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Nov. 10, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings, ladies and gentlemen, great to have you here.
This is Rush Lindbaugh.
We are in Los Angeles.
This is the EI.
What is it again?
What's the name of the network?
Jeez, um, well, yeah, I just slipped my mind here for what is the last letter of my, uh, B!
That's it!
You see, EIB network.
Oh, man, how embarrassing was that, folks?
Oh, my gosh, I don't know that I can continue the program.
Nothing went wrong today.
Everything's smooth as silk, but look, I forgot the name of my network.
This is not a slick talker.
And I resent the fact that radio stardom is dependent on being a, you know, got to be good at it.
I got to be good at.
Let's see.
What was I going to say?
Debate Society.
Yeah.
Anyway, how are you, folks?
I hope everything is fine and dandy.
It certainly is here.
And I'm a little disappointed.
I realize that started the program yesterday, a fit of rage, unlike I have experienced on previous broadcasts in a long, long time.
I'm not feeling a fit of rage, anything of the sort, but we got lots of good stuff here today.
We had a republic.
Hmm?
What?
No, no, no.
I don't.
No, no, no.
Don't, don't, don't screw anything up on being asked by helpful staff, highly overrated staff, if they want me to have them screw up, if I would like for them to screw up.
No.
Look, it's going to happen anyway.
Don't try it.
Just let it happen naturally because it does every day.
Just I never tell people when you screw up.
I always take it on myself.
Anyway, here's the telephone number.
It's 800-282-2882.
The email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Perry?
Can he survive?
Yeah, he's still alive.
He's breathing today, and he's laughing about it.
I checked my email on this, and it's running the gamut, but there are, if you can believe it, and of course I do because I received it.
And people thinking, you know, it makes him look more human.
Everybody who is a rank amateur has those moments of fright.
You're up there speaking to a group, large or small, and you have a brain freeze.
It happens to everybody.
But I'll tell you, hey, you guys sound like you're 15 feet away from the microphone.
Yeah, it does.
It happens to me all the time.
It's just when it happens to me, nobody knows it because I start talking about something else.
I don't stand there.
And even when doing this program, if I forget what I'm talking about, you likely will never know it.
You might think that I've lost my place somewhere and I forgot to finish what I was talking about, but I just move on to something else.
But look, see, I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist and communicator.
And this is an important point.
Perry, that's not what he does.
He's a governor.
He's an executive.
It is the, I'm not excusing him here or trying to make excuses, but we live in a television age and it is what it is.
Some people say sadly, some it's undeniable, but this is how we judge people who seek high orifice and other positions of powers.
How do they look on TV?
How do they behave on TV?
We'd rather get comfortable with a TV personality of them than know who they really are.
If you look at Perry, he's obviously a damn good governor.
The people of Texas love what he does as governor.
He wins re-election after re-election.
But he doesn't come across on television particularly.
Something about people coming out of Texas is this deer in the headlight thing when they show up on television.
So that happens a lot to people in Texas.
And not everybody from Texas, don't get mad at me down there.
But it just does.
I think the reaction people are having is makes him look human.
Others are saying, ah, it's over.
And what I find fascinating, the news media is treating Rick Perry's memory lapse just laughable.
This is the most serious breach.
Why you would have thought somebody actually put 2,000 guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartel people and ended up killing U.S. border agents.
That's how mad the media is over this.
And you would have thought that the Attorney General of the United States, in a hearing on this program called Fast and Furious, had nonchalantly, cavalierly said, no, I've not apologized to the family.
You know, excrement happens.
You would have thought that happened, but the media is just laughable how they are treating Perry's memory lapse.
And even some of the people who are supposed to be on our side.
Oh, and by the way, I've done some deep digging.
There are some things that I thought that I had the answers to, and I do, but it goes even further than I was aware of what's motivating establishment Republicans to be so anti-conservative.
And I should have thought of it.
It's one of these things that should have occurred to me.
It didn't occur to me to talk to a particular person about this.
Now it makes total sense.
And essentially, there are a bunch of people who are still ticked off that Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell got the nominations or won primaries and ran for the Senate.
And they're still ticked off that conservatives or Republicans supported them.
And they were out there saying, okay, you think you know how to do it?
Fine.
You go get them elected.
I'm telling you, they can't win.
None of them can.
Instead of getting behind them and trying to help.
And the reason that there is now a never-ending refrain of criticism of conservatism is from people who still have or still harbor an anger over Angle and Christine O'Donnell.
And they're still in an I Told You So mode.
And they're still trying to get even.
And they're still trying to say, see, you guys aren't the experts.
You don't know what you're doing.
We warned you about this.
Now, they're not saying this.
This is what's motivating them.
It's in their it is in their bloodstream, if you will.
Sort of like an egomaniacal need to prove that they were right about Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle and establish themselves as the experts again in an I Told You So way.
One of the many reasons that there is criticism of conservatives from the Republican establishment.
Hey, Rick Perry, as I was saying, a classic example here.
You probably think I forgot where I was going.
But because I'm scatter-brained here, all of no, I haven't forgotten a thing.
I'm just streaming consciousness broadcasting today.
Whatever comes to my mind, it's like my brother does that.
My brother has the most amazing ability to, whatever he's thinking, he'll tell you he's constipated.
He'll tell you he's constipated and asked you if you are.
And doesn't it feel horrible?
Well, I don't go that far with my stream of consciousness, but I do it sometimes, and I'm doing it now.
This business with the Republican establishment, people supposed to be on our side are just ripping into Perry because they want him gone.
They want him out of there.
They don't think he can win.
And they're the experts.
They told us about Sharon Engel and they told us about Christine O'Donnell.
And Perry can't win.
Get him out of there.
And any opportunity they have to say that, make that point, they're taking it.
And this brain freeze last night is an opportunity.
The New York Times article on this cited more Republican strategists than the Times has ever cited since the glory days of Watergate.
They went out, they found every Republican strategist they can find, maybe even made some up to pile onto Rick Perry here.
One of them said, It was a political death knell that happened to Rick Perry.
There's just no recovering from a moment like that.
And then on CNN this morning, another expert said that it's impossible to believe how Perry survives this.
Perry forgot the name of a government a bureaucracy he wants to eliminate for crying out loud.
That's a crime.
I didn't have sex with that woman not a single time ever.
And I'm going to lie about that all the way up to Grand Jury.
And I'm going to be the biggest political star the Democrat Party's ever had.
Rick Perry, scum.
He forgot the name of a federal bureaucracy.
He did.
He out of there.
He has no chance.
This is how we eat our own.
And they eat, no, never mind.
They elevate theirs.
I bet you he has recited the name of that bureaucracy hundreds of times.
Just had a brain freeze.
Doesn't mean that his IQ dropped 30 points at that moment.
Doesn't mean that his IQ dropped at all.
But we're being told now, and even from people on our side, to disqualify him from being president.
I just, it's a little bit over the top.
I remember, Cookie, see if you can find this.
I just remembered this.
See if you can find this in our wonderful archive you created of audio soundbites.
I think I happen to remember Obama was being asked, talked to, or interviewed by Bob Schieffer of CBS, the Anti-Smoking Crusader, during a presidential debate in 2008.
What federal programs he would cut.
And Obama talked and talked, and he insisted he would cut programs, but he didn't.
And I remember talking about this.
He didn't name a single place or thing or program.
He didn't name a single, but he goes on and on and on in that debate.
I'm going to cut.
Of course we're going to cut.
Nobody better cutting than I could.
He didn't name anything, but he was going to cut.
And then Schieffer asked McCain the same question.
And McCain gave specifics.
Not nearly enough to please Schieffer, though.
Obama zilch zero nata specifics.
McCain gave all kinds of them, but Schieffer thought that McCain had botched it.
Then Obama got a chance to speak for a few more minutes, and he did not name a single program.
He would cut the second opportunity he had to talk about it.
But I don't remember Bob Schieffer, but I know Bob Schieffer, the rest of the media, did not say anything about Obama's lapse.
He couldn't think of one.
At least Perry got two out of three.
But Obama couldn't think of one.
They didn't seem to notice that he couldn't name a single program.
And the media, folks, I don't know if you've probably noticed this too.
The media practically beside itself that Herman Cain is still breathing.
They were hoping that Herman Cain would get waterboarded last night.
You know what?
Gary, if next week, if Herman Kane is still viable next week, I'm just going to make up a hypothetical here.
He's still viable next week.
The Democrats are going to be so ticked off, somebody's going to go burn a cross in his front yard in Atlanta, and the media is going to call it an early holiday display.
I've got to take a break, folks, but as you can tell, we are just getting warmed up.
Speaking of stupidity, you know what I remember during the break out there, folks?
Remember during the 2004 presidential campaign, it's hard to believe it's seven years ago, but CBS had a sit-down interview with John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
And he couldn't get it right.
They gave him how many takes to get it.
Remember, we've got the tape, and we had it.
They shot it over and over again.
He couldn't get his answer right, so they gave him three or four opportunities.
Yeah, like Clinton got on the Jennifer Flowers thing.
Exactly right.
It's up at rushlimbaugh.com.
It's in its archives.
I just keep remembering all of these examples that Democrats cover for their own stupidity or what a media and so forth.
Just helps to go back and remind people these things.
So Herman Kane, still breathing, still alive, didn't get waterboarded in the debate last night.
The audience, every time the questions strayed away from the sexual harassment charges, the audience loved it.
And Reuters has a story with the headline: Kane Escaped Serious Damage in Republican debate.
However, they did point out that Herman Cain called Nancy Pelosi Princess Nancy as evidence that he's a sexual predator.
I kid you not.
And then Herman, I don't know why he did this, but he apologized for it this morning.
But I don't know how do you get that he's a sexual predator because he called her princess.
If anything, he got a question his judgment.
To call her princess anything, that's the first time I've questioned his judgment in a while here.
I remember some of the nasty things Nancy Pelosi came out of her mouth over the years and with never an apology.
I think the audience a big winner in the debate last night.
They booed every question about Kane's sexual harassment allegations.
They cheered when the moderators reluctantly returned to political issues.
But you know what was the biggest disaster of the debate last night?
Do you watch it?
Do you watch it?
They didn't figure it, didn't figure it.
Do you watch it, Sturdley?
What was the biggest disaster?
What do you think was the biggest disaster of the night?
It was not Rick Perry.
No, no, not even close.
The biggest disaster with Jim Kramer.
I couldn't believe they used the guy.
I figured last night some zoo was looking for an inmate that escaped.
How he got out of his cage, I don't know that we will ever find out.
I hope they fix that quick.
I mean, I'm not a veterinarian, but I would maybe a tranquilizer dart or something would help Jim Kramer.
I know he's always like that.
That's the point.
He's always like that.
It would help before the rabies shot.
The tranquilizer dart.
That way he could be safely returned to his cage and be ready to go for the next show, whatever that is.
At any rate, no, no, no, Herman Kane would not have said Princess Barney.
Don't even get me to go there.
He said Princess Nancy.
Folks, we have, I got a major success story to share with you here today.
I'm holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a printed copy of a New York Times story today.
Right, here it is.
Kane's lawyer on accusing.
Think twice.
This is my old buddy Jim Rutenberg.
L. Lynn Wood, a lawyer hired by the lawyer hired by the Republican presidential candidate Herman Kane to fend off sexual harassment allegations, has warned that any other woman who might be considering coming forward should think twice.
Move forward a couple sentences, and then it says hours later, Rush Limbaugh seized on that report to argue that Ms. Crash Hour has a pattern of whining.
And then, when another accuser, Sharon Bialik, whose last name Mr. Limbaugh pronounces as By-uh-Lick, we did it, folks.
It's in the New York Times.
It is.
It's like getting blamed for the Magic Negro thing all over again.
It's right there.
It's a third paragraph of the story.
Another accuser, Sharon Bialik, whose last name Mr. Limbaugh has pronounced as Bi-B-U-Y-A-Lick.
Yes!
Appeared Wednesday on MSNBC.
She faced fresh inquiries about her troubled financial history.
Ms. Crash Hour told friends they're beginning to worry that all the scrutiny might keep the other women from appearing publicly with her.
I did ask yesterday, what's the big deal with the panel here?
Do they want to synchronize their menstrual periods?
Why appear together?
What does it give added weight?
And I think I get mentioned a couple more times in the story.
And by the way, that, again, is how we all heard Gloria Allred pronounce her name, Sharon Biolick.
Simple as that.
Hey, we're back.
Great to have you with us.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Gloria Allred apparently was on MSNBC, and they asked her why in the world did Herman Kane go out and hire a high-powered lawyer?
She said, probably to scare these women.
Yeah?
The real question is, why did Biolik hire Gloria Allred if she's not going to sue?
And she said she's not going to sue, right?
Well, why would Biolik do that?
And who is paying Gloria Allred?
Biolik, I don't think, has the wherewithal.
I think Biolik has the finances to do this.
Anyway, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Oh, but wait, unemployment.
Folks got to unemployment going gaga out there.
The drive-bys, tongues are down on the floor.
Economy coming back.
Can't wait to get that number under 9%.
Get that magic 8 point, doesn't matter, whatever else.
Unemployment.
The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell to the lowest level since April, which suggests, this is a news story by, well, it doesn't say who wrote it.
Probably this Rue Gaber guy, which suggests that employers could be, it's two vague possibilities, which suggests.
We're going to get excited there.
Employers could be.
No, no, yes, wait for it.
Stepping up hiring.
There it is.
It could be that it maybe, might be is happening.
The labor department says applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a seasonally adjusted 390,000, the third decline in four weeks.
But, ladies and gentlemen, there is something unreported.
Once again, it turns out that last week's numbers were quietly revised up.
Last week's numbers were 397,000.
Again, people are going, and we had reports could be, might be, suggesting the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week was, don't tell me, 400,000.
It revised it up by 3,000.
So it wasn't 397,000.
So it's 390,000 today, and it will be revised upward next week.
Well, it's got to be $150,000 a week to start reducing unemployment in a significant, meaningful way.
Now, the regime just wants that number to have eight in it.
The first number to be eight.
8.9, because once they get that, and the media they know is going to report it, is the unemployment rate finally dropped down to 8% today.
The labor department suggests that it could be happening out.
8.9 is going to be 8%.
8.4% will become 7% if that all transpires prior to the election.
Here is last week, just to show you, fewer people seek unemployment benefits, a hopeful sign for struggling job market.
Labor Department said Thursday weekly applications dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 397,000.
But it turns out, like they always are, the numbers are revised upward, and it was 400,000 last week at the end of all of the calculations.
Despite proof now, despite evidence that global warming is a political issue, not a science issue, and that the science aspect of it is fraudulent and is a hoax.
I have a story here from the French news agency.
The world has five years now to avoid severe warming.
That's from the International Energy Agency.
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events.
Now, the IEA, don't confuse it with the IAEA.
That's the bunch have been telling us for years that the Iranians are not working on a nuke.
So things are reversible now, but they won't be five years from now.
Five years from now, we're toast.
The LA Times said it.
So what and others have said that there's no warming.
It's all over the place here.
But they won't let this die.
It's a political issue.
And it's an international left-wing hoax.
This whole notion of man-made global warming climate change.
From North Carolina, Duke Energy.
And I must tell you at the outset here, I love telling you this.
I love passing this news on to you.
Duke Energy is asking customers who own their electric car charging station to stop using it after a house fire in Mooresville last month.
Duke, did you electric car buyers ever stop to think about this?
You know, as scared of life as the left is, so they're going to have these charging stations.
That's electricity constantly on and running.
And somebody's house is going to catch fire.
And then the left is going to shut down because they just, that's what they do.
So here it's already had one house fire and Duke Energy is telling everybody with a car charging station to shut it down.
How many people are we talking about here?
This is the second thing I love reporting to you about.
We're talking about the state of North Carolina here, folks.
Duke Energy sent an email to about 125 customers.
In the Carolinas and Indiana, two states who currently participate in the plug-in electric vehicle pilots and have the same type of charging station installed at their homes to stop using it.
Yes, I have a smug look on my face.
I have an I told you so happy look on my face.
Investigators have not determined if the electric car charger was the source of the fire.
Doesn't matter.
They're still going to shut them down.
The product has been the center of the investigation, nevertheless.
The email from Duke Energy goes on to explain that Duke Energy has no direct reason to believe that the charging station was the reason for the fire, but out of caution and a fear of lawyers.
Oh, I added that.
That doesn't appear here, but believe me, it's valid.
Customers should not use the charging station until they receive additional information from the investigation.
You know how long these investigations take?
So how long is it going to be before you sucker electric car owners can charge the things?
The fire happened last month.
They're just now getting around here to thinking about the safety of all the charging units.
Fire happened last month, caused $800,000 worth of damage to the home.
Two people suffered minor injuries after they helped one of the residents in the home to safety.
Okay?
I hope these people don't have to go anywhere anytime soon.
What are they going to have to go out and go buy a gasoline-powered car?
Can you imagine the humiliation, the embarrassment around town?
I mean, you probably well know if we wear a ribbon, you do something, tell everybody you care more than they do.
You went out and bought an electric car.
You probably got your charging station is the most decorated thing in your house, so people will notice it.
And all of a sudden, you get a letter from the power company that says you can't use it.
Now, what do you do?
You still, you got to go to the grocery store.
Do you dare humiliate yourself and show up in a gasoline-powered vehicle with a whole town laughing at you?
You know, this is how they're thinking about it.
So, what do they do?
Call cabs?
Take the Hoof Express.
And then a companion story.
From the National Legal and Policy Center.
This is so bad, and I have such compassion.
I am not going to mention the brand name because that's not the point here.
On Monday, the National Legal and Policy Center's Mark Modica smartly called into question Consumer Report's sudden change in opinion about the electric hybrid Bleep Bleep from a vehicle they once believed doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to one that the publication recommends.
The next day, however, Consumer Reports delivered an online review of the major all-electric vehicle on the U.S. market, the Bleep Bleep.
And while not intended to be scathing, the account given by reviewer Lisa Barth or Liza Barth makes the car sound so unappealing that she should have panned it.
What we have here, it's funny, a Consumer Reports reporter it tests drove an electric car.
She tries not to, but she totally rips it to shreds.
She's a good liberal, she's a good reporter.
She knows that these cars are going to save the planet, and she knows that everybody ought to be driving one, and she knows that we all must pay for the damage that we have done by driving our SUVs.
So she drives one of these things around and hates it and realizes that it is a piece of junk and says so, but then says it's not that bad.
And you say, still buy one.
Yes, sir, read Bob.
For example, total anxiety.
She writes about total anxiety the whole time the charge will that be enough.
And she's right.
The charge actually lasts, depending on your speed, a length of time, not a distance.
She can't use the heater and get where she's going non-stop.
And she writes about, but she still says a fine, fine car.
Consumer Reports recommends it.
And then after, I'm not, no, no, after all of that, shortly after the magazine comes out and gives it their recommendation, she writes this story.
Here, I'll give you an example.
Despite the deep flaws and shortcomings, I'm reading from Liza Barth.
Despite the deep flaws and shortcomings, Consumer Report could bring it, couldn't bring itself to outright ridicule the bleep.
This is the vehicle taxpayers are backing with a $1.4 billion loan to Bleep, Bleep, Bleep to retrofit a bleep plant for the mass production of the Bleep Company's Bleep.
Likewise, the Department of Energy, besides the billions in public money it pours into battery storage, research and subsidizing renewable energy companies for failed wind and solar technologies, has dumped millions of dollars into the rollout of chargers for the bleeps.
The investment looks even more wasteful as the automakers are split on the technology that should be used in the future for the bleep chargers.
Another quote: there is also no market need for an electric car with an annoying high-pitched whine, recharging stations mostly out of the car's reach and minimal passenger room.
But that hasn't stopped Nissan.
Oh, damn it.
Oh, no.
I didn't mean to mention the brand name.
That hasn't stopped Bleep from making it, nor has it stopped the government from forcing taxpayers to finance its mass production.
She pans the thing.
She talks about how she's in paranoid panic, that she's not going to be able to get where she's going and use the heater because the charge isn't going to last long enough.
And all this after-consumer reports recommends the car.
It's just, say, this day made the order for me.
It just made to order for El Rushmo.
And we're back.
Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
All right, let's see.
Let's grab a phone call.
I want to start in Mobile, Alabama.
This is Mike.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Megan, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
The point I was going to try to make was I have the same problem Rick Perry did last night and deciding out of all the many agencies, which are the top three that need to be shut down first.
Well, but he has a list of three, and he had a brain freeze on the third one.
He wasn't trying to think of any three.
I understand that.
It's just that when you're in a debate like that, your mind is thinking 1,000 miles per hour, and it's easy to get.
Well, I don't know about that in his case, but you're still going like a bat out of hell, there's no question.
And you do give people, your reaction is the same, and a lot of people are having.
And it makes him human.
We all do this.
I mean, that's basically what you're saying.
It's happened to you.
Some would say it's happening to you now on this call.
That's true.
And it tends to humanize him.
Well, I'm happy to see that he didn't have trouble listing the 57 states.
Exactly.
Yeah, and they zoomed past that one.
And that's just one of Obama's many gaffes.
And let's not even go there when discussing Joe Bite Me.
To a guy in a wheelchair.
Hey, Chuck, stand up.
I love him.
Oh, God.
Love you.
Oh, God, what happened?
And let's all stand up for Chuck.
That's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
Here is Sandy, Mount Vernon, Ohio.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you.
How are you, Rush?
Well, very well.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Right.
Wanted to thank you for being there on a daily basis and helping us to teaching us to think for ourselves.
Appreciate your saying that.
I really do.
The last point I wanted to make was similar to your last caller in that we have somebody in office now who the media thinks is supposed to be so eloquent, and yet he can't speak without a prompter.
That's right.
Somebody else writes those speeches for us.
But he is smart.
It doesn't matter.
It's just even when he's fumbling around in vain search of a thought, they think he sounds Ivy League educated smart.
He doesn't have a weird accent like Sarah Palin, and he doesn't sound like a, you know, a good old boy from Texas and the duck blind, like Rick Perry does.
Exactly.
It's all this phony baloney surface stuff.
I mean, how much more ridiculous can it get when you have a conservative, quasi-so-called conservative columns, New York Times, proclaiming him qualified to be president because of the crease in his pants?
Yeah, well, we don't know that he's qualified.
We didn't vet him enough.
No.
Well, that was my point.
It's just irritating to see them tear people apart who they probably couldn't hold up under the same pressure, and yet the man they were.
You know, that's the thing.
The media, most of them are so thin-skinned, they couldn't take one investigative report into their lives.
And they would fight it, and they would oppose it.
That's not, you can't look into my lives.
I'm not just a reporter.
I don't matter.
Who I am is irrelevant.
My 15 abortions and convictions are not relevant to my credibility as a reporter.
I look into the lives of other people.
You can't look at it.
That's how they view their own lives.
Okay, 10 abortions.
15 was excessive.
I'm sorry. I have it.
We've got the audio.
I don't have time to play it for you now.
We'll do it in the second, or the segment, opening segment next hour, of Obama, the October 15, 2008 presidential debate with McCain unable to name a specific agency he would cut after promising and claiming he would make all kinds of cuts.
And then McCain listing things he would cut.
And Schieffer harping all over McCain.
I have that coming up for you, plus more of your phone calls.
And we will dig into the audio soundbite roster.
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