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Jan. 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Guy, hang on, just reading something here real quick.
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Two stories.
Both they're weird, especially to lead off an hour with.
But I'm going to switch it up.
The Attorney General of the state of Virginia is a guy named Ken Cuccinelli, and he's worried.
He's really worried.
There's a new law in the District of Columbia that governs how pest control operators must handle rats.
Now, what do you think when you think of pest control operators and rats?
Like if you have a rat infestation, what do you do?
You used to.
You used to kill them.
Not in the District of Columbia.
I kid you not.
The District of Columbia.
No, you don't negotiate.
I'm not talking about human rats.
No, no, you are to round up entire rodent families and relocate them across the Potomac River into Virginia.
The people in the District of Columbia, big animal rights, I mean, this is what happens.
You go to school.
From grade school on, you are indoctrinated in this animal rights crap.
You grow up.
You become a global warmest and all these other liberal things.
And finally, you get a job in government.
And your job in government puts you in charge of animal control.
Then you encounter a problem with rats in the district.
And as somebody from age five on, who's been taught that there's no difference between a rat and a human being, you simply can't bring yourself to eradicate the rats.
Rat's just another animal.
It's not a problem.
We can't kill them.
That's not humane.
In fact, you come up with a law that says entire rodent families will be relocated.
Now, lately, there have been reports of growing rat.
This is a serious problem here.
There have been reports of growing rat infestations around the Occupy DC protests at Freedom Plaza, McPherson Square.
Ken Cuccinelli said that Washington, D.C.'s new rat law, which is the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.
I mean, folks, this is what happens.
You think this is harmless?
All this animal rights stuff and people watching all these Disney movies growing up and all the Lion King.
Oh, no, this is harmless stuff.
It's good for their children.
All these commercials that show a polar bear hugging a guy who drives an electric car, when in truth, the polar bear would eat the guy if he got anywhere near his electric car.
And then he would destroy the car.
But when you educate young skulls full of mush with this PAP and they grow up and find themselves into positions of power and government, this is what you get, the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010 in D.C. According to Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia said, this law is crazier than fiction.
It requires that rats and other vermin not be killed, but rather captured, preferably in families.
No glue or snap traps can be utilized.
The rodents must be relocated from where they're captured, and some of these animals may need to be transferred to a wildlife rehabilitator as part of the relocation process.
The law does not allow pest control professionals to kill the rats, Cuccinelli said.
They have to capture them, then capture them in families.
Now, how do you do that?
Can I just ask, how in the world do you identify a rat family?
Would somebody, no, seriously, but this is the law in the District of Columbia.
Okay, go ahead and laugh.
The daddy's name is Ben, right?
And then, well, this is the law.
This is what happens.
I guarantee the person in charge of this law was responsible for this law, I'm sure, thinks this is hunky-dory, humane, it's wonderful, doing everything she or he's been taught to do.
After you have found the rats and put them with their families, you then have to relocate them.
And that's what brings us to Virginia.
If you don't relocate them about 25 miles away, they'll find their way back, experts say.
So you have to relocate them in Virginia in this case or Maryland.
Exactly right.
So Cuccinelli says we have real concerns about this ridiculous law.
We've been pretty genial about dealing with D.C. on it, but when you see an article like rats occupy occupy DC, it points up the problem we're going to have in Virginia because of that.
And because D.C.'s really outrageous treatment of these vermin, who, for those who don't remember their history, carried things like the bubonic plague.
I mean, these are true vermin.
While the law exempts commensal rodents, commensal rodent varieties of which most people know or have seen as common rats or house mice, the rice rat and the deer mouse, which are found in the district, are not defined as commensal.
Apparently, they're not exempt from the law.
In addition, the new law expands the definition of wildlife and sets the rules for handling it to include raccoons, squirrels, skunks, and other animals that can carry disease, such as rabies.
The law applies to trained animal control officers, not to homeowners.
Okay, so there's that.
And the story goes on.
It's just more of the same, more of the same outrage from the surrounding states.
It's Washington, D.C. Why does it, look at Washington, D.C. is just as liberal as California is.
Oh, gosh.
If not more so.
Now, this takes it.
I said there's a companion.
There's two stories here.
The other story, by the way, the person behind this is the real supporter of this is a woman, Mary Che, C-H-E-A.
She's on the Washington DC Council.
So the D.C. Council Mary Che sided with the rats over human health, according to Cuccinelli.
As all the supporters of this law have.
They've sided with the rats over human health, which is Ingrid Newkirk.
Folks, this is PETA.
And it shows, I'm sorry to be redundant.
It shows what happens when you get a hold of these young kids in kindergarten on up and you start inculcating them with this stuff.
They're eventually going to grow up.
And if they decide to become activists in this stuff, this is what you end up with.
Now that next story is about the island of Monte Cristo.
The island of Monte Cristo is a very tiny island, one of many tiny islands, near Elba, Italy.
And the Count of Monte Cristo, the island Monte Cristo, actually was the inspiration for the book by Alexander Dumas, the Count of Monte Cristo.
But guess what's happened?
The uninhabited island of Monte Cristo, it's about four square miles, which is a small island, four square miles.
It lies between the coast of Tuscany and Corsica.
It has been invaded by thousands of black rats.
The rats are believed to have arrived on the island as stalways on boats a few years ago.
There are wildlife tours during the year that you can take and visit Monte Cristo, the island, but the terrain is very barren.
There's nobody that lives there.
Well, I've been a couple caretakers, but there's no population there.
It's basically an uninhabited, genuine rock.
But now the rodents have bred to the point.
What did I see?
The rodents, there's one rodent for every foot of the island.
That's how out of control it is.
One rat for every square yard of the island.
Biologists estimate that there's one rat for every square.
So you've got a four square mile island with all these rats.
So what are they going to do about it?
Well, thankfully, nobody that grew up in America has anything to do with this.
They're not going to invade the island and capture the rats in families and move them somewhere.
They are going to mass murder them.
They are going to drop poison pellets out of airplanes and other devices that will kill the rats.
But guess what?
There are opponents who are afraid that the pellets, some will miss the island and end up in the water and kill fish.
If they don't do anything about this, the rats are like polar bears.
They can swim.
They will leave if they have to.
They'll find somewhere else to go.
Rats can live anywhere.
Don't you know this?
Rats can live in freaking sewage.
So they're going to go in there.
They're going to drop 26 tons of pellets on the island of Monte Cristo at the end of this month.
As I say, some conservationists are worried because the pellets could accidentally land in the sea, killing fish and other marine life.
They say they could also pose a danger to the 1,000 tourists who are allowed to visit the nature reserve every year under a tightly controlled permit system.
But the authorities have dismissed those concerns.
No one wants to poison the island, said Francaz Danekelli, the director of the National Park Authority.
This project's going to be managed by experts.
He said, well, that's the biggest problem we've got right there.
The poison pellets are similar to those used everywhere to kill rats, except in Washington, where you can't kill them.
It's one area Europe's going.
I wouldn't mind following them.
Now, we mentioned this rat story last week.
The rat story, the explosion of the rat population around the Occupy D.C. protests.
And it was a story that was in the, I believe it was in the Washington, you know, Washington Post, rat populations exploded.
Two occupied D.C. camps, McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza.
The rat populations exploded since protesters started their vigil in October, according to Mohammed Achter, the director of the district's Department of Health.
Mohamed Achhter is originally from Pakistan and has worked for the district government for over 20 years.
He said the situation in these two parks is reminiscent of refugee camps that he has toured overseas in the Middle East and Africa during his public health career.
I mean, it's absurd.
Mary Che, the D.C. council, is all for this new law, a tenured professor of constitutional law at George Washington University.
What a shock.
It matters this cap and pebblum these kids are taught when they're young.
That's why this, you know, Gore's movie and all this that was I was telling parents left or do not let your kids watch this.
And if they see it, tell them it's a pack of lies.
New York subway workers are running a contest.
Rate my rat.
There are so many rats in the New York subway that they're taking pictures and they're posting pictures as a grand prize for the best ugly rat picture.
The workers are angered over what they say is a rat infestation in their workplace.
They got a photo contest for the nastiest shot of a rodent.
A grand prize is a monthly transit pass.
This Mary Che babe, C-H-E-H, she is the woman behind the DC plastic bag tax, which requires Washington, D.C. stores to charge a nickel for every plastic bag that a customer uses.
It's what happens, folks, when these liberals, that's why I've maintained for as long as I've been doing this program, it's all about ideology.
If you understand, if you can just come to grips with who liberals are, the rest is easy.
It's easy.
And everything makes sense once you come to grips with, once you have the maturity to admit what and who liberals are.
But the more people who continue to remain in the dark, the better for me.
You can't enlighten people who already know.
Jemmu Green is on Fox moments ago, the former president of the Media Center.
Did you know, folks, there is a giant conspiracy?
There's an economic conspiracy.
And the veil has been pulled back on the rigged economic system of this country.
Newt Gingrich and Perry pulled the curtain back on the rigged, their attacks on Romney and going after capitalism.
That's why I have defended Romney, because I'm part of the conspiracy.
And it is becoming a conspiracy theory.
The theory is that I was all for Newt and Perry before they revealed the big secret, the economic establishment.
And then guys like me had to drop it.
In order to protect the conspiracy, had to go after Newton Perry.
This guy, Jemu Green, was on with Greg Jarrett just this afternoon on Fox Happening Now.
And Greg Jarrett says these attack ads, direct ads from the candidates, are they hurting Romney?
Or in the case of Newt Gingrich, are they hurting him?
The conservative commentators who are coming after Gingrich in a bare-knuckled brawl.
Back in December, you had Rush Limbaugh defending Speaker Gingrich, but as soon as Gingrich and Governor Perry, in a sense, lifted the veil, removed the curtain from the rigged economic system that a lot of the conservative commentators don't want a light to be shined on, that's when they're all coming after him a lot more aggressively.
So, there you have it.
I don't know.
Jemu Green.
J-Mu.
Jemu Green.
Does it sound like a woman to you?
Okay.
She's head of something called the Media Center.
She's the former president of the Media Center.
I don't know where Fox finds these people.
How this, the secret, the conspiracy?
I'm still trying to figure out what it is.
All that happened was that Romney starts being attacked by Perry and Newt for being a capitalist.
Capitalism, you know, Newt starts talking about capitalism the way the left talks about it.
And capitalism is already attacked enough.
Capitalism is unfairly blamed for the mortgage meltdown and the economic crisis.
Capitalism wasn't in play, in fact.
If capitalism had been practiced, that wouldn't have been half the disaster there was, maybe not any.
The bad apples would have gone away.
Nobody would have bailed them out.
If capitalism had been in play, nobody would have been given a loan or couldn't pay the money back.
If capitalism had been ruling the roost, there would not be such a thing as a subprime mortgage.
Capitalism is very simple.
It's government that comes in and rigs the game, tries to make the impossible possible when it doesn't work, then blames capitalism for it, then comes up with even more government programs to fix the original program that caused the problem.
Anyway, there's now a conspiracy to protect the true evils of capitalism.
And Newt and Perry lifted the curtain on the true evils of capitalism, forcing me, El Rushbo, to abandon Newt and Perry at all costs in order to protect the rigged economy.
And that's the conspiracy.
Okay, Jemu Green.
We looked her up.
And it all makes sense.
In 2008, Jemu Green co-founded womencount.org, moveon.org for women.
She also was the former president of Iraq the Vote.
She also previously served as Project Vote's national director, the Democrat National Committee's Director of Women's Outreach.
So she's the one.
She has blown the lid on our conspiracy.
I'm actually glad that I have a conspiracy now that I can call my own.
It's been a while since I had a conspiracy I was in charge of.
I didn't see Fox and Friends this morning.
Ed Morrissey did.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Airy watched it.
And guess what?
Martin Luther King's niece was on Fox and Friends this morning, Dr. Alvida King.
And she said that were her uncle, Dr. King, alive today, he would be a pro-life social conservative.
How can you save people if they're dead?
Meaning, if they're aborted.
His niece says Martin Luther King would be a social conservative, a pro-life social conservative today.
No way would her uncle, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, stand by and say nothing about abortion.
Let the left chew on that.
And back to the phones to Art in Salem, Oregon.
Salem, Oregon, great to have you with us, Art.
Welcome to the program.
Mega Dittos, Rush.
I'm really upset about the news media thinking we're so ignorant and stupid.
We don't remember that at the beginning of the campaign, they touted that Romney and Huntsman were not going to do Iowa because Iowa was too conservative.
So they were both in New Hampshire pushing their more liberal stuff because they did not think they had a chance in Iowa.
And we're not stupid enough to fall for the news media touting Huntsman.
No.
No, you're not the target.
Informed Republican voters are not the target when somebody on the left like Scarborough says, well, this is sad.
Here you have the most genuine conservative in a group who can't get to first base because he won't say Obama's a socialist or you're not the audience.
The audience for that, remember, Obama is very, very, people are not happy with Obama on the left.
Obama's approval numbers are 40 to 42 percent.
The people behind Obama are trying to save.
They're trying to keep his voters with him.
They can't do it by singing Obama's praises.
They have to scare, not you.
You're committed to vote against Obama.
They have to scare people into not joining the Republicans because they hate Obama or they're mean-spirited, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, mean-spirited, whatever.
Those people are the target.
Mum's the word, though, Rush.
I personally sent 15 rats in the last year to meet their maker.
Did you really?
Yes, I did.
And, you know, you're very brave admitting that on this program.
Well, I tell you what, Rush, you know, I have grandkids that come over to my house, and I want to protect them, not the rats.
Well, you wouldn't make it in our nation's capital.
The nation's capital, you are a ratophobe.
And they would take you into an education camp and teach you about the beauties of rat families.
Clearly, Art, you're a rat hater.
And probably vote Republican.
This is how this all works.
I've been asked if I thought Scarborough said what he said because of strategy or because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
I wish you didn't ask me that.
I mean, I'm, you know, me.
I answer the question.
I don't fudge.
I think that's what you say when you have to keep your job at a liberal network.
I think that's what you say when you're trying to make a move.
If you're a known conservative and you're trying to make a move to the center and become a favorite son of the left, that's what you say.
It's where you work.
Pat Buchanan has been suspended from the place because of a book he wrote.
Pat Buchanan, not for something he said on MSNBC, but for what he has written in a book.
And they've filled, what's his name, Griffin?
Announced it.
They've suspended, and it may be permanent.
Well, Buchanan's out there selling his book.
He can't appear on MSNBC to do commentary.
Joanne in Spring, Texas, glad you waited.
You're next on the Russian Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
I'm calling in regard to the lady I heard earlier from Florida somewhere there in tomorrow about Romney.
I wouldn't trust Romney any further than I could throw a bull by the tail.
I was for him in 2008.
He went out.
To me, he's another John McCain.
I'm scared to death that Newt and Sandhorm are going to get out before they get to Texas.
Newt's got a lot of baggage, but we know what his baggage is.
Obama's got a lot of baggage, but we're not allowed to look in his suitcase.
And that's the way I feel about it.
Romney says he's against Obamacare.
I don't trust him to get rid of it.
Okay, why?
Wait a minute now.
I want to know why you don't trust him.
Because he flip-flops all the time.
He's got his finger to the wind.
He's flying in the breeze.
And he has never backed down on that.
Romney Care in Massachusetts.
Okay.
Let me ask you a question, a hypothetical, obviously.
It has to be hypothetical.
Let's say that you had a chance to meet Romney and talk to him for half an hour.
Just you and Romney.
And in that half hour, Romney said everything you believe.
Romney, and Romney, without you being prompting him, without you suggesting or asking a question or whatever, suppose he said things that mirror exactly what you say.
What would your reaction be?
That depends.
If I've listened to him before we had that sit-down talk, I wouldn't believe him.
What do you mean if you, oh, you mean just on the campaign stumper making a speech?
I had seen him out there talking, and then he sits down and he tries to convince me that what I'm liking is what he's going for.
Uh-uh.
I wouldn't believe him.
If he told you, again, hypothetically, and I've got a reason for doing this, and there's no wrong answer.
There's no trick here.
I'm asking you, because frankly, you sound like you're eager to be as honest as you can.
If Nitt Romney were in the room with you and said that he's running for president, because if he doesn't, his kids do not have a future as he had in this country if Obama wins and has four more years.
Would you believe him or not?
No.
And that's because I've been watching him.
And if he wants to come and try to change my mind now, it's too late.
I was for him.
To me, he's another John McCain, a wimp.
John McCain doesn't have a spine to stand up to anybody.
And I don't think Romney's got the spine to stand up to Obama.
You don't?
No, I sure don't.
Have you seen him?
I've been listening to him.
And when they talk on these debates, all they give is platitudes.
They never give an answer.
They talk, oh, they give a great speech.
And everybody comes along and says, man, what a great speech that was.
Well, I didn't think it was a great speech.
I didn't hear an answer out of any of them.
Has Romney stood up in your mind to other Republicans in the primary?
No.
Not in my mind.
He's not standing up to anybody or anything.
He's standing up for Romney.
Okay, so if he would not stand up to Obama, why is he doing this?
Why is he doing it?
Yeah, why do you think he wants to be president?
Why do you think he wants to go through the campaign where he wants to do all this if he's not going to stand up to Obama?
Because I think he's got something to prove to himself and to his daddy.
Ha ha.
I think his daddy, I think he's got to prove who he is that he's worth who he is.
I don't mind him making the money, and I don't.
And everybody wants to make money.
Newt wants to make money.
Santorum wants to make money.
Everybody wants to make money.
I like to make money.
Who wouldn't like to make money?
But nevertheless.
Well, I don't care about money.
Nah.
Well, whatever.
Anyway.
Just kidding.
I'm just trying to stir it with that.
I admire the fact that you went out and you went after your money.
And you didn't say, here, give me a handout to get it.
You went after it, you worked for it.
That's a different story altogether to me.
It's a success story.
And Romney went after his money, but he inherited from me.
Okay.
They got their money.
I just think he's got something to prove to himself and to a father that's dead.
A lot of us do that.
I think he's got a hidden agenda.
And his hidden agenda is that he wants to prove who he is, that he can be somebody.
All right.
So he's living.
And he's not really interested in us as a person.
He's got his made.
And he's with the establishment.
This is what I wanted to hear.
This is what I wanted to hear.
Now, I appreciate you sticking with me.
And I appreciate you, Joan, answering my questions because this is what I wanted.
This is the kind of stuff I want.
My name is Joanne.
Don't call me Joan, please.
Joanne, sorry.
Joanne.
Joanne's.
Okay.
No, that's all right.
That's all right.
A lot of people say Joan.
I don't know.
It's a way it's written here.
It's my bad.
No bigger.
Joanne, Joanne, Joanne.
And I've corrected it three times.
Okay, but I appreciate your answers here.
So you think Romney's trying to climb out of the shadow?
Yeah, I do.
I really do.
I listen to him.
I'm listening to what his father was, and he lost, and he couldn't get back in.
And he's gone around.
He had plenty of money back in 2008.
He dropped out.
Well, if he's got that kind of money, why did he drop out when I was for him back in 2008?
By the way, what changed 2008 to 2012?
I'm listening to him more, listening to it more, and getting more information about him about that.
Because he basically.
Is there anything he could do to convince you that you have him misunderstood?
No.
Really?
Nope.
Nope.
The sad part about it is, if he's the one that's nominated, I'm going to have to vote for him.
I don't want to.
I won't campaign for him, but I will vote for him.
But you're not going to convince me that he's going to get up there and change Obamacare.
He's going to shove it down our throat because he's for it.
He was for it first.
But he opens every debate and he tells everybody, including when he goes to fundraisers to people who've written checks for thousands of dollars, that the first thing he's going to do is start out in the process to repeal it.
So you think he's lying to you right off the bat?
You bet I do.
You know what lemmings are, don't you?
How they run to the ocean and everybody follows them.
Oh, lemmings.
Lemmings, yeah.
Yes, I don't know.
Of course, I know what a lemming is.
I think we got a United States full of sheep.
Meaning the voters.
They're going.
What I don't understand is why are we going with Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina?
What's the matter with starting in Texas, these bigger states?
So let's keep them out.
You keep knocking it out of the park here.
Lemmings are suicidal rats, by the way, if you wanted the truth.
And by the way, we've now learned that liberals are for the redistribution of rats.
Not just your money.
In D.C., liberals want to redistribute rats.
At any rate, you're echoing the sentiments of a lot of people.
Why are we starting with these two puny states?
One of them doesn't even assign delegates at the end of their process.
That would be Iowa.
Okay, Joanne, I appreciate your call.
And I've got to take a break.
We will be back.
Don't go away.
Here are the exact words of the niece of Alveda, Martin Luther King, Alveda King.
Here are her exact words on Fox this morning.
If he were alive today, my uncle would, quote, support the best quality of life, and that is conception to natural death.
How can the dream survive if we murder our children?
That's the niece, Dr. Martin Luther King, Alvida King, on Fox and Friends this morning.
How can the dream survive if we murder our children?
He would be a social conservative, pro-life social conservative.
Also, in response to Joan, and I don't want anybody to make any associations here or any assumptions here.
I'm not, it's not support.
Just want you to know: Mitt Romney gave away his inheritance.
He donated his inheritance to BYU's George Washington Institute of Public Management.
He joined the board.
He was vice chair of the Points of Light Foundation, which had incorporated his father's national volunteer center.
So he gave away his inheritance.
Newt has said on the stump that he wants to prove himself to his father and his stepfather.
He has said that a lot of people want to prove themselves to their parents.
There are a lot of people trying to climb out of the shadows of a famous parent or even not famous, but at least except in the area where one lives.
Who's next?
John, New Britain, Connecticut.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
You were talking about capturing rats and releasing them.
So I tell you, you know, this story, this rat story is dominating my email.
It's all over.
I got Snerdley telling me a rat story.
Well, my hometown of New Britain got a grant, a government grant from the federal government, to capture feral cats, neuter them, and then release them.
Now, if they're feral and if they're, you know, a hazard to themselves, why once you capture them, wouldn't you just put them to sleep?
They neutered them at a vet and then released them back.
And they said they did that because they wanted to end feral cats because they were starving.
They had diseases.
They had all this horrible life.
Well, let me tell you what.
You know, I can relate to this.
My federal money, though.
Well, I don't know, but same story here.
Not neutering.
But we've got on Palm Beach, we've got raccoons, we have foxes.
Foxes are out.
And the foxes are not afraid of people.
They'll come up into your backyard.
I've seen a raccoon taking a drink out of the pool.
And we used to have feral cats, or yeah, and they wanted to get rid of the feral.
They wanted to totally get rid of them.
And they did for a while.
Then they found out the fox population was growing.
So the feral cats are back.
And it all now works because the foxes had to swim here.
It's an island, or they had to be in somebody's trunk.
I mean, how does a fox get across a large body of water?
Anyway, so they're here, and that's all part of the ecology now.
Because the foxes and the raccoons population started to grow.
And now there are charities in Palm Beach that exist to raise money to feed the feral cats.
Some people are sending me emails reminding me that I admitted once to having murdered a mouse when I lived in Sacramento.
It amazes me what some of you people don't forget.
Yeah, I remember that.
It was in my first ever house that I ever had.
It was mine.
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