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Long Beach Longshoreman Threatens the Host (Rush Limbaugh)
The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 2/22/06 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/23/2006 6:28:31 AM PST by RushCrush

RUSH: Jerry in Long Beach, I'm glad you waited, sir, welcome to the program.

CALLER: Uh, Rush, I'm a proud member of the longshoremen's union.

RUSH: Yes, sir.

CALLER: I don't appreciate you attacking our union, try to make this part of this debate. Are you telling us that Republicans don't care about our jobs? Are you telling us that Republicans want to break our union?

RUSH: No.

CALLER: Is that what this deal was about?

RUSH: No! No.

CALLER: Or is this about -- Or is this about President --

RUSH: There you go again! There you go stereotyping! There you go stereotyping.

CALLER: Is he afraid he's not going to get his commission?

RUSH: I'm telling you that from everything I know, nothing's going to change. I have said this for the past two days.

CALLER: So why are you attacking my union?

RUSH: I'm not "attacking your union"! I'm simply pointing out who your union donates to and explaining why Schumer and Hillary and these other Democrats are speaking out in opposition to the deal. While they're telling us it's about national security, it's not, they're telling it because they're trying to loyal to you. You're the ones that --

CALLER: What you're not saying is that this is a violation of the Trading with Enemies Act. You couple this with the violation of the Espionage Act, a violation of the Foreign Intelligence --

RUSH: It's none of that.

CALLER: -- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, you've got this president committing three felonies, sir!

RUSH: It's none of that!

CALLER: He's a criminal.

RUSH: (laughing)

CALLER: And what you're doing is criminal -- and don't you attack my union!

RUSH: I didn't attack your union, but I'm about to start --

CALLER: Well, let's get it on, buddy.

(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...


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To: Born Conservative
Thanks for the ping.
21 posted on 02/23/2006 6:39:35 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: bboop

CALLER: Well, let's get it on, buddy.

RUSH: -- because you are so dead wrong about this. You Democrats, all it takes, give you one little shred of rope, and you've got a noose around your neck inside of 30 seconds! This is not trading with the enemies. Your union was not "attacked." Your union is not going to be put out of business. Where did you go to the idea that Bush wants the deal to go through to put the longshoreman out of business is beyond me. That's paranoia. That's stereotypical. You are profiling. You are profiling Republicans -- and you're doing all with that absolutely zero knowledge. Trading with the Enemy Act! Three felonies!

You wish. (sigh)

If these are felonies, give me one.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

If you missed the previous -- well, the last call in the previous hour, a man identifying himself as a proud member of the longshoremen union in Long Beach, a man named Jerry, called and said, don't you threaten my union, or don't you criticize my union. Well, what he was referring to is that I continue to dig deep on the port deal, and I have learned that much of the opposition to the port deal -- from the likes of Senator Schumer and Senator Clinton, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Menendez, Senator Boxer and others -- may not be what it seems. They're hiding, I think, under the cloak of being concerned about national security, but when you look at it what really is happening here is that they are all huge recipients of large contributions from the longshoremen's union, which, I mean, that's not a surprise to anybody. Organized labor supports the Democratic Party en rote. They just don't even think about it. It's a reflex action -- and it's a little hypocrite because we already have all kinds of business deals and arrangements with the United Arab Emirates and the Clinton administration way back when sold them 60 F-16s.

We've allowed them to own property in this country and so forth. But when the longshoremen union member threatened me, it jogged my fertile memory, ladies and gentlemen. I recalled in recent years -- I thought it was two or three years ago, turns out it was, well, a little over three, 2002 -- there was a strike by the Long Beach longshoreman over the modernization of procedures cataloging and inventorying cargo that was on ships and was off-loaded. You'll remember this. It was the bar code scanning controversy. They wanted to put bar code scanning on all of the incoming cargo to help find out where it is, rather than send off a bunch of human beings to try to find it.

"Let's find out exactly where it is; let's computerize it," and the longshoremen fought this. This is nothing new. Unions have been fighting advanced technology since there has been advanced technology. I mean, they're afraid it will affect their jobs -- and they went on strike right around Christmastime in this year in order to make their case, and they had ships that couldn't get into port because the ships that were in port wouldn't be off-loaded, and those ships couldn't be reloaded and sent back out. You had a fleet of cargo ships out in the Pacific waiting to get in, and it got so bad that people were demanding that President Bush get involved. This was Christmas, after all.

The longshoremen -- let me read to you, this is from a little website here, Slate.com -- and it's titled, "Short Port Report," and I'll just read you an excerpt: "...and organized workers have resisted new technology since the 1800s," and that's exactly what the longshoremen are doing now. "The port operators want to start using bar code scanners to speed cargo through terminals. More likely than not those operators will want to engage outside contractors to run the new scanners, and those contractors will employ nonunion labor. It's easy to sympathize with workers whose jobs are displaced technology. EZ Pass has meant the elimination of many decent paying jobs for toll booth clerks," and, of course, we used to have a buggy whip industry and a buggy industry. But with the car, out went the buggy and the buggy whip industry. "Union members in question here get paid more like accountants than day laborers. According to Pacific Maritime Association, the average annual salaries at the ports for longshore workers is $82,895 a year for class A workers, $118,444 for clerks, and $157,352 a year for foremen."



22 posted on 02/23/2006 6:39:38 AM PST by RushCrush (Indiscriminately posting ad-hominem attacks since 7/2004)
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To: RushCrush

LOL!!


23 posted on 02/23/2006 6:40:35 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: brownsfan

You pro-union?


24 posted on 02/23/2006 6:40:52 AM PST by RushCrush (Indiscriminately posting ad-hominem attacks since 7/2004)
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To: RushCrush

What happened to the rest? I`m not a member.


25 posted on 02/23/2006 6:41:11 AM PST by Screamname (Tagline)
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To: RushCrush

That graphic is too much!!! Hahahhahahhahahah


26 posted on 02/23/2006 6:41:18 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: RushCrush

Q: What's black and tan and looks good on a Teamster?

A: A Doberman.


27 posted on 02/23/2006 6:41:30 AM PST by glorgau
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To: RushCrush

I heard that guy yesterday and here's what I would have said, "Well screw you and screw your union. I don't give a crap about it or you and I don't have to."


28 posted on 02/23/2006 6:41:40 AM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles (Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
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To: RushCrush

"You pro-union?"

No. I'm pro reason.


29 posted on 02/23/2006 6:42:07 AM PST by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: RushCrush
There should be more.  The headline here is Longshoreman Threatens the Host (Rush Limbaugh) and when you read the article all you see is "Well, let's get it on, buddy."   That's a challenge, but not a threat.  A threat is "you keep talking like that and you'll regret it" or "bad mouth my union and you're asking for a knuckle sandwich".  

IMHO "let's get it on" is like "bring 'em on" --swagger.  If Rush is calling this a threat, it's hyperbole at best, and slander at worst.

30 posted on 02/23/2006 6:42:23 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: brownsfan

mmmmmkay....care to elaborate?


31 posted on 02/23/2006 6:43:00 AM PST by RushCrush (Indiscriminately posting ad-hominem attacks since 7/2004)
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To: Sender

bttt


32 posted on 02/23/2006 6:43:50 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: RushCrush

"Well, let's get it on, buddy." is the threat?

They were already involved in verbal sparring and it was said in that context.


33 posted on 02/23/2006 6:44:09 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: wideawake
The West Coast longshoremen's union was dominated by Communists as far back as the 1930s. Harry Bridges, who led that union for several decades, was a Communist who was originally from Australia. OTOH, The East Coast longshoremen's union used to be anti-Communist (though liberal on domestic issues), in the mold of George Meany and Samuel Gompers. I do not know whether that distinction still holds true, as many of the old-style unions have moved to the left politically.
34 posted on 02/23/2006 6:44:42 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Hildy
Did or did he not say that one of the reasons the Dems were coming out against it was to help the Unions (and then, I believe, he made a joke about the Unions).

This is the reason the Dems are against it. They've been blocking all efforts to increase port security since 9/11. They've opposed racial profiling at airports targeting Arabs. And they had no problem with this company running port operations for us in the middle east for the last 15 years.

The Dems see this as an opportunity to bash President Bush, but they need to step in and try to shore up the union's position with the new employer.

For full disclosure purposes, I'm against the new company coming in.

35 posted on 02/23/2006 6:45:02 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: JZelle

Excellent.


36 posted on 02/23/2006 6:45:16 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: RushCrush

Awww man, I have to be a member to read the whole thing? darn.


37 posted on 02/23/2006 6:45:35 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Dallas59

I heard it was more like $120K, with unbelievable benefits for life for the entire family. Maybe I should apply to unload cocaine. It's for the children.


38 posted on 02/23/2006 6:46:00 AM PST by Sender (As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. Be without form. -Sun Tzu)
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To: yoe

Tony Snow is on his radio show right now freaking out about how stupid conservatives are being about being so willing to throw the UAE over the side. Tommy Franks is talking to him and wants you chumps to know that the UAE vowed to donate 100 million dollars to help us with Katrina. And some of you want to spit in their faces. Wise up!!!


39 posted on 02/23/2006 6:46:29 AM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles (Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
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To: bboop

"Let's get is on"

Maybe it is a local reference. I wouldn't think so. But that is when you call someone out to step outside.


40 posted on 02/23/2006 6:46:29 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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