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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, everywhere I look, Drudge even has a headline on it.
The left to Democrats to 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.
Now, let's get these people.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And we've got one big exciting hour to go, serving humanity simply by showing up.
Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB microphone.
And Open Line Friday means you get to talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at EIBnet.com.
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 Biteme was Veep, when Cheney was, but I've been there.
So it's understandable that given Hispanic Heritage Month, the guests included about 100 Hispanic veterans, active duty service members, 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 al-Alaki 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, Snerdley, 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.
Due process.
That's what Ron Paul said.
Here, grab audio 7 by 27.
This is Manchester, New Hampshire this morning at a campaign event.
Ron Paul talking to reporters about the death of the American-born Anwar Al-Olaki.
Reporters said overnight, Al-Alaki was killed, confirmed by the U.S. government.
What do you think about that?
Is that a victory for President Obama?
Al-Laki was born here.
He's an American citizen.
He was never tried or charged for any crimes.
Nobody knows that he ever killed anybody.
We know that he might have been associated with the underwear bomber.
But if the American people accept this blindly and casually, that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad.
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 that they refer to him as American born, isn't this obvious?
In the first place, I'm not going to read his bio to you.
I mean, we only have an hour left here, and I don't want to bore you.
No, there's nothing American about the guy.
If you go through the bio, and I'm really not going to take the time to 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 is, see?
See, 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 an attempt to blunt the notion that all terrorism originates in the Middle East.
American-born.
There have been a bunch of these American guys, and the fact that they were American-born, in some cases raised, is always front and center.
Yeah, it's a fascinating thing.
Chris Christie's weight.
They're all out there talking about it.
Well, it's a bad, Fritz, a bad example.
What's his energy level going to be?
We've 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 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 I looked at a movie, they got a screener copy of a movie called Killer Elite.
Well, I guess I got it last week sometime.
Did you see it?
Yeah, it's a fascinating story, and it's an action shoot-'em-up, but 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 a British action adventure guy, Transporter?
Star?
Transporter.
Yeah, a guy in Transporter.
So it's got a good cast.
You know, that's what intrigued me about it.
And I figured, okay, it's 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 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 an Omani oil sheik who had six months to live.
Now, the sheik, the sheikh, wanted revenge on British security and intelligence people who had killed three of his four sons.
So he wanted blood for blood.
And what he didn't know, and this is the book here that this is all based on is called The Featherman.
It's yeah, and this is the book that purports to be true, but nobody knows if it is.
And what the Sheikh 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, and Jason Statham.
And their charge is to go kill the perpetrator, these British intelligence guys, and make it look like an accident in each incident.
The movie is, what I found fascinating about it is it's a shoot-'em-up and it's full action, but 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 the guy that's directing it, I guess, is directing his first-time full-length movie.
And there's you've got a great cast behind this thing in terms of people's reputations.
I knew nothing of the story before I was given the DVD screener, and I 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.
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 so adamantly defending to be real.
So it just added more to the intrigue of this.
Now, this oil sheikh is from Oman.
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 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's 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 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.
They're accidents.
And 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 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 of it being true or not just adds to it.
Anyway, 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, the killer elite, and they liked it.
Folks, 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, 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 of course, there's a team in British security, security 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 shake.
The assassins are trying to set it up so it's accidents that kill these guys.
And I'm not going to give it all away to you.
Now, the added factor here of whether or not it could be a true story.
And it's, as I say, 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 action-packed, special effect-oriented.
It's actually that takes 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.
Honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Well, I first started listening to you when you had your television show.
It was a long time ago, but great.
It seems like just yesterday to me that it was in 1994.
You're right.
Well, I miss being on TV, so I'm glad you have the I did okay on.
I appreciate that.
You bet.
The reason for my call is I'm listening to the spin that's coming out of the administration on Solyndra, and I thought I would give you a different take on this from someone who's in this industry.
I've been a tech entrepreneur for a long time, been in the semiconductor industry for over 30 years, and I've made investments and been on the boards of several startup solar companies.
And the spin that I hear, which is, you know, they're blaming China for its failure, is just so far from the truth.
And there's actually a hidden story in this, and it goes to the administration's sort of war on coal and some of the other sources of power to generate power we have in the U.S.
Yeah, exactly.
And, you know, basically, the industry has known for over 10 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's competitive and actually gives you a return on investment over its 20-year expected life.
And they're nowhere near that, and China's nowhere near that.
Of course.
There's no business there.
Exactly.
So the failure of Solyndra 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 say, 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 campaign contributions back under the guys that are 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 come back to him.
At least a little of it is in the form of donations and so forth.
I smell a giant rat with all of this.
I think the last thing anybody was actually trying to do here was create solar panels.
Well, you're exactly right.
And the other part of this is what they're trying to do to restrict coal and natural gas.
Because in the U.S., our cost per kilowatt hour right now is about 10 cents on an average.
Yeah.
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 nuclear, 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 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.
We've got 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, donors, contributors to Obama.
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 are 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.
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 outfit's getting $737 billion.
Solar energy plant, they're going to create 55 permanent jobs.
It's going to cost in the neighborhood of between $16 and $22 million per permanent job if the business works.
And this is said to be advanced thinking, forward thinking.
It's the new way.
It's clearly not about energy.
It's not about green energy.
This is just the PR selling point to convince people to support it and not oppose it, go along with it.
It's 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 10, 99 times out of 100, 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 subsidy programs, all these solar energy outfits.
Now, this can cut two ways.
In sports, when a 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 a job in the private sector.
Snerdley, you may not know this.
Snerdley, big Cowboys fan, worried about the Cowboys Lions game on Sunday.
What is your biggest concern?
Romo being hurt?
What's your biggest concern?
In 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 know where to line up.
They're just having trouble catching the ball, which is a fundamental requirement of a receiver.
I'll tell you, the Lions are for real.
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 and defensive coordinator from the Tennessee Titans.
That defensive line of the Lions, if I'm Romo and I get a pain-killing shot, I ask for a double dose.
Nadamakung Su 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 they're going to have to double team him.
They're just going to open the pathway up for others.
It's at Dallas that helps.
But the Lions are on a roll.
They come a 4-0 finish the season last year, 1-4 straight.
They're 3-0 this year.
But the Cowboys are surprising every day.
They're winning games.
They're winning games.
They beat the Redskins.
I think Troy Aikman, this is not going to make you right.
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 1-15.
By the third year, they were in the playoffs every year.
They started winning Super Bowls.
So I think a lot of people are taking the Lions seriously.
I'd have to look at the point spread.
That's what you want, right?
No, you just want straight-up winner, straight-up winner?
I think you're going to be disappointed.
Snerdley, I think 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 Michael.
Katie from Michigan is back.
Katie from Michigan is.
Let me see.
Former college co-ed.
Yes, I believe the words were, you immortalize me as a college student.
The college student.
And you're back.
Well, to what do we owe the pleasure?
Oh, well, Mr. Limbaugh, you may have received just a few emails from people around the country telling you that I am volunteering to be your 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.
When is that debate?
It's going to be November 9th.
I believe it's a Wednesday.
Are you the one that had the communism class?
Yes, sir.
All right, okay.
None of them had good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, I remember.
You were gutsy.
You were very gutsy and courageous here.
I remember you.
So you want to be.
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.
Well, you have them.
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 GOP debates if I can get myself in there.
Well, what would what would what do you mean get yourself in there?
You just show up and get in there.
Well, I mean, I would assume I'd have to have media credentials.
Oh, wait a minute.
Now I get it.
I get it.
You want to be able to get in there by saying you are the EIB network correspondent.
Why, yes, sir.
You want credentialed, 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 know as well as I do, we cannot depend on the mainstream media to give us the true.
No, but it's going to be on television.
Katie, I don't want to deflate you here.
But it's going to be on television.
And we will be watching it on television.
I haven't yet needed a correspondent to tell me what I know.
Well, I just thought that I know it will be on television, but like that day you can get my view of things from being there, especially since I was a student there.
And 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 though.
Everybody knows Katie from Michigan?
Oh, trust me.
Everybody knows Katie from Beach.
How have you managed that, Katie?
All thanks to you, Mr. Limbaugh.
Oh, it's me.
I did it.
It's all thanks to you.
People still call.
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 you stay on hold, and I'll have Snerdley ask you what has to happen here.
I don't have reporters, and I've never asked for credentials for even myself.
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.
And then I have to decide, I'm just going to be honest here with Katie.
I have to decide whether or not I want 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 stay on hold.
Snerdley will get your vitals, and you tell him what's necessary here to get credentialed, and we'll see.
I never know.
This is that you're okay.
Thanks for the call, Katie.
It's great to hear from you.
You too.
Thank you.
All right.
Everybody, Katie, Katie from Michigan, everybody.
Katie from everybody knows her.
And this is Open Line Friday, folks.
This is what happens.
We'll see what comes together with this.
All right.
Brief timeout, as I said.
Sit tight, and we'll be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
Okay, I looked at it.
Straight up, picking the Cowboys, Sterdly.
Picking the Cowboys straight up.
I hope that makes you feel better.
By the way, a lot of people want to know, well, have you picked a winner yet, Rush?
Yeah.
We have the latest sweepstakes winner, 2F by T, the person to whom we are going to personally deliver the tea.
Yes.
But we're not ready to announce it yet.
I mean, it's a random selection, but we've got to do the background stuff and all that.
So we have notified the other winners.
We called them on Wednesday.
And normally these people, their answering machines pick up and we just leave a voice message.
But I think now they're expecting us to call because every damn one of them picked up.
So we talk to them for about 10 or 15 minutes each.
It's fun.
It's amazing.
You people in this audience are the greatest people, you know, down-to-earth, genuine, real people.
And every one of our sponsors that is a direct response client tells me that.
We have a meeting with them.
They are just blown away with how polite, decent, just down-to-earth everyone in this audience is that they meet and interact with.
And we found that too with our 2F by T winners.
But the grand prize winner has been picked.
When we have made the announcement, when we have called the winner ourselves is when we 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, all kinds of stuff coming up between now and the end of the year as our ongoing 2F by T sweepstakes contests continue.
So just be patient.
We'll roll these out in conjunction with Republican debates and other political events because, of course, 2F by T, we're trying to 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, Rush.
Happy Friday.
Same to you.
Thanks very much.
Thanks.
I was calling.
I recently read that the SIU is trying to organize 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 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 people have, should I say, powerful, influential techniques.
And there's nothing in the law that would stop them from trying to organize daycare workers.
Who do they unionize against if they're not being?
They're not union.
In this case, they'd be unionizing against the oppressive parents who are not paying them a fair wage.
And this would be a way of uniting and organizing all daycare workers into a single group where the salary wages would be set and the penalties and so forth.
And you negotiate with the state is what would happen.
It put the state in charge of your work.
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.
SEIU local, I think it's 284, is 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 they do that?
That's who liberals are.
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 Lady's 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 him.
Well, what a great week of broadcast excellence, folks.
And another C, I told you so from the political Warren Buffett, not completely on board with Obama's jobs plan.
Look, there are 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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