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Nov. 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 7, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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All right, I want that Gloria Allred soundbite again, number 29.
It runs by there real quickly, five seconds.
And she's due up here in 25 minutes or so with a press conference, another woman, that's a fourth woman, going to say that Herman Cain did something to her sometime, someplace, somewhere.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I opened the show, ticked off, and I'm even more ticked off now.
Just saw something on Fox.
Some nanny busybody doctor is out there saying that scented candles can cause allergic reactions, which means that the effort to ban them is now underway.
Not officially, but it's only a matter of time.
And it wasn't just scented candles, it was air fresheners.
This guy had a can of air fresh.
He's blowing it around, and this can cause allergies.
This can make people uncomfortable.
Well, I have scented candles all over the place, and I'm going to light them all the time.
I do anyway.
And I hope somebody gets an allergic reaction to it.
This is just these people will not leave well enough alone.
I know.
They got one lit on the other side of the glass.
I've got, I think, what is this?
This, I've got two of them in here.
I don't have them lighted right now.
One of them is pine and eucalyptus.
Always get them for the holiday season.
Love them.
Allergic reaction.
I have had scented candles in my dwellings since, I don't know, since I became an incurable romantic.
That would have been when a year ago.
In my 20s.
I've never had anybody complain about scented candles in my house.
They've all liked them.
They want, where could I get one?
Yeah.
What?
What did he?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They made scented candles back when I was an incurable romantic.
Don't forget, I'm a crusty old conservative.
Yeah, crusty old conservative, loving scented candles, making me look sensitive, incurable romantic.
Damn straight, Brian.
They had scented candles back then.
Somebody sent me a note.
You know, you better be very careful talking about yourself as a crusty old conservative talking about a semen-stained blue dress in the same sentence.
Here's Gloria Allred.
She was on with Hannity on Fox, November 2010.
Hannity said, Did they touch your body parts?
This talking about the TSA screening procedures.
Did they touch your body parts, Gloria?
Yeah, they did.
It was the first time anybody touched them in a long time.
Frankly, I liked it.
You know, you let Herman Kane make a joke like that, Joe Paterno, and you see what happens.
Gloria Ulrich can go out there and do it.
The reason nobody believes it happened.
And that's why she can get away with it.
It's people, oh, yeah, in your dreams.
But what immediately is she making a joke?
What if it makes people feel uncomfortable?
Can't we sue somebody?
Anyway, she's bringing forth the next cane, babe.
Legal Insurrection has done a tabulation here of just the stats.
And this is published on yesterday, last night at 8 o'clock.
Days as of 8 p.m. Sunday since Politico broke the Herman Kane story.
7.
Politico news stories about or mentioning Herman Cain in those eight days are, seven days, 138.
138 stories.
Seven days.
Politico news stories about or mentioning sexual harassment, in those seven days, 91.
Political news stories about or mentioning sexual harassment not involving Herman Cain.
Zero Political news stories showing what Herman Cain actually did.
Zero political news stories showing specifically what Herman Cain was accused of.
Zero Politico news stories about or mentioning Herman Cain again, 138.
Percentage drop in Herman Cain favorability rating as reported by Politico, nine Politico news stories about or mentioning Selyndra.
Nine Politico news stories about or mentioning Fast And Furious.
Three Politico stories about or mentioning unemployment, 17.
All this in the last seven days.
Political stories about or mentioning recession, 14.
About 138 stories on Herman Cain.
I wonder if Politico had a bye week and they took a week off, like the National Football League has bye weeks.
I wonder if they would self-scout themselves, you know, find out their tendencies in order to do a better job.
I wonder if, if they know how top-heavy uh, Herman Cain stories uh, they have been.
And then there's this, and we mentioned this on friday, Politico publishes more stories in six days about the Herman Cain scandal than it did Obama's ties to Bill Ayers or uh, Tony Resco.
We made a big deal out of that on uh on friday of last week.
Herman Cain we're up to Samba 12 now turned the pot up.
Uh, this is the Texas Patriots Pack debate between Gingrich and Herman Cain.
And during the debate Gingrich said to Kane, what's been the biggest surprise to you out of this whole experience?
The nitpickiness of the media.
If there is a journalistic standard, a lot of them don't follow it and as a result, too many people get misinformation and disinformation.
So it is the actions and the behavior of the media has been my biggest surprise.
I thought now this is probably going to get taken the wrong way, but I didn't take political correctness school.
There are too many people in the media that are downright dishonest not all, but too many of them do a disservice to the American people.
That was saturday night in the Woodlands Texas, near Houston.
Uh, in a big, long debate with Newt Gingrich, same place, two unidentified reporters, an unidentified staffer and Kane chief of staff, Mark Block, an unidentified guy had this exchange about the Uh Kane campaign going forward.
Mr Kaney, attorney for one of the women who filed that sexual harassment complaint, don't even go there, no guy.
Can I ask my question?
No, because where's my chief of staff right here?
Please send him the Uh Journalistic Code Of Ethics.
All right, you want to ask another good question.
I was going to do something that my staff told me not to do and try to respond.
Okay, what i'm saying is this, we are getting back on message, the story back on message.
Read all of the other accounts.
Read all of the other accounts where everything has been answered in the story.
There you have it.
That was saturday night in Woodlands, Texas.
How many people have died because of Herman Cain's alleged harassment?
Zero.
How many people have died because of Fast And Furious the Obama gun running scandal to Mexican drug cartels that Politico barely reports on?
There have been some.
There are some dead people, including one border agent that we know of.
Nobody has died.
It's like the old question.
what how did the question go how many people have died at chappaquittick versus a nuclear power accident something like that now moving on this friday night on the npr all things considered the co-anchor robert segal spoke with david brooks of the new york times
And uh yeah, this is David Brooks, the NEW YORK Times in this case.
But we've got what we have here coming up.
We've got Brooks, we have Bill Crystal from FOX NEWS, sunday and Paul Jugot from FOX NEWS sunday, and then Juan Williams in FOX NEWS, sunday.
All about Herman Cain.
Here's Brooks first question from Segal, on, all things considered, Herman Cain, who has been asked about sexual harassment complaints from the 90s and the cash payments that the National Restaurant Association made to two women who complained David, you first.
Is this the beginning of the end of the Cane phenomenon?
There was no beginning.
He was a tv show that lasted for a little while.
Listen, I let me stand up for elitist insiders.
This is a job for professionals.
Running for office is a job for professionals.
Governing is a job for professionals.
What Herman Cain did this week let's leave aside the harassment his handling of this was completely unprofessional.
Every amateur candidate knows how to do a better job than this.
Once again, we judge Herman Cain by how poorly he handled it.
Standing up for the elite insiders.
He didn't do a I don't know what he polling Danny.
He's holding up Washington POST calling him a Teflon candidate.
It's not taking him out in the national polls, which really don't mean all that much in in primaries.
But even in Iowa, Heron Kane is um in the lead, I believe, in Iowa.
So now we move to FOX NEWS, sunday.
Yesterday morning, Chris Wallace, speaking with Uh Bill Crystal of the Weekly Standard about the allegations against Hermeneut, Chris Wallace said, how about Republicans?
That's right.
Snerdly, that's exactly.
Herman Cain just doesn't have the right crease in his pants for Brooks, like Obama did.
Remember standing up for the elitists?
David Brooks said the crisp crease in his pants.
I knew he was.
Have they ever spotted Brooks on the campus at PENN State?
I mean, what a thing to say.
ah the crisp crease in his pants It told Brooks that he was really qualified to be president.
And by the way, isn't Obama a professional, Mr. Brooks?
I guess only a real pro could get us in this mess.
We're all professionals here, right?
Obama's a professional.
Never had a job in his life.
Obama has never had a job.
Claims to be the expert on creating them.
And people like you, Brooks, grant him that power because of the crease in his pants.
Herman Kaine's a joke.
Anyway, back to Crystal now.
Chris Wallace said, how about Republicans?
We saw this in the ad at the beginning from his super PAC, but I've heard it from a lot of conservatives linking the allegations against Kane to what Clarence Thomas went through.
And the clearer implication at the opening statement is that this is the way the left goes at conservative blacks.
I don't think it's that comparable to what Justice Thomas went through.
Anita Hill showed up 10 years later to attack Clarence Thomas, not having filed any complaints at the time.
There were complaints filed contemporaneously by employees against Herman Kaine, but he's not going to be the nominee, if I can just be honest here for a minute.
He was never going to be the nominee.
And the voice of God in the conservative inside the Beltway establishment has spoken.
He's not going to be the nominee.
Not going to be the nominee if I could just be honest here for a second.
He was never going to be talking.
What are we talking about?
I talked to Brooks.
Brooks and I both know he's never going to be the nominee.
Why are we even being forced to talk about this?
We're so far above Kane.
Who are you, Wallace?
I'm asking you, he's not going to be the nominee.
What are we talking about?
And then Paul Jugaud at the Wall Street Journal, Wallace said, do you take him seriously as a possible nominee, Mr. Gigaud?
I think that he doesn't really think, he didn't think he would get this far.
And that's the problem.
I don't think he was prepared for this.
And I think that that really, in my mind, is going to wear with Republican primary voters in the end.
And they're probably not going to nominate.
Well, isn't that what they told us about Obama, that he never really intended to get, he was just setting the groundwork for a future run.
But then the media all of a sudden loved the crease in his pants.
And that's the end of the story.
Obama was deemed the Messiah.
Hillary Clinton's still scratching her head over what the hell happened to her.
And now we're told he didn't even, well, he's not going to be the nominee.
Come on, we've been serious.
Seriously, he's not going to be the nominee.
You know it, and I know it.
Brooks knows it.
We've talked about it.
He doesn't want to be the nominee.
He never intended to go this.
He's a television show.
But Juiams was also on the show.
And Wallace said, Juan, what about you?
He has been the pinata for the black liberal establishment now for a good while.
They see him as some kind of token put out by the Tea Party as an acceptable kind of black to Republicans.
And I think it's been just thoroughly insulting.
On this panel, people say he's not going to be the nominee, but you know what?
I didn't think he'd come this far.
I never thought he'd reach this point.
The thing that worries me is now that this is a way that you can drag him down.
And I just think it's insulting to Herman Cain.
I don't like it.
I think the people who are challenging the orthodoxy get attacked.
Juan Williams not happy here with what's going on to his fellow black guy, Herman Cain.
Every once in a while, every once in a while, it happens out there.
Obama never thought he was going to get elected.
Lincoln never thought he was going to get elected.
Was Lincoln a professional?
So anyway, they got Juan Williams ticked off.
I'm going to take a break here and we'll come back and your phone calls.
You're going to be rewarded for holding on some of you since Friday to be on this program.
Okay, to the phones we go.
As promised, Teresa, Jacksonville, Florida, you're first today, and it's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
And I just have to tell you, Rush, truly, I can't decide if I'm ripped or elated regarding all of this stuff with Kane in the media.
All I know for sure is the more accusations they throw his way, the more I know he's our man.
Because I feel like I've been trained to totally not believe anything they say.
Now, that's interesting.
It is interesting that you are thinking that this might make Herman Kane the guy.
Oh, well, it's.
My problem with that is that Bill Crystal and David Brooks know who the nominee is going to be.
They just won't tell us.
I do too.
It's Herman Kane.
No, they think it's not going to be Kane.
It ain't going to be Herman Kanzo.
It's not going to be Herman Kane.
Of course, this is going to be serious.
They're just trying to talk confidently.
Why don't they just tell us who the next nominee is going to be?
If it's up to them, if it's up to Brooks and Gajo and pardon me here, Brooks, Gajo, and Jigo, somebody called him Gidget to me once, which is, I'm getting confused.
And Brooks, Crystal, if it's not going to be Kane, who is it going to be?
Save a lot of fuss and a lot of bother and a lot of money to get on with our lives if they just tell us who the nominee is going to be.
Well, in their minds, it's going to be Mitt Romney, but no, it's going to be Herman Kane.
Well, you may be more right than you know when you say that in their minds it's going to be Romney.
And to boot, here's what I'd love to do.
I'd love for you to keep me on the phone afterwards so that you can give me an address because I would love to mail that man a double-breasted suit with a beautiful red tie to go with it.
You want to mail Kane a double-breasted suit?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
What she is referring to, ladies and gentlemen, is that there's a journalist out there, Robin Jivon Givens, who actually has a piece at the Daily Caller, The Beast.
That's it.
The Daily Beast.
I'm not making this ahead in the first hour.
If you missed it, double-breasted suits worn by Herman Kane exude the power behind sexual harassment.
Double-breasted suits equal sexual harassment.
Honest to God, peace.
And Robin Given, G-I-V-H-A-N, say spell the name, won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2006.
Not making this up.
I don't know if it's a he or she.
The first Pulitzer ever given for fashion criticism.
She won it, or he won it, whoever.
In 2006.
Double-breasted.
Isn't that like sexist?
You could make the case that somebody double-breasted belongs in a circus.
I mean, if you really wanted to take this to extremes.
But I mean, really, folks, the story is out there.
By the way, a judge today blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing tobacco companies next year to put graphic images, including dead and diseased smokers, on their cigarette packages.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that it's likely the cigarette makers will succeed in a lawsuit to block that requirement.
He stopped the requirement until the lawsuit's resolved.
That could take years.
The judge found the nine graphic images approved by the FDA in June go beyond conveying the facts about the health risks of smoking or go beyond that into advocacy, a critical distinction in the case over free speech.
There's a guy with an autopsy stitch sewn up here in his chest, diseased lungs on the pack of cigarettes and so forth.
It's these images that the federal judge, district judge, has blocked.
Cigarette companies have free speech.
about that?
I'm sitting here pondering, ladies and gentlemen, graphic warnings, graphic images on condoms and imagining what they would be.
You could put the picture of the octomom on the condom.
You could somehow graphically illustrate a sexually transmitted disease like gongoria, as one of my health teachers pronounced it in junior high.
Anyway, back to the phones as we kick off a brand new week of Broadcast Excellence Sam in Columbus, Ohio.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It is an absolute honor to speak with you.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
It's a pleasure, sir.
Thank you very much.
Well, my comments are regarding issue two in Ohio.
Yeah.
Well, they have bombarded us for three weeks or longer with basically threats with police and fire department, response time.
If we have an emergency, somebody breaks into our house, you know, we're not going to get the help.
We have been hearing this constantly.
Yep, that's how they do it.
If you don't pass this thing, then the cops are not going to be on the beat, and the firemen aren't going to put out your fires.
And your rates will go up.
All kinds of horrible rotten things are going to happen to you.
That's exactly right.
And it's just the last three days we've finally seen some yes signs and some ads that are voting yes, and they're all positive.
It's amazing how that works.
Well, the opponents of this thing can't afford for the truth of what's on the ballot to be discussed.
This thing goes down in flames.
But that's why they portray this as, well, if you support issue two, you're saying goodbye to cops.
If you support issue two, you're saying goodbye to the fifth.
It's not the case at all.
Ohio, I'm just going to tell you, and I don't live there, but I love it there when I've been.
I'm just going to tell you straight out what issue two is.
As simply as I can, whatever you earn, well, let's use the average.
Let's say you earn $50,000 a year.
What you are voting on tomorrow is paying public sector workers twice what you make.
And your kids and you will be facing higher taxes, higher state taxes in order to pay the public union state employees twice what you earn.
Plus, you're going to have to pay for their pensions in their retirement.
That's what's on the ballot.
What is not on the ballot is cops not responding, firemen not responding.
What's not on the ballot is cops getting fired or policemen being fired or fire first responders being let go.
That's not on the ballot.
The collective bargaining issue is also on the ballot.
And don't forget, even noted leftists of the past, I think it was FDR or maybe the Teddy Roosevelt or something, I forget who, somebody huge, said that collective bargaining for public employees is unacceptable because you're bargaining against your own people.
You know, the boss, the union bosses, or the enemy, let's put the evil enemy in the state of Ohio is not fat cat CEOs.
That's not who the unions are negotiating against.
The unions in Ohio are negotiating against the taxpayers.
Issue two is about survival.
If it goes down, Ohio goes down.
It's unsustainable.
You simply cannot have the private sector population paying union state workers twice what they earn.
How many cops have been fired in Wisconsin?
How many first responders have been fired in Wisconsin?
How many firefighters have been let go in Wisconsin?
It's FDR who was against collective bargaining for public sector workers because they're bargaining against your fellow citizen.
You're bargaining against your neighbor.
Big labor in Ohio is totally misrepresenting this.
Of course, they would love to earn twice what the public sector, private sector makes.
They don't care who's paying it.
It's no more complicated than that.
If you in Ohio think that every and by the way, we're not just talking cops and firefighters.
We're talking teachers and bureaucrats at the DMV.
All of these union workers, they're going to make up to twice what you make, and your taxes are going to pay that, plus their retirement.
That's what's on the ballot.
And it's unsustainable.
Issue two is about sustainability, survivability.
Sam, are you still on the phone?
Yes, I am.
Have there been any ads about rapes going up in Ohio if issue two goes down?
You know, I don't want to say 100% for sure, but definitely like break-ins.
And there probably were a couple early on that were talked about.
Well, I wouldn't doubt it because the vice president, Joe Bitemey's, out there, that's the way he's the rapes are going to go up if we don't support the president's jobs bill.
So if they're trying to tell you that the cops are not going to be answering complaints, that means rapes might be going up in Ohio.
That's how the left sells this stuff.
Sam, I appreciate the call.
Keith in Galveston, Texas, you're next.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Yeah.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You know, I'm just, I just wanted to call, I'm just sick of the irrelevance of Washington, the obstruction going on of the jobs bill.
Everybody needs jobs.
We need our roads and our schools fixed.
They're falling apart.
And the Republicans only care about protecting their millionaire campaign donors from a half percentage point tax increase instead of helping their own constituents.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
Why can't they just put politics down and do what's right for one?
Well, because that's not how jobs are created.
If it were, we wouldn't have unemployment.
We spent $787 billion in 2009 for roads, bridges, whatever else you said there, schools.
And now we need another $60 billion.
You've got to wake up.
This is not how jobs are created.
The Republicans are not standing in the way of the creation of jobs.
Republicans are standing in the way of bloated government.
They're standing in the way of more government growing, which takes away money from the private sector, which is where jobs are created.
Rush, if there were any bills that were in Congress, say George Bush wrote a jobs bill and it happened to increase taxes on billionaires by a half percentage point to create 450,000 jobs, would you support that bill?
No, because there's no, it's impossible.
There's no federal spending that create private sector jobs.
The only thing that can happen is public sector union workers to be hired, DMV types and all that.
People that work in the FDA, there is no way that government spending is going to increase hiring at any private sector firm.
It isn't possible.
You cannot take money out of the private sector.
You just can't do it and have people hired.
It just doesn't work that way.
Well, actually, the last few jobs reports, Rush, the private sector has created jobs in line with what's expected in an economic recovery.
The real job losses have been in the public sector because of crushing budget cuts.
And all this bill is trying to do is to relieve some of that.
If I were you, I would be embarrassed.
You are such a tool.
You are a mind-numbed robot programmed to spew a bunch of absolute garbage.
Illogical garbage.
You're just flat out wrong, embarrassingly so.
Reading from a script, incapable of critical thinking on your own.
You're a sponge, and you're soaking up stuff from the wrong side.
You know, that tool we just had on the phone, he's not even up to date on the latest leftist talking points.
The Democrats have dropped the millionaire tax from the new jobs bill.
Right there it is.
Democrats jettison millionaire surtax in new jobs bill.
It's from Fox News.
By the way, you people in Ohio organizing for Obama is a big part of that campaign in Ohio to lie to you about what Proposition or Issue Two is on your ballot.
But the Democrats have dropped the millionaire tax.
On the other hand, the House of Representatives has passed more than 20 jobs bills.
The difference is their jobs bills don't involve what government does.
They involve what government will no longer do.
The Democrat-controlled Senate has ignored all 20 Republican jobs bills that have come out of the House of Representatives.
So our last guy hadn't gotten the latest DNC talking points yet.
He's reading off something that's a little old out there.
I have a story here from the UK Telegraph.
Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has said that the need for a German-led fiscal integration in the Eurozone would make it increasingly unattractive for all the countries who joined to stay in the single currency.
However, I want to read you a quote from this story.
It's by Kamal Ahmed.
The source of this might surprise you.
I think if you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of their worn-out welfare societies.
I think the labor laws are outdated.
The labor laws induce sloth, indolence, rather than hard working.
The incentive system is totally out of whack, quote unquote.
Who do you think said this?
This statement is buried in this telegraph story about the Euro.
You know who said that?
A spokesman for the CHICOM's Sovereign Wealth Fund.
So now that you know who said this, I'm going to read it to you again.
A communist Chinese sovereign wealth fund spokesman, a communist commenting on Europe, said, I think if you look at the troubles which happen in European countries purely because of the accumulated troubles of their worn-out welfare societies, I think the labor laws are outdated.
The labor laws induce sloth, indolence rather than hard working, the incentive system totally out of whack.
My gosh, folks, the ChiComs get it.
This is an article about the Euro and what's wrong in the Eurozone.
They're basically a bunch of takers, a bunch of losers.
The losers dominate.
That's why they're in trouble.
Also, for those of you out there who might want to agree with that tool that called us a minute ago about the $60 billion jobs bill in the Senate, we need that to create jobs.
Yes, right.
Barons.
November 7th issue.
Editorial commentary.
It's on page 47 entitled Hard Come, Easy Go by Thomas G. Donlin.
12 reasons.
This is the highlight of this piece.
12 reasons why there is more inequality in the United States.
12 reasons why there is more inequality.
One, Bill Gates.
Number two, Larry Ellison.
Number three, Sergey Brin, Google.
Number four, Larry Page, Google.
Number five, Michael Dell.
Number six, Paul Allen.
Number seven, Steve Ballmer.
Number eight, Michael Bloomberg.
Number nine, Jeff Bezos.
That'd be Amazon to you.
Number 10, Steve Jobs.
Number 11, Steven Spielberg.
And number 12, the Oprah.
12 reasons why there are more or is more inequality.
And you could add the Zuckenberg Facebook guy for 13.
These are just a few of the people who changed the country.
And most people would say they did it for the good of the country.
Some on here arguable, but still, they did well.
And look at all of the jobs these people have created.
Do you know how many Microsoft millionaires there are?
Do you know how many Apple millionaires there are?
How many Facebook millionaires there are?
These people created millions of direct and indirect jobs and paid billions of taxes at all levels of government.
They are not the enemy.
Some of them are politically, but they're not the problem economically.
The more you read about these people, the more impressed you become with their business acumen.
And on the other side, we got people like Elizabeth Warren who say, these people couldn't have done it without us.
And taxes that we paid to build the roads and so forth for them to move their products on and so forth and so on.
So there's Barron's.
November 7th issue.
12 reasons why there's more inequality in the U.S. All these people.
And I'm going to tell you here, folks, I don't think they're all liberals.
I don't think there's a single conservative on this list.
Well, we know the Oprah isn't.
We know Zuckerberg isn't.
We know that Gates isn't.
We know that Larry Ellison isn't.
We know that Sergey Bryn and Larry Page aren't.
Michael Dell, I don't know.
Paul Allen, don't know.
I don't think so.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, no.
Bloomberg.
Bezos.
These are all libs.
Jobs.
They're all commie bastards.
And yet the Occupy walls, and these are the heroes.
These are the heroes of the Occupy crowd.
So forth.
And Barons is, hey, these guys, they're your reasons for income inequality.
The Microsoft IPO initial public offering in 1986 created three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires.
One IPO alone, three billionaires, 12,000 millionaires.
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