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Nov. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, Gloria Already said she liked it.
She liked being pat down, groped, as it were.
It's been so long since anybody did it.
It felt good.
We got the audio soundbite coming up.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
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You may not have heard this, ladies and gentlemen.
That's all anybody's talking about.
It's not that widespread, but it's all anybody's talking about.
Where it is happening, it's over the top and outrageous.
And people are saying, not in America.
We don't live in a police state here, although in certain places we do live in a police state.
You know what the theory is?
The theory is that they're going overboard on purpose in certain places just to get people to finally say, okay, we accept the scanners.
We'll accept the scanners.
I don't want to be groped.
I don't want my kid groped.
I don't want any of this happening.
Some of these stories out of St. Louis, out of San Diego, some of them are genuinely over the top.
And we'll have every detail for you out of every one of these stories.
Now, some of you might think that we've just been disrespectful of President Obama by having the scanner show absolutely nothing there in the Groinel area.
We got the idea from James Carville.
Last Thursday morning, Christian Science Monitor sponsored breakfast.
James Carvel was a panelist.
And during the QA, a reporter said, Is Obama being a wimp or is he sounding the right tone, being on the right course?
I'm the guy in campaign that says that Hillary gave him one of our balls and both F2.
He said, ladies and gentlemen, we'll play this again.
Carville said.
I'm the guy in campaign that says that Hillary gave him one of our balls and both F2.
This is James Carville last Thursday morning in Washington.
This is why Mark Stein was talking to you about football and golf.
Again, last Thursday in Washington, Christian Science Monitor sponsored breakfast.
I'm the guy in campaign that says that Hillary gave him one of our balls and both F2.
Last Thursday night on CNN's John King USA, Carville was the guest.
It was asked about his comments at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
John King said, a lot of your friends in the senior Democrat Party in the Obama White House are outraged tonight over what you said.
It was no joke, and I was making a point, as I said, in the campaign.
So the people in the White House should be forced.
If I offended anybody, I'm not sorry, and I don't apologize.
All right.
So he meant to say it.
If I offended anybody, I'm not sorry and I don't apologize.
And he's not sorry.
Go back to number 33.
He's not sorry and doesn't apologize for what?
For this.
The guy in campaign that says that Hillary gave him one of our balls and both F2.
So this is James Carville talking about our president.
He was asked a question if Obama was being a wimp or is he sounding the right tone and being on the right course.
Is Obama home?
I don't know if you got, well, I'm asking because the market's down, at least it was earlier.
The market was down 100.
I figure he's home since the market's down.
Carville was quoting himself, by the way.
That's why he's not apologizing.
He was quoting himself.
He said that during the campaign.
May of 2008, James Carville, the ubiquitous former aide, booster, and informal advisor, made the point even more vividly, giving Clinton a two-gonad edge in her primary rival, Senator Obama.
If she gave him one of her cajanes, they both had two, Carville said.
So he's asked about it.
He said, if he offended anybody, he didn't apologize.
And he's not sorry.
Now, this screening business.
Snerdley, I'm going to get to Dancing with the Stars.
I am going to get to.
I'm not going to lead with it, but we're going to get to.
I was asked, what day was it, HR?
Thursday?
Thursday, we got a call asking if we'd like to chat with Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas on the program today about their finals tonight, Dancing with the Stars.
And I passed on the opportunity.
We don't really do interviews and have guests on the program, but the Dancing with the Stars did call and offer them as guests on the program.
So we'll get to that because the country's in a tizzy over this.
The left's in a tizzy.
The left's in a tizzy about a lot of stuff, ladies and gentlemen.
In the politico, where is it?
In the political.
Oh, here it is.
How liberalism self-destructed.
And it's a pretty interesting piece by Joel Kotkin analyzing what happened to liberalism and where it went wrong.
It used to be, it used to be this guy's point.
Liberalism used to provide an upwardly mobile path for the downtrodden.
Now it keeps the downtrodden downtrodden.
I don't think it's ever provided an upwardly mobile path.
I think that's the big myth about liberalism.
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm not sick.
This little phlegm in this high-priced throat.
What, Snerdley?
What about talk about Dancing with the Stars before the NFL?
I don't know.
I know my quarterback got clocked in.
The guy who clocked him got thrown out of the game, Richard Seymour.
It was a great NFL Sunday.
No question about that.
We'll get all of this stuff.
And the New York Times has a piece today by, well, I guess today, appeared recently.
Kate Zernicki on the Pilgrims actually were socialists.
Yep.
Pilgrims were socialists.
And she quotes me in teaching the opposite in my book and says that a lot of people, okay, half right about this, but they're going off the beaten path.
The socialism was not a bad thing back then.
And except when it didn't work, but that's not why they gave it up.
Not because it was a bad thing.
The leftists, I mean, they're circling the wagons out there.
Well, try this.
According to the Washington Post, the political divide is deepening.
Democrats, if you've seen this map, this is incredible.
Democrats own the big cities on the left and right coasts, and Republicans own everything else.
The Democrats own Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, just a tinge of San Diego.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, everything else.
Everything else is red.
Republicans scored huge gains from districts that were...
Now, this is where this gets funny and interesting.
Republicans scored big gains from districts that were, quote, older, less diverse, and less educated than the nation as a whole.
This, according to the Washington Post, Democrats did well with minorities and higher educated whites, but they lost the working-class white voter, which, according to the Washington Post, is not educated.
The working-class white voter is less educated than the nation as a whole, is older and less diverse, i.e., racist and bigoted, than the nation as a whole.
And it's stupid.
Basically, Republican voters are stupid.
The Democrat voters are put upon victims, minorities, and the super smart white guys.
So, again, to translate, Republicans did well among dumb old white people.
Democrats have elitist liberal whites.
They own minorities in a manner speaking.
Their problem is that middle-class whites are fleeing the party.
Middle-class, stupid whites, according to the Washington Post, are fleeing the party.
But let's look at the divide in another way.
Middle America feeds the world.
Middle America makes this country work.
Flyover country, however you wish to characterize it, makes this country work.
Middle America exemplifies the can-do attitude that saved the world from tyranny.
It was middle-class America climbing the ropes at Poindu Ho and winning the Battle of the Bulge and flying the airplanes in Nagasaki.
It wasn't the Harvard faculty.
It wasn't the Yale volleyball team.
Their values made America the envy of people and nations the world over.
The large coastal cities, on the other hand, are broke.
Large coastal states are broke.
They have bloated governments.
They have immense welfare and union obligations, and they are bankrupting their economies.
So this divide, lamented by the Washington Post, is much more than political.
It's cultural and it's values-oriented.
On the one side are those who believe in a hard work ethic.
We've been talking about this.
The merit-based portion of our society, paying their own way.
On the other side are those who embrace a welfare ethic.
They believe that government should distribute everything from health care to three meals a day and a snack for kids, whether in school or not.
Put another way, the divide is between those who insist on bankrupting the country for their utopian social dreams and those of us who demand they pay for it.
They're demanding that we pay for it.
So everywhere you look today, even this Dancing with the Stars is about the division in the country.
The media and drive-bys and the election, Dancing with the Stars, all of this news with the scanners, the airport security, how liberalism self-destructed.
Everybody's now writing about the Great Divide.
Now, contrast this with two years ago, when what was supposed to happen after the election was massive unity.
Obama has come to divide.
The political divide is not about geography, though, when you get right down to brass tax.
It's about those who want a utopia and the people that they are demanding pay for it.
The divide is between those who pay taxes and those who don't.
The people at work are sick of funding the existence of those who don't work.
And they are sick of funding bloated state governments and unions that don't accomplish anything.
I mean, even with a map that shows 90% of the country is Republican-red, the Democrats are still talking about how brilliant they are.
Arrested, you realize 90% of the country, according to the Washington Post, is stupid.
And that's why Bristol Palin might win Dancing with the Stars.
And that's why the Republicans won Congress.
There's some I tried to print this, but blew up my mail program.
I had to force quit my program, but there's a, I'll find it.
It's the D.C. Examiner, some Harvard or Yale, some Ivy League professor or political scientist explaining the election results.
It says, because voters are stupid.
So this is the divide.
This is the way it's shaping up.
Democrats and the left, this is how they explain.
And they're illustrating and making it clear that which I have always said about.
They hold you in contempt.
All right, I got to go brief timeout.
We'll come back and continue with all the rest of today's program.
Lots of soundbites on the screening business, lots of details, lots of details.
Would I submit to one?
You don't have a choice, do you?
I mean, if you walk out, they follow you.
In fact, speaking of this, the New York Times has a story so misleading that Boehner didn't have to submit to one.
It's only after you read beyond the first half of the story you find out why and that he's not the only one.
And they never mentioned it.
Pelosi never even flew commercial.
She was flying on Boeing 757s paid for by us.
Would I submit to it?
In line?
Would I submit to it?
Well, I don't know.
Depending on where this happens, I mean, they're strip searching three-year-old boys.
They are inserting fingers into body cavities and orifices that would be sexual harassment anywhere else if it weren't the government doing it.
It still is.
This is why I think, and Obama, by the way, is out there defending all this.
Obama's defending it.
And people are going to associate this with Obama.
People are going to associate with this with the Democrat Party, Obama's party.
Well, I think they're really trying to get people to finally just get fed up and say, okay, scan me.
I don't care if a nude picture of me gets out there.
I'm not putting up with this invasive pat-down stuff.
Except Gloria Allred, who enjoyed it.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
We stopped amnesty.
The American people said the country must have borders.
Well, we stopped amnesty temporarily.
I mean, they're still trying to overwhelm us and overcome what we did.
The American people must have boundaries.
Our country should be off-limits to those who aren't here legally.
And I think it's, I think it's fair to say that our bodies must be off limits, period, particularly to the government.
Barack Obama seems determined to preside over a country without borders and people without boundaries and people with limited freedom.
But the people of this country have shown that we get and can have whatever we want if we make our voices heard.
Remember the teabagger slur?
They're still talking about it.
If you watch Bill Maher's politically incorrect show on HBO, these Tea Party people still refer to as teabaggers.
It is a slur.
But who are the perverts here?
Who are the perverts?
And remember when Bush had the Patriot Act and the warrantless wiretaps?
Remember the left going bananas Over Bush personally listening in on their phone calls and so forth.
The FISA court.
And now Obama-led government agents are acting like perverts in some places.
Under orders.
Well, a lot of people are finally starting to say, keep your hands off my tea bag, Mr. President.
You're going to call us teabaggers.
Fine, keep your hands off my tea bag.
And make no mistake, it is the government fondling us.
The president could stop it if he chose to.
That's clear and easy to understand.
The president could stand if the fondling stops here.
All Obama would have to do is call a little press conference, a little speech, and announce that his policy is the fondling stops here, along with the book stops here.
You know, we had Miranda warning.
And now we have the Obama warning to Americans who choose to fly.
The Obama warning.
You have the right to remain silent while we fondle you.
Anything you say while we fondle you can and will be used against you.
You do not have the right to speak to an attorney while we fondle you.
In fact, if you try to speak or object in any way while we fondle you, you will be fined and or jailed, and we will call the local cops.
Do you understand our rights over your rights as they have been read to you here while you were in line to get on an airplane?
That's the Obama warning.
Whatever happened to hands off our bodies, whatever happened in the all pro-choice crowd, the government must stay out of our bedroom.
Where are those same people said the government must stay out of our underwear?
Because that's where the government's going in some of these examples and further.
We be back.
You remember how some people caught holy hell out there for casually mentioning the symbol for Obamacare looked a little like a swastika?
A swastika.
Pelosi, pronounced it, swastika.
We mentioned here on this program that the symbol for Obamacare looked a little bit like an icon, logo that the Nazis, and people went baddie.
What do these pat-downs look like to you?
What's the difference in this and checkpoint Charlie?
Now, admittedly, this isn't happening everywhere.
It's happening not in very many places, but where it is happening, it is really over the top to the point that it's being reported and it's made to look like it's massive and happening everywhere.
And I just wonder how much of this TSA stuff is really about security.
I mean, strip searching and patting a three-year-old boy.
Do you know, by the way, how many terrorists have been caught at these check-ins?
How many terrorists have been caught by the Transportation Security or whatever it is authority administration?
Zero.
None have been captured.
What, the Times Square bomber, where do you, from Connecticut, via Pakistan?
A Christmas bomber, they flew in the country.
They're not getting nabbed when they board planes over there, over anywhere.
We're not catching anybody.
Not one terrorist has been caught during all this.
So I wonder how much of this really has to do with security.
How much of it is simply make-work projects to get more patronage jobs, to get more Democrat votes?
They're going to unionize here pretty soon.
The screeners, we've spent more than $4 billion taxpayer dollars that we don't have for naked body scanners that cannot detect non-metal explosives.
I read the funniest note.
I think it was redstate.org, but please, or .com.
If I'm misidentifying this, please, I'm not doing it on purpose.
But it was hilarious.
It was an email from a soldier who was coming home from Bagram, Air Force Base in Afghanistan, near Kabul.
They flew home armed.
They were wearing their web.
They had to go through customs at Bagram to get out of Afghanistan.
They had clear customs when they arrived here.
Even though they're military, they are wearing rifles and pistols, not loaded, but they're wearing them.
They've got them.
TSA doesn't say one thing about that, but they got a guy for having nail clippers.
So you had a soldier armed to the teeth with a pistol or a rifle.
Nobody said a word about that, but he had his nail clippers taken away from him.
It was hilarious to read this.
The TSA supposedly screens about 2 million passengers a day, and they haven't caught one terrorist yet.
After how many years?
Because they're always, we're behind the eight ball.
Okay, some guy sneaks into the country from London with shampoo bottles filled with stuff.
So next, we stop everybody and make shampoo bottles and take them empty and pour the liquid out.
They're not going to do that anymore.
We're testing for something they're not going to try.
I just wonder, by the way, I've got a note here from Zev Chaffetz, the author of Rush Limbaugh Army of One.
It was University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin who said that the American voter is pretty damn stupid.
Political reporters often rely on University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin for expertise.
Byron York story.
In just the past few months, his insights have appeared in articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, AP Politico, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and many more.
He's a co-founder of the influential website Polster.com, as well as a co-director of the Big Ten Battleground Poll.
So Franklin answered with considerable authority when he was asked at a recent forum on the November election results why Republicans emerged victorious in so many races.
Franklin said, and remember this is a go-to polypsych, I'm not endorsing the American voter.
They're pretty damn stupid.
Everywhere you look, the Washington Post today, Politico, everybody, well, Politico is saying liberals have maybe taken themselves down the wrong path, but the divide in the country is now well established, although we were supposed to be unified.
The divide is well established.
They say it's geographic, but it's not.
It is cultural.
Regardless, they are saying we're divided.
We're hopelessly divided.
Obama was supposed to unify us just two years ago.
And we are divided because the American people are stupid.
That's why, and this is, frankly, not new.
The Democrats routinely chalk up their losses to stupid or uninformed or ill-informed voters.
It's never their issues.
It's always, if they make any mistakes, it's packaging, marketing, messaging.
But it's never their issues when it always is their issues.
Yesterday afternoon, Fox News channel, The Rise, Fall, and Future of Conservatism, the author Stephen Hayward said this about former President Ronald Reagan, known affectionately here as Ronaldus Magnus.
After he was governor, a lot of his political circle thought he should head some new national organization.
Some people thought he ought to try to become ambassador to England or Secretary of Commerce or even president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The most interesting offer was CBS News asked him, would you like to do a four or five-minute commentary once a week on the Walter Cronkite broadcast?
And instead, Reagan said, no, I don't want to do TV.
I think people will get tired of me.
I want to go back to radio.
That was his original career back in the 30s.
Mankind has survived all manner of evil diseases and plagues, but can it survive communism?
How much is it worth to not have World War III?
An unborn child's property rights are protected by law.
His right to life is not.
I'll be right back.
Ronald Reagan radio commentaries.
Next up on this show, Fox News reporting the rise, fall, and future of conservatism, a portion of the program featuring former senior policy advisor, 76 Reagan presidential campaign Martin Anderson talking about former President Reagan and me.
He was the Rush Limbo of the 1970s.
I remember my first radio station I worked at in my hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Those commentaries were not airing there, but I saw them.
They came in on record.
And I listened to a couple of them now and then.
The one question I've heard all over this land in these past many months is, what can we do about welfare?
And I was just struck by how persuasive, forceful, but unthreatening Reagan was.
Before we do more of what we're doing, why don't we find out if what we're doing is part of the problem?
This is Ronald Reagan.
Thanks for listening.
Those radio commentaries, my station didn't play them, but we got them.
And they were pressed on vital.
They came in on 33 albums.
And as I say, our station didn't air them.
I don't remember why.
I was too busy playing rotten mold oldies or something.
But regardless, I did get the albums out of listening to them now and then.
And it's exactly what I said here.
He was persuasive and forceful, but unthreatening, unlike me, who said to be very threatening, not to you, but to our critics and to our enemies.
But that was Martin Anderson saying that Ronaldo's Magnus was the Rush Limbaugh of the 1970s.
And true to form, just as they've wanted to get Reagan out of office and off the air, they're trying to get me off the air all these 23 years.
Sergeant Schultz at MSNBC has made it his singular purpose.
They just can't get over driving Miss Nancy.
They're still talking about it.
They can't get over that.
And my wonderfully creative, and remember every bit of comedy is comedy because it has an element of truth to it.
My wonderfully illustrative Obama is graffiti.
The Obama administration is graffiti on the walls of American history.
They just can't get over those two things.
Yep.
You can.
There's no rule against it.
You can tackle somebody by the hair.
You can do it.
Yeah, it came up last year.
Somebody got tackled by the hair and they wanted a horse collar penalty and it was not called because you can tackle by the ponytail.
No question about it.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, look at all that the Obama regime has wrought compared to what it was supposed to be.
The way we were told, the packaging of this man in this campaign.
Now we get stories from across the pond.
He's no big deal in the world.
He's not even anything special to people around the world now.
But we have Obama to thank for enriching our political vocabulary with wonderfully colorful phrases.
Keep your hands off my junk.
Grope and change.
And gate rape.
Yeah, these are terms being associated.
And I need to point something out here.
It's not happening very many places.
Compared to the number of people going through these pat-down plates, the scanners or the checkpoints, it's not happening very much.
But when it does happen, it's huge and it's getting media coverage like I have never seen before.
And it's made to appear.
And remember, nothing in the media is an accident and nothing is a coincidence.
And it's being made to look like it is nationwide and that every American is being subjected to this when the number of people actually being mistreated this way, very small.
Now, according to an October report in The Atlantic, which the magazine, for those of you who don't know, the pat downs are designed to be so intrusive to steer people into scanners.
I knew it.
I knew that's what this is all about.
And that's why all the over-the-top media coverage.
There's no, look, there's no accident here, and there's no coincidence.
And the fact that these pat-downs are occurring the way they are with pictures, people are getting pictures.
It's not an accident.
They are trying to force you into the scanners.
That's what this is about.
I have a note here for Heritage Foundation members only, proof positive that your membership dollars are at work.
Again, last week, I mentioned that Heritage took notice of Obama's pledge to try to pass the new START treaty with Russia.
Remember, that came out of the blue in the middle of nowhere last week.
We had a story on the START treaty with Russia.
And I said, where did this come from?
No one had really reported on it or even took notice at the time.
It becomes a story for about 24 hours' time and then moves along.
Typical drive-by media example.
Except the Heritage Foundation people stuck with it and continued to follow it.
When they see the Obama regime suggesting that they will support a massive budget increase in our country's nuclear complex, but only if the Republicans support Obama's new START treaty with Russia, this is where heritage comes in.
Now, the Washington Post reports today that a heritage grassroots lobbying firm is sending out direct mail warnings in several states that the new START treaty does severely weaken our national security.
And I've got the story right here in my stack of stuff.
What other think tank can you associate with as a private citizen where you can rely on their constant vigilance?
Only the Heritage Foundation.
And what they do is so profound it makes the news.
And this is how your membership dollars are spent.
Now, for those of you who are members like me, and I wasn't comped, folks, I don't take comps, as you know, don't want to be obligated.
Reassure yourselves that you are aligned with a smart group of well-intentioned individuals looking after our country's best interests and security.
If you haven't become a member, you can.
It doesn't cost very much.
Askheritage.org.
That's where you go to join.
Askheritage.org.
Let's go to the phones here and set a precedent.
Well, not a precedent, but make an exception.
And let's take a phone call in the first hour of the program, Scottsburg, Indiana.
Patricia, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, Rush, Mega, Rush, Catherine, Abby, Wellesley, Pumpkin Dittos, Rush.
Thank you very much.
And thank you for putting Mark Stein on.
And it doesn't hurt as bad with Mark Stein on.
A lot of people like the Steiner.
Yes.
Anyway, Rush, I am just, I'm sad and I'm very sick at what's happening with these pat downs, even though you say that it's not happening all over the place.
What got to me was seeing the little boy.
I saw it on the internet and, you know, what they did to him.
And do you know, it reminded me of Elien Gonzalez.
Maybe it's not a good analogy, but it's something like taking the, you can't have this freedom, taking the boy and taking his freedom away.
And, you know, Rush.
There is a reason for it, though.
It's being, it's obtrusive, invasive, and over the top on purpose.
Yes, and well, Janet Incompetano, as Mark Stein calls her, reminds me of Janet Reno.
I mean, it's just now.
Wait a minute.
I don't know who should be insulted with that one.
Reno or incompetento, who do you think is being insulted there?
Maybe it's mutual.
Let me read to you from this Atlantic piece.
This is just a little excerpt here.
I asked him if he was looking forward to conducting the full-on pat downs.
And the agent said, nobody's going to do it once they find out what we're going to do.
In other words, people, when faced with a choice, will inevitably choose the scanner over molestation.
That's what we're hoping for.
We're trying to get everyone into the machine.
He called over to a colleague.
Tell him what you call a backscatter, he said.
And that's, I can't repeat.
It's okay, the genital measuring device.
The genital measuring device.
They're calling the scanners, they're examining the size of members.
And the agents are talking about it back and forth.
And there was a reporter here from the Atlantic that heard this.
The backscatter, the scanner, is called the genital measuring device, the Atlantic.com.
I got the link here.
They're trying to force everybody here into these machines.
And this media is playing along with this like a well-oiled machine here, making big deals out of the relatively few instances of this, getting people all riled up because there is an objective.
Get you into the scanner so you can measure your member and size.
So whatever else they want to do.
One thing that history has taught over and over again, if you ignore your rights, they will go away.
We're being good cop, bad copped here.
The bad cop are the Pat Downs.
The good cop's going to be the scanning.
Come on over here.
We'll treat you right.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
You wait and see.
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