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Nov. 17, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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I just got a note.
Ladies, I didn't see it myself.
I just got a note here that the cops somewhere have bloodied up an occupier, which is what the occupides have been hoping for for two months.
They wanted the cops to bloody them up.
So some poor occupier schlub of human debris has indeed been bloodied up somewhere.
Look for that photo all over the place.
It'll be expanded all over the place, too.
Let's see.
Yep, found somebody with blood on them on PMSNBC.
Bulldozers have been brought in to clear up the filth.
Now, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it was not blood on the occupier on MSNBC, but rather ketchup or stage blood, whatever is used.
So, yep, I think this is getting serious now.
These people have not gotten what they wanted out of this.
They haven't gotten the man to act in ways that would create sympathy for the occupiers.
The occupiers have been the sole recipients of derision.
So they have wanted to turn that around and they had to fake blood on an occupier.
They'd do it.
The bulldozers are in Berkeley.
The bulldozers cleaning the filth out of Occupy Berkeley.
Anyway, welcome back.
Great to have you here.
El Rushboe serving humanity simply by showing up.
This story, you know, you all are infuriated by the occupiers, and I totally understand this.
But this next story makes me livid on a number of levels.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Kai Moon called on world leaders Monday to collaborate in financing a multi-billion dollar fund to combat global warming.
Does Mr. Ban Kai Moon not understand that the world now knows, at least America now knows, that this whole global warming thing is a manufactured left-wing hoax?
Does he not know we don't have the money?
Nobody has any money.
There are no developed nations that have the kind of money that Ban Kai Moon wants for his precious hoax.
He was speaking at a conference in Bangladesh.
And the UN Secretary General said that global efforts must be taken to establish a $100 billion green climate fund dedicated to taming the damaging effects of climate change and that the global economic crisis should not hinder such efforts.
The aim of this conference is to get the nations who are disproportionately affected by climate change, the most vulnerable nations, to come together and speak with one voice.
Climate change is real and it is affecting us now.
We live with floods.
We live with climate refugees, rising salinity in our coastal areas and with the impact of rising sea levels.
We do not.
That last was stated by the Environment Secretary of Bangladesh, Mezbah Ul Alam.
Delegates at a climate change conference beginning November 28th in Durban, South Africa are to consider options to raise $100 billion a year for this slush fund, which was established last December to aid countries reportedly most affected by climate change.
Governments must find ways now to mobilize resources up to the $100 billion per annum pledged, said Ben Kaimoon.
An empty shell is not sufficient.
They think we have $100 billion just sitting around.
We don't have $100 billion.
We just hit $15 trillion in debt.
But beyond that, there is no global warming.
There are no rising sea levels.
There's no increased salinity.
There's none of this.
There isn't even any warming, much less man-made.
Look at this.
The entire world economy is about to be wiped out.
We're on the verge of it.
Take a look at Europe, and we're headed that way.
Folks, it is a real possibility our economy could collapse.
That's what's so frustrating to us is that members of our own party don't even see that.
Members of our own party just see the constant ebb and flow of politics.
Obama's a Democrat.
Ergo, he must lose.
Not Obama is destroying the U.S. economy.
Oh, no, no, no.
Not successive to say Rush.
But of course, we'd rather be in power ourselves.
But this is really, really intemperate to say Obama is destroying it.
Well, he is.
He's destroying the future.
He is destroying the economic present.
Collapse is a real possibility.
It is a real possibility in Europe.
Entire world economies could be wiped out, and this UN moon pie is calling on the very countries about to go under for $100 billion over another hoax, which is exactly the purpose of the UN, to fleece people.
The United Nations exists.
The United Nations is a larger version of Obama.
Right into this little slush fund called the UN.
$100 billion, ostensibly to save the planet, goes right to the UN, right into the best redistributor of wealth ever created.
And you take a look who's going to get the money.
All the money, take a look at all the money that's been spent, given to the UN for decades to help poverty and all these other so-called human maladies, and they still exist, don't they?
In the same places.
Poor nations are still poor.
Poor people in poor nations are still poor.
The leaders of those nations are making out like bandits.
Guess who gets the money?
So I'll tell you what this is.
They're making a last-ditch effort here to get the last money they might see in a long while.
And they're thinking that everybody's just going to bust open the piggy bank and give it to them.
They know.
This Ban Kai-moon guy, he knows the score.
He knows that there isn't $100 billion laying around in all these countries.
So it's one last effort to try to get it because he knows he's got a bunch of liberal governments in power.
One last effort to get it before the legitimate chance runs out.
Disproportionately affected countries from global warming.
Why not?
Scams worked in the past, but I'll tell you now, hit up the ChiComs.
They're the big polluters.
Well, if that's what you want to do, make the ChiComs come up with $99 billion of this.
They're the big polluters anymore.
Everything the UN ever calls for is always just another way for them to skim some money for themselves.
Look at oil for food.
All these UN children's food programs.
What is it?
I went around Halloween when I was a kid.
What was the United States?
UNICEF.
Every kid ought to be a fat slob by now when all the money's been collected for UNICEF.
And then, oh, you got all the satellite programs.
The Sally Fields out there or Sally, Sally, what's her face?
From all in the family, Sally Struthers, everybody out there.
$25 will feed a child for 10 years.
Fine, here's the 25 bucks.
They come back to us next year.
Kids hungry again.
There ought not be if the money has been donated to this outfit were actually equally fairly distributed.
There shouldn't be any problem here anywhere.
They're just a giant skim operation.
UN makes our Congress look like a bunch of grafters, like it's a bunch of amateurs at grafting.
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Okay.
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Okay, quick time out, and we will be back and continue here in just a moment, folks.
Do not go away.
We go back to the phones to San Ramon, California.
This is Ray, and I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Yes, thanks for the great show, Rush.
I called about the graduates moving back with their parents, but I quickly have to thank you as a charter member of the Rush newsletter.
You once told us to make a sign that says this man is lying to you to tape to our TV sets whenever Bill Clinton was talking.
Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
And I pulled that sign out of an old box I had, and I'm able to reuse it when Obama is talking, but I'm also able to use this sign whenever Rachel Manow, Joy Behart, and Rosie O'Donnell are talking.
Fractally, anybody on the left speaks up.
It's applicable.
There you go, that this man is lying to me.
Now, I need your help on this, Professor.
We're told by the Democrats and the Congoline media that 26-year-olds remaining on their parents' health care plan is a good thing.
So why isn't it good for 26-year-olds to remain on their parents' cable plan as well?
Now, this is an interesting question.
What Ray here is reacting to is a story earlier today in the New York Times I told you about, lamenting the fact it's by Catherine Rampell, and it's about college graduates who are returning home to live with mom and dad, not buying their own mops, not renting their own apartments, not hiring somebody to come hang and frame their diploma, not buying their own crockery,
not buying their own house, not renting their own apartment, not establishing households, not growing the economy.
Oh, it's horrible.
And what Ray here is pointing out, but wait, but wait, it's okay if they stay on their parents' health care plan.
Then what's so wrong about them moving home and staying with their parents' cable and using their parents' mop and their parents' crockery and their parents' phone?
It's a great question, Ray.
It's an absolute great question.
I would say that you probably, in a logical question, you've nailed them.
But of course, the healthcare debate has nothing to do with logic.
And so the point is healthcare is so expensive.
It's so, so, so expensive.
So the idea that young kids up to age 26 could stay on their parents' policy, whether they live with them or not, is supposed to entice those young people to appreciate whoever offers that opportunity and then vote Democrat.
It's a vote buying scam.
It's a vote buying technique.
Pure and simple.
Cable's expensive, but not, yes, it's in satellite TV, but not nearly as expensive as healthcare.
Not nearly.
But then, see, the real contradiction here is for how long have places like the New York Times been railing against consumerism and the emptiness that one's life is if it's centered around consumerism.
Going out and buying things, that's so empty.
I mean, it's so meaningless.
Your life is oriented around consumer.
Don't you have enough?
Isn't one cable box per house enough?
Why should a family split up with the kids going out getting their own cable box?
Isn't one enough?
This is what we've been treated.
So these what I love about your question is that it illustrates the blatant utter hypocrisy of the left.
They've defined trickle-down in this story, and they lament the fact that it isn't happening.
And yet, in another story in the same paper, you could see an article about how trickle-down is bogus.
It doesn't happen.
It's nothing more than a Republican trick.
It doesn't really exist.
And yet in the same paper, there's a story lamenting there isn't any going on.
But it's a great question.
It's a great question.
If it's perfectly fine to stay on mom and dad's health care, why not mom and dad's cable bill?
Why not mom and dad's electric bill?
In fact, why ever move out?
Why ever?
Thanks, Ray.
Ken in Lewisburg, North Carolina.
Hi, welcome to the program.
Rush, I'm going to buy a lottery ticket today.
Because you got through and are on the program?
Yes, sir.
I've been listening since 1997, and I've never gotten anything but a busy signal.
And I just called today because my mom, can I say her name?
Yeah, go ahead.
Betty Allran.
Oh, she's going to die.
She's just going to die.
But she asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I told her to order me some Tuix Buy Tea.
And I got two cases, one case raspberry, one case regular.
I tried my first bottle last night, raspberry.
And I got to tell you, I'm not a guy that likes any flavoring in my tea.
I like the tea.
And I tried it because my wife wanted to try it with me.
And she likes fruit and her tea.
But the raspberry in there is not like, the fruit always tastes like you're trying to mask the taste of the tea to me.
Very clever in your life.
The raspberry tasted very fresh and very crisp.
You were able to taste the tea, in other words, along with the raspberry.
That's so thrilled to hear you say that because in our months and months of tasting, one of the requirements we gave ourselves was that we're not going to turn these flavored teas into fruit juices.
They're going to be tea.
You're going to be able to taste the tea no matter what fruit flavor we add.
And so you have, you have made my day here.
You have confirmed.
I want you to hang on here during the break.
I want to ask you a couple questions when we get back, but you have confirmed that we're doing the right thing here.
That's great.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, and we're back to Ken in Lewisburg, North Carolina.
And Ken, I just wanted to thank you again for confirming.
There's nothing fruity about 2F by tea.
The raspberry flavor is there and it's delicious, but you can still taste the tea, and that is the point.
And we've got a couple new flavors coming, and it's going to be true of them, too.
I can't wait to try them.
Just very excited to talk to you.
I'm a little bit nervous.
I can't, on all days to get through to you, it was on my birthday.
This is just amazing.
I'll have to remember my 35th birthday for being able to talk to Rush.
You are 35 today?
Yes, sir.
35 years old.
Well, you know, that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to take your name.
Let's snurdly give your name and address.
And when these new flavors hit, I'm going to send you some of the two new flavors.
Oh, you're kidding.
That would be awesome.
And we'll send you a couple cases each of the two new flavors.
And you'll be one of the first to get them.
We go into production on them fairly soon.
I cannot wait.
Rush, can I touch on one more thing?
Yeah, what is it?
You had a caller earlier that wanted to know what he could do to basically protest the protesters, the occupiers.
Right.
And I feel for him.
I understand where he's coming from, but it dawned on me that I protest them every day by getting up and going to work and doing the very best I can for my family and trying to better my own economic situation.
So my suggestion to him is to do that in protest.
Well, that's great advice.
Success is its own best revenge.
And it's also, when you do that, you're forgetting about them.
Just ignore them.
That's the best thing anybody can do.
So, Ken, remember, now hang on.
Snurdy will get information for us to send a couple new flavors when they come out.
I'm not sure when it's going to be.
It's not next week or anything like that, but we won't forget.
And when they hit, when they drop, you'll be among the first recipients.
Thanks much.
What is this?
According to CNN, the man accused of firing shots near the White House will be charged with attempting to assassinate the president or a member of his staff.
This Ortega guy apparently will be charged according to CNN, so you might want to wait, have this really confirmed.
But apparently, man accused of firing shots near the White House will be charged with attempting to assassinate the president or a member of his staff.
Now, there's a story in the New York Post today about this.
A troubled Idaho man, believed to have been lurking for weeks in Washington and hiding with occupied D.C. protesters, was arrested yesterday for allegedly firing an assault rifle to the White House and cracking a window near the president's bedroom.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega Hernandez, 21, has an arrest record in three states, was described as mentally ill and obsessed with the White House.
A law enforcement official told the Washington Post he hates the president, he hates Washington, he hates society.
The Secret Service, Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police, and other law enforcement agencies launched a manhunt after gunfire was heard near the National Mall across the street from the White House Friday night.
Ortega Hernandez's car was found abandoned nearby with an AK-47 and empty shell casings inside.
Yesterday, investigators disclosed that two bullet holes were found in the White House.
One of them cracked the window's exterior historical glass, but was stopped by reinforced ballistic glass.
He refused to say where the holes were, but officials could be seen taking photos of a window at the second floor yellow oval room, which is adjacent to the living quarters.
Investigators suspect Ortega Hernandez had been in the Washington area for weeks, blending in with Occupy D.C. protesters and repeatedly visiting the mall.
But Ortega Hernandez has no known radical links.
He has been arrested several times, including for domestic violence and assaulting a cop and a history of mental illness, but no known radical links.
What is this?
No known radical links.
He was living with Occupy D.C. What the hell are those people?
If somebody who never went to a tea party rally, Jared Lochner, was pushed to shoot Gabrielle Giffords by the Tea Party, then this crazy sure as heck had his hatred for government ginned up by hanging around these Occupy lunatics for weeks.
Gerald Lochner never got anywhere near a Tea Party, never got anywhere near a Sarah Palin website or a Rush Limbaugh website or radio show, yet we were blamed for inspiring this guy.
This guy hangs around with Occupy Wall Street people who are out there protesting everything and they say, oh, no, there's no connection here.
No known links to radicals.
We've just been hanging around a bunch of radicals for weeks now.
There's also a college Republican chick in Texas.
They're all over her for saying not to shoot Obama as tempting as it may be, quote unquote.
Now that's stupid, but they had people calling for the Bush assassination in books and in movies, and they were calling that art and literature that we should expose ourselves to to learn about the rage that exists out there.
And we've had a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Betty Williams, told a bunch of school kids, right now I would love to kill George Bush.
And that was all okay.
Now we've got this guy that comes out of Occupy D.C. He's lurking in there for weeks.
No known link to radicals.
Let's bend over backwards to say that Occupy D.C. had nothing to do with influencing this guy's mentally ill.
Of course, they had nothing to do.
No, Occupy D.C., totally innocent.
But all these other people, Gerald Lochner, yeah, he was manipulated by Sarah Paler, Rush Limbaugh at a Tea Party.
Cindy Sheehan said she wished she could have killed Bush.
She was a media darling.
Oh, Ortega was not listening to the other protesters like Obama never heard Jeremiah Wright.
Is that what we're going to be told?
Okay.
Fine.
Meanwhile, Zuccotti Park protester Nakut Nakrumah Tinsley had been arrested after threatening to burn down the city.
But why not arrest 50 of them?
I mean, he's not the only guy.
With winter looming, labor unions fortify Occupy Camp.
Some of the country's most powerful unions are providing the infrastructure and amenities to keep the Occupy D.C. encampment fortified going into the winter.
Now, this is the same group, the same crowd that inspired this nut accused of firing his assault rifle at the White House.
And here come the unions doing whatever's necessary to keep this group going.
Normal human beings wouldn't typically want to associate themselves with rapists, murderers, anarchists, and other mentally ill types.
So I guess Obama's favorite union has its reasons.
But normally, you wouldn't want to associate with these kinds of people.
Normally, you wouldn't want to be in their midst.
But here comes the SEIU making it possible for them to hang around.
And I have no doubt that some of the money that the SEIU is using here is stimulus money in order to provide the amenities for Occupy DC.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
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I just read.
Wait, ZeroHedge.com.
There is a hedge fund that just shut down today.
A guy, I'm not going to mention the hedge fund because I want to get confirmation of this.
But the guy shuts down his hedge fund.
He said, I can't continue in good conscience to take clients' money and invest it in a rigged market.
He said that this thing with Corzine's company, people do not know the real importance of what happened.
Corzine, let me find a line here.
A firm led by a crony of the Obama regime stole all of the non-margined cash held by customers of his firm.
Let's not sugarcoat this or make this crime seem complex and abstract by drowning ourselves in $6 words and Uber technical jargon.
John Corzine stole the customer cash at MF Global.
Knowing John Corzine and knowing the abject lawlessness and contempt for humanity of the Marxist Obama regime and its cronies, this is not really a surprise.
The market is rigged.
I cannot, in good conscience, put my customers' money in the commodities markets.
This guy's closing down his hedge fund.
I'm not going to mention the name of the hedge fund here because I, again, I want double, triple confirmation.
This is not.
Zero Hedge is a qualified website.
It's a credible site blog.
But the letter from the hedge fund guy sounds particularly filled with vitriol.
But he's right about something.
Corzine was that firm, and the customer's money is gone, and it's like $600 million of it, and it's gone, and they're trying to get it back.
It's a miniature Madoff in that sense.
And somebody did steal that money.
Somebody at that firm, which is now bankrupt, and 1,100 people are thereabouts, have been laid off.
Somebody stole the client's money.
It is a big deal to a lot of people.
So I just, I had that sent to me and I looked at it.
I said, I'm not going to mention this yet.
I said, I'll go ahead and mention it.
I just won't mention the name of the outfit yet so we can confirm it.
But what?
Oh, you're reading about it?
Would you go to Zero Hedge Fund?
Yeah, okay.
So if you want to read about the Zero Hedge Fund.com, zerohedge.com.
And you'll find there.
Rodney, French Lick, Indiana.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yeah, I had an idea about fixing this economy, and I was wanting to know your thoughts on it.
All right.
What would happen if all this money that they gave to the banks and the auto and all this stimulus money, if they would have took it, invested in the American people by giving them a low-interest government loan to cure their bad debt and then give them a mulligan on their credit, you know, their credit report.
Yeah.
Free their credit up.
Then that way people could go out and instead of doing buy here, pay here cars, renting houses, they could actually go out.
There's a better way of doing that, doing something like there's a better way of accomplishing.
Look at I when I when I saw your call up there, I wanted to take the call because it's it's interesting.
My instinct was to, yeah, okay, I can see that.
And then I had to catch myself.
This is how easy it is to get trapped into thinking these kinds of things work.
The government got us into this mess, and anything they do that involves any more intricacy is only going to make it worse.
To accomplish what you want, Rodney, you give everybody a total tax holiday for a year.
But, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, what's the government going to do without that money?
You just skimpled it.
You simply can't take that much money.
Mr. New Castrati, follow me on this.
We need to rebuild the economy.
We need to rebuild the private sector.
The government has taken too much money out of it.
The government's spending money we don't have anyway, Mr. New Castrati.
We have a budget deficit of $4 trillion, Mr. New Castrati.
Cut that budget deficit in half by simply giving everybody a tax holiday, payroll savings, income, you name it, for a full year.
You let everybody keep every dollar they earn, every dime they earn, and you watch what happens.
You'll get out of the way for what will happen.
If the government's going to spend money, we can concoct our own definition of spending here.
They come up with their own cockeyed definitions of spending.
They call, for example, a tax cut spending.
Okay.
Well, we'll call it tax holiday spending.
Government spend.
They spend money they don't have anyway.
Let the people who earn it keep it.
You don't need to mess around with your credit rating or any of that, giving you mulligan here, mulligan there.
The government shouldn't have that kind of power.
Anyway, you give the government that kind of power, you're going to regret it.
You don't want to go there.
You just, no taxes.
But, Mr. Limbaugh, how does this benefit the 48% who aren't paying taxes at all?
What did they get?
Nothing.
They're already in on the deal, Mr. New Castrati.
They'll get a tax payroll holiday because they're still paying their FICA taxes, but they're not paying any income tax.
They're already in on the deal.
Somehow, Mr. Limbaugh, this sounds like it's going to benefit the rich.
Everything is going to benefit the rich more than the poor.
There's no other way around it.
And you can't fix it with government action.
This is the best thing you could do, in fact.
Let people keep every dollar they earn for a year?
You get out of the way, folks.
Oh, think about that.
Back after this.
We got shock poll results.
Rasmussen just out or soon to be out.
Iowa.
Gingrich 32, Romney 19, Kane 13 in Iowa.
Gingrich 32, Romney 19, Kane 13.
Latest Rasmussen, and we will see you open line Friday.
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