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May 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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The thing that the thing that I don't understand.
I don't know where the uh Reverend Jackson finds the time to have all these affairs with so much racism in America occupying his time.
Where does he find the from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida?
It's open line.
Friday!
Well, seriously, there's so much racism out there.
Where does he find the time to bed these babes?
Of course, we're assuming there's a bed involved, but no, no, no.
This is not.
This is not the woman that had the uh the baby.
This is this is this is Tamra Holder.
You know what she was?
She was a pardon attorney.
She specialized in getting pardons from Bogoyovich.
That's that's what uh that's why Jackson hired her.
We've been doing some research here, folks, and that's that's who she is.
She's a pardoned attorney, and that's how the uh uh Reverend Jackson uh came across her here from her online law bio, Tamara founded WWW dot expunged.com, which is a Chicago-based expungement practice that provides a second chance to those who have been um convicted of expungible offenses under Illinois law.
She also helps ex-offenders seek a governor's pardon for non-expungible offenses.
She's met privately with Governor Blagoevich on the uh issues of uh pardons, the issue of pardons.
And she was soon invited to work with the uh Reverend Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Monochrome Coalition.
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You have to indulge me here.
I um I have to find out what this means.
Is accused of having an affair with Jesse Jackson in a lawsuit that alleges the illegal use of a gay Jackson employee to facilitate the relationship.
What would the legal use of a gay employee be?
Could some Cliff Kincaid wrote this.
He obviously he knows.
The illegal use of a gay Jackson employee, the accuser, Tommy Bennett, was Jackson's personal travel assistant, which means he got the girls their rooms.
He ran the legal clinic.
Well, just like Tiger had a guy like that, got the girls their rooms, ran the legal clinic at uh Jackson's uh Rainbow Push Coalition, the accuser did, Tommy Bennett, says that he was eventually fired for protesting the way Jackson treated him and other push employees, and he's seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
Tamara Holder's not responded to repeated requests for comment from accuracy and media, but the Reverend Jackson's press representative, Lauren Love says the allegations are false and'll be proven so.
Now the attorney for it uh Tommy Bennett, Thomas Laverso, says that the Reverend Jackson and Push have been stonewalling a legal response for many, many months, but that investigations and the case are moving forward.
Laverso told Cliff Kincaid that witnesses have come forward to verify the allegations against the Reverend Jackson.
Bennett worked for Jackson for more than two years, was known as Aruba Tommy on local Chicago radio.
Aruba Tommy.
The lawsuit alleges that Bennett was subjected to humiliating tasks because he was a gay guy, homosexual, such as escorting women to Jackson's hotel room.
Okay, now we're now we're getting to the heart of this.
Well, I guess if you're a gay guy, escorting paramours to your boss's room may be a little humiliating.
Because you're giving the imprimatur of you yourself are being used to provide the the imprimatur of legitimacy here.
In other words, the woman's not showing up on her own and knocking on the door, she's being escorted there by Tommy Bennett.
He's gay.
So he's the he's the uh he's the escort for women.
Plural.
To Jackson's hotel room, and then he was humiliated because he was ordered to clean up after Jackson had sexual intercourse with them.
Now that would be humiliating.
You have to clean up the room after the uh after the deeds had taken place.
Well, because you can't have the maid do it.
The maid does it, then the word gets out.
So you gotta have somebody go in there clean up before the maid comes in there to clean up.
Yep, that's true.
One of these women, the suit claims was Tamara Holder, a pundit and criminal defense attorney who claims she single-handedly founded what she calls a pro bono legal clinic at Reverend Jackson's uh operation.
A self-described Democrat, she appears regularly on Fox to defend the Obama regime and other prominent Democrats because of the Democratic Party's deep Chicago roots, Tamara has worked closely with some of the city's most prominent leaders.
That's basically the nuts and bolts of the story.
So Tommy Bennett suing as he had to escort the women to the room of the Reverend Jackson and then clean it up.
Get rid of the evidence, in other words, before hotel employees as uh as in maids showed up.
And that one of the women was Tamara Holder.
That's just amazing the stuff that you learn doing the show.
It's amazing the stuff that you learn listening to this program.
Okay, we're gonna continue here with our uh audio sound bites.
I'm gonna skip Biden.
I have I've had my I've had my fill of uh Biden, and we got it only have six or seven bites of him here today.
Geitner don't care.
Yeah, this is good.
Geitner.
Or back to little Timmy, tax cheap, treasury secretary.
He's on PBS the news hour last night.
The co-anchor Jeffrey Brown, rep number thirteen, interviewing Geitner.
Brown says, here we are again this week.
The debt limit question has bubbled up.
Believe it.
Can you believe it?
I can't, I can't understand it.
You can't understand because we look at how much damage it caused the country last August.
We have all the challenges to us as a country.
With political politicians threatening to default if we don't adopt a partisan political agenda.
It's deeply irresponsible.
So little Timmy doesn't understand why the debt limit arguments back.
Well, it's because we're approaching the debt limit, Timmy.
Uh the debt arguments back because we're approaching the limit.
There was, you know, but Clinton had this.
Clinton was out there, we had this story that when Clinton was calling for tax increases across the board, he also ripped into the Republicans for not compromising.
And it was the day after that, Obama talking about the debt limit deal that's coming up.
He said he was not going to accept any other alternatives but his.
He did there was not going to listen to anything but his way on this.
Fully illustrating that compromise isn't really compromise.
Compromise is Republicans caving.
Here's little Timmy.
Yeah.
We have all the challenges to us as a country with political politicians.
What he's political politicians, threatening to default if we don't adopt a partisan political agenda.
No, it's uh the this stuff gets so tiring, folks.
It really does.
You've been to one debt limit deal party, you've been to all of them, and here we are back in the same stuff, Same exact history is going to be played out, same allegations.
Obama wants more spend every dime he can get, print, borrow, what have you?
The Republicans hold all the cards here, but they don't know it.
And they don't want to act like it.
Now that it's an election year, the Republicans are going to be sensitive to charges that they will be comfortable with social security checks not being cut and uh Medicare checks not being made and all of this.
It's the same old rigamorole.
And it's just tiring.
Isn't exceeding your debt limit irresponsible, little Timmy?
Isn't that what's irresponsible here?
It's not the Republicans who are irresponsible, except those who have no discipline on spending.
Isn't what's really irresponsible, this whole debt limit deal, what the hell is the limit for.
It gets even better in the next bite.
This egghead can't comprehend why Americans don't realize the economy's been growing for two and a half years.
The economy is still gradually getting stronger.
Most measures of the economy we can all look at and see every day suggest, again, gradual continued strengthening.
But are you sure about that?
Because most people don't seem to see that.
You're still seeing a huge amount of damage left over from the crisis, and that had deep lasting scars on the basic confidence of Americans.
But everything we can see and feel in the economy supports this picture of gradual, continued strengthening.
You know, the economy has been growing now for more than two and a half years.
I I this little twerp is so literally out of it.
Does listening to that give you any confidence?
This is the Treasury Secretary mumbling through this.
Still seeing a huge amount of damage.
Everything we can see and feel, the economy supports this picture of gradual continuing.
No, I can show you chart after chart after chart where we're heading straight down.
There is no gradual improvement.
Marco Rubio was pulling his hair out when he heard about this, just like I am.
He was on with Cavuto on the Fox News Channel, and they were discussing this.
This is what Marco Rubio said.
There's the crisis right there, is the fact that Geitner doesn't think there is one.
I mean, the president's budget who he works for was just voted down yesterday, 99 to nothing.
Not even the Democrats would vote for the President's budget.
And the Senate Democrats haven't offered a budget in over three and a half years.
I mean, do people back home fully understand what I'm what I've just explained?
The Democrats in Washington that control the Senate have not offered a budget in three and a half years.
That's outrageous.
And I think for the Secretary of the Treasury to say that there is no crisis when this government will again this year spend over a trillion dollars more than it takes in, I think that right there is the crisis.
Senator to people back home get it.
The people back home fully understand what's going on here, and they're fit to be tied over it.
And every chance they have to tell you and to show you at the ballot box, they do.
So Kudo Cavuto responded, he said, Well, what Geidner was referring to was the threat from Boehner that when we uh come to the debt ceiling issue later this summer, that there isn't a corresponding amount of spending cuts to go along with however much you raise the debt ceiling, he's not gonna go for it.
So here then again, another debt crisis, and it's the same thing.
Republicans want cuts, Obama's not gonna go for any cuts, and we're back to the same place.
So what does that mean?
We are having a debt ceiling crisis on a daily basis, and here's why.
Because this government, every year is spending one and a half trillion dollars more than it takes in.
When is the United States federal government and when is this president going to begin to seriously address the fact that this is a government that spends one and a half trillion dollars a year more than it takes in?
That has to be dealt with.
That is not going to solve itself.
It's not gonna go away on its own, and every year that goes by that it remains unresolved, the harder it becomes to solve.
So I think that's what the speaker's trying to say is where's the sense of urgency?
He's not.
Obama doesn't care.
This is like, who did I read?
Some journalist.
Might have been, what's it Harwood?
I don't remember.
Some journalist.
Might have been Howard Schwein.
I don't remember who it was, was talking about Obama has really got to come up with a plan for fiscal responsibility.
I mean, that's his that's his what?
How in the world can anybody watching what's going on think he cares about fiscal responsibility?
That's not what he's doing.
That's not what he's oriented towards.
Fiscal responsibility is just the other way around.
There is a transformation of this country taking place.
There is an expansion of government taking place on purpose.
The private sector, the the capitalistic free market, the place where 99% of people, well, not that much anymore, sadly, work and live where the opportunity is in this country.
Where the economic opportunity exists in this country is shrinking by design and on purpose.
Fiscal responsibility, there is no pretense of that.
And with some journalist wringing his hands over the fact that Obama hasn't yet proposed anything on entitlement reform.
Well, he's never going to.
Entitlement reform?
What the heck do you people think Obamacare is?
It's a brand new one.
There's no reform of entitlements proposed on the Democrats side.
I gotta take a break.
We'll get back to your phone calls when we come back because it's open line Friday, so hang in there and be tough.
I just got an email that has a web link in it to a site that is let's see, what is it called here?
It's called the uh called Naked DC, a guy named Seaton Motley.
You know, NATO has descended on Chicago.
So apparently some Occupy Wall Street kids went to Chicago.
Now, the point of Mr. Motley's post, he is of the generation of the Occupy Wall Street kids.
He's embarrassed of them.
He said that they're absolutely blithering idiots have no clue what they're doing.
They showed up at an office building in Chicago yesterday to protest me, and they demanded that I come out and meet him, and they wanted to get me thrown off the air and so forth.
And one guy even tweeted pictures of the Occupy people with his message, he's got a picture of it.
A masked outside Russia's office building.
Now, Mr. Motley points out that I have I don't live in Chicago.
I don't live in three states near Chicago.
Our offices are not in Chicago.
Rush lives in Florida, and yet these idiots, somebody told them that I'm there in Chicago, so they show up to protest.
They are.
They are blithering idiots.
It's a great example.
They have at the slip all they know is what they're told by their rabid uh rabbit organizers.
It's hilarious.
Where they were was uh the building where WLS is, which is our Chicago affiliate, but I'm not there.
I haven't been to WLS in years.
But these clowns were convinced that that's where I was yesterday.
So they show up to show me a thing or two.
And meanwhile, we were here where we always are at the EIB Southern Command.
Mike in Jacksonville, uh, North Carolina it is.
I'm glad you called Open Line Friday, your turn, sir.
Hello.
Well, Rush, I gotta tell you what an honor it is to talk to you today.
Thank you.
I appreciate that, sir.
Uh, I have been an I have been a student of the Limbaugh Institute for just about ten years.
And I gotta tell you, I have a question for you today that I hope will demonstrate that I have indeed been paying attention.
And the question is, what would our society look like if the 99%ers mostly, if the one percenters just quit.
Just decided that they have enough, and they cashed in their chips, pulled their shuttles, uh, shutters, shingled their shops.
Would you like to would you like to read a book about this?
Well, sure.
There's a book called Atlas Shrugged.
It's a long book.
Have you heard of it?
Yes.
It's by it's by uh uh Ayn Rand.
Yes.
And it's about this very thing.
It's about the producers throwing Up their hands in frustration and just saying the heck with I'm not doing it anymore.
I am not going to pay these exorbitant tax rates.
I'm not going to be one of the few in this country productive.
Everybody feeds off me, and they just quit.
It is a very, very long book.
A movie was made of it within the past year, which, by the way, I think I'm sure you could rent that DVD somewhere.
Okay.
I haven't I have seen the movie.
It's it's it's okay.
I mean, it it will um it'll entertain you.
It'll make the point.
Reading the book is a is uh is a commitment because it's uh it's very long.
The thing is, this is starting to happen, not in any kind of a mass way, but for example, the uh Eduardo Savron, who is renouncing his citizenship, staying in Singapore rather than paying capital gains taxes on the financial gain he's realizing today with a Facebook IPO.
It's gonna turn him into a billionaire, not just a paper billionaire, he's actually going to have the assets now, and he don't want to pay the capital gains taxes on it, which will be something in the neighborhood of 60 million dollars.
There are a bunch of American corporations are already locating offshore and doing most of their business offshore and keeping their money offshore.
And this led to a New York Times story on Apple about how mean and unpatriotic Apple is, and they found the guy who runs a community college right next door in Cupertino, California.
And this guy said that his school is running a deficit because Apple isn't paying enough taxes.
His school is in debt, might have to shut down, might have to cut some classes, might have to let some teachers go because Apple isn't paying enough taxes.
But then he took the criticism away.
Whatever we need, whatever they do.
I don't want to make them mad.
But it's not happening any mass way.
But if it did, it's over.
We just had little Timmy Geithners.
I don't know what people don't understand.
The economy's growing out there.
It's been growing for two and a half years.
Really frustrating, Charlie.
We don't know why people don't see the economy as a growth.
Well.com with a little editorial.
Recovery.
Only 16 states have gained jobs under Obama.
Sixteen of our 57 states.
Well, Obama on the campaign trail 2008 said he had visited all but one of the 57 states.
No, he didn't.
You're making no, I'm not making it up, but he said it.
Well, why didn't the media make a big deal of it?
Because they buried it.
Is why.
Obama doesn't commit gaffes.
Obama doesn't say stupid things.
He does, I mean, but they don't report it.
But the truth is that just 16 states have seen job growth since Obama was immaculated, and this is according to state employment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The remaining states have lost a combined 1.4 million jobs since January of 2009.
There you have a portion of the shrinking labor force, often called the labor force participation rate.
Even 34 months after the recession officially ended in June of 2009.
And do you believe that officially is a statistic?
When you have two or more quarters of economic growth, then there's no recession.
So the recession has been over according to the regime since 2009.
And in the 34 months since then, eleven states have fewer people working now than at the start of the recovery.
Meanwhile, 20 states have unemployment rates at or above 8%, including nine states with unemployment at 9% or higher.
So yeah, let's reelect Obama.
This is what he doesn't want discussed.
This is why I firmly believe he's happy with everybody talking about some literary agent blurb that said he was born in Kenya.
I think he's ecstatic for people to be talking about that.
I think he's ecstatic for people to be talking about Reverend Wright.
Because folks, the things that he has proposed doing to fix our economy have failed miserably.
And they continue to fail, and they will continue to fail because he's not going to change them.
He wants to be re-elected anyway, and there's not one single reason to.
If you're interested in economic opportunity, if you are interested in economic growth, if you are interested in finding a career plus a job.
None of that is growing.
The opportunity for all of that is shrinking.
Because that opportunity exists in the private sector.
And by private sector, I mean the basic economy where most people go to work.
Everything that's not government is the private sector.
And the government sector is getting bigger.
There are more bureaucracies, there are more entitlements, there are more people being hired.
They don't produce anything.
All they do is, in fact, they don't have any money until people are taxed.
Government doesn't have a dime until it takes it from somebody.
Government doesn't produce anything.
All government does is destroy wealth or redistribute it.
And then they have to destroy it before they can redistribute it.
By destroy it, I mean take it for themselves.
Now Obama doesn't want anybody talking about that.
But if you want the traditional good old American way of a career and advancement, entrepreneurial activity being rewarded, risk being applauded.
Obama's not for you.
If you want a country where success is rewarded, not punished.
If you want a country where hard work and the resulting success from it are applauded and pointed to as almost uh well, you'd look at an individual who's an idol.
If you want an economy that produces people that end up inspiring others to do great things, Obama's not for you because none of that is happening.
I shouldn't say none of it, because they're hard workers that work to overcome whatever obligations or obstacles rather that government puts in their way.
It's a great thing about this country.
There are people, you know, every attempt to take aim at the successful, they find a way around it.
They work harder sometimes to stay up to keep up.
But most people depend on those people for their opportunity.
And there's simply fewer of those opportunities because of these people because of Obama.
It's not complicated at all.
The place where opportunity exists in this country is being shrunken by design and on purpose.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
A little John Travolta music here, ladies and gentlemen.
you.
Stay in a life.
Yet another accuser has come forward, another guy has come forward with another accusation about John Travolta being an expert in a massage room.
Great to have you back here on uh on Open Line Friday.
Jerry Brown, Moonbeam, the governor of California.
This is great stuff.
He was on Charlie Rose everywhere.
He said Charlie Rose on CBS today.
We've traded MSNBC and we got Charlie Rose in the deal.
He's at CBS this morning.
Hey, Governor Moonbeam said, when you look uh the Sama's 1920s, when you look at California looking at the ninth biggest economy, you're looking at a state that mirrors problems not only around the country but the world, people want to cut spending, they don't want to raise taxes, people who want to raise taxes but are restricted in whose spending they want to cut.
What can you do as well?
On the November ballot will be a proposal to raise income taxes on the very affluent and a slight quarter cent uh tax uh On everybody else.
This will be built into my uh budget that I hope to be able to sign uh by the end of June, and that will be something called trigger cuts.
So the people will either vote to bring in somewhere between eight to ten billion in new taxes, principally from the most affluent people.
It's not stop the tape.
It isn't gonna work.
That's the way they just reported a $16 billion budget.
That was that's all they've been doing.
This is this is insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Genuine literal insanity.
Yeah, well, we're gonna raise taxes on the rich.
Rich aren't paying enough here in California.
We're gonna raise them and we're gonna keep raising taxes on their wealthy.
They're not paying enough.
We're gonna generate between eight and ten billion dollars.
You know what?
They'll generate one to two billion.
And they'll all scratch their heads.
So what went wrong here?
So uh Charlie Rose says, well, what's the argument you make to the people who believe that you were a governor that would not be cutting um uh not only what they expected in terms of what government does, but also cutting the ability of California to be competitive in the future.
There's a uh old Latin phrase, nemo dot nonhobbit.
No man gives what he does not have.
California doesn't have the money that uh people are expecting it to spend.
You live in an unbalanced life, you pay.
We're very entrepreneurial, very innovative, and people are still coming here.
This is where they invented Facebook, not in Texas, not in Arizona, not in Manhattan, and certainly not uh under the uh, you know, the White House or the Congress.
This is still the wild west, and we're gonna prove to the rest of this country and the world that we know how to do it.
Facebook was invented in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Well, whatever's invented, this is where they are.
Enough said.
He's delusional.
Literally delusional.
So everybody, you people of California live a balanced life, and you'll be fine.
Well, it's new age crap coming at you from the governor's office in Sacramento.
Balanced life.
Forget the other soundbite.
I'm not interested in the other soundbite.
This is well, he just admits that he's something like a dinosaur, which is true.
He's deranged.
They got a state with $16 billion deficit.
All they've done is tax the rich.
That's all they've done.
People are leaving the state.
In fact, California's unemployment rate just went up for the first time in eight months.
I wonder why.
Oh, by the way, CBS, uh General Motors.
Get General Motors as just announced.
Obama Motors.
They are not going to sponsor or advertise in next year's Super Bowl.
Mm-hmm.
I wonder why.
Is that part of the war on football?
No.
Or did they not have the money?
I'm not going to advertise on the Super Bowl.
you You know, I was just reviewing this email we got, this great email from uh one of the three grand prize sweepstakes winners at two if by team.
And it uh it hit me.
We send more to our sweepstakes winners than Obama sends to his family in Kenya.
It's incredible.
Anyway, folks, I hope you have a great weekend.
I intend to, and we will see you Monday from Los Angeles.
Be out there all weekend long, got some exciting charity stuff going on.
See you Monday from LA.
Have a great weekend.
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