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Sept. 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 30, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Boy, I tell you, um, everywhere I look, Drudge even has a headline on it.
The left to Democrats, the media, obsessed with Chris Christie's weight.
They're just obsessed.
And they're debating whether it would hurt him or help him, given that there's so many other obese voters.
If you start attacking Christie because of his weight, will you cause a sympathy vote for the guy?
Fascinating.
Let's get these people.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
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Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
And open line Friday means you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
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Now, how is this?
How is this for pandering?
This is from Fox News.
Vice President Bite Me yesterday hosted the annual Hispanic Heritage Month reception.
He did it at the Naval Observatory, which is where the vice president's residence is.
I have been there.
Not when Bite Me was VEP, when Cheney was, but I've been there.
So it's understandable that given Hispanic Heritage Month, the guests included about a hundred Hispanic veterans, active duty service members, uh elected Hispanic officials and others.
The music was classical Mexican.
And according to the Pool report, in his remarks, Biden looked at the audience, 100 Hispanic veterans, active duty service members, elected officials, and said, You were all here before us.
Yes, he did.
You were all here before us.
You were all here before us.
I'm told that I didn't close the loop on my comment that all the news reports are talking about all Ocky being American born.
Every news story leads with that fact that he was American born.
Why do you think that is?
Let me just ask you, Snerdly.
Why do you think it's such a big deal to the media?
No.
No.
You're sounding like Ron Paul.
Snerdley says because Obama killed him without any charges with due process.
That's what Ron Paul said.
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This is uh Manchester, New Hampshire this morning at a campaign event.
Ron Paul talking to reporters about the death of the uh American-born Anwar Al Olahki.
Reporters said overnight uh overnight uh Al Alachi was killed, confirmed by the U.S. government.
What do you think about that?
Is uh is that a victory for President Obama?
He was never tried or charged for any crimes.
Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody.
We know that he might have been associated with the uh underwear bomber.
But uh if the American people accept this blindly and casually we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.
Yeah.
No due process, no charges, never tried, nobody knows if he ever killed anybody.
We know that he might have been associated with the underwear bomber and the Fort Hood guy, but we don't know.
We just wipe him out with a jet, a drone, missiles, or what have you.
Not cool.
Now the reason, the reason that they refer to him as American born, isn't this obvious?
In the first place, I I'm not gonna read his bio to you.
I mean, I've we only have an hour left here, and I don't want to bore you, but he.
No, there's nothing American about the guy.
That the he's he he's there.
If if you go through the bio, and I'm really not gonna take the time to do it, just don't doubt me on this.
There is and was nothing American about this guy, but the reason they're calling him American-born is the message at C, C, not all the terrorists are in the Middle East.
The terrorists are right here in America.
And meaning we grow them too.
Meaning we inspire terrorism.
It's not just those people over there.
We've got our own terrorists here.
It's politically correct.
It's it's a it's an it's an attempt to uh uh blunt the notion that all terrorism originates in the Middle East.
American-born.
Remember, there have been a bunch of these American guys, and and the fact that they were American-born, some cases raised, uh, is always front and uh front and center.
Yeah, I I it's it's uh fascinating thing.
Chris Christie's weight.
They're all out there talking about it.
Well, it's a bad it's a bad example.
What's his energy level gonna be?
We got a whole culture based on exercise and energy, and this guy comes along.
What if he doesn't make it through the first term?
All these things are being speculated about because of his weight, and they're going out there talking to experts in the medical and health fields to try to get some uh interpretation.
I have folks, you know, as a powerful, influential member of the media sometimes I am asked to look at movies before they come out.
And um, I looked at a movie of they got a screener copy of a movie called Killer Elite.
Uh well, it's I guess I got it last week sometime.
Have you did you see it?
Yeah, it's um it it's a it's a it's a fascinating story, and it's a it's a it's an action shoot-em-up, but it it stars Clive Owen and Robert De Niro, Jason Statham.
Is that how you pronounce his name?
S T-A-T-H-A Statham.
He's uh he's British action adventure um guy, transporter Transporter.
Yeah, guy from trans.
So it's got a good cast.
You know, and that's that that's that's what intrigued me about it.
And I figured is a movie with De Niro in it, and they want me to have an advanced look at it.
I mean, that's odd.
So I needed to know what's it about, killer elite, and it's it's based on a book.
It's kind of a complicated story, and it's somewhat controversial because it's based on a book, and the author claims the story's true, but nobody can confirm it.
Nobody will confirm whether it's true or not.
In the early 1970s, British intelligence was drawn into an unholy alliance with uh an omani oil sheik who had six months to live.
Now, the sheikh, the sheikh wanted revenge on British security and intelligence people who had killed three of his four sons.
So he was he wanted blood for blood.
And what he didn't know, and this is the the the book here that this is all based on is called the uh uh the featherman.
It's it's um yeah, and this is the book that purports to be true, but nobody knows if it is.
And what the Sheik guy didn't know is that all three of his sons were actually killed under direct orders from British intelligence by SAS Special Forces during the secret Oman War.
And he didn't know that.
He just wanted revenge for these three killings.
So he goes out and he hires The best hitmen of the day.
This is where Clive Owen and De Niro into the scene, also and Jason Statham.
And their charge is to go kill the purpose of these British intelligence guys and make it look like an accident in each incident.
This the movie is it's what's I found fascinating about it is it's a shoot 'em up and it's a it's full action, but it it's like I've seen a bunch of action movies that there is no plot, you can't detect any story, and that doesn't matter because all it's about is the special effects and the action.
This thing is the other way around.
There actually is this story to it.
And they make it pretty clear what's going on as you watch it.
So it's a shoot 'em up combined with a pretty good plot.
I actually enjoyed it.
And it's uh the guy that's directing it, I guess is directing his first-time full-length movie.
And there's uh uh you've got a great cast behind this thing in terms of people's reputations.
I knew nothing of the story before I I was given the DVD screener, and I had to had to educate myself what the story was all about.
But what ended up happening here, there was an internal struggle that went on within British intelligence.
Those who were assigned to kill the SAS agents involved in the assassination of the Sheikh's three sons and those who were trying to protect them.
And to this day, British intelligence denies that any of this took place, which they would have to do.
Uh and even the author of the book, The Feathermen, that's the book on which this movie is based, won't discuss it.
He won't discuss the controversy or the story that he once was uh so adamantly defending to be real, so it just added more to the intrigue of this.
Now, this is this this oil shake is from Oman.
He's not a he's not a Saudi Sheik.
This all happened back in the 1970s, but it is about the actions, the secret actions of British intelligence, uh taking out this Sheikh's three sons.
He finds out about it, he wants revenge, but he doesn't want it known that he has anything to do with it.
He just he totally bloodthirsty and he wants revenge by knowing that the people that killed his sons are dead.
He doesn't want it known he had anything to do with it.
He's not he just and that's why he demands that each of these deaths be staged as an accident.
And that is a big part of what the movie is about, is how these guys go about staging assassinations as legitimate actions or accidents.
Uh and it's it opened last weekend and it did pretty well, and they've got it on more screens this weekend.
So killer elite.
It's that genre, if you like that kind of movie, I think you'd really like this.
I uh I do like the genre now and then.
It is an escape movie, it'll take you away, but there is a genuine story behind it, and the intrigue uh of it being true or not just adds to it.
Anyway, uh let me take a break here.
We'll do that.
Come back and grab more of your phone calls as open line Friday rolls on right here at the EIB network.
Sit tight.
I just got an email from somebody who saw the movie and they um killer elite, and they liked it.
It folks, it's it's um it has an amazing number of twists in it, and it really does help if you know a little bit of the story in advance, the the which is why I took some time to tell you about the story.
This oil shake doesn't want it known that he's the source behind these British agents being killed, and and of course there's a team in British uh in British security, the uh uh uh uh security that and and intelligence that's designed to protect agents who engage in this kind of activity against any retaliation.
So you've got the people protecting the assassins, the assassins being targeted by the sheikh, the assassins are trying to set it up so it's accidents that kill these guys.
Now I'm not gonna give it all away to you.
Now the uh added uh uh factor here of whether or not it could be a true story.
And it's uh as I say the the to me the best thing about it was it is a shoot 'em up and an action thing, but it's got a plot line you can follow and a purpose to it with dialogue that makes sense.
It's not just gratuitously uh action-packed uh special effect-oriented.
It's actually that that takes uh that takes second seat or priority, if you will.
It's worth it.
Killer elite.
Ron San Diego, California, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Um, honored to speak with you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Well, I first started listening to you when uh you had your television show.
It was uh long time ago, but great.
It seems like just yesterday to me that was in 1994, you're right.
Well, I miss being on TV, so I'm glad you have the the uh DittoCam.
I appreciate that.
You bet.
Um the reason for my call is uh I'm listening to the spin that's coming out of the administration on Cylindra, and I thought I would uh uh give you a different take on this from someone who's in this industry.
Um I I've been a tech entrepreneur for a long time, been in the semiconductor industry for over thirty years, and I've made investments and been on the boards of several startup uh solar companies, and the spin that I hear, which is uh, you know, they're blaming China for its failure, is just so far from the truth.
And there's actually uh uh a hidden story in this, and it goes through it goes to the uh administration's sort of war on coal and some of the other uh sources of power we uh uh to generate power we have in the U.S. Yeah, exactly.
And and uh, you know, basically the industry has known for over ten years that to make solar panels viable, they need to have the panels cost a dollar per watt to the consumer.
That's the way that it it's competitive and and actually gives you a return on investment over its 20-year expected life.
Uh and they're nowhere near that, and China's nowhere near that.
Of course, there's no business there.
Exactly.
So so the failure of Cylindra was one, it's a bad business model to begin with, and then it's incompetent management, which may be criminal.
Let me tell you something.
Ron, let me just the more I learn about this, the more I look at it.
I'm beginning to wonder if solar energy was ever the real purpose of this whole thing.
Because the more I look at this, this is just a giant slush fund.
All of these solar energy loans, companies getting federal loans, they're all made up of Obama bundlers and donors.
They're all being paid back for what they donated.
They're getting their comp campaign contributions back.
Under the guise of trying to create some clean energy.
They're going bankrupt, they're going through federal money.
Now they're clamming up, they're not saying anything.
Obama in the midst of all this keeps handing out more money to his bundlers and donors, and the money is going to be coming back to him, at least a little of it is in the form of uh uh donations and so forth.
I s I smell a giant rat with all of this.
I I think the last thing anybody was actually trying to do here was create solar panels.
Well, you're you're exactly right.
And the other part of this is uh what they're trying to do to restrict coal and natural gas, because in the U.S. our our cost per kilowatt hour right now is about ten cents on an average.
Yeah.
Where if you look if you look at Europe, it's 30 cents.
And look what happened to Europe when the government took away its subsidies.
Even at 30 cents a kilowatt hour, you would think that would make panels more competitive, but when they took the subsidies away, the whole thing crashed.
Precisely.
What does that tell you?
It means there's no business there.
It means there's no market for it.
So if you take away our cheap source of power in the United States here, coal and natural gas and even even nuclear, you you force the price up, which is what they're trying to do.
Because if you can't make the panels any cheaper, you raise the price of the alternative to the point where people have to accept it.
Where is the government grant for fracking?
Franking is is horizontal drilling.
It's a way of extracting oil.
It is causing a boom in the Dakotas.
It's causing a boom in a number of places, and it's American, and it can provide us enough energy for a century.
And the regime is fighting it every way and every day that they can.
They don't want any part of this because it's oil.
And there's no subsidies.
This is not about energy.
I'm telling that we we've got uh a genuine case of crony capitalism corruption here That would rival anything that's happened in any previous administration.
This is redundant, too.
It's happening more and more.
More and more solar companies, more and more people, more and more bundlers, uh, donors, contributors to Obama.
Just keeps, it just keeps adding up here.
And as you point out, there's no business.
They were manufacturing their solar panels at Cylinder for six bucks and selling them for three, and hoping to make it up on volume while at the same time telling us they couldn't compete with the ChICOMs because the ChICOMs under selling them.
So how in the world are they ever going to get any volume sales?
Leads me to believe, and now they won't say a word about it.
I this whole thing is just it stinks to high heaven.
Add to that the fact that we've got this idealistic, theoretical, utopian grand plan of clean energy.
The recent grants totaling over a billion dollars, one outfits getting 737 billion dollars.
Solar energy plant, they're gonna create 55 permanent jobs.
It's going to cost in the neighborhood of between 16 and 22 million dollars per permanent job, if the business works.
And this is said to be advanced thinking, forward thinking, it's the new way, it's uh it's it's clearly not about energy, it's not about green energy, it's not this is just the uh PR selling point to convince people to support it and not oppose it, go along with it.
Uh not sustainable.
It doesn't make any economic sense.
There's no business there.
This is the old adage.
Follow the money.
Nine times out of ten, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you'll always find the answer to whatever perplexes you if you're able to follow the money.
Thanks for the call out there.
We will be right back.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today that Stephen Chu, the energy secretary, has Obama's full confidence.
Stephen Chu is behind, actually charged with implementing all of these uh subsidy programs, all these solar energy outfits.
Now, this can cut two ways.
In sports, when the coach or the manager gets a full vote of confidence from the owner, he's gone.
In politics, can also be the same way.
Some energy secretary gets a full vote of confidence in the president.
Won't be long before he's seeking job in the uh in the private sector.
Snerdley, you may not know this sturdily big cowboys fan, worried about the Cowboys Lions game on Sunday.
What's your what is your biggest concern?
Romo being hurt, what's your biggest concern?
The fact your team can't score touchdowns in the red zone.
You all right.
You mean the offensive line has no cohesion.
Well, no, the receivers nowhere to line up.
They're just they're having trouble uh catching ball, which is a fundamental requirement of a uh of a receiver.
I I'll tell you, the Lions are for real.
That they got a great coach, Jim Schwartz.
Jim Schwartz, the head coach of the Lions is a great guy, and he's a superb football coach, a defensive coordinator from the from the Tennessee Titans.
Um that defensive line of the of the Lions, if I if I'm Romo and I get a painkilling shot, I ask for a double dose.
Nadamikung Sioux is one of the most intimidating defensive linemen in the NFL today.
I don't know that the Cowboys front line, as you say, is uh they're gonna have to double team him, and they're just gonna open the pathway up for others.
I think it's it's uh it's at Dallas that's that helps.
But the Lions are gonna roll, they come a four-0 finish the season last year, one fourth straight.
They're three and oh this year.
But the Cowboys are surprising every winning games.
They're winning games.
They they beat the uh they beat the Redskins.
I think Troy Aikman, this is not gonna make you happy.
Troy Aikman said earlier this week that the Lions remind him of the Cowboys in his first couple of Years.
First year for Aikman with the Cowboys, they were one and fifteen.
By the third year, they were in the playoffs every year.
They started winning Super Bowls.
So I think a lot of people taking a lion seriously.
I'd have to look at the point spread.
That's what you want, right?
You want you no, you just want straight-up winner.
Straight up winner.
I think you're gonna I think you're gonna be disappointed.
Snerdly, I I I think uh I really don't want to see the point spread, though.
I haven't bothered to look at it, but I want to see the line.
That will tell me a lot.
Katie in Rochester, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Limbaugh.
Long time no talk.
Katie.
Katie, long time no talk, Rochester.
Katie from Michigan is back.
Katie from Michigan is let me see.
Uh f uh former former college co-ed.
Yes.
I believe the words were you immortalize me as a college student.
A college student.
And you're and you're back.
Well, to what do we owe the pleasure?
Oh, well, Mr. Limbaugh, you may have received um just a few emails from people around the country telling you that um I am volunteering to be your the official EIB network correspondent to the presidential debates at Oakland University, which is the school that I went to and you helped put on the map from all my communism class woes and that saga.
So I am in shock that my little liberal school is having the presidential debates there and When is that debate?
It's going to be November 9th.
I believe it's a Wednesday.
You're you're gonna let you know.
Are you the one that had the communism class?
Yes, sir.
All right, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I remember you were gutsy.
You were very gutsy and courageous here, I remember you.
So you want to I I I haven't changed because back when we talked during the election about Obama and I had people calling me asking what you thought about things.
You said use the opportunities and the platforms you have while you have 'em.
So I thought, you know what?
Let's be gutsy again and tell Mr. Limbaugh that I am ready to go, and I'm the perfect person to, you know, give a little take on the GLP debates if I can get myself in there.
Well, what would what would uh how what do you mean get yourself in there?
You just show up and get in there.
Well, I mean I I would assume I'd have to have media credentials.
Oh, wait a minute.
No, I get it.
I get it.
You you want to be able to get in there by saying you are the EIB network correspondent.
Why, yes, sir.
You want credentialed uh and you want.
That's it.
You want you want me to help you get credentials so you can get in there, and then after that you want to call here the next day and report what happened.
Of course, because you you know as well as I do, we cannot uh depend on the mainstream media to give us the true.
No, I but it's going to be on television.
Katie, I don't want to deflate you here.
Uh but it's it it's going to be on television.
And we will be we will be watching it on on television.
I have I haven't yet needed a correspondent to tell me what I know.
Well, I just thought that I know it'll be on television, but like that day, um, you can get my view of things from being there, especially since I was a student there, and you know, everyone knows Katie from Michigan is from Oakland University.
And just to have another perspective from someone who's not in the media to, you know, add a little flavor to the whole debate.
Wait a minute now.
Everybody knows Katie from Michigan.
Oh, trust me.
You should be.
Everybody knows Katie How have you managed that, Katie?
Because all thanks to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Oh, it's me, I did it.
I it's all thanks to you.
People still call me people still are like, oh, wait.
You're Katie from Michigan.
Okay, Katie, look, I have to run here.
I got an obscene profit timeout, but I'm gonna uh you stay on hold and I'll have Snerdley ask you what what has to happen here.
We I've I don't have reporters, and I don't know I've never asked for credentials for even myself.
Uh so I don't really know what needs to be done here to get you credentialed.
And then I have to.
Yeah, let's get in this new territory together.
We can make it happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's all we and I then I have to decide w I just gotta be honest here with with Katie.
I I have to I have to decide what or not I want uh on site reports during the day of what's going on before the debate.
But in the meantime, while we hash this all out, you uh stay on hold.
Snerdley will will get your vitals and uh you you tell him what's necessary here to get credentialed and we'll see.
Whatever know.
This is the you're okay.
Thanks for the call, Katie.
It's great to hear from you.
You too.
Thank you.
All right.
That's everybody, uh Katie, Katie from Michigan, everybody.
Katie Katie from uh everybody knows her.
And uh we'll f I get this is open line Friday, folks.
This is what this is what happens.
We'll see what comes together with this.
All right, brief time out, as I said, sit tight and we'll be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
Okay, I looked at it.
Um straight up picking the cowboys, Sturdley.
Picking the cowboys straight up.
I hope I hope that makes you feel better.
By the way, uh a lot of people want to know well, you have you picked a winner yet, Rush?
Yeah.
We have the latest sweepstakes winner, two if by tea.
The uh the person to whom we are going to personally deliver the tea.
Yes.
But we're not ready to announce it yet.
I mean, we did it's it's a random selection, but we've got to do the background stuff and all that.
We've got to make so we're we will we we have notified the other winners.
We call them on Wednesday.
Uh and it normally these people, their answering machines pick up and we just leave a voice message.
But I I think now now they're expecting us to call because every damn one of them picked up.
And so we talk to them for about 10 or 15 minutes each.
It's fun.
It's it's amazing.
You people in this audience are the are the greatest people.
You know, down to earth, genuine real people.
And you know, every one of our sponsors that is a direct response client tells me that.
We have a meeting with them.
They are just uh uh blown away with how polite, uh decent, just down to earth everyone in this audience is that they meet and interact with.
And we found that too with our two if by tea winners, but the grand prize winner has been picked.
Uh when we have made the announcement, when we have called the winner ourselves, is when we uh will tell you who it is and where.
But you didn't win it.
The odds are, so that you need to focus on the next one coming up.
We've got trips to Las Vegas, we all kinds of stuff coming up between now and the end of the year, as our ongoing two if by tea sweepstakes contests continue.
So just be patient.
We don't we'll we'll roll these out in conjunction with Republican debates and other political events, because of course, two if by tea, we're trying to, you know, tell everybody liberals are coming.
Rush Revere.
Who's next?
Open line Friday, Kristen in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Um happy Friday.
Same same to you.
Thanks very much.
Thanks.
Um I was calling, I recently read that um the SIU is trying to organize um or trying to unionize self-employed daycare workers.
That's right.
That's been going on for quite a while.
Yeah, and I was wondering how is that possible to unionize if you're self-employed.
If you vote, if you can be thugged into it, if you can be intimidated, it is what card check is uh is is all about.
If you can be persuaded, if you can be convinced that this is the best way for you to go.
I mean, these these people have um should I say powerful, influential techniques.
And I don't there's there's nothing in the law that that uh that would stop them from trying to organize daycare workers.
Who do they uh unionize against if um they're not being they're they're they're in this case they'd be unionizing against the oppressive parents who are not paying them a fair wage.
Um and this would be a way of uniting and organizing all daycare workers into a single group where the the salary wages would be set and uh penalties and so forth.
Simp.
And you negotiate with the state is what would happen.
It put the state in charge of your uh uh uh work.
It would that you know you you say self-employed, but you then would actually become an employee of the state.
That's what they're trying to do.
They're just trying to swell the number of people that pay dues.
This is just an attempt to end up with more money in the Democrat Party.
That's all this is.
S SEIU local, I think it's 284s in charge of daycare workers.
And they're trying to turn them into state employees, pure and simple.
Now you're saying, well, how can he do that?
That's who liberals are.
That's this is who we're dealing with.
They would organize every group of people and unionize them if they could.
Oh, there's a story up on Fox News.
Rush Limbaugh pokes fun at first ladies' trip to Target.
Already in the news.
What did I say?
All I said was, what is she doing buying Lysol for the White House?
Oh, I did say she was dressed up like Lady Gaga.
Maybe that's what got them.
Well, what a great week of broadcast excellence, folks.
And another, see, I told you so from the political Warren Buffett, not completely on board with Obama's jobs plan.
Um it it look at the two interpretations of this, but apparently Warren Buffett doesn't want tax increases on as many rich people as Obama does.
And he's not really crazy about having his name associated with a tax increase.
Anyway, have a great weekend, folks, and we will be back here on Monday, revved up and ready to go.
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