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April 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Here we go, folks.
Open line Friday resuming on Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, and you should because whatever you want to talk about's fine and dandy.
No restrictions.
Well, not no, but a very few.
Not like Thursday, where there's a lot of them.
If you want to send an email, you can do that too.
Uh Lrushborn EIBNet.com.
Although I gotta I haven't checked that email address in probably a month.
But just kidding, folks.
It's the end of the week.
It's been a long week.
I'm a little exhausted here.
You know, Snerdley during the um break at the top of the hour was was, you know, you you you you can't just say that you are unaffected by advertising and not tell people why.
You just nobody's unaffected by advertising.
In fact, Snerdley reminded me that people who think that they are unaffected by advertising are the advertisers' best targets.
Because they hit them subliminally.
So I I think he's right, I have to be honest with you about why I'm not affected by advertising.
Practically everything I buy, I search for the highest price.
Advertising doesn't advertise the highest price.
Advertising advertises deals, uh lowest price, best value.
Well, I don't care about any of that.
I care about what costs the most and go get it.
So that's that.
Now the um uh was Burger King earlier, but there's also news about McDonald's, and this is good.
A California judge threw out a class action lawsuit against Mickey D's that claimed that Mickey D's used toys to market its meals to children.
You know who brought this suit?
Nope.
Center for Science in the Public Interest.
That three or four people with a fax machine and a logo that are responsible for you not being able to eat popcorn with coconut oil.
They tried to get Chinese food banned because of MSG.
I mean, they look if you look at these people, they look like walking skeletons.
And and they're just they are a classic example of how the media works.
They put together a logo, Center for Science of the Public Interests.
All they are is a bunch of busybody liberals who are not content to eat the way they want to.
They want to force everybody else to.
They're a political group that stands for increasing, expanding federal power to tell you how you can and can't live.
The media assigned them instant credibility just because they had a logo and a fax machine.
They're kind of like media matters.
So-called media analysts and experts.
They're just a bunch of hacks.
They're they're party operatives.
The same thing here with Center for Science of Public Interest.
What's remarkable about this is this got thrown out in California.
Now, what these clowns did, they hate McDonald's.
Fast food, it's poison, but more than anything, they don't like it because you do.
Liberalism can be described and defined in many ways.
One of the things that's one of the great characteristics, not that great, one of the glaring characteristics of liberalism is they don't want anybody to be happy.
And if you are, they're gonna set out to punish you for it or deny you the chance to be happy on the theory that not everybody is.
It's not fair if some people are happy.
So the McDonald's has a happy meal, and the Center for Science of Public Interest believes it's poison.
Kids like it, but it's fast food, it's got all the fat, it's got all these calories, all this horrible rotten stuff that's supposedly gonna kill you.
And they sued McDonald's.
They tried to get a class action going because McDonald's couldn't sell happy meals without putting toys in there to trick the little kids and to trick mothers and dads.
And so a California judge has thrown out the lawsuit.
Claiming that McDonald's used toys to market meals to children.
The suit was filed by the Center for Science and the Public Interest on behalf of a California mother who claimed that her daughters favored eating McDonald eating at McDonald's because of the toys they got in their Happy Meals.
I object to the fact that McDonald's is getting into my kids' heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat, said Monette Parham, the mother named in the lawsuit.
Okay, Monette, fine, but keep it to yourself.
If you don't if you think McDonald's is uh sabotaging and brainwashing your kids, then keep them out of there.
But it's none of your business what we're doing and where we're taking and how we're feeding our kids.
Well, this is the thing that infuriates me.
But was the Center for Science of Public Interest behind them, who knows who really ginned this up.
In the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in San Francisco, the Center for Science of Public Interest documented McDonald's marketing strategy aimed at children.
McDonald's gets into the parents' wallets via the kids' minds, according to the Center for Science of Public Interest, quoting from an online presentation by Martin Lindstrom, who advises McDonald's on branding and neuromarketing.
Court documents filed Wednesday show Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer dismissed the suit with prejudice, meaning the plaintiffs are unable to file an amended complaint.
The documents did not detail his legal reasoning, but I'm sure.
No, I'm guessing he assumed that everybody involved here is literally insane.
And he doesn't want to deal with them again.
So he throws it out with prejudice, saying, Leave me alone.
In San Francisco.
A story from the Cybercast News Service.
Look for Obama to approve the Keystone Pipeline right before the election.
Matthew Sheffield writes, while he's currently making a show of how the Keystone XL pipeline needs more time before it can be approved and bashing anybody who disagrees, all signs are pointing to a future reversal shortly before the November election in a last-ditch effort to drive down oil prices and make Obama appear centrist.
The regime has already shown that when it comes to oil drilling, it has no problem allowing political considerations to override science.
In 2010, the regime issued a report which falsely implied that independent engineering experts had recommended a six-month moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
In fact, they hadn't.
In fact, this was a big deal at the time.
It's not just that Obama implied that engineering experts had recommended a six-month moratorium.
They prepared a document and falsely attached these experts'signatures to it.
Remember?
They didn't just issue a report.
They put together the report and then cut and paste, essentially, a bunch of signatures to it from people who said, We didn't sign that.
It's no different than NBC editing the 9-11 tape of George Zimmerman calling the cops in Sanford, Florida.
In fact, it may be a little bit more outrageous than that.
These experts had done nothing of the sort, but Obama ordered the moratorium anyway as a gift to his environmentalist wacko base.
And that destroyed thousands of jobs in the process.
The House Natural Resources Committee has now issued a subpoena for documents related to the drilling moratorium, documents which are likely to reveal the details of how the regime put politics above science in stopping drilling in the government.
Well, we know.
We don't need no stinking subpoena.
We don't need no stinking documents because we know Obama and we know liberals.
What Obama did, or Salazar, He was the interior secretary.
What the administration did was fraud.
This is out and out fraud.
Here's Fox News on this from June of 2010.
The seven experts who advised Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium, something they actually oppose.
It was out and out fraud.
Anyway, the story here is that within enough time to have an impact before the election, Obama's just, hey, guess what?
We're going to open a Keystone pipeline.
The theory is that this is what most people want.
He will have satisfied his base.
He'll by that time he'll have gotten his campaign money from them.
He'll have gotten, he'll have secured his donations from them.
Then he okay's it, and the very oil will now be flowing, will affect the speculator market and bring down the price of all and bring down the price of gasoline prior to the election.
This is the theory being bandied about, and I have no doubt that it is, as they say, in the pipeline.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh Lewis Eureke, California.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
How are you doing, Rush?
Good, thank you.
Um, I need the Maha Rushi to heal me about what has happened with the whole thing with Romney and the whirlwind of destruction is my way of putting it.
And just the I've I've been watching this, I've been on Twitter, I've been seeing what things are said from the Romney side, things about salting the earth and and destruction of Santorum and burying him in Pennsylvania, and I just I don't know how we're gonna come together after this.
I am a Santorum guy, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to be a Santorum guy considering the the yelling for him to back out and he's not gonna back out.
I know.
And and as a matter of fact, Texas, I'm sure you've heard this, is looking at ways to help him get all the delegates in a winner take off for Texas, and and then I read things like, well, no, that'll never happen.
You know, they need to do this, and there's too many things that have to be overcome.
You know, well why is it why is Romney's path so s easy?
Yet everything that Newt or Santorum does, oh, that's that's never gonna happen.
And I I can't I can barely watch Fox News anymore, you know.
It it it just it just seems like there's a there's a there's an attitude it's gonna be Romney and hell or high water, you know, he's our guy.
Well, this is an interesting thing that is uh that is happening.
The Romney campaign has really continued to run a negative campaign full with attack ads on Santorum and Newt.
Yeah, uh back and forth, and they are not helpful in terms of unifying.
Right.
For example, we start in this whole process, we're all Republicans, but now you I think are a great example of an average Santorum supporter.
You guys are ticked off over what's been done to your guy.
You're what is it?
Wait, why why are Republicans doing this to each other?
But why can't you run a campaign, Mitt, that talks a little bit about you?
Why why can't you tell us how great you are?
What do you have to constantly re- and I think I think Newt people say the same thing.
Uh huh.
And it's gonna make people are worried that that Santorum and Newt supporters are are not gonna come together in November because of a lingering bitter taste in your mouths.
Yeah, how how can how can Romney win when he hasn't won all these southern states?
He's gonna need to be able to do that.
Because this poll well uh because his opponents Obama.
Right.
That's how Romney can win.
Yeah.
I don't know that anybody's thinking this.
Don't I I'm I'm just telling you that if if anybody at the upper levels of the GOP establishments worried about this, they're telling themselves, come November, come October, everybody's gonna be on board because the real objective is going to be getting rid of Obama more than it is going to be electing Romney or anybody else.
The real objective people are gonna have to be getting rid of Romney or getting rid of Obama, and the only way to do that's vote Romney.
That's what they're thinking is going to happen.
And they think people like you are gonna be on board when the time comes.
And I'm not so sure.
Well, do you feel that this will be different than with McCain?
Because Romney says the same kind of things.
No, McCain didn't want to call him Hussein, and Romney says, I'm not gonna light my hair on fire to make the conservative base happy.
And it's like you you you are repeating exactly what McCain did.
McCain lost five million popular votes.
You know, I I just I it's it's it's like if we had a Tea Party party, I think we'd feel more comfortable than we feel in the republic current Republican Party.
Well, this let's let's be honest.
Let me be honest.
I'll tell you what's disappointing a lot of people.
In 2010, this Tea Party phenomenon happened.
Right.
It came to life, and it was the lifeblood of the Republican Party.
The Tea Party engineered the 2010 midterm elections.
The Tea Party engineered this massive landslide victory, which equals a massive landslide defeat for the Democrats.
The Tea Party did all of it.
Republican Party didn't do anything.
Republican Party was still running around, scared, tail tucked between its legs, The Tea Party, average ordinary Americans who were fed up, scared whatever of what they were seeing, wanted to stop it.
Right.
They they get in gear, they mobilize, bring about this big victory, and after all of that, the party nominee is another moderate.
Yeah.
And Tea Party people are scratching and said, What the hell happened here?
And what happened was that a died in the wool, Reagan-type conservative never got in the race.
The Rubios never got in.
The Paul Ryan's didn't get in.
Some people think Christie would have been good.
He didn't get in.
They didn't get in.
It was it was it was Romney and Ron.
Well, you know who the list was.
Uh, we're big for Sarah Palin for a while, and then I I just I I just don't.
I I was thinking if she ran, they just would have slaughtered her, you know.
I I I was for her, but I did I just I I think that what we do not know how to handle the press in the in the conservative world.
We don't know.
Yeah, you're really scratching an old wound with me.
I uh this this business I can't tell you, folks, how angry I got during the Palin era of this when I'd run into people on our side who say, I can't have pain, we can't have pay, she's damaged goods.
So what?
Yeah, the media's destroyed her.
And I I can't tell you how you you so you're just gonna sit there?
You're gonna let the media destroy us?
You're gonna throw somebody away who would be great just because the media's destroyed him.
Why do you let it happen?
Well, the media's well, the media's gonna destroy everybody.
We've wait till you see how they try to destroy Romney.
You ain't seen anything yet.
When Romney secures this, if that's what happens, you wait, see what they got in store.
They're gonna destroy anybody we have.
I can't tell you.
Because on the one hand, we've got people who know full well what the media is, and yet they're content to sit there and say, well, the media destroyed her, she's damaged good, she can't possibly win.
And then I had I had the number of women that don't like her astounds me.
Uh and and uh the argument was she's dumb, she's every stereotype the media put out, there were people that believed it.
And I it just it was it was endlessly frustrating to me.
Not not that she was ever going to be the nominee, just the fact that she's um she's a good conservative, she's a good person.
She never did anything to anybody, and and we just have people that casually sit around and throw her overboard because the media destroyed her.
Well, if we let that happen, they'll they'll we're gonna end up throwing everybody overboard because that's their objective is destroy every one of us.
So you just said, yeah, I like pay them, she was damaged good.
Damaged by who?
Not by her.
She didn't damage herself.
You might think so because you believe some of this.
For example, you know this this um uh I read this the other day.
Even I, even I, this shows you how nobody's safe and nobody's immune from this.
For the longest time, I actually believe Sarah Palin said, well, I would be good with Ford policy because I could see Russia from my house.
Tina Fay said it on Saturday Night Live as Palin.
Palin never said it.
You know what I mean?
People don't know that.
On our side.
But the media is like advertising.
They have uh vastly more power over our thinking than we realize.
Even the smartest among us, even the most conservative among us, are not immune to it.
So easy.
All they have to do is hit the right hot button, a prejudice or a uh uh an opinion that we already hold, all they've got to do is come along and confirm it, and that's it.
Whether they're right or wrong about it, whether we're right or wrong.
They can confirm it, and we think we're right when we're not.
Can't give you an example of that off the top of my head, but it it happens.
So I I think by the time all this said and done, when you see what Obama has planned for Romney, you're then gonna judge how does Romney deal with this.
My fear is that Obama says Augusta needs to let women in, and five minutes later Romney's out with the same.
My fear is that we're gonna get a lot of that.
I hope not.
I hope not, but only time will tell.
Won't be long.
Be back right after this.
If you, ladies and gentlemen, I know a lot of you out there are, if you are thinking about buying a fuel efficient hybrid or electric car or any any of these green cars eco-friendly as a way to save money.
Let's forget for a moment that you are an environmentalist activist, and let's forget for a moment that you may have been so guilted, you're destroying the climate, so you go out and buy one of these things.
Forget that.
You're just doing it save money.
You see gasoline prices rising.
Gosh, I can't afford I'm gonna go get a battery car.
I'm gonna go get a hybrid, save money.
Uh uh.
Do some homework.
In fact, the New York Times did, I can't believe this actually, buyers who choose Nissan's all electric leaf car, 28,421 over its gas-powered equivalent, the Nissan Versa, which is $18,000.
So basically, the electric version of the car is $10,000 more.
You will likely wait nearly nine years to break even.
For drivers of the Chevy Vault, which costs $31,000, actually almost $32, and I think that's after the subsidy.
Not sure about that.
I thought I read where the price of this thing was $37,000 pre-subsidy.
Whatever, it's $31,000 to you.
It'll take you 26 years to break even on that car.
It'll take 26 years for it to pay for itself in the savings in the in the fuel savings.
Now, a few vehicles begin paying off relatively soon after leaving the dealership.
The Toyota Prius and the Lincoln MKZ, as well as Volkswagen's diesel-powered Jetta, all take less than two years before they start saving their owners' money.
It's in the chart in the New York Times.
So if you're thinking buying one of these cars to save yourself some money, it might not happen as quickly as you uh believe.
Here's a shocking story, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
This this from Princeton, New Jersey, and I think therefore this is Gallup.
It doesn't say here.
Let me see.
But uh make sure that you know the way some of these things print sometimes, It doesn't print the uh the source.
But I think Gallup's in Princeton, so I think it must be.
Anyway, you won't believe this.
You will not believe this.
Do you know that black Americans' views of the Trayvon Martin case differ dramatically from those of non-blacks?
Would you have ever believed that?
Well, it's true.
Black Americans viewed views differ dramatically from those of non-blacks regarding the circumstances involved in the death of Trayvon Martin.
Blacks are paying much closer attention.
Overwhelmingly, they believe that George Zimmerman is guilty of a crime.
They believe that racial bias was a major factor in the events leading up to the shooting.
And they believe that Zimmerman would already have been arrested had the victim been white and black.
But what else do we know?
We know that the three networks totally doctored the evidence that made people think this.
NBC doctors the 9-11 tape, ABC doctors the police video, and CNN misinterprets the police 9-11 call.
And in each instance, the racial component disappears when you take away the doctoring of the tape.
So those of you, you black Americans, you have been lied to.
You have been totally lied to by the networks regarding the details of the case.
You really can't be blamed for what you think.
NBC, ABC, CNN doctored the evidence in such a way as to exacerbate racial tension.
Did it on purpose?
It's only natural you think what you think, based on the way it's been reported to you.
We now have had three networks totally backtrack on the evidence they presented on their news of this case.
So it obviously we know who the audience is for these networks.
Bankruptcies have German solar on the ropes.
Not only are solar companies propped up with government money going bust in the United States, they're doing the exact same thing in Germany, and the main reason for all of this failure is the massive government subsidies that overshadowed and avoided how free market works.
The German solar industry is at a turning point.
The bankruptcy of Q cells this week shows that the days of German solar cell production are numbered.
Asian competitors took the lead years ago, and German government subsidies were part of the problem.
This is from Der Spiegel online.
It wasn't so long ago that people viewed Q cells as an energy company of the future, just like we viewed Cylindra.
At one point, it was the world's largest manufacturer of solar cells, and quarter after quarter it topped analysts' expectations.
The company proved to be a money-making machine even during the financial crisis.
Some believed that it might one day grow to become part of Germany's DAX index, the Dax Index of Benchmark Companies of Stock Exchange.
And then something happened.
The days have been growing darker in Solar Valley.
And this week's bankruptcy announcement by Q cells has made things look even darker.
On Tuesday, the company submitted its official request to begin bankruptcy proceedings.
The energy company of the future looks as though it may no longer have a future.
A company, it turns out simply wasn't prepared for the fast changes that have buffeted the industry.
And you know why?
The reason why is they sat around and waited for government subsidies.
They didn't have to earn a profit.
They didn't have to actually produce anything.
They didn't have to make anything better than anybody else.
They didn't have to bring anything to market before anybody else did.
They just had to sit around and wait for subsidies.
It's kind of like the signs in the national parks where the wildlife service Tells you don't feed the animals because they'll stop knowing how to take care of themselves.
So ditto, the solar industry in Germany, unable to compete in the free market, bankrupt despite all of these subsidies.
But we're not through with Germany here in the stack of stuff.
Germany's gotten many of the same problems that many other nations have.
They're in debt.
The economy is dragging a little bit.
Everybody in Europe's looking to them to bail them out.
So So the German chancellor's ruling party is seeking extra sources of revenue to pay for soaring pensions, retirements, health care for people that aren't working, social care costs as Germany's baby boomer generation ages amid a decline in the birth rate,
meaning there are fewer younger taxpayers being born to pay taxes that will fund all of these obligations.
So Germany is also proposing a tax increase, but not like Obama.
Obama's tax increases are proposed on people who earn ten cents or more a year.
Well, he says 250,000, but everybody's going to get soaked.
But let's stick with what he says just for the sake of the story.
Obama's tax increases will be on the 1%.
People that make 250 grand or more, they're gonna finally pay their fair share.
They've been getting away with murder.
They've been stealing money from the poor, and I've never understood the math on that, but that's what they say.
The rich have gotten rich by stealing from people that don't have anything.
The rich have gotten rich by cheating people.
The rich have gotten rich by killing their customers and all that.
And so in America, the rich are gonna pay through the nose.
But Germany is proposing to raise taxes, increase taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country's growing numbers of old people under government plans for a demographic reserve levy.
Angela Markle's Christian Democrat or Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have drafted proposals that if they become law would require all of those over 25 to pay a proportion of their income to above whatever their current taxes are,
be a new tax to cushion Germany against its looming population crisis, which is again made up of two things: older retired workers expecting their pensions in health care and a declining birth rate, fewer young people to pay for it.
Ergo tax increases on the young.
That's what's in store in Germany.
German chancellors ruling party seeking extra sources of revenue from the young, not the rich.
Because of a slump in Germany's population as more aging Germans retire, there are fewer young workers to replace them as taxpayers to fund generous welfare and pension programs.
is from the UK Telegraph in London.
I almost wish...
I almost wish Angela Merkel could talk Obama into that.
Can you imagine Obama going out the Democrats and saying the young aren't paying their fair share?
The young have to do more.
That's right, they would riot and they would run away from Obama.
It'll never happen.
Boy, can we dream.
Here's Tony, Dayton, Ohio, speaking of the devil.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
I know we only have a uh a minute, so this will be real quick.
Uh, I happen to be a pilot, retired military pilot, very proud of that.
I happen to be black.
Uh I waited and changed my day to day just to speak to you and your audience that this stuff about race has got to stop.
If we want to look at uh people that we want to uh emulate, I would just like to draw people's attention to the Tuskegee airmen of one of my heroes, Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Those guys are the reasons that I got to wear wings.
And they're the reason I got to serve my country.
And they were great Americans, and they didn't complain about anything.
And the last thing I want to say is that my parents grew up in Jim Crow.
They taught me to pay my own way.
Do not have anyone else pay your own way.
Tony, let me ask you a quick question.
Uh, I've got about 45 seconds here.
Uh Snerdley said something to me.
He thinks that this stuff, like the the the way they're playing the Traymon Martin Case.
He thinks they're overplaying their hand.
They can't rabble rouse the whole country anymore with this made-up stuff.
Do you think that's true?
I would agree with that because uh the only time I've ever agreed with Geraldo was when he told us he he on the air, he said he told his son not to wear uh you know a hoodie because you look like a thug.
I'll just tell you that playing.
He apologized for that.
He apologized.
He didn't want to offend any.
He brought the parents in a podcast.
I don't I don't have to apologize.
I've told my children a lot of times, you know, you need to look a certain way.
Don't go around looking like you're not.
So I I would say that there's a lot of people there that can see that they're overplaying their hand.
And I hope you're right.
I I've been hoping for this for 23 years.
I'm not so sure, but I I hope I hope you're right.
But boy, he is so right about paying your own way.
And it's it's it's one of those things people say, well, easy for you to say.
That is the essence of freedom, by the way.
Paying your own way means you're not dependent on anybody else, and that's liberating, believe me.
Thirty thousand people.
Thirty thousand people are expected at celebration church in Georgetown, Texas, on Easter Sunday for the Easter Sunday sermon delivered by Tim Tebow.
Thirty thousand at Celebration Church, Georgetown, Texas.
For Tebos Easter Sunday sermon.
Happy Easter to everybody and prayers for the Santorum family, as daughter Bella Beck in the hospital again.
Uh uh everybody just have a wonderful weekend, whatever it means to you, and we will be back here on Monday, unlike many.
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