All Episodes
Previous Next
Nov. 11, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
32:29
November 11, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Wowie, Zowie, fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe we're already starting the third hour, and it's Friday the 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.
And I grant that 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.
On 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, ladies and gentlemen, it 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 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.
And they are available at wabcradio.com or Ticketmaster.
And the most expensive seats gone?
Yeah, they're gone.
I didn't know until just now what the ticket prices are.
No, I don't have to pay to get in, but I wouldn't be surprised if they asked me to.
Oh, oh, oh, I see.
The StubHub and eBay and Craigslist.
They got 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 $400 and $500 because the scalpers picked up a whole bunch of them.
And so that's, so there's precious few.
That's what this is all about.
Okay.
Okay.
Because it, yeah, it sold out.
And then all of a sudden tickets became available.
And that's because these StubHub guys and the 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.
These are the things I hate doing.
I've been very open and honest about it, but I do a couple of them a year, and they're always in association with our fine, great EIB radio affiliates.
So 7.30 on Tuesday, 29th, the 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 missed the original, what was it, two days, and they were practically gone.
So now.
But I've been asked to mention that by the brokers, apparently.
I'm just kidding.
So now that I've mentioned it, that's probably gone already, but it's all out by now.
But give it a show.
WABC.com, WABCRadio.com.
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, for some reason, I caved.
So it's Tuesday the 29th, Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
We were talking about the SEIU moments ago.
They are the union behind the push for school dinner.
Now, nobody knows that.
As far as the media is concerned, the push for school dinner is based on the fact that it's the only nice thing.
We get starving kids.
Kids can't survive with just a snack from 2 o'clock until dinner.
So the schools have to come in here and do something.
We just, as a culture, as a society, we just can't have starving children.
It's 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 this is amazing story, the stuff in this story.
This story is about the tentacles of union dues, the way the tentacles of union duas 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 that.
This was part of the discussion we were all having with the elections about union pensions, salaries, and so forth in the state of Michigan, 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 Schmoe, 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 Grandholm, a Democrat.
The plan reportedly provides the SEIU with $6 million 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 son's 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 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.
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 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 $6 million.
I don't know if that's just Michigan or if it's more states 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 $6 million for their union coffers, which are then used to elect Democrats who are more than willing to return the favor.
Is it just Michigan?
It's 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 some way.
It's going to require legislation, obviously.
And that's going to cause more fights, just like happened in Michigan and in Ohio this week.
I got to take a brief timeout.
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 exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Yesterday, Herman Kane's out somewhere and he's on the campaign trail and a supporter said, hey, Anita Hill called.
And Herman Kane, 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 K. Part talking about how inappropriate, how tone deaf, how overly horrible Herman Kane 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 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 Kane's out there and explains.
He said, yeah, we walked into this room and somebody said, one of my supporters said Anita Hill was trying to contact you.
And my response was, was she going to endorse me?
He said it in a humorous way.
I gave a humorous response.
In no way intended to be an insult to Anita Hill or anybody else.
He's in the middle of a sexual harassment claim and they've gone nowhere.
They can't come up with one thing Herman Kane did.
Crackauer can't get the other three babes to join the panel.
Oh, where is it?
And there's this from our affiliate in Chicago, WLS, a Northwest suburban man, says he needs to clear the air after coming to the support of his fiancée, who accuses Republican presidential candidate Herman Kane of making a sexual play for her.
For starters, Sharon Bialik isn't his fiancé, said Mark Harwood in an exclusive interview on Wednesday night.
We were engaged last year in June, but I think there have 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 fiancé has now fled the scene.
Oh, the shame, the sadness, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, no.
Oh, how devastating.
Bialik is alone now and available.
Yes, I hadn't looked at it that way, but that's obviously true.
She's available.
So she's lost her boyfriend now, but this guy, and he allowed himself to be pictured in the story as the fiancé.
Now, all of a sudden, he says, no, no, no.
Not since February.
There's a lot of assuming going on here.
So that's right.
Biolik is now available and without a fiancé.
And Jonathan K. Partner, left, can't believe Herman Cain.
All he did was ask his question, hey, Anita Hill is trying to, I think it's funny some supporters say, hey, Anita Hill's trying to get a hold of you.
What's she going to do?
Endorse me?
It's funny.
That's another reason why the left hates it is because it's funny.
Who's next?
We go to Kate in Houston.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Arash.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
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 litigation support and legal PR.
Litigation support.
Would you tell me what that is?
Basically, making exhibits, courtroom exhibits, and things of that nature to help convince juries of my clients' innocence.
Litigation support and legal PR.
So you basically are going to work.
You'll work with both sides, prosecutor and defense.
I'm only going to do defense.
Always going to work with the defense.
Okay, so you're always working with the guilty.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
No, that's what everybody thinks.
I'm making a joke.
That's what everybody thinks.
Let's see.
What is the biggest problem that you're having?
I got 10 seconds here.
I'm going to 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.
Sit tight.
You need a Conrad Murray kind of case.
That's what you need to find him.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away, Kate.
You know, this is really, I just got a note from a friend.
This is really it.
The media is going up.
There's actually a page up there, video of Herman Cain caught discussing Anita Hill as though some big crime has been discovered here, created.
Herman Kane 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 Kane, what he's done here with this little, little line, hey, we hear Anita Hill's going to call you.
He says, what?
She's going to endorse me?
The reason K-part and the left is all upset is because Herman Kane, 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.
Litigation services and 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 corporate legal departments, like whenever there's a product recall or something and their stock price is in danger of suffering from that.
Okay.
All right.
And 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 you let people know?
Okay, now, two things.
That costs a lot of money.
So you're already demonstrating your aptitude and brilliance by calling here and getting it for free.
You call here and you ask me, and you know I'm a nice guy, and you know that I probably have every solution for you, and I'm just going to 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 creative.
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.
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 if I were doing what you would do, try to drum up business myself, I would start explaining.
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.
Sometimes 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, at the Conrad Murray case, just as it's over.
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 won it?
You put it up on a website with whatever you would have done in whatever area of expertise this business of yours is.
You put it up.
This is what should have happened.
This would have secured or done a lot.
Maybe you can't guarantee that.
This would have gone a lot farther to getting an acquittal.
You don't do it to insult the lawyers that lost the case, but 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 know you would.
I love it.
You're brilliant.
I know.
I know.
Everywhere but home.
Mama.
I can push my luck.
All right.
So, and I'm not joking about the state college.
Okay.
They're going to 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.
Well, you may not have to live there, but you might want to go, you know, get yourself established there as on the ground.
You're not going to get hired from afar.
You're going to have to, people are going to have to see you on site.
That's the only way people think you can actually learn what's actually going on there by fucking 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, you're a startup.
Right.
The things that you're going to have, services you're going to have to give away at first to show you can do them.
You're going to have to share some of your, this is tricky, but when this website idea I've got, you're subjecting yourself to 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.
But 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 just thinking out loud.
This thing got looked.
Kate, thanks very much to call.
it okay and see who's Who's next?
Ross in his semi-butt-from stew something.
Hi, Ross.
Where are you?
I'm on from Nebraska, Stewart, Nebraska.
Stewart, Nebraska.
Okay.
And I was just calling, by the way, Dittos.
I usually agree with you almost all the time, but it's something that if the Democrats like it, it's got to be bad.
But I just, we've been fighting this pipeline teeth and nail, especially my wife.
She's the one that's been doing the majority of it.
And there's so many things on the surface.
It looks good because I'm a huge capitalist.
I'm all about making money.
But there are so many things involved in this pipeline that 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 got to do just to get it to flow through the pipeline.
And one is they got to add five chemicals to it.
And five of those, those five chemicals are all cancer-causing agents.
And the water tables are where we live.
Wait a minute.
This is sand oil, right?
This is oil.
If I'm on the same point.
Well, it's tar sand oil.
I don't know if there's a difference between sand oil and tar sand oil.
You know, this is exactly.
I hate, look, you're an audience member and so forth.
But you're sounding you're sounding like the people that oppose NAFTA and you're and you sound like the people.
They were saying the exact same stuff about the Alaska pipeline, that it was going to have a rot, gut, poison, all these chemicals, that it really wasn't oil.
And they added just going to kill a caribou.
And now there's more caribou than 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 tactics that they've been using to obtain this land.
I mean, they've came in, they've made threats.
They've, you know, the workers are showing up at people's houses saying, you need to sign this.
Landowners are being told they're going to be made an example of.
And they've already put one pipeline through Nebraska in eastern Nebraska, about 25 miles east of where I grew up as a child.
And that pipeline the first year had 14 leaks.
And one of them was significant.
Now, that being said, I mean, the soil over in 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 guess as a rancher, we have to be somewhat of an environmentalist because if we don't take care of the ground, you know, that supplies us with the nutrients from the beef and everything, we don't have anything to live on.
Well, you know, if it weren't for pipelines like this, the East Coast wouldn't have any oil.
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 were the well, if that thing goes bad, well, we've got all that jet A, it's kerosene and all those wonderful houses out in Jamaica.
We can't have that.
We'd never get anything done.
These companies have decided that it is not sludge, which is why they want to use it.
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 understand that.
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 going to be used in the United States.
Well, if they're going to ship it, I mean, if they're going to use it in the United States, why would you build a pipeline 1,700 miles long when there's refineries a lot closer?
They're shipping it to a port for a reason.
And I don't know.
I mean, if you go up into Canada where they're mining this for years, what are you worried?
What is your number one concern with this?
How is this going to change your life?
I am afraid of what it will do to the water.
I mean, the water, basically.
I mean, the state of Nebraska supplies.
Hold it.
You're afraid it's going to leak?
You're afraid it's going to blow up?
It's going to rupture?
I know it will.
There's no, I mean, it's just law of averages.
The oil they're using, it's not sweet.
Here's my problem with this.
Here's 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 it was guaranteed the pipeline was going to rupture and the state of Nebraska would end up poisoned, that would be the lead opposition reason of the New York Times.
And it is, I'll tell you, let me tell you what the real reason here 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 going to tell you right now, I know these men.
I've played golf with one of them.
I've laughed at dinner with them.
They are some of the most decent, hardworking.
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 give money to conservative causes, and they're just one for every 10 liberal groups like them.
And because it is said that the Coke industries bunch is going to benefit from this, can't happen.
That's why the left opposes it, because Coke Industry is going to benefit.
It's absolute pure politics.
And what you're doing is you're throwing everything that possible can exist up against the wall and hoping something sticks in terms of persuading somebody.
In May of this year, Congressman 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.
It's because Coke Industries is involved, which means they're investing in it.
This is pure politics, 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 going to 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 is there.
I got to 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.
Went to the Politico to get a response from Anita Hill.
It went to the politico.
The politico went to Anita Hill.
He got a response to the joke.
Next time you hear, every time you hear Obama talk about his label-like, naval-like focus on jobs and saving, creating jobs and all that stuff, just remember 20,000 jobs down the tubes 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 going to tell you something.
If Obama wins re-election, this pipeline is going to be approved after the election.
The only reason he doesn't do it now is because it upset his base.
The only reason he's really, he can't do something good for the country without harming his reelection chances.
It's just amazing.
Another exciting edition of Open Line Friday is over.
That's it, folks.
Total La Completa.
Fini, no more time.
We pack up out of here and at some point this afternoon, fly to the EIB 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.
▲
Export Selection