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Oct. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Have you seen Herman Kane's TV ad with the campaign guy smoking in the ad?
My gosh, the media is in a tizzy over this.
They're having an absolute cow over somebody smoking a cigarette in a Herman Kane campaign ad.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you with us already Wednesday.
This is the fastest week in media.
Here we are at Hump Day over the hump.
If you're one of the irrelevant people that work five days a week, when you get this, I'm just teasing.
If you work a five-day week and this is the third day, then you're over the hump when it's all over.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushball at EIBnet.com.
The power of EIB on display recently.
Yesterday, Nitt Romney in Ohio to ostensibly lend support to John Kasich's efforts to rein in the state unions.
When asked about it, oh, no, no, no.
I really, no, I can't say that I endorse this.
It's a state's rights issue of people of Ohio.
So we mentioned this, and a number of other people did too.
But from NBC News, Romney is now backtracked, saying that he fully supports Governor Kasich 110%.
After declining to comment yesterday on Ohio's collective bargaining law, Romney today said he apologizes for the confusion, said he fully supports Ohio Governor John Kasich 110%.
So I'm sorry if I create any confusion in that regard.
This was at a rally in Fairfax, Virginia.
I support, fully support Governor Kasich nuggets call question two in Ohio.
I fully support that.
Whatever it's called, I support it.
I support it fully.
Now, last week, I think it was last week, maybe the week before, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal wrote a piece about Romney and said, jury's still out.
And he said, Romney is going to have to be pushed via competition, outside pressure, what have you, is going to have to be pushed to the right.
And this, I think, is an example of what Henninger meant.
Romney being pushed to the right.
We're always happy here at the EIB network to help clear up any confusion in political candidates' minds.
Now, we're happy to help, happy to provide the clarity.
I want you to hear these soundbites of the media going nuts over the Herman Cain ad.
First here is a montage from yesterday and last night and the reaction, media, state-run media, hyperventilating over Herman Cain's smoking ad.
It tells you so much about how insane our society has become about smoking and political correctness.
There is a humorless doom and gloomism out there.
And if you drag on a cigarette, if you show a picture of somebody dragging on, I mean, Hollywood is famous.
Everybody in every movie, it seems, smokes.
Have you noticed?
You can't watch a Hollywood movie without somebody picking up numbers of times throughout the movie.
And you never hear Chris Matthews and the rest of the media elite going nuts over that.
But here's Herman Kane in his ad.
Listen to this montage.
Strange out with the smoking in it.
Are they going for the pro emphysema vote here?
To celebrate smoking at the end of a video, I find reprehensible.
Is it cool?
Weird?
Cheese.
Inappropriate.
He survived states for colon cancer.
Anyone promoting smoking, not necessarily a good idea.
What you get out of having some miscellaneous middle-aged guy smoking a cigarette and saying you're the right candidate.
You're not allowed to show people smoking.
At the end, he's smoking.
They just, they just, I can't believe it.
That was John King.
To celebrate smoking.
To celebrate smoking at the end of a video I find reprehensible.
Can you imagine how uptight these people's lives are each and every one?
Can you imagine what it's like to be these people?
I know, I don't care.
It's an internet ad.
But that's true.
But I just, I think about how tightly wound and uptight these people are.
Folks, I'm telling you, this is who they are.
This is a great illustration of how you have this holier than now superiorist bunch of people who are willing to condemn everything that you do that they disapprove of.
There's no freedom.
There is no living your life on your own.
You're going to be harassed if these people find out about it.
And then there's Obama.
Obama, he doesn't know how much he helped us with this comment of his yesterday.
Yeah, what the Republicans are saying, if they win, you're on your own.
Damn right, we're on our own.
Hallelujah.
It's exactly what we want to be is on our own.
And he's out there trying to warn people.
If the Republicans win, they're basically saying you're on your own.
Can they?
Exactly right.
We're on our own.
We want to be on our own.
We do much better for ourselves than you do.
You don't.
Look what you've done.
I love it.
Anyway, there's one more soundbite on his smoking business.
It's from the Kane campaign.
This was yesterday on Fox, Megan Kelly talking to Herman Kane's chief of staff, Mark Block, about the ad.
And she asked him what the message behind the ad was.
The message behind the ad was to our supporters that we're on a roll.
We're excited about what's happening.
There was no subliminal message.
In fact, I personally would encourage people not to smoke.
It's just that I'm a smoker.
And as a lot of the people on the staff said, just let Block be block.
That's what it was all about.
Mark Block is the guy's name.
Just let Block be blocked.
He's the smoking.
I smoke.
What the hell?
None of your business.
It was an ad.
There's no secondary smoke in an ad or secondhand smoke in an ad.
Well, can you talk about influencing the kids?
And let's talk movies.
And let's talk rock music.
And let's talk music videos.
If you want to talk about influencing the kids, that's all just a crock.
Now, a couple days ago, might have even been yesterday, our buddies at the Media Research Center, Red Bozel.
They sent a guy down to ground zero, the Occupy Wall Street.
By the way, folks, let me ask you something.
I don't know about you.
I'm getting Occupy Wall Street fatigue.
I've had it since day one.
That's not a problem for the media.
They're hanging on every action that the Occupy Wall Street people are taking.
And I am convinced.
I'm convinced that the media is hanging on here hoping and praying that we get the equivalent of a car wreck.
They are hoping some sort of Kent State type massacre is going to take place.
They are hoping that there's going to be some kind of civil disobedience.
They are hoping that general unrest is going to take place.
The riot is going to start.
The cops are going to go in there to try to quell the riot.
And I think that's what they're hoping for.
This is the chaos that everybody is looking for.
Have you seen the photos?
Have you seen the photos of these parks after the occupation protests have been forced to deoccupy them so people go in there and clean them up?
Where's all the recycling?
Where's all the saving the environment?
Where's all the organic stuff?
Where's whatever these people claim is necessary to save the planet?
I can't tell if these are pictures from Occupy Wall Street or from that earthquake in Turkey.
These people are pigs.
They're leaving their place as an absolute mess.
And there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of recycling going on, unless you count recycling a bunch of hippie nonsense from the 60s.
In terms of attitude and behavior, I thought these are the people that love Gaia.
I thought these are the people who love Mother Earth.
I thought these are the people who didn't like any pollution, didn't like any trash, didn't like any garbage, destroying the planet.
Look at the mess they're making, wherever they are.
And you didn't see these kind of messes following Tea Party rally.
Anyway, the people of Media Research Center sent one of their reporters down there yesterday, Dan Joseph is his name.
And he went around and asked them a simple question.
Who do you think is more dangerous to American society, Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?
And here's what he got.
Who do you think is more dangerous to American society?
Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda?
Both.
Both?
Equally?
Both.
Both?
Equally?
Wow.
Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda.
What's the difference?
Rush Limbaugh.
Okay, Al-Qaeda or Rush Limbaugh.
Probably Rush Limbaugh.
Why Rush Limbaugh?
Because he has a greater effect.
He's on TV every day speaking to us.
Al-Qaeda's not.
I don't know.
You mean about being on TV every day?
I am on TV every day.
I am on TV practically every day.
There are snippets.
No, no, she didn't specify that.
There are snippets from the Dittocam taken every day, and they are played all over cable news networks.
I am on television every day, not being paid for it, and of course, not doing any extra work for it either, but I am on television every day.
Probably the most recognizable radio person ever because I am on television every day.
So these people, you know, I went back and forth and ever even play this or not because it's silly, Rush Limbaugh or Al-Qaeda.
But I wanted you to hear this one moment.
Oh, Limbaugh is worse.
And there's another bite here.
One more, I think.
That's the hard question.
It's tricky.
Very.
Think about it.
They both inspire hatred.
So Al-Qaeda side makes way out.
Rush Limbaugh seems to be going up in popularity.
Since the instigator.
He's an instigator.
Okay.
We see things like spots news in CNN, but we're not seeing what's going on in the world.
In fact, we're the series going into other countries such as Iraq and Iran and overthrowing their governments to institute a democracy, so to speak, and something that can obviously not be worked with, at least at the level that they're at.
So ultimately, the Americans are the terrorists.
Right out of the thought process of Jeremiah Wright.
So ultimately, the Americans are terrorists.
I decided to go ahead and air this once again, just to illustrate, in their own words, who these people are.
How utterly dumb they are.
How purely stupid they are and the products of their education.
They've been taught this.
They believe it.
I told you yesterday, I knew it would be the case, Calypso Louie not happy with the death of brother Muammar Gaddafi.
Yesterday at Chicago, on the radio, Calypso Louie had this to say about the death of his ousted brother, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.
Qaddafi died in honor fighting for the Libya that he believed in.
They would never have won if NATO was not bombing day in and day out.
But they went for humanitarian purposes.
Yet 50,000 Libyans lie dead because the West wanted access to the wealth of Libya.
Now let me tell you what this man did.
Did he kill people?
Well, hell, did our president kill people?
Talk back to me.
You have made your president an assassin.
And we'll take it.
Time out.
A little bit more on Calypso Louie and issued basically a fatwa on the killing of his close friend and sugar daddy, Colonel Qaddafi.
It's a shame after all those years.
He was born a colonel and he died a colonel.
He never got promoted in all of his years running Libya.
And from what I understand, folks, there will not be a tombstone.
So we won't know how he actually spelled his own name.
And one of the upshots of his death was the world learning how he spelled his name, but I'm told there won't be a tombstone.
Calypso Louie, on the other hand, feels a great loss.
In addition to the bite that we just played you, Farrakhan acknowledged that Qaddafi killed people, but he, as you heard him say, says that Obama does too, meaning Osama bin Laden.
Because according to Farrakhan, bin Laden should have been put on trial so that we would know the real truth behind 9-11, which is in his world that it was an inside job by the Jews.
Farrakhan blames Obama's foreign policy on the wicked demons who are being controlled by powerful international corporations, meaning the Jews.
Farrakhan and Qaddafi image, Farrakhan Sekadafi's image, been tarnished by the news media, which Farrakhan says controlled by the banks, meaning the Jews.
And naturally, Farrakhan also supports the Occupy Wall Street protest since they have pretty much the same enemies.
Corporations, banks, the Jews.
Oh, and Farrakhan also says that the U.S. is through as a world power, which oddly enough is also what Obama likes to tell us.
Obama tells us that we are finished as a world power, that we're no longer going to lead.
The American consumer, the American worker, no longer going to lead.
Those days are over, Obama says.
At a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, here is Obama, in his view, telling his supporters what's wrong with America.
We've lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam and unleashed all the potential in this country.
We haven't lost our ambition and we haven't lost our imagination.
You, sir, have stifled it.
You and your party have stifled it.
People in this country have their imagination.
The people in this country still have their dreams and their willingness to do things.
You stand in the way.
The federal government stands in the way.
Mountainous regulations.
We did build the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building in 10 years.
And we did it in the middle of the Great Depression.
You couldn't do it today.
Regardless, the ambition, imagination, willingness, or desire, you couldn't do it in 10 years today.
Look at Ground Zero.
In Manhattan, you couldn't do it.
I mean, physically it could be done, but it couldn't be legally done.
The regulations, the obstacles, environmental impact, lawsuits, environmental destruction, all of that.
No, it couldn't be done.
Progress, growth, ambition stifled by the American left.
I'm reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the biography.
And he had developed a pretty good relationship with Rupert Murdoch because they were putting together a joint publication for the iPad called The Daily.
And in getting to know each other, Jobs invited Murdoch to his house for dinner a couple times and joked to Isaacson he had to hide the knives in the kitchen because his wife was such a liberal and hated Murdoch.
And Jobs tells Isaacson in the biography that he told Murdoch, you're blowing it with Fox News.
The Axis is not liberal versus conservative today.
The Axis is constructive versus destructive.
And you're missing it, Rupe.
You're missing it.
Fox News, you're blowing it.
That's going to be your legacy and you're going to hate it.
One of the things that has struck me about Jobs in the Isaacson biography is how wrong Jobs was about so much starting early on in his career.
Not criticism.
He was just wrong about a tremendous number of things in areas of his expertise and outside his area of expertise.
But the notion that the axis is no longer liberal versus conservative, but constructive versus destructive, what's the difference?
Liberalism is destructive.
We're witnessing it.
Liberalism presides over decline.
Liberalism causes decline.
Liberalism causes stagnation.
Liberalism stifles ambition, dreams, willingness, growth.
Conservatism is constructiveness.
There's no doubt about it.
Anyway, sit tight, folks.
Much more straight ahead when we get back.
Obama's doing some kind of a town hall in Denver where they had a major snowstorm.
Oh, that's with the student alone giveaway.
He's off-prompter, and you can tell.
I don't know if he got heckled or somebody asked him a question and he took time to answer it and had trouble answering.
I don't know.
Why when I pushed the button to hear the audio, it looked like he was way off track.
But he's like, well, we're going to have some private sector growth.
Every time I wake up, when I wake up in the morning, I think, well, look at you and you, you, you comfort me.
America's got a great future.
Well, what we got to do in Washington is create great, great opportunity great, great opportunity for no matter what you look like and no matter where you're going.
And kids started imploding.
And I guess certainly he feels confident.
He got the black vote because there aren't any in the camera shot.
Uh, I think he, I think he thinks he's mended the fences there because he's uh, he's back to the usual all-white crowd sitting behind him at this thing.
This student loan business, as President Obama prepared to announce new measures today, which is what he's doing, to help ease the burden of student loan debt, new figures painted a demoralizing picture of college costs for students and parents.
Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall.
That translates to 8.3% compared with a year ago.
Nationally, the cost of a full credit load has passed $8,000 at all-time high.
Then you throw in room and board, and the average list price for a state scruple now runs more than $17,000 a year, according to the twin annual reports on college costs and student aid published today by the College Board.
Meanwhile, the tuition at private colleges is now often over $40,000 a year.
The large increase in federal grants and tax credits for students on top of stimulus dollars that prevented greater state cuts helped keep the average tuition and fees that families actually pay much lower, about $2,490 or just $170 more than it was five years ago.
Obama saved us again, which is all a crock.
It's simply a transfer, a redistribution.
It's not saving anybody anything.
It's just shifting the burden to other people.
But what nobody talks about here, if you continue to read the story, you find out that tuition is up because the states are slashing their budgets again.
Those damn states.
It has nothing to do with colleges raising their tuition costs, nothing to do with colleges raising their fees.
You note that nobody ever, ever really criticizes big education for its out-of-control cost increases, price increases.
Never, ever, because that's where the chosen ones work.
Liberal unionized professors.
And so all we hear is talk about the student loan program.
It's being changed.
Student loan program is being modified.
Student loan program is going to be made more affordable.
Never, ever do we hear that big education is raping anybody.
Never ever do we hear that big education is overcharging.
We never hear this.
We make the accommodation for the massive price increases in the student loan program.
And what is Obama doing?
Is he basically forgiving these loans after 20 years instead of shortening the time that they're forgiven?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
They're shortening the time that the loans are forgiven from 25 to 20 years.
Right.
But minimum payments drop.
He said, basically, all you got to do is pay a penny here and a penny there for 20 years and then forget the loan.
So you never really have to pay it off.
Instead of waiting 25 years to make the game up, you can do it in 20.
So you pay a couple bucks this month, a couple bucks next year, a couple bucks there, make it look like a good faith effort to pay off your loan.
And then after 20 years, they forgive it.
And it used to be 25.
So the government will subsidize all these tuitions, all these costs, all these educations, which, you know, a lot of people are starting to say, what are they really worth?
I sent my kid away to a $4,000, $8,000, $17,000 a year school, and my kid smells like urine hanging around a tent city down on Wall Street.
That's what I'm getting here.
And then when my kid comes home, after spending three weeks in urine stench squalor, I have to listen to the biggest bunch of drivel and bilge come out of my kid's mouth that I ever heard.
And I'm paying 17 to 20 grand for this.
And I'm paying it under the guise that this is the only way my kid's going to stand a chance of having a decent life and earning a decent living.
Now, as you know, I, ladies and gentlemen, am a proud dropout.
And I have asked myself, and I've discussed this with people, I wonder, had I stayed in college for four years, I probably would have been okay.
I had the mental fortitude to reject the crap that was, even in my first year, I had the mental fortitude.
But I sometimes wonder, if I had stayed in college four years or more, whatever, would I have come out of there so screwed up that I would not have been able to do this program?
I wonder about it.
The moot point, I would not be a liberal professor.
Don't go that far.
I wouldn't be a liberal professor.
I'm crying out loud.
Yeah.
No way.
I wouldn't be a liberal professor at Harvard or anywhere.
But I do, you know, with what these kids are being taught, what they're coming out, the knowledge that they don't have, what are their educations really worth?
You know how many things in life you do because it's just the next thing you do.
Okay, so you go to school because you go to school.
And then you graduate high school because you graduate high school.
And the first thing you do, even before you graduate, you start planning where you're going to go to college.
Why?
That's just written in the tablets.
That's what we do.
After high school, you are going to go to college.
Because if you don't go to college, and this comes from basically the Depression era, where it was, I don't think, ever truer than that era.
If you didn't have an education, you really didn't have a chance.
Deck was so stacked against you.
And for a long time after that, it was true too.
And even today, a college education is necessary to get your foot in the door for an interview.
The fact that you might not have a degree is one of the ways they winnow the number of applicants that they have to waste time talking to for any job opening.
Oh, you don't have a degree?
Sorry.
Job requires it.
Next.
So a lot of people are in colleges.
They don't have any idea what they want to do.
It's just the next phase.
This is the next thing.
It's what it's expected.
It's expected of them by their parents.
It's expected of them societally, culturally.
The number of people who are in college who really don't want to be there probably would surprise you.
The number is probably astounding.
And then you go get married.
And then the next thing you do is have kids because that's just the next thing you do.
And as I look at my life, I look at my life, every next thing to do, I said, screw it.
Whatever the next thing was that everybody else was doing, the next thing that was expected, I didn't do it.
Now, undoubtedly, there are some exceptions.
Obviously, there are phases in my life where the next thing that was expected of me, I did do within a career universe.
But I'm talking about mind-numbed robot cultural societal stuff.
And I sit back and I watch all of these people do the next phase of their life because that's just what's expected.
That's just what you do.
You go to college, and then after you go to college, you end up at Goldman Sachs earning $2 million a year.
And the next year, then you have your house in the Hamptons and three golf club memberships.
If that doesn't happen, why the country sucks.
Of course, if you don't grow up in the Northeast, that's not your expectation.
Different places have different expectations.
But stuns me.
Nevertheless, I look at every example we have in public of modern-day college graduates, and I'm amazed at how little they know versus how much time they've spent and how much money their parents have spent as balanced against what they think they know.
Now, parents are only trying to do the best thing for their kids, and that's part and parcel of being a parent.
Education is a ticket.
There's no question.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
I just noticed the clock sit tight, my friends El Rushbow.
We'll be back.
We'll continue melding your phone calls into the mix when we get back.
You know, I remembered something during the break.
If I were you, ladies and gentlemen, if I were you and you have a student in college and you've taken that student alone and a kid has taken out a student loan and you're hearing Obama talk about, yeah, yeah, we'll forgive the student loan after 20 years instead of 25.
Remember, and we were probably one of the few to report this.
This was back on October 4th.
It was David Espo from the state-controlled AP.
Quote, to the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cell phones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.
The little noticed recommendation would apply only to cases in which money is owed the government and is tucked into the mammoth $3 trillion deficit reduction plan the president submitted to Congress.
So while Obama is out announcing these new student loan rules that make you think that he's relaxing your repayment, remember that Obama asked Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to get your cell phone number to track you down in case you are delinquent in repaying your student loan if you owe it to the government.
And the odds are you do since they took over the industry.
Obama is telling these kids he's just like them.
He didn't come from wealth.
He says, I've been in your shoes.
I didn't come from wealth.
I see a guy floundering out there.
This is that place.
They just had a wide shot.
That place isn't full.
Now, they'll probably chalk it up the big snowstorm out there, but the place isn't full.
Here's John in Salt Lake City as we head to the phones.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, great to be on the program.
Thank you, sir.
I am one of those students that you speak of.
I'm also a former student of the great Walter Williams, so I think I'll get through without the liberal bias.
There you go.
Good for you.
So I'm calling because I think that one of the biggest things tying to what you said about what we're expected to do, as conservatives, we've become conditioned, almost self-conditioned, that we shouldn't offend, we shouldn't upset, we shouldn't be aggressive, we shouldn't tell the truth, we shouldn't say the truth for what it is.
And this is something that has been conditioned into us.
We fear the social reaction to things like the truth.
So going back to Farrakhan's comment that we have turned our president into an assassin, to that I say good.
That is his job.
It is his job to protect us.
He is the father of our republic.
It is his sworn duty to keep us safe.
This is a man who, by any measure, could not be considered anything less than a direct constant threat to the United States.
And for our president through NATO to sanction what if Farrakhan wants to call it an assassination, I will agree with him.
I say good.
This is the world we live and work in, and I will no longer allow my safety to be superseded by my concern that I would offend somebody.
Okay, so you want it said that Obama is an assassin.
I want the truth to be said for what it is.
We went into another country and we killed an individual.
That is my definition of assassination.
Father is also a bad person who threatened our republic.
Farcon was right.
Obama's an assassin.
Works for me.
And I think this just ties into the general use of euphemisms.
That works for me.
Obama's an assassin.
I'll take it.
Well, I'm glad that I could give you that on this fine morning.
Well, you know, this is why we go to the phones.
Sometimes enlightenment does take place on the phone.
You're absolutely right.
Multiple assassins.
Bin Laden?
Qaddafi?
U.S. economy?
I like it.
Laura in Babylon, New York.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hey, Rush, it's a pleasure to talk to the voice of reason, even though you're more dangerous than al-Qaeda.
The big voice of reason.
Yes, thank you.
And that's why I'm so pleased to talk to you.
Maybe you can help me enlighten me.
I'm a little confused because of the reaction to the Kane political campaign ad.
The left's response seems puzzling to me, and I hope you would help me.
Why aren't they hailing the campaign manager as a hero?
Is he not doing what he wants with his own body by having a cigarette?
Isn't he exercising?
No, no, no.
That's clever on your part, but that's not how it works.
Why?
The only people who get to do with their body what they want to do are women who are going to have abortions.
A woman who's not going to have an abortion doesn't have the freedom to do with her body whatever she wants.
So a man who wants to have a cigarette does not have a freedom of choice.
Absolutely right.
Absolutely right.
Well, you heard the evidence.
You've heard the evidence.
Everybody on the left is having a cop.
It's despicable.
It's irreprehensible.
You heard him.
As I was holding on, I also correct me if I'm wrong, Rush, but doesn't our fearless leader smoke?
Well, there's conflicting news whether or not.
Conflicting news with the Obama administration.
Well, there are reports that he's quit, and then there are reports that something happened, and Michelle yelled at him as he started again, sneaks out behind the White House.
Other reports say, no, he's really quit for good.
Don't really know other than he did.
One thing, Herman Kane's gotten a lot of mileage out of this.
He got a lot more mileage out of this than what the ad cost him.
That's not too dumb.
We're looking for the Herman Cain ad featuring smoking.
I'm going to play that ad on this program.
I am going to dare the conventional wisdom and play that smoking ad on this program.
Just to tick them off.
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