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March 10, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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So I checked emails during a top of the hour break.
I actually have people think I'm making up the death threat email.
I actually think I am making it up.
By the way, have you heard I don't I don't know if you keep track of this kind of stuff.
You heard about the big news a couple weeks ago that the uh AOL people had purchased or merged whatever uh with uh uh the Huffing and Puffington Post.
And Zha walked out of there with uh what did she get?
Well, I saw I think how many.
She got a hundred and eight million out of I saw a bunch of different numbers, 20 million to 100 million that she got.
Anyway, the big news is the merger is now official, and they have uh laid off 200 people.
20% of the workforce.
20% of the Huffing and Puffington.
Well, what Adam's the uh 20 20 percent.
I forget.
I think I saw the number of hundreds of people have been laid off.
After another few hundred in India.
Right, 20% of its workforce, but 200 people in the country and uh another hundred or so in India.
That I didn't know Huffington Puffington Post had people in India, but AOL.
Oh, that's right.
So AOL lays off, in other words, a handle the purchase.
That's what happened because a lot of AOL or Huffing and Puffington contributors are working for nothing.
But Jah got her hundred on the backs of the poor, and yet what do we always hear?
It's always people like Jah, they're doing what they're doing for the little people.
They're doing it from their hearts because they care.
It's always these evil rich conservative fat cats whose deals result in people losing their jobs.
Hi folks, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
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Great to have you.
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And that, you know, wherever I am, the institute is with me.
As long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
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AOL.
This is in the New York Times, said it would lay off a thousand employees today.
In the wake of its acquisition of the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Now I've got emails from people thinking I made up the death.
I don't understand that.
I really because this is out there.
It's it's all over the place.
It's been published now.
And I read you the highlights of the thing.
And I asked, okay, who's gonna get blamed for this?
Let's say that I mean you've got a very public death threat against a lot of people now.
Let's say something happens.
Who's gonna get blamed?
Remember Gabriel Gifford's, Arizona shooting.
A bunch of us on the right, Sarah Palin, me blamed, and we weren't there, and I didn't even didn't even know the event was going on.
Michael Moore is out there inciting people.
He's fit to be tied, spewing his usual blend of absolute idiocy and nothingness.
And the same thing can be said of the Reverend Jackson, who's calling for recall and revolt.
We got a couple of uh Reverend Jackson sound bites, who's not with Megan Kelly this afternoon on Fox.
She said, I want to ask you for your response to that scene.
We just showed it with a lawmaker saying, let us do our jobs.
This is America.
The Republicans there are growing increasingly frustrated, what they perceive as an inability to just go and vote.
These are not so much angry at demonstrations as they're hurt and desperate.
These workers here who've lost their jobs, the homes are in full closure.
No.
They can't pay student loan debt.
No.
They're fighting back for the most basic of democratic rights.
And so they're going to escalate these protests.
You're either gonna have collective bargain through a vehicle called collective bargain, you're gonna have it through the streets, but people here are gonna fight back because they think their cause is moral and they have no place else to go.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'd like you know, Jesse Jackson is a Ken doll.
There's a there's a there's a there's a little string in his back with a little ring, and you pull it, and out comes standardized answer number one, and you pull it again, here comes standardized answer number two.
We're not talking about people who have lost their jobs.
Quite the contrary.
We're not talking about people who have lost their homes in foreclosure, Reverend Jackson.
Public sector union people have not, for the most part, experienced that precisely because they were the beneficiaries of the stimulus.
800 billion dollars.
700 million of it went to Wisconsin.
Little less than 10% of the stimulus went to Wisconsin.
600 million of the 700, or yeah, 600 million of the 700 million that Wisconsin got went to public sector unions.
So while during the recession, private sector people were losing their jobs and were losing their homes to foreclosure.
The Obama administration saw to it that that would not happen to public sector union people.
And again, folks, it's I hate to be repetitive.
I I sometimes feel like I'm cheating you if if every utterance is not something new that you haven't heard before, but really it's not complicated.
The whole purpose of that stimulus, we were lied to virtually every syllable in sales pitch was a lie.
The purpose of the stimulus was not shovel ready jobs.
It wasn't schools and roads and bridges, it wasn't any of that.
It wasn't to boost private sector employment.
It was strictly a slush fund to make sure that employees who pay union dues would continue to have jobs so that Democrats would get their campaign donations.
That's all it was.
There's nothing more to it than that.
Everything else was a fraud.
Everything else was a hoax.
We were lied to about it.
Explain again, Mr. Lambault, how this works because I simply I think it's outrageous if you make his claim very simple.
Because I think this is important to understand.
One of the first things the regime does when they assume office is care about the recession.
Bush's fault.
Look at what we've inherited.
And I'm not going to put up with it.
I care about the people.
I'm Barack Obama.
I'm going to make sure people get back to work.
The way to do this is to spend and spend.
We got shovel-ready jobs.
We're going to make sure private sector employment grows.
Three to four million jobs.
I need nearly 800 billion dollars.
The Republicans, who are they to say no?
They just got shellacked in the last election.
Everybody is trying to get in on the action.
Obama's the greatest president we've ever had.
He's the first black president, therefore historics, and nobody dares utter a word of criticism about his policies, except for me, L. Rushbo, who at that time was hoping for failure on the part of Obama.
So what happens?
Republicans don't object.
Some did.
I mean, it actually there was some objection to this, but it still passed easily, and everybody celebrated.
And then we came to find out as the months unfolded where the money went.
And it was going to states.
It went to the states ostensibly to make sure that they were able to balance their budgets.
And more importantly, to keep state workers on the payroll because they are union workers.
Now we know that 90% of the collected dues of state public sector union workers go to the Democrat Party.
Well, if you're in a recession and people are losing their jobs, but you don't want to lose your money, you can't just go to Congress and say, you know what, I'm Barack Obama, I'm president.
I want $800 billion here for Democrat campaign war chests.
Even if they would have gotten it, you just don't go get it.
You don't want people to think that's what you're doing.
So you tell people it's for them and their jobs and their roads and bridges in their schools.
Then you find out that all it was was money to make sure the recession did not claim the jobs of public sector union employees.
Pure and simple.
And it's not because the regime so much cares about them personally.
It's because those people, when they work, continually replenish Democrat campaign war chests.
So then a couple of weeks ago we found out where the numbers of Wisconsin were.
700 million dollars of stimulus.
There was 787 billion.
That's a lot.
It's almost a trillion dollars.
A little bit less than 10%.
When there's 50 states, a little bit less than 10% goes to Wisconsin.
It's a battleground state.
Around 700 million.
600 million of the 700 million in stimulus money sent to Wisconsin went to public sector union employees.
Salaries, jobs, raises, uh, pension plans, whatever it was, health care plans.
No roads, no bridges, no private sector jobs, or any of that.
That's why this abject panic.
That's why the left is so upset here.
The gravy train, the money laundering express, if you will.
The apple cart's gonna be upset here.
So when Jesse Jackson shows up with that little string coming out of his back, a little white loop, and you pull it, here comes statement one and statement two.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
This is not about people who lost their homes, just the opposite.
Not about people who have lost their jobs.
He wasn't through, by the way.
People are gonna fight back because they think their cause is moral and they have no place to go.
And then he continued to speak to Meghan Kelly.
These maneuverers inciting more anger and more pain and more fear.
I hope people governed by deliberation and reconciliation and not by ramroding politics.
It's going to create a rebellion.
So nice revolt and recall, you see children leaving school because they feel hurt with the K-12 cut, teacher revolting because they feel their jobs are being lost, home foreclosures, but no place to go.
Too few got too much.
Too many are getting poor, and the middle class is sinking.
People then need a better deal.
And when you take away collective bonding, you take away content.
That's why you can get away with cuts for education, and you can uh try to change the standards for Medicare and K 12 education.
You mustn't resolve this issue with some shared pain.
What?
What did he say?
Too few got too much.
People are getting poor.
The middle class is sinking to people who need a better deal.
Take away collective bargaining and content.
That's how you can get away with cuts in education and try to change the standards for Medicare and K-12 education.
What?
Where does this guy live?
I mean, every time something like this happens anywhere, within hours he's there.
Does he have a unit manager?
Okay, Jesse, hey, there's uh the first flying in Wisconsin.
Uh uh be at the airport here, blah, blah, blah the plane's going here, you get off there, we got a driver to pick you up, and you go down there.
Here's the rhyme for today.
The rhyme for today is revolt and recall.
You know, I'm a logistics guy.
How does this happen?
Who's paying for him to be there?
You know, he's not.
Or could I be wrong about that, Mr. Snerdley?
Could he be paying?
No.
All right, okay, just one.
So that Jesse Jackson uh unleashed.
Oh, geez, I'll bet you I'm gonna catch hell for that in Wisconsin, I was gonna say.
By the way, folks, I was wrong.
I I it's it's even worse than I thought.
Wisconsin spent six hundred and eighty million of the seven hundred and one million they got on the public sector.
Governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat.
They got 71 million, they spent six hundred and eighty million of it, all but twenty-one million of it on the public sector.
Not in the private sector.
Now Jesse Jackson is insane.
The governor of this state all along has been trying to keep from laying off teachers.
The whole point of his budget reform bill was to see to it that teachers and other public sector people did not lose their jobs.
Now you listen to Jesse Jackson, the rest of these people, you think Scott Walker and the Republicans want to come along and fire all of these people and go out and replace them with scabs.
That's not the case.
These literally are insane.
Desperate.
Public employees desperate, they're the wealthiest workers in the state.
The public employees in Wisconsin are the wealthiest workers in Wisconsin.
And Governor Walker was trying to make sure that they didn't get laid off.
Look at folks, the we can't do anything about the media we've got.
We just have to continue to to to battle wits with them and overpower them when we can because they are who they are, and it's their side has been chosen.
They're advocates.
They're not going to change who they are.
So we're that that you just gotta win.
I mean it's just it's just part of the calculus here.
Well, gee, Rosia media not telling the story, you're getting it right.
We all know the Walker wants to keep from having a fan of these, but everybody's saying that Walker was yeah, they are.
They are.
Be be grateful there's an alternative media here to get the truth out.
Uh Nashville, Tennessee.
Catherine, I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you weighed this one of my all-time top ten favorite names.
How are you?
I know it must be.
I am I am okay, but I will tell you I have for years.
I said you've you've been my hero.
I feel so honored.
And I've been having my life, I think, on hold waiting to speak to you.
Let me tell you, I've been an educator for almost 40 years.
I've tried to teach writing to freshmen in college.
I am still trying to do that.
And the overall, they've graduated from public schools.
They're writing at a what used to be a first and second grade level.
Yet they're in quote college.
Now, you are absolutely right.
The teachers are smug, they're arrogant, they're bullies, they've taken their bottles, you know, and their candy, um, and and and just left the scene.
I wish really that i like in Wisconsin and other states, they would fire them and and really bring in, do a Reagan and bring in retired teachers, and this is why.
You know, there was a time in the 70s when technique overcame content as far as you know, now teachers don't have to know anything really to become teachers, and they can't get fired.
So they they they don't have to be accountable, they have untouchable cover from the unions, and it is just I've spent years, I mean decades writing about this, speaking up on a crusade.
I'm probably the only I have a couple PhDs, I'm probably the only really conservative PhD in education, you know, in in the city.
But I will tell you, I am so grateful for everything you say, because I do believe that you got that email about because they're evil, they're mean, they're evil.
These union bosses will do anything.
And years ago I used to speak at educational conferences, and once in a while the good teachers would come up to me and quietly whisper, you're absolutely right.
We do need to be accountable.
We do need to be measured, but we can't do a thing because of the union.
And uh, I mean, the unions are uh it's just insidious.
To me, it's the most insidious union in the United States.
They're the highest paid workers in the United States for hours worked per year and which you you talk about the NES.
The teachers union, yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
But but the public school teachers are are spoiled brats because of that, because they know, as you said, there the other side has no spokesperson except people like you and maybe me, you know, on a local or state basis.
And they won't even let me go before the legislature here in in in Tennessee.
I mean, I've asked over and over, even though we have a governor there that's kind of he's in sympathy with Governor Walker.
I've sent out hundreds of emails to everybody I know urging them to encourage Governor Walker, you know, to send letters.
But I I am telling you, I think finally the people are seeing the true colors of the of the teachers' union, especially.
Uh and I guess I'm especially um angry about that because I am a teacher.
You know, I've been I don't I don't I don't know that it's sp teachers happen to be the focus here in Wisconsin, but it's not just teachers.
No, it's not just teachers.
But there's all kinds of public sector that's right.
Um so forth.
And I I think you know you admit you you you think people are starting to see it.
No question, look who won the election in November.
But I think the behavior of what's going on in Wisconsin, especially with these uh the teachers' union, and and again, the reason I see that.
See, I I was working in corporate America in the 70s and I saw what the unions did to the quality of our products, like our cars.
And and they've done the same thing too.
And I'm not talking about students.
I'm talking about the teachers.
You really don't have to know any content.
And I'm in a position right now in a situation to see the students' papers and to see what the teachers have marked.
The younger teachers have not been taught.
Well, we all I uh I look at we just eighty-two percent of schools are failing in no child left behind.
And head starts about the same.
I appreciate the call, Catherine.
We'll be right back, folks.
From behind the golden EIB microphone.
Rush Limbaugh in the Guess Who?
The Guess Who version 1.0.
Okay.
And uh shaken all over.
One of my all-time favorite tunes, by the way, I must say my uh name Catherine, I gotta uh r that's the all-time top five.
Favorite female names.
Yeah, in fact, it may be the all-time favorite period.
Favorite female name.
Yeah, Catherine, Katie, Kate, yeah, they all kind of uh kind of go together.
Now, I had a lot of people uh and I made mention of this earlier, worried here that we're losing the headline battle out of Wisconsin.
We're losing the headline war on Twitter and Facebook.
Um gee, wouldn't it be great if they were telling the truth about our victory?
This is coming from people on our side.
So we aim to please here at the EIB network.
We have scoured the so-called mainstream media, and we have found somebody who believes that the Democrats might be in trouble the way they are behaving themselves.
And that would be the Huffing and Puffington Post, senior writer Howard Feynman, who appeared on PMS NBC last night with Lawrence O'Donnell, who's already talking about quitting the network.
He is.
He says, I can't see myself doing this more than three years.
You kidding?
Much easier writing fiction.
You know, for the West Wing.
Lawrence O'Donnell said to Howard Feynman, Howard.
The governor's already paid a price in Wisconsin.
Polling is turning against him, but did he just become a possible leading contender for the Republican presidential inauguration was what he said, since this Republican achievement in Wisconsin something that was being cheered strongly by national Republicans.
This story is no longer uh, if it ever was really about Wisconsin.
It's about the power of unions and the Republicans' effort to destroy them.
What they want to do here is to try, number one, to go the people in Wisconsin into overreacting.
The strategy for the Republicans is to portray Barack Obama and his allies as a sort of sixties style bunch of radicals out to upset the American values.
And they're going to try to force the president to come out and defend the workers in Wisconsin.
He's been very quiet.
They want him out there on the front lines.
Yeah, and so does the left.
The left would be happy for a visit from Obama.
The left is wondering where is Obama, by the way?
Where is he on Gitmo?
Where is he on all these promises?
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
Now, here's something also interesting, too.
Mr. Feynman, what they want to do here is uh portray Obama and his allies as a sort of 60s-style bunch of radicals out to upset American values.
No, Obama is portraying himself that way, and his buddies are portraying themselves that way.
What we are doing is reporting that that's what's happening, Howard.
We are not trying to caricature Obama as that.
We are the ones who have the honesty and integrity to tell people who Obama and his cohort, cohorts are.
He is.
He is the 60s.
If you've if you've read up on Obama, Obama wishes he was alive and that he wishes he had been front and center in the 60s.
I mean, that was community organizing as nirvana.
That was agitation like it's never been done before.
By the way, New York Times reporting that Hillary Clinton, this is big news.
Hillary Clinton is going to meet with Libyan protesters.
I don't care where.
What I'm having trouble remembering is the last time anybody in this regime met with anybody from the Tea Party.
We're going to meet with the Libyan protesters, but I don't know that we've ever had this regime meet with anybody from the Tea Party.
Pure and simple.
Here's more Howard Feynman, by the way, because when he when he says that Republicans are trying to goad people into Wisconsin to overreacting, how can you explain to me how can anybody overreact to what they're seeing here?
Somebody want to explain this to me.
How can goad?
We goading anybody.
We're sitting back and watching.
Mr. Feynman, you know I love you, Howard.
You know, I we're sitting here watching you try your best, not you personally, cover this up.
Or to somehow write about these riots as though they're justified.
And we know full well if it was a Tea Party doing this, you'd be demanding that the German Jeopards and the dogs in the mace.
But since it's your precious union guys out doing this, why there's solidarity within the ranks.
We're not goading people here.
Overreacting?
You you can't overreact.
Howard, have you read the death threat email?
Oh, come on, you know that's just part of politics.
Death threats in it really.
Oh, yeah, right.
Just part of politics to blame people who had nothing to do with it.
Gabriel Giffords get shot.
Okay, so now you've got you've got Jesse Jackson who is really in need of help.
If the Democrats really cared about Jesse Jackson, they would stop this until they found out what's wrong.
And you know, Michael Moore out there, and they guys are calling for full-throated revolution, which is fine and dandy.
I don't know about revolution, but combined with death threats, if something happens here, who's going to get blamed?
There's certainly Howard, all pretenses, civility is kind of going up in smoke here.
And our wonderful president gave that wonderful speech, one of the best ever, we were told from Arizona.
We've got to get past these things.
We must live, and our politics must be what she dreamed it would be.
I don't know how many people dream of politics of death threats.
But we got it happening here right in front of our very eyes, and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of concern about this.
Republicans are being threatened, Peter King being threatened for having hearings on domestic terrorism in the House of Representatives.
We got a mob at the Wisconsin Assembly trying to shut down a Democratic government.
Nobody gives a damn.
Well, we're having a discussion here about how the Republicans are trying to goad.
People into an overreaction.
Here's uh here's how Mr. Feynman concluded his remarks.
They're in a college town of Madison, Wisconsin, where they want the students in the unions and the Democrats to take the bait of this provocation and overreact in a way that will sell poorly in swing states in 2012.
Now the Democrats are the ones who have to be the grown-ups because the Republicans have been the ones to issue the provocation.
This is very serious stakes having everything to do the 2012 election.
Wow, so what Howard Feynman is saying I is that the Republicans are targeting Obama's unions in Wisconsin and trying to cause these riots.
The Republicans are trying to inspire these riots so it will help them win the election in 2012.
Democrats gotta be very, very careful not to be manipulated into rioting here.
This is what he seems to be saying.
Democrats are gonna have to be the grown-ups here and stop with the Molotov cocktails and the defacing of the Capitol and the threats and all this, they're gonna have to be the grown-ups here.
It's it's a parallel universe.
Who's doing the provoking here?
Unless the democratic process is a provocation.
There was nothing illegal or unconstitutional about the way they passed this legislation last night.
You got a mob shutting down a state capitol for three weeks is not overreacting.
That's the adults?
You got...
What were these Democrats hiding out in Illinois?
What would they be?
Now I let's see.
Do we have uh we can do here?
I've got, you know, these Michael Moore comments.
I've got I've got one Michael Moore soundbite here.
Let me see what says uh he's calling for riots here on MSNBC.
Let's go and play this.
Because some people who uh heard this say this, he's out there saying this is a real war.
And Michael, Michael Moore saying it's a it's a real war.
And some people think that what Moore says is really chilling.
I have trouble taking the guy seriously.
I have I know Fahrenheit 911, and um I know the well, none of his other movies did that well.
But I maybe I'm wrong.
Is he that big a figure in the Democrat Party?
Is he this is he godlike to these people?
Is he really?
The anti-war crime, he is okay.
Well, there's no explaining taste.
But here's what he said he's on last night with uh with uh Rachel Maddow and the uh they were talking here about I guess Michael Moore didn't get the Feynman memo because he's calling here for Wisconsin riots.
Anybody who lives within driving distance of uh Madison, Wisconsin right now uh should make their way to the Capitol.
Thousands of people there right now in that Capitol building, in that rotunda, out on the lawn, whatever it takes.
This is war.
This is a class war.
Students in Madison, Wisconsin are calling for not only in Wisconsin, but a nationwide student walkout of high schoolers.
There's gonna be a massive student walkout Friday afternoon.
This has to continue day after day after day, and these governors have are gonna have to step down, they're gonna be recalled, they're gonna be impeached.
He goes on to talk about how the rich have all the money and they're not giving it back, and And uh it's the typical in insane stuff.
Insane rants.
But anyway, that's that.
A lot of people taking that seriously.
A lot of people think that's chilling.
I have a tough time associating chilling with Michael Moore, but I go different directions when talking about reactions to Michael Moore.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
I want to make a little comparison here, folks, for those of you who continue to feel frustration over the fact that we're losing the headline, which I I reject anyway.
But there are people on our side who are boohooing the fact that we're losing the Twitter headline more in this Wisconsin business.
Look, if you want some things to fire back with.
How about how about this?
Why don't high schoolers go protest against their teachers and principals?
How about we taxpayers take over the schools and universities?
Would they like that?
We pay them.
Why don't we try some of their tactics?
They're talking about how rotten we are.
If we were like the left, you know where we we would right now, we'd be organizing 50,000 people to go to Richard Trumpka's house.
And march and chant and yell.
Anybody doubt our ability to we get 50,000?
If I wanted 50,000 people to meet me at Trumpka's house, you think I could pull it off?
Well, that's what they do.
They have all these people showing up at the homes of AIG execs and wherever in Washington, D.C., if we were really like them, that's what we would be doing.
How about how about this?
How about we treat MSNBC and Howard Feynman like the unions and our government treat Fox News?
And have thousands of people surround their reporters, block their cameras, manhandle their reporters.
How about if we did that?
How about if we show up and we start physically assaulting MSNBC reporters?
Like they're doing the Fox reporters.
That's not who we are.
It is who they are.
We don't want to be, but if we wanted to, we could do it.
It's just that's not who we are.
If we did all of those things, we'd be just like these thugs, wouldn't we?
And there is no doubt we have the people power to do them.
There are more taxpayers than union members and liberal reporters, after all.
But we don't do this, do we?
The Reverend Jackson calling for revolution, more calling for revolution, Feynman accuses the people of fomenting revolution.
I don't think it'd be very pretty if there were one because they would lose it.
They're already outnumbered.
The people are fed up with all these losers.
People are fed up with the cheaters, people are fed up with the people who are not telling the truth about these things.
They better be careful what they wish for.
And you don't hear me talking like this, folks.
But if they're gonna start talking about revolution, they better be very, very careful what they wish for.
Because they are outnumbered.
No question about it.
You know, these guys that keep calling for civil war and revolution, Jesse Jackson, Michael Moore, they better remember all they've got's fire hoses.
They can't compete with us.
They're fire hoses, not gonna intimidate us.
By the way, according to reports, the Wisconsin Assembly has met.
They are now voting.
The roll call is underway on making this official.
God bless and protect these courage, uh, courageous people that are engaged here.
This is, folks, we live it, but it is a great and historic day, and let's hope that it is the first of many similar days yet to come.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
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