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May 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 5, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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There is a story today in a UK newspaper, The Express.
Actually, the story apparently is in Vanity Fair.
And since we're talking of a 9-11, this story is relevant.
And I read this today, and I just can't believe this.
Let me just read this to you.
Elizabeth Taylor, on 9-12, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Marlon Brando got in a car and drove from New York to New Jersey to Ohio to escape New York and a potential additional attack after 9-11.
The story says that Brando made him stop at every KFC and Burger King to eat and that Jackson and Brando shared driving duties.
Elizabeth Taylor sat in the back.
Cooped up together for 500 miles were three of the world's biggest and most charismatic stars, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Michael Jackson.
The trio are said to have embarked on their journey to flee New York in a higher car the day after a 9-11 terror attack, fearing a follow-up attack.
The three of them first sought refuge in New Jersey, according to one of Michael Jackson's former personal assistants.
Now, try to picture this as you hear this.
From New Jersey, they undertook a 500-mile odyssey across America with Brando and Jackson behind the wheel, stopping only to fuel up on Burger King and KFC takeouts until they finally reached a mystery destination in the state of Ohio.
The remarkable tale told to this month's Vanity Fair magazine is set to become the stuff of Hollywood legend, or possibly even part of a film script.
Vanity Fair says that Hollywood actors Brando and Taylor were in New York to watch Jackson perform at Madison Square Garden on September 10th.
The following day, after hearing that the Twin Towers had collapsed, after hearing, he's in New York, after hearing, not seeing, after hearing that the Twin Towers had collapsed, Michael Jackson hollered down the hallway of his hotel for everybody in his entourage, including Brando, to leave immediately.
However, Jackson and Brando had trouble leaving the hotel garages because fans kept banging on the car windows, following him down the street, screaming.
Elizabeth Taylor, meanwhile, was said to be staying nearby at another hotel.
Now, I know this sounds odd, but it fits perfectly with everything else going on this week.
The former employee of Michael Jackson reveals he led his entourage to a temporary safe haven in New Jersey before the three superstars took to the open road.
They got as far as Ohio, all three of them in a car they drove themselves.
The rotund Brando apparently annoyed the others by demanding stops at every KFC and Burger King en route.
Another version of the story reports that Jackson attempted to get Taylor out of New York, but she wasn't able to fly out.
Former teen heartthrob and actor Corey Feldman, a friend of Jackson who also was at the Madison Square Garden show, tells Vanity Fair, yeah, I remember Michael was trying to get Elizabeth out.
He was at the first looking for a private jet and couldn't find one.
How had he gotten there?
Well, that's right.
Okay, it was closed down.
So I guess they did.
Jeez.
However, one of Taylor's closest friends and assistants disputes the tale.
Elizabeth stayed behind.
She went to church to pray.
She went to an armory where people were who couldn't get home or who'd stayed behind to look for the missing.
She also went down to ground zero.
Eventually, the airports opened and she flew home.
She didn't drive to Ohio with these other two guys.
But in a piece detailing the final years of her life, Vanity Fair states she may well have done all of those things, including, although no reports surfaced in the media of sightings of Elizabeth Taylor ministering to the frightened and wounded or showing up at Ground Zero.
Vanity Fair reveals that she loved listening to Susan Boyle while driving her Cadillac Escalade.
You know what?
This is, I know, Stergley.
None of it seems believable.
Michael Jackson and Brando driving.
Nobody spotted them.
We're first hearing about this.
Now they pull up at every KFC takeout.
They put every Burger King takeout.
Marlon Brando pulls up to the drive-thru.
That what you call it?
The drive-thru?
Pulls up the drive-thru and gets on an orders, and nobody knew.
Nobody knew.
Me too.
You know, I would have figured Brando for White Castle because you can do those in one bite.
But and Susan Boyle.
Well, no, no, no.
It doesn't say that Elizabeth Taylor liked to listen to Susan Boyle on the way to Ohio in 2001.
It doesn't say that.
It's unrelated.
I read the story as written.
It's just bad journalism.
In addition to either driving or not driving to Ohio with Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, in her free moments, she liked to drive around in her escalade listening to Susan Boyle before she died.
Now, the airports were closed, and they were scared.
They had to get out of there.
They wanted out.
They took it.
I just, I can't believe it.
I don't know.
I read this and I was laughing myself silly.
Brando making them stop at every.
Okay, back to the news.
Nearly one month after Governor Rick Perry asked for a federal disaster declaration when wildfires torched an area the size of Rhode Island, word came Tuesday of this week, FEMA has denied any federal funding help to Texas.
FEMA has denied disaster status for Texas.
Governor Perry is dismayed by the reaction.
He said, it is not only the obligation of the federal government, but its responsibility under the law to help its citizens in times of emergency.
To date, the fires have blackened more than 2 million acres, destroyed more than 400 homes, and have caused more than $20 million in agricultural losses, including livestock deaths.
No justice to Texas.
Well, it's not just, there's another place that has been denied.
And don't try to tell me this isn't political.
In this day and age, the right question is: why in the world should the federal government help Texas?
It's a red state.
Why should they help Texas?
Right.
They punished him by not giving him a shuttle.
Why should Obama help Texas?
He knows they're not going to vote for him.
That's the way of the world these days.
Why should he?
From the Wall Street Journal, Kellogg Company expects higher prices to carry the cereal maker sales growth for the year as volume remains flat due to shopper pushback.
Kellogg, whose first quarter earnings fell 12%, said that it plans to raise prices four percentage points this year, the high end of its prior forecast, to both offset higher costs and to lift revenues.
Now, in a related story, here we have two iconic companies, Anheuser-Busch, which is now Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Now, both of their products, Anheuser-Busch and Kellogg's, both their products are based in grain.
They are both experiencing much lower sales.
So they are raising prices to maintain the profits.
Cereal and beer.
Some might say the staple of the middle class.
Nah.
Certainly the staples of real Linda.
Cereal and beer are not selling as much due to unemployment, so they're raising prices.
Their costs are rising.
Now, why would this?
Could this have anything to do with Bernunke?
Could it have anything to do with the devaluation of the dollar?
Could it have anything to do with printing money?
Could it have anything to do with ethanol?
Could it have anything to do with biofuels?
Anheuser-Busch InBEV said that price increases offset declining volumes in its main U.S. and Brazilian markets in the first quarter as it reported a doubling in first quarter net profit.
A.B. InBEV, the world's largest brewer by sales and the owner of Budweiser and Bex and some other brands said that net profit rose to $964 million, up from $475 million a year earlier, but sales are down.
Now, this cuts against the grain.
This is normally not what happens when you're volume.
You lower prices.
This is normally what happens.
But beer, grain, staff of life.
You need it.
Okay, back to the phones we go as we speed on down the tracks here of freedom.
And by the way, I know Anheuser-Busch, for the record, is no longer an American company.
InBev is Belgian, a Belgian company.
Anheuser-Busch, long and iconic American company now owned by an outfit in Belgium.
Halo, Studio City, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Oh, Rush Bo.
Hello.
Just a couple of comments, Rush, as a black, African-American, pro-black nationalist at heart.
We love you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
You are a pro-black nationalist?
We see the world as black.
All right.
And everything else is just kind of sitting in there whatever way that they can.
Do you see the world?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Am I hearing?
And you're on a bad cell phone.
You see the world as black.
We see the world made up as more Africans, blacks, and dark ethnics.
Oh, gotcha.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
I'm with you now, yeah.
Okay, so once again, we love you, Rush.
It is you that we salute, not the Obam, a name that we've coined for Obama.
He's the Obama because he's been bombing out ever since he's been sitting Murray City.
Interesting.
If I ever see you in public, Rush, bend over because we're going to kiss your butt.
Thank you, Rush.
Well, join the crowd.
That's what it's like to be me, folks.
There's a line out there.
More ones than you know.
Well, what's up, Halo, besides wanting to kiss my butt?
That's all she wants to say, she's gone.
Wow.
I didn't even have to ask her.
Normally, you kiss my...
I didn't even have to ask.
Who's next?
Chris in Laconia, New Hampshire.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, it's greetings, all-knowing Maharashi.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, my point was about releasing the photos of bin Laden, and the narrative that's being pushed is that that would get people to attack us more.
And my view is exactly the opposite of the conventional wisdom on that.
I think that that would be a good idea because our troops are prepared to be attacked.
The big threat is not knowing who the attackers are until it's on their timing.
So if we can, you know, get a situation where the people who are prone to attack us to begin with would attack us when we're most expecting them to, wouldn't that be good strategy?
Perhaps.
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but that whole argument's a smokescreen anyway.
They already hate us.
They can't hate us anymore.
They have sworn their hatred for us.
Irritating them.
This is another reason for not releasing the photo.
It has nothing to do with what they're saying, and I don't pretend to know what it is.
I'm just going to tell you this.
Remember, we had this news for you yesterday.
In 2009, President Obama authorized the release of 2,000 pictures that supposedly depicted abuse by American soldiers.
You remember that?
2,000.
When it comes to pictures that are embarrassing to America, Obama will race to the nearest camera to have those pictures displayed.
The Abu Ghrab photos, all of those photos which were said to be embarrassing to the United States.
Photos which ostensibly showed abuse of innocent women and children.
Abuse of innocent prisoners by U.S. interrogators and soldiers.
Oh, by all means, release those pictures.
But not this one.
Because we don't spike the ball.
That's not who we are.
Well, we spike the ball.
We wouldn't be spiking the ball over Obama's Osama's death.
We'd be spiking the ball in celebration of the SEALs and of mission accomplished.
Oh, no, those were not new photos.
The 2,000 photos were not new.
They were just more Abu Grab stuff, but still, he authorized their release.
Anything to embarrass.
Let's not forget, we're talking about this man's great foreign policy today.
The Republicans say they're simply not up for it.
We're not yet ready to compete foreign policy in President Obama.
This guy's been running around apologizing for America every chance he gets.
Bungle Libya, bungle Egypt, bungles North Korea, bungles Iran.
We're unable to say that we can compete in debate on foreign policy.
Some things are just mind-blowing.
Here's a story from thehill.com.
The headline, Senator Pitch's tax-free gas accounts.
Americans would be able to divert a portion of their paychecks into an untaxed account that could be used to pay for gasoline and other fuels under new legislation set to be introduced in the Senate this week.
The legislation authored by Senator Mark Begich, a Democrat from Alaska, is aimed at lessening the burden of high gas prices on consumers.
The bill comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are scrambling to do something about gas prices, which are nearing a national average of $4 a gallon.
Wow.
Do you believe, like, say, this is akin to your gasoline 401k?
Set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for your gasoline.
Why don't we just lower taxes across the board?
What is the why all these convoluted new regulations?
All we have to do is open and war, lift the moratorium on Gulf drilling permits, allow drilling off the Atlantic coast.
Tell the EPA to permit Alaska coast drilling, despite Shell not calculating tugboat emissions or whatever the problem there was.
This is so convoluted.
Do you believe this?
Begich, in a short interview with The Hill on Tuesday, said he modeled his legislation on medical savings accounts, which allow the public to set aside a certain portion of money before taxes for medical expenses.
Well, yeah, but the point of doing that is to lower prices, try to gain some foothold and control over the spiraling out-of-control healthcare costs.
And I'm pretty sure Obama is going to eliminate medical savings accounts.
I'm pretty sure, I know it does.
Health savings accounts bite the dust in Obamacare.
Begich says, yeah, you get to put aside pre-tax dollars, and the result is you get to buy your fuel with pre-tax dollars.
On average, let's assume people have a tax.
Do you know what I said to the average percentage of your net income that you pay on fuel is 9%?
Did you know it was that high?
9%.
Do you think they'll set aside 9% of your gross as untaxable to go out and buy fuel?
Ha!
Fat chance, my amigos.
It isn't going to happen.
But Senator Begich says, yeah, you get to put aside pre-tax dollars.
And the result is you get to buy your fuel at pre-tax dollars.
On average, let's assume people have a tax rate of 20%, which is probably average.
At $4 a gallon, you're going to save 80 cents right off the bat.
Burgich or Begich said he's working to gain co-sponsors of the bill, which he will introduce.
I guess he was going to try to introduce it yesterday or today.
The legislation would sunset after two years in order to give lawmakers time to pass energy legislation that begins to diversify the country's energy portfolio.
Just another bureaucracy.
I swear they complicate things that are so simple.
Folks, you're going to love this.
You're going to love this.
Since I am a powerful, influential member of the media.
The Mr. Big, the vast right-wing conspiracy, the big voice on the right.
I have learned and I have seen the cover and an advanced copy of the story of Sunday's New York Times magazine, which actually hits on Saturday.
The cover story is headlined, A Beast Within the Heart of Every Fighting Man.
It is a blood-red cover with a black silhouette of an American soldier.
Now, I have been on the cover of this magazine.
They work weeks in advance.
The timing is exquisite here.
Here is the tease for the New York Times Sunday magazine cover story.
The case against American soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians turns on the idea of a rogue unit.
But what if the killings are a symptom of a deeper problem?
So the Sunday New York Times magazine has a story coming exploring the murderous standards that make up the U.S. fighting man, the average American military recruit, and ask, is this what we have become?
Now, the New York Times is trashing the U.S. military every week.
The news media now pretending to be grateful to them for taking the middle.
See, folks, this is another thing.
Do you realize, and I mean this from the bottom of my sizable beating heart, boom-boom, boom-boom, boom-boom.
You know, as well as I do, it's not just the New York Times.
The left-wing media in this country despises the U.S. military.
U.S. military to all leftists is the focus of evil in the world.
The agents of imperialism, if you will, and of domination.
You know that deep down, it just grates on them to have to write all of these stories this week praising the SEALs, which is one of the reasons why they're not spending so much time on the SEALs and why they are so busy praising Obama.
It just has to grate on these people.
They are much more at home reporting stories of Jack Murtha or John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who, by the way, once served in Vietnam, accusing our troops of being murderers and rapists and terrorists.
That's the story they like.
John Kerry made a career, built a career out of criticizing and ripping the American military.
Jack Mertha, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, practically the whole Democrat Party during the last four years of Bush Cheney, seeking to secure defeat, impugning the character, I mean, going so far as to ridicule volunteers because of where they came from.
They came from economically depressed areas of the country, the South, the deep South, the Southwest, where, of course, the economy is in a tank.
And there really is no other option.
It's the only option they've got.
They can't get an education.
The only way they can have any chance to get out of the horrible places they live is to join the military.
They don't do it because they have a love of country.
They don't do it because they have a sense of mission.
They don't do it because they want to defend and protect the constitutional liberty.
Oh, no.
They do it because of this rotten country and this rotten economy, and they've got no other way out.
That's the standard story.
That's what they love to write about the U.S. military.
They love writing about the U.S. military in defeat.
Mr. Lumbaugh, this thug is crazier than anything you've ever said.
Yeah.
Well, look at what the New York Times Sunday magazine cover is before any of this bin Laden stuff happened.
Look at what they were preparing to do.
An entire cover story on how the average American military person is a murdering thug.
Let me read it to you again.
May 1st.
It's last week's magazine.
I'm sorry.
So this came out the very day that the SEALs were attacking and killing bin Laden.
That makes it even better.
Thee, Mr. Lumbaugh, you didn't know because I don't read this trash except when I'm on the cover.
So I've read it one time.
New York Times, symptom of a deeper problem.
It's the current New York Times Sunday magazine.
I apologize for getting the date wrong.
I just now saw it, and I had not.
This is the day they usually make the Saturday edition available.
A beast within the heart of every fighting man.
The case against the American soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians turns on the idea of a rogue unit.
But what if the killings are a symptom of a deeper problem?
And all this week, all this week, the New York Times and the rest of the media have to go bonkers of praising the military.
It's got a grade on them.
Story yesterday that you just don't believe, and it just rips your heart out and then makes you mad.
According to a new report, 47% of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate.
That's all.
You think this is progress?
Snerdley is saying, hey, that's progress.
Don't put it down.
The alarming news statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund yesterday.
Not able to fill out basic forms for getting a job, those types of basic everyday things, reading a prescription, what's on the bottle, how many you should take, just your basic everyday tasks.
47% of the city can't do.
I don't know how they get by, but they do.
Are they getting by well?
Well, that's another question.
Said the funds director Karen Tyler Ruiz, who explained what it means when you can't read.
Did you know what it means when you couldn't read?
I wouldn't have known if it weren't for Karen Tyler Ruiz explaining it.
47.
Now I have a solution.
No, we here at the EIB network.
We have a solution.
And by the way, don't forget Detroit just closed half of its schools because they couldn't make a better deal with a teachers' union.
Remember that?
Mayor Debing couldn't make a better deal with teachers' union.
I do remember this.
I remember I caught hell for pointing this out.
It was shortly before, during, or after the Porculus bill being signed.
You'll remember this too.
The regime is going to pass out vouchers all over the country to get access to rent-free apartments or rent-assisted affordable type housing.
And you had to show up, City Hall or somewhere, to apply for a chance.
There weren't nearly enough vouchers to go along to accommodate everybody who showed up.
See, what you were applying for was essentially to be put in a drawing and then win, something like that.
Point is not everybody who showed up was going to get the relief.
And they were overwhelmed.
City Hall or wherever this took place, they were overwhelmed.
And our man in Detroit, a radio reporter extraordinaire, WJR, went out there and we played the audio and asked these people what this was all about.
Maybe Cookie can find this before the program is because I can't remember specifically, but he asked, well, where do you think his money is coming from?
Obama!
It's coming from Obama's stash.
Obama's doing this for us.
Obama.
And I remember saying, if I were president and this was going on, I would be embarrassed.
Well, anyway, folks, I have a solution.
Something that I don't think anybody has had the guts, maybe not even the thought to try.
47% of people in Detroit can't read.
What we ought to do is get a lot of money and just throw it at the Detroit public school system.
Obviously, we're not spending enough money here.
I mean, when you've got 47% of a city can't read, what we need to do is make more investments.
We need somebody, I can't believe somebody hasn't come up with this before now.
Must everything be up to me.
But we need to spend money in Detroit.
We need more federal funds.
We need more state funds.
We need more private donations.
We're not spending enough money.
47% can't read.
It's obviously a money problem, isn't it?
Okay, here it is.
We got the audio from Detroit.
Model citizens lining up for money from Obama's stash.
By the way, I bet the 47% in Detroit who can't read do know the letter D. Democrat on a ballot.
I'll bet you the 47% who can't read do know what D means.
All right.
This is just our reporter, Ken Rogalski of WJR.
And this is at Cobal Hall.
A bunch of people lined up.
The newspaper story called a scene of desperation.
Social service agencies bracing for more troubles.
The economic tsunami washing over Metro Detroit swept its casualties to the doors at Cobo Center on Wednesday in the form of 35,000 people so desperate for help with mortgage and utility bills.
Threats were made.
Fights broke out.
People were nearly trampled.
City officials said about 65,000 people over the past few days have gotten applications, which are due next Wednesday for a share of $15.2 million in federal stimulus money.
Not all 65,000 were going to get money, but that's how many showed up.
Only 3,500 were going to get help out of the 65,000.
Ken Rogalski went down and talked to some of the people in line at the Kobo Center.
Why are you here?
To get some money.
What kind of money?
Obama money.
Where's it coming from?
Obama.
And where did Obama get it?
I don't know.
His stash.
I don't know.
I don't know where he got it from.
But he's giving it to us to help us.
We love him.
That's what we voted for.
Coming from Obama.
Obama's stash.
Giving it to us.
He loves us.
We love him.
As I said at the time, if I were, and it was from the stash.
It was a slush fund.
This is exactly what it was for.
And did I catch hell?
Even in Detroit, as I said, you know, if I were president, this would embarrass me.
This happening in America when I was president.
But Obama sitting in Washington, this is exactly what he wanted.
Everybody, it's me, everybody coming to him for their little morsels in life.
Waltz in the Kaner Valley, California.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
This big waltz from Garner Valley.
Appreciate that.
Hey, those pictures are going to show up in October for a surprise.
And I want to thank all the SEALs and everybody that's in the military.
They're my heroes.
But Obama, it was a tough decision.
And he's so brave and he's so courageous to make that decision to kill Osama.
And I don't care if they shot him in the butt as long as he's dead.
Yeah, so you think they'll release the pictures in October before the election?
Yes, sir, because they're going to make the Republicans look like fools.
Look at the birth certificate.
It's a game he's playing.
He's not as dumb as everybody thinks.
And next time you're in Palm Springs, give me a call.
Come up for dinner.
All right, Walt.
I'll do that.
Have a great day.
You can count on it.
By the way, White House officials, speaking of special ops and so forth, White House officials, this is from CBS.
I'm just going to read it to you verbatim, all verbatim.
White House officials tell CBS News that President Obama met yesterday in the Oval Office with Admiral William McRaven, the head of Joint Special Ops Command.
Admiral William McRaven is the same guy Obama took time out from rehearsing for his correspondence dinner remarks to wish good luck.
He was rehearsing his speech where he's going to tell Trump jokes.
The White House Correspondence Dinner, he took time out from rehearsing to get on the phone to wish Admiral McRaven, the head of Joint Special Ops Command, good luck.
And then very gutsy.
Very, very gutsy because what he had to get that speech done, if the teleprompter breaks something, you're up there, you're flying blind.
Very, very, very gutsy to interrupt rehearsals to wish the JSOC guy good luck.
I just got an email from a subscriber rush 24-7.
Why 47% cannot read in Detroit?
Rush.
The percentage went up when all those who could read saw the handwriting on the wall and left town.
The ones who could read got out because they saw the handwriting.
Oh, geez.
All right, Open Line Fridays tomorrow.
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