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Sept. 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's a tough district for Democrats, folks.
We all have to realize this.
They've held that seat for 93 years.
It's a tough place for them.
New York 9, very, very tough place.
Debbie Washerwoman Schultz, head of the Democrat National Committee, said that.
A very tough district for the Democrats.
Feeling sorry for them today.
How are you, folks?
Oh, you talk about having an itch and unable to scratch it, but today I can.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
All during this New York 9 thing, I have been going back and forth.
Should I say what I know?
Should I divulge what I know?
Because it would, one way or the other, have a huge impact on the outcome.
And there's a lesson here, by the way.
I did not mention the fact throughout all of this that the winner last night in New York 9, Mr. Bob Turner, is the man who gave me my television show in 1992.
Bob Turner was the CEO of Multimedia.
This is back in the days of Jerry Springer, Sally Jesse, Raphael, Phil Donahue.
And it was Bob Turner who took the risk.
It was Bob Turner who took the flyer.
And it was then that Roger Ailes and I teamed up and partnered with Bob Turner.
He was the CEO of Multimedia, which at the time was a large television syndication outfit.
So all during this campaign, I said, okay, do I mention this or not?
It's a New York district.
You know that I am a lightning rod.
I do not want to hurt the guy.
And then all through the campaign, and folks, this is not about me.
If you'll just stick with me here, there's a lesson here for all of us that I need to learn myself.
All during this race, I kept waiting.
I kept waiting for Democrat opposition research to blow this up and try to defame Turner.
I mean, look, this is Queens and Brooklyn, and it is a New York district.
Chuck Schumer's old district, Geraldine Ferraro's.
No, no, Liz Holtzman, when it was in a different name.
They've redistricted this district so many times.
I mean, Schumer's had it.
Wiener had it.
Liz Holtzman had it when it was a different number.
It's been heavy Democrat.
Bob Turner is Catholic, running against an Orthodox Jewish guest.
I figured, all right, this is pretty much etched in stone.
So I kept waiting for my name.
I kept waiting for Democrat opposition research to discover this and start plastering all over the place.
And I didn't see that.
All I saw was they're trying to associate Turner with Jerry Springer and to claim that Turner presided over cultural rot and that kind of thing.
The thing about this was that it was all about Obama.
Make no mistake.
This was all about Obama.
Israel was a huge, huge issue.
Anyway, we all fall prey.
This is the lesson.
All of us.
I'm talking about us conservatives, but people in general.
We all fall prey now and then to the caricatures that the left makes of all of us as conservatives.
I mean, it even affects people in the talk radio business.
They're talk radio consultants, advising program directors.
You can't go that way.
That's angry white man talk.
Well, who created this notion, angry white men?
The liberals did.
And for what purpose?
To discredit all of conservatism.
And so you hear this and other examples I could give you.
But in this case, the way it manifested itself, I made the assumption that were I to get in this and start talking up Bob Turner, it would hurt.
Turned out it wouldn't have.
Turned out, the Democrats did polling in this district.
I just learned this a couple days ago.
The Democrats did opposition research polling in the district, and they found out to their shock that I'm very popular in this district.
I have a very supportive audience in this district, which stunned them.
It's Orthodox.
It's Israel and blue collar.
It's it's it's made up of Democrats that are not there are your father and grandfather's Democrats, not this current crop of of of leftist Marxist socialists or what have you.
So that's why they tried to tar Turner with Jerry Springer.
But it wasn't going to work no matter what they tried because this was about Obama.
But the lesson here is that you got to fight every day the caricatures and the templates of us that the left puts out there because one of the things it does is it puts everybody on defense.
It makes everybody feel it's why the Republicans in Congress, it's why we have so many problems with them.
We all know that what they're trying to do is prove to everybody they're not what is said about them.
They're not racist, sexist, bigot homophobes.
They're not angry white men.
They're not whatever the charge is.
And in most cases, it's all bogus.
There are no angry white men.
There's no voting block of angry white men.
Talk radio is not made up of angry white hosts.
But that's what's been created out there.
And of course, all the other caricatures that have been made.
So it was a great lesson to learn or to be reminded.
I'm the one.
I know the left like nobody does.
I know liberals like every square inch of my glorious naked body.
And even I, the point, even I fall prey to the tendency to shut up based on the fact that I think people are going to think of me what the media has told them.
And it's not always the case.
This district is a good bit of evidence.
Now, it was not a secret.
It's all over Wikipedia that Turner was responsible for my being on television for four years.
They never once used it.
And believe me, the Democrats use me every time they think it's going to help them.
And they didn't in this case.
And it was not something that Turner kept a secret.
He was asked about it, and he answered the question when he was asked about it.
But the opposition research people did not use it.
And it wouldn't have mattered anyway, because this was about Obama.
It is, folks, it is so satisfying to read the media today.
I had a whole stack here today.
They are shocked to the core at AP.
They are shocked to the core at Politico.
They are shocked to the core at all of the state-run media joints.
It's just it's another bitch slap is what this is.
And it continues.
First, you had Chris Christie in New Jersey.
Then you had the Kennedy seat.
Then you had the governor of Virginia.
You had that flip.
Then you had the 2010 congressional elections.
There is a trend.
Conservatism is in the ascendancy and it is being aided immensely by Obama.
And the Democrats all know this.
There is an unnamed political consultant.
Get this.
And this is in I think at theHill.com or National Journal, one of the two.
Yeah, McDonald's, the governor of Virginia's approval rating is at 61%.
The Democrats can't believe any of this that's happening to them.
They think it's all just a fluke.
And every time, and by the way, there's another point to be made about this race, New York 9.
The Tea Party wasn't there.
Talk radio wasn't there.
I mean, this is pure and simple.
Bob Turner.
And you know what?
This shows is puts to the lie that it's another myth that all politics is local.
Because this race had a lot of issues in it that had nothing to do with anything local.
Israel and Obama's abandonment.
Israel Obama sidling up to Israel's enemies.
And of course, Obama's economic policies, which Turner during the campaign made it clear what he was going to do if he won.
He's going to go to Washington and start trying to roll this back.
The voters of this district knew exactly what they were voting for.
They knew exactly what they were voting against.
They knew exactly where the candidates were on this.
And it cannot be said that there's an artificial aspect to this outcome in any way, shape, manner, or form.
It was, well, some of the Democrat unions poured money, but others stayed out of it.
Other unions stayed out.
I got a story about how some of the unions in New York stayed out of it.
They wanted to put their money elsewhere because they long ago thought the seat was going to be lost.
Gay marriage was an issue here.
Gay marriage and the anti-gay marriage position is what emerged as victorious here.
So now you've got the regime announcing yesterday this thing called Attack Watch.
Obama has now, the regime has a website.
This is straight out of the, I mean, this is, I saw a funny tweet.
Some babe calls herself Virginia Gal has a tweet on this new Attack Watch website, the White House.
Are we going to be able to read this in the original German?
This is a tattletale site.
If you see anybody running around there lying about the unemployment rate being 9.1%, and you see or hear anybody lying about the fact that all these jobs have been destroyed, you're supposed to report to the regime at Attack Watch, and they're going to be monitoring this stuff.
It's breathtaking here.
What's happening right?
And normally, you know, I wouldn't want to be a guy watching the White House press briefing today, but I wonder if they'll cancel it.
Send Jay Carney out there to answer stuff about all of this.
They did cancel it.
They canceled the press briefing once before.
It's not unusual.
And then we get continuing avalanche of bad news.
Retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly stagnate on lack of jobs.
This is Bloomberg.
Retail sales U.S. unexpectedly stagnated in August as a lack of jobs restrained shoppers, highlighting the risk the economy will start.
This is just absurd.
This continues to be the theater of the absurd.
What in the world is unexpected about retail sales stagnating?
So, anyway, folks, we've got a whole lot to do today.
That's going to be a whole lot of well, the attack watch is a retread.
Remember, they had fight the smears.
And I guess people lost interest in fight the smears because they couldn't find any smears.
All there is is the truth about this guy.
Do you know the regime is funding four more solar panel companies?
Right in the middle of this Cylindra investigation, four more solar companies are being funded.
Al Gore has just won.
Where is it here?
Al Gore has just won.
Yes.
A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten $529 million U.S. government loans to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.
The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors, purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric roadster.
Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles with a number of celebrity endorsements backed by investors that have contributed Democrat campaigns.
So the crony capitalism continues or worse.
And now a company backed by Al Gore gets $529 million.
$529 million for a hybrid that's going to sell for about $89,000.
So the regime is undeterred here.
But what I was going to say, there is a consultant, the Hill.com, I forget, maybe National Journal.
There's a consultant, it is reported today, telling his Democrat candidates, don't run in 2012.
It will not do you any good to lose by 12 to 15 points.
These are not incumbents.
These are people thinking about running for office.
Don't do it in 2012.
You're going to get smacked down.
Wait and run during another cycle because you'll lose by 12 to 15 if you run in 2012.
Okay, folks, as I say, a lot to do and a lot of fun doing it as the EIB network unfolds before your eyes and ears.
Okay, this Al Gore story, folks, a little correction.
It's from 2009.
Doesn't change anything, but the Al Gore $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that'll sell for $89,000.
That's a 2009 Wall Street Journal story when it printed out.
The date's not on it.
Now, something else here about this New York 9 race, and there's a lot about it.
But look at all the conventional wisdom here that has to be thrown out.
And I want to make a contrast something.
After Obama's speech last Thursday, the joint session of Congress speech, the campaign speech where he announced his $457 billion in new tax increases, what did Boehner do?
Boehner put out a press release immediately and featured prominently in the press release was Boehner assuring everybody how eager the Republicans were to work with Obama on this.
Now, Bob Turner, not one time in a New York district that has been Democrat for 90 years, not one time did Bob Turner say, I am eager to go to Washington to work with President Obama.
What Bob Turner said was, send me to Washington to stop this.
Send me to Washington to roll this back.
I don't know what Bob Turner did to go out and get precious independent votes, but I'll bet not a whole lot.
My point is that the traditional campaign strategy and themes often used by consultants needs to be thrown out.
We're in a new era here.
The numbers of people that want Republicans to work together with Obama is such a small number, you would lose elections if you got every one of them.
Bob Turner didn't say he wants to go to Washington to work with Barack Obama.
He said over and over again that he wanted to go to Washington to defeat Obama and to stop what's happening in practically every area of this administration.
Now, this Attack Watch thing, they're very proud of this.
They're very excited.
They've got this new Tattletale site.
And imagine, if it only had gone online sooner, then Obama would have won back Wiener's seat.
Yeah, nobody was available to stop all the false attacks on the regime, like the lies about 9.1% unemployment, Depression-era unemployment for blacks and young people, Obama's tax increases during recession, all those lies that we've been telling.
His attempt to lessen the charitable donations deduction.
The lies about Fast and Furious, the attempt to undermine the Second Amendment in this country, the lies about Solyndra, the record levels of poverty and food stamp distribution, the whole mortgage crisis, all of those lies that have been told about Obama.
If only Attack Watch had been up, all of those lies could have been stopped.
It is impossible to overstate how devastating the loss of this Wiener seat is for Obama and the whole Democrat Party.
One of their most vile attack dogs in the safest district imaginable, Wiener, is gone, lost his seat.
No way to spin this.
There is no Democrat who is safe.
Henry Waxman said last night, Henry Nostrilitis Waxman, you know what his reaction was?
He said, well, this is just a bunch of Jews in New York trying to protect their wealth.
That was his reaction.
We'll be right back.
Here's the Tech Watch.
This is what you get when you go to attackwatch.com.
Get the facts, fight the smears, join AttackWire and help stop the attacks on the president before they start.
When another unfounded attack surfaces, we'll arm you with the truth so you can share the facts with your friends and family.
And then you put in your email address and your zip code, and you click on join.
You continue to attackwatch.com where you then report The libel, the slander, the unfair criticism of our dear man-child president.
The bottom ass is paid for by Obama for America, copyright 2011.
That's got the privacy policy in terms of service.
Now, who's running this thing for Barry?
Propaganda czar.
Black, red, just a hint of white.
That's the color of it.
You ought to look at it.
It's black, red, and just a hint of white on this website.
Could it be more intimidating?
As I say, if they'd have had this up sooner, we could have stopped all these lies about 9.1% unemployment and the destruction of the housing industry, all these lies that people have been telling about Obama for three years.
As I say, folks, it is impossible.
You know, Drudge has a headline up there about this New York 9 election, Revenge of the Jews.
Revenge of America is what this is.
This is revenge of America.
And I tell you, Mitt Romney and all the rest of you seeking the Republican presidential nomination, the voters don't want to hear how you want to go to Washington to work with the Democrats.
The Democrats are destroying what people hold dear in this because they don't want to work with them.
They want to beat them.
They want them rendered such a small minority that they can't screw things up.
They have already put career people in all these bureaucracies.
The Department of Justice has been polluted and corrupted for a generation with pure left-wing ideologues.
It's true over at EPA.
It's true at any number of places.
It's called election insurance.
Even when they lose the White House, they have their people in career positions in federal government bureaucracies and in the judiciary.
This has got to be dealt with, not worked with.
Nobody that's going to vote in the Republican primaries and nobody is going to vote in the general election wants Republicans to go to Washington and work with the Democrats.
And I remind you again that Bob Turner didn't say that's what he was going to do.
And I don't know.
What did Bob Turner do not to tick off the independents?
I mean, they said you can't criticize Obama.
No, no, no, don't criticize Obama.
It's going to send the Independents running way back to the Democrats.
What did Bob Turner do?
Bob Turner stood every campaign axiom on its head, every bit of conventional wisdom on its head.
That's why the Democrats are in a state of shocked paranoia today.
There's no way they can spin this.
Some of the ways they're trying are laughable.
No Democrat is safe.
Because you see, folks, the American people are sick and tired of Democrats lying and smearing and failing.
It is the economy.
It's the uncertainty.
It is the fear that this is not how this kind of stuff is supposed to happen in this country.
We're not supposed to lose jobs like this and never get them back.
We're not supposed to have a president who presides happily, it seems at times, over the decline of this country.
We are not a country which takes pride in punishing hard work and achievement and taking from those people to give to people who are not helping this country grow.
We never have been that country and we're not that country and people don't want America to become that country.
They're tired of the amateur hour that this regime is.
They're tired of the deficit and the never-ending stimulus and spending and debt.
They don't want Obamacare.
They don't want nationalized medicine.
forced government-run health care.
They don't want it.
They don't want a president filling out NCAA brackets, going to play golf more than the host of this show does, and attending all these parties.
It's the partisan hack speech to a joint session of Congress.
People were not fooled.
It's the price of gasoline.
It's the markets.
It's the fact that we have put a moratorium on drilling for our own oil.
People are not stupid.
Their lives are affected by what this administration has done.
And every chance the people of this country have had to show it at the ballot box, they have done so without doubt.
They did some exit polling in New York 9.
Only 29% of the independents in that district approve of Obama's policies.
29% of the independents.
Now, you and I know that every Republican campaign consultant convinces his client, the candidate, to do everything to get independence.
The hell with the base.
You're going to get the base automatic.
Go out.
We've got to find a way to get the independence.
And I'm the guy that told you how to do it, says the consultant.
And the first thing you can't do is attack Obama.
And the next thing you can't do is attack Obama.
And the next thing you can't do is criticize Obama because those independents don't like that.
You have to talk about how you want to work together, how you want to be unified as a country.
Well, you know what Bob Turner said he would do to resolve the U.S. debt?
Bob Turner said he would cut federal spending by 35% by eliminating the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the EPA and reducing the size of the Department of Education.
Bob Turner won in a near landslide in a New York district that's been Democrat for 90 plus years by saying he would cut federal spending by 35% by eliminating the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA and reducing the size of the Department of Education.
On immigration, Turner has stated that an immigration system is already in place.
There's no need to create a new one to address those in the U.S. illegally.
He opposes amnesty for illegal aliens, and he made no secret of this.
Bob Turner's a Catholic.
He's pro-life, and he personally supports the Defense of Marriage Act.
He also opposes Obamacare.
And all of this was essentially shouted by Turner in his campaign.
The people of New York 9 had no question what they were doing.
There was no doubt.
And none of those issues are local.
You know, Tip O'Neill, all politics is local.
That's an old bromide that's another one of these tricks by the left to get Republicans to not even try to contest certain elections.
No, Levy, you can't win New York 9.
All politics is local.
You should even mess with it.
You don't have a chance there.
Well, this election should nationalize every election.
You make every election about Barack Obama.
You make every election because when you do that, you're making the election about America and where this country is being taken.
And it is clear, ladies and gentlemen, that you and I are in a vast, large majority of Americans that don't want to go any further down the road we're on.
Look at what's happening here.
Another stimulus.
Number of jobs created with the first stimulus, negligible.
And this is not even a jobs bill.
We have this unrest in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, we were all told.
There's Obama trying to claim what's happening in Egypt.
Yeah, these people just try to replicate my own campaign, 2008.
Hope and change.
We have Sharia Spring happening in the Middle East.
Union thugs throughout Wisconsin, Madison particularly, union thugs at the port in Seattle, union thugs beating up Tea Party people in St. Louis.
There is a cumulative effect to all of this.
And while the union thugs are engaging in goonery, goonionism, and thuggery, Obama gives speeches about civility, blaming Republicans and conservatives for all of these horrible acts of violence that are taking place when he has personally encouraged this kind of behavior.
It's all of this.
And so what does he do?
He puts up a commie-tattletale site to shut down dissent from this mess.
Attack watch.
So while the president has succeeded in his policy objectives, he is failing in his effort to get support for it.
which means he is governing entirely against the will of a vast majority of people in this country.
So what does he do?
He's failed to garner support.
So his solution is a tattletale website to bully and lie.
It's pathetic.
Another admission that he's in over his head, wasn't qualified to be president, proves it every time he responds to a self-made problem.
Won't be long before Moochell's packet or bags go to vacation, I guarantee you.
Get out of Washington in all the heat here.
So I have, I've put together here some gossips and some smears and attacks that I'm going to submit to AttackWatch.
I want to help the president out here.
It's an attempt to criminalize any opposition.
So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to report to AttackWatch what Bill Clinton said back down in 2008, that Obama was playing a race card on him.
I think that Obama needs to know what Clinton's been saying about him.
And I'm going to also report on this website that Bill Clinton believes that Obama has the political instincts of a Chicago thug, because Bill Clinton said this.
I'm going to report that.
I'm going to fill this out on AttackWatch.
Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's former communications director, wrote in the New Republic recently, Bill Clinton feels like the Obama campaign ran against and systematically dismissed his administration's accomplishments.
It feels like he was painted as a racist during the primary presses.
So I'm going to submit this.
Howard Wolfson of the Clinton machine accused Obama of calling Clinton a racist.
Bill Clinton also, you may have forgotten, Bill Clinton said to Ted Kennedy during the 2008 campaign, you know, a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.
So I'm going to tell you, remember that I'm going to report that to Attack Watch.
I'm going to tell the regime, I'm going to remind it what Bill Clinton said to Ted Kennedy.
Harry Reid.
Harry Reid said of the nation's highest-ranking black Democrat, notably he's light-skinned and he has no Negro dialect unless he wants to have one.
I'm going to remind Obama that Dingy Harry said that.
And I'm going to send this, I'm going to remind it President Obama that the Reverend Zach once was caught expressing a desire to remove Obama's onions.
I don't know if they know that at Attack Watch, but they need to hear about these kinds of things.
All these smears and lies.
Yeah, and of course, then the respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate Sarkozy views the Democrat candidate stance on Iran as utterly immature and compromised of formulations empty of all contents.
I'm going to report to AttackWatch that Sarkozy, the French president, thinks Obama's an empty suit.
See, he needs to know this.
Who will if I don't?
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Bob Turner last night, Howard Beach in Queens at the Victory Party for winning New York Nine.
This is just a portion of what he said.
This is an historic race.
We've been asked by the people of this district to send the message to Washington, and I hope they hear it loud and clear.
Yes!
This is a referendum, Mr. President.
We are on the wrong track.
We have had it with an irresponsible fiscal policy which endangers the entire economy and every one of our social safety networks.
We had it with your trade.
There you have it.
So that's, he didn't say he wanted to go work with Obama, did he?
He didn't say he's eager to go work with the Democrats and get things done.
And say all the stuff we Republicans are supposed to say.
29% of the independents, only 29% of the independents in an exit poll this race support Obama.
Here is, let's see, last night, here's Mayor Ed Koch, also at the Victory Party.
I said to myself, we can turn this election into a referendum.
And we did.
We did it.
The regime is being rejected by the most liberal voters in America.
New York Nine.
And here's Dove Hikind, Brooklyn State Assemblyman, also at the Victory Party.
There is no question that the people of this congressional district were speaking for the rest of America.
That they are sick and tired of the policies of the Obama administration and Organization.
Dove Hikand, who is a major Democrat in New York, I can't understate.
I can't overstate, really.
And here's Cynthia Tucker.
She used to be, Well, as I look at this, I ought to save it because I need to set it up properly and I don't have enough time.
Cynthia Tucker, who used to be the editorial page editor at the Atlanta Urinal, I don't think she is.
I think she's now a syndicated columnist and probably has a radio show on some pod network somewhere.
If not, she does a She regularly appears on this was on MSNBC this morning.
She talked to F. Chuck Todd.
But it was what she said about Obama and the Jews that you have to hear.
So I saved that longer than all the other sound bites that we have.
Another rescued animal.
Remember the sea otter from back the oil spill, Prince William Sound?
This time it's a penguin.
Happy feet was released back into the wild and was eaten.
This time no children saw it, but it still happened.
By the way, the regime is blaming the Bush administration for Solyndra.
They did that at congressional hearings today.
Details coming up.
I'm also, I'm going to report to this new attack, watch.com, the tattletale said, I'm going to tell Obama about Maxine Waters.
She went to Michigan and asked permission to be unleashed by her voters to start criticizing Obama.
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