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Nov. 17, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Do um do Lisa Murkowski and Pelosi go to the same Botox guy?
Maybe they share needles.
There has to be some explanation for this.
Did you hear what did you hear what Murkowski?
She said, she said that Jim DeMant cost us the majority.
No, what causes the majority people, people like you, Ms. Murkowski, voting with Democrats.
And of course, the this is just not my day.
The Chevrolet Vault car of the year.
Now MotorTrend's going to have to go out and find Battery of the Year in order to keep the thing powered.
I just don't just do not understand it.
Okay, from thehill.com, another sob fest over the Democrats losing their jobs.
Many House Democrats this week started the painful process of coming to grips with the fact that their majority has vanished.
Four years.
Wow, this is four years after their jubilant return from the political wilderness.
They're back in it.
And while reactions varied widely, House Democrats acknowledge that recovering from such a devastating loss will take time.
Look at what they had in the palm of their hands, and it's gone.
And who did it?
Obama.
Obviously, folks, folks are like me.
This is Blue Dog Democrat Lincoln Davis, Tennessee.
Glassy-eyed, it says there.
Obviously, folks who lost like me are disappointed.
Some of our friends are disappointed.
I'm not coming back, but that's just part of politics.
Outgoing House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers called out Representative Ted Poe, Republican Texas, for his claim that Democrats lost control of the House because they didn't listen to Poe's warnings not to pass Obamacare and spend trillions of dollars.
And from thehill.com.
It's a different story, different writer.
Democrats vent to leaders as losses set in.
This kind of says it all.
House Democrats held a marathon venting session yesterday as they tried to come to grips with a devastating midterm election that swept their caucus out of power.
And not only that, the president's been out of the country.
He's on the run.
He only came back from Indonesia and Korea for new underwear.
House Democrats.
Oh, by the way, those of you do not know, I will not be here Thursday and Friday.
Mark Stein will be here.
Don't sweat it, though.
I'm leaving him with plenty of football and golf stories to talk about with you.
Stuff I have saved up.
I haven't gotten to them.
I'm going to leave a stack there for Stein so that you won't feel ignored.
Anyway, House Democrats marathon venting session tried to come to grips with a devastating midterm election, swept their caucus out of power.
The gathering was the first for the entire caucus since the election.
Lawmakers described a solemn mood under which defeated members stood up one by one and delivered farewell speeches to their colleagues.
Yeah, farewell speeches.
Stood up and pointed fingers.
It's your fault.
It's your fault.
I didn't do this.
It's your fault.
Damn that health care bill.
Clinton lied to us.
While many Democrats offered kind words and thanks and support for Pelosi, defeated Representatives Alan Boyd of Florida, Travis Childers of Mississippi, and Bill Foster of Illinois called for new leadership.
Boyd told the Hill that leaving Pelosi as the public face of the caucus would undermine candidate recruitment efforts in 2012 and the Botox industry.
I don't know how you recruit for some of these seats, said Boyd.
How you're going to recruit somebody to run a moderate blue dog Democrat to run down here.
Can't do it.
The thing is, that's music to Pelosi's ears.
She didn't want the blue dogs.
In fact, I got a story.
The Communist Party USA is ecstatic over the election returns.
I told you this last week.
They've thinned the herd.
The remaining Democrats are pure Marxist, socialist, communists.
The Communist Party USA is happy.
They're calling the Progressive Caucus.
They said the Progressive Caucus is now a much larger majority of the Democrat caucus than it was.
So, I mean, this is music to Pelosi's ears.
Get rid of these pretenders.
John Pedoritz in a piece at Commentary Magazine website.
Study by David Brady of Stanford and the Hoover Institution leaves us in no doubt.
At least 20 seats on November 2nd were lost to Democrats as a direct result of votes cast in favor of health care reform and cap and trade.
By the way, John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry who once served in Vietnam, said yesterday, cap and trade gets finished.
It's officially, no, it's not.
They're just going to go about it a different way.
They'll do it via executive order or some such thing.
It may be off the page legislatively, but they haven't given up on it.
Now, if you assign, and this to be generous, if you assign only 25% of the votes cast due to the economy to Obama's ledger, you find he is the reason both for the loss of the House and the astonishing size of the wave that engulfed his party.
And Pedoritz explains it all in a column he had yesterday in the New York Post.
You know, Obama is running around.
He's still saying that the party of no, Republicans, it's their fault.
No, no, no.
The voters said no.
It was the voters.
And by the way, Warren Buffett, the oracle of Omaha, has a piece, an op-ed piece in the New York Times today.
And he praises Bush for saving the U.S. economy.
Not by name.
He praises TARP.
He said the TARP bailout saved the economy.
Now, everybody knows that was Bush.
Remember, McCain came off the campaign trail, suspended his campaign to come back and try to negotiate that deal.
Serious stuff here.
If we didn't get this done, why, the world was going to implode.
And an asteroid was going to hit us.
The dinosaurs would be back.
But they passed TARP and all of that catastrophe was averted.
And Warren Buffett, now, I'm trying to tweak the left by saying praising Bush.
Buffett's praising government here, but not Obama.
He does not mention Obama's name in this piece.
And he was, as we all know, one of Obama's big-time supporters.
Michelle Maulkin on her blog for Illinois Republican Joe Walsh.
Life has been good to him so far because three-term incumbent Democrat Melissa Bean has conceded the race.
Another pickup for the Republicans in Illinois.
Republicans get to add another red seat to Congress following the completion of ballot counting.
Democrat Representative Melissa Bean last night called her Republican challenger Joe Walsh.
Not to be confused with Rocky Mountain Way Joe Walsh and conceded the race for Illinois' eighth congressional district.
300 votes separated the two candidates.
Now, Walsh was the candidate whose supporters launched into an unauthorized pledge of allegiance at an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
And he ends up being victorious.
All right, Charlie Rangel.
Has the Justice Department...
No, they're not going to...
What am I thinking?
Wrangel may as well be a member of the new Black Panthers.
He's not going to be indicted.
Justice Department, what I was thinking.
I got to take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Snirdley just asked me a question during the break.
And this is a relevant question.
I should have assumed a lot of people were thinking this and addressed it earlier.
Wanted to know if passengers on EIB 1 are subjected to TSA-like pat downs.
And I myself, am I subjected to passengers on our plane?
I have to go through this.
No, we practice it selectively.
It's up to us as to who we think or who we want to pat down, but it's not mandatory.
We have us.
They're opposite gender pat downs.
By all means.
By all means.
I'm going to waste time doing it the other way.
Ben in Rockville, Maryland, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Thanks, Russ.
On this Murkowski situation, I remember about a year and a half ago when you started this huge controversy over saying that you hoped Obama failed so that the country could succeed.
I wrote a letter to the editor in my local newspaper defending that statement and clarifying it because I found it ridiculous that people didn't know what you were trying to say.
They knew.
They knew.
They knew all along.
They were just astounded that I would say it.
They were trying to discredit me.
They knew exactly what I meant.
Well, we were early on in the Obama debacle at that point.
Now, two years in, that it's clear to everybody what his agenda is and the effect it's having on destroying the country.
How can someone even consider themselves a Republican like Murkowski and even run as a Republican when she's saying that if he succeeds or the things that he wants to do will succeed, then that will be good for the country.
Right.
Does that mean health care passing was good for the country or that cap and trade would be good for the country if he succeeds or card check or any of the above?
Well, yeah, I'll answer your question.
Well, you want to know how can somebody even consider saying what Murkowski said?
Well, answer your question.
How could she consider running as a Republican with that view?
Why doesn't she just run as a Democrat?
That would not be my answer.
She's stupid.
I didn't want to keep that rough on her, but she can't even consider herself a rhino.
Well, even self-respectable rhinos wouldn't say that they're going to go along with everything Obama wants because it would be good for the country.
She's smart enough to know that if she ran as a Democrat, she would lose in Alaska.
But she's not a Republican.
Rhino, whatever you want to say.
You know, it's really, that's the explanation.
She's not a Republican.
She just says so.
She's not even a rhino.
Well, yes, she is a rhino by definition.
Republican in name only.
Exactly.
There's no other way to explain it other than my original definition, which is valid as well.
But it's, you know, it's just that people don't like hearing that said about other people.
So, and I understand that because it's not the person's fault.
It's not something you can do anything about.
That's the sad thing about it.
You know, it just is.
I mean, there's no brain exercise.
You can't make yourself smarter than you are.
You just can't do it.
Now, you can gain knowledge, but that doesn't guarantee that you're going to raise your IQ.
And in fact, the ability to gain knowledge and have it be useful is limited by the IQ.
And experts all agree on this.
Your IQ is your IQ.
There's literally nothing you can do about it.
One of the problems with most people who are IQ challenges, they don't know it.
They're not even smart enough to know that.
And that makes them arrogant and conceited, which just doubles the height of the obstacle in their way.
So we really need to be compassionate.
It's difficult at times.
It's not something you can fix.
You just have to vote it out.
You can't fix it.
A program observer has a question.
That's two different things.
Snurdy wants to know if the ugly know they're ugly.
You know, I first proposed the banning of the ugly from shopping malls and so forth at daytime in order to promote economic activity.
People said, how are you going to do that?
I said, well, we make it voluntary.
I mean, the ugly know who they are.
But that's totally different.
The stupid people.
You ever heard of stupid people admit they don't.
By definition, they're not smart enough to know that they're stupid.
I think it's one of the problems at MSNBC, frankly.
I know this kind of talk makes people uncomfortable, but we are constantly in search for explanations for this.
And the simple explanation is almost always the right one.
Here's Dave in Chicago.
Dave, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Great to have you here, sir.
Yeah, Rush.
We're getting concerned out here.
It's been a long time since we've heard from Al Gore, and he kind of fell off the face of the earth.
We're really concerned.
What is the chances that we can get Paul Shanklin's Ring of Fire out there?
Maybe get him out of retirement.
You really want Al Gore to come out of retirement?
What, for entertainment value?
Well, you know, maybe he's got to pass through one of those body scanners.
That would be a comical thing.
But I don't know.
We're just concerned.
And then also maybe dedicated to Optin, who wants to be the head of the energy committee.
Yeah.
All right.
Fine.
Well, you've asked for it.
You say it.
We play it.
The EIB network, Al Gore.
By request, Paul Shanklin and the vocal portrayal, Al Gore.
That's a takeoff on Johnny Cash Ring of Fire, Ball of Fire.
By the way, checked here.
Gore is hiding, ladies and gentlemen, from the investor in his climate exchange record.
Remember, the climate exchange was shut down in Chicago.
The Carbon Trading Exchange has been shut down.
Now, Gore's last entry on his blog was November the 6th of this year.
And that entry says, 2010 has been an exceptional year.
Now, what is an exceptional year for Al Gore?
Now, stop and think of this now.
That's his last entry.
2010 has been an exceptional year.
More evidence of our changing planet.
Catastrophic floods in Pakistan.
Wildfires in Russia.
Hurricanes in Mexico.
2010 has so far been an exceptional year for weather disasters.
German reinsurance agent Munich RE said Thursday.
That makes it an exceptional year.
Well, I don't know that anything single has anything to do with it.
He says here, it's been an exceptional year and it lists a bunch of disasters as a definition for an exceptional year.
Now, there's a film out there.
It's a documentary film.
I have seen this film as a powerful, influential member of the media.
I got a DVD screener of this.
Bjorn Lomborg has produced a film.
It's called Coolet.
And it opened last Friday and it just skewers Al Gore and his global warming beliefs.
Bjorn Lomborg.
Now, Lomborg, he believes in global warming.
Don't misunderstand.
He thinks that people like Gore are just lunatic fringe off the charts.
But Coolett is the name of that documentary.
We'll take a break and be right back.
And we're back at Rush Limbaugh open line Friday on Wednesday.
I got to have to do I sound distracted.
Please tell me I don't.
I have three major crises going on here off air I'm dealing with.
I'm wishing these commercial breaks were 10 minutes long.
I'm hoping I'm not sounding distracted.
Seriously.
I wish you could say no.
Don't even ask me about it.
My mood will be totally ruined if I get into this.
Don't even ask me about it.
I'm going to go to the audio soundbite.
Oh, before we do the audio soundbite, look at this.
This little, little known little piece of legislation happening in Texas.
A state representative on Tuesday in Texas yesterday filed a bill that would require any candidate for president or vice president of the United States to show his or her birth certificate to the Texas Secretary of State.
Another indication of just how ambitious the conservative agenda for next year's session of the Texas legislature is expected to be.
The bill is necessary because we have a president whom the American people don't know, whether he's born in Kenya or someplace else.
It's Representative Leo Berman, Republican of Tyler.
If you're running for president or vice president, you got to show us here in Texas that you were born in the U.S.
I was going to ask why would this matter until I read the partners and Berman explained it.
All right, we're going to go to Dancing with the Stars last night.
This is at the moment where the contestant Brandy was informed she had been voted off the program and would not make the finals.
The co-host, Brooke Burke, had this exchange with Brandy and her professional dance partner, Max, Chemurkotsky.
And here is that conversation.
How do you feel right now, Brandy?
I don't know how to feel right now.
I haven't, it hasn't processed yet for me.
Max, I want to ask you, we've been at this a long time.
This season struck me as the most surprising in that couples who would get their highest score on Monday night were often the ones who left on Tuesday night.
What do you think's been different this season?
Well, you know, I said it in many press interviews.
You know, one thing that I love, you know, for my family, the choice they made is to come to this country and is the fact that people vote and their voices count.
And I love the fact that the show represents that.
This is Maxim Shimurkovsky, who they were all trying to explain what happened last night because I mean, being honest here, Brandy was getting tens.
The last two to three weeks, she was getting tens, but apparently she was getting no votes.
Bristol Palin was finishing last and was getting all kinds of votes from the public, which counts for 50% of the final score.
So this Max guy and one of the judges, Bruno Tolione, made a point.
Bruno said, I am shocked, but the people count on this show.
The people vote.
And here's Max.
Look, I come from a place where you couldn't vote.
I come from a country where our vote didn't count.
I'm happy to be here.
Where the people's voice counts.
Now, again, for the left, I mean, they're twisted like pretzels on this one because they are seeing, they are seeing exactly how other people see affirmative action.
The left all of a sudden cares about merit.
They don't care about Netty.
They believe in affirmative action.
And affirmative actions come back to bite them in the butt on this particular episode.
And then here's the hapless contestive brewer this afternoon on PMS NBC, distraught over this.
Conspiracy theorists are speculating the Tea Party is keeping Bristol in the running.
In fact, I got an email saying I tried to vote for Brandy and the line was busy the whole time.
The Tea Party people are blocking the phones.
And again, the hapless contestive brewer.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, again, we go back to people not smart enough to know various things.
The way these vote lines are set up, if you get, there's nobody answering the phone and saying, how do you vote?
I vote for Brandy.
You get, each contestant gets a number.
The call is connected, the votes counted.
You don't talk to anybody.
A machine says, thank you for your call.
If you can't, if the line's busy, it means too many people are trying to call that line, which means Brandy was having a lot of people call.
Just, I mean, the Tea Party can't do everything here.
They can't jam the lines for Palin and then jam the lines against Brandy.
It's incredible to sit here and think of this, that the left thinks this is happening.
The Tea Party.
The Tea Party is jamming the lines of dancing with the stars.
It was on their list of things to do.
Anyway, I also need to, I guess I need to be corrected.
I said earlier that Sarah Palin was booed on this show.
Apparently she wasn't.
It was a previous low score for some other contestant people were booing about when the camera happened to show Sarah Palin sitting there.
The booze just happened to coincide with that visual.
And the producers were the producers.
I don't know how that happens.
Very strange how that happened.
Audience starts booing and director cuts to a picture of Palin, and then it's no, no, no, they weren't booing Palin.
I mean, they really moved into action fast to dissuade people of that notion.
Here's Carol in Roswell.
Georgia, great to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you so much for taking my call, right?
Yes, madam.
I'm a longtime, long-time listener and NFL alum diros from the Atlanta area.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Mr. Snerley kept me on track.
I was calling about your comments on being happy.
I don't watch Dancing with the Stars, but I'm very, very happy.
And I just want to thank you for being such an entertaining talk show host and spreading good cheer.
Well, thank you.
It's the holiday season.
I love the holiday season.
Well, blessed, happy Thanksgiving.
I feel, and what you said, I feel like the left, you know, wants us all to feel this false and self-righteous heaviness of spirit, and that if you're happy, you really don't care about, well, whatever it is they're talking about.
Right.
If you're happy, then you don't have a sufficient capacity to suffer.
That's right.
And I was so happy to see Mr. Cheney walk out on that stage.
Oh, yeah.
He reminds me of my dad, who was a World War II vet.
Yeah.
And you always knew where he stood.
You know, he acted like an adult.
Yeah.
He wasn't trying to be your buddy.
He was in charge, and you felt like you could trust him.
And I just thank him for just demanding the respect that he does.
He's a great patriot.
He had a great line at the groundbreaking yesterday for the Bush Presidential Library.
He said, This is probably the only shovel-ready project in the country.
And a clever jab at Obama.
By the way, get this now from the Wisconsin State Journal.
Bristol Palin's Dancing on TV sets off man in standoff.
Allegedly set off by Bristol Palin's appearance on Dancing with the Stars, a rural black earth man kept police at bay outside his home for 15 hours Monday and Tuesday before surrendering to the cops.
Stephen Cowen, 66, railed at the television as Bristol Palin appeared on the program.
His wife told the cops Monday after she fled from the town of Vermont House, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
Cowen had also been under stress because of a financial situation and was receiving care for a mental health problem.
Cowen's wife, Janice, told the cops her husband had been drinking, but she didn't think he was intoxicated.
Well, then, maybe he's just a liberal, lives in Wisconsin.
Maybe he's just a regular MSNBC viewer.
According to the complaint, Stephen Cowen, 66, and his wife were watching Dancing with the Stars when Cowen jumped up and swore, started swearing, as Bristol Palin appeared, saying something about the exeleted politics.
Cowen was upset that a political figure's daughter was on the show when he didn't think she was a good dancer.
The complaint states.
Also, according to the complaint, Cowen went upstairs for about 20 minutes and returned demanding his pistols, which had been taken by his daughter about a month ago for safety reasons.
He was carrying a single-shot shotgun, which he loaded and fired into the TV.
He was so mad that Bristol Palin was on Dancing with the Stars, he fired a shotgun at his own TV.
Well, I guess we do know who he voted for.
Well, we don't know who he voted for, but we probably know who he voted against.
Cowen continued to yell, demanding his pistols.
He reloaded the shotgun.
He pointed it at his wife.
She left the house.
She drove to Black Earth, where she called 911.
She told the cops she was afraid for her safety.
So it's, I told you, the left is totally discombobulated by this.
To the point now, a Wisconsin guy shooting out his own television.
Hammerback Rushland bought a cutting edge of societal evolution mind over chatter.
Joe in Philadelphia.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush, and thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Rush, yesterday, Napolitano said that if the American people don't like being searched and photographed or whatever going through the airports, then maybe they shouldn't fly.
I wonder if she would use the same saying for the immigrants of the Mexican government.
Maybe tell them that if they don't like the treatment they're getting here, they shouldn't come.
Mexican government?
Well, you know, they're sending the people over here saying they have a right to come here and we should do more for them.
Okay.
You mean you're actually talking about illegal immigrants.
If they don't like what they have to put up with here, they shouldn't come.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, that's different.
I think she should treat them with the same kid gloves as she's treating the American airlines passengers with.
That's a good point, but I think it's illustrative of the kind of people that Napolitano is, kind of people we're dealing with here.
The American people are the ones who are guilty.
The American people are the suspects.
The American people are the ones who need to be controlled.
Now, this is not going to be contained in airports, folks.
Obama, the Department of Homeland Security, are promising to start searching subways and buses and trains and people on them.
And these are the same people trying to force everybody into public transportation.
These are liberals.
None of this is accidental.
None of this is for the betterment of anybody but them.
This is all about control and illustrating power to control.
That's what this is.
And when they say, if you don't like being patted down, don't fly.
Remember, that's your government talking to you.
If you don't want to be patted down, don't fly.
It's who they are.
It's who they are.
And people are becoming more and more aware of it.
Now, the election results of November 2nd indicate that.
And they're just predictably circling the wagons.
And they're going to punish you even more for the way you didn't vote, the way you did vote.
They're not happy with you people.
They're not happy with what you did on Election Day.
And this is how you're going to pay for it.
This is Xenia, Ohio.
And Debbie, you're next.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday on Wednesday.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, madam.
Right, to the point is, has anyone investigated the fact that these TSA agents are wearing these rubber or latex gloves to pat everyone down?
Obviously to protect them from the people, but are they protecting the people from the people?
Because like in a doctor's office or in a hospital, they're required to change gloves in between people so that they don't pass germs from one person to another or 100 people being touched by the same gloves.
And we have no idea if they're medically sound or don't have a disease that they could pass on to start an epidemic.
Let me ask you, have you been through one of these airport check-in lines?
Not since they started the new policy, so I have no idea.
That's a good question.
We'll have to ask people who have been through it if they're changing gloves out there.
Because we could start epidemics if someone is sick and they're touching them and it's a germ that's easily spread.
Yeah, that's something I hadn't thought of.
I'm fascinated the way people think.
Something I had not even considered.
Say, folks, if you have joined the Heritage Foundation, if you're thinking about it, I want to tell you how it costs you $25 a year minimum to join.
I want to tell you how they spend the money.
Right now, Heritage has organized a two-day meeting for newly elected members of Congress, above and beyond their normal orientation.
It's a set of meetings to share the important distinctions in the Constitution, how to defend our principles in the areas of foreign and domestic policy, leaving nothing to chance.
There are a lot of individuals and entities vying for the attention of these newbies.
But the Heritage Foundation is one stop in a busy week that is a must.
These meetings introduce and identify expert researchers and well-informed individuals that specialize in different areas of our nation's interest, and it leaves the impression with these new congressional members as a place to turn to for honest and accurate information.
They're actively working.
The Heritage Foundation was very tight with the Reagan administration, for example, policy-wise.
And they're constantly working.
They don't take a day off.
They don't take a moment just like the left doesn't.
So the newbies are arriving in town and they send invitations.
Heritage sends invitations.
Come by.
And they go.
And it is worth its weight in gold.
And these people, the Heritage Foundation sessions are appreciated, commented on by all of the newbies.
Very, very valuable.
That's just one of the many ways that your membership dollar gets spent.
Walter, nope, nope, nope.
Where are we going?
Pam in Fort Pierce, Florida.
You're next.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so happy to talk to you today.
You bet.
Thank you.
Congratulations on your wedding.
Thank you.
I love seeing your pictures.
Okay, I thought you would like to hear from somebody who has watched Dancing with the Stars since the beginning this year and who voted every single week on two different phones in my house.
Okay, tell me, I've got 35 seconds here, so tell me why you voted for Sarah.
Redistribution of wealth.
Redistribution of wealth.
Yes.
They portrayed her as being a trampy because she got pregnant and everything.
So I didn't see that, but I wanted to watch the show.
Watch it.
If you've watched the show, you've seen only shyness, modesty, humble.
They cannot get her to do what they think they want her to do.
But I heard that she gets something like $50,000 for each episode.
So I just thought, well, heck fire.
I know she's going to be taking care of her mother by her mother.
Oh, I get it.
So you're voting so she gets the money.
A lot of people are doing that.
A lot of people are voting for her because she's not a professional.
And some of the other contestants are professionals in the entertainment field.
There's a bunch of reasons.
Hey, hi, folks.
I have a great economics tibulus idea.
Dick Cheney on Dancing with the Stars.
Think of all the liberals who would take out guns or some other weapon and destroy their TVs and then have to replace them.
What an economic stimulus that would be.
We've got an hour of Hoping Line Friday and Wednesday left.
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