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Dec. 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're back Broadcast Excellence.
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Okay, you know, ladies and gentlemen, I, as you well know, find it difficult, uncomfortable to discuss myself.
Even though it's very difficult to do, I try never to make this program about me.
But Snerdley will not stop talking about me today.
I just took a stroll.
I seldom do this, but I took a stroll to the room on the other side of the glass where Snerdley and Brian and Dawn are.
And he kept going on and on and on about, here you've done it again.
You're the only guy.
You're the only guy holding the positions that you hold.
You're the only guy that...
And he said to me, you know, these guys, and he mentioned a particular network.
He said, these guys at that network, they're making the wrong calculation.
I don't think they quite understand.
Their audience hates the things that they're doing, saying people are talking about it.
I said, no, you don't understand.
And I said, the difference is that wherever you go in news media, by default, you're going to find members of the establishment.
And I used this example as a way of describing for him how I, and again, it makes me very uncomfortable talking about me here, but I'm forced to do this.
How I differ in this regard.
Remember the absolute vitriol for Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle.
I don't care what network you tune to, folks.
I do not care.
It didn't matter.
When you found a quote-unquote news-based program on any of those networks, what you heard was, rank amateur, no chance at winning, stupid, who are these people who nominated them, who voted for them?
They're not professional politicians.
They can't win.
It definitely, you heard all that.
Snerdley said, yeah, but don't they understand that they're ticking off their audience?
Yes, they understand it.
Part and parcel, folks, of being an elite is thinking everybody else is dumber than you are.
Part and parcel of being an elite or an elite wannabe is thinking everybody's stupid compared to you.
Now, if I were like the elites, I've had two calls today from people who told me I don't know what I'm talking about.
What did I do?
I took the calls.
I discussed things with them.
I listened to what they had to say.
And then I replied, both to them and then after they had both hung up, after their calls were completed.
Were I like the people in the establishment, I would have told those people how stupid they are, how little time I have for them, that my time is better spent.
I don't have time talking to absolute unexperienced, inexperienced, uneducated boobs like you people are.
Don't waste my time.
And I'd have thrown my implant off and I'd have walked out of here.
And this, of course, is not who I am.
To me, the audience is everything.
But There's something that comes first, even before the audience, and that is honesty.
Like Snerdley, honestly, I cannot exaggerate this.
He is marking.
And again, now this is in an inside radio or a business sense.
He's marveling again how, with all the people who are in the media and with all the things going on in the media, he's marveling how everybody else is saying the same stuff except me.
He's marveling at it.
He thinks it's the result of calculation.
Let me tell you what it is.
It really is not complicated.
I am simply a conservative.
I am so grounded in conservatism.
I'm so grounded in common sense.
It's not possible for me to waver from it.
I don't doubt myself.
I don't doubt what I believe.
My core is not negotiable.
It's not up for grabs.
I think it's true.
Most people in the public light, in media, in politics, showbiz, do calculate.
They try to position themselves where they think nobody else will be.
But it is the result of a calculation.
And then they use the media to promote themselves and to make themselves and so forth and so on.
I think there are a lot of people in conservative media who have tried to carve a different niche for themselves or niche for themselves because they think a conservative media leader is locked up, which it is.
So they want to come up.
They try to find a different place.
I don't do this.
I don't do show prep every day and calculate, okay, how should I deal this so that I'm going to be the only guy thinking what I think or saying what I don't even enter my thought process.
I'm not trying to be loved either.
And I'm not trying to make anybody think I'm the smartest guy around.
And I'm just honest.
I'm just staying true to my core beliefs.
Think of me as a solid, mature oak tree that stands even after all of these hurricanes have come and gone.
A lot of other people are wishy-washy little sprigs that get blown about with the public winds and the public breeze.
But I just have a loyalty and a devotion to my core beliefs.
And it's not, there's nothing I do that's a calculation.
I don't have a PR firm.
I don't do anything to get noticed.
Nothing artificial.
And yet Snerdley says he marks, do you realize how many people are doing that and it's not working?
And that's precisely why.
Now, I didn't mean to tease you this long here, but there is a story here that's cleared from Yahoo.
News.yahoo.com, Yahoo! exclusive.
Here's the headline.
On private call, Republicans say attacking Obama personally is too dangerous.
A Yahoo news exclusive.
Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies warned today that party surrogates should refrain from personal attacks against President Obama because such a strategy is too hazardous for the GOP.
Here we go again.
This is another reason, folks, why I know you wake up alternately angry and then feeling like you're a lone wolf and feeling like you're part of a distinct minority.
Here we've got the absolute worst president in our lifetimes, and the Republican National Committee apparently has just had a conference call where they've told people, don't say that.
Obama is his policies.
They are inseparable.
The man who influenced and molded him, the man, Obama, cannot be protected any longer.
Look how well that worked in 2008.
So what are we back to now, not being able to pronounce his middle name?
We are hesitant to jump on board with heavy attacks personally against President Obama, said Nicholas Thompson, the vice president of the Torrance Group, a Republican polling firm, said on the call.
A lot of people who feel sorry for him.
A lot of people feel sorry for Obama.
Don't attack.
What is attacking Obama personally?
What does that mean?
What is the limitation?
When you can't attack Obama, he is his policies.
Mr. Thompson, no disrespect here, honest, but you know who I feel sorry for?
America.
I feel sorry for people who are out of work.
I feel sorry for people who are going to be out of work.
I feel sorry for people who are going to be subjected to Obamacare if this guy's not defeated.
I feel sorry for everybody who gets him and goes to work.
They're the enemy.
He's giving a speech in Osawatomi, Kansas right now.
And he's telling this country that the people who work are the enemy, that they are not paying their fair share.
I feel sorry for an America who has been kept in the dark about who Obama is.
I feel sorry for an America who's been kept in the dark about Obama's past.
I guess calling him a socialist is a personal attack.
Make people feel sorry for him.
Recent polling data indicates that while the president still suffers significantly low job approval, voters still give high approval to him personally, Thompson said.
That's because the establishment has protected him.
Voters don't think he's an evil guy who's out to change the United States for the worse, even though many of the same survey respondents agree that his policies have harmed the country, Thompson said.
The upshot, Thompson stressed, Republicans should exercise some caution when talking about the president personally.
Okay, means, okay, can't mean, can't be honest.
What is he?
A well-meaning disaster?
Is that what we're supposed to a well-meaning disaster?
God, his heart's in the right place.
God, we love his intention.
Oh, God, there's never, never been a nicer guy.
He's a disaster, but he's never been a nicer guy.
Don't think he's an evil man who's out to change the United States for the worse, even though he's doing just that.
So we're not supposed to educate people.
I remember, ladies and gentlemen, George H.W. Bush was at 90% in 1991.
And the Democrats had a conference call like this.
Stan Greenberg and James Carvel, et cetera.
They decided to go on the attack.
George H.W. Bush, a liar.
What do you think the Obama campaign is going to be?
We already have been told it's going to be the most negative campaign ever because Obama can't run on his record.
So we're supposed to sit back and we're supposed to let the Obama campaign destroy whoever our nominee ends up being.
We don't respond in kind.
Here we go.
I can't think of when they have never not attacked a Republican personally.
I can't think of the last Democrat campaign which has not sought to personally destroy not just the campaign, but character, life.
Clarence Thomas, can we Robert Bork?
There are countless other examples.
Obama just said in this speech in Osawatomi, Kansas, he just said the U.S. is facing a make-or-break moment for the middle class, which is true.
Obama's about to break the middle class.
Yeah.
What was it, Nancy Pelosi?
She's got all kinds of dirt on Newts.
You're going to come out with this at the right time.
But just so you know, your Republican National Committee is a conference call.
Don't, don't know.
People love Obama.
That's a nice guy.
He's got the greatest intentions in the world.
He's got, well, this is the nicest guy who's ever destroyed the economy we've ever been up against.
Okay, I'm going to run through this one more time because Obama's in Osawatomi, Kansas.
He just said we can't return to a your own, your own economy.
You're on your own economy.
Can't return to that.
He wants everybody to be economically dependent on the government one way or the other.
You're not on your own.
We can't return to that.
He just ripped into CEOs.
He just ripped into people in the top 1%.
They're greedy.
They're selfish.
They're the cause for all this.
It's been going on for decades.
Nobody's been able to stop it, but now we're going to put our foot down.
And while all this was going on, a private phone call from the RNC to a bunch of its supporters saying, do not attack Obama personally.
He is loved.
He is admired.
People don't think he's a bad guy out to change the United States for the worse.
Don't go there.
Meanwhile, the same people on this call are getting nasty and personal against any Republican running.
Look what they're saying about Newt.
The same Republicans on this call, folks, I cannot emphasize this enough.
Well, we can't vote for Newt.
We can't have Newt.
Look at his marriages.
Look at all this stuff.
He's at Fannie Mann.
He's at Freddie Mac.
The guy's scum.
We can't vote for Rick Perry.
Rick Perry, look what he's done with in-state tuition and vaccinations and illegals.
Plus, he's stupid.
And we can't vote for Michelle Bachman.
She's an idiot.
She's an absolute doom cough.
All those foster kids, who the hell wants that?
Rick Santorum.
He's a nut.
He's a religious cook.
We can't vote for Santorum.
We can't have somebody like that in our party.
Herman Cain for crying out loud, the guy's a walking sex act.
We can't have this guy.
He didn't even know where Russia is.
He's the biggest idiot, blithering idiot we ever had.
Every opposition, every bit of stated opposition from Republicans about Republicans is personal.
I don't know if it's the same Republicans on this conference call, but I'm telling you that it apparently is fine and dandy and it's hunky-dory to get personal.
If you are a Republican campaign strategist, if you're a Republican campaign worker, if you're anywhere involved in conservative media, fine and dandy.
You go get personal against all of these nominees any day, as often as you want.
Don't do it again, Obama.
Don't you dare get personal with Obama.
You can attack our people personally all day long.
Herman Cain, Gingrich, but lay off Obama.
Meanwhile, on the Drudge Report right now is this link.
U.S. to weigh gay rights in foreign aid.
And then there's this.
Obama considers morning after pill on supermarket shelves.
But we, we conservatives are told to ignore social issues.
We are said to want these so-called wedge issues.
We're told, don't bring up the social issues.
Don't bring up abortion.
Don't bring it up.
It's just going to send the independents running back to the Democrats.
Don't bring it up.
Meanwhile, right there on Drudge, Obama considers morning after pill on supermarket shelves.
U.S. to weigh gay rights in foreign aid.
Limbos shut the hell up about abortion.
All you're doing is driving our voters away.
You're driving the independents back to Obama.
So we are supposed to shut up about everything except our candidates.
We can be mean.
We can be personal.
We can destroy our own candidates.
Back off on Obama.
Don't you go there.
People love Obama.
They don't think anything bad about Obama.
They love Obama.
You better not.
Meanwhile, Obama's opponents are always attacked personally, whether he's running for the Senate.
And it's amazing how his opponents' divorces magically come up.
New York Times, the New York Times, did a hit piece on McCain out of the blue about an affair that never happened.
Remember that?
Brought to you by the Obama camp.
Don't you dare pronounce his middle name.
Don't you dare call him Barack Hussein Obama.
And they tell us, don't you dare discuss Bill.
Our people are telling us this.
Republic, don't you bring up Bill Ayers and don't you discuss Obama's grade?
Don't bring up Jeremiah Wright.
You don't bring up the fact Obama used to do cocaine.
Don't bring it up.
People love Obama.
People hate Gingrich.
People love Obama.
People hate Perry.
People love Obama.
People hate Bachman.
People love Obama.
People hate Sentorum.
This is what our own people tell us.
People love Obama.
They hate Herman Cain.
In fact, for Obama, his own presidential record is not his record.
So we can't discuss that either because we can't discuss Obama.
We can't get personal.
So we can't bring up his policy.
We can't discuss his presidency.
So here's the rule.
Here is the rule from the Republican National Committee, folks.
Apparently set down today in a private call.
Only discuss Obama if it's in approval.
This is how we're going to prove that we're nice people.
This is how we're going to prove to the independents that we are not confrontational or mean-spirited or extremists or racists.
Yes, our race.
We're going to prove that we're nice.
Colorblind people will say only nice things about Obama.
The number one optic that the Democrat media machine has created is that Obama is liked.
It's the biggest of all of their big lies.
He is not liked personally.
People that do what he's doing to your house, your job, your future, to your kids, and their future is not liked personally.
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I listened to a little of this Obama speech during the break at the bottom of the hour.
And I, I, uh, Cookie just told me she's um they just wrapped it.
I told her, save it for tomorrow.
I, I, I, I don't, I don't want to try to squeeze just part of it in today.
This speech that Obama gave was sickening.
I think it was even more sickening to me because I just found out that the Republican National Committee has once again sent out the word that Obama is not to be attacked.
The sitting president, the architect of destructive policies as a matter of Republican policy, is not to be attacked.
You can attack Gingrich all day long.
You can attack Herman Kaine all day long as a Republican.
You could attack Michelle Bachman or Rick Santorum or Herman Cain, Rick Perry, all day long.
Don't attack Obama.
In Virginia, Tim Kaine running against George Allen.
That's the likely matchup.
Tim Kaine just said this macaca thing, still on the table, will still remain an issue.
What does the RNC chairman say about that?
Only say good things about Tim Kaine.
People love the I. People love Tim Kaine.
Kaine's a former Democratic National Committee chair under Obama.
He was Obama's favorite left-wing governor.
He's now running as a lie.
He's running as a fiscal conservative in Virginia.
He refuses to be seen with Obama.
He's lying all the while about who he is and who his opponent is.
How do we deal with this, Republicans?
How are you going to deal with this?
What are we supposed to do?
I remember I made a speech at the Heritage Foundation during the height of the Trump craze.
Remember when Trump before he dropped out and Trump had captivated everybody?
I made a heritage speech here, Palm Beach, not the Four Treasons Hotel.
And there were some establishment Republicans in there, folks.
And I'm not going to name any names because, again, I told you the first hour, I just can't do this.
It's limiting being here.
I just can't.
And when I walked off stage, they were glaring at me.
Former White House people.
A couple of them.
Now, what did I tell them?
Back then, the establishment was going nuts.
Trump's not a politician.
Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
Oh, my God.
He's going to be an embarrassment.
Donald Trump was taking it to Obama and he was leading in the polls.
Newt is taking it to Obama.
He's leading in the polls.
The Republicans send out a memo after they're called.
Don't go after Obama.
Then I turn in and I listen to this speech, which is sickening, and the audience is applauding it like this is 2008.
We're listening to a despicable divider of our people, Barack Obama, a class warfare warrior.
This speech pretends the last three years never happened.
You know what we ought to do?
We need to make sure everybody that wants to can go to college without wrecking up $100,000 in debt.
And the place erupted.
Well, yeah.
Whose fault is it who runs the student loan program, you doofus?
You do.
Who runs these universities charging outrageous tuition?
Your people do.
Everybody ought to be able to go.
College!
Wait up, paying a debt.
Right.
Well, you can make it happen.
Just tell everybody you know at your universities to work for free.
I'll tell you, folks, I wouldn't be half as irritated if I didn't know about this stupid.
And I better back off because it's a Yahoo story.
It could all be bogus.
But they do quote this guy from the Torrance group.
But it could be bogus.
So I will back off.
And I can't handle it.
This Obama in this speech pretends to possess a wisdom born of good intentions for a strong private sector economy when he has caused the economic mayhem that he complains about.
And he thinks that giving a speech will remove him from any accountability.
Tax cuts are to blame.
Rich Americans are to blame.
What happened to your stimulus bill, buddy?
What happened to your recovery summer?
I thought we turned the corner two years ago.
What happened to your Chevy Volt?
Everything the guy touches ends up turning sour.
In this speech, and we'll have sound bites tomorrow, he draws a direct comparison between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street bunch.
After he referred to the Tea Party people as teabaggers, he said that we will succeed when people play by the rules, when people don't take more than they need.
Oh, you mean like Bill Clinton with his $50,000 consulting deal with John Corzine?
Tell me, Democrats, when has Bill Clinton got enough?
When do Bill and Hillary have enough and don't need anymore?
Corzine, when does he have enough?
Why does Corzine get to take his clients' money?
Cylindra?
Obama talks about we all succeed when people play by the rules.
And we got Corzine, we got Clinton, we've got Solyndra.
Makes me sick when he aligns himself with a dead American president.
That's Teddy Roosevelt.
It's Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, now Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt would be embarrassed at this.
This guy's a crony cap is Teddy Roosevelt tried to put guys like this out of business.
This speech assumes that everybody in this country has not been paying attention.
A soaring speech from a president who has crashed and burned isn't going to cut it.
And I apologize to the Republican National Committee for my tone here.
I'm being facetious, sturdily.
Don't sit in there and frown.
Do you think I actually meant that?
This speech was so filled with straw men, I was worried that we're going to have a combustible fire.
It was filled with deceit, class warfare.
It was breathtaking in its divisiveness.
Breathtaking.
Wait till you hear parts of it.
This man's got 45 million Americans on food stamps for crying out loud.
He's accumulated more debt than any prior president by a large margin.
He's only three years in, and he's lecturing us.
We're the problem.
This guy is an angry guy.
He's got a chip on his shoulder, and he's making us pay the price.
Yeah, Merry Christmas to everybody.
All of us from the EIV Network, by the way, the PS Des Résistance.
On this Yahoo News story about the Republican National Committee telephone call, Yahoo News has the exclusive because they were on that call because of a mistake.
On the call, this is from the story, on the call, which Yahoo News was invited to attend because of a mistake by someone on the staff of the Republican National Committee.
So the RNC never intended this to get out unless somebody there did and accidentally, on purposely, invited Yahoo to attend it.
All right.
I'm calm.
I've cooled down a little bit.
I'm still ticked.
I can't tell you.
But Debbie, Riverside, Alabama, as we go back to the phones, thank you for waiting.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Thank you, Rush, and Merry Christmas to you and Catherine and your staff.
Thank you.
Thank you for all that you do.
Thank you very much.
I have a question for Angela because this has really bothered me for.
Angela's the caller today who wondered if I was confused and didn't know what I was talking about when Newt could win.
Yeah.
Yes.
My question to Angela is this.
Angela, who told you the truth while Obama was running for president?
Was it Rush?
Was it Britt Hume?
Did Britt Hume explain to you what Obama meant by transforming America?
Did he even ask Obama what he meant?
So I think Angela is very confused because she's not using common sense right now.
And that's all it takes, Rush.
Well, I appreciate that.
You know, it's very wise of you.
You are very shrewd.
I should have thought about that myself.
I just, you know, I generally don't think of myself.
But that's true.
I'm the one guy said, I hope he fails.
Everybody else had a cow.
Oh, no, you can't say that.
Yes, I can, and I mean it.
And that's what we want, and that's what we want out of a candidate right now, Rush.
We do want someone that's going to stand up and tell the truth and fight for it.
It doesn't matter.
Hey, man, I understand totally.
We're tired of the media picking our candidates.
Yes.
And we're tired of the RNC saying, be gentle while we're out being destroyed and castigated.
And not just us, but the country.
Anyway, that's great.
I really appreciate that.
I have to admit, that's a great, great point that she had.
And nothing against Britt Hume.
Don't take it any wrong way, but she's right.
It wasn't just Hume, it was everybody.
Everybody was just paranoid.
Oh, can't believe Limbo.
Oh, my God.
Gosh, I wish he'd shut up.
This may well have been the most outrageous speech Obama has given.
And Cookie wanted to be, she sent me six or eight soundbites, and I just said, look it, with all that I've got to do here in our remaining half hour, there's just not enough time to get them all in there with appropriate commentary.
So I said, just wait till tomorrow.
It ain't going to be, look it, until people hear what I have to say about it.
They really haven't heard it.
So it doesn't matter when that happens.
We can't possibly be late to this when I'm the only one who's going to have the take I've got.
That simple.
So that'll be tomorrow.
Plus, whatever the hell else happens between now, heck else happens between now and then.
You sit tight, folks, 21 hours, and we are back right here.
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