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Sept. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hey, folks, again, it's not just uh ABC getting after Obama.
Late breaking news.
Obama taking flack from all sides now.
Fidel Castro has just written.
And he hasn't been writing much lately.
Fidel's not feeling well.
But he's just posted in his weekly blog that Obama's being stupid.
That's gotta hurt.
That's gotta hurt.
Next thing you know, Hugo Javes be blaming Obama for his kidney problems.
A guy just cannot catch a break.
Last week, Castro wrote on his blog and Obama's historic address to the United Nations with gibberish.
Now we've already, we've reported Fidel to AttackWatch.com.
You don't need to worry about that.
We've handled it.
But gee.
I mean, folks, they're lining up on all sides.
Do you think Fidel wants Hillary?
No.
Define one.
Do you think Fidel wants Hillary to be president?
We're not even sure the Congressional Black Caucasians anymore want uh Obama.
Anyway, we're back.
Broadcast excellence is what we do here.
IL Rushbo doing what I was born to do, and so are you.
I was born to host.
You were born to listen.
And it's worked well for 23 plus years.
Cybercast News Service Census Bureau admitted a couple of days ago that it had artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples in the U.S., initially reporting a number that was about 40% higher than what it now believes is accurate.
The original data published by the 2010 census set the number of same-sex households in America 2010 at 91,997, including 349,377 same-sex married couple households.
But the Census Bureau said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters that it has revised these numbers downward because the Census Bureau staff discovered an inconsistency in the responses in the 2010 census summary file statistics that artificially flated the number of same-sex couples.
So what they found is that there are a hundred and thirty-one thousand same-sex married couples, five hundred and fourteen thousand same-sex unmarried partner households, or a grand total of six hundred and forty-six thousand same-sex couple households, as opposed to the original figure of 901,000 same-sex households.
So neat little trick here.
Now let's get on to this cylinder business and the solar industry stuff.
A lot of people are making noise today about the fact that one of the companies that ended up getting a lot of money from the feds has a Pelosi family member.
Brother-in-law, brother-something that's involved in this.
That is true, but I don't know that that's a major factor.
Clearly, it's interesting.
But this is from the Hill.com, and this is the story that we mentioned toward the end of the program.
It just appeared as a news flash.
We mentioned it when the news broke that uh $737 million loan to Crescent Dunes.
Uh gonna create 45 permanent jobs.
Basically, this is the story that these jobs are gonna cost 200,000 each.
All this money to the solar industry companies out there, 200 grand per job, given the number of jobs the regime says will be created.
The energy department announced yesterday it has finalized more than one billion dollars in loan guarantees to two separate solar energy projects.
That's the news we had about 15 minutes left in the show.
The DOE announced a $737 million loan guarantee to help finance construction of the Crescent Dunes solar energy project.
It's a 110 megawatt solar power generating facility in Nye County, Nevada.
The project sponsored by uh Tonopas Solar, a subsidiary of California-based solar reserve.
The energy department said that the project will result in 600 construction jobs and 45 permanent jobs.
That works out to 16.3 million dollars per permanent job.
And if you roll in the ancillary jobs like the conservative jobs, that's how you get each job costing 200,000.
But the actual permanent jobs in the solar industry will cost between 16 and 23 million dollars each.
And I'll tell you what's happening out there.
Who was the first person that you can recall characterizing the stimulus bill and all of these things as Obama slush funds?
That's right, it was I, your host, L. Rushbow.
And now, depending on where you go in the blogosphere and in the media, you will see other people now concluding that all this is a giant Obama slush fund.
This is federal taxpayer dollars being sent to Obama campaign bundlers, donors, and contributors.
And then the money comes back, a portion of it comes back to Obama as campaign donations again.
People have been asking, in the in light of Sylindra going bankrupt, and abusing the $523 million loan, why is the regime authorizing a billion dollars more in the middle of what is an obvious crony capitalism scandal?
Why is the regime doing it?
Why is the regime continuing to fund, it's not just actually these two companies, there's many more than that.
Why is the regime continuing to fund more and more solar business startups in light of Solyndra?
And the answer is it isn't about green energy.
That's the talking point.
That's what Obama says.
That's supposed to get everybody going swooning.
Oh, he cares about global warming and climate change.
He wants to save the planet.
He wants to lower the sea levels.
He's committed to a clean environment for our children and granted.
It's a slush fund.
It is a series of slush funds.
It's a payoff for these people who bundled and donated and contributed to Obama and got others to do so.
It's a way of getting money back to them under the guise of some new startup business.
And then that money, just like the stimulus bill.
We chronicled how much of the stimulus bill just in Wisconsin alone went to employ teachers.
Unionized state employees.
They not shovel-ready jobs, just to keep teachers employed in the middle of a recession, not just Wisconsin, but we focused on Wisconsin as our example.
They all pay union dues.
The union dues all go back to the Democrat Party.
It's a way of getting you to unwittingly give money to Obama and the Democrat Party under the guise of saving the planet.
Under the guise of protecting the environment.
Under the guise of clean and renewable energy.
Under the guise of all of these wonderful great intentions.
It's not about the green industry.
And it isn't about green jobs.
It's about getting green into the Democrat coffers.
I mean, come on, folks.
45 permanent jobs resulting from one billion dollars in loans, startup costs for solar industry firms.
45 permanent jobs.
At between 16 and 23 million dollars a job?
That's not what this is about.
Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, who is really, really wrapped up deep in this.
And if there needs to be a fall guy on this, that's who it's going to be.
Mark my words.
Stephen Chu said, and he's a Nobel Prize winner, by the way, right along with uh right along with Obama.
If we want to be a player in the global clean energy race, we must continue to invest in innovative technologies that enable commercial scale deployment of clean renewables power like solar.
Solar generation facilities like the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project help supply energy to local utilities and create hundreds of good American clean energy jobs.
Right, at a mere $16 million per job.
Anybody stop to think maybe we can't afford to be a player in the global clean energy race if it's $16 million a job.
Or maybe this isn't the role of government.
Maybe this is something the private sector would do better.
The Crescent Newens facility will generate power using concentrated solar power technology in which a series of mirrors direct sunlight onto a receiver at the center of the plant, kind of like the way you used to kill ants with a magnifying glass.
Except we're looking to power whole cities with this, which we can't do.
And in the process, how many birds and insects are these people going to kill?
Now don't forget public sector union employees Wisconsin got more than three-fourths of all stimulus money sent to Wisconsin.
That's what we uncovered.
75% of the stimulus money for Wisconsin went to public sector union employees, all of whom pay dues, which means that all of that money goes to the Democrat Party, or the lion's share of it.
And that's that's what this solar energy stuff is.
It's just a series of Democrat Party slush funds.com.
The old investors business daily has their own version of the story.
Department of Energy muls green energy loans at $23 million per job.
The Daily Caller with a piece, more solar companies led by Democrat donors receive federal loan guarantees.
A daily caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Cylindra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama regime, employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democrat campaigns.
Companies like First Solar, Solar Reserve, Sun Power Corporation, and a Bengos SA have already collectively received billions in loans through regime stimulus programs to build solar power plants in the southwestern United States.
Yet each, with the exception of the privately held solar reserve, has seen its stock price hammered.
At the same time, it was lobbying the regime and Congress for billions in loan guarantees.
The Hill newspaper reported yesterday that the Santa Monica, California-based solar reserve has secured a $737 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy for a Nevada Solar Project.
That company has ties to George Kaiser, the Oklahoma billionaire who raised $53,500 for Obama's campaign in 2008.
He's got a company called Argonaut, private equity firm.
He holds a majority stake in Sylindra.
It's a slush fund.
Cylindra's a slush fund.
Solar reserve is a slush fund.
Every loan guarantee to a solar energy company is a slush fund.
The Daily Caller almost buries their own scoop here by getting dragged down in too many financial details.
In a nutshell, just to sum all of this up, four other solar companies got generous loans from the regime, even though Every one of them was in bad financial shape, but they are all connected to the Democrat Party.
Solar Reserve, they're the ones that got $737 million.
Seems to be the most egregious.
In fact, there's there's some overlap even between Solar Reserve and Sylindra.
That's George Kaiser.
Solar Reserve's connections reads like a textbook example of crony capitalism at its worst.
And you notice uh Obama has even given loans to a Spanish solar company.
That's the uh uh Zinga a bingos, a Bengoa essay.
That's the Spanish solar company.
Now we thought sitting here didn't wait at the whole point was to try to help U.S. companies be more competitive.
Now, we think they all got special favors.
I'm sure some Republican solar energy firms got some money, right?
No, no, I'm wrong about that.
That actually uh didn't happen.
And here's ABC News.
And this is from state controlled media.
This is a lengthy in-depth look at the back scratching money laundering scheme between Obama and his fundraisers and the companies the fundraisers invest in.
And what what basically what's going on is our tax dollars are used to pay back donors.
These people donate to Obama, these slush funds are set up for the solar energy company so they can be paid back, and then they oftentimes end up working for the regime to boot.
Now, this ABC piece is significant.
Random act of journalism, though it may be, this ABC Post uh piece exposes corruption in a corrupt theology.
Wacko environmentalism.
You cannot, you cannot discuss any of this.
And you cannot have any of this going on without first having established this hoax of global warming.
Because if you don't establish that, if you haven't created that lie, then there's no need for all these green energy solar energy firms, and there's no need to fund them, and there's no good intentions involved.
So though this is long planned, long laid out.
But it's just a slush fund.
Or a series of the ABC headline, Obama fundraisers tied to green firms that got federal cash.
It's one of these cases, folks, where you just follow the money.
Follow the money, and it all ends up.
It all ends up in two places, back in the pockets of those who donated and raised money for Obama, and in Democrat Party campaign coffers.
That's where the money ends up.
Get this.
I mean no sooner do I finish describing for you the machinations, the machinations of this trust uh slush fund business.
From uh, let's see, this is the Washington Examiner Beltway Confidential is a piece by uh Joel Gherkey.
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut Private Equity.
This is one of the firms tied to one of the new, just told you about this.
One of the new solar energy companies getting 737 billion dollars.
Million dollars.
Steve Mitchell and Argonaut private equity might have a chance to recoup some of their losses in the Cylindra debacle now that the Department of Energy has given a $737 million loan guarantee to a company backed by Argonaut that lists Mitchell as a board president.
Some people who lost money at Cylindra are being repaid through the funding of another solar energy company.
And one of them is this guy Steve Mitchell, who served on the Cylindra board of directors and reportedly still serves on the board.
He's a board participant for Solar Reserve, the parent company of Tonopah Solar, which is on the receiving end of this 737 million.
It's a slush fund, folks.
It's pure and simple.
Here's Richard in Tacoma, Washington, as we go back to the phones.
Welcome, uh Jim, great to have you here.
Yeah, Richard uh here in Tacoma Rush, and I never doubt you.
Thank you very much, uh Richard.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Now let me start out with what I think is most important, and that is the Republican message to Hispanics.
And that is if you are in if you are Hispanic and in the country legally, and you work in agriculture, food service, landscaping, meat packing, hospitality, or you're unemployed, and you support amnesty and or continued illegal immigration, you're stupid.
Okay?
You're just stupid.
Why do you want why do you want the Republicans to say that?
Because that is the message that the Hispanics got to understand.
If you are in the country legally and you have a job, or you don't have a job, we are running out of resources to support anyone and everyone.
So what would you think?
Well, I I'm I'm I'm puzzled here over of all the things that the country faces.
And winning the election against Obama, that that's the thing that you think the Republicans need to do.
Oh, I'm just saying to Hispanic voters.
Well, I know.
If you support continued illegal immigration, you're cutting your own throat.
Well, there's no question that's true.
I'm not disputing the logic of what you're saying.
Uh but I d I just I don't know how high up on the totem pole I put the message.
Well, we keep on handing out sugar pills to these people.
We need to let them know that if you're voting for member current members of the Congressional congressional Hispanic caucus, you're also cutting your throat because they just want more people to come in and take your job and more people on we're running out of resources for welfare.
No, no, they don't want people coming in here working.
That's what the Democrat Party doesn't want the illegal immigrations coming here working.
They want them voting.
They want them on the welfare rolls.
They don't want them working.
They're not a threat to anybody with a job in terms of what the Democrat Party intends for them.
I I look I don't disagree with the uh the logic of of what you're saying at all.
Hinges on the belief here that identity politics works, that Hispanics are gonna vote in unison in monolithic ways, and they're gonna support Hispanics regardless.
What an arapist, murderers, illegal immigrants, or whatever.
Uh I I don't know that that's uh necessarily true.
I think that's a another one of these myths.
Now it's it's it's it is true of some ethnic groups.
It could be true of Hispanics too.
I don't know.
I I'm just not an identity politics guy.
I don't this this is probably why I'm never ever going to be a political advisor.
I don't even think this way.
Uh in terms of advising somebody, uh a Republican candidate on what to say, that would never cross my mind.
You start calling people stupid, uh you're opening yourself up for uh all kinds of I I don't have a message for women voters, and I don't have a message for male voters, and I don't have a message for Hispanic voters, I don't have a m I don't have a message for black voters, I'm just a message for voters.
I just maybe I make the mistake assuming they're all Americans, and I would speak to them that way.
But look, that's why I do this and not that.
You know, I don't I don't uh I listen to political people talk about what they've got to do to win elections, and I just scratch my head.
You know how they have to go over this particular block of votes and that particular block of votes and the policy policy they have to have to do that.
I just don't think that way.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well uh I yeah, if I went to an Hispanic audience, yeah, I'd I'd I'd talk to them about American exceptionalism.
I talk about American essentially.
You're here, you want to be an American, you want to be an exceptional American, here's what we're all about.
Here's how you do it.
I get a little American history.
Um I I wouldn't do it when I go out very rarely anymore uh and do a rush to excellence tour, I couldn't care less who's in the audience.
I don't even look out the okay, how many Hispanics are here?
I gotta make sure I say something.
I don't even think that way.
And I don't, oh, I've got some women out there and they're pretty old, boy.
I better say X. I got some young women too.
Boy, I better moderate what I'm gonna say.
I don't think that way.
I just don't.
That's why I'm not I never qualified to be a politician.
Grab audio soundbite.
It's the last one.
Number 23.
This is just this is just disgusting.
This is how particularly the liberal politicians think.
This is Mayor Doomberg in New York is at the United Nations during a General Assembly summit on non-communicable diseases.
So the mayor of New York is at a summit at the U.N. on noncommunicable diseases, which is a discussion that included diet and eating habits.
And this is what he said.
There are powers only governments can exercise.
Policies only governments can mandate and enforce.
And results only governments can achieve.
To halt the worldwide epidemic of non-communicable diseases.
Governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option.
That is ultimately government's highest duty.
Diet.
What we eat, according to Mayor Doomberg, is government's highest duty.
If I ever found myself an elective office, the last thing I would think about is telling people what they have to eat, and I'm going to be the one telling them.
But this is that's who this guy is.
We're facing a worldwide epidemic of government.
We do not have a worldwide epidemic of starvation or of obesity, or we got a worldwide epidemic of socialism.
We have a worldwide epidemic of too much government, too big government, Marxism, all of it.
We got there's an epidemic of a lack of freedom.
This is just absurd.
But he gets elected.
Anyway, grab audio soundbite number 12 and 13.
This is the forehead on CNN Anderson Cooper 94.
You know, I I am stunned.
I just have to share this.
I am stunned Anderson Cooper has time to go to CNN.
I read the New York Post every morning, page six, and I read the New York Daily News, and in both those, every day, Anderson Cooper is at this health club or that spa.
He's at this restaurant or that movie opening, or he's at this bar or whatever.
This guy spends more time outside of CNN than he does there.
How does he have time to host Anderson Cooper 94?
Uh well, I don't know if it's show prep, what's show prep?
Show prep is uh, you know, getting an advanced copy of what's on a teleprompter.
You know, if you if you do TV News, isn't that show prep?
They show you what's on the prompter, and maybe you look at a couple of uh videos and they tell you what reporter in the field is gonna be talking to you when.
And then some producer writes the questions that you ask the reporter, and the reporter's answers are on the teleprompter, and then your response to the reporters on a teleprompter.
I've always been amazed.
They get the anchor and the reporter, and they're doing a story.
The reporter's out there in the field doing the reporter finishes.
And the anchor says, Well, reporter, what about X and Y?
And you know, reporter, that's that's an excellent question.
Well, if it's an excellent question, why didn't you include it in your report?
And the reason it's not included in the report is so that the anchor can be made to look like he knows what's going on.
Pure and simple.
I can see on the faces of these reporters.
Sometimes the anchors go off script and ask something so weird.
The reporters are holding the microphone, well, I think I just said, blah, blah, blah.
That's funny.
It's so formulaic.
So formulaic.
I'm I'm I'm sure probably while Anderson Cooper or whoever, I don't mean to harp on Anderson Cooper.
I'm just saying I read more about where he is outside of CNN than what he's doing inside CNN.
And I guess when he's on the treadmill, got his iPad there, they can they can send over PDF copies of the Wi-Fi of the teleprompter.
Get prep on it.
Anyway, here's the big Paul, the forehead is on with Anderson Cooper last night.
Cooper said, Paul, not a lot of great news from some key states for the president's campaign.
How much show prep did that question take?
Really?
Paul, not a not a lot of great news from some key states for the president's campaign.
The iron law of incumbents is the only way to run is to run scared.
But this president has to run really scared.
The data is very bad.
I'm telling you.
Very bad.
The internals are not good.
And uh then the forehead didn't wait for the next question from the anchor.
He just kept going.
The president has a path to victory here, but I think it's a path he's on, frankly.
I've been thrilled with him these last few weeks in our research.
Independent voters, swing voters in a swing state who we talked to, they want him to fight.
This is not the liberal base.
Independents want him to fight if he's fighting for the middle class.
That's what those independents want.
A fighter, and somebody's fighting for the middle class.
So here you go.
The constant urgings for Obama are to stay out there on the left fringe.
Better stay out there.
That's the path that you gotta be on, the left fringe.
Uh now, we uh we had yesterday Obama lost his cool with BET and uh says here that he lost his cool with uh Hispanic media.
This is yesterday at the White House.
Obama participated in an open for questions round table, responding to questions from readers of Yahoo, MSN Latino, AOL Latino, and Huff Post Latino voices on issues that matter most to the Hispanic community.
And uh unidentified guy said, Mr. President, uh, I'm an undocumented law graduate from New York City.
And I'm just writing to say that your message that you do not have a dance partner's not a message of hope.
A real dancer goes out on a dance floor and picks out his or her dance partner.
You're just waiting.
You've got the facts, the numbers, the dollars, and the votes on the side of granting administrative relief for dreamers.
We're doing our part.
It's time you do yours, Mr. President.
This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true.
I think the there's been uh a great disservice done to the cause of getting the Dream Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow by myself I can go and do these things.
It's just not true.
We live in a democracy.
Damn it.
You have to pass bills through the legislature, and then I can sign it.
Damn it.
If I were Castro or Chavez, I wouldn't have to worry about all that crap.
By the way, that Hispanic roundtable that we just played that last soundbite from, we're wondering whether the guy who asked the question has been deported yet.
He was an undocumented law student.
Anyway, uh not one person at that Hispanic round table asked a question about Fast and Furious.
Not one person and a lot of Hispanics have died.
Fast and Furious has killed a whole lot of Hispanics.
Now one question about it.
By the way, coming up in the current issue of a limball letter.
It's on its way to subscribers now as a two-page spread on Obama's big green money laundering scheme.
Detailed explanation of the entire slush fund operation that is Cylindra, Solar Energy, all his green garbage.
Two-page spread coming up in the current issue.
Limbaugh letter.
Wendy in Atlanta.
I got about a minute, but I wanted to squeeze you in there.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to uh respond to your not voting if uh Mitt Romney is the candidate for that would be me.
You will not vote in the presidential race if Romney is the nominee.
Yes.
I have to say that you taught me better, and you taught me to be a better conservative, and you taught me to be actually conservative and stand for principles.
And Romney doesn't seem to be that way.
And luckily, in my lifetime, the Tea Party has come along and which seemed more conservative than even Republicans were supposed to be.
Oh, they are.
The Republican established doesn't dig the Tea Party.
Right.
Right.
The Tea Party has been such a boost to Republicans and to conservatives who were watching their candidates and and their elected officials come to the center, walk to the center, and compromise on their values.
And that's why the Tea Party has been so phenomenal for those of us who want to remain conservative.
Okay, well, I wanted to hear from one of you.
I don't have time to talk to you about it now, but I'm I'm I'm glad to know that you're out there, and I'm sure there are a lot more people like you.
Um I I'm det I'm detecting uh a massive anti-Romney sediment out there.
There's no question about it.
So um that's just another thing I have to do.
Okay, I'm ready.
Think about this.
Obama demanding money in his jobs bill to train people for green technology, and at the same time, we're training people on how to do something other than green technology when we shut down their firms.
This job retraining.
That's another slush fund.
That's all it is.
And we'll be back open line Friday tomorrow.
Can't wait.
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