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"Who is responsible for this dramatic turnaround in what Americans think about global warming?"
"What are the odds I'm going to get an e-mail from somebody who understands the FlameThrower
setting on the Aphex and went to Elkins Institute of Radio Electronics?
This guy probably had a Remco Caravelle when he was growing up, too."
"A one-man stimulus package here for Waldo de los Rios CDs,
all three of them showing increases in standings at the hit list at Amazon."
"Did you see Patrick Kennedy's meltdown on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday?
It was fabulous."
"The more public employment we get and the more money that goes to those jobs the less of it in the private sector.
Jobs in the private sector produce things. Jobs in the government sector are a drain on the private sector by definition."
"If I owned a New York restaurant, I'd refuse to serve any politician that walked in the door:
'You're trying to put me out of business, go starve, go down to the bodega and pick up something on the street side and eat that.'"
"Obama's been demanding an up-or-down vote.
Now it's no up and now it's no down; now it's only Slaughter.
So we're gonna have Slaughter vote, which means we just deem it."
"Algore has to know all this is fraudulent.
I find it difficult to believe that all these people were duping him.
He's dupable, don't misunderstand.
I think Algore is imminently dupable, but he's in on this, and his net worth is well over
$150 million since he left office and started doing this stuff, or is it higher than that?
I'll tell you, it's a lot of money."
"ClimateGate, all the stuff at East Anglia, all the fraud uncovered at the UN,
has gone virtually unreported in this country because of Marxist journalism theory."
"When Massa said all he needed was the story to go national, he might reconsider, I said, well, I'll help out here.
So I just played his words. I didn't embrace this guy. He's got a big D by his name there."
"Mr. Woodhouse, you gotta understand how things work here.
When it becomes obvious that there's a raving lunatic in your party, we are more than happy to spread the evidence.
In this case the evidence was Massa's own words."
"Rehema Ellis of NBC probably will be assigned with ChiCom journalists who are being sent into retraining
sessions to learn Marxist news reporting techniques because this babe explained Reaganomics pretty well."
"It's just a shame there wasn't Zicam when Waldo de los Rios was alive."
"Apparently the Obama droids from Organizing for America and other White House websites (basically union thugs)
are under orders today to call every talk show that begins discussing health care and to try to flood the lines."
"They have races I've never heard of identified on the Census form, so I want you to do this:
Check the box that says 'other' and write in 'American.'"
"Americans do not want to be defeated.
They do not want to surrender."
"Obama wants to increase the Medicare tax by applying it to any gains that
you make on your investment portfolio, what is called 'unearned income.'"
"They don't have the votes for Obamacare in any way, shape, manner, or form following existing rules.
So they're trying reconciliation."
"The Senate bill to the House Democrats is like the cross to Dracula.
They just don't like it."
"If Obama just says, 'Look, I "deem" health care to have passed, and
I'm going to sign what I "deem" to have passed,' where does this end?
Why do you even need Congress?"
"You gotta be able to translate hieroglyphics to find out what's being voted on if you watch C-SPAN."
"Go online to AskHeritage.org. Because while we're looking at health care
and the Slaughter rule and all this other stuff, they got more coming at us.
It's a tidal wave."
"Nobody watches the Maude Behar Show."
"So Rather is running around saying, 'Obama couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road
if state troopers were directing traffic,' and I say,
'Oh, so, Paterson gets to be a Massa,' and I am horrible and evil and insensitive and racist."
"The House Democrats don't trust Senate Democrats to keep their word and vice-versa,
and the CBO is going to tell you what it will cost if both of them keep their word?"
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: Hey, is everybody having fun now? House Democrats meeting behind closed doors. Even as we speak, they've been meeting behind closed doors since I got here this morning. They are trying to come up with a new rule, the Slaughter rule, appropriately named after what they're trying to do to the country. This is Louise Slaughter, she's head of the House Rules Committee, and basically what they want to do is just deem the Senate bill to have been passed, without voting on it, just deem it to have passed, in the House, and then write their own corrections bill, reconciliation bill, send that back to the Senate, and put the onus on them to pass what the House wants. That's what the big meeting behind closed doors is about, that and I'm sure some other things.
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RUSH: The updates of what's happening here with the health care bill and how the House Democrats -- I mean, really, they can probably do it, they can make their own rules, so they can just say, "Yeah, we're going to deem the Senate bill passed in the House. Nobody's going to vote for it, we're just gonna deem it passed, we're gonna add our change and send it back over there to the Senate and make them deal with it." They want to take out the Cornhusker Kickback. They want to take out the Louisiana Purchase and all that. So let's see.
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RUSH: I just received an urgent message. The Obama people are out in force today, seminar calling talk shows. I just got a heads-up. I just warned Mr. Snerdley. I didn't "warn" him, I alerted him. Apparently the Obama droids from Organizing for America and other White House websites (basically union thugs) are under orders today to call every talk show that begins discussing health care and to try to flood the lines. Now, we heard of this the last time they tried it, and we eagerly sought out some of these seminar calls, and we didn't get any. None of them made it. In fact, Snerdley didn't even get any to assess whether they're air-worthy or not. So I just warned Snerdley or alerted him to be on the lookout, and if he finds one -- 'cause they're kind of like aliens on this show -- put him at the in front of the line.
We gotta talk about health care, right, to qualify for the smear calls, spam calls? So here's a story. This is from the Communist Party USA's newspaper called The People's World, formerly The Daily Worker, and it was published yesterday: "Some 5,000 activists demanding "Health Care Now!" descended on the nation's capital March 9 to call for the arrest of the nation's leading health insurance executives, who had gathered at the Ritz Carlton Hotel here." Now, understand, this is being done within the Obama imprimatur. This is being done with the approval of and probably under the orders of Obama. These are the same people that showed up on the front yards of AIG execs to hassle them over bonuses. Now you got the Service Employee International Union (primarily who did this but there were a lot of others) showing up at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington demanding that insurance company executives be arrested!
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO said: "Inside that building are the titans of the healthcare industry, the titans of greed. They won't stop unless we stop them. The only thing that will stop them is legislation that forces them to become more humane. We're here to turn them over to the police and to say 'do your duty, we're here to help you.'" That's the Communist Party USA publication, People's World. It goes to all government union workers. Arrest insurance executives! Now, I've mentioned the guts of this story three times here in the last five minutes, and I haven't gotten one outraged facial expression from anybody of my staff. "Oh, really? Okay. Ho-hum." There are union people running around Washington demanding an insurance company execs be arrested, and it's, "Ah, just another news day." I mean, unions -- aommunist Party publication, People's World, AFL-CIO leader -- demanding insurance company executives being arrested, turned over to the cops? It's a ho-hummer? I think it's a pretty big deal here that Obama is ordering this to happen. Arrest them? Turn 'em over to the cops? You know, storm their convention, their meeting and turn them over to the cops? All right, now we've discussed health care, so we qualify for the spam calls from Obama's seminar callers.
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RUSH: All right, Cookie was rolling on it. I caught the bare end of this. Pelosi just came out of the bat cave with an announcement of whatever it is she and the Democrats have decided to do R-E health care and reconciliation, and I caught the tail end of it. I can only surmise. We were rolling on it. We'll have the sound bites coming up in moments, but from what I heard, it sounds like that the news reports today about the Slaughter rule are what she was talking about. I heard her say, "We're gonna take out the Cornhusker Kickback and we're going to take out the Louisiana Purchase and we're going to add in something." Something Obama wants to do is increase the Medicare tax by applying it to any gains that you make on your investment portfolio, what was called "unearned income." So, in addition to the payroll tax in Medicare they want to get more Medicare tax by taxing investment profits, and she mentioned that.
She said it was great to have heard from the president to find out what he wants. So it sounds to me like what they're going to do -- and John Boehner put this on his website earlier today -- is they basically want to pass the Senate bill without voting on it. And here again, the process is just going to enrage everybody. It's already being forced down people's throats who want no part of this. They don't have the votes for it in any way, shape, manner, or form following existing rules. So they're trying reconciliation. That apparently isn't gonna work because the House and the Senate don't trust each other, the Democrats. The House does not have the votes to pass the Senate bill as is. It doesn't have the right abortion language for Stupak. It has all giveaways to two states or three or four states, but not enough other states, like the Cornhusker Kickback and a bunch of others. It does not have a specifically spelled out public option.
The Senate bill to the House Democrats is like the cross to Dracula. They just don't like it. So the scheme, the twisted scheme by which the Democrat leaders plan to bend the rules it ram Obama's legislation through Congress now has a name: The Slaughter solution. Louise Slaughter (Democrat-New York) is chairwoman of the rules committee and a very important key ally of Pelosi. They are just going to "deem" the House to have passed the Senate bill, without voting on it. Now, to you and I say, "Wait a minute. Why don't we just 'deem' Obama the president in 2012 and suspend the vote?" Why even bother with Congress? Why even have legislation? If we're just going to "deem" things to have passed, things that we want? "Okay, we're just going to pretend we passed the Senate bill, and we're going amend it. Then we're going to mark it up and we're going to add our changes to it and then we're going to send it back."
Look, they can make their own rules there. I'm not enough of a parliamentary expert, congressional expert to say. You know, these guys, if they want to hide $90,000 in cold cash in a refrigerator in their office they can keep the FBI out of there from searching for it. It's separation of powers. The FBI is part of the executive branch. They're the congressional branch, legislative. Just as an example. So why do you even need Congress? If Obama just says, "Look, I 'deem' health care to have passed, and I'm going to sign what I 'deem' to have passed," where does this end? This is what you have, folks. These are pure, unadulterated statists getting close to totalitarians. This is what you have to do if you want overthrow from within the US government when you don't have the votes of the American people to do it. So they're going to "deem" the Senate bill to have been passed without an actual vote by members.
They're going to pass the Senate bill with no vote on it, and then they're going to do their own reconciliation of it. They're going to say things out of it, they're going to add things to it, and then -- I don't know -- send it up to Obama or send it back to the Senate. I don't know what the process is after that. So they want to pass a bill that they haven't voted on and a bill that's essentially unwritten right now. Again, I don't know if this is legal. It probably is. I do know this: If the House passes the reconciliation bill without a vote in the Senate it will be a slap in our face like you can't believe. They'll be spitting in our face, doing this. That's the only way to describe it. And the CBO, let me find this. This is just outrageous, too.
The CBO now has a score of the Senate-passed health bill, an estimate of the budgetary effects of the Senate-passed health bill, and they say that it's going to reduce the deficit by $118 billion. Now, the bill's passed in the Senate on Christmas Eve, and "CBO has just released an estimate of the budgetary effects of the health bill, H.R. 3590, that passed the Senate on December 24. Today's estimate differs from the estimate for a slightly earlier version of the legislation that we released on December 19 in that it encompasses all of the amendments that were adopted by the Senate, reflects a revised assumption about its enactment date, and incorporates some technical revisions. ... The CBO and the staff [Joint Committee on Taxation] now estimate that, on balance, the direct (mandatory) spending and revenue effects of enacting H.R. 3590 as passed by the Senate would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of $118 billion over the 2010–2019 period.
That's, frankly, a lie. There's no way any of this is going to reduce the deficit. This is just another estimate of the already-passed Senate bill. This is not an estimate of the reconciliation bill that the House and Pelosi are somehow working on now. This CBO estimate's based on numerous cheats, numerous shams such as front loading the taxes for four years before any so-called health care reform benefits begin being paid. And don't forget this Congress has off-loaded many costs to Medicare and Medicaid like the $250 billion so-called doctor fix. This is nothing but a bunch of gimmicks. So everybody in Washington, "Bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz bzz. What will the CBO say? What will the CBO say?" It doesn't make any difference what the CBO says! The CBO will score Obamacare the Gimmick, not the reality. This whole thing is a gimmick. CBO is scoring will tell us what it will cost for Congress to keep its word, which does not happen. Basically they're saying, "Well, if Congress does what it says here, this is what the financial result is going to be." See, the House Democrats don't trust Senate Democrats to keep their word and vice-versa, and the CBO is going to tell you what it will cost if both of them keep their word? (laughing) More of a sham.
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RUSH: All right, here's Pelosi from last hour. This is during her weekly news conference as she came out of the big closed-door meeting with House Democrats. They canceled all committee hearings today and all the House business, and had this big confab behind closed doors where we assume they were discussing the Slaughter rule. Again, the Slaughter rule is the Democrats are just going to "deem" themselves to have passed the Senate bill without voting on it. Of course, why even have Congress? In fact, why not just "deem" full employment? Why not just "deem" budget surpluses? Why not just "deem" the end of the Republican Party? Where does this stuff stop? So they're going to deem themselves to have passed the Senate bill without having voted on it and going to add their changes. That's what we think they were doing. Pelosi came out and did this.
PELOSI: Correcting the Nebraska agreement -- fix, whatever you want to call that -- but having more equity for the states. We don't want to have unnecessary burdens on the state, and this legislation comes closer to what the House had in mind. In addition to that -- that's with the investments -- on the pay-for side, as you know, the so-called Cadillac plans and Nancy discussed, 80% of it would be removed from the bill, and that's a real victory for the House. And discuss further how that is represented in the bill and what is used instead, which is a Medicare tax on unearned income for -- for the bulk of it. So it was -- it was very productive in terms of hearing directly from the White House when the president's proposal was.
RUSH: Whoa! Wait a minute. So somebody from the White House was in there and only today they found out what Obama wants? Just today? Well, shazam! They just today found out what Obama wants. There is no legislation. So it looks like it's full speed ahead for the Slaughter rule. They're already assuming they've passed the Senate bill and now they're going to make these changes in what she is calling "legislation." So the Cornhusker Kickback is gone, the Louisiana Purchase is gone, and so is the tax on Cadillac health plans. The unions don't like that. It's in the Senate bill, but doesn't kick in 'til 2018. But they're going to take it out in the House and replace it with an increase in the Medicare tax on "unearned income," meaning your investment portfolio, your stocks and whatever else. Any profits there will be taxed, but the Medicare rate will be tacked onto the capital gains rate. So this is they're planning. Here's an ex-Obama advisor, audio sound bite number two here, CNN this morning, former deputy national campaign director for '08, Steve Hildebrand said this about the 2010 midterm elections.
HILDEBRAND: There's a real shot that we're going to get slaughtered in elections this fall if we aren't leading the efforts to reform Washington. It's what we campaigned on in '06 and '08, and if voters don't see that change, we haven't lived up to our promise.
RUSH: Hey, Mr. Hildebrand? What's obvious is that voters realize you lied. You didn't promise to reform Washington. You came to further corrupt it, and take it over and to over it as it existed. That's what you came to town to do, and that's what you're doing! Yeah, you are going to get slaughtered. You're going to get slaughtered. You're gonna get slaughtered because of the Slaughter rule. You're going to get slaughtered because of Obama and the House Democrats and all that. You're going to get slaughtered.
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RUSH: Hey, what happened to the debate's over? What happened to Obama demanding an up-and-down vote? What happened to that? I guess that's off the table now. Obama's been demanding an up-or-down vote. Now it's no up and now it's no down; now it's only Slaughter. So we're gonna have Slaughter vote which means we just deem it.
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RUSH: Nancy in Santa Rosa, California, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Yes, sir. I thought this was important enough to wait. My husband and I are with Anthem Blue Cross, we have a Medicare supplement plan with them, and I believe Obama mentioned them by name as one of the greedy ones.
RUSH: Yeah, these are the pirates that raised your premiums 39%.
CALLER: Well, yeah, they lowered ours by 31 dollars a month.
RUSH: What?
CALLER: They lowered our premium. We got a letter in February --
RUSH: The hell you say.
CALLER: -- in January --
RUSH: The hell you say.
CALLER: -- saying based on a review of the cost and use of benefits by members of your plan in your area over the past year, we'll be able to reduce your Medicare supplement premium effective March 1st, 2010.
RUSH: Use of benefits by members of your plan. What is that?
CALLER: Medicare supplement plan.
RUSH: No, no, no. I understand that. But the use of benefits, does that mean you've had fewer people making health claims?
CALLER: Well, yeah, I guess so. They certainly don't owe us anything. They have paid and paid and paid for us, and without any qualms or questions.
RUSH: Well, hmm. So these guys are not the bad guys that --
CALLER: Not as far as I'm concerned.
RUSH: Yeah, $31-a-month -- that's a month, right?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Premium reduction.
CALLER: They lowered it from $412 to $381.
RUSH: Well, so they're not the bandits and thieves that Obama has portrayed them to be.
CALLER: They've been very good to us.
RUSH: I'm happy to hear that. That's Anthem Blue Cross?
CALLER: Anthem Blue Cross, yes.
RUSH: Thanks, Nancy, very much, by the way, in case your voice is recognized you might want to hire security in the front and back of your house in case there are any SEIU union thugs tuning in. This is a big health care day for Obama supporters and spam callers, and this is not what they want to hear. I mean they want to put the people you deal with at Anthem Blue Cross in jail. I don't mean to scare you, but, I mean, you gotta take steps, we all do, whether the turtles force you to turn out the lights or what have you.
John in Goodview, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Good afternoon, my brother. Mega dittos to you. It's a privilege to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I appreciate that.
CALLER: And I'm going to be brief and I'm going to be quick. I am a union member. I am a locomotive engineer on a major class one railroad.
RUSH: Yeah, but who owns the railroad?
CALLER: The stockholders.
RUSH: Okay, so you're not a government union employee?
CALLER: No.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: No, I'm a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
RUSH: A great brotherhood, great brotherhood.
CALLER: Hey, at any rate, I'm a conservative, as a matter of fact I'm one of the few conservatives you'll find in a union.
RUSH: Still alive, yeah.
CALLER: This health care thing, they're going to either take my benefits away from me, which would be the correct business decision to make, or they're going to run my insurance company completely out of business. Now, I pay for my insurance, I pay a couple of hundred bucks a month for my insurance. My company pays about a thousand, $1,100 a month for my insurance. It's a managed care plan. We're very happy with it. It's not the best in the world. By no means is it a Cadillac plan, so I probably won't get taxed on it yet. But I will eventually because this is about power. They don't want us to have insurance. They want to tell us what we can do with our health care as opposed to letting us make the decisions.
RUSH: That's right. They want you to have insurance. They just want you to have to go get it from the government, from them.
CALLER: Exactly. So I make about 80 grand a year. You know, hell, anybody that works for the railroad knows how much money I make a year. If the railroad decided when this crap passes --
RUSH: Yeah? Quickly.
CALLER: Hey, 8% of 80 grand, that's $6,400 hundred bucks. We're saving ourselves a ton of money.
RUSH: Exactly right. Well said.
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RUSH: Mike in eastern North Carolina. It's great to have you, sir, on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: How you doing, sir?
RUSH: Very well.
CALLER: Mega dittos. You're a great American.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I was traveling down I-95, and you said something on the radio that put a fire in me. The slaughterhouse tactic they're talking about. What in the world...? How they can get away with doing something like that? It sounds like it's just dirty.
RUSH: It is. It's Democrats.
CALLER: I mean, if they get away with that is there anything we can do? Put 'em in jail or something for breaking the laws?
RUSH: They can set their own rules. And Louise Slaughter is writing one here. Louise Slaughter from New York is the chairman of the rules committee in the House.
CALLER: The Constitution doesn't matter?
RUSH: Well, somebody has to challenge this on constitutional grounds. Maybe the House Republicans could, but if they want to "deem" themselves to have voted for the bill and they haven't, they can do it, I guess. Until I get some legal scholar telling me that they can't do this, I have to assume they can or they wouldn't be trying it.
CALLER: It's just wrong.
RUSH: Of course it's wrong. They're wrong. These people are repugnant.
CALLER: Well, Rush, keep doing what you're doing. I enjoy it.
RUSH: Thank you. I tell you, Mike, I tell you what I would do if I were you. I would just "deem" yourself a million dollars and go spend it.
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: And then when the people want to actually be paid for it, "Oh, I'm just following the example set by Louise Slaughter and Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives. They 'deem' themselves to have voted on something they didn't vote on and I guess they can do it. So I'm just going to 'deem' myself to have a million bucks."
CALLER: Well, the difference is, sir, I want to earn my money. I don't want to steal it that way.
RUSH: Well, I appreciate that. I understand that. It's just an idea.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: Once this stuff starts, why do we even need Congress? Why can't Obama just "deem" this done? (interruption) Mmm. Well, "That's the Constitution," but what the hell does the Constitution matter? Snerdley says, "Because only the House has the right constitutionally to originate spending measures." That's true. So? So? (interruption) So, it doesn't matter. Rules, Democrats, equals rules don't matter. Are you telling me that...? Look, they're already shredding the Constitution, with all these federal mandates that you buy insurance. (interruption) The Constitution is already in tatters with these people. Here's Josh in Sugar City, Idaho. Great to have you here.
CALLER: It's great talking to you again, Rush. You know, I was listening to your program the other day, and you made mention of a North Korean man getting publicly executed because he was talking on an illegal cell phone to his brother in South Korea. And you made mention this morning of those union thugs wanting those executive insurance people arrested, and I thought to myself, "Well, shoot. We're right on track with North Korea." If you give these union thugs more and more power, you know, it might be 20 years from now, but we might have public executions in this country for stupid crap because it's --
RUSH: It's not going to go that far. American people --
CALLER: You hope it doesn't, but it's the same flippin' thing. You --
RUSH: I understand but we're not going that far. You know, at some point, like I said yesterday, the American people now a great majority realize that they made a mistake, that they were defrauded, fooled, scammed, and they see all this stuff. They see stuff like the salt ban in New York. I want to tell you people something, by the way. You hear this stuff, and you say, "Ah Rush, don't worry about it. It'll never happen. Ban salt? I mean, the human body is 0.9% salt. They can't ban salt. We can't live without salt. It'll never happen, Rush." That's what they told me when I warned them about the SUV ban that was starting in 1996. Remember that? "Ah, come on, Rush. They're never going to be able to tell us what kind of car you can drive. You know, you take these people too seriously. You give them too much credit. They're just a bunch of kooks out there."
Yeah, well, look where we are now. You can't find a Hummer, the ChiComs won't even build them. That deal fell south. If you drive around an SUV, you may as well be a marked person. You're driving around in a stigma. In fact, I think somebody ought to make an SUV make that the model name: The GM Stigma or the Chevrolet Stigma, what have you. This ban on salt, these people... In fact, in this health care bill... Where is it? Where is it? No, it's in the stimulus bill. I have to look in the right stack. In the stimulus bill already there are tax increases on sugared drinks. In the stimulus bill. It's already there. They've already passed it. Obama's already signed it into law. Everybody thinks this stuff is not going to happen. It's too weird. It's too crazy. But they're on the salt business, and once they start this kind of stuff, folks, it never goes away. They never give it up. They continue and continue and finance with it. I'll find that story. It's in one of these two stacks.
This is from TheHill.com, by the way. "More than two dozen Democrats..." This is why they have to Slaughter this whole thing. "More than two dozen Democrats are expected to vote against the healthcare reform bill that will hit the House floor in the coming weeks. At least 25 House Democrats will reject the healthcare reform legislation, according to a survey by The Hill, a review of other media reports and interviews with lawmakers, aides and lobbyists. Dozens of House Democrats are undecided or won't comment on their position on the measure. The 25 opposed include firm "no" votes and members who are likely 'no' votes. Most Democrats on The Hill's whip list are definitely going to vote no, but others, such as Reps. Lincoln Davis (Tenn.) and Harry Teague (N.M.), could vote yes." Then there's the added problem here that the Congressional Black Caucus all bent outta shape over this and so is the Hispanic Caucus.
"A group of Hispanic lawmakers on [today] will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill's immigration provisions. The scheduled meeting comes as Democratic leaders and the White House are struggling to craft a final bill that will attract 216 votes in the lower chamber. Unlike abortion, immigration has flown beneath the radar, and almost seemed to vanish altogether ... But immigration remains just as explosive an issue and carries the same potential to derail the entire healthcare endgame, a number of Democrats said. 'It's still one of those issues that's out there,' said Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), the Democratic Caucus vice chairman and the only Hispanic member of House leadership," and then the Congressional Black Caucus is upset 'cause there aren't enough jobs and there's not a black agenda in the stimulus bill. Well, this is what these people are saying publicly. Well, that's probably true. I think they're just angles for their payoff here by saying, "You can't count on our vote, Obama," because they know Obama is writing checks. They know Obama is handing out money to anybody who would like it.
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RUSH: Ray in Atlanta, great to have you, sir. Rush Limbaugh saying hi, the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. How you doing?
RUSH: Excellent. Thank you.
CALLER: I wanted to talk a little bit about this whole thing on preconditions that both sides seem to be worried about.
RUSH: Preexisting conditions, yes.
CALLER: My question to you is what in life doesn't have some type of preexisting conditions? For example, I have two teenaged boys who drive cars. My neighbor pays less insurance than I do. The only thing that I can see that's different is, one happens to be, you know, male, one happens to be female.
RUSH: So you're saying that you have a preexisting condition known as teenagers.
CALLER: Correct.
RUSH: Who are more prone to accidents --
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: -- and so you have to pay a higher premium?
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And what about, you know, for example, if I had a DUI and I wanted to apply for a job, and they refuse me because I had a DUI, well, that's a preexisting condition.
RUSH: No, just call the NFL.
CALLER: (laughing) My point is, and this might even be a legal challenge, can the insurance industry say --
RUSH: In fact, if you want to have five kids with four women they'll pay the child support, the NFL. You talk about a preexisting condition.
CALLER: (laughing) It just seems silly to me that, you know --
RUSH: Antonio Cromartie just traded to the Jets from the San Diego Chargers. Well, it's happened. I mean I'm just commenting on the news here, no editorial comment by any stretch of the imagination, but if you want a preexisting condition, that's it.
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RUSH: Now to Patrick Kennedy streaming like a madman, angry at the media. This is on the floor of the House yesterday.
P. KENNEDY: (screaming) There's one, two press people in this gallery. We're talking about Eric Massa, 24/7 on the TV. We're talking about war and peace, $3 billion, a thousand lives, and no press? No press? You want to know why the American public has fit? They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they sent to do. It's because the press, the press of the United States, is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It's despicable!
RUSH: Uh, you want to know why the American people are fit? We're not fit. We're morbidly obese! I don't know what he's talking about. He might be fit to be tied. Patrick, you know, you really are a dunce. The press was helping you yesterday. If the press had shown up and televised this it woulda hurt your cause. Americans do not want to be defeated, they do not want to surrender. The press did you the biggest favor in the world. Well, not you personally. See what press coverage has gotten you, Patrick? Let's go back. This kind of runs in the family, October 20th, 1994, in Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy on the campaign trail with former President Bill Clinton.
TED KENNEDY: Is this Clinton country? Garahham! (muttering) And after we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks, and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor, and you reelect ... (cheers and applause) And you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate, we're going to start on the '96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton, and to reelect him on the muh mahmana mah man (muttering)!
RUSH: So you see, we've played this over the course of many months, years, and people take stabs and wild guesses at what the Senator (may he rest in peace) was saying, and he wasn't saying anything. There were no words here to translate. Play it again, Mike. We can squeeze him in here before we have to go to the break again.
TED KENNEDY: Is this Clinton country? Garahham! (muttering)
RUSH: And after!
TED KENNEDY: And after we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks, and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor, and you reelect ... (cheers and applause) And you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate, we're going to start on the '96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton, and to reelect him on the muh mahmana mah man (muttering)!
RUSH: Senator Kennedy, October 20th, 1994, with his own rant.
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RUSH: T. Rex and Bang a Gong. We dedicate this bumper song to Eric Massa now trying to find himself. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, 800-282-2882. Great to have you here.
By the way, this Massa guy, he had a track record that nobody reported that a lot of people knew. For example: "According to Peter Clarke, a Navy shipmate, Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates. He tells the story of his friend Stuart Borsch, with whom Massa shared a hotel room while on leave during the first Gulf War. 'Stuart's at the edge of the bed,' Clarke says Borsch told him at the time, 'and [Massa] starts massaging him. Massa said, "You'll have to get one of my special massages." He called them "Massa Massages."' Ron Moss, a Navy shipmate and Borsch's roommate, confirmed that Borsch told him this story at the time. ... Clarke says that Massa's roommate, Tom Maxfield, was also assaulted. 'Tom lived on upper bunk,' Clarke said. 'When you're on ship, you're almost exhausted 24-7. So a lot of times you sleep with your uniform on. Tom and Massa shared a stateroom together. Massa climbed up on the top of his bunk, which is hard to do--you never crawl up on somebody else's bunk. He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him.'" I kid you not. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is in The Atlantic. This is in TheAtlantic.com. He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him. What the hell is that? We'll just have to imagine.
And Washington Post: "Nancy Pelosi's office was told of concerns about Eric Massa." You know, this is how they got Foley out of there. The Democrats knew about Foley and the pages and they held it and they held it and they held it. They gave it to Brian Ross right before the 2006 elections and now the same accusations are being made here that Pelosi and Hoyer, Pelosi, (imitating Pelosi) "Well, I had heard rumors, but I didn't know these details. What a sad guy, what a very, very sad guy." The Washington Post story describes "a lunch date that Massa made with a congressional aide in his 20s who worked in the office of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). According to a person briefed on the call, Racalto was concerned that the lunch followed a pattern by Massa -- who is married and has two children -- of trying to spend time alone with young gay men with no ostensible work purpose."
Gerry Studds got a standing O for announcing he did this kind of stuff when he was in the House. (interruption) You know, Snerdley, that's an excellent point. We were told this kind of stuff doesn't happen in the military. Anyway, the point is the Democrats knew all of this. They knew a lot of this and they just sat on it. "Republican leaders cited as precedent the committee's 2006 decision to investigate claims that Mark Foley, a Florida Republican, sent sexually explicit messages to former male pages. The committee's decision came after Foley stepped down from Congress. ... The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the claims relayed to the ethics committee were far more serious than that, involving multiple incidents and potential victims almost as far back as January 2009, when Massa took office." The Politico has the story: "Pelosi Aide Knew of Massa Concerns far Earlier than Previously Known." She took no action and is laying it off on her staff. Well, the staff didn't tell me, we knew that there were rumors and so forth.
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RUSH: I don't know where the scandal is with Eric Massa. I mean so? He's performing these kinds of sexual acts in the Navy, and I thought the Democrats -- you know, don't ask, don't tell. Where's the scandal? No big deal. This guy is a tea bagger, if you want to know. Not a tea partier.
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RUSH: Now, let's put this in proper perspective. Let's go back and look at the whole Mark Foley circumstance. Pelosi and the other Democrat leadership knew about Mark Foley for months -- and what was he accused of? Texting pages! Whatever Foley was accused of doing, it's like far less than what Massa did do, all right? But the Foley thing involved "children," pages, teenagers. Pelosi and the Democrat leadership sat on the Foley information until the day after the deadline for putting people on the Florida ballot, so that they could run against Foley or a blank space -- and, of course, they won the Foley seat. They are that venal, folks. They were willing to allow this "exploitation," so-called, of House pages to go on and on and on for months and months and months just to take a congressional seat. That's who we're dealing with out there in Pelosi.
It's 360-2 to reopen the investigation to look into when Pelosi knew, and it's a bunch of Democrats that didn't vote here, and some Republicans, too. That's kind of interesting. That kind of tells us where the Democrats find themselves. That kind of tells us what the Democrats really are, and that is: Scared to death of everything going on regarding their electoral chances in November.
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RUSH: I'll tell you what, these guys at the DNC, they hate me, which I don't mind. I want you to listen to this. This afternoon on Mess NBC, the hapless Contessa Brewer asked a question written for her on the teleprompter of this Woodhouse guy, DNC. Here's the question they wrote for Contessa on the teleprompter: "Do you think that the RNC goes forward with this ad if there's been backlash --" this is about Massa "-- do you think the Massa thing will influence negatively Democrats who want to run for reelection?"
WOODHOUSE: I think there will be a backlash, and we will not be shy about reminding people that about 48 to 72 hours ago, Republicans were embracing Eric Massa because they thought that he left -- forced out of Congress because of his opposition to health care and now they want to hang Massa on us. They embraced him, Rush Limbaugh embraced him, it's going to come back to haunt them.
RUSH: We want to hang Massa on you? He is you. He's a Democrat. We didn't embrace the guy. Mr. Woodhouse, you gotta understand how things work here. When it becomes obvious that there's a raving lunatic in your party we are more than happy to spread the evidence. In this case the evidence was Massa's own words. So, yeah, Massa said he might reconsider resigning. We'd love to have him in there screwing you guys up and voting "no" on this precious little bill of yours. And when he said all he needed was the story to go national, he might reconsider, I said, well, I'll help out here. So I just played his words. I didn't embrace this guy. He owns you and you own him. He's got a big D by his name there.
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RUSH: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ron, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: How are you today?
RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: You sound very well. I was watching by channel surfing last night. I believe it's a woman maybe off The View that has a cable show, and she had Jesse Ventura on. The point was, she was going to interview him about his book on the 9/11 stuff and so on.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER: You came up.
RUSH: No big surprise. I usually do.
CALLER: And she mentioned how you -- which I know, didn't -- started the "Barack the 'Magic Negro'" --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- you didn't catch that, though.
RUSH: You're talking about Maude Behar?
CALLER: Is that who it is? She's annoying.
RUSH: Maude Behar, right.
CALLER: But you said something the other day, evidently. He didn't know what it meant, and I don't know what it meant, and it related to Massa or something like that that's made some criticisms of you again. And she kept at him for a while going, you know, "What do you think?" and, you know, he's saying, "Well, you know, Rush calls himself entertainment," and so Ventura is trying to figure out how to answer this question, and she comes at him again. She says, "Rush, you know, he's got so much influence. You know, starting the thing about 'Barack the "Magic Negro.'" Again, she mentioned it. And Ventura just kind of is still thinking, "What is this word she's asking me to comment on?" And he just finally said, "This is going right over my head. I don't know what you're even talking about." What did you mention that has stirred something up recently, in this week?
RUSH: Let's listen to this. I'll answer the question, but let's listen to these sound bites that you're talking about, because we have them here. I wasn't going to use 'em but you called, and now you're talking about this, and people won't have seen it. I mean, nobody watches the Maude Behar Show so you're probably the only guy who saw it.
CALLER: Oh, I didn't watch it. I mean, I just happened to stop.
RUSH: Well, okay, but you still saw it. Okay, so you're channel surfing, but it was still enough of a circus that you stopped to look at it.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Right. So let's listen.
CALLER: Ventura, I kinda... He's interesting.
RUSH: Well, to each his own.
CALLER: And that's why I stopped.
RUSH: Okay. Well, let's listen to the sound bites here and then I'll answer your question what did I say. Actually, it would be less time if I just said, "What didn't I say that upsets them?"
CALLER: Ha!
RUSH: But here we go. We've got three of these. This is the Maude Behar Show last night. She played a piece of audio from my program and then had this exchange with Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
MAUDE: Let's talk Limbaugh! Rush, that is. This whole Massa controversy gave him an excuse to make a racial slur against New York Governor David Paterson. Not that Rush needs an excuse to make a racial slur. Listen.
RUSH ARCHIVE: So David Paterson will become the Massa [snip] who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place. So for the first time in his life Paterson is going to be a Massa.
MAUDE: Is this satire?
VENTURA: Now, what was racial about that?
MAUDE: Well, I guess to, uh, call David Paterson "Massa" because he's a black guy --
VENTURA: Yeaaah?
MAUDE: -- kind of like he referred to Barack once as "Barack the 'Magic Negro.'" It's like the most insensitive and thoughtless --
VENTURA: S'yah, but --
MAUDE: -- and stupid remark.
VENTURA: Yeah, but what does Massa mean? It means that guy.
MAUDE: But he's doing the play words on the, "Yeah. Massa."
VENTURA: It must be flying over my head, then.
MAUDE: Yeah.
VENTURA: You're getting it and I'm not.
RUSH: (laughing) Unbelievable. This is actually on American television! (laughing) You know, it was about this time yesterday that we had that audio of poor old Harry Smith having his colonoscopy and Katie Couric sitting there saying, "Hey, I'm in the splash zone here, Harry," and the doctor said, "I'm sorry about that." "Boy, Harry, you got the longest colon I've ever seen," Katie Couric says she's in the splash zone, and Larry King says, "Are you gay?" talking to Massa. "No, I'm not gay!" "Not that there's anything wrong with being gay, but you said he groped you, and you groped him. Are you gay?" So now we got Maude Behar with me supposedly being insensitive by saying Paterson get to be a Massa. It turned out to be wrong anyway because it's a special election and Paterson does not get to choose the replacement. But you gotta understand something out here, Ron. David Paterson is being forced out of the governor's office in New York by a bunch of Democrats and he's black.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: You know, you gotta listen to this program in context, and Maude Behar and none of these others do. So here you've got Carl McCall. They wouldn't let this guy run for office, black, for governor. They didn't want Harold Ford, a black guy running for the Senate in New York and they're trying to force another black guy out. The Democrats are doing this, trying to force out David Paterson.
CALLER: At the same time she's trying to take a word, a name, and make a racial slur out of it.
RUSH: Weeeell, the guy's name is Massa. I'm simply saying, "For once now Paterson, in the middle of all this gets to be the boss, while they're trying to force him out," and, of course, these people think that that's terribly insensitive and racist. And I didn't create the term "Barack the 'Magic Negro,'" as you yourself, Ron, testified. A black columnist at the LA Times did that. It continued, by the way. Maude Behar and Jesse "The Body." Maude finally, finally gives up trying to convince Jesse "The Body" that I've done something racist here.
VENTURA: (chuckling)
MAUDE: All right, but, I mean, Imus!
VENTURA: Sure.
MAUDE: He made a comment called these girl "nappy-headed hos" and he got thrown off the air.
VENTURA: Yeah.
MAUDE: But Rush Limbaugh gets a pass. He's still on at the radio. I'm for free speech --
VENTURA: Hey, it all comes down to money.
MAUDE: That's true. He makes a lot of money.
VENTURA: Yeah, absolutely. He brings in ratings, so he's going to get a pass.
MAUDE: Unfortunately, that's the truth of the business.
RUSH: (laughing) No. That's not... (interruption) Snerdley, I'm not going to waste time and energy starting to get specifically into analyzing these people as to why I'm a success, ratings and so forth. So let's go back. Let's go back. Just a day before, her whole panel, Maude Behar's panel, gave Dan Rather a pass for saying of Barack Obama, "He couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road if a state trooper stopped traffic for him and sent 'em over to the watermelon shop."
MAUDE: Of all the fruits to choose, why would he choose watermelon? There's an orange, there's a cantaloupe, any other fruit. Why that?
SAVAGE: If you drive through Texas in the summer, it is watermelon that is sold by the side of the road. Dan Rather is almost 80 years old, and you can hear Chris Matthews and then the other guests on that show jumping in to interrupt him like you would interrupt great-grandpa at Thanksgiving. I don't think Dan Rather is a closet racist.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.
MAUDE: So it's a Ratherism?
HENDERSON: Yeah, that's what it seems like. I'm from South Carolina. And, yeah, people do sell watermelons on the side of the road.
RUSH: No, no, not at all. So Rather is running around saying, "Obama couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road if state troopers were directing traffic," and I say, "Oh, so, Paterson gets to be a Massa," and I am horrible and evil and insensitive (laughing) but I get away with it because it's all about money and ratings.
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CALLER: Rush, I love you. I would have your child. And I hate to do this to you, but you were wrong yesterday. And you weren't just like able to say, "Oops, did I say that?" It's a big, "Did I really say that?" When you said, "America has realized..." I'm glad the auditing firm is on suspension this month. When you said that America has realized we made a big mistake by electing Obama, the consequences would have been we'd have elected John McCain. And if McCain was president, we'd have cap and trade and we'd have national health care.
RUSH: No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. The two don't go together. You're putting A and B together and not getting C.
CALLER: But, Rush, they have to go together!
RUSH: Look, McCain doesn't figure into the thinking here. Nobody is taking, "Oh, I wish we'd have voted for McCain." They're saying, "This is not what we voted for." They're saying, "We got screwed, we got tricked, we got defrauded," but they're not saying, "Oh, my gosh! I wish we had McCain in there."
CALLER: Oh, Rush, the only alternative would have been McCain and if McCain would have been there, you know -- I know that you know because I'm a student of EIB; I'm a critical thinker because of you -- if McCain was there, McCain believes in global warming, he believes in national health care, and he'd have brought along all those moderate Olympia Snowes with him.
RUSH: Mike? Mike, even if they invent an artificial womb and even if you could get Eric Massa in the equation, I would not have your child and I wouldn't let you have mine. But I'm just telling you, my friend, old buddy: This is not about McCain. This is not about McCain. When I spoke yesterday, "The American people now realize what a mistake it was electing this guy," they're not saying, "Oh, my gosh, I wish we'd elected McCain." They're saying, "We got defrauded. We got shafted." By the way, nobody is thinking that we'd have had the same stuff only worse if we hadn't elected Obama, because nobody can imagine it being any worse, except you. A lot of people agree with you about McCain, but McCain doesn't fit in this analysis. I appreciate your passion on this, and I don't disagree. We'd have had a lot of "crossing the aisle," walking across the oil and get along, get along. But both of these are if's, if we'd done this. If we'd done that I don't believe in "if." "'If' is for children," Roger Whittaker, early sixties, late sixties, but it's not an "if" with the election of Obama. It is, "We screwed up. We screwed up, and we got screwed," and it's contained within that shall we say framework. Great that you called.
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RUSH: Try this headline. This from the UK Guardian: The ChiCom government "wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists to train in Marxist and communist theories of news." That's easy. Send them to the University of Missouri journalism school. Send them to Columbia school of journalism in New York. Send them to any university in America that has a J-school. You want to teach Marxist and communist news theory? We got it down pat here. Now, the deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication is a guy named Li Dongdong. If Eric Massa ever meets this guy it's going to be fun to watch. There's a tickle fight for you. Eric Massa with Li Dongdong, who heads the General Administration of Press and Publication, the ChiComs training in communist and Marxist news theories. "He told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters were giving Chinese journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained." You know what that means. They forgot the template; they're busting out of the mold.
"Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog." Well, as I say, we have it down pat here. The State-Controlled Media, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, the legacy media, the old guys, there's nothing the ChiComs could teach them. There's nothing that Pravda could teach 'em. So the journalists here in the United States have already taken this training. (interruption) Oh, really? I'm told that the guys at KMOX in St. Louis, our affiliate, say this is the kind of story that I would love? Yeah, KMOX announcer Mark Reardon, said, "If you really want to spread the paranoia you could intro this story: the all knowing --" (laughing) Mark at KMOX wins your bet. It is the first thing I talked about, and I did not know. I just got this note that Mark Reardon predicted it. I wonder what Tom Friedman, by the way, of the New York Times thinks of the enlightened ChiCom leadership now. How do you go against this if you're an American journalist? How do you go against it?
Great news, folks, and, you know, I gotta pat myself on the back here for this one. "Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence." I mean, folks, I have led the charge on this for well over 20 years. The nation is thanking me. The numbers are pretty big here, more and more people are now figuring out that this thing is, well, not a hoax yet, but over-exaggerated to the point that they don't believe it anymore.
ClimateGate, all the stuff at East Anglia, all the fraud uncovered at the UN has gone virtually unreported in this country because of Marxist journalism theory. So I say who is responsible for this dramatic turnaround in what Americans think about global warming? I love the headline that goes with the story: "Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop." So the American people getting the facts on Algore's fraud, his scam, and the big lie. (interruption) Well, we'll have to see. Snerdley wants to know how this news, the Gallup poll, will affect the Sullivan Group's suspended February audit of my opinions that's on hold because they have yet to assess whether or not I was right or wrong in suggesting the House Republicans refuse to attend Obama's summit.
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RUSH: Folks, this is big. I've had this bombshell in my hands for quite a while, and I've been intending to use it ever since it hit my hands. But this health care stuff, obviously, took a little precedence.
"Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered -- by the top climate scientists within NASA itself -- to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU)" which we now know was totally fraudulent. "The NASA scientists also felt that NASA GISS data was inferior to the National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network (NCDC GHCN) database. These emails, obtained by Christopher Horner, also show that the NASA GISS dataset was not independent of CRU data. Further, all of this information regarding the accuracy and independence of NASA GISS data was directly communicated to a reporter from USA Today in August 2007. The reporter never published it."
Let me translate this: NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies did their own and had their own climate research data, and it was considered by their own scientists to be inferior to the fraudulent stuff we now know that was being put out at the Climate Research Unit at the Hadley Institute, the East Anglia University. We know that NASA scientists and the media knew about bogus climate data three years ago, and they sat on it. A reporter for USA Today sat on it, just like when the first e-mails somehow got out of the confines of the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit, they were sent to a reporter at the BBC who sat on the information. He didn't use it. We have since learned that the BBC has invested a lot of money in carbon offset programs and other things that are dependent on this hoax being perceived as truth.
So here are two media units, the BBC and USA Today, who at least (in USA Today's three years ago along with NASA scientists) knew! Now, during this time James Hansen is running around lying through his teeth about everything. He's NASA. Algore was running around lying through his teeth. What we have here is 100% junk science. USA Today! I don't know the name of the reporter, but he knew that the data was "considered to be inferior" to stuff that was fraudulent. Even now, it has not been published. It took an FOIA request to learn this just as it did at East Anglia to get that data. Actually, no! The FOIA was refused. That's why the e-mails had to be leaked by somebody inside because the scientists (Phil Jones and these clowns, Michael Mann over there at Penn State) were doing everything they could to not release the data.
That's why they destroyed the data rather than release it to people who were requesting it through Freedom of Information Act requests. So there are frauds on both sides of the Atlantic now. Media fraud, NASA, East Anglia, the UN. Folks, everybody involved in this knew it was junk. Media on both sides of the Atlantic knew it was junk and didn't report it, and they continue to this day to spread this hoax and this lie. One of our first stories today was that the ChiCom government is upset that their media has forgotten the Marxist theory in reporting news, and I suggested: Send them to any American university with a journalism school, 'cause our guys have it down pat. Our guys have got Marxist news reporting theory down pat. If the ChiComs guys are losing control of their journalists send 'em here, because our guys know exactly how to do it.
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RUSH: Okay. I now have in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the PDF file of e-mail correspondence between the USA Today reporter (whose name is Doyle Rice) and the people at NASA in the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (and there's one in here from Jim Hansen). So Doyle Rice at USA Today is the guy who sat on the data in 2007. This e-mail date range is August 29th of 2007 from about 12:30 in the afternoon through three o'clock in the afternoon. "Dear Doyle..." This is from Reto Ruedy who is at NASA. "Dear Doyle. My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC's data for the US means and Phil Jones' data for the global means," meaning mean temperatures. "Our method is geared to getting the global mean and large regional means correctly enough to assess our model results. We're basically a modeling group. We're forced into rudimentary analysis of global observed data in the seventies and early eighties since nobody else was doing the job at the time.
"Now we happily combine NCDC's and Hadley Centre's data to get what we need evaluate our model results. For that purpose what we do is more than accurate enough, but we have no intention to compete with either of the two organizations in what they do best." Basically he's saying, "Our data is inferior to theirs. We're not competing with them. They got much better data over there at Hadley," which is East Anglia; and then, "Thank you for sending the clarification. I also received the graphs from Makiko. So it's correct to say that NASA's data is more accurate than NCDC's?" No, no, no, is the response. This is the e-mail that preceded the one I just read you. "No, your statement is NOT correct." It's not more accurate to say that. Our data is not as accurate but we want you to go with ours, and USA Today dutifully did. Then there's a e-mail here to Doyle Rice from Jim Hansen explaining how to go about all this. "Doyle. Since this is a technical question and Dr. Hansen is busy this afternoon, I'll answer it. No, your statement is NOT correct. To get the US means, NCDC's procedure of only using the best stations is more accurate. My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC's data for the US means and Phil Jones' data for..." because their data is better than ours. There you have it.
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ELLIS: It's simple, too, Andrea, you know, we hear a lot of people complain about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses. But when they get those bonuses, that money then is taxed. That tax goes into state coffers. Those states then are able to give money to the schools. When it's not there, guess what? That means the money's not there for the schools and education, so that ripple effect comes down and it's starting to hit a lot of people at home and it's starting to hit our kids in the schools.
RUSH: Now, this infobabe Rehema Ellis is going to be embarrassed when I point out that she's justifying Ronald Reagan trickle-down economics. She's just defined supply-side economics. Well, you know, we hear a lot of people complaining about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses, but when they get those bonuses that money's taxed. And that tax goes into state coffers. We love that, Andrea, we love people's tax money going to state coffers but they have to earn the money first, Andrea, and if they're not earning the money then there's no tax, and we love tax, and we love the state coffers but if there's no money being earned there's no taxes, no money in the state coffers, so those states then are not able to give money to the schools. And when it's not there, guess what? That money is not there for the schools. Meaning, the more you tax people, the less they're going to have, and unemployment, no jobs, no state tax revenue. So Rehema Ellis of NBC probably will be assigned with ChiCom journalists who are being sent into retraining sessions to learn Marxist news reporting techniques because this babe explained Reaganomics here pretty well.
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CALLER: (silence)
RUSH: Keith?
CALLER: How you doing today?
RUSH: Pretty good, sir. How are you?
CALLER: Good. Good. I found some more of our stimulus money and jobs. They sent me a letter in the Census letting me know that in a week I'll be getting the Census.
RUSH: Yeah, I've been reading a lot of people been getting this letter warning them that in a week they're going to be getting the official Census form. I have not received mine because I only get --
CALLER: I want to let you know you're going to get it.
RUSH: Well, we'll see.
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: No! When was the last census, 2000?
CALLER: I believe so.
RUSH: Right. I didn't get one then.
CALLER: (laughing) Well, he's trying to spend the money.
RUSH: (interruption) Well, no. Everybody's asking, "Well, why didn't you get one?" No, I didn't try not to get one. There was no effort on my part. I just didn't get one.
CALLER: Well --
RUSH: I know why. I know why. But nevertheless, what was your point about? Just that they're wasting a lot of money telling us something is coming?
CALLER: Just they're waiting a lot of money. Yeah. "Dear resident: About one week from now you're going to receive a 2010 census form in the mail. When you receive your form, please fill it out and mail it in promptly." Let me give you some advice on this thing.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: I want you to listen up and listen close because the way they are asking respondents or participants here to identify their "race," you're going to laugh yourself silly when you see it is options for race. What I want each and every one of you to do -- because, remember, now Obama's using this. This going to be used for reapportionment. This is going to be used for congressional delegation reapportionment. It's going to be used for welfare spending, entitlement. It's going to be used for all kinds of stuff. They have got races I've never heard of identified on this!
CALLER: (chuckling)
RUSH: So I want you to check the box that says "other" and write in "American."
CALLER: You got it.
RUSH: Will you do that for me?
CALLER: I certainly will.
RUSH: Check the box that says "other." What possible other races could there be? They've got everything but Martian on there.
CALLER: Hey, Rush?
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: You think I could buy an autographed copy of one of your books?
RUSH: Well, if you could find somebody that has one, willing to sell it?
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: Oh, you mean from me.
CALLER: From you.
RUSH: Oh, from me. You know, this is a tough thing.
CALLER: Come on, Rush.
RUSH: Well, he violated the Slaughter rule, but he might not have known about the Slaughter rule. I have no idea announced the Slaughter rule for this show in a long time. See the problem when you ask me, everybody hears my answer, and if I say yes (laughing) you know what's going to happen.
CALLER: You just let me know off the air.
RUSH: It's too late for that now. Because then everybody will be asking Snerdley off the air to do the same thing. We gotta go. Or do we?
CALLER: All right. Have a good day.
RUSH: Are we on time or not? Are we along or not? We're on time? Fifty seconds. All right. Oh, 45 seconds. Yeah, okay. That's a tough thing. I would love to send the guy a book, but I don't have enough to send everybody who would want one. How do you do that? Well, see... (interruption) Snerdley is in there and he's being a real hard butt about this. "You just say 'no.'" Well, I did say no. But I feel guilty about it. This was a nice guy. He offered to buy it. I wouldn't sell it anyway. Just don't forget on the Census form. When you check off your race, check the box that says "other" and (in all caps) write in "American." There's a campaign out there, I guess we just started it, a campaign out there to get this done and just have a little fun with it.
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So, what was Rush’s joke about Behar that has to do with a p*nis? (as he talked about either yesterday or today in his third hour?) Anyone know? I don’t know that much about her to figure it out, but what little I do know of her I HATE!...could it be that she’s really a man? That would not surprise me.
| "If I owned a New York restaurant, I'd refuse to serve any politician that walked in the door: 'You're trying to put me out of business, go starve, go down to the bodega and pick up something on the street side and eat that.'" | |
“They have races I’ve never heard of identified on the Census form, so I want you to do this: Check the box that says ‘other’ and write in ‘American.’”
We need to make this viral. :)
Enjoy your book, my dear.
Rain headed this way very shortly.
Lot of snow melted today.
Oh, BTW, I had some stuffy female attorneys cut me off from wine today. :-)
At lunch? LOL!
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