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May 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 11, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I am Rush Limbaugh, but you know that.
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The two proposed referendum drives challenging Arizona's new sweeping law targeting illegal immigration are being abandoned, organizers said yesterday.
Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator.
Where do you go to get a degree in that?
Where do you go?
Andrew, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Daddy, I want to be a professional petition circulator.
Now, if your kid told you that he wanted to be a professional petition circulator, where would you tell him to go to learn how to do it?
Harvard.
It would cost you how much.
And look what we get out of there.
So anyway, Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator involved in one of the efforts, said its backers pulled a plug after concluding they might not be able to time their petition filings in time in such a way as to put the law on hold pending a 2012 public vote.
Basically, this is community organizing speak for we ain't got the signatures.
This is a community organizer saying we can't even fake them.
John Garrito, the chief organizer of the other drive, who does not apparently have a degree here because they don't call him a professional petition circulator, attributed its end to a belief that the law would have been subject to legal protections under Arizona's Constitution if approved by Arizona voters.
However, Chavez said his clients, whom he would not identify because they probably work in the White House, launched the effort in the belief that they could put the law on hold until 2012 by not filing petition signatures until it was too late for state election officials to place a referendum on the ballot.
However, the backers decided over the weekend to end the referendum campaign when they concluded there still might be a November vote, not giving them enough time to be confident about being able to wage a successful campaign against the law, meaning they don't have the signatures, they couldn't come up with it, and they certainly don't have any way to stop the law.
But that's okay because Obama has led the world now in accusing everybody in law enforcement, Arizona being a profiler.
So now we have this story on CNN.
Headline.
Cop watchers look for racial profiling on the streets of Phoenix.
Margarito Blanco trains his camcorder on the officer approaching a Chevy pickup while his friend Andrew Sanchez furiously scribbles notes on a pad.
They're not working for the cops.
They are surveilling the cops.
It's about 8.10 p.m. on a recent Thursday and the Turquoise S10 is pulled over at a Circle K gas station in Phoenix.
Anywhere else in the U.S., this might appear to be nothing more than a routine traffic stop.
But Phoenix is ground zero in the battle over illegal immigration.
And to Blanco and Sanchez, the stop represents a potential opportunity to catch a member of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in the act of racial profiling.
CNN accompanied the pair as they cruised around Phoenix looking for traffic stops to document on the Thursday after the governor signed what's being called the nation's toughest anti-immigration enforcement law, SB 1070.
Although critics nationwide say Arizona's law allows the cops to detain people based on race, grassroots activists like Sanchez and other self-styled cop watchers say that racial profiling is nothing new here.
They say SB 1070 stands to make matters worse.
So, you know what's going to happen now?
What do you think is going to happen now?
Because Sheriff Joe Arpaio is going to know this is going on.
Why, he'll pull over to cop watchers, but what he's going to do is be pulling over a bunch of 55 years old white, gray-haired ladies in front of the cop watchers who haven't done anything.
And the cops are going to say, sorry, ma'am, I got a bunch of people watching me, and I got to make it look like I'm not profiling any other people.
I mean, what else do you think is going to happen?
You know, the reason why they're so against profiling, stand by media matters.
Stand by anybody listening to this program 15 hours a week to catch a syllable that you don't like.
The reason why they profile works.
That's why we can't do it.
Well, you show me the last 75-year-old to try to blow up Times Square.
Show me one.
Show me any of the people being wandered and overly searched at an airport who've tried to smuggle a bomb in their shoes on an airplane.
Or in the under, I know you're not supposed to say these truths in public.
That's why this show exists.
And more on Arizona.
After Arizona, why are 10 states considering immigration bills?
This isn't a Christian Science Monitor.
Given the anger sparked by Arizona's immigration bill nationwide, including protests and calls to boycott Arizona, the campaign promises of Colorado gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnes could be seen as a bit of a surprise.
He has vowed to follow Arizona's lead and pass a tough new anti-illegal immigration law.
We're stopping the retreat.
No more retreat, he said in a local radio interview.
Federal government, if you're not going to do it, we are.
Mr. McInnes' comments are but one example of how the Arizona firestorm has hardly scared off politicians in other states, in some cases, actually encouraging them.
Imagine that.
What is it?
Well, it just shows you that the so-called first news of all the outrage was a bunch of trumped-up crap from the usual hell holes of liberal protests.
Of course, you can go to San Francisco and stop any lunatic on the streets.
And what do you think of it?
I hate it.
Boycott.
You know where to go to find this minority viewpoint.
A nation that refuses to secure its borders will not be a nation.
Folks, like I told you last week, and if I don't remind you that I told you, nobody else will tell you that I told you.
So I have to be the one that told you that I told you.
If 70% of the illegals were potential Republican votes, the Democrats would have already built an Acela train from wherever in the southwestern United States all the way down to Peru.
They wouldn't stop at Mexico City.
And they'd be rounding these people up, profiling them whatever it took to get them the hell out of the country.
You know it, and I know it.
And for the president of the United States to go on television, a town meeting and accuse police officers of profiling when that the law does not permit profiling.
It specifically does not, they cannot stop people on the basis of somebody's appearance.
Attention media matters, even though it works.
Did you get that?
E-V-E-N-T-H-O-U-G-H-I-T-W-O-R-K-S and put quotes around it.
The audio sound bites never fails.
Capitol Hill Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee, where everybody's trying to blame everybody else for the oil spill.
Oceana, one of the companies involved here, has on its board of directors the actor Sam Waterston, who law and order, the liberal DA.
Waterston took the stand essentially and testified today.
As of today, at least 4 million gallons have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.
Until this leak is stopped, oil will continue to harm life both in the ocean and on the shore.
We need to end all new offshore drilling, including for exploration.
Yep.
The Gulf tragedy was created by an exploratory well.
Yep.
And we can now see that even exploration poses serious risks to the marine environment and coastal economies.
Yes, of course it does.
So we got to stop.
And the Chinese are not going to stop.
He's an actor.
That's what makes him an expert.
He's on the board of directors there.
It says here he's on the board.
Now, meanwhile, the Mexicans, I know he's never played an oil guy, but he's prosecuted plenty of them.
Don't distract me here.
The Mexicans aren't going to stop drilling.
The Chikoms are not going to stop drilling.
The Saudis aren't going to stop drilling.
The Cubans are even making deals to drill, or at least licensing their share of the ocean.
Angola is going to drill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Vietnamese geeve, who would have ever thought that the Vietnamese would be drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico while we have actors running around and Democrats say, we got to stop drilling.
We have to stop drilling.
It's going to destroy everybody and everything.
But they don't make the Chikoms stop and they don't suggest that the Angolans stop.
You know, Ho Chi Minh.
It's just got to be wherever he is, even if he's in hell.
He's got to be having the biggest laugh of his life.
Let me ask you a serious question here, folks.
I am filled with serious questions.
How are, and I mean this, no, snurdle, please don't distract me.
Look, I get profiled every damn day.
As a conservative, I get profiled.
People who do not know me slander and libel me every day.
It's profiling.
I'm a conservative.
Racist, sexist, big at home.
And I'm not alone.
All conservatives are profiled.
Slandered and libeled each and every day.
Now, how are we, how are we going to ever be able to close the border and stop illegal immigration, even if we give everybody here amnesty?
How are we going to ever stop it?
Even if we give them amnesty, it's just going to increase the flow.
We did it in 1986.
How can we ever close the border and stop illegal immigration without doing at the very least what Arizona is planning to do now?
You realize what Arizona is planning to do is federal law already.
Look at, look at the absolute deranged, irrational, delusional reaction to this.
And yet, the simple truth is that if we don't do what Arizona is planning to do, we're never going to stop it.
How many of you are trying to get friends, family members, whatever into this country legally?
How many years does it take you?
And how much does it cost?
I have had friends who've had people working for them for years have to be deported.
They can't get back in.
I got people trying to get in from the Philippines.
It's not a temporary visa.
It doesn't happen.
I said, just send them, have them come through Mexico.
The dichotomy here is so great.
It's practically, it's a very difficult thing to get in here legally, and yet the people who are breaking the law, the federal government, and this regime are on their side.
And we all know why.
But it's very simple.
How can we ever close the border and stop this if we don't do what Arizona is trying to do?
Won't it still be profiling?
No matter what happened, it'll still be profiling, will it not?
The same people, if we close the border, the same people are going to object.
The same people are going to march in the streets.
So it appears to me that even if we grant everybody here amnesty, we're still going to have to accept a future of illegal aliens continuing to stream into the country for the rest of time because we're not going to close the border.
Because to close the border is discrimination.
It's profiling.
It's all of these horrible things that political correctness is allowing us or demanding that we censor ourselves, punish ourselves, not do the best for ourselves.
If enforcing the law is wrong now, it's always going to be wrong, is it not?
Even after amnesty.
If it's wrong to enforce the law now, somebody explain to me how it's going to change.
The Israelis are masters at profiling.
When's the last time one of their airplanes blew up?
British Petroleum.
They have drilled 5,000 wells, just like this thing in the Gulf.
Sam Waterston shows up.
We got to stop this.
Meanwhile, the Viet Kong, folks, the Viet Kong drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Angola.
Sam Waterston joins the Democrats as we got to stop this.
I wonder if Sam Waterston was upset.
Do you remember the deal that Gordon Brown made with a Lockerbie bomber?
That was about oil.
The UK surrendered the Lockerbie bomber to cent an oil deal with Libya via BP.
BP, British Petroleum, was involved.
Gordon Brown wanted some oil for Great Britain.
They don't have any.
Well, they've got it, but they have to import just like everybody else does.
So he made a deal with Muammar Gaddafi, BP, in exchange for releasing Lockerbie Bombie bomber.
An oil deal was struck.
Audio sound bites.
The name of Rush Limbaugh has been injected into the Illinois Senate race.
By the way, do you realize, folks, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled out of the special election in Hawaii to replace the socialist Neil Abercrumbie, who quit because I think he wants to be governor.
They pulled out.
This is Obama's home state.
This is where Obama was born.
The Democrats have pulled out of Snurdy's.
Now you did it.
Now I'm going to get bombarded with phone calls.
Deal with it.
You don't have to deal with my own stuff in here.
You deal with it in there.
Now the Democrats pulled out.
This is a socialist state.
Pulling out means they don't even think they can win the general.
We're still in the primary stages of this.
And your host's name has been injected into the Illinois Senate race to fill Obama's seat.
This is the Democrat candidate, Alexei Giannoulis.
The people of Illinois deserve to know why Congressman Kirk joined Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh in opposing Justice Sotomayor's nomination and whether he will once again stand with the right wing in opposing Solicitor General Kagan as well.
So this guy running for the Senate, Mr. Kirk, has got to explain why he joined Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
Mr. Giannoulis, you Democrats need to explain why you are siding against the American people from the administration.
Now, speaking of Elena Kagan, there's some incredible things about her in the news.
This is from investors.com, Investors Business Daily.
I know he needs to explain to voters how his family's bank failed, where the money went.
But, no, he doesn't, because in Chicago, everybody expects a Democrat to be corrupt.
It's the stupid ones that get caught in the process like Lagoevich that get kicked out of there.
Now, listen to this.
Elena Kagan has an extremely sparse paper trail for a Supreme Court nominee, even by recent standards.
She reputedly has signaled sympathy to environmental laws and regulation, but with so little to go on, her personal actions offer obscure and conflicting clues.
On the one hand, she has a history of needlessly inflating her carbon footprint.
Lawrence Lessig, a longtime friend who taught alongside Ms. Kagan in Chicago, said a couple of times when she was so focused on her work, she would park her car and leave it running overnight.
She just forgot to turn it off.
They lock people in mental wards for less than this.
This, we are told, is a resume in Hanser.
Elena Kagan, she's so devoted to her work.
I want you to pick.
She's focused.
I want you to picture this.
This woman is so focused on her work.
She has to get to her office in Chicago where she's going to inculcate young skulls full of mush with a bunch of liberal legal BS.
So she shows up at the parking lot.
She's so eager to get there.
She's so focused.
She can't wait to get it.
She gets out of the car.
She grabs all of her papers and suitcases and whatever.
Gets out of the car, leaves the keys of the car, leaves the engine running, goes inside overnight.
What if there had been kids in the car with the engine running?
Folks, are we...
Well, I'm sure old Hamid Karzai has had better days.
I just saw a video clip of him sitting next to Hillary Clinton, some sort of mock news conference.
Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst CNN, has written a piece here for The New Yorker, in which he basically says he's been Elena Kagan's friend for 30 years.
He has no idea what she believes.
How many of you have a friend that you've known for 30 years that you would describe as a close friend?
And all you can say about him is clearly she's a Democrat.
But beyond that, her views are something of a mystery.
How many of you have a close friend that you know nothing about?
I mean, what you know may be not true.
You could have a fraud as a friend, but at least you, at least, what?
You have a friend you know nothing about?
I'm not.
No, no, no, no.
You're not.
You're not talking about what I think you're talking about, are you?
A fraudulent friend.
Oh, but you still, at some point, you knew something about it.
You knew enough to know they were a fraud at some point.
Here's a guy who knows her 30 years and doesn't know anything about her.
And it's, I mean, it's fascinating.
It is.
It's weird.
It is very weird.
All that we know about this woman is that she banned military recruiters from Harvard and was overturned by the Supreme Court.
Wanted to ban them.
Tried to ban them.
What the hell?
She lost.
That's the point.
But that's her only significant decision that she's ever made.
We were on the subject here.
Let's go to the audio soundbites today on today's show.
No, forget, forget.
I don't want to talk about Biden.
We're going to go to number seven.
Last night on MSNBC appeared David Axelrod, White House advisor.
He got this question.
A lot of progressives think that Elena Kagan is not liberal enough, that she doesn't go anywhere near as far as Justice Stevens.
Was the president looking for a liberal-leaning judge?
On the same day that you're asking me that question, you know, there are people on the right who are hammering her because she clerked for Abner Mikva and she clerked for Justice Marshall and accepted his view that the court should stand up for the least of us.
And, you know, she has a long history here that should give people some sense of what her personal sensibilities are.
But what the president was looking for, above all, was a justice who believed, as he believed, that we have to respect the Constitution, uphold the Constitution, do it in a way that makes sure that everybody gets a fair shake.
Not just the powerful, but everybody gets a fair shake.
And that's a view that Elena Kagan reflects.
Well, the implication here is the Constitution's unfair.
That's what they believe.
The Constitution's unfair.
This little notionary, she clerked for Justice Marshall, accepted his view that the court should stand up for the least of us.
It was Media Matters who wrote a piece yesterday to say, I supported slavery by analyzing what Kagan meant when she agreed with Marshall that the court should be biased in favor of the despised and the disadvantaged.
And Marshall wrote that the Supreme Court wrote that the Constitution was unjust, or so I forgot his exact word.
And for that, he's just repeating what he's saying.
Anyway, it's they're on such thin ice here.
They know what they've nominated.
They've nominated a clone of Obama.
And what they have to do is come up with a way of making her appear to be Obama.
Thoughtful, wise, learned, deep, charismatic.
They got a long shot on that one.
But they're going to try to make everything else about her look like Obama.
Let's see.
Here's Roland Martin.
We read his piece of CNN yesterday on the air.
He was on Anderson Cooper 220 last night.
And Anderson Cooper said, look, Elena Kagan, you're disappointed with this.
Some on the left are saying she's too conservative.
Anytime there's a Republican president, they are going to appoint a strong conservative.
Yet Democrats always seem to be afraid of appointing a strong liberal, so they'd rather appoint someone who's a centrist.
Folks on the left were saying she is not as strong as a liberal as they would have liked if she is confirmed.
You will have basically an Ivy League Supreme Court.
Folks all who went to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, or whatever, Stevens went to University of Chicago and law school in Northwestern.
It would be nice, frankly, to have points of views who didn't simply go to these East Coast schools that, frankly, doesn't represent the same views that supposed to cost the country.
Yeah, well, it might be nice to have a president didn't go to one of those schools either, Roland.
Clinton went to one of them.
Bush went to one of them.
Obama went to one of them.
When's the last time we had a president that didn't go to one of them?
The Republicans didn't always appoint strong conservatives.
Look at Souter.
Look at O'Connor.
John Paul Stevens was appointed by a Republican.
These idiots.
Robert Nefresno, California, thank you for holding on.
You're next on the Rush Linbaugh program.
Hi.
Thank you, Russ.
You're a great American.
Thank you for what you do.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it, Rush.
I need you to come and help me out here understanding, you know, the difference in these unions in regards to their representation of employees.
And you're speaking of SEIU.
I understand why.
However, it's representation not representation.
Regardless of where it's coming from, whether it be a union, an agent, I mean, ball players had unions, the Riders Guild, I mean, Hollywood, all those folks over there that make millions and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And I mean, but they're not destroying the country.
Okay, wait a minute, though.
Does that not pass along to the consumer somewhere?
When you're paying $2 million for 30 seconds to run an advertisement during a ball game, that's got to get down to the consumer.
And there's no way around it.
So that's a tax, basically.
What?
What do you mean?
What do you mean?
Wait a second.
I want to understand this.
What do you mean?
$2 million for a 30-second commercial has got to get down to the consumer.
It's got to.
What has to get down to the consumer?
No, no.
What has to get down to the consumer?
the cost of what they're paying for ads or whatever it is i mean i mean the cost of when's the last time you got a bill for a super bowl ad perfect The last time I went and bought a beer.
Okay, fine.
So what's the point?
Well, the point is, no matter where your representation is, you're still going to, it's still going to trickle down.
It's still a tax, no matter if it's an increase in cost, no matter where it's coming from, whether it's a union, an agent in the United States.
Wait a second.
On contract with your own advertisement.
It's just folks, we got a problem here.
When callers are on cell phones, they cannot hear me.
We have an eight.
Alexander Graham Bell could have invented the phone system that we have here with the cell phone call.
It's the equivalent of a tin can with two strings, two tin cans of street.
Now, look here, I don't know why that you are coming to this particular conclusion about unions.
You're thinking my objection is what they end up costing people?
No, I'm just you're totally.
I just want you to, I'm not arguing the point.
I want you to explain to me what the difference is in representation, whether you're represented by an agent that you hire or you're getting represented by a union.
No, no, no, it's not the representation that I have.
There's SEIUs.
There's multiple unions out there.
They're representing people.
The representation is not the problem.
So where's the problem?
In fact, I don't have representation.
I don't have an agent.
Why should I give some schlub 15% of what I can get on my own?
Okay.
So you negotiate your own contract.
Damn right.
Regardless, I don't need to get in your business.
I'm not hearing the power.
How does this always end up about me?
How does this always end up?
I don't.
No, I just lost my earpiece.
Uh-oh.
So I'll be deaf until we go to commercial break.
So take him down because I can't hear if he's talking.
Look, I don't negotiate contracts.
I make demands that are met.
Well, that's called leverage.
Now, you ought to see them on the other side of the glass.
They act like I have just let the biggest cat out of the bag of my life.
Now, look, what's this guy's name?
Robert, my problem with unions is not representation.
My problem is the ideological orientation of government worker union leaders.
They are stripping the country and raping the country blind.
They are destroying the private sector where wealth is created.
The jobs, public sector government workers do not produce anything.
The taxpayers who are paying these people do not make anywhere near as much money as these people, as the people they are paying.
They support liberal socialist political causes and candidates, which are creating great harm to the country, pure and simple.
I'm not even talking about the rank and file members in my criticism here.
Too many, the dirty little secret here is too many union leaders have as much real concern for their workers as the socialist communist leaders ever had for the proletariat.
They don't care about them.
They care about themselves, ingratiating themselves with power.
A union is a microcosm.
The SEIU is a microcosm of the Soviet Union.
Now, sterley, when I get my earpiece back on here and I can hear your response, I want you to know what was so, I want to know what was so outrageous about saying I don't negotiate.
We'll be back here, folks.
And when we get back, I will be able to hear.
Well, my earpiece fell off.
It's held on there by a magnet, and I touched a cord here when I was gesticulating wildly.
They're still, you ought to see them in there.
They can't believe I would say that.
Be right back.
Look at Snurdley, it's real simple.
The best way to look at this is: I don't need anybody looking out for me.
Okay?
It's that simple.
That's all I was saying.
The folks need somebody to look after them, not me.
Do you know potential foster care and adoptive parents are the latest victims in an identity fraud scheme organized in part by a Texas child protective services worker in Houston, according to prosecutors?
Yes, even people doing it for the children are stealing people's identities.
Andrea Ann Daniels, 44-year-old administrative tech, has been charged with stealing adoptive or foster care parents' personal information as part of the scam.
According to the Harris County DA's office, she sent personal information about these parents via text message to Philip James Moore, who then tried to apply for credit cards at various stores.
The credit card companies, noticing irregularities about the in-store applications, contacted the Harris County DA.
Moore was arrested on April 17th.
The cops traced the text messages he received with the parents' IDs to her cell phone.
She was arrested last Friday.
I mean, you can't predict where this is going to happen.
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Look, back to this union business.
The dirty little secret is unions are willing to destroy the industries in which they work in order to amass even more power for themselves.
I'm talking about the leaders, not the rank and file guys.
The political organ, look at Guy.
What is what's wrong with the SEI?
They're liberals.
I think liberals are a scourge.
The whole theme of this program today has been how liberals are destroying virtually everything that they touch.
Here's Joe in Chicago.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, Rush.
It's an honor to talk with you.
I just don't see how this country can stay together.
I mean, we've got the Democratic liberal beliefs are so far apart from what conservative beliefs are, I don't see how we ever can get together again.
I just don't know what's going on.
So you don't think bipartisanship's possible?
No, no, not what the Democrats want.
I mean, you know, you hear how they treat the children in school, how they don't want us, you know, no religion and just take it.
And that's the.
Okay, so I got 45 seconds here.
Yeah.
What do you think the solution is?
Because you're right.
There's no way of working with these people.
Where do we compromise with these people?
It's just getting worried.
I don't know where it would be.
I just don't see how.
It's very easy.
What?
Beat them.
But they'll still always be here.
I mean, every election that's going to come along.
Of course.
But President, we're going to have a man that's even worse than what we've got now.
And how will it everybody go through this over?
I don't know that that's possible to have somebody worse than what we have now.
Maybe somebody just as bad.
Well, that's just the same thing.
Yeah.
But the point, you're right, they're always going to be there.
We've got to make them the electoral minority they are in real life.
Back after this.
Uh-oh, folks, now the excrement is really about to hit the fan.
A TV satellite, communications satellite, drifting out of control up there, threatening to wander into another satellite's orbit and interfere with cable programming across the U.S. Hawaii Greece, no big deal.
Unemployment 9.9, no big deal.
Some satellite screws up your cable TV.
There will be riots in the streets, including among the unemployed.
Especially among the unemployed.
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