citizens to drive up to their homes at night and have some reasonable assurance that no one's inside?
On March 31st, 400 people gathered outside the one room Apache Scruel to tell their elected reps what it's like to live in smuggler occupied territory.
The meeting was held there in the old cold open air, in part because the nearest place to host a group that size inside was 70 round trip miles away.
And these folks didn't feel comfortable leaving their homes for that length of time.
They live by a rule of thumb.
If you leave your house empty, it will be occupied by illegals or drug smugglers.
We're not talking about homes five miles from the border.
We are talking about homes up to 60 miles north of the border.
Racial profiling doesn't matter much when you are in a fight to preserve your way of life and keep your family and property safe.
Let me give you a different perspective on racial profiling.
Now, when border patrol chases down an arrests illegals south of I 10, nobody says, Hatta boy, good police work.
But if these crossovers put a toe north of I-10, they're home free.
Except for Maricopa County Sheriff Joar Pyle, nobody's looking for them, and if you do, it's racial profiling.
The farther you get from the line, the more people want to make this problem about race.
It's the ground the left wants to fight on because it's so effective.
Political correctness shuts people up and keeps the borders open.
Arizona has had enough and seen enough.
This bill, motivated in part by anger and frustration, is an effort to step in and do something about a serious national problem on our southern border that grows more dangerous all the time.
And here's state-controlled AP with a headline that is an out and out piece of B.S. Arizona pushes Congress into immigration minefield.
Backed into a corner by Arizona's tough new immigration law.
Democrats and Republicans alike find themselves grappling with a volatile issue neither party wants to fight over just before important midterm congressional elections.
Arizona had nothing to do with this.
Harry Reed pushed Congress to this.
Not Arizona.
It is Harry Reed's responsibility for doing this, the way he has managed the financial regulatory reform bill and cap and trade.
This is all the Senate Democrats wanting this chaos, folks, as well as other members of the regime.
The uh the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder has uh has said that um the U.S. Justice Department may challenge the Arizona law.
Go for it, Mr. A.G. 70% of the people of Arizona are in favor of this law.
So you go for it.
Uh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, in light of that, Byron York has a piece.
I don't have time to quote from it.
It's in the Washington Examiner today, actually from yesterday, a carefully crafted immigration law in Arizona.
And when you read Byron's piece here, we'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com, you will see how thoughtful and carefully it was written by good lawyers in Arizona.
It's uh it's it's gonna be tough for somebody to uh to to turn this back.
Uh I I I just I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
I welcome the challenge here.
The regime versus the state of Arizona.
The regime taking the side of the lawless, the regime taking the side of drug coyotes, the regime taking the side of smugglers.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Quick soundbite here before we go back to the calls.
Grab over 26.
Sounds this is nothing to do with anything except me.
And I think it's fascinating because last night on the floor of the House, Republican uh representative John Carter and Michael Burgess of Texas, both Republicans have this exchange about me.
The Washington Post is certainly not something that Rush Limbaugh and the boys consider their newspaper.
But let's see what the Washington Post said on March 21st.
Individual mandate extends the commerce clause's power beyond economic activity to economic inactivity.
That is unprecedented.
Regulating the automobile industry by paying cash for clunkers is one thing.
Making everyone buy a Chevy is quite another.
That's from the Washington Post.
I was going to agree with the gentleman that the Washington Post is not likely to be found in the Rush Limbaugh stack of stuff that he uh uses on his radio program every day.
Oh, holy smolia, the uh members of Congress talking about the stacks of stuff.
Radon, radon, radon, radon.
By the way, since Senator Lindsay Gramnesty has walked away now from his month-long effort to saddle a tax-paying public with a new cap and trade national energy tax.
And it appears he's now walking away from amnesty legislation as well.
He's really up at arms over Dingy Harry's trick here to pull cap and trade, which which Lindsey Graham Steve was all for.
He pulled cap and trade to put immigration legislation ahead of it, all for the purpose of getting the issue on the table to run against Republicans, because Gramnesty knows that nobody's gonna pass an immigration law before November.
They don't care.
They just want to make it appear that they are siding with the illegals, the drug smugglers, and the coyotes, because Dingy Harry and the others want the illegal or the Hispanic vote in November to limit the regime's losses.
This is what it takes to get uh Lindsay upset.
Apparently so.
But he's upset anyway.
He Connie Hare reports, he's now saying that if Democrats bring up an illegal immigration bill at all this year, whether it comes first or second in priority before his energy bill, he will not support either.
He says, I think I made it pretty clear if you bring up immigration, you are breaking faith with me.
He really uh thinks that it will tear the country apart.
I I am not gonna have my fingerprints on a political maneuver that could wind up breaking this country apart, meaning the immigration bill now in a uh haphazard way.
And I I would only say to Senator Graham that that this is exactly what they want.
I know nobody can get their arms around this.
They love the tumult and chaos, they thrive on it.
They wouldn't mind the country being broken apart.
I mean, they're trying to do it in their own way anyway.
Okay, to the phones, Jerry in Portland, Oregon.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
What an honor.
Absolute honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
I uh have got some uh I mean uh I believe strongly that this uh Fannie Mae thing uh is uh is a smokescreen or the the I'm very nervous, not usually the uh Goldman Sachsing is a s is a smokescreen for Fannie Mae.
Uh my wife actually worked in the disclosure department at Fannie Mae during the Franklin Reigns uh era.
And she was a forensic accountant.
And uh there's actually more to this.
The when these derivatives were sold to Goldman Sachs and the other banks, they packaged them up into really large groups.
And once they're packaged, they have a disclosure like any investment.
And they were actually double counting the revenue on the disclosure statements.
So Goldman may have discovered the double counting, but the government's going after Goldman because if it was really found out what really happened, then it was the disclosures that Fannie Mae was putting together that problem.
If that's true, if that's true, it doesn't surprise me at all.
I mean, it fits right in with the general operating procedure here, the standard operating procedure from the regime.
That is, okay, we will screw it all up, and we'll do it on purpose.
And then when the hell hits the fan, we blame other people.
And we get to sit around and act like spectators, and then we get to crucify other people for causing the problem and ostensibly fix it while appearing to stand up at the little guy.
Not surprised at all.
Folks, grab audio submit number 31, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
I just want to put things in context here.
Remember yesterday we had the sound bite?
President Obama saying that he was going to try to revive his coalition, going into the midterm elections.
Blacks, well, he does African Americans, Latinos, and women.
Playing the race card, which was predicted by Moi on this program.
They would go for immigration first, not cap and trade, and not these other things, and they would go for immigration first.
And they would do so on the basis.
They're people don't want you become an American.
They don't think you are America.
Color your skin.
So Obama's play the race card.
Let's not forget the kind of things he heard in church for 20 years.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called a nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty.
It's uh one of the foremost influences in President Obama's life.
Uh the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
That was uh a montage of various sermons between 2000 and 2007.
Here, play that uh again, and uh keep in mind here that was just over the weekend in a video that the president says he's gonna revive his coalition here of uh African Americans, uh Hispanics, and women.
He specifically left out whites.
He wouldn't go for white women, white men, old white men, white anybody.
He left out the Asians, he left out the Jews.
He left out the Indians, he left out the Portuguese.
He left out Eskimos.
Uh he left out uh the Tibetans, he left out a lot of people.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty.
What a sermon, my friends.
What a sermon, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright preaching from the pulpit of the whatever church, Trinity.
United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Back after this.
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Salt Lake City, John, welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, Rush.
I appreciate taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, just one thing I've noticed uh with this TARP thing and the things that were going on.
Good friends of ours, uh, he was an entrepreneur, had great credit, and uh he had about uh, you know, just under a hundred thousand in the bank to make payments on the line of credit that he'd bought some land he was going to develop and so forth.
Well, coincidental with TARP, the bank uh used its 30-day call privilege, which I guess most lines of credit have.
And so they called the the 30-day call and said, We need to have this money.
Uh so basically what ended up happening is they tried to negotiate, but the bank declared it uncollectible, and then of course foreclosed on the land.
I'm just wondering, you know, how many other people out there had their lines of credit killed because TARP came out and they were able to get rid of some of these troubled assets or land, you know, things that they felt might not be well, and then rather than work with the customers, just clean them out, put them into bankruptcy, and then and then you know, do whatever they want with that money.
So the point is what?
The point is that uh TARP.
The point is that they wouldn't have they wouldn't have foreclosed on the land had had the bank had to work with them.
But with the government backing the things, they can go through their books and say, Well, I don't think this loan is that great.
I'm going to I'm going to collect and I'm going to make you uh you know put pull the loan back now.
Well, um I this is anecdotal, so I I don't know how widespread this was.
Well, I I just I just felt that a lot of folks, you know, my wife's in a business that that deals with a lot of businesses, and we found that a lot of these things were happening, and maybe it was anecdotal, but I find it very interesting that because of the bailout and because of those things, a lot of the entrepreneurs and the smaller businesses got all their lines of credit yaked.
Well, not when I say anecdotal, I don't know if this was systematic.
I mean, you might be able to tell me you know 25 or 30 people would happen to, but I don't know from that that we can extrapolate that this become or became active bank policy undercover, so to speak.
Because I know what the what what the point here is that the TARP bailout allowed the banks to get rid of what they consider some risky stuff, and they ended up putting a lot of people uh um in in big financial trouble.
And had it not been for the TARP bailout, that wouldn't have happened.
So once again, your point is the government steps in ostentately to help solve a major crisis, and they created one at the same time.
Well, I think so, and that's that's exactly what happened to these folks.
And you know, they're they're wiped out.
And it's and it's unfortunate for them, and then also other these businesses that are trying to to expand or try to get working capital to be able to expand and create jobs, they can't get the loans the loans to go forward and go.
Well, I know that's been a problem.
I well now uh when it comes to the loans, uh most up until recently, and I don't know if this has changed.
Most most of what I had heard, most businesses didn't want to borrow any money.
There was no need to.
Uh they weren't growing.
I know that it was tough to get them anyway, and the people you're talking about would have practically been impossible for them to get a loan if they'd had a loan called and they were unable to pay it.
It's an unfortunate circumstance, but uh i this is what happens when you have meddling when the referee, the regulator, the government, starts playing the game rather than regulating it.
Nancy in Concord, Massachusetts, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
What a thrill and an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
Um, I told my husband you're the only man on earth I would leave him for.
And I take you.
My question, um, I live in Concordia.
I'm just kidding.
It's just a flippant comment.
I live in um Concord, Massachusetts, and it's a very liberal town, and I happen to be on the town's finance committee.
And we we're in town meeting this week, and one of our warrant articles is um creating a uh option for a local income tax in Massachusetts because apparently we feel we're not taxed enough, and we'd like to go to the legislature to give us the option of imposing a local income tax on residents.
And wait a minute, you mean addition to the state income tax?
Exactly.
Like New York City has an income tax in addition to the state income tax.
Exactly.
And in Concord, they want to do the same thing.
Exactly.
And uh the premise is that the tax would be revenue neutral because uh it would be offset by a decrease in the property tax.
Bull.
That's not gonna happen, and you know it as well as I do.
I do, I do.
And uh a lot of it.
Yeah, I'll tell you what, here's why you you know if if you're on a if you're you say you're on a council of committee doing this?
I'm on the finance committee, but and we voted whether or not to recommend.
No, no, no.
What did you have the vote come out?
I got thirty seconds here.
I'd have a point to make here.
Ten to four.
I went down.
So that today it goes to town.
Uh it went so it's not going to happen?
Um, the town is actually gonna vote.
We made a recommendation as the finance committee.
Oh, you mean the population's gonna vote?
Exactly.
All right.
Here's the deal.
If these people that want this local income tax in Concord claim it's gonna be offset by a property tax cut, you tell them to cut property taxes first.
And when we see the property taxes cut, then we'll talk to you.
But I it ain't gonna happen.
Oh, this is they're gonna drive people out of Concord.
This is what's gonna happen.
It's happening in New York, happening in New Jersey.
Thanks for the call.
Back in a minute.
Look, a quick question here, also for our last caller from Concord, Massachusetts.
They wanted a local town income tax.
And they say, it won't matter.
It's we revenue neutral.
We're gonna pay for it with a property tax cut.
Fine.
If it's revenue neutral, why do it?
If you're gonna have a tax increase offset by a tax cut, why go to the problem?
Because everybody knows it's going to be a tax increase because property taxes will never been cut, and if they are, the income tax will go up.
Accordingly, we'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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