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Nov. 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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No, Mark Stein's going to be here Thursday and Freddy, right?
That's right.
Mark Stein Thursday and Freddy, as I won't be.
Greetings and welcome back.
I'm thinking of going to San Diego, see if I get an opposite gender pat down.
You notice that big cis, Janet DiPalatano, emphasized twice same-sex.
Now, I don't know what to read into that.
But she emphasized same-sex pat-downs twice.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
According to the New York Times, the trial of Charles Wrangell is continuing without him because he has walked out on his own ethics hearing.
With Wrangell's chair empty, the committee's chief lawyer presented what he said was uncontested evidence that the congressman's fundraising and failure to disclose his assets or pay taxes on a Dominican villa had violated congressional rules.
And he said he hadn't had time to hire a lawyer yet.
So he walked out of there.
I mean, this is open and shut case.
It would seem, waiver.
Michelle Malkin has a great piece today.
You know, we have the story of McDonald's getting a waiver for its employees, Obamacare.
It turns out that Kathleen Sebelius has approved 111 waivers for businesses of all sizes, along with more unions and other providers of health insurance.
It was just McDonald's, you know, finagling its own Obamacare waiver after warning federal regulators that it could be forced to drop affordable health insurance for nearly 30,000 workers unless it got the waiver.
Of course, everybody said, you have health insurance for people?
Well, the Democrats said McDonald's hamburger flippers didn't have health insurance.
So yeah, they got health insurance.
They're going to lose it under Obamacare unless they got a waiver.
It turns out that 111 waivers have been granted, meaning pardons.
111 businesses in order.
Stop and think of this.
We have Obamacare to provide insurance for all the uninsured.
We have Obamacare to lower premium costs.
Obamacare to broaden coverage.
Obamacare to make it more available and less costly.
And because of Obamacare, 111 companies and unions were going to lose their health care unless they were exempted from Obamacare.
And remember, ladies and gentlemen, we were told that we didn't know any of this until it was passed.
We weren't allowed to know what was in this bill until it was passed.
It was just too important to know what was in it before it was passed.
Too important to pass it.
And then there's this.
The California state Supreme Court decided unanimously today that illegal immigrants may continue to be eligible for in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities rather than pay the higher rates charged to those who live out of state.
Hello 2012.
I mean, this is the kind of thing that led to the election results on Tuesday, November 2nd.
In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, one of the panel's more conservative members, the state high court said a California law that guarantees lower tuition for students who attend California hat schools for at least three years and graduate does not conflict with a federal prohibition on giving illegal immigrants educational benefits based on residency.
Illegal immigrants educational benefits based on residency, which is illegal.
So an illegal immigrant can go to a state university or college in California cheaper than somebody in Nevada can.
That's what this means.
Audio soundbites.
Where did I tell you we're going to start?
Number seven.
Yeah.
Last week, last week we told you about this poor guy driving his bicycle to school with the American flag in the back in a school that was in California.
They made him take the flag off because it was feelings of contention or some such thing.
It would cause strife.
And take the American flag off of his bicycle.
It would cause racial uprisings, is what they said.
It would cause racial uprisings.
Of course, the Supreme Court ruling won't, but a flag on the back of a kid's bicycle will.
This morning on KCR TV Channel 3, Sacramento Morning News, the anchor MyFeti reported this about the boy who was prohibited from riding his bike to school while flying the flag.
A fuss over flying the American flag is over in Stanislaus County.
This comes after the story went nationwide.
A couple of nights ago, we told you about Cody Alicia, who was told by school officials in Dunaire that he could not fly the American flag off the back of his bike at school.
That's because some students complained.
The story made it onto Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh's show.
Then yesterday, after complaints and nonstop phone calls, the De Nair school superintendent reversed the flag ban.
That was Saturday, Saturday morning on Sacramento TV, KCRA TV.
So it's over.
The controversy is over.
A kid can fly a flag on the back of his bicycle.
And remember, I remember the kid had to take it off because some people were offended.
Why do the offended always win?
Why do the offended always win?
Whoever wrote that the offended are somehow holier than them.
All right, I have referred to this during the course of today's busy broadcast, and I guess because I've referred to it, it's only fair that I tell you and show you what I've been talking about.
Last Friday, unbeknownst to me, because I really do not watch this bunch, I only know about it because I pay people to watch it and tell me what happens there.
And not specifically, I pay people to record TV shows for audio soundbites, cookie leading the team.
And when they tell me that something involves me, which is almost every day, that's when I find out about it.
I don't want you people to think I'm wasting my time watching all this garbage.
I know you would be seriously worried about me if that were the case.
Well, here's how it happened.
You recall that, let me set this up because they don't do that at MSNBC.
Last week, I was minding my own business.
It might have been the week before that, but within the last 10 days, clearly, minding my own business, I played an audio soundbite.
Martin Frost, a former Democrat member of Congress, now a lobbyist and commentator, went on MSNBC to explain the controversy between Stenny Hoyer, the rich white guy, and Jim Clyburn, the Democrat majority whip, both wanting the same leadership post after the election.
And the obvious contest here, rich white guy versus the black guy.
And they were having, it was not smooth.
The campaign had its rough spots out there.
And of course, we've been told to believe that what happens in a situation like this, the Democrats just lay down.
If the black guy wants the job, he should get it because they've authored such legislation, affirmative action.
It's only fair.
They've been denied all these opportunities by rich white guys.
But when the rich white guy's a Democrat, somehow that all goes out the window.
So Martin Frost goes on and says why this is important.
He said, it's important because the leader gets a car and gets a driver.
That's apparently a big deal to have a chauffeur.
So you have to drive yourself.
You don't have to take a subway, the bus, or a cab.
It's a big perk.
And if Clyburn didn't get the leadership job, he wasn't going to get the car.
He wasn't going to get the chauffeur.
So I propose a compromise.
Let him drive Pelosi around.
He could be in the front of a car rather than in the back of the car.
He could be driving the car, driving Miss Nancy.
Well, they flipped over this driving Miss Nancy business when I was minding my own business, listening to Martin Frost explain what this all was about.
So I'll take a break.
We come back from the break.
We'll play the sound bites of MSNBC going baddie last Friday over driving Miss Nancy.
Now, before playing these soundbites, the end result here is that Pelosi has essentially made up a new job for James Clyburn.
It's a position that didn't exist because they weren't going to deny Stenny Hoyer this gig.
There was no way Stenny Hoyer was going to be denied this.
And they couldn't, when the controversy arose, then slight Clyburn because from their perspective, he had done a good job as whip.
And he used to head the Congressional Black Caucus.
So you just can't, there's no way that they had to create another leadership position with a new car and a new driver because they couldn't, they weren't, they weren't.
Stenny Hoyer was not going to lose this.
And because of the inherent controversy, Clyburn was not going to either.
So they just created a new position for Clymer that he didn't have to win.
He was appointed to.
That's how it's all ended up.
But how did it get there?
Well, starting Friday night, we have a montage of various personalities at MSNBC weighing in on the dastardly villain Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh ought to be fired for what he just said after labeling Democratic leadership a bunch of white racists.
Roadkill, Rush Limbaugh has committed another hit and run.
Rush Limbaugh accusing Democratic leaders of being racist.
Well, I was just sitting here listening to what they were doing.
See, they can't take it.
They call us racist, sexists, bigots, homophobes just for getting out of bed.
And here they were trying to figure out how to ace out the black guy so that the white guy kept the leadership gig.
Now, what's that?
They're supposed to lay down and let the black guy have it.
That's what they teach us.
That's what each affirmative action is.
So, Sergeant Schultz, not happy about what he saw the way we presented this at RushLimbaugh.com.
Rush Limbaugh is proving once again he's nothing but a flat-out racist.
This time, he's attacking the highest-ranking African American in Congress.
Limbaugh felt the need to make the leadership contest between Congressman Stenny Hoyer and Congressman Jim Clyburn make it about race.
Any fair-minded American knows that this is no slip of the tongue.
Limbaugh posted this driving Miss Nancy image of Clyburn and Pelosi on his website hours after he called the Democrats racists.
We did.
We had a graphic up there.
Well, hey, we didn't create the movie.
We didn't cast the movie driving Miss Daisy, driving Miss Nancy.
That's that's and the way this was all presented, it was a race between a black and a guy and a white guy.
I didn't make this up, and that's the way the political and everybody else was covering this.
Sheila Jackson Lee was on Sergeant Schultz's show talking about Sergeant Schultz said, Leave it to the right-wing talkers of America to have competition between Jim Clyburn and Steny Hoyer enter into the arena of race.
There's only one group of people that's done that, and that's a conservative talkers of America.
How do you feel about that?
They're abusing the First Amendment.
They are the crowd that calls fire in a crowded theater.
It is shameful, absolutely shameful, for the laxity and the misuse of words to compare or to equate Mr. Clyburn's stellar service to driving Miss Daisy, to equate the first woman speaker to driving Miss Daisy.
It is insulting.
Mr. Lumbo, it's entertainment, but it's entertainment in which he will ultimately eat his own words.
I did not, and it's the first time, folks, I have been accused of misusing words.
It was a misuse of words.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong.
Driving Miss Daisy, Miss Daisy, she was fine old lady, right?
There's nothing wrong with Miss Daisy.
Nice little lady.
Well, I wonder what Sheila Jackson Lee thinks happened in that movie.
At any rate, it didn't stop.
Sergeant Schultz said, I don't want to say, should there be a law against this?
But maybe, maybe, where's the decency here in the misuse of words?
As you well know, the fairness doctrine exists no more.
It was interpreted that that was stifling the First Amendment.
It might be worthy of a debate again because without the fairness doctrine, of course, there is a wide latitude of the use of language that is provoking, provocative, and insulting.
And leave it to the Democrats to decide what it is.
Leave it to the Democrats to determine where the misuse of words takes place and who does the misusing of words.
And then, still with Sergeant Schultz, they went out and dragged in the Reverend Sharpton.
Sergeant Schultz, I've come to the conclusion in this business that Limbaugh is so big, his company's so jaded, he can say anything anytime, anyway, get away with it.
He's too big.
What are your thoughts on that, Rev?
For him to be the keynoter at all of these mainstream Republican events when he's talking about somebody driving Miss Nancy, clearly the race car inferring on driving Miss Daisy, why do people in mainstream Republican America have him keynoting the events?
People can say whatever they want, but not on the air, not on federally regulated airways, and not when those licenses are very difficult to get and should be upholding a standard that they mock the standard.
They mock the licenses that this government gives rather than a privilege to express yourself to the American public.
Well, I mean, that's wandering in vain for a search of a thought.
That's right, I mocked the standard.
They mocked the standard, right?
They mocked the standard.
They, they mocked, not me, they.
He said they mocked the standard.
It's democked, they mocked.
Yeah, it's gone beyond me.
And now, now it's not just me mocking the standard, misusing words, it's day, democking the standard.
Who detects say democking the standard?
Al Sharpton say de mocking the standard.
That's wandering in vain for search in search of a cogent thought.
That's just the playbook wasn't handy.
They had to add libit.
What mainstream Republican event has I have I keynoted recently?
Well, which one is this?
Anyway, that's not the point.
It's just driving Miss Nancy.
This just sent them into orbit.
And Miss Daisy is an anti-racist.
Miss Daisy's a fine woman.
Miss Daisy realizes in several circumstances that her drive's race affects how others treat him.
Her driver's race affects how others treat him.
Her eyes are further open to the social aspects of racial prejudice.
She sees it, and she's about the same age as Pelosi.
I mean, the comparison is apt.
Now, they finally, Sergeant Schultz went out there and got hold of a Republican to talk about this named Ron Christie.
And Sergeant Schultz said he gets away with it.
Ron Christie, your thoughts.
The segment actually referred to a segment not on a network that we don't know.
It was on MSNBC where they were talking to former Congressman Martin Frost.
And Frost said that the leadership battle that's going on in the House of Representatives right now, frankly, has been reduced to perks.
And whether or not Clyburn, if he is forced from his leadership position, will have to give out his driver, his security detail, and, of course, the car.
He referred to her as Miss Nancy, Ron.
Hang on a second, Ed.
I will not let you guys try to denigrate him here.
I have my own.
I'm not calling the rules.
You listen to the entire segment, Ed.
I dare say you didn't listen to this.
How do you think?
I did.
So, Ron Christie, Ed, Ed, I don't think you listened to the whole show.
And Schultz says, how do you know I didn't?
Because of the way you're treating this.
I should point out that Morgan Freeman, who drove Miss Daisy, won the NAACP Image Award for driving Miss Daisy.
Look what was in Clyburn's future.
I mean, look what he too could have won an NAACP Image Award because Morgan Freeman won one for the character he portrayed in the movie, Driving Miss Daisy.
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture went to Morgan Freeman driving Miss Daisy.
It could just as easily have been James Clyburn for driving Miss Nancy.
These people, folks, does this not illustrate, does this not illustrate the balsa wood on which their whole foundation is built?
They, you know, you live by the race guard, you're going to die by the race card.
They just can't have it thrown back at them.
Daylight, come and me won't go home.
Day, day.
Daylight come, man, me one go home.
Hi, we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.
Great to have you with us.
By the way, continuing here on the theme here, Driving Miss Daisy at the 62nd Academy Awards, 1989.
Driving Miss Daisy received a total of four awards from nine nominations.
Best Picture, Best Actress, Jessica Tandy, Best Makeup, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The remaining five nominations, including Best Actor, Morgan Freeman.
Driving Miss Daisy also won three Golden Globe Awards.
Best Picture, Best Actor, Morgan Freeman, Best Actress, Jessica Tandy.
He had also won the 1989 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay.
So this has sent them into orbit.
By the way, a press release from the office of Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the United Republican Leadership Moratorium on earmarks.
Unless people like me show the American people that we're willing to follow through on small or even symbolic things, we risk losing them on our broader efforts to cut spending and rein in government.
That's why today I'm announcing I will join the Republican leadership in the House in support of a moratorium on earmarks in the 112th Congress.
So McConnell's office put out a press release in the headline here, the people have spoken.
I'm listening.
He's heard you on earmarks and joins the moratorium.
To the phones we go, Lawrence, Jacksonville, Florida.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
The little Jaguars.
Hail Mary, mega Dittos.
Thank you very much, sir.
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
I saw that.
Can't believe it.
Cannot believe it.
Rush, I wanted to go back to a point you made regarding the poison that is the ideas of the left and your thoughts on whether or not we need the left to be around forever.
Because in my gut, I feel like if there's not anything for us to be railing against, for us to be fighting against, then we could become complacent and we lose sight of the reason that we are the right people to be running the country.
What are you saying?
Well, in your earlier segment, I got the feeling that we want to extinguish the left or we were kind of going down that track.
Well, we want to defeat them politically, yeah.
Yeah, but do you think that we still need them around?
You know, even in defeat, I don't think, I think I've heard you say many times that they're not going to go away, but do you think that we need them around?
Do we need something to keep our attention on the track the country needs to be on?
Oh, yeah, I have, how long have you been listening to the radio program, Lawrence?
I think about five years.
Well, then you may not have heard me say this because I think I said this many, many years ago.
We always need to keep some liberals around so people never forget what they were.
You know, keep a couple on every college campus doing what they do.
Put a couple in as museum curators.
Keep a couple liberal think tanks around.
I mean, we can't, I wouldn't want to totally get rid of them because you want people to never forget.
If the liberals go away, what do you think would take their place in the vacuum that would be then liberalism?
Conservatism.
Okay.
The founding of the country.
The constitutional freedom would take its place because that's what's under assault.
Okay, fair enough.
And I am a very busy business traveler, and I will try to do the reverse sex pat down request next time I get a chance.
Give it a shot and see what happens.
You never know.
I mean, be prepared to be arrested.
You never know what's going to happen here.
You know, don't tip them.
No, do not offer to tip them.
I don't care whatever else happens.
Do not do that.
Whoever has that idea, scrub it.
And look, I'm going to be realistic here.
The left is never going to go away, folks.
Nobody here is under any illusion.
There's always going to be people who reject modernism.
And there's going to be people that reject progress.
There are always going to be people who are not going to want to take care of themselves.
There will always be people who are going to be obsessed with this notion of equality of outcome defined as fairness.
No, it's a good question.
If the pat-downs are not sexual, why does it matter who pats you down?
Really, if this is purely devoted to security, who does it matter?
Why does it matter what the gender of the patter-downer is?
Well, that's just the way I think about things.
I want to go back here to the politico on Saturday.
Saturday, yeah, 13th.
Headline, status quo, Democrats new change.
House Democrat leaders maneuvered Saturday to lock down a lineup that would look exactly the same in the minority as it did in the majority, even as junior and disaffected rank-and-file lawmakers clamor for change at the top.
Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi averted a Wednesday showdown between her two top lieutenants by announcing she will create a new post for majority whip James Clyburn, who was expected to lose a race for minority whip to Stenny Hoyer.
Clyburn would become assistant leader, brand new position.
He would remain the third-ranking person in the Democrat leadership, Pelosi said in a letter.
Gets his car, gets his driver, his perks.
That may help Pelosi.
This is a politico on Saturday.
That may help Pelosi avoid a revolt from black lawmakers anxious to make sure that Clyburn isn't booted from the leadership or demoted in rank.
So I'm just sitting here minding my own business, reporting to you what's going on at the highest levels of the Democrat House leadership.
And the rich white guy was about to beat Clyburn, and they didn't want that to happen.
It wouldn't look good.
So create a new post.
Hoyer's down with it.
Clyburn down with it.
Media down with it.
Everything cool.
Just another car, just another driver.
Drivers down with it.
Sally in Hillsdale, Illinois.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rice.
Thank you for your time here.
I just wanted to make a point that it's interesting that the establishment has really been trying to analyze this election thing.
Was it a vote against Obama's policies and what was it?
And I think they're missing the point that it was a vote against him trying to dumb down America.
We know that, you know, once bitten twice shot, he's been there.
He showed us what he's doing.
We don't like it when he tells us one thing and does another when he's trying to be deceptive and get away with it.
And we know we're being dumbed down.
We know he doesn't respect us and value what we want.
That's really what it is, right?
It was just a matter of just total disrespect.
Yeah, I think so.
And I think it goes deeper, too, in terms of the regard for the whole what Obama's administration wants.
I think people are getting a sense of it.
You know, when Pelosi was pushing for health care, she made that comment about imagine the America when people can work a little bit and paint a little bit.
You know, that conjures up in just me of once flew over the cuckoo's nest, you know, when everybody had their lobotomies.
No, not work a little bit, work none at all.
Well, that's why I'd be creative and sit there and not get work and still have health care.
It was trying to tell us what we want or what we can have as if that's what we want.
And we know what we want, and we don't want to be told and we don't want it forced down our throat.
Exactly.
That's what this was about.
I know.
You're exactly right.
I'm still, you know, I'm sitting here wondering what right Pelosi has to create some new expensive position in the House leadership.
Expensive, too.
New, expensive.
She can just all of us requisition a new car, requisition a new driver, just automatically declare that there's a new leadership post for which there was no election.
Just and probably what's the cost?
175 grand, maybe 200, before you get to the perks.
Just asking.
Just asking, Grant, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hi.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Hey, thanks for having me on.
If I sound provocative, I want to apologize ahead of time, but I have two questions that I'd like to ask you.
First, I heard you last Friday when you were talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I've heard him on his radio program since I drive a truck and work out here on the road, and you were making fun of him and saying that he doesn't have any correct information and doesn't know what he's talking about.
And I just wonder what your credentials and my know-nothing, do-nothing Senator Inhoff from Oklahoma, what does he know?
Well, you know, William Schechner asked me, how do I know what I know is right?
And I said, it's my job to know what's right.
But see, you're doing a double negative.
I question where are RFK Jr.'s credentials.
His number one credential is his last name.
And number two, his credential is he's got an approved cause, and that is world peace, world whatever, save the world with environmentalism or what have you.
And my point, he doesn't need qualifications.
He'll just, all he needs is a fax machine and a logo and a phone number to ABC, CBS, NBC, and they will anoint him with expert status.
Now, you're calling to say, well, what are my credentials?
I've never offered myself as a full-fledged scientific expert on this stuff.
Precisely the opposite.
I have given my reasons for believing this in non-scientific ways because I don't believe we're being told in pure scientific ways because they can't prove their case either.
They're relying on faith, and they're ginning people up and creating fear and panic, and they're leading people to give up their income, pay higher taxes, reorder their lives, all for a fraud.
I totally believe it's a fraud.
So I'm simply saying, you know, okay, we get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says so.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says, why is that more important than Robert Smith says?
Okay.
That's all I'm asking.
I don't.
Well, I guess with him being in the government stuff, I guess people report to him.
He's not in the government.
He's an activist.
He's not in the government.
Oh, I thought that he was a representative or something at one point.
No, no, no, no, no.
There are a lot of these Kennedys out there, and it's easy to confuse them.
Oh, okay.
No, he set himself up as an environmental lawyer.
I think is what he is.
Okay, well, you know, forgive me for that.
I thought that he was a representative or something.
Well, but even so, what makes them experts?
You know, what makes elect you just said that your senators are know-nothing, so you're not automatically accepting that that elected official is an expert.
Why would you accept Kennedy if he were a member of Congress?
Why would that automatically make him an expert when it doesn't make your senator one?
Well, I just see the news reports of the, you know, and I know that you've made fun of this in the past, but like the ice flows and, you know, the polar bears, and now National Geographic had the thing about the migration and the walruses on there and saying that the female walruses were not able to get up on the ice flows with their pups and they had to inhabit the same place as the males.
Right.
And then where did they ask you to send your money after that report?
I don't know.
I didn't see it.
I just saw the advertisements for it.
Yeah, but I can't get anything on that.
Well, I'm sure somebody has sent a donation to save the walruses after this report or to support some think tank or some organization that's going to save the walruses.
Well, that may be true.
I didn't actually see it.
I just saw the advertisements for it because I can't get anything like that out here on the road.
Yeah.
You know, you're in Oklahoma.
Walruses are not an endangered species there.
They don't even live there.
Out of the zoo, maybe.
All right.
Grant, thanks.
Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We have to go, but back to close it out right after this.
Okay, folks.
Here it is.
Love it or not.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into the environmentalism business because he was sentenced to it in 1984.
Kennedy joined the River Keeper organization to satisfy the 1,500 hours community service to which he was sentenced.
I don't know what the offense was.
So he became an environmentalist as community service, 1,500 hours.
After his 1,500 hours of community service were complete, the group hired him as its chief attorney.
So it would be safe to say that Robert Kennedy Jr. was sentenced to environmentalism and then took it up as his life's calling.
That's his qualification.
I love the guy.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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