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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 here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And I, of course, am your highly trained broadcast specialist Rush Limbaugh, a legend before my time.
Telephone number 800 282882, if you want to be on the program, email address lrushball at EIBNet.com.
Speaking of Anne Romney, Anne 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 husband would vacation overseas as frequently as the uh Kardashians if uh her husband were elected.
Safe to say that the Romneys are wealthier than the Kardashians.
But so we probably will vacation less overseas than the Kardashians did.
Folks, I uh I'm gonna turn the ditto cam off because I gotta zoom in here on something that I want to show you.
Just became made aware of this.
It's a uh story in the uh, well, two stories, USA Today and the uh UK Daily Mail.
Let me tighten up the zoom here on the uh on the ditto cam.
Hold this up.
Okay, a little Did you get a glimpse of that?
Let me tell a little bit further here.
Okay.
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 Ditto Chem.
Um these uh is that your reaction?
Is that what you call them?
Is that really what you call them?
They are called the Adidas J.S. Roundhouse Mids.
Now it's interesting.
Snerdley said that they are slave shoes.
That was the first thing he we'll we'll put a picture of it at Rush Limbaugh.com and you can uh you can look at them pretty 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, they hear 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 that's why they have the shackles on there.
Well, okay.
There's the picture of them again.
Right, right there it is.
If they're training for ankle bracelets.
Well, I don't know if is is Adidas if they are, who they're 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 I have to confess, and I I didn't think slavery, I thought prison.
Orange, prison colors, I thought I thought prisoners.
But it's Fess Snerdley, who is African American, pure 100% slave blood African American.
Is our official Obama criticizer, by the way.
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 uh I have to acquiesce.
I was I was gonna say, come on, give me a break if you'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% uh slave blood.
Well, there what do you bet these shoes never see the light of day?
A couple of three pairs will end up on eBay, they'll be collector's items will be sold, they'll show up on a Hitler video or something like that.
But from Breitbart, 23% of small business owners went a year without pay.
But Obama said the private sector's 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.
Uh 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, the 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 Obama.
By the way, a lot of people were expecting the court to announce its Obamacare decision today, but no.
So next Monday, uh, 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.
I uh If you're still working on it, I would be I I 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.
Umit may hit before election.
At the recent pace of debt growth, the U.S. will reach its statutory limit of 16.3 trillion dollars 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 Little 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 Rothenburg political report deputy editor Nathan Gonzalez.
So let's say we hit the debt limit before the election and the same rancor ig uh in uh 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 to the break, because Madeline from Orange County, California been on the phone for a while.
She is um uh a business owner, president of a large corporation, and then she wants to weigh in on this.
Uh thank you for waiting, Madeline.
I'm glad to have you here.
Hi.
Uh thank you.
And let me just say you are the champion of Patriots.
Well Thank you very much.
Real quickly with my story, uh, you know, I started over twenty years ago, got a divorce, went and worked for a company, learned everything, and built uh went on my own and built a corporation uh running about a thousand men.
I'm in construction, I'm a female, and uh we're private, we're not union.
And so over the last four years I have laid off uh eight hundred 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 two hundred uh 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 uh for wrongful termination.
Someone called someone an old man, so I'm being sued for six figures on that.
Wait a minute, so hold on, hold on, hold on, ho, ho, ho, ho, just a second.
Wait a minute.
I want to get the picture of this.
You, Madeline are the only woman in an em in a in a company that had a thousand employees.
Yes.
You had to lay off eight hundred of these guys.
You're in the construction business.
Yes, over the last four years.
Last four years.
Did you get any stimulus money for shovel ready jobs from president?
Not a dime, please.
I uh 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 with 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, 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, uh well, he does, but i it's just a matter of here I've laid off over 800 people who have 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 at seven months later I have a lawsuit right now where a guy said one of my guys called him an old man rush.
So we found an attorney in LA who would take his case.
Well and he is now suing me.
Let me tell you something, Madeline.
I I have uh I have s uh I know people who have told me that they live in fear of what's happened to you.
They have to have to lay people off.
Uh and and they know they're setting themselves up for lawsuits like like um 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 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 of no profit, rolling dollars just to keep the employees who have been with you twenty plus years going.
And now, as far as me, I still take a check.
I 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 and you're not even taking a dollars.
I understand that, but you're gonna 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 the lawsuits, because of just I've had it.
I've 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, uh, you know, to keep it afloat, but uh there just is no more profit in it.
And so why do I want to risk uh, you know, the lawsuits and uh the liability in the workers' comp why why do I want to risk all that?
Workers' comp is doubtled.
It's right, well, plus well I know health care's part of that, but it's gonna be on top of that to boot, you'll be you'll be buried.
Exactly.
So it's it's bye-bye after 20 some years.
I don't know where my employees who've been with me for twenty some years are gonna go and get a job because everybody is in this situation.
And I I'm Well, plus it's California's you've got a double whammy.
What wobble whammy?
He wants to, he's gonna raise the taxes, and he thinks anybody who makes over a certain amount wants to pay more, so we're gonna vote for that.
I I mean it's crazy.
I'm headed to Texas where Governor Perry is.
I need to go to Texas.
Okay.
That's 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 gotta 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.
Uh I was so happy to uh talk to Bo just for a second and to have a theory about uh Joe Biden's problem with uh President Baby Doc Kardashian's uh getting out to talk to about him as a uh blue-collar guy.
And uh it's two words, Neil Kinnock.
Neil Kinnock and uh, you know, uh Biden's plagiarizing uh Well, I did I've got a story that I printed up where Biden tries to uh uh make the claim that he came from hard scrabble roots and had a tough job, tough time in life overcoming obstacles he and his what's amazing about this is he's out there now denying it.
He's got you what you his is Neil Kinnock plagiarism was all about uh being blue-collar, all about being an average, 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 that's what's mysterious.
Well, see, because he got he he got thrown out of the uh he got thrown out of the eighty-eight election because uh they found out that it was all fake.
Okay, so you yeah, so you're so oh okay, so I get it.
So you 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 is gonna make us take it?
They can't make me take it.
Swiss researchers have discovered that elevating the amount of um never it's a hormone.
I'm not even gonna try to pronounce it.
A hormone more commonly known as EPO, uh, in the brains of 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 the formants.
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 variation 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.
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.
Um energy secretary or some sort of thing.
My memory is failing me on this.
But she went down there as our correspondent to report on all that they are doing at this Earth Summit.
She was a governor.
Governor was kind of of Washington.
Yes, I very 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.
And 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 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 uh John Dan Forth.
John Dan Forth was my half 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 Dan Forth spoke about reflections on the relationship of religion to government.
He spoke at the Dan Forth 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 Dan Forth.
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, uh 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.
This is 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.
Yeah, I wish I'd have thought of that on the Jamaica.
Jamaica play in 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.
No, uh 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 what's up with that?
Well, what do you mean the press is saying we can't get along?
What do you what which are you referring to something earlier in the program?
Yeah, they're just saying that you know what?
Uh you know, we can't get along with this guy.
We can't go with this guy.
Oh, you're talking about the the Chris Saliza piece that said maybe the presidency has gotten too big for one man.
It just maybe and be there's too much partisanship, and the world isn't cooperating with Obama.
And and it's just it's it's probably just bigger than one man can handle right now and so forth.
Um I guess you're saying you can interpret that as uh 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 uh passing away in the bottom of his uh the bottom of his pool.
Uh Obama himself has said that we are in a stalemate.
And that in fact the essence of his re-election campaign is that the voters have to break stalemate.
That that's what he said last week.
We're in the middle of a stalemate, and the only people can break into 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.
Um 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 just 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.
Um 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 makes me chuckle.
But I wanted to get to a point that um a lady said a few times, uh, 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 um I uh 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 uh um that if this president gets in again, and my wife said this morning she didn't she didn't think she thought it was crazy, but I will close down.
Um I'm tired of this.
I work my tail off like I told Sterley.
I work sometimes late, late, late at night, because I can't hire nobody.
What is your business?
I'm in eating in there.
Um I own my own business.
I run it.
I answer the phones, I do everything.
Um I ran I started from nothing, and I have a lot of customers.
But what it is is the government, like that woman said, the 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.
Just right now, I'm gonna tell you this story.
Wait a second.
Wait, did you say eighty thousand dollars a year?
That's right.
8,000.
80.
8 to 10,000 just in workman's comp.
That's if someone gets hurt, um, they'll take care of it.
And uh, we never had a problem with anyone getting hurt.
Um, but with a small company like that, I can use that for something else.
I could hire me as secretary of the answer phone.
Let me ask you a stupid question.
It gets hot in North Carolina.
What what 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 the summertime, it's for the full year.
I mean, we are so busy right now, it's unbelievable.
Well, then why are you gonna 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 stay on.
Oh, okay, okay.
And I I 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 that it's not the main thing, it's the principle of my kind the point where we're just a handout, and why should I have to pay for somebody else's handout and my taxes and um and everything.
Yeah.
Well, you're going gold, buddy.
You're going galt.
Um yeah, I'm going to go uh work for somebody else.
No, no.
Galt means the hell with it.
You're you're you're 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 it's Madeline, Orange County, California, essentially was saying the same thing.
If Kardashian is reelected, they're just gonna 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 uh 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 are 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 bucked the workplace and chose to stay at home and raise my children to be young Christian conservatives.
Well, that's that's that's why people like Elizabeth Wertzel don't like you.
Oh, it makes me sick.
You're you're talking 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, uh, he wants me to stay at home, and he knows it's my choice to stay at home.
We talked about this before how 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 uh sayings.
The man who thinks he's smarter than his this really ticks off the feminizes.
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 twenty-one hour timeout.
Twenty-one 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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