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Nov. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 28, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, and welcome back.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
Rush Limbaugh already starting the final hour of the program today.
Great to have you with us.
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So the big news today, and there's two stories actually.
I maybe I'm overestimating it, but I don't think so.
New York Times today with a major story from Thomas Edsel, who's a huge leftist, a Huff Poe guy, I think he used to write for the Wash for the Washington Post.
Huge leftist out there.
And uh basically the future, it's the uh it's a blog.
I don't know if it where in the newspaper it appears.
The future of the Obama coalition.
Basically, they're making it clear that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class as voters.
They're not going Obama, the Democrats are through attempting to appeal to white working voters.
They instead are going to focus on the elites in academia, artists, actors, uh professors, human resource people, that kind of crowd, and the slothful.
People who aren't working.
The Democrat Party has made the calculation here.
They want to perpetuate unemployment.
They want to expand it.
Not just get the votes from these people today.
It's a new underclass.
This is something that I have known for the longest time.
The underclass and expanding it is one of the objectives Democrat Party.
The difference now is that they have admitted it.
They're not about fixing the underclass.
They're not about reducing the number of people unemployed or that are on food stamps.
They want to expand it.
That is their route to power.
This is on the New York Times op-ed page, so they're not hiding this anywhere.
This is major.
So what we have here is Obama admitting that he's going to be running a divisive campaign.
So you've got an angry guy, Barack Obama is angry.
A divisive campaign fits an angry man like a glove.
And I'm, folks, with this news, I'm sorry, I don't want to hear anymore about reaching across the aisle and compromising and uh we we've got to find common ground.
I don't have any common ground with this.
I'm a conservative.
I happen to think the conservative message appeals to everybody.
Unemployed, employed, black, white, male, female, minority, majority.
I don't care.
The conservative message is one for everybody.
It's one for America.
We we don't we don't segregate it.
So I I don't think it's up to these people to compromise with me, as far as I'm gonna end with us, not the other way around.
But it's Barack Obama who doesn't reach across aisles.
It's Barack Obama who does not mend fences.
You know, Barack Obama's not even aspiring to lead a country.
Barack Obama is a committed leftist, running on a record of failure, and expanding it.
Look what we've got.
We've got a racial divide that's getting worse.
We've got class warfare that the president has stoked and continues to stoke.
We have dependency, public sector unions, who are also slush funds for Obama.
These are the keys to Obama's mission to remake America.
And this is not a conspiracy theory.
This is not a secret anymore.
It's all right there on the op-ed page of the New York Times today.
Now, maybe this Edsel guy didn't intend for it to be interpreted the way I'm interpreting it.
They might be thinking, hey, you know, we got this new electoral strategy, and uh, we're just gonna cast aside.
We know that the working white people, not our favorites right now.
They don't like us that much, so we'll just cast them aside.
They could be saying, Well, Mr. Limbaugh, you're reading this all wrong.
We just know that for some reason they're angry at us, and we're we're we're we're we don't have them.
So we've got to go someplace else.
No, you may want it interpreted that way, sorry, but uh.
You've made this happen.
The Democrats are running what they want to do, run against the do nothing Congress in the name of do nothing voters.
I mean, this is their message.
And I don't know how you compromise on the truth.
I don't know what part of the truth I'm supposed to give up in reaching a compromise.
Because the truth is the same for everybody.
Barney Frank is the other story today.
Barney Frank no mass, no mass.
Barney Frank leaving his congressional seat.
We have three sound bites.
They are numbers 22, 23, and 24.
Barney Frank today in Newton, Massachusetts.
A funny thing happened on the way to retirement.
Uh a very conservative Republican majority took over the House.
At that point, it seemed to me that some of the things I had fought hardest for could be in jeopardy.
Financial reform, which I anticipated the conservative Republicans who are running the House would try to undermine.
And uh additionally, I was afraid that given the need to do deficit reduction, this very conservative majority would seek to block any increase in taxation on the wealthiest people.
So I'm quitting.
I'm quitting Congress because this conservative majority would not see fit to raise taxes on the wealthiest people.
So I there's no there's no future for me here.
Without tax increases, I cannot serve.
And Barney continued.
Ordinarily I would not have announced as early as I did, but we are doing redistricting or did redistricting.
And uh the legislative leadership and my colleagues all said, look, it's important for you to tell everybody, all of us, whether you plan to run or not.
And so I gave my initial view.
And I was planning to run again, and then the congressional redistricting came.
And this decision was precipitated by congressional district redistricting, not entirely caused by it.
I've been ambivalent about running, uh, not because I don't continue to think the job is important, but because there are other things I'd like to do in my life before my career is over.
If I were to run again, I would be engaged full-fledged in a campaign, which is entirely appropriate.
Uh nobody ought to expect to get elected without a a uh contest.
But the fact that it is so new uh makes it harder in terms of learning about new areas, introducing myself to new people.
Uh and I have three obligations.
One is to continue to serve the people I currently serve.
I'm wearing a uh New Bedford Welling Museum tie.
I've spent twenty years working on the fishing industry.
None of the fishing industry areas will be in the district uh that that uh I would be running in.
I can't walk away from the fishing industry.
I can't walk away from people I've grown personally close to and say, Well, I'm sorry.
Yeah, I got I gotta go worry about the Blackstone Valley, and I don't have time to do you.
I can't walk away from the fishing industry.
Barney Frank, the conservatives won't raise taxes on the rich, and I can't walk away from the fishing industry.
So Barney is Sayonara.
Anyway, we're back.
There was news over the holiday weekend, ladies and gentlemen, in the UK press.
Climate gate scientists did collude with government officials to hide research that did not fit their apocalyptic global warming.
This is the second time now that emails have been released from the Hadley Climate Center, University of East Anglia, where we know that the information was doctored, it was altered, it was made up to fit an agenda.
Five thousand leaked emails revealed that scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on their claims that climate change was man-made.
They had evidence they were wrong.
They threw it away.
They were colluding with government.
This is nothing more than a hoax.
It is a fraud.
It is indoctrination of children.
It is liberalism.
What is there to compromise with?com picks up on the story.
The left's proposed solutions for the world's ills are based on the idea that carbon dioxide is a climate heating poison that must be scrubbed from the global economy at all costs.
Yet another study shows this is foolish.
The study in the journal Science found that global temperatures appear to be far less sensitive to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than originally estimated.
Do you realize the fundamental claim has now been debunked?
The fundamental claim that CO2 in the atmosphere is causing warming has been cast aside.
There's nothing left to the global warming argument but the continued fraud lying and hoax that it is.
As investors.com says, this is a bombshell, another in a long line of revelations showing the scientific fraud at the heart of the anti-global warming movement.
Or of the global warming movement.
Not anti.
The study's findings are simple and devastating.
Oregon State University's Andreas Schmitter.
Study's main author says these findings are simple and devastating.
This implies that the effect of CO2 on climate is less than previously thought.
It doesn't only stand to reason, it's what we exhale for crying out loud.
We ought to be extinct.
Whole thing has been nothing but a giant lie from the get-go, and I have known it from the get-go, because I know liberals.
Gosh, you know, it's frustrating.
It really is frustrating.
If I could just if everybody could just come to grips with who liberals are, what they do, how they operate, it'd be over.
But somehow they have they've cornered the market on the fact that they are compassionate.
They've cornered the market on appealing to people with emotion.
Which is a much easier link to establish than thought.
And it's really no more complicated than that.
By the way, for you Occupy people, this news ought to make you happy.
It's from Reuters' annual compensation for employees at big Wall Street firms could fall 27 to 30%.
Uh next year be the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis.
This is in the Wall Street Journal.
They cite a compensation study conducted by the optics group.
Whoever they are.
Bonuses, uh, which constitute a substantial part of many finance workers' pay are on track to decline 35 to 40% on average.
So annual compensation could fall 30% at Wall Street firms.
Hey, let's throw up party.
Isn't that what makes you leftists happy?
That's going to be tough on the New York City restaurant scene, by the way.
New York City restaurants.
Anytime there is bad news on Wall Street, Wall Street employs New York City restaurants take it on the chin too.
Well, it's the old travel entertainment budgets.
What's the first things to go when when uh and those those expenditures?
Here's John in Indianapolis.
John Goite that you called.
Glad to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
First pick of the draft deados from Indianapolis.
Yes, yes.
Unfortunately.
I'm really, I'm really going to make your collar chad mad because you know how the press decries the growing gap between rich and poor.
The truth is that when that gap grows, so does that come so does the economy at whole, and opportunity for the poor, and when it shrinks, it does so because the rich are getting poorer, and that helps nobody.
Right.
Yet if we state that truth, we're insensitive to the needs of the poor.
And I know you constantly confront these people, but it's pervasive in the press, and it's kind of a tough argument to make.
But I think we have to we have to make that effort.
I agree with you.
But it's one of these things.
Our argument is one rooted in thought.
Our argument's one rooted in thinking.
Theirs is rooted in emotion.
It's so much easier to establish an emotional link to people.
That's that's why liberalism owns this notion that it's compassionate when it's the exact opposite.
What is compassionate about that?
They say the compassion is well, government's taking care of them.
Food stamps, unemployment, compensation, government's feeding them.
We care.
No, you're destroying their lives for crying out loud.
There's no compassion in this whatsoever.
You're exactly right.
When the wage gap grows, the economy's growing.
When it shrinks, the economy is shrinking.
You're exactly right.
But to say that sounds insensitive.
Sounds like you're in favor of the rich getting richer.
And everybody knows that that's not fair.
That's how it works.
Well, envy's as big a sin as greed, you know.
And unfortunately, they're all they all seem to be very envious.
Well, that's that's true.
The problem with that is that there are people capitalized on it.
You know, envy, jealousy.
So they've been around as long as they've been human beings.
But you've got now people that capitalize on that, try to advance an agenda, which they've done for uh for a long time.
I mean, look at Barack Obama has come to divide, and he's done a bang up job of it.
That's just a uh you know the the thing about this gap is the fact of the matter is it's always going to grow.
Zero doesn't change.
Top salaries are always gonna go up.
Zero doesn't change.
The wage gap is always gonna be there.
There are always going to be people not making something at some point in their lives, and you get factor that into the gap.
Zero never changes.
So the gap between people making zero money will always grow as salaries are always increasing.
Some salaries are, there are the some salaries somewhere are increasing.
The gap is always going to grow.
The truth is that nobody makes zero dollars.
The government payment to the poor.
That's always increasing too.
There isn't anybody out there that makes zero.
What do you think is fed more mouths?
Greed or charity.
Really, you think that?
What do you think, folks?
What do you think?
What has fed more mouths?
I don't this country, the world, whatever subset of people you want to talk about, what has fed more people?
Greed or ch freedom's not an option.
It's a multiple choice question with two possibilities.
Greed or charity.
That's right.
Greed, greed has fed more mouths than charity ever could.
If you don't like the word greed, self-interest.
See, dawns of using.
You shouldn't say green.
It's just gonna make people think you had no heart.
And you just think, you just think people are gonna think that you're all for selfish and don't say greed.
Okay, self-interest then.
Yeah, that's better.
Okay, self-interest versus charity.
Self-interest will feed more mouths every time it's tried.
It's not even close.
And I gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight.
We'll be back after this.
Only in the place of the butterfly ballot could this next story happen.
Dangerously close to Port St. Lucy, Florida.
A South Florida trio is facing up to 20 years in prison after they were allegedly involved in a one million dollar toilet paper scam here in Palm Beach County.
Federal prosecutors said that the three people conned seasoned citizens into buying unnecessary septic products.
In some cases, more than 70 years worth of toilet paper.
According to the Miami Herald, the three worked for FBK products of West Palm Beach.
They told more than a dozen of their elderly victims that they needed the company's special toilet paper to avoid ruining their septic tanks.
They told their victims that the federal government changed regulations on toilet paper.
Federal government, though, doesn't regulate septic tank products.
So these people were totally yet.
My God, something the federal government doesn't regulate, folks.
Septic tank products.
So in telephone pitches, salespeople claimed a company was affiliated with the EPA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Agriculture.
One product, the 199 septic remedy treatment would eliminate the need to have their tanks pumped.
Victims were told that they needed a special soap, detergent, and toilet paper, or their septic tanks wouldn't pass federal inspection.
The EPA does not regulate septic tank products, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Three of the suspects, Christopher Lincoln, Mary Moore, and Joseph Noran this week pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to commit wire fraud.
Now, think about this.
You and two of your buddies want to get rich quick, and you devise a scheme to defraud seasoned citizens.
Okay, so what would you do?
If you wanted to defraud seasons, how many of you would think?
I'll tell you what, let's do.
Let's convince them they have to buy 70 years worth of toilet paper.
Of all things that you think you can panic senior citizens on, you decide on toilet paper.
Well, it didn't well.
Wait a second.
You say it worked.
I mean, but the story here's these people got caught.
But the point is, how did it work?
They told these seasoned citizens that what they were doing wouldn't pass federal regulation, that they would be in trouble with the federal government.
You know how they interpreted that.
Their Social Security might be cut off, their Medicare might be cut off.
That's how I'm sure they interpreted this.
You run it, you you tell people that what they're doing is a violation of federal regulations or law, and that the feds are going to come down on them.
And I guarantee you, these people are not going to take the chance that this is a hoax.
The fear of the federal government is so powerful that these three people convinced a bunch of unsuspecting seasoned citizens to buy 70 years worth of toilet paper.
Stop and think of this.
70 years of a special toilet paper only...
Good enough for certain septic tanks.
Well, I know.
I mean, you got you got seasoned citizens.
There's no reason somebody 70 years old should buy 70 years worth of toilet paper, so that'll end up in the will.
And then I want to leave little Johnny 20 years of the toilet paper that I bought.
It just it.
I'm telling these people about the well, where the hell is this happen?
Where else?
But where the butterfly ballot succeeded.
Palm Beach County.
Port St. Lucie's not in Palm Beach County, but it's dangerously close.
There could be some runoff.
Here's Jason, Dallas, Texas.
Jason, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Thanks, Rush.
I can't believe I waited 22 years to talk to you, and I have to follow the toilet paper story.
Well, it, you know, it's um your chance to make something of it.
That's right.
Hey, I I can't believe that Barney Frank gets to just walk away from it all.
After the chaos that he caused, the ruin that he laid the financial, the financial industry, housing crisis, his fingerprints are all over it, and now we don't even get the chance to defeat him in an election.
He gets to just walk away and have schools named after him and bridges named after him, and he's done, and that's it.
And he gets to move on with his life.
How irritating is that?
Yeah, it is irritating.
But the same token, you and I both know that Barney was not gonna come under uh any investigation.
He was not going to be held accountable for whatever happened in the subprime mortgage mess Or any of the other financial boondoggles that his fingerprints are on.
You know he's not going to be held accountable for it.
So he was he was always going to walk away from it.
Absolutely.
I think the thing that's irritating is you're right.
I do know that.
I think most people know that that the guys in Congress get to throw bombs and set fires and then act like they'd have nothing to do with it and walk away.
But with the redistricting, I thought, what kind of poetic justice would it be for him to finally lose an election?
Or at least have a shot at least.
Barney Frank's seat is wide open.
He didn't want to run for re-election.
He's never had to really.
His first election and the last one were the only ones he really had a contest.
He's never had to spend a lot of time or money uh campaigning.
And I don't think he wanted to this time.
I don't I don't think he wants to have to compete.
And he certainly doesn't want to be in the minority.
Absolutely.
I'll tell you what, though, whatever he said he wants to do, he wants to do other things in his life, I'd be nervous.
I mean, travel industry, they want to try to lay waste to that, the pharmaceutical industry.
I mean, what's next?
I'd want to stay far away from him.
Don't don't don't be surprised.
I mean, there he's they'll they'll they'll find something.
They'll find something.
Barney's not going to go away.
We'll have fun with it.
In fact, uh Obama just had a press conference, press availability, not a conference, in the White House cabinet room.
And Obama said this country has never had a congressman like Barney Frank, and the House of Representatives will not be the same without him.
And that, my friends, is probably very true.
No, no, no, no, no.
Barney would not.
Somebody just told me that Barney would love being spanked in an election.
No, no, no.
Not in an election.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Lisa in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you with us on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rice, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
I'm a new time listener.
And the reason being I was a Democrat, voted for Obama in the primary, and last month had Michelle Bachman at my house for a fundraiser breakfast.
That's the track that I have taken in the last three years, and I could tell you how and why.
I would you I've got about two minutes here, but how do you go from being an Obama voter to Michelle Bachman in your house?
Um my husband's always been a listener of yours.
I I have, and I fought him tooth and nail.
I was stubborn.
I was a teacher in New York.
I was a member of a union.
And I just believed what you said earlier that the Democrats were the people that you that had the empathy, not the Republicans.
Right, they care.
The best thing that happened was Obama getting into office because it changed me and made me look at the party for what it was.
And through this all, I have seen that instead they are the ones that are not caring about the people.
They are the ones that are putting us enslaved to the government.
And so what I'm trying to do is instead of whining and crying about it, I'm trying to get out there and help.
I'm working for the lieutenant governor that's running for North Carolina, Dan Forrest, run for us, run.
And um I'm working with him.
I had Michelle to the House, and I said, we are gonna change things around.
And the collar that you had earlier, I think with those type of people, like myself, see, I I feel sorry for them because I had the blinders on until I started listening to your show, started really seeing what is happening out there, that we have to treat them with kind of a respect just to say, I know I've understand where you're coming from, but let me show you the light.
And that I saw the light.
Well, I'll tell you, this is a heck of a conversion.
You are a teacher.
You're a member of a union.
You vote Obama.
You believe that the Republicans have no compassion, that the Democrats own it all.
And now look at you.
What a great call to end with here.
Yes.
So there's hope.
There is.
There is hope.
There's a lot of hope.
So that's what we do.
We liberate one mind at a time here.
That's what we do.
Thank you, Rash.
Uh no, thank you, Lisa.
I appreciate it.
That that is just that's real hope and change.
That is real hope and change.
Now, I mean, I'm I'm I'm fully willing to acknowledge my role in this, as she said.
But there has to be something else that was going on at the same time.
Because she this is a fast conversion.
You just don't go from loving Obama as a union member to we'll take it.
We'll take it.
Maybe I do have that kind of power.
Sure I do, yeah.
Mark Stein will be here tomorrow, my friends.
I have to um travel tomorrow in order to be somewhere tomorrow night during the time the program is on.
You're in good hands with Stein, and we will be back on Wednesday to ram it up and do it all over again.
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