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Nov. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain.
I, of course, am El Rushbo, the grand wizard of broadcasting with some props there to David Gregory of NBC News and Meet the Press.
That's right, my friends, the Grand Wizard.
Well, Gregory said that there's no grand wizard in the Republican Party to tell Herman Kane to shut up and go away.
And he didn't realize he claims, you know, Herman Kane being an African-American, you don't want to talk about grand wizards and people like Sheets Bird, late Sheets Bird in the Senate, might be a little offensive.
So Gregory went out there and apologized.
No, he was a Kliegel.
Sheets Bird was a Grand Kliegel.
I am the Grand Wizard of Broadcast.
Folks, I normally wouldn't do this.
I have to tell you, because I don't know how this show is going to go today, because everything, I mean everything associated with putting this program together today has failed, has been a total 150% disaster.
From, I mean, I would, I'm in the mood to whine.
Since this is a nation of whiners, I'm in the mood to whine and complain.
Of course, I don't do that, but I almost want to do it because I feel like when everybody knew how horrible this has been today, it has been one failure disaster, computer blowing up.
I don't even want to, now that I think about it, I don't want to get into it.
For some reason, we have a new print.
We're in LA, by the way.
This is the thing.
We got a new printer, and it prints everything.
I need literally a telescope, not a microscope, a telescope to see it.
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
If you're in the IRS and you want to audit me, this is your year because every calendar I've got has been corrupted.
And they're all saying, no, no, no, don't say that.
Don't say that.
Every calendar's been corrupted.
It's just, and there was the printer cookie sends the Soundbite roster, which is normally anywhere from 8 to 12 pages.
Look at even this one.
Look at that.
I've got 50 pages of gibberish here for the Soundbite roster.
So I don't know even what we got Soundbite was.
It wasn't the direct TV in the airplane.
It's a cabin temperature.
We couldn't keep the cabin temperature regulated on the airplane coming out yesterday.
Look at it.
You know, folks, I could be a genuine Occupy Wall Streeter today because I have got three hours, maybe eight hours of stuff to whine, moan, and complain about.
But I think I've about got it out of my out of my system here.
This is good.
The true tip.
What election?
Oh, the election results in Ohio.
What?
You upset about issue two?
Oh, you're talking about issue two with the, well, you know, I, frankly, you look at issue two in Ohio, and the unions, they did win big.
They stomped things three to one there.
There was a stark difference between the way they did it in Ohio and the way they did it in Wisconsin.
In Wisconsin, when they started this whole debate with the unions and give backs and ending collective bargaining, they exempted the cops and the firefighters to take that ammo away from the Democrats and the unions.
In Ohio, they didn't.
They were going to make, in Ohio, issue two would have stripped the collective bargaining rights from cops and from firefighters.
And that was an opening for the Democrats to run in and tell people, you're going to lose your house.
It's going to burn down and the firemen won't show up.
The way to look at Ohio, you can see that a little schizophrenic, but issue three won by a bigger margin.
That was the state of Ohio telling the federal government they don't want any part of Obamacare mandates.
That won a 66% majority, a bigger majority than what issue two won with.
And the Democrats are worried about that.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is out there.
And get this now.
She heads a Democrat National Committee.
And she said, I don't care what the people said because the people don't matter.
The courts are going to decide Obamacare.
I don't care.
So here she is.
They're all out there, the Democrats, celebrating issue two and the unions winning big.
And the unions outspent three to one.
Look, it's an organizational thing.
This mother's milk of politics is money.
No, don't, no, don't pay.
This is, as fact, if somewhere, if I can read it, what spew, we got a new printer for I don't know why.
If I can read it, there's a story here that describes this thing in issue two in Ohio as just really the first solid win the Democrats have had in a while.
They have been taking it on the chin in a lot of places, and they took it on the chin in issue three yesterday.
They lost in Wisconsin, and that was big, big Democrat state.
So, no, you're not going to win everything.
And Ohio is, you know, what it is.
I'm not trying to minimize it.
Folks, we've got, we talked about it at great length yesterday.
We are a nation in decline.
I mean, we've got a lot of people in this country.
Oh, and another thing.
I probably got two hours' sleep last night.
Of course, that usually means good things for the show.
So we'll see.
But we have a competition here.
And what really boils it down to its essence, how many people in the country think, despite the past two and a half years, this is the real irony to me, the last two and a half to three years, what the government has done, forget a name.
Let's not even mention Obama.
The government, look at the jobs in the private sector.
Government policy is destroyed.
Look at the hellfire and brimstone, the damage to everyday life, homes, home values, you name it, government policy is responsible for all of it in just the past two and a half, three years.
And yet, look at the inordinately large number of people who think only the government can fix it.
It's, to me, a major disconnect.
And there is in way too many people, and you and I know this, may not say it this way, but we know it.
More and more people don't even consider the concept of self-reliance.
More and more people don't even consider they might have a way out of their problem themselves.
This is not how the country was built.
The country was not built by people with attitudes that seem to be prevalent today.
I'm amazed at the number of people, when faced with a problem, think, okay, what's the government going to do?
I mean, I have a story, was it Memphis that the journalists here very supportive and sympathetic of now serving dinner at the schools because the poor little kids can't go from 10 a.m. when they have lunch all the way to the end of the day?
They've got to have dinner at the school.
Now, this would have been unthinkable.
When I was, and you too, Snerdley.
So go through the stacks of stuff.
No, I think we're a nation at risk in a dangerous world.
And part of the danger is internal.
I just, really, you can boil it down to how many people, despite the damage done by government, still think, well, what's the government going to do to fix this?
It's battle.
And you talk to people about winning elections.
Well, you know, they're out organizing us out there.
They're beating us in the early voting.
And we really got to get our organization.
And all that's true.
But without, oh, is the ditto cam working?
Is that what it looks like?
That looks horrible.
Yeah, it's working, but it looks horrible.
The angle.
I got to get a crick in my neck to look at the ditto cam out here.
Anyway, I've not lost my place, even though the temptation is great to just tell them to go get a tape from yesterday.
It was a great show yesterday.
Replay it.
It helped a lot of people.
We have the circumstance.
Organization is fine, but we're missing out on the ideas business, the ideological business.
What I saw, when I heard Carl Rove basically attest to the credibility of Gloria Ohred in the Herman Kane business, there's a message there, folks.
And the message is that in the Republican Party, the establishment really doesn't want conservatives to triumph.
Well, the bad thing about that is, is that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is where the ideas are.
The other guys, they're absorbed with policy and they're absorbed with organization and all that's necessary.
But let's say we beat them in early voting.
Let's say we beat them in turnout and we win elections with who?
To do what?
That kind of thing matters.
And that's, you know, when you say we're not winning in Ohio with issue two because of organization or whatever, I would say I think it was a loss of ideas because issue three was also, we were way outspent on issue three, if I'm not mistaken.
This is the issue that the reject the federal mandate to buy insurance in Obamacare.
I mean, that was defeated soundly.
And what defeated that was the idea, the concept, the premise, the ideology, the principle of it.
But I don't know.
I wasn't in Ohio.
I don't know if the people that ran our campaign there even got into the ideas of it.
Some people on our side are even afraid to go after the unions, which is understandable.
They'll come to your house and beat you up.
But and the wording of question two is one of those weird things where voting no meant yes and vice versa.
I mean, you had to vote counterintuitive.
It sounded like it was written by a union folk, and it probably was.
But I still snerdly to answer your question, I still remain optimistic, even despite the personal disaster that today has been so far, because we still have the ideas.
All we need is more and more people with courage to express them and run for office on them.
They win every time they are tried, every time people are given an option, ideas-wise.
So we have the latest Herman Kane press conference yesterday.
I got a lot of people who thought he did great.
A lot of people, no, I mean, just people said to me, email he did great, thought his lawyer did great.
It was fascinating.
And then I got a couple emails from people criticizing so-called conservative journalists.
I don't know who it was, but one of them, I guess, said that this really, a number of emails, some people riled up.
One of the journalists considered to be a conservative said the Herman Cain press conference raised more questions than it answered.
And I said, well, you understand now that's journalism 101.
That reaction is actually taught in journalism school.
You hear a journalist say after a press conference where Herman, what else could he do?
He asked for a lie detector to said he would take a lie detector test.
I don't even know the woman.
Do you realize how wide open he's left himself?
If he's lying, he's finished forever.
I mean, even if this presidential campaign started only as a lark to try to get a media gig or maybe get TV appearances on a cable show or what have it, whatever his motivation was, and I'm not discounting that it was seriously to win at the same time.
But if what he did yesterday is proven to be a total lie, if he does and has known this bio lick, babe, it's over.
What else can he do?
And then the reaction from a journalist is, it raised more questions.
That is taught.
Journalism 101.
You have a reaction like that.
That generally means you're gunning for the guy and you're attempting to influence the way viewers who also watched the Kane press conference thought about it.
Most of the email I got from people was they thought it was good, that his lawyer was good, that it was straightforward and honest and real guy, this kind of stuff.
If he lied and if it can be established that he lied, and if there's some sexual harassment out there, he guaranteed folks a slot at CNN.
I give you Elliot Spitzer as proof.
Now, what did I just say?
By the way, it was Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard who said that people emailed me and said that Kane raised more questions than he answered.
Look at here, I told you, it's Journalism 101, David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers.
Herman Kane's effort to control the damage from sexual harassment allegations has raised more questions than it's answered.
I mean, it's Journalism 101.
And when you get that reaction to it, It means that that particular journalist is gumming for the candidate, gumming for the source, the subject of the story, doesn't want to believe it, not buying into it.
So this is where it is.
Smart Money is saying Herman Cain just can't survive this.
This is awesome.
Now the babes are going to have a joint presser.
They're going to have a joint presser.
A panel.
A panel of accusers.
You know, last night, even before I knew what a disaster I was facing this morning here, I was thinking of not showing up to do the show today unless I had a full panel of other talk show hosts beside me for support.
I said, that's silly.
I don't need a panel.
I don't need guests.
I don't do guests.
What are these babes going to do with the panel?
What does it prove?
What is getting five people together for a press conference prove?
Oh, is that it?
On their own, they can't swing the day.
But, well, the only way you prove a negative is with a lie detector, and that's even dubious, of course.
If he passes the lie detector, they'll just say, that raises more questions than it answers.
There's no way that he is going to, within the journalism community, within the pundit occraphy, no way is going to win this.
Now, with the people, with the voters, different story, and who knows?
But does getting five people together for a press conference add more weight?
Does it add more proof?
If you get five people together to accuse somebody of something, does that make it true?
Is that some part of Sharia law that I haven't learned about yet?
Or does having five people just make it harder to go into any of the specifics of any of their charges or their background?
See, I think that's what it is.
You get all five of them up there, and it's a little tougher to individually examine them.
And the reason that it's important, when people make allegations like this, it is important that they come forward.
They need to be judged.
Their credibility, their story needs to be judged equally with the person they're accusing.
And that's why the politico, all these anonymous details, anonymous sources, anonymous bits of evidence and so forth, it's why they were having trouble.
You know, one of the questions I would have if I had the opportunity to be at this panel that the babe, I probably shouldn't say babe, should I?
That the women are going to engage in is who is paying your legal fees?
But see, that's why I'm not a reporter.
I would be kicked out of the club if I asked a question like that.
Who is paying your legal fees?
Such simple and direct questions are never permitted.
The questions are going to be more like those asked of Herman Cain.
Like, do you think sexual harassment is a serious matter?
And so forth.
So anyway, there is a Republican debate tonight.
It's in Michigan.
Back in a second.
There is the most amazing story, and it looks like a random act of journalism from the AP.
On the latest accuser, this Crash Hour, Karen Crash Hour, 55.
A pattern of whining.
This is a person who has tried to use being offended for personal gain.
AP exclusive accuser filed complaint in Next Job.
It is an amazing story.
I can't believe it AP ran it.
It's long as it can be.
I don't know that I want to get into every smidge-idal detail of it.
I might.
Just depends on how things unfold here on the big program today.
But I'll tell you what this panel means.
When all five of these women gather together, if they actually do this, the way to translate that, what that means is this isn't working.
Let's try ganging up.
Now, everybody in the media says that Clinton, and we've talked about this.
Everybody in the media says that Clinton handled his sex accusations perfectly.
That he had a strategy out there.
That there was an organization.
But remember, David Gregory, the grand wizard of NBC News, he was the answer.
What really gets the media?
He was telling this to Chris Saliza, the Washington Post.
What really gets the media?
Let's be honest here, is there's no strategy here.
There's no organization.
So there's no way we can plan to screw this guy.
I mean, he's winging it.
And we're not used to people winging it.
When you wing it, you generally tell the truth.
We don't know how to deal with this.
We need a strategy.
We need a formula.
We need this guy behaving like everybody else.
We need Clinton.
Clinton did it the right way.
What does that mean?
What would Clinton do?
They're actually, everybody, oh, what would Jesus do campaign?
The media is out there constructing what would Clinton do?
Clinton would call this panel of five women the band of bimbos, and James Carville would be out there waving a dollar bill in front of them to see how many of them would start disrobing for it.
And he'd call whoever put it together a sex pervert.
But they would be out there.
The Democrats would be attacking the accusers.
Isn't it fascinating?
Now you've got the accusers, these women, and now the Democrats, they're holier than now, they're clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Women don't lie about this, folks.
They don't make these things up.
This is too traumatic.
Women don't want to make this up and live this lie.
It's bad enough when it's real.
So that's what Clinton would do.
Classy stuff like that.
Now, this crash hour, Karen Crash Hour, and I'm pretty sure that's how she pronounced it because I've known somebody named Crash Hour in my life.
I have.
It was a guy, and he worked for somebody you all know, and I know, and I don't know that he's related to this woman or not.
There's a lot of crash hours out there, but he spelled his name the same way, and that's how he pronounced it, crash hour.
So we're going to call her Karen Crash Hour.
She says that she eventually dropped her complaint because it was relatively minor, but she had demanded untold thousands of dollars, as well as back vacation pay and a $16,000 raise and a fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
That's what she wanted.
I know.
Kane did his whole press conference last night without a teleprompter.
He did.
He doesn't need a teleprompter.
People generally know what they're going to say and generally don't.
I want to go to the audio soundbites.
We're going to start at the top.
I really.
Can you, folks, Ditto Cameron, you see how small that is?
Do you see?
I really, I don't care.
At this point, I don't want anything to go right.
If things started going right in here, I might not be able to handle it.
I actually need a, what do you call it, a magnifying glass?
I mean, I know, for example, that this soundbite is John Harwood on MSNBC, but I have no clue what he's talking about because I can't read it.
I don't know what he's saying.
So let's listen together.
I don't even know what the question he's asked is, but here's what he said.
Huntsman has a tax reform plan that reduces rates.
It's not a flat tax.
He's got three rates for personal income.
He would dramatically bring down the corporate rate.
And he's got a story to tell about what happened in Utah.
This race, as you know, Joe, is so formless with so many people rising and falling at different points in the process.
Mitt Romney keeping on steady, but taking hits like that from Eric Erickson from Rush Limbaugh, who says he's not a conservative.
There clearly is an opening for somebody to consolidate support.
Herman Cain has been doing that.
How much longer can he do it given what's happened in the last few days?
Huntsman is one who has not yet had his moment in the soot, but he's got an opportunity tonight.
Oh, isn't that rich?
So I guess that's John Harwood.
He's at the New York Times.
No, he used to be at the Wall Street Journal.
So now Huntsman has an opportunity to impress me or to prove to me that he's a conservative.
El Rushbo, that's his opportunity tonight.
And Harwood is so hoping he pulls it off.
Why do you think that might be?
You think Harwood plans on voting for Huntsman?
I just, I marvel when media people start trumpeting people on our side.
You can always, like with Palin, and you take a look at if what's they try to destroy Palin, they try to destroy Bachman, try to destroy Kane.
I mean, whoever ends up leading in Republican politics, there's an effort to take him out.
And while this one could be Republican-originated, this thing against Kane, we don't know.
But so Huntsman, well, and I have a reason to watch.
I was going to go to dinner tonight, and I may a time zone shit.
No, I won't have to.
I won't have to change anything.
The debate will be on at 5 o'clock here, right?
Cool.
Well, maybe I won't leave and go home.
I was going to bag it, folks.
I'm telling you, I was going to head out of here.
I was going to pull a plane out of maintenance.
That's another thing.
EIB1.
This is a comedy of errors.
EIB1 isn't maintenance right now, the direct TV antenna.
Every time we go into Pittsburgh, we lose it.
We go into Los Angeles or Van Nuys, we lose it.
Burbank, we lose it.
So I probably can't even get it out of maintenance.
I'd probably have to charter if I wanted to get home tonight.
So we'll hang in there and be tough.
I want to flash back to what I said after the 2010 midterms.
This is a warning that I gave in November 3rd, 2010, about the results of those midterms.
Last night was just the beginning.
Last night didn't solve anything.
Long way to go.
That's why don't be depressed.
Last night was a wipeout.
Last night was such a wonderful event to build on.
You may interpret what I'm saying as equating where we are to helplessness.
I am not at all saying that.
Don't misunderstand me.
Yes, there are large forces, powerful forces.
They don't always win.
If they always won, we would have ceased being the United States a long time ago.
We are still the United States.
We are finally now in a position to start fighting back.
The question is: will the people we elected fight back?
That's the next thing to watch.
That's what we have to ascertain.
If they don't, they're gone, and a new crop gets set in there in 2012.
Yeah, that's what I said after the 2010 midterms.
I want you to hear Blabbermouth Schultz, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
This is, And compare it to John Kasich's reaction at the vote in Ohio last night.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz was on MSNBC last night.
You find it interesting.
I don't know what this means, but if it weren't for MSNBC, we wouldn't have any liberal soundbites.
I've told Cookie, I'm sick of it.
Ban MSNBC, and we can't because there's no other place to get liberal sound bites.
There isn't any other place.
I mean, CNN doesn't even.
They're just insane over there.
They emphasize their hosts and they have guesses, but it just roll tape on them.
And it's so boring.
Not worth putting anything CNN in the air.
If it weren't for MSNBC, there wouldn't be any liberal soundbites.
Now, that has to mean something.
It has to mean that they're rare, that they're not everywhere.
They may be everywhere in print, but left-wingers on the radio, genuine cuckoo's nest.
You wouldn't even want to go there.
I wouldn't play that stuff.
MSNBC is it.
And it's two shows or three shows.
It's the morning thing with Scarborough.
It's this Larry O'Donnell show at night, and maybe occasionally something from Reverend Sharpton.
Well, yeah, sometimes Sergeant Schultz, but Sergeant Schultz is out there walking amongst abandoned railroad cars looking for the future of America.
But I know there's Al Gore's channel, but that's nothing worth highlighting.
It really is something.
MSNBC is the only place in the media to get these liberal.
It's the only place in the ⁇ hear Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
Anyway, let's get to the bite.
Here she is talking about the results in Ohio last night.
Lawrence, I think the more important news tonight on the Affordable Care Act is that the D.C. Court of Appeals, written by a very conservative judge, overwhelmingly upheld as constitutional the Affordable Care Act.
And the D.C. Court of Appeals is a significant court, one of the most significant courts in the country.
And to have the conservative judge write the majority opinion, upholding that law is constitutional, that sends a clear message as to the likelihood of success when that legislation gets to the Supreme Court and they answer the question of whether a mandate is constitutional overall.
Now, folks, I hate to tell you this, but she's half right here about something.
This, when I read the story today of what she's talking about, I was floored.
The lead judge who wrote the opinion is a man named Lawrence Silberman.
He is Ronald Reagan.
He was nominated by Reagan.
This is the equivalent of Reagan writing an opinion and changing.
This is profound.
I just, I don't know any other way to sugarcoat this.
And what Silberman cited as his reasoning, he said the right to be, I want to make sure this is, the mandate, Silberman wrote, seems an intrusive exercise of legislative power and certainly is an encroachment on individual liberty.
But it is no more so than a command that restaurants or hotels are obliged to serve all customers regardless of race.
that gravely ill individuals cannot use a substance their doctors described as the only effective palliative for excruciating pain, or that a farmer can't grow enough wheat to support his own family.
The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems, no matter how local or seemingly passive their individual origin.
I can't believe this.
Folks, I don't want to panic you, but whoever you think is the most rock-ribbed conservative writing an opinion basically denouncing conservative theory and policy and agreeing with liberalism, that's who Lawrence Silberman is.
He is one of the most highly respected jurists in town.
He's not a young man anymore.
But Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is right.
This is what Silberman thinks and rights could have impact on justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
But so do the voters, and so do election returns.
And this was a slam dunk.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz may think that what the people said at the ballot box in Ohio on the mandate doesn't matter because of what this court did.
She's not totally correct there because judges do follow election results.
But it must be said that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the mandate, the health care reform law's requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance, and the most conservative judge in America wrote the opinion.
Let's take a brief time.
The clock also is in East Ovary here, and it's also about 25 seconds slow.
So it fits here that I've gone way over time.
We'll be back and continue here in just a second.
And we are back.
By the way, for those of you ditto cameras out there, I do not have control over the switch.
So if something is seen or isn't seen, it isn't my fault.
If you see me doing something you've never seen before, and you think, I just have no clue when that camera's on and when it isn't.
This FYI.
Here's Kasich.
Last night in Columbus, Ohio, he held a press conference to talk about the election results.
It's clear that the people have spoken.
And, you know, my view is when people speak in a campaign like this in a referendum, you have to listen when you're a public servant.
There isn't any question about that.
I've heard their voices.
I understand their decision.
And frankly, I respect what people have to say in an effort like this.
Yeah, that's losing gracefully.
And just contrast that with Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
Screw the people.
It doesn't matter what the people think.
We got the judge.
We got the courts.
And they do.
That's the way they look at it.
It's just the way they do.
The people don't matter.
You get the courts.
Even when you lose elections, you win issues because the judges can legislate from the bench.
Here's another portion of what Kasich had to say.
It requires me to take a deep breath, you know, and to spend some time reflecting on what happened here.
You know, you have a campaign like this, you give it your best.
If you don't win, and the people speak in a loud voice, you pay attention to what they have to say and you think about it.
And so people ask, what will you do if this doesn't fail?
I can tell you, now it's a chance for me to catch my breath and try to gather my thoughts together as to what we do next.
I think he's beating himself up here.
This is not his fault.
There's a matter of being outspent three to one.
I really hope he doesn't believe all this.
I mean, the unions have spoken, but a government of the unions, by the unions, for the unions can't stand.
Not for long.
They'll run out of other people's money.
So I'm just, I'm hoping, I know Governor Kasich a little bit, and I'm hoping he's taking the humility here just a bit too far.
Is it time to take a break here?
I can't really.
All right, we'll do it.
I can't read the clock over there.
All right.
One.
One thing here, folks, the good news is, ladies and gentlemen, Kasich and the Republican majority in Ohio, they're new.
They just got elected last year.
They had plenty of time to redo this legislation and get it right.
And they have more time to get some money on their side.
This is going to be an ongoing battle.
This is the statists versus the people of freedom and liberty and so forth.
This is going to be going on for as long as your kids are alive.
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