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Aug. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 25, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program rivet the nation.
The views of the host on this program hold this nation in a vice grips of wonderment and awe.
The piercing simple logic of common sense known as the Limbaugh Institute has people shaking their heads in stunned, oh yeah, why didn't I think of that?
Reactions.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Look, there's other stuff in the news.
There's politics out there, and I want to get to some of it today.
But just a couple of more things on all of this is I really do think, I'm going to try this when some time passes, just to test my theorem.
And that is, I'm going to come out against something that I would normally be for.
It'll just be between you and me.
Don't tell anybody.
Just to see the media's reaction and the left's reaction.
For example, I mean, I don't even have to do it.
All McCain has to do is come out and rip his own party.
They love him.
McCain tacks to the right of J.D. Hayworth.
Oh, too bad we've lost McCain.
What a horrible guy.
Remember for the first half hour when I endorsed Clinton back in 1993, they thought, whoa, Limbaugh may look at this.
They were excited about it.
I did my faux endorsement back in 1993.
Broadcast partners panicked.
They did.
People had tickets to the Russian Excellence Tour calling, threatening to burn them because I endorsed Clinton.
Now, a couple things here.
You remember when the Danes published a bunch of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in an unfavorable light?
Remember the outcry?
Virtually all the mainstream media refrained from publishing those cartoons.
We weren't allowed to see what the controversy was all about.
And the reason they gave was that publishing the cartoons would offend Muslim sensibilities and sensitivities.
And we don't want to offend the Muslims.
When's the last time they worried about offending you?
Thomas Jefferson was sent to Europe to deal with the Muslim Barbary Coast pirate problem before he even became president.
Would you like to know what Thomas Jefferson learned?
I'll tell you what he wrote.
Islam was founded on the laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them whenever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise.
This is what Thomas Jefferson learned before he even became president.
And Thomas Jefferson ended up going to war with the Muslims rather than pay them tribute.
The Barbary pirates.
So really, there isn't anything new here about what's new here is the leftist, the American left reaction.
And I really do think that I asked my question again.
Name to be the last time the American left went gaga over a religion.
When did they stand up for it?
Like it?
Encourage it?
They don't.
Oh, they might, you know, if the Reverend Jackson is sharp to say something from the pulpit, they might go along with that, but they don't.
But we are a bigger enemy.
American conservatism is a bigger enemy to the American left than any international threat that the country faces.
Interesting story.
Oh, by the way, I meant to print this out yesterday, and I thought I had, but I didn't, but I remember it.
Investors Business Daily has a story that thinking that the big Obama October surprise is going to be to announce massive tax cuts because the economic circumstances are such now that Geithner and what he's saying can't be followed through on.
I mean, the economy is sinking.
It is in bad, bad, bad shape.
And to raise taxes here would just be destructive to the point that not even Obama is interested in that much destruction that soon.
And I thought, now, this is interesting.
I don't know where this rumor is or where it started.
I don't know how widespread it is beyond people at Investors Business Daily.
But it is out there.
It's percolating.
October surprise, massive tax cuts.
Well, I don't believe it either.
I don't believe it either.
But we'll just have to wait and see.
Now, this is also kind of funny.
I have a story here from theHill.com.
Unemployed group blasts Geithner's handling of the economy.
Now, when the unemployed can't be bought off with taxpayer money, you know the Democrats are in deep doo-doo.
And that's what this story is all about.
It's a story about a group of unemployed Americans that have formed a union.
Unions are destroying entire state economies, and the workers who've lost jobs have formed a union in opposition.
Now, you cannot make this stuff up.
It is a union created to force the regime to provide jobs.
And to show their frustration, this jobless union picks on Timmy the tax cheat Geithner.
Not Barack Hoover Obama, but little Timmy.
Here's a quote: The pace of job losses is increasing.
And Secretary Geithner doesn't have a clue on how to end this grave recession, said Rick Sloan, the group's acting executive director, in prepared remarks.
Now, what does Geithner have to do with anything?
Why not single out the commerce secretary?
Who is the commerce secretary?
Who's the commerce secretary?
Who's the commerce department?
Oh, who is it that runs the weather department?
Who is Gary Locke?
Is it Gary?
Gary Gary Locke.
Oh, Gary Locke's the commerce secretary.
Why not single him out?
Here's the story.
Unemployed group blasts Geithner's handling of economy.
U-Cubed, a group representing unemployed and underemployed workers, sharply criticized Tim Geithner for his handling of the economy after the Labor Department last week announced that jobless claims had jumped up to $500,000.
Now, this is Scott Ott and the Onion getting scooped.
This is Jon Stewart getting ticked off.
He didn't break this story.
The Hill is reporting this straight-faced.
A new union group representing unemployed, underemployed workers sharply criticizing Geithner for his handling of the economy.
The Treasury Secretary is responsible for unemployment out there.
CBS Evening News ties an all-time low.
CBS Evening News Katie Couric, with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five-day rating period of last week.
The low was set last June when ABC News hit an also low, a new low.
The CBS executives are saying, well, we didn't hire Katie for ratings.
That's not what we're into here at CBS News, which is tantamount to saying, we don't care who watches.
We didn't put Katie Couric on the air to get viewers.
Now, of course, this is all BS.
Of course, they care about ratings.
It's the single most important measurement next to advertising revenue, and the two are inexorably related.
Unless you're CNN and have a bunch of advertising buyers in the basements, these media buyers who simply buy because there's a bunch of libs.
I mean, CNN, nobody's buying CNN to reach an audience.
They're buying CNN to prop them up and support them, but they're not buying CNN to reach potential buyers.
From the NBC Eyeball 4 web channel in New York, bagels are now being taxed.
Sliced bagels.
Albany began enforcing a little-known clause in its sales tax code.
It calls for a tax on sliced bagels or whole bagels consumed at the place of purchase.
When an audit found New York chain Bruegger's bagel in violation of this often unenforced clause, the state demanded that owner Kenneth Greene cough up a significant amount in taxes to cover what the state figured he owed, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Customers bristled at the additional charge.
It's eight cents a bagel.
There's a new sales tax at eight cents a bagel.
They blame the franchise for trying to squeeze every penny out of patrons in the tough economy.
Not blaming all, but they're blaming the bagel companies.
The backlash has prompted the owner to post signs near the cashiers explaining the cost increase.
The sign says New York State's requiring that all sliced bagels and all food eaten on our premises to be taxed.
We apologize for this change and share in your frustration on this additional tax.
Boy, am I glad I'm out of there.
And judging from the comments, they're glad I'm out of there.
They are, which shows you how they'll cut off their nose despite their face.
Some of the fastest commercial breaks in the history of radio today.
I don't know about you, but these commercial breaks are literally flying by out there.
By the way, Snowden, you were laughing at me.
I should have pointed out it is the ACLU, I'm sorry, the AFL-CIO trying to organize the unemployed.
I'm not kidding.
I'm sorry, the AFL-CIO is trying to organize the unemployed to vote is what this is really all about.
And of course, that's vote for Democrats.
Because they're blaming Bush.
This is all Bush's.
In fact, the CBO is out today.
You won't believe this.
You will not believe the CBO is out saying that the Obama regime has created 3.5 million jobs.
Obama's economic stimulus program created up to 3.3 million jobs according to the CBO.
That may have created or saved as many as 3.3 million jobs last quarter and lowered the unemployment rate by as much as 1.8 percentage points.
Now, to the extent that those of us in the country class see that, we just laugh at this.
This is preposterous.
And so don't tell us the CBO is nonpartisan.
Just don't tell us that.
We don't believe this.
There aren't any jobs being created at any time, much less 3.3 million of them in one quarter.
And would somebody tell me when did the unemployment rate drop?
If it had dropped 1.8%, it'd be below C. That'd be almost 8.8 or 8.9%.
You have to ask why people quit looking for jobs if this news is accurate.
Chad Ochocinko of the Cincinnati Bengals has been fined $25,000 for two violations, possessing an electronic device, i.e. a BlackBerry or an iPhone, and posting messages on Twitter during a preseason game against the Philadelphia Eagles on August the 20th.
There's a NFL rule, no Twittering 90 minutes prior to a game and during a game.
The preseason game, Chad Ochocinko, number 85 for the Cincinnati Bengals, was tweeting before the game.
It is.
It's a real rule.
At 9.53 p.m. he tweeted, man, I'm sick of getting hit like that.
It's a damn preseason.
One day I'm going to jump up.
I'm going to start throwing haymakers.
Number Tylenol, please, he tweeted.
I've been fined by the league a substantial amount of money for tweeting.
First time Twitter hasn't made me money.
Cost me money, he wrote.
But he apologized, said he won't do it again.
Dear NFL, I apologize for tweeting during the game, but that was two months of my Bugatti payment you just took from me.
I won't do it again.
Chad Ochosinko, he's a funny guy.
I mean, there's no, he's hilarious.
But look, I understand the league on that.
I really, this, this tweet business, one thing about sports, you remember when Dusty Baker, I think, was the general manager of the Giants as a playoff game, and his little five-year-old was a bat boy and nearly got creamed, picking up a bat when the opposing team was about to score on a bang-bang play at the plate.
The kid could have been creamed.
And one of the Giants players had to scoop the kid up, get him out of the way during a live baseball game.
Now, the football field, a baseball field is a stage.
And what goes on there is it's got to have some mystique to it.
You know, believe me, folks, one of the major reasons for the success of the National Football League has been that they have been able to create a huge mystique, an almost superhuman image about its players.
Injuries to these guys are treated as state secrets.
It's as though these players are never seen by anybody except on the field.
They don't have normal lives.
They're never seen in a grocery store limping after a practice in which they might have tweaked an ACL or something.
It's been the most amazing thing to me to watch as a media figure.
And somebody who understands this, it has been fascinating to watch the success the National Football League has had in creating this aura of mystique around the people who play the game.
And part of that mystique is making sure the players do not portray themselves as common, ordinary, everyday.
They're special.
They're supposed to be special.
And if they start tweeting from the sideline, it's essentially giving up the game, giving up the ghost.
It's essentially removing the curtain, taking the mask away from what people don't know.
You're always more interested in what you don't know than what you do know.
And if what you don't know about somebody is what keeps you interested in them, and then you learn something about them that you really wish you didn't know, and they lose a little luster.
That's what the league's concerned about.
It is why, folks, it's why they're you wouldn't believe the numbers of people in this audience who are obsessed with information about members of my staff.
Nothing is known about Snerdley other than occasionally what he says is the official Obama criticizer.
But beyond that, he's this mythical person.
He's there, he exists, but who is Snerdley?
There's all kinds of you wouldn't believe how many people want to know about staff.
Well, of course, it's always better if you don't know because everybody's human and everybody has failings.
So I understand why the league, I understand why the league wants to keep Chad Ochosinko and his gang not tweeting on the sideline.
You know, tweet after the game is a bit, but on the sideline, that's just taking the mystique away.
So I understand, but Chad's got a little rush bombast him.
Okay, you just cost me two Bugatti payments here, League.
I apologize.
I won't do it again.
I don't think I've ever met, or I don't know him, I don't think I've ever run into anybody who enjoys being fined any more than Chad Ochosenko does.
He's turned fines into an art form.
And we'll be back and continue.
Speaking of that, I know I never thought that I would ever hear about an NFL player tweeting.
Talk about the feminization of America.
I never thought I'd hear about an NFL player tweeting.
Did you, Brian?
Think Mike Allstadt would tweet.
Joe in Brooklyn, as we go back to the phones, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, yes.
Hi, Rush.
Great to be here.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I would love to discuss with you the Tea Party think about the Tea Party.
We know we are now in a bad shape, America.
We are under a bad regime, and we have to take back our country.
So we have the Tea Party backing conservative candidates, and I like the Tea Party, and I'm also a Conservative.
But I can't understand why the Tea Party backing some candidates what don't have real chances in November when a fact you have against this candidate also true conservative.
Let's take about Kentucky.
We had the Trey Grayson and we had the Rand Paul.
Trey Grayson is a loyal, solid conservative.
But the Tea Party went to back Rand Paul, and he is a little controversial, so the Democrats have to play it.
And the same is in Nevada.
Danita Kenya was a loyal conservative.
We go to back Sharon Engel to hurt our chances.
And maybe that's now in Alaska, too.
Lisa Murkowski against Joan Wheeler.
So why don't they backing this candidate?
When you're taking Mark Kirk and you're taking Mike Castle, they are I know that that's understand.
What's bad with Trey Grayson?
Trey Grayson will win with a landslide.
Now Rand Paul is tight with Jack Conway.
What happened to this, Rush?
Here's what I think about this.
I think that the nobody's perfect.
Nobody makes every decision correctly.
But I think there's an overriding thing here that is guiding the Tea Party, and that is it is axiomatic and automatic they're fed up with Democrats and the left, but they're also fed up with the same old, same old from the Republican Party.
They are not Republicans.
They are conservatives, and they have very specific objectives.
Smaller government, lower taxes, property rights, liberty, freedom, so forth and so on.
And they are people who have become exhausted with the notion that a Republican is substantially different from a Democrat just because of the label.
These are people who look at what people say, stand for, and claim they're going to do, because a lot of Republicans have claimed to be conservative during campaigns, and they've gotten to Washington and they throw it away and they have to decide a Tea Party is made up of people who are just not going to take it at face value any longer.
If you notice also, according to our media masters, it's a good thing for liberal Democrats to be associated with defending the Ground Zero mosque.
Speaking of the Tea Party, it's a terrible thing for the GOP to be associated with the Tea Party, but it's a great thing for liberal Democrats to be associated with defending the Ground Zero mosque.
Now, somebody, you know, you want your question answered.
Somebody explained this to me.
How can it be a terrible thing for the Republicans to be associated with the Tea Party, but a good thing for liberals to be associated with defending the Ground Zero Hamas?
I think the, you know, you're also falling prey, I think, to a lot of media criticism of these Tea Party people.
You know, it's, what do you know about Sharon Angle in Nevada other than what the media is saying about that?
They're saying Rand Paul's a kook and a creep and all this sort of.
So you buy it.
Too many people are still prisoners to what I call the media masters or the drive-by state-controlled media, partisan political operatives, disguised media, fake media, whatever you want to call them.
This is I admire the Tea Party in one sense, well, in many ways.
You know, we for the longest time have been denouncing Republicans in name only.
We have been saying that you're not doing us any good.
You know, just because you're Republican doesn't mean that you're any better than the average Democrat.
And this has inspired people to run for office who are not professional candidates.
They're not professional political people.
But they love the country and they're willing to risk the loss of privacy and all of the media anal exams they get to put into belief and put into action the things they believe.
They come along and they run for office and people start running them down, particularly on the Republican side in the media.
I think a lot of it is simply due to the fact that they'll tell us who they fear.
It's just as simple as that.
Their attitude is, what good is electing a Republican who's not going to, he's going to end up being a McCain?
What good is it?
It doesn't make any difference.
And that's, in fact, it's harmful.
And we don't need any more of that.
This is a crossroads moment in time for the country as far as the Tea Party people are concerned.
This is it.
It's not romper room.
It's not playground.
It's not politics as usual.
And that's how I would answer your question.
Tom in Houston, you're next on the Rush Lindbaugh program.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to call and tell you you were exactly right about the oil in the Gulf.
And I worked for a major oil company for many years.
You're talking about the microbes that eat the stuff alive that just been discovered.
Yes.
Recently?
The refinery I worked at, which is a very, very large refinery down here in Houston, has about a 350-acre pond.
The wastewater that came out of the refinery was skimmed of oil, anything that was floating, but there's still saturated oil in the water.
There's lots of oil in the water.
We put that, again, about 22 million gallons of water a day saturated with oil out into the lagoon and put it through an aeration basin just to mix a lot of air in with it.
And then the bacteria take over, both aerobic bacteria and anaerobic bacteria.
And they basically take this stuff, convert it to methane, and convert it to CO2.
And we had great, very pure water going out the back end that actually goes into the Houston Ship Channel.
And this was a system that was put in in these early 40s for this refinery.
Let me ask you a question.
I'm not being funny.
It's going to sound funny.
I remember growing up, very young kid in Missouri, watching, I guess it was Texacallaby Shell Oil Commercials in Houston.
And there were pictures of a wildlife refuge with deer and antelope and running all around, healthy as they could be.
And the oil company said this is happening because of the great care we are taking in bringing oil to market and refining it and so forth.
Is this kind of what you're talking about, the process that is involved in making that water clean, pure as the wind-driven snow after it's gone through all of this refining process?
Yes.
As a matter of fact, at the outfall of this refinery, it was not unusual to go down there and see lots of fish feeding on the algae we were putting out into the ship channel because the water was so clean.
Algae was growing in our lagoons, and then other fish feeding on the, on the uh, on the fish feeding on the algae, you know so.
It was a very active wildlife, wait a minute.
But you said you you um, you said methane.
Right yes, it means you're con you're.
You're converting this to co2.
Yes well, you don't want the global warmers to hear about it.
You're calling here to go environmental services.
They're going to consider you polluters.
It's the same thing that happens at every uh wa uh, solid waste disposal site, in every garbage dump in every city.
Well except yeah, most of them.
That's true.
Yeah, it's it.
Basically, it's all carbon based and all gets converted to methane.
Right, some of the bacteria will actually eat the methane and release co2.
Is this the stuff i'm seeing serious?
I remember somebody saying that we needed to feed cows.
Something that would, that would.
Uh, is there any relation to that that would eliminate methane?
Um no, I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, I know they're so paranoid about this.
I remember there was an additive they were thinking of giving to cattle to get rid of them.
I kid you not, I mean they're paranoid about it.
Well good look, I well.
The other thing is you've got all the wave action out there to oxygenate all this stuff.
So you know it's a perfect environment to digest all this stuff exactly.
It's no different to running a boat, the propeller oxygenates the water.
That's why it foams up out there.
It's all good.
It's all good pleasure, go ahead.
No, it's a pleasure to talk with you.
Well, thank you very much.
This is another vote for me.
I ought to be nominated Nobel Uh Prize For Science.
Cutting Edge here.
Folks, everything I told you after this oil spill has come to pass.
And uh, the last science course I took, I think, was in the ninth grade, if I even remember.
Either way, the next media crisis, let me find it in here.
Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, here it is.
Here it is.
You see this story?
When this story, let me get August, it was yesterday.
From the Associated Press, watch out for Yellowstone bears.
They are hungry.
Right now, every goddang dead cow down in this country has got grizzlies on them.
That's the quote in the story.
Said Mark Bracino, a bear specialist with a Wyoming game and the fish department in Cody.
We've already had a couple of reports of bears on a gut piles.
A hunter killed elk.
Road-killed deer have bears on them.
Sounds like an efficient way to clean up the mess to me, but these people are complaining about it.
Now, when I see a headline like this, watch out for Yellowstone bears.
They're hungry.
Bears have been in Yellowstone for how long?
Forever.
And bears are wherever they happen to be.
What?
Hungry.
And bears, I mean, we've even seen TV come with bears try to eat Volkswagens.
If they can't get into the Volkswagen to find out what's in there, they'll eat the car.
They'll try to.
I mean, they get it.
It's nothing new.
There's nothing new about bears being hungry.
There's nothing new about bears eating.
So why the story?
Well, that is why I am your host.
This is why you listen to this program.
The answer, there aren't enough shark attacks this year.
And so the media, they have to keep you all uptight.
They have to keep you scared to death.
They have to keep a crisis up there.
There haven't been any hurricanes.
Damn it.
The hurricanes that have formed have gone nowhere.
I've even had a lie about hurricanes becoming hurricanes, tropical storms.
One story even blaming global warming for all the grizzlies attacking people because they're hungry.
Imagine that.
All this means to me is there aren't enough hurricanes and there aren't enough shark attacks out there.
And so in the media playbook, it says this time of year, you got to have a scare story and there isn't one out.
So let's talk about hungry bears might eat you if you go to Yellowstone.
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Now, this story here in the Wall Street Journal today, another illustration of how I'm on the cutting edge and how they are after me.
Just the other day, I got smoking what people thought was a cigarette in here.
And I got a couple emails.
Hey, you know, you forgot to turn off the camera and your secrets out.
People see you puffing away.
And I said, that's not a cigarette.
It is an e-cigarette.
It's an electronic cigarette.
And I held it up here.
This happens to be one from Volcano in Hawaii.
The others I use are iSmokeEverywhere.org.
I use two different kinds.
But they're made up of three parts: an atomizer, a battery, and a cartridge.
And a cartridge has liquid that has nicotine in it.
And when you suck on it, the battery powers the atomizer and turns the liquid into a vapor.
It looks like you're smoking it, nicotine delivery, but there's no flame and there's no tobacco and there's no carcinogen.
And the nicotine comes in different flavors, pineapple, watermelon, coconut, chocolate, coffee, apple, what have you.
And so I was talking about it.
And it's a way of, you know, stopping using tobacco products and emulating smoking.
Lo and behold, look at this Wall Street Journal: e-cigarettes spark new smoking war.
It's all about how the FDA wants to, in fact, they have been intercepting shipments of these products, the ones that are made overseas as they come in.
And a lot of people want to now have the FDA inspect these, conduct trials and tests and make sure they're safe and regulate them because they quote unquote a drug delivery system, i.e., nicotine in the cartridge.
And lo and behold, I stumble across something on the cutting edge, and within days I learn they're trying to shut down the product.
Don't you hate it when that happens to you now?
Who could possibly be behind trying to shut down the e-cigarette business?
Who could possibly be behind this?
Well, yeah, big tobacco could be behind it.
And maybe big drug.
I mean, big drug makes nicotine gum and other products.
So who can maybe be behind this?
One of these I have no ill effects.
They're fun.
And I don't smoke cigarettes.
People tell me they're cheaper than cigarettes.
And I know I have not quit smoking cigars.
I'm just cutting back here.
That's all.
But these things actually taste good.
But it's just, it's just typical.
Every new way to express your freedom, let somebody in the government find out about it.
Well, no, I can't say my e-nicotine stained fingers because there aren't any stains.
There are no, oh, yeah.
Break.
Oh, yeah.
I'll tell you, states and the feds rely a lot on cigarette taxes, too.
And there aren't any, I don't know what the state tax on these cigs is, but it's nothing special, just sales tax.
That could be one of the reasons, too.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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