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Sept. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 29, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
It's Rush Limboy and the fastest week in media.
We are already at Thursday.
And looking forward to Friday.
I mean, I can't believe it.
Normally, it's when I have Monday off, which is not very often when I have Monday off, it makes sense.
But I didn't have Monday off this week, and it's still unbelievably already Thursday.
Here we are at the Limboy Institute.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
The email address LRushbo at eibnet.com.
A drive-by media, the regime, ecstatic.
New claims for jobless benefits fell sharply last week, their lowest level since April.
Although there's always an although or a but.
Although a Labor Department official said that government statisticians had problems seasonally adjusting the data, well, then why publish the news?
New claims for jobless benefits fell sharply to their lowest level since April, although a Labor Department official said that government statisticians had problems seasonally adjusting the data.
Every week, every month, every quarter, we get government reports that are revised in the next cycle.
They're never accurate, so why publish them?
What's the hurry to put out bad numbers?
In this case, they think they're good numbers.
The number of claims is under 400,000, but they don't know for sure, which they even admit.
It doesn't matter anyway.
Just to get the number out there, because they know that that's all that'll be remembered about this, and that's all we're going to say about it.
Because here's companion news.
From a Pew study, Hispanics make up the largest group of children in poverty.
Hispanic children are now the largest group of kids who only have one cell phone, marking the first time in U.S. history that poor white children are outnumbered by another race or ethnicity.
It's just not fair.
It just isn't.
Usually it's the majority of poor people are white kids, and now all of a sudden it's Hispanic for the first time, and that just isn't fair.
This is from the Pew Hispanic Center.
And this is another feather in Obama's already festooned hat, folks.
This is exactly the kind of news he needs.
The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're going to stay in business.
And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it.
That's what our open borders policy is all about, importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat Party.
By the way, big news out of Venezuela, and it's really contradictory.
The first bit of news is that Hugo Chavez from the UK Telegraph suffering kidney failure, rushed to the emergency room of a military hospital, and it's reportedly very, very bad.
Then there's an AP story that says Chavez calling everybody, denying it.
No, don't believe these rumors.
The president's fine.
I'm going to be out of here pretty soon.
I'm going to have licens cancer.
It doesn't matter.
The Chavez regime denying that he's been hospitalized.
They're saying the earlier reports are just a bunch of jokes or hyperbole or sarcasm like Beverly Perdue says that she was just being sarcastic With her comment that congressional elections be suspended.
You know who's really following this story?
You know, he's really making the drive-bys.
The drive-bys are doing some interesting things here.
The drive-bys are not letting this Bev Purdue story go.
The local drive-bys in Raleigh, in North Carolina, and the national state-controlled media is focusing.
It's almost like they want to get rid of this woman.
They're harping on this as though she were a Republican.
They're not bad.
The locals did.
I mean, the local tried to cover for her, but the Obama-controlled media is not letting up.
And ABC News, I have a long story here in the stack.
ABC News is going after the regime on all of these solar energy companies that are being lent money by the taxpayers and the crony connections they have.
All of these people getting the money are big bundlers or donors to Obama.
The numbers are incredible.
Not only the amount of money being given away, but to whom and the ties they have to the energy department.
And ABC News is leading the pack on this.
This story that they have is actually quite lengthy.
I'll get to it as the program unfolds before your eyes and ears today.
There's another story here.
This is from Gallup.
Democrats are dispirited about voting in 2012.
This is bad news for the president.
Democrats' net enthusiasm now trails Republicans' net enthusiasm.
The way Gallup rates this, the Democrat net enthusiasm is plus one.
The Republican net enthusiasm is plus 28.
So there's a 27 percentage point advantage in enthusiasm, voter enthusiasm for the Republicans.
And they say that given that Obama's job approval rating continues to hover around 40% and he appears vulnerable in the general election, it's not surprising that Democrats are currently less enthusiastic than Republicans about voting in 2012.
So this is why.
I've been trying to give you reasons why I'm right in speculating how bad it really is for Obama.
Their internal polling shows his approval numbers and his re-elect numbers thing far worse than what is being reported by the news media polling units.
And I think the fact that he's saying and doing the things he's doing in the campaign, the class warfare business and trying to shore up the base, yesterday showing up at a Washington high school with nothing but black students in the frame sitting behind him, that's never been done before.
It's always been a diverse group, mostly white students sitting behind.
Now, because the congressional black Caucasians are not happy with Obama, he's got to shore that up.
I mean, now you've got this voter enthusiasm thing, and this is Gallup.
And, you know, the regime would tend to believe this.
So what we've seen the New York Times and a number of other state-controlled media outlets worried that Obama is taking their ideology with him down the tubes.
And they don't want their ideology going down.
They don't want socialism, Marxism, liberalism being discredited here.
And if they have to jettison Obama in order to save the ideology, then they'll do that.
Obama is failing his own party right now.
So let's get a little timeline.
Rush Limbaugh, January 2009.
I hope he fails.
Democrats, Gallup poll, 2011.
We know he failed.
Rush was right again.
Damn.
That's a timeline here.
If Obama, and by the way, this Democrats disputed about voting in 2012, it doesn't matter who the Republican nominee is.
This is all, it's a generic thing.
It's not Obama versus Herman Cain or Obama versus Perry or Obama versus Chris Thierry.
No, no, it's just Obama versus a Republican.
What this points out here is if Obama ran against Herman Kaine, the election was held tomorrow, Kaine might very well win.
Why?
Because Democrat voters have bedroom slipper intensity and the rest of us have marching shoe intensity.
You know, the regime likes to look at things in tensities of shoes.
They have their other shoe strategy for the Palestinians and the Israelis.
And Obama's out there telling congressional black Caucasians that they've got to get out of their bedroom slippers, put on their marchings.
Well, we never have been in our bedroom slippers.
Our marching boots are on each and every day.
Now, Herman Kaine may trail Obama by a few points in a head-to-head poll that's out there right now, but voter enthusiasm is so strong for Republicans and so weak for Democrats that Kaine, if the election were tomorrow, might very well overcome his current deficit in the polling data.
As would, it seems, any other Republican.
I'm just harping on Herman Kaine because that tends to irritate the Democrats the most likely.
Janine Garofilo, well-known high-headed comedian, high-foreheaded comedian, is out there saying the Republican support for Herman Cain is just to mask their racism.
It's sort of a twist on the Magic Negro thinking that a bunch of guilty white liberals voted for Obama because they felt guilty and they didn't want anybody thinking they were racist and they wanted to get rid of the nation's racist heritage.
And so they voted for him with no other concerns being given any weight.
So now the theory is that Republican support for Herman Cain is just to hide the fact that Republican voters are much racist and to diffuse people thinking that we're racist for support Herman Cain.
No, other than looking at things, the prism of race.
No, it's an excellent point, El Snerdbo.
The prism through which Democrats look at everything is identity politics.
They see skin color first, then they see gender, then they see sexual orientation.
Yeah, they tend to put everybody in a group and then make that group victims of something.
It is, it's a good point.
That is how they look at the world.
Anyway, the Gallup poll here says Republicans' enthusiasm for voting matches 2004 and exceeds 2008.
It doesn't talk too much here about 2010, understandably so, because in 2010, the enthusiasm for the Republicans was off the chart.
Got to take a quick time out.
When we come back, the mainstream media, the drive-bys, are all caught up in what they are now claiming as a battle going on between the Republican establishment and me.
Welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Lindbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
Folks, one of the major reasons that the media, to the extent like ABC, I mean, ABC is treating this Cylindra business as though the Republican, the president were a Republican.
And I'm going to get to this as the program unfolds.
I'm not trying to tease you with it.
I'm just trying to stay organized here.
And it's coming up when I say it's coming up.
But they're going after him here on this.
And ABC is taking the lead and others are picking it up very slowly, but it's starting to happen.
And I think a major reason why that the state control media and the congressional black Caucasians are really laying into Obama.
They don't want him moving to the center.
They want him out there on the left edge.
They want him defending and promoting the ideology.
They don't want him doing anything that waters it down.
They are convinced that it will win.
They're convinced that if he moves to the center, he will lose.
And they want an Obama reelection to be said to be a triumph of their ideology.
It's a warning shot, actually, is what this is.
They're saying, Barack, there's going to be more of this unless you stay true to the cause.
Just my two cents, but of course, as you know, my two cents is worth anybody else's dollar bill.
Okay.
The drive-bys also think that there is an internecine battle going on between me and the nameless Republican establishment.
Now, the Republican establishment does not want to be known to exist.
The Republican establishment is going out of its way.
And this is inside baseball stuff.
This is one of the few times that this subject has even made it into mainstream news coverage.
But the Republican establishment, the inside developway media types, big money people in New York, rhinos, let's think of them that way, or are faux conservatives.
They don't like the term Republican establishment, and they are trying to replace the word Republican with conservative.
They are trying to make it out as though they are the new conservatives, that they define conservatism.
And these would be some of the magazine publishers and some of the magazine writers, several of the so-called conservative intelligentsia, so forth.
So I came in this morning, as I do every day, sat down here at my official broadcast desk, and the television's on.
I got two of them in here.
One's on Fox, and one, I guess, defaults on to MSNBC.
And on the MSNBC monitor, there was F. Chuck Todd.
And in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, small picture Chris Christie, and right next to it, a small picture of me.
Now, most people, oh, what's that, would have tuned in and turned up the volume and listened.
I didn't.
Certainly, I'm on TV every day.
I can't stop what I do just to see what they're saying.
You know, is it a big deal?
Plus, I know that cookies up there rolling on this.
So I'm going to find out if it's worthwhile anyway, because it's going to end up on the soundbite roster, which it has.
All right, here it is.
The name of F. Chuck's show is a daily rundown.
And here's what F. Chuck said today about the 2012 campaign and me.
Welcome to what a presidential primary is like in this conservative vetting test in 2012.
And this campaign is like nothing we've ever seen in 2008, 2000, 1996.
It's different.
It's always been out there.
It's always been a powerful force.
But as Rush noted, the Republican establishment has always won out.
Will they do that this time?
And as Christie, as Rush Lamo has already put him in, part of the Republican establishment is at already a mark against Christie.
So what has apparently happened here is that members of the drive-bys heard my comments expressing reservations yesterday about portions of Christie's speech at the Reagan Library, Simi Valley, in which I bluntly said I cringed when I heard him talking about the need for compromise and bipartisanship and all that.
And I said, we've already run John McCain, and that didn't work out.
And at this stage, with the nation hanging in the balance, I started asking with whom on the left do we compromise and on what.
So apparently now, this has been interpreted by the drive-bys.
I have placed Christie in the Republican establishment, which is a no-no, that I do not like the Republican establishment.
I'm wary of them, that they're not really conservatives.
And so now, which is their foe, they're quasi.
I mean, they're conservative on certain things, but they live in the D.C. culture, and it matters to them what is said in the mainstream media about them.
And so they will tailor what they say and what they write and who they hang around with to be approved by people who are not really our friends at the end of the day.
So they have now spent F. Chuck here is connecting his dots and is concluding that I have written Christie off by tagging him a member of the Republican establishment.
He's also pointing out that even though I do this, the Republican establishment generally prevails, i.e. McCain.
Romney is a Republican establishment choice, but I'm not really happy about that.
Bill Crystal of the Weekly Standard had a piece last night.
I swear, I read this.
Crystal was chiding Perry, saying, look, it's not about you.
You have a duty to run here.
Just because you don't want to, that doesn't matter.
I'm paraphrasing.
I mean, this is Crystal speaking to Christie in a column that he wrote.
It's not up to you, pal.
Your country needs you.
You don't have the right to be selfish about this.
The country needs you.
And I said, almost more of a crystal trying to be a kingmaker.
I didn't print the Crystal piece out, so I'm paraphrasing it.
And I'll acknowledge I might be exaggerating a bit, but it really was themed.
It was a piece to Christie, really upset that Christie had said what he had said to the woman in the Q ⁇ A about he has to feel it inside.
It has to be inside him, this decision to run.
It's great that all these other people want him to, but it's got to be inside him.
However, however, there's a new wrench that's been thrown into this now.
New York Post is reporting that Christie is giving this real serious consideration now because Republicans that he idolizes have urged him to do it.
One of the Republicans he idolizes, Nancy Reagan.
And I don't know if you noticed, but Nancy Reagan was giving him the old I love Ronnie facial expression and approval during that speech.
They'd cut to Nancy and she's nodding and the same look on her face as she had listening to her own husband.
And Henry Kissinger has urged Christie to run.
And this is another Republican that Christie idolizes.
And there's a third I can't recall.
He is.
It is Bush.
George W. Bush.
Yeah, it's exactly right.
So George W. Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Henry Kissinger have urged Christie to run.
And the New York Post said, you're really, really, really considering it now.
So the Crystal piece comes out last night.
This is before I had seen the New York Post piece in which Christie had been urged to run by Nancy Reagan, Dr. Kissinger, and George W. Bush.
And this piece, I acknowledge I might be exaggerating, it's not about you.
It's not about you.
The country comes first.
And it was almost as though Crystal was taking Christie's decision personally.
It was written in such a way that I thought Bill was personally offended that Christie said, no, I'm not going to run.
And I said, well, if I'm right about that, what does this mean?
Why would a media figure take it personally that someone decides not to run or do what that media person wants them to do?
And I said, well, maybe you want to be known as the kingmaker.
You want to be the one that gets the credit for pushing Christie in the right decision to decide.
I don't know.
I'm just guessing here.
Why don't you call Crystal?
Because I'd rather guess, frankly.
It's more fun because we'll find out at some point or not.
Now, if I'm right, if Bill Crystal wants everybody to think that Christie changed his mind because of what Crystal wrote, now he's in competition.
He's got, because the New York Post says that if Christie goes, it's going to be because of Kissinger, Nancy Reagan, and George W. Bush.
Not, what do you mean if I'm going to put a stop to this?
Am I going to put a stop to what?
Christie running?
Oh, my gosh.
Snurdley, you so exaggerate my power here.
You've got me up against the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party.
Yeah, you think.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
Nothing I can do to stop this.
No way.
Here's the way the Crystal Piece ends.
You don't have to feel deeply in your heart that you're called to run for president.
You have to think that you're the right man for the job.
And if that's the case, you have a duty to your country to step forward.
It's not about you.
It's about your country.
And that's the headline to Bill Crystal's piece.
It's not about you.
Crystal was one of the first people, by the way, to push for Sarah Palin to be a GOP vice presidential candidate.
Why is it he saying to Palin, hey, Sarah, it's not up to you.
You got to get in.
Why only Christie?
Now, there's some other people pointing out the governor of Virginia.
Hey, wait a minute.
What about old Bob here?
And oh, Bob's been sitting there in relative obscurity, and Bob McDonnell has got a state cooking and kicking, but he's got job creation.
He's got a budget surplus.
The state of Virginia is rocking.
As a governor, he's outperforming all of them.
And nobody's saying a word about Bob McDonald because he, I guess he himself has not thrown his hat in the ring or expressed any interest.
But Christie's done just the opposite.
Christie has said, oh, no way.
How many times I have to tell you people, that's almost a quote, how many times I have to tell you people I'm not running.
It was all this year he's been saying that.
And every time he says it, somebody in the establishment says, oh, you got to go.
You got to run.
Now they got Kissinger, Nancy Reagan, George W. Bush.
And Crystal's saying, it's not about you.
It's about your country.
Why aren't they saying that to Sarah?
Hey, Sarah, come on.
It's not about you.
It's about your country.
You don't get to take this decision on your own personal wants, desires, or lack of.
And I'll tell you why this, I mean, this is another thing that I said yesterday that has ignited this whole meme that it is I.L. Rushboat versus the Republican establishment.
And I said that the reason why the establishment's trying to push all these people is because they're scared to death that a conservative is going to get the nomination.
Just like they were scared to death Reagan was going to get the nomination.
Even when Reagan ran for governor of California, the first time against Pat Brown, Pat Brown, the Democrat father of Jerry Brown, wanted to run against Reagan.
They thought Reagan would be the easiest to be because he was his madcap Goldwater extremist.
The Democrats did everything they could to sandbag all of Reagan's opponents so that Reagan would get the gubernatorial nomination.
They couldn't wait to run against him.
And Reagan ended up winning that race by a million votes in California, which was huge, and did it with a lot of union people and independents, just flabbergasted everybody.
And even back then, the Republicans didn't want Reagan.
His kitchen cabinet was urging him to go.
He didn't want any part of it.
They urged him to do it.
And even back then, the so-called Republican establishment, the anti-Goldwater wing of the Republican Party wanted no part of Reagan when he ran for governor of California.
They wanted no part of Reagan in 1976 when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination.
They wanted no part of him in 1980.
And after he won, you know, they sucked up to him because they had to.
I mean, he was the president of the United States and they wanted to be within his orb.
But when they talked to themselves at their homes in the Hamptons, what do they talk about what a stupid idiot he was and how they hope they survived the eight years because this guy makes jokes about blowing up Soviet Union?
My God, he's embarrassing.
It's all look at what spends all his time with the pro-lifers.
Oh, my God.
They were embarrassed about him and worried that he was going to blow the Soviet Union off the map, push the button.
It was the Republican establishment as well as the Democrats that had all those caricature fears of Ray.
And they exist to this day.
The Republican establishment has no desire for mainstream conservatism running the party or getting the nomination.
And that's why they're hot to trot for Christie.
But Rush, but Rush, are you saying that Christie is not a mainstream, not saying he's not conservative by any stretch, but he is acceptable to the Republican establishment?
You draw your own conclusions.
You guys think for yourselves out there.
You know that.
All I've done is come along here the last 23 years and validate what you think anyway.
You're not mind-numbing robots.
I'm not some pied piper putting thoughts in you.
I'm not trying anything.
I'm not trying.
Let me tell you something, Snerdley.
I, you free, what am I doing here?
I got the drive-bys already constructing a war between me and the Republican establishment.
Well, okay, it is happening.
I'm not doing anything to stop it, but you're telling me I'm not doing enough to advance the cause here.
I'm telling you, I got my head on the chopping block.
Well, Snerdley's just yelling at me.
At this time, I have to pick somebody so that we can get stuck with McCain again.
Anyway, if Christie gets in, what he's going to end up doing is splitting the moderate vote.
His greatest damage will be done to Mitt Romney, not Rick Perry.
My take is if Christie does get in, he's going to split the Romney vote.
That's where he's going to take votes from.
And in so doing, if he doesn't get the nomination himself, it'd be pretty hard to do if he splits the moderate vote, then the top conservative candidate by default would win the primaries, win the nomination.
If he gets in, I don't know that the establishment looks at it that way, though.
I think the establishment's looking at it.
If Christie gets in, he effectively wipes out any other conservative in the race because everybody thinks he's such a full-fledged 100%, 125% conservative based on his take-no prisoners attitude with the unions and traditional Republican opponents, the way he speaks to them and crushes them as governor.
Guys, a quick timeout here.
Well, let me do one more sound bite here.
I've kind of cut this off in the middle of it.
We had Chuck Todd here.
Play Chuck here again.
We'll play these things back to back.
Again, Chuck Todd, Daily Rundown here, talking about the battle here between me and the Republican establishment.
Welcome to what a presidential primary is like in this conservative vetting test in 2012.
And this campaign is like nothing we've ever seen in 2008, 2000, 1996.
It's different.
It's always been out there.
It's always been a powerful force.
But as Rush noted, the Republican establishment has always won out.
Will they do that this time?
And does Christie, as Rush Lamo has already put him in, part of the Republican establishment is at already a mark against Christie?
Okay, so that is F. Chuck Todd establishing a theme for his show this morning.
At least one of the themes.
Later on in the show, he's got a guest, Comcast Network political director Robert Tranum.
Comcast now owns NBC.
So F. Chuck Todd talking with Comcast Network political director Robert Tranum about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie running for president.
And they had this exchange.
You will hear F. Chuck interrupting his own guest to talk about me again.
I don't think he's going to get in.
He's got a lot of damning quotes out there about him.
Rush Lamb already started it, questioning whether he's conservative enough and almost questioning the fact that if the establishment thinks he's conservative, absolutely that I don't.
Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, the establishment is not questioning whether he's conservative enough.
Oh, it's the fact he's not too conservative.
That's what jazzes the establishment.
Chuck, you got to understand this.
The establishment likes Governor Christie.
And I like Governor Christie.
I like him.
I've had dinner with him.
I haven't played golf with him, but I'd like him.
Fine man.
I don't want to be misunderstood here, but the Republican establishment interest in Governor Christie is precisely due to the fact that he's not a quote-unquote Reagan type conservative or a Limbaugh type conservative.
That's why they're attracted to him.
And I'm not, look at Chuck Toddney's guys use me.
I'm not alone.
There are a lot of other people out there taking on the Republican establishment.
I'm not a lone wolf in this money stretch.
I'm a little long here.
I've got to take a brief time out.
We'll do it.
Back, we will be before you know it.
Sticking with MSNBC today, the Morning Joe show, Joe Scarborough show, they were talking about Romney and the rest of the Republican field, and Willie Geist offered this comment.
Isn't there always this hand-wringing in the primary process?
John McCain was getting hammered.
Rush Limbaugh saying, stay home, don't vote for John McCain.
I didn't tell anybody to stay home.
What the heck are these people remembering?
I didn't tell anybody to stay home.
I didn't even pick anybody.
That's what I'm getting grief for now.
Now, people, you better pick somebody this time or else we're going to end up with McCain Jr.
Now we move over to Fox, Gretchen Carlson, talking with Brian Kilmead about how I am so wrong talking about independence and so forth.
Killmead leads off.
When you listen to Rush Limbaugh, he has many questions about how conservative the governor from New Jersey is.
Let's listen.
I heard a lot of John McCain in that speech.
Well, maybe not a lot, but I heard enough to send up a red flag or two.
Herman Cain is a conservative that worries them.
Perry is a conservative that worries them.
Bachman is a conservative that worries.
Santorum a conservative that worries.
Reagan was a conservative that worried the Republican establishment.
Christie is not.
Now, what they left out of that bite is my intonations about partisanship and compromise and all these red flags.
I mean, that was the red flag that went up.
So here's Gretchen Carlson, former Miss America from Minnesota.
But isn't it all about who can be elected?
See, that's what it comes down to.
And fortunately or unfortunately, the independents make all the decisions.
Maybe that should change.
But it really depends on who the independents are going to go with.
And maybe they would go with a Chris Christie because as a Republican governor in a blue state, he had to compromise.
And that's what independents seem to like from time to time is people looking at things from both sides of the equation and sometimes coming to a decision.
Well, the conventional wisdom on display in the Fox and Friends show this morning on Fox News channel.
I would say, in response to that, the Republicans have abandoned, the independents have abandoned Obama.
The Independents in 2010, the midterms, abandoned Obama and they abandoned the Democrats.
And they went where?
They went to the Republicans.
And if you look at polling data, the Independents still plan on voting Republican by a vast majority.
And the Republicans are not doing what?
The House Republicans are not compromising.
The House Republicans are holding firm.
They're not compromising at all.
And the independents are not fleeing back to the Democrats.
They're sticking, at least in the polling questions, to the Republicans.
So, again, this false premise that the voters want compromise and the voters want bipartisanship.
All this conventional wisdom is being stood on its head.
The stakes are different than they've ever been.
And, Gretchen, look, we're just like you here at the EIB network.
All we want is world peace.
I was discussing Reagan's first gubernatorial campaign in California, 1966.
Stephen Hayward wrote a book, and there's a chapter how Ronald Reagan Defied Expectations and Beat the Giant Killer Pat Brown.
This is housed at the Claremont Institute, written August 30th, 2001.
There's a fascinating revelation here about Reagan's strategy in winning California.
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