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Oct. 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 6, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back.
Great to have you here on the EIB Network.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Phone number 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
On CNN, they asked the audience, why did Steve Jobs drop out of college?
It was a multi-choice question.
A, was a job offer.
B, it was too expensive.
C, to create a software company.
Of course, the right answer was B, it was too expensive.
He quit.
But this is what Jobs said about why he dropped out of college.
I couldn't see the value in it.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college is going to help me figure that out.
Here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life, so I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay.
Looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Yep.
Worried about wasting his parents' money.
If this had been a normal day, if this had been a normal, typical, busy broadcast day, this is the story I would have led with.
Right here.
And standby audio soundbite number one.
Story is from the Houston Chronicle.
Talk about your Monday from hell.
Not only did Bridget Nickerson Boyd's car break down on her way to work, but when she pulled over to the side of the freeway, a sheriff's deputy pulled behind her, wrote her a ticket for driving on the shoulder, decided to arrest her, followed her to the hospital when her suddenly racing heart prompted a call to paramedics, then took her into custody again after she was treated by doctors and finally drove her to jail.
Wait.
To make matters worse, Bridget Nickerson Boyd claims in a lawsuit that the handcuffs were put on her wrists painfully tight and that she was forced to listen to conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh make derogatory comments about black people all the way to the jail.
Bridget Nickerson Boyd is African American because of the incident which occurred on October 4th of 2010.
And we're just now learning of this.
Bridget Nickerson Boyd filed a lawsuit Monday, federal lawsuit against the deputy and Harris County alleging defamation, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
That's where I come in.
According to the lawsuit filed in Houston, Deputy Goad was aware that Boyd had not committed a crime and her arrest was without probable cause.
The magistrate who saw her while jailed apparently agreed and dismissed all the charges.
Spokesman for Sheriff Adrian Garcia declined to comment on a lawsuit.
We have an audio soundbite on this.
This is a montage of Houston television stations and anchors talking about the woman suing Houston police because they forced her to listen to me.
We haven't heard this one before.
She complains a deputy forced her to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
She's suing for mental anguish.
Handcuffed and forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Was forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh, quote, make derogatory remarks about black people through the deputy's radio on the way to jail.
To torment her, he made her sit in the back of his patrol car listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Now, it sounds like the way this thing got reported down there that that was the number one offense.
Not the handcuffs.
This woman don't know how lucky she is.
What a great opportunity she had.
Forced with derogatory comments about black people.
We don't make derogatory comments about black people.
We make derogatory comments about liberals.
According to her Facebook page, Bridget Nickerson's Boyd, Nickerson Boyd's favorite TV shows are Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow.
No surprise there.
So I don't know about Jerry Springer.
He's not mentioned.
Wouldn't doubt it, though.
Derogatory comments about black people.
Forced to listen.
Emotional distress.
Willful.
You know, the AP, folks, the AP has given up trying to sugarcoat the unemployment news.
They've given up.
They've just quit.
They've just resigned.
No longer are the results surprising or unexpected.
Really?
Christopher Rugaber.
The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, a sign the job market remains weak.
Weekly applications increased by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 401,000, the labor department said today.
The modest gain comes after applications plummeted by 33,000 the previous week, which were revised and changed.
It wasn't that anyway, as usual, the previous week's number had not plummeted quite so much since it was quietly revised up by 5,000.
So in 33, it was 28.
The drop partly reflected technical difficulties with the departure seasonable adjustment process.
And it says a slumping economy has led many employers to pull back on hiring.
No surprise, no unexpected.
They just, I can just see it in the AP newsroom.
They throw up their heads.
Ah, damn it.
It's not worth the effort anymore.
Just report the numbers and move on.
You can read it.
Mr. Rugaber here, you can read.
He's just exhausted with trying to put a game face on this.
Because, of course, there's nothing surprising about this.
I have, I think, folks, the regime wants to run against Mitt Romney.
That's what I think.
When do you think, here's what I'm thinking.
When do you think these astroturf protests were first talked about?
This Occupy Wall Street thing.
How long have they been in the works, do you think?
I have been asking myself this because this is not spontaneous eruption here.
This is a well-thought-out plan.
It's just like, remember, back during the debate on an illegal immigration bill, miraculously, something like a million people showed up someplace, or 100,000 showed up, Los Angeles or wherever.
And we were told, yeah, there's genuine passion out there.
No, it was all structured.
It was organized just as this is.
What'd you say?
Pretty low turnout.
You think it's low turnout?
If it's organized, well, well, it um well, that's because they haven't made enough sleeping bags yet.
Yeah, there's only 250 people sleeping there at night, but that's that's because they refuse to buy.
They're not going to engage in capitolism.
So 500 during the day.
Is that all?
Because it's being made to look like 50,000.
Some of these aerial shots, it's being made to look like 50,000.
I still say it's organized, and that's even there's no question it's organized.
And if all they can drum up is 500 people, then the whole thing's a sham anyway.
It means they're really having to.
Now we got to look how many people are being paid to show up down there.
There's George Soros money behind this.
Anyway, forget the numbers.
Don't sidetrack me here.
I got a brilliant point.
What do you think spawned this?
How long have these protests been talked about?
Three months ago?
Five months ago?
Who was the leading, who has been the leading Republican for most of the primary season until the debates?
Romney, exactly right.
Perry was a recent entrant.
Bachman was a surprise winner in the Hawkeye straw poll.
It's always, even you talk to people today, it's still Romney is the de facto nominee.
In fact, there are people within the Republican establishment, I can tell you this, who are trying to convince others.
Since Bill Crystal struck out on Chris Christie, they're throwing in a towel and they're running around and they're trying to just get everybody, okay, can we just, can we pick Newt, Mitt now?
Can we just everybody unify?
We got to unify.
We got to pick somebody and do it now, do it early and get behind them 100%.
There's a movement on now to just basically give this thing to Romney right now.
People are trying to persuade others in the conservative political and media establishments.
You know, forget the debates.
I mean, they're going to happen, but let's just, let's just, it's Newt.
A Mitt.
It's Mitt.
We've got to get unified.
We don't want what to happen last time in 2008.
And so it's always been presumed that Romney was going to be the nominee.
And there's an interesting coincidence.
Romney is Wall Street.
Bain Capital.
Hedge Fund, I think it was.
Someone's an investment firm.
Romney founded it.
Now, Romney's been the odds-on-favorite until Perry got in, and it looks like Romney may be back on top now.
You had Herman Cain, a recent gainer in the polling data.
But you note there haven't been any media hits on Romney.
There have been all kinds of media hits on Perry.
A lot of media hits on Bachman.
A lot of media hits on even Herman Kane now.
There aren't any media hits on Romney.
Have you noticed this?
Well, have I missed some?
There aren't any media hits on Romney.
And, yeah, they're letting him go.
He's untouched.
He's unscathed.
I have been thinking a lot about Wag the Dog.
I bought that movie about a month ago because I hadn't seen it in a long time.
And there were things happening.
We had a caller who suggested that some things happening at the time, I forget what, reminded him of Wag the Dog.
I knew Wag the Dog was the phony creation of a war using television to convince people that a war was going on so they'd support it, fund it, and help a politician get re-elected, president, incumbent president get re-elected by defending the country, showing a flag, and this kind of thing.
There was no war.
It was all fake.
And I remember there was a scene.
Some government Secret Service agents or Department of Justice officials are following Robert De Niro around.
De Niro is the director of the war.
And they follow him, I think, into a coffee shop.
And okay, look, it was fun for a while, but we're not at war.
The United States is not at war in whatever fake country it was.
And De Niro said, of course we are.
I saw it on TV this morning.
Now, Mr. Suzanne, you know, there's no war.
What do you mean there's no war going?
We got t-shirts.
People are wearing t-shirts.
People are wearing them.
They're carrying signs.
People are waving the flag court.
I saw it on TV.
You tell me there's no war going on.
It's on television every day.
So I got to thinking here a lot about Wag the Dog because I think this Wall Street thing's been cooking for a while.
It's not organic.
It has a purpose.
And what would be a fleshed-out script, if this are a Wag the Dog code, bigger than just the Tea Party, would have to be a part of it.
Bigger than the Tea Party.
Have to treat it with far more reverence and respect than the Tea Party.
It had to be going on in a lot of cities and have the illusion that it is spreading.
Starts in Wall Street, then next place it's in Detroit, then it's in L.A., then the next day, even Washington.
And the illusion that it's growing is all you need is 250 people and a compliant media.
And as far as working on TV, there's a giant protest going on.
But as you point out, in terms of the real numbers, it isn't giant.
But the media is acting like, oh, huge numbers of disaffected, disappointed people.
The one thing they forgot was to recruit some minorities.
This is 99% white, and people starting to ask questions.
Where's the diversity?
So it's bigger than Tea Party.
It purpose is to re-elect Obama.
He needs crowds.
He's not drawing enthusiastic crowds when he speaks anymore.
He got another bus tour going back to North Carolina, going back to those 153 bridges that are about to collapse.
Gonna go to Virginia.
The bus tour, he's as F. Chuck Todd, you shouldn't see F. Chuck Todd asking this question.
F. Chuck Todd's in the front row, and he's almost, you got to give him credit.
He asked the question, but boy, it was, he looked embarrassed and scared and like he wanted to run out of there as soon as he mr. Basically what he asked him is, are you concerned people aren't listening to you anymore?
I mean, you're asking to call Congress, but nobody's calling Congress.
I talk to people, the phones aren't ringing.
Are you worried about that?
So they got to create this.
They got to create the illusion that these protests are big, filled with energy, and for Obama because nothing is happening spontaneously.
No knockout stories at Romney.
The smear of Perry, no accident.
Protests are needed because the economy sucks.
And these washouts would normally be protesting a Republican president who was responsible.
Now they're targeting Wall Street as if Wall Street's responsible for the failure of Obama's policy.
This is my point.
They're trying to blame the rich for these economic problems when it's Obama.
And they're targeting Romney as a Wall Street guy.
So I think part of the reason this was concocted was to take Romney out after seeing to it that he's the nominee.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks, because I'm really up close to the limit on the who's next on the EIB network.
Lon in Tampa, Florida.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
How are you doing, my friend?
Very well.
Thank you.
You are on a roll.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for taking my call again.
I wanted to get right to the point.
The point is that you had mentioned in your first hour of your program that the press hasn't been asking Obama any questions about Fast and Furious.
There was one.
Right.
An indirect reference to it.
It wasn't really a full-blown question.
He ignored it.
Okay.
Well, I was listening to my news between your hours, and they were saying they did ask him, and he said he knew nothing about it, and that Holder knew nothing about it, and that he had the utmost confidence in Eric Holder.
And the point is, is that I think this should be like the tax evasion charge against Al Capone.
I think this is the tip of the iceberg.
And I think we need to have an investigation because the truth doesn't matter.
It's a seriousness of this charge.
Exactly right.
Daryl Issa, I think, is serious about looking at their emails have surfaced.
That reporter for CBS can't be found.
Her last interview with Laura Ingram is the last thing anybody ever heard from her.
CBS will not grant anybody permission to talk to her, and they won't tell.
I think somebody will drive by Cheryl Atkinson's house.
I am so relieved.
I've just been told that Cheryl Atkins has been found.
She actually filed a story today at 12:30 on Obama's denials, knowing anything about Fast and Furious, and his full-fledged support of Eric Holder, about whom and in whom he has total confidence.
Sean in Houston, you're next.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You better speak to you.
I wish I had a profound political question to ask you, but since I'm a student, I can answer most of those on my own.
My question for you is: I've been using PCs and recently had one that broke, and we're looking at maybe going to a Macintosh.
And I was wondering, is it hard to make the transition for the operating system?
Is it easy to use?
No, yeah, it is easy to use.
The Windows operating system is a copy of the Mac, so there are some differences.
I run Macintosh would allow you to run Windows, by the way, with a program called Parallels.
And you can set up a desktop on a Macintosh.
You can have multiple desktops, and one of those desktops that you can switch to anytime you want to.
You can run Windows if you want to.
I do because I have a security program that the best security program I can find is actually a Windows program.
It doesn't require any input.
It's just a display program.
So I run Windows on one of my desktops.
I know a lot of people have gone from PC to Mac with no trouble whatsoever.
That's good.
I don't know that I would necessarily want her to use Windows.
I'm not really happy with the latest versions of Windows, so that's another reason we were able to get it.
There aren't any latest versions.
Well, that's the whole point.
Everything with Windows is next year, next 18 months.
Their version of the iPad is just stick with us.
It's coming.
Look, you know, I'm an Apple evangel.
What kind of Macintosh are you looking at getting?
Have you researched it?
Not a whole lot of research.
I was thinking about the MacBook Pro, I believe it is.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, I'll send you one.
I have a prize closet here of Mac stuff.
Oh, wow.
Do you have?
Have you ever used, I'm not going to give you one.
Have you ever used an iPad?
No, I haven't.
My niece has an app.
Well, I'll tell you what.
Go play with it now and then, and you'll get a head start on the new Mac OS X Lion.
They've incorporated a lot of what's in the iOS into the latest desktop and laptop systems.
So, yeah, it's cool.
It's going to blow you away.
The things you can do with the trackpad on this thing, there's no mouse anymore.
It's all done on a trackpad.
And you'll love it.
You'll absolutely love it.
You hang on here, and Snerdley will get the address we need to send it to you.
Well, FedEx it out.
You'll have it tomorrow.
Okay, thank you so much, Rush.
What?
What do you mean, scammed?
I don't care if I was scammed.
I love giving the stuff away.
I couldn't care less if I was scammed.
Did you just scam us here?
Sean?
what'd he say sean are you sean are you there not You didn't call here trying to trick me into giving you a computer?
No, sir.
I had an HP laptop that broke on me here a little while back, and my wife and I were talking about upgrading to a Macintosh.
That's all.
And I just wanted to know.
Snurdley thinks you're taking advantage of my generosity.
He's very protective.
Absolutely not.
I wouldn't dream of it.
All right.
Well, I don't care.
I don't care if you are.
I love sharing this stuff.
I told you I'm an evangel for this stuff.
If you want this way, this won't cost you anything if you don't like it, but I guarantee you you're going to like it.
I guarantee you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
What size do you want, 15 or 17?
It doesn't matter.
Yes, it does.
Happy to get either one.
Okay.
Well, then we'll just throw a dart in there wherever it lands.
We'll give you that one.
Okay, thank you.
I got a wall full of them.
So hang on here.
Snerdley, give your address, and we'll FedEx it out.
You'll have it tomorrow.
Thank you, sir.
You're more than welcome.
See, he sounded really excited.
What do you mean, scammed?
Linda in Pittsburgh.
Hello, and welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to talk about these kids that are at Wall Street protesting.
A lot of them, my husband goes to school.
He went back to college, and he has all these lib professors.
Yep.
And they're like being told to go do that stuff.
Yeah.
And like the kids that are in the sciences and the calculus and stuff like that, they get it.
They get, you know, that they're working and putting themselves through school.
The kids that are going for free, they just listen to anything they're told to do and they do it.
They are obedient.
You're exactly right.
They are obedient.
Not so much to their, well, maybe even to their parents.
Know, you know how cockeye their parents are, but they clearly are obedient to their mentors and teachers.
Well my, my husband gets in the professor's faces all the time and when he gets out of class, the kids actually come up and thank him.
Good, that's great, that's so.
Um, I I just think a lot of these kids are misguided, and I don't think their parents, You know, care what they're doing.
Oh, they clearly are ill-educated, uneducated.
There's no question of it.
If you want to feel sorry for them, go ahead.
They have been, the education aspect of their lives has been totally wasted.
They've been brainwashed, indoctrinated.
They have been encouraged to hate.
They have been encouraged to resent.
They have been encouraged to be happy with the suffering of others.
It's really sick stuff.
And parents probably paid tens of thousands of dollars for this to happen.
And the parents probably happy to get them out of the house for a while anyway.
Let them go make trouble somewhere else.
I appreciate the call, Linda.
Thanks much.
I got a whole stack on this.
There's some hilarious stuff.
LA Times, Occupy Wall Street wins over union backing more protesters.
Teachers, nurses, veterans, and seniors are among the several thousand to join the anti-greed movement's largest march yet.
In a sign that it is shifting from a loose-knit fringe group to a block that could draw in mainstream America.
Mainstream.
There's no way this is going to draw in mainstream America.
It's hard because there's so many issues at stake, said Melanie Hamlet, 33, when asked what her main gripe was.
It's hard, but it all comes down to money, she said.
Hamlet had come from her home in New Paul's, Pennsylvania to take part in Wednesday's protest.
She spoke from Zuccotti Park, where dozens of Occupy Wall Street supporters have been camped out since September 17th.
Yeah, I've been waiting for this to happen for years.
Finally, an awakening, she said, as a group of protesters meditated.
Behind her, a topless woman with a black mustache painted on her upper lip moved through the crowd, her particular gripe unclear, but her presence welcomed by a movement that prides itself on turning nobody away.
So a topless babe with a mustache is going to draw in mainstream America.
I don't think that would even draw in snurdly.
Then from the Boston Globe, college students join Occupy Boston protest.
Organizers say they were inspired by the Arab Spring.
This is utterly hilarious.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association also called on its members to join the Occupy Boston protests.
Organizers have said they are inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions in Africa and the Middle East.
Victoria Porrell, 19, in her third year of study at Northeastern, hadn't participated in a major protest before today.
Now she's an organizer at a walkout on campus.
I think like now the system right now, like when 1% of the country controls, you know, like X percent of the wealth, like it just isn't in line with, you know, our basic Democrat principles, she said.
To critics who say that Occupy Boston is unfocused without cohesive demands, she compares it to the Tea Party movement.
Can you identify your core demands in a few statements?
She asked, besides, she said high unemployment, income inequality are looming large for her generation.
CBS News, thousands marched to City Hall as part of Occupy Wall Street.
Most of those were for disorderly conduct, about a dozen arrests, but at least one arrest was for assaulting a police officer.
So the occupiers are assaulting cops.
That's you don't see the Tea Party doing that, and that's not going to attract mainstream Americans.
So the cops are pepper spraying some of these.
Has a Tea Party ever been pepper sprayed?
Don't believe so.
Yeah.
Bad best have been beat up.
The black guy was beat up here on St. Louis, the SEIU.
Christian Science Monitor, Occupy Wall Street.
If protesters don't list demands, will they get anything?
Listing every progressive concern of the 21st century plus college is a basic human right.
This story lists all those demands I read for you the other day, including get rid of all debt.
And they're saying that groups of people should stay away.
Don't come as a member of a group.
Come as an individual.
And in the Hill blog briefing room, Democrats rally behind Occupy a Wall Street protest movement.
Raul Grihalva, Democrat Arizona, Keith Ellison, Democrat Minnesota, John Larson, Barbara Lee, all the socialists in the House have gotten behind us.
Many, I think, the critical black Caucasians in some cases, members of the Congressional Black Caucasians have supported us.
Seems like more House Democrats have endorsed this thing than have co-sponsored Obama's jobs bill.
And if you run the numbers, I think that's going to be true.
More Democrats in Congress are endorsing this thing than Obama's jobs bill.
Who is it?
Barbara Lee.
And she's the head of the Congressional Black Caucasians.
Barbara Lee, it used to be James Clyburn, but he abdicated, turned it over to Barbara Lee.
You know, James Clyburn has a daughter named Minyong, as in Philae Mignon.
M-I-G-N-O-N.
I'm assuming that's how her name's pronounced.
Minyong Clyburn.
Hmm?
Wow, Mignon Clyburn.
Now, names, there is a reason parents name their kids things.
What would be the reason behind naming your daughter after a steak?
You know, I was wrong.
I guess Obama did answer the question about Fast and Furious today, because I just checked it and looked at a video of it.
And I have to tell you something.
I heard the question being asked, and he took, there is a two-parter and he took the other part of it first.
So I tuned it was doing something else.
But the way he answered this question on Fast and Furious, if you just found out, which is what he claimed, he didn't even know anything about it.
So he gets this question.
If you just found out that a department in your administration was running an illegal operation and people were killed, would you react the way Obama did today?
200 people are dead because of this Fast and Furious operation, you know, walking guns from American gun stores into the hands of drug cartel thugs who then turned around and used the guns and murdered people.
And they claim, yeah, we wanted to find out who the cartel thugs were.
No, they wanted to Assault the Second Amendment.
So 200 people are dead.
Obama acted as if nothing happened.
He said he didn't know about it, and Holder didn't know about it.
No big deal.
His reaction to this was really bizarre.
Given what's known about this, no big deal.
I didn't know about it.
No, no, no curiosity about it.
It's clear this thing is something they want to try to sweep away.
Bob Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television.
Cal Thomas has a column about his appearance on Fox News Sunday.
And he's not happy with Obama.
And Bob Johnson is African-American.
You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success.
I grew up in a family of 10 kids.
First one to go to college.
I've earned my success.
I've earned my right to fly corporate if I want to.
Attacking me is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger tax hit because I happen to be wealthy.
Doesn't mean I'm a bad guy.
I went into business to create jobs and opportunity, create value for myself and investors.
And that's what the president ought to be praising, not demagoguing.
Simply because Warren Buffett says he pays more in taxes than his secretary.
This is Bob Johnson with a split from Obama.
He doesn't like being insulted this way.
He doesn't like being blamed when people like him are the solution.
Politico posted a picture of Steve Jobs on their website today because he died.
You want to hear the caption their picture?
Steve Jobs met repeatedly with Barack Obama to burnish the president's tech cred.
That's media bias for you.
Link jobs to Barack Obama.
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