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Sept. 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Hi, how are you, folks?
Great to have you here.
I well, you know who I am, and you know what this is.
And you know how it's done.
Well, no, you don't know how it's done, but you know what's done, and then nobody else does it.
So let's do it.
Uh telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
There's a story in the Wall Street Journal today, and it's got everybody in a tizzy.
And the story is that McDonald's is going to drop its health care coverage because of Obamacare.
Now, McDonald's is issuing a half-hearted denial of this.
The White House is issuing a half-hearted denial of this.
But that's not the point.
The point that this is even a possibility.
I mean, we're discussing it.
The story's out there.
McDonald's may drop health care plan because of Obama.
Now there's all kinds of denials.
This is the United States of America.
We have a major American corporation with a story in the big media suggesting because of our president, they may drop their health care coverage.
Whether or not the Wall Street Journal got the story right.
The fact that McDonald's has to ask the federal government for permission to continue with their health care plan for their employees is the problem.
We need to get Obama out of our businesses.
We need to get Obama out of our backyards, out of our light sockets.
We need to get him out of the gasoline pump.
We need to get him out of the oil business, and we need to get him out of our backyards in our lives primarily.
And the first stage of that process occurs on November 2nd.
It's looking bad for the Democrats out there.
All kinds of stories now suggest that there is no good news for Democrats, that it's the drive-by media simply trying to suggest there might be good news for Democrats, but there doesn't seem to be any at all.
The Congress left town not voting on tax cuts, and it was a bipartisan desire to vote on tax cuts.
Everybody's always clamoring.
We need bipartisanship.
We need the parties getting along.
We need to bridge the divide.
And it was said that uh Imam Obama was going to be the guy to do this.
And no, now he's out there bashing Fox News again.
He's out there bashing talk show hosts again.
He's all for the First Amendment when it comes to the ground zero mosque, but not when it comes to Fox News, and not when it comes to me or certain other practitioners of the broadcast arts.
Arnold Allert or Alert, I'm not sure how he pronounces it as a piece today that's a good summary of why the Democrats are going to take it on the chin.
And the reason I like it is because it goes issue by issue by issue and explains it.
Uh and there's a great summary to it.
You've heard it all before because you've heard me, but it's still good to summarize it, and we will do it.
Uh now let's let's go to one more thing about the McDonald's business.
Nobody's denied that the memo was authentic.
Nobody's denied that the internal memo at McDonald's about having to drop their health care plan for their employee.
This is, by the way, exactly what the regime wants.
They just don't want it before an election.
McDonald's needs a waiver.
Right's right.
They need a waiver.
Now the regime wants companies like McDonald's to drop health care coverage to their employees, but not until 2014.
Certainly not a month before an election.
And certainly not before BAM's re-election effort in 2012.
That's why most of this stuff doesn't kick until 2014.
Uh but these companies have to be forward-thinking, and they have to look at the impact of this uh health care on their business.
They're already asking for a waiver.
Nobody's denying the memo was authentic.
So we know, and we didn't need the McDonald's story.
We know that companies are worried about this.
And we know that the facts are the facts.
So we'll get into great detail of that as the um as the program unfolds before our very eyes.
Let's see who's uh I told you sound by 13, right?
To start with?
Yeah, we did.
I want to.
Oh, have you heard about what happened at Chad Ocho Cinco?
Number 85 of the Cincinnati Bengals.
He's come out with a new breakfast cereal called Ochosyncos.
And on the box of Ochosincos, there is a plea for donations to feed the children.
And there's a phone number.
If you call a phone number, it's a phone sex line.
Somebody goofed up printing the number on the box of Ochosincos.
Chad Ochosinko's cereal.
The number printed on the box is 1-800 help FTC.
If you call that number, you hear an explicit message from a woman offering to do all sorts of things that you can't talk about here on a family-oriented radio program.
The actual number for Feed the Children is 1888.
help FTC, but on Ochocinco's box, it's 1-800, which is the phone sex line.
Ochocinco told Eyeball News 9 in Cincinnati a mistake in the box is something he had nothing to do with, and he's confident it'll be fixed.
Well, that's comforting.
He's confident that it will be fixed.
Yesterday, Ochosinko told his 1.3 million Twitter followers to order my cereal Ochosinko.
Start your day with a little sugar.
L-I-L-S-U-G-A.
You call the phone sex line.
This is it's funny.
It's a classic example of one of these well-intentioned things that's that's just gone terribly wrong.
Carl Paladino, running for governor in New York, is on fire.
Now, remember just a couple days ago, we were on this program talking about the differences in Tea Party candidates and ruling class candidates.
Carl Paladino and others, these are people who have lived lives.
The way has not been paved for them.
They have not inherited wealth.
They've worked hard for it.
Some of them don't have it.
They're in debt.
They've had problems with the IRS.
They are country class people.
They have not been groomed for anything political, and they're fit to be tied.
They see the ruling class destroying their country, and they are really upset and offended by the arrogance that the ruling class exhibits while in the process of destroying the country.
Caro Palladino has has accused little Andrew the Como of having an affair.
Carl Paladino had dead Tuesday that Democrat Andrew the Como was unfaithful to his ex-wife years ago, a stunning accusation, that validated his earlier prediction a race would be getting nastier.
Paladino offered no proof despite requests for substantiation.
He made it minutes after angrily declaring his 10-year-old daughter a child from his own affair ten years ago is off limits of the press.
The Tea Party backed Republican had publicly revealed her existence when he declared his candidacy earlier this year.
Now talking to Paladino, uh to Politico, sorry, Paladino said, has anybody asked Andrew De Como about his paramours?
His campaign manager Michael Caputo chimed in when he was married.
Paladino continued, when he was married, or ask him, asked him why his wife left him or threw him out of the house.
Anybody ever done that?
Palladino demanded.
What are they doing intruding on my life?
The blunt and unvarnished nature of Paladino's allegations marked a jarring departure from statewide campaign norms.
What are statewide campaign norms?
Statewide campaign norms are where the media and the Democrats try to destroy the Republican.
And don't question a Democrat at all.
A Democrat gets questioned for nothing.
The Democrat is never examined.
The Democrat never gets a media anal exam, but the Republican candidate's family is brought into it.
His life is turned upside down.
Any little irregularity is chalked up to some sort of big crime or corruption, and the apparatus of the Democrats and the media line up and do their best to destroy the Republicans.
Paladino is the hell with it.
His whole campaign is outside The norms.
A breath of fresh air, as the cliche goes.
The blunt and unvarnished nature of Paladino's allegations marked a jarring departure from statewide campaign norms where charges of a highly sensitive or personal nature are rarely leveled by candidates themselves, are instead typically disseminated behind the scenes by operatives, which included media.
No buffer, no aids, no filter, nothing.
This never happens, said one Republican strategirist of Paladino's remarks.
This is refreshing.
Paladino, I mean, you look at this in a positive way.
Palladino is not letting an aid circulate it anonymously behind the scenes.
He's launching it himself.
Andrew the Como says that we will not descend into the gutter.
We will not respond to this guttural campaign waged by Paladino.
Paladino's a developer.
He himself discussed his daughter with the Buffalo News when he declared his candidacy before the summer.
The campaign made his wife, Kathy, available for a string of interviews in the past week in which she was asked about the young girl.
Asked about the coverage.
Palladino said grew visibly angry, said my daughter is off limits.
This led to a knockdown drag out confrontation with Fred Dicker of the New York Post.
Here's an audio soundbite.
Last night in Lake George, New York, Carl Paladino, Fred Dicker, the New York Post state editor, had this exchange about charges that Palladino made against Democrat uh Andrew the Como that he had cheated on his wife.
You have any evidence for the charge of me.
Simple call.
Of course I do.
You're not probably in New York.
You're his stalking horse.
What's the evidence?
You're his bird dog.
He's made a deep dog.
He's done another wound to my gutter.
I'll take you out, buddy.
How are you going to do that?
What?
You send another goon to my house and I will to my daughter's house and I will take you out, buddy.
That's what Paladino said to Fred Dicker.
Dickers said, You're gonna take me out?
Paladino said, Yeah.
Dicker said, How are you gonna do that?
Paladino said, Watch.
I know could you understand that?
Some of yeah, it's it's it's it's typical uh uh internet audio.
But it started out with Fred Dickers said, Do you have any evidence of this charge you made that Andrew De Como stepped out on his wife?
It's a simple question.
Palladino says, Of course I do.
And Dicker said, Well, where is it?
Paladino, you'll get it at the appropriate time.
Dicker, where's the evidence?
Paladino, you're not entitled to it.
At the appropriate time, you'll get it.
Dicker.
Good God, the attorney general's in New York.
Paladino, and you're his stalking horse right there.
Dicker, you say that, but where's your evidence?
Paladino, you're his stalking horse.
Dicker, where's the evidence?
You're his bird dog, Paladino said.
Dicker, you're making the charge.
Palladino, you send another goon to my daughter's house, and I'll take you out, buddy.
Now, Republicans are getting involved.
He was back off there, Carl.
Need to dial it back here just as well.
This is not how uh these uh these things take place.
I think it is outside the norm.
And it's uh it's interesting to look at this, because it does have a lot of people.
Oh, no, come on, Carl, don't blow it.
But I think people don't understand here.
We live.
We live at a period of time where a lot of people, a growing number of this people are simply fed up with everybody in the so-called establishment, in the so-called ruling class.
And the people on our side on the Tea Party were fed up with having our lives be targeted, and theirs not.
We're fed up.
Palladino, he brought the subject up.
He tried to neuter it, he tried to say, look it.
I've got this problem.
Yes, I have this daughter out there.
Please leave her alone.
They're not leaving her alone.
And and and Paladino, self-made man, uh, is simply reacting as a candidate, the way average Americans react every day watching the news.
He's simply reacting as a normal American, you know, as a normal guy.
The difference is he happens to be a candidate.
And so it's said as a candidate, he's acting outside the norms of behavior.
We'll see.
latest polling data shows that Andrew the Como still is flittering around there 50%.
If Andrew the Como is below 50%, this is not good.
And this was a slam dunk.
This was supposed to be a cakewalk.
This was Nebraska versus the Cape Girardo Central High JV team.
I mean, this was this was supposed to be a slaughter.
What they call in college football a cupcake game.
And now Andrew the Como doesn't know what to do.
They're at 50%, hovering there back and forth, and Paladino's not backing off.
And he's taking on the media.
Now, I've I don't know Fred Dicker well.
I've talked to him a couple times.
He's always struck me as uh as an okay guy.
There's there's not, this is the dichotomy here.
Dicker is not your average ordinary drive-by media guy.
I mean, he's not like somebody at CNN or MSNBC or what have you.
Clearly, Paladino is loaded for bear.
And he's of the belief that campaign norms are such that he is going to be targeted for destruction, and they'll stop at nothing to do it.
His daughter, his family, and meanwhile, he sees Cuomo get away with all kinds of stuff, and nobody ever questions or judges or anything else, and he's simply.
I mean, not to compare Como to Kennedy, don't misunderstand, but uh the whole country at some point outside of Massachusetts, the guy, Ted Kennedy drove a car up the bridge and killed a woman.
It was considered outside the norms of propriety to bring that up in a campaign.
This didn't do it.
But it's okay to talk about Clarence Thomas and a pubicare and a Coke can.
It's okay to come along and use any innuendo or lie as Ted Kennedy did with Robert Bork to destroy and deny Republicans and conservatives.
That's been the campaign Norman.
Paladino is simply a guy who's not going to fall in line with the campaign norms.
We'll see.
Brief time out, lots to do on the program today.
Plus your phone calls as always.
El Rushball back before you know it.
Now, one thing about Carl Paladino, uh, look at he knows going into this that he's the big time underdog.
And he's simply not going to run plunge play after plunge play up the middle.
I mean, you get a little football analogy.
He's not going to go off tackle left and off tackle right, three and out and punt.
He's throwing the bomb every day.
He's got trips right, and he is throwing go patterns every day.
He's just going for it.
Uh, and it's refreshing.
Now he may have his facts turned around because I remember at the time of the divorce of Andrew the Como.
By the way, I remember when they announced they were getting married.
When Andrew De Como announced he was marrying uh Carrie Kenneth Fawkes.
Were you around then?
I mean the New York media, it was the second coming.
I mean, it was it was Joseph and Mary heading off to the inn with an Amex reservation this time.
There was going to be room there, no manger for him.
And it was the, it was, you would not believe it at the time.
This was one of the greatest marriages.
You talk about immaculations.
They were just beside themselves.
Why a new generation of power Democrats starting with the Kumo's and the Kennedys.
And then after a couple years or three years, however many years it was, the word came out that she was having the affair.
The word came out that Carrie Kennedy was having an affair with another man after 13 years of marriage.
And Kumo's lawyer released a statement saying that he was betrayed and saddened by his wife's conduct.
I forget who this guy was, but he was um he was a dashing New York wealthy guy flitting around all over the place.
And it was really uh a devastating thing to Andrew Kumo because everybody thought Andrew Cuomo was this young, dashing uh Lancelot Prince Charming guy, and here he is being dumped overboard for some New York guy who's uh said to have even more quoting unnamed sources.
The tabloids reported over the next few days that Kennedy was having the affair, that her lover and his wife were friends of the Kumo's, that Kumo discovered the affair when he walked in on the lovers, that the other man's a wealthy polo playing 50 year old restaurateur and bon vivant named Bruce Collie.
So the story was that it was Andrew who was cuckolded out there.
It was Andrew that was walked out on.
Now Carl Palladino's running around saying he was having an affair.
And that's why Fred Dickers saying, where's your evidence for this?
They called the marriage.
I kid you not, when Carrie Kennedy and Andrew the Cuomo got married, they call it Cuomo lot.
As in Camelot.
Oh, folks.
You should have been there.
I remember it.
It was.
I mean, it fit every cliche you can imagine.
So Palladino's now leveled a charge that Andrew was having the affair.
Andrews is not going to respond to the gutter.
Fred Dicker wants to know what the evidence is, and Paladino says, I'll have it coming up for you.
Sit tight.
When is appropriate?
If he knows something nobody else knows, this is cool.
You know, folks, this really is a bizarre political year.
Stop a think of this.
Really is a bizarre political year if a Democrat running for office in New York State thinks having an affair would hurt him.
In the polls.
And that would be Andrew the Cuomo.
Normally, this is a resume enhancement.
Democrats having an affair, especially in New York, and now Andrew the Cuomo's acting like it would hurt him.
This is this is bizarre.
My favorite line from the Palladino, Fred Dicker dust up was this.
When his aide pushed Dicker, Caputo, the aide, said to Dicker, You're off the Christmas list.
Palladino is famous.
He's running around telling, you're off the Christmas list.
I mean, it just it's it's it's um real stuff.
You know, people in Manhattan, and the Democrat Party at large, just they don't grasp this.
They they don't understand how normal people are reacting to this Paladino stuff with Andrew Cuomo.
The people outside Manhattan have no understanding just how fed up with the normal ascension of polit, okay, royalty, Democrat Party.
This wedding, Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy was the closest thing to an arranged royal family type wedding that this country's seen.
This is the way people reacted to it.
On the left, oh, this is wonderful.
Oh, this is the greatest thing in every day.
Cuomo lot.
Everybody else is, I mean, isn't is there nothing real?
Paladino comes across as a real guy.
One thing the Republicans don't understand, I'm talking about the elected Republicans, the Republican establishment in Washington.
Now you'll understand it when I say because many of you have called this program clamoring.
You know, when Bush was under assault, they didn't respond.
It was it was some of the most vicious personal attacks on a president we can ever remember in our lifetimes.
And Bush didn't respond to it at all, wouldn't want to sell the office.
Rove admits it was maybe a mistake that we didn't respond.
Well, Republican voters were sitting out there fed up because the attacks on Bush were attacks on them too, because they had voted for Bush.
They were not just attacks on Bush, they were attacks on the honesty and the integrity of half of the American population, if not more.
But nobody was speaking up for half the American population.
The American population, the working class of this country, has wanted to tell a political class where to go for I don't know how long.
They do every day.
They shout at the television sets at home when they're talking to each other.
They talk this way about the ruling class.
So here comes a candidate, Palladino, who is voicing the same kind of frustration, anger at the ruling class that people in the country feel.
And the Democrats and people inside Manhattan just simply don't grasp how um how normal people are reacting to Paladino.
If Palladino were hurting himself, Kumo'll be up there at 60, 70% of the polls are what he thought he was going to be, but he's hovering around 50.
And what nobody's talking about here is that Palladino, he seems like a decent, normal, sincere guy.
I don't know him.
Don't I don't want anybody to misunderstand?
I've never met Carl Palladino.
But I do know that Andrew Cuomo is hip deep in the subprime mortgage crisis.
I do know that a lot of people are fully aware that the subprime mortgage fiasco is why, primary reason why we're in this economic mess that we're in now.
The subprime mortgage mess, when explained to people, is easy to understand.
You're gonna loan money to people that can't afford it.
You're gonna loan money to people who never pay it back.
You're gonna call it affordable housing, and you're gonna bail them out, and we're gonna be paying for all this.
We're out here struggling to get mortgages.
We're struggling to pay them back on time, and now you're loaning money to a bunch of people, and all you're really doing is buying votes.
In the process, you're screwing up property values, you're messing up the market big time.
Andrew Cuomo is at the forefront of this program.
Then this is what more and more people are starting to learn.
So you can talk about whatever personality quirks Paladino has, but Andrew Cuomo's been involved in policies that have genuinely harm people that have genuinely negatively impacted the country.
You know, so Caputo says to Dicker, you're off the Christmas list, but Obama says when they bring a knife, you bring a gun.
You know, the Democrats are allowed to fight this way all the time.
Democrats are nothing to be outside the norms and trash Robert Bork and destroy him or say whatever they want, make up things I never said about race and so forth, and that's considered the norm.
But people like me fight back.
Paladino fight, you're not supposed to fight back.
This is outside the political norm.
You're supposed to be above all of this.
This subprime stuff, this you know, Paladino's gonna stay on that, issue-wise, it's gonna be hard for uh Andrew the Como to overcome this, because Andrew the Como is no longer seen as invulnerable now.
Now, this McDonald's story.
Who works at McDonald's?
Who are they?
They're hamburger flippers, right?
And those jobs are genuinely derided by the left.
Hamburger flippers, why people are consigned to hamburger flipper jobs, people have gone to college, why this is what a what a put the hamburger flipper jobs.
Um people that do that kind of work are laughed at, made fun of, and impugned by the Democrats, and we're also told that a hamburger flipper job is minimum wage, can't support a family on it, and there's no health care.
Well, if there's no health care for a hamburger flipper, then how the hell can 30,000 McDonald's employees be facing the possible loss of health care?
Somebody needs to explain this to me because I thought they were awful jobs that nobody wanted, that were somehow demeaning hamburger flippers.
You notice that no Republicans rip the jobs created under the Obama regime, as all hamburger flipper jobs the way they did under Republic.
Every new job during Bush, that's just a hamburger hamburger flipper job.
During Reagan, the same thing.
When the job creation was booming under Republican administrations, the Democrats are out there deriding the kind of jobs they are.
Just hamburger flipper jobs.
Of course, right now, no jobs are being created at all to tens of millions of Americans, and nice job with benefits of McDonald's sounds pretty good.
More of a job an Obama's ever had in his life.
When you get right down to it, flipping burgers is more than Obama's ever done.
Flipping burgers will teach you more about economic reality anything Obama's ever done.
But still, somebody explained to me how it is that you um deride a job with hamburger flippers and McDonald's talks about maybe having to get rid of their health care plan, and all of a sudden we learn that those people have health care.
And we've been lied to all these years by the media, by the Democrats, no benefits, no nothing.
They're exploited.
Hamburger flippers are exploited.
Evil, mean McDonald's, paying people virtually nothing.
Same thing with Walmart.
So all kinds of things popping up.
Now, this back to Paladino for just a second, is dust up with Fred Dicker.
On the one hand, you could say nobody cares, who cares is a little odd.
On the other hand, you could say it's Truman-esque.
Yes, Trumanesque.
Carl Paladino, you send another goon to my daughter's house, and I'll take you out, buddy.
Harry Truman.
His daughter, Margaret Trummer, Truman liked to sing, play musical instruments.
And she gave a concert, performed in concert at Constitution Hall.
And she thought her performance was one of her better ones.
Paul Hume, the music critic of the Washington Post at the time, while praising her personality, wrote that she can't sing very well.
Not a very good singer.
She's flat a good deal of the time, Hume added, concluding that she had no professional finish.
Well, President Harry Truman was incensed.
This was his daughter being attacked by a arts reviewer at the Washington Post.
So Harry Truman sent a note to Mr. Hume.
And Hume released the note from Truman.
Here's the note.
I've just read your lousy review.
Someday I hope to meet you.
When that happens, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below.
Harry Truman said this to a reporter at the Washington, Harry Truman, American president.
You're gonna need a cup, you're gonna need a new nose, you're gonna need beefsteak for black guys.
I am going to rip you upside the wall and down the other.
In the ensuing uproar, there was an uproar then just like there is now.
Reporters asked Harry Truman's daughter, his name was Margaret Daniel, for her reaction to her father's letter.
She said, I'm glad to see that chivalry is not dead.
So one could argue this Truman-esque.
Carl Palladino, you send another goon to my daughter's house.
I'm going to take you out, buddy.
Harry Truman.
I just read your lousy review.
Someday I hope to meet you.
When that happens, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below.
Meaning a protective cup.
So Paladino bothered that the press had been pursuing his ten-year-old daughter, the daughter he'd had with his mistress, which he's admitted.
So he has a shout out with Fred Dicker, who's a nice guy.
He really is.
Harry Trumanesque.
You could look at it in that way.
Let me grab a quick call.
We'll go to Aurora, Colorado.
This is Jack.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
How's it going?
Thank you very much.
Hey, I thought the New York Post was the conservative or whatever publication in New York, or all the reporters or slash writers there.
Uh the same birds of the same feather in the dirty apple.
Well, that is the impression.
I can personally tell you it's not universal at the New York Post that everybody is a conservative writer from the editorial department on down to the entertainment to the sports writers.
But yeah, for the most part it is a conservative paper.
What is what is uh what is your point?
Well, I was just uh shocked and amazed.
I watched the YouTube video and uh it said uh New York Post reporter reporter, excuse me, um, goes after that guy, and I'm thinking, well, why would a conservative reporter as such do that?
Well, I think what what happened was Paladino's leveling a charge here that Andrew Cumbo had an affair, and Fred Dicker's a journalist.
Where's your evidence for this?
Is a conservative reporter simply supposed to look the other way?
It's liberal reporters who do that.
Liberal reporters will accept whatever charge a Democrat makes about a Republican without questioning it.
Fred Dicker is a reporter.
Okay, so Paladino comes along and says, Andrew Cuomo had a fair.
You ever ask him about that?
And Dicker says, I never heard this.
What's your evidence?
He's doing what a reporter should do, whether they're conservative or not.
What you're really indicating here is that liberal reporters do not.
They do and protect their own while disguised as objective reporters.
And you think conservatives um should do the same.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks.
Be back, much more straight ahead on the EIB network.
Arnold Allert, why Democrats are going down in December.
Sorry, in November, December two.
The most satisfying aspect of the whole scenario is this despite every attempt they've made to blame anyone and everybody else for their problems, They have brought it on themselves.
Speaking of the Democrats, I can't wait to go to this piece with you.
And from Aaron Marshall, a plain deeper dealer in Cleveland, Republicans have requested more absentee ballots than Democrats in Ohio's three largest counties.
It's another indicator, a big time alarm for the Democrats.
We're talking Cleveland here.
Republicans and two other large counties have requested more absentee ballots than Democrats.
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Chris in Fairfax, Virginia, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hey Rush, how are you?
Very good.
Thank you very much.
Hey, I I want to talk to you about that your characterization of when he said, Well, you know, if you sent a goon over to my ten-year-old daughter, I'd take you out.
And I look at it as a natural reaction from any father of a 10-year-old.
If somebody sent somebody that had ill intentions towards my daughter, I'd take him out.
See, this is my point.
This is what people in the normal sphere of politics don't understand.
They expect a certain amount of decorum.
They expect that, well, hey, it's politics.
You have to expect what's going to come.
But how many times have we heard the Clintons please leave Chelsea out of it?
The Obamas, please leave our kids out of it.
Our kids are not running for office.
Palladino asked the same thing.
Lee, look at yes, I got a 10-year-old daughter.
I had her with a missile.
Leave her alone.
They're not leaving her alone.
So he says, You uh you keep harassing my daughter, I'm gonna take you out.
This guy from Fairfax, Virginia.
This is a reaction any normal father would have is some powerful bunch of people bugging his 10-year-old daughter after they've been asked to leave her alone.
A camera at a bedroom window.
That's what, yeah.
The the the drive-bys had a camera in the 10-year-old girl's bedroom window.
And that's what Paladino was upset about, as uh as any father would be.
So here's Chris in Fairfax, Virginia, simply reacting as normal.
Real people do.
This is Dale Ventura, California.
Your turn on the EIB network.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
Pleasure to talk to you on my 53rd birthday.
Well, congratulations, sir.
Thank you.
About the McDonald's, I can fully believe that.
Word just came down to us.
I live in California.
The four largest insurers in this state have all got increases in premiums of approximately 20% recently.
Yep.
Our company informed us that they fought and fought and fought.
But specifically, because of the Obama health care plan, our insurance premiums are gonna skyrocket.
Yep.
Our co-pays are going to skyrocket.
By design.
Yes.
Our um pharmacy copays are going to skyrocket.
And if we were to go to the emergency room now, instead of the hundred dollars that we have to pay now, it's going to be a thousand dollars a trip.
Now, my wife, her medical costs are approximately two hundred dollars a month for right now, just for medicines as well as doctor visits.
When those premiums go up, I'm in the construction industry supply, and there's no construction going on really out here.
So when those costs go up, as well as the costs that are passed on to myself and my wife, okay.
Our choice is going to be this.
All right, let me either Dale.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Let me ask you a quick question because time dwindling away.
Given all this, what's your reaction to the reaction?
No, no, no.
Let me say what's your reaction to so-called controversy that Meg Whitman hired an illegal maid.
I don't, I you know what?
I am fully behind Meg Whitman on that.
If the person was deceptive, she deserved to be fired.
And I've got a friend that says, Oh, but she should have helped her.
I'm sorry.
You don't break the law.
But the bottom of the law.
The bottom line is when you're faced with all these skyrocketing insurance premiums, whether or not Gloria Allred's got the goods on Meg Whitman illegal made, kind of doesn't matter, does it?
No, it doesn't, and I'm in fact to the extent that it does matter, you're suspecting a rat on the Democrat side.
Because that's how they play this game.
Meg Whitman said the mave lied to me.
Uh but in the in the big scheme of things, so you're facing 100 payment at the emergency room now going up to a thousand dollars, and a Democrats hit you with news that Meg Whitman has an illegal maid or did.
Um yeah, so We got bigger problems in this country than whether Meg Whitman's maid was legal or illegal.
In terms of whether or not it matters to me about Meg Whitman.
At any rate, I'm glad you called out there, Dale.
Thanks much.
We'll be back.
Can't believe fastest three hours in this time is zipping by today.
And if it is for me, I know it's zipping by for you.
They're playing games again with the unemployment numbers.
The key.
Oh, guess what?
The unemployment numbers are way, way down.
Fewer people file for claims.
That's only because they revise the previous week's number every week so that the new number looks less.
I will explain all of this and much more when we come back from our first obscene top profit break in the top of the hour.
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