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Sept. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 21, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh, everybody wants to be me.
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We have another poll showing independent-minded voters are looking askance at Obama and at the Democrats.
It's the Independent Women's Voice commissioned Doug Schoen to do a poll.
And it's earth-shattering poll.
The independents moving to Republicans in droves.
And I think what people don't understand, these people are coming to the Republican Party because of a cause, not because of the party.
The party right now is not doing anything to attract people.
The biggest selling point the public has is it's not the Democrat Party.
There is a cause that's saving the country.
You know, that's the umbrella.
And there are things underneath this, underneath the umbrella that are rallying people, the spending, the debt, private property rights, loss of freedom in general, losing the country.
There is a cause.
People are joining a cause here.
This is not just rabble-rousing protest politics.
And I think it's a Republicans are going to come out Thursday with a new contract or some such.
I don't know what they're going to call it, but it's got a definite item.
Well, I don't know how many, 20 items on it, but it's an agenda.
It is going to be a list of things that they are for that will give people reasons to vote for them.
More importantly, when people do vote Republican, it will provide a mandate.
So it's the stars are lining up.
You know, I continue to be amused at all the attacks on Christine O'Donnell, Thera Palin, me, whoever, how stupid and like Rubes people are.
We were told how brilliant the ruling class is, how smart all these liberals are.
I mean, Obama is so smart, we can't keep up with him.
And here are here's some, just here's some quotes from Obama's supporters.
And you compare this to the questions Obama got yesterday at his town hall.
Halle Berry, I'll do whatever he says to do.
I'll collect paper cups off the ground and make his pathway clear.
George Clooney, he possesses the one quality you can't teach, you can't learn, which is he's a leader.
Tom Hanks, in a promotional video for Obama's campaign, he has the integrity and the inspiration to unify us, as did FDR and Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy and even Reagan when they ran for the job.
And this is utter nonsense.
It was a bunch of people responding to nothingness, which is what Obama's campaign was, a bunch of platitudes.
Robert De Niro, a leader who hasn't gotten a country into a war, has the kind of experience I can get used to.
Actress Alfie Woodard.
If you take orange juice and mix it with a little seltzer, you get then the same effect, and it's good for you.
And that's Obama.
He's good for the country.
Voters just may not know it yet.
Actor Josh Lucas, who starred in the movie Poseidon.
I've been around him.
I shook his hand.
He's a truly scholarly man.
I'm very excited that we have this powerful, intelligent, constitutionally brilliant president.
I find him very soulful in private.
This is, you know what Hollywood is politics for the stupid.
Washington is politics is Hollywood for the ugly, showbiz for the ugly.
And Hollywood is politics for the stupid.
Spike Lee.
It's going to be before Obama, BB, and after Obama, AB.
And some folks need to get used to this.
It's not an if he changes the world.
He changes how the world looks at the United States.
It's going to be a new day, not just a new day, a better day.
Clearly, these are not intelligent people, and these are not smart things.
There is genuine ignorance, stupidity, and idiocy all over the left and the ruling class, and yet they sit there pontificate at how dumb and stupid we all are.
And they say some of the stupidest things.
And of course, they're never called on these stupid things that they say.
But this is just a partial roster.
U.S. household net worth drops.
Yeah, the recession ended a year ago.
Doesn't matter.
U.S. household wealth fell by $1.5 trillion in the second quarter.
Obama says we're moving in the right direction.
Household net worth drops.
There's a story out of New York.
This is in the New York Daily News today.
And this is going to be interesting.
Stung by Carl Palladino's below-the-belt attacks, an angry Andrew Cumo summoned his war council on Monday to figure out how to fight back against a slash and burn Republican rival.
Cuomo sits there with his aides.
He says, what the hell do we do?
If a guy says you have no cojones, how do you punch back?
Well, what do we do?
Cuomo's sitting there, he's all ticked off.
We got all this stuff on Palladino.
We're on the defensive.
Here's what you need to know.
And this story is, it was, it's still a lead story at Drudge.
Andrew Cuomo's weakness, and everybody in New York knows this.
Little dirty secret here.
Andrew Cuomo's weakness is that Democrats are afraid of him because of his history of being a hothead and a thug as a campaign manager for his dead Mario.
The Democrats are resigned to his winning rather than enthusiastic about it.
They figure, I mean, there's nothing they can do about it.
They just resign to it.
But here comes Palladino.
Now, what's Palladino done?
Palladino, this is here's Palladino's strategy.
He's going to blast Cuomo, a longtime Albany insider, not a reformer.
He's going to blame him for sparking the subprime mortgage crisis while he was the HUD secretary, a valid charge.
He's going to rip him for not opposing the Muslim Cultural Center at Ground Zero.
Carl Palladino is going to highlight Cuomo's ties to special interest groups, including the Working Families Party, and he's going to try to bait Cuomo into losing his cool, which will not be hard to do because Cuomo is a famous, famous hothead.
So Palladino has run some advertisements here that just mock Cuomo.
Like you're not supposed to, you were not supposed to mock Mario the pious.
You're not supposed to make fun of these people.
Yeah, I saw the shower, Ed.
I mean, I tell you, when we get to the debates between Palladino and Cuomo, this is going to be nationally televised stuff.
I mean, Palladino's fearless.
He's just taking it right to it.
He's saying what you would say about a Cuomo.
He's saying what I would say.
There is no political correctness about it.
There's no standard political decorum to it.
Hey, this guy is fundamentally responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis.
He's got a pass on it.
He was at HUD.
He was the enforcer.
He was strongarming all these banks to make these loans.
He was one of the originators of it.
Now, the reaction, the overreaction to Paladino's ad is vulgar and it plays into all of the Democrat public fears that Andrew Cuomo is the same bully and punk they had to deal with in the 80s.
See, nobody's going to tell you this because the Cuomos are, you know, they're not like royalty in New York.
But you Democrats in New York know what I'm talking about.
But back during the 80s, I mean, he was his dad's campaign man.
He was the enforcer.
I mean, he was Mr. Thug, Mr. Tough Guy.
You didn't mess around.
And he did not make a whole lot of friends.
So like I said, New York Democrats are resigned.
They're not all that enthusiastic.
They're resigned to it.
Now, this race, when it started out, was 60 to 23.
Cuomo.
That was 37 points.
It has now tightened to 5438 in three weeks.
This is per Rasmussen.
It's 16 points.
Now, 16 points is not insurmountable.
Christy Whitman was 30 points behind in early October in her first run for governor of New Jersey.
Now, if Mario's kids' support, if Andrew Cumo's support falls below 50%, then you're going to see some panic in both party establishments.
Yes, both.
Because there's some Republicans that are going to freak if Paladino wins this.
I mean, they're ruling class New York elite liberal.
They're just going to have a fit.
Now, 54% is Andrew Cuomo's number.
Folks, that's a horrible number for Andrew Cuomo in New York, running for governor, a Cuomo at 54, down from 60 in three weeks.
If you aren't planning by now to vote for Andrew Cuomo after he's been a public figure for 25 years, you're not going to fall in love with this guy by election day.
It just isn't going to happen.
Look, there was a rumor during the Ed Koch days.
Snirdly, you'll remember this.
There was a rumor during the Koch days.
Remember the line?
Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo.
And it was rumored that Andrew came up with that line.
We got to give credit where credit is due.
Nobody's ever been able to prove it, but it was always thought that it was Andrew who came up with that line.
Now, Palladino knows nothing but the truth.
He's one of these guys, like my brother.
Whatever he's feeling, he'll say it.
If he's constipated, he'll tell you he's constipated and ask you if you are and how you deal with it.
Palladino, there's no governor here.
And what he says is just the truth.
The village voice has exposed Andrew Cumo's involvement in the housing meltdown.
The village voice has.
And Palladino, of course, has picked it up.
And Palladino has millions of dollars.
He's willing to put his own money where his mouth is.
Oh, this is going to be good, folks.
And I'm telling you, they're stunned.
54% a Cuomo in New York against this guy.
You have to understand this is a Tea Party guy.
This Carl Palladino may as well be Palin or Christine O'Donnell as far as the New York Democrats are concerned.
And he's only down 16 points.
We'll be keeping a sharp eye on this.
Yeah, and I'll tell you what, I said both parties.
The New York gubernatorial candidacy of Carl Palladino, this is Peter Robinson, is turning into a joint and behold.
U.S. Senator Alphonse D'Amato, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, and former State Comptroller Carl McCall issued an open letter calling Palladino unfit and dangerous.
Prompting the response to that, in the Buffalo News, Don Esmond is a columnist.
Aldamato, Ed Koch, and Carl McCall took it upon themselves Wednesday to stand up for the sanctity of elective office in this state.
Unfortunately, there's no such thing.
I barely caught past the letter's second sentence.
This state has a long history of electing highly qualified, forward-looking statewide candidates.
This is what these three guys wrote.
Here we are in the midst of the Patterson regime.
We've had nothing but corruption in this state.
And these guys say, Palladino's unqualified because of a long history of electing highly qualified, forward-looking statewide candidates.
Spitzer!
Exactly, Spitzer, client number nine.
Don Esmond writes, these guys must have been passing around a bong.
This state has a history, all right.
In recent years, we had a governor resign after a sex scandal.
We had a felonious state Comptroller resign in disgrace.
We had the ex-Senate Majority Leader, one of Albany's triumvirate of power, jailed for violating the public trust.
Our current governor admitted to marital infidelities and past drug use and was targeted in a baseball ticket scandal.
And that's just the short list.
In that company, Carl Palladino raises the bar.
This guy's in the Buffalo News.
Oh, this is going to be good.
And at the center of this is Andrew Cuomo.
We're going to keep a sharp eye on it, folks.
A sharp eye.
And Cuomo doesn't know what to do.
How do you hear again?
And Palladino says, guys, he's got no cojones.
You don't say that about, that's like, you don't say that about Cuomo.
How do we deal with this?
They thought it was going to be dealing with a joke and a pushover.
All right, a brief timeout here, folks.
We'll continue.
I still have a lot of the soundbite roster I want to get to today.
And Michelle Maibel Obama has promoted breastfeeding among black communities.
At the recent Congressional Black Caucus on September 16th, First Lady Mouchelle Obama explained that childhood obesity had become a national epidemic particularly bad in black communities.
One thing she promoted was early obesity prevention through breastfeeding, especially in the black community, where 40% of our babies never get breastfed at all.
Well, even in the first weeks of life, and we know that babies that are breastfed are less likely to be obese as children.
This is from the DCExaminer.com.
First Lady joining Giselle Bündchen, supermodel, who said some weeks ago that she supports a worldwide law mandating breastfeeding.
Worldwide law.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
All right, we'll show you the shower ad.
For those of you watching on the DittoCamp, this is a, I'm going to zoom in here.
This is an ad that has, where is this?
It's a flyer ad, actually.
That's Carl Palladino's campaign sending this flyer to its email list and encouraging Tea Party supporters to print it out.
And its title is Clean Up Albany, and it's a filthy Andrew Kumo in the shower.
And I'm zooming in even now, for those of you on the DittoCamp, to be able to see it.
It's kind of like looking in a mirror.
There you go.
And you can't see this in there, but Kumo is wearing a gold chain.
And they're upset.
They think it's stereotypical.
Italian stereotype to put Andrew Kumo in a gold chain.
I mean, this is hilarious.
This is the Carl Palladino flyer.
They're urging Tea Party people to print this out and pass it around all over the place.
Clean Up Albany.
Start with Andrew Kumo.
We have a couple of Kumo sound bites.
By the way, April 3rd, 1998, Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Kumo held a press conference about discrimination in public housing.
Discrimination isn't always that obvious.
It's sometimes more subtle, but in many ways more insidious.
It's an institutionalized discrimination that's hidden behind a smiling face.
Housing agents who say, well, there are no vacancies right now.
That you just didn't qualify for the mortgage because your financial credit history wasn't good enough.
About 15,000 families, we estimate, will get mortgages who would not have gotten mortgages otherwise.
But aggressively, to take a greater risk on these mortgages, yes.
To give families mortgages who they would not have given otherwise, yes.
All right, here's the guy.
Here's Andrew Kumo, responsible in part as HUD director for the subprime mortgage crisis.
Carl Palladino pointing it out.
And they're calling Carl Palladino a dirty campaigner.
Here's more from Andrew Kumo, April 3rd, 1998.
It is by income and is it also by minorities?
Yes.
With the $2.1 billion lending that amount in mortgages, which will be a higher risk.
And I'm sure there will be a higher default rate on those mortgages than on the rest of the portfolio.
That is the remedy that we sought and the remedy that I would prefer, 15,000 families.
This is of a scope so beyond anything that we've really done in the past.
I've always thought Andrew Kumo sounded like his dad.
Mario, but he sounds like Barney Frank to me.
But anyway, yes, it's by income, it's by minorities.
$2.1 billion lending that amount in mortgages.
Higher risk.
I'm sure there will be some higher default rates.
Oh yeah, he knew it.
This was affordable housing.
This is why we're where we are.
It's not unfunded wars.
It's not unfunded tax cuts.
This, folks, the subprime mortgage mess.
That's why we're where we are.
And the guy running for governor of New York, Andrew Kumo, is at the center of it all.
And Carl Palladino, most Republicans would have the guts to point it out.
He does.
Because most Republicans have pussyfoot around all this stuff.
Palladino's aiming at it.
Mark Knoller, CBS News, tweeted yesterday, somebody tell Vice President Biden he's first in the line of succession to the presidency.
In remarks just now, he said he was second.
Now, I think one of the reasons, well, let me forget that.
Here's another example.
Biden puts his foot in his mouth.
When he's not stealing other people's words, he puts his foot in his mouth on his own.
And we're told how brilliant and smart these people are.
He says he's second in line to be president.
He's first.
He's the beep.
I didn't comment on it.
I should have at the time.
Michelle Obama saying that there's evidence that breastfeeding prevents childhood obesity.
Folks, this is another one of these old wives' tales.
There's a rich, shall I say body, rich body of scientific research that says that is a myth.
That breastfeeding prevents childhood obesity.
It's a myth.
But, I mean, are you surprised that Mucel would be encouraging more people to get on a teat?
I'm not.
But, and McCain, you know, McCain, I just remembered this, too.
McCain said during the campaign he was going to put Andrew Cuomo at the SEC if he was elected president.
We were apoplectic about this.
I remembered this.
He floated that idea right after he picked Palin.
And everybody, oh, no, Andrew Cuomo at the SEC.
This is McCain reaching across the aisle.
Back to the audio sound bites.
NPR.
All things considered.
During a report about the 2010 midterm elections in Ohio.
The co-anchors Robert Siegel and David Green have this exchange about your host.
Here's an oddity that I heard about last week.
Do you remember what Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos was?
I do.
How could I forget it?
I was actually covering the Clinton campaign at that time, Robert.
And that was when Rush Limbaugh was out there telling even Republican voters to get involved in the Democratic primary.
Go vote for Clinton so he could prolong that fight between Clinton and Barack Obama as long as possible.
Well, it turns out in Ohio, if you vote in a primary, you become registered as a voter in that party.
So now, Democratic canvassers going door to door keep on turning up the odd Republican who's registered as a Democrat.
The lingering effects of Operation Chaos still screwing up the pollsters in Ohio.
They continued with this.
In fact, one of the people who wanted to run as a Republican in that district, Kathy Eshelman, lost the nomination when it was pointed out that she was a registered Democrat.
These are the Operation Chaos voters from two years ago.
She told me today that she cast a vote to try to prevent Barack Obama's election.
Rush's legacy lives on.
Indeed.
And that D next to her name stands a lot more for ditto head than for Democrat.
Interesting.
Well, I think that they're NPR people.
I mean, there's no malice.
There's just reasonable, intelligent, civil discourse.
We are, after all, NPR.
And at NPR, we engage in pledge drives.
Without your pledge, we cannot dust.
NBC Nightly News.
This is Kelly O'Donnell reporting Christine O'Donnell, Obama, and me.
Today, Rush Limbaugh said O'Donnell's past is getting unfair scrutiny.
We know more about Christine O'Donnell right now than we know about Obama.
Today, the president said the Tea Party should offer answers, not just anger.
The challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically what would you do.
No, this is, you know, this is a straw dog.
That's not what the Tea Party movement has to do.
The Tea Party movement is not incumbent upon the Tea Party movement to say what we're going to do, even though we have definitive ideas.
The Tea Party movement is a protest against what is happening.
Pure and simple.
And it's, on the basis of that, it's already known what the Tea Party wants to do.
This is just an attempt to derail.
Okay, well, what do you stand for?
What are you going to do?
The exact opposite of what you're doing, pal.
Pure and simple.
We believe in the Constitution.
Well, give me some specific ideas.
We'll be glad to.
The Tea Party has said what its intention is, and that's to stop Obama.
That's the first thing that has to happen.
You know, there's a new show coming up on CNN, replacing John King USA.
It's going to be called Spitzer Parker, Parker Spitzer.
Well, it's Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist with Elliot Spitzer, client number nine.
I kid you not.
No, Kathleen Parker, not Kathleen, Kathleen Parker, Elliot, did I say Kathleen Spitzer?
Kathleen Parker, Elliot Spitzer.
You know, I'm thinking of all of these young, ambitious anchors and reporters in television who are working in Oshkosh and Lincoln, Nebraska,
St. Louis, Denver, Omaha, Columbia, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Sebastopol, California, San Luis Obispo, Chico, California.
Any number of media markets.
And they're following the tried and true recipe.
They are honing their craft, trying to get better, working in the smaller and medium markets, going out and reporting the news, covering the police blotter stuff, covering the blood and gut stories,
anchoring on the weekends, and then hoping someday to be hired at one of the networks or at CNN, maybe MSNBC, and then realize that it all is for naught because the pathway to a show on CNN is to have an ongoing relationship with sluts, with prostitutes and whores.
After you have tried to bring down the Republicans in your state with phony false charges while you're Attorney General and Governor.
Then you run around and you become client number nine, a national joke.
Sex with your socks on.
Everybody learns about it.
And who snaps you up but CNN.
And you and Chico and Omaha and Denver say, God, what do I have to do in order to advance in this business?
Do I have to go out and have a relationship with prostitutes?
That's how you get a gig now in prime time at CNN.
And then they pair Spitzer with Kathleen Parker, who is a conservative columnist, approved conservative, rubber-stamped Washington Post conservative because she attacks conservatives.
So now their new team, and it's time to preview this show.
So they put them on last night on John King's America.
It's Parker Spitzer is the name of the show.
Premieres October the 4th on CNN.
And during a discussion about Obama, Parker and Spitzer have this exchange.
This is what everybody's waiting for to debut October 4th on CNN.
This is the issue of biting too many apples simultaneously.
President Reagan, who was an amazing communicator, also had a very linear communication strategy.
One issue at a moment.
He was brilliant at it.
And he didn't deal with health care and then foreign policy and then the Middle East and then let's get the Olympics and then a beer summit.
All these other things in health care.
And so all these things that distract.
And not to mention attacking people who aren't even part of the Hill.
I mean, going after Rush Limbaugh.
Yes, he is an influential radio host.
But he's not part of the Republican Party to the extent that the president has suggested he is.
Maybe the problem is that we, the public, need to cut him some slack.
Who?
Me?
Or Obama?
Obama?
Cut Obama's?
I can't wait.
But that's your new team on CNN.
And those of you anchors and reporters in the small and medium markets in the country who just...
I mean, they have their dreams.
Their dreams include working at CNN.
And now, what must they all think?
And that exchange, that is a promo.
This is supposed to make everybody want to tune in on October 4th to watch Parker Spitzer on CNN.
We'll be back after this with much more.
EIB Network rolls on.
Don't go away.
You want to hear something funny?
Joy Behar on The View yesterday about Christine O'Donnell.
There's a girl who says that, you know, she didn't masturbate.
She doesn't believe in masturbating either.
And she wants to make public policy about other people's sex lives.
Is it a girl or a woman?
It's a witch who doesn't masturbate.
Who has never had...
There you have your responsible, reasonable, tolerant, intelligent left.
Joy Behar.
They are just so jealous.
They are just so jealous.
They cannot stand it whatsoever.
Coming next to CNN.
October 4th.
You know, if there's ever somebody that was wrongly named, it's Joy Behar.
And there's no Joy there.
I mean, coming soon to CNN.
October 4th.
8 p.m. CNN.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Scott in Branson, Missouri.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
This is from your home state.
Two things for you.
A headline and a Rush math lesson.
This morning I walked out of my hotel room.
I'm actually on the road right now.
Now, to see my complimentary copy of USA Today, which ordinarily I would just wipe my feet on, but the headline this morning prompted me to pick it up.
The headline says, Recession Over, Pain Remains.
The gist of the article is that officially the recession is over, but everything still sucks.
I mean, as everybody knows.
Yeah, it was over in June of 2009, right?
Yes.
Yes, exactly.
Unemployment's still high.
Housing values aren't coming back.
Nobody's buying anything.
So what I'm wondering here is, what's USA Today doing with this?
Are they throwing the recovery under the bus here?
I mean, ordinarily you would see them, you know, giving us some glowing numbers on this economic recovery.
No, no.
See, USA Today's reporting the news.
News, an official accredited government agency appointed to search things like, when did the recession end, declared it over in June.
And since somebody in the government said it, then, well, it's true.
So USA Today just reporting the news.
I see.
Okay.
Well, I doubt that, but okay.
I don't see USA Today reporting the news very often.
Nobody thinks there is.
Lookit, the correct retort, if the recession ended in June of 2009, then somebody please tell me, when did the depression begin?
Now, today, September 21st, folks, this is the official last day of our summer of recovery.
This is when fall begins, September 21st.
But this bunch that said the recession ended in June of 2009, NBER, it's really, it's not even a government group.
It's a group of Harvard professors who pronounced the recession over in June of last year.
But if this is the end of the summer of recovery, then we've recovered.
That's on to greater things.
The real summer recovery was last summer.
Because the recession ended in June, so we've been in fat city for the last 20 years.
Just nobody told us.
Except now we've been told, so we know.
So, everything's fine.
Everything's cool.
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