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Oct. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
So Catherine just sent me a quick flash.
Are you really mad?
You sound mad today.
I am.
Folks, I'm telling you, some days I just surrounded my negativity some days, and some days I just, mostly I've got my boundaries and it bounces off.
Some days it gets through and ticks me off.
And this is one of the days.
And rather than try to fake it here and act all happy and bubbly and goo-goo and so forth, the hell with it.
Decided to bleed on you today.
There you have it.
800-282-2882 is the number if you want to be on the program.
Zbigniew Bzezinski was on his daughter's TV show today.
His daughter is Mika Bzhinski, and she co-hosts Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough.
Now, Zbigniew Bzhinski is the former national security advisor to Jimmy Carter.
He's a frequent guest on his daughter's program on MS NBC.
And he said some really odd things today.
He wants to publish the names of people who make a lot of money.
He says that would be very helpful in redistributing wealth.
I expect Romney and Cantor to endorse this within five days.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of them defecates on a cop car just to show solidarity with the protesters.
But back to Bzhinski.
Zbigniew Bzezinski wants anybody making a lot of money to be pointed out.
And then he said, after saying that, that he didn't want Wall Street demonized.
Then, and this is from the Blaze.com who reports this, then he went to demonizing people who legally earn a lot of money and spend it in ways that apparently he would not.
He said, we have to have disclosure of the rich and who they are.
We have to have transparency.
We have to have control.
Now, who is he anyway to be talking about?
What is, I mean, Zbigniew Bzuzhinsky was the national security advisor, and he said he's an historian.
He knows why the Serbs don't like whoever they don't like.
And he knows why the Turks don't like whoever they don't like.
He knows that stuff.
Yeah, what's exactly?
Well, he hasn't gone that far, but what's this pretty?
Yeah, we'll tattoo the rich.
We'll give them armbands that they have to wear so that everybody knows who they are.
And then if they refuse to play ball, if they refuse to start spending their money and hiring people and giving money away, then we'll identify them even further.
We need more fair distribution of social responsibility through taxation and elimination of loopholes and pressure even on the rich to avoid flaunting their wealth.
This from Dr. Zbigniew Bzuzhinsky, who was the first guy every morning that Jimmy Carter met with.
After he spoke to David Rockefeller, Bzhinski spoke to Rockefeller, then walked in and had his conference every morning with Carter.
I'm just making that up.
I'm trying to stir it up out there amongst the conspiracy tinfoil hat crowd.
A list of the rich to pressure them to give back.
How about tattooing a dollar sign on their foreheads or some other place where it can't be hidden?
Where would you tattoo a dollar sign on the rich, snerdly, if they couldn't cover it up on their hand?
You can wear a glove.
Well, yeah, you can wear a hat, but, I mean, the hat has to come off at some point, especially if you go into a church, you go to a building.
He, he...
He went on to say, unfortunately, there is an even larger number of people who massively enriched themselves over the last decade, incredibly so, to the degree that we now have this highly disproportionate social division between the rich and the poor, and I think they should be made known publicly.
Public pressure, public condemnation, public shame can be very effective.
Now, what happened to the by the way, you know, there's news out today that Wells Fargo posted a profit.
Did Citibank or Citibank posted a profit?
Now, in the old days, that would have been good news.
That meant that these places were financially healthy and that you could trust your money being there and maybe even go get a job there.
Now they post a profit and they are suspects.
Now they post a profit and all of a sudden we got to be suspicious.
That's bad news out there.
Something's wrong.
They made a profit.
Well, that's an interesting question.
That's the kind of question used to be one of my used to be favorite comedians, Erwin Corey, would answer.
What was it like when there were no rich people?
What was it like when there were just everybody was the same?
And of course, that day never was.
There never has been a day where there was total sameness.
There's always been income inequality.
And sometimes it's not from income.
Some people steal theirs.
But there's always been disparity in how much money people have.
There's never been the day where everybody had the same amount of money, but it's it's it's you show a profit.
I mean, it's almost if you're a business and you're going to announce a profit, you may as well do it Friday night at 8 o'clock when nobody's going to hear about it.
You could make the rich wear yellow stars.
You could tattoo the dollar sign on both of their two faces.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's Zbigniew Byzozinski.
Now, the conventional pronunciation is Brzezinski, but I happen to know that the correct Polish pronunciation is Byzinski.
And I like to be correct.
John Huntsman's presidential campaign verging on being broke after burning through more than $4 million since the former Utah governor entered the race for the Republican nomination in June, the Huntsman campaign,
Which retrenched last month by laying off staff and moving its national headquarters to New Hampshire, finished the third fundraising quarter in September with just $327,000 in the bank and $890,000 in debt since joining the race.
On June 21st, Huntsman has raised $2.26 million and contributed $2.25 million of his own money to the campaign for a total of $4.51 million.
But campaign official told CNN Friday that they have spent $4.18 million, leaving Huntsman with a paltry war chest as the GOP nomination fight heats up.
Isn't Huntsman one of the guys threatening to boycott the Nevada debate because they're going to move up their primary?
By the way, shouldn't, you know, Mika Zhazhinski, I mean, she, the daughter of Zbigniew Zezinski, he works at MSNBC, makes a lot of money.
Should we tattoo her?
Would he put a star, dollar sign, or whatever, signify his daughter is one of these rich people and himself?
You know, Z-Big is not actually hurting out there.
None of these people are.
Anyway, I take a timeout here, folks.
We'll do it.
And we'll come back and continue with more of your phone calls.
Sit-typed.
Back to the phones.
We go, as I've promised, it's Angela, San Francisco.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a pleasure to speak with you.
I just had a kind of a comment.
I'm looking at this from, I worked at Events for a Living, and I've worked on several in the United States.
And the common denominator is that you have to work with the city and county and have a plan of attack.
You have to have permits.
You have to work with, you know, sanitation department, make sure you have proper receptacles for trash.
There's even an iota of, you know, the possibility of having traffic issues.
I have to work with the Department of Parking and Traffic.
I mean, they provide barricades, but I got to pay for barricades.
I got to show them that I paid for Porta John by my attendance.
I mean, heck, even if there's certain places where if I have a fortune teller at my carnival or whatever I'm setting up, I even have to have a permit for the fortune teller.
Really?
What kind of permit does a fortune teller need?
Not to lie?
I have no idea, but I don't know.
Maybe it's the sharp edges on the tarot cards or something like the crystal balls need to be regulated.
I mean, I absolutely don't know, but everywhere you go, I mean, it's practically a 200-page booklet on all the rules and regulations and hoops you have to jump through in order to put any kind of gathering on.
How much does all this cost?
It varies, but it's really expensive.
You said you put together events in San Francisco, you're talking about San Francisco, but I've kind of had the luxury of being able to go all over and put events on.
So, and San Francisco is one of the worst as far as what kind of events, if I may probe, what kind of events?
Oh, it ranges races like half marathons, lobster festivals, mostly sports, but music shows.
And I mean, I've even had a lot of money.
So you're wondering where are all the similar permits that this munch has to have for New York City and Washington and Seattle, wherever they are.
Right.
And I've even had events, I've had them shut down because of, you know, they said, oh, I was missing a permit.
A permit wasn't done correctly.
I mean, I've had the riot police and police show up and completely show the place, shut the event down because, for example, like I was over what the fire marshal allowed me to have as far as like attendance.
Have you ever done an anti-circumcision event in San Francisco?
No.
No, I actually am very selective about what I pick and choose as far as events go.
I wouldn't pick that one up, but I'm sure somebody's requested it here in San Francisco.
I mean, anything goes here.
Well, let me fill you in on the answer to your question, at least as it relates to Zuccotti Park in New York.
And this is from the Business Insider, and this is the real reason why they weren't kicked out last Friday.
If you recall, they were supposed to be kicked out just so the park could be cleaned and then they were going to be allowed back in.
But they thought that would be the first step of a permanent evacuation.
They refused to go, and everybody involved backed down.
Now, here's the thing.
Coming on the heels of the Cylindra debacle, the Obama administration has just approved.
Now, stick with me on this, Angelo.
The regime has just approved a $168 million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable Wind Farm Project owned by Brookfield Asset Management.
Brookfield Asset Management owns Zuccotti Park.
Among its many holdings, Brookfield Asset Management owns Brookfield Renewable Power, which owns the Granite Reliable Wind Farm and also owns Brookfield office properties, whose holdings include Zuccotti Park.
The Department of Energy finalized a loan guarantee less than a week after Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Zuccotti Park.
So it looks like the people at Brookfield Asset Management, in exchange for letting their park be used by the protesters, got a $168 million loan guarantee from the regime.
But it doesn't stop there.
The Granite Reliable Wind Farm Project under construction in New Hampshire is the state's largest wind farm, and the New Hampshire union leader questions why Brookfield would need federal subsidies at all, particularly following the bankruptcy of Solyndra.
And why is GE getting subsidies when they don't need the money?
Mayor Bloomberg's announcement Monday that protesters could remain as long as they liked also raised a few eyebrows.
And it turns out that his longtime domestic partner, his girlfriend, Diana Taylor, is on the board of directors at Brookfield Properties, along with John Zucati himself.
So this, you wonder why they don't need permits?
They don't need permits because the mayor's compromised, the girlfriend's compromised, Obama's compromised.
In the middle of all this is a $170 million loan guarantee to Zuccotti's Granite Reliable Wind Farm Project.
And the price for that is letting them use Zuccotti Park.
Does that answer your question?
Yeah, it does.
That's the way the game is.
See, that's the kind of connection you need.
If you had connections like that, you wouldn't need to get permit after permit after permit after permit.
I could just have whatever event I want wherever I want it.
You know, Everybody else would have to go through permit process for their events like you do.
This bunch, there aren't any port-a-potties.
Are there?
Or there weren't for a while.
The place is a pigsty.
Anyway, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that's it.
It's no, it's not unbelievable at all.
It's totally believable.
Everything is fixed.
Everything is rigged.
Tell me, why does General Motors, with that market cap, have to get $170 million in loan guarantees from the Obama regime for its wind turbines?
The game's rigged.
The game is totally rigged.
And, you know, people think big business is in the back pockets of the Republicans.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Big business is in the back pocket of whoever happens to run Washington that day.
Because that's what it takes.
Big business will pay off whoever they have to pay off.
Big business doesn't have time for ideological devotion.
Big business has to protect itself.
You don't play ball with Obama.
What the hell is going to happen?
He's going to go out and make a speech about you.
And he's going to include you in his rant with the Republicans that your company wants people to die.
And then you've got a major PR problem.
Oh, my God.
The president's saying that we want people, our customers, to die.
What do we do?
Just like the people in big oil have to.
Or big pharma.
Big food.
President's wife is out there indicting the food industry for killing people for crying out loud.
Well, the best way to keep that from happening is to give them some money and join them in a few projects and shut up, which is what happens.
So what an intricate little web we have here.
We have the mayor's girlfriend on the board at Brookfield Asset Management, which just happens to own a wind farm project that needs some money.
And they just happen to have a park suitably close to Wall Street for a bunch of vermin to show up and protest in.
So they get the money, and the protesters in Obama get the use of the park.
And the mayor doesn't kick them out and doesn't require any permits or any of that.
And the media gets its story that the real Tea Party is on parade here.
So that's the little intricate web of deceit that has been woven.
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Everybody that's on hold, your call will be answered at some point.
And as an added bonus, I think you get to hear me answer it when you finally get through.
Yeah.
Plus, the tea is the best tea you've ever tasted.
That's really important here.
So if you want to know what the Republican jobs plan is, as portrayed by Barack Obama, dirty your air.
dirty water, and less people with health insurance.
Should it be fewer people?
This guy keeps talking about education.
Fewer people with health insurance, not less.
But that's the Republican plan, according to Obama.
Dirtier air, dirtier water.
And of course, the Republicans are going to think people will believe that.
No, we're not for dirtier air.
At least not as dirty as he says.
We want clean air, too.
We'll have a plan now.
Who's next?
Tony in Edmonds, Washington.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hi, Irish.
Thanks for having me on.
Yeah.
I was wondering how you would recommend the Republicans' candidates campaign at this point in regard to governing once we take control in January 13.
I mean, we're going to be out of cash.
This $2.4 trillion debt increase that we gave this guy.
You're not going to believe my answer.
Yeah, we're going to be burnt through all that.
What's going to happen here?
You're not going to believe my answer.
Ron Paul has a good idea.
Really?
I knew you wouldn't believe.
Kevin Williamson, writing at the corner, National Review Online, it's actually a political report.
Ron Paul is about to show the Republican presidential field what a serious fiscal reform plan looks like.
He is going to propose $1 trillion in real spending cuts.
He is going to propose immediately freezing spending by numerous government agencies back to 2006 levels, the last time Republicans had complete control of the federal budget.
Beyond that, the EPA would see a 30% cut.
The Food and Drug Administration would see a 40% cut.
Foreign aid would be zeroed out immediately.
And he would take an axe to Pentagon funding for wars.
Medicaid, food stamps, family support programs, the children's nutrition program would all be block-granted to the states and removed from the mandatory spending column of the federal budget.
Some functions of eliminated departments, such as Pell Grants, would be continued elsewhere in the federal bureaucracy.
The federal workforce would be reduced by 10%.
The president's pay would be cut to 39,336 books.
That's a level that Ron Paul says is approximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.
Now, throw that out, that silly symbolic stuff.
But what this indicates is something, folks, that we have got to face if we are serious about this.
Fooling around the margins and all this spending isn't going to get it done.
A 2% tax cut here or a 3% tax variation over there, not going to fix what's wrong.
Genuine, big spending cuts are the only thing that is going to bring us back into some semblance of ideas.
Now, these are not really Ron Paul's ideas.
They are ours On this program, I myself, El Rushbow, have suggested freezing spending at 2008 levels.
And I said we had enough.
In fact, I said, you guys are Democrats, you're running around and you're talking about how great the Clinton year was, the Clinton years were.
Let's freeze, let's take spending back to that level.
You said Clinton produced a boom.
Let's go back to those years.
Let's do that.
So Paul is stealing that idea.
Cutting the EPA.
We've long been an advocate of this.
Eliminating whole bureaucracies.
But nobody on our side's ever really seriously proposed it.
And Ron Paul's going to.
Well, somebody's got to talk reality to the population.
I mean, people don't realize that, I mean, these guys burned through, what, $250 billion the day after they signed the deal in August?
More than that.
More than that.
Obama went.
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
That's true.
But even we raised the debt ceiling by $2 trillion, and it's almost gone now.
Yeah, so are we going to make it to January 2015?
No.
And the super committee is now working on trying to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts.
If they don't, we've got to cut defense $500 billion.
Well, you know, these people have, they've written leases.
They have spent this money and they're counting on this money for, you know, into the future here.
There's going to be major disruptions, which we need.
We need to do it.
But it's going to be painful.
And I think our candidates need to be discussing this and talking reality to the American people.
Well, they might.
Ron Paul's going to put it forward.
The thing here is that, and I think most everybody knows this now.
I think when I say most everybody, I'm talking about people like you and people in this audience and who are paying attention.
We know that little chunks here and little chunks there are not going to make a dent in the problem, that it has to be serious.
Now, Snerdley's in there yelling at me.
If you do what you just suggested, what Paul says, there's going to be rioting in the streets.
There's rioting in the streets now.
And there's going to be more rioting in the streets because that's part of the program here.
And next up, there are going to be race riots, I guarantee.
And the race riots are part of the plan that this regime has.
That's next.
You'll note that everybody's talking about how white organized Wall Street is.
Well, it didn't take long for him to do the Martin Luther King thing yesterday.
You just watch and wait till these two things get melded, which they will.
The more chaos and instability, the better.
I'm not predicting it, but if it happens, I wouldn't just, don't count me as one who's surprised, is what I'm saying here.
But you and I both know that Mike Romney has a 59-point program.
It may be a good program, but it's not what's needed if we are going to actually save the country and preserve it as it has been for all of us since we were born.
We've called for 10% tax cuts across the, we've done everything that Paul is suggesting, that he's going to, I guess, suggest officially in his, where I guess in the next debate or whatever.
We've called for it on this program.
But he will be the first candidate to actually do so.
It'll be interesting to see how they react to this.
What do you think, Snerdley?
Too drastic.
We can't do.
Well, they, well, they might try to ignore it.
Depends on how the media.
The media, I think, is going to love this as an opportunity show, but he has kooks.
So nobody's going to want to agree with it since it comes from Paul.
But still, The EPA, I mean, that needs to be dialed back fast and big time, folks.
The EPA has become its own little fiefdom.
The EPA can put you in jail.
And the FCC is getting close.
And all of this is by design.
So you got somebody else up there that thinks it's heartbreaking that Erwin Corey is a communist.
Yeah, it's sad.
We'll get that in just a second.
First, let's go to Richmond.
Tom, high, glad you waited.
You're next on the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Dittos.
Thank you very much.
I'll get right to the point.
When you were talking about the Class Act being pulled out of Obamacare and all that, you got me thinking that they are, the regime is worried that the court's going to find it unconstitutional, and they want to help their friends on the court by pulling out this thing to illustrate that the individual mandate would be several also.
Well, I'd have to ask some legal beagles about that because this is a interesting idea.
So your theory is they pulled this to protect themselves at the Supreme Court.
Yes, basically.
Like, you know, it'll give the court an excuse to make it to enforce whatever's left of Obamacare once the individuals.
Yeah, but the problem with that, the problem with that is that this was 40% of the savings.
Look, I know it's BS.
I'm telling you, the problem they have is what they've said.
This was 40% of the savings.
This was 40% of how this whole thing was going to be paid for.
And now it's gone at least temporarily.
I don't know.
What I'm thinking here is that this kind of sends a signal.
This tears the whole thing apart.
They're not even fighting to save this thing.
But without the mandate, how does any of it get paid for it?
The mandate was the primary funding mechanism, making everybody buy insurance.
That's how we're going to pay for the 32, whatever it is, million that don't have it.
Of course, they're going to tax the rich after we tattoo them.
After we brand them.
Look, there's a rich person.
Look, mommy.
Look, my dad's a rich person.
Run over him, mommy.
Run over him.
Call the cops, mommy.
Call him, please.
He's a rich person.
You know what?
They're going to do just these rappers where these giant gold chains.
Get these giant dollar sign gold chains and the dollar sign like five inches high.
And you make that wear that around your neck.
Okay, Hernie, is that your name?
Hernie in Tucson.
Welcome to the program.
Henry.
Henry in Tucson.
Henry.
Okay.
Henry, how are you?
Very well, thanks very much.
Rush from Tucson, Arizona.
It's great to have you on the program.
Well, I wanted to tell you how disappointed and sad I am to learn about Professor Corey.
I'm on my way to my gym game, and of course, one of our colorful players here, I've been calling him Erwin Corey for years.
He always had the disheveled, starry-eyed look, and it was just perfect.
And to hear his name and to find out that he was a communist is so disappointing, I don't know what to do.
Okay.
Let me understand something here.
You are in Tucson, where it is what?
Coming up on 9 or 10 o'clock.
Which is it?
It's coming up on noon now.
And you're heading into your gym game.
Oh, yeah.
We have a regular gym game out at the club.
We play a little golf and play gym, but we have a colorful character that I've been calling Erwin Corey for many, many years.
He just developed it.
This is what I knew.
What am I doing?
And he did new and going to a gym game.
No, that's living.
I'm a little older than you, Rush.
I'm getting my Social Security while it's still there.
Yeah, you got it made.
Oh, gym games are new.
We've been listening to you for years.
You got a guy playing in your game.
It reminds you of our members, in fact, prepared he and his wife a nice Thanksgiving meal during your dumpster dig days to take to a homeless shelter, and went in there to develop the deliver the meal and came out and his car was gone.
A lot of tragedy.
I shouldn't laugh, but it's funny.
All right look Henry, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
Thanks very much.
I'm gonna be looking forward for Ron Paul.
He's gonna announce these cuts.
I want to hear how he's gonna implement it.
I want to hear, because he's running for president.
I want to hear how he implements it, how he's going to get these things done.
So we'll just have to.
We'll have to wait and see.
Well, let him.
You have to put him on Snurdly, is it?
You're gonna start complaining because who calls you?
He's in there complaining now, but he's gonna have to have a bunch of wrong poll calls to deal with tomorrow.
Deal with it.
You know what he'll do.
He'll put a couple of them through here just to get me back anyway.
Uh, I gotta take a break here, folks.
The constraints of time are such that i'm out of it.
The protest continues at Zucati Park, also known As Obamaville, which is increasingly becoming more and more of the country.
They called it Hooverville during Herbert Hoover's days, but actually, this is more like Obamaville.
What's going on there?
This is Obamaville.
This is the country in microcosm.
No toilets.
Just a bunch of people with their hands out begging for stuff, a bunch of lazy brats.
That's where we're headed.
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