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Oct. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 7, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, great to have you back here.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
On Friday, let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
So who knew?
The Godfather Pizzaman is an Uncle Tom.
Well, that's what Larry O'Donnell wants us to believe.
Happy to have you with us, my friends, and we chug on into the weekend.
Open Line Friday.
One of the greatest career risks taken by a major media figure.
Why?
Because when we go to the phones on Open Line Friday, the content of the program is turned over to rank amateurs.
I am a highly trained broadcast specialist.
I know how to do this.
But Friday, the rank amateurs are lovable, by the way.
We love all of you out there.
You're adored.
But what makes it fun?
Never know what you're going to get.
This Scott Brown business, Grab Soundbites 22 and 23.
This is great.
Scott Brown, run against Elizabeth Warren for the Senate in Massachusetts.
And she made some dig about the fact that she had never taken off her clothes as he did.
He posed for Cosmo or some such thing.
And Scott Brown said, thank God, you never did.
And everybody is just wound up over this.
Warren started it with a cheap shot at a debate with Scott Brown Tuesday in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The moderator starts it.
To help pay for his law school education, Scott Brown posed for Cosmo.
How did you pay for your college education?
I kept my clothes on.
And during the interview on a radio program, one of the hosts had this little exchange with Brown.
Have you officially responded to Elizabeth Warren's comment about how she didn't take her clothes off?
Thank God.
Oh, yeah.
And now the feminazis are livid.
And why?
That's because he nailed it.
Damn right.
That's thank God.
He never took her clothes off.
And you're just not supposed to.
She can say what she wants because she's the girl.
But that was, that's a mean-spirited.
He can't say those kinds of things.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, this, nope, nope, didn't call any names.
Just said, just said, thank God.
Just said, thank God.
And everybody laughed about it.
It was great comedy because it had an element of truth in it.
Well, I mean, that's one of the requirements, I think, of good comedy.
Now, I said right before the break, I don't remember Larry O'Donnell complaining about Bill Clinton not marching for civil rights.
And of course, Bill Clinton was famous for telling stories about seeing all these black churches burn.
The stories turned out to be untrue.
Bill Clinton's mentor was a segregationist during the civil rights days.
That's J. William Fulbright, senator from Arkansas.
But here's Obama with his class warfare business and getting after Herman Kaine because his father chose to work rather than march and so forth.
Often find ourselves in the position of having to defend the rich, and a lot of people are.
Al Dore's dad, Al Gore's dad was a segregationist too.
Al Gore Sr.
Well, a lot of those Democrats back there were segregationists.
But we're not for the rich, and none of you ought to feel the need to have to defend the rich if you get nervous, although I don't have any problem with it.
Some people get nervous having to do it.
But what we are for is allowing people to become rich if they want to.
We want a country that permits it.
We want a country where it's possible.
We want a country where there's all kinds of Steve Jobs is running around.
We want a country where you're free to become whatever you want or to be as little as you want.
Your life.
We don't believe a bunch of central planners ought to live it for you.
We don't believe that wealth is only permissible in certain places, like Hollywood, or with trial lawyers or union bosses or crony capitalists.
You know, the left doesn't have a problem with wealth in certain places.
They love Hollywood riches and they love their union bosses having wealth and interminable pension plans and so forth.
But we don't believe that wealth is only permissible in certain sectors.
When you get down, you look at the presidential campaign.
The truth of the matter is: Barack Obama can't hold a candle to any of the Republican candidates.
This is not about who marched, when, and where, or for what.
It's about who should be president.
Obama has no credentials.
He's got none.
There was nothing in Obama's past to recommend him for this job.
There was no qualifications.
It was two books, and he was acceptable because of the way he spoke and the color of his skin to the left.
All of that stuff mattered to the left.
His record, there wasn't one.
All the votes for president when he was a senator in the Illinois State Senate, United States Senator, where he showed up for less than 150 days.
Herman Cain, on the other hand, has tons of credentials, and that goes for all of the GOP candidates.
Ronald Reagan created more jobs, including in the black community, than Obama ever has or ever will.
But liberals never liked Reagan, and they love Obama.
Go figure.
So all these people are being stoked from the White House.
And Joe Bitney, the vice president, is out there also stoking these people, these Wall Street occupiers.
There's already little spatters of violence that have popped up.
700 arrests, I think I read nationwide.
If these small crowds, and they are small, this is boot camp for what's coming later, mark my words.
This is just a trial run, folks, for what the regime has planned as we get closer to the 2012 election.
No, no, I'm convinced of that.
I'm convinced that they want to recreate the circumstances.
The Democrat Convention in Chicago, 1968, although not about them.
They want it about banks, big money people, whoever they can turn the wrath at.
If these small crowds of losers turn violent, market, book it today.
You can thank Obama and Biden and other Democrat politicians prodding them on.
So let's put the marker down right now.
If there's property damage or if people are inconvenienced in New York and other cities, you can thank Obama and the Democrat Party because Obama and the Democrat Party have made clear they support this.
They've made clear that they are encouraging this.
And there's evidence now that people want jobs.
There's this incredible story in the New York Times.
Some unemployed find fault in extension of jobless benefits.
Dean Tollison or Dan Tollison, a researcher and writer with a PhD in politics, has been out of work since 2009, except for brief stints as a driver.
Still, he opposes Obama's call for Congress to renew extensions on unemployment benefits.
They're going to end up spending more money on unemployment benefits while less money is coming in in tax returns, he said, suggesting the government should focus on measures that might encourage businesses to hire.
Far better to relax some of these outrageous regulations.
This is from an unemployed guy who doesn't want the extension of unemployment.
Not helpful.
Even among those struggling to find work, Mr. Tollison's not alone.
In a recent survey of the unemployed by Rutgers University, more than one in four respondents was opposed to renewing the current extended unemployment benefits.
Now, economists generally agree that unemployment benefits encourage some job seekers to delay accepting a job.
Really, you don't need economists to tell you that.
It's human nature.
And this leads to raising the unemployment rate.
Study by the San Francisco Federal Reserve last year found that the benefit extensions had increased the rate by four-tenths of a percentage point.
The rate of unemployment.
Washington Times has a story about how the White House is feeling pressure to open up work on an oil pipeline.
People want to work.
There are a lot of people in this country who want to work.
There's dignity in work.
There's a sense of purpose.
There's a definition of self in work.
There are a lot of people who don't want to sit around, be losers, and join a protest march and be wards of the state.
There are people who do want to work, and they are putting pressure on the Democrat Party, which seems to want to cobble the unemployed.
Quick break.
More of your phone calls coming up as Open Line Friday rolls on.
Back to the phones in Miami.
We go.
This is Jose.
Jose, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Welcome.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to point out something which has not been said about all these insinuations concerning Judge Thomas.
You know, the alleged impropriety arising from his wife's acceptance of money during the Citizens United decision and whatnot.
Nothing he's done, whether it be the Citizens United case or before, has not been inconsistent with his traditional philosophy.
It's not like suddenly he's made his bizarre turn out of the blue, which can only be attributed to perhaps somebody buying his, you know, changing his opinion because of money.
So where is the evidence to indicate that because there is affiliated?
Exactly.
There is no evidence.
It's the charge.
It's the seriousness of the charge.
It's all it is.
It's a flailing attempt, a common attempt of the left.
It's a smear.
This Citizens United case, that just eats them alive.
Just bugs the hell out of them.
Because it allows people that work for corporations to be involved in politics with money.
You know, the word corporation to the left is almost like the cross to Dracula.
They just go batty.
They flow the cape over their eyes and they fly away like bats.
They can't handle it.
Citizens United case was about nothing more than freedom and liberty for people to participate in the political process.
Can't have that.
But you're absolutely right.
Clarence Thomas has been entirely consistent in all of his rulings.
That's just another great example of what their real purpose here is.
It's just the seriousness of the charge.
Let's have an investigation.
Let's make it impossible for Judge Thomas to sit in this case.
Because they can't deal with legitimacy.
You realize, folks, liberalism cannot triumph on a level playing field.
It just can't.
And all the liberals know it.
By level playing field, I mean if these people just be honest with what they want, let me tell you something.
If Obama in his campaign had stated his intention to spend all this money to create all of this debt, to institute these new regulations, to target the drug companies, to have national health care where you lose your health insurance and have to be provided for by government, what do you think would have happened?
If Obama had told the country just 10% of what he intended to do, would he have been elected?
No.
He ran a campaign on total bogus premises.
Hope, change, unity, lowering the sea levels, the world loving us, all this rotgut crap that's taught in college these days instead of real stuff, conflict resolution, hope and change.
So the game has to be rigged.
Has to be.
They can't win.
Why do you think they don't let the military absentee ballots in the 2000 recount count?
You don't need me to remind you of all of the ways the left tries to rig the game because they know they're a minority.
And even when they get power, what do they do?
They govern against the will of the people because they don't have anywhere near a majority of the people with them.
If they did, Obama would be celebrated today.
Obama would be even more popular than he was when he was elected.
The independents would not have abandoned him if the country was what Obama is, but it's not.
The massive landslide 2010 elections would not have happened, folks.
You know, this next story, I'm not sure what I'm more amazed at.
The fact that a woman would knowingly post a video of herself online crying joyfully, or how many millions of you have watched this same video this past week on the web?
Sarah Sherman is her name.
She's 29 years old.
All of her life, she has lived with near-deafness.
From the time she was born, she had, I guess, about 20% hearing ability, comprehension.
Most people just naturally assume she was deaf, but she had some residual hearing.
Now, Sarah Sherman is one of many Americans this year who has received the esteem, the revolutionary hearing device.
We talk about it on this program from time to time.
And I couldn't tell you, I was so proud when she showed up on the Today Show and did this live and demonstrated hearing for the first time via this device.
And the video of it now on YouTube has gone viral.
Millions of people are watching it.
They got one thing wrong.
She was not deaf.
For the esteem to work, you have to have some hearing.
If you're 100% deaf, it won't work because it restores your natural hearing using your own eardrum.
It's a prosthetic hearing implant.
Just became available last year.
Totally invisible.
If you were to meet her today, you would not see it.
The Esteem works with her own ears, her natural hearing, to restore it to near optimum levels.
Now, the video I mentioned, you can actually see Sarah the minute the Esteem is turned on.
She can hear herself laugh for the first time.
She can hear her own voice clearly for the first time.
She's so overwhelmed by all of this, something that we all take for granted, that she starts to cry.
Now, the video is only a minute and a half long, but it's a couple Kleenex video.
She's crying and laughing so hard.
She goes through several tissues.
Her husband, Sloan Sherman, had videotaped the moment for her, and he posts it for her family and friends to see that could not be with her doctor's office, with her in the doctor's office when they turned the thing on.
So one person tells another, the video starts to go viral, and a week later, six and a half million people have seen it, or there have been six and a half million views of the video.
And what made it all possible was the esteem from Envoy Medical.
Now, you can see the video on YouTube, and we probably going to post it at rushlimbaugh.com too.
You can see the esteem at envoymedical.com, E-N-V-O-Y-Medical.com, or call them 800-518-7320.
But you should see this video the moment it's turned on for the first time in her life, she can hear.
And it's an amazing thing.
And everybody, if you've never lost your hearing, you don't, you, you know clue what it's like.
And it's just an amazing thing to see.
And it's a fabulous product.
And I was so, when I saw the video, I was, that's it.
That's the esteem.
That's our client.
That's our sponsor.
I was proud as I could be.
Because we only associate with the best.
All right, folks, we have a half hour left on the program, and I've got a fairly decent audio soundbite roster here that I want to get to, plus more of your phone calls.
We got Biden endorsing the Wall Street protests, claiming the middle class getting screwed.
We've got Biden saying the Republicans can absolutely win.
Cheryl Atkinson is alive.
CBS reporter on Fast and Furious.
Somebody went by her house.
They did find her.
She's still out there.
She says that there is much, much more to come on this.
So a lot still to do.
And we'll get to it when we get back here.
Telephone number, we got a, oh, they're all full.
Sturdy been really careful.
We've had lines open today during the program for a while because he's not letting a whole lot of people through.
We have a soundbite from this morning at the Citadel.
Charleston, South Carolina, Mitt Romney shows up there and made a speech to the cadets, and he ripped into Obama.
And the cadets at the Citadel cheered.
Let's listen.
This is America's moment.
We should embrace the challenge and not shrink from it, not crawl into an isolationist shell, not wave the white flag of surrender, nor give in to those who assert that America's time has passed.
That's utter nonsense.
An eloquently justified surrender of world leadership is still surrender.
I will not surrender America's role in the world.
This is very simple.
If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I'm not your president.
You have that president today.
I told Cookie not to edit the applause down to the usual three seconds.
So, on a line, if you don't want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I'm not your president, you have that president already.
And the cadets erupted.
So the next time somebody tells you that they think, you know, Obama's he's eased his weakness on foreign policy, think again.
Obama hasn't dissuaded anybody of his incompetence.
He hasn't dissuaded anybody who has doubts about him.
Not a soul.
People who have doubts about Obama, those doubts are multiplying and they are solidifying.
You know, I spoke to Stanley Kurtz.
I want to go back to this Olinski business.
I spoke to Stanley Kurtz for a Limbaugh Letter interview in December.
And this is one of the things he told me.
So the idea here, Obama's idea, polarize the country between the Democrats and Republicans along class lines.
How do you do that?
Well, first you attack business interests and literally drive them out of the Democrat Party and into the Republican Party.
That might sound crazy.
Why would you want to drive anyone out of your party?
But the idea is that by attacking business interests, and of course we've seen what Obama did with the Chamber of Commerce and some of his other actions, his attack on Fat Cats, his attacks on the Supreme Court during a State of the Union address over the campaign finance issue.
Once you attack business interests, the theory is you jumpstart this populist anti-business movement of the left, and those people pour into the Democrat Party.
And the idea of Obama's socialist mentors was that if you can polarize the parties almost completely along class lines, the party of the have-nots, in this case the Democrats, will gradually drift further and further towards socialism.
So when you see Obama talking about enemies, because that also activates another key part of the coalition, the theory is that you bring in activated minority groups, you ally them with the anti-business populists.
All of his attack techniques are efforts to jumpstart this populist movement of the left.
Now, Stanley Kurtz told me this.
He writes for National Review Online and other places.
He told me this in an interview, the Limbaugh Letter coming up now on a year ago.
How prescient was he?
It's exactly what is happening.
Complete with the protest movement.
That is not spontaneous, by the way.
Okay, Tiffany in Atlanta.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I can't express to you adequately what an honor it is to speak to you.
Well, thank you very much.
I wanted to expand upon the Lawrence O'Donnell interview with Herman Kane and his apparent obsession with the fact that Mr. Kane did not contribute to the black community because he didn't march.
Right.
I apologize.
I'm a little nervous.
No, just slow down a little bit.
You don't sound nervous.
Sean, you're breathing a little rapidly, but I understand that happens to me a lot.
Yes, I'm very nervous.
Anyway, I wanted to ask Mr. O'Donnell, if I ever would have the opportunity, what about Mr. Kane's contribution to the black community by going to school, getting his degree in mathematics, where he proved himself to be smarter than 99% of the population.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Going into the Navy, proving himself there.
See?
Going into the business world, proving himself to be a CEO, more competent than 99.99% of the population.
What about that contribution?
Well, he's been aware of that.
All that adds up.
See, that just to the left, that's a giant sellout.
I know.
Do you know that in certain elements of the black community, getting good grades will get you in trouble.
It's too white.
I recognize that.
So that's what you described.
He didn't march.
He went to school.
Look at he became one of the reasons that Larry O'Donnell doesn't like him is that Herman Cain has become a tremendous success, and he didn't need the Democrat Party to do it.
And that is a giant sellout.
That is embarrassing.
That's embarrassing the people that run the plantation.
And you don't get away with that.
And that's why they're going after him.
He's starting to rise in the polls now.
And so it's time to attack him.
He's nothing more than Uncle Tom sellout.
And I think it's going to get really, really, really ugly the higher up he goes in the polls.
And the closer we get to the election.
This is just, I'm telling you, this is, we still have a year to go.
It's going to get uglier and uglier.
Rush, I have one more quick question, a very random Openline Friday question.
Mine and Danny.
Fire it at me.
I've always wondered what the Spatula City, what the background is behind the Spatula City commercial when you listen to your program online.
What's the background of it?
Yeah, where did it come from?
It seems kind of random.
It's the Spatula City commercial is actually, isn't that a weird, that's a weird Al Yankovic bit that is on one of his comedy albums.
Oh.
I had no idea.
Say that again, Mike.
Oh.
Oh, I sorry.
It's from the movie UHF.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, it featured Al Yankovic.
You know who weird Al Yankovic is?
Yes, I do.
I grew up in the 80s, so I'm very familiar with him.
All right, so you remember the Reagan years, too, then?
Yes, I was young, but I was old enough to pay attention, and I grew up admiring him very much.
Well, it's from the movie UHF, and I just, first time I heard it, it cracked me up like crazy.
And nobody's ever taken it off of the loop.
It just constantly loops out there.
People complain about it.
Get rid of it.
I've been hearing it for 20 years.
I think it's funny.
I just couldn't, I didn't know the context of it, where it came from.
Yeah, it's a great, great parody.
The great parody on all these TV, you know, the Ginzu knife, the bamboo steamer, all that stuff.
It's a great, a great send-off on all that.
Gotcha.
Well, thank you for your time.
All right.
Okay, grab audio sound.
What is it?
Grab audio sombre.
It's C number 20.
I think number 20 is there, 21, 19.
Yes, this is Cheryl Atkinson.
I'm looking to see if she's also on a 19.
Hang on, let me just take a look.
There is a 19 somewhere here, too.
Okay, let's do it.
We got two Cheryl Atkinson bites.
She's on a CBS Early Show.
And I can't find the transcript for number 19, but I'll be able to translate it.
It probably makes sense anyway without the setup.
Here it is.
I would say there have been some pretty incredible developments in the past week.
Also, documents, we haven't even had time to report on all of them.
There are very sensitive documents and allegations going around.
Many of them we haven't reported yet because we need to get more confirmation of them.
But what you see on the surface that we do report in our stories is really only a part of what may be going on, and we may be reporting the future when we can get confirmation.
She's talking about Fast and Furious, the question, somebody like that at the level, at the White House level, who actually cursed a reporter, a CBS News correspondent.
It's not something that happens every day, Cheryl.
What do you think lit that fuse?
She said it's been some pretty incredible developments.
I mean, she's uncovering a lot of news the regime doesn't want reported.
So then Chris Ragge, a co-anchor, said, what made the president have to defend the Attorney General yesterday?
You go back to him testifying to Congress in May, the Attorney General.
He said he learned about Fast and Furious earlier in the spring, but this week, CBS News reported that new Justice Department memos show that Holder received regular briefings as early as July of 2010.
And we'll be posting some more documents that also show then Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, he's now Attorney General Holder's chief of staff, got a detailed briefing on the gun smuggling operation in March of 2010.
He took handwritten notes, he marked up photographs of AK-47s and a map where he noted, quote, seizures in Mexico.
So this is why the Justice Department is having to push back a little bit and what the president was talking about.
But Holder didn't know any of it.
He had no clue.
That's what he claims.
Also, I promise we got a bite from Joe Biden.
Grab number 18.
This is short and sweet.
On Washington Ideas Forum, David Gregory interviewing Biden and the questions, the Republican Party strong enough of a party for its nominee to beat this president?
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's strong enough to beat both of us.
A significant majority of the American people believe that the country's not moving in the right direction.
That is never a good place to be going in a reelection.
Whether it's your fault or not your fault, it's almost sometimes irrelevant.
What is this?
Did you hear the?
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
He's strong enough to beat both of us.
Does he mean you too, Gregory?
Yeah.
I mean, the Republican Party is strong enough to beat both Obama and the media.
Or does he mean Obama and him?
I'm sure he means Obama and him as the vice president on the ticket.
He did sound kind of enthusiastic about the prospect.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely strong enough to beat both of us.
I've never stopped to think people might also be voting against Bite Me, but yeah, that could work.
Anyway, brief time out.
We'll wrap it up when we get back.
A liberal organizer told a Daily Caller Thursday afternoon, the website, that he paid some Hispanics to attend Occupy D.C. protests happening in the nation's capital.
Oh, yeah, some of them are volunteers, some of them aren't.
I can't identify the ones we paid.
I'm not going to do that.
And in Los Angeles, the mayor was handing out rain ponchos to posters, protesters, because they don't know how to sew their own sleeping bags out there.
Folks, have a great weekend.
Mark Davis will be in.
It's Columbus Day on Monday, and I'm not going to miss this one.
I've never taken that holiday off.
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