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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 L Rushbow, the grand wizard of broadcasting.
With uh 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 uh Sheets Bird, late Sheets Bird in the Senate might be a little offensive.
So Gregory went out there and um and apologize.
No, he was a Kleagel.
Sheets Bird was a grand Cleague.
I am the grand wizard of broadcast.
Folks, well, I 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 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'm 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.
Uh uh just I don't even want to ignite now that I think about it, I don't want to get into it.
For some reason, we have a new printer.
We're in LA, by the way.
That's the thing.
We got a new printer, and it prints everything.
I need literally a telescope, not a microscope, a telescope to see it.
Uh that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Uh if the IR, if you're in the IRS and you want to audit me, this is your year because every calendar I've got's been corrupted.
And they're all saying, Don't no, no, don't say that.
Don't say that.
Every calendar's been corrupted.
Um it's just uh, and and uh there was uh the the printer.
Cookie sends the soundbite roster, which is normally anywhere from eight to twelve pages.
Look at the even this one.
Even look at that.
I've I've got 50 pages of gibberish here for the soundbite roster.
So I don't know even what what we got soundbite-wise.
Uh it wasn't the direct TV in the airplane, is a cabin temperature.
We couldn't keep the cabin temperature regulated on the airplane coming out yesterday.
Look at it if I 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 uh out of my system here.
This is good.
The true tip.
What election?
Oh, the election results in Ohio.
What are you what?
You upset about issue two?
Oh, the you're talking about issue two with the uh with the well, um, you know, I frankly, you look at issue two in Ohio with an in the unions, they did win big.
They stomped things three to three to one there.
There that there was a uh a stark difference between the way they did it in Ohio and the way they did it in Wisconsin in Wisconsin uh when they started this whole debate with the unions and 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 uh uh collective bargaining rights from cops and from firefighters, and that was an opening for the Democrats to run in and tell people you're gonna lose your house, is gonna burn down, and the fireman won't show up.
Uh 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 uh the federal government they don't want any part of Obamacare mandates.
That one was 66% majority, a bigger majority than what issue two won whip.
And the Democrats are worried about that.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is out there.
She's, and get this now.
This is she she heads the 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 in the Democrats celebrating issue two and the and the unions winning big.
And the unions outspent three to one.
Look, it's an organizational thing.
Mother's milk of uh politics is money.
No, don't, no, don't pay.
This is this is as fact I've got if somewhere, if I can read it, that 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 the issue two in Ohio is 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 on issue three yesterday.
They lost in Wisconsin, and that was big, big uh Democrat state.
So no, you're not gonna win everything.
And uh Ohio is you know what it is.
I've I'm not trying to minimize it.
Folks, we we've got we talked about it at great length yesterday.
We we are we are a nation in decline.
I mean, we've got a lot of people in uh in this country.
Oh, and another thing, I probably got two hours' sleep last night.
Of course, that usually means good things uh for the show.
So we'll so we'll see.
But he uh uh the we we have a competition here, and what really I mean, boil 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 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.
Uh it's a to me a major disconnect, and there is in way too many people, and you and I know this, we 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 uh 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 gonna do?
I mean, there I have a story uh was it Memphis, that uh the the journalists here um 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 this would have been unthinkable.
Uh when I was, and you too, Snerdley.
Uh go through the stacks of stuff.
No, we're we're I think we're a nation at risk in a dangerous world.
And part of the uh danger is internal.
I just really you can boil it down to how many people, despite the damage done by government, still think, oh, what's the government gonna do to fix this?
It's um it's battle.
And you talk to people about winning elections, well, we, you know, they're out organizing us out there.
Beating us in the early voting, and uh we really gotta get our organization.
And all that's true.
But without all, yeah, is the ditto cam working?
Is it is that what it looks like?
That looks horrible.
Yeah, it's working, but it looks horrible.
The angle.
I mean, I got uh I gotta 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 him to go get a tape from yesterday.
It was a great show yesterday, replay it.
Could have helped a lot of people.
We have the circumstance where the organization is fine, but we're missing out on the ideas business.
The ideological business.
When I saw, when I heard Carl Rove uh basically attest to the credibility of Gloria Orred in the Herman Kane business, that 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 uh organization and all that's necessary.
But let's say we beat him in early voting, let's say we beat him in turnout and we win elections with who?
To do what?
That that kind of thing matters.
And that's, you know, when you say we're not winning in Ohio with the issue two because of organization or whatever, I'd 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 that was defeated soundly.
And what defeated that was the idea, the whole 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 uh 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 to come to your house and beat you up.
But and the the wording of question two is one of those weird things where voting no meant yes and vice versa.
I mean, it you you had to vote counterintuitive.
It sounded like it was written by a union folk, and it probably was.
But I um I still startly to answer your question, I still remain optimistic, uh, 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 uh the latest uh uh Hermann Kane press conference yesterday.
I got a lot of people who thought he did great.
A lot of people, I'm no, I mean, just people sending me email.
He did great, thought his lawyer did great, it was fascinating.
Uh, 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, one of them, I guess, said that this really number of emails some people riled up.
One of the uh 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 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 say he would take a lie detector test.
He's, I don't even know the woman.
Do you realize how wide open he's left himself?
If he's lying, yes, he's finished forever.
I mean, if 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 total lie, if he does and has known this biolic babe, uh, it's over.
So 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, uh, and you're attempting to uh influence the way viewers who also watched the Cain press conference uh thought about it.
Uh most of the email I got from people was they thought it was it was it was good, that his lawyer was good, that it was uh straightforward and honest and real guy.
Uh this kind of stuff.
Uh if 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.
I give you Elliot Spitzer.
you Now, what did I just tell?
By the way, it was Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard who said that uh people emailed me and said that uh Cain uh raised more questions than he answered.
Look at here, I told you it's journalism 101, David Goldstein McClatchy newspapers.
Herman Cain's effort to control the damage from sexual harassment allegations has raised more questions than it's answered.
I mean, it's journalism 101.
They all, I mean, and when you get that reaction to it, uh it means that that particular journalist is gunning for the candidate, gunning for the source, the subject of the story, uh, doesn't want to believe it, not buying into it.
And uh this is this is where it is.
Smart money is saying Herman Kane just can't survive this.
This is all now the babes are gonna have a joint presser.
They're going to have a joint presser.
I a panel.
A panel of accusers.
You know, I uh 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 haven't 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 proof?
Oh, is that it?
On their own, they can't swing the day.
But the power, 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, uh, uh, uh, uh, that raises more questions than it answers.
They'll just, there's no, there's no way that he is going to, within the journalism community, with an appundant across the no way he's going to win this.
Now, with the people, with the voters, different uh 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 they 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 political, 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 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 um 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 uh 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.
Back in a second.
There is the most amazing story, and I it looks like a random act of journalism from the AP on the uh latest accuser, this crash hour, uh 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 I don't know that I want to get into every smidgenittle detail of it.
I might.
Just depends on how things uh 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 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 hand that would really gets the media.
He was telling this to Chris Siliza, the Washington Post.
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 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.
We like Clinton.
Clinton did it the right way.
What does that mean?
What would Clinton do?
They're actually, 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 Carvel 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.
Now you've got the accusers, these women, and now the Democrats, they're holier than now, the clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
Why 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 sound bites.
We're going to start at the top.
I I really can you folks, dido camera, you see how small that is.
Do you see?
I 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 uh what do you call a magnifying glass?
I mean, I know, for example, that this sound bite 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 Kane has been doing that.
How much longer can he do it given what's happened in the last few days?
Huntsman is one who uh has not yet had his moment in the sun.
He's got an opportunity tonight.
Oh, isn't that rich?
So I guess that's John Harwood uh is uh he's at the New York Times now.
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.
L. Rushbow.
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, who whoever ends up leading in Republican polling, 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 gonna go to dinner tonight, and I may a time zone sh- 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 gonna bag it, folks.
Telling you I was gonna head out of here.
Uh I was gonna pull a plane out of main.
Well, that's another thing.
EIB one.
This is a comedy of errors.
EIB one isn't uh maintenance right now, the direct TV antenna.
Every time we go into Pittsburgh, we lose it.
We're going to uh Los Angeles or Van Nuys, we lose it.
Burbank, we lose it.
So there 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 uh and be tough.
I want to flash back to uh 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 um 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.
Uh Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
This is uh uh and compare it to John Kasich's reaction at the uh vote in Ohio last night.
Uh 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 sound bites.
You be I've told Cookie, I'm sick of it.
Bam 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 they they emphasize their hosts, and they have guesses, but but it just we roll tape on them, and there's really it's so boring.
They're not worth putting anything of CNN in the air.
If it weren't for MSNBC, there wouldn't be any liberal sound bites.
Now that has to mean something.
It has to mean that they're rare, that you they're not everywhere.
They may be everywhere in print, but uh you know, left-wingers on the radio of genuine cuckoo's nest.
You wouldn't even want to go there.
Oh, and play that stuff.
MSNBC's it.
And it's it's it's two shows or three shows.
It's the morning thing with Scarborough.
It's it's uh this uh Larry O'Donnell show at night, and maybe occasionally something from Reverend Sharpton.
Um, yeah, sometimes Sergeant Schultz, but uh Sergeant Schultz is out there walking amongst abandoned railroad cars uh looking for the future of America.
But yeah, I know there's Al Gorce Channel, but that's not worth highlighting.
It really is something.
MSNBC is the only place in the media to get these liberal, it's the only place here, 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 uh news tonight on uh on the Affordable Care Act is that the DC Court of Appeals, uh, written by a very conservative judge, overwhelmingly upheld as constitutional the Affordable Care Act, and the DC Court of Appeals is a significant court, one of the most significant courts in the country.
And uh to have the conservative judge write the majority opinion upholding that law as constitutional, that sends a clear message as to the likelihood of success when this 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.
Uh 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 and changing is that this is profound.
I just I don't know any other way to sugarcoat this.
And what Silberman cited at his as his reasoning.
Uh oh he said the right to be no, let's make sure this is uh 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.
I folks, I don't want to.
I don't want to panic you, but 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 Lauren Silberman is.
He was what 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 I what Silberman thinks and rights could have impact on justices at 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 DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the mandate.
The health care reform laws requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance, and the most conservative judge in America wrote the opinion.
Let's take a brief time out.
Oh, I just the clock also is in East Overy here, and and uh it's also but 25 seconds slow.
So it it fits here that I've gone way over time.
We'll be back and continue here in just a second.
We'll be back and continue here in just a second.
And we are back.
By the way, for those of you uh ditto cameras out there, I do not have control over the switch.
So if something is seen or isn't seen, it's my fault.
If you see me doing something you've never seen before, uh and you think I 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 um, you know, uh 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 uh losing gracefully.
And just contrast that with uh with Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, eh, 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.
Uh 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 uh from the bench.
Here's another portion of what uh Kasich had to say.
It requires me to take a deep breath, you know, and uh 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, um, 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 the chance for me to catch my breath and uh try to gather my thoughts together as to um what we do next.
I think he's beating himself up here.
I don't uh this is uh not his fault that there's a matter of being outspent three to one.
I I really hope he doesn't believe all this.
That he I mean the unions have spoken.
But uh 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.
I can't really all right.
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