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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 getting all kinds of emails during the break here.
Well, what's the big deal about Obama's pace of speaking?
Well, 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 they'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 if you if regular boy 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 uh with the media exploring what's wrong with the president.
Uh, 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 health care answer that uh Obama gave because that's stunning.
Hey, we never said it's gonna be free.
This is from May 11th of this year.
Uh sorry, 2009.
May 11th, 2009, in the middle of trying to sell Obamacare.
A coalition of U.S. health care groups pledged on Monday to help President Obama reign in the growth in costs and save about two trillion dollars 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 health care system.
Yeah, right.
I have to also let Drudge has his picture up there on this whole Koran business.
And I 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 this news is manufactured.
And everybody just you know falls in lockstep with it.
Um Reuters headline, Obama says health overhaul could save trillions.
And now today in the press conference, well, yeah, well, well, nobody ever says it's gonna be free.
You can't add 32 million people on the margins to the 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 on that Koran protest in Afghanistan.
Here's how it ended.
The demonstrations were lightly attended for the most part, although officials in Capisa 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 in uh in in in in Gainesville.
Now 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 uh to uh to do with this at all.
Well, 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 Senior's on vacation this week.
But I have to send this link.
It's it's from the U.S. Department of Labor 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 grand.
Casa Latina, Seattle, 85 grand.
The Center for Human Services in Bethesda, Maryland, 85 grand.
Clergy and laity united for economic justice, California, 85 grand.
Now stick with me on this.
Farm worker legal services of New York.
In Rochester, 85 grand.
In New York, 85 grand.
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 grand.
Make the Road New York Inc.
This is a conduct a needs assessment to identify workplace hazards in small businesses located in New York City, 85 grand.
Miami Dade College Kendall Campus, 85 grand.
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, 85 grand.
all OSHA grants.
Then you get American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation, 220 grand.
Board of Regents.
University of Wisconsin System, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 180 grand.
California Rural Legal Assistant, San Francisco, 225 grand.
Casa de Maryland goes on.
It's three pages of these.
Farm worker justice.
El Centro Humanitario Parallels Brabaj 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 is 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 it's it's all our money.
What what have 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 award, and 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.
If this is 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 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 healthy 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, was a 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 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.
Uh like this stuff does.
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Okay, to the phones, we have uh Evan in uh Coxackey, New York, is that right?
Welcome.
Evan, uh, you're 15 years old, it says here.
Yep.
Um I'm offering you a part ownership of my fantasy football team.
Part ownership of your fantasy football.
Well that's that is very nice.
Uh at least I have an ownership stake in some team in a football league.
Yes.
And uh it's called I have Eli Manny as my main quarterback, and I need a backup, so I was thinking I can pick up Donovan McNabb.
Well, I'm let me a 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 just pencil and paper, right?
Hmm.
Pencil, you use pencil and paper, like they uh Yeah, that well, I used an IBM typewriter.
I was the commission of the PFL, a paper football league, and I typed up the uh the monthly newsletter.
I and and uh we got the idea of 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.
Uh-huh.
Everybody's saying a stabler's arm was shot.
Uh and uh and Bum Bum Phillips, oh no, no, we're we're we're gonna be fine here.
We're finally gonna find a way to beat the Steelers.
But we started fantasy football, there were five of us.
My team was a limball laxatives, because my front office considered full of it.
Um we had uh a team like the Aymond amoebas named after number brain cells of that owner.
And it was the most fun.
I and I we stayed in that league until I moved to Sacramento in nineteen eighty three, and that blew the league up.
Yeah.
So I am total I don't do fantasy football now, but I loved it.
I absolutely door day.
Here's the way we had we draft twenty-five players.
We had a big draft in August, after the last cuts have been made, and we did it at a bar.
And then every Saturday at noon, this is before Thursday night games, so if every Saturday at noon you had to activate twelve players.
We didn't do defense.
Uh three quarterbacks, uh, three receivers, four receivers, a kicker, and so so forth and so on.
And back then what was fascinating about it, Evan, w y the with the injury report, maybe the paper published it on Friday, maybe it didn't.
Uh I've heard George Rogers of the Saints was on my team.
I remember calling a beat writer for the New Orleans Times picky un asked, is this guy's knee is he gonna 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.
You can but we were I mean, we were real slews back then.
I wish I had kept some of these um 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?
Uh there's 12 people in our league, and I uh it's called you get one quarterback, three wide receivers, there's a position where you can play uh now do you have you have these players for the whole season, or do you activate them from a pool of players each week?
You uh actually had our draft on last Wednesday.
You draft the players each year.
Uh-huh.
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.
So but you can only activate one quarterback a week.
Uh yeah, you can uh it's we have one quarterback.
Now how do you score?
Do you get points for every touchdown pass, uh bonus points for three hundred yard games, stuff like that?
You get six points for uh touchdown and how about how about like are the we we uh is a touchdown pass zero to forty-nine yards is five points, fifty yards plus was ten, three hundred yard passing day was uh ten bonus points.
Yeah, it's actually uh for quarterbacks, it's one point per twenty yards.
Well, okay.
There's a variations on this.
Yeah, and like with running backs, it's a few.
But you've only 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 were in your look, I gotta take a break here.
Can you hang on to the break?
Yeah.
You got some things wrong with your league here.
Uh, it'll fix you.
It's open line Friday, L Rush Ball, the stick to the issues crowd having uh a cow about now, not even talking real football, talking fantasy football with Evan, fifteen years old from Coxacky New York.
Evan, I had to say I was amused by your first question.
Asking me if I did my league with the pencil and papers like like a stone and chisel to you.
You need to have more quarterbacks activated every week.
You got you can't why do you even want McNabb on the team if you can only if you can only activate one quarterback?
You got Eli Manning, you can only activate one.
What's the uh you got need somebody keeping it?
Well, there's actually there's people on the bench.
So that way if somebody gets injured, you don't have to like because when 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, this I just think it'd be more fun if you'd end up and by the way, I was not advocating that your league conductor draft in the bar.
Yeah.
I don't need parents misunderstanding that one either.
Um parents probably don't know half what these kids are doing.
Never mind.
Um the point is you need to have more more you give him more fun when more players activate it every week.
But if you have more points, it's like inflation.
Less valuable.
Well, no, it's not it's not like in how much how much you playing for what what are you if you win the league, if you win your league at the end of the year, how much money do you win?
About zero dollars.
It's just for fun.
Oh, you don't have any money involved.
Oh no, no.
Very, very, very healthy.
Very, very Did you happen to watch Evans?
Your parents let you watch Hard Knocks on HBO, uh, training camp of New York Jets.
No, actually.
My dad doesn't like the Jets, so you don't like the Jets?
No.
Oh, your dad didn't like the Jets.
The Rams are your favorite team.
No wonder you want to offer me an ownership slot on your team.
Well, that's very sweet of you.
I'm I'm I'm flattered.
And if there were money involved, I would 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.
You you have when do you have to activate your team for Sunday?
So basically you have to for it's a up uh set your roster basically each week.
And so up to fifteen minutes before kick off for that like one player that you have on 15 minutes for kickoff.
You can like see we had to do it noon Saturday.
We were highly 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 act?
Uh they call me.
Oh, they'd call you.
Yeah, there was no we had computers back.
They were talking the seventies.
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 get to 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 we had to wait till Sunday or till Monday till all the uh box scores were published.
So did you basically at the beginning of the season did you drift like your players or every week did you pick each player?
Um we did not draft every week.
We drafted a team at the beginning of the season.
Twenty-five players.
And out of those twenty-five, we activated eleven every Sunday.
That's how we accounted for injuries.
Yeah.
Um and we made trades up to the trading deck.
We had some real dippy owners.
I mean I I was able to really rape a couple up uh screw a couple guys in some trades.
It was that was funny.
It was it was it was just it was you d I have a blast doing it this way, Evan.
You really have a blast doing it this way.
And there was any scandals in your league, we're like uh oh with our owners?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh 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 play players and stuff.
I mean, look at 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 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 a I got reprimanded by the uh by the Royals, man.
It wasn't really a scandal, but 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 uh uh 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 you it's on Yahoo.
Oh, it's Yahoo.
Yeah, yeah.
It's on Yahoo.
So you you personally may not own or know all the other owners in your league.
Uh yeah, I agree.
Um I know like two of the three of them or four.
So have you met them?
Uh yeah, actually uh four of them I know.
Like one of them is my uh brother, the other one's my dad, and then two of them, actually five.
Two of them are my name.
See, it's just my two cents.
I don't think these Yahoo people are a bunch of Yahoos on this.
They do not know how to have more fun.
Well, 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 and yeah, then you lose the week.
I mean, you know, teams do not quit when their quarterback gets hurt, they put them back up quarterback in.
If you're gonna anyway, it's your league.
I hope you have fun with it.
Um and uh I'll tell you when I was your age, fifteen, never h when I was your age fifteen, 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.
Uh on the baseball diamond.
Anyway, Evan, have a wonderful inaugural week of the National Football League in your in your in your uh fantasy season.
Thanks very much for the opportunity to become a partial owner in uh of your team.
Marcia in Peoria, welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you here.
Thank you.
Uh we watched a program on a uh channel called History International earlier this week.
Yep 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, oh, uh Paris Hilton, Bush, Clintons, uh, and they got to Obama.
And they said that the 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 on what they said about him.
Um, did you see Obama's press conference today?
No, I didn't, but I heard you talking about it.
Yeah, I not in the the old Obama, you know, on the campaign trail, I think these body lingo experts that you saw in History International probably accurate, but I don't think anybody watching today would be mesmerized.
I think they'd be puzzled.
Yeah.
They had Bush on uh uh correctly too.
They said he was almost childlike in his uh mannerisms and became enduring and likable because of his uh when he when he made a goof, he would he would laugh and they they showed his 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.
I thought it was interesting and I thought they had it right.
Well, thank you.
You ought to you I'm sure that you'll have a chance later to some video tape of this press.
You ought to watch it, because I'll tell you what you'll be struck with it's it's the exact opposite of what your experts on this show took.
This guy looked tiny.
I d I really don't like saying this.
This is not healthy for the country.
Look tiny, dwarfed by the whole uh office, look small frail uh and uncertain.
The halting speech uh and uh and all that.
I you know, maybe it's just me, folks, but I there are times that Obama has reminded me of uh Imam Faisal Raoul, the ground zero mosque imam during his press conference.
Oh straightforward, plain spoken way answers questions.
Leaves nothing to doubt.
Anyway, a brief timeout.
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.
But that's not what I want to wanted to call it.
First time ever made it through, and I'm excited.
Um you're always an optimist.
And um I really appreciate that about you, but there's one area that I heard you um somewhat pessimistically uh dismiss the fair tax.
And um with the fact that it was created by economists, it would take a lot of the corruption out of politics because of the uh way they enact these laws that give uh special interest groups um breaks in taxes.
Um in a survey of foreign companies show that eighty percent would uh uh foreign companies would build their next plant here if the fair tax were passed and twenty percent would relocate entirely.
I mean, that's jobs, that's the economy coming back, that's taking all the uh the political hacks and robbing them in their power, which is why I that was where you were pessimistic.
You were saying that it would never happen.
And uh a lot of great ideas would have never happened if people didn't stand up the minority.
Well, I can understand why you thought I said that.
I said it would never happen a current bunch of people in Congress.
Okay, 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 here's one of the things that the let's look at the Christine O'Donnell race versus Mike Castle.
Yes, sir.
Now the this is shaping up in the uh let's call it the conservative um blogosphere on the internet, so 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 uh she uh uh 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 the problem if 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've never been in this business before to seek office, and then you cream them and and you you impugn them, uh you're you're you're basically standing up for the status quo while criticizing it at the same time.
Now, what the w 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 uh require the repealment of the 16th Amendment that was uh written by um I believe John Linder.
John Linder, yeah.
And uh and Neil Bortz is big on that.
They helped with the book.
But uh here we we it we're in an era.
Well, look at what's happening politically.
Independence.
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 after years and years and years of conservatives complaining about and being four-term limits.
We've been all for term limits so forth, but we're 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 this is uh I want to think of a better way to say this.
But isn't it the pundits that are returned that are that are that are you know 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.
Uh and in it's it's it's uh it's big yeah, pundit media uh type thing.
You know, the what what you have here, you've got average or with Tea Party people.
I mean, these are the essence of the American citizenry.
And they're or 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 they're being attracted to politics because they are 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 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.
Um and now we we we're telling us some some are telling us to turn our backs on them.
Uh and some are telling them we don't want you.
Yeah, we talked about how we don't like the Democrats professional politicians.
But um, you know, we don't we don't want you unless you're gonna go to the establishment Republican Party and so forth.
So and I have talked about this for ever since Obama was immaculated.
Because remember uh uh uh uh James and everybody else.
There have been lots of time.
We'll have to go to the archives of the program and prove it.
we've been talking and complaining and whining about Obama.
We have 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 issue, they don't want pro-lifers, they don't want uh the moral majority of this kind of people involved.
They don't want um uh people who are not part of the uh the professional class.
They didn't like Reagan.
You know, Reagan Reagan was not an elite.
He was they he was embarrassed, they were embarrassed of him.
But I'm just saying 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, there 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 uh your HR-52, the fair tax, or a flat tax of Steve Forbes, you're gonna 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 of 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 got a lot of enemies when you do that.
But imagine the power that writing tax law has people.
It's like asking a king to abdicate.
They just don't step down.
You have to overthrow them.
From the Hill.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 gonna spend it right.
So Obama wants the money spent it better than they will.
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