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Oct. 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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I know, I know, I know.
I got 15 emails I'm trying to answer here.
I got a direct TV receiver at home.
It's not working.
Somebody needs some uh input on so they can fix.
Look, folks, we multitask here.
We do all kinds of things on this program behind the scenes that you uh never hear.
I'm gonna tell you something.
This Christine O'Donnell and Chris Kuhn's debate.
By the way, this Chris Kuhn's guy has a diary at the Daily Co.'s website, which is left wing Cookville.
And he runs around out there, he wants to talk about how he now is a free market capitalist.
That's a bunch of bow hunk.
This guy is the bearded Marxist without the beard.
He may have shaved a beard, he hadn't shaved a Marxism.
But um, you know what I'll bet you?
You remember after Christine O'Donnell, even before she uh won the primary, but even afterwards, we were all of the um the uh Aryonite uh elites uh on our side who are wringing their hands together.
Oh no, no, there goes the Republican majority.
Oh, of course, they don't know we had to have Mike Castle.
We had to have Mike Castle.
Yeah, we had to have a rhino.
And then Mike Murphy, Georgetown, political consultants.
Okay, okay, you guys, speaking to people like me and you, if you know how to win elections, you go in there and you move to Delaware, you run her campaign.
Sarah Palin, you know how to do this, you're running their runner campaign.
All right, so she had her first debate last night.
I'm hearing this for the first time.
I didn't watch the show.
I'm impressed.
I I think this is quite I think she's quite good, what I've heard so far.
You know what I'm gonna bet you?
I will bet you that there are some on our side in the blogosphere, the media so forth, who probably think the same thing.
That there were not O'Donnell people going in who think she won this thing handily.
I bet there are a lot of people who are surprised who thought she hadn't a prayer, didn't have any kind of a chance.
Let's go back, resume here at audio soundbite number eight, Wolf Blitzer.
You know what these guys do.
I finally forget this evolution bit.
They think every Republican is Jerry Falwell.
They think every Republican is Pat Robertson, and they're just waiting for somebody to slip up and prove it.
Everybody is a right-wing kook Christian.
Everybody is a Southern hick pro-lifer.
You know, that's the template that they have of uh conservative.
Wolf blitzer falling right in line.
You know, I'd still laugh at Wolf Blitzer saying to Christine, the voters want to know what's going on.
Wolf, if you knew what the voters wanted, you'd have an audience.
If you knew what the voters wanted, you wouldn't be at CNN.
CNN hasn't the slightest clue what the voters want, as evidenced by the fact that the voters don't watch.
For crying out loud, 500,000 people.
We have that on one street corner in New York every half hour.
At any rate, back now to the sound bites, Wolf Blitzer to um Christine O'Donnell, what specifically, Ms. O'Donnell, would you do specifically, Ms. O'Donnell, to specifically create jobs.
What would you do?
What I think the best thing the government can do to get our economy back on real economic recovery is for to get out of the way of the small business owner and to get out of the way of the entrepreneur.
And the way you do that is to make sure these tax hikes don't come in January.
You begin to roll back some of the regulation that's forced them to close their doors.
Couple things that I'm proposing, and number one, a temporary two-year tax holiday on the capital gains tax to give investors the money they need to reinvest in business to permanently eliminate the death tax.
That's not only an unjust bill because we paid taxes while we saved it, but it will also create 1.5 million new jobs.
Okay, so they say, what would you do?
To create jobs?
She rattles off some concrete proposals.
Do you think we'd have heard that from Mike Castle?
We'd have heard the same kind of thing when they asked when Lyndon McMahon asked, What's his face?
That pencil net geek up in the Bloom Blumenthal.
This guy, I'll tell you, I'm proud of my theories.
I'm proud of the time that I served our country in Vietnam when he didn't.
I'm proud of my theory.
I see this guy and I would just want to ram a big Mac down his throat.
Eat something.
Anyway, could you would would Castle have been able to rattle off things like this?
And when Blumenthal was asked, what do you create?
Well, jobs are to be created.
And I'm for that.
We love jobs.
Connecticut.
I'm proud of the work I've done to create that.
I mean, that's the kind of goblety gook we got.
And she was able to rattle this off rat tat tat tat tat.
What's next?
Wolf Blitzer says, Well, where did you get those numbers?
Where do you get those numbers you're talking about?
Department of Labor Statistics, and we'll have them on our website by tomorrow.
But I want to point out that he said that we're not creating a culture of dependency.
How would you explain what is happening when unemployment is leveled out, but more and more people on far on food stamps?
We've got to ask ourselves, what do we want Delawareans to be receiving?
Food stamps or paychecks.
I say paychecks.
Obviously, paychecks.
We'd like to have Americans.
But to simply denounce people as being dependent because they're applying for and receiving food stamps.
Oh, Chris, that's the worst recession in modern.
That's not fair of you to be able to do that.
That's not fair of you to say that because that's not at all what I'm doing.
Obviously, Paichess, we'd like to have Americans be able to receive the benefits they need to get through the You know that that that's another buzzword the left is always focused on.
Benefits.
You've got to orient yourself so you get the benefits that you uh are owed.
How many of you how many of you, when you think about what it means to be an American, tabulate the benefits?
In tangible term benefits that transfer payments, in-kind payments that you are owed or that you're gonna get.
Is that what you contemplate when you constantly be an American?
Yeah, I'm gonna add up my my benefits.
I mean, this is you can tell by this guy's language.
We uh we'd like to have Americans be able to receive the benefits they need to get through incredibly difficult times.
The best thing people have is themselves.
And the biggest obstacle people have to overcome is people like this Coons guy, who thinks that benefits and government transfer payments, redistribution of wealth, that's the essence of fairness in his uh in his war of mind.
She wasn't talking about anything at all like she taught he tried to characterize her.
Anyway, Coons was not happy about the ad that's being run on the internet calling him Coons the tax man, which is a very creative ad, it's very funny ad.
Uh and uh, you know, Wolf Blitzer said, okay, Coons, uh I'll have you respond to this.
We're gonna try and have a conversation here this evening rather than just a diatribe if we possibly could.
I think it'd be helpful to have an exchange of ideas and let each of us take turns.
So thank you for moderating, Wolf.
I think it's important to look closely at some of the things Ms. O'Donnell's thrown out on her new website.
Most of them are untrue.
Some of them are flat out lies, some of them are mischaracterizations, some of them are just factually untrue.
So I'm not going to stop every single time there's something she throws out that I disagree with or I think is factually untrue.
It's on a website.
I want to be a man about it.
And I'm going to stop and cry about it.
I'll let Wolf Blitzer give me the chance to whine and cry about it.
There was um there was one episode in the debate that people have focused on, and the media seized on this as her Sarah Palin moment.
And the the female moderator, Nancy Karabajanian said, uh, we've talked about the Supreme Court.
Obviously, United States Senator has the opportunity to determine in a way the makeup of the court.
So what opinions of late that have come from our high court do you most object to?
Oh, gosh.
Um give me a specific one.
I'm sorry.
Actually, I can't, because I need you to tell me which ones you object to.
Um, I'm very sorry right off the top of my head.
I know that there are a lot, but uh I'll put it up on my website, I promise you.
Well, we know you disagree with Roe versus Wade.
Yeah, but that was she said a recent one.
Well that's rolling.
She said of late.
Feltroe versus Wade, Roe versus Wade if that's overcome.
This is a crazy Would not make abortion illegal in the United States.
It would put the power back to the states.
What an idiot this Coons guy is.
I mean, this was a this was a this was a genuine opportunity for him to bury her.
And he he goes back to 1973.
Because he wants a discussion on abortion.
He wanted abortion in the debate.
I don't know.
I I have these um I have brain freezes like that all the time.
And everybody would acknowledge how smart I am.
Everybody acknowledges how informed I am.
And I'm not bragging.
I mean, we all, you know, I'm informed.
I have a great memory.
I've been you you all constantly tell me this.
But I if if I'm doing an interview and somebody says, what are your top ten favorite movies?
I freeze.
I can't, I can think of one.
I'll always come up with one, the graduate.
And after that, I can't think of nine other movies.
Says something.
Secretariat, but that's only because I saw it Friday.
Okay, all right.
Recent Supreme Court decision you disagree with.
Three kilo.
That's what I would have said.
That's what I would have said.
But I do have what I'm saying is I'm not going to give her negative marks on this because I I have brain freezes like this.
And it's it's a specific question.
When you're asked to name one thing.
I remember the first time I did Brinkley, I don't know, one of my most famous brain freezes.
You know, Brinkley was uh interviewed me on his uh This Week with David Brinkley show.
And he's during the interview, you know, there's no one like you.
No one like you.
And I thank him and go to the end of the interview.
Okay, if you were president, what would you do?
I sat there and I for 20 seconds.
I said, brain freeze.
Because I've never thought about running for president.
It's not, it's not something I ever, you know, I've thought about what the country needs, but never the standpoint of my having the ability to to wave a wand or use power to make it happen.
I had a 20-second brain.
And I'm I'm I'm panicking.
You know, I'm like, oh my gosh, if everything on this interview, if they use this 20 seconds of silence.
I said, they can kill me.
They can ruin my career right here if they use this.
And he had two little uh not little, he had two associate producers in the room, and uh they were just staring at me.
And I'm literally, I don't know if you I how many of you this happens to, but uh I do have brain freezes now and then about with specific kinds of questions.
What?
Well, I know it happened to Ted Kennedy when that's right.
Roger Mudd, why do you want to be president?
Uh uh.
Well, uh that's true.
It happened, it happened to Ted Kennedy.
But anyway, that that was the I think the uh loan instance where they can say, aha, Sarah Palin moment, which Sarah Palin moment is when she said, I can see Russia from my backyard.
She supposedly said I've got foreign politics experience, I can see Russia from my backyard, which I actually don't think that uh that she said.
Hey, let's hear it for Obamacare, Washington uh to take it back.
New York Times headline, U.S. to let insurers raise fees for sick children.
The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies, said yesterday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children with serious medical problems if state law allowed it.
Earlier this year, major insurers faced with unprofitable business, stopped issuing new child-only policies.
They said that the regime's interpretation of the new health care law would allow families to buy such coverage at the last minute when children became ill and headed to the hospital.
In September, the administration said insurers could establish open enrollment periods, for example, a month, One month a year during which they would accept all children.
Now, on a Wednesday, the regime, answering a question raised by many insurers, said they could charge higher premiums to sick children outside the open enrollment period if state laws allowed such underwriting as many do.
Well what what happened here to free and uh premiums being reduced 2500 and dollars and you keep your own uh policy, uh doctor.
So the regime caves so that child only policies can continue for now.
Uh this is the Kathleen Sebelius, held in human services secretary, nothing in the Affordable Care Act or any other existing federal law allows us to require insurance companies to offer a particular type of policy at this time.
But be patient.
Once 2013, 2014 roll around, we'll be in total charge of this, and there won't be any insurance companies.
You'll have to come to us.
And whatever it costs is whatever it's gonna cost.
And if you don't pay it, we're gonna put you in jail.
John in Austin, Texas, we go back to the phones.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Well, howdy from Central Texas.
Hey, I just wanted to point out, if you hadn't noticed, how much the rhetoric from our current president is starting to sound like Hugo Chavez in uh in the southern part of our hemisphere.
So the stuff about foreigners and the rich stealing our revolution or destroying our revolution sounds so much like Obama talking about foreigners and the rich destroying our democracy.
Well, the question is who came first?
Obama come first or Chavez.
I mean, who sounds like who?
Well, you have a point.
That's a good point.
If I say so myself.
I think I think you uh Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is something to keep an eye on.
I think Greece, something to keep an eye on.
I think the entire system of European socialist democracy, something to keep an eye on.
Califor California's already here.
I think all of these places keep an eye on them because that's us.
Have you seen what's going on in France?
This is us too.
It's it's it's it's coming.
And I there's a part of me that, and I understand this, and part of me that enjoys it.
Sarkozy said we can't sustain this.
We cannot continue to pay people to not work.
We can't sustain a 14% unemployment rate.
Liberalism destroys a golden goose.
It's free market capitalism that creates wealth.
And until that happens, liberalism can't exist.
There has to be wealth for liberalism to redistribute before they can do anything.
And liberalism doesn't create wealth by definition.
It can't.
Liberalism confiscates it.
So eventually, after so many years of unchecked liberalism, the golden goose dies.
You've fleeced as much of it as it can, and you have depressed incentive to create wealth, and you end up with stagnation everywhere.
Now France is well on the way.
Germany, and they're they're trying to turn the ship around.
The retirement age in France is relatively low.
The unemployment rate is a constant 14%.
Pensions and all this, and Sarkozy says, you know, we can't we can't sustain this.
So we're going to raise the retirement age like a year or two.
Have you seen the riots?
They shut down the Tour Eiffel.
Shut down the Eiffel Tower.
We'll be back in just a second.
Let's see here.
Both of these, yeah, both of these are AP.
Now listen to these two stories.
Wholesale prices rose last month due to higher cost for food and energy, but the increase isn't likely to spark fears of widespread inflation.
Of course not.
I mean, why would wholesale prices going up food and energy worry anybody about inflation?
Well, what's the connection?
What anybody would think that.
Now, if Bush, we're in the White House, let me reread this for you.
George W. Bush or any Republican for president.
Wholesale prices rose last month to the higher costs for food and energy, leading to fear and expectation inflation is out of control and will wipe out the asset value of the assets investments of 95% of the American people.
The labor department says the producer price index, which measures price changes before they reach the consumer increased 0.4% after an equal rise in August.
But it's really okay because it's not likely to spark fears of widespread.
It might spark inflation, but it won't spark fears of it.
And all we're concerned is the fear of inflation.
Then the companion story, wholesale inflation stayed tame last month outside of a sharp rise in food and energy.
Two stories on this.
Wholesale inflation stayed tame last month outside the sharp rise in food and energy.
Food and energy.
Who needs that?
Those are optional, so really there's no um cause for concern, no reason to be fearful that inflation's coming back.
No, no, no.
No, we got bigger problems.
We've got to figure out why our president is embarrassing us and himself in his 16-page interview in the New York Times Sunday magazine.
By the way, the reason there can't be any fear of inflation, or the reason why there can't be any inflation, because if there were, they'd have to give cost of living adjustment increases to the seasoned citizens.
And of course, for two years running, a seasoned citizens are not getting any cost of living uh increases whatsoever.
The money is going to the unions.
Well, what was so funny in there, Snurley?
You're distracting me.
What what's so funny?
Is laughing at me?
Okay, good.
Uh Brian in uh was it Z Land, Michigan, Zealand, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's uh it's a great honor.
Um my senior year of high school, so almost 20 years, and you're doing a great job.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
You're a genuine legitimate rush baby.
Uh more or less, I would have been probably sooner, but you weren't on nationally when I was younger.
Well, I was you just didn't know it.
Impact permeated even where you were.
Absolutely.
It had to be.
Thank you, sir.
Um you you made a some great analysis earlier in the show of the way that uh the left, the state controlled media has politicized this mining disaster.
There was one more thing I noticed that may play into why they're covering it the way they are, and I wanted to see what you thought of this.
I have a theory, and I wanted to run it by you if that's okay.
Yeah.
Well, right ahead.
Okay.
Um the last guy that came up out of the mine, which I I guess has been christened the leader of the crew or whatever that kind of kept everything going.
I listened to the way he was being described last night after he came up, and uh it was it was basically uh this was the guy that kept it going.
He told everybody when to go to sleep, when to get up, when to use the bathroom, he rationed the food and and so on and so forth.
And I kept thinking to myself, um, this is basically the guy that Obama wants to be, and I think they're they're um they glorified or played that angle up because they're trying to prove that having somebody run the show like that can work, and that's to me that's the role Obama's dying to play, and he's trying to play it right now.
Well, I I can see uh why you think that, but there's a big difference between this guy and the mine and Obama.
I think I know what that difference is.
Well, you okay, tell me what do you think the difference is?
The difference is the guy in the mine ended up there by accident, and Obama's trying to put us there so he can take that.
Well, that's none of that that's true.
But the guy in the mine was trying to prevent disaster.
The guy in the mine was trying to keep everybody on board and involved.
He is trying to make sure that nobody went off the reservation and lost it.
Obama is not trying to save anything.
There's there, I don't think there's any comparison to what that guy did in the mine.
If we'll just trust that what we were told about the guy is true, so we can use it here as a as a discussion point.
Uh this guy had every article of faith that they could be saved, and he could keep them alive, they keep each other alive.
They just established some norms.
Obama's about tearing down the norms.
What did this guy do?
This guy said, okay, we're down here in the dark and it's 90 degrees.
We don't have food and water to go forever.
The first thing he did was ration, what did I read?
Uh two tablespoons of tuna fish, a half a biscuit, and a half a glass of milk per man every forty-eight hours.
He made sure that there were normal sleep cycles with uh with the daylight and darkness.
He kept the uh lights from the mining equipment on for eight to ten hours a day, and and he and he had these people working in shifts.
Some of them worked in daytime and slept at nighttime, vice versa.
They simulated as much as they could life on the surface.
It was said that this guy was a normal and just a natural leader that uh self-starter.
As the point that we make on this program all the time, and it's it is not to disparage anybody.
Most people are not self-starters.
Most people get up needing to be told what to do.
What's expected of them?
Uh what do I do now?
Where should I go there?
Somebody rely on their parents to tell them, their spouse to tell them, their boss or what have you.
Other people get up and they're the ones tell other people what's going to happen.
And this guy had far more experience doing what he was doing at Obama.
What's he ever done?
He's a community organizer.
Obama is an agitator.
Obama is about breaking down systems.
Obama's about breaking down norms and trying to reestablish new ones that elevate him to positions of prominence.
It's all about him.
This guy was not about himself.
This guy was all about the other people.
I I know that a lot of people are going to try to draw this analogy, and it's uh and they compare this guy to Obama because they have to, because it doesn't.
I mean, nobody would ever say, has anybody ever said he's a natural leader?
Obama, he's born to leave.
Nobody's ever said that.
Not since he'd been immaculated.
I mean, prior to the immaculation and the campaign, he was portrayed that way.
Walk on water, lower the sea levels, end climate change, save the polar bears.
How?
Just by existing.
Simply by waking up every day, Obama's countenance and aura was going to make the world love us.
There was anything in his life of substance or achievement to indicate that this would happen.
This was all it was just, it was hero worship.
It was almost idolatry.
This guy was dealing with hard cold reality.
I guarantee you, the way to put this, and if you want to put this in proper perspective, if Obama had been one of the miners, he would not have been this guy.
That organized everybody and kept them alive.
He wouldn't have he would not have been the guy.
Uh Obama would have been so, okay, who here deserves more of our food?
Who here deserves more water than some of the other people?
Uh I I know this is angering some of you, but I firmly believe it.
We've been sold a bill of goods with the guy.
There's nothing remarkable.
If Bill Clinton would have been down in the mine, he'd have been the guy that has two mistresses at top with a wife up there, and the three women would not know each well, take it out, the wife would know of the mistresses.
That would be the difference.
You haven't heard about this?
Oh, listen to this.
One is a great grandfather four times over, another a 19-year-old dad.
A third, the oldest is 63, has spent a half century working in the mines.
A fourth had a wife and a mistress, too.
The men who survived 69 days trapped underground after a mine collapse were making histoire on Wednesday as they and their private lives tumbled out into the light.
Johnny Barrios Rojas, the Clinton member of the team, was among the most anticipated, if only to see who would be there to greet him.
Number 21 of the men pulled from the collapsed mine, Johnny Barrow Barrios Rojas gained notoriety as the man who had two women at Camp Hope, his wife of 28 years and his mistress of four years.
The wife knew nothing of the affair until the two women ran into each other at Camp Hope amid the tents pitched by family members anxiously holding vigil.
The 50 year old Barrios looked around sheepishly Wednesday as he emerged from the rescue tube, saying, okay, which which one's here?
Who do I who do I go to?
That's the guy who would have been Clinton.
But there would have been more than two up there.
Who was there?
Uh his wife was nowhere to be seen.
It was the mistress who was there.
Behind him, smiling widely, waiting for him to notice her, stood Susannah Valenzuela, the mistress of four years.
When he didn't notice her, the round-faced strawberry blonde walked around to face Barrios and give him a long kiss and a hug, weeping into the shoulder of his jumpsuit as he whispered into her ear.
The wife was nowhere to be seen.
Weeks earlier, the wife had ripped down a poster of her husband put up by the mistress.
Defiant, the mistress taped the poster back up.
And beneath several poems and prayers she had dedicated to him, she signed it, your wife.
Now she was only the mistress.
You know, so she's take your pick.
Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, uh Paula Jones, Kathleen Willie.
It's amazing.
I remember them all.
Juanita Broadwick.
I can't remember what I would do for a president.
Name the Bill Clinton Paramount.
I can rattle them off just like that.
If it asked Christine O'Donnellette, I'm sure she could have too.
I'm getting some of the most vicious emails.
I've got a nut about me.
People writing me about this poor miner's mistress.
Um, or in this case, the miners, poor mistress.
I I I dare not repeat these uh things to you.
I'm still struck on what would happen if Obama had been down there.
If Obama had been down the shaft, you know, we're the ones trying to get out of the shaft.
We're gonna get out of the shaft uh starting in November.
We've been in a shaft here for over a year and a half.
These guys put up with it for 69 days.
If Obama had been down there, first thing he would have done would have been divide the miners by race and economic class.
And that would have determined who got what rations and provisions.
And who uh, if they escaped or were rescued, who would get out first?
He would then have tried to get the miners riled up about the problems they faced and hating the owner of the mine, and he would have been rounding up people to call lawyers, get the lawsuits going the minute they were rescued.
He would have demanded a solution and would have divided the miners up into study groups, told them to report back to him with solutions inside the first three or four days.
That's you want to start drawing comparisons, that's how Obama would have done it.
Here's uh here's Joe in Ventura, California.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
You keep me sane and entertained.
Um, you know, I I don't call Barack Obama a jackass, I call him Bouderl Obama.
But um I just thought you'd be interested in knowing this.
Unfortunately, I'm an SEIU member, not by choice.
It's my occupation.
And um I noticed on our bulletin board the other day that it said that uh January um our health insurance plan was gonna go up 4.4%.
I thought Andy Stern did some backroom deals where that wasn't gonna happen, so I just wanted to make sure all the libs out there listening, especially the SEIU know that uh immune.
I want to ask you, I want to ask you a serious question, and we don't have got less than a minute here.
How many SEIU members actually think that their health care cost premiums or whatever are gonna go down because of Obama uh loving the unions, Obama doing health care.
How many people in that union actually believe that?
You know, I'm not a really active member, so I can I can't really give you a definitive answer on that, but I guarantee you it's it's a majority thing.
Really?
You know.
Oh, I I would I wouldn't.
So the union people the union people really think Andy Stern is looking out for them.
Well, he was.
I mean, he's he's no longer there, but yeah, I when you saw those pictures of him coming out of the White House, I I think the union members thought, hey, we're set.
Well, I look some of them are.
I I I have I have no doubt, but I I really think a lot of these people are foils.
I I think Stern's not interested in them.
He's interested in how they can be used, how their money can be used, how their votes can be used to advance his agenda and Obama's, their tools.
Now, what are they gonna do?
Where are they gonna go?
In an economy like this, what their health care costs do go up.
They're just gonna blame management somewhere along the line and keep the workers all ticked off and agitated to continue the whole process.
It's how they work, and we will be back.
And welcome back.
I am Rush Limbaugh, mind over chatter, starting a million conversations each day, and in my own small way, bringing people up out of the hole of liberalism, the shaft of liberalism, and to the light of reason.
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