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January 6, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And two more frauds have been uncovered, ladies and gentlemen, both along the lines of the global warming fraud and hulkes.
How many of you have been persuaded to believe that vaccines have caused autism?
You believe it?
It's all a fraud.
It's all a lie.
Study tying vaccine to autism was fraud.
Report says Andrew Wakefield, colleagues, altered facts about patients in their research.
Analysis shows.
This is uh it's not some kooky blog that you've never heard of.
It's AP, it's PMSNBC first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.
The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew, and by the way, there's the same people that write your political news every day.
These are the same people that tell you what's going on with spending and the Obamacare repeal raising the deficit and all this rot gut.
This pretty much typifies 90% of the crap that's in the media these days.
The conclusions of particular science Center for Science in the Public Interest and all the death and destruction that's gonna come if you eat pork fried rice, for example.
The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues were renounced by ten of its thirteen authors, and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published.
Still the suggestion that the MMR shot was connected to autism, spooked parents worldwide, and immunization rates for measles, mumps, rubella have never fully recovered.
Can I can I say Rachel Carson?
How about banning DDT and the jumping malaria all over the world?
Another hoax, another fraud brought to you by nanny state liberals.
The analysis of all this by British journalist Brian Deer found that despite the claim in uh in Andrew Wakefield's paper that the twelve children he studied, twelve children led to a worldwide belief in a fraud.
Twelve children studied were normal till they had the MMR shot.
Despite that claim, five had previously documented developmental problems.
Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records on the children's parents.
It's an elaborate fraud.
And there's a second one to tell you about today, the great garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, not so great.
Claim scientists, environmental scientists have been criticized for exaggerating the size of an island of plastic waste said to be swirling around in the Pacific after a study finds it is 200 times smaller than claimed.
So the four corners of deceit, science, medicine, politics, journalism, news, you name it, continue unabated.
They are eventually uncovered, but look at the damage they cause.
Hiya, folks, how are you?
L Rushbaugh and the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to have you with us.
So John Boehner did his first press conference today.
It was like an interrogation.
It was like he was a suspect.
In every lie and misrepresentation that you find about the new Congress in the New York Times and the Associated Press served as subject matter for questions for Boehner.
And by the way, the latest, the latest uh mantra here, the latest narrative, the uh latest template, uh, ladies and gentlemen, on the on the repeal of health care is that why waste time with this?
Even if you do manage to have it passed in the Senate, everybody knows that Obama is gonna veto it.
Why waste your time?
Why waste all this precious time when you could be focusing on jobs?
I mean, that is a bile-inducing narrative, as far as I'm concerned.
Focusing on jobs, Obama has promised at four Or five different times?
Look at the time he's wasting.
Actually, he's not wasting time, he's succeeding in his path and swath of destruction.
Why didn't anybody complain about all the wasted time while they put this piece of garbage health care together?
How come nobody mentioned when Congress was passing all this nonsense and they ram through during a lame duck session?
What about all the time wasted there?
Or how come nobody ever asked this at any point over the last four years when the Democrats had complete control of both houses of Congress for the last four years?
Now all of a sudden, the media and the rest of the Democrats are terribly worried about the debt and jobs and wasted.
Oh, it's just this is just truly hilarious.
Forget for a moment that the reason all of these new electees, all these new members of Congress are there, is primarily to do two things.
Cut spending, roll it back, and repeal health care.
That's why they're there.
It is not a waste of time to the people who elected them.
Waste of time.
Obama's gonna veto.
Let me tell you, the objective here, after he vetoes it, you send it up to him again the next month, and you make him veto it again.
And then you keep debating it and you send another bill up, and you keep making him veto it, and you keep making these people defend this horrible rotten piece of legislation.
This is not a show thing.
This is not one time.
This is an overall effort to get rid of this.
Now they're reading the by the way, welcome Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, and the uh email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Oh, by the way, by the way, uh, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, rather than starting an audio soundbite number three, I want you to grab number 33.
We must go back to yesterday's program to illustrate, ladies and gentlemen, the power, the sheer power of this program.
Yesterday we played an audio soundbite by a well-known activist disguised as a professor.
Cornell West at Princeton University.
He's upset with his dear brother Barack Obama.
Two years later, we have missed the opportunity.
Unfortunately, we didn't get the kind of leadership that we should.
The president didn't have enough backbone, he became too milktoise, he would not fight big business, would not fight the big banks.
He actually surcame too easily to big business and big banks.
And of course, the obstructionism on the right was helping push him to the center.
And now, that's enough of it.
The word that he used in there, if you were listening to us, I in the um waning moments of yesterday's program was the use of the word circame.
We'd never heard of the word circame, but we didn't want to be hasty here in our accusations that a distinguished professor at a distinguished institution of higher learning had made up a word.
So I instructed staff here to uncover every possible dictionary available on the web.
Find for me the word Sir Came.
We knew what he meant.
Succumbed.
I first instructed the staff to go to the urban dictionary, and staff did.
They didn't find the word, but the word circum was found.
It's basically the same thing as succumb, but instead it's a slang word used frequently in internet chat rooms.
It is usually used for someone who must give in to the circumstances, usually used to describe something that gave way to death or illness, as in she circum to cancer.
While we were discussing this, there was no listing for the word circame.
And any dictionary you could find on the internet, including the urban dictionary.
However, there now is an entry for the word Sir Came in the urban dictionary.
It was entered yesterday.
It was not a listing in that dictionary while we were discussing it.
So as a result of this program And its usage by distinguished professor of political science, Cornell West.
The word circame has now been listed in the urban dictionary.
Past tense of succumb was overcome by, was defeated by, or gave in.
President came to the White House with a lot of good intentions to help a little guy to make things fair, but he circame to the wishes of big business and the political pressures.
It sounds like Cornell West actually entered the word on the urban dictionary listing himself.
After having the word used on this program, and we were very studious in this, and we were very cautious.
We're very much aware that words are created out there all the time.
And uh rather than make the blanket accusation that a distinguished press uh professor at an institution of higher learning had no idea what he was talking about.
Or we're simply making up words out of whole caught or had misspoken.
We were restrained.
Uh a researcher is telling me now he's still not finding Sir Came in the Urban Dictionary.
However, the uh broadcast engineer has found Sir Came.
WWW dot urbandictionary.com slash define dot php question term equals Sir Came is the link.
It was there.
Maybe it's since been removed.
Whatever.
In the last ten minutes, if it because it was there before the program started, and I'm maybe maybe it's uh been removed.
Sir Cum was in there, sir came.
So we start.
We've got two giant frauds, autism and the great plastic patch out in the Pacific.
We've got the Democrats and the Republicans reading the Constitution on the floor of the House.
Grab audio subway number three.
This is the son of the Reverend Jackson.
Uh all right, yeah, you just found it.
Uh, and it was uh it was posted by T. Pro, whoever or whatever that is, January 5th, which was of course yesterday.
So Sir Came is now in the urban dictionary.
Here is the son of the Reverend Jackson, uh Jesse Jackson Jr.
Uh, regarding the fetishists uh reading the Constitution.
This is very emotional for I know a number of members, given the struggle of African Americans, given the struggle of women, given the struggle of others to create a more perfect document, while not perfect, a more perfect document to hear that those elements of the Constitution that have been deacted by amendment are no less serious to improve the country and to make the country better,
and our sense in our struggle in whom we are at the Congress of the United States at this point in American history, and our desire to continue to improve the Constitution.
Many of us don't want that to be lost upon the reading of our sacred document.
Right.
So let's he wants the unamended version to highlight the original sin of slavery.
He does not, which it did not, by the way, he does not want the amended version which got rid of it.
Read.
Reverend Jackson's son down for the struggle, making it sound as though it might be too emotionally difficult for members of the congressional black caucus to actually sit there and listen to the Constitution.
Because how emotional struggle for African Americans and women and so forth has been.
By the way, uh the autism hoax, there's a new one lined up to replace this one that's been exposed.
Uh this is from CBS News.
Autism air pollution may be to blame, study suggests.
So if you're just joining me now, folks, there's a the it's just been revealed as a hoax.
A study tying vaccine to autism is a fraud.
Not somebody thinks it is, it's been exposed to total fraud.
And so now the uh the fraud community has a backup, air pollution.
Uh may be to blame for autism now.
So, I mean, you knock down one fraud and they just got another one waiting behind that one to pop up, kind of like at the carnival when you're at the duck show shooting those things and they pop up.
That's the fraud community, and they're out there, and their home is uh is on the left.
You know, I'm thinking about the Democrats.
I was watching a little bit of the Constitution being read today to floor of the House, and I thought, this has got to be like waterboarding to these Democrats.
It's gotta be, it has to be torture because the Constitution is an ephemer to them.
The Constitution limits the power to government, limits the size, limits the role of government.
And they have to not only sit there and listen to it, but to share in the punishment of reading.
And I'm sure that's how they're looking at, they wouldn't have to do this if they'd won the election.
Say laws and they're being punished after read the Constitution tantamount to waterboarding.
Brief time out, just getting started.
How many of you uh like uh I do remember the government's ban on saccharine back in the 70s?
Well, I know some of you are not old enough to remember that, but saccharin was found to be a very powerful carcinogen.
And so it was you couldn't get tab.
Tab was taken off the while.
You couldn't get the tablets of saccharine, you couldn't get the squirt saccharine, you couldn't get it.
The only place you could get it was in Canada.
And you know how they found out it caused cancer?
They took the equivalent of a case of saccharine sweetened soda, a case, and then assumed that that quantity would be consumed in like two cases a day for a year, and injected that amount into rats.
And the rats got bladder cancer.
They would have gotten bladder cancer if they would have injected them with that much water.
Well, guess what?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. government last month removed saccharin, long believed to be a potential cancer-causing substance found in diet drinks and chewing gum, they removed it from its list of hazardous substances.
It had been added to the list in 1981 after having all this controversy happened during the 70s.
So for basically for 30 years, a totally safe product was taken off the market because of bogus testing.
The reasons, who knows why?
I mean, you probably had some sugar replacement competitors that bought off the FDA.
Whoever would do the banning.
But my point is that nothing's real.
All of this stuff, all this nanny stuff is gonna kill us.
It's all just a crock from DDT.
To this phony fraudulent autism, the global warming, to as countless other environmental and food-related frauds.
And by the way, uh for the son of the Reverend Daxon, uh Jesse Jackson Jr., this is important.
I wonder how many people today realize that it was the slave states in the days of our founding who wanted to count slaves for representation and distribution of taxes.
It was the abolitionists, in other words, the Democrats of the day during the founding, who didn't want slaves counted at all for representation.
The three-fifths of a person calculation was a grudging compromise from both sides.
And isn't compromise always supposed to be wonderful?
After all, women were being counted back then and like slaves, they couldn't vote either.
So it was the slave states that wanted to count the slaves as citizens, human beings.
And it was the white abolitionists of the day, Democrats of the day who didn't.
So compromise gave us the three-fifths notion.
How many people died from obesity because they were unable to get sacharin back in the day?
This is a question.
Just asking the question.
By the way, I don't Know if you um if you were watching when this happened.
Drudge has it up there.
During the reading, during the reading of the Constitution, when they got to the part of the Constitution about presidential qualifications, and the president needing to be a citizen needing to be born in the United States, a protester somehow, who had found his or her way, her way, I guess, into the uh gallery, said, Accept Obama, accept Obama, and they escorted her out.
Who was it while I was gone?
Somebody, oh, it was Neil Abercrombie, the uh governor of Hawaii.
Said he was there when that child was born.
He was in the manger.
Abercrombie was, and he wants Obama to release the birth certificate just to end all this.
He doesn't know why Obama won't.
Neil Abercrombie, the former member of Congress, now the governor of the state of Hawaii back after this.
I love the timing of this story from our good friends at the state-controlled associated press.
The number of poor people in America is millions higher than previously known.
One in six Americans, many of them 65 and older, struggling in poverty.
Of course, it's gonna be made worse by reading the Constitution and the Florida House wasting a bunch of time instead of dealing with poverty, all this due to rising medical care and other costs, according to preliminary census figures released today.
Just in time for John Boehner to get the gavel and Republicans to take over the House.
Guess what?
The number of poor people in America severely undercounted.
Under a new revised census formula, overall poverty in 2009 stood at 15.7% or 47.8 million people.
That's compared to the official 2009 rate of 14.3% or 43.6 million.
That was reported by the Census Bureau last September.
Well, you have to love this.
You just have to love the and not that I expect you to care, but there's a new White House chief of staff, Bill Daly.
And of course, that's all the meeting.
The media, I mean, their tongues are on the floor in uh in Washington, panting breathlessly.
Bill Daly!
New chief of staff, oh boy, Bill Daly, Bill Deff.
Who cares?
He's a leftist windbag.
It doesn't matter who the chief of staff is.
Obama only has people who work around him who think he's God.
So what does it matter who they are?
Gibbs is gone.
White House spokesman of Obama.
Do you hear what he said yesterday about this?
He terribly underpaid.
With all the hours that he had spent every day, week, month, year, and all the hard work, 172,000 is terribly underpaid.
Uh understandable why he would leave and try to cash in or cash out.
Underpaid at 172,000.
Well, guess what the average annual salary including benefits for stage hands at Lincoln Center in Carnegie Hall in New York is.
Take a guess.
Literally, take it.
The average for staging.
You must let's say what a stage hand does.
Stage hand moves the props around, takes the chairs, moves them around, puts up the music stands.
That's what a stage hand does.
Stagehand is not a performer.
In New York at Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center, very number of different uh performing halls at Lincoln Center, 292,000 a year is the average salary.
It is a union salary.
That's a union job.
Now, all of you, all of you parents out there who have children who are showing artistic talents, prodigies in the musical arts, throw it out.
Send them to New York and have them become stagehands.
That way they get to spend all day.
Well, I don't know how many days, how many hours a day they work, but it's been all that time At Carnegie Hall.
Lincoln Center.
292 grand is the average.
And this was the result of the stage hands threatening to go out on strike not long ago.
And if you go talk to a musician and ask them, and the musicians don't make anywhere near this, the performers, if you go ask them about it, you won't find one critic.
The stage hands don't show up, nobody can work.
$290,000 a year for stage hands.
What do you got against stage hands with her limit?
No, I got nothing against stage hands.
Everybody needs to do something.
I just 292,000 dollars a year.
There's a separate stage hand, by the way, that does nothing but raise and lower the curtain.
One button.
I kid you not.
One stage hand lowers the curtain.
It's a button.
Average salary.
$292,000 a year.
Speaking of Bill Daly, where's the outcry?
Bill Daly's coming from.
Wall Street specifically.
Bill Daly, the brother of William Daly, the mayor of Chicago for not long.
Rama Manuel who doesn't live there is going to be mayor anyway.
Bill Daly comes from Morgan Chase.
JC Morgan Chase, the bank, been there for the uh last few years.
Don't forget Rom Emanuel made $17 million in three years as a banker before he went after the big money and is running for Blogoyovich's seat.
But still, where's the uh where's the outrage?
J.P. Morgan Chase, number six on Obama's list of top contributors in 2008.
Um a mere almost 700,000.
JP Morgan Chase donated to his campaign.
That'd be fair.
You have to admit that you get what you pay for with Obama in some cases.
Bill Daly, new chief of staff.
Um it's just it's it's it's huge it's fascinating.
By the way, have you how about this homeless guy with the malefluous voice?
Have you heard about this homeless guy?
This guy is a dead ringer for Geraldo.
They finally did some research.
This guy's got a rap sheet that's that's uh longer than his hair.
Oh, wait, he cut his hair, but he still looks like Geraldo.
He does have apparently a fabulous voice.
And uh, quite naturally, a bunch of broadcast outlets beat tracks to this guy trying to hire him to do stuff for him.
But he, I mean, looking at him right now, he could be when you know Geraldo gets assigned to the next hurricane or wherever they send him.
Uh this look at him.
It's a it could sit in.
I mean substitute for Rob for what Ronaldo works a Saturday night show on Fox.
Here's here's audio of the protester in the House as they are reading the Constitution and they get to the portion on qualifications to be president.
No person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to be the office of president.
Neither shall the chair would remind persons in the gallery.
The chair would remind all persons in the gallery that they're here as guests of the House, and that any manifestation of approval or disapproval of the proceedings is a violation of the rules of the House.
The chair notes a disturbance in the gallery in contravention of the law and rules of the House.
The sergeant at arms will remove those persons responsible for the disturbance and restore order in the gallery.
It sounds like the old code pink days when they got into these various Senate committee hearings on the war in uh in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm I'm uh I'm seeing that the left is not particularly happy with uh daily as the chief of staff pick, although I don't know why yet, I'll have to investigate at the break.
This is according to uh to political.
A couple sound bites in Baehner in his press conference today.
He led off reading his portion of the Constitution, and he and Eric Cantor Went back there for a press conference.
That was an Inquisition.
I mean, I it is what it is, but I just I don't recall the press ever treating Pelosi the way I saw Boehner treated today, just an observation.
Dana Bash, CNN, you promised an open process.
But you're taking health care repeal to the floor without committee hearings or Democrat amendments.
You promised a hundred billion dollars in spending cuts, at least the first year, but now we're being told it'll be less.
Democrats are saying there's hypocrisy going on here.
It's Tea Party activists.
They're saying Republicans are already backtracking under promises.
What do you say?
We made clear in the pledge that we want to go back to 2008 spending levels.
And if we had been able to move on September 24th, we would have been able to go back to 2008 spending levels.
But we're halfway through the year.
I will say this.
We will meet our commitment to the pledge in this calendar year.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
By the way, if somebody explained to me, I know I'm just a kid from Missouri.
I don't understand all the intricate workings of our August legislative bodies.
Somebody tell me why you need to add amendments to something you're getting rid of.
Uh we have audio sub Barney Frank.
We've got another audio semibites here of Democrats upset that they're not being allowed to offer amendments to the repeal Obamacare bill.
Now this is why I could never work there.
I wouldn't last a day.
As a resident of Littoralville, one consumed with common sense and logic.
I could not keep a straight face.
I could not observe proper decorum when faced with that allegation.
Okay.
Because I don't know why in the world you need to offer or have amendments to something that you're trying to eliminate.
You want to add some earmarks?
You want to add some new spending to the...
Repeal Obamacare.
What's it?
It it can be three sentences.
We are getting rid of this sucker.
Or however it structured.
The next reporter, unidentified.
You get the votes in the House to repeal health care.
But in the Senate, it's pretty clear that you don't.
In fact, the Senate doesn't even have to take up the bill.
Obama could veto it, even if somehow you could muster the votes.
What's the point?
What's the point, Baylor, in going through all this?
We made a commitment to the American people.
We're listening to the American people.
They want this bill repealed.
And we are going to repeal it.
And we're going to do everything we can over the course of uh however long it takes to stop this because it will ruin the best health care system in the world.
It'll bankrupt our nation and it will ruin our economy.
I do not believe that repealing the job-killing health care law will increase the deficit.
CBO's entitled uh to their opinion.
I don't think anybody in this town believes uh that repealing Obamacare is going to increase the deficit.
This came up later in the uh uh interview, too, because the reporter went back to it.
What do you mean?
The CBO says that it will increase the deficit.
Who are you to disagree with the CBO, the nonpartisan CBO?
Who are you, Boehner?
And he said, Well, you want some details, just double counting in this.
The CBO can only score what they are given, and everybody knows that the assumptions they were given were not right, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Well, they're on the war path uh out there.
By the way, um, the repeal, Eric Canner wrote it's a page long, it's all of his.
And this is an up or down vote.
Repealing Obamacare is up and down.
Uh there's no point.
There's no sense in having amendments to this.
Now, they there will be a replacement bill.
If I understand these guys, they are offering a bill with common sense uh reforms and what have you.
That will be presented next week, and that will allow the proposal of amendments.
All right, another obscene profit timeout, L. Rushbull back after this.
Hi, welcome back.
I'm Rush Limbaugh, and as usual, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Congress has broken windows, a great, great, great column budgeting, and uh What really the new arrivals in Congress are up against.
It's Daniel Hanniger in the Wall Street Journal.
That and some companion stories that illustrate it coming up at the next hour here is Donna in Middletown, Maryland, as we start on the phones.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Ross.
Thanks so much for taking my call.
You bet.
I really enjoyed your show yesterday, especially uh debate about the Constitution.
And uh and I agree with you on that point.
We've got an uphill battle ahead of us.
Um what intrigued me that you said earlier was the bit about uh Carnegie and the stage hands.
And I think of the oh gosh, nearly 30 years of, you know, plogging away at the guitar in the in the music industry uh in various parts of the country, and uh, you know, I mean, comparatively speaking to them, you know, definitely the starving musicians club, and I think it's an outrage.
And uh, you know, here I'm thinking about sending my son off to uh a good conservative college down the road, and he's extremely gifted in musical uh talent.
And I'm thinking to myself, gee, I might as well send him back to New York to Carnegie.
Make a good living.
He could support his parents.
No, I'm only kidding.
Right, and you don't even need the spend the money or the time in college to get the gig.
Yeah, it's a joke.
It's honestly a joke.
I mean, I don't know about you, but you know, looking back, I'm very glad that that you know, we pounded the pavement all these years, and uh, and I'm gonna continue to do so, and there's nothing wrong with it, and I don't expect any handouts.
Well, this is this is uh it's an interesting story.
Uh I found it.
It's it's uh columnist James Heron in the Bergen Record, New Jersey.
And here's here are the numbers.
At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stage hand salary and benefits package, $290,000 a year.
That's the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians' chairs into place and hang lights.
That's not the pay of the top five.
Across the plaza at the Metropolitan Opera.
A spokesman said stage hands rarely broke into the top five category, but a couple of years ago one did.
The props master at the Met, James Blumenfeld, got $334,000 at that time, including some back vacation pay.
The top paid stage hand at Carnegie Hall, $422,000.
Well, $422,599 a year in salary, plus another $107,445 in benefits and deferred compensation.
So the top paid stagehand at Carnegie Hall, well over half a million dollars a year.
And of course, it is a union.
How to account for all this?
Power of a union, local one of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Power is in the capacity and willingness to close most Broadway theaters for 19 days.
Two years ago, when agreement on a new contract could not be reached.
And uh they went out, they found uh uh a violinist, Kelly Hall Tompkins.
They asked her, Well, what do you think about all the money the stage hands are making?
She said, Well, last thing I want to do is upset the people at Carnegie Hall.
I'd like to have a life lifelong relationship with them.
She's a violinist, recently presented a recital in Wildhall.
That's one of the smaller performance spaces in the building.
She said that she begrudged the stage hands nothing.
Musicians should be so lucky to have a strong union like that.
Yeah.
That's what's that's exactly watch out for the sandbag.
I mean, if if if you tick off the stage hands and you have to be sitting there playing the violin, and one of those sandbags is dropped from the top, squishing your neck and compressing your uh spine, and you'll never know what happened.
And these kind of accidents happen all the time.
I saw it in murder, she wrote every other week.
By the way, don't get any ideas of sending your kids off to New York to become members of uh local one of the uh stage hands union.
I forget the name of the union, don't have it right in front of me here, but you have to be born into it.
You literally it it here it is.
It's the uh what is it uh to hang on here a second, folks.
I'll find the Dia International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
It is the most closed of all the unions, I'm told, that you um only get a job if you're related to somebody in the union.
Gotta be born into it, local one.
Closed shop, as they say.
All right, a brief timeout here again at the top for uh local news, weather traffic, dead bird reports, and what have you.
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