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Oct. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And just looking at some video tape here, some occupied protest somewhere.
It was on MSNBC, and it was total chaos.
They didn't identify where it was.
We have been talking.
The next phase of this Occupy stuff is pretty large civil disobedience.
I mean, there are pockets of it that have sprung up in Oakland, Atlanta, other places.
But that's the next phase of this, especially if Acorn is involved.
And this is all part of a master plan to create unrest and chaos, general frustration, dispirit people who oppose President Obama and everything that's going on here, folks, is designed to make it appear as though you and I are the smallest minority in the world, the countries passed us by.
We are relics of a bygone era.
We're not with it, we're not hip.
We're just supposed to slink away, fade away, shut up, let these people have what they want and do it the way they want to do it, and uh it's over.
This is they want a defeatist attitude in as many of us as they can create.
It's all part of a plan, and they're rolling this out, media paying attention to it, uh, keeping it alive by design.
Great to have you back, Rushlin Boy here behind the golden EIB microphone, as always.
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A friend of mine sends me a post here from jihad watch.org.
Muslim students at Catholic University of America are complaining that Christian symbols are making them uncomfortable when they pray in empty classrooms.
At the heart of this complaint is the hope of establishing a Muslim prayer space on the campus that would be subject to different standards than the rest of the university.
A little enclave of Islamic law where its ban on the display of crosses would be respected.
It's mentioned that Muslim students say that they they like Catholic University of America because they feel safe and comfortable there.
They're receiving the benefits of what Catholics have built at Catholic University of America, but they're expecting more.
They want they want to bend the institution to their own purposes for their own comfort.
They think it's a fine place.
It just weren't so Catholic and therefore un-Islamic.
From the Catholic University of America's The Tower, October 20th, a university accused of discriminating against Muslims.
New charges have recently been filed against the university on uh on counts of illegal discrimination against its Muslim and female students.
The allegations are being reviewed by the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights, which has the strictest discrimination laws in the country.
President John Garvey and the university is being urged to respond to the charges.
John Banzaff III, the George Washington University professor of public interest law, who initiated a legal controversy surrounding same-sex residence halls is also the one behind these new charges.
You remember Banzaff certainly?
You remember where you first saw this guy?
Crossfire.
This guy Banzaf, I remember from the 70s.
Certainly the eighties.
Had to be the 80s, the 80C and then crossfire.
And I remember him his his uh his crusade when I first heard of this guy was he wanted the government to uh uh ban smoking a bunch of different places.
I remember Buchanan, Pat Buchanan saying to him, Why are you laughing at him?
Well, yeah, if the government have to do all this for.
We can take care of ourselves, we could please.
So what do you want the government involved doing all this?
So is a um he's an excrement stirrer out there and has been for uh for for quite a while.
The official allegations claim that Catholic University of America does not provide space as other universities do for the many daily prayers that Muslim students must make, forcing them instead to find Temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion.
Catholic symbols at a Catholic university, and John Banzaff is leading the charge for the Muslim students to set up a Muslim prayer center on the campus because the Muslim students don't have one.
Therefore they have to go to unoccupied classrooms where there's all this Catholic symbolism up there, and that makes them uncomfortable.
Right.
Damn Catholics had to put their Catholic stuff up on the walls.
And so this Banzaf guy, it's not smoking.
It was something else.
Something else involving the airlines.
I can't remember what it was, but it was, it was, it was ridiculous.
He's uh he did start a tobacco jihad back in the uh in the 60s, but when I first saw him on Crossfire was about something else.
I'm having a metal block.
I don't remember what it was.
It'll come to me.
He's been on the childhood obesity kick.
He's uh basically one of these guys that just wants to tear up existing traditions and uh institutions.
So imagine that.
Catholic University of America is in violation of human rights because it's too Catholic.
Too many Catholic symbols on the walls.
It makes the non-Catholic Muslims feel nervous when they uh when they go in there to pray.
The article continues.
A formal complaint also maintains that the new same sex residence halls are particularly discriminating against female students, which is a new position on the same-sex lawsuit that began last month.
So this university is being sued for all kinds of things, is basically being sued because they're Catholic.
Catholic University of America being sued because they're too Catholic by a whole bunch of different groups of people.
Not just the Muslims.
So you see, the assault on the traditions and institutions which have made the country great continues.
And it is an assault that is also coming from the White House.
It's also coming from the regime.
It's all coming from people on the left.
And that's uh that's where Obama is.
That's the position he occupies.
From the UK sun.
Wind farms shut down because it's too windy in Scotland.
Seven wind farm operators switched off their turbines on Monday night.
National Grid said that they were generating too much power as storms ripped across Scotland.
It leaves taxpayers with yet another bill.
National grid has to pay wind farm operators compensation when they ask him to shut down.
National grid said it's very windy yesterday, and uh there was some curtailment of wind generation.
Uh it's like saying there are too many Playboy centerfolds in a whorehouse.
Well, I mean, this is incredible.
We can't win.
We build wind farms, and then we have too many of them.
It gets too windy for the wind farms.
You know, this is like high high maintenance family member.
But at some point you have to ask yourself, is it worth it?
Too much wind shuts down wind farms?
Does too much oil shut down oil rigs?
Does too much natural gas shut down natural gas pipelines?
Does too much coal shut down coal mines?
Why aren't there this is this absurd.
I don't care where I look today.
Every news story is one absurdity after another.
This is not.
This one makes sense.
With election day just over a year away.
A deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation.
This from the latest New York Times CBS news poll with Americans' distrust of government at its highest level ever.
The combustible climate helps explain the volatility of the presidential race and has provided an opening for protest movements.
Like Occupy Wall Street.
No mention of the Tea Party in this story.
No way.
No mention of the Tea Party.
Almost half of the public thinks the sentiment at the root of the Occupy movement generally reflects the views of most Americans.
No, that's not true.
Generally, the occupies hate capitalism, and generally the American public does not hate capitalism.
So they have to play with the language to make it sound like we're all on the same page here, but we're not.
The occupides do not like America as founded.
This survey, which shows such deep distrust of government, is made up.
It's not representative of all other than the minority extreme left in this country.
This story is written, of course, to make Occupy sound like the mainstream, but it isn't.
The mainstream is upset because of the decline, because of the ongoing assault, the damage that is being done to this country, to its private sector.
With nearly all Americans remaining fearful that the economy is stagnating or deteriorating further, two-thirds of the public said that wealth should be distributed more evenly in the country.
Seven in ten Americans think.
The policies of Congressional Republicans favor the rich.
So no matter how you slice this here, it seems the majority of people don't trust the government that Obama thinks that we want.
Obama's out there saying we're going to have a government that tells the American people that you're on your own.
If the Republicans win, you're going to have a government that tells you that you're on your own.
And damn right, that's what we want, to be on our own.
Because, Mr. President, we don't trust you.
We don't think you can help us when we're sick.
We don't think you can help us when we're unemployed.
We don't think you can help this country.
Or educate us or keep the air clean.
We don't think you're competent.
Quick break.
More of your phone calls right around the corner when we get back.
You know, these wind farms.
Let me see if I have this right.
They don't work when there's no wind.
They don't work when there's too much wind.
They don't work when it's too cold.
They're ugly.
They kill birds.
What use are they?
And then when it's too windy, you have to shut them down, and then the wind farm operators get compensation.
How does that work?
You know, the coal-fired electric plants get compensation when they're taken offline.
Oil rigs, they get compensation when Obama slaps a moratorium on them.
I I just so many senseless, stupid things.
Gene in West Palm Beach, Florida, across the bridge.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you.
That's wonderful to uh speak with you, Russ.
Thank you very much.
Uh I really enjoyed your remarks to our previous caller about paying back those student loans.
Been there, done that, and it's it's worth it.
And congratulations to them.
Thank you.
Exactly right.
Um, I just I feel silly with my little remark because it's just about the the uh smoker commercial for uh Hermann Kane.
Yes.
And um I have to chuckle when I see all the chatter about it because when I saw it, my gut reaction was, you know, there's a guy that's comfortable in his own skin, and the guy with the cigarette just kind of reminded me of the Marlborough man.
I thought, well, you know, if I was a union worker, I'd I'd kind of sit back and feel a little comfortable thinking a little more about this Herman Cain and take another look at him.
So that was my reaction.
I and I I thought the little smile at the end just kind of was the frosting on the cake.
So it's in fact, I want to find this sound bite again.
The montage.
Was this number uh number one mic or number two, whatever it was, the soundbite montage with all of the media people who were going bonkers here over the uh fact that there was uh smoking in it.
Number 50.
Here, listen, listen to this again.
This is a montage of media people reacting to the uh the the Herman Cain smoking ad.
Strange advanced 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 or just inappropriate.
He survived stage 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.
It's just as though it's a crime.
Some great injustice has been perpetrated here.
It's just it's it's it's mind-boggling to me.
What a bunch of wusses this country's become.
It's ridiculous.
And I might add, I come from a long line of non-smokers, so I just I had a chuckle when I saw it.
And that grin at the end, I thought I was looking at Magnum there for a second.
It was funny.
Well, I'm glad you called.
I really appreciate it, Jane.
Thanks much.
Thank you.
You bet.
Here's Lewis in Columbia, Maryland, up next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rosh?
Good.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um, they asked me to jump right to the point.
I'm going to uh community college right now.
Yeah.
And uh having breakfast.
And um CNN was playing their morning show.
I don't remember what it was, but uh right on the screen popped up the um Oakland riots.
The ones that are going right now on with the um Occupy Oakland groups, I guess.
Yeah, they've had a they've had a couple instances at least of unrest there.
And you were mentioning at the start of the show how uh the media was waiting for some Kent State like something to fuel their fire on this.
Yeah.
And uh the CNN reporter, um, as she's saying this, she's like, Well, this is a terrible incident, but they keep bringing it up the whole show, so it's like they're relishing in it.
They're encouraging it.
Oh they're working right with it, you know what I'm saying?
They can't wait for the outbreak.
This is like waiting for the car wreck uh at a at a at a race.
They they're just hoping and praying.
Um they want the unrest for Obama, they want the news, they want the excitement.
I sense boredom in a lot of the media these days.
I think a lot of the media is very bored.
I mean, what else do they got to report but a bunch of college kids that smell like urine?
Yeah.
Smell like urine look like urine.
Um it's I'm not one of those, by the way.
I'm gonna I can tell you don't sound like you smell like urine.
Thank you.
You bet you can tell with somebody speaks.
Uh uh what they smell like.
I'm good at this.
And I made a lifetime of studying it.
And you sound as clean as pure as the wind-driven snow.
Uh well, thank you.
You bet.
All right, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I do, I sense the media's bored, and then they're waiting, hoping for an outbreak.
Really?
I th I think I think um something like Kent State happens, you know, if law enforcement goes in there and fires on some of these pe some of these protesters, I think they're just gonna eat it up.
Now they won't say that.
Now, no, no, no, no.
But they'll you you look something like that happens, you note the energy.
Breaking news for 24 hours.
Because to these people, news is a repetitive cycle.
And the repetitive cycle they hope for is a cycle which cements in their own minds their relevance and their power to shape and bend opinion.
Here's Victor in Atlanta.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Uh sorry if I got so fast.
I'm a little excited on being on your show.
I understand.
You know, I used to be excited to be on this show, too.
Well, I appreciate you having me.
Um, I just I wanted to have I have a message for James Carvel.
I you know, I am a uh I'm an American and I'm a Mexican descent, first generation American.
And not only that, I'm a Tea Party conservative.
And I'm embarrassed if they think that Romney is the only choice we have.
Uh my first two guys are Kane and Perry.
And I am a little more partial to Kane because I want somebody who has the business acumen And has the the fortitude to go forward and say, hey, you know what?
I may not have all the Washington experience that that all these other guys have.
But and Kane said it best.
Look where that's gotten us.
It's working out great, isn't it?
So I mean having Kane, and I'll tell you this, Rush.
Uh I'm a student of history.
I love and adore Ronald Reagan.
And when I look back at some of Ronald Reagan's speeches, and then I look at Herman Cain, I see a connect there that Herman has with people, and he enjoys the connect, and he enjoys being in front of people.
He enjoys talking with people.
Ronald Reagan did too.
You know, the Democrats back then, including the Republican establishment, they went after Ronald Reagan.
They called him, oh, he's an actor running for president.
Oh, what's he gonna do?
That's exactly right.
He he's got this radical tax plan.
Well, you know what?
Herman Cain, yeah, maybe he's the businessman and they like to call him pizza boy, but here's a man who who was who works for the Department of Navy on uh radar systems, targeting systems, and then he took businesses and turned them around.
Yeah, but he wasn't down for the struggle.
His dad worked three jobs instead of getting in the back of the bus.
Yeah, exactly.
And and his dad didn't get a chip on his shoulder.
I mean, it's amazing, you know.
My biggest influence, and the person I adore so much is my father.
I mean, my father came here from Mexico, couldn't speak a word of English, but he came here on a student visa.
He learned the English language, he went to school, he worked two, three, four jobs.
I mean, it's amazing to hear the story that he tells me.
And this man made he retired CEO of a major company here in Atlanta.
Now, if my father can come here from Mexico and not learn English, and you're born here, and you're gonna tell me you can't make it in this country, well, there's a problem.
Damn right.
The people did.
We the people.
You know, uh nine.
Well, I I wish I I could let you keep going, but I can't, but you are great.
You know what Herman Cain should have done.
Should have put a picture of Obama smoking at the end of his commercial.
That's who smokes.
Or a picture of Obama eating French fries.
Or some such thing.
But even look at how look at how out of proportion things are.
Occupy Wall Street, smoking pot, doing other drugs.
The media love them.
But a guy smoking a cigarette in a Herman Cain commercial, and that's beyond the pale.
We gotta stop the presses.
We got a report on that, we got to assemble a round table, and we gotta discuss that on the cable news networks.
But we can't discuss what they're shooting up now at Occupy Wall Street.
Or what they're pounding down, or whatever the hell's going on down there.
But you know, you know they're blowing dope, you know they're doing all kinds of stuff down there.
No condemnation whatsoever.
We gotta understand Rush, these frustrated people.
Uh can't find work.
America's letting them down.
Yeah, that's the backbone of America, right?
America was built by a bunch of lazy asses standing in the middle of the street demanding things.
Right?
That's how America was built.
Is that what happened?
Or was it a bunch of people fighting for things?
Hard working people making things happen, acting in their own self-interest.
Country wasn't built by an endless parade of human debris demanding things in the middle of the street while smelling and looking like urine.
Dennis, Marion Springs, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
It's an honor, Rush.
Uh I've been listening to the Herman Cain commercials that you have uh on your airtime, and I'd like to thank you for putting them on there.
And I just a thought is gee, I hope you gave him a deal on it because listening to him on the air is almost qualifying for uh uh uh public service announcement.
Well, I uh to tell you that that uh we uh we charge Herman Cain according to the standard political rules for selling political advertising.
Okay.
Well, it's just we're not the New York Times.
We don't gouge people here.
And plus people actually listen to us and see and hear our advertisers.
And I'm glad to hear that one.
Yeah, it's it's very, very true.
So you like the Herman Cain commercials, even the smoking one.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I used to smoke and I quit, and that's fine.
That's a personal choice.
It well, no, it's not.
It's everybody else's choice now, not yours.
No, no, I d you you people are laughing.
Don't forget.
The New York Times gave moveon.org a big break on the General Betrayas ad.
I forget what the break was, but they gave him a huge price break on the General Petraeus ad.
The morning of his uh testimony when he accused him of lying before it even sat down.
Who's next?
Todd in Fort Myers, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Your turn, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call, McCoy.
All the gas taxes we pay nationwide, why do we need stimulus?
For roads and bridges and so forth?
Yes, sir.
Because it's been spent on other stuff.
And by the way, folks, I hate to tell you, but I don't know about you, but where I live, it seems like every damn road is under repair.
The I the idea that that roads aren't being repaired is absolute BS.
I have to take four detours inside of ten miles to get to work every day.
They got streets uprooted, they're doing something with pipes.
I don't know what the hell they're doing.
Interstates, surface streets doesn't matter.
The idea that road repair isn't going on is another misnomer.
How many five year projects that have turned into 10 year projects to add three or four lanes to an interstate 10 mile stretch or they're going on?
I moved here in 1997.
At the time they were widening 19 I 95.
It is 211 and they're still doing it.
What is this infrastructure crap?
We're not building roads.
Of course we are.
That's another thing that grates me about all this.
Obama stands up there, roads and bridges and school houses dilapidating.
What w where?
Where is all this dilapidation taking place?
If there is any dilapidation taking place, it's in the inner cities.
And it's in cities run by Democrats for generations.
If they're it like do I need to name names, Detroit, I hate to pick on them.
Flint, Michigan, you go wherever Democ New Orleans, you go wherever Democrats have run the show for generations, and you are gonna find big time deterioration.
Almost.
Almost, without exception.
Natalie in uh in Amithee, Pennsylvania, hi.
You're next.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Um the reason I'm calling is you know, it's about these protesters.
My husband and I scrimped and scraped, we're middle class to put our kids through college.
I have a son who's gonna be 23 years old.
He worked very, very hard in high school, was a valedictorian, went to um Virginia Tech University in Virginia.
Um in four years, he managed to get a dual degree in ocean and aerospace engineering by working extremely hard.
Um, you know, he would be up 24, 36 hours studying.
He now has um a job which he received a couple months ago with a major oil company in Houston, Texas.
You can guess which one it is.
And he looked at me several months ago and he said, Mom, am I gonna have to pay a lot in taxes?
And Rush, it broke my heart, and I looked at him and I said, Yes.
Why did he ask you that?
What what prompted that?
Um, well, because you know, we were discussing, you know, the hardworking individuals are the ones that make more money.
And when they you make more money, you're taxed at a higher wet rate.
Well, yeah, but I thought he might also have been referencing the fact that he knows there's all kinds of redistribution going on.
Oh, definitely.
People aren't working, and he's gonna be paying for them too.
I I I actually um prepare taxes for a well-known um tax um firm, and um what I see is appalling.
Y it is appalling, all the people that are on the government dole.
Yeah.
Um, you know, and they come in And they think they deserve this money.
Somehow they think it grows on trees in Washington, D.C. It's Obama's stash.
It's so disheartening, Rush.
It's unbelievable.
Well, that's the way they've been taught.
Yeah.
And it and it and and it's, you know, my husband and I have been taxed.
My husband works 68 hours a week.
We're hardworking, you know, middle class individuals.
My son works extremely hard for everything he's ever received, you know, in college.
I'm very proud of him.
But those are the people these people on Wall Street are gonna hate him because he's a hard worker and he is gonna make, you know, a decent living.
And that's the part that angers me the most.
Not that my husband and myself are going to be targeted, but they're gonna target my hardworking son while other kids that he went to school with, you know, partied all the time, um, took stupid things in college, like, you know, basket weaving ballroom dance, yeah.
You know, it's just it just amazes me that people don't see this.
Oh, they do.
They do.
And they're seeing it more and more.
There's always been um be honest here.
There's always been an element of this.
There's always been a ne'er do well bunch of people in the country.
There's always been a ne'er doo class.
There's always been in a lucky sperm club.
Well, what's different about this at this point in time, the many factors.
One is the dire circumstances of the country's finances.
That's that's number one, we just uh can't afford it.
But number two, it's become politically institutionalized now.
It has become politically institutionalized with a large portion of the population that they are entitled simply because they have been victimized, or their parents were, or their grandparents were because of their ethnicity, or because of their national origin or because of their religion.
The Democrat Party has made victims out of as many people as possible, and these people think that they don't have a chance to get ahead because the deck is stacked against them, and so the only way to get even is for the people that have the deck stacked in their favor to be made to give up what they've got.
It's become politically institutionalized now.
That is that's the very dangerous uh thing about this this you know the you your whole family.
I hate to tell you here, Natalie, your whole family is everything the Democrat Party hates.
Your whole story is everything the Democrat Party hates.
Rugged individualism, self-reliance, responsibility, taking care of yourselves, and excelling in the process.
They hate every aspect of your story.
The Occupy Wall Street crowd hate exactly the same people that the Democrat Party and Obama hate.
And yet the media is out there trying to draw some sort of moral equivalence between the Occupy Wall Street nuts and the Tea Party.
And there is no similarity in any way.
Natalie, congrats.
You've done great.
Uh hang in.
There is salvation and a better day coming.
I'm glad you called.
All right, uh Matt in Corepolis, California.
Hello, and welcome to EIB Network.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Uh, we've been listening to you since the days of KFBK.
Yeah, it's Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Yes.
Um, I just wanted to bring up uh I remember seeing on the campaign trail, Obama had a guy called the body man who kept his blackberry and that would be Reggie Love.
Reggie Reggie Love is the body man, yeah.
And uh he also had the job of carrying his cigarettes for him.
That's exact we elected a smoker.
These sanctimonious, holier than now media types going crazy over Herman Keynes Adam.
We elected a smoker.
They say he quit.
They say he quit.
Doesn't matter.
He was smoking when we elected him.
And the media didn't have a problem with it now.
Oh, so sorry.
He was doing everything he can to quit it so hard, so terribly.
By the way, he was on uh he was on a Leno yesterday, last night.
Somebody just wanted to know why didn't you put the fact that Obama was joking about his bowling looking like somebody in a special Olympics?
I guess he did that himself.
Last time he was on a Leno, he described his bowling technique as like somebody in a Special Olympics.
So we didn't need to remind people of that.
Uh we wanted to have fresh material in our in our bit.
New York Times headline Will extremists hijack Occupy Wall Street?
Which means or allows that extremists are there if they're gonna hijack it.
Of course, they're all extremists, and we'll see you tomorrow, folks.
Great to be with you today.
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