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Dec. 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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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 Newtons and Santorum.
Romney isn't going.
Huntsman isn't going to Huntsman called Trump a joke.
Or call 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.
So it's just, it's just going to be Santorum and Newt at the at the Trump debate.
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 uh at any rate, uh before we get going here, I have to thank Herman G. Roland Sr.
Folks, this uh it's amazing how these things work out.
I you know, we have these little um gift packages at 2F by T, the two mugs and the jelly beans, the jelly belly jelly beans.
And they're at the 2F by T.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 two of my tea slogan on their side.
And we got uh we just contracted to get the jelly belly jelly beans from a from a job or I don't know for who, and we got a nice note from uh Herman Rowland, who owns or operates as a CEO actually chairman of board of the Jelly Belly Candy Company.
They make jelly belly jelly, but 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 used red, white, and blue jelly beans, and I happened to mention that my favorite jelly bellies are buttered popcorn flavor.
Have you ever tasted the buttered popcorn flavor?
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'll put some in there, Dawn.
You should go in there when you're not hassling snerdily about something and and and have some.
I wanted to thank.
No, Snerdley's complaining that you're domineering in there.
That's all.
Um I want to thank Herman Rowland, chairman of the board for Jelly Belly Candy Company for the jelly beans.
It's just that's what it's like to be me.
That's what it's like to be mean the cable company showing up in a half hour to fix the mess that uh hadn't worked for three months, three weeks.
Bachmann's still undecided as of this hour.
As to whether or not to appear at the Trump debate on ION TV, Direct TV Channel 305.
Well, yeah, it looks like it stinks, but remember now, Trump's making noises about maybe getting back in the race.
Uh, and some of these some of these candidates could be saying, look, if he's gonna get back in, why should I subject myself to questioning from this guy if he's gonna get back in the race at some point, or if he's gonna be a candidate?
How does he get to you know 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 they're thinking is.
Uh uh.
No, but but yeah, but the CNN moderates or moderators are candidates on the other side.
Trump is a candidate on on their side, uh 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 in the 2000s, um, early 2000s, Eason Jordan, they had a CNN had a bureau in Baghdad.
And Eason Jordan ended up writing a column, I it might have been the Wall Street Journal, 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 Munch 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 he's involved in 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 somebody 29 ready.
Okay, for those of you that were uh you're not with us this past summer, but you are now.
Just again, I want to show you my prescience.
Uh uh show you my ability, a finger on the pulse, uh my instincts.
This is from June the 7th.
It's it's a it's uh uh clip from this program.
Well, uh 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 uh during the break?
I will I 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, uh that's there goes the nomination.
That's why I said there goes the nomination.
You may not know it now, but there goes the nomination.
Snergley says it sounded fine to him.
Just have to just have to listen faster.
You gotta be kidding.
You're not kidding.
How would I do that?
Sorry, folks.
Snurdley and I with a conversation as the program resumes here.
Okay, we we we 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 uh 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's been there have been periods of of greater heat uh and warmth in the past, but 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 and 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 seventh.
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.
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.
Go out and try to take an issue away from Obama.
You want to you you think you're gonna get liberal moderate votes simply by telling people it's idiocy.
Screw this.
Pragmatic.
We must be pregmatists, we must be centrists and moderates.
And uh 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.
Now if the conservative, you know, gets 10-20% of the vote, that's fine.
That that'd be cool.
But they don't want a conservative leading.
They want no part of it.
Here's uh Gil in Philadelphia.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Listen, a score of ditto.
The reason I called was uh to talk about the drone thing.
In my opinion, there are a host of unanswered questions there.
You mean the uh the in in in Iran?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The first thing is they say they it lost its so-called tether, the communication thing.
I don't believe that in the first place because uh, you know, it's satellite communication and they use the uh uh uh 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, I well, it was obviously lost, but it 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 Chicoms.
You think that you think the Chicom's jammed the tether.
Well, it's it's not an easy thing to do because firstly first place it's satellite communication.
Have you considered mechanical failure?
Sometimes that happens with aircraft.
What yeah, but see, it's the it reports back.
It constantly reports um I have to set tell you I'm a pilot, And uh, you know, you get infinite feedback.
You know, all you it it's instrumentation out the wazoo.
And if it were mechanical failure, they would say so.
Well well, what if that broke down?
Well, but the other thing is I mean black boxes don't report until you recover them.
Now, uh-uh.
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 is the communication thing is not you you just don't lose it.
Okay.
Well, but the way the Department of Defense said it was mechanical failure.
The regime says mechanical failure.
You d are you doubting them?
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ask that question.
Well, no, that's uh I mean, yeah, I do I don't believe a thing they say.
I mean, nothing.
The the national Okay, what's in this thing the ChICOMs could learn that they don't know?
Oh my goodness.
The the encryption codes, the uh the remotes, the the materials it's made from, the the engines, there are there is no end.
The the uh the the optics, the the spy cameras, everything.
That there was that that stuff is really, really advanced technology.
That's that's a big big deal.
But the other thing is, just imagine this for a second.
Suppose uh 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?
I Iran is a great big desert.
How would you find this tiny little airplane?
Let me tell you something, they've got radar too.
Yeah, I uh I have to I've said what it would have to it have to, no matter where it was, uh end up at some altitude where it's in the radar range.
I remember when I went to Afghanistan.
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
When I went to Afghanistan, well I'm on the stupid UN DC nine.
We had to go all the way around Iran over Pakistan and back now.
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 the drones are stealth planes.
You they have almost absolutely positively no project.
Okay, so okay, it's a stealth yeah, it looks like it's a miniature stealth bomb.
Okay, so they 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 it is in you know, it would just glide and glide and glide and glide and glide.
It and then and then it's out of the way.
Why does it they did?
What what what's now what's the sabotage in them finding?
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 it was sabotaged.
If there were an accident, Rush, they wouldn't even know to go looking for it.
How did they know it was there?
So 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 the uh radio signal.
The other thing you have Do you fly black helicopters?
Do you do you 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 have I've got a time crunch break I have to take here.
I appreciate the call, but it I honestly had not considered much of that.
You're right.
All right.
Uh decided to look into this drone business here a little bit during the break.
This some of this stuff is actually uh c I I kid you not here.
Well, I tell you this.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of I'm sorry.
Based on the way they're categorizing this 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 uh uh ha Hakim Asa, whatever his name was.
Uh just workplace violence.
That's all it was.
It was nothing more than workplace violence.
No, it wasn't terrorism and it wasn't is it wasn't Islamist rooted.
It was workplace violence.
I know he was in touch with the guy that Obama killed.
Olocky.
He was in touch with Olackey.
Uh so anyway, according I'm g you know, I I Actually, I'm getting punched drunk here.
According to 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 bunched.
I read things this regime does.
And uh like I told I was I was fit to be tied when the program started, trying to find a way to with civility, uh express uh my anger and rage.
Now, I I just can't keep a straight face at it.
Who how do you know we haven't, Snorley?
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 on Barack Obama.
We've had too big an advantage over you all these years.
So we're here.
Here's here's everything about that drone.
Who's to say we haven't, Snerdley?
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 reign 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 scruels 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 gonna measure it.
Twenty-five 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 Crow ought to be loving this.
I know girls need more, and I'm sure they'll think of that.
Boys will probably get 40 feet.
Girls will get 120.
Cheryl Crow, 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 of 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.
Linnae 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 the Obama doesn't care about this anyway.
He's going after the poor.
But here 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 two of my tea.
Specifically the unintended consequences that I have to deal with after entering your two of IT promotional contest.
Yeah.
Um this year my wife and I could we couldn't afford to celebrate our 30th anniversary, and my only daughter, for 13th year birthday, 13-year birthday, she wanted an I uh uh computer tablet.
So I entered the two FIT Hawaii trip iPad contest.
I figured, you know, whatever.
Let's see if I can win some.
Well, it was a few days after the two of IT was delivered on time, by the way, that I realized the unintended consequences of entering the contest.
My daughter is now hooked on Raspberry 2 of IT, and if I'd let her she drink it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
So now, instead of a one-time gig, I gotta continue to buy Raspberry 2 of IT to satisfy my daughter's appetite.
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.
She listen, she loves it.
She loves this stuff.
I mean, my wife and 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, uh but I'm I'm I'm happy to hear she likes it.
I mean, that's great news, but but you're going you're going into poverty.
Yeah, well, you know, these are the unintended consequences of your two or five emotional context.
There's always voting for Obama.
You could do that.
Well, she's a rush baby, and I don't think she'd ever vote for Obama.
Yeah, well.
So she 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.
I don't think it so that's why I went that's why I entered a contest.
Uh, gee, I tell you, you know what?
I'd say you uh 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.
I you know what I'm I'm I'm so we're gonna sell out of these new flavors and uh in a uh it isn't gonna be long.
You wait till you taste these.
We're not we're not gonna be able to keep these new flavors in stock.
Yeah.
Well, I don't that's it.
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.
New the bottles are being filled to the brim with the new flavors.
But two new two new flavors.
But look at we still gotta go through the there's federal uh shelf life tests.
I mean, you you you wouldn't believe the uh the hoops to jump through to bring it to market.
It won't be that long, because we did a lot of this uh prior to the bottling process um starting.
Uh but anyway, well, I'm uh quandary here.
I don't know what to do now.
Got a guy going into poverty here buying the tea.
I don't know.
I what I how what am I supposed to do?
Hey, Neil, Merry Christmas.
Glad to have you back.
800 toe in Huntsville, Alabama.
Great uh greetings and welcome.
Glad you waited.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very good, sir.
Thanks very much.
Long time listener, first time caller.
How are you?
Very well, thanks.
Uh 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 uh part-time helpers?
And if so, what's gonna happen after the holidays?
It'll go up.
Unemployment will go up.
Seasonal, it's all it always happens.
But I I'll tell you, the uh applications for unemployment uh are way down.
I'm but uh historically they're like three hundred and seventy-eight thousand, that's well below the four hundred thousand has been the average, and nobody's talking about it today.
Um in the past, when applications on Thursday, every Thursday with a report came out, every application numbered it was it was three hundred and ninety-eight thousand stopped 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.
Tells me that they know this is temporary.
And I let me tell you, Joe, I'm gonna 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, they said 20, 25 percent of one.
Uh we're we're not out of the we're not adding jobs, we're reducing jobs.
The the workforce is shrinking.
There is no way that we are adding jobs.
Folks, we're this economy is not growing, and I don't care how the regime tries to.
In fact, if Obama wanted an unemployment rate down to zero percent, 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 uh 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.
Uh longtime listener, first-time caller.
I'm calling about uh a situation that happened here a few days ago when I went to buy coal from my coal stove.
Uh heats my house.
The owner operator said his suppliers 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's already stopped a waste coal powerhouse in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
Well, he has targeted coal.
He's made he's made no I wouldn't doubt this.
I 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.
*sad*
For more than a year, the uh regime, uh Obama regime has been doing a crackdown on coal permits.
Uh, and their the whole coal industry is under more scrutiny.
They are subjecting coal mining to more scrutiny.
And I think uh coal permits of the kind he was talking about are are down by more than sixteen percent.
It's it's it's how he's killing off coal, just like drilling for oil.
It's it's happening.
Really he saw it.
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