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Nov. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Here's a short review of some of the egregious instances of gate rape going on at airports.
A cancer-surviving flight attendant was forced to remove her prosthetic breast.
A woman whose pants, the TSA's hands went down, a woman who was singled out because she was wearing a skirt.
A cancer survivor who, due to an enhanced TSA pent down breaking the seal on his urostomy bag, was left humiliated in tears and covered in his own urine.
And a little boy randomly selected for an enhanced screening by the TSA.
So the, I mean, the examples are Legion and they're numerous, and they're all over the place.
And the number of terrorists caught by the TSA is at zero.
They haven't snatched anybody.
They haven't caught a single terrorist because they're a year behind on everything.
While all this is going on, one of my all-time favorite organizations, Center for Science and the Public Interest, has put out a new fax.
And let's see, who reported this?
Is it must be one of their press releases?
Food porn.
The Center for Science and the Public Interest has said that the 1,030-calorie deep-fried lasagna fritter appetizer, the Olive Garden, is food porn.
The restaurant, known for its bottomless salad and breadsticks, made the consumer group's 2010 Extreme Eating Awards.
Other restaurants you frequent also made the list.
P.F. Chang's, Five Guys, the Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Out Beck, Chevy's, and Bob Evans.
Two Cheesecake Factory dishes were also singled out.
A pasta carbonara, described as spaghetti with smoked bacon, green peas, and a garlic parmesan cream sauce, loaded or loaded with 2,500 calories, 60 grams of saturated fat, and the chocolate truffle cake, 1,670 calories, 48 grams of fat, all called food porn.
That's a truffle cake.
It's supposed to be porn.
All this stuff is supposed to, as a truffle cake, is supposed to be porn.
Food porn.
The group, which some call the food police, it's, I've called them worse than that, the food Nazis.
Who are they?
They're just five or six little skinny anorexic people who want to tell everybody else how to live.
And they gave themselves a name and a logo and a fax machine.
They fax stuff to the press and the press runs with it.
They also knocked five guys for its 700-calorie hamburger and its fries in issuing its awards.
CSP.
By the way, have you ever had Pasta Carbonara Linguinella Carbonaro?
You ever have?
It is delicious.
It's exactly what they say here.
Now, not food porn, but it's delicious stuff.
Anyway, this is just the latest harassment from these people that cannot mind their own business.
And White House is now going to put up 5,000 salad bars in the schools.
Michelle Mybel Obama, new major initiative.
Place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide, despite uncertainties over how local health inspectors might treat those salad bars and USDA nutrition tracking rules that could prove a major impediment.
Well, that's the question.
What kid's going to go to a salad bar?
They're going to be forced to go to the salad bar, Snerdley.
This is the point.
It's the police state.
Get used to it.
Salad bars are tremendously germy.
That's why good salad bars have the pane of glass between you and the salad as you put various elements on your plate.
You've seen that, right?
You should, Snerdly.
You're a vegan.
The sneeze shields.
I mean, you should be spending your life at salad bars instead of the fried cheese.
Audio soundbite time.
Luke Russert.
This is last Wednesday in Washington during a House Democrat leadership press conference.
Luke Russert, the son of Tim Russert.
And Nancy Pelosi had this exchange about her ability to be effective as a leader.
I mean, this would make his dad, Tim, proud.
Listen to this.
Over 60 House Democrats lost this cycle.
Your positive rating is independent spent at 8%.
Why are you the best person to lead House Democrats in the current political landscape?
How would your ratings be if $75 million were spent against you?
Because I'm an effective leader, because we got the job done on health care and Wall Street reform and consumer protections.
The list goes on.
Because they know that I'm the person that can attract the resources, both intellectual and otherwise, to take us to victory because I have done it before.
Right.
And so again, you take 9.5% unemployment, burn a dollar bill, $75 million spent against one person, and I'd like to see what your ratings would be.
Well, I'll put my ratings up against yours.
And I've had at least that much spent against me, if not more.
By the time you add up the cumulative, if all the airtime spent bashing me was paid for, Pelosi's $75 million would pale.
But how about, I mean, this is, I'm an effective leader because we got the job done.
They know I'm the person that can attract the resources, intellectual and otherwise, to take us to victory.
When?
Because I've done it before.
Serious delusion.
Larry King Live, Joe Bite Me was the guest.
Pelosi's coming back.
Larry King said this time as minority leader.
She was a lightning rod.
You got to admit that, bite me.
She also is the most effective person in generating results in the House.
The House members decided she was the one that should be either like her or don't like her.
Well, you know, I think that's the case with almost all great leaders.
People either liked Ronald Reagan or didn't like him.
They liked George Bush or didn't.
They liked Bill Clinton or didn't Nancy Rossi is a great leader.
Well, I think she is.
I think she's a very, very effective and competent person.
She gets things done.
I mean, they circle the wagons around their troops.
There's no question they do that.
Because privately, they're all trying to get rid of her.
Privately, they wish she'd take a hike.
Privately, they wish she'd have a wreck going down Lombard Street in San Francisco.
But no, now they got to sing her praises.
She just engineered a shellacking.
She and Obama, folks, it was a wipeout.
And listen to them.
They've got to circle the wagons and they are doing it.
Charlie Wrangell, we move on.
Some of these soundbites are so interesting and funny.
We're airing when they relate to nothing anymore.
We're just going to air.
This is last Thursday during the ethics subcommittee hearing to decide the punishment of Charlie Wrangell.
John Lewis of Georgia spoke, and this is a portion of his remarks.
I must state up front that I don't know the facts in this case.
Stop the tape.
Stop the tape.
Okay, that's it.
That's it.
I must state up front.
I don't know the facts of the case.
Fine.
That's it.
Whatever comes is then irrelevant, correct?
I must state up front that I don't know the facts of the case.
Re-cue that.
Play it from the top.
Here is again.
This is John Lewis of Georgia.
More than 50 years.
No, cue it up to the top.
Cue it up to the top there.
So we get Lewis saying again that he doesn't know what the hell this is all about.
I must state up front that I don't know the facts in this case.
I've known Mr. Wrangel for more than 50 years.
When Nicole went out in 1965 to come to Selma, Alabama, to help people who have been standing in unmovable line, who could not register to vote, he came to Selma and he walked with many of us, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., all the way from Selma, from Montgomery, Alabama, for the right to vote.
He sponsored and passed progressive legislation to end the vicious and evil system in South Africa.
Charlotte Wrangel is a good and decent man.
I know this man.
I think I knew his side.
Okay, so for all of these people throwing around racism charges, who is it trying to divide the nation by race?
Race has nothing to do with the charges against Wrangell, but because he was in Selma, we have to exonerate him.
We got to exonerate him.
Well, now, John Lewis, John Lewis is well known.
John Lewis once said, I was beat upside the head by Bull Connor and the dogs and so forth.
I don't know if Wrangell was beat upside the head.
My fellow Democrats, it should be pointed out that John Lewis beat upside the head by fellow Democrats is correct.
By all means, Bull Connor and all the segregationists in Alabama those days were Democrats.
So he's a good man.
He went to Selma.
He's got a big heart.
He went to Selma.
I don't know the facts of the case, but he went to Selma.
I don't know what he did.
He's got a good heart and he went to Selma.
He walked from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
And then from there, he took a detour with the Dominican Republic and bought some property nobody knew about, didn't pay taxes on it.
I got to stay there a couple times, but I don't care because he went to Selma.
His heart's good because I got to stay in that condo a bunch of times in the Dominican Republic.
Nobody knew I was there, and nobody knows now I was there.
And I hope nobody finds out I was there.
But he's a good man.
He was in Selma.
I got beat upside the head in Selma.
I don't know if Wrangell got beat upside the head, but he didn't get beat upside the head in the Dominican Republic.
He owned property, didn't tell anybody about it.
But he came to Selma.
He's a good man.
Yeah, three rent control apartments in New York, used offices and so forth, was basically living on an income of $500,000 a year when he was being paid $150,000.
One of the notorious check cashers in the House Bank scandal marched in Selma.
He went to Selma.
I don't know what this case is about, but I do know that he went to Selma.
So you ought to leave him alone.
Last Thursday, Wrangell gave his own version of the I'm Not a Crook speech.
I don't know how much longer I have to live, but thank God for what he's given to me.
And I leave the sanction to all of you.
What the press has done to me and my community and my family is just totally unfair.
They will continue to call me a crook and charge me being corrupt.
I apologize for any embarrassment I've caused you individually or collectively as a member of the greatest institution in the country of the world.
Is he crying there?
Sounds like his voice is cracking a little bit.
But he doesn't know how long he has to live.
It really is serious.
These charges are really serious.
I don't know what the press has done to Wrangell's community, but he didn't say, you know, he blew it.
He did not say he went to Selma.
I mean, that's to get out of jail free card, and he did not say he went to Selma.
Here's more from the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
I just hope no matter what you decide in the sanctions that you put in that report, that Charles Wrangell never sought any personal gain.
Never, but never was there an intent to hide anything from my constituents or from the IRS.
Never was there an intent to hide it.
Never was the intent to hide it.
He did.
He blamed his wife for keeping the books.
Look, his constituents wouldn't care, obviously.
But, I mean, Americans, some Americans go to jail or pay huge fines when they evade their taxes.
Ordinary Americans do not get to stand up and talk about, I don't have very long to live.
I went to Selma.
I'm not a crook and corrupt, and I didn't take anybody's anything.
Start crying about it.
Yeah, that's true.
I know a lot of people get three years in jail for this.
But, see, the difference is he went to Selma.
You know, at the height of the march to Selma, there were, I think, 25,000 people.
And in the march, many of the people were celebrities.
Tony Bennett marched at Selma.
Sammy Davis Jr. marched.
I think James Garner marched.
Now, did all of them get a pass on paying their taxes for the rest of their lives?
Because they were at Selma.
And Obama wasn't at Selma.
Somebody think of that.
He was not at Selma.
And he's paying his taxes.
Jim Geithner wasn't in Selma.
Bill Clinton wasn't in Selma.
He was there in spirit.
He was where all those black churches burned that didn't burn.
But Obama was not in Selma.
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Dina in Chicago.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Happy Thanksgiving, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
And I wanted to comment on something you mentioned the first hour.
I'm very nervous.
You don't sound nervous at all.
Thank you.
You talked about the professor from the University of Wisconsin, and he wrote a whole paper on voter stupidity.
Right.
And these are the same voters in the state of Wisconsin that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama.
And they also voted all the Democrats out this election.
So if that is not an indictment on Obama's possibility.
That's a good point.
Something made him stupid between the time they voted for Obama and now.
Correct.
I mean, maybe it's all the liberalism in Wisconsin.
I don't know.
No, the answer is the guy's adult.
The answer is he's a pure partisan.
The answer is a mean-spirited guy who doesn't, he's a scourge on the whole profession of political science.
Correct.
I mean, that's just, you know, it's just a liberal.
He's a liberal disguised as a scientist, a liberal disguised as a professor.
Right.
I wouldn't bet on it because that's a great point.
The same people elected Obama he's now calling stupid.
Correct.
Now, what made him stupid?
By the way, did you see this?
Nearly one in, this is from Reuters last Thursday, nearly one in five Americans had a mental illness in 2009.
Really?
That's right.
More than 45 million Americans, or 20% of American adults, had some form of mental illness.
11 million had a serious illness, according to government researchers.
Young adults between 18 to 25 had the highest level of mental illness at 30%, while those aged 50 and older had the lowest, 13.7%, said a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA.
The rate slightly higher than last year's 19.5% figure reflected increasing depression, especially among the unemployed, which this group is part of the National Institutes of Health.
I last saw that the percentage of Americans admitting to being liberal is 20%.
You think this is a coincidence?
20% of Americans suffer mental illness.
20% of Americans are liberal.
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I'm just sitting here thinking, what if I said I was in Selma?
I mean, who could say I wasn't?
1965, I was 14 years old, just up north, a little bit in Missouri.
I can say I was in Selma.
Imagine how things would change if I said I was in Selma.
Obama, if you have forgotten, back in March of 2007 during the presidential campaign, Obama said that he was the fruit of Selma.
No, no, no, no.
He really did.
He said he was the fruit of Selma.
This is the site of my conception.
I am the fruits of your labor.
I am the offspring of the movement.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
Never been there.
And his father never was there.
His father was a communist in Kenya.
He was, I mean, people asked me whether I've been to Selma before.
Oh, that's the dialect.
That's what Harry Reid calls.
The movement, well, that's how Jesse Jackson says movement.
And that's how Malik Shabbat says movement.
The movement.
And also the fruits of their labor.
He was Selma.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
I don't know why he doesn't talk that way in the White House, but he doesn't.
But his dad was never in Selma.
His dad, nor was his mother in Selma.
George who?
Oh, George Obongo, Mondongo, the guy that lived in the hut.
Oh, no, he wasn't in Selma.
None of the Obama Odongos were in Selma.
They were in Kenya.
No, they weren't even thinking of Selma.
Obama wasn't born for four years after Selma.
No, he was four years old when Selma happened.
Obama was born in 1961.
Selma March was four years.
He could not have been conceived in Selma unless he's lying on the birth certificate.
No, he was not thinking of a woman named Selma.
Look, he says here, listen to this again.
This is March 4th, 2007.
This is Obama claiming to be the fruit of Selma.
This is the site of my conception.
I am the fruits of your labor.
I am the offspring of the movement.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
Well, now, Obama was born in 1961.
The Selma march was four years later.
So he could not have been conceived in Selma unless the information on the birth certificate is inaccurate.
And he was part of the movement.
So the mystery deepens.
But if I were to say I was in Selma, You imagine how things would have been different.
You want me to practice saying I was in Selma?
What would it sound like if I, El Rush Bodo, all of a sudden remember that I was in Selma?
What would it sound like at that very moment where it came to me that I was in Selma and announced that I was there?
Well, you got to say Selma the right way.
Selma.
I was in Selma.
But regardless, I wasn't there.
But imagine if I could claim that I was, who could deny it?
I mean, nobody could prove I wasn't there.
Imagine how life would have been different for me.
Oh, well, things come and go.
Eric, Columbia, South Carolina, nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, it's an honor, mega Rush Baby Dittos.
Thank you, sir.
It's great to speak with you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great.
I heard something this morning I thought you'd get a kick out of.
And it's a perfect example of that entrepreneurism that is still alive here in America.
I heard that now you can get these underpants where if you do do the screening, when the picture shows up on the screen, there's a fig leaf, kind of Adam and Eve style, blocking your genital area.
And I thought that that was hilarious.
And even though it probably will prompt you to get the full frisking after that, but I thought you gave a kick out of that.
Well, it's an underwear with a picture and a fig leaf on it.
Yeah, yeah.
So when I, and I don't know what it's made out of that would cause it to show up on the screen.
I'm not guaranteed.
Those underpants would guarantee you a pat down.
Yeah, exactly.
And I don't know if they make bras for women, but all I heard was they were boxers for like underpants for guys.
So who knows?
Maybe someone female can come up with the bra version.
Well, you're right about one thing, the entrepreneurial spirit.
There are people who are going to try to capitalize financially on this.
There's no question.
You're absolutely right.
Eric, thanks much for the call.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
Well, I don't know, but I guarantee you, if you get one of these things with a fig leaf in your underwear, you're just inviting.
You're just inviting it.
I ain't.
No ways, Tard.
I wasn't Selma.
Would that work?
Would that work if I was to...
Well, it didn't work for Charlie Wrangell.
That's the bottom line.
It didn't work.
It might have kept him from a huge fine.
By the way, speaking of racism, how many, there were 41 African Americans up for election Tuesday, November 2nd.
How many won?
41.
41 ran and 41 were elected.
Democrats, yeah.
No, no.
This is the second quarter in a row where cable subscription is falling.
The number of people subscribing to cable TV is falling.
In the second quarter of this year, 216,000 people stopped subscribing to cable or satellite.
In the third quarter, another 119,000 people jumped onto the cancellation bandwagon.
And this is sending a chill through the television industry.
And a lot of people are trying to figure out why.
Why is this happening?
And of course, there are many theories.
Some say, well, people are finally getting serious about cutting waste from their budgets.
I frankly don't think that's what.
I think it's internet streaming.
I think the fact that you can buy a TV show on iTunes whenever you want to watch it for 99 cents or $1.99 or what have you.
That's what it is.
You can download it and watch it whenever you want, watch it however many times, or you can rent it.
You know, watch it from 24 hours from the time you download it or start watching it, and it puts you in control.
That would be my best guess as to why subscription.
Maybe, well, that was going to be my other.
Because both those channels are on basic cable.
Headline news and CNN are both basic.
I mean, you have to, you sign up and you get that.
And on both those networks, well, take it back, ABC and CNN headline.
ABC, the locals are part of the basic.
You have to get those by law.
And Joy Beho is on both networks.
That could be the reason.
We have to look further into it.
Well, one of my comments is already making the rounds on television.
That was when I said earlier on the program, keep your hands off my teabag, Mr. President.
Fox News already quoting me on that.
Who would think saying such a thing would be controversial?
Keep your hands off my teabag.
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Bruce Romulus, Michigan, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hi.
Hello, Rush and Mega Dittos from the Great Lakes.
It's an honor, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
You bet.
Rush, a big question.
Who, who gave the TSA the power to make all these so-called laws and gave them unlimited authority to make us comply under penalty of prosecution if we don't comply?
Who gave them that right?
I just need to know.
Who gave it to them?
I would assume that it's in the Patriot Act.
Very good.
Just assuming.
Okay.
And if it's not, they've appointed it to themselves to have that power to do so.
Under the threat of terrorism, emergency, suspension of constitutional rights or what have you.
What gives them the not so much the right, but what convinces them they can get away with it is that very few people will object.
That's where they're seeing that they're wrong.
This may be a tipping point.
I don't know.
It keeps effervescing.
This story does not die down.
There are more and more examples of this happening every day.
So we shall see.
Who's next?
Randy in what is this?
Man's Choice, Pennsylvania.
Man's Choice, Pennsylvania?
Where's that?
Man's Choice, Pennsylvania, is in South Central PA and dittos from Man's Choice, Rush.
Yeah, there's a reason behind the name of that town, Man's Choice.
About 200 years ago, a man named Job Mann, M-A-N-N, selected it as his choice for a post office.
Ah.
Kind of interesting.
There it is.
My question today, Rush, is...
Too bad the choice doesn't extend beyond the post office, but you take what you can get.
What were you saying?
My question today is, where are the men of America?
Where are the men who are standing still while somebody searches their privates or their wives' body?
Where are the men?
Where is the father of the girl and the grandfather of the girl?
The 16-year-old, he was taken into a private room and a body cavity searched was done to her.
They are being conditioned to life under the police state.
But, Rush, I'm a man.
You're a man.
How?
Would you allow this to happen to your wife?
I'm not going to stand up.
Well, you know, I'm getting emails.
You bring this up.
I'm routinely getting emails from guys who say they wouldn't put up with it, but I don't see anybody doing anything about it.
And that shocks me.
That just shocks me.
Where are the machos?
it really shock you?
I mean, here you...
I mean, you've got these armed guards.
You've got...
They have unlimited power.
They can throw you in jail at the snap of their fingers.
People know it's a police state.
Does it really shock you?
Absolutely.
That people are dealing with it by going to the media later rather than confronting the agents at the time.
I guess I'm still trusting the fact that America is a free place to live.
And I absolutely am shocked by it, that men, real men, are going to stand by and allow this to happen.
Well, using your definition, there aren't any real men because nobody's stopping it.
I guess you're right.
I hate to admit that, but I guess you're right.
But they're plenty livid about it.
That's tough.
That's a big blanket statement.
Where are the men?
Now, there's no denying that we've been chickified in our culture.
You claim that you would, if it was your kid.
Absolutely.
Regardless of punishment?
Absolutely.
What would you do?
I tell you, Rush, I stand six foot four and weigh 320 pounds.
Okay, so you'd hit them.
What good would that do?
Well, Rush.
You just have a bunch of them descend on you with billy clubs, and they'd put their guns pointed at you.
But how long do we stand by and allow these things to go on?
Surely somewhere we have to take a stand.
Surely, somewhere.
Well, that is the question.
When do we take up arms in this country to save our country from, and I don't consider myself a radical, but when do we take up arms in this country to save ourselves from Obama?
This is just one of the spokes in the wheel of misfortune that's taken over this country, and we see it slowly sinking day after day.
You don't need to go to that.
Just call the ACLU, right?
I'm just kidding.
There's a light in the moment here.
We just took a stand at the ballot box.
We're going to take another one in 2012.
We took a stand over immigration.
I think you're in the middle of one of these popular uprisings.
You're in the middle of it.
And you're seeing it's not armed, but you are seeing it.
And I'm going to go.
I appreciate the call.
Sadly, out of time, the old proverbial hard break here.
I think I finally figured out what TSA stands for.
I've been having trouble remembering it all day long.
I think I got it now.
The T is for tough.
And the A is for America.
You figure out what the S is anyway.
It's, I think I know what's going to happen on Dancing with the Stars tonight.
And it's not going to be pretty tomorrow.
Later tonight, all this gets added up.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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