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June 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 18, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Just when you think you've seen it all, something else pops up.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome, Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you back.
You're on the Excellence In Broadcasting Network.
And I, of course, am your highly trained broadcast specialist, Rush Limbaugh, a legend before my time.
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Speaking of Ann Romney, Ann Romney was, she's on a Detroit radio station.
She told a Detroit radio station earlier today that she doubted she and her husband would vacation overseas as frequently as the Kardashians if her husband were elected.
Safe to say that the Romneys are wealthier than the Kardashians.
But we probably will vacation less overseas than the Kardashians did.
Folks, I'm going to turn the Ditto Cam off because I got to zoom in here on something that I want to show you.
Just became made aware of this.
It's a story in the, well, two stories, USA Today and the UK Daily Mail.
Let me tighten up the zoom here on the on the Ditto Cam.
Hold this up.
Okay.
Did you get a glimpse of that?
Let me tighten a little bit further here.
Okay.
Make sure to know email addresses on this or anything.
And we're ready to go.
Okay.
Cool.
Take a look at this.
I'm sorry for those of you not watching on the Ditto Cam.
It's a new pair of sneakers from Adidas.
They have shackles on them, ankle shackles that link by link.
Look like chain link.
They're not chains, but they, of course, look like it.
They link their high-top sneakers and they link, the orange shackles link to the top of the tennis shoes.
They are due out this August from Adidas.
Turn the DittoCam.
These.
Is that your reaction?
Is that what you call them?
Is that really what you call them?
They are called the Adidas JS Roundhouse Mids.
Now, it's interesting.
Snurdly said that they are slave shoes.
That was the first thing.
We'll put a picture up at RushLimbaugh.com, and you can look at them pretty soon.
Coco, get it up there.
USA Today, new Adidas shackle sneakers ripped as symbolizing slavery.
Can sneakers really be controversial?
Yes, when it comes to new Adidas sneakers with plastic ankle shackles.
The new Adidas JS Roundhouse Mids debuting in August are already drawing criticism online as being shoes with overtones of slavery.
And lo and behold, here the UK Daily Mail.
How would a Jewish person feel if you put a swastika on a shoe?
Adidas is under fire for unveiling new trainer shoes with orange shackles like those worn by black slaves.
Adidas has sparked outrage and been accused of promoting slavery by creating a new pair of trainers which have bright orange shackles that fit around the wearer's ankles.
A clothing giant under fire for its August scheduled release of the JS Roundhouse Mids, which many have compared to the devices worn by black slaves in 19th century America.
The way Adidas is promoting these shoes is for people who have a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles so that people can't steal them.
That's why they have the shackles on them.
Well, okay.
There's the picture.
There's the picture of them again.
Right there it is.
If they're training for ankle bracelets, well, I don't is Adidas, if they are, who are they working with?
If the purpose of these shoes is to train people for ankle shackles later in life, who are they working with?
It is kind of curious.
I have to confess, and I didn't think slavery, I thought prison.
Orange prison colors, I thought prisoners.
But it's Fest Snerdley, who is African American, pure 100% slave blood, African-American, is our official Obama criticizer, by the way.
Kunta Kinte special shoes.
Okay, well, there you have it.
I'm not going to argue with you.
If that's your first reaction, then I have to acquiesce.
I was going to say, come on, give me a break.
I think they're prison shackles.
But if you show them to a black guy and they think slavery, and he had no idea it was coming.
So I'll defer.
I'll defer on this one to Mr. Snerdley with his 100% slave blood.
What do you bet these shoes never see the light of day?
A couple of free pairs will end up on eBay.
They'll be collectors' items.
They'll be sold.
They'll show up in a Hitler video or something like that.
Okay.
From Breitbart, 23% of small business owners went a year without pay.
But Obama said the private sector is doing fine.
He said the private sector is doing fine.
Tell that to small business owners.
A new survey by Citigroup shows that 23% of small business owners have gone more than a year without pay.
The study also shows that 54% of those same people have gone without at least one paycheck.
38% said their employees had worked overtime without being paid for it.
18% of them had been unable to make a paycheck for their employees at least once.
And during recent years, 78% of the owners have taken less profit.
70% have been working more hours.
69% have used their own money in order to keep their businesses afloat.
And when asked what issues have been the most problematic for them, they didn't rank their access to financing in the top five.
That's not the problem.
Nope.
Lack of sales and consumer confidence, most troubling factors.
Well, of course.
Anybody with any common sense knows that everybody, the regime, Obama running around and trying to make this a credit problem.
It's not people.
These business owners are scared to death of the future.
They don't know what's in store, but they have a good idea and they're frightened.
They're frightened of Obamacare.
By the way, a lot of people were expecting the court to announce its Obamacare decision today, but no.
So next Monday, the 25th, looks like the day.
The story is that they're still working on this opinion, and they're working diligently to get it right.
Now, I don't know.
I don't remember who told me this.
It was in a chat earlier this morning, but I would think this thing's already written.
If they're still working on it, I would be dumbfounded, but I could be wrong about that.
Anyway, that decision's coming Monday.
And you've got, there's an look at this.
Investors Business Daily.
October surprise, the debt limit may hit before election.
At the recent pace of debt growth, the U.S. will reach its statutory limit of $16.3 trillion sometime in October, just before everybody goes to the polls.
The government has ways to stay below that ceiling for a few months, giving lawmakers a grace period.
The Treasury Secretary, Lil Timmy, has said the deadline is early 2013, but the recent slowdown in economic growth bodes poorly for federal tax receipts.
Any pickup in the rate of debt accumulation could pull forward that deadline into the supercharged environment of a presidential election.
If the government is seen as dysfunctional in another debt standoff, the theory is that the public will hold President Kardashian more liable than Republicans.
And by the way, that is also the opinion of noted Rothenberg political report deputy editor Nathan Gonzalez.
So let's say we hit the debt limit before the election and the same rancor assumes with the arguments and the debates over whether to extend it.
That would be a real test for the Republican.
You know the pressure on Boehner and the boys.
Oh, can you imagine?
I get it's a victory waiting to be had.
It's a victory waiting to be snatched from our jaws, I'm afraid.
But the other way of looking at it is even if you let Obama win it and you expand the debt, that doesn't help.
That's not what people want, and it would inspire even more anti-Obama turnout.
So we shall see.
Let me grab a call real quickly here if we go into the break because Madeline from Orange County, California, been on the phone for a while.
She is a business owner, president of a large corporation, and then she wants to weigh in on this.
Thank you for waiting, Madeline.
I'm glad to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you.
And let me just say you are the champion of Patriots.
Well, thank you very much.
Real quickly with my story, you know, I started over 20 years ago, got a divorce, went and worked for a company, learned everything, and went on my own and built a corporation running about 1,000 men.
I'm in construction.
I'm a female.
And we're private.
We're not union.
And so over the last four years, I have laid off 800-plus men.
And I have made up my mind that if Barack gets, if Barack gets four more years, I am going to close.
I'm going to close the company down.
I'm sorry if you hear interference.
Someone's trying to call me.
But anyway, I'm down to maybe 200-plus men right now.
And I, you know, my stress comes from I have laid these people off, and now I'm getting the lawsuits for wrongful termination.
Someone called someone an old man, so I'm being sued for six figures on that.
Wait a minute.
Hold on, hold on.
Just a second.
Wait a minute.
I want to get the picture of this.
You, Madeline, are the only woman in a company that had 1,000 employees.
Yes.
You had to lay off 800 of these guys.
You're in the construction business.
Yes, over the last four years.
The last four years.
Did you get any stimulus money for shovel-ready jobs from presidents?
Not a dime, please.
Please, not a stinking dime, because if you are a private company and you take one dollar of government or state or county money, you have to sign a deal with the union, and there is no way.
So I do track residential.
I don't, the union guys do the commercial, and they're not involved in the track.
I asked her that because I knew what the answer was going to be.
The key here is that Obama insisted that every job that got stimulus money to assist had to be a union job, be it a bureaucrat in a state government office or on a construction job.
So you didn't get a penny because you aren't union.
No.
No.
And nor do I want to be.
The union is the reason why the economy is so horrific.
And if we do, and why he doesn't understand that, well, he does, but it's just a matter of here.
I've laid off over 800 people who had jobs, who took care of their families, and I didn't fuck them.
I laid them off, so they're collecting unemployment.
But now the stress is they're finding ways to come back at me by saying, and seven months later, I have a lawsuit right now where a guy said one of my guys called him an old man, Rush.
So he found an attorney in L.A. who would take his case.
Well, and he is now suing me.
Let me tell you something, Madeline.
I have no people who have told me that they live in fear of what's happened to you.
They have to lay people off, and they know they're setting themselves up for lawsuits like the ones you're getting.
But you had no choice, right?
I mean, if you if you had an eight, if you had a 1,000 employee firm and you're down to 200, you didn't do that because you're mean.
Nobody wants their business to shrink that much, right?
Right, because there is no work.
And whatever work there is right now, it is just a matter of no profit, rolling dollars just to keep the employees who have been with you 20 plus years going.
And now, as far as me, I still take a check.
I would have shut down if I would have taken no check because that doesn't make sense to me to risk the liability, to risk everything.
Right.
And you're not even taking a dollar.
I understand that, but you're going to shut down if Obama's re-elected.
Yes, I am, sir.
I certainly am.
Specifically, why?
Because of the workers' comp has doubled, because of the lawsuits, because of just I've had it.
I've really had it, and there is no profit.
You're rolling dollars.
I'm not borrowing money because I've been a good business steward to keep it afloat, but there just is no more profit in it.
And so why do I want to risk the lawsuits and the liability and the workers' comp?
Why do I want to risk all that?
Workers' comp has doubled.
It's right.
Well, plus, well, I know healthcare is part of that, but it's going to be on top of that to boot, you'll be buried.
Exactly.
So it's bye-bye after 20-some years.
I don't know where my employees who've been with me for 20-some years are going to go and get a job because everybody is in this situation.
Well, plus it's California.
You've got to double whammy.
What?
Double whammy.
He's going to raise the taxes, and he thinks anybody who makes over a certain amount wants to pay more, so we're going to vote for that.
I mean, it's crazy.
I'm headed to Texas where Governor Perry is.
Oh, go to Texas.
Okay, that's, see, that's federalism, folks.
You can move.
But when the Fed start doing this stuff, there's nowhere to go to escape it.
Madeline, God bless.
Good luck.
I got to go take a break, but I'm glad you called.
We'll be right back with much more, folks.
Don't go away.
Madeline sure sounded to me like she's paying attention, folks.
President Kardashian doesn't think anybody's paying attention yet.
Here's Brandon in Springdale, Arkansas.
Nice to have you, sir, on the EIB Network High.
Hi.
Thank you very much.
I was so happy to talk to Bo just for a second and to have a theory about Joe Biden's problem with President Baby Doc Kardashians getting out to talk about him as a blue-collar guy.
And it's two words, Neil Kinnock.
Neil Kinnock and Biden's plagiarizing.
Well, I did, I've got a story that I printed up where Biden tries to make the claim that he came from hard scrabble roots and had a tough job, tough time in life, overcoming obstacles.
What's amazing about this, he's out there now denying it.
He's got his Neil Kinnock plagiarism was all about being blue-collar, all about being an average guy, all about being a working guy.
So here's Obama carrying forth with Biden's established identity, and Biden gets all ticked off about it now.
And that's what's mysterious.
Well, see, because he got thrown out of the 88 election because they found out that it was all fake.
Okay, so you, you know, so you're, oh, oh, okay, so I get it.
So he's mad that Obama is reminding everybody what he once lied about.
Oh, that could be.
Science may soon give us pills that make us exercise.
Yeah, well, who's going to make us take it?
They can't make me take it.
Swiss researchers have discovered that elevating the amount of hormone.
I'm not even going to try to pronounce it.
A hormone more commonly known as EPO in the brains of mice led them to be more active.
And it did so without causing elevated red blood cell counts.
Big whoop.
Typically occurs when EPO is used to boost performance.
So anybody who follows cycling knows about EPO.
It says here.
It's from Wired.com.
It's a widely, illegally used performance-enhancing drug.
So they're going to come up with a variaceous compound, put it in a pill, and make us take it.
And that's going to make us want to go out there and exercise.
Well, they're not going to make us take it at first.
But they're hell-bent, folks, on taking our phones away from us.
They're hell-bent on getting us out there exercising.
Do you know, you remember 20 years ago, the Earth Dead had this giant save the Earth thing down in Rio, and we had Dixie Lee Ray as our correspondent of this thing?
The late, great Dixie Lee Ray.
She was the former, I want to say she was governor, state of Washington.
If not governor, she was in some president's regime.
It's a cabinet energy secretary or some such thing.
My memory is failing me on this.
But she went down there as our correspondent to report on all that they were doing at this Earth Summit.
She was a governor.
Governor of Washington.
Yes, Even when I think I'm wrong, I'm right.
It's an amazing thing.
And she phoned in some of the most outrageously funny things, like all the air conditioning being used.
Anyway, the Washington Post has a story about this year's Earth Summit.
And you know what the big move is?
It's a UN-sponsored thing.
The big move is to convince the attendees not to eat meat.
The Washington Post, Earth Summit, the big impetus is to convince the attendees not to eat meat in order to set a good example for saving the country.
They don't want us to eat meat.
They think we all need to be exercising.
Can't eat any trans fats, nothing over 16 ounces if you're going to have a Coke.
Got to get rid of our phones.
Can't use them.
They're too dangerous.
Too much independence with our phones.
And now a pill to make us exercise.
What the hell?
A pill doesn't sound bad.
You telling me somebody's going to give me a pill that's going to make me want to exercise, that's not good to me.
I don't want to want to exercise.
I actively enjoy not wanting to exercise.
I derive spiritual, physical, and mental pleasure from not having to exercise.
If somebody's going to give me a pill that's going to make me want to exercise, that's a betrayal.
I am John Danforth.
John Danforth was my high-screw commencement speaker, former senator from Missouri.
There's a little paper in St. Louis called the St. Louis Beacon, and they cover a story where Danforth spoke about reflections on the relationship of religion to government.
He spoke at the Danforth Eagleton lecture in St. Louis last Thursday night, and he said that our government is broken and can only be fixed by compromise.
Compromise is not a dirty word, said Danforth.
Compromise is the essence of politics.
Compromise is needed to get us out of our fix.
And he laments the loss of Dick Luger.
He laments the Tea Party.
He laments partisan conservatism.
He said that the compromise that is needed is like that of Bob Dole when he was the Senate majority leader.
With Dole, the only way to add any amendment to any bill was with bipartisan sponsorship, sponsorship, usually an equal number of senators from each party.
If Dole couldn't get that, then they didn't add it.
There's no amendment.
And we need to get back to that.
We need to get back to working together.
And the kind of compromise we need right now, Republicans need to compromise on raising taxes.
The Democrats need to compromise on entitlement cuts.
And if we could do that, everything would be hunky-dory.
Well, of course not he hasn't changed.
No, of course not he hasn't.
There's no way he's going to change.
These guys are the Jurassic Park politicians.
By the way, I'm reminded that we have an exercise pill already.
I didn't think of it.
Viagra.
I wish I'd have thought of that.
Jamaica, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts is Kevin, and we welcome you to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Rush, what an honor.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
You know, how ironic that Rodney King should be found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool when Obama and his cohorts are saying that they are just going out and saying that, you know, they can't get along.
Rodney King says we all have to get along.
But now the press is saying that, you know, we can't get along.
What's up with that?
Well, what do you mean the press is saying we can't get along?
Are you referring to something earlier in the program?
Yeah, they're just saying that, you know what?
You know, we can't get along with this guy.
We can't go with this guy.
Oh, you're talking about the Chris Saliza piece that said maybe the presidency has gotten too big for one man.
It just maybe, and there's too much partisanship, and the world isn't cooperating with Obama.
And it's just, it's probably just bigger than one man can handle right now and so forth.
I guess you're saying you can interpret that as Chris Eliza in the New York Times, Washington Post.
Can't we all get along?
I don't know what that's got to do with Rodney King passing away in the bottom of his bottom of his pool.
Obama himself has said that we are in a stalemate.
And in fact, the essence of his reelection campaign is that the voters have to break stalemate.
That's what he said last week.
We're in the middle of a stalemate, and the only people can break it are the voters by giving somebody here a mandate.
I didn't know Rodney King had a pool.
But he did.
He is famous.
Can't we all get along?
I'll never forget.
Oh, what an episode.
What an episode that was.
Kevin, I appreciate it.
Bill in Clayton, North Carolina.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it is an honor.
I have tried numerous times to get in touch with you, and I just came out of Lowe's here in Clayton, North Carolina, and I got through.
It's a very big honor.
Well, it's the first time I've had anybody on the phone that just came out of Lowe's.
Rush, you said something today that really tickles me, and I want to say it.
When you said about Sarah Palin, and you said, I love it when you go right on, right on.
I love it every time you say that.
It makes me chuckle.
But I wanted to get to a point that a lady said a few times calls back.
She hit a nail on the head, and I said, I had to sit down and talk with my employees.
I only have two employees here in Clayton.
And one I just hired from New Jersey, and he never voted in his life.
Well, he voted for the mayor one time.
That's what he said.
And I told him that if this president gets in again, and my wife said this morning, she didn't, she didn't think she thought it's crazy, but I will close down.
I'm tired of this.
I work my tail off, like I told Sterling.
I work sometimes late, late, late at night because I can't hire nobody.
What is your business?
I'm in the Engineer.
I own my own business.
I run it.
I answer the phones.
I do everything.
I started from nothing, and I have a lot of customers.
But what it is, is the government, like that woman said, workman's comp is one of the biggest things.
I'm with just employees.
Two employees, not counting me.
I pay $8,000 a year just in two employees.
This right now, I'm going to tell you this story.
Wait a second.
Wait, did you say $80,000 a year?
No, no, sir.
$8,000.
$80,000.
$8,000 to $10,000 just in workman's comp.
That's if someone gets hurt, they'll take care of it.
And we never had a problem with anyone getting hurt.
But with a small company like that, I can use that for something else.
I could hire me as Secretary of the Answer Fund.
Let me ask you a stupid question.
It gets hot in North Carolina.
What is the problem with your business?
People, do not people make sure their air conditioning is working in the summertime?
I mean, if it goes out, they have to get it fixed.
It's not about the problem with this summertime.
It's for the full year.
I mean, we were so busy right now, it's unbelievable.
Well, then why are you going to shut down if you're so busy?
Because I'm just tired of working my pill off.
I'm tired of all these other people getting a handout, and I still have a family.
All right, I got it.
You're working all these hours, and you've got to pay all this other stuff to everybody else before you pay yourself.
Yes, I mean, the thing is, it's not the main thing, it's the principle in my point where we're just a handout.
And why should I have to pay for somebody else's handout?
And my taxes and everything.
Yeah.
You're going galt, buddy.
You're going galt.
Yeah, I'm going to go work for somebody else.
No, no.
Galt means to hell with it.
You're tired of pulling the cart.
You're tired of pulling the cart.
99% of people in the cart being pulled.
You're tired of pulling it.
You're going galt.
Ayn Rand, John Galt, you've had it.
And Madeline, Orange County, California, essentially was saying the same thing.
If Kardashian is re-elected, they're just going to shut down.
He's working 90-hour weeks.
He's got nothing to show for it.
That's his problem.
A lot of other people have a lot to show for what he's working, but he doesn't.
That's what he's saying.
And he's thinking if he owns a business, and if I'm putting in all his hours, I ought to be getting something out of it.
But he sees it all mandated to others.
I hear what he's talking about.
I know it firsthand, and we'll be back.
This is Melissa on the Florida Turnpike.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
You are more than welcome.
I am a stay-at-home mom by choice.
You're a traitor.
Yes, I am.
I put myself with the help of my parents through college to work in a blue-collar job, got a white-collar job after, and left the workplace and chose to stay at home and raise my children to be young Christian conservatives.
Well, that's why people like Elizabeth Wurzel don't like you.
Oh, it makes me sick.
Women like you are making other men think all women are stupid.
That's what she said.
Well, with the exception of my great husband, he wants me to stay at home, and he knows it's my choice to stay at home.
We talked about this before we were even married.
That's good.
So you weren't hoodwinked.
You know what all this reminds me of?
One of my all-time favorite sayings.
The man who thinks he's smarter than his.
This really ticks off the feministies.
They hate this.
They hate it.
The man who thinks he's smarter than his wife knows not how truly smart she is.
My friends, sadly, we must now move on to our 21-hour timeout, 21-hour break.
It's over.
That's it.
There is no more today.
If you were depressed, it's time to go back to being depressed.
But fear not, as you'll be back at it with me in 21 hours.
Look forward to it.
See you then.
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