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Sept. 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
I got all kinds of emails during the break here.
Well, what's the big deal about Obama's pace of speaking?
What's the big deal?
I'll tell you what the big deal about it is, if it had been Reagan, if it had been Reagan or Bush that was talking like right now, the media would have doctors, psychiatrists, and he'd be exploring what is medically wrong with the president.
That's why.
No!
I'm not suggesting there's anything medically wrong.
That's for you to do.
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No, if Reagan had been, uh, hell, if they'd had a teleprompter in a press conference for crying out loud, particularly Reagan.
We'd have the dementia people on there.
We'd have the Alzheimer's people on there.
We'd have all kinds of people with the media exploring what's wrong with the president.
We may be looking at the 22nd Amendment being invoked here.
Maybe it's time for Vice President Biden.
That kind of thing.
I want to go back this healthcare answer that Obama gave because that's stunning.
Hey, we never said they're going to be free.
This is from May 11th of this year.
Sorry, 2009.
May 11th, 2009, the middle of trying to sell Obamacare.
A coalition of U.S. healthcare groups pledged on Monday to help President Obama reign in the growth in costs and save about $2 trillion over the next decade, a step the administration hopes will build support to reform the system this year.
Obama invited several large trade groups, including the American Medical Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association, to discuss ringing savings from the healthcare system.
Yeah, right.
I have to also let Drudge has his picture up there on this whole Koran business.
And they got a picture of some militant Afghanistan guys going nuts.
And the caption is, thousands of Afghans protest Quran burning plans.
I don't know.
It made me laugh just at the picture.
I mean, here we've got a guy with 50 people in the church, 50 congregants, and somehow thousands in Afghanistan are rioting over this.
Now, I know that they are.
It's a religion of peace.
I know that they are, but I mean, just, did you see how this is all manufactured?
This is all, all this news is manufactured.
And everybody just, you know, falls in lockstep with it.
Reuters headline, Obama says health overhaul could save trillions.
And now today in a press conference, Dominic Eric says it's going to be free.
You can't add 32 million people on the margins to health care.
Costs go down.
Everybody knew that.
What?
Yeah, we all knew it, but you denied it.
Here's the New York Times article on that Korean protest in Afghanistan.
Here's how it ended.
The demonstrations were lightly attended for the most part, although officials in Kapisa Province said a crowd of 10,000 gathered there on Thursday.
Television footage, however, showed only a few hundred.
And government officials there said the protest was organized by people connected to the governor who had earlier been the target of an American-supported anti-corruption investigation.
So now all this, it's a random mob, and it's all being linked by the media to this preacher in Gainesville.
Does anybody really believe?
I've been to Afghanistan.
Believe me, they don't know what's going on in Gainesville, Florida, in Kabul.
They don't know out where the warlords live.
They don't know in the poppy fields what's going on.
They don't know about Gainesville, Florida.
And if they've heard of it, they don't know what's going on there on a day-to-day basis.
And yet, we're told that they're rioting and protesting.
And it turns out it has nothing to do with this at all.
So here we are in Obamaville.
Obamaville, Hooverville, whatever you wish to call it.
I have a website.
There's no way.
I'll have to send this link up to Coco Jr. because Coco Sr. is on vacation this week.
But I'll have to send this link.
It's from the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration 2010 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees.
There's three pages of them here.
The Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters in Albany, $85,000.
Casa Latina, Seattle, $85,000.
The Center for Human Services in Bethesda, Maryland, $85,000.
Clergy and Laity, United for Economic Justice, California, $85,000.
Now stick with me on this.
Farm Worker Legal Services of New York in Rochester, $85,000.
Hispanic Resource Center of Larchmont and Mamaronick in New York, $85,000.
Lake Sumter Community College.
The grantee will assess worker needs and develop a training program on safe patient handling and movement practices for student nurses and health care providers in a three-county area in Florida, $85,000.
Make the Road New York Inc.
This is going to conduct a needs assessment to identify workplace hazards in small businesses located in New York City, $85,000.
Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus, $85,000.
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, $85,000.
It's all OSHA grants.
Then you get down to American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation, $220,000.
Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, $180 grand.
California Rural Legal Assistance, San Francisco, $225,000.
Casa de Maro.
It goes on.
Three pages of these.
Farm Worker Justice, El Centro Humanitario parlos trabajores in Denver, Idaho State University, a bunch of unions, New Jersey AFL-CIO, the National Labor College.
All these are $225,000 to $200,000 to $180,000.
SEIU Service Employees International Union in Washington, the Education and Support Fund, 215 grand.
Now, what does all this add up to?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your tax dollars.
This is your tax dollars, and it's all being parceled out by this administration behind the scenes.
Nobody knows anything about it.
You don't know anything about it.
This is nothing more than vote buying.
This is simple redistribution of wealth.
It's coming from OSHA.
Nobody ever votes on any of this stuff.
These are not even earmarks.
This is just the administration passing out goodies like this.
And it's all your money.
It's all our money.
What does any of this have to do with the middle class, with working people, or other titles given to Americans by the government?
If an inventory were done of every federal grant and contract and the billions and billions of our tax dollars that are being doled out to these groups and causes, there would be an uprising.
More than we're seeing going on today.
If people knew about this, this is just OSHA, one little department of the labor department.
Three pages, the 2010 Susan Harwood grant awarding, we're giving money away to left-wing causes, left-wing groups, unions, and so forth.
Around half of all money budgeted for the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, is used in grants and contracts, most of which goes to left-wing groups and causes.
This is the Department of Labor.
Imagine what's going on at Health and Human Services and HUD, Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, and all that.
I mean, this is how the left systematically spreads the wealth to all of their groups.
This is why they want to get control of government.
This is why they want to populate it.
They want to get their hands on the public treasury.
This is how they live.
This is how they're supporting themselves.
They're not doing any work.
They're just siphoning off the work we all do.
And now we don't have the money to pay them any of this.
We're in debt up to our eyeballs.
We're still giving away the money.
Most of these OSHA grants, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, you go through the list, a lot of them are fronts for groups helping illegal immigrants.
If you go through all three pages of this, the 2010 Susan Harwood grant awardees, many of them, most of them have some tie to illegal immigrants and how they're trying to be supported or how they are being supported.
And yet, what's the media focus?
Where do we hear about all the waste and fraud in government?
The Pentagon, right?
The Department of Defense.
We don't hear about where this kind of money goes, these domestic departments and agencies.
Obama's cronies, thousands of them now in the federal bureaucracy, are writing all these regulations and rules, not only for doling out grants and contracts to their friends, but putting rules in place in these agencies from quota systems to green agendas and all the rest.
My only point here is that the extent of the damage being done in Washington has yet to really be measured or exposed because most of it occurs out of our view like this stuff does.
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Okay, to the phones, we have Evan in Cocksacky, New York.
Is that right?
Welcome.
Evan, you're 15 years old, it says here.
Yep.
I'm offering you a part ownership in my fantasy football team.
Part ownership of your fantasy football.
Well, that is very nice.
At least to have an ownership stake in some team in a football league.
Yes.
And it's called, I have Elon Manning as my main quarterback, and I need a backup, so I was thinking I can pick up Donovan McNabb.
Backup.
Let me ask you how your fantasy league worked, because you know something, Evan?
I was among the first in the country to do fantasy football back in the late 70s.
That's with pencil and paper, right?
You used pencil and paper like they.
Yeah, well, I used an IBM typewriter.
I was the commish of the PFL, a paper football league.
And I typed up the monthly newsletter.
And we got the idea.
There was a magazine back then called Inside Sports.
And on the cover of the issue that explained fantasy football was a picture of Bum Phillips, then coach of the Houston Oilers.
They just traded for Kenny Stabler.
Everybody's saying Stabler's arm was shot.
And Bum Phillips.
No, no, we're going to be fine here.
We're finally going to find a way to beat the Steelers.
But we started fantasy football.
There were five of us.
My team was the Limball Laxatives because my front office was considered full of it.
We had a team like the Amond Amoebas, named after the number of brain cells of that owner.
And it was the most fun.
We stayed in that league until I moved to Sacramento in 1983, and that blew the league up.
So I am totally, I don't do fantasy football now, but I loved it.
I absolutely adored that.
Here's the way we had, we draft 25 players.
We had a big draft in August after the last cuts had been made.
And we did it at a bar.
And then every Saturday at noon, this is before Thursday night games.
So every Saturday at noon, you had to activate 12 players.
We didn't do defense.
Three quarterbacks, three receivers, four receivers, a kicker, and so forth and so on.
And back then, what was fascinating about it, Evan, with the injury report.
Maybe the paper published it on Friday.
Maybe it didn't.
I remember George Rogers of the Saints was on my team.
I remember calling a beat writer for the New Orleans Times-PikiU and asking, is this guy's knee?
Is he going to play?
That's how we had to do it.
That's how we had to find out about injuries.
But now all this stuff is all over the internet.
But we were, I mean, we were real sleuths back then.
I wish I had kept some of these newsletters that I typed up after every week's action in the paper football league.
So how many guys are in your league, and how does your league work?
There's 12 people in our league, and I have, it's called, you get one quarterback, three wide receivers.
There's a position where you can play.
Now, do you have you have these players for the whole season, or do you activate them from a pool of players each week?
Actually, we had our draft last Wednesday.
You draft the players each year.
And then you keep them for a year, and you can pick up people and drop them.
Can you trade?
Can you trade among owners?
Yeah, you do that.
Oh, yeah, we had that, too.
But you can only activate one quarterback a week?
Yeah, you can one quarterback.
Now, how do you score?
Do you get points for every touchdown pass, bonus points for a 300-yard game, stuff like that?
You get six points per touchdown.
Is a touchdown pass zero to 49 yards with five points?
50 yards plus was 10.
300-yard passing day was 10 bonus points.
Yeah, it's actually for quarterbacks, it's one point per 20 yards.
Okay, there's variations on this.
Yeah, and like with running backs, it's a bigger one.
But you can only activate one quarterback every week.
Yeah, well, different leagues are different.
Like, some of them are two, some of them.
Well, I know, but the league you're in, you're going.
Look, I got to take a break here.
Can you hang on to the break?
Yeah.
You got some things wrong when you're in the league here.
I need to fix you.
It's Open Line Friday, El Rush Ball, the Stick to the Issues crowd having a cow about now.
Not even talking real football, talking fantasy football with Evan, 15 years old from Cocksacky, New York.
Evan, I have to say I was amused by your first question asking me if I did my league with the pencil and paper like a stone and chisel to you.
You need to have more quarterbacks activated every week.
Why do you even want McNabb on the team if you can only activate one quarterback?
You've got Eli Manning.
You can only activate one.
Well, you need somebody to keep it.
Well, there's actually people on the bench.
So that way, if somebody gets injured, you don't have to like, because during the draft, you draft people for the bench in case either like they get, like the other guy in front of them gets injured, so they start.
So then you get their points.
Well, yeah, I understand the injuries and all that.
But, I mean, for crying out loud, I just think it'd be more fun if you'd end up...
By the way, I was not advocating that your league conduct your draft in the bar.
Yeah.
I don't know any parents misunderstanding that one either.
Parents probably don't know half what these kids are doing.
Never mind.
The point is you need to have more, you can have more fun with more players activated every week.
If you have more points, it's like inflation.
Less valuable.
Well, no, it's not like how much are you playing for?
What do you, if you win the league, if you win your league at the end of the year, how much money do you win?
About $0.
It's just for fun.
Oh, do you don't have any money involved?
Oh, no, no.
Very, very, very healthy.
Very, very healthy.
Did you happen to watch Evans?
Your parents let you watch Hard Knocks on HBO, Training Camp of New York Jets.
No, actually, my dad doesn't like the Jets.
You don't like the Jets?
No.
Oh, your dad doesn't like the Jets.
The Rams are my favorite team.
The Rams are your favorite team.
No wonder you want to offer me an ownership slot on your team.
Well, it's very sweet of you.
I'm flattered.
And if there were money involved, I would invest.
But since there's no money involved, I mean, how can I literally own anything?
Yes.
Well, keep us.
So who's your team?
When do you have to activate your team for Sunday?
So basically, you have to for you have to set your roster basically each week.
And so up to 15 minutes before it kickoff for that one player that you have on.
15 minutes for kickoff.
Oh, you can like say.
See, we had to do it noon Saturday.
We were hardly.
Even at that point, some of these deadbeat owners would forget to activate and screw everything all up.
We'd have to use last week's roster.
Wait, how would they activate?
They'd call me.
Oh, they'd call you.
Yeah, there was no, we had computers back then.
They were talking in the 70s.
They would call me and I would keep the list.
I was the commish.
It was called paper and pencil.
You had it right the first time.
And we'd have to wait.
We had to wait till Monday in the newspapers to find out the scoring because there was no internet with game summaries.
So we had to wait till Sunday or till Monday until all the box scores were published.
So did you, basically at the beginning of the season, did you draft like your players or every week did you pick each player?
We did not draft every week.
We drafted a team at the beginning of the season, 25 players.
And out of those 25, we activated 11 every season.
That's how we accounted for injuries.
And we made trades up to the trading day.
We had some real dippy owners.
I was able to really rape a couple, screw a couple guys in some trades.
It was funny.
It was just, it was, you have a blast doing it this way, Evan.
You didn't really have a blast doing it this way.
And was there any scandals in your league?
We're like.
Oh, with our owners?
Yeah.
Yeah.
In fact, more so with the owners in our league than the players back then.
Oh, really?
Yeah, we had scandals with the owners.
People saying they own players and stuff.
I mean, look, I was working for the Kansas City Royals once.
I got caught during the middle of baseball season in September.
We're in the playoffs or getting ready to go to the playoffs.
You know, I'm in charge of ceremonial first pitches and national anthem singers, and I got caught typing the paper football league newsletter rather than devoting my attention to first ball ceremonies and so forth.
I got reprimanded by the Royals.
Man, it wasn't really a scandal.
They said, you better make up your mind.
You're like, baseball or football?
Because the Chiefs are right across the parking lot.
Yeah.
Anyway, Evan, well, I hope you have fun with this.
I really, just my take, is this a league on ESPN?
Is this a league just among friends of yours on your computer?
It's actually on Yahoo.
Oh, it's Yahoo.
Yeah, yeah.
It's on Yahoo.
So you personally may not own or know all the other owners in your league.
Yeah, I actually know like two of them, three of them or four.
So.
Okay.
Have you met them?
Yeah, actually, four of them I know.
Like one of them is my brother, the other one is my dad, and then two of them, actually five.
Two of them are my name.
It's just my two cents.
Now these Yahoo people are a bunch of Yahoos on this.
They do not know how to have more fun.
You need to activate more than one quarterback.
What happens if your quarterback takes a header in the first quarter and you have to play the rest of the Sunday without a quarterback active?
Then you lose the week.
Yeah, then you lose the week.
I mean, you know, teams do not quit when their quarterback gets hurt.
They put the backup quarterback in.
Anyway, it's your league.
I hope you have fun with it.
And I'll tell you, when I was your age, 15, when I was your age, 15, we were on the field playing football and baseball and so forth.
Of course, I was being chased by a future preacher I didn't know on the baseball diamond.
Anyway, Evan, have a wonderful inaugural week of the National Football League in Europe.
Okay.
Fantasy season.
And thanks very much for the opportunity to become a partial owner of your team.
Marsha in Peoria, welcome to the EIB Network.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you.
We watched a program on a channel called History International earlier this week about what your body language says about you.
Oh, Bill O'Reilly has one of those specialists that's on now and then, a body language expert.
Yes.
Well, they had five experts, and they went through Paris Hilton, Bush, Quentin's, and they got to Obama.
And they said that people, because of Obama's cadence and the inflection of his voice, tend not to listen to what he says, but they're almost hypnotized by how he says it.
And I thought that was really dead on what they said about him.
Now, did you see Obama's press conference today?
No, I didn't, but I heard you talk about it.
Yeah, the old Obama, you know, on a campaign trail, I think these body lingo experts that you saw in History International are probably accurate.
But I don't think anybody watching today would be mesmerized.
I think they'd be puzzled.
Yeah.
They had Bush on correctly, too.
They said he was almost childlike in his mannerisms and became enduring and likable because of his when he made a goof, he would laugh and they showed how he scrunched his shoulders up and made a funny face.
They had him dead on, too.
Right.
Obama never makes any mistakes, so that he never has to laugh at himself.
No.
He's incapable.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting, and I thought they had it right.
Well, thank you.
I'm sure that you'll have a chance later to some videotape of this president.
You ought to watch it because I'll tell you what, you'll be struck with.
It's the exact opposite of what your experts on this show told you.
This guy looked tiny.
I really don't like saying this.
This is not healthy for the country.
Looked tiny, dwarfed by the whole office, looks frail and uncertain.
The halting speech and all that.
Maybe it's just me, folks, but there are times that Obama has reminded me of Imam Faisal Raouf, the ground zero mosque imam, during his press conference.
Straightforward, plain spoken way answers questions.
Leaves nothing to doubt.
Anyway, a brief time out.
Thanks much.
We'll be back and continue Open Line Friday right after this.
Back to the phones, Open Line Friday, Knoxville, Tennessee.
James, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
It's a pleasure to be on the program.
Congratulations on your marriage.
Thank you very much.
On Facebook.
But that's not what I wanted to call it.
First time I ever made it through, and I'm excited.
You're always an optimist, and I really appreciate that about you.
But there's one area that I heard you somewhat pessimistically dismiss the fair tax.
And with the fact that it was created by economists, it would take a lot of the corruption out of politics because of the way they enact these laws that give special interest groups breaks in taxes.
And the survey of foreign companies showed that 80% of foreign companies would build their next plant here if the fair tax were passed, and 20% would relocate entirely.
I mean, that's jobs, that's the economy coming back, that's taking all the political hacks and robbing them of their power, which is why that was where you were pessimistic.
You were saying that it would never happen.
And a lot of great ideas would have never happened if people didn't stand up.
No, I'm not a minority.
Well, I can understand why you thought I said that.
I said it would never happen, a current bunch of people in Congress.
Let me expand on that because it relates to some of the things going on with some of these newcomers running for office.
I did not criticize any of the particular tax plans, the fair tax, the flat tax, or whatever.
What I said was that the idea that existing members of Congress would ever give up the kind of power they have using the current tax code is silly.
They're never going to give that up.
The only way to get rid the current tax code is a clean sweep of Congress.
And isn't that what November could be?
Well, November can be a start, but here's one of the things that let's look at the Christine O'Donnell race versus Mike Castle.
Yes, sir.
Now, this is shaping up in the, let's call it the conservative blogosphere on the internet.
Someone talk radio.
This is becoming quite a controversial race.
And one of the reasons it's becoming controversial is because there are some conservative people who do not want this O'Donnell woman anywhere near elected office because she's either inexperienced or she's got some baggage in her past or she filed suit against a think tank or something.
And they say we'd much rather have a rhino, a Republican in name only, because at least this guy is a professional.
And we've had the same people that have, some people have said, well, Sharon Angle out in Nevada.
Here's the problem, if you can't have it both ways.
You can't sit there and say the current crop is our problem.
And then when others are inspired who have never been in this business before to seek office, and then you cream them and you impugn them, you're basically standing up for the status quo while criticizing it at the same time.
Now, one of the reasons this is important to me, it relates to your fair tax and fat tax or whatever tax reform period.
Specifically, H.R. 52, the one that would require the repealment of the 16th Amendment that was written by, I believe, John Linder.
John Linder, yeah.
And Neil Bortz is big on that.
He uploaded a book.
But here we're in an era.
Well, look at what's happening politically.
Independents, people who have paid scant attention to politics before are now involved.
Young people are in.
And what are they doing?
They're voting anti-Democrat.
There is a golden opportunity to get rid of a lot of these professional politicians, ruling class types, both parties, who do not want any apple carts upset.
So after years and years and years of conservatives complaining about and being for term limits, we've been all for term limits so forth, but you've been complaining about the career politician.
Okay, here come some people, and now we're turning on them.
We're passing up a real opportunity here.
This is, I want to think of a better way to say this.
But isn't it the pundits that are returning that are that are pushing them to decide?
It's not the people.
Well, that's what I mean.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some of the pundits, not all of them, but some of the pundits are.
And it's pundit media type thing.
You know, what you have here, you've got average or a Tea Party people.
I mean, these are the essence of the American citizenry.
And they're out there.
They're organizing and they're rallying and they're protesting and they're voting.
And they are solid conservatives.
And we are now attracting millions of people who were not Republican and who were not involved.
And they're being attracted to politics because they just abhor what the Democrats and Obama are doing.
They see the future of the country going down the tubes.
It's being mortgaged.
Their kids and grandkids.
So we have all kinds of exactly what we've always wanted, new blood, new people getting involved.
People that don't care about politics finally getting involved on our side.
And we do have some pundits who don't want them involved now because they're not sophisticated enough or not professional enough or because they got baggage or what have you.
And now some are telling us to turn our backs on them.
And some are telling them, we don't want you.
Yeah, we talked about how we don't like the Democrats, professional politicians.
But, you know, we don't want you unless you're going to go to the establishment Republican Party and so forth.
So I have talked about this for ever since Obama was immaculated because remember, James and everybody else, there have been lots of time.
We'll have to go to the archives of this program and prove it.
We'll be talking and complaining and whining about Obama.
We have problems in the Republican Party because there are like a lot of Republicans don't like all these new conservatives.
They don't because it's a social issues.
They don't want pro-lifers.
They don't want the moral majority of this kind of people involved.
They don't want people who are not part of the professional class.
They didn't like Reagan.
You know, Reagan was not the elite.
He was embarrassed.
They were embarrassed of him.
But I'm just, we have a great opportunity.
Everybody's been banging the drum.
So the way it correlates to you is without naming any names, I mean, it is going to require a whole lot of fresh blood to reverse all this.
And if you're talking about implementing tax reform to the extent of your H.R. 52, the fair tax, or a flat tax of Steve Forbes, you're going to need a whole bunch of new blood in there because the current crop is not going to willingly give up the power the tax code offers them.
Think of the power you have, your own ways and means.
And then it comes time to vote for any tax policy up or down.
You deal with lobbyists.
I mean, when you can determine something like mortgage interest being deductible, look at the power that gives you.
Look at who loves you.
The homeowners industry loves you.
The lending industry loves you.
A lot of homeowners will love you.
Now, imagine taking that away.
You've got a lot of enemies when you do that.
But imagine the power that writing tax law has.
It's like asking a king to abdicate.
They just don't step down.
You have to overthrow them.
From thehill.com, the headline, momentum builds for extending all of President Bush's tax cuts.
Obama says, I got better ways to spend that money, as though it's already his.
See, we may not spend the money right.
Rich people aren't going to spend it right.
So Obama wants the money, spend it better than they will.
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