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May 28, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, it's funny looking at the television news networks.
They're all breathlessly awaiting C-STAC's response to the White House reports on the job.
And I have it.
I got it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
As we get you into the Memorial Day weekend, the last hour of Open Line Friday, telephone number 800-282-2882.
Here's Sestak's response.
And this is from NBC.
Last summer, I received a phone call from President Clinton.
During the course of the conversation, he expressed concern over my prospects if I were to enter the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate and the value of having me stay in the House of Representatives because of my military background.
He said that White House Chief of Staff Ron Emmanuel had spoken with him about my being on a presidential board while remaining in the House of Representatives.
I said no.
I told President Clinton my only consideration in getting into the Senate race or not was whether it was the right thing to do for Pennsylvania working families and not any offer.
This kind of garbage just makes me want to throw a Pennsylvania's working family.
Yeah.
My only consideration here, the only consideration I had in considering his offer was for Pennsylvania's working families.
Now, the real concern is for people in Pennsylvania who don't work.
If you're a Democrat.
At any rate, I told President Clinton my only consideration in getting into the Senate race or not was whether it was the right thing to do for Pennsylvania working families and not in the offer.
The former president said he knew that I would say that, and the conversation moved on to other subjects.
There are many important challenges facing Pennsylvania and their working families and the rest of the country.
I intend to remain focused on those issues and continue my fight on behalf of working families.
I kid you not.
Working families.
That's Democrat code lingo for unions.
Working families?
What about the unemployed?
What about those who really want to work but can't?
No, I'm not nitpicking this.
This kind of language makes me cynical.
No, doing the right thing for Pennsylvania working families is what's important to me, not in the offer here.
Now, we know that Bill Clinton has a history of going to Democrats and trying to get them out of races.
He went to Torricelli, and Torricelli quit.
He went to Andrew Kumo, told Andrew Kumo, look, don't try for governor now.
It's not your time.
And Andrew Kumo bowed out.
So SESTAC says that Emmanuel called Clinton.
Clinton called Sestek.
He said, why don't you come on a presidential board and stay in the House of Representatives?
I said no.
And the former president said he knew I'd say that.
Well, now, if Clinton knew that SESTAC would say no, then why go to the offer?
Here's the big question.
This is the real question.
And this is a question for all of you Pennsylvania working families.
If this explanation is so clear-cut and simple and illegal, why has the White House not put out an explanation about this before now?
Why is it?
How many weeks has this been going on?
How many months has this been?
How long ago was it that SESTAC said he was offered a gig?
And we haven't had anybody say anything more.
SESTAC was there.
What do you mean?
I'm not saying anymore.
White House was not answering the question.
If this is the way business is done, why not just come out and tell us?
This story has been percolating since February.
And this is the best they can come up with.
That's right, Limbo.
This is how it works.
I went to this guy and I said, look, I really don't want you that Senate race.
You know, you don't understand a prayer.
You want to keep in the house maybe.
Come on, some presidential advisory board now and then.
But I understand you guys can serve for Pennsylvania's working families.
And if you want to say no, that's fine.
I'm just conveying you all.
Right?
Is that how, if it's this simple, why did they take all this time and a lunch yesterday with Clinton and Obama to come up with this?
I, for one, am not buying it.
Grab audio somebody number 19.
This is Wednesday in Washington, D.C. You remember we had, no, grab number 20.
Grab number 20 first.
John Brennan, you remember this?
We had this last week or a couple weeks ago.
This is a look back.
He made an address to some Muslim students at New York University Law School, hosted by the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Islamic Center at NYU.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, spoke.
He spoke in Arabic.
I went to the Orden, the Palestine, the Quds, the Tunis, but at the end, I had a letter called Kislan, Lisan Kislan.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but it's possible, inshallah, so far, I'm Arabian, inshallah.
Afwan.
Now don't tell the folks way.
We don't speak Arabic what I said.
Okay.
So now this guy's from the George Cannon School, you know, appeasement.
They're just insecure.
Well, he's back now, Wednesday in Washington at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, a think tank.
John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, spoke, and this is what he said.
Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic.
Our enemy is not terror because terror is a state of mind.
And as Americans, we refuse to live in fear.
Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because shihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself of one's community.
And there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women, and children.
We have never been and will never be at war with Islam.
After all, Islam, like so many faiths, is part of America.
Yeah, so we're distracted here by the oil spill, and this guy's out there going on a tour praising the enemy.
Well, I know, I don't know.
That's the question.
Who are we at war with then?
I really, I don't know.
I really don't know.
And they don't either.
Apparently.
Hillary Clinton, she's Secretary of State.
You know that.
Hillary Clinton.
But she went off the reservation yesterday in Washington at the Brookings Institution.
She spoke about the Obama administration's national security strategy.
And a reporter asked her during the Q ⁇ A, how do you think that we can manage the balance between fiscal responsibility, which is, of course, very necessary, but also attention to the most vulnerable, the poorest segments of both American population and worldwide population, and the need still to strengthen this recovery to strengthen employment, which remains a key issue.
Now, you want me to translate this question for you?
Let me read this question.
This is a reporter.
And I want to read this question to you again.
This is what passes for brilliant journalism.
How do you think we can manage the balance between the fiscal responsibility, which is, of course, very necessary, but also attention to the most vulnerable, the poorest segments of both American population and worldwide population, and the need still to strengthen the recovery, to strengthen employment, which remains a key issue?
Do any of you know what this question means?
You have the slightest idea what the question.
I'll tell you what it means.
Mrs. Clinton, how can we manage the balance between fiscal responsibility, which of course we must be fiscally responsible, but then we've also got to make sure that the poor aren't poor, both here and in the world?
So how do we manage fiscal responsibility and yet bring people out of poverty while at the same time strengthening employment?
Meaning employment has nothing to do with bringing people out of poverty.
And here's her answer.
This is my opinion.
I'm not speaking for the administration, so I will preface that with a very clear caveat.
The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues, whether it's individual, corporate, whatever the taxation forms are.
And I go back to the question about Brazil.
Brazil has the highest tax to GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere.
And guess what?
It's growing like crazy.
And the rich are getting richer, but they're pulling people out of poverty.
There is a certain formula there that used to work for us until we abandoned it to our regret, in my opinion.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is important because we need to remind people how the Clintons have avoided paying millions in taxes through their foundation.
Now, it's not the William J. Clinton Foundation at the Clinton Library and Massage Parliament.
They have another foundation, the Clinton Family Foundation.
And they've sheltered a lot of money in these foundations and have avoided paying taxes.
So nobody, the rich anywhere not paying their fair share, nobody in any country except in Brazil.
And while the rich are paying higher taxes there than anywhere in the world, they're still getting richer.
And everybody, this never has happened in history.
And it's not happening in Brazil.
There you have it.
Once a liberal, always a liberal, and liberals believe the same things over and over again, and they never change.
High taxes, people aren't paying enough, and we're going to get you one way or the other.
Okay, I went to the email, checked the email, as I always do during the commercial breaks.
And I can always predict what I'm going to get.
What do you mean?
How can you say that Clintons are dodging taxes by funding a foundation?
All right, let me explain it.
I have nothing against foundations, ladies and gentlemen.
But what's the topic here is hypocrisy.
Remember, Hillary said the rich are not paying their fair share.
What does that mean?
What she means when any liberal says that, what she or they mean is that individuals are not giving the government as much as they should be.
Remember, government is God.
And if you skip out on your taxes, you are screwing God.
You are screwing government.
Your taxes should be paid to government.
And if you are rich, you should be paying even more.
Now, what is a foundation?
A foundation is a good thing.
But you can shield all kinds, millions of dollars from the government by putting it in a foundation.
Let me read you a story and give you an example.
According to a 2007 Washington Post article, the Clinton Family Foundation has enabled the Clintons to write off more than $5 million from their taxable personal income since 2001.
Who knows how many more millions they have saved on their taxes since 2007?
And they kept this foundation a secret.
Everybody's known about the Library and Massage Parlor Foundation.
But from the Washington Post article, Clinton's spokesman said that her failure to report the existence of the Family Foundation and the senator's position as an officer in it was an oversight.
This only came out when Hillary decided she had better amend her Senate financial declarations before she ran for president.
The Washington Post article also noted Pelosi had a similar family foundation, and she too was allowed to amend her declarations without any penalty.
Tax records show that the Clinton Family Foundation was created during Hillary's first year in the Senate, and a couple gave $800,000 to launch the organization early in December 2001.
The charity distributed no funds that year.
Now, here's the truth.
Let's say you have the kind of wealth the Clintons have.
The way these foundations work, you set it up.
I'll use myself if I wanted to set up a foundation, set up the Rush H. Limbaugh Foundation for Working Families in Pennsylvania.
You call it anything you want.
And let's say I want to put $5 million in it.
I can do that.
And I get to write off that $5 million.
I don't have to pay taxes to the government, which is God, on $5 million.
I'm setting up the foundation to make sure somebody else gets the money rather than government.
This is the hypocrisy.
Mrs. Clinton thinks the government's getting shortchanged when she says the rich aren't paying their fair share.
She is the rich.
Now, the rules of the, and it's a charitable deduction, and you get to take it all in one year.
If you give $5 million, if I put $5 million into the Rush Limbaugh Foundation for Pennsylvania working families this year, then I get to deduct that $5 million.
I only have to pay out.
I forget what the number.
She didn't pay anything, and that's a violation.
You have to distribute, it's a small percentage.
I think it's 10% of it, not even maybe not even that.
So to be legal, I could set up a $5 million foundation for Pennsylvania working families, get a $5 million tax deduction, meaning that $5 million is shielded from going to government God.
It goes to whatever charity I want to give them.
And I lose control of the money.
Don't misunderstand.
I can't use it to go out and buy a bunch of iPods or anything else.
It's gone.
I can only give that money to whatever I want to give it to, some charitable group.
But I don't have to give the 5 million away in one year.
I can give away 50,000.
And the next year, I can put another 5 million in.
And I only have to give away 100,000.
So in two years, I've shielded $10 million in taxes at whatever my marginal rate is from.
The government God.
This is what the Clintons are doing.
It's what Nancy Pelosi is doing.
So it's not that they're pocketing the money.
Don't misunderstand.
They are taking the money away from themselves.
They're just making sure that government doesn't get it.
They remain in control of it.
Now, if you are the Clintons and you have $5 million sitting, what can you buy with that?
If you want to run your foundations, you want to donate X to some other politician's charity.
What will that politician give you to quid pro quo?
If you want Joe Sestak to quit his bid for the Senate, this is a figurative example here, of course.
You might take some money from your charitable foundation and give it to something that SESTAC cares about, like Pennsylvania working families, and SISTAC will owe you.
Let's be clear about this.
This is pure unadulterated hypocrisy.
I am not opposed to charity, and I think it's a fine thing for anybody to set up a foundation.
But make no mistake why people do it.
It is not purely altruistic.
It is to make sure the government doesn't get the money.
Go talk to any, you know what you ought to do, just to have fun.
Pretend that you have gazillions of dollars.
Just do this.
Pretend that you have gazillions of dollars and go just for the exercise of it to a family planning lawyer or somebody at your bank that does family planning services and tell them why you're there.
You know, I'm here.
I want to make sure that upon my death, the people I care most about benefit from my estate.
And without exception, the first thing, the first thing the family planning guy will tell you is, okay, we've got to make sure the government doesn't get it.
That's the objective.
It's normal.
It is natural.
The government sets up these legal foundations for this purpose.
So it's pure hypocrisy for Mrs. Clinton to run around and say the rich aren't paying their fair share when she and her husband and Pelosi are shortchanging their very government God that they claim we are not servicing enough.
And that was my point.
And that's easy.
It's easy.
The truth comes naturally here on the AIB network.
Now, between 2001 and 2005, the Clintons ceded their family foundation charity with $5.16 million of their money.
I got a question during the break in an email.
If you fund a foundation with your own money, do you get to reap the rewards of the interest that it earns or whatever gains?
Because you invest it.
You invest it in whatever you want to invest it.
You're a financial manager, put it in stocks, bonds, whatever.
You want it to grow.
You do a golf tournament.
You ask people to contribute to.
No, the money stays in the foundation.
You have no control over it.
All you're doing is shielding it from the government and from taxes and instead directing it to charitable causes that you believe in.
And when you're a politician, a charitable cause you believe in could be the freaking groundhog.
I mean, I don't need to get me anything.
Now, Hillary, lest we forget, this is the same woman who took a $4 a pop deduction for giving thrift stores their used underwear when they were governor and first lady of Arkansas.
You remember that, Dawn?
They would take stuff down to the goodwill bin and they would write off $4 for dirty underwear.
I mean, these people have long been into taking advantage of every tax deduction that's out there.
Now, one of the few things, they haven't distributed a lot of money from the foundation.
You don't have to do that.
It's a minimal requirement every year.
But one of the few things that the Clinton Family Foundation gave grants to was a charity connected to the Arkansas businessman who helped Hillary Clinton make a hundred gand in a commodities deal.
That was Robert Redbone, I think.
There's so many Arkansas names, I've forgotten them now, but I think it was Red Bone.
I forget who it was.
Remember, helped Hillary turn something like a dollar into $1,000 or $10,000 into $100,000 in cattle futures.
And she said she learned about that by reading the Wall Street Journal, go forth.
But she gave that money.
She gave a grant to a charity connected to that guy who ran what turned out to become Cattlegate.
And all of this is in a 2007 Washington Post story.
I mean, it's all there.
It was part of the run-up to Hillary's presidential campaign.
In any case, folks, in any case, it's nice to see that the Clintons finally got around to paying off the gentleman who scammed them a cool $100,000 when they were earning a merely $30,000 a year when he was.
Remember, she was the big money winner.
She was the, well, he was making some paltry sum as governor, $30,000.
She was the breadwinner at the Rose law firm.
And I'm convinced that the Clintons went into whitewater and all this because they really believed that people who got rich did it by scamming the system.
They didn't believe it was genuine hard work that got anybody anywhere.
So the cattle futures scam and so forth, at least they had the class to pay off this guy in an indirect route from the Clinton Family Foundation, which nobody knew about.
It didn't report that it existed because they didn't want people to know they're shielding another $5 million from government God.
Make no mistake, folks.
Make no mistake about this.
These people are hypocrites from day one.
When they start talking about the rich not paying their fair share, they are at the top of the list.
Showing everybody how it's done.
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And that location, the Heritage Foundation location, has become the source of many of the good ideas coming out of the Capitol.
So much so, the Heritage held 600 briefings with members of Congress and their staff, providing all the ideas and research that they have.
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I know they're a think tank, but and they do have people that sit there and think.
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Call in Shreport, Louisiana, as we head back to the phones.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, man, it's great to talk to you.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, I'm going to get straight to the point.
I've asked all my local mentors about this, and they haven't rebutted me or rebuked me.
And so I'm coming to you.
I've been kicking this around, and I don't want to even think about it anymore, but I can't help it.
BP, you know, they've got a great track record, environmental record with the public.
And I'm worried that, you know, it's a possibility that maybe they cash in this situation.
We already know that they're willing to cooperate with the regulators.
They have a pretty, you know, that doesn't happen.
The government doesn't give you a break unless they're getting something in return.
And this news, you know, they, I'm just, this is what I think.
Obama needed a Katrina, except to go the other way for him.
He needed experience.
He needed something to say, look what I did.
I fixed this problem.
You know, he can't lower the seas.
He can't, you know, fix it.
Cole, let me ask, let me jump in and ask you a question.
Are you asking me if I think that BP was in collusion with Obama in staging this press conference yesterday with the illusion that the Topkill method was ongoing and working when we now know that it wasn't?
Is that your basic question?
No.
It goes deeper, and I really regret to even bring in a conspiracy.
This is much greater of a conspiracy that I'm talking about.
Okay, well, make it plain and simple for me.
What's the conspiracy?
Okay, I think that, you know, they're saying that, okay, I think that they did this change in policy.
When they're drilling, they're supposed to wait six hours.
They didn't.
They sent it to the regulators.
They approved it.
I think that was on purpose.
They knew what the outcome was going to be.
Wait, wait, I'm losing you.
They knew the rig was going to blow?
Yeah, I think that it was a move.
I think that it was...
You think they wanted the...
Obama needed it.
He needed that.
You think they wanted the rig?
You think Obama needed a catastrophe?
Like Bill Clinton said, damn it, I wish 9-11 would have happened on my watch.
Because, see, he can't do anything great on his own.
He can't take natural problems that arise and fix them.
He has to create it.
Okay.
Cole, let me, let me.
Okay.
Let me jump in there.
The only way, the only way that I would even give credence to this is if Obama had been on the scene from day one and looking like he cared, but Obama took five weeks off.
If this was a planned disaster to make Obama look good in handling a disaster and contrasting himself to the lackadaisical attitude of Bush, this has been a huge bomb out.
A huge failure.
And I must tell you, Cole, I know you're a great American out there.
I can hear it in your voice.
But I can't.
What have we come to, my friends, when we have decent, hardworking citizens thinking this kind of conspiratorial possibility about our president?
Now, look at what we have just heard here.
Cole, thank you very much.
We have just had a man call us, and he's embarrassed to be thinking this.
But he's troubled.
This thing doesn't just happen.
And there are a number of things here.
Why didn't they plug LaWell with the cement?
Why did they do it in a way totally opposite the way it's normally done?
And he's wondering, he knows BP gave Obama a billion bucks or a million dollars.
He contributed a million dollars over the course of the campaign period.
And so he's asking, is it possible there's collusion between BP and Obama to have this disaster to give Obama a crisis on which to look big and tough and strong and competent?
This would be tantamount to the liberals saying Bush purposely steered Hurricane Katrina into New Orleans and then purposely had the Corps OF Engineers sabotage the levees and the dikes so the flooding would happen and drive black people out of Louisiana over to Houston and thereby make Louisiana a Republican state.
I really the caller look at.
Let me boil this down to his essence.
The caller here is suggesting that British petroleum blew up the rig to help Obama.
I think it's.
It's in unfortunate that we have an administration that would make people come to think like this, decent, hardworking American citizens.
This would be like claiming that Bush knew 9-11 was coming and did nothing about it because he wanted the crisis.
In fact, there are people think Bush not only knew about it, but that Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld actually planted the charges.
Halliburton helped out because the experts in blowing things up.
Halliburton's involved here.
I think it's tragic that we have a president who could inspire such thoughts.
Colettes like a kook to me.
I mean, the leftist kooks that came up with the 9-11 conspiracy theory.
I was a kook.
Cole doesn't sound like a kook to me.
But Cole, I must tell you, I don't think there's any proof to this because if this was done to make Obama look good, there has been no bigger failure in the history of conspiracies than this.
Snirdly is in there playing with the iPad.
I know you are.
Let me give you: there's a web browser that you can get at the app store.
It's called Atom Web, A-T-O-M, Atom Web.
And sad to say, it puts Safari to shame.
It has tabs.
You can increase or decrease font size.
It's amazing.
Go to the app store Atom, A-T-O-M, Atom Web.
There's all kinds of great apps out there for this iPad thing.
You're going to love it.
Now, back to C-Stack or SESTAC.
It looks like it ought to be C-Stack, but it's SESTAC, and I often screw up the pronunciation here.
Let's take some things, the people at their word here.
Even if what the White House is now claiming is true, and even if it's business as usual, that people are offered jobs all the time to give up something else.
Didn't Obama pledge to change business as usual in Washington?
Wasn't that part of the campaign?
We're going to change business as usual.
Isn't this the exact kind of corruption Obama promised to end?
Instead, just like with all his other promises, he has, or his minions have done the very things he condemned in, well, I was going to say spades.
And about SESTAC, the timeline, the timeline is suspicious.
Because if this is all there was to it, why not just call Clinton and tell him to get in front of a camera and laugh it off the way back in February when this thing came up?
None of this just fits.
If this is all that happened, why did it take all this time to conjure this up?
Did there's nothing to it?
Have Clinton go out there?
Hey, hey, this is no big deal.
I called his brother.
I said, hey, how would you like to serve out a presidential commission?
And stay in the house.
He said he didn't want to do that.
That's all there is here.
There's no fear here.
But no, they had to conscious them up.
There's something about this.
It still is not right, folks.
It just doesn't fit.
Bakersfield, California.
Daniel, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It is a pleasure.
You bet.
Something that I haven't heard discussed from any fund really is the fact that Governor Jindal has been begging the government to come in and get something done or offer him help.
And then our liar-in-chief says, well, we have to analyze all of this, see if it's cost-effective.
But then he turns around in the press conference and says that we have spared no expense.
I don't understand the hypocrisy here.
And he does it in a matter of a couple of days.
Well, you know, that's a good point.
We have to do a cost-benefit analysis here to Governor General's idea and then says, but we're going to spare no expense here to get this right.
And look, they don't care about the cost of anything else.
Why this?
Exactly.
Like what happened with you played a soundbite earlier with Obama in his campaign saying, well, you know, Bush took forever to get in here and whatnot.
And that will never happen under my administration.
But yet he hasn't done anything under his administration.
I misread the clock.
You're right.
I got to go.
Back in a second.
Okay, we got a best of show on Monday, and I'm told that I am the host of the best of show on Monday.
We'll be see you back here on Tuesday.
Look forward to it, folks.
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