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Oct. 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 14, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Now, according to the New York Post, Mayor Doomberg did not cave.
He did not cave to the Occupy Wall Street kids who told him to stay away, that they didn't want the park cleaned.
Details are coming up.
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So all morning long, the story has been that Mayor Doomberg caved to the protesters down at Zuccotti, is that the name of this place, Zuccotti Park?
Yeah, Zuccati Park caved because they simply said there would be trouble if you know what you know what I really ought to have?
A tea party ought to go down there with mops and brooms.
I mean, the Tea Party members are used to cleaning up after they're worthless, lazy kids.
They ought to just head on down there.
Well, that's my definition of kids.
Anyway, Tea Party should go in there and clean up.
300 people, 300 people getting worldwide coverage.
Hundreds of thousands of Tea Party people ignored.
John King at CNN commits a random act of journalism, and we have the audio soundbite to prove it.
There are more and more random acts of journalism happening out there, folks.
Even noted liberal commentators are starting to attack Obama as, hey, where's the administrating?
All he's out there doing is raising money.
Obama's bragging about how much campaign cash he's raising while everybody is taking a nosedive economically.
He's out raising money, slush funds, and so forth.
Hopes to have something like a billion dollars soon for his presidential campaign in this economy.
And much of that money is coming from people these kids on Wall Street are protesting and want in jail, and they're too stupid to know it.
We got more audio soundbites of these clowns being interviewed.
And it's not surprising, and it's hilarious at the same time.
So we're ready to go here, folks.
Locked and loaded, as they say.
800-282-2882 is the number.
The AP had a story starting early this morning.
The cleanup of a plaza in Lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.
They would rather live in stench.
These people would rather live in squalor like pigs in a sty than have somebody, the adults, come in and clean the place up out of fear they're going to be moved out.
The New York City Deputy Mayor Cass Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield office properties, and by the way, the owners of this office park are dyed in the wool Democrats.
This is private property these people are on.
And these are, I'm pretty sure these are died-in-the-wool Democrats that own this place.
And the Brookfield office properties had put off the cleaning.
Supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness before the planned cleaning, forming a crowd of several hundred chanting people.
I'll believe it when we were able to stay here, said protester Peter Hogness.
What a perfectly apt name for somebody in this situation, Peter Hogness.
He's 56, he's a union employee from Brooklyn.
Of course, one thing we've learned from this is that we need to rely on ourselves and not on promises from elected officials.
He did say it.
He did see his people clamoring for everybody to pay everything for them, to take care of them, are now saying only rugged individualism is going to protect us from elected officials.
I'm telling you, you listen to a lot of what these people are saying.
They're clueless.
They actually ought to be on our side.
Not that we want them.
But protester Nick Galata, 23, was jubilant.
He originally held a sign referring to Mayor Boomberg that said Boomberg didn't, or Boomberg, don't evict Occupy Wall Street.
People cheered and clapped him on the back when he scratched out the don't and replaced it with didn't.
When everybody thought Bloomberg had caved, Galata said, just shows when people work together, you really can make a difference and make justice happen.
Yep, you can continue to live as pigs in a sty when you hang together.
That's justice.
You can live in a veritable garbage pit made by you, by the way, your own self-created squalor.
That's justice.
A confrontation between the pigs, that's the cops in these people's lingo, and protesters who had vowed to stay put through civil disobedience had been feared.
Boisterous cheers floated up from the crowds of the announcement of the postponement circulating.
Everybody thought that Bloomberg had caved.
Now, the New York Post says that it was Brookfield, the owners of Zuccotti Park, who caved.
And it's interesting why they caved.
Now, by the way, yeah, I want to make this clear.
The founder and owner of Brookfield office properties is John Zuccotti, whom the park is named after.
He was a Democrat official under Democrat Mayor Beam.
He's a major Democrat donor.
Brookfield reversed its decision to clear the park and clean it up because it was intimidated by elected officials who were siding with the protesters.
An angry Mayor Boomberg said today on the radio: My understanding is that Brookfield got lots of calls to many elected officials threatening them and saying, If you don't stop this, we're going to make your life more difficult.
The mayor said on his weekly radio show.
If those elected officials had spent half as much time trying to promote the city to get jobs to come here, we would have a lot more ways toward answering the concerns of the protesters.
I'm told they were inundated by lots of elected officials.
And Mayor said he didn't know which elected officials applied the pressure.
On Thursday, numerous officials, including Representative Jerry Nadler and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, stepped forward to demand that Brookfield and the city try to work out a voluntary resolution of a month-long sleep-in.
Now, when Jerry Nadler leans on you, you stay leaned on.
You ever seen this guy?
Yeah, he did.
He had the Rex Ryan belt loop surgery or whatever.
What a lap band?
Yeah.
Did something like that.
Hey, still, when he leans on you, you're still leaned on.
But regardless, Doomberg says he doesn't know who the elected official is.
Stop and think of this.
Here's this Zuccott guy, a big Democrat himself, owns the park.
He wants these people out of there so his property gets cleaned up.
He doesn't like having a pig sty outside his window.
And all of a sudden, a bunch of elected officials call and start threatening him.
And that's the story.
Most of the time when elected officials start threatening people, it's under the radar.
You don't really know.
I mean, you suspect it's happening here.
Now it's wide open and admitted elected officials threatening a private citizen in their own party.
Now, nobody knows if Nadler was one of them, but what do we think, Snirdly, was members of the city council?
Yeah, it's what we've heard.
Members of the New York City Council that were calling Zucati and say, hey, back off.
And the protesters all worried here they're going to be thrown out of the place.
That's the pretext for the cleanup.
How does a guy own a park in New York?
Well, you can.
Well, you just, he owns the property.
He makes a park out of his office complex there.
That's not a big deal.
How does a guy own a park in New York?
Oh, he's clearly in the top 1%.
Yeah, this is the kind of guy the protesters think ought to be in jail.
Yeah, yeah.
In fact, let's take the occasion here of this opportunity.
Let's add rummaging of Broom soundbites one, two, and three, the John King random act of journalism.
We'll get back to that here in just a second.
Let's just go to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
This is in Washington at the Occupy D.C. protest.
MRC TV correspondent Dan Joseph interviewed various unidentified protesters about their beliefs.
He said, do you support, just running around asking various questions of these people, do you support a single-payer health care system?
Absolutely.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yes, I do.
No, it has to be single-payer universal.
I think maybe a better answer would be a sliding fee scale.
Clarify on that.
What do you mean?
No, it's not just single-payer, but it's for everybody.
Okay.
People in Cuba are much better off today than they were then.
Cuba has the best medicine in the Western hemisphere.
Better not, yes, better than America.
Stop it.
Stop the tape.
Why does it take 10 seconds for the tape to stop when I ask for it to stop?
Must be a computer glitch.
At any rate, where do you think this lunatic gets the idea that Cuba has the best medicine in the Western hemisphere?
Well, it's not just elected Democrat officials.
Michael Moore made a movie, Sicko, and that was its premise.
He took people from New York or somewhere in the United States that couldn't get health care and put them on a boat and took them down to Havana.
It was a pure, unadulterated lie.
Now, you've also had Hollywood actors who have made the same claim.
People like Sean Penn and others claiming that Cuba has the best medical care.
That's why when Fidel Castro, you know what really happened to Castro?
You know what really happened to him?
Yeah, but what he is his one of the intestines had a problem, and The fix for it was bag, colostomy bag.
And he didn't want that.
So he made a surgeon, a Cuban surgeon, go in there and repair.
And he got profoundly infected.
Surgery was bad.
They had to call in a doctor from Spain.
Cuba's medical care is so good, they had to call in a doctor from Spain to come over and save Castro's life.
So he didn't want to walk around with a bag.
So, and of course, Hugo Chavez apparently went to Cuba for his, what is it?
Yeah, chemo.
It's on the metal block with chemo.
Okay, so Cuba has the best medicine in the Western Hemisphere.
I mean, this, this is, you know, tell you here that the kook fringe, the Democrat Party, is a bunch of lunatics.
This is who they are.
That is something they really believe.
Let's listen to the rest of the bite.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yes.
I do.
I think that's really complex.
Yes.
Well, what should that be?
Livable wage.
Livable wage.
Yes.
I don't support government-mandated anything pretty much.
Okay.
How high should it be?
Whatever the cost of living is.
It should be engineered so that it's consistent with people not having to struggle.
No.
Everybody needs to make a contribution to society.
And if they can't, of course, we're obligated to take care of them.
All right.
Everybody needs to make a contribution to society.
And if they can't afford to, we're obligated to take care of them.
And Cuba is the best medical care in the Western Hemisphere.
Next question.
What do you think of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms that were passed in 2009?
I'm just learning a lot about the economy.
Never heard of them.
Never heard of them?
Okay.
What do you think of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation?
But I'm not familiar with that.
Okay.
I'm not familiar with it.
I really don't think that any financial reform is going to work, no matter whose it is.
I really have not studied it, so I'll revolt.
I have to do more research on that before I can give it a definitive answer.
I think so, yes.
It's toothless.
It's toothless.
They're doing the same things that they've done before.
And it is, you know, the country's owned by the corporate tyranny, so they do basically what they are asked to do in the Congress.
Unfortunately, I'm largely unfamiliar with the text of the reforms.
I do wish I knew more, but I haven't had the time to study that yet.
Okay, but what about specifically about Dodd-Frank?
No.
Get clueless.
I don't know what Dodd-Frank is.
And notice, well, I have to study that further.
I haven't had time to study that.
And they are split on illegal immigration.
Dan Joseph, the correspondent here, do you believe in open borders immigration policy?
No.
What do you mean by that?
Yes.
Many of the problems caused by illegal immigration is the fact that it is, in fact, illegal.
No.
I would say yes, but also because I want to immigrate to Canada.
What about you?
I have reservations on that.
A lot of the jobs they do, Americans won't do.
And right now we're kicking, as we're kicking these people out, we're losing other jobs because the people who used to do those jobs are gone and they can't get even unemployed Americans to do those jobs.
Yep.
Not without any kinds of qualifications, no.
So that is the cross-section of opinion on illegal immigration.
And again, all kinds of cliches that you hear there.
Let me take a break because I've got, let's see, one, just one more.
Well, yeah, let me take a break.
I got one more of these.
The question, do you believe there should be a 50% cut in military spending?
It's probably predictable what they're all going to say.
We'll play it for you when we get back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rushlin Baugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Back to MRC TV.
Correspondent Dan Joseph walking amongst the protesters at Occupy Wall Street now question, do you believe there should be a 50% cut in military spending?
Yeah, that's being very conservative.
I would say the majority of it focused on defense rather than offense.
What?
75?
More.
More.
Oh, absolutely.
I support a 75% cut in it.
I think it's insane.
At least.
Okay.
Actually, I would say more like 80%.
80% cut in military spending.
Well, okay, maybe.
We'd still be spending more than everybody else.
Yeah, that's true.
At least.
At least.
Half of that cut I would like to see spent on the Department of Peace.
We don't have a Department of Peace.
Exactly.
At least.
If the military would have to go in and help after a flood or something like that, then I would say maybe an 80% cut.
But if we're only going to use our military for military reasons, you know, for attacking and invading other countries, I would ask for a 100% cut.
100%.
So no military at all.
Every one of these people vote Democrat.
Every one of these people is the product of the American public education system.
Well, it doesn't even have to be public, depending on how many of them went to college.
Every one of these people, in every question, every one of these people is either a student, a former student, has had close contact with the American public school system.
They probably come from families with family members that have the same point of view, and they all vote Democrat, and they're all just ignorant.
They are, what's the other word?
I mean, I'm being charitable, by the way, when I say ignorant.
Stupid, ill-informed, uninformed.
This is exactly the kind of voter the Democrat Party seeks.
Dumbed down in a haze, knowing nothing, believing nothing other than the clichés and the BS that represents traditional Democrat Party policy.
They're just stupid.
And you notice how smug they are about it.
They are arrogantly stupid.
This is what we're up against.
These are model citizens as far as the Democrat Party is concerned.
There were 11 Democrats yesterday who voted with the Republicans in wanting to let women die on the floor.
According to Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi said that the Republicans who opposed federal funding for abortion wanted women to die on the floor.
And there are, of course, babies dying on the floor is fine.
But women dying on the floor, goddammit, it's what the Republicans want, she said.
And there are 11 Democrats that voted with the Republicans.
So here are the Democrats.
Now, Nancy Pelosi said under this abortion bill, when the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor.
So here are the 11 Democrats who also join the Republicans in voting to say that women can die on the floor.
Jason Altmeyer, Democrat Pennsylvania.
Dan Boren, Democrat Oklahoma, Jerry Costello, Democrat Illinois, Joe Donnelly, Democrat Indiana, Dan Lipinski, Democrat Illinois, Jim Matheson, Democrat Utah, Mike McIntyre, Democrat North Carolina, Colin Peterson,
Democrat Minnesota, Nick Ray Hall, Democrat West Virginia, Mike Ross, Democrat Arkansas, and Heath Schuler, Democrat North Carolina, all 11 voted with the Republicans to say that women can die on the floor.
Now, Pelosi didn't include the Democrats that would be voting for the Republicans.
That's with the Republicans.
That's why I wanted to point it out.
I found a couple other soundbites here in the roster.
More questions put to the protesters in Washington.
MRC TV correspondent Dan Joseph question: What do you think of people who don't believe in man-made global warming?
While every opinion is valid, not all of them are based in fact.
I think that for the most part, they're on the payroll of the energy companies.
I know a lot of them think that the earth just goes in cycles, but we've been keeping records for a long time, and you can't argue with actual records.
This is not necessarily an absolute, but that's, I mean, either they're mistaken or they're intentionally dishonest.
And I believe that some people unfortunately equate opinion with a factual basis, and they say, well, my opinion deserves to be entertained even though there's no evidence supporting it.
I think that they're very similar to religious people where they've made up their mind and they're going to rationalize any new information to fit with their original worldview instead of trying to process and digest new information.
Once again, smug stupidity.
Arrogant, smug stupidity from these people.
Of course, this last idiot, I think they're very similar to religious people.
The global warming people are the people who are really global warming is their religion.
And finally, do you believe in God?
I don't know.
You don't know?
I don't know.
That's a personal thing?
No, no, I don't.
I don't believe in any kind of personal belief.
No, I am not a theist, but I am not particularly non-spiritual either.
Yes.
I don't not believe in God.
Yes.
I don't not believe in God.
That's kind of like what did Sharpton Sage?
It's so cocky.
I can't remember what is.
Yeah, resist we much.
Resist we much.
I don't not believe in God.
Smug arrogance.
Open line Friday.
We always try to go to the phones early on Open Line Friday at first hour, something we seldom do Monday through Thursday.
Here we go.
Tom, calling from Long Island.
Great to have you on the program today, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
It's an honor and privilege.
Thank you, sir.
I just said to Mr. Snerdley, I think it's hysterical that there's almost twice as many people waiting online for the iPhone than there is at the park.
Oh, I think it's larger than that, isn't it?
It's more than twice.
I thought they said something like 500 people waiting online at, you know, for the new iPhone.
Yeah, but at which store?
I mean, you've got the Fifth Avenue.
You're somebody in New York.
You get the Fifth Avenue store.
You've got a Greenwich Village store.
They're all over the place.
The numbers of people all over the country lined up to get iPhones today would dwarf this collection of smug stupidity that's running around thinking that they run the world.
And I'll bet hundreds of them left the park to go get online for the iPhone.
Well, there are only 300 people in the park.
But I don't know how many of these people will get in line for an iPhone because you have to pay for that.
True.
True.
And these people don't sound like they want to pay for anything.
These people create the impression that they think things should be given to them.
I haven't activated it yet.
I got my iPhone today, but no, my master. computer is the one at home.
I can't activate it on this one.
I could give it a shot with the wireless, but I didn't have it.
I had to do show prep today.
I didn't have time to take off.
I did not, I had one problem with iCloud, but it was a computer problem.
It wasn't an iCloud problem.
I had to reboot my computer in order to get all of the mail to sync.
But I had no problem.
Everything on Wednesday went smooth as silk.
But I must be honest, I had a couple things in advance of Wednesday.
All I had to do Wednesday was iCloud.
And it was a snap.
And it works exactly as advertised.
Simply amazing.
And the piece des résistance, of course, will be this afternoon when I activate the new iPhone 4S.
I got it sitting right there.
It's in the sack.
I opened the box.
I looked at it, compared it to the four.
It's identical.
The only thing different is that the three buttons, the mute button and the volume buttons are a little lower.
But not enough of a difference to make my case, my MOPI, obsolete.
So I don't have to buy any new accessories for it.
Christina, Fort Worth, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
My comment is about these protesters is they're down on Wall Street, and people that work down on Wall Street are probably some of the hardest working people you're ever going to come across.
My husband was in Wall Street for quite some time until we moved to Fort Worth, and he put in 15, 18 hour days, and he was doing it, and his bonuses were the majority of his pay.
But we're middle-class people.
We're not making millions of dollars.
They're down there and they have the gall to be protesting.
And they obviously don't even have jobs.
They're down there for weeks smelling and stinking up the place.
Right, why do you think these people?
Okay, now these people, as you've clearly heard, are entirely vacant when it comes to intelligence.
They know nothing.
So why?
Your brand is to listen to.
It's horrible.
Right, it is.
But I have a question.
They think what they think for some reason.
Because of our education.
You're absolutely right.
It's because of American education.
And in colleges and universities, you have liberal professors teaching these kids.
I don't even want to send my kids to college.
I wish I could homeschool college because it's scary to think what these children are being taught at school.
That's exactly right.
You heard on these soundbites, this is what you get if some kid shows up at any institution of higher learning or even high school and doesn't have any kind of a foundation to oppose this kind of authority.
They're going to soak it up and they're going to become mind-numbed robots marching for the Democratic Party.
These people, when they talk about Wall Street, they're not thinking of people like your husband.
They're thinking purely of the executives, the CEOs.
That's all they think about because that's who Obama has targeted.
That's who the Democrat Party has targeted.
I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Idiocracy.
It's a stupid thing.
But that's where we're headed.
That is exactly where we're headed.
Our kids are being taught social liberal ideas, and they think that they're entitled to things without working hard.
Whatever happened to working hard, it's like going out the window.
I don't think they're being taught.
No, I'm nitpicking here.
I think they're being programmed.
I think they're being propagandized.
What they're running around with is not the product of education.
But you are exactly right.
There are, even in Notre Dame, I've got a story in the stack here.
There's a philosophy professor at the great and revered Notre Dame who is polluting students' minds about corporations, a philosophy professor who's poisoning their minds about corporations.
How corporations are the antithesis of what's most important in democracy, and that's the truth.
And it's an attack on advertising.
It's right out of John Kenneth Gallabre from the 50s.
It's just anti-American screed after anti-American screed, and parents are spending $20,000, $30,000, maybe more in some cases per semester to send their kids to these schools.
It's scary because I have two little children, and I'm just scared to see what the future holds for them.
Well, I think your kids are probably going to be fine.
They're going to go through the normal rebellion against you.
How old are your kids now?
Three and five.
Okay, in about 10 years, you're going to be the stupidest woman on earth.
Yeah, you're right.
As far as they're concerned.
But regardless, they're going to take with them whatever you have taught them.
And they're going to have at least something to oppose what they're hearing by these professors if the situation is still the same.
And your kids, it's not going to be as easy to brainwash.
It can happen.
You're right to be worried about it.
But it's, you know, brainwashing is very easy when every aspect of the media and the schools, the publishing industry, and Hollywood, you know, all of this crack, like Michael Moore's movies or.
Oh, yeah, that guy talking about Cuba.
I'm a nurse, by the way, the guy talking about Cuba and better health care.
Right.
I mean, they're obviously smoking a crackpipe because, you know, and listening to Michael Moore on top of it, but it's scary what people actually believe.
They might not be smoking crackpipe.
They don't have to be smoking crackpipe to believe that, is the point.
It's in movies.
It's in television shows.
It's in books.
They've grown up watching cartoons.
Ted Turner had a Saturday morning cartoon show called Captain Planet, and the hero attacked corporations for polluting the earth.
I mean, kids have been overwhelmed with this stuff.
The only counterweight to it has been parents.
Well, I hope and pray that my children will have a better future.
Well, that's going to depend on getting rid of the Democrat Party.
Yeah, I was just going to say, I'm hoping I'm voting for whoever's going to take out Obama, whatever GOP candidate's going to take out Obama.
At the ballot box, let's specify.
At the ballot box, in the purely electoral sense.
Exactly right.
Look, I'm glad you called Christina.
Hang in there.
Thanks, Rush.
I'll tell you when it's time to give up and move.
It's not time yet.
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One of the scariest thing about these so-called Wall Street protests is that these kids, and there's a lot of adults in there, too, are parroting and probably believing every last thing Obama and the Democrats want them to say and believe.
Now, you go back to the 60s, whatever happened to questioning authority, these really are walking zombies.
These are Obama zombies.
These are the kind of people that totalitarians dream of.
This is a model citizen for Mount Seitong until he's killed.
The citizen meaning.
These people are model citizens for people like Fidel Castro who believe that the government is the end-all everything.
The beginning and end.
Government is the focus of everybody's life.
Government is where you get everything that you get.
These people are modern, model citizens, and they are the product of institutions that were established and have been run for decades by Democrats and liberals.
And this, we don't know what percentage of the population they are, but they're significant.
They're not a majority, but they're significant.
And I think their numbers are increasing because these people procreate.
And whether they end up knowing it or not, and they create even more, they probably abort more than they end up creating.
But regardless, there are a lot of them.
This is why so many of us for so many years have tried to say that the path to victory for this country has to be rooted in ideology.
These people are the product of liberalism.
They're not the product of compassion and good-heartedness and tolerance and all that other bogus stuff that supposedly attaches to liberals.
This is nothing more than the success of ideological brainwashing, mind-bending, programming, propaganda, whatever you want.
And it has to be countered with ideology as well.
And it's always going to be a battle because these are the kind of people who think the purpose of government is to create citizens like this.
The purpose of government is to implement their lifelong dreams.
We want to de-emphasize government in our lives and everybody else's lives.
We don't want to have never-ending careers in government.
We want fewer and fewer people in government.
Now, I have to add a slight addenda.
Some of the modern-day conservative movement does want a large government with them in charge.
They're the kind of people that talk about we want a powerful and active executive, meaning president.
They want access to the federal treasury.
They want to spend it in ways they think.
But we have some so-called conservatives who do believe in the whole notion of big government because they'll tell you that they think that's what the people want.
And so if we're going to survive politically as conservatives, we're going to have to make some concessions and give the people what they want.
If they want big government, we're going to have to concede that.
It's part of the split that has occurred within the so-called conservative movement.
And I guess I'm reason.
I'll be referring to the neocons if you want to know specifically who.
The neocons as they are known by others, but just to identify them.
The neocons believe in an active, large, powerful executive with conservative values.
And no, it's domestic too.
It's not just the neocons are identified with foreign policy, yeah, but it's the same bunch of people who have that desire for domestic policy as well.
Be right back, don't go away.
These kids, these protesters, exactly why I stressed principle and ideology over policy as a strategy for conservatives and Republicans to win elections during my CPAC speech of a year and a half ago.
Open Line Friday, a brief timeout to top of the hour.
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