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Aug. 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 2, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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We got some pretty big news out of Virginia.
It's hopeful news.
And we can all use some of that.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
On the 22nd anniversary of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 80082882.
And the email address Lrushball at EIBNet.com.
Yes, the Congressional Black Caucus says the ethics process is racist, which means if we boil it all down, they strip it down to its bare essence.
Ethics are racist.
Well, I mean, what else can it mean?
Ethics are racist.
Why does this happen in the first place?
Why?
I mean, here you got Maxine Waters and her husband Sidney in a auto dealership, whatever it was.
Wrangle, I mean, there's no question what what Wrangell did.
General Denkins had some problems in uh in New York.
I mean, what is there not a sense of entitlement?
I remember watching the Democrat National Convention.
It was 1984, San Francisco.
I was watching the coverage on ABC, being anchored by David Brinkley.
And in uh Primetime was a speech by the then mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry.
The theme of Marion Barry's speech was tonight, tonight we're on the inside.
And I knew what he meant.
It's almost like there is a sense of entitlement on the black uh part of black officeholders.
That they've been so maligned and so discriminated against, so out of power for so long that they're somehow allowed to make up for all of it.
And when anybody pursues ethics violations by them, well, there's racism involved.
And that that's clearly they're saying ethics are racist.
That we shouldn't be held to this kind of standard.
It's interesting.
Anyway, the news out of Virginia is uh Judge Henry Hudson has refused to dismiss Virginia's challenge to Obamacare, which challenges the individual mandate.
This is the um the challenge that says the government cannot make you buy something.
The government cannot require you to buy anything.
And there's been a challenge, and the judge, Henry Hudson, has refused to dismiss it.
This is the same judge, by the way, who threw the book at Michael Vick.
If you're uh if you're keeping score, he's a judge adheres strictly to the law.
The Constitution always has.
And it's going to be fascinating to see how this all shakes out.
This is a this is a pretty big decision, and it's going to have a ramifications throughout the uh the legal profession.
President Raul Castro has expanded self-employment fields, did so yesterday, ahead of looming government plans to slash as many as one million jobs, 20% of communist Cuba's workforce from state payrolls.
I guess giving away those rice cookers some years ago has not really made a difference.
Not very stimulative out there to give away the rice cookers because now 20% of communist Cuba's workforce are going to be fired.
And Raul Castro says, self-employment, uh uh go for it.
You want to be an entrepreneur, it's up to you.
Go for it.
Ninety-five percent of the Cuban economy is currently controlled by the state.
It does not have the ability to absorb such vast numbers of the unemployed.
Castro's moves aims to try to reduce the socioeconomic fallout, but it's going to be an uphill battle.
This is the French news agency, by the way.
The Council of Ministers agreed to expand the range of self-employment jobs and their use as another alternative for workers who lose their jobs, said Castro, as he gave a closing address at one of the two annual sessions of the National Assembly.
Cuba's been in trouble.
They've been in Trouble forever, but I mean, when the when the Soviet Union blew up, they lost their five billion dollar annual subsidy.
One of the most tragic things to happen.
One of the most unfortunate things to happen when the Soviet Union gave up giving five billion dollars a year to the Castros is that Cuban cigars went to tank.
Cuban cigars went to hell.
They absolutely became nothing special.
They started mass producing them to meet the global demand.
They stopped aging them, the care that was given to the growing of all three different kinds of tobacco for a cigarette, just did just went to hell.
It's just one of the one of the greatest shames, in addition to the human suffering, of course.
But there were no better cigars in the world than those that came from Vinar del Rio.
And now they're just some people say they're coming back, that they're getting a little bit better, but I don't.
They haven't been what they were since the early 90s.
That's shortly after the Soviets bugged out, that was the end of it.
And uh now it's it's just gotten even worse, and yet we have people telling us that's a model healthcare system.
And we have Hollywood actors and actresses telling Cuba.
That's the uh that's the model.
They honestly say this.
And everybody can read down there.
They got a great education system, everybody can read, they've got the good against health care, and all it's it's just frankly, it's absurd, and all of this is mouthed and uttered by people who think this country is horrible, who think this country's like I said last week.
If I could wave a magic wand and do one thing, because I think this one thing would go a long way toward resolving some of the ancillary problems that attach to it, I'd get rid of all of the hate for this country in people born here.
All the people born in this country who hate it, boy, if you could just change that.
I know it's pipe dream, wishful thinking.
Twenty-five percent of the workers, one fourth, are going to be fired.
And Raul Castro says it's gonna have to be done carefully to make sure the person best suited for the position is the one who doesn't get fired, and to avoid favoritism playing any part in the decision.
Now imagine if we did that in Washington.
What on earth would Obama find we I tell you, we could get rid of 25% of Washington and not lose a thing.
But imagine we're gonna we're gonna do it carefully in Cuba.
We're gonna do it slowly, make sure that the person best suited for the job doesn't get fired.
How do they know?
Shouldn't they already know who the best person for the job is?
95% of all jobs are government, shouldn't they have a pretty good idea here?
The honesty in Cuba's government is exhibited by this article from uh July 18th from the Associated Press.
With the government giving no details of its thinking, rumors have spread that as many as a fourth of all government workers in some industries could lose their jobs or be moved to farming or to construction.
Labor Minister Margarita Gonzalez has promised that Cuba will employ, will not employ massive firings in a manner similar to um neoliberal cutbacks.
We ought to do this in Washington.
Is Obama best suited for his job?
Obviously not out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there's an amazing piece, Investors Business Daily, that uh ran what's the date of this?
July 30th last week.
And what's amazing about it is who wrote it.
Ernest Christian is an attorney, deputy assistant secretary of the treasury in the Ford Administration, and Gary Robbins, an economist, served at the Treasury Department in the Reagan administration.
These guys are blue bloods.
These guys are ruling class Republicans, particularly Ernest Christian.
And the headline of their piece, Will Washington's failures lead to a second American revolution.
It's nothing that you and I haven't discussed.
Nothing that you and I haven't thought about.
This piece is nothing that you uh have not heard of.
I'm still going to share with you excerpts of it.
Because it appears in a mainstream American publication written by mainstream.
Conservative Republicans.
You might even say ruling class blue bloods.
Quick time out.
Your phone calls next as well, right after this.
There's a little blurb from uh a media website, Media8, which uh Dan Abrams started, MSNBC.
Sidney Harman to buy Newsweek.
Sidney Harmon, uh, the businessman behind one of the world's largest stereo equipment companies, Hunts Harman Carden, is uh buying newsweek.
You know who his wife is?
Jane Harmon.
Jane Harmon, a uh Democrat, uh not really close budget with Pelosi, to Pelosi trying to edge her out of uh committee, but Jane Harman's husband Sidney has now purchased Newsweek from the Washington Postcope, so we can say that uh by extension, Newsweek has been purchased by a Democrat member of Congress.
We're not surprised.
And Lady Gaga.
Folks, if you want to, what did I do with it?
I must have thrown a transcript away.
Lady Gaga has weighed in on the no, here it is, weighed in on the Arizona immigration law.
And this is about the level of intelligence.
This is about the the equal mindset of everybody in the Obama administration.
I'll tell you what we have to do.
We have to be active.
We have to protest.
I will yell and I will scream louder, and I will hold you, and we will hold each other, and we will peaceably protest this state.
Because if it wasn't for all of you immigrants, this country wouldn't have sh the brilliant uh Lady Gaga performing Saturday in Phoenix in support of the uh or opposition to the Arizona immigration bill.
By the way, a Mexican drug cartel has apparently just put a one million dollar bounty on Joe Arpayo.
A one million dollar bounty on the head of Sheriff Joe Arpao has been placed by a Mexican drug cartel.
So there you have it.
Uh Lady Gaga.
To the phones we go, uh Jerry in Cookville, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, congratulations on 22 years.
Thank you, sir.
Being the uh number one outtime uh most influential broadcaster, and on your recent wedding rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um, the to deal now with Andy Griffith, he's doing a spot now for Obamacare.
I was wondering, do you think somebody let him out of the home or did he sneak out?
Or how do you think he did this, right?
Hey, you know something?
I I ran into Eddie Griffith about 35 years ago in San Pedro, California.
That's in the South Bay area.
There was a clock shop down by point from a park.
And he me and some friends were down by the store down there, and he came pulling up in a dirty, beat-up Rolls-Royce with um uh the primer spots on it.
And there was like three of us out there, and he got out of the car and made a mad dash into the clock shop and ran out and didn't even say a word to us.
I mean, it was like, you know, we were a bunch of um paparati who wanted to take pictures of him.
So I knew the guy was a phony 35 years ago.
Well, I mean I don't I don't think it's well known, uh, but uh but Andy Griffith is a well-known leftist.
Oh, yeah.
Uh Andy Griffith, the well-known leftist, and and and really he's he's got a reputation for being nasty.
Well, you know, what you what you experienced is not is uh is is not uncommon.
I mean, if if you know, it it's uh I guess it's not well known because of his uh characters that he's played on TV.
Uh I didn't know he let Otis out of jail all the time.
It's a perfect example of a leftist.
Uh Otis constantly drunk.
Oh, Griffith campaigned for Obama.
Do you people not remember this?
Oh, yeah.
Andy Griffith campaigned for Obama.
In fact, uh, here is Andy Griffith for Obamacare.
Back in 1984, the Democrats tried to get Andy Griffith to run against uh Jesse Helms.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah.
Uh and Andy Griffith talked about good crackers in those rich cracker commercials.
Why do you think we got this?
You know, we're not sitting here, we're not boobs.
We're not isolated here making things up.
Be a good cracker.
Uh good cracker.
Talk about good crackers, a rich cracker commercial.
We're on the case here at the EIB network.
This is Scott in Ontario, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, how are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks very much.
Well, I just wanted to talk to you about how you always seem to vilify or blame some kind of union for some kind of economic problem.
Um but if if we that work for a union are considered union workers, then maybe you would be considered a new a lawyer employee.
Because you have a lawyer to your represent you in a contract.
Uh yeah, what?
If if you know how you always say unions are this and unions are that.
In fact, you were just talking about unions.
Uh the working class is he what he's really saying is union member.
But if you have a lawyer represent you to negotiate a contract for you, wouldn't that make you a lawyer employee?
Uh a lawyer, what?
A lawyer lawyer employee versus a union employee.
Uh but see the difference is you don't put blind faith into the company that you work for, employ you, that they're gonna treat you properly and pay you correctly.
My employees do.
You have a union.
No, no, there's a difference.
My my employees do, and and after I I do have a lawyer, my brother who I mean, I I do the deal, he actually does the legals, but after it's signed, I actually work.
Right, but you have a lawyer represent you in your benefits in your pay.
Uh I pay for my own benefits.
Right, but you still have a lawyer to ensure that they're there.
Uh no.
No, no, no.
I don't have a lawyer to take care of my benefits.
I handle my benefits myself.
So the lawyer just negotiates the pay?
No.
No, the lawyer the there is no the lawyer negotiates the percentages that we all share off the top and off the net and so forth, but there are no dollar amounts.
It depends on how much I produce.
Right.
So, but it there's something in writing to represent you and to protect your interests.
The point here is yeah, and there's something to protect them too.
In case I go nuts and become a liberal democrat.
Right.
Now, what when I when I criticize unions, I'm not criticizing a rank and file.
Rank and file don't have any power.
I'm criticizing the leadership.
I'm talking about the guys who siphon union dues and give it to Democrats exclusively.
Right.
I'm talking about members of the Communist Party USA.
I'm talking about people get in bed with people like Acorn.
I'm talking about liberal Democrat socialists.
And I'm wherever you wherever you find a major problem in the American economy today, you're going to find a union somewhere involved.
Well, I don't know if that's the fact, but I'm just saying it's just even other people in society other than yourself that get some kind of pay or benefit.
Yeah.
If it's not a union, they go right to a lawyer, and the lawyer negotiates all their pay and benefits.
Not everybody that gets paid has a lawyer arrange their payment or their contract.
Not everybody works out of contract.
Right, not everybody, but everybody.
But the point is my lawyer is not out negotiating the pay of every other talk show host in the country.
He's representing me.
I'm an individual.
I'm an independent contractor.
My work is merit-based.
I don't get paid because some representative has told the boss that that's what I'm going to get paid.
I get paid based on how much I produce.
I get paid based on how much I work.
I get paid based on my industriousness, my achievement, my Accomplishments.
And if I don't do any of that, I don't get paid, unlike union guys.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the 22nd anniversary of the EIB network.
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And celebrate.
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This last caller was really amazing.
How many of you how many of you people have a lawyer?
Negotiate your job.
If if if unions cared so much about their their rank and file, why are they all for amnesty?
The SEIU is one of the biggest supporters of amnesty, illegal immigrants legalizing 12 to 20 million people.
What's that going to do to jobs in this country?
How is that having any loyalty to the rank and uh and file?
Uh my lawyer.
You know, I uh my lawyer is is not using me to acquire big power for himself, and when I am not happy, I don't shut down talk radio.
Uh tr to try to compare well, I know I could, but I don't.
That's the point.
I don't shut down talk radio.
Uh I but I would never think to do it.
Um my lawyer does not represent all of our talk show hosts, he represents me, he has some some other clients.
Not big, but he's got a few.
Um I don't I don't have to have a lawyer as a condition of my work.
Um or as I own the enterprise.
I don't have to have a lawyer.
Um I'm not even an employee.
I am a business partner.
Uh I I pay what?
You um well, no, I I uh uh did he say that?
Oh, he said that I don't trust my company.
That's why I'm a lawyer to make sure I get paid fairly because I don't trust the Well, wrong.
I trust myself.
I am very generous with myself.
I've I don't think I have ever cheated myself when I stop to think about it.
Um I'd have to think back over all 22 years, but I don't think that I've ever shortchanged myself.
I really don't I I my benefits package is paid for as I need it.
So I probably save a lot of money because I don't have a lot of benefits insurance as I need it, I pay for it.
Uh and I, you know, I I pay my lawyer for uh uh the work that is done.
I don't pay him any dues every year.
And he does he's not free to take my dues that I don't pay and support political causes I disagree with.
Um my lawyer does not negotiate health care benefits and pensions that are so impossible to meet that my partner's gonna go out of business.
My partners will never ever have to be taken over by Obama because my pension and health care plan will never break and bankrupt my partners.
My lawyer is not getting out my vote.
My lawyer doesn't send a little yellow bus to my house every election day and take me to the polling place.
I don't get the uh I don't get the why what did this guy have all the resentment for?
I look at you folks, if you're new to this program and you're you're you're you have all these uh thoughts based on the template, the narrative out there of me as mean-spirited uh braggadocious.
Uh look, it's very easy to understand me.
I oppose liberalism.
Wherever it is, I don't care if liberalism can be found in a nurses' union, I'm gonna oppose it.
Uh liberalism tries to hide in some of the most touchy feelings like animal rights movements and uh women's rights and so forth.
Wherever there is liberalism, you're gonna find me leading the move against it.
It's poison.
The only socialism I support's the NFL, and that's kind of teetering.
Who's next?
Darlington, South Carolina.
This is Russell.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program, 22nd anniversary.
Hello, sir.
Hello, happy 22nd, Raj.
I want to talk to you about something you said on or about July 21st.
On or about.
That's legal language.
Oh, well, I'm not a lawyer, but I do play one on TV.
This is Matt.
What it was the name Matt Lot that uh Andy Griffith played.
But anyway, my Snowdy said get directly to the point.
My point is on that day, you were wrong about something that you said, and I emphasize the word wrong.
All right.
Uh you have made the statement that we become a country of tribal people.
The Spanish, the blacks, the whatever, on and on and on.
And you've made the statement that never before in the history of this country have we ever been tribal.
So I'm just saying, were you wrong or you just forgot about the first six hundred years of the history of this country?
The first six hundred years of the history of this country.
1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Yeah.
That would be about six hundred years.
I didn't realize that Columbus was one of our founding fathers and signed a declaration of it.
I didn't know that he had anything to do with the U.S. Constitution.
In fact, he landed in the Caribbean for crying out loud.
The greatest thing he did was discover cigars.
I'm not gonna argue that point with you.
I'm telling you, you were wrong because this country was tribal.
When when we got here, it was tribal.
And you know, when you say things like that, this is a called is as a right.
Is this my anniversary presence, certainly?
Is it Yeah.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
Six hundred years of American history has been tribal.
Well, how about the American India?
Yeah.
Indigenous people, right?
You forgot about those.
Uh no, of course not.
They were at one point.
Well, you think that North America just sprung up in 1770.
You you've even misunderstanding what I said last week.
I said the Democrats are liberals are trying to.
Oh, come on, right.
No, no, no.
I said they are transcript.
Here is what I you want to listen to what I said?
Yes, sir, but break out the transcript.
We could I've got it right here.
I said this regime is tribalizing this country.
They are dividing this country.
What did the Indians did they not live in tribes?
Uh I said no, no, wait, you're making up to send a commission.
You want to listen to what I said.
Oh, I'm listening, Rush, but it's not just enough to say that they are dividing us.
They are tribalizing the country.
So are you every day, my friend.
Uh you talk about it.
What?
You're keeping it in the forefront of everything you say or do.
Arizona.
I said, Arizona, that got too, yeah.
Let's go with that.
Really, I'm a touch of Arizona.
If I can get serious with you for a second, you're insane.
You are genuinely nuts.
I'm speaking out against the tribalization of this country.
I'm the one who wants unity.
I'm the one that doesn't see groups of people when I see an individual.
I'm the one who does not want this to become a country that's been balkanized.
I resent it.
This country's being torn apart because of this.
And I resent it.
Black Americans, white American, Asian American, Hispanic Americans, illegal Americans, undocumented democrats.
They divide us up by racially, uh by races, by by tribes.
And the whole distinct American culture did away with the tribalness.
Yeah, we had the various ancestral immigrants from very various countries that immigrated here, but they became Americans.
There's a distinct American culture.
And that culture's under assault and it's under attack.
I don't know what you were so mad about.
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Matthew in Carlsbad, California.
Thank you for holding.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hey, Rush.
Happy 22nd anniversary.
I mean it.
Not like your previous caller.
Thank you very much, sir.
Well, look at that was a just a pristine example of colossal willful ignorance.
Well, really.
Um, what is going to happen with the uh congressional black caucus?
Because I mean, are they really going to complain about there not being any white congressional people being ex um uh investigated, or um are they going to continue with their their double standard?
Well, I mean, what's gonna happen here?
Well, we have two stories on this.
One is from the Washington Post, headline Ethics Probes of Wrangle, comma, waters cause tension on Capitol Hill.
The prospect of two long-serving iconic black lawmakers in the House enduring unprecedented public ethics trials could add to the growing tension between black members of Congress and Democrat leaders on Capitol Hill and in the Obama administration.
Now remember, we have been hearing for the past months on end the Tea Party.
The Tea Party is a home of racism.
The NAALCP, a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party.
And yet, here's the Washington Post, the prospect of two long-serving iconic black lawmakers in the House, enduring unprecedented public ethics trials, could add to the growing tension between black members of Congress and Democrat leaders.
On Capitol Hill and in the Obama administration, congressional sources confirm late Friday that Maxine Waters will face an ethics proceeding this year, as probably related to allegations that she sought to help a bank with ties to her husband receive federal bailout funds.
Between them, Wrangle 80 and Waters 71 have served in the House for six decades, are leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The caucus has long complained the House ethics process disproportionately targets blacks in the chamber.
In the Los Angeles Times, ethics trials highlight racial tensions in Congress.
Proceedings slated for House Members Maxine Waters and Maxine Charles Wrangell could cause a rift between Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrat leaders.
Wow.
I mean, my friends.
Uh I want you to know, I want you to realize the focus of this racist charge is Democrat against Democrat.
Democrat Democrat.
It never ends whenever there's any criticism of any kind.
They lash out and charge racism.
Back on June 1st, New York Times.
Twenty in the Black Caucus ask for curbs on the ethics office.
Twenty members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including its chairwoman, that would be Barbara Lee, are asking the House of Representatives to severely restrict the powers of an independent ethics office that has spent much of its first full year investigating accusations of wrongdoing among black caucus members.
So back on June 1st, the CBC said, you know what?
Let's just get rid of all ethics panels.
Just get rid of them because they're racist.
This is a Democrat and a bunch of Democrats charging white Democrats of being racist.
I thought it was the Tea Party.
On the other hand, look at me.
I do not come on this program and say we ought to treat people differently based on race, ethnicity, age, income, every other form of distinction you can find, and Democrats all do.
They all demand that the job of our government is to is to support a free society, not to destroy it.
And that's the point.
The Democrats are targeting the society and trying to impose a different environment on our country.
One that rejects the founding documents, rejects the Constitution's limits on government.
Even if you believe that this happened in the past, why would you support it today?
Why would you be a member of a party or vote for politicians who favor this kind of balkanization, this kind of tribalism?
People call here like this guy points to Columbus 600 years of American history, past discrimination.
And yet that guy that called here supports an ideology that divides people along racial lines.
And that's why he was calling in the first place.
He wants there to be tribalism.
He says there is.
I support an ideology that doesn't see colors and ethnicity and genders and all of this garbage.
Conservatism does not divide people.
We conservatives love everybody.
We want everybody to love the country.
We want everybody to be able to access the wondrous opportunity that this country provides.
We don't see colors in everything and everything that happens and everything that people do.
Nine out of ten of us...
Don't even know what racism was until we were accused of it.
All these horrible things supposedly happened in the past.
And if it was terrible, why support a party and ideology that continues to divide this nation along those lines?
If you want to go back and say 600 years of Columbus or American history, racist and tribalism, fine and dandy.
If you want to believe that kind of nonsense, then why support the Democrats?
Why be a liberal?
Liberal Democrats seek to divide this country, seek to tear down this culture.
So now you go to the House Ethics Committee all of a sudden it's racist.
The Congressional Black Caucus.
Let it be known on this day.
Actually, the stories are from yesterday.
Black members of the Congressional Black Caucus accusing Democrats in the House of being racist.
Everybody else is.
Why not them?
There was a story last November 3rd from the uh from the politico.
The House Ethics Committee currently investigating seven African American lawmakers, more than 15% of the total in the House, an eighth black member, Jesse Jackson Jr. would be under investigation if the DOJ hasn't asked the committee to stand down.
Not a single white lawmaker, currently the subject of a full scale ethics committee probe.
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