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Nov. 11, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Wowie Zowie, fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe we're already starting the third hour, and it's Friday to do live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
Where you get to determine what it is that is discussed when we go to the phones.
That's an awesome amount of power that I grant.
Callers lovable rank amateurs on open line Friday.
Whatever you want to talk about.
I don't have to care about it on Friday.
That is a rule Monday through Thursday.
Friday, we waive all that, and the content of the program is all up to you when we go to the phones, which we try to do more often on Friday.
By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I've finally convinced me to talk about this.
I'm doing a rare rush to excellence appearance in Manhattan on the 29th, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
And I'm doing it at uh Town Hall Theater in Midtown Manhattan, it's West 43rd Street near Times Square.
It's at 7.30.
There are precious few seats available.
Uh and they are available at WABC Radio.com or Ticketmaster.
And uh the C are the most expensive seats gone.
Yeah, they're gone.
I didn't know until just now what the ticket prices are.
Um, I don't have to pay to get in, but I wouldn't be surprised if they asked me to.
Uh oh, oh, I see that the the the Stub Hub and eBay and Craigslist to get the aftermarket tickets.
Oh, okay.
So that's happening.
The scalpers, you mean.
400, 500.
Oh, okay.
So that's where the scalpers have now gotten in there, and some of the most expensive seats available are at four and five hundred bucks because the scalpers picked up a whole bunch of them.
And so that's so there's precious few.
That's that's what this is all about.
Okay.
Okay, because it, yeah, it it what it's sold out, and then all of a sudden tickets became available, and that's because these StubHub guys and uh the uh aftermarket guys had picked up their share for resale.
That's any hit Broadway show.
That's what it is.
The legal scalpers.
I'm not using the term scalpers in the literal sense.
Brokers is what we're talking about here, right?
So it's Tuesday, November 29th.
Uh as you these are the things I hate doing.
I've been very open and honest about it, but uh I do a couple of them a year, and they're always uh in association with our fine great EIB radio affiliates.
So 7.30 on Tuesday 29th at Town Hall Theater, Midtown Manhattan, West 43rd Street, near Times Square.
The original ticket prices are 55 and 88, and now the brokers.
Stubhub, eBay, and Craigslist, the aftermarket tickets.
So if you if you missed the original uh what was it, two days and they were practically gone, so now but I've been asked to mention that uh uh by the brokers, apparently, so I'm just just kidding.
So I'm now that I've mentioned it that that's probably gone already, but I sold out by now, but uh give it a shot.
WABC.com.
W W ABC Radio.com.
For uh and that that's gonna uh that's the only one this year, right?
Because I successfully wormed out of the three or four others that begged me.
But this one uh for some reason I caved.
So it's uh Tuesday the 29th, uh the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
We're talking about the SEIU moments ago.
They are the union behind the push for school dinner.
Now, nobody knows that.
The as far as the media is concerned, the push for school dinner is based on The fact that it's the only nice thing that we get starving kids, kids can't survive with just a snack from two o'clock until dinner.
So the schools have to come in here and do something.
We didn't, we just, as a culture as a society, we just can't have starving children.
Not right.
But it's the union behind it.
More jobs, cafeteria workers, so forth and so on, more union dues.
Now, in light of that, the story here at Washington Examiner.
If you are a parent, and then this is amazing story, the stuff in this story.
This story is about the tentacles of union dues, the way the tentacles of union dues can stretch into the federal government in an unstoppable quest to collect money for an agenda.
If you are a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the state of Michigan to help support your mentally disabled adult children, you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union.
They, if you're a parent, if you're not a member of a union, stick with me on this.
This was part of the discussion we were all having with the uh elections about union tensions, salaries, and so forth in the state of Michigan to Governor Walker.
If you are a parent, and you have a mentally disturbed adult child, and thus you accept Medicaid payments, you are now, whether you want to be or not, a state employee for the purposes of the SEIU, and they, the union, can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues.
Does this make is this understandable?
I mean, it sounds so incredible.
It's not complicated.
It just sounds unbelievable.
You are parent Joe Schmo.
And your wife Molly Schmo.
And you have a disabled, mentally disabled adult child, and so you accept Medicaid payment.
Guess what?
You're now a member of the SEIU.
You have no choice.
And a portion of what Medicaid gives you to care for your child now gets thrown back to SEIU in the form of union dues.
And that money then ends up back in the traditional money laundering operation of the Democrat Party.
Robert and Patricia Haynes live in Michigan with their two adult children who have cerebral palsy.
The state government provides the family with insurance through Medicaid, but also treats them as caregivers.
For the SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, that makes them public employees.
And thus they are the members of the union.
Which receives $30 out of the family's monthly Medicaid subsidy.
That's what is deducted from your Medicare payment and given to the SEIU as your union due.
The Michigan Quality Community Care Council, MQC3, deducts union dues on behalf of the SEIU.
Michigan Department of Community Health Director Olga Dazzo explained the process to her members of her staff.
She said, MQC3 basically runs the program for SEIU and passes the union dues from the state to the union.
She wrote that in an email obtained by the Mackinac Center, initiated in 2006 under then Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat.
The plan reportedly provides the SEIU with six million dollars annually in union dues deducted from those Medicaid subsidies or payments.
Robert Haynes, a retired Detroit police officer, told the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, we're not even home health care workers.
We're just parents taking care of our kids.
Our daughter's 34, our sons 30, they have cerebral palsy.
They're basically like six-month-old in adult bodies.
They need to be fed.
They wear diapers.
we could sure use that $30 a month as being sent to the Union.
According to the Mackinac Center, the theoretical public employer for whom the Haynes work is the Michigan Quality Community Care Council, MQC3, which is an entity within the DCH.
And that continues to operate, even though the state legislature has defunded it.
Even the MQC3 calls the families hiring in-home health care providers.
Mr. and Ms. Haynes, of course, are both the parents, the employer, and the health care providers for their children, but they still lose money to the SEIU every month, despite having no interest in joining the union.
They have been arbitrarily classified as state employees.
I remember warning people this was on the agenda, this was coming down the pike, heading down the tracks, and now it's happened.
And it's just been instituted or applied.
You can't opt out.
You automatically become a member of the SEIU without a vote, even.
There's no card check here.
If you if you take Medicaid, federal money, state money, government money, you take it for a mentally disabled child.
30 bucks of it every month, siphoned off as union dues.
Because you're now a member of SEIU.
And that total in Michigan, what they collect, is uh six million dollars.
I don't know if that's just Michigan or if it's more states than uh than that.
And as I said, let me repeat this.
The arrangement began in 2006 under Grandholm.
Reportedly provides SEIU with an annual haul of six million dollars for their union coffers, which are then used to elect Democrats who are more than willing to return the favors.
Just Michigan, it's it's the what has been going on for years right in front of our faces.
We just haven't characterized it properly, but we do now.
Money laundering.
It's how the unions get money and then give a portion of it back to the federal government, Democrats for their continued reelection.
This is pretty brazen, folks, but it's happening, and it won't stop in the state of Michigan until people get active and stop it somehow.
It's going to require legislation, obviously.
And that's going to cause more fights, just like happened in uh in Michigan and in Ohio this week.
I gotta take a brief time out.
We'll do it open line Friday resumes shortly.
This is exactly what I have been talking about all week.
How we are so wound up tight, and how everybody on the left is walking around in a fog believing lies to be real, believing false reality.
This is this is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Yesterday, Herman Cain's out somewhere, and he's on the campaign trail, and a supporter said, Hey, Anita Hill called.
And Herman Cain, and this is all spontaneous, he's having fun with his supporters, said, Oh, is she endorsing me?
Everybody laughed, and there's a full column in the Washington Post today by Jonathan Cape Hart talking about how inappropriate, how tone-deaf, how utterly horrible Herman Cain is.
It's a joke.
They think Anita Hill was telling the exact truth, and she wasn't.
They believe that the whole thing.
They believe all these lies that they concoct.
And then they think it's just outrageous to mock anything that they believe to be true.
They can mock anything.
They can make fun of in the most disgusting ways.
And it's art or it's creativity, or it's great comedy writing or whatever.
But you go, that's why I get in so much trouble with these people.
You run around and you make fun of their precious family jewels, and it is like you have sinned against their God.
You have sinned against the state.
Herman Cain's out there and explain.
Say, yeah, we walked into this room and somebody said uh one of my supporters at Anita Hill was trying to contact you.
And uh my response was she going to endorse me?
He said it in a humorous way.
I gave a humorous response.
It's no way intended to be an insult to Anita Hill or anybody else.
He's in the middle of a sexual harassment claim.
And it's they've gone nowhere.
They can't come up with one thing Herman Kane did.
Krakower can't get the other three babes to join the panel.
Oh!
Where is it?
And there's this from uh our affiliate in Chicago WLS, a Northwest Suburban Man says he needs to clear the air after coming to the support of his fiance, who accuses Republican presidential candidate Herman Kane of making a sexual play for her.
For starters, Sharon Bialick isn't his fiance, said Mark Harwood in an exclusive interview on Wednesday night.
We were engaged last year in June, but I think there've been some assumption here that Sharon still lives here with me.
Sharon and her son moved out in February this year.
They live in their own home, so effectively we're no longer engaged.
Oh no.
Biolick's fiancee has now fled the scene.
Oh, the shame, the sadness, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh no.
Oh, how devastating.
Biolik is alone now.
And available.
Yes, I hadn't looked at it that way, but that's obviously true.
She's available.
So he's lost her boyfriend now.
But this guy, and he's he allowed himself to be pictured in the story as the fiance, and all of a sudden he says, no, no, no.
Not since February.
A lot of there's a lot of assuming going on here.
So that's right.
By a lick is now available and without a fiance.
And Jonathan K. Partner left can't believe Herman Cain.
All he did was ask his question.
Hey, Anita Hill is trying to get.
I think it's funny if some supporters say, hey, Anita Hill's trying to get hold of you.
What's she gonna do?
Endorse me.
It's funny.
That's another reason why the left hates it.
Is because it's funny.
Who's next?
Is we go to Kate in Houston.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rash.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, I was fired a couple of months ago, and for the first time in my life, I went on unemployment, and I'm using the unemployment money to start a business.
And I wanted to know if you have any business advice for me.
Well, what's the business?
It's um litigation support and legal PR.
Litigation support.
Would you tell me what that is?
Um basically making exhibits, courtroom exhibits, and things of that nature to help convince juries of my client's innocence.
Litigation support and legal PR.
So you you basically are going to work, you'll work with people both sides, prosecutor and defense.
I'm only gonna do defense.
Always gonna work with a defense.
Okay, so you're always working with the guilty.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just I'm just I'm just no, that's what everybody thinks.
I'm making a joke.
Um that's what everybody thinks.
Uh, let's see.
What is the biggest problem that you're heading?
I got 10 seconds here.
You'll I'm gonna hold you to the break.
What's the biggest problem you're having?
Well, how do I get clients?
No, it's advertising.
That's it.
Okay.
Uh hey, sit tight.
Uh, you you need a Conrad Murray kind of case.
That's what you need to find.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away, Kate.
You know, this is really I just got a note from uh from a friend.
This is this is really it.
The media is going up.
There's actually a there's a page up there, video of Herman Cain caught discussing Anita Hill, as though some big crime has been discovered here, created.
Herman Cain caught.
Making fun of Anita Hill.
They're going nuts at the Washington Post every place.
And this is what it is.
He has laughed at them.
And they can't handle it.
Herman Cain, what he's done here with this little little line.
Hey, we hear Anita Hill's gonna call you.
He says, What?
She's gonna endorse me.
The reason K. Hart and the left is all upset is because Herman Cain with humor and lightheartedness and good cheer has just shined the light on all the lies that liberals don't want people to know.
It's important that the legacy, the legend of Anita Hill, survive as a victim of Clarence Thomas.
No matter what.
Okay, back to Kate.
Back to Kate in Houston.
Kate, let me see if I understand here.
You started a business.
It's relatively new.
Uh litigation uh services in PR.
Correct.
And you are going to work with the defense in helping them make their case in the construction of exhibits and so forth and so on, right?
Right.
And also um legal corporate legal departments, like whenever there's a product recall or something, and their stock price is in danger of suffering from and your your business is new, and you said that the biggest problem that you've got is simply having people know you exist, correct?
Right.
How do we let people know?
Okay, now two things.
Um that costs a lot of money, so you're already demonstrating your aptitude and brilliance by calling here and getting it for free.
Call here and you're asking me, and you know I'm a nice guy, and you know that I probably have every solution for you, and I'm just gonna tell you what it is at no charge, which I am going to do.
There are two things that you can do.
Do you love this business first?
I must do you love this.
Yes.
Okay.
Like crazy.
You have you have two golden opportunities right in front of you.
Okay.
One is, and I'm not joking.
Move to State College, Pennsylvania, where all this Penn State stuff is going on.
There is going to be a bunch of business opportunities for people who do what you do.
Consider that consider that.
Secondly, this is the greater opportunity you have.
You don't have a track record yet because your business is new.
But here's what you can do.
There are high profile cases every day that are discussed in the media that people follow, and there are cases you can find probably that you would love to be part of that are not high profile and not in the media.
But you, Kate, can set up a website for your business.
And what I if I were doing what you would do, try to drum up business myself, I would start explaining.
I'd I'd I do exhibits on the website.
I would make available to lawyers, defense lawyers, what you could do for them by actually giving your ideas away for a while just to establish them.
It sometimes I I remember when I first started this network, this program, I gave free advertising out the Wazoo to demonstrate that it worked.
You start a website.
Let's look at the Herman, not that the uh at the at the Conrad Murray case.
Just as it's over.
Right.
You could use that, and you could do what you would have done differently, what you would have done for the defense.
They lost the case.
What could they have done to want it?
You put it up on a website with whatever you would have done in whatever area of expertise this this business of yours is.
You put it up, this is what would should have happened.
This is this would have secured or done a lot.
Maybe you can't guarantee that.
You get this would have gone a lot farther to getting a a an acquittal.
You don't do it to insult the lawyers that lost the case, but you've got you've got a gold mine of lost cases in this country every day where you could explain the case on your website, show what happened, how the defense tried it, why they made a mistake, or what they did wrong, and what you your services could have done to perhaps secure the acquittal.
I love that.
I knew you would.
I love it.
You're brilliant.
I know.
I know.
Uh everywhere but home.
Okay, one more question.
All right.
So, and I'm not I'm not joking about the state college.
Uh there are gonna be a lot of litigation work there.
Well, I'll certainly send letters because I don't want to live in Pennsylvania, but I'll send letters.
Um, yeah, you with you may not have to live there, but you you you you might want to go, you know, get yourself established there as as on the ground that that you you you're gonna you're not gonna get hired from afar.
You're gonna have to uh people have to see you on site.
That's the only way people think you can actually learn what's actually going on there by people.
You may not want to move there because it's not the happy valley right now.
But you might want to consider going there.
I mean it you're you're a startup.
Right.
You're a startup, there's th the things that you're gonna have services you're gonna have to give away at first to show you can do them.
Um you're you you're gonna have to share some of your uh this is tricky, uh but when this website idea I've got you you're you're you're subjecting yourself to uh being copied.
So you can't give it all away.
You have to put just enough up to intrigue people what's left.
What else would you have done that you're not showing them?
So you hold back what you think your diamonds are on each of these cases that you would have perhaps seen an acquittal had your company been involved.
Well, you hold back, you know, the killer idea.
You just give them enough to intrigue them.
Gotcha.
I will do that.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Didn't even offer me a computer.
Pardon?
Nothing.
No, no, no.
I thought you were gone.
I was uh I was just I was just thinking out loud, this thing outlooked.
Kate, thanks very much the call.
Appreciate it.
Okay, and let's see, who's who's next?
Ross.
Uh in his semi butt from stew something.
Hi, Ross.
Where you where are you?
Uh I'm on from Nebraska, Stuart, Nebraska.
Stuart, Nebraska, okay.
And um I was just calling, by the way, Ditto.
Um I usually agree with you almost all the time, but it's focused on that.
If it's if the Democrats like it, it's gotta be, you know, bad, but I just we've been fighting this pipeline teeth and nail, and especially my wife, she's the one that's been doing the majority of it.
And there's there's so many things on the surface, it looks good because I'm I'm a huge capitalist.
I'm all about making money.
But there is so many things involved in this pipeline that you know they don't tell you about.
I mean, one of the biggest things is just this stuff is sludge.
It's not oil.
It's highly corrosive.
And the one thing they have to do there's two things they gotta do just to get it to flow through the pipeline.
And one is they gotta add five chemicals to it.
And five of those those five chemicals are all cancer causing agents.
And the water tables.
No, this is where we live.
Wait a bit.
This is sand oil, right?
Is that this is oil that's if I'm if I'm on the same uh, well, it's tar sand oil.
I don't know if there's a difference between sand oil and tar sand oil.
Uh you know you're you this is exactly I I hate look uh you're an audience member and so forth.
Uh but but you sounding you're sounding like the people that oppose NAFTA, and you and you're s and you sound like the people they were saying the exact same stuff about the Alaska pipeline, that it was gonna have a rot gut poison, all these chemicals, that it really wasn't oil, and they added just gonna kill a caribou, and now there's more caribou that know what to do with up there because the heat has created all kinds of copulation.
I get that, but I don't you know their their tactics that they have been using to obtain this land, I mean they've been they've came in, they've made threats, they've you know, um the workers are showing up at people's houses saying you need to sign this.
They're landowners are being told they're gonna be made an example of, and they've already put one pipeline through Nebraska in eastern Nebraska, about twenty-five miles east of where I grew up as a child, and that pipeline the first year had 14 leaks.
And one of them was made with significant.
Now, that being said, I mean, the soil over in that that part of the state is much heavier.
You know, you're not and the water is much deeper.
You're not sinking right into the water.
And I and I guess I as a rancher, we have to be somewhat of environmentalists because if we don't take care of the ground, you know, that supplies us with the nutrients from the beach and everything, we don't have anything to live on.
Well, you know, there's i if it weren't for pipelines like this, uh the East Coast wouldn't have any oil.
There would it JFK do you realize the jet A fuel pipeline that goes under New York City out the JFK airport?
That probably couldn't be built today.
The environmentalists would that thing goes bad, why got all that jet A as kerosene uh in all those wonderful houses out in Jamaica.
We can't have that.
I you we'd never get anything done.
They these these uh companies have decided that it is not sludge, which is why they want to use it.
They they they use it in Canada.
If it were sludge, they couldn't use it.
There's a market for this.
There are people willing to invest everything they've got to make this thing work out.
I I understand that.
But you know, there are refineries a lot closer, and they sit there and they say that it's that it can be used, that it's all gonna be used in the United States.
Well, if they're if they're gonna ship it, I mean if they're gonna use it in the United States, why would you build a pipeline 1700 miles long when there's refineries a lot closer?
There should be support for reasons.
And I I don't know.
I mean, if you if you go up into Canada where they're where they're mining this or you're what are you worried?
What what is your what is your number one concern with this?
How is this going to change your life?
I am I am afraid of what it will be to the water.
I mean the water, basically.
I mean, the state of Nebraska supplies.
Well, you're afraid what hold it.
You're afraid it's gonna leak, you're afraid it's gonna blow up, it's gonna it's gonna rupture.
I know it will.
There's no I mean, it's just law of averaging.
This the the oil they're using, it's not sweet.
Here's my problem with this.
Here's here's here's here's my my my big problem with this.
The New York Times opposes the pipeline.
They didn't mention any of this.
They only oppose it because of the carbon emissions.
The New York Times didn't mention any of the things that you are talking about.
And believe me, if this if it was guaranteed the pipeline was gonna rupture and the state of Nebraska would end up poisoned, that would be the lead opposition reason of the New York Times.
And uh it is I'll t I'll tell you, let me let me tell you what the real reason here uh is, Ross.
The real reason is February of this year, Reuters reported that Coke Industries were poised to be the big winners in the pipeline.
David and Charles Koch, who I'm gonna tell you right now, I know these men.
I've played golf with one of them.
I've laughed at dinner with them.
I have they're they're they're they are some of the most decent, hard working.
I know their brother Bill, they are some of the finest people you would ever meet.
They work hard each and every day.
And because they are conservative and they they give money to conservative causes like, and they're just one for every ten liberal groups like them.
And because it is said that the coke industry's uh bunch is gonna is gonna benefit from this.
Can't happen.
That's why the left opposes it.
Because coke industry is gonna it's it's absolute pure politics.
And what you're doing is you're you're throwing everything that possible can be can exist up against the wall and hoping something sticks in terms of of uh persuading somebody.
In in May of this year, Congressman uh uh waxman, Nostralitis Waxman, and Bobby Rush wrote a letter to the Energy and Commerce Committee citing the Reuters story, which urged the committee to request documents from Coke Industries which relate to the Keystone Pipeline, is because Coke Industries is involved, which means they're investing in it.
This is pure politics, and you're and you're being persuaded that it's other reasons.
Because there are pipelines like this all over the world, all over the country.
It's not gonna do anything to the water.
The water sources in Nebraska are very deep.
All of this can be overcome because it already has.
This is an easily accomplished thing.
Technology's there.
I gotta go.
I'm glad you called.
You may not think you were, but you were a great caller out there.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
The politico.
Politico went to Anita Hill to get her reaction to the joke.
The politico to get a response from Anita Hill went to the political she the political went to Anita Hill, they're gonna respond to the next time you hear, every time you hear Obama talk about his label like Uh naval like focus on uh jobs and saving, creating jobs and that stuff.
Just remember 20,000 jobs down the tubes uh delaying this pipeline or not approving it.
And the only reason he did that was to keep campaign contributions coming in.
You ranchers in Nebraska.
I'm just gonna tell you something.
If Obama wins reelection, this pipeline's going to be approved after the election.
The only reason he doesn't do it now is because they've upset his base.
The only reason he's really he can't do something good for the country without harming his reelection chances.
Just amazing.
Another exciting edition of Open Line Friday is over.
That's it, folks.
Total La Completa.
Feamy.
No more time.
We uh pack up out of here and uh at some point this afternoon fly to the uh EIV Southern Command where we will be back Monday.
And see you then.
Have a great weekend and thanks so much for being with us all week.
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