All Episodes
Previous Next
Nov. 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
34:59
November 11, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
It's the fastest.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
We have a dirty relay here, folks.
Testing 123, test, test it.
And it's excellent in broadcasting.
We have a dirty relay is what I'm being told here.
I'm testing 1234, test, test, test, 1, 2, 3.
Well, that seems to have it temporarily fixed.
But beware here, folks.
If it doesn't work, why don't I just go home?
We've got a best of show.
I'll get a couple commercials there.
I can go home.
I got a lot to do this afternoon anyway.
I know.
I just can't go home.
Anyway, look at this headline in the political.
Does it sound on the air like it sounds to us here?
It does.
All right.
Well, I don't know what I can do.
I'm going to keep hitting the talkback button here and get rid of the relay static.
You got any of that sprayed?
No, I can't say that.
Compressed air to spray in there.
Now it sounds better for a while.
Anyway, bear with us.
There it goes.
This is going to be distracting as it can be.
Grab, I'll tell you what.
Grab Hit the Road Barack.
We'll play that.
We'll try to figure out what's going on here.
Three, two, one.
It's just a dirty relay here, folks.
And it's just got to figure out how to clean it.
And there you have it, Barack Obama, as portrayed vocally by Paul Shanklin and Hit the Road Barack.
Sounds okay to me, but I'm deaf.
It's fixed.
Well, we just had that spray can full of you.
I can't tell you what it is.
It works.
You spray can full of stuff.
You just spray it in there.
It's well, it works.
Look at this headline.
This is what I was going to say at the beginning of the show.
Political story.
RFK Jr., Fox Comma, GOP killed Climate Bill.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blames Fox News and the narcissistic hacks in Congress for killing climate legislation.
There was plenty of hand-wringing after the sweeping energy and climate bill collapse this year in the Senate.
Some argue that the White House didn't devote enough political muscle to get it passed.
But Kennedy, a longtime environmental activist and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, said those accusations are misguided.
I think people need to focus on who's really to blame, which is Fox News and the Republican Party.
Now, I sit here and I look at this.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
Robert Kennedy Jr. is Robert Kennedy Jr., but who appointed him climate expert?
Okay, so he sets up an organization.
He's worried about the filth of the Hudson River.
All of a sudden, he becomes an expert in energy policy, and it's just accepted.
But the thing that really offends me about this is how dare he?
I'm the blame.
I'm the reason that the climate bill went to hell.
It isn't Fox News.
It isn't the narcissistic Republicans.
I did it.
I've been working to defeat this kind of stuff since 1990.
You know, I've been calling global warming, man-made global warming, a hoax.
And there's actually a better word for it, fraud.
It is a fraud.
And RFK Jr. and every one of the people promoting it are also part of a fraudster.
Or he's a fraudster, and they are part of the fraud.
I do.
You know, Robert Kennedy Jr. did call this program once before, and I knew it was him, but I didn't say it was him.
I called him Robert.
We talked to him about this.
He had a smile on his face, so I could hear what he was talking.
But Snerdley told me it was Robert Kennedy Jr., but I did not acknowledge he was Robert Kennedy Jr.
He was just Robert from New York.
He was nice on the phone.
But it might have been the guy that called yesterday that kind of ticked me off.
Might have been the second time he's called.
Anyway, Kennedy also blasted the media, which he said failed to adequately inform the public about climate change and news media dominated by extreme right-wing ideologues and Fox News and talk radio.
Oh, there it is.
He finally puts me in there, but he puts me third in line.
And the mainstream media is simply an echo chamber.
The mainstream media is an echo chamber.
The mainstream media is an echo chamber for you.
Here's a little story that didn't get any coverage along the same lines.
This is from the Investors Business Daily from a couple of days ago.
As the case for global warming and cap and trade has collapsed, so too has the market that was to exploit this manufactured crisis for fun and profit.
The climate change bubble has burst.
Lost in the hubbub leading up to the Republican Tea Party tsunami on November 2nd was the collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
The CCX, its implications for the future of the American economy and the business climate are staggering.
It is an acknowledgement that both the case for climate trade and cap and tax legislation has also collapsed.
On October 21st, the exchange announced it was ending carbon trading.
That was the only reason it was set up.
This whole cap and trade biz, folks, is a scam.
If you have been made to hate, if you've been convinced to hate Wall Street people, let me tell you something.
The reason, if you want to continue to hate them, who was going to be beneficiaries of cap and trade?
That word trade in there means somebody is in the middle of all these buys and sells with their commissions either way it goes.
The whole thing was set up to benefit fat cats.
The whole thing is a fraud.
And you're the sucker.
You think you're saving the climate.
You're out there buying pieces of crap cars.
You're out there changing light bulbs.
You're out there doing meaningless stuff that is reverting your lifestyle back to poverty.
You think you're saving the planet.
All the while the rich fat cats are trading in a new commodity that's based on a fraud, carbon.
Carbon trades.
Anyway, the point is, the Carbon Trading Exchange has shut down on October 21st.
The Chicago Climate Exchange announced it was ending carbon trading.
The collapse was inevitable as both the enthusiasm for cap and trade and the world itself cooled.
People were lining up for jobs, not electric cars.
And bills such as the House passed Waxman Markey suddenly were going nowhere.
Carbon trading at CCX all but dried up as prices plunged from over $7 a ton in 2008 to just 10 cents a ton in August.
I mean, that's what you call the bottom falling out.
Carbon.
$7 a ton?
I mean, what a fraud.
What an absolute fraud.
It's like, folks, it's like trading on exhaling.
It's trying to establish a value on your exhales.
Like Dracula, cap and tax may rise from the grave yet.
Anything can happen in a lame duck session.
The EPA still conspires to regulate carbon and other emissions through the back door.
Still, the CCX's carbon trading demise is reassuring evidence that eventually all the houses of cards will collapse.
You probably hadn't heard about that.
That's why I'm telling you about it.
All right, a brief timeout.
El Rush Ball.
It's an obscene profit center timeout, by the way, back before you know it.
By the way, there's more about the Chicago Climate Exchange here, and this is really interesting and it's funny.
The CCX, Chicago Climate Exchange collapsed precisely because of the Republican victory last week.
It was entirely dependent on cap and trade passing.
They set it up.
It was up and running and so forth.
But look at what happened.
The price of carbon had gone from seven, whatever, to a ton down to 10 cents.
And it was all dependent on the Democrats winning and keeping this thing alive.
Once they saw the Republicans winning, they knew they wouldn't be able to pull off the scam.
And here are the biggest losers.
This is a quote from the story.
The biggest losers are CCX's two biggest investors.
Number one, Al Gore's Generation Investments Management and Goldman Sachs.
So obviously, Al Gore was not too big to fail.
So Al Gore and Goldman Sachs take it on the chin when the Chicago Climate Exchange closes up.
Now, we have had some controversial moments in the past couple of days on this program about unemployment and my tipping point being reached with the protests over in Great Britain, the realization that California is spending $40 million a day to pay people not to work.
And I've received emails from people who said they were offended at the way I was characterizing people out of work as people who don't want to work, paying people not to work.
And I understand the sentiment.
But at the same time, this is kind of what I understand the realities of the world.
Believe me, I do.
But while all this is going on, do you realize there are people starting businesses?
There are people going to work.
Now, I know that not everybody's a self-starter.
I know that not everybody's going to go into business for themselves.
Everybody's not going to do that.
We're all different, and it's a good thing.
But I want to talk to those of you who are not sitting idly by and waiting for something to happen.
Those of you who are thinking or have very close to starting up your own business.
One of our sponsors here, as you know, is LegalZoom.
And if you are thinking of starting up, now is the time to incorporate your business or form an LLC at legalzoom.com.
They have a thing called Express Gold Corporation LLC package.
Not only do you save a lot of money setting up your LLC or your corporation with LegalZoom, it's a do-it-yourself outfit on the web.
You save money that way, but they're offering some freebies to entice you to do so.
For example, free Sage Peachtree first accounting software.
$100 value of throwing it in.
A free press release about your company and about your startup from the industry leader PR Webb distributed to over 30,000 websites and blogs.
That's worth 200 bucks.
They're going to throw that in.
If you start up, form your LLC with them.
They'll give you free tax ID preparation, and they will give you free 40 essential business forms and a free web design consult because people at LegalZoom know that there are people who don't want to sit around.
They do want to start up a business, they do want to take the risk.
And if you're willing to do it, they are going to expand the value to you by offering you some assistance this way.
If you incorporate or file your LLC in November with LegalZoom.com, you'll get all of those free business extras as a reward for doing so.
LegalZoom is not a law firm, it was started by top attorneys to provide self-help service at your specific direction.
Just go to legalzoom.com, legalzoom.com, and that's where you'll get all the details here.
Here is Will in Columbus, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I'm a first-time caller and a 20-year listener.
Thank you, sir.
Sure.
And I'd like to send dittos out to Patty, who sent you the email about unemployment.
I'm closing in on my third anniversary of being unemployed, and it's not an anniversary that I want to commemorate.
Yeah, but I understand that.
Yeah.
Well, I just wanted to comment on something you said earlier.
I don't normally disagree with you, but I disagreed with your analysis of Axelrod's comments regarding the extension of the Bush-era tax cut.
I believe Axelrod's words are just another way of blaming Bush and the Republicans by saying they inherited this environment in which to work.
And that this environment is having to work with a party that identifies with and supports the rich.
Fine.
Well, that party just won in a landslide.
So fine and damn.
He can try to characterize it that.
And you may be right.
He might be saying we have to deal with reality as it is.
A lot of people are interpreting that to mean, hey, we lost.
We don't have any power here in Congress.
And there is no impetus here to discontinue the tax cuts.
But your theory is he's saying, okay, all right.
The powerful are sticking together, hanging in for the rich, and that's who they are.
And so we have to accept that for who they are, and they're really out to harm the middle class.
Right.
It's just like saying this same thing that they've been saying about the economy, that they've inherited this from Bush.
I think they're saying, well, we've inherited this environment now to work in with all these Republicans.
Frank, let them.
Yeah.
Let them say it.
If they want to say they inherited this environment for the Republicans, what they're admitting is that what everybody voted for was to stop this.
So fine and dandy.
If we want to parse his words that way, fine.
I think that they're probably shell-shocked.
In fact, I know they're shell-shocked.
I know for a fact the people on the Obama side of things thought he was the Messiah.
This is not what was supposed to happen.
Folks, this isn't what it's not that big a roadblock, but it still wasn't supposed to happen.
Now, here, we've had stories all week about how there's discord within the Democrat Party over what Obama has done.
Now, on MSNBC, on Scarborough's show, one day this week, Scarborough himself claimed that all the top Democrats in the Senate have been complaining about Obama's job performance and especially his treatment of Republican senators.
And that claim has been backed up.
So, the political piece on Monday, the Scarborough revelation during the week on MSNBC, there are serious hits taking place on Obama this week.
Then they're coming from the Democrat Party, and they are coming from unnamed sources, and they are being printed, published, and talked about in the state-controlled media.
Now, I know the temptation to say, okay, how are we being set up here?
They want us to think the Democrats are unhappy with Obama.
They're sucking us in.
I know it's a natural reaction to think that way.
But the reality is this: the Democrats in the Senate, there are a lot of them up for re-election 2012.
They saw what just happened.
They saw a wipeout.
They are in trouble.
And if they continue to talk and vote the way they all did that led to the election last Tuesday, the same thing is going to happen to them in bigger droves, bigger numbers in 2012.
They know what's coming their way.
And they don't, unlike the blue dogs, they don't want to follow Obama off the cliff.
And they know that that's where Obama would take them.
Now, I think that the circumstances here, I think the reality is that they are shell-shocked, and they're doing everything they can to avoid admitting this publicly.
Here's Dwight in Springfield, Virginia.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Yeah, this Alan Simpson commission report thing, this is like imposing heavy fines on the homeowner because the burglar didn't steal enough.
I mean, can you believe this?
These are the guys that caused the problem.
They're the ones who put us in this situation.
And now they're doing us a big favor by raising our gas taxes, taking away deductions.
What a load.
It is a load.
And they're cementing as policy the growth of government like we've never seen other than at temporary stages in our history during emergencies, world wars, and that kind of thing.
Yeah, and it's like they're couching on terms like, wow, we're really doing you guys a favor out there.
Well, and they couch it in conservative terms.
Like it's true if you read the preamble to this thing or the introductory page, it sounds like Ronald Reagan's talking.
And this is designed to suck our guys in, to think there may be something to compromise here with.
Yeah, I saw that.
I wasn't going to comment on it until somebody asked me, and somebody has asked me in the email.
Rush, did you see the show yesterday where Oprah had all of the other talk show hosts on?
I said, I didn't see it.
Of course, I don't watch that stuff, but I did look into it since people asked me about it.
Now, Oprah yesterday had Phil Donahue on, Geraldo on, Sally, Jesse, Raphael, Montel Williams, Ricky Lake, and a bunch of others.
See, all drinking champagne.
And I'm thinking, what is this?
All these people who've been shellacked by Oprah coming on while she reminds them what she did to them.
I mean, Oprah says, hey, Phil, you know, you used to matter till I started.
Why don't you come on and we'll celebrate it?
Hey, Sally, remember people used to know who you were until I started my show.
Why don't you come on my show and remind everybody how you were forgotten about?
Same thing with you, Geraldo.
Hi, this is Oprah calling.
Why don't you come on?
I want to remind everybody how insignificant I made you.
And they all showed up.
They all showed up celebrating their own demise.
This was like Pelosi's party.
You know, Pelosi threw a party yesterday afternoon to celebrate the achievements of the Democrat Congress that got shellacked.
And so Donna Hugh and Geraldo and these guys decide to go on Oprah so she can remind them what mincemeat she made out of them.
I wouldn't do, I wouldn't, I mean, I know there's going to be an opening next year because Oprah's going to cable.
She's leaving over-the-air syndication.
And maybe one of these vanquishers is going to go for the slot.
Can you imagine?
Like the Chicago Bears, the 85 Chicago Bears had a 25-year reunion Friday night.
Can you imagine the New England Patriots going to it?
That's who they beat in the Super Bowl that year.
I mean, what?
This is just.
I don't understand these people.
I don't understand these liberals.
This is like the National Guard throwing a celebration party inviting Dan Rather and Dan Rather showing up.
What, Snerdley?
I would never do a party like this.
That's the I would not do a party like this.
I wouldn't.
And you have Oprah here.
I didn't know she had a sofa big enough to handle all these vanquished egos.
But they showed up.
This is like the Pittsburgh Steelers saying to the Los Angeles Rams, hey, we're having a big party, celebrate our Super Bowl where we skunked you.
Why don't you show up?
Well, yeah, I didn't put anybody out of business.
I created business.
Oprah put them out of business.
No, liberals were never in business.
The dirty little secret on talk radio, liberals were never in business.
They started to try to be in business.
There were a couple of them pockmarking the fruited play in various local markets out there, but nobody ever heard of them.
No, you can't draw it on.
I expanded the radio market.
Oprah collapsed it.
The television market.
All there was was her.
And these guys all show up and thank her for the privilege.
I love it.
These liberals, I will never, never understand them.
They celebrate their own failure.
It's a resume enhancement.
And anywhere there's free champagne thrown around, they'll go, apparently.
All right.
Audio soundbite.
You've got to hear this Jesse Jackson soundbite.
This is one I was reading to you.
This is on MSNBC.
And a question, Reverend Jackson, would you consider or describe the Republican position on Obamacare as heartless?
Well, it is heartless.
I cannot help get out of my mind going to a homeless shelter in San Francisco.
Most folks in that shelter work every day and can't afford rent and don't have health care.
Who are these people?
These are fast food workers who serve us these hamburgers.
They don't have health care.
These are cab drivers who don't have health care.
We as Americans deserve a greater sense of humanity and the return on investment.
Better to have prenatal care and daycare on the front side than GL Ken welfare on the back side and short life expectancy and when it's unnecessary.
And more gobbledygook.
Okay, so when you go to a homeless shelter in San Francisco, you might see the person who flipped you the burger earlier that day.
Or you might see the cab driver who drove you to McDonald's that day.
And none of these people have health care, except remember McDonald's.
McDonald's had to get an exemption from Obamacare.
Otherwise, they were going to have to cancel 30,000 people from their health care plan.
But the Reverend Jackson said they don't have health care.
It's Obama who is killing their health care.
And what about this last line?
It's better to have prenatal care and daycare.
Now, that's, folks, that is a he didn't even know what he's saying.
Those are syllables he's been saying for 30 years.
That's the never-ending loop in the brain.
It's better to have prenatal care and daycare on the front side and geocache and welfare on the back side and show off life expectancy when it's unnecessary.
I love it.
I just, we were surrounded by idiocy and it's, of course, thought of as brilliance and wisdom.
Oh, I do want to play number 17.
This is Dr. Drew Pinsky.
This is, let's see, he's an addiction specialist, addiction medicine specialist.
He was on the Adam Corolla show, and a caller said, I'm curious, what is your opinion of Obama's health care reform?
Here's what I expect.
Initially, there will be lots of resources for everything, and quickly they will realize that they can't afford that.
They will begin cranking it down, and they will crank it down rapidly so far, very fast, that doctors and hospitals will be working for free, something we've become accustomed to.
And because it's the federal government, it won't respond to anything, and you will see a massive flight of physicians from the field and hospital closures.
That's my prediction.
Now, let me translate this a bit, because there is a, in doing so, I want to give you the primary reason to repeal this thing fast.
Now, you've heard that, and we've all heard that a lot of the so-called benefits don't kick in until 2014, but the tax increases start immediately next year.
That's true.
However, as we've seen, when McDonald's and some of these other places learn that their employees, 30,000 of them, are going to lose health care, what do they do?
They get an exemption.
So, the thought is Obamacare saves their health care.
What Obama's figuring on, and this has been the plan all along, remember when the Republicans first threatened to veto it and overturn it?
Obama said, you go ahead.
You go right ahead.
Bring it on.
Well, Obama is hoping, what he's planning is that 30 million people who, that magic number that don't have health insurance, that somehow they're told that they do quickly, and that any effort to repeal it is then seen as taking away their freebie.
Obama is counting on the fact that enough of this is going to get implemented soon enough, the next two years, that repealing it will become impossible because the minute the Republicans try to, it'll be just like the senior citizens react when they're told Republicans want to cut their Social Security.
Republicans want to take away your health insurance.
It's a dastardly scheme.
It's a dastardly trick, but this is what he's planning on.
He's planning on getting enough freebies at the outset here.
And who's going to pay for that?
Like Pinsky says, the doctors and hospitals, they're not going to be paid for anything.
It's all the effort for Obama is to get as much into the hands of people perceived as free as possible so that any effort to repeal this is seen as taking away a benefit and thereby dooming the Republicans and locking in health care in perpetuity.
That is why this is no time to piddle around the margins.
This is why go for this whole thing and you make them, the Democrats and Obama, you make them defend this on the floor of the House, on the floor of the Senate every week in debate, and you make Obama veto it every week.
Exit poll data shows that health care was number four on the list of concerns of people.
The economy was number one.
The two are inextorably tied.
The economy is going to go south precisely because Obamacare is going to be implemented.
The economy is already south.
So it's really crucial that this effort to repeal start in earnest and be broad-based as soon as they can get into it.
This is Veterans Day, by the way.
And do you know that 25, 25 of the newly elected members of Congress are veterans?
25 of them.
These are some of the kooky fringe candidates the Democrats in their media were laughing about so much during the campaign.
Oh, yeah, all these Republican freshmen, kooks, oddballs, tea party people.
25 of them are veterans.
25 of them have made the ultimate sacrifice.
They have offered their lives in defense of their country and everybody else's freedom.
And the Democrats call them kooks and fringe and so forth.
And there are even some Democrat veterans that ran the lost.
They were not called kooks and freaks, but the Republicans were.
Just keep that in mind.
As you listen to this new Republican freshman class characterized, 25 of them are veterans.
Adam in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
I am a first-time caller and a lifetime listener.
Been listening to you since I was four or five years old.
Whoa.
How old are you now?
I'm 18.
Oh.
Genuine, true Rush baby here.
Yep.
I just voted for the first time last week.
I don't even know.
I don't even need to ask you how you voted either.
Nope.
Nope, you don't.
I just wanted to call you to reassure you that that young man that called you yesterday and told you how he felt about your comments about the British students.
Oh, yeah, the new Castrati guy from San Antonio.
Yeah, I just wanted to let you know that he doesn't represent the young Americans in this country.
He obviously was with Mary Jane, if you know what I'm saying.
Oh, yeah, he was out there with a doobie.
Yep, to say the least.
That's what upset him.
And I'm calling these British people long-haired, dope, smoking, maggot-infested FM types.
I'm sure he's one of those three things.
Probably all three, more like it.
But I got to tell you, I would do just about anything to pay what those students are paying for tuition in the U.K.
I mean, what was it, like $5,000 a year that they're paying?
They're paying closely.
Yeah, and it's going to go up to nine.
So they're raising it to £14,000, $9,000, something like that.
Or £9,000, $14,000, yeah.
Yeah, and it costs, what, $20,000 for college these days for a semester?
Well, yeah, depending, it could be even higher, $25,000.
So the increase, I think, is $3,000 equivalent is what the increase is.
Yeah, and that's if you go to a state college.
That's not if you want to go to another college.
But I just wanted to let you know that he does not represent the young Americans.
Well, I know that.
I know.
His call served a fun purpose.
In fact, you know, Mike, you ought to get that call, and we ought to have it open.
You have it.
We don't tend to play this.
People thought that this was a parody call because this guy sounds exactly like when I speak of the new Castrati and make fun of them.
I had people thinking this was a whole setup, a brilliant setup that I had put on people.
And it wasn't.
This guy's a genuine caller.
Here, here's part of it.
San Antonio, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
You know, as I sit here and I listen to you pass judgment onto others for the way they look or substance abuse, I think to myself, that's really funny.
You know, talk about hypocrisy coming from an addict like yourself.
You say you love.
What do you mean talking about the way they look?
You do it all the time.
I sit here and I listen to these really bad parodies that you guys play while people are on hold.
They're really mean and nasty and they're personal and they're wrong.
You pick on Jeff Jackson.
That's a man who stood with Martin Luther King.
He's practically a prophet.
And I'm sure if Martin was alive today, you would have parodies of him too.
Because we know exactly what you're about, Mr. Limbaugh.
What am I about, sir?
What am I about, thir?
Tell me, Mr. New Castrati, just exactly what am I about, sir?
Well, you talk about giving tax breaks, more tax breaks to the richest of the rich.
If this country needs you, for a person like yourself who's taken so much while giving nothing back, while giving nothing back, when is it your turn to give something back to the country that you claim to love so, sir?
When will it be time for you to care about someone else other than your own?
Let me tell you something.
I have given lives.
I have given back.
Take this lame brain off the I have given back to my country and to my fellow citizens more in one year than you are going to earn in your worthless life, Mr. New Castrati.
And if you ever get famous, we'll do a parody on you too because it would bring big-time yucks.
So that's it.
That was Mr. New Castrati yesterday.
It was from San Antonio.
And he was legit.
If I got two kinds of email response, one line of response was just livid at you, Snerdley, for even putting the guy on the air.
And the other line of response was, come on, Rush, you made all that up.
Nobody really talks or sounds that way.
And it was legit.
You heard it, Mr. New Castrati.
I mean, typical.
Greatest example of it we could have found.
And we got to take a brief time out here because of the constraints of time and the programming format.
By the way, I forgot to mention a caller yesterday brought to you by a grant from the Onan Foundation.
And did you notice that guy yesterday demonstrates, you don't know what the Onan Foundation is?
Look it up.
O-N-A-N.
At any rate, yesterday's caller, Mr. New Castrati, demonstrates, and it works every time it's tried.
If you want to make a conservative angry, tell him a lie.
If you want to make a liberal angry, you tell him the truth.
Works every time it's tried.
All right, folks.
Fastest week in media tomorrow, Open Line Friday, 21 hours from now.
▲
Export Selection