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Oct. 5, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 5, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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All righty.
Yeah, show prep never stops, folks.
Even while executing assigned host duties flawlessly and I do the assigning, the learning never stops.
Now I'm serious.
Thirty years ago, 25 years ago, the children.
We must do it all for the children.
Okay.
Well, the little schlubs have grown up, and they're down in Wall Street and they're debating and agonizing over whether to sew their sleeping bags.
You know, my question for why do you need sleeping bags?
I thought global warming was taking place.
What do you mean it's gonna get chilly?
You stupid idiots.
Sorry.
Dial it back rush.
Folks, I'm sorry, you know, I just get passionate about this.
I I um I just don't suffer fools very well.
And my mom always told me not to laugh at people dumber than me.
That makes it I don't laugh very much if I follow what she says.
I sometimes I can't help it.
As bad as I try, as much as I try to live the life my mother raised me to live, sometimes I just can't help but laughing at these people.
And if I don't laugh at them, I'm just gonna get mad.
And what's the what's the point of that?
Thirty years ago, do it for the children.
There they are.
Well, if that's if that's what we created, all that stupid coddling and conflict resolution classes and self-esteem classes, then we are punked.
But thankfully, folks, these people, this this this is this is not spontaneous and it's a it's a it's a real minority, but the way these people are being treated versus the Tea Party, I'm gonna show you that here in just a second via audio sound bites.
But I labor unions are part of this move on.org is part of this.
So the labor unions now stand for socialism.
They do.
If you listen to Trumpka, if you listen to um uh son of a bitch Jimmy Hoffa.
Well, folks, call us sons of bitches.
I take it back.
I that's that's I was just trying to be funny.
It was a it was a uh inappropriate.
But they're if you listen to this all socialists.
But is that what union members believe?
Some of these union members really, they they're hard workers.
Some of the union rank and file work hard.
Some of the jobs those people have, coal miners, these is hard work.
They break their backs.
Do they do they think that their taxes ought to go to people for free college?
And free health care and guaranteed jobs?
I'm talking about the rank and file.
Do they think they ought to be breaking their backs for this spoiled rotten bunch of kids down on Wall Street?
Is that what labor union members believe?
Because their bosses are supporting it now.
Their bosses are funding it, their bosses are underwriting it.
My guess is that there is a whole lot of Reagan Democrats in these labor unions.
There are a whole lot of conservatives in these labor unions.
They've got no control over how their dues are spent.
But they do control how they vote.
And I don't think they support the welfare state like this.
They used to talk about welfare queens.
We now have welfare punks.
Thank you.
You know, you uh you Wall Street people, you uh occupy Wall Street.
What is sleeping bags?
Why not just a cardboard box?
That's been shown to work well.
You can find under these dilapidated bridges in this country a lot of people sleeping in cardboard boxes underneath them.
You know what I think we ought to do, uh ladies and gentlemen?
Call for a union tax.
And I am not kidding.
Unions are like corporations now.
They have executive management, they have boards of directors.
They have shareholders in the form of members, and they have employees in the form of staff.
And we hear all this talk about paying your fair share.
We hear all this talk about raising revenue to pay for jobs.
So why is it that large, wealthy, cash-rich organizations are exempt from paying the federal corporate income tax?
I am absolutely serious about this.
How come the unions get away with not being taxed?
Why should we accept as a given?
A policy set decades ago by the progressives giving favored treatment to unions, which are essentially just corporate entities of their own.
No, I'm serious.
Look at these people have hundreds of millions of dollars to use for politics.
Why can't they afford their fair share?
as the liberals like to call it.
No matter how many union members are out of work, Thank you.
The money is always found in the hundreds of millions to donate to Democrats.
The unions exist to fund the Democrat Party more than they exist to ensure jobs for the rank and file.
Now private sector unionization is less than 10% of the workforce.
But they have enormous clout because the government has set them up with protections, including favored tax treatment.
Well, we hear about uh oil company subsidies and other rich corporations with all their tax breaks.
So we never hear about the fact that the unions are protected, including with favored tax treatment.
They're not churches, they're not shelters, they're not food kitchens, they're not charities.
Rich unions should not be protected.
Liberals want to talk about corporations and profits.
Well, how about rich unions that don't pay one penny in federal income tax, and they make lots of profit.
They shouldn't be tax exempt.
There, there.
You know what?
I think I just I just swerved into it.
I think I just found a new source of revenue the Republicans could support at the next debate.
The media and the Democrats, one and the same, constantly haranguing Republicans.
What about the revenue side?
What about the revenue side?
Okay, Romney, Perry, Santorum, Paul, I forget Paul.
Cain, whoever, Bachman, you support tax increases on the unions as corporate entities.
New source of revenue.
No reason they should be exempt.
None whatsoever.
Okay, back to audio sound bites 29-30.
I'm going to replay this one for you.
Afternoon today, CNN's newsroom, the infobabe, Randy Kay spoke with Occupy Wall Street, quote-unquote volunteer Bill Dobbs.
She said, so many, so many issues here at play.
Is the issue of unemployment so terrible?
Corporate greed, the environment, the wealth disparity.
In terms of what your group wants, at the end of the day, what do you think you can actually gain?
To try and get more people involved is a huge effort because many of us are cynical, feeling despair and angry.
And this protest has tapped into that anger.
Not only are people here because they've lost jobs, they've got really big student loan payments, but they also find when they come down to Occupy Wall Street and other protests that are beginning around the country.
They find some community and they find some joy and some hope that there's going to be a difference if more of us roll up our sleeves.
What a just that's a walk in cliche.
Right out of central casting, exactly right.
They find some community and they find some joy and some hope that there's going to be a difference if more of us roll up our sleeves.
What?
No sleeping bags, no sleeping bags, and they don't have every doctor's nurses or clean water.
They're asking for all that to be donated.
They want the doctors to donate the services, the nurses.
See, they can't pay for anything.
That's capitolist.
That's how they write it and spell it on their website.
So then the info babe said, Well, you know, some people are looking at your group, and what they see is a sort of a version of a liberal tea party.
Is that how you see yourself?
A lot of different viewpoints are represented in this crowd and our supporters around the country.
The uh idea that the next generation might do as well as some of us now is a smash dream.
So the outcry down here, right now, there isn't a central major demand or slogan.
But what it enables others to do is to bring their own issues.
What does that mean?
It enables others to bring their own issues.
What do you cook the issues?
Do you eat them?
What's the point of bringing them?
Anyway, that's how CNN treated a volunteer at the Occupy Wall Street protest.
But let's go back.
April 15th of 2009, CNN's newsroom.
Wait a second.
It's the same show.
CNN's newsroom in 2009, the infobabe is Susan Rosgen, or Rose Jen.
And she was reporting live from a Chicago Tea Party.
And here is a portion of an exchange she had with an unidentified Tea Party, a bunch of them Tea Party protesters.
And you will hear the uh infobabe Kira Phillips, the CNN infobabe, then defending the CNN correspondent Susan Rosjen, Rosgen, whatever, because I guess this gets pretty heated.
So the infobabe says to the Tea Party protester, why are you here today, sir?
Because I hear a president say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for.
Lincoln's primary thing was he believed that people had the right to liberty and had the right to.
Sir, what does this have to do with taxes?
What does this have to do with your taxes?
Do you realize that you're eligible for a $400 credit?
Let me finish my point.
Lincoln believed that people had the right to share in the fruits of their own labor.
And that government should not take it.
And we have clearly gotten to that point.
Wait, did you know that the state of Lincoln gets $50 billion out of this stimulus?
That's $50 billion for this state, sir.
I can you stop this, sir?
Hold on.
Okay, well, Kira, we'll move on over here.
I think you get the general tenor of this.
It's anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the right wing conservative network, Fox.
And since I can't really hear much more, and I think this is not really family viewing, toss it back to you, Kira.
Wow, that is the prime example of what we're following across the country there.
Yeah, you know, so that's how CNN treated the Tea Party versus how they treated the umnuts guy down at the uh Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street protest.
Sir, are you aware that the state of Lincoln gets $50 billion out of this?
The answer is, yeah, it's my money.
Where do you think the money's coming from, you idiot info babe?
We're raising taxes to give Illinois $50 billion.
Let them come up with their own money.
We're already taxed enough.
And by the way, the news media, the CNN's, they're out there hiding the worst signs that the uh Wall Street protesters are carrying around with the Tea Party.
They went so far as to even make signs up the Tea Party was not using.
And then claimed that they were.
Went out of their way to find crazy signs from the uh from the Tea Party.
Where are all the complaints?
Where are all of the complaints about the Occupy Wall Street uh racial makeup?
All these protesters are young and white.
Why are there no complaints about the lack of diversity in the Occupy Wall Street crowd?
Talent on the loan from God.
Rushlin Boy and the EIB network.
This kind, this kind of Wall Street protest has been in the back of the Obama campaign's mind for years.
You remember when Obama warned the Wall Street bankers that he was the only thing standing between them and the people with pitchforks?
Who was it that arranged for protesters to go to the homes on the front lawns of AIG executives to protest their bonuses?
Who is it that has websites and organize all of this?
None other than the Messiah.
The one Barack Hussein Obama.
Who was it who promised all the joy, wonderment and hope and change?
No cost for anything that you want, including free health care and free education.
Who was it made people think that's what was going to happen if he became president?
Barack Hussein Obama.
There's a suspected gunman on a loose in Cupertino, California, which just happens to coincidentally be where Apple Incorporated is headquartered.
And this guy has shot two or three people at his workplace at about four o'clock this morning.
It turns out that the Cupertino gunman appears in a YouTube video with the uh Reverend Jackson.
And it's also easy to understand, quite natural, YouTube has pulled that video down.
It's about the gunman accused of being the shooter in Cupertino today.
Two, maybe three people have been killed.
The subject is a producer for the San Jose Cable Access Station, Cree A TV.
His name is Sheriff Allman.
And he is seen on YouTube video interviewing the Reverend Zach at a Walter Hawkins memorial celebration.
The clip lists the Reverend Dax as executive producer and host.
It was dated September 24th, 2010.
Now what happened is that the Sheriff Allman walked into a meeting at his workplace in Cupertino, four o'clock today, Wednesday morning.
He opened fire.
Police said he also shot a woman as he tried and failed to steal her car in a parking lot.
A Hewlett Packard parking lot in Santa Clara before running into a neighborhood in nearby Sunnyvale.
This guy, Sharif Allman, has authored a book titled Saving Grace on the subject of domestic violence.
Now not clear if Sharif Allman still worked at CREATV, the cable access bunch.
He was an employee at Lehigh Permanente Cement Plant, which is a location of the workplace shooting early today.
And there's no truth to the rumor that he's ticked off that there wasn't an iPhone Vnounced.
However, he did interview the Reverend Jackson.
And YouTube has pulled the video.
Imagine that.
YouTube has pulled a bit.
I wonder did they did YouTube take down the video of the shooter interviewing uh Jesse Jackson because they were afraid that the Reverend Jackson might be blamed for this murderer?
I mean, look how Sarah Palin and I got blamed for the shooting incident Gabby Gifford's.
Maybe they're really worried here that the Reverend Jackson.
You know, who knows what the interview was?
I don't know what Reverend Jackson said to get this guy all worked up.
Maybe nothing.
But we don't know.
They pulled a video.
It's awfully suspicious out there, folks.
Bye.
You know these wall...
Do they have what are they doing?
Use the bathroom.
What are the Wall Street occupiers?
It's a good question.
You know, the only time I think about this, Snerdley is astronauts.
But I got the answer to astronauts.
They just wear long tubes.
And uh got good vacuum systems.
But the Wall Street crowd, the Wall Street occupiers, what do they do for bathrooms?
Well, no, no, no, no, you wouldn't see porta potties.
Somebody have to pay for the portability.
They probably go into Starbucks.
Find a Starbucks or I don't know what they do.
I'll tell you who they are.
They you are looking for you want to know what community organizers do.
This is it.
If you've ever wondered what Obama, this is agitation.
This is pure and simple.
Community slash this community organizing.
And these protesters are the real face of the Democrat Party's agenda.
And this unions plan to join Occupy Wall Street.
You rank and file union members.
I know you may not like me.
You may think I'm too hard on you, but you got to understand it's your leadership that I talk about.
I know a lot of you union people break your backs out there.
Some of the jobs you have are demandingly hard physical labor.
You are you really working and paying dues so your union can both join a bunch of rich white freeloaders who don't want to pay for anything?
Is that what your union ought to be doing?
Because they're going to be down there joining them.
I saw a couple union leaders today.
I forget AFL-CIO was one, but you know Jimmy Hoffa's going to send a team down there.
You know that Trumka will.
And what we have is, and these rich white spoiled brats are out there demanding that people give them things because they don't want to be capitalists and go buy it and pay for it themselves.
So no, your union dues.
They're going to fund support for these people.
I can't believe that some of the rank and file really support that and and uh work for this purpose.
You just saw a sign of the billionaires, your time is up.
What's what really?
How's that so?
What are they going to do with the billionaires?
Look at, see, now look at this.
Here's MSNBC's got a graphic of all the cities in the country where these people are protesting, as though it's great and it's big and it's worthwhile.
Uh, and MSNBC is acting in total awe of this.
Contrast it the way the Tea Party.
They've been, they have been hoping something like this would happen spontaneously, but it didn't, so they had to create it.
As I'm telling you, this is the face of the Democrat Party and their agenda, which is why Democrats can never get elected as long as they are open and honest about their real agenda.
And that's why this is gonna hurt them.
Because the average American is going to realize that listen to two minutes of this, these people want me to go to work so that I can pay taxes so that they don't have to pay for anything.
By the way, Sterkley, according to reports, I wasn't far off.
They're using restaurants at local McDonald's and other restaurants.
They're walking into these places to use the restroom.
And of course, with all the media down there, these restaurants are not gonna invoke the policies as you can't.
From the New Haven Independent, the only thing the community doesn't have is a bathroom, said infodesk staffer Kevin Schenneberger.
In the absence of any public toilets, many of the occupiers have been using a bathroom at a local McDonald's.
Now, I don't know if that's because that's New Haven, Connecticut.
I don't know if that's the Wall Street, actual Wall Street ground.
I don't know that a McDonald's down there.
Okay, so these people, these rich white, spoiled rotten jerks want everybody else to pay taxes so they don't have to pay for anything.
What do we want?
What do we want free?
We want a list it for you.
We want free speech, we want freedom of association, freedom to bear arms, free markets, freedom of religion, freedom from confiscatory taxation, private property, freedom from government smothering regulations, freedom from lawless politicians and bully bureaucrats.
We want freedom from union bosses and their demands and freedom from race baiting hacks.
We want freedom from Obamacare, freedom from cap and trade, freedom from activist judges.
We want freedom from subsidizing communist professors, incompetent teachers and spoiled brats dancing in the streets chanting incoherent slogans.
We want freedom from food police, light bulb police, salt police.
That means freedom from Mayor Doomberg.
We want freedom from the America haters who seek to destroy this society and demand that we pay for it.
That's our freedom agenda.
We want freedom from told there is a McDonald's down there.
Well, live and breathe.
There is a McDonald's down near the Wall Street Stock Exchange.
Who knew?
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, we uh, and it might have been Monday, we shared with you story, Cheryl Atkison, CBS News, found some emails that prove Eric Holder is lying.
When he said that he didn't know anything about Fast and Furious until weeks ago.
Emails prove that he was being updated on it as far back as the summer of 2010.
This is not the first time that Attorney General Holder has lied like this.
Back during the Clinton years, the end of the Clinton regime, the Mark Rich pardon was in Holder's department.
And he claimed not to know the details of Mark Rich's case as he was preparing to advocate for the pardon for Mark Rich.
He claimed I didn't really know all the stuff that Rich had done.
I just I wasn't fully informed.
He said this at his Senate confirmation hearings to be attorney general for Obama, as the Brits say.
How did he get confirmed?
Because a bunch of I'll tell you why, because a bunch of Republican judicial experts.
The people you see on TV, lawyers, Republican senators did not have the guts to say no to the first black attorney general.
This is back in the days where the Republican thought Republicans thought the only thing to do here was talk about how wonderful all of this was from an historical context.
Didn't have the guts to oppose any of this.
Didn't have the guts to thought they'd been told by their consultants, everybody else, no, no, no, do not oppose President.
Look at a country loves this man.
A country has such high hopes.
We have got to make it look like we love this man and we support everything this man wants to do.
That's so the fact that Holder was nowhere near qualified didn't matter.
So here's the story.
The fast and furious scandal, Cheryl Atkison uncovered the emails that show Eric Holder may have committed perjury.
The fast and furious scandal of which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns just keeps escalating a latest development, centers around whether or not Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the gun trafficking operation, recently released documents, say that Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on.
Holder now claims he misunderstood the question being asked.
What's more, CBS News investigative journalist Cheryl Atkison, who's been covering the scandal from the beginning for CBS, said in an interview on Laura Ingram's radio show, I guess this was uh yesterday, that the White House and Justice Department have been screaming at her for reporting the story.
In between the yelling that I received from the Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman who wouldn't put anything in writing was asking her for explanations so there'd be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said.
She wouldn't put anything in writing, so we talked to the phone, and uh she said things such as the question holder answered was different than the one he was asked, but he he phrased it, he said very explicitly the DOJ woman was just yelling at me, the guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me.
The White House guy, the uh uh jud the person at Justice Screaming At is a guy named Eric Schultz.
Um or Tracy Schmailer, and that might be the Justice Department person.
Anyway, the White House, the Justice Department yelling at the CBS reporter for reporting the story.
And folks, what did I do with this?
Obama has not been asked a question about Fast and Furious in something like uh where is this?
It's somewhere.
It's weeks.
I'll find it.
I gotta take a break.
I'll find it.
Obama has not been asked a question by the media about fast and furious in weeks.
Weeks, and now they are yelling at the reporter for CBS for reporting the story.
Justice Department and the White House regime, Beck.
Cheryl Atkinson, she used to be a CNN.
Years ago, back in the 80s, early 90s.
Uh in fact, Cheryl Atkison once invited me to be her guest at the White House correspondence dinner.
Which I graciously turned down.
She thought it would raise the roof off the place, which would have been I I want to see the CBS table.
I don't go to the thing anyway.
It'd be like showing up for a debate at Telemundo.
You just don't do it.
Now, why waste the time?
I the the people in that room hate each other, and they put that on hold.
They try to make it look like it's all hunky-dory, but all that ends up happening is conservatives and Republicans get joked about, insulted, laughed at all night long, and they sit there, oh yeah, and they laugh at themselves and they laugh at the jokes being told about them, they laugh at the insults being told about them.
Oh, because it looks like we all have to get along.
Everybody expects people to get along, and it's just uh it's a zoo.
Anyway, I was very gracious when I declined her invitation.
But that's who this is that they're yelling at.
We'll be back right after this.
This is why I call them the state-controlled media.
It has been 92 days since the White House press corps asked Jay Carney about Fast and Furious.
Ninety-two days.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's three months.
Ninety-two days.
The White House press secretary has not had a question.
The White House press secretary has not had a question.
Other people are, but the White House press secretary has not been asked a question about it in 92 days.
Step in Wichita, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Capitolus Ditto's thank you, sir.
Hey, I was wondering if you uh had thought, well, I'm sure you did think about it, but the five percent surcharge that was added to this jobs bill.
Could it just go beyond the obvious class warfare benefit and maybe it's just a clumsy attempt to of read to elicit more Republican opposition to the bill, something they can uh beat us over the head with later.
Well, I think, yeah, I think the the whole point of this bill is to uh illustrate Republicans as protecting the rich, not caring about people's jobs or bridges uh or their kids or any of the sorts.
So you you raise a tax Five percent tax on the millionaires and billionaires, yeah.
Right, but that that opposition was already there.
I'm just wondering if the if the five percent couldn't possibly have been a way to actually sabotage the bill even more to make sure that uh there was no way that there could be another It's not gonna pass.
There's no way it's it's not in t.
Well, mm no, I didn't think it was gonna pass either, but after uh McConnell did his little buff calling Reed's bluff, I mean he has to figure out some way.
I'm not saying he's doing it very well, but he's uh got to figure out some way to make it harder for the Republicans to call his bluff again.
Um I don't think they well wish I had more time.
I really gotta go.
I don't know that they're gonna call this bluff again.
I think, remind me, we're going to pick this up tomorrow because I literally don't have any time right now.
Bye.
Ba-do-ba-ba-do-le-be- Thank you.
So the last caller is questioned.
Look, the Democrats just want to set it up so that the Republicans are seen to be defending millionaires and billionaires.
Literally.
That's that's what Dingy Harry's move is all about.
They think that's brilliant optics.
I think most Americans are now way too sophisticated uh to see that for what it is.
This is not twenty or thirty years ago when this kind of stuff worked all the time.
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