So we had a caller in the last hour who wanted to know what the likelihood would be that the political story on Herman Cain was planted, leaked by a Republican.
And it's entirely possible.
I have no idea where it came from.
I also don't know this.
You have, I think, were these white women, do we know that?
Well, if they were white women, if the women involved here, let's look at it this way.
Suppose Herman Cain were white, would the women have felt the same way about whatever he did?
What is this gesture that was not overtly sexual that still offended them?
If a white guy did it, would it have bothered white women?
Or did it bother them because a black guy did whatever he did?
I'm just speculating here, folks, because we don't know.
And we also don't know who leaked this.
Anything's possible.
It could come from anywhere.
Hell, it could have been leaked by the Oakland Raiders.
Who the hell knows?
I mean, it could come from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Could it come from the Republican Party, a Republican candidate?
The risk to a Republican, though, if it ever came out, what would happen to that Republican's candidacy?
Pick your favorite Republican candidate.
I don't want to mention a name, but you fill one in.
Fill a blank in.
X is the source for this.
And he's going to tell Politico about it.
A, he's got to trust that Politico is going to keep his name out of it.
He's going to trust that Politico is going to keep his secret.
And if they don't, or if they do, and somebody else finds out that it was Republican X who leaked this, what then becomes of that person's candidacy?
Plus, just the way the thing is written, the details of the story.
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Grab soundbites 4 and 5.
This is Herman Kane this morning on Fox.
He was on with Jenna Lee, and she asked him, have you ever been accused at any time of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment?
Yes, I have never sexually harassed anyone.
Let's say that.
Secondly, I've never sexually harassed anyone.
And yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
And I say falsely because it turned out after the investigation to be baseless.
The people close, the people mentioned in that article were the ones who would be aware of any misdoings.
And they have attested to my integrity and my character.
It is totally baseless and totally false.
Never have I committed any sort of sexual harassment.
And then she said, well, have you ever had to settle a claim?
Falsely accused or not.
Sometimes a settlement happens when a false accusation is made.
Have you ever had to settle a claim, given money, or paid someone because of a claim of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct?
At the restaurant association.
Now, outside of the restaurant association, absolutely not.
If the restaurant association did a settlement, I wasn't even aware of it.
And I hope it wasn't for much because nothing happened.
So if that was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association.
So the answer is absolutely not.
But if there was, I hope it wasn't much because nothing happened.
I love that.
Well, I hope if there was a payment, it wasn't much.
Well, people will pay people off just to shut them up.
I mean, this is Legion.
It is well known.
By the way, folks, this appears to be, could be a twofer for the Democrats.
It takes Herman Cain down a notch, and it reminds everybody about the charges against Clarence Thomas.
Just in time for the Supreme Court to hear the Obama case, Obamacare case.
You know, they're out there trying to get Clarence Thomas to recuse himself for a bunch of trumped up reasons.
I read the Politico story.
I'm not even convinced that the Politico talked to any of these women.
There aren't any quotes from them.
There aren't any.
Yeah, I know.
He's at the press club today, and I said last hour, you're out there screening calls.
And I wonder the coincidence here of this coming out last night, the night before Herman Cain addresses the National Press Club.
There aren't any coincidences in politics.
There are no coincidences in politics at all.
Here, we've got to grab number four.
Sorry, number three.
This is Jonathan Martin.
He's one of the reporters on the political piece.
He was on the Morning Joe today on PMS, NBC.
And let's see, Willie Geist, the co-host, said, what are the allegations, specifically as you understand them?
There's obviously a wide range in sexual harassment.
What did he do?
Well, we have to be careful about that, obviously, because we're sensitive to the sourcing involved here.
And also, what actually happened to these women as well.
We want to be sensitive to that, too.
It includes both verbal and physical gestures.
These women felt uncomfortable.
They were unhappy about their treatment.
And they complained to both colleagues and senior officials.
In one case, it involved, I think, inviting a woman up to a hotel room of Keynes on the road.
But we're just not going to get into the details of exactly what happened with these women besides what's in the story.
Okay, so we're not going to tell you what we know or don't know.
That's it.
We're not going to tell you anymore.
And they know they don't have to.
Look at the storm they've created.
And keep in mind, whatever happened, it was not overtly sexual.
They were talking about sexual harassment.
Now, I still don't know what that is.
Could inviting somebody up to your room in a hotel be sexual harassment, but not an overtly sexual gesture?
There are many, many unanswered questions involved in all this, but it appears to be somewhat flimsy.
But it's just very, not just very, all of this is just very, very convenient.
We're just not going to get into the details of exactly what happened.
Well, isn't that convenient?
Is that journalism?
We're not going to get into the details of what happened.
We're just going to put out unfocused charges from unnamed sources, and we're going to leave it at that, and you guys can have at it.
That's what I'm hearing here.
We're not, we're just not going to get, well, we don't know that it was asking him up to the hotel.
That's the point here.
Politico is saying that we are just not going to get into the details of exactly what happened.
Well, that's the way they're treating Fast and Furious.
It's the way they treated John Edwards.
It's the way they treated Anthony Weiner, except they used that to say nothing here, nothing to see here.
Let's move on.
In this case, we're not going to talk about anything that happened.
Very convenient for us.
We're just going to put out a bunch of unfocused charges from unnamed sources and let you have at it.
Which is what's happening.
Here's that Michelle Obama piece of it.
It's actually an opinion piece by Joseph Curl in the Washington Times.
And it's entitled The Very Angry First Lady, Muchel Obama.
Michelle's back, and she's maddered never.
She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything.
As her husband wrapped up the Democrat nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.
A few months into her job as First Lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the job.
Don't ask, she said.
It's hell.
I can't stand it.
She even seems to be mad at her husband.
When the two were set off on a luxurious 10-day vacation of Martha's Vineyard, she left early, four hours early, flew up alone on her own government plane.
And in those private vacations, she's traveled to some of the world's most plush resorts.
She's taken 42 days off in the past year.
That would be eight weeks of vacation time if she held down a normal job.
Now, she's ready to spew her bilious disgust with America on the campaign trail.
A dignified, transcendent First Lady?
No chance.
Michelle is going to break with 100 years of tradition and play the role of a tack dog, heaping derision on her husband's political opponents like no other first lady before her.
And it's already begun.
Mad Michelle this week popped down to Davis Island, Florida to hobnob with the very people her husband despises, the 1%, at a massive mansion on the bay filled with the wealthiest of the wealthy.
America's First Lady launched into a tirade about them.
They're Republicans.
Yes, Republicans hope to regain the White House so they can install Supreme Court justices who will trample Americans' privacy, ignore the nation's security, crush free speech, and persecute the religious.
That's what she said.
Oh, and they're rich and they're racist to boot, she added.
Will we be a country where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top?
Who are we?
Or will we give every child a chance to succeed no matter where they're from or what they look like or how much money their parents have?
Who are we?
I'll tell you who your base is, Ms. Obama.
The nation's losers.
The nation's takers.
The people riding in the cart, being pulled by everybody else.
Your base is the group of 47% of Americans that pays no income taxes.
Every person in this country who is seeking success, every person in this country who is working, every person who is doing everything they can to see to it that this country works has been targeted by you and your husband and your party, Ms. Obama.
Those are the people not paying their fair share, you say?
People not paying fair share are the people who vote for your husband.
The nation's losers, the nation's takers.
Just as her husband's re-election strategy is insanely simplistic, blame the Republicans for thwarting his brilliant economy-saving policy, so too is the First Lady's.
She will go to the opulent homes of rich people across the country to tell them how rich people are to blame for America's woes and guilt them into giving millions for her husband's campaign.
Yes, only Michelle and her husband can truly understand, although she often tells those uninformed people that when the president returns from one of his campaign trips, he says, you won't believe what folks are going through.
So maybe she is the only person in America who understands.
So America's First Lady will travel the country this election season to tell her fellow Americans just how bad it is out there between her lavish vacations, of course.
Joseph Curl in the Washington Times.
This is, when's the last time you heard of, read a piece like that that was a direct hit on the First Lady?
I don't even think the left went after Barbara Bush that badly.
I mean, he went after Nancy Reagan for the China in the White House.
And because she had a, what does she have, a psychic astrologer, yeah.
Anyway, folks, your phone calls are coming up.
I've got a quick break.
Coca-Cola, by the way, so sad.
It's so sad, but it's great for my tea company.
Well, they're changing their packaging.
They're going to white cans.
They've aligned with the World Wildlife Fund.
They're going to repackage Coke over the holiday season to go to white cans featuring an image of a mother polar bear and her cubs on the side.
They're going to try to sell Coke and Diet Coke on the basis that we're killing polar bears.
Kid you not.
Kid you not.
Each purchase of a white Coca-Cola can supports false testimony on global warming perpetration of the myth about endangered polar bears.
It's a hoax.
And they are raising money for a hoax through the holidays by way of the sale of Coke products in white polar bear cans.
Who got to them?
You know, anymore, I'm thinking nobody would have had to get to them.
There are plenty of stupid people in this country, in fact, running corporations and working.
And they look out there and they, okay, the rest of the stupid people think that the polar bears are dying, so I want to sell Coke.
So I'll market to the stupid people.
I'll market to people who believe Al Gore.
So I'll change the marketing of my company and my product.
I'll just aim for the lowest stupid common denominator I can find.
I'll do with the polar bear hoax.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Who was it that had the car commercial?
Was it Nissan?
This polar bear, polar bear goes traveling from the North Pole down to Chicago or somewhere and keeps encountering people destroying his habitat.
Finally runs across some guy with an electric car in the driveway and waits for him and hugs him.
Now Coke is in on it.
For years, Coca-Cola has given millions of dollars to the eco-extreme group, the World Wildlife Fund, whose alarmism and perpetration of falsehoods are unmatched among its cohorts in climate activism.
But now, Koch has initiated a new campaign with the World Wildlife Fund that features its iconic advertising species in an effort to drive more funding to the World Wildlife Fund to protect the polar bear's Arctic home.
Promotion will include a new packaging of Coke for the holiday season, changing its familiar red cans to white and featuring an image of a mother polar bear and her cubs on the side.
Koch says it'll donate $2 million over five years to the World Wildlife Fund for polar bear conservation efforts.
It'll also match donations made at iCoke.ca.
Last year, Koch gave the World Wildlife Fund $1.64 million for his various activities globally.
The planet changing very quickly, nowhere more quickly than in the Arctic, said Gerald Butts, president of the World Wildlife Fund in Canada.
He said, really important out there that we all understand that we need that they, the polar bears, need our help.
Climate change is changing livelihoods.
It's changing migration patterns for species.
And we want to plan ahead.
We want a future for the Arctic where the communities of people who live there are vibrant and sustainable and the iconic species, particularly the polar bear, has a long-term future on the planet.
Now, there's nothing about this that's true.
Even according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the estimated numbers of polar bears have increased by somewhere between double and quintuple.
That is growing from between 5,000 and 10,000 to 20 to 25,000 from the 1950s until now.
They're also known to be tremendously resilient.
And in some areas where they have declined, the reason has been attributed to too much ice, not too little.
Anyway, it's all a hoax, but Coca-Cola.
See, what they're figuring is here that there's enough idiots in our society that buy products.
That's GE too.
You know, all these companies that go green and have these sales promotions that go green.
They figure enough idiots out there that think that buying the product will help save a polar bear the planet that they'll do it.
Even if they don't happen to personally believe in the politics of it, they'll still do it.
So I have to continually laugh at this notion that big business people are Republicans.
Who's next?
Carrie in Livonia, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yeah, Ken from Livonia, Michigan.
Yeah, Rush.
I just wanted to comment that when we see the attack against Herman Cain by those on the left, it's pretty obvious their reasoning is that they know that the only way that Barack Obama can win against any Republican candidate is he's got to pull out the race card.
He's got to divert people's attention from the real issues.
And that's the whole reason behind this.
Well, you mean they don't want to run against another black guy because that takes one of Obama's strengths away?
You got it.
Being the only black on the ticket?
That's it.
Well, that could be.
Because it's the whole issue of Barack Obama's ideology, Barack Obama's being able to appoint to his presidency.
He'll lose against any candidate.
So he's got to pull out the race card.
He's got to attack the Tea Party.
He's got to attack the.
So if the Republicans, your thinking goes, if the Republicans nominate a Republican, it's going to be very hard to say that the Republicans are racist.
And you got to elect Obama to save the country from a bunch of racists.
All right.
Appreciate the call.
Got a quick timeout.
We'll take it and be right back.
Don't go away.
Surely I could not have heard what I just heard.
Jonathan Martin of the Politico, who I know is on MSNBC blaming Herman Kaine for not explaining what these charges are.
I wish I could remember exactly what he said.
It was just 10 seconds before we started this segment, so I was caught the last 10 seconds.
He's got some real explaining to do.
He's not being forthcoming on what these charges are.
I thought that was your job.
I thought Politico had the story of the charges.
I thought Politico had the details.
I thought Politico knew what went on.
I thought Politico knew whatever it was that upset the women.
Kane is supposed to go to the press club today and explain what the charges are against him.
Surely I cannot have heard this.
I cannot have.
The Politico is saying, okay, we've run this story.
We don't know anything.
It's now up to Herman Kane to tell everybody what he did or what he was accused of.
That can't be.
Can't be.
That's the job.
Politico ran the story.
They're the ones who have the women.
Maybe they don't.
They're the ones who giving the impression they know what went on.
They're the ones saying, well, we've got to be very careful.
We can't tell what happened here.
This is very, very curious.
Okay, so the Politico runs a story with vague allegations that aren't detailed.
Herman Kaine, some hours later, shows up at the National Press Club and doesn't provide the details of what he did or what he was charged with, and it's his problem.
Has anybody forgotten?
Sure, a lot of people have.
Coco, go back to our archives for the website this afternoon.
Find every story that we did that we put up on all these people that said that the Obama White House was hostile to women.
Remember those stories?
Do you?
I'm sure you do now that I'm mentioning them.
They kind of got swept aside.
And there were excuses offered.
But yeah, the Obama administration, it was tough for women.
Hostile workplace for women.
And we didn't really get any details as to why.
Who's next?
Elizabeth in Acton, Massachusetts.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
And forgive me if I'm nervous.
I just want to tell you, you know, I'm a huge Kane supporter.
So is my husband.
This really upsets me.
This guy is a brilliant man.
I heard him on the radio a year ago, and I was so impressed with him.
And I look at the liberals and what they've done to the black community in general, and it just breaks my heart.
You know, they enslaved them in the 1800s, and Republicans fought to free them.
Then, you know, they, you know, the black community was Republican until the Kennedys, according to Shriver, you know, were supposed to go shake their hands and offer them sympathy when that church was blown up in Birmingham.
And now, and then they enslave them to welfare handouts.
They demoralize them, take away their education, take away their faith.
So they, you know, and then this great guy comes up, and what are they doing?
They're saying, well, he's a black guy.
He can't control himself.
Look at him.
They're doing the same thing to him they did to Clarence Thomas.
You know, that same racist narrative.
High-tech lynching, yep.
Yeah, just because he's a black guy.
He can't control himself.
He can't control his urges.
If I were Herman Cain, I would just say to them, you know, this has nothing to do with what's going on in the country right now.
And if you are really concerned with what's going on in the country, since obviously if this were a true thing, you know, I wouldn't be here right now.
I would have been demoted.
I would have lost my job.
So since this wasn't true, let's focus on what's going on in the country.
Or are you just doing this to me because you feel threatened by me?
You don't sound nervous, by the way.
I just want you to know.
Oh, you're really nice to say that.
No, you don't sound.
You sound fired up.
You sound passionate.
Well, I am because I love this country and, you know, and all the people in it.
And you're born here.
It doesn't matter what color you are.
You're an American.
You know, up until the time of, up until 40 years ago, when the Democrats took over, the liberals took over the lives of black people in this country.
They were famous people.
They were strong.
They were powerful.
They had their own famous scientists and inventors and teachers and writers.
And it's like they're being demoralized.
They're being reduced to, look at, you guys can't really do anything.
We'll give you a handout and a hand up.
Yeah, I know.
The Democrat policies have blown up the black family.
Well, look what this kind of government policy has done to Native Americans.
My grandfather was Native American and his parents left Maine, moved to Rhode Island, got a job, and said, we are not living this way.
And my grandfather said to me, you know, he said, history is what it is, but we're here today.
And so, you know, you be the best person you can today and forgive people, you know, for whatever happened that's made you unhappy.
But history is what it is.
And, you know, if white people hadn't come to this country, we'd be living in a bark hut and going to the bathroom in the woods.
So just be grateful for what you've got.
Don't complain and work hard.
And, you know, I think as a group of people, anytime you depend on the government, anytime the government takes over, they ruin your life.
Well, they certainly limit your potential.
They do.
Let me tell you something.
I can't.
I want to try to doubt that I can make you feel better because this is outrageous.
But I am, folks, I'm sitting here and I really, Cookie, if you're rolling on MSNBC, I've got to hear this.
You've got to give me audio on MSNBC of Jonathan Martin from like 130 to 130.
I need you to listen to it because I am convinced I heard him say, and it's up to Herman Cain to explain all the details in the politico story.
Now, folks, if I heard that right, Jonathan Martin was talking about the problem Herman Cain has, and he still hasn't told us what the allegations are.
Well, that's right, because he denied anything happened.
But I'm sitting here and I'm wondering, what if this is why I want to hear it?
I ought to withhold all speculation until I hear it.
But what if this is just a fishing expedition?
What if they don't have half as much as they're suggesting they've got?
I find it hard to comprehend.
You report a story and you contain in the story, you have in the story, women sexual harassment, but there really weren't overtly sexual gestures, but they found it very offensive and very uncomfortable.
They weren't overtly sexual.
The people who published the story do not give us any details and then go on TV and say it's up to Herman Cain to explain what the charges are.
And until he does, he's got a big problem.
So now, if I it was, it happened in a flash, and if I didn't hear this properly, then of course this is all kaput.
So we'll wait until Cookie produces that and we'll go from there.
Elizabeth, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it.
Here's Carol in Buffalo.
You're next on the Russian Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you today?
Good.
Thank you.
I'm fired up.
You think the lady before me was fired up?
I'm even more fired up because I liked Herman Kane also, and I still do.
And I think it's about time for people to start supporting him with their money to more or less make his war chest as big as everybody else's because he seems to be the only one that I could even think of voting for right now, especially after all the stuff that's gone on, and they're trying to bury him.
And my mom keeps saying, oh, it's going to be Mitt Romney.
And I said, yeah, if we take the people that they give us, I said, that's the biggest problem I see right now, is that the Democrats are feeding us Mitt Romney.
The newspaper.
Hey, it's not just the Democrats that are feeding us Romney.
Some Republicans trying to feed you Romney, too.
Well, yeah, but it seems like, you know, the newspapers and everything else are just constantly, you know, Mitt this.
I said, who wants a president named Mitt in the first place?
And I'm telling you right now, I'm not drinking Coke anymore.
This is the last.
Well, you know, it's tough for me to say what you ought to drink since I have a competing beverage out there, but I would suggest two of my tea.
We don't get involved in the phony baloney, plastic banana, good time rock and roller, feel-good, liberal, do-gooder crap issues.
Our sponsor is the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
That's who we provide for.
That's who we donate to from the proceeds of the sale of our product.
Polar bear garbage, all this environmental wacko fraud.
You know, I love polar bears too when they're rugs.
This is just, I just, I just cringe at the ease with which all of these hoaxes and fraudulent beliefs worm their way into the popular belief structure of so many people, this country.
Carol, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
I got to take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll do that and be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
All right, here's that sound by Jonathan Martin.
And I did misunderstand it a little bit.
Here's what he said on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, program about 20 minutes ago.
There are more questions here for him to answer.
He has not yet explained what exactly he was accused of.
He just said that he didn't do it.
But these are serious charges.
Again, we spent weeks on this story, talked to folks all over the country, current and former employees, current and former board members, sources close to this organization, a powerful trade group here, Andrea, in Washington, D.C.
And we concluded, based upon our reporting, that Mr. Kane was, in fact, accused of sexually harassing two female employees.
And those female employees left the organization with five-figure cash payouts.
All right.
But we don't know what he did.
They weren't overtly sexual gestures.
But what he said here at the top, there are more questions for him to answer.
He's not yet explained what he's accused of.
That's what I heard.
And I thought, what the hell is that?
He hadn't explained what he's accused of.
I think what this is there are there are he's out there saying that that he didn't do anything and and he denied all these charges and uh and and I don't think Jonathan Martin's talking specifically about their allegations here.
He's talking about what Herman Kaine has denied.
Uh he hasn't yet explained exactly what he was accused of, he just said he didn't do it.
But even at that, if you say you don't do something, he's not telling us what he's accused of.
But isn't that the job of the media reporting all this to find out what he was accused of?
And if you don't have that, does it maybe look like the story is a little doubtful or is that just me?
And five-figure cash payout could be 10 grand.
Why not just say how much?
Five-figure cash payout.
Here's Tony in Edmonds, Washington.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next in the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
You bet.
Say, I was hoping to hear your advantage point on my belief that the reason why Romney has not caught on is the sense that conservatives have of him is that he doesn't have these core feelings.
Now, you know, we all think back of Reagan and what he did for this country.
The fact is, Reagan back in the 70s believed that communists could be defeated.
You know, detente was not working out and it was a loser for the U.S.
And he had this opinion that we could beat these guys by going after them head-on.
And nobody believed that.
The guy they thought Donnie was out in the left field and was nuts.
And supply-side economics was another issue.
And so he had a couple of core issues that he was able to focus on.
No, he had three.
He had three that he never waited from.
Beating the Soviets, rebuilding U.S. military, and cutting taxes, which would rebuild the U.S. economy.
Those are the three legs of the stool of Reaganism, and he never wavered from them.
Romney is dealing now with charges that he flip-flops and that he changes his mind on core issues as needed.
Anyway, I really, I would like to know.
You know, Herman Kane says he was cleared by the Restaurant Association investigation and that the Politico is saying it's up to him to tell us what he was charged with.
Why don't they go find out?
They've been doing all this reporting.
Why couldn't they go find out what he was accused of?
Why is it his job to explain that?
And then the five-figure payouts.
How much for the payouts?
It could be $10,000.
Five figures could be $99,000.
Why not just tell us what the figure is?
Yeah, well, maybe they wouldn't be able to identify the leak because of the amount.
Is that what you said?
No, I don't think that.
But if it's $10,000 or $12,000, you know, it costs a lot of money just to hire lawyers to deal with even frivolous complaints.
And so if this we're being led to believe this is big, bad, awful stuff.
And if the two women walked away with $10,000, it's not big, bad, awful stuff.
Now, why should the amount be secret?
The only thing I can think of is five-figure payouts sound much more ominous than $10,000 or $20,000 or even $50,000.
Ladies and gentlemen, Snerdley, how long is it that I, El Rochebo, how long has it been that I have been explaining in detail the subprime mortgage crisis?
From the standpoint that the government was responsible for it, that it was not the banks and not these vicious Wall Street people, but it was the government demanding that these banks make loans to people who could not pay them back.
Three years?
Minimum two years, more like three.
There is an editorial today at investors.com.
A smoking gun document has been found which ties policy to the housing crisis.
And this editorial asks this question, but what if government encouraged or even invented those abusive practices?
Can I tell you how frustrating this is?
And I love the people at investors.com.
But this is classic cutting-edge stuff for three, four years.
We've known what went on here.
Now there's a smoking gun document that proves it.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
At least another hour of it is Fini total la completa.
In the can on the way over to the warehouse, housing artifacts for the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.