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Oct. 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 13, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yeah, and after we uh let's see, one, two, three, four.
One, two, three, and four, we'll go to number twenty five.
ABC radio news at the top of the hour.
If uh your EIB affiliate.
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You just heard that they are very concerned about this pastor who introduced Rick Perry, who said something along the lines that Romney's religion is a cult.
They're very concerned out there, folks.
The media very, very, very concerned over this pastor.
Yes, they are.
They're trying to make a big kerfuffle out of this.
They didn't give a wit about Jeremiah Wright.
They couldn't have cared less about GD America.
Jeremiah Wright, big 9-11.
9-11 was deserved because we nuked Hiroshima Nagasaki.
It's an own front yard.
America's chickens have come home to roost.
He was all excited about 9-11.
Nobody cared about that.
You gotta wonder something.
Obama's out there, we now know this is an old story, but Obama wanted to apologize to Japanese for uh for Hiroshima Nagasaki, and the Japanese said, no way, pal, you're not doing that.
We got a nuclear industry here that's thriving, and we don't want a bunch of malcontents showing up.
That's it's old.
No, no, no.
So he had to be talked out of it by the Japanese.
Now everybody's wondering that that sermon that we've played for you, and you've heard it everywhere of Jeremiah Wright, the America's chickens coming home to roost.
That was his 9-11 sermon.
That was the sermon the Sunday after 9-11.
And we're wondering, did Obama go to church on the Sunday after 9-11?
Do you think he would have?
I mean, a lot of people, it's like Easter.
You show up.
We don't know.
But if Obama didn't, I don't think Obama needed to hear Jeremiah Wright condemn Nagasaki Hiroshima.
And I don't know.
Well, I know Obama worships himself.
Um going to church could be, in his case, going to the bathroom.
The throne.
But nevertheless, right's up there in that sermon, and he's talking all about how we deserved it.
Now all of a sudden, all of a sudden now it's very important to vet pastors.
Very important to vet candidates pastors.
And I didn't care a whit about Jeremiah Wright.
But now we gotta go after this Jeffrey's guy.
Because of what he said about Mormon.
And in fact, the media agrees.
You just wait if Romney gets a nomination away till you see what the media does with Mormonism.
For crying out wow, didn't they already already made a big deal of it the last time Romney ran?
Back in uh in 2008.
They could do it again.
At any rate, anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head at Occupy Wall Street.
We have an example here.
This is a protester named Danny Klein and an unidentified guy arguing about the protest, and the unidentified guy says, uh, and this from a YouTube video.
This is the audio.
Why are you against corporations?
I guess I'm not still corporation because they'll be $7 an hour.
Go get a job.
I got a job, Paul.
I do have a job.
You're a bum, Jew.
I'm a Jew.
Why are you playing with us?
You got the money.
That's why you're fighting the show, Miss Man.
I got the money.
I'd all that work 40 years ago.
We're having four closed house.
My mother's dead.
She had a hard attack from stress.
Tell the corporations to stop calling my mom.
What?
Well, no, no, no.
You can't need to speak English.
Ishraeli?
Go back to Israel.
You're not changing anything.
I have a job.
I'm a college graduate.
I'm in the Focal What Club is Union.
Who are you to tell me?
I need a job.
Look at you.
Go away.
That's who they are.
Look at you, you short little man.
Go away.
You're a bum, Jew.
And the Democrat Party's embracing this.
Democrat Party Chuck Schumer and Bray.
Yeah, these are the people that are more popular than the Tea Party.
It uh it continued.
The uh this is Charles W. Cook interviewing Occupy Wall Street protester Danny Klein.
And uh Cook continued, is that why you're here to generally cause trouble?
No, it's a box for your intellectual mind to get you to think if someone.
You're not thinking.
That's why they can abuse you.
So with people on television, I read and I eat.
Oh, what is that?
I got off the drugs.
Would people uh not mentally ill would people only be thinking if they agreed with you?
That's right.
No.
Well, this guy thinks everybody should think the way he does.
Here's another one.
Yesterday in New York City occupy Wall Street.
This is a montage of uh of a protester and his complaint uh against Wall Street and some other voices that you'll hear.
Google through and through here.
That's a phenomenal Jews in front of reports.
Take a piece of this.
I'm in Jewish, I'm not that I don't care what you are.
Free of us!
What do you do?
This is not Israel!
This is not Israel!
Freedom of speech.
That Jews control Wall Street!
Google Google Wall Street!
These are the Jews!
The Jews control Wall Street!
People are saying that Batman is $250.
You get $80 on that side?
Did anyone hate you on that side?
No.
No, a Jew made that up.
So the anti-Semitism is uh is all over the place.
And I I remember opining recently if if this could have s severe blowback the Democrat Party if this stuff keeps up and gets out.
Because the Democrats are embracing this.
And s Jews control Wall Street.
Yeah, Jews control Wall Street.
Google Wall Street Jews.
These are the Jews.
The Jews control Wall Street.
How about this woman?
People are saying Fox News gave you $50.
You get paid $50 to hold that sign.
Fox News.
That's I just think of Roger Hale sitting in his office watching this stuff going by.
Screw Fox News.
And then yesterday, Los Angeles.
This is the Occupy Los Angeles protest.
One of the speakers said the solution is nonviolent movement.
No, my friend.
I'll give you two examples.
French Revolution and Indian so-called revolution.
Gandhi, Gandhi today is good to respect you, all of you.
Gandhi today is a tumor that the ruling class is using constantly.
French Revolution.
Made fundamental transformation.
But you've got bloody India.
The result of Pandit is 800 million people living in maximum poverty.
So ultimately, Bush party won't go without violent rule.
Revolution, yes.
Revolution that is led by working class.
Love the revolution.
That's who they are.
That's what they are.
Gandhi was a tumor.
Is it tumor the ruling class is using constantly to mislead us?
That's who they are, folks.
That is indeed organize Wall Street now.
Organize Los Angeles now.
Don't just love that.
I just Fox News pay you $50.
Google Jews!
Google Jews and Wall Street.
Jeez.
No criticism, by the way.
I mean, these people are being protected.
They're being uh you have to understand their rage.
But you know, it's apparent, in addition to hating money and hating fire.
Maybe they don't hate money, maybe they just hate the Jews.
Maybe organized Wall Street is made up of people hate the Jews.
The that adbusters bunch that that really is the magazine, AdBusters, the outfit of the Canada that that is really responsible for this, it blatantly anti-Semitic.
Don't kid yourself, folks.
There's a large anti-Semite block.
I'm sorry.
That is running this show down there that's responsible for this.
And again, I say the Democrat Party embarrasses it.
And it ought to embarrass me.
As you may know, the House of Representatives is voting today on a bill restricting federal funds for abortion.
Which is puzzling to me because I thought that already was the case.
Maybe somebody presented another bill to reverse it and say federal funds for abortion is okay, so we're going to vote it down.
Whatever.
Here's Pelosi this morning at a press briefing, her weekly press briefing, talking about the bill being voting on uh voted on today restricting federal funds for abortion.
When the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor, and health care providers do not have to intervene if this bill is passed.
It's just appalling.
That's right.
Republicans want women to die.
Disgusting.
That's all they've got, folks.
The only kind of thing they've got.
We're racists, we're sexists, we're pigs, we want women to die.
That's all they've got to run on.
They cannot beat their chest and say, look what we did.
You want more of this?
They can't do that.
They can't run on their record.
They can't run on anything.
Other than the usual smears.
Here's Ryan in Princeton, New Jersey.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next in the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ, how are you today?
Good.
Thanks much.
I just had a comment about you when you were talking about the the green business versus the jobs.
I I disagree with you.
I'm I'm an attorney up in New Jersey.
I specialize in in the solar industry.
And and there's definitely a green business in a green industry.
Um but where you are right is that there's not specialized jobs.
If you've ever been to one of these plants that manufacture solar panels, for example, it requires two people to operate.
It's very oper o automated.
And most of the people that are working in the green business, the green industry that's up here, have skill sets that are transferable.
They're electricians that simply now work in the solar field, but they're skilled electricians.
So there's a green business, but it doesn't create specialized jobs that require all sorts of specialized training and things like that.
Okay.
And I think there's that that's important to differentiate.
All right.
Well I'll take that.
Tell me, though, because I need to learn, because I'm a skeptic.
When it comes out of the mouth of a Democrat, my first reaction is to think that it's absolute poop.
So tell me what is a green job.
I'm not challenging, I'd rather I'm curious.
Of all the jobs, give me a green job.
See, I'm under the impression a green job is something we don't have before.
A green job is a new kind of job and a new kind of interest.
What is a green job?
Yeah, I see that I agree with you.
Okay, what's the green industry?
If you're i involved in the industry that deals with renewable energy site such as wind, solar, geothermal, uh title, i if that's an industry that deals with renewable energy sources.
Is there such a thing scientifically as renewable energy?
I I guess it's a it's a it's a nomenclature to describe that the source, for example, for solar is infinite.
Assuming the sun rises tomorrow, there will be a source to take the power from the sun and convert it into power and electricity.
So it's renewable in the sense that it's renewable on an annual basis as the the earth uh rotates and the sun rises and sets every day.
Sort of like when a cow eats, chews its cud and uh and drops a load, then that fertilizes the hay.
That's exactly right.
As long as the cow stays alive and it's got stuff to chew, um, and and things will operate properly, so we're not saying that that should hurt happen on a daily basis.
Yes.
Okay, so we all then do what the cow does.
As long as we're alive, we're all engaging in renewable energy.
Yes, that is correct.
Okay.
Well, that helps.
I I because I I you know I just think this is it's it's you talking nomenclature, whatever, it's all just bogus, and it's it's the the attempt by the regime to make people think that there is some magical energy source that is never dirty, that is always plentiful, that does not destroy the planet.
Uh it's it's all a pipe dream.
This is just I don't know.
And then of course you get the wild eyed utopian idealists thinking all this stuff is possible and they don't understand really the ingenuity and hard work that's responsible for the uh energy that we have now, which is inseparable from our freedom and uh and liberty.
Uh I appreciate the call, Ryan.
I really do.
Folks, the um the bill that Pelosi was talking about in that bite is an attempt to tweak Obamacare, which we we were told Obamacare would not fund abortion.
We were told Obamacare wouldn't fund abortion.
Now they have to take a vote to make sure that it doesn't fund abortion.
No federal funds.
So as far as Pelosi is concerned, what the Republicans want with this vote is is women dying on the floor.
And doctors can't do anything to stop it.
Kind of like kind of like the way Obama looks at abortion.
If an abortion is intended and it's botched and the baby survives, Obama supported legislation in Illinois says you can't save the baby.
Because the original intention, this is what original intent counts.
The original intention was for the baby to be aborted.
The doctor can't save the baby if the abortion is botched.
So babies dying on the floor, that's fine.
Obama's in full-fledged support of that when he was in the Illinois legislature.
Babies dying on the floor or in the operating room, wherever.
The Republicans want women to die.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's Pelosi.
Even if you happen to agree with abortion, it's an elective operation to have one.
Nobody forces.
Well, take that back.
If planned parenthood catches you walking into a different doorway, they'll try to stop you and force you into having an abortion.
If you had an appointment.
Why are we talking about paying for elective procedures in the first place?
What other elective procedures does the federal government pay for?
She always brings this stuff up.
She uh what a devout Catholic she is during all of this.
By the way, again, it's a good point.
Green jobs are just government jobs.
There are any there's no green jobs at private sector.
Because there's no business there.
There's not a profitable business there.
Well, is this current CEO of Cylindra, Brian Harrison has resigned last Friday, disclosed in court filings, Washington Post.
Resigned from what?
Well, I know, but they file for bankruptcy.
Okay, I'll just I'll accept it.
So Brian Harrison has resigned as CEO of Syllyndra.
So that frees him up to work full-time on uh Obama's re-elect.
See how this works.
Uh speaking of all this, there's a great piece by Robert Bryce at National Review Online yesterday, America's worst wind energy project.
Wind energy proponents admit they need lots of spin to overwhelm the truly informed.
You read this, and it's it it it it you just you're assaulted with the the I guess the shock.
Can't even get your whole brain around the massive misuse of federal money that we have going on, the guys at green energy.
I mean, that's it is the it's one of the biggest slush funds that has ever been created by a politician for himself.
The more people know about the wind energy business, the less they like it, says Mr. Bryce.
And when it comes to lousy wind deals, now this this is gonna blow your mind.
When it comes to lousy wind deals, General Electric's Shepherd's Flat Project in Northern Oregon is a stinker.
I'll come back to the GE project in a minute.
Before getting to it, please ponder that first sentence.
When the energy proponents admit they need lots of spin to overwhelm the truly informed, it sounds like a claim made by anti-renewable energy campaigner.
It's not.
Instead, that rather astounding admission was made by a communication strategist during a March 23rd webinar sponsored by the American Council on Renewable Energy called Speaking Out on Renewable Energy Communication Strategies for the Renewable Energy Industry.
And they admit they need lots of spin to overwhelm people who really know what's going on.
During the webinar, Justin Rolf Redding, a doctoral student from the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University.
Now stop and think of that.
The Center for Climate Change Communication, a propaganda department at George Mason University, discussed ways for wind energy proponents to get their message out to the public.
He said that polling data showed that after reading arguments for and against wind, wind lost support.
He went on to say that concerns about wind energy's cost and its effect on property values crowded out climate change among those surveyed.
And the most astounding thing to come out of Rolf Redding's mouth.
And yes, Bryce says he heard him say it himself was this.
The things people are educated about are a real deficit for us.
The wind energy proponent, the PR guy, the strategist, said the things people are educated about are a real deficit for us.
After the briefings on the pros and cons of wind, said Rolf Redding, enthusiasm decreased for wind.
It's a troubling finding.
The solution to these problems, said Rolf Redding, was to weaken counterarguments against wind as much as possible.
He suggested using inoculation theory by telling people that wind is a clean source.
It provides jobs and adding it's an investment in the future.
He also said that proponents should weaken objections by saying prices are coming down every day.
Now it's remarkable to see how similar the arguments being put forward by wind energy proponents are to those that the Obama regime is using to justify its support for Cylindra.
But in some ways, the government support for the Shepherd flat deal, wind in Oregon, worse than what happened in Sylindra.
The majority of the funding for the 1.9 billion dollar 845 megawatt Shepherd Flats wind project in Oregon is coming courtesy of federal taxpayers.
Two billion dollars forget solar.
Now now we're on to wind.
Two billion for the Shepherd's Flat Wind Project.
That Largess will provide a windfall for General Electric and its partners on the deal, who include Google, Sumatomo, and Caithness Energy.
Not only is the energy department giving GE and its partners a 1.06 billion dollar loan guarantee, but as soon as GE's 338 turbines start running at Shepherd's Flat, the Treasury Department will send the project developers a cash grant of 490 million dollars.
The deal was so lucrative for the project developers that last October some of Obama's top advisors, including Energy Czar Carol Browner and Larry Summers, wrote a memo saying the project's backers had little skin in the game, while a government would be providing a significant subsidy, 65 plus percent.
Memo goes on to say that while the project backers would only provide equity equal to about 11% of the total cost of the wind project, they would receive an estimated return on equity of 30%.
Now wait, it gets better.
The regime's loan guarantee for Cylindra has garnered lots of attention, but the Shepherd's Flat Deal is an even better example of corporate welfare.
Several questions immediately obvious.
First, why is the federal government providing Loan guarantees and subsidies for an energy project that could easily be financed by GE.
They've got a market cap of about 170 billion dollars.
Why are they being given two billion?
Second, why is the regime providing subsidies to GE, which paid little or no federal income taxes last year, even though it generated some $5.1 billion in profits from its U.S. operations?
Third, how is it that GE's CEO Jeffrey Imelt can be the head of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness while his company is paying little or no federal income tax?
That question, particularly Germaine, as the president never seems to tire of bashing the oil and gas industry for what he claims are the industry's excessive tax breaks.
A few months ago I ran into Jim Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy.
I asked him why Duke, which has about 14,000 megawatts of coal fire generation capacity, was investing in wind energy projects.
The answer he said was simple.
The subsidies.
The subsidies available for wind projects allow Duke to earn returns on equity of 17 to 22 percent.
So my point, green jobs are government jobs, and the government is funding and subsidizing already wealthy corporations, and then giving them a large return on their profit and look at emelt may as well be in the same bed as Obama is in.
In other words, Shepard's flat is adding yet more wind turbines to a region that has been overwhelmed this year by excess electrical generation capacity from renewals.
That region will now have to spend huge sums of money building new transmission capacity to export its excess electricity.
As Rolf Redding said, the more people know about the wind business the less they like it.
It isn't a business, it's a government subsidized slush fund.
So take Cylindra and multiply it.
And then add General Electric to it.
Seriously, folks.
What is a company that has a market cap of $170 billion doing, getting $2 billion, basically gratis to invest in wind turbines?
Well, the answer is obvious.
I remember Robert Mosbacher was a friend of mine.
He was the Commerce Secretary during Bush 41.
And that was 88 to 92.
88 to 92, the uh high definition television business was in its infancy.
And back in those days, the Japanese are way ahead of us, HD TV.
Domestic American manufacturers went to Mossbacker, the Commerce Department, and sought subsidies for the development of HD TV.
And Mossbecker told him no.
That's not what we're in business to do.
You can say what you want about Bush 41 and all that, but I'll never forget.
I was watching Mossbecker on, I was back in Lou Dobbs old CNN show on CNN at 7 o'clock at night, and they were talking about this.
And I remember um Mossbecker came under a lot of criticism.
Well, how come the government will not help its own domestic industry in competition with the Japanese?
And Mossbacker's answer was if they don't have the money on their own, they shouldn't be getting into it.
It's just that simple.
Mossbacker would be run out of town on a rail today, by the way, with that kind of thinking.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have rush limbo here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Who's next?
Anne in um in uh Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the project.
It's called K-R-S-G-E.
And it's Kresgeville.
And I've never heard of that.
And I know Pennsylvania.
No, it's K-R-E-S.
Press T R E S G E. Right.
We've got it now.
Yeah, you're in you're in Craig'sville.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I know, I know.
Thank you very much.
I've listened to you since you burst through the airwaves with your uh excellence in conservatism.
Thank you very much.
And um I need to speak to you about three three points if I can.
Sure, firewall.
And um, the first one is about Romney care.
And I'm very concerned because he defended Romney care, the night of the debate, when Terry talked to him about it, he said, well, all of the children in my state have health care.
And your state doesn't.
And when he said that, he was defending his Romney care.
Well now he's made a decision.
He's not going to back off from it.
That's the decision that he's made.
And then he says, well I wasn't with President Obama on this, but yet um I'm concerned about his ideology and his subliminal messages regarding his uh love for Romney care.
And it just concerns me that people are just just talking about his performance and I listen to uh Fox News all I hear is performance performance performance everybody you know you gotta have the great performance is an excellent point you're that is how these people are judged it's the television age and that's that's how Obama's still judged.
I mean I can I I can watch the inside the beltway media types marvel even Obama makes a great speech no matter what he says well well just just give them an Emmy and send them on their way for their acting ability because you know they're getting away they're trying to put Cain in who is who has no governance experience.
He is a he's an excellent person I love Mr Kane but he has no governance experience and then you look at the others who have no governance experience and the only one that does is the man who doesn't speak and that's Perry he has he's he fought he he won against K Bailey Hutchinson.
Now wait he speaks I'm sorry he speaks I mean Perry talks he just doesn't eat yeah but you know he does he could have come back at Mr Romney and said oh well then you do love your oh you know Romney care.
Yeah you're defender so do you don't believe Romney when he says he'd repeal Obamacare No I don't believe that how would I believe that he he's like Obama he moved to the right and he's he's like what Mr Perry said he he's Obama white I don't believe this.
I think that he's gonna stop this with the performance.
Right so you're and look at look at you know we we're putting we're trying to put people in it have no experience in governance.
Yeah well so you uh your default choice then is Rick Perry pardon me I couldn't hear you your default choice is Rick Perry then yes because he's he's successful and he is against global warming he comes out and says it and he's not perfect nobody's perfect but I think the people in Texas really like him.
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