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Jan. 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I thought I made it clear, but apparently I didn't because I got emails saying what you should have said was, okay, so let me try it again.
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you with us, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence at Broadcasting Network, as usual.
Talent.
So much.
Talent on loan from God.
Yep, said God.
Just can't say talent on load from God.
It just doesn't penetrate.
I learned that in Jimmy Swaggart.
You got to say, God.
Anyway, telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushvo at EIBNet.com.
There are two kinds of liberals.
You've got the liberal leaders like Obama, and then you've got the idiots, the rank and file of voters.
It's the idiots in the rank and file.
They really believe this panacea, utopia stuff that there really is such a thing, that it could be invented only by government.
Clean energy, renewable energy, energy that makes love to itself and creates more.
And none of it's ever dirty.
Oh, no.
Windmills and solar power.
Yep, that's going to, we're going to be able to fly jet planes someday.
Now, the Obamas of the world, the liberal leaders, it's all a game to them.
The objective is the same.
Big government control over your life.
But the Obamas of the world, green energy to them is a quick way to profit with no work.
Ever heard of Cylindra?
The crony capitalism of green energy.
You ever heard of the relationship between the regime and GE?
All GE is safe.
Mr. Obama, we're going to join you in your green energy initiative.
Obama said, gee, I'd love to have a corporate guy like Imelt on my side.
That'll give me a lot of credibility.
So I'll give him some money that he doesn't need so he can start producing green energy jet engines and so forth.
A big scam, big giant scam.
Everybody wins.
The public is made to believe a GE cares about not polluting the atmosphere with their jet engines.
They're working on green energy.
The stupid idiot liberal rank and file thinks it's actually going to happen.
And meanwhile, people are getting rich at the upper echelons of all this with all this government money being transferred and redistributed to everybody.
So that's the shtick.
It's all about the money.
For liberals, it's all about getting rich without having to work.
Or liberals, it's all about getting rich at the end of or being on the receiving end of the redistribution of taxpayer dollars.
Pure and simple.
Or being somewhere in the pipeline where you get to siphon off your share as it's on its way to wherever.
Just for showing up, not for having to do any work.
That's key.
We, on the other hand, well, we've got our own crony capitalists in our establishment.
Most of us, we're merit.
Meritocracy.
That's what I mean when I talk about the backbone of America.
People make it work.
Get up hard work.
Play by the rules.
Do everything you can and you prosper as a result.
And we're the ones laughed at and impugned and made fun of, and we're the ones being stolen from.
Our tax dollars are being taxed and redistributed to people that don't need it because they already got well and they haven't earned it.
It was the more important thing.
But when I say they don't need it, they're already corporate.
There's no reason GE ought to be getting government money.
There's just simply no reason for it.
Nor should Apple be getting government, and they don't.
But when you get crony capitalism settling in, and this is the game, you have the amount of money pours into U.S. Treasury combined with what we borrow.
You talk about a come on.
That giant stack of money.
Grab your fist in there.
Imagine what you could take out of there.
Why do you think Washington attracts so many people?
That's where the money is.
Take a look at D.C. and surrounding counties in Virginia and Maryland.
You'll find some of the wealthiest zip codes in the country.
Working for government?
Excuse me?
How does that work?
I mean, even with what they're paid.
You know, the top was it, G14?
G17?
I don't know.
But, you know, Obama said last night he wants to restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot.
Everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
And then he went on and excoriates bailouts.
Ain't going to happen anymore.
And then starts citing General Motors as a great success story, which is a success story, quote, unquote, precisely and only because of bailouts.
Does GE play by the rules as everybody else?
Does Solyndra play by the same rules?
The people who are not playing by the rules fairly are the people associated with Obama.
Gemma Motors, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Warren Buffett, Boeing, these all people playing by the same set of rules.
Boeing's getting shafted under Obama rules.
What is this?
Same set of rules?
Garbage.
There is no such thing.
Now, ABC, Diane Sawyer, look, recycling even after the earthquake.
Look, they are recycling.
Wow.
Diane Sawyer, what did we determine she makes $41.2 million.
Is that right?
Just from anchoring the news?
No, no, no, no.
Nobody anchored a news makes more than $15 million.
Katie Couric was at the top of that ladder.
Diane Sawyer, now she, you know what she could steal from her husband, Mike Nichols?
Maybe you get to 40.
I don't know.
Okay.
That's her estimate.
Okay.
Okay.
That's her net worth.
Okay.
All right.
That's different than what she earns.
Net worth is what she's got after all assets and liabilities are totaled up for her life.
Her annual, or probably she earns six, seven million anchoring the news, or what used to be called the news.
Yeah, Katie Couric was making 15, and that's why they got rid of her.
That is not justifiable anymore.
And I'm told Sorry gets 12 million.
So, but in New York, she ends up with five.
Well, you're over 50% with federal and state taxes in New York, unless she's got herself set up as an independent production company and they pay her the gross and she's a sub-s and pays herself a salary and bonuses and the rest.
If she's being, if that $12 million is salary, then she's keeping a little over $5 million of it and the rest goes to tax.
Well, that's anybody in New York, snurdily.
But anyway, that's not my point.
She's out there asking the question: what could we buy with Nett Romney's $21.7 million income?
What could we buy with Solyndra's $500 million?
What could we buy, Diane, with all the crony capitalist money that Obama sent and all these phony solar energy companies and phony wind energy companies?
How much And what could we buy with Obama's phony stimulus bill?
What did we buy?
We didn't buy any jobs.
We didn't buy any economic growth.
What could we buy with Bill Clinton's $76 million income?
Who do these people think they are fooling?
But she's out there asking the question.
By the way, National Center for Public Policy Research claiming a scalp today, Ford Motor Company, formally withdrew from the liberal U.S. Climate Action Partnership.
The conservative nonprofit announced today that Ford has withdrawn from the organization which uses corporate support from management to work against shareholders' interests by promoting a cap and trade framework for carbon emissions.
The Ford CEO committed to reconsidering his company's membership in USCAP or USCAP after being pressed on the matter publicly, the company's stockholder meeting, and in subsequent private conversations by the National Center for Public Policy Research's David Rittenauer.
So Ford has withdrawn from a group that believes in man-made global warming.
They're not going to be donating or contributing to it anymore.
Another reason to buy one.
If you ask me, Philip Klein, the Washington Examiner, first of a five-part series, The Welfare State is Destroying America.
A pull quote from this story.
The conclusion is inescapable that if America does not end the welfare state as we've known it since 1935, it will end America as we know it today.
Another thing Obama didn't mention last night is entitlement reform, Medicare, Medicaid.
None of this.
It never came up.
Federal employees owe $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes.
And it's a blog here on the Washington Post website.
Congressional staffers owed $10.6 million in unpaid taxes in 2010, a slight increase from the previous year and a growing slice of the roughly $1 billion owed by federal and postal workers nationwide.
So 10% of unpaid taxes are owed by congressional staffers.
The figures come as Republican efforts to pass legislation allowing federal agencies to fire tax-delinquent federal employees have slowed down.
The White House continues to crack down on improper payments made by agencies to delinquent government contractors and federal beneficiaries.
About 98,000 federal, postal, and congressional employees owed $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes at the end of fiscal 2010.
And what this story is about, they're trying to write a new law to recover the money.
Now, do they have to write a new law to come get you if you're delinquent?
What is this?
Anyway, federal employees owe $1 billion in unpaid tax.
Nancy Pelosi is out there saying Gingrich will never be president.
She's blackmailing him.
She says she's got something.
The Republicans know it.
Well, they don't know it, but she's going to tell them she knows what it is.
And Newt's never going to be president.
It's never going to happen.
She told Adam to John King, he's not going to be president.
That's not going to happen.
Let me just make my prediction stand by it.
Isn't going to happen.
John King, so why are you so sure?
It's something I know.
The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him, that's their prerogative.
I don't even think that's going to happen.
They asked Newt about it this morning on Fox.
He said, I don't know what the hell she's talking about.
If she's got some, she should just say it.
Well, maybe she does have some wicked dirt on the guy.
But still, this is, I don't, I'm not sure she does.
I don't, I don't know right now that it would matter.
Well, I just, they've got, yeah, delay.
I've heard him say this kind of stuff about delay.
Pelosi, you know, the Republican, the Democrat leadership in the House literally despises Newt.
Newt said he'd rather be accused by her than endorsed by her.
That's what he said on Fox.
Okay, folks, brief timeout.
We got much more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
By the way, Pelosi's office backtracking now on this.
This is from thehill.com.
As Representative Nancy Pelosi's office on Wednesday said the minority leader does not have any dirt on Newt Gingrich.
That everything that the committee came up with is in the public domain.
It is in the public realm.
And that Pelosi, her office said they don't have any dirt on Newt.
Backtracking.
I don't know whether to believe these people or not.
Paul in Frankfurt, Illinois.
Great to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Hey, listen, I don't want anybody to think that this is a setup call or I'm chilling for you or anything like that, but my oldest daughter bought me two of my teeth for Christmas as a Christmas present.
I want to let you know it is truly a wonderful product.
Well, thank you very much.
If this were a setup or if you were a paid snitch, you'd have been in the first hour.
Tell them how long you've been on hold.
Tell them how long you've been on hold.
I've been on hold for about an hour and a half.
Okay.
There you go.
One of my proudest accomplishments is the daughter that bought it for me, she's a big fan and she is very conservative.
But she got me the regular tea sugar with the real sugar in it and with the mugs and the red, white, and blue jelly beans.
Oh, wow.
The tea itself is a fantastic product, but everything, the packaging, I actually saved the empty bottles and my wife threw them out.
She thought that was too weird.
People are.
But you know, the tea itself, you get tea sometimes.
That's not weird.
Those bottles are collectors' items.
Those bottles, look, that's the finest label in the beverage business.
Right.
That's a classiest label.
Plus, the added benefit of having my picture on there is Rush Revere.
But the bottle is high quality, the label is high quality.
The tea, it really, it's better than anything out there.
It really is.
Well, you can see through the plastic like it's glass.
It's that clearer.
That's right.
There's no gunk.
Gunk free to the no sediment in there or anything.
And yet, I gave my brother Tom a bottle a couple weeks ago.
I keep calling him asking him how it is, and he hasn't opened it yet because he doesn't want to drink it.
Why?
He's a liberal?
No, no, no, no.
He's a conservative.
Because once he drinks it, it's gone.
I'm not giving him another one.
I've only got two left.
Oh, he's one of those.
He doesn't want to go get the massage because it's going to end.
Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, I used to be that way, too.
It really is.
Not only the tea, but the packaging and everything is just really a product.
We've had a lot of people comment on the packaging, and I appreciate that.
I was reading.
I think they have to hide the empties now.
You know what to do?
You know what to do?
I had a friend of mine, Rebecca Hagelin, came in.
She was with Larry Arn at Hillsdale College.
She came in and they were in here last week, and she says that she hides the two if by tea in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator because she knows that her husband is never going to open the vegetable drawer.
So she puts her two if by tea there, knowing nobody will find it.
It hides it under a bunch of lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, and that stuff.
And ever since she opens it, it's always there.
We spend a lot of time on the packaging, just like Apple does.
You know, Apple has a whole division that does nothing but test the customer reaction to opening the box.
Got to be magic.
Opening the box of a money.
They've got a whole division that does nothing than that.
We're close to that.
Not quite there yet, but close.
To if by T, the way T ought to be, the way T is.
There's magic opening the bottle.
That's what the guy was going to say.
Opening a bottle of two if by tea is magic.
So is it when you get the packaging?
It's done right.
And I'm ecstatic when people call here.
That guy stayed on hold an hour and a half.
If we, what did he call himself?
A shill.
He didn't want a shill.
Yeah, he didn't want it to seem like it was staged.
If it was staged, he would have been on hold for an hour and a half.
Now, I got this story off Drudge, and I'm still, because of the state of modern journalism, I'm not sure I understand it.
Let's give it a shot.
Normally, I wouldn't admit that to anybody.
It is from Studio Sit, CBS LA.
A Southern California woman says the energy-efficient window installed in a neighbor's condominium is melting the plastic components on her Toyota Prius.
Heather Patron of Studio City was dealing with a mystery regarding her Prius.
The side view mirrors were melting.
Anything that was plastic on the car was melting.
So she went to Toyota.
She said, my car is melting.
Toyota said, well, yeah, we can see that your car is melting, but there's nothing wrong with the car.
What's Toyota going to say?
Take it to the wicked witch.
After having the mirrors replaced, she noticed the mirrors in the car parked next to hers were also melting.
So Patron then observed a powerful beam of light that was reflecting off the window of a next-door condominium, casting a concentrated beam over her carport.
So then the TV reporter, Randy Page, got in gear and he placed a thermometer in the pathway of the beam of light on a partially cloudy day.
The temperature of the beam of light was over 120 degrees in less than five minutes.
And so the CBS reporter said, I'm positive this window is what's causing the damage.
No, I'm sorry.
The owner of the Prius said, I'm positive this window is what's causing a damage to my car.
And she's not alone.
It's tough out there.
Reports across the country now have alleged damage is brought on by concentrated sunlight reflected off of energy efficient windows.
I love this.
I'm sorry your car's melting.
It's too bad it's a Prius.
So we got green energy.
Here we got these energy-efficient windows that do what?
They're supposed to keep the heat in or out or cool.
It's reflecting sunlight in a concentration.
It's melting whatever the light reflects on.
Energy efficient cars are melting because of energy efficient windows.
It's Obamaville.
If we would have just left well enough alone.
And of course, liberals love making sure that whatever they do doesn't damage anybody else.
You could say, I mean, just think of what, imagine if this Prius owner had a Chevy Volt out there or any other kind of electric car.
Can you imagine if this beam happened to find a way to the battery compartment?
Whoa, I don't even want to.
Apparently, you could say that the Toyota Prius is anti-solar.
I'm sorry, folks.
I love this.
Let's go Limbaugh.
You actually love people's property being destroyed by the revolt.
People with good intentions try to save energy and lower energy of 50 billion.
Yeah, that's exactly what happens with you creeps, Mr. Newt Castrati.
You come up with all this cockamini new technology that destroys things.
And then when it happens, all you want is credit for your big-hearted good intentions.
You clowns ought to have to pay for the damage of energy-efficient windows, melting cars.
Cars can't handle the sun.
Okay, back to the phones.
Who's next?
Eric in Wilmington, Delaware.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I have to take you to task about Newt Gangrich and how excited you are about his language.
You sound like an Obama zombie.
You don't listen to the words that Newt was saying.
I'm giving you an example.
When he's talking about firing a janitor because he thinks he makes too much money and hiring 31 kids, he can call that the janitorial juvenile corps.
And also, he could fire librarians.
They might make too much money and have the librarian call.
Sounds like FDR.
Wait a second.
I'm having a problem with the premise of your call.
The premise of your, I'm excited about Newt's language.
Yes, you are excited about his language.
And if you really listen to what he's saying, he's a big government FDR guy, because he said FDR was his greatest president of the 20th century.
And he liked it.
Which I pointed out Monday is a liability that he's eventually going to be called on, which I pointed out is a sign that Newt is vulnerable to the charge that he's not Mr. Conservative.
And that was one of about eight things that I referenced.
And then he says...
Wait a minute.
No, no, no, no, no.
I just refuted your premise.
You don't just then get to go on as though nothing happened here.
No, you said you were so excited.
For one whole day, all you did was run Newt Gangrich's.
That was because of the way he was dealing with the media in the debates in South Carolina, not because the FDR is.
You're doing what the media does.
You're taking something I said about one thing, attaching it to something else that is a pet peeve of yours, and then pronouncing me guilty.
It's like I'm an energy-efficient window or something.
No, I'm not.
I'm just saying that you, I don't know if it's because it's your friendship with Newt or what, but you seem to support Newton or president.
You know what?
If you ask Newt, I don't think that you would get that reaction from him.
I said, even when praising Newt on Monday, I said that the base is reacting not so much to Newt, but what he's, the message he's sending the Republican Party establishment, that he's the vessel.
But the whole crowd erupted when he talked about having the kid get the job, and then is it going to be like Bang Capital, where the kid makes too much money when he owns the company?
I have not this janitor business.
My comment on that was he was asked by Juan Williams, does it not bother you that that could send it wrong to make some black people nervous?
No, huh?
That's the exact thing to say because whatever Newt's saying there, there's nothing racial about it.
Well, no, I'm not saying there's a racial component to it.
Well, that's the only comment I've made about the janitor stuff.
And the efficiency of 31 kids firing a janitor has a family is ridiculous.
It sounds like a union job or a government job.
I don't need another government.
Well, no, in New York, janitor job is - I mean, they have yachts.
They have boats in New York.
60 Minutes has done stories on it.
The custodial union.
The custodial union.
The Service Employees International Union got started representing such people.
That's how that union got started.
They make over six figures.
The janitor job's a union job already.
Newt was illustrating: here's the money we're paying these janitors.
Let's take one of them and hire 31 kids and teach them the concept of work and getting paid for it.
We do not need the government to teach the ethic of work.
My kids work during the summer at a summer camp.
They work about 80 hours a week.
They live at the camp, and they're not working for some government agency.
We do not need another program.
We had that in the 70s with Jimmy Carter.
Programs like that to teach people to work or give them jobs.
I agree.
However, it is the government which has destroyed the work ethic.
I agree with you 100%.
Okay, so the government - where's the government?
All the government in this plan would do would secure employment for people.
After that, they have to work to earn the money.
Well, what about the person they fired to give 31 people a job doesn't have a fire?
He takes early retirement.
He takes the boat over to the Bahamas.
So you're having government pick winners and losers now.
No, I'm not.
I understand your problem with that example.
I don't take that example.
I'm not being literal with that.
What I focus on in that whole scenario is not a janitor getting canned.
I focus on the concept here of taking kids and teaching them to work at an early age because it's good.
But that should be up to the parents, not the government.
I know the government there invested out.
No, no, no.
I don't think this would happen without the parents approving of the kids doing it.
Nobody's talking about going into some home.
It's okay, kid, you're a janitor.
Come with me.
That's not what this is about.
No, it's about teaching Newt gave.
Okay, all right.
Let's cut to the chase.
Who do you support?
Who do I support?
I support Romney or Centorum.
Okay, fine.
That's what this is about.
Okay, good.
And Newt is a big government person.
He's not what he says he is.
Now, tell me, what do you like?
Tell me.
What do you like about Romney?
What do I like about Romney?
He's a very successful businessman.
He's big in the private sector.
Yes.
If he keeps saying that, just like Obama.
He needs to stop saying it's starting.
When I heard him say at the last debate Monday night, I've got experience in the private sector.
That private sector is going to get one of these terms nobody's going to want to hear in very short order simply because they're going to.
Newt's not helping the matter.
Okay.
Attack him as a venture capital vulture capitalist.
All right.
Newt sucked.
I criticize him for that too.
I really ripped.
Okay, can we just Newt on this call?
Newt sucks.
Now, what do you like about Santorum?
Santorum, I like his conservatism.
I like his family values.
And another thing about Newt, you're discounting his three divorces.
When Clinton ran in 92, you and everybody else said that is character and it matters.
Now it doesn't matter.
I'm not discounting it.
You are not listening.
My gosh, I have pointed out how the culture has changed to where character and value voters back then, but now they're willing to shuffle that all aside because of the precarious balance of the nation and the message they want to send to the Republican Estamp.
Nobody's excusing it.
I chronicle it.
I am not.
In fact, Newt, I kind of made fun of him.
I don't know why you're calling me.
I made fun of Newt today for saying, hey, it wasn't the sex in the Lewinsky thing that bothered me.
It was a lying under oath.
It wasn't the sex.
I'm all for that.
No, it was a lying under oath.
What else do you not like about me?
I mean, Brush, we have defined morals down.
Now it's okay to be divorced three times, cheat on your wife, and be president and be trustworthy.
When Clinton, it was not all right.
Well, if I had endorsed Newt, you could accuse me of that, but I have not done that.
My standards do not change.
Mine either.
Okay.
Mine either.
I'm right in there with you, buddy.
All right.
Well, you have a good day.
Thank you for taking my call.
You really won't.
Sir, I've got Snerdley wants.
Are you still there?
Yes, sir.
Snerdley wants to know what's going to happen if Newt's the nominee.
If Newt's the nominee?
Yeah.
Where are you moving?
I'm not voting.
Now, that's helpful.
That's real helpful.
That is really...
Hi, welcome back.
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Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
This is Kirk.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Greetings from Lake of the Ozarks, America's Conservative Midwest Coast.
Thank you, sir.
We too are.
We too are battling our own federal government land grab, but that's not why I called.
My comment and question is: I noticed at the end of the speech, finally, thank goodness, that he looked like he was, when he was leaving and gladhanding a bunch of people and watching all those pathetic people give him praise.
He looked like he was wanting to get out of there fairly quickly.
And my question was: what were all the people that come up to him towards the end handing him these documents that he's signing?
What is all that about?
They're members of Congress.
They're members of the House of Senate.
What are they asking for?
Are they asking for handouts or what are they signing?
He's the president.
They want his autograph.
They were there when he does.
It's the president was there.
Not so much Obama, the president was there.
They want autographs for their offices, for eBay.
Never know.
They may lose everything when they go to jail in the future, and that autograph might be worse than any number of possibilities.
But what I tell you, what I noticed about it last night, I've never seen until last night.
He got lost going out.
He went out the wrong aisle, and he was asking, he was looking around, asking, where's my detail?
Which way out of here?
Where am I going?
He went up the middle aisle or one of the other aisles.
He didn't leave the aisle that he came down.
And maybe that was on purpose to give a different group of people a chance to get autographed.
There are members of Congress like that.
That woman, Sheila Jackson Lee, she shows up 10 hours early to get her seat on the aisle so that she will be seen in the camera shot as the president walks down the aisle arriving.
They go in there, they stake out their seats.
They're groupies, especially the Democrats' side of it all.
So we had Obama's press conference, or his rally last night.
We're out of the woods, everything hooky-dory, right?
All the positives.
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, just said, I don't think we're ready to declare that we've entered a new, stronger phase at this point.
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