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Nov. 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, where we have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
The Washington Post has committed another random act of journalism today.
We've calculated about five of these random acts of journalism throughout state-controlled media.
It happened about five times a week, roughly one a day.
That's in a good week.
It's actually probably not that frequently.
Nevertheless, the Washington Post with a random act of journalism today.
Telephone number, by the way, is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
The Post has reported that the regime, the Obama regime, urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections.
This according to newly released emails.
Now, what a shock.
What a shock.
And to think some of us were cynical enough to suggest that Obama has put off the decision on the Keystone pipeline until after the elections for political reasons.
Oh, why would we possibly think that?
It's not because we think it.
It's because we know it.
And now this random act of journalism, the Washington Post documents it.
And so oil in this pipeline is a two-pronged killer, folks.
For one thing, the Canadians want to ship their oil to us.
The second thing is this pipeline holds the promise of thousands of jobs being created, which is what Obama claims to be focused like a laser on, creating jobs.
But here comes this pipeline, and because oil will be in that pipeline, Obama's base will not tolerate it.
Obama's base simply will not put up with this.
So Obama is going to put off the decision on the Keystone pipeline until after the election.
Meanwhile, the Canadians are saying, we're not waiting that long.
We got other people who want our oil.
And we don't need a pipeline to get it to them.
Like if the Chikoms want our oil and you don't, we will sell the Chikoms our oil, which is what they're looking at doing.
So jobs lost.
Oil?
This matters.
Domestic supply of oil, continental supply, no importing here from the Middle East.
How many speeches could we go to the archives and find where Obama has talked about the dangers of being dependent on oil from our enemies, terrorists, people in the Middle East, so forth and so on?
See, here you have it.
I mean, this is a clear illustration of just who we have in the White House.
And it's a clear illustration of the deep trouble Obama's in.
That something like this, which, look at what's good for America is bad for the Democrat Party.
And this, that's an old axiom of mine.
This demonstrates it.
What's bad for America is good for the Democrat Party.
This is bad for America.
No pipeline, no jobs, no oil.
Great.
That's what Obama needs to do to hold on to his base.
And he needs to hold on to his base for his reelection purposes.
I don't know.
Taxpayers be reimbursed by the Democrat Party since those salaries were paid in conjunction with YouTube at Solyndra?
We kept them working.
Failed company was kept open and kept working beyond the 2010 election so as not to impact Obama.
That's exactly what happened.
A company that we knew years ago, a year ago, was going to go bankrupt.
That was delayed.
Federal taxpayer money was used to keep a bankrupt company afloat until after the elections.
The only thing here is that it didn't matter.
They still took it in the shorts in the midterm elections.
It didn't matter.
And it was pretty bad.
Now, the Washington Post in its random act of journalism is reporting Solyndra's chief executive warned the Energy Department October 25th of 2010 that he was going to announce worker layoffs October 28th.
But then, in an October 30th, 2010 email, two days later, advisors to Solyndra's primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explained the Energy Department had strongly urged the company to put off that layoff announcement until November 3rd.
The midterm elections were held November 2nd.
And of course, those elections resulted in the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives by a lot, a significant margin.
The Solyndra email said, quote, they did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to November 3rd.
Oddly, they didn't give a reason for that date.
Oh, how innocent.
They didn't give a reason for that date.
And then, of course, these clowns couldn't figure it out.
The Solyndra goes, yeah, they asked us to wait till November 3rd.
We couldn't figure out why they didn't give us a reason for that.
Oh, the election was November 2nd.
It was that blatant.
It was that obvious.
So assuming that Obama is delaying the Keystone pipeline decision until after the election, we don't have to assume it.
We know that that's exactly why it's being done.
No question about it.
Wall Street Journal, headline, U.S. retail sales advance.
Have you noticed, if you've been paying attention to news today, stories about, oh my gosh, the economy, whole, retail sales, bamboo, consumer spending, whoa, through the roof.
Why?
Bigger than any expert thought.
Why?
Why?
Why we're in an expansion?
It's all over the place.
U.S. retail sales rose 0.5% in October.
The gain, which was more than 0.1% the economists had expected, came on top of a strong 1.1% rise in September sales.
So sales rose one half of 1%.
They were expecting less than a half of a percent.
And this is an advance.
The data offer a signal that consumers are willing to open their wallets ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Oh, goody, goody.
Goody, goody.
Media is ecstatic.
And my initial reaction to this was, well, yeah, it's called back to school.
But that's not what it was.
Back to school is not what it was.
Business insider, you will never guess the one thing that made retail sales so strong.
Earlier, we mentioned how retail sales growth of 0.5% was well ahead of expectations.
Excluding automobiles, the gap was even better, 0.6% Versus the expected 0.2%.
What drove this strong performance?
Most everybody assumed that it was back to school.
However, from Goldman Sachs, retail sales increased by 0.5% month over month, more than expected.
Sales X autos increased by 0.6%.
Core sales, X-Autos, gasoline, building materials, also gained 0.6%.
The better than expected results suggest upside risk to our 2.0 Q4 GDP forecast.
Large gains in sales of the iPhone likely accounted for much of the upside surprise to core retail sales.
The iPhone.
This is what the Business Insider and Goldman Sachs attribute, the 0.5% increase in retail sales, not back to school.
The iPhone.
And Apple did set a record.
The opening weekend, there were, well, I get the time.
There were two numbers, 1 million iPhones sold and 4 million.
And I don't remember which period of time for each number.
I want to say the 4 million over the original weekend, the first weekend, given international and all that.
Regardless, it was a record for Apple retail sales.
Back to the phones.
Vince in Bakersfield, California.
Hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Rush, it's a thrill to talk to you today, sir.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that, sir.
It's not like a Sandinsky thrill, though.
Yeah, well, I assumed that that was the case.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's probably more like the same thrill that David Axerod and Gloria Allred had introducing that by-elect chick to the U.S. Maybe.
Maybe.
Anyway, sir, hey, this Chelsea Clinton thing, it's hilarious on montumental, differential levels.
I mean, it's hilarious.
I mean, I think if Brian Williams really thinks that she's a champion of journalism, a newbie, maybe she should go out and do some research on these fine topics from the past.
Well, Brian, he's kind of caught in the middle.
I mean, it's his show that she's being plugged into two of his shows, the nightly news and this Rock Center show.
I mean, he's the face of NBC News as the nightly news anchor.
He can't publicly run around and say, what the hell are they saddling me with here?
Somebody doesn't know what they're doing.
Can't do that.
Regardless, anybody in America has a brain between both ears, this gives them another excuse to watch never a program that ends with NBC ever again.
Well, maybe.
I'll tell you something it does say.
And let's look at this.
Let's look at Chelsea Clinton here beyond what this really is.
I mean, we know what this is.
This is she can't find a job.
She wants to get into elective politics.
She's got to learn to get good on television.
It's a must in this day and age.
You have to be good on TV to be elected to anything.
You take it from there.
Mr. Limbaugh, what are you saying?
Are you saying that Mrs. Clinton or Ms. Clinton is currently somehow not qualified to be?
No, Mr. Newcastrotti, you connect the dots here.
You have Chelsea Clinton, they wanted to be elected.
That's a family, that's the family traditions.
You've got to be elected to office.
You've got to be good on TV.
She has shunned the media.
She's wanted no part of the media.
She's openly stated she hates people in the media.
Now, all of a sudden, she's at the top of the media.
She's at the top of the ladder.
She's paid no dues.
She had not born on third base, born at home plate after the home run.
She has not worked anywhere in journalism.
She's never had a job.
Now that gets to the other point of this.
Let's go down to Occupy Wall Street or wherever else that there's an Occupy or go wherever there is a collection of liberals.
What are they mad about?
They're mad about the 1%.
And what are they mad about about the 1%?
The 1%'s got it all.
The 1% has everything and they're not sharing it with anybody.
And they didn't work for it.
And the 1%, there aren't any jobs for anybody else because the 1% are making sure they've got all the jobs and they've got all the money.
So here we come with Mr. Democrat Party, the highest ranking, biggest star, most respected member of the Democrat Party, and with pure nepotism and nothing else.
His daughter, who is unqualified for this job, gets pushed ahead of everybody that works at NBC and gets this job.
This is the quintessential thing the 99% are fed up with, that they don't have a chance, that the game's rules are rigged, that everything's stacked against them.
Now, the problem that they have is that it's not an illegal or rascally or otherwise mean-spirited extremist Republican doing this.
It's America's number one liberal.
It's America's number one Democrat.
And at the end of the day, you have both Bill and Hillary Clinton, the parents, who have openly let everybody know the last 10 years how wealthy they are.
They have proudly talked about how they really think a tax increase is okay, you know, in the tax bracket.
I don't, I don't, I, I, I, I don't, uh, I'm making, I'm making all this money.
I, I, I don't need all that.
I mean, I'd be happy.
You know, taxes raise people like me.
I don't understand why people complain about it.
So they ought.
They have a daughter who doesn't have to work.
They've told us how wealthy they are, how much money they have.
They got a daughter who doesn't have to work.
They have a daughter who's never worked in this business.
And with apparently just a phone call, all Bill Clinton had to do, pick up the phone and call Steve Kappas at NBC or Jeff Imelt or whoever, we don't know, and say, hey, you know, I have this person interested in working for you.
Who, Mr. President?
Well, you may have heard names Chelsea.
Oh, say no more.
Because NBC doesn't want to consider the alternative of saying no.
So here you have a very prominent member of the 1% who flaunts that membership of the 1%, greasing the skids for a child who's unqualified, inexperienced.
What does that say to all these people with all of these thousands of dollars in student loans, desperately trying, they think, to get jobs to pay off their student loans?
They think the game is stacked against them.
They think that the rules are rigged, that people like them are shut out, don't have a chance.
Brian Williams, who's never heard Chelsea speak because she doesn't talk to the media, says he can't wait to hear her viewpoint after talking about the great commonality she might have with Tim Russert, that being somebody right down the middle.
But we don't know if she's down the middle because we don't know what her viewpoint is.
So NBC is basically saying, yep, president called, Chelsea wants a gig in the media.
We figured we know she's not going to go to intern roots, so let's just put her up at the top.
And you teabaggers, you conservatives, screw your extremist points of view about this.
We can't wait to hear her viewpoint.
She's going to be like Tim Russert there, right down the middle.
That's what we think.
Luke, shut up.
Luke Russert making a fuss over there, folks.
It's nothing he can do about it.
Nuke, if you want to call us, we'll talk about it off the air.
I understand.
We have Georgia next from Scotland, Maryland on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Georgia, hi, great to have you here.
Oh, it's a pleasure to be speaking with you, Rush.
Thank you very much.
I just have a, I'm just wondering why the Board of Trustees hasn't been questioned in all of this.
Now, what policies did they have in place to protect the children of Penn State?
Okay, here's the policies.
What happened at Penn State was if things like this were spotted, the people spotting it were supposed to tell superiors within the administration.
So this McQuery was supposed to tell his superior, which had been Paterno.
He went and told his dad.
His dad said, you've got to tell Paterno.
Somebody told Paterno.
Paterno was then supposed to report it to superiors, which he did.
I don't know who those superiors are.
At some point, it was supposed to get up to the Board of Trustees.
Also, in a situation like this, the law is that this kind of infraction should, the police need to be called immediately, and they weren't.
Although there are conflicting stories on this, there's some people alleging that Paterno did call the cops, but it hasn't been reported, and he's curious as to why.
It's a mishmash out there.
But it looks like your question's a good one because this goes back to the 90s.
It was as recent as 2002, 2006.
This coach was still bringing recruits into the football building.
And he had that Sandusky dessert that was on sale at the ice cream shop.
It looks like a whole lot of people had some idea what was going on and just chose to ignore it because they didn't want to do anything.
It might harm the football program and the money and so forth.
That's what it looks like, doesn't it?
Yes.
But I can't answer why the Board of Trustees is off the hook.
I think everybody is now in a CYA mode.
That's why what you see happening now is happening.
People getting canned, people being fired, administrative leave, any number of things, because now With the Attorney General looking into this at the state level and who knows whatever civil and criminal action is yet to be forthcoming, everybody's now in the CYA mode, which is covering themselves up and making it look like they did everything they were supposed to do, win.
But it's going to be tough because Sandusky, up until just a few years ago, was still prowling the place.
Anything else?
No, thank you, Rush.
That was all I wanted to conjecture.
You obviously have some thoughts about this yourself because nobody's asked about the Board of Trustees.
You're the first that's brought that aspect of it up.
Well, I just find it curious why they would shine the spotlight on Mr. Paterno, who, obviously, there was a report made.
The police were involved.
Prosecutors were involved.
One of the prosecutors is missing.
That and alone, that in and of itself shows that something had been done.
That is weird.
Man, this prosecutor's been missing since 2005.
That is very...
And nobody's talking much about that.
But that's intriguing to me.
Yeah, and that's why I wondered why hasn't anyone, you know, I feel that the Board of Trustees may have been shining the spotlight on Mr. Paterno to take the light off of themselves.
Well, it looks that way.
It looks like a lot of people are trying to shine the light everywhere but on themselves.
So this probably is going to get much worse, too, before it gets better.
If there were other victims, they'll be forthcoming.
There are going to be fake alleged victims.
There are going to be all kinds of people trying to get in on the money that people are going to see possibly to be made here.
This is not going to go for away from.
And all day long, I've been watching PMSNBC's practically running excerpts of the Bob Costas interview on NBC last night in a repetitive loop, in a continual loop, going over and over and over again.
It's almost as though they know that Sandusky's a Republican.
I don't know what he is.
I'm just guessing that MSNBC is hoping and praying that he is, and they hope to make some political connection to this.
You know they're thinking that way.
And if it turns out Sandusky is a Democrat, we'll never find out.
Pure and simple.
Chris in Phoenix, Arizona.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing today?
Very good.
Appreciate that.
I just wanted to bring up the fact Herman Cain being attacked so much and get your thoughts on the fact that they haven't said anything about Romney, really.
And I believe that they haven't said anything about Romney because they want to run against Romney because he's the most like Obama.
He's the white version of Obama, in my opinion.
What is that?
What do you mean?
The white version of Obama?
In 2008, or when Obama was going to be elected, he ran on Hope and Change, right?
Well, I think that Romney is trying to be just as slick and just as cutting as Obama because he's just like him.
I think he's a flip-flopper, and he's just like Obama in a lot of aspects, just like with Romney care and stuff like that.
Okay, well, then who is the they that's not attacking Romney that is attacking Kane?
The mainstream media.
The media.
Yes, sir.
I think the mainstream media is not attacking Romney because they know that Romney's the closest thing to Obama.
So if Obama's to lose, then they want Romney to win because he's the closest?
Yes, sir.
That's what you're thinking.
Okay, so if Obama is to lose, they want Romney in there.
Yes, sir, because he's got the same, well, not the same exact policies, but close to the same policies.
Well, I don't know.
I think we've got to be a little bit more open-minded and fair to Obama in this comparison.
To be perfectly honest about it, Obama's not a flip-flopper.
His socialism and extreme leftism is solid.
He never moves off of it.
Yes, sir, I know that.
But my point was, I think that Romney being a flip-flopper shows that we can't trust him as Americans.
And I believe he's the reason why I think that he's just like Obama mostly is because if you look at him in the debates, he's a real slick, he's a fast talker, and that's exactly what Obama was.
If you remember when Obama was running, he didn't say anything about what he really wanted to change.
He just said, we're going to change.
We want hope.
We want change.
What has he changed?
What do we got hope for these days?
Well, my only problem with your theory is that I don't think the media is looking at the possibility of any Republican winning.
Well, yeah.
I think that I think that you've really insulted him now.
You've insulted him.
You've used this show to insult the media like that's a pretty good insult, too.
I mean, to tell them that they're even pondering the possibility of a Republican winning that they would support.
Those are fighting words.
I expect now, because of your call, the journalists hearing your call, we're going to get some hits on Romney now just to prove you wrong.
Oh, that's crap.
I think the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
And I think right now Herman Cain is the enemy of Obama because he's a black man and he can take away from the black vote from Obama.
And he actually has substance backing what he's trying to say.
Well, look, let's get this comparison.
I said that to be fair to Obama, in a comparison to Romney, he's not a flip-flopper, but on Romney's side, Romney is much more articulate than Obama.
He's not addicted to teleprompter like Obama is.
But the media can't media can't.
They can't even, there is no period of time.
There is no era before Obama.
They can't even ponder such a thing.
Besides, I also think Hillary Clinton is the white version of Obama, not Romney.
Yes, sir.
I believe that too, that she's the woman white version of Obama.
I think that Romney, he's just a slick talker.
I think he's just like Obama was when he was trying to run.
And like I said, talking about hope and change and what has he changed and what do we have hope for besides a crappy future for kids.
And, you know, I'm only 23.
I'm a conservative.
I've never gone to college.
And I really don't like Romney.
I can tell.
Well, it's not that I don't like Romney as a person.
I just like Herman Cain.
I think everything he's said and done would be good for the country, you know, minus all the crap that the mainstream media is saying about him, about these ladies.
I think they're just trying to pull the wool over our eyes and, you know, get us to vote for somebody who's more like Obama.
Well, what do you think of the media's effort last night and today to portray Kaine as an absolute blithering idiot when it comes to foreign policy, for example?
You've seen the video.
I think that he did the right thing in taking a second to think about what the question was so that way he could answer it in a, you know, truthful, educated way.
Right.
And I think it takes you a couple seconds when somebody throws a question like that out at you that you need to think about what you're going to say before you say it.
Well, he did that.
There's no question.
There's no question.
Had Perry not done it before him, there wouldn't have been anything to compare it to.
You know, Perry couldn't remember the third federal agency he wanted to shut down in the debate.
And here comes Herman Cain with the 11-second pause in his answer on Libya.
But it doesn't sound like any of that phases you.
It doesn't sound like, in fact, it doesn't sound to me like there's much that could happen that would steer you away from Herman Cain.
Well, if it turned out to be factual that these women were telling the truth, that would steer me away from him.
But that would steer me directly to Newt Gingrich because I think he's the next best person for the.
Aha.
Interesting.
And if I could, I'd, you know, between the two, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, I think they'd both be great at being the president.
But if one of those two did get the vote for electoral, I think that they should work together as in vice president or president, depending on who gets the vote.
Because I think they can actually talk to each other and they're on the same page and they have somewhat of the sort of idea.
I'm not sure either of them want to be the VEP.
But nevertheless, you have an interesting perspective on this.
I'm glad you called out there, Chris.
I have to take a brief time out here.
Do I think what?
Do I think Obama was rolling off the mirror?
Do I think Obama was wrong on Libya?
Yeah.
Of course I think he was wrong on Libya.
What?
It didn't take me 11 seconds to go.
No.
No, I know.
Of course he was wrong on Libya.
He's wrong on the whole Arab Spring thing.
He's wrong on all of that.
No, no.
All we've got is the Muslim Brotherhood rising up against Israel in every one of these countries.
That's what this is all about.
I don't know why it didn't take Herman Cain less than 11 seconds.
I don't have any idea.
Don't know.
Okay, theHill.com is reporting that with the super committee, the Congressional Super Committee deadlocked, leaders Reed and Boehner are meeting.
Which begs the question, why bother with the pretense of the super committee in the first place?
We know the Democrats are never going to agree to a deal.
The whole point is not to agree to a deal and blame the Republicans for it.
Just like we're not going to do a budget.
Almost two years and the Democrats have yet to do a budget, including when they ran the House.
Lori in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi, great to have you on the program.
Lori, testing one, two.
Are you there?
Yes.
Do you hear me?
Yeah, I do now.
Thank you.
Okay, great.
Thank you for taking my call.
I wanted to make a comment about the Chelsea Clinton.
And you were saying that they were putting her in front of the camera to make her help her to learn how to talk to people, be presentable.
I think that goes back to Caroline Kennedy.
They assumed that she was going to be able to step in and take that Senate seat.
They put a camera on her, and you know, all she could talk about was, you know, and you know, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm sure the Clintons looked at that and said, ooh, we can't have that happen to our girl.
So they're going to put her right up there, you know, baptism by fire and get her out there in front.
There's no, in my mind, there's no question about this.
There's no, because television is key to politics.
You can't get elected if you don't look good on TV and if you don't use the medium well.
And she hates it.
She hasn't been on TV at all.
And you're right.
The Caroline Kennedy thing was a debacle.
The name wasn't enough.
I knew it was over when she went up to Mama Rosa's or whatever it was and had dinner with Sharpton at the soul food joint.
And she ate.
You never eat on camera as a politician.
You never do that.
And there she was.
Not even Sharpton was eating.
Yeah, you're right.
That's a good illustration of my being right.
Just a few days ago, Bill Clinton said, I can sympathize with the protesters that occupy Wall Street.
I don't think Americans can continue this level of income inequality.
Okay, fine.
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