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"I'm being inundated with e-mails from many of you expressing your anger and your desire to help.
Folks, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
You know, the bond that you and I have as host and audience is one that the media can't break."
"Anybody can take me on about what I have said; I expect that.
But to go after me about what I have not said shows the character of the people behind this smear."
"I want you all to understand: I'm not even thinking of exiting or caving.
I am not a caver.
None of us are.
We have been betrayed by too many who have caved.
You know, pioneers take the arrows, and we are pioneers."
"This economy is an embarrassment, and it needn't be this way.
This is the United States of America!
If this man and this administration would simply get out of everyone's way and turn the people loose,
we would have a vibrant recovery faster than you can snap your fingers."
"I wonder if Ms. Jackson Lee has any regard for the truth.
Does she have any desire to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, or is she content to go to the floor of the House of Representatives and make a fool of herself?"
"Now we hear Chris Matthews talking about somebody putting a pellet gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger.
Where's all the clamor for civility from the left?
Where did it go?"
"These are dark, dark days for our country, and every little bit of government control over our lives
and the loss of liberty that you endorse is one more bit of liberty that you probably will surrender forever.
If you want to do that, fine, but I'm not with you."
"Okay, so Rick Sanchez repeats the slavery quote, notes that I deny it, and then says it doesn't matter.
Now, do you know who Rick Sanchez is?
Did you know he has two middle names?
Rick 'DUI' Sanchez, and Rick 'Leaving-the-Scene' Sanchez."
"Pointing out all of the flaming hypocrites in the media would be like trying to track down all of Madonna's sex partners --
after a hundred of them, you just stop counting."
"Anybody remember Jesse Jackson's affair that produced an illegitimate child? I do."
"Robert Samuelson's right: We've always defined economic progress as each generation doing better than the previous generation, but our generation --
thanks to President Obama -- may be the first one to make sure that our children's lives are not better than ours. It's heartbreaking."
"Heavy snow expected in Pennsylvania.
In Chicago, record breaking cold continues.
In Montana, cold weather records fall.
How's that global warming working out for you, folks?"
"Regardless what happens here, I am a fan of the National Football League.
I devote my Sundays to it.
I travel to stadiums to be part of it.
It's fun being there in person, and I want to continue to be a fan."
"It's the single greatest thing I appreciate about my success: that it's yours -- it wouldn't have happened without you.
The fact that you're there each and every day and have been for 21 years is something I can never actually properly thank you all for."
"Jesse Jackson called New York 'Hymietown' in an interview,
yet he and Al Sharpton are the paragons of virtue that today's media rely on for source information --
for characterization of other people's fitness."
"Sharpton and Jackson are the perfect drivers of this bus that runs on the fuel of fabrication,
emitting its noxious fumes all over the place with a bouffant of righteous indignation.
I mean, this is how Sharpton rose to fame with Tawana Brawley."
"If homelessness has been growing for five years in New York, then my question is,
'Have Tom Friedman and Tom Brokaw bothered to drive through Central Park lately to see any of this destitution?'"
"There are a few possibilities here to explain Olympia Snowe's vote.
And, by the way, I think it's important to point out that Olympia Snowe is not related to the great jazz singer Phoebe Snow.
I don't want any confusion on that."
"There's a storm, folks.
Now, we've all been through these things before, and when the storm finally retreats and things return to a modicum of normalcy on the beach, the rock is still there."
"Jesse Jackson is a series of walking, fraudulent lies about any number of people that he has sought to attack.
He doesn't care that these things are made up about me; they just get him on television once again."
"Barney Frank is saying that he wants the power to regulate compensation at companies that have not even received any federal money.
All liberals want is the opportunity to prevent prosperity.
They want everyone equal, and in their vaunted view, the only way they can do that is to spread misery equally."
"Jesse Jackson used the N-word, and then said he would like to cut Obama's nuts off.
Pardon my French, folks, but this is what he said, and I don't lie."
"I want to say that many people have e-mailed me, and they're right that this is not about me.
This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country -- the media, the Democrat Party, wherever --
to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative."
"The American people, when informed, make the right decisions.
Our country is a testament to that."
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RUSH: I have the same dilemma today that I had yesterday. I have 27 sound bites. Now, of the 27 sound bites, 18 are about me. They continue to spread the false, fabricated quotes and lies and people continue to comment on them. So I'm faced with the dilemma, what do I do with this? And I'm thinking I'll probably do the same thing that we did yesterday, just run 'em right smack together, back-to-back as we did. They speak for themselves. And then comment as necessary. But there are other things in the news, of course, and I, ladies and gentlemen, refuse to be distracted by myself. I will not allow myself to distract myself in the middle of this story. The one thing that I do want to say to you about this whole life NFL thing that's going on right now, I'm being inundated with e-mails from many of you expressing your anger and your desire to support, desire to help. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
You know, the bond that you and I have as host and audience is one that the media can't break, despite their efforts for 21 years and it's the single greatest thing I appreciate about my success, that being that it's yours. It wouldn't have happened without you. The fact that you're there each and every day and have been for 21 years is something I can never properly thank you all for other than to say it, and it seems so insufficient when I say it. But I do love you all and I thank you all so much for your support. I want to say that many people have e-mailed me, and they're right about this, that this is not about me. Not just about me, this is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative. That's what this is about. Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have.
Now, I'm not trying to elevate this Rams situation beyond its reality because it's just a subset of this and it's nothing new. This is just the latest attack. It happens to be more intense than ever, and the leaders of this movement happen to be the august characters of Al Sharpton and the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Remember both of these two hustlers quickly raced down to North Carolina, and they convicted the Duke lacrosse players. They were convinced the Duke lacrosse players were guilty as charged when the whole thing was a lie. That whole episode was based on a lie and the media believed it. And you remember how outraged everybody was about it. To this day there have been no apologies, there have been no apologies from Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or the faculty at Duke or anybody that jumped on that case and presumed, because of prejudice and bigotry, that those white lacrosse players were guilty as charged. You didn't even need any evidence, it just fit the template.
You got a poor black dancer struggling to stay afloat being hired by a bunch of rich jocks to come over and perform at a party at midnight. Oh, yeah, makes total sense that they would sexually abuse her. Oh, yeah, we don't even have to question this. Women don't lie about these kinds of things. And we all know the result of this. And Sharpton and Jackson haven't said a word about it, they haven't been held to account nor has anybody been held to account for spreading that lie. That was also an effort to destroy mainstream conservatism. That is what this Obama administration is about, that is what the Democrat Party is, of course, about. And of course now they all have allies in the media, which has sadly lost any dignity, character, and professionalism that it ever had. We have Al Sharpton, who made his bones rabble-rousing and promoting a hoax, which resulted in a policeman being tried. The whole thing was a hoax, and Al Sharpton's credibility rises to the top. Al Sharpton belongs in this smear. It is a smear characterized by mischaracterization and lies.
Now, Sharpton wasn't on the bus immediately when it started, but he certainly shoved the driver aside and is trying to drive the bus now, sharing duties with Jesse Jackson. By the way, Hymies, I think Jesse Jackson called Jews in New York and called New York Hymietown in a conversation with the Washington Post. These are the paragons of virtue that today's media rely on for source information, for characterization of other people's fitness. Sharpton, Jackson the perfect drivers of this bus that runs on the fuel of fabrication, emitting its noxious fumes all over the place with a bouffant of righteous indignation and outrage while they're at the wheel. This is how Sharpton rose to fame with Tawana Brawley. People know him for what he is now, but that's not the point. Sharpton got himself a nice ride out of that episode. Sharpton's credibility was enhanced. He's now a go-to guy for a corrupt national media. There's a whole bunch of people that have tickets to ride with Sharpton on his bus and Jesse Jackson, and they're all of the same character.
For some reason it didn't occur to the State-Controlled Media to check the veracity of Sharpton's allegations. They just accept them. Yeah, I guess so, just like they accepted Mike Nifong and his allegations of rape at Duke University. Suddenly the State-Controlled Media loses its journalistic character to hop on board with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Oh, yeah, really a high point for the media. This time, the media are a party to a lie, a willing party to a lie, a series of lies. Sitting in the front of the Sharpton smear bus, hosting him, interviewing him, promoting him, nothing new here, folks, Jesse Jackson, too. Other less prominent people are hopping on and off that bus. Most of them are ignorant of the facts. Others are deceiving themselves out of prejudice. And those people are always going to be out there, and I know that. Some are going to learn the truth, others won't. It has always been this way. I don't care. Anybody can take me on about what I have said. I expect that and I don't shy away from it. But to go after me about what I have not said shows the character of the people behind this smear. Otherwise intelligent people believing these lies, shows their character.
The lack of curiosity on the part of people I have met, the lack of curiosity on the part of people I know to say, "What? That doesn't sound like Limbaugh." To just blanketly accept it shows the character of the people believing the smear. When the truth comes out, will it be too late? Yeah, for some things possibly, but the big picture, the pursuit of truth is not a sprint, it's a marathon, and the truth always wins when it comes out. I know this for a fact. This is all not just about me. It's about every one of us and what kind of country we're going to have and the effort to discredit those who speak up for liberty, fairness, capitalism, freedom, those of us who speak up pose the biggest threat to the left in this country today. Individualism, rugged individualism, this is not desired, it's not wanted. And so anybody who has the ability to speak up and be persuasive about it is going to be targeted for a smear and for destruction.
This is not about the National Football League. It's not about the St. Louis Rams. That's just a subset. This is the latest in a long line of attempts by the left to discredit any of us who believe what we believe. Sarah Palin, the list is as long as I wanted to make it. And I wanted to make sure that I thank you all for your support, and I wanted to make sure you understood that I know exactly what this is all about, and I want you to also understand, I'm not even thinking of exiting. I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing that our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do.
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WILL.I.AM: (song "My Humps") (crowd noise) What you gon' do with all that junk? All that junk inside that trunk?
FERGIE: I'm a g-g-get you drunk, get you to love drunk off my hump. My hump, my hump, my hump. My hump, my hump. My lovely lady lumps. Check it out! I drive these brothers crazy. I do it on the daily. They treat me really nicely, and buy me all these ices.
RUSH: Fergie, new limited partner owner of the Miami Dolphins, of the National Football League.
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RUSH: "A second Republican senator signaled Wednesday she's open to voting for sweeping health care legislation this year, putting President Barack Obama closer to a historic achievement that has eluded generations of Democratic leaders." It is none other than -- wait date for it! Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- Susan Collins of Maine. Who woulda thought this? Dare I say, "Women." Damn it." We have 35 seconds to bleep that comment. I'm going to poll the staff. Snerdley, do you think we should...? Dawn, should we bleep it or leave it? Leave it. Brian, what do you think? I have three votes here in Florida to leave the comments in. H.R., what do you think? We got about 20 seconds here. (interruption) Okay. Mommy issue I'm good. And Maimone your vote doesn't matter because even if you vote bleep it you're over-voted so the comment states.
I got a unanimous vote, five-zip, leave it. So it's in. "Susan Collins told the AP that the bill approved by the finance committee..." There's no bill here! Mitch McConnell said, by the way, this proposal will never make it to the Senate floor. The Senate will never vote on this. He issued a statement yesterday. The Senate will not vote on it. Now, that I want to see. But she said here that Finance Committee "needs substantial improvements to make coverage more affordable, contain costs, and protect Medicare." (snorts) Well, she's admitting that none of that stuff's in there. "Nevertheless, she joined her Maine GOP colleague Sen. Olympia Snowe in endorsing the goal of far-reaching changes." This is the we-gotta-do-something chorus. "We gotta do something! Why, we gotta have a bill! We gotta have a bill."
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RUSH: Here's Julie in Salisbury, Maryland. Great to have you on the program. Thanks for waiting. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, it's such a pleasure to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Americans for Prosperity right coast dittos on the right coast of Maryland to you. Hey, you know, I was reflecting on Olympia Snowe's vote yesterday on the Senate Finance Committee on the Baucus bill, and I was very disgusted at her turncoat record and what she did yesterday, but I thought later on on her comment when she said she wasn't committed to voting on this final bill and how the Democrats basically rolled over and, you know, did away with the public option and, I mean, it's a horrible bill, but I was wondering if maybe there was some sort of strategy on her part in getting them to neuter this bill to a degree. I was wondering what your thoughts were on that.
RUSH: I frankly hadn't considered it. That they were using -- who, the Republicans?
CALLER: No, no, no, I mean her. I had an epiphany when I started thinking about why she would say that she wouldn't vote possibly on the final bill.
RUSH: So give herself cover for making the vote in the first place. Olympia Snowe cannot kill the public option. Olympia Snowe can't change anything in the bill, and they're not going to need her vote anyway!
CALLER: Well, I don't disagree with that but I just wondering if perhaps she was trying to water it down. I mean the Democrats are very unhappy with this particular bill and they don't like it. It's not what they want.
RUSH: This is all for show. There's no real legislative language yet, Julie. This is a draft, essentially. And the real bill is going to be written with all these goodies that are not in it now. They'll be in there. She's trying to say, "Well, not if I'm around they won't be," and so forth. But you could be right. This may be one of her stratagems. It would surprise me that that kind of depth exists here, but more power to her if that's what she's got going on.
CALLER: I also think you should be able to buy the St. Louis Rams or anything else you damn well please to if you have the money to do it, by the way.
RUSH: Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And it's great to hear from you, Julie. Most of our callers from Maryland don't last longer than 30 seconds because they start calling me names and we have to disconnect them.
CALLER: Well, we are a very deep blue state for sure but we're doing our part.
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: I'm on the right coast of Maryland. We're on the other side of the Chesapeake Bay, which is not Baltimore.
RUSH: Well, so you're in the Delmarva Peninsula?
CALLER: That's right.
RUSH: Ah. All right. Fine.
CALLER: And, you know, we are very conservative over here, but unfortunately Baltimore leads the way and takes our voices away an awful lot. But I'm a member of Americans for Prosperity here on the eastern shore and we're giving our congressman a little what-for on some things. That's Kratovil. Now, if you recall, we had Gilchrist here before --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- and last year he was thrown out and Harris was the contender and lost by a very small margin to what they called a Blue Dog Democrat, which is Kratovil, who voted for the stimulus package.
RUSH: So did Snowe. You gotta keep in mind, so did Olympia Snowe.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: And she said, if my memory is correct, she said pretty much the same thing, or something similar, make sure that we clean up the rough edges of this thing and so forth. You're a thinker and I like thinkers. So I don't want to discourage that at all. I'm just having trouble getting my arms around the theory. Working at it.
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RUSH: Now, I've been thinking about that woman we had from the Delmarva Peninsula, from the right coast of Maryland, who had her theory that Olympia Snowe voted "yes" on the Baucus bill to get her way because there's some things that are not in it now, like public option, ha-ha, things that are not in it now get put in, she can take her vote away. So I've been thinking about this. And the way I have sliced and diced this there are three possibilities here to explain Olympia Snowe's vote. And, by the way, I think it's important to point out that Olympia Snowe is not related to the great jazz singer Phoebe Snow. I don't want any confusion on that. You see, her "yes" vote was not needed. The final count was 14-9. If she had voted "no," the final committee vote would have been 13-10, no difference. All it did was make the State-Controlled Media rewrite their facts scripts from the White House. They can no longer say not one Republican voted for it. They'll probably say something stupid like, "Oooh, it's bipartisan now," which they're doing. They will say bipartisan with a straight face. They got one Republican vote. In fact, I got a headline somewhere in here: "Obama gets his bipartisan," whatever the hell it is. I can predict these people a mile away.
Now, the obvious story line here is that Olympia Snowe sold out the Republican Party but there are three, as I figured them out here, three totally different motives worth considering. She actually believed what she said. Remember, she thought that the stimulus bill was going to create jobs. So it's possible she actually believed what she said. The second explanation, her 15 minutes of fame. Up to the vote she was the queen bee, the go-to Republican, the spot that Arlen Specter used to fill, but Arlen at least has had the courage to admit he was a Democrat all along. Now she's just the one of a hundred Senator from Maine who not one in a thousand could name. She got her 15 minutes, Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe, and trust me, folks, as one in media, I know how people crave the camera, I know how they crave attention. That's something about our culture that saddens me. That's given us Twitter; that's given us Facebook; it's given us MySpace. Next website is going to be "My Ass, look at it, here it is, from all kinds of different angles." I mean people will give up every element of their privacy for a little bit of fame. I can see the possibility of Olympia Snowe here just wanting her 15 minutes of fame.
And the third possibility, and this is where I'm going to give props to the woman who called from the Delmarva Peninsula. And this is my hope, by the way. I'm still having trouble getting my arms around this, but wait for it. The third possibility is -- dadelut dadelut dadelut -- she is a brilliant strategist, aharper than Carville, more ruthless than Rahm Emanuel, and more devious than George Soros. I know, Snerdley, it's tough to accept that. The depth question concerns me here, but this is a possibility. She voted "yes" to make the left more of a laughingstock. They now have five health piles of paper. They got five victories for liberals, five documents, not any of them doing anything the president says he wants, not any of them reforming health care by the classical definition of making things better. Five victories here, not even meaningful enough to be called pyrrhic victories. If objective voters ever looked at the needed reforms in health care, how little each these five bills do, they'd never turn left again. Reality didn't sink in after the first four piles but now we have five piles, five piles of dots and blank lines and fill-in-the-numbers. Connect the dots. Maybe she did. I don't know. Maybe the caller was right. Maybe the theory is give herself some power to make sure the bill is what they promised her it is going to be. I'm using all benefit of the doubt here.
Tony, Lake Orion, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, you're a great American.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Jennifer Granholm here in the wonderful state of Michigan with the largest unemployment rate in the nation is looking to pass a bill through the senate, goes this week, a three percent tax for doctors and any medical person overseen by a doctor, being PAs or certified nurses of anesthesia, for a three percent tax. Is this constitutional and how will this benefit keeping jobs here in Michigan?
RUSH: Well, I don't know, you'd have to ask Jennifer Granholm, she's the architect of job loss, with doing exactly this kind of thing. Did you say a three percent tax for doctors?
CALLER: She tried for five. They got three right now going to the Senate this week.
RUSH: For doctors or any person overseen by a doctor --
CALLER: That's right --
RUSH: -- certified anesthesia, three percent tax.
CALLER: Three percent tax. That's correct. I think your listeners need to be aware here in Michigan and we need to contact our senators and not allow something like this 'cause this cannot possibly help the economy here in Michigan.
RUSH: Well, you know that, and I know that. The architect of this disaster has just lit another stick of dynamite.
CALLER: It's scary here, sir.
RUSH: I know. It is. Well, I talk to people in Detroit. They describe it as devastation.
CALLER: We're on a downward spiral and we don't see a ray of light quite yet.
RUSH: You know, Jay Leno went in there and did a couple free concerts. How did that work out? He went in to lift the mood of people. Did it work?
CALLER: Well, I had a job, so I couldn't make it down there.
RUSH: Oh, that's right, the unemployed are the ones that went.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: All right. Well, I'm thinking, my mind is racing here about what could we do. Thanks for the call out there, Tony, I appreciate it.
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RUSH: Now, last night at Duke University in Durham, the renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh showed up to make a speech. Now, this goes back to my opening comments on this program. "The Military," the Pentagon (which he hates, by the way) "is Waging War with the White House." "The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's most renowned investigative journalist says. The army is also 'in a war against the White House -- and they feel they have Obama boxed in,' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University's Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. 'They think he's weak and the wrong color. Yes, there's racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it's true and we all know it.' ...
"'A lot of people in the Pentagon would like to see him get into trouble,' [Hersh] said. ... 'If he gives them the extra troops they're asking for, he loses politically,' Hersh said. 'And if he doesn't give them the troops, he also loses politically.'" So here is what it's come to. Everything -- exactly as I predicted, every bit of opposition to Obama -- is racist. Now the entire Pentagon is racist and the entire military is racist, according to the world's most renowned investigative reporter and journalist, Seymour Hersh, who is a lunatic. So you see the pattern here. And it's only going to get worse as Obama continues to fail, as Obama's policies continue to do the exact opposite of what he has promised everybody. This economy is an embarrassment. It needn't be this way. This is the United States of America!
If this man and this administration would simply get out of everyone's way and turn the people who make this country work loose, we would have a vibrant recovery faster than you can snap your fingers. And we would be creating 40,000 jobs a day in this country because it's the people who make this country work, and the people right now are being sandwiched. They're being fired. They're being laid off. The people who make this country work face a desolate future. There is no way this economy can recover and this economy can once again become what it was, the United States of America, as long as the controls which are in place and the additional controls that will be put in place occur. It is just really frustrating.
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RUSH: You know, my friends, it's amazing how fast things change. Just last year, one year ago, if you called a phony soldier a phony soldier, if you called a legitimately phony soldier a phony soldier, the president of the Senate, the Senate majority leader would run to the microphones and denounce you and demand that your syndication partner make you apologize, or more. You were anti-American if you called a phony soldier a soldier. And you were against the whole military. That's what Harry Reid tried to portray me as. Now, you can go to Duke University, you can give a lecture that says the military is at war with Obama because they're all racists. A year ago, it was only poor blacks and Hispanics and other people in the military.
Remember, a year ago, and for years prior to that, the only people in the military were poor blacks, poor minorities, and poor people who had no hope because America was such a dastardly place. America was so rotten, and the economy was so bad, there were no chances for education, no chances for job success. You had to go to the military. A year ago, it was fine and dandy to sully the members of the military who volunteered to put their lives on the line to defend the freedom of idiots like Harry Reid and Seymour Hersh to say and write what they do. Now one year later the military is all a bunch of white supremacists, arrayed against Obama, wanting him to fail, one year, one year later. It's all white supremacists in the Pentagon who want Obama to fail.
This racist nonsense, we are in the midst of yet another teachable moment. Everybody sees how our media will just jump on anything without any regard whatsoever as to whether it is true or not. They will use anything to advance their agenda, true or not, doesn't really matter to them, just like they do with their reporting of the regular news. Don't forget that. As they have run with fabricated, false, made-up quotes, as they have spread this filth into the mainstream, knowingly and purposefully, you need to judge every other news story they report with the same skepticism, the same sense of suspicion and disbelief that you are watching unfold with this whole National Football League, St. Louis Rams story. It's amazing. It can change inside of a year.
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"This is no joke. If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments overseeing federally mandated health-insurance exchanges to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV. … Page 19 of the committee’s 'plain English' text says: 'The Secretary and/or states would do the following: ... Enable customers to enroll in health care plans in local hospitals, schools, Departments of Motor Vehicles, local Social Security offices, and other offices designated by the state.'" And yet we're still being told there's no public option here. Already they're setting it up so that one of the places you will have to go for your mandated insurance will be the DMV. "The public option is only one lane on the road to socialized medicine. Government subsidies and government regulations are two others -- and they run like a super highway through the Finance Committee bill." Under that bill, "it will be far cheaper for a business to pay the government $400 per worker than to pay a private insurance company thousands per worker for an insurance plan. The Finance Committee has created an irresistible incentive for American businesses to drop their workers off at the DMV."
I was driving home yesterday and I have satellite radio in the car, and I decided to dial in the Fox News Channel. I was listening to Shepard Smith interviewing Michael Steele, the head of the Republican National Committee, and Steele was talking about the health bill and Steele was going through the talking points, it's going to raise taxes, it's going to reduce fees and services, the dryball talking points, and Shep Smith said, (paraphrasing) "I think you misunderstand, the public option is simply an option. It's a way to add competition to the market, it is a way to reduce costs and make all this more --" and Steele did not know what to say. I'm not ripping Steele. I'm sitting there driving. I imagine this happens to you all the time when you're watching TV. I don't watch these shows much anymore. I happened by quirk of fate dial it in yesterday. I'm saying, "No, Michael, what you tell him here is this: The public option exists to destroy private insurance and to destroy competition because it's going to force people and businesses to off-load their employer provided health care benefits and force people to go to the government to get it."
That's the whole point of it. That's why it is there, and that's why this bill makes the public option insurance dirt cheap to begin with. If you run a business and it costs you say $8,000 per employee to give them health care benefits, and all of a sudden Big Brother government comes along and says, "I'll do it, I'm in the game, and we're going to insure your employees at $400 bucks a head instead of $8,000," what are you going to do? You off-load them. And this is all being done in the name of competition. This stifles competition. I'm driving along, I'm listening to this and I'm saying, "Good Lord, the answer to this is simple." Some people think the sales technique for our side is just to recite a litany of, "It's going to raise taxes, it's going to do this, going to do that," that's not the way to address this. There's a great piece, Investors.com, by one of my favorite economic writers, Robert J. Samuelson. I gotta take a break here but let me give you the headline: "Health Spending Condemns Youth to the Future of Downward Mobility." I'll give you the sad details. And keep in mind, this is by design. This is on purpose.
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RUSH: By the way, the plan here, the plan to have us all go to the DMV to get our mandated health insurance from the federal health exchange? From a Democrat point of view, it's actually pretty brilliant because you can also register to vote at the time DMV or you can change your registration at the DMV. So you can go in for your federally mandated insurance and change your registration to Democrat and get the best coverage. You go in and register for health and they'll find out what political party you're a member of. You think it might affect the way you're going to be treated at the DMV?
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REICH: We are going to have to... If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive. So we're going to let you die.
RUSH: Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich speaking on behalf of the Democrat Party, University of California at Berkeley, in a speech heralded for its "openness and honesty. "What Democrat politicians would say if they could really be honest," 2007. And note the we" here. "We" are gonna, "we are." Reich was nothing. I mean, he's a commentator on television. Play it one more time. I want you to hear this, folks.
REICH: We are going to have to... If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive. So we're going to let you die.
RUSH: "Take a pain pill." Obama said the same thing: Take a pain pill. A woman asked if Obama would take into account her 100-year-old mother's will to live, her spunk, and Obama said (paraphrased), "I don't think we can factor that in. We're going to be making smarter decisions here. Frankly, it's probably going to make more sense just to tell your mother to take a pain pill. You know, veg out, loop out, for the rest of her life. We're just not going to pay for it. We're going to let you die." We are going to let you die! We are going to let you die...with dignity. We are going to kill you. You are unessential. If you are a file assistant, if you're a kitchen worker, and your company gives you a bonus, "Unh-uh. We're going to take it back. You are unessential." We're going to let you die! These are the people running the United States of America. These are the people spreading lies throughout the media on everything they report. "We're going to let you die."
Robert Samuelson: "Health Spending Condemns Youth To Future Of Downward Mobility -- Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That's Americans' core definition of economic 'progress.' But for today's young, it may be a mirage. Higher health spending, increasing energy prices and stretched governments at all levels may squeeze future disposable incomes -- what people have to spend -- and public services. Are we condemning our children to downward mobility? Good question. Considering how health spending could threaten future living standards, it ought to be center stage in the 'reform' debate. Instead, it's ignored." As in: We're just going to let you die. You're unessential.
"An oft-stated view is that the growth of the U.S. economy will make the young so much richer than their parents that they can afford a bigger health care sector and still enjoy large increases in their living standards. Complaining about providing more generous health care is selfish. This is a powerful argument; unfortunately, it isn't true. Look at the table above. It portrays the U.S. economy from 1980, with a projection for 2030 from Moody's Economy.com. The projection assumes that the recession ends and growth revives. Superficially..." I can't read this part. There are too many numbers. I'd lose you if I went to the chart here with you, but we will link to this at RushLimbaugh.com.
"Superficially, the table suggests that economic growth can easily pay for more health care. In 2007, the economy's total output -- gross domestic product, our national income -- was $13.3 trillion. In 2030, it projected to $22.6 trillion, a huge 70% increase. (All amounts are in 2005 'constant' dollars to eliminate inflation.) Surely that's ample. Not really. First, the economy's growth is projected to slow in the future, reflecting an aging population," which we're just going to let die. "Lots of workers retire; the labor force doesn't expand much. From 1980 to 2007, GDP grew an average 3.1% annually. From 2007 to 2030, Moody's projects 2.4%" annual growth. ... "The young's future has been heavily mortgaged," too, folks.
"Downward mobility is possible. Expanding health spending would raise taxes (to pay for government insurance), lower take-home pay (to pay for employer-provided insurance) or increase out-of-pocket medical costs. Other drains also loom: higher energy prices to combat [a mythical] global warming; higher taxes to pay for underfunded state and local government pensions and repair aging infrastructure; higher federal taxes to cover deficits and payments to retirees (much of which reflect health spending). The pressures will undermine private living standards and other public services (schools, police, defense). The young's future has been heavily mortgaged. Taken together, all these demands might neutralize gains in per capita incomes, especially if the economy's performance, burdened by higher taxes or budget deficits, deteriorates.
"The road to downward mobility" as with all things liberal "is paved with good intentions," he writes. I dispute that. I don't even buy the good intentions. There's no good intentions behind any plan Obama has put into action so far, not good for us. "The health debate has focused on insuring the uninsured and de-emphasized controlling runaway spending, much of which is ineffective. The priorities should have been reversed." Exactly right. They're using the uninsured to sell this monstrosity. That's the point. What they're seeking is total control and the right -- the ability -- to regulate every aspect of our lives.
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RUSH: About this Robert Samuelson piece: You know, he's right. We've always defined economic progress as each generation doing better than the previous generation. Our generation may be, thanks to President Obama, the first one to make sure that our children's lives are not better than ours. It's heartbreaking. And it's frustratingly obscene when you realize it's all by design. It's all on purpose.
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CALLER: It's a real honor to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Hey, I just wanted to further the point you were making with the Rams deal that's going on and what a joke it is and they're saying that, you know, you can't own a team because of some, you know, quote, unquote, controversial things that you said even though everything you do say is a part of your free speech. And, you know, with you being controversial --
RUSH: No, wait just now, wait a second. They are saying I said things I didn't say.
CALLER: Right. But even like the McNabb thing, I mean, that is your opinion, and --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- and their opinion is not the same, most of your stuff I agree, and that's my opinion, but, you know, why don't they start dealing with the facts like, you know, as you were talking about Michael Vick with the dogfighting, and now he's back into the NFL. Pacman Jones. You know, Ricky Williams. Shawne Merriman. You know, how do all these people who are actual criminals and that's a fact, you know, how come they can come back into the NFL but yet you aren't supposed to own a team because of some things that you said? And I keep hearing people say that, you know, it's a privilege to be an NFL team owner, and it's a privilege to play in the NFL, it's not a right. Like, well, talk to these people who are committing crimes but yet, you know, they just somehow end up back in the NFL, but somebody wants to own a team that they don't agree with and there's a big problem now. Where are those people at now?
RUSH: Well, I'm in a position here where I can't address -- I'd love to -- but I can't address the thrust of your comments here. Well, maybe I can because I have said something that they are taking out of context, the Bloods and Crips comment, maybe I can explain that. But, look, nobody is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and everybody gets second chances. People pay the price when they pay their debt, if they are convicted of something, you wipe the slate clean. I don't have any desire to deny people second chances and that kind of thing. What you're really talking about here is the hypocrisy of things. Hypocrisy is all over the place. It's always there. But it is the reality. It is what it is. And that has to be dealt with. And the way to deal with it is not so much point it out as to recognize it as an obstacle and how to deal with it. And those are the kinds of things I can't discuss, but let me take the occasion of your call to explain the Bloods and Crips comment, because these guys who are now admitting, "Okay, maybe we can't source those quotes about Limbaugh and James Earl Ray and slavery, but he said Bloods and Crips! He said Bloods and Crips!"
They're trying to get anything else to continue the narrative here that I am some subhuman species with no rights to exist anywhere outside this radio studio and within these radio waves. I believe the comment's from 2007, and I believe the comments were made to a phone call, I had a phone call -- I think -- I'd have to check the transcript of that date, which I've not done, but my memory is, it was a playoff game in San Diego between the Chargers and the Patriots, and the Patriots had a fourth down with a very few seconds left in the game, fourth and ball game, and the Chargers held 'em. Chargers win. Chargers were leading. Then all of a sudden a ref throws a flag, 15 yards or something for taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct, some Chargers DB had gotten in the face of some Patriots player, was doing a "you can't diss me" act and so forth, and it lost the game for the Chargers. And I praised the official for throwing the flag. See, I love the game. I love the National Football League.
We all have Walter Mitty in us. We all wish we could do something that we can't. Some people get paralyzed by those desires and continue to try to do things they can't. A man has got to know his limitations. But at the same time, you gotta have a never-quit attitude. But at some point, I mean if you're not qualified to play in the NFL, you shouldn't ruin your life dreaming about it. Go do what you're good at. I would love to be able to do it. Now, I've always wanted to be able to do it. I admire and respect the talent that those few Americans have to qualify for the National Football League, and the game is about what happens on the field. The NFL is like any other business, it's got off-field problems, every business has employees that have problems and troubles when they're away from the office. NFL's no different there. But the NFL wants to keep control of the game. It's the product on the field. And they cannot allow the tendency, the integrity of the game to be blown up by whatever cultural trends are going on. So the Bloods and Crips comment I think I said sometimes the game looks like Bloods and Crips without the weapons.
Now, we had Mercury Morris who was I guess on CNN a couple days ago say, "I know what he's talking about and he's right, I know exactly what he's talking about." Mercury Morris played for the Dolphins back in the Don Shula era. My comment could easily be taken as criticism of players. It was criticism of that kind of -- it was totally unnecessary -- it lost the ball game. Lost the ball game all for the purpose of strutting around. And what it was, folks, was criticism of a mind-set. Regardless what happens here I am a fan of the National Football League. I devote my Sundays to it. I travel to stadiums to be part of it. It's fun being there in person. I want to continue to be a fan. I want that game to be up on the pedestal I've put it, and I want the players to be on the pedestal that I've put them. The players are the game. You want the best people playing the game you can get in the league, and that's a hard job to find 'em, scouting and all that, the draft. It's fascinating to me because everybody is trying to pick who they think are the best, and some people are better at picking those players than others, why one team's better than another, traditionally over the years and so on.
But that comment was more of a, "Oh, no, jeez, don't let this happen to the game." I don't want to see it. I have the game on a pedestal. I have the people who play it on a pedestal. I don't want that to change. So I was criticizing a mind-set that is destructive, and it was not helpful. It was not racial. Bloods and Crips makes it look racial, the way I chose to describe it. I could have perhaps chosen a different term.
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RUSH: By the way, folks, I'm actually on the same page with the commissioner of the National Football League, Roger Goodell, on this aspect I just spoke of. He's trying to protect the game, too. I've got a stack of stories here of the way the commissioner has reacted to even off-field disciplinary problems. I'm not going to mention any teams, I'm not going to mention the stories, but I've got a bunch of stacks here. The people involved in the game love it and they want to protect it, and that's me.
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RUSH: The estimable Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat, Texas, took to the floor of the House of Representatives last night. We have two sound bites of her remarks.
LEE: I stand with the NFL Players Association not to make Rush Limbo (sic) any kind of national standard or a national hero or the national issue. He is not the kind of owner that the NFL needs. He does not represent the fullness of appreciation of athletes of all diverse backgrounds, no matter what he wants to pretend to say on his radio station. Just as they are about to select him as a judge for a Miss America contest. I can't understand that, but that is their choice. Maybe they think he'll bring in millions of listeners. But can you imagine a poor girl, scared already, to be able to ask a question about the person she admires most, and she says somebody that happens to be a different political affiliation, she is of course not a winner. But that's their decision.
RUSH: I wonder if Ms. Jackson Lee has any regard for the truth. Does she have any regard for hoping, desiring to sound intelligent and knowledgeable or is she content and happy and proud to go to the floor of the House of Representatives and make a fool of herself? Do you think she knows the name Carrie Prejean? Maybe it will help here on "my radio station" if I explain to her who Carrie Prejean is. Miss California in the USA pageant. She was asked a purely political question by a lunatic, radical, sick, gay blogger about gay marriage. She gave the same answer to that question that the organizer of the pageant, Donald Trump, has given to that answer, and the president of the United States. She gave the same answer to the question as Obama gave and she was drummed out of her title. And here comes Sheila Jackson Lee, off now to protect not only the National Football League, helping to spread lies, but now hoping to protect the Miss America Pageant. The United States government has people who are now totally comfortable in targeting an individual citizen. Harry Reid has done it, now Sheila Jackson Lee is getting in on the action in the United States of America. Here's the next sound bite.
LEE: Anybody that wants to call a quarterback in Pennsylvania and call him out, he happens to be African-American, as not being competent, just somebody that the media has promoted, not being talented, interestingly enough that football player is -- happens to still be playing and doing a great job. Well, I don't know why in the heck, other than the big dollar, that Rush Limbo (sic) would be interested in the NFL. And so we're not interested in him, either.
RUSH: Well, then why did you take all that time to spread lies about me on the floor of the House of Representatives? I'm the guy, Ms. Jackson Lee, who has defended the money athletes make on the basis of their unique talents and the nature of the free market, which awards them their value, based on their ability to get it. She said much more than this, but that's the flavor of it. So the whole media here has been poisoned. The Democrat Party has been poisoned with lies and fabrications and misstatements, quotes that were never made -- (interruption) Snerdley is yelling in my ear, "What makes her a sports expert, who the hell is she?" See, this is the difference between me and Sheila Jackson Lee. If election time came around and I happened to live in her district I'd vote against her, but she can say what she wants. These are the people that have power over us. I don't have any power where Sheila Jackson Lee is concerned, I have nothing to say about what she does, I have nothing to say about the way she votes, and I don't seek any power over Sheila Jackson Lee. She on the other hand is just the opposite. She wants power over not just me but as many people as she can get. So there's a storm, folks.
Now, we've all been through these things before. And I mentioned in the previous hour you've overwhelmed me with your e-mails and letters of support and your desire to do something. I know you want to be turned loose. I know there's something you want to do, just take some kind of action. But we've been through this before. We've been through all these storms, and when the storm surge finally retreats and things return to a modicum of normalcy on the beach, the rock is still there, not going anywhere. We always come through these things better and in a more solid position than we were even when they all began, because these kind of tactics and this kind of behavior always end up backfiring on the perpetrators of lies and falsehoods. Maybe not immediately, but in the big scheme of things, they always do. Snerdley, you want to really get mad? I've got something that's going to make you madder than you have been all week. And those of you, too, in the audience, if you're mad now, wait 'til you hear the Reverend Jackson on local Chicago TV last night spreading the two false quotes.
JACKSON: I stand with the players because he has been so insulting and so incendiary in his comments. The idea that James Earl Ray who killed Dr. King should get an award --
MCCLENDON: Whoo.
JACKSON: -- cuts really deep. The comments that slavery was a bad system but it had some merits, at least the streets were safe. The statement he made by McNabb that got him run off of ESPN. So he -- he is literally made a -- a living of stoking the fires of fear, making money, now wants to use that money to have the power over the lives of players black and white.
RUSH: Plantation owner. Now, this is Mr. Jesse Hymietown Jackson. This is Jesse Jackson who got on the bus with Al Sharpton and sped down to Durham, North Carolina, during the Duke lacrosse case and promptly pronounced the Duke lacrosse players guilty. We all know how that ended up. Jesse Jackson, who has made a living shaking people down, Jesse Jackson who has made a living stoking racial fires, Jesse Jackson who has made a living profiting off of racial disharmony that he promotes, seeks out, and shows up to attend the fire each time that he starts. These two quotes, I talked about them yesterday, James Earl Ray, where is he? We need to give the guy a medal. Slavery, oh, yeah, it was really great, you know, the streets were safe at night. These quotes, ostensibly made back in 1998, just now surfacing after 11 years? The quotes were never uttered. They are purely fabricated. We know who made 'em up. We know who spread them. Jesse Jackson doesn't care that they're false. This is my point about Jesse Jackson.
If the truth prevailed in the life of Jesse Jackson there would be no Jesse Jackson. Jesse Jackson is a series of walking, fraudulent lies about any number of people that he has sought to attack. He doesn't care that these things are made up. They fit the template, they fulfill his agenda. They get him on television once again. What is really sick and funny at the same time is that our corrupt, polluted media continues to prop up people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as credible spokesmen for an entire race of people. If it weren't to the media accolades and attention to people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton they would not be factors. Where's the fact check? CNN fact checks comedy skits on Saturday Night Live. Where's the fact check in any of this? The reporter interviewing the Reverend Jackson, does he not know that all this is false and that the Reverend Jackson is making a fool of himself, or does he not care? So, it is what it is. These people are who they are. And again, folks, it is not about me.
When Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton ride to the scene with Sharpton and Jackson taking turns driving this bus, when they show up and the media promotes what they're doing, this is about an all-out assault again on conservatism, people who are capitalists, who believe in individual liberty, freedom, and rugged individualism. I thought the libs were upset about the behavior of citizens at the town hall meetings. Now we hear from Chris Matthews, he talks about somebody putting a pellet gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger. We hear race-baiters with pens putting words in my mouth and so forth. Where is all this clamor for civility? Where did it go? Just last month, throughout the month of August, all we heard about from these people in the media, "Look how civil discourse is being ripped apart. Who are these people showing up at these town hall meetings and at these tea parties, who are these unsavory --" They were just average citizens who were about to explode, people who have not shown up at a town hall meeting or anything like a public protest their whole lives have reached their breaking point.
They don't have a political party representing them anymore. They don't have anybody in the government speaking up for them. Their government is attacking them. Their government is destroying their economy. They've got nothing else to do but go to their elected officials and say, "Stop it, we don't want this." And during all that, the media, "Where is the civility? Oh, no! Talk radio and the blogs and Fox News have destroyed civility." This week, an anchor at MSNBC enthusiastically ponders somebody putting a pellet gun in my mouth and pulling the trigger and blowing me up as Mr. Big from the movie Live and Let Die. Apparently I also cannot call out Donovan McNabb, as a fan, and express my opinion of an NFL quarterback, as a fan, and I can't express my opinion about the media's kiss-ass treatment. But, I have to sit around and listen to people like Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid and Barney Frank and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton destroy Clarence Thomas. We can't comment on that. Oh, no.
They are perfectly permitted to try to destroy Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork. They can go after black conservatives at town hall meetings and beat them up, and we can't say anything about that. We can't say there's a little thuggery going on from the SEIU union people beating up a 34-year-old black conservative, oh, no, no, we can't talk about that. No, that's racist to bring that up. But we have to sit around and watch that, we can't call out Donovan McNabb or anybody else who happens to play the game of football. I didn't even call out McNabb, I called out the media. Can't do that, either. I never said he wasn't talented. I just said he wasn't as good as a bunch of clowns at ESPN who are just like sock puppets who had a crush. It's sort of embarrassing to watch it, actually.
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RUSH: By the way, speaking of lies -- and speaking of James Earl Ray, a vicious lie that the Reverend Jackson is knowingly spreading about me -- let's talk about another lie involving Jesse Jackson and James Earl Ray. Let's not forget the Reverend Jackson's claim to fame and how it actually began. The morning after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, Jesse Jackson (who had hired a PR firm) did television interviews claiming that King had died in his arms. It was a blatant lie, according to Ralph David Abernathy, who said that the Reverend Jackson wasn't even there at the time of the assassination. But he did show up in time to take some of Dr. King's blood and smear it on his own shirt to promote the lie that he had held Dr. King in his arms. (interruption) You didn't know that, Dawn? And now, Jesse Jackson is lying about me. Over and over again, and repeatedly so. Blatantly and knowingly so.
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RUSH: Rick Sanchez, CNN Newsroom yesterday afternoon...
SANCHEZ: One of the quotes that's been attributed to Rush Limbaugh, is "Slavery built the South. I'm not saying that we should bring it back. I'm just saying that it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark." Among the news organizations that reported that yesterday was our show at three o'clock. Limbaugh's response to this is -- and we want to be fair to Rush -- he says, "We've gone back, we've looked at everything else, and there is not even an inkling that any of the words in that quote are accurate. It is outrageous." So Rush Limbaugh is denying that that quote has come from him. Uh, obviously that does not take away the fact that there are other quotes [that] have been attributed to Rush Limbaugh which many people in the African-American community and many other minority communities do find offensive.
RUSH: Okay. So Rick Sanchez repeats the slavery quote, notes that I deny it, and then says it doesn't matter. Do you know who Rick Sanchez is? Do you know he's got two middle names? Rick "DUI" Sanchez, Rick "Leaving-the-Scene" Sanchez. Rick Sanchez was a hit-and-run driver when he lived in Miami, and he is a hit-and-run reporter. From the New York Observer, October 9th, 2007: "Mr. Sanchez had already survived what would ordinarily be a career-killer. While leaving a Miami Dolphins game with his father in 1990, Mr. Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, who later died of his injuries. According to police, Mr. Sanchez's own blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, and he left the scene before returning. He ultimately pleaded no contest to a D.U.I. charge, but avoided jail time, and even remained on the air. Asked about the incident, Mr. Sanchez's Ron Burgundy jocularity vanished in an instant.
"'I don't see where that has anything to do with anything,' he said, and called the inquiry 'a hatchet question.' He soon regained his cool though. 'Was it an unfortunate experience? Yes. Was it a learning experience? Absolutely. Do I wish it hadn't happened? Of course,' he allowed. 'I was wrong, because I had a couple of cocktails, because I was over the legal limit,' he went on. 'It could have happened to anybody. ... There were probably a lot of other people leaving the stadium that had had a couple of beers as well.'" From the Miami New Times, August 7th, 1991: "Minutes after midnight on the morning of December 10, 1990, an intoxicated Smuzinick darted out in front of a Volvo on a residential street near Joe Robbie Stadium. The driver of the car, WSVN-TV Channel 7 anchorman Rick Sanchez, became the subject of a subsequent January 16 New Times story that described the odd circumstances of the accident.
"Sanchez, whom a Metro-Dade police officer said 'smelled strongly of alcohol,' first stopped his car but then later left the scene. A blood test to determine Sanchez's sobriety was not administered until an hour and fifteen minutes after the collision. Though Sanchez says he tried to aid Smuzinick at the scene of the accident and flag down motorists, eyewitnesses claim the anchorman ignored the injured man and loudly told police and bystanders that blood tests were pointless, and would hurt his public image. His attorney, Richard Essen, now says the anchorman returned home and had 'a couple of drinks to calm his nerves' before returning to the scene," before talking to the cops after striking somebody near the Dolphins Stadium and killing him. This is Rick Sanchez -- and, hey, Rick? I got sources. I researched this. I sourced it. And I checked it before I decided to go on the air with it. This is how it's done, Rick, and I'm not even a journalist.
But this is what "sources" look like: The New York Observer and the Miami New Times, and there are other plays where this story has appeared. (interruption) I don't know if the man killed was a minority. His name is Smuzinick. I don't know if he was a minority. But Rick "DUI, Leaving the Scene" Sanchez. Now on CNN every afternoon spreading filth and lies, knowingly. Clearly if anybody is a "hatchet," it's Rick Sanchez -- and clearly, like many journalists, he can't take the kind of investigation or coverage he dishes out and the rest of his people dish out. They head to the tall grass, hide behind executives. (interruption) I know ordinary people go to jail for this. But he was friends with the cops! As a TV reporter, he was friends with the cops. He got preferential treatment. Yeah. I mean, he went home -- he's already inebriated, went home -- had a couple drinks "to calm his nerves," then come back to the scene of the crime.
Birmingham, Alabama, as we go back to the phones. Debbie, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush!
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Great to talk to you!
RUSH: Thanks very much.
CALLER: I can't believe I got through. This is great (giggles) and one of these days you gotta come to Alabama and play golf. They say we have great golf here.
RUSH: Well, I know. I've been invited many times. One of these times I'm going to have to go.
CALLER: Absolutely. (giggles) But I was calling to remind you of that little incident with "Reverend" Jackson where he thought his microphone is off and he had a really nasty name for our now president, Barack Obama.
RUSH: That's right. He used the N-word.
CALLER: Yeah! It was on the news a few times, but, you know, of course he gets a pass. It's so double sided It's awful.
RUSH: Well, he used the N-word, and then said he would like to cut Obama's nuts out.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Pardon my French, folks, but this is what he said, and I don't lie. It's what he said. He thought the mike was off, Fox News Channel, cut his nuts off.
CALLER: Plus he's supposed to be a reverend, you know? He's not supposed to name call people anyway.
RUSH: Oh, now here's... What you don't know that I understand is that the Reverend Jackson can be a racist all he wants. He can use the N-word because Reverend Jackson "has no power." You see, the conventional wisdom is that black people nor any minority cannot be racist because "they don't have the power to implement their racism," which of course is laughable. So he, as a minority, he's a victim already. He's a victim of slavery. And he is allowed, therefore, to be angry all the time. "We must understand the source of that rage," we are told. And we are to look the other way when the Reverend Jackson practices his racism because it really isn't racism because he doesn't have any power.
Doesn't have any power? Ask Don Imus about that, and apparently the National Football League is going to let Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton determine who is fit and who isn't fit to be involved in their league. But they don't have any power. So they can't be racist. By the way, William Rhoden, who writes for the New York Times, August 8th of this year: "The Rev. Jesse Jackson became the latest public figure to offer an opinion on the future of Michael Vick. Jackson said he wondered whether there had been collusion among N.F.L. owners to keep Vick out of the league. 'I want to make it an issue,' Jackson said Thursday in a telephone interview. 'I want teams to explain why they have a quarterback who has less skills but is playing or at least is on the taxi squad, and a guy with more skills can't get into training camp.'
"Two years ago this month," remember, this is this past summer, August, "Vick pleaded guilty to felony charges related to his participation in an unlawful dogfighting ring and was indefinitely suspended from the N.F.L." Should I even be mentioning this? Is this racist to cite the history of this story? I seriously ask myself. I'm just reading from the New York Times and I wonder if doing so makes me racist. Vick also lied to his owner, Arthur Blank that it never happened. "He was conditionally reinstated to the league last month by Commissioner Roger Goodell. Under terms of the reinstatement, Vick can take part in preseason practices, workouts and meetings and may play in the final two preseason games ... 'Democracy does not guarantee success,' Jackson said. 'Democracy guarantees an opportunity. It's not fair to de facto try to lock him out of his right to compete. If he can't make the team, don't let him play. If he can, let him work.'
"Jackson, born in 1941, has been a civil rights activist for most of his adult life. He said that in some ways, Vick's attempt to re-enter the N.F.L. was similar to Jackie Robinson's entering Major League Baseball." Now, that, folks, is outrageous. To sully the life of Jackie Robinson by comparing Michael Vick to him? Nothing against Vick, but, for crying out loud, these guys are willing to even destroy their own heroes and icons in the pursuit of the power that they apparently don't have. "Although their situations were drastically different, Jackson said, the challenge was the same: Which owner would have the courage to make a controversial signing?" Controversy is not bad. Controversial signing? Oh, signing Michael Vick was a controversial signing! Why, that was not bad then. Oh, no, not bad. Great for the NFL to put Vick back in there -- and Jeff Lurie, the owner of the Eagles came through. Andy Reid hired him, and it's great. And, by the way, it's fine with me. I have zero problem with it. I'm just telling you who Jesse Jackson is, 'cause sadly, our corrupt media is holding him up on a platform that he doesn't deserve to be on.
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RUSH: You want me to keep going? You do? You want me to keep going? All right. By the way, back to Sheila Jackson Lee for just a second. Remember, Sheila Jackson Lee was at the Houston NASA press conference a long time ago about a project to land vehicles on Mars to explore the Martian surface. And they had video, the little Martian rover was tooling around up there, and she asked a NASA spokesman if the Mars Lander would be able to see or take pictures of the American flag our astronauts left up there. Now, we've not ever had astronauts on Mars, that we know of. They may be there and we haven't been told, but we don't know about it, but we do know we had astronauts on the moon and they did plant a flag there. So Sheila Jackson Lee, in all of her public brilliance, will that rover go over and see the flag the astronauts left?
From the New York Post, June 15th, 2008: "Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy's and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev. Al Sharpton's charity. Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton's National Action Network annual conference in April. Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton - who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers. In some cases, they hire him as a consultant. The cash flows even as the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn has been conducting a grand-jury investigation of NAN's finances." I just mention this to back up he's a race hustler. He's a hustler, but he has no power. The Reverend Jackson has no power, they can't be racist, Mr. Limbaugh, because they have no power. And the New York Times, we have actually found the story from 1987, Time's magazine, documenting Jesse Jackson's lies about Martin Luther King and his assassination and we'll link to both of these stories at RushLimbaugh.com.
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RUSH: January 18th, 2001, ABC News: "Moving to pre-empt a tabloid newspaper report, the Rev. Jesse Jackson this morning released a statement admitting he had an extramarital affair that resulted in a daughter who is now 20 months old. 'This is no time for evasions, denials or alibis,' said the Baptist minister and former aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 'I fully accept responsibility and I am truly sorry for my actions.'" (sigh) He was having the affair as he was counseling Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky episode, ladies and gentlemen. That's all you need to know about that. I'm sure you've heard it, remember it. I just wanted to refresh your memory on it.
And from Jake Tapper. Now, this is August 17th of 2000. Jake Tapper who was at Salon.com at the time wrote this. He's now at ABC. "It's tough to imagine this year's Republican National Convention featuring a prime-time speaker who once said that that 'Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that is choking Judaism.' Or that he was 'sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust.' Or that traditional Democratic support for Israel is because of 'the Jewish element in the party ... a kind of glorified form of bribery.' And certainly not if he had ever referred to Jews as 'Hymies' and New York as 'Hymietown.' The Rev. Jesse Jackson, of course, has made all of these comments, and more."
Everything that I have said today about the Reverend Jackson and Al Sharpton has the added benefit of being true. The things being said about me by the Reverend Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson are slanderously false and they know it, and they continue to spread them. Again from the tongue of the Reverend Jackson: "'Zionism is a kind of poisonous weed that is choking Judaism ... sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust." Traditional Democratic support for Israel is because of "the Jewish element in the party ... a kind of glorified form of bribery,'" and "Hymies" and "Hymietown," and that's Jake Tapper, and I sourced it. "The only thing we love more than seeing a self-righteous politician go up in flames is to see a self-righteous clergyman politician go up in flames." Where is this? This is Blog.WaywardPoliticians.com, Thursday, April 26, 2007.
"In January of 2001, Jackson, a two time presidential candidate, owned up to fathering an illegitimate daughter 20 months prior. Talk about getting some Affirmative Action. Of course Jackson has been married to Jacqueline Lavina Brown Jackson since 1962. The woman Jackson did the deed with worked for his advocacy group the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition. You know, when you name your advocacy group something like that you are just inviting trouble. Anyway, her name is Karin Stanford and their love fest lasted four years. He was paying her $120,000 per year from the coalition but not reporting it on his taxes. "He then paid her $35,000 cash to move to California and, is paying $3,000 a month in child support. That’s a lot of money and what" the blogger says he wants "to know is does this guy even have a job? I don't know what he does for a living and apparently neither does anybody else." The Reverend Jackson.
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RUSH: Folks, I really love you. I appreciate everything that you're saying to me. Snerdley, you should see the e-mail. You should all see the e-mail. I'm getting e-mail from people reporting what this guy is saying over here. This guy is spreading that lie, that falsehood. People are spying on the media and they're telling me all of this. Folks, I can't mention it all. Pointing out all of the flaming hypocrites, crawling out from under rocks against me would be like trying to track down all of Madonna's sex partners. After a hundred of them you just stop counting and you realize the kind of culture that you're dealing with.
Lisa, Prairie Home, Missouri, welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: What an honor.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: I have a question for you.
RUSH: Mmm-hmm?
CALLER: Does the government play any role in whether you purchase the St. Louis Rams team or not?
RUSH: Well, they're trying to, members of the government are, Sheila Jackson Lee certainly is trying to.
CALLER: Well --
RUSH: They're trying to intimidate. Look, let's cut to the chase here, folks -- and Lisa, hang on. Let's cut to the chase here. I can think of no liberal -- no matter how foul-mouthed, no matter how hateful, in entertainment or outside entertainment -- who would be banned from being part of an NFL ownership group. I can't think of one liberal inside or outside entertainment, foul mouthed or not. I can't think of one liberal who would even be treated like this. This is all about smearing mainstream, traditional conservatism -- and I, El Rushbo, happen to be the most prominent voice for mainstream, traditional conservatism. They cannot beat us, folks, in the arena of ideas. For my entire 21-year broadcast career, they have attempted to discredit me and everybody else who is prominent in conservatism. And it's now descended to the point that they have to make up things I said! And then when we catch them making up things, they say, "Well, so what? He really believes them! He really believes the words we put in his mouth, and we know he believes them. We know who he is." There are people... No liberal would ever be treated like this, no matter how foul-mouthed. I mean, there are rappers that own parts of NBA teams. Lyrics to their songs we couldn't play on this radio show. They're celebrated. "Cool, daddy. Cool!" Now, Lisa, are you still there?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: You sound very tired.
CALLER: No, I'm just nervous 'cause I'm getting to talk to you. Like, you're like my idol.
RUSH: Aw. That's great.
CALLER: I think you're wonderful. Anyway, I think that if you can purchase the team, then you should purchase the team, and I do not understand why Sheila Jackson Lee is talking about it on the House floor if it's no place for it.
RUSH: I just explained it.
CALLER: I agree. I agree.
RUSH: She's not trying to keep me out of the NFL. This is just an attack on all of us who are conservatives. Look, they're scared. Conservatism is in ascendancy. Conservatism is rising. Conservatism is growing. Obama's in trouble, folks. You can't take the politics out of me in this, 'cause it's not about the National Football League. It's just the latest vehicle for them to go after me.
Now, Lisa, I want you to hang on. Mr. Snerdley has to get some information from you because I am going to give you your choice of a Select Comfort bed because I know you're tired. You sound tired. You're probably not sleeping well as indicated by the nervousness you feel talking to me. So, Snerdley will get the information necessary to get you a Select Comfort bed, how to do it, the kind you want. The sleep number Select Comfort bed.
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I might note, by the way, that they are all white men. Just like for the record. Now, on the table is the discussion of health care and the bill that will come out of the Senate after this Baucus abomination gets merged with whatever else is in there, and they come out with their final version and send it over to the House. So here we have Harry Reid, who has had his own problems with reputed corruption -- as reported not by me but by the Los Angeles Times -- in slimy real estate swindles. There was a multiple article series on it in the LA Times. Harry Reid, the author of the attempt to smear me when I called a phony soldier a phony soldier. Harry Reid who said of Clarence Thomas, "I don't think he's very bright. I've read some of his opinions. I don't think he's very bright."
Chris Dodd, participant in waitress sandwiches with the late Senator Kennedy, sweetheart recipient of sweetheart mortgage rates from Countrywide as an official "friend of Angelo," the former CEO, Angelo Mozilo, Christopher Dodd, a participant is not an architect with Barney Frank in the House of the subprime mortgage mess that is a large factor in the economic plunge today. And Max Baucus of Montana, who never met a tax increase he didn't like. These three white guys. These three questionable-character people, author of much of the destruction in the US economy and throughout our culture with their various pieces of legislation. These three people -- are meeting with the estimable Rahm Emanuel to decide how 300 million Americans will get medical care and how they will get health insurance.
Three people are meeting today, and the media is breathless in anticipation of this meeting. "Oh, it's exciting! There might be some big news that comes out of this." There will be some big news. The big news accurately reported would be: The further attack and destruction on the American private sector, the American economy. It's the blatant pilfering of one-sixth of the US private sector, the US economy, and putting it in the hands of Barack Obama -- he with a five-and-a-half minute career and a bogus Nobel Peace Prize. Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Christopher Dodd, are going to decide how 300 million Americans deal with their medical challenges and problems. Those four people and Emanuel. Make it five. Those four people. Emanuel is in there as the enforcer if anybody goes wayward and off track. I don't know what you call this, but this is not democracy, and it is not republican with a small R. Call it what you want, but ask yourself if you want those three people, those three senators deciding how health care happens and is paid for and who gets it in this country. And let's not forget the sound bite from our old buddy Robert B. Reich. Let me find the number of that for you, Mike, so that we can get that back on 'cause my cue sheet is all shuffled. Number 24. Here's Robert Reich in 2007 at the University of California at Berkeley.
REICH: We are going to have to... If you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive. So we're going to let you die.
RUSH: The people that are meeting with Rahm Emanuel today are the "we" he was talking about. It's a dark day. These are dark days for our nation. But, folks, do not be depressed. Be enraged and vigilant and ready for action. I started this program 21 years ago and this is the kind of stuff that when you're dealing with liberals -- in power, out of power -- is where they've been headed. And now they have succeeded largely because we have a corrupt media which refuses to tell the truth about anybody. They lie about conservatives and they cover and promote Democrats, liberals, and their programs. The American people, when informed, make the right decisions. Our country is a testament to that. But our country is not properly informed. That segment of it that exposes itself to the corrupt State-Controlled Media is not properly informed. Oh, they know things; they just don't know that what they know is wrong.
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RUSH: Did that meeting ever start, Snerdley? Did the meeting that the media was breathless awaiting start with Baucus and Reid and Emanuel ever start? Yep. (interruption) Okay. Oh, they did? Harry Reid and Baucus and what's his name had a press conference. Oh, they had a press conference out there. Well, I just want you all to remember: Three guys, all who have questionable things in their past. Harry Reid: The LA Times says he's a land swindler in a multiple-part series. Chris Dodd: "Friend of Angelo," favorable, below-market mortgage rates; architect with Barney Frank of the subpoena prime mortgage prices. And Max Baucus. These three guys are in a conference today with Rahm Emanuel -- maybe they already have. These three guys are determining the health care and decisions for 300 million Americans. These three guys, in a conference today with Rahm Emanuel, probably with Obama, too. Keep that in mind and keep it in perspective.
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“Remember, a year ago, and for years prior to that, the only people in the military were poor blacks, poor minorities, and poor people who had no hope because America was such a dastardly place. America was so rotten, and the economy was so bad, there were no chances for education, no chances for job success. You had to go to the military. A year ago, it was fine and dandy to sully the members of the military who volunteered to put their lives on the line to defend the freedom of idiots like Harry Reid and Seymour Hersh to say and write what they do. Now one year later the military is all a bunch of white supremacists, arrayed against Obama, wanting him to fail, one year, one year later. It’s all white supremacists in the Pentagon who want Obama to fail.”
This man constantly amazes me. And he always says what I want to say, LOL!
I wasn’t poor. I wasn’t black. I had ‘opportunity.’ But when I was 17 and wanted money for college, and to get the hell out of my po-dunk little town, I enlisted.
In about 10 minutes I knew I had fallen in love, and I knew I had to devote a good chunk of my life to fighting for Democracy. Or at least a Representative Republic. ;)
Democrats in Congress & the media are evil. They. Are. Scum.
I need a nightcap, but I'm too lazy to go fix one, so here's a 'cyber' one for you and a 'cyber' one for me, LOL!
Oh, thank you so much, dear Diana.
I’ll get us some strawberries.
I need that after listening to Rush today.
His voice was so sad.
Of course this stuff upsets him; I’m pretty sure he HAS a soul, compared to the pukes that are shafting him.
I hope he DOES sue them to infinity...and beyond.
Like Rush said during one of his shows last week, “It’s crazy out there!”
It is just proof that Rush is a serious threat to the Marxist
that are out to line their own pockets by the destruction of the USA.
They don’t even listen to his show. They just heard he was “racist” because they read it somewhere.
The man is color blind.
About four years ago, I was driving home a lady with whom I work. She was so excited because Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were going to be in our town and she was going to go listen to them speak. I told her it was time for new leadership.
Out of existence.
This is a virtual war. The leftists smell blood now. They've tarred him with this round, I just hope he can handle this fight, cause it's a big one.
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PLEASE CALL NFL HEADQUARTERS ...
Rush is taking legal action????
Woo hoo - how I hope so!!!!
Go get em, Rush! 20 Million listeners who love you want you to take them to the cleaners!!! All of these garbage mouthed liars!
My heart hurts for Rush and how horrible they are
being to him. He has my full support.
Of course, he’ll roll over, and DO NOTHING about it!
Thanks for the pings...
As always, you’re welcome, dear friend, Las Vegas Dave. :-)
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