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Jan. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 24, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
But Stein will be here tomorrow to tell you how Newt blew it.
Yeah, Romney was no better, and we're all screwed.
And then I'll be here Wednesday, we'll clean it all up and and and have fun and whatever.
So you have um Stein's good.
No, no, I'm just having fun here.
Yes, thanks.
Thanks for that, Rush.
Thanks.
Within fifteen minutes of the end of yesterday's show.
I'd received like thirty-seven thousand emails from from Newt supporters saying, You gutless inside the beltway cocktail sipping rhino squish.
You don't have the guts to support the only true conservative in the race, you metrosexual pansy.
So I I got so clobbered by Newt's guys uh by about uh twelve minutes past three Eastern yesterday that I that I feel uh uh like I've already beaten up on Newton.
I don't need to do it.
So maybe we can talk about uh something else today.
But yes, America's Anchorbad is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Honored, uh honored to be here.
Uh Rush will, as he said, he'll be back Wednesday to clean up the mess I'm about to make.
Uh he said he said he was unaware uh that uh that there was a debate, a Republican debate last night, uh which I find very interesting, because he lives in the state.
The debate was in his own state, and he was entirely unaware there was a Republican debate.
Uh at uh I sat through that show.
Uh I sat through that whole thing last night, and uh I was unaware uh there was a Republican debate.
Because uh whatever that thing was, it certainly wasn't a Republican debate.
So we will I regret to say uh get into that a uh a little later.
1-800-282 uh 2882, but maybe as I said, we'll talk about some other stuff today.
It's the State of the Union.
Uh President Obama has invited Warren Buffett's secretary to be there for the big event.
The most famous secretary since uh Perry Mason's.
What w what was her name?
Perry yeah, no, uh Warren Buffett, mister Mr. Surdley doesn't uh believe that we got the full A team, by the way.
If you're worried after the way Rush set up the show, don't worry.
He set up the show as such a disaster in waiting that we've got both H.R. and Mr. Snerdley here.
So it's the entire EIB A team to go along with the Z team guest host.
Uh Mr Mr. Surley wants to know whether that's a joke.
No, Warren Buffett's secretary is gonna be the guest of honor at the state.
Well, I assume she's a guest of one.
I don't know.
Maybe she'll be uh taking dictation.
I don't know.
But uh it's uh it's uh well I think Warren Buffett, I think Warren No, I I would imagine US taxpayers paid to fly with mister Mr. Snerdley.
Don't worry, it's just a rounding error in the great sucking moor of the U.S. Treasury.
Anyway, uh she's uh she's she's gonna be there.
She'll be uh she'll be taking dictation because uh as we know, Barack Obama is a great dictator, so she'll be she'll be taking it and uh and uh uh we'll talk about that a little later.
1-800-282-2882.
We are live in New York City today, the heart of Midtown Manhattan, because uh as H.R. said to me, it's it's great for guys like me to come down from the mountains and see how the one percent uh lives.
We're gonna talk about the debate.
Mr. Snerdley, by the way, he was in uh he was in a hotel last night, and the hotel TV system is this right, wasn't working.
So uh so he was unable to see the NBC presidential debate moderated by Brian Williams.
How great is that?
I don't know what hotel that is, but that's the only place in town I want to stay at from now on.
Um I got uh I got confused.
Uh NBC presented the debate as a uh rocks uh a rock center special, and I got confused and I thought it was the 30 rock special, and so the like the debate would be moderated by Alec Baldwin, which would have been a riot.
Uh but instead, apparently Rock Center, I don't know, I've never seen this show, but apparently it's some lame o news light show full of soft features that nobody's interested in, uh hosted by um Brian Williams.
That's funny.
Just just saying his name.
I'm I'm falling into a catatonic state.
Uh Vizarre.
Brian Williams.
By the way, Brian, does Brian Williams make a living in this uh in this line of work, uh guys?
He's like uh he's I'm don't know I know nothing.
I'm just a foreigner, I'm just off the boat.
He's he's Brian Williams is a really nice guy, says HR.
Oh, wait a minute.
You're what you're you're trying to caution me that he's a friend of Rush's.
I don't care.
I'm gonna be reckless.
I don't care if he is a friend of Rush.
Cancel my contract.
I'm gonna barricade the door.
You can drag me out here.
I I don't care what you say.
I don't care.
I don't care if uh if he and Rush are in some kinky newt style open marriage.
That was a disgraceful performance last night.
That was the way out doubt.
Bring back Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos.
Uh that was ridiculous that show last night.
Why do the the Republican Party, why do the Republican Party fall for this thing?
Why do the Republican Party fall for this every time?
Every time, you know, the debate analysis well, George Stephanopoulos and Diad Sawyer, I think really damage themselves.
George Stephanopoulos asking that c question on contra federally funded contraception or whatever the hell it was.
He really damaged his reputation.
And then there we are a week later, with the same old guys asking the same old questions all over again.
And uh but let's while I'm while I'm uh working up a head of steam about Brian Williams.
By the way, don't listen to me say Brian Williams if you're operating heavy machinery or driving on the interstate.
Uh uh Brian Williams comes on and he says, first of all, the audience, the audience is not allowed to applaud or cheer or hiss or boo or do anything, because this is a very serious debate, and we don't want to detract for a nanosecond from the immense seriousness of this debate.
Uh where do you I mean where first of all, where do you get off on this man?
I mean, Newt now says he he's never going to accept those terms ever again.
You should have thought about that, Newt, before the debate.
It's un American that.
If you're into control freak crowd management on the Brian Williams NBC scale, push off to Pyongyang and do the announcement of Kim Jong-il's death, you know, under under rules agreed by all participants.
We will begin with 25 minutes of weeping and a wailing.
Uh, you know, come on, cry cry harder, you losers in the fourth row.
What kind of self-respecting, free-born American citizen agrees to sit on his hands during a presidential debate?
And then, and then, and then, having said, oh no, we can't have any expression of human emotion during this debate, because every second has to be spared for this very serious discussion of topics of vital concern to the electorate.
Uh having said all that, then to demonstrate his mastery of debate moderation, he talks about this for the next two hours.
These are the topics Brian Williams discussed in with his expertise, his mastery of debate moderation.
These were what Brian Williams identified as the key issues in this election in reverse order of importance.
Putting a man on Mars, sugar cane, sugar beat, Fidel Castro, Terry Shivo, Elian Gonzalez, Jimmy Buffett, Anita Bryan.
I I wait, I think they ran out of time before the Anita Bryan question.
This is I haven't checked in with NBC today, but I will bet if you go to the NBC news analysis now, they'll all be saying, Oh, the Republicans.
They're not talking about the issues Americans care about.
They're talking about uh, you know, exploring Mars and and sugarcane.
Whose fault is this?
It's the Republican Party's fault for putting up uh with uh with with debate moderators uh from the drive-by media who are not there to do the Republican Party any favors.
So we spent 90 minutes or whatever it was last night, 90 minutes talking about uh putting exploring Mars and sugarcane.
Exploring Mars and sugarcane.
Um by the way, if you buy a Mars bar, I think it's got sugar cane in it.
So uh for all I know, the entire dip thrust of the debate could have been inspired by the vending machine that Brian Williams saw outside the hall ten minutes before he went in to moderate the show.
This Mars and sugar, Mars and sugar.
These are the critical issues facing the Republic.
Uh so in the second hour we're gonna be talking about sugar cane, sugar beet, which you prefer.
Do we uh do you go with beat or cane?
Beat cane cane beat.
We'll talk about that in the second hour.
Uh we'll talk about uh Mars, putting a man on Mars, putting sugar cane on Mars.
I think I think we could really uh really kick start the economy if we sowed sugar whatever you do with sugarcane.
I don't pretend to be an expert.
I'm just like uh Newt Rifonoff the stuff here.
Uh we'll sew the entire planet of Mars with sugarcane, revitalize the economy, create uh jobs.
Uh we can send millions of Latin Americans up there to do the jobs that Martians won't do.
At the end of the debate, at the end of the debate, they cut to some analysis.
And then went back to Brian Williams sitting in front of an entirely empty hall, and he said, quote, the room has cleared remarkably quickly.
You don't say, man.
I'll bet I'll bet that was a world record.
Um I think it was uh Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the Supreme Court who famously said that there is no right falsely to shout fire in a crowded theater, because it may cause a stampede.
Uh but uh whatever Oliver Wendell Holmes had to say about that, do not try shouting Brian Williams in a crowded theater, because they will be they will be running screaming, fleeing for the exits.
Now the debate wasn't entirely uh without interest.
Uh asked a question about illegal immigration, Mitt Romney said he believed in quote, self-deportation.
Self-deportation.
I don't know where you go to apply for it, but after twenty million twenty minutes of Brian Williams, I was ready to try it.
And so but in the third hour of the show today, in the third hour of the show, I will attempt self-deportation.
It's a radio first here at the EIB network.
I will attempt self-deportation.
If you want to try to self-deport along with me, you should be wearing loose clothing and sitting in the lotus position.
Okay, so then after that, after that, he turns to uh Terry Shiver, the death of Terry Shiva.
Uh and uh and they had a question uh uh about that.
Uh which gone back ten years now.
By the way, I uh I'm very sympathetic to Rick Santorum's position on Terry Shivo.
I think uh it's it is extremely worrying that uh some guy can basically get another human being ordered starved to death in the United States.
Uh but is there a single Floridian?
I mean, maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe forty percent of the population of Florida as they go to the polls in the year uh two thousand and twelve, this is uppermost on their mind.
They didn't even get the question right, by the way.
They confused it with do not resuscitate issues.
Do not resuscitate has got nothing to do with Terry Shivo.
Do not resuscitate is what the janitor at NBC should have placed on the NBC uh uh debate half an hour into uh Brian Williams' moderation of it.
Do not resuscitate.
It's beyond resuscitation.
It was in a vegetative state.
Uh sugar subsidies.
Then we moved on from Terry Shivo to sugar subsidies.
Uh Newt gave a brilliant answer to this.
Sugar beet hides behind sugar cane.
Sugar beat.
And this is what I love about Newt.
I mean, uh it f is there any other candidate who would give that answer.
He stood there and said, Sugar beet hides behind sugar cane.
H.R. has left the room, and I believe he's the only bad here.
Do you know what he meant, Mr. Snerdley by that?
Sugar beet hides behind sugarcane.
I had no idea what he was on about.
I mean, I know if you go to like if you go to Price Chopper and you're walking down the aisle, you'll sometimes find that like granulated sugar hides behind confectioner's sugar.
But I didn't know about uh sugar beets hiding behind sugarcane.
That that was new to me.
It's it Yeah.
In the Newt book, in Newt's bo Yeah, you're right.
He's written like three hundred books.
He's probably got one out there on sugarcane.
Anyway, cane sugar, beet sugar, cane sugar, beat sugar, cane sh cane sugar beat Obama?
I don't know, but uh cane Obama beat sugar.
Who knows?
Mars, Terry Shivo, sugar beet.
These are the questions that NBC and the Republican Party that stupidly agrees to let its debates be moderated by NBC, that agrees to let itself be presented to the nation by NBC, these are the questions.
And then we go to Fidel Castro, the Fidel Castro question.
And we're asked the question about what's going to happen when Fidel Castro dies.
And Mitt says we should thank the Lord that Fidel has met his maker.
And Newt, Newt, opening up clear blue water between Mitt on this vital issue, says Fidel won't be meeting his maker.
He's be headed to the other place.
And that was the big policy disagreement of the night.
Romney says Castro's going to heaven, and Gingrich says Castro's going to hell.
I I hope he's not I hope he's going to an unending debate moderated by Brian Williams for all eternity.
Welcome back to our debate.
Uh Chairman Castro, If you were a sugar, what would you be?
Cane sugar or beet sugar.
In other news, in other news, we will get to other news today.
Rand Paul was detained by the TSA.
The bad news is he missed the march for life in Washington.
Uh the good news is he missed the NBC presidential debate, moderated by Brian Williams.
Why do Republicans uh the Republican National Committee allow their candidates to be presented to the nation by these guys?
1 800 282 2882, Mark Stein Infrarush, and lots more, straight ahead.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Uh the Boston Bruins star goaltender, Tim Thomas, uh said uh last night that he is declining to visit the White House today to meet with the rest of his uh Stanley Cup winning team because he believes the federal government is, quote, threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people, unquote.
Wow, I like I like uh I like the sound of this guy.
Why can't we have him in the uh in the Republican debate?
This uh pol Politico reported on Thomas's snub of President Obama for political reasons.
The President congratulated the rest of the Boston Bruins on their Stanley Cup victory at the White House reception, uh but Thomas was notably absent.
He said, Quote, I believe the federal government has grown out of control.
He's not wrong on that, by the way.
Threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people.
Uh I'm not sure he's wrong on that either.
Uh he's not wrong on that, in fact.
Th this this kind of micro management, micro federal federal regulatory state, when you have phrases in the Obamacare bill that uh the Ca Kathleen Sibelius, that the Secretary of Health shall determine the appropriate level of quote tooth level surveillance, tooth level surveillance.
Uh I don't think that's uh that's something the founders of this country would have gone in for.
Threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people.
This is being done at the executive, legislative, and judicial level.
This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers' vision for the federal government.
Because I believe this, today I exercise my right as a free citizen and did not visit the White House.
This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion, both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country.
This was about a choice I had to make as an individual.
This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic.
So if you're looking for red meat in this uh in this uh election year, Boston Bruins star goaltender, Tim Thomas, is the go-to guy.
He declined to attend the Stanley Cup reception uh with President Obama at the White House.
By the way, why is the President of this republic holding receptions for uh for cups and prizes named after Canadian viceroys of the British Crown?
That in itself is a very curious phenomenon.
Stanley uh Stanley and Mr. Snerdley was asking me about this before the show.
He said, Who is Stanley Cup?
He thought it was the same guy who was in the Stanley Steamer business, and when the bottom dropped out of the steamer business, he decided to move into uh into hockey.
No, uh Stanley is uh uh Lord Stanley of Preston, uh sixth Governor General of Canada, and sixteenth Earl of Derby.
Uh it's very odd to me that they're having a big reception at the uh i in the Mr. Stanley now says, how the hell does he get a cup here?
He got a cup.
He got a cup because he was Governor General of Canada, where they played hockey.
Uh where this is where hockey's played on ice.
Mr. Snerdley, he's he's in New York today from uh from Palm Beach, uh glorious uh sunny Florida.
I is there a lot of hockey being played on the swamps of the Everglades?
No, because there's no ice.
There's ice in Canada.
When they laid out North America, Canada got the part with ice.
And so that's why Canada had hockey and Canada had a Stanley Cup because he gave a prize for hockey, and then the US guys, they all say to the Canadian teams like the Quebec Nordiques and all these ones, uh, oh, why don't you come down south?
We can we can get you.
We'll b come down to our town.
Instead of playing up in some broken broken down podunk town up by Hudson's Bay, why don't you come down to our town in wherever it is sunny San Diego or or Fort Lauderdale, and we'll get we'll we'll get med municipal subsidies to build your fabulous stadium and and you don't have to worry about live it up there, play it on the ice at Hudson's Bay, two two miles south of the Arctic Circle, freezing your butts off.
Now we'll get government subsidies to be uh build st big s big stadium down in the Sunbelt.
And so that's why the Stanley Cup teams are playing down there.
That's a that's like a shortcut version of the history of the National Hockey League.
I'm just uh I'm just wigging it here.
But anyway, Tim Thomas, Tim Thomas has said he is declining to go to the White House today because the federal government is threatening the rights, liberties, and property of the people.
I don't know what he's like on the ice when he's played with the boss of broods, but I say go, Tim.
We will get into that.
And we will also get it.
Newton used a great phrase on last night's debate.
He said he's not gonna be a president merely to quote manage the decline, unquote.
That is a great expression from Newt, and we're gonna explore that in more detail.
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We're talking about the so-called debate last night.
Uh, just to go back to that, uh just a clarification, by the way.
Uh Mike points out on the Stanley Cup uh event at the White House.
Mike uh points out that Mr. Snerdley does not think the Stanley Cup is what uh the guy with the Stanley Sneamer business went into.
Uh he thinks the Stan the Stanley Cup is an athletic support made by the Stanley Tool Company.
I think uh I think John Kerry wears one when he's windsurfing off Nantucket.
Um John Kerry uh visited the uh the White House uh yesterday with two black eyes and a broken nose.
You should have seen the other fella.
I don't know what I don't know what that is.
There's a story there.
None of us know what it is.
Did he ask Teresa if if he could have one of these Newt-style open marriages?
I don't know.
We'll we don't know the full story here.
But he uh he shows up at the White House with uh two black eyes and a broken nose.
So we're we're we're we're gonna get the yeah, I think he uh he asked for an increase in his allowance and uh Teresa went Teresa Webbers.
So we'll never we're gonna try we're gonna get our crack investigative unit.
We're gonna do to John Kerry uh what the media did to Sarah Palin.
We're gonna we're gonna uh send every like they send everyone to Wazilla.
Uh we're gonna send uh everyone up to Massachusetts and get and get to the uh bottom of that.
Uh let us go to Bruce in Greenville, South Carolina.
Bruce, you're first up on the Rush Limbaugh show, and it's great to have you with us today.
Well, thank you.
Um yeah, I watched the debates last night on uh a Newt Gingard supporter.
I'm uh out of Gringall, South Carolina, just voted for him.
But um for the first time I wasn't even as uh impressed with Newt's debate, mainly this is I feel very strongly about this, and this is it.
If Newt can get the public to focus on his message, his debate, his amazing record, his speaker, if that's the focus, he'll win hands down.
That's what he's been doing.
However, if he lets his opponents get the public to focus on negative ads and pack ads, then you're gonna see his numbers start to slide like they did in Iowa.
He's got to find a way.
I I think he should take the high road and turn right to Romney and say, and this is Bruce's advice to Newt, if he'd listen, but uh turn to him and say, hey, uh we should all stop the negative ads and the negative pack ads and all that stuff.
And he give that Keith what he should do is just look at him and say, my pack ad, and it's you know, he has nothing to do with it, he has no control of it, but he can just say, I'm gonna request that they stop running those pro choice ads that uh like you know, like Romney's pro-choice.
He's not.
Everybody knows you he used to be, but they're running that ad like he still is.
And you know, I don't like that ad.
Every caller that calls in every talk show I ever hear, nobody likes negative, you know.
And they if he would he turn to him and you say, I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna ask them to stop running that ad because I know you've had a change of heart.
I know you're that you're uh a sincere change of heart, and I know that you're not pro-choice, that you are pro-life now, and it's wrong of them to do that.
So I'm gonna take care of my people to request to do that.
You see, people would like that.
Everybody wants a positive campaign negative.
Here's here's the thing, Bruce.
Uh a lot of the commentary thinks that Mitt uh did himself a lot of favours by uh going nuclear on uh on Newt last night by going on about Freddie Mack calling him an influence peddler, uh saying he had to resign the speakership in disgrace.
I I dissent from that slightly because the whole point about Mitt, Mitt's entire rationale for his candidacy, is that he's the house train guy.
He's haw he he wasn't just he wasn't running for the nomination.
He was running as if he'd already got the nomination.
In fact, he was running as a kind of incumbent, you know, lofty, statesmanlike, above it all, barely talked about the other candidates, uh was always talking about Barack Obama, talked in all these uh soft focused generous j generalities.
You know, I believe in America in an America where millions of Americans love the opportunities of an America that's believed in by millions of Americans.
That's the America I love.
He was just doing all that, and then suddenly, last night, he's he's there and he's having to uh and he's and he's having to stand there and land blows on uh on Newt, and some of them were effective, but they came at the price of sort of shrinking his uh stature.
And I don't I and and it was fas it was hilarious in a way to see Newt uh doing the uh talk show circuits afterwards and say, well, you know, I thought Mitt was a desperate character, and Mitt and and they've swapped roles.
Newt is now being lofty and above it all that all the rest of it uh in instead of being Mr. Angry.
And so I don't I'm not persuaded uh that that Mitt's thing is gonna work for him.
I think it can damage Newt.
Whether Mitt benefits from it is uh i is another matter.
But the but the the the reality of the reality of it is this.
You know, he took he did.
We know uh he got he got twenty-five grand a month from Freddie Mack, and there's nothing specified in the contract.
Normally most Americans went not just for twenty-five thousand a month, but for twenty-five thousand a year, they're expected to do certain things.
The the the Gingrich contract with Freddie Mac doesn't say yes to do anything.
He's just on retainer for twenty-five grand a month.
And and and people understand, they understand uh that at a certain level, uh entities like Freddie Mac are just putting guys on the payroll to buy their silence, uh to be able to have them on the lead ahead.
Well, well uh Mr. Snerdley d says most people don't understand that.
No, you're right.
You're right.
There's millions of people who don't understand it.
But look, here's here's the thing.
Newt is Newt cannot defend Freddie Mac.
He can't defend the fact that uh he was kicked out of the speakership.
Nobody wanted him a uh as speaker in nineteen ninety-eight.
It wasn't that he said last night, oh I took a principal decision, uh we'd lost six seats in the midterms or whatever, and I felt that was a disappointing performance.
So in principle I resigned and I went into the private sector to start businesses.
We all uh uh nobody anybody whose mind memory goes back to nineteen ninety-eight knows the reality.
It's like all the all the softest uh uh uh people who who are the least likely to get riled up, like Mary Bono, uh uh uh what's his name?
Sunny Bono's wife, who under the House of Lords system you've got in the United States Congress inherited inherited uh her late husband's seat.
Uh Mary Bono says, well, you know, Newt called me up and said, Can I count on your support?
And I said to him, Well, Newt, I'm you're a l uh you can't really count on my support.
I'm not gonna speak out publicly against you, but I'm just gonna give a few interviews to Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams to say that I can't possibly support you.
Nobody wanted him.
Uh they d they were done with him.
Now he he can say in the end, in the end his argument should be, well, look, you know, yeah, uh they they'd had enough of me as speaker.
It was a wild ride, and it's gonna be a pretty wild ride when I'm president.
But it's gonna be a wild ride off the cliff for America if we don't get serious about this stuff.
So he should say he should say, yeah.
And I took uh I took twenty-five grand uh for uh fr a month for doing nothing from Freddie Mac.
Because that's the way Washington operates, and it's a great shame we can't all do that.
But it's i if if everybody took twenty-five grand a month for doing nothing as, say, a community organizer in Chicago uh or a community I'd love to I'd love to I wouldn't need to be here in uh New York hosting this show if I could get twenty-five grand a month uh to be a community organizer and do nothing in far northern New Hampshire.
Uh nobody would.
But unfortunately the system doesn't work like that, and it's because I'm part of the system that I know how rotten and stinking uh corrupt it was.
It's like Russia's thing with uh uh with uh with Al Sharpton uh and uh Jesse Jackson.
So the sober well, whatever it is, so there's uh Al Sharp to the so much corruption, it's even corrupting me, or whatever it is.
That's what that's what Newt should say.
There's so much corruption, it's even corrupting.
But he should basically say, so what?
That's done, it's over.
It's serious times.
It would be nice to it would be nice to elect a a a nice moderate uh 1950s department store male mannequin with fabulous hair like my good friend Mitt Air, but unfortunately these are more serious times.
There's no point pretending.
There's no point Newt pretending he's Mr. Ethical or he should he w he's there's no point in him pretend he he should shrug these things off.
He should say he should just say, yeah, okay, you're right, uh Freddie Mac wasn't wasn't a great thing.
What else you got?
Yeah, okay, uh 1999's a long time ago.
I I'm I was interested in all that stuff Brian Williams spent on that stuff last night.
The number of people who who are not interested in uh essentially re-litigating Gingrich's removal from the speakership, uh whatever it is now, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years ago.
They're not interested because uh w we've spent trillions more dollars since then.
So we've got more pressing things.
And the argument for Newt is not that he's a nice guy.
Uh the argument for Newt I mean there's uh there's uh uh whoever knows how many ex-wives who don't think he's a nice guy.
But the argument is that these are serious times, and sometimes uh and you gotta have a guy who is the measure of the times, and and Mitt uh with his soporific caution is not the guy.
Now that if I was Newt, that's the argument I would make, but I wouldn't pretend to be uh I wouldn't try and defend absurdly the Freddie Mac stuff or the uh 199 stuff.
I mean, I think he should say, well, you know, yeah, they the my own caucus uh uh turn their back on me.
That's that's the kind of guy I am.
I'm not a guy who goes along to get along, like Mitt Romney did with his uh Democratic legislature in Massachusetts.
I'm a guy who stands up, and sometimes that means even my own party uh just want to kick me to the floor and be done with me.
But there's no point him standing there uh and I think he should actually just shrug it off.
Nobody nobody's interested in relitigating in ancient history on that.
Mark Stein uh Infrarush, we will take more of your calls and discuss more of the fallout of the world's most somnolent presidential debate, hosted by Brian Williams, uh will uh look ahead to the uh State of the Union and lots more still to come.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush, that is some funky music.
I dig the beat.
I dig the sugar beat.
We're on the sugar beat today.
Uh Mr Surley's now to beat the intro.
Do I what is this?
What is this?
Oh, out of spa out of space by uh by Billy Preston.
That's good.
Well uh I know, I know Billy Preston, great guy.
What was his day uh duet with uh Cyrita?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
She was uh she was fabulous.
I love Billy, I love Billy Preston.
Uh he did the thing with the uh Beatles, last Beatles album.
Whatever it was, let it be, he was on that.
Anyway, we're on the uh where you're on the sugar beat.
We're taking the sugar cane to the Republican debate and uh and getting in the sugar beat.
Lots of other news.
The um the the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has now released his uh tax returns.
Uh advisors to this is from the Associated Press, uh so advisors to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of acknowledging that he once had a Swiss bank account, but that it was closed in 2010 as he prepared to enter the race for the White House.
Uh Romney's net worth is estimated as at much as two hundred and fifty million dollars.
R Bradford Malt, the trustee.
Now actually that isn't helpful right there.
That the pres the leading the the the mainstream presidential candidate for the Republican Party has a trustee for his blind trust called R. Bradford Malt.
That's what I like to say at the end of a long day as I settle back into a leather armchair at the Harvard Club and pour myself a Scotch.
Ah, Bradford Maltes, the tipple that refreshes.
R Bradford Molt, Mitt Romney's trustee, said Tuesday that he closed the account in early 2010 because, quote, it just wasn't worth it.
He acknowledged that the account might be inconsistent with Romney's political views.
Now what kind of world are we living in where a guy closes the a Swiss bank account because it's inconsistent with his political views?
And and then and then his spokesman releases a puts out a press release about it.
I mean this is quite this is a classic example of how the Republican Party give the g concede half the turf before they even get out to pla to start playing the game.
Everyone says, oh, you know, Mitt Romney, he's got all kinds of problematic he only paid tax uh thirteen point nine percent tax.
Uh he's got all kinds of problematic phrases in there like, quote, Cayman Islands, unquote.
What do you think the ta this country has the highest corporate tax rates in the Western world?
What do you think the corporate tax rates would be if there weren't a Cayman Islands?
God bless the Cayman Islands.
Well, if you couldn't go and get a post office box in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, uh or uh the Turks and Caicos or some of these other uh territories, if you couldn't get a Swiss bank account, what do you think the tax rates would be in the United States, which are already the highest corporate tax rates in the world?
Borders, borders give you choices.
Uh in every sphere of life.
It doesn't matter if you're if you're living in a crummy town uh and you want to uh and you you don't like the school, you can move ten miles up the road and put your kid in a better school, because there was a border, the border between a dysfunctional school district and a school district uh that operates reasonably effectively.
And it's the same with tax rates.
The only reason uh that uh that tax rates are not even more disgustingly high than they are already uh is is because of the existence of alternative jurisdictions.
You can imagine, you remember in the nineteen sixties they used to talk about one world government.
Do you remember that?
They used to talk about, oh, one world government, as if when we live in a world of peace, then there's one world government, uh it will uh the the planet will be in harmony.
What do you think the tax rate will be when there's a one world government, when there are no borders, when you can't move stuff anyway?
I think I to go back to what we were saying about how uh Newt should respond to his scandals, hi I think that's I think Mitt should be aggressive on this.
I said, of course, why would anybody who couldn't avail themselves of a Cayman Islands account want to keep the money in some lousy account in Massachusetts uh and give half of it to the United States government.
Mitt.
This is this is where the the I was looking at uh whatever it was, MSNBC or something just now, and they were saying, well, this gets to the issue of fairness that the president is going to talk about tonight.
You know, people like uh people like Mitt Romney uh need to pay their fair share.
Uh Mitt gave over three million dollars to the Federal Treasury last year.
What do you think is fair?
He's given more.
He's giving more than anybody else.
And what I find interesting too is that he gave more than he gave if you take his tax and his charitable donations combined, he gave about seven million dollars, he gave more money to charity than he gave uh in taxation to the government.
Why doesn't that count for something?
Do you remember whatever year it was 2000?
Turned out Al Gore had only given two hundred and eighty dollars in charitable donations?
Mitt Romney uh gave three and a half million dollars away in charity.
What do you mean he's not paying his fair share?
What do you mean?
You think he's getting three million dollars worth of services from the United States government?
I don't think so.
Why why are we cons giving ha half the ground?
Why is a guy closing his Swiss bank account in 2010 uh because he doesn't think it'll look good, and then our Bradford Malt, his trustee, our Bradford Molt, the genius, uh says he closes the account because he thinks it's inconsistent with Romney's political views.
Thank God for the Cayman Islands.
God bless the Cayman Islands.
It's thirty-five percent corporate tax in the United States right now.
What do you think it would be if there weren't a Cayman Islands?
Mark Steinfarush, Mordican.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
The uh the Washington Post today has a story about uh how astronomers estimate that the black hole at the center of the galaxy uh is the equivalent of four million suns.
And uh and you can actually see, if you look at this black hole that's the equivalent of four million suns, you can actually see just light just barely escaping from the black hole, according to one astronomer co uh quoted in the Washington Post.
Now, I don't know whether that is actually the black hole at the center of the galaxy, uh, or it is in fact the Republican presidential debate moderated by NBC's Brian Williams, or if it is some giant metaphor uh for the state of the US economy.
Uh you've got except it would be more like four trillion suns in the black hole at the center, with a tiny little shaft of light just barely escaping from it.
Uh but this seems to me uh a telling comment on the uh on the state of our times.
Uh here's just to go back to what uh uh Mitt's problem, Citibank has now sent uh tax forms uh for the frequent flyer miles they gave to uh customers who opened an account with them in return for getting uh free frequent flyer miles.
In other words, everything has to be taxed, regulated, paperworked by the government.
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