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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 Limboa, on the 22nd anniversary of the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 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, is strip it down to its bare essence.
Ethics are racist.
Well, I mean, what else can it mean?
ethics are racist why why why why does this happen in the first place why Why?
I mean, here you got Maxine Waters and her husband, Sidney, in an auto dealership, whatever it was.
Wrangel.
I mean, there's no question what Wrangell did.
General Dinkins had some problems in New York.
I mean, 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 primetime was a speech by the then mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Berry.
The theme of Marion Berry'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 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'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 Judge Henry Hudson has refused to dismiss Virginia's challenge to Obamacare, which challenges the individual mandate.
This is 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 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 pretty big decision, and it's going to have ramifications throughout the legal profession.
President Raul Castro has expanded self-employment fields, did so yesterday ahead of looming government plans to slash as many as 1 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, go for it.
You want to be an entrepreneur, it's up to you.
Go for it.
95% 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 Soviet Union blew up, they lost their $5 billion 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 $5 billion 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 cigar just went to hell.
It's just 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 Vienna 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 now it's just gotten even worse.
And yet we have people telling us that the model of the healthcare system.
And we have Hollywood actors and actresses telling Cuba.
That's the model.
They honestly say this.
And everybody can read down there.
They've got a great education system.
Everybody can read.
They've got health care.
Frankly, it's absurd.
And all of this is mouthed and uttered by people who think this country is horrible.
Who think this country is, 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.
Well, if he could just change that.
I know it's a pipe dream, wishful thinking.
25% of the workers, one-fourth, are going to be fired.
And Raul Castro says it's going to 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?
I tell you, we could get rid of 25% of Washington and not lose a thing.
But imagine we're going to do it carefully in Cuba.
We're going to 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 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 neoliberal cutbacks.
We ought to do this in Washington.
Is Obama best suited for his job?
Obviously not out there, ladies and gentlemen.
There's an amazing piece, Investors Business Daily, that 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 bluebloods.
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 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 bluebloods.
Quick timeout.
Your phone calls next as well, right after this.
There's a little blurb from a media website, Media8, which Dan Abrams started, MSNBC.
Sidney Harmon by Newsweek, Sidney Harmon, the businessman behind one of the world's largest stereo equipment companies, Hutch Harmon Cardin, is buying Newsweek.
You know who his wife is?
Jane Harmon.
Jane Harmon, a Democrat, not really close budget with Pelosi, you know.
Pelosi tried to edge her out of committee.
But Jane Harmon's husband, Sidney, has now purchased Newsweek from the Washington Post.
So we can say that 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 equal mindset of everybody in the Obama administration.
I'll tell you what we have to do about this being 107 days.
We have to be active.
We have to actively 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.
That's the brilliant Lady Gaga performing Saturday in Phoenix in support of the opposition to the Arizona immigration bill.
By the way, a Mexican drug cartel has apparently just put a $1 million bounty on Joe Arpaio.
A $1 million bounty on the head of Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been placed by a Mexican drug cartel.
So there you have it.
Lady Gaga.
To the phones we go.
Jerry in Cookville, Tennessee.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Congratulations on 22 years.
Thank you, sir.
Being the number one all-time most influential broadcaster and on your recent wedding rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
To deal 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, Rush?
Hey, you know something, Rush?
I ran into Andy Griffith about 35 years ago in San Pedro, California.
That's in the South Bay area.
There was a clock shop down by Point Frima Park.
And me and some friends were down by the store down there, and he came pulling up in a dirty, beat-up Rolls-Royce with all 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, didn't even say a word to us.
I mean, it was like, you know, we were a bunch of paparazzi wanting to take pictures of him.
So I knew the guy was a phony 35 years ago.
Well, I don't think it's well known, but Andy Griffith is a well-known leftist.
Oh, yeah.
Andy Griffith, a well-known leftist, and really he's got a reputation for being nasty.
What you experienced is not uncommon.
I mean, it's, I guess it's not well known because of his characters that he's played on TV.
I know he let Otis out of jail all the time.
It's a perfect example of a leftist.
Otis, constantly drunk.
Oh, Griffith campaigned for Obama.
Do you people not remember this?
Oh, yeah.
Andy Griffith campaigned for Obama.
In fact, here is Andy Griffith for Obamacare.
Back in 1984, the Democrats tried to get Andy Griffith to run against Jesse Helms.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
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 isolating here making things up.
Be a good cracker.
A good cracker.
Talk about good crackers or rich cracker commercials.
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.
But if we that work for a union are considered union workers, then maybe you would be considered a lawyer employee because you have a lawyer to represent you in a contract.
Ah, yeah, what?
You know how you always say unions are this and unions are that?
In fact, you were just talking about unions.
The working class is 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?
A lawyer, what?
A lawyer employee.
You mean a lawyer employee versus a union employee.
You don't put blind faith into the company that you work for or employ you that they're going to treat you properly and pay you correctly.
My employees do.
You have a union.
No, no, there's a difference.
My employees do.
And after, I do have a lawyer, my brother, who, I mean, 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 and your pay.
I pay for my own benefits.
Right, but you still have a lawyer to ensure that they're there.
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, 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 there's something in writing to represent you and to protect yourself.
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, when I criticize unions, I'm not criticizing the rank and file.
Ranked 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.
I'm talking about members of the Communist Party USA.
I'm talking about people getting in bed with people like Acorn.
I'm talking about liberal Democrat socialists.
And wherever you find a major problem in the American economy today, you're going to find a union somewhere involved.
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.
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 a contract.
Right, not 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.
Go out buy yourself a small cake and celebrate.
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This last caller was really amazing.
How many of you let a lawyer negotiate your job?
If unions cared so much about their rank and file, why are they all for amnesty?
And 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 fealty, loyalty to the rank and file?
My lawyer, my lawyer is not using me to acquire big power for himself.
And when I am not happy, I don't shut down talk radio.
To try to compare.
Well, I know I could, but I don't.
That's the point.
I don't shut down talk radio.
But I would never think to do it.
My lawyer does not represent all of the talk show hosts.
He represents me.
has some other clients not big but he's got a few I don't have to have a lawyer as a condition of my work or as I own the enterprise I don't have to have a lawyer I'm not even an employee I am a business partner I I pay what
Well no, I did.
He say that.
Oh, he said that I don't trust my company.
That's why I have a lawyer to make sure I get paid fairly, because I don't trust 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, I'd have to think back over all 22 years, but I don't think that I've ever shortchanged myself.
I really, I really don't.
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 and I, you know, I pay my lawyer for the work that is done.
I don't pay him any dues every year and he's not free to take my dues that I don't pay and support political causes I disagree with.
My lawyer does not negotiate health care benefits and pensions that are so impossible to meet that my partner is going to 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 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 thoughts based on the template the narrative out there of me as mean-spirited braggadocious 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 going to oppose it
Liberalism tries to hide in some of the most touchy feelings, like animal rights movements and women's rights and so forth.
Wherever there is liberalism, you're going to find me leading the move against it.
It's poison.
The only socialism I support is 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, Rush, thank you I.
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 Madlock.
Whatever was the name, Madlock, that Andy Griffith plays.
But anyway, Snerdley 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.
You have made the statement that we've 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 600 years of the history of this country?
The first 600 years of the history of this country.
1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blues.
Yeah.
That would be about 600 years.
I didn't realize that Columbus was one of our founding fathers and signed the Declaration of Independence.
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 going to argue that point with you.
I'm telling you, you were wrong because this country was tribal.
When we got here, it was tribal.
And, you know, the fact that you could ever be called as a race.
Is this my anniversary present, Sterley?
Yeah.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
600 years of American history has been tribal.
Well, how about the American Indian?
Indigenous people, Rush.
You forgot about those?
No, of course not.
They were at one nation.
You think that North America just sprung up in 1770?
You've even misunderstanding what I said last week.
I said the Democrats and liberals are trying.
No, no, no.
I said they are tribal.
Here is what I want to listen to what I said?
Yes, sir, but break out the transcript.
I've got it right here.
I said this regime is tribalizing this country.
They are dividing this country.
I said this had never ever been tribalized.
What did the Indians do?
Did they not live in tribes?
I said, no, no, you're making it to stand up.
Oh, Michigan.
You want to listen to what I said.
All right, I'm listening, right?
It's not just enough to say that they are dividing us.
They are tribalizing the country.
And so are you every day, my friend?
You talk about it from hours on end.
What?
You're keeping it in the forefront of everything you say or do.
Arizona?
I said, Arizona, got to.
Yeah, let's go with you.
Really, I'm not sure.
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, Asians American, Hispanic Americans, illegal Americans, undocumented Democrats.
They divide us up biracially, by racism, by tribes.
And the whole distinct American culture did away with the tribalness.
Yeah, we had the various ancestral immigrants from various countries that immigrated here, but they became Americans.
There's a distinct American culture.
And that culture is under assault and it's under attack.
I don't know what you're so mad about.
This is happy anniversary, Sterling.
I mean, way to go.
Really, a cool day on the phones out there.
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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, I like that was just a pristine example of colossal willful ignorance.
Well, really.
But really, what is going to happen with the Congressional Black Caucus?
Because, I mean, are they really going to complain about there not being any white congressional people being investigated?
Or are they going to continue with their, you know, double standard?
I mean, what's going to happen here?
Well, we have two stories on this.
One is from the Washington Post.
Headline, ethics probes of Wrangell, 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 racists.
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 confirmed 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, Wrangell 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 Wrangel could cause a rift between Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrat leaders.
Wow.
I mean, my friends, 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, 20 in the Black Caucus ask for curbs on the ethics office.
20 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 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, stories are from yesterday.
Black members, 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 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.
The Democrats in the House are only investigating black members in terms of ethics violations.
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