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Nov. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Man, it's unbelievable.
Eight of them, eight, count them, eight soundbites, or whatever, what's the total that we have today here.
We got 26.
One-third of the soundbite roster today is about me.
Over the weekend, a bunch of absolute blithering idiots beside themselves with rage over the fact that I have successfully co-opted the race card and its playing or its application from them.
And they're just, they're livid.
They're fit to be tied.
And they make no sense.
I've spent five minutes, ten minutes reading these eight soundbites.
I don't know what these people are saying.
I've put them off to the side here.
I don't even, I'm not going to lead the program, but this is absolute pure bunk junk garbage.
We'll get to it at some point.
But anyway, folks, how are you?
Rush Limbaugh, depressed, wishing I wasn't here today.
Was in Pittsburgh last night.
That's all you need to know.
Eight seconds.
Try the whole game.
Try the whole game.
You know, I was watching the game without benefit of a TV monitor and without benefit of sound.
And so a lot of that game was a mystery to me until I saw some post-game coverage.
There were two, Brian, I'm almost ashamed to admit this.
There were two replay reviews that I didn't know were going on.
I think I said I turned to Kathy.
So, what the hell is this?
Another timeout?
For crying out, yeah, they're reviewing a play.
Reviewing a play?
What play?
I never saw a flag.
I never saw the red.
It's a whole different game when you're there in person and you don't have any guidance.
Couldn't see the scoreboard.
I had the best seat in the house.
Couldn't see this guy.
That doesn't make sense, but don't doubt me.
So anyway, 92 yards, little over two minutes.
Steelers defense, four-point lead.
Figure it's in the can.
Wasn't in the can.
Anyway, but I'm here, folks.
We had a great fun weekend, nevertheless, aside from the outcome of the game last night.
I'm sure the Patriots fans feel the same way about what happened to them with the Giants.
Almost identical endings.
Two great games, no question about it.
And I show up here and I got these first eight stupid soundbites.
Cookie, don't misunderstand here.
I'm not ripping you.
It's her duty, her responsibility to show me how I was, once again, the subject.
The focal point.
Me and Herman.
Sexual harassment.
By the way, Gloria Allred, I don't know if you know this or not.
Gloria Allred, fresh off her dismantling of Meg Whitman at 1.30 this afternoon, about an hour and 20 minutes from now, a fourth woman who will show up.
They're going to do this at the Friars Club in New York.
The source for this is Radar Online.
And apparently there's a fourth woman out there accusing Herman Cain of sexual harassment and has hired Gloria Allred, which means all the other lawyers were busy or didn't think there was much of a case.
A new woman alleging sexual harassment by presidential hopeful Herman Cain will break her silence at a news conference with her powerhouse attorney, Gloria Allred, Monday afternoon, 1.30 today.
I think it's pretty safe to conclude this is not one of the political women.
And we still don't know what Herman Cain did according to political.
Jonathan Martin was on with Howard Kurtz yesterday, reliable sources, and he still doesn't know what Herman Cain did.
He still can't tell us what he did.
And now people have started keeping score, running tallies of the number of stories that Politico has done on Herman Cain, say, versus the number of stories about Obama and Bill Ayers or Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
And it really is incredible a number of stories that the Politico has done on this Herman Cain thing.
Of course, folks, the way this story is shaking out, it's only a matter of time before Gloria Allred showed up to make this circus complete.
Where's the NAA LCP on this?
I mean, a black guy here under a NAA ill sense.
That's why we call them the NAA LCP, the National Association for Advancement of Liberal Colored People, because, I mean, if they were genuinely interested in the abuse of racism and so forth against black guys, they'd be right in there defending Herman Cain.
But of course, the Reverend Zach has his own past in areas like this.
Provable, demonstrable, no questions about it.
So no reason to suspect that.
So we'll just wait and see what happens here at 1.30 with Gloria Allred and the newbie.
But get this.
Now, where is this from?
This is some woman named Robin Given, G-I-V-H-A-N, and I don't know what publication.
Oh, Daily Beast.
This is a story saying that Herman Cain's double-breasted suits ooze abuse.
I mean, it's hilarious on multiple levels.
Herman Cain's power suit, the frontrunner's double-breasted suits, are sending the wrong message as he goes on the offensive against allegations of sexual harassment.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been trying to shut down the unsavory storyline that he sexually harassed at least two female co-workers while heading the National Restaurant Association, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Suggesting he's the victim of a witch hunt, liberal, maybe Republican conspiracy, some other kind of evil voodoo.
What he has not done is make any evident attempt to consistently telegraph trustworthy, innocent presidential or future well-paid pundit as cameras scrutinize his every glance and whatever the hell is this?
This story is not even written.
This is a mishmash.
Throw this piece of garbage away.
The boy, she makes, it's 14,000 pages.
She basically goes on to say that the fact that Herman Kane wears double-breasted suits does not bode well, that that itself exudes power and abuse.
Double-breasted suits.
Says they have an in-your-face sartorial.
This is a quote.
Kane's double-breasted suits have an in-your-face sartorial swagger that reads in damning ways, especially in views of the accusations of sexual harassment.
She says that double-breasted suits are even tied to religion.
She claims, quote, through his wardrobe, Kane has positioned himself as the flamboyant boss man and the irreproachable believer.
That is how absurd this has become.
Herman Kaine's double-breasted suits exude an in-your-face swagger and convey abuse and the message that I or he has power over you.
That is how ridiculous that it has gotten.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Jonathan Martin, who is one of the three original writers.
No, in fact, let's do number eight first because this has set it up.
Jonathan Martin, one of the three original writers of the first 90 Herman Cain stories on Politico.
There have been a total here now of, let's see, how many total?
It was 100 and some odd after eight days.
Anyway, Jonathan Martin, the first 90 stories have his name on there.
And that's the first week.
He was on reliable sources yesterday with Howard Kurtz.
And during a panel discussion about allegations of sexual harassment.
No, no, I'm not going to say harassment.
I'm not going to go political correct.
Look it up.
The original pronunciation is hurass Munt.
And that's why it's pronounced that harassment.
I'm going to continue to pronounce it harassment, not harassment.
Leave me alone.
During a panel discussion about allegations of sexual harassment against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, after one guest says it's ironic for me to be playing the race card, Kurtz said, of course, liberal commentators have fired back at people like Rush.
I would suggest the media secretly love this.
I mean, the story itself is more probably compelling to a lot of journalists than writing about Newt Romney's latest economic plan.
So here Kurtz is admitting the truth.
This titillates them.
This titillates them.
Maybe they ought to go apply for a job as a defensive coordinator at Penn State University.
Well, it does, snurdly, it titillates them.
There's some openings at Penn State.
Go for it.
Kurtz, you guys titillated by this.
Romney Borgia, Kane excites you, double-breasted suits, 100-plus stories on sexual harassment.
Gloria Allred, my God, I'll bet your underwear barely fit now.
Anyway, I would suggest the media secretly love this.
Now a full-blown, racially charged culture war, and that fills a lot of airtime and columns.
Kurtz says to Jonathan Martin at Politico.
I think the older conservatives who are more oriented around provocation, Limbaugh Coulter, I think focused on that angle.
Some of the younger conservatives who have roots in reporting, I think, tended to say, let's see where the facts lead us here before we tell you what conclusions.
Let me tell you what this means, because I happen to know what this means.
Older conservatives mean the ones who have not caved.
Older conservatives like me, and he mentions Calder Mean.
You know who the older conservatives are.
This is not an age thing.
We are the conservatives who have them buckled.
We're the conservatives who don't give a rat's rear end what the leftist media thinks about us.
The young conservatives, that's who he says he likes.
And when he says, younger conservatives who have roots in reporting, I think tend to say, let's see where the facts lead us here before we jump.
Rich Lowry at National Review ripped in one of the first stories about this.
I think there was, I forget who.
It might have been Michael Walsh writing at National Review Online in the corner.
Walsh or some writer ripped into Martin for a horrible story and Lowry ripped into Walsh, his own guy.
He said, no, Martin's a great guy.
Martin's a friend of mine.
A good reporter.
So younger conservative means the conservatives who are concerned with uh, being accepted by the liberal media, the younger guys that's, that's the code.
The older conservatives people like me are not cowed um by it, not not to pick on Lowry, I mean, but but we talk about this a lot.
There are members of the conservative media in Washington who live there and we know what happens when you live there.
It's a town run by the left socially, politically, you name it.
And they elected Republicans.
I mean, they're hell-bent on making sure they get their message out through the mainstream media.
They're hell-bent on making sure that the Washington Post, the Times won't like them.
We older dinosaurs.
Yeah, we cannot be bent and shaped and flaked and formed and moved and watered down.
We can't be diluted.
That's what he means by that.
Now, one more.
Well, maybe I get time for two more.
So the next question.
Kurtz says to Jonathan Martin of Politico, why publish the story about Kane when you couldn't answer the central question, what did he do?
When you can't answer the central question, what precisely is Herman Cain alleged to have done with these women?
Why run it?
I think any journalist would find a report of two women who got a five-figure each cash payout after alleging sexual harassment against the CEO of a trade group who is now a major contender for president, newsworthy.
And that's the story we had, and that's what we published.
As for the detail of it, we were dealing with sensitive sources, sensitive information here.
And so obviously we tread delicately when it came to that.
Yeah, we trade delicately, but not with Herman Cain.
We will destroy Herman Cain.
We will stomp on Herman Kane.
We're going to tread delicately on these anonymous sources and these anonymous details.
And we're not going to go after him.
So after Martin said they tread delicately because of the sexual harassment allegations, then this exchange followed.
I think in a lot of news organizations, an editor would have said, you have done some terrific reporting here.
You've got some great leads here, but you don't have it.
You don't have the details of the sexually suggested behavior that made him angry and uncomfortable.
Go back and get more.
You could have waited.
There was nothing forcing you to publish last Sunday.
Well, we had the fact that one of these women was brought upon by Cain in a hotel room and was made to feel very uncomfortable.
But you can't tell me what the overture is.
With these kinds of stories, obviously, the first story might not have all the information that you want.
That's why we're where we are.
That is why we are where we are.
The sources are sensitive.
Why should these sources be sensitive unless it was the women who were under the confidentiality agreements?
Who was sensitive here?
What is this about?
Well, these kinds of stories, obviously, the first story might not have all the information that you want.
Well, we want to.
No, I can't tell you what it is.
In fact, the first story said, I'll never forget this, that the gestures were not overtly sexual.
Jeez, folks, just cheating.
You know, as a member of the older conservatives, more oriented toward provocation, I have a question.
And I think this is fundamental.
This sound bite that we just played with Jonathan Martin, where he said as justification for doing the original political story on Herman Cain.
We had the fact that one of these women was brought upon by Kane in a hotel room and was made to feel very uncomfortable.
Folks, I get uncomfortable when room service shows up, when I'm in a hotel.
What is this?
That's not a fact of anything.
It is an accusation.
And more than that, it's a touchy-feely accusation.
How many people are made to feel uncomfortable every day by other people?
What kind of wusses run the world now?
What kind of panty wastes run the world?
Who is it?
Yes, I was made to feel very uncomfortable.
I think it's worth $50,000, Mr. Limblaugh.
Every day, we all are made to feel uncomfortable by something.
I would be afraid to complain how many times I'm for crying out.
Well, that's the whole point.
A nation of whiners and complainers who want to be paid for it for being offended or being made to feel uncomfortable.
But so what?
By what, Mr. Martin?
What the hell?
The problem here is that that is not a fact.
Not yet.
That's an accusation.
Yes, I was made to feel very uncomfortable.
I was brought upon by Kane in a hotel room.
What does that mean brought upon?
Brought to the hotel room.
You know, we older, crusty conservatives, we name our victims, Kathleen Willie, Juanita Broderick, Monica Lewinsky.
We name them.
And they say we don't do reporting.
We find out the names.
We find out where the semen-stained blue dress is.
And then we tell everybody about it.
We don't deal in any one.
We crusty, old, hardened conservatives who only care about provocation and our younger brethren who are more interested in reporting are still in diapers.
F. Chuck Todd worried that Herman Kane's strategery is working this morning on MSNBC's daily rundown.
It's soundbite number 11 as we stay in all.
One of the women who've accused him have gone public.
And without an aggrieved party disputing his version of events, Kane has avoided the he said, she said situation.
So while wildly criticized by the media and some establishment Republicans, Kane's response strategy seems to be working for now.
Anybody else getting flashbacks to Bill Clinton?
Remember all of those charges were supposed to take him down in 91, 92.
It eventually made him stronger.
Oh, really?
So now this is going to make Kane strong.
What made Clinton stronger was you guys.
That's what made Clinton stronger.
Clinton lied about it at first.
He denied it.
None of it ever happened until Jennifer Flowers had the tapes and Monica Lewinsky had the dress.
They marveled at his lies.
They marveled at how clever he was able to lie to them.
They were impressed.
They were dazzled.
They begged him to lie even more to them.
They were so impressed by it.
And I thought Herman Kane didn't have a strategy.
I know David Gregory told us on Friday that was a big thing that really shocked the media.
It ticked them up.
And Kane didn't have a strategy.
So F. Chuck Todd, remember Bill Clinton?
All those charges supposed to take him down in 91 and 92 and eventually made him stronger.
What made Clinton stronger is the media lied for him.
The media lied about it.
The media lied and said that it never happened.
Now, somebody correct my memory if I'm wrong on this.
Didn't Gloria Allred a few months ago in an interview with Kennedy, Didn't Gloria Allred say she liked it when she was groped by TSA guys?
That it was the closest thing to physical intimacy she had had in a while.
Didn't she say that?
Now, hey, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no.
Even if it was a joke, that's a serious thing to joke about.
We're not allowed to joke about it.
That's, no, no, no.
That's like being brought upon in a hotel room and being made to feel very uncomfortable.
As a viewer, that made me very uncomfortable.
I said, oh, my gosh, what's going on at Penn State?
Here's Gloria Alred joking about being groped.
We can't have that in our culture today.
That's too serious a thing to be groped for real.
And here is a lawyer joking about it.
Oh, we can't have that, my friend.
What a horrible image for our weak, mindless population.
Speaking of that, let's move on.
Occupy Wall Street protesters.
This I love.
In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below.
You know what it was?
Applications for employment at McDonald's.
I love it.
Demonstrators were angered to find out that they were showered with employment applications for McDonald's.
Occupy Chicago tweeted Real Class Acts, the Chicago Board of Trade.
This week, it's McDonald's job applications they litter from the windows.
What a soulless place this place happens to be.
I think it's great.
And Rudy Giuliani, how about occupying a job?
And of course, there is an answer to that.
There aren't any because of Obama.
But they are not blaming Obama for the plight that they are in.
You could say, you could say that Gloria Allred, even though she was joking, even though she was joking about, and by the way, folks, how do we know she was joking?
It could very well be true that being groped by a TSA person is the most recent physical intimacy she's had.
I mean, there is a grain of believability about that.
But even if she's joking about it, wasn't she encouraging groping?
Isn't that how the left treats this kind of stuff?
She's encouraging groping.
She was out there and she said it was physical intimacy and she didn't mind it.
She's really asking for it too.
I mean, she's she, what about the next time she went to the TSA checkpoint?
Did they really grope her because she said she liked it?
I wonder if Politico would be really offended by this.
A lot of people are being made to feel very uncomfortable by what Gloria Alred said.
So we've got to stop the presses and find somebody that we can proclaim guilty of making somebody feel uncomfortable.
Zucate protesters have put up women-only tent to prevent sexual assaults.
Oh yeah, it's in a New York Post.
Politico was right about something.
Sexual assaults are a problem.
It's just they're not taking place at Herman Cain or taking place with Occupy Wall Street.
The degenerates that make up that bunch of people, a mistake anybody could make, I guess, if you're the politico.
So we're going to be watching now for the next 100 stories of sexual abuse at Occupy Wall Street.
100 stories in the next five days from Politico about this.
It's a safe house from the sex fiends.
But there are no safe houses or safe tents in the middle of a mob run by community organizers.
That's the big myth.
Zakati Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers were looking for Herman Cain.
I just made that up.
That organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.
The large metal-framed safety tent, which will be guarded by an all-female patrol, can accommodate as many as 18 people and will be used during the day for women-only meetings, said Occupy Wall Street organizers.
This is all about safety and numbers, said Becky Wartell, 24 protester from Portland, Oregon, or Maine.
By the way, in Portland, Oregon, folks, a head lice outbreak at Occupy Portland.
Ah, it's a terrible thing, but I'm not making it up.
Yeah, it's somewhere up there.
There's a bad head lice outbreak.
Let me see.
Just a second.
Let me find her that.
Head and body lice outbreak announced in Occupy Portland encampment.
Yeah, the future, the backbone of America, folks.
Occupy Portland, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Whatever.
And now women-only tent at Occupy Wall Street.
Occupy Vancouver protester dies at drug overdose.
A woman at Occupy Vancouver found dead on Saturday.
She apparently died of a drug overdose.
She's in her 20s.
On Monday, a protester found dead in his tent at Occupy Oklahoma City.
The organizers referred to the man as Street Poet, a homeless guy.
This is from Gateway Pundit.
The camp organizers provided him with food, clothing, and shelter at the camp where he died, but probably not paper and pencil to write his poetry, so he got depressed.
Canadian banks did escape a lot of the financial fallout, yes.
So now, folks, with the head lice outbreak up in Portland, even the parasites have parasites.
I hope that comment made you uncomfortable.
Back in just a second.
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Ohio voters told you about this a couple weeks ago.
We've been keeping this on the outer edges.
Big election tomorrow, issue two, issue three in Ohio.
We got a healthcare ballot initiative.
I think it's issue three.
That's a biggie, by the way.
Issue three is the people of Ohio are going to vote tomorrow on exempting themselves from the mandate to buy health insurance.
And if they don't exempt themselves, that ain't going to help at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court, judges, you know, they follow the elections and they follow public opinion polls.
They'd never admit it, but they do.
And if the swing state people of Ohio say, hey, bring the mandate on.
We'll be glad to be forced to buy insurance by the feds.
Then the Supreme Court can say, hey, you know what?
The path of least resistance here just say Obamacare is cool as is.
But if the people of Ohio say to hell with that mandate, we don't want any part of it.
We don't want to be forced to buy health insurance and vote it down.
That's preferable.
But there's another issue.
Issue two.
And listen to how the L.A. Times reports this.
An aggressive Republican drive to weaken the labor rights of government workers appears to have crested, at least in Ohio, where voters are expected to throw out a far-reaching anti-union law this week.
The referendum over collective bargaining for public employees, potentially the most important contest in off-year elections around the nation, being closely watched for clues about shifting voter trends in a state expected to play its usual outsized role in next year's presidential contest.
Barely seven months ago, newly elected Governor John Kasich joined other Republican governors, including Scott Walker of Wisconsin, in defying angry street demonstrations to push through a measure designed to curb the power of public employee unions.
Kasich, the focus of both sides in the referendum fight, touts his blue-collar roots as the son of a postman, but he warns that a victory by organized labor would undercut his efforts to hold the line on government spending and rebuild the state's economy.
This is Wisconsin redone.
And what it boils down to, folks, is people in Ohio are going to be voting whether or not to give away the store to public employees.
It's a vote to keep public sector workers better paid than the taxpayers who pay them.
Just like it was in Wisconsin.
And it's a giant money laundering scheme.
The more public sector workers there are, the more public sector dues there are.
Those dues are what fund Democrat Party campaigns.
And the more those state workers earn, the higher the dues, i.e. the greater the amount that ends up back at the Democrat Party.
Now, in Wisconsin, it was voted down.
And you remember, members of the state legislature fled the state trying to avoid voting on it.
Governor Walker prevailed there.
Kasich trying to duplicate it.
There's a polling outfit called Public Policy Polling, and they say that it's over, that big union and its money is going to win handily, that there's no way.
And I don't believe that for a second, because I know that polling is used to shape public opinion, not reflect it.
The arguments by Kasich, whose popularity has fallen sharply since his election a year ago, appear to have swayed few voters.
Public and private polling indicates that Ohioans, by a substantial margin, want to overturn the new law, which means, if this is true, that people in Ohio want to rape themselves.
People in Ohio want to pay higher taxes to pay higher salaries to state workers, state workers who will earn twice what their private sector counterparts are.
This is what the polling is telling us.
Pensions too.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
You private sector workers in Ohio, the polling data says that you want to pay state workers twice what you earn and pay their lifetime pensions.
That's what the polling is telling us.
That big labor has won the day.
This is hardly even a contest.
Kasich, everybody hates him.
This issue going down the tubes.
There's no prayer.
That's what we're being led to believe.
Those of us who don't live in Ohio are being told that you who do.
Let me put it another way.
You live in Ohio and you make $45,000 a year.
You are in favor of paying taxes sufficiently high enough to pay a public sector worker $90,000 a year plus a lifetime pension.
That's what the polling says you want to do.
Does that sound right?
I mean, no, no, does it sound like it makes sense?
I mean, if you put it, if you put the proposition to the residents of Ohio that way, dear Mr. Ohioan, let me look at a pick a number here.
You earn $40,000, $50,000.
I don't care what if you earn $50,000 a year, you're going to vote tomorrow to pay the union workers in your state $100,000 a year, and you're going to pay the lifetime pension, which means you are signing on to your own taxes being raised, however much is necessary to make all that happen.
That's what you want.
And not only are you voting for your taxes to go up, you're voting for your kids who may not even be beyond sperm stage yet.
The same thing.
That's what the public policy polling is telling us.
That you in Ohio want yourself and your unborn kids to face never-ending tax increases to pay state public employees twice what you earn, plus pensions after they retire and they can retire what?
After 20 years?
Not sure exactly how quickly they can retire, but that's what was on the ballot in Wisconsin, went down tubes and that's what public policy polling is telling us is going on in Ohio.
Now the LOS Angeles Times article doesn't doesn't cite any specific poll, they just say polling.
There is another story out there I got it that cites public policy polling.
They're in there and from from?
From what is this?
Uh gallop really.
The headline here says it all Democrats, more liberal and less white than in 2008.
Party generated look generally, looks demographically similar to 2008.
Well then what, what?
How can it look similar if it's more liberal and less white?
In many respects, a demographic profile of Democrats nationwide similar to what it was in 2008, although Democrats have become somewhat less white.
How did that happen?
Well no, but I mean, if you become less white, does somebody paint you what, what?
What happens not spending as much time outside in the sun?
Democrats have become somewhat less white.
How does that happen?
I know Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson became less black, and he did it with bleach, right?
Okay, so how do you?
Must be spending more time in the sun to become less white, all right, so it must be a zero-sum game.
Um anyway, the Democrats have become somewhat less white and more liberal than the party that nominated Barack Hussein Obama Uh as its presidential candidate to that year.
As a group, Democrats are more likely than average to be women and non-white, less likely to be religious or married, much less likely to be conservative and much more likely to be liberal than the U.s population.
In other words, they're totally outside the norm.
The nation's Democrats are totally outside the norm.
but you see i i'm i'm sort of saddened by this i thought obama was going to make all this race stuff go away it's uh not happened has it So Ohio is going to vote tomorrow whether or not they want to become Greece.
And here's Gloria Allred with Hannity.
This is from November of 2010.
Yeah, they did.
It was the first time anybody touched them in a long time.
And frankly, I liked it.
Question was, did the TSA people touch your body parts?
Yeah, first time anybody touched them in a long time.
And frankly, I liked it.
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