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Oct. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I guess, folks, we just can't call them Muslims anymore because you can't say anything about Muslims.
I mean, if Juan Williams gets canned from NPR for being truthfully honest, open about, well, I mean, it's just, it's, we're going to have to start calling them Middle Eastern liberals.
Yeah, a friend of mine sent me that suggestion.
No longer call a Muslim.
The Middle Eastern liberals today stoned a woman in Iran.
Middle Eastern liberals today plotted a plan to blow up buildings in Karachi.
Middle Eastern liberal.
Great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Let me remind you of something that our president, Imam Obama, said once.
Quote, point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity.
She doesn't.
But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into her.
Our experiences that don't go away, sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society.
We have to break through it.
So it was okay for Obama as a typical white person's grandmother because she gets afraid of black guys on the street.
It's okay for Obama to say that because he wasn't saying it on NPR.
He was saying it, well, he probably said it on NPR, but he was not employed by NPR.
I know Juan said it on PR.
Here's what Juan said, by the way.
This is from a Monday night on Ted Baxter's show.
Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality.
I'm not a bigot.
You know, the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country.
But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried.
I get nervous.
Now, I remember also that when that Times Square bomber was at court, I think this is just last week.
He said the war with Muslims, America's war with, is just beginning.
First drop of blood.
I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts.
Okay, so Juan Williams is now history on the day after, the day after George Soros announces the funding of 100 journalist jobs at NPR.
Now, people are wondering if these things are not related.
Now, NPR almost has no black editorial personnel.
They got one program for blacks hosted by Michelle Martin, but nobody hears it because it runs from 2 to 3 in the afternoon.
Same time this program's on.
The other 23 hours a day are dedicated to white content for white people.
But it is what it is.
You look at the news hour with Jim Olara.
You know, our old buddies, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, have done a study on PBS, and they found out that the vast majority of guests on the news hour with Jim Olara are white and not Hispanic.
That doesn't bother them so much.
What bothers them is the majority of the guests are Republicans.
And they get nervous.
NPR viewers get nervous when they see Republicans on NPR or public television.
So Juan Williams, a black voice.
He's a black voice on national public radio.
He's never been, was, sorry, right, was, past tense, silenced for explaining how he feels when he sees Muslims who are acting as Muslims first on airplanes while on Fox.
NPR says that violated its standards.
Whose standards?
Are they now George Soros' standards?
You know, George Soros just admitted to giving a million dollars to Media Matters, and NPR just accepted a million dollars from Soros Open Society Institute, and the purpose of this grant is to hire new enterprise reporters.
What is an enterprise reporter as opposed to a reporter?
Honestly, don't know.
I don't know what an enterprise reporter is as opposed to a reporter.
Now, I wonder if, ladies and gentlemen, I wonder if I offered a million dollars for NPR to hire some other reporters, say, supplied by people that work at the Heritage Foundation or here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I wonder if NPR standards would allow them to accept my million bucks to hire reporters that I think, I mean, you think Soros doesn't have a hand in who NPR is hiring?
Could it well be that Soros had a hand here?
I mean, it's awfully coincidental.
Soros gives them a million bucks to hire reporters, and the next day Juilliams is gone for something he said on Fox.
And look, everybody knows that Juan Williams is a liberal.
He's a nice guy liberal.
I mean, Juan Williams is the kind of guy who will admit that when he sees somebody say something about global warming be a hoax, he'll admit that's the first time he's ever heard that.
And then it interests him.
He's at least open to it.
To go on the, you know, on Baxter's show here and talk about being afraid.
I mean, this is gutsy because, you know, political correctness is ruling the day.
You know, Facebook has just said no longer will they allow criticism of gays on Facebook.
And now this from NPR.
I mean, Juan Williams is a known quantity.
And now he's essentially been Clarence Thomas, in a sense, for voicing an opinion that is contrary to the doctrine.
It'll be interesting to see if the Reverend Dax and Reverend Sharpton will let this go by in silence.
What do you think, Snerdley?
You think, you think they let it go?
Well, I don't care.
I don't care where he's at.
Jackson's busy.
He's in London trying to get water.
Doesn't matter.
Somebody...
Look, somebody, a black guy at NPR just got canned here for something he said on Fox.
Didn't Jesse Jackson once say that he gets scared walking down the street when he sees a black guy approaching him?
Didn't Jesse Jackson say Jesse Jackson did say that once?
And Obama has said his grandmother is a typical white woman in the sense that she gets scared walking down the street when she sees a black guy.
So you can't be critical of Muslims anymore.
So this is a great idea.
Friend of mine, they're no longer Muslims.
They are now Middle Eastern liberals.
Don't you just love this diversity and tolerance?
Don't you have all this stuff on the left?
All the openness, all the diversity, all the tolerance.
Here is the quote from the Reverend Jackson.
It is a meeting of Operation Push November of 1993.
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery and then look around to see somebody white and feel relieved.
Well, he didn't say it on Fox.
He said it in Operation Push.
Yeah, on Fox, he said he wanted to cut Obama's jewels.
He wanted to open Obama's package and drain the contents.
That's what he wanted to do.
He said that on Fox.
So, this is...
We laugh.
But imagine poor Juan, his head's got to be spinning here.
He's brought on on Fox to talk about this kind of thing happening to other people.
He's asked for his opinion on this happening to other people.
This kind of thing is not supposed to happen to Juan Williams.
And what's fascinating, you look around in the right-wing media circles, and you'll find all kinds of love and support for Juan Williams today because everybody likes the guy.
He's a liberal and he's wrong.
But he's a nice guy.
He's not one of these flame-throwing in your face.
He doesn't lie about people.
He doesn't make things up about them.
He's not into character assassination or any of that.
He's not a shock jock, right?
Not a shock jock.
I would like for you to think about something.
I want you to step back and look at the big picture for a moment.
Look at what was in the news just a few weeks ago and look at what is in the news now with less than two weeks before the elections.
Have you noticed how the media has steered clear of any mention of Arizona or immigration or the gun battles across the U.S. border?
We haven't had any news about the Ground Zero mosque.
We haven't had any Middle Eastern liberal terrorism stories, even though there have been numerous threats made by Middle Eastern liberals, and there are several trials of Middle Eastern liberals underway.
But this isn't being reported.
The media are playing down the very disturbing developments in the war in Afghanistan.
In fact, there are actually some movement, the positive in the surge in Afghanistan is taking place, and there is a scant mention of it in the media.
There is hardly any news about the riots in Europe, particularly in France, over something as innocuous as raising the retirement age from 60 to 62.
Now, we're not to be reminded about any of these stories with real implications for us and our lives.
Instead, the drive-bys are doing everything they can to focus on crazy conservative candidates.
Rand Paul and his religion, Christine O'Donnell and her witchcraft, and they're not knowing the First Amendment, supposedly.
All of these nutcase conservatives of the Tea Party, the unsophisticated, don't know what they're doing, Tea Party people.
That has become the focus of the media.
They know if they bring up any real world subjects, things that people are most concerned about, it's only going to hurt their masters, the Democrats and the polls.
I mean, even the unemployment news, if they wanted to, they could try to spin this as good.
We're coming out of the, but it's so obviously not good, even though it's minimally uptick.
They're not even harping on that because they know that anybody focusing real attention on the employment story is going to have to focus on how rotten it is and how much it has not improved.
Now, look back four years.
Look at what we did to ourselves in the House of Representatives just four years ago.
We made Nancy Pelosi the Speaker.
We put John Dingell in charge of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
We put Barney Frank in charge of financial services.
And we put Henry Nostrilitis Waxman in charge of the House Reform Committee.
We put John Conyers at the head of the House Judiciary Committee.
There's a lot we have to undo.
But the people who will be going into these positions, whoever they are, cannot be anywhere.
Oh, yeah, Charlie Wrangell over at Ways and Means.
Just four years ago.
Look at the utter destruction that has taken place in four years.
And then if you look at the 20 months or so of the Obama regime, add to it what the Democrats and Congress have done.
Look at how little time it has taken and what's in the news today.
None of that.
None of the destruction of the country.
None of the genuine policy reasons why this country is spinning down the drain.
Instead, you're getting stories on wacko conservative candidates.
Are they sophisticated enough?
Do they actually know what they're doing?
The Sharon Angles, the Christine O'Donnells, so forth, and so on.
So there you have it.
We got to take a brief time out here in EIB obscene profit timeout.
Your phone calls are coming up in the program as well today.
And Google, Google is in the news.
All of these taxes they are avoiding paying by doing business overseas.
Google is paying taxes to the U.S. Treasury at an effective rate of 2.4%.
The U.S. government is not collecting $60 billion in taxes from Google due to loopholes that are in the law.
Google is simply taking advantage of doing business overseas, as is Apple.
Here you have these two giant leaders in the high-tech business, and they run by doctrinaire liberals.
But look at how they do business.
I'll detail that for you.
Lots of other stuff as the program unfolds today.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, be right back.
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Isn't it interesting that the dastardly and devilish Fox News can employ Juan Williams, who also works at NPR?
But NPR will can Juan Williams for something he said on Fox.
Have you noticed who is it that's coming to Juan Williams' defense?
Is it the American left?
Is it the civil rights coalitions of American effeminacies?
The global warmists?
Any of the leftist coalition?
No.
Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center is sending letters to the appropriate congressional committees asking for investigations and hearings because NPR is publicly funded.
They're taking money now from George Soros.
The day after doing that, they can Juan Williams for a non-controversial statement.
And the Media Research Center, they dreaded, despised, and hated Brent Bozell's brute bunch, is calling for congressional investigations in order to defend Juan Williams.
Again, who the Fox News Channel has absolutely no problem hiring and putting on their air.
Well, NPR won't have anything to do with Juan Williams.
Increasingly, it appears because of who's paying their freight.
From the Los Angeles Times today, here's a statistical finding that may confirm what many of us had been thinking in recent years without really realizing it.
A majority of Americans who are globally famous for candidly saying what they think now say they believe that their country has become too politically correct.
A majority of Americans, you've got to sort of whisper this.
You can't say this too loud.
A majority of Americans sees too much political correctness.
Even more say it is a problem.
How can this be?
If a majority of Americans sees too much political correctness, how come political correctness is undefeated?
I mean, in the big scheme of things, political correctness is undefeated.
Facebook, you can't be critical of gays now.
Juan Williams can't say the equivalent of what Obama can say about his white grandmother on NPR.
Sorry, on Fox.
Political correctness, no question it's a problem.
You know what PC is?
We are governed by a ruling minority of elites.
Political correctness is nothing more than a tool of cowards.
Political correctness is nothing more than censorship sponsored by the left.
If they don't want to hear it, if they're offended by it, if they don't want to talk about it, you can't say it.
And if you do say it, you're going to pay stiff consequences.
According to this poll, Rasmussen poll, a minority of Americans are undefeated when it comes to political, and you know it's true.
Look how many people are afraid to say anything in public.
It's like the old Soviet Union.
People are only honest with each other in their bathrooms, in their homes.
They're afraid of who might say what.
Look what's happening to the NFL for crying out the chickification.
Political correctness is destroying the National Football League.
It's very simple.
Yeah, I'm going to get to the Google thing.
Just be patient in there.
You tell them it's a three-hour show.
And I'll get to, if I don't talk about it, it doesn't matter anyway.
I'll get to it.
Sometimes it takes all three hours to get to it.
You tell them that it's going to happen.
Now, the art and privilege of being allowed to redefine the language is one of the most treasured tools of the liar and the tyrant.
The art and privilege of being allowed to redefine the language.
And we are in the midst of this and have been for quite a while.
Now, the Juilliams firing proves many things.
One thing it proves is this.
You can still be a bigot if you are black, if you are liberal black.
As long as you don't openly consort with conservatives, you can say whatever you want.
But if you are a liberal black who consorts with conservatives on their dreaded network, you will ultimately pay the price.
Just being seen around conservatives, being treated well by conservatives and reacting in kind, treating conservatives kindly, is such a crime to the left.
It trumps skin color and political allegiance.
Because to the left, the biggest enemy in the world is conservatism.
Their number one enemy.
You consort with them on their network and you have them as your friends and they come out and defend you.
That proves that your dismissal from NPR was justified.
Thank goodness McCarthyism is dead.
I'm being facetious.
Of course, it's not.
Now, I thought I remembered, and I did, I checked it here during the break.
We have been advised by big cis, Janet Napolitano, the director of Homeland Security.
And they've got it right here on a website.
New York, it's www.security.state.newyork.uspreparedness.index.html.
We are to be aware of our surroundings.
This is something our government is advising us, ordinary Americans, how we can protect ourselves.
Four steps.
One, develop a family emergency plan.
Number two, stock up on emergency supplies.
And of course, we know what that is.
Canned goods, beans and stuff.
Hopefully fat-free, refried beans with no sugar added, but stock up on it.
Three, be aware of your surroundings.
And four, get involved.
Well, Juilliams was aware of his surroundings and he got involved and now he got fired.
And now Juan Williams will really need a family emergency plan and stock up on supplies because half of his income or a portion of it is now gone.
He lost his job for being aware of his surroundings.
Been pounded into our heads.
Be aware, be aware, be aware.
They meant to say beware, I guess, instead of be aware.
Beware of getting involved.
Beware of being honest.
Beware of the left.
Take a look here at the unemployment news as reported today by Reuters.
Headline, jobless claims drop.
Monetary stimulus seen.
Oh, and we have got to talk about this, this QE2, quantitative easing.
This is the second phase of printing money.
And this is the Fed, the target date here, November 2 or 3.
That's when they're going to have their next meeting.
And all eyes are focused on this meeting, and some of them are focused with great fear.
Quantitative easing is printing money.
Funneling a bunch of money into the economy in the hopes of igniting economic growth.
Now, insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, except expecting a different result.
How much have we stimulated?
How much have we pumped?
The Fed has lent somebody $2 trillion.
We've had TARP.
We've had the porculus.
We've had a couple of stimulus bills of $250 checks to people.
We've done nothing but Keynesian stimulus.
It hasn't worked.
And yet here comes QE2.
Now, the problem with QE2, low interest rates, they're fighting inflation here.
This is the inflation and deflation at the same time.
At least this is their stated objective at the Federal Reserve.
Now, low interest rates are said to be key to igniting borrowing, which will stimulate growth.
Well, business is already sitting on tons of cash, as we have noted on this program.
Businesses, large and small, are sitting on cash.
They are not spending it.
Many businesses are not interested in credit.
It's not a problem.
What they need is customers.
And yet, doggedly and stubbornly, the Federal Reserve continues to say the problem is a lack of credit.
No lending.
Banks aren't lending money.
So the banks are hoarding the money.
The Fed's printing it, giving it to the banks.
Under the auspices they're going to lend it.
The banks are hoarding it like everybody else is hoarding the cash that they've got.
Nobody is willing to spend it because nobody knows what the future holds with the regime.
The fear is massive tax increases are coming.
People are preparing for that.
That looks to be the reality, the best planning.
So QE2, quantitative easing, low interest rates.
Well, that's good for borrowers, but there aren't going to be any borrowers.
But who does it hurt?
Who is hurt by low interest rates?
Savers.
And hasn't our government been chiding us for years?
Profligate spending consumerists not saving enough money.
Well, people on fixed incomes, largely seasoned citizens and the retired sector, are not going to see their stash, their savings, their portfolio grow because all of this printing is ostensibly going to keep interest rates.
Well, that's the objective.
All the while, there are people saying, oh, we need to inflate.
We need to inflate the currency.
Well, if you start inflating the currency, the same thing happens to savers.
What they have becomes worthless or less worthless as time goes on.
And then what happens?
They make up a significant number of people, people who have some savings, retired.
If you're taking away their ability to feed themselves, and look at one-seventh, ostensibly, supposedly one-seventh of this country can no longer feed itself.
And that's how I interpret one-seventh of the country being on food stamps.
Can you imagine?
Can you believe this to be true?
One-seventh of our population can't feed itself.
They haven't the wherewithal to earn a living.
They are totally conditioned to entitlement receiving.
One-seventh of the United States of America can't feed itself.
That number is only going to get worse.
Now here comes quantitative easing, printing more money under the guise this is going to lead to economic growth.
It won't because it hasn't.
At what point do we stop the insanity?
Again, defined as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
This hasn't worked.
I don't know where it ever worked for any substance or substantive length of time.
You really have to wonder, ladies and gentlemen, if all the things the Federal Reserve and other government economic mavens are doing sure looks like they are purposely devaluing the dollar.
Why?
Who and why would somebody purposely devalue the dollar?
I mean, it makes sense if you are impossibly in debt.
What Germany tried to do after World War I when they owed the world so much money after the Treaty of Versailles.
And look where it got them.
Got them wild inflation and eventually Hitler.
So keep a sharp eye on February 2nd, February 3rd.
In fact, keep a sharp eye on February 3rd, the day after the election.
Keep a sharp eye on what the Fed announces because it will affect how the markets react.
In fact, I've got a piece here.
It's very long.
This is a piece on par, if you remember when I first learned of and then explained to you the concept of baseline budgeting, how the federal budget's put together.
I've come across a strikingly similar explanation of the current financial position that we are in.
It prints to 16 pages.
My job is to take the complex, make it understandable, and synthesize this into a single-segment monologue.
I'm still working on doing that, but at some point it'll happen.
I promise you.
So printing, borrowing, I don't care what you call it, the government is doing too much of it.
The private sector is not doing any of what they need to do because there's no company.
You look at this Google story.
The immediate reaction to the Google story, and let me give you the facts.
Google Incorporated cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.
Google's income shifting, involving strategies known to lawyers as the double Irish and a double sandwich, helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4%, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market cap, according to regulatory filings in six countries.
Now, the immediate reaction, you liberal hypocrites, Eric Schmidt, Sergei Brin, all you guys at Google, here you are preaching all this liberalism to everybody else.
You're spying on us with your street cameras.
You're denouncing the fact that people don't pay enough taxes.
Look at what you do.
That's the first reaction.
Rich liberals, hypocrites.
Liberalism's good for everybody but them.
Like Steve Jobs.
Look at Google going all kinds of obscure, elaborate links to avoid taxes, and all of them are legal.
And look at jobs.
Look at Apple.
He ships everything from China.
Non-union Foxconn manufacturers, Shenzhen, ships them FedEx, non-union.
Do you know what an iPhone?
I read this the other day.
iPhone made in America would cost $5,000, which is why they're not made here.
Nobody could afford them.
An iPhone made in America right now, given what unions charge and everything thrown in, $5,000.
That's why an iPhone costs anywhere $300 to $500 made in China.
No unions involved at any level.
Shipping, manufacturing.
And yet, Jobs of Big Liberal with Al Gore on the board promoting big liberal causes, and yet they don't go out of their way to be good liberals.
They don't go out of their way to pay more taxes.
Why?
Why is this?
They're business people first.
Liberalism's a close second.
Publicly, they're liberals first behind the closed doors of the boardrooms.
Are businessmen first.
And everything they're doing is legal.
I remember when I openly announced, proudly so, that I was leaving New York to avoid confiscatory taxation at people telling me I was not being patriotic.
I was being unpatriotic.
I had a duty to say, pay my fair share in New York.
I think I'm being smart.
I'm keeping more.
I think I do better with my money than some unnamed, unknown bureaucrat and bureaucracy.
I'll do far more for people with my money than the government will do with it.
That's my ad.
Now, Google, if you had a chance to only pay 2.4% in taxes, would you take it?
The liberal would have you believe he wouldn't, that he'll pay what's fair share because he's a good citizen and a good person.
But yet, there are the laws on the books.
And note where this money is.
And this is the second key.
Note where Google's money is that they're not paying taxes.
It's not domestic.
It's foreign.
There's a column in the Wall Street Journal that's a companion piece, unintended, of this Google story.
A way, government policy-wise, tax policy-wise, to get all this money that American corporations that operate internationally are sheltering overseas, get it circulating back in America.
Way to do it.
That would ramp up economic growth, that would cause hiring.
Imagine if Google could take this $60 billion and pump it into growth of the business rather than pay taxes on it, which is what they're doing.
And look at what's happening to them.
They're growing by leaps and bounds.
I mean, the anecdotal evidence, historical evidence, empirical evidence is there in front of everybody's face to see exactly what needs to happen to rebound or cause this economy to rebound.
Anyway, set the table here.
I'm going to get into more detail as this as a program unfolds.
I'm a little long here.
Didn't want to stop myself because it was too good in this rant.
We'll continue it after this brief timeout.
I just got this story in the break here.
It's from the UK Daily Mail.
Here's the headline: Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbor claimed the smell of frying bacon offends Middle Eastern liberals.
A hardworking cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan because the smell of her frying bacon offends Middle Eastern liberals.
Planning bosses acted against Beverly Akasich, 49, after being told her next-door neighbor's Middle Eastern liberal friends had felt physically sick due to the foul odor.
Apparently, the smell of frying bacon escaped the cafe, infiltrated the nostrils of Middle Eastern liberals who were offended by it, so she got to get rid of the fan that gets the exhaust out of the cafe and keep the smell of frying bacon inside the cafe where the Middle Eastern liberals don't go.
When we go to a cafe, my husband wouldn't be offended by the smell of bacon.
His friends are not offended by it.
But we had three visitors who come here for a sandwich, friends of my husband.
The smell doesn't offend them at all.
But down the road, where the Middle Eastern liberals live, the smell's too much, and so the cafe has to stop the fan.
UK Daily Mail.
The cafe is part owned by a Middle Eastern liberal, by the way.
UK Daily Mail posted just this after a half hour ago.
No, no, no, no, it's not a hoax.
There's a picture of the cafe owner here.
It's not a hoax.
UK Daily Mail is a credible publication, snerdly.
This is not a hoax by any stretch of the imagination.
All right.
Google, 2.4% tax rate shows how $60 billion is lost to tax loopholes.
And of course, they're wringing their hands.
$60 billion lost to the government.
The focus here should not be the 2.4% tax rate.
It's the fact that they're keeping the money offshore, not bringing it onshore to avoid double taxes.
Forget the fact that they're liberals.
I mean, the hypocrisy is what it is.
But the law, the tax law here is another thing.
We come back after the break here at the top of the hour, the next monologue segment.
I'm going to explain some of this in great detail.
And Mark Levin demanding a retraction from Politico, claiming that Sarah Palin backed out of an interview on his program when she never did.
All kinds of stuff happening here two weeks before the election.
We'll set it all straight.
We come back.
So Chris Coons, bearded Marxist in Delaware, says, extend the Bush tax cuts for everybody.
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