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Nov. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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From the uh let's see, the UK Daily Mail Online.
Headline, we hate obese passengers and people with personal hygiene issues.
Now abuse TSA staff vent their anger at pat down searches.
So, what we're being told in this story is that the TSA people despise you fatties, despise fat people, those of you who stink, those of you who don't shave, you come in there with BO and they have to pat you down to you, and they hate this.
And so they're getting even with you.
They're venting their anger by putting you through this kind of torment.
So look at what we have here, folks.
Well, here furious security staff today hit back at patent searches in airports across America, claiming that they hated dealing with obese travelers and those with personal hygiene problems.
As millions of people prepared to travel for Thanksgiving.
Passenger backlash was growing against the measures introduced by the TSA.
But after being contacted by a travel blog, 17 security staff came forward to express their disgust at the policy put in place last month.
They said they hated having to carry out body searches.
One claiming it was worse for him than it was the passenger.
Because they stink.
Because they're obese.
Because it just grosses them out.
So this story is looking at this from the point of view of the agents.
And the utter disgust they have to face in doing their jobs.
So you could say in the 60s, the cops were the pigs.
Remember, now the 60s radicals are in charge.
It's the people who are the pigs.
The 60s radicals are now in positions of power.
They thought people in power, the authorities, were pigs.
Now it's us.
You the average Americano.
You are the pigs.
Fascinating.
Fascinating story in the UK Daily Mail Online Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
And the email address El Rushbo at EIBNet.com from CNN.
The developer behind the controversial Islamic Community Center, i.e.
the Ground Zero Mosque.
Plan for Lower Manhattan has requested federal funding through the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to support the project known as Park 51.
The funding would come from money, the Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated to help rebuild the neighborhood after the 9-11 attacks.
The grants would range from between 100,000 to 1 million dollars, according to Julie Menon, chair of the community board won and a member of the LMDC board.
An online report said Parks 51 had requested five million dollars.
But neither the developer nor the LMDC board members would confirm that amount.
So here we are after the election.
And the Ground Zero mosque developer wants 9-11 funds to build his mosque.
We never...
We never ever are able to get away from this.
And here's the Daily Beast version of the story.
So-called Ground Zero Mosque recently applied for a $5 million federal grant from a fund designed to rebuild Lower Manhattan after 9-11.
Developers of the Park 51 Islamic Community Center and Mosque.
Located two blocks from Ground Zero earlier this month, applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan.
The audacious move stands to reignite the members or the Embers, I should say, of a divisive debate that dominated headlines surrounding the ninth anniversary of the attacks this fall, say people vested in the issue.
We are never able to stop this stuff.
Oh, and did you see the royal wedding?
They've picked a date for this thing next April, and it's going to cost 40 million dollars.
40 million dollars for this royal wedding.
No, Diana's wedding didn't cost anywhere near this.
They've not scaled it back from Diana's wedding.
I think if what I'm reading is correct, in inflation adjusted dollars, this is going to be more expensive than Princess Diana's wedding.
But here's the thing.
The Queen canceled this year's Buckingham Palace Christmas party for the staff of Buckingham Palace and all the other palaces, Windsor Castle and Balmoral and all that cancel it because of an austerity program.
And this was the one time a year that the royal family actually mingled with the staff rather than was just served by the staff.
This was the one year that they actually, you know, stood in line with him at the buffet and sat with him at the table now and then and shot the bull.
The Queen cancels that because she didn't think it would look good during these down economic times.
They have big festive parties going on during the holiday season at Buckingham Palace.
And then they announced it at his wedding is going to cost 40 million, and it's going to be paid for the bride's family and Prince Charles.
Oh, speaking of Prince Charles, folks, I have got to tell you, you know, I have a good friend down here in Palm Beach named Ted Bell, and he writes thriller novels.
And his latest is Warlord.
And it stars his, you know, his uh his main character Hawk.
And the main character Hawk is down and out because he'd been dumped by a woman, a woman died, left him, or what have you.
And he's quite he lives in Bermuda.
And he's called back into service in a secret project by Prince Charles.
And that's all I'm going to tell you.
It does revitalize Hawk if you're familiar with Ted Bell's work.
It does revitalize Hawk, is basically on a straight line to nowhere.
Flat line of nowhere in his life because he's all depressed.
But the prince calls him back into service.
Uh and it's you can get an E-version or you get the hardcover copy.
It's both available, but uh Warlord by Ted Bell.
Anyway, $40 million.
They don't say how it's going to be split.
It's going to be paid for by Prince Charles and the bride's family.
Now, Prince Charles has 20 million dollars.
Now you might say, how?
What what?
You know, the Queen of England is one of the richest women in the world.
Five or six billion dollars.
And yeah, and yet, yet she lives off of a budget that is voted every year by the British Parliament.
Saving it, that's what she's doing with the dough.
It passes it on.
Invested carefully and so forth.
I'm sure she's um, you know, bought into green technologies.
Hope she didn't go into ethanol.
You know, Al Gore said it's a mistake now.
Shouldn't have supported corn-based ethanol.
He says it was a mistake.
He now supports uh making fuel that isn't from a food source.
And that's because the price of corn is skyrocketed, and corn is a staple in many of the diets of the poor of the world, including in Mexico.
Where tortillas and fajitas, tacos and stuff is skyrocketed because of the price of corn.
So Gore's admitting the mistake.
No, she is one of the richest women in the world, and therefore he's got he's got 20 million dollars, but much more than that.
He got it just for being born.
That's the lucky sperm club.
I mean, what can you say?
But still, 40 million bucks on the wedding.
I'm all for it.
I just I think they cancel the Christmas party, they're going to have a PR problem.
Uh I don't know if Elton John is going to sing at the wedding, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's there because he he did perform at her funeral.
You know, Elton John was best buds with Princess Diana.
And he did perform.
In fact, Candle in the Wind retired the tune.
Never to be sung again except one time.
Wonder where that was at her funerals.
I'm sure he'll be there.
I'm sure whether he'll be asked to um perform or not, we'll have to wait and see.
Well, I happen to be.
Well, it's April.
Will I happen to be in England at that time?
Well, anything can happen.
Are you are you asking me if if I think I will be invited to this?
Oh no.
No, no.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't be, I wouldn't expect to be invited.
I'm no, no, and I wouldn't try to crash it.
I I wouldn't be surprised if Catherine is consulted in how to pull it off.
But I don't think that I would be invited.
She might be.
I don't think I would.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just today been made aware of something that happened last Friday on a on an obscure radio program on a barely breathing radio network.
It's a program hosted by a Reverend Al Sharpton.
And last Friday, the Reverend L. Sharpton called on the FCC to take my broadcast license away from me.
Part of what I think FCC needs to do is give the guidelines of what is excusable and what is not, what is a permittable or permitted, I should say, and what is not.
Because clearly you're not trying to block free speech.
But I think that for people to engage in programming shows that will use racial or gender bias as their format, we've got a right to say there are standards that FCC can say that you cannot continue to have licenses to do that.
Right.
Uh people who engage in programming shows that'll use racial or gender bias.
Now, this this came on the heels of Sheila Jackson Lee saying she was outraged at uh my vernacular.
And I've even forgotten what were they upset about?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, driving Miss Nancy.
Driving Miss.
Yeah, but Sergeant Schultz, well, that that was ethnic uh vernacular.
That was ethnic vernacularity.
Uh and Sheila Jacks Lee upset about that.
Yeah, driving Miss Nancy.
That's what.
All upset about that.
The Reverend Sharpton, Sharpton.
He said, of course, we're not, we're not talking about trying to block free speech.
Oh, no, we're not.
He just wants the FCC to take my license away.
He then went on to say this.
You gotta remember those stations that Rush Lombard is on and others are regulated by FCC, granted by FCC, they go back to them to get waivers, they go back to them to get consolidation.
They have the right to set standards.
That does not impair your right to speak what you believe, but it does say you are not going to be able to do that to offend groups of Americans based on their race, their gender, their sexual uh status, none of that.
Now, I I uh and I'm trying to be charitable here, but once again we have the best way I can describe this is we have Sheila Jackson Lee.
They okay, you're gonna go on television, you're gonna be asked a question, and just when the red light goes on, just start talking.
Well, whatever comes to your mind, is make sure that racism, discrimination, uh all just whatever comes to your mind, just say it, and when the red light goes off, stop.
That's what you get here.
Uh you gotta remember those stations that Rush Limbaugh is on and others are regulated by FCC, granted by FCC.
They go back to them to get waivers.
Waivers?
No, it's McDonald's Asking for waivers from Obamacare.
Stations don't get waivers for speech or personalities on the radio.
They go back to them to get consolidation.
Now, what he's talking about there is that when a massive corporate entity wants to buy a whole bunch of radio stations owned by a bunch of small mom and pops.
See the left hates that.
It's called consolidation.
They don't like it.
So that's a knee-jerk term.
So you gotta go to the FCC to get consolidation.
See somebody with a rudimentary, just a surface knowledge of what he's talking about here, but knows the words.
So uses the words in ways that only somebody who knows what he's trying to say can interpret.
This is me.
Sharpton, was he in Selma?
I was Sharp and was in Selma.
I I they can't shut me down.
I was in Selma.
In spirit.
Nobody can prove that I wasn't there.
I was in Selma.
So it does say you're not gonna be able to do that to offend groups of Americans based on their race, their gender, and their sexual status.
So uh Al Sharpton calling on the FCC to take my license.
Speaking, and I don't have one.
Now, speaking of the uh of the FCC, this is from the Hill.com.
The Federal Communications Commission has a Christmas gift in store for the phone and cable industry.
It may move ahead on its controversial net neutrality regulations three days before Christmas.
An FCC source confirmed last Friday that the Commission plans to push its December meeting back by a week, meaning it'll fall on the 22nd of the month.
That's the same meeting in which analysts say the agency may move forward on net neutrality.
The FCC has not confirmed it'll vote on net neutrality this year, but rumors are swirling that it will before the new Congress takes over.
The timing of the meeting is already raising eyebrows.
Some see it as a way to move the matter along before the Republicans assume majority, and while Congress is not in session to criticize the effort.
Now, this has already been voted down in Congress.
And it's already it it failed an FCC vote.
Now they're gonna do it again.
And net neutrality, of course, it's not what it claims to be.
It's like so many other liberal things.
It doesn't mean it is gonna be neutral on the net.
Doesn't mean it's not going to be biased on the internet.
What it's going to do is limit the amount of conservatism that you will be able to find on the internet.
That's what its purpose, be it in blogs, via search engines, or what have you.
Edward in Shelby Township, Michigan.
Great to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh good morning, uh Rush.
Uh megadetta to you uh I want to thank you for keeping everyone focused and informed the way you do uh you.
Uh I want to talk to you a second about North Korea and what's going on.
We had uh a couple people at least killed today.
Uh back in March, we had approximately 50 or more uh killed on the ship, the naval ship that was sunk by the North Koreans, and uh yet we have a president who does nothing.
Uh Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, um what would they have done at this point in time?
They would not have let this gone unpunished.
And Benjamin Netanyahu, it's something like this happened to him.
He would have taken immediate punitive damages to these people, let them know what is going on, and they are not going to continue on this way.
How many people is it going to take before we do something?
Two is it fifty, is it a hundred, ten thousand?
When do we act?
Well, I don't think we do act.
Uh we're a superpower, and as such, if we act, it upsets the balance of power and it's just mean.
Uh so that we kind of have to expect this thing, this kind of thing to happen to us, since we are a superpower.
And being a superpower, it's it's going to tie our hands uh uh to respond to an insignificant number of uh deaths like this, which show a lack of sensitivity, a lack of maturity, uh a cowboy uh attitude, something you might see out of George W. Bush.
We'll be very tolerant, we'll condemn it.
Uh, and we'll pursue this through a back channel diplomacy and so forth, but to do something about it would be very unbecoming a superpower.
We we can we just let the South Koreans just go under their fingers if they do this again soon?
Um every so often.
Well, same thing is the same question I raised earlier about Taiwan and and you know, Formosa, what's gonna happen when the when the Chicoms move on them?
And that's gonna happen too.
Look at we're telegraphing that we're not gonna do anything.
President Barack Obama was in Kokomo, Indiana today at his Chrysler transmission plant.
His uh Chrysler factory in Kokomo, Indiana, and he was speaking about the economy and said, among other things, this.
When people have a paycheck, as Joe said, they can go to the store, they're able to spend.
That helps the economy grow.
And so on Main Street in Kokomo, we're seeing a revival with new businesses opening downtown.
So for anybody who says our country's best days are behind us, anybody who would doubt our prospects for the future, anybody who doesn't believe in the Midwest, anybody who doesn't believe in manufacturing, have them come to Kokomo.
He's the only guy that believes all that.
If anybody, if anybody says our country's best days are behind us, he says that.
He says we're not going to lead the world anymore economically.
Uh anybody who would doubt our prospects of the future, he's he's doing that, and we do because he's in charge.
Uh anybody who doesn't believe in manufacturing, let them come to Kokomo.
Well, it's it's his plant.
Obama doesn't believe we ever had any best days.
Every day was a rotten day in this country as far as he's concerned.
But it's his plant.
It's not the private sector there.
It's a government plant.
It's a government factory.
He owns Chrysler.
Whatever.
You know, speaking of the uh the Reverend Sharpton, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, he has a uh the National Action Network is a nonprofit organization.
And it is regulated by the IRS under the Internal Revenue Code.
Now, maybe the IRS should take away his tax-exempt status.
And he says the FCC should take away my free speech rights.
So You know, make sure Sharpton's group is kosher.
No violation of tax laws, fulfilling its mission.
Uh, make sure people are not paid too much.
I'm not saying he did anything wrong, don't misunderstand, but you know, maybe just a routine check by the IRS.
You aren't allowed to use a 501c3 to campaign for candidates, for example.
I wonder, should the IRS check to see if uh, because you know, these organizations like Sharptons are regulated to make sure that they're not offending people.
You know, my I'm not saying he's doing anything wrong.
This is a routine check.
In fact, here in the New York Daily News, there is an exclusive today by Douglas uh Douglas Feydon.
National Action Network's 1.1 million dollar debt doesn't stop Reverend Sharpton's 250,000 salary.
Now, this is the New York Daily News.
The Reverend Al Sharpton paid himself a six-figure salary for the first time last year, even as his civil rights group drowns in red ink, and his tax bill hit nearly one million dollars.
I don't know how you do that.
I the National Action Network owes one point one million dollars in unpaid city, state, and federal payroll taxes as of January first.
Well, you asked me how do you do that?
You do that by not paying your taxes.
Is that what you mean?
Well, no, the question is how do you Get away with it for that long.
You owe that much in tax.
Um, that's a good point.
Ask Charlie Wrangle.
Got away with it for decades.
After back to back years in which he took no compensation from the National Action Network, and the Reverend Sharpton pulled down a quarter of a million dollars last year, according to his organization's federal tax filings.
The uh the payday comes even as his group lists 1.1 million dollars in unpaid city, state, and federal payroll taxes as of January 1st, the group's auditor told the IRS.
So the IRS has been checking into it.
Routine check.
I'm not saying he did anything wrong.
This is the IRS should conduct random checks here.
At the same time, the Reverend has three outstanding warrants, totaling $988,000 in unpaid personal income taxes.
From 2002 to 2007, the State Department of Taxation and Finance says, now I get audited every year by the same bunch of people.
And even when I don't owe any taxes, they claim I do.
Reached in Georgia, Sharpton told the Daily News that he and his organization have been in advanced settlement talks with the state and the feds.
He says that he has worked out a repayment plan, has been paying down his debt in agreed upon installments with a portion of income from his nationally syndicated radio talk show earmarked to pay his personal tax liabilities.
Meanwhile, the National Action Network been negotiating a compromise offer with the IRS since February, and in March, it paid off its debt to the city and state.
The liability will be completely wiped out by the end of 2010 or the first quarter of 2011, Sharpton said, depends on how the negotiations go.
But it will disappear.
Depends on how the negotiations go.
How many, how many how many of you who are in debt are going to retire it based on negotiations?
But I'm told that the Reverend Sharpton was not in Selma.
I don't I thought he was.
But apparently no.
Sharpton uh gives about 70 speeches a year, said the problem was that while he would give his group the speaking fees, the checks were recorded in his name as taxable income.
Now the checks are issued directly to the group, and because he doesn't get paid for the speeches and had no salary for the past two years, the board last year awarded him $250,000 in salary.
Let's see.
Let's uh let's review this.
Sharpton, who gives about 70 speeches a year, said the problem was that while he would give his group the speaking fees, the checks were made out to him personally.
Thus, he owed tax on it, but he didn't pay it because he gave the money to the group.
Now the checks are issued directly to the group, the National Action Network, and because he doesn't get paid for the speeches now, had no salary for the past two years.
The board last year awarded him $250,000 in salary.
How do you um how do you how do you do that?
How do you go two years without a salary?
Celebrities like Mariah Carey and Bill Cosby have headlined National Action Network fundraisers, sponsors at a Lincoln Center Bash earlier this month, included NBC, Macy's, NASCAR, and Walmart.
So the um there you have it.
Uh ladies and gentlemen, now Sharpton's speeches were mostly campaign speeches for Obama.
I guess I I look, I don't know.
I'm not saying he did anything wrong.
I'm just saying that the IRS has apparently looked into this and they found 1.1 million dollars in unpaid state, city, and federal taxes.
And that they're all gonna be paid off here depending on the negotiations.
Depending on how the negotiations go.
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The State Department uh is out with a statement on North Korea's behavior.
They say that North Korea's behavior has been very, very bad.
It's what they say State Department statement on North Korea's behavior has been very bad.
Delta Airlines says that it will consider refunds for passengers who cancel their travel plans because of concern over new airport security measures.
Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said Monday her airline is issuing refunds on a case by case basis for customers worried about the new screening steps at American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith says the company is not changing its ticket policies because it doesn't control the security procedures so at least um we've had a peep from an airline that would be Delta here is Jim in Lidditz Pennsylvania great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello sir you know I was just sitting here thinking before I get to why I called back several years ago when you had your hearing problems and I had so much admiration for you rush when you dealt with that so strongly I guess is a good word and uh good for you guys.
Well thank you very much I appreciate that.
Well sure that must have been very difficult.
And I wish you a lot of happiness by the way in your new marriage.
Thank you.
Years of reasons to smile, huh?
Anyway, I want to talk about the security thing at the airport, but let's just focus on the security angle versus the groping, as you said, and so on and so forth, okay?
Yeah.
This is a question I have for you, my friend.
You're at the airport, and you're going to get on a plane, but in this case, there's two planes.
One on the right, and they're both going to Los Angeles from wherever, and...
the one on the right is has the people are going on that plane have been the new system and the people on the left are going getting on a plane going through the old system.
And my question sir is which plane would you want to get on well what's the old system well you know two weeks ago or three weeks ago when when there wasn't the uh full body x-rays and so on and so forth you know just the old way uh well I'd say what I would do if if if if if if that's the case I'm probably Able to see the people getting on whichever plane.
And what I would I would make my decision based on who I see getting on these airplanes.
Aha.
Well, and by the way, to have a little levity here, the Faddies are all on the one plane.
So maybe maybe I understand why you're where you're coming from.
Well, I know what your point is.
Your point is, hey, look, uh, this is at least guaranteeing that uh the airplanes are safe when you get on them because these people are being totally patted down and screened.
Right.
Right.
Exactly.
They're also ticked off like crazy.
They're also angry as they can be.
Not that they're gonna crash the airplane or anything, but no, I'm my my point is I fully understand what you're asking, but I would I would check to see who is getting on.
That would matter far more to me than these pat downs, because there are certain people aren't being patted down.
Not everybody's going through this.
Have to say.
The real question is what would Juan Williams do?
Uh I I think if I was faced with that dilemma, I'd put a call of Fox News, I'd see if they could send Juilliams to the airport and tell me which one would he be afraid to get on.
And then whichever one he's afraid to get on, that's the one I would not board.
I would use the Juan Williams method.
I appreciate the call out there, Jim.
Tim in Chelsea, Alabama.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Uh retired Army Dittoes.
Thank you very much.
Yes, sir.
Uh the question I've got is if Mr. Pistol and Secretary Napolitano of the uh TSA and the Homeland Defense are so concerned and they're going out and saying, Well, we're doing this because the underwear bomber and other things, why did they wait ten or eleven months before they instituted the new procedures?
The story is that they had to wait because the scanners were not all in.
Well, I mean, if you've got either the scanners or the pat down, and they didn't have the scanners, why didn't they institute the pat down months ago?
Yeah, they started on uh well I I think Janet Napolitano said it's because of homegrown terrorists.
Your your your question's great.
I asked the same question earlier.
What caused this?
Two weeks ago, two years ago, two months ago, this was not happening.
What changed?
You know, what what's the catalyst for it?
I that that's your question, right?
Yes, sir.
The answer is the elections.
Yes, sir.
Uh I I I completely concur, and I think that uh, as you state earlier, this is payback to the American people, and they are instituting their version of a police state.
A lot of people think that.
Yes, sir.
I can understand.
A lot of people think that a lot of people think, a lot of people think, like we got a guy on the phone, a woman on the phone from St. Louis that we're not going to have time to take her call, but I know what she's going to say.
Her theory is that this is just a prelude to the government taking over the airline transportation industry.
Just a prelude for that.
And the only real way we can make this safe is the government running everything.
Nationalize the airlines.
Look at nothing is within or outside the realm of possibility.
Look at what's happened in this country in two years.
And we must go.
Brief time out, sit tight, back after this.
All right, try this theory, folks.
The airlines eventually go bankrupt because of this.
Thanks to these aggressive searches and pat downs, they start hemorrhaging money.
Just like with the auto industry, the government has to go in there and take over.
And run them the right way.
And then magically the screening techniques are relaxed, and the TSA workers are unionized.
And problem solved.
Just remember this December or November 23rd, 2010.
We authored the theory.
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