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Dec. 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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All right.
Rick Perry has now said he's not going to go to the Trump debate.
So right now, it's just Newt and Santorum, right?
Isn't that right?
It's just Newt and Santorum.
So Newt could probably debate himself.
So you could have three people there, two Newts and Santorum.
Romney isn't going.
Huntsman isn't going.
Huntsman called Trump a joke.
Or called the Trump debate a joke.
I don't think he called Trump a joke.
Meanwhile, you get Christine Todd Whitman wants Huntsman to run on the American elect ticket.
Third party.
Rick Perry has said, no, he's not going.
It's just going to be Santorum and Newt at the Trump debate.
Bachman, I don't think Bachman's, I don't know.
That's a good question.
I don't know what Michelle's going to do.
I don't know if she's going to this thing or not.
Well, any debate could be interesting.
Yes.
Could well be.
At any rate, before we get going here, I have to thank Herman G. Rowland Sr.
Folks, it's amazing how these things work out.
We have these little gift packages at 2F by T, the two mugs and the jelly beans, the jelly belly jelly beans.
And they're at the 2fbit.com website.
And they're fabulous.
I'm getting, as I told you, great feedback.
These are 14-ounce mugs in Made in America.
Me as Rush Revere on the mugs and then the catchy 2F by T slogan on the other side.
And we got, we just contracted to get the Jelly Belly Jelly Beans from a jobber.
I don't know who.
And we got a nice note from Herman Rowland, who owns or operates, is the CEO, actually chairman of the board of the Jelly Belly Candy Company.
They make jelly belly jelly beans.
They're the best jelly beans out there.
That's why we used them.
I didn't know this.
They're in Fairfield, California, which is not far from my adopted hometown of Sacramento.
We use red, white, and blue jelly beans.
And I happen to mention that my favorite jelly bellies are buttered popcorn flavor.
Have you ever tasted the buttered popcorn flavor jelly?
Well, today we got a bushel of them.
The jelly belly candy company sent stacks.
We got a silo full of buttered popcorn jelly beans.
I put some in there, Dawn.
You should go in there when you're not hassling Snurdly about something and have some.
I wanted to thank, no, Snerdley's complaining that you're domineering in there.
That's all.
I want to thank Herman Rowland, chairman of the board for Jelly Belly Candy Company for the jelly beans.
That's what it's like to be me.
That's what it's like to be me, the cable company showing up in a half hour to fix the mess that hadn't worked for three months, three weeks.
Bachman's still undecided as of this hour as to whether or not to appear at the Trump debate on Ion TV, DirecTV Channel 305.
Well, yeah, it looks like it stinks, but remember now, Trump's making noises about maybe getting back in the race.
And some of these candidates could be saying, look, if he's going to get back in, why should I subject myself to questioning from this guy if he's going to get back in the race at some point, or if he's going to be a candidate?
How does he get to play the role of non-candidate when he may actually end up being one?
I don't know that that's what they're thinking.
I have no clue what their thinking is.
But yeah, the CNN moderators are candidates on the other side.
Trump is a candidate on their side, ostensibly.
Now, there's something very suspicious happened here, though, about this.
You remember Eason Jordan?
The name ring a bell.
Eason Jordan, let me tell you this, folks.
Eason Jordan used to be the news director at CNN.
And during and leading up to the Gulf War, all during the 80s and into the, well, I mean, the 90s and the 2000s, early 2000s, Eason Jordan, CNN had a bureau in Baghdad.
And Eason Jordan ended up writing a column, it might have been the Wall Street Journal, I don't remember where it was, admitting that CNN did not report the atrocities that they knew Saddam Hussein was committing so as to keep their bureau open.
CNN, Eason Jordan, admitted that they covered up the news of Saddam Hussein so that they would still have a bureau open.
To which everybody said, well, what the hell good is your bureau?
If you're not going to report what's happening over there, why have a bureau?
Well, somebody at this Ion bunch hired Eason Jordan to put together the debate.
Eason Jordan has come out of retirement, or I don't know, he's retired, I don't know what he's doing now, but he's involved in some production aspect of the Trump debate.
And that caused some people some red flags.
I want to go back.
I mentioned this earlier.
You got Soundbite 29 ready.
Okay, for those of you that were, you're not with us this past summer, but you are now, just again, I want to show you my prescience, show you my ability, a finger on a pulse, my instincts.
This is from June the 7th.
It's a clip from this program.
Well, that's not exactly how it sounded when we did the program.
What happened there?
That's about a computer mistake.
Yeah, okay.
Still not working.
Okay, Brian, can you tell me?
Tell you what, during the break, I'll be able to run it out of my computer here, right?
Because I've got it on my computer.
Okay, I'll set it up, set it up during the break.
Anyway, this is where Romney said he believes that the world's getting warmer and that man's causing it.
That's where I said, okay, there goes the nomination.
That's why I said there goes a nomination.
You may not know it now, but there goes a nomination.
Snerdley says it sounded fine to him.
You just have to listen faster.
You got to be kidding.
You're not kidding.
How would I do that?
Sorry, folks.
Snerdley and I with a conversation as the program resumes here.
Okay, I'm told now that we have this soundbite from June 7th ready to go at the proper speed.
Let's try it.
Three, two, one.
Grab audio soundbite number 19.
Last Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the University of New Hampshire, Romney held a town hall meeting.
And during the QA, somebody stood up and said, nearly all the other candidates suggest that there is no scientific consensus on climate change.
Some insist.
And it's not even occurring.
We can't have a meaningful discussion about solutions until there's agreement about the problem.
Will you, sir, state now that under a Romney administration, global warming will be accepted as reality.
And this reality will form the foundation for all climate and energy policy.
And here's what Romney said.
I believe the world is getting warmer.
I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer.
And number two, I believe the humans contribute to that.
I don't know how much our contribution is to that because I know there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but I believe that we contribute to that.
And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you're seeing.
Bye-bye nomination.
Bye-bye nomination.
Another one down.
We're in the midst here of discovering that this is all a hoax.
The last year has established that the whole premise of man-made global warming is a hoax.
And we still have presidential candidates who want to buy into it.
Why?
Because in New Hampshire, they obviously care about it.
So you go to Iowa, say, hey, by the way, I'm all for ethanol subsidies.
And you go to Florida and say, hey, you seasoned citizens, I'm all for never-ending social security.
So wherever you go, whatever they care about there is what you're for.
I saw this.
I couldn't believe this when I saw it.
Bye-bye nomination.
I said it June 7th, and it is, it looks like it's just fading away out there.
And you want to know?
Some of you may remember this.
After I said bye-bye nomination, one of the talking heads in the media, one of the talking heads in the media said, thanks to Rush Limbaugh, all of these Republican candidates are terrified now of reaching out to mainstream voters.
So what that meant was exactly what I told you last hour.
The strategy here has been for Newt, or for Mitt Romney, to get this nomination as a moderate, not as a conservative.
Mostly in primaries, you run to get the base.
Then when you run in the general, that's when you move to the center.
That's the strategy.
That's what the consultants have given us.
The Republicans decided this time to split the conservative vote in the primaries and have the moderate win.
So by definition, thanks to Rush Limbaugh, all these Republican candidates now are afraid of reaching out to mainstream voters.
Mainstream voters believe in hoaxes.
Mainstream voters believe the lies.
And so we've got to appeal to the mainstream by telling them we believe the lies.
And now Limbaugh is gumming up the works.
Limbaugh is making our guys afraid to reach out to mainstream voters.
These are Republicans talking.
They don't want your vote.
Well, they want it, but they don't want it to matter.
They don't want your vote putting anybody over the top.
They don't want your vote being the difference in who wins or loses.
They want your vote, but they want our people to win with these independents and moderates.
And so you go out and you tell a candidate to say, oh yeah, there's global warming.
And you know what?
I think humans are causing it.
Right.
Go out and try to take an issue away from Obama.
You think you're going to get liberal, moderate votes simply by telling people.
It's idiocy.
Screw this.
Pragmatic.
We must be pragmatists.
We must be centrists and moderates.
And this is the McCain strategy.
It's the McCain strategy.
You remember how well that worked?
The GOP does not want a two-man horse race either between a conservative and moderate.
They don't want that.
Try taking nude out, trying to now if the conservative you know gets 10-20% of the vote, that's fine.
That'd be cool.
But they don't want a conservative leading.
They want no part of it.
Here's Gil in Philadelphia.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Listen, a score of dittos.
The reason I called was to talk about the drone thing.
In my opinion, there are a host of unanswered questions there.
You mean the in Iran?
Yeah.
The first thing is they say it lost its so-called tether, the communication thing.
I don't believe that in the first place because, you know, it's satellite communication and they use the, you know, multi-channel encryption stuff.
And I don't believe there's any way that the next thing is if they wait, wait, wait, wait.
This is not that simple.
You don't think that the United States government lost the tether connection to the drone?
No, well, it was obviously lost, but it wasn't just lost.
I believe somebody jammed the signal.
Oh, one of our people.
No, no, not necessarily.
I think that maybe the Chikoms.
You think the ChiComs jammed a tether?
Well, it's not an easy thing to do because first place it's satellite communication.
Have you considered mechanical failure?
Sometimes that happens with aircraft.
Yeah, but see, it reports back.
It constantly reports.
I have to tell you, I'm a pilot, and you know, you get infinite feedback.
You know, all you, it's instrumentation out the wazoo.
And if it were mechanical failure, they would say so.
Well, what if that broke down?
Well, but the other thing is...
I mean, black boxes don't report until you recover them.
No, huh.
They're pre-programmed.
If they lose communication, they have GPS on board.
They fly back to their base and land themselves.
All right.
So let's go.
So the CHICOMs effectively down our drone over Iran so that the CHICOMs can get it.
But there's more involved.
I mean, the first thing is the communication thing is not, you just don't lose it, okay?
Well, but the Department of Defense said it was mechanical failure.
The regime says mechanical failure.
Are you doubting them?
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask that question.
Well, no, I mean, yeah, I don't believe a thing they say.
I mean, nothing.
What's in this thing the CHICOMs could learn that they don't know?
Oh, my goodness.
The encryption codes, the remotes, the materials it's made from, the engines, there is no end.
The optics, the spy cameras, everything.
That stuff is really, really advanced technology.
That's a big, big deal.
But the other thing is, just imagine this for a second.
Suppose the drone did have mechanical failure.
That's not what I understand the reporting.
But let's say it did, and it glides to the earth.
How would they know?
Iran is a great big desert.
How would you find this tiny little airplane?
Let me tell you, they've got radar too.
Yeah, I I have to I've said what it would have to it have to no matter where it was end up at some altitude where it's in radar range.
Remember, when I went to Afghanistan, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
When I went to Afghanistan, well, I'm on a stupid UN DC nine.
We had to go all the way around Iran, over Pakistan and back down.
We could not fly over Iran.
They don't grant clearance over the airspace.
They know if you're in their airspace.
But the no, they don't.
The drones are stealth planes.
They have almost absolutely positively no prolonged.
Okay, so okay.
It's a stealth.
Yeah, it looks like it's a miniature stealth bomber.
Okay, so it lands and they don't know it, according to your theory, and yet they found it.
And yet they found.
And how do you find it?
I mean, it is in, you know, it would just glide and glide and glide and glide as you want.
And then it's out of the way.
Why is it they did?
What's the sabotage in them finding it?
They did find it.
I mean, we've got video of them walking around the thing.
That's my point.
Okay, well.
The fact that they found it tells you it was sabotage.
If there were an accident, Rush, they wouldn't even know to go looking for it.
How did they know it was there?
The CHICOMs discover it, they disable it, and then tell the Iranians, here's where it is.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a little more even complicated than that because it's one thing to jam the radio signal.
The other thing you have.
Do you fly black helicopters?
Do you fly stealth equipment?
Do you fly?
Do you know?
No, no, I don't.
Okay.
Well, look, this is, Gil, this is fascinating.
I've got a time crunch break I have to take here.
I appreciate the call, but I honestly had not considered much of that.
You're right.
All right.
Decided to look into this drone business here a little bit during the break.
Some of this stuff is actually.
I kid you not here when I tell you this.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of I'm sorry.
Based on the way they're categorizing this Muslim that went nuts at Fort Hood, I can believe this.
They said it's a workplace violence.
Do you hear about that?
That Hakeem Assam, whatever his name was, just workplace violence.
That's all it was.
It was nothing more than workplace violence.
No, it wasn't terrorism, and it wasn't Islamist-rooted.
It was workplace violence.
I know he was in touch with the guy that Obama killed.
Olaki is in touch with Owlaki.
So anyway, according, you know, actually, I'm getting punched drunk here.
According to the Wall Street Journal, I don't know if I'm going to be able to say this.
And Gil, if you're listening out there, this is going to heighten your suspicions even further.
The Department of Defense had a plan to retrieve the drone, but they decided against it because they didn't want to offend Iran.
Right, there it is in the Wall Street Journal.
They didn't want to offend Iran.
U.S.-made covert plan to retrieve Iran drone.
And from the same Wall Street Journal article, U.S. officials said the drone developed mechanical difficulties.
Remote pilots lost control of it.
Said officials knew immediately it had crashed in eastern Iran.
Officials worried that any option for retrieving or destroying the drone would have risked discovery by Iran.
Well, that's too bad because they found it anyway.
U.S. officials said no one warmed up to the option of recovering it or destroying it because of the potential it become a larger incident, which means we don't want to offend Iran diplomatically.
So they've got our drone and they're running around parading it.
So it will end up with the CHICOMs.
No, that's not a larger.
That's what I mean.
I'm getting punched.
I read things this regime does.
And like I said, I was fit to be tied when the program started, trying to find a way to, with civility, express my anger and rage.
Now, I just can't keep a straight face at it.
How do you know we haven't, Snordley?
How do you know we haven't sent them the plans to the drone?
Okay, look at you won.
Our drone crashed in Iran, and it's yours now.
That's fair.
We're interested in fairness.
I'm Barack Obama.
We've had too big an advantage over you all these years.
Here's everything about that drone.
Who's to say we haven't, Snerdly?
Toilet paper restrictions imposed on school children in Spain now.
The latest austerity cuts.
The Northeastern region, the UK Telegraph, Northeastern region of Spain, has been ordered to rein in its deficit and has embarked on a series of austerity cuts.
The latest edict issued by the region's Ministry of Education instructs state screws to cut excessive consumption of toilet paper among students and limit the quota to a maximum of 25 yards per child per month.
And they're going to measure it.
25 yards of toilet paper per child per month.
They actually, it's in their Euros.
It's 25 meters.
We ran the numbers on it.
82 feet of toilet paper is what every child gets.
Cheryl Crowe ought to be loving this.
I know girls need more, and I'm sure they'll think of that.
The boys will probably get 40 feet.
Girls will get 120.
Cheryl Crowe, remember, she wanted everybody to use just one sheet.
So Cheryl Crowism has found its way into Spain.
ABC News: Voters flee Democrat Party in key swing states.
President Obama's uphill battle to re-election is getting steeper.
ABC News.
A report released today by the centrist think tank Third Way showed that more than 825,000 voters in eight key battleground states have fled a Democrat Party since Obama won the election in 2008.
Lene Erickson, the co-author of the report, said the numbers show that Democrats' path to victory just got harder.
We're seeing both an increase in independence and a decrease in Democrats, and that means the coalition they have to assemble is going to rely even more on independence in 2012 than it did in 2008.
What this misses is that Obama doesn't care about this anyway.
He's going after the poor.
But look, ABC News with a story on how even more independents are abandoning the Democrat Party.
And look what the idiots in the Republican establishment are doing.
Neil in Matthew, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, I've got a bone to pick with you, Rush, about your 2FIT, specifically the unintended consequences that I have to deal with after entering your 2FIT promotional contest.
Yeah.
This year, my wife and I couldn't.
We couldn't afford to celebrate our 30th anniversary, and my only daughter, her 13-year birthday, she wanted a computer tablet.
So I entered the 2FIT Hawaii Trip iPad contest.
I figured, you know, whatever.
Let's see if I can win.
So, well, it was a few days after the 2FIT was delivered, on time, by the way, that I realized the unintended consequences of entering the contest.
My daughter is now hooked on Raspberry 2FIT, and if I'd let her, she'd drink it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
So now, instead of a one-time gig, I got to continue to buy Raspberry 2FIT to satisfy my daughter's.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
And if I extrapolate this on what you said at the beginning of the call, your daughter's behavior and demands for a constant supply of tea is taking you into poverty.
It's taken me completely into poverty.
Well, this is a shame.
Gee, what should I do about this?
Well, I don't know.
Listen, she loves it.
She loves this stuff.
I mean, my wife and I, listen, we got a case of it to enter the contest.
I got, I think, a bottle and a half, and I think my wife got one bottle.
The rest was hoarded by my daughter.
Well, that's the way kids are.
I mean, but I'm happy to hear she likes it.
I mean, that's great news, but you're going into poverty.
Yeah, well, you know, these are the unintended consequences of your two.
There's always voting for Obama.
You can do that.
Well, she's a rush baby, and I don't think she'd ever vote for Obama.
Yeah, well, so you said she wanted a tablet computer?
Yeah, whatever that is.
We got a desktop, an old desktop, but she wants a tablet or something like that.
So that's why I entered the contest.
You know what?
And you like the tea, right?
Love it.
Especially the raspberry.
And I can't wait for the new flavors to come out.
Oh, God.
These new flavors.
You know what?
We're going to sell out of these new flavors in.
You wait till you taste these.
We're not going to be able to keep these new flavors in stock.
Well, I'm waiting for Catherine to give me the clearance on this.
The new flavors are being bottled this week.
I mean, they're in the process of being bottled.
They're at the bottling plant right up.
The bottles are being filled to the brim with the new flavors.
But two new flavors.
But look at, we still got to go through the federal shelf life test.
You wouldn't believe the hoops to jump through to bring it to market.
It won't be that long because we did a lot of this prior to the bottling process starting.
But anyway, well, gosh, I'm in a quandary here.
I don't know what to do now.
Got a guy going into poverty here buying the tea.
I don't know.
What am I supposed to do?
Hey, Neil, Merry Christmas.
Glad to have you back.
800 to Joe in Huntsville, Alabama.
Greetings and welcome.
Glad you went.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very, very good, sir.
Thanks very much.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
How are you?
Very well, thanks.
My question to you is: so the Democrats are saying that unemployment's down.
Is it because all these people, all these stores are hiring part-time helpers?
And if so, what's going to happen after the holidays?
It'll go up.
Unemployment will go up.
Seasonal, it always happens.
But I'll tell you, the applications for unemployment are way down.
Historically, like 378,000, that's well below the 400,000 has been the average.
And nobody's talking about it today.
In the past, when applications on Thursday, every Thursday when the report came out, every application numbered it was the 398,000.
Stop the presses.
It was big news.
There was a sign that the job market was stabilizing.
And everybody was having an orgasm.
Now, today, we're at 378, 372,000, whatever it is, well below 400,000.
Nobody's talking about this.
Nobody in the media.
It's not in the wire services.
It's not on cable news.
Nobody's making a big deal.
Now it tells me that they know this is temporary.
And let me tell you, Joe, I'm going to tell you, the real fear is, you know, we get into next year a global recession.
Experts, I don't mean the media experts, people I talk to, it's a 20, 25% of one.
We're not out of the, we're not adding jobs.
We're reducing jobs.
The workforce is shrinking.
There is no way that we are adding jobs, folks.
This economy is not growing, and I don't care how the regime tries.
In fact, if Obama wanted an unemployment rate down to 0%, he would just cancel all jobs.
That's what they've been doing.
Not all, but they've been saying, okay, well, there's 300,000 fewer jobs available in America this week.
And so the percentage of people out of work is much smaller.
That's how it works.
Stanley in Enola, Pennsylvania.
Hi, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you again for taking my call.
You bet.
Longtime listener, first time caller.
I'm calling about a situation that happened here a few days ago when I went to buy coal from my coal stove.
It heats my house.
The owner operator said his suppliers, his supply was short, and his suppliers can't supply him as new permits are not being issued by the government.
And I can't confirm this, but I believe it because Obama, President Obama, has already stopped a waste coal powerhouse in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
Well, he has targeted coal.
He's made no, I wouldn't doubt this.
I think your suspicions are right on the money.
Totally valid.
He said, he has said he's targeting the coal industry.
He has said he wants it to be prohibitively expensive so that nobody goes into that business.
Our last caller, Stanley, nailed it.
For more than a year, the regime, Obama regime, has been doing a crackdown on coal permits.
And the whole coal industry is under more scrutiny.
They are subjecting coal mining to more scrutiny.
And I think coal permits of the kind he was talking about are down by more than 16%.
It's how he's killing off coal, just like drilling for oil.
It's happening.
Really, he saw it.
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