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Jan. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 4, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network already Wednesday.
It is.
It is already Wednesday.
It's the fastest week in media.
And I think there's another bowl game tonight.
Not that I care.
I'm not big into college.
Force because I didn't go to college, so I got no alma mater or any of that.
Uniforms look cheaper, but I think there's a bowl game tonight.
I know it's a bowl game next week.
The championship game's not till next week.
You know, I used to do the bowl.
It used to be three or four bowl games.
They all mattered.
They were all on New Year's Day, and that was it.
Now there's 30,000 of them.
Teams that go five and seven in the regular season end up playing in postseason bowl games.
I don't know, it just waters it down.
Anyway, in fact, I was talking with somebody.
We're out in Hawaii and we're watching E.S. Peterson.
I said, you know, television sports is ruining sports.
Taking the mystique away from it.
And what prompted me to make this observation was some coach who'd been working at ESP and after getting fires at coaches going back to coaching.
I said, This just is a revolving door now.
There's no there's no mystique left.
Uh i in sports.
Uh it's it's gone.
It's it's it's not it's not as special as it was.
The orange ball is tonight.
So that's down here.
Down at uh Miami Clemson versus West Virginia.
Anyway, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Uh telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Here's what happened last night.
Santorum gave his speech after the Hawkeye Calcai had for the most part was over.
And it was so powerful, and he never uses a prompter.
And he never even uses notes.
He did last night for a brief moment.
At the outset of the speech, quoting C. S. Lewis in what ended up being a tribute to his wife.
That's how he opened it.
And he said, Look, I normally don't use notes, but I want to read this because it's a quote and I want to get it right.
And I'll paraphrase the C. S. Lewis quote because it's not in the sound bites that we have.
He said, a best friend is somebody who knows the song in your heart when you have forgotten the words.
Now I'm paraphrasing that.
C.S. Lewis said it a little bit more eloquently than that.
But your best friend is somebody who knows the song in your heart when you have forgotten the words.
And at that point he turned to his wife.
And after that, it's total ad lib.
Now what happened after that was Romney spoke after Santorum.
Romney ordered his teleprompter.
And he winged it.
Because Santorum's speech was so.
I mean, it was authentic.
It was from the heart.
It's why he doesn't need notes.
Now we have three sound bites.
I had people sending me email during the top of the hour breaks.
I'm glad you're going to do this because I've looked for the speech on YouTube and I can't find it, which is unfortunate.
But that's why Joe Joe Trippie last night said, you know, if I were Santorum, I'd get down there at 11 o'clock and I make this speech in time for the 11 o'clock news.
I don't care if the vote tally is not final.
It's close enough that you know you're going to be in the top two.
So go down there and just act like you're the winner.
They didn't do that.
They all waited until after the uh all but two counties were in, says after 1230.
We only have three sound bites.
We have the whole speech.
Cookie has a whole speech.
If we want to roll it all off, we could at some point.
But here we go with the three that we have.
Don't forget the way it opened.
The C.S. Lewis quote, your best friend, somebody knows the song in your heart when you've forgotten the words.
And then he turned to his wife, gave her a big hug and kiss.
So here are three sound bites.
This is number one.
People have asked me how I've done this sitting back at the polls and not getting a whole lot of attention paid to us.
How did you keep going out to Iowa and 99 counties and 381 town hall meetings and speeches?
Well, every morning when I was getting up in the morning to take on that challenge.
one that is sacred.
I've survived the challenges so far by the daily grace that comes from God.
For giving me his grace every day for loving me, warts and all, I offer a public thanks to God.
First words, by the way, were game on.
Came out say game on.
Okay, so here's Santorm who's unafraid to uh talk about God.
The next bite, he addresses electability.
People have asked me, well, why do you think you can win?
Because we've been told by so many people that there's another candidate in this race who is running a rather close race with me tonight that is a better person to choose because he can win.
Let me tell you.
What wins, what wins in America are bold ideas, sharp contrasts, and a plan that includes everyone.
And a plan that includes people from all across the economic spectrum.
A plan that says we will work together to get America to work.
Comes this concept of team.
If he takes this further, I think it's fertile ground.
I think one of the if I may say so.
One of the problems that many of you have sent.
Maybe you've not even consciously aware of it this way.
But we know that that politics consists of teams.
And we haven't felt like we're on ours.
We felt like our team doesn't want us.
Santorum comes along with something about this whole thing last night that, for me, felt inclusive being part of a team.
And that's important.
Being part of a team with a singular or multi-purpose, but identical goals, the expenditure of energy to achieve them.
There's there's something energizing and unifying about that.
And a lot of conservatives, a lot of Republicans have not felt as though they are on a team.
Rather, independent contractors.
I don't know if that's going to manifest itself this time around.
But I do know that if it does happen, it's going to be extremely powerful.
Because everybody wants to be on a team.
Particularly a winning team.
How many of you, for example, would love to know what it feels like, feels like to be on a Super Bowl-winning football team or a World Series winning baseball team.
You look at the number of human beings who are alive in America compared to the number of people who will ever be on such a team.
At any one time, there are 53 active players on a Super Bowl team.
You have the practice squad rostering, you've got the coaches and the front office staff.
You're basically talking 120 people comprise the winning team out of 300 million.
That's how unique it is.
In baseball, the same thing.
Basketball a little smaller.
But forget Super Bowl and baseball in your local community, being on a winning team doing something is an upper, like very few things are.
And it's been a facet or an aspect politics recently that has been absent.
at least for some of us on our side.
It's not that there hasn't been a team.
It's been that the team is comprised of people that don't win.
Thank you.
And who wants to be on a losing team at the end of the day?
But everybody wants to be on the winning team.
Everybody wants to be part of it.
And to the extent that whoever our nominee is can create that reality for people.
That we're all on a team.
There's nothing I can think of a more inspiring or motivating.
In fact, I in large part say that this was one of the strengths of Reagan.
Everybody felt on the they were on the same team and a winning team and a team that was winning for the country to boot.
I mean it was a win-win-win all the way around.
So when Santorum talks about here a plan that includes people all across the economic spectrum and a plan that says we'll work together to get America to work, it's going to take team effort to get this all done, turned around and fixed.
Here is the last of the three Santorum sound bites that we have.
If we have someone who can go out to Western Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana and Wisconsin and Iowa and Missouri and appeal to voters that have been left behind by a Democratic Party that wants to make them dependent instead of valuing their work, we will win this election.
Those are the same people that President Obama talked about who cling to their guns and their Bibles.
Thank God they do.
They share our values about faith and family.
These are the basic values that America stand for.
And those are the values that we need if we're going to go up against Barack Obama and win this election and restore the founding principles of our country to America.
It was really a heartfelt speech.
It was a good speech, and it it it uh it went on probably about ten or fifteen minutes.
Those are three sound bites.
Here is the C.S. Lewis.
This the this the uh uh Santorum quote.
C.S. Lewis said a friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
That's the definition of a friend.
That's from Santorum's speech, and I do have uh uh YouTube link for it that we'll send up to Rush Limbaugh.com.
You really should take the time to watch it.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
Welcome back, Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Santorum's speech went about twenty minutes.
I have sent the link up to Coco.
So we'll have it posted very quickly at rushlinbaugh.com.
Here's Sherry in Cordova, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Great to speak with you, Raj.
I hope your vacation was joyous and restful.
Thank you very much.
It was on both counts.
Glad to have you back.
I need to let you know a little bit about who I am.
I'm a Republican and a Tea Party person, and I'm just absolutely tickled when the the media tries to encapsulate the Tea Party.
I just think that's hysterical, that they think they need to put us in a uh compartment or define who we are.
Um I wanted to mention to you that uh the liberal media tells us how bad we have it.
They would they did a psych job on us telling us that you know we're in trouble or we're losing candidates, but you know, this very hawkey caucus was the whole um you know, it's free market at its best.
You know, it's how we select the best of the best.
And I think it's good for them uh to have had that caucus.
And um but but I get concerned that the media trades a spin it, and there are people, older people especially, I think, who believe what four, six and eight tell 'em, and um and they're kind of goable that way.
And so how stupid are we, I guess is my question.
I'm not a rush, baby.
I'm sorry to say, but I'm making up for lost time.
Yeah.
And and um you know, people who believe what the media tells them.
We're gonna get reports that are gonna talk about in this election here how improved the economy is, how improved unemployment is.
But I use myself as just one sample, and I know I'm not representative the whole population, but I'm working on paying off credit card debt.
I choose store-brand substitutes um instead of brand names that I would prefer to buy in the store trying to save money.
My husband is a business owner, and uh I get concerned about it Well, see not in is as far as the question you're asking, you're answering it for most people.
They may turn on the news.
They will turn on the news, and they're gonna hear about this robust economic recovery.
What's gonna happen is they're gonna think, well, my uh that's great, except it isn't happening to me.
The the The reverse of this is, and you're right.
Media is very powerful still.
They can convince people there's a recession when there isn't.
They can take a perfectly healthy neighborhood or community and make it feel horrible by telling it, well, you might be doing well, but I'll tell you the economy is bad out there, and people feel guilty.
They don't want to be doing well when other people aren't.
Long documented here.
How the media goes out of its way to convince people that things are bad even when they're good, and vice versa.
This is definitely going to happen.
The unemployment rate's going to magically uh reduce.
Uh the consumer confidence is going to go up, all these things are going to happen.
The counterbalance to it is that people's own lives will actually not reflect this.
And so people will have the evidence within their own homes, their own communities and neighborhoods, to know that what they're hearing isn't true.
But they will be tempted because, well, good, good.
We hope the country comes back.
If it's coming back for them that we're seeing on TV, maybe it'll happen to me later.
So it's it's it is a fact of life.
You are uh rush baby, you're just now arriving at this reality.
A lot of people have uh have been where you are.
It's a frustrating thing.
Uh, but have faith that there are far more people than you think who are not fooled and tricked by it anymore.
Not nearly as many who used to be.
The media is still very powerful, and they still can shape opinion.
It's just much harder for them to do.
But they can still do it.
But I don't think in this case, um, it's gonna take a massive amount of lying and a massive amount of up prevarication, and it is going to stand in stark contrast to reality.
The media is going to be very very, very careful how they try it this time around.
I'm glad you called a brief time out.
We got much more straight ahead right after this.
Snurdley did not believe me when I mentioned this.
By the way, the YouTube link to the Santorum speech is now posted at Rush Limbaugh.com, and you will be moved by the story of his grandfather.
You'll be moved.
I'm not I it's all I'm about to say about it.
I don't want to give any of it away.
I've already given enough away with the uh way he opened with the C.S. Lewis quote.
The story of his grandfather immigrating from Italy, it's a good story.
Snurdly could not believe it, didn't believe it.
Even now, after 23 plus years, I still am doubt it.
Some on the staff still think, still think that I would say something horribly wrong and be mistaken about it.
But I'm that careless.
When I said that we are a net exporter of gasoline, it didn't compute.
Snurdley still doesn't believe it.
I'll tell you in a moment while prices are still out, why prices are still out the roof, and they are, by the way, and that is not going to help the BAMster.
But gasoline is now the top export of the United States.
Measured in dollars, United States is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to census data going back to 1990.
It'll also be the first year in more than 60 that America has been a net exporter of these fuels.
First time in more than 60 years.
Net exporter of gasoline.
You might say, well, how can I...
I thought it was just right after Katrina we had all these shortages.
I thought we didn't have enough refining capacity.
How can this be?
Two things are happening.
The price has gone up, demand is down, we are exporting our supply away.
I'm not even making a political statement.
I'm just telling you that in the laws of supply and demand, we are exporting our excess supply, which has an impact on price.
It results in the price not coming down.
But it is a moneymaking thing.
Fuel exports are worth uh 2011 an estimated 88 billion dollars.
And there are two reasons cited, snerdly for this.
Crude oil is a lot more expensive now, and the volume of fuel exports is rising.
U.S. is uh is using less fuel because of a weak economy, more efficient cars and trucks.
We're using less.
And the price is rising.
And so we have an excess supply.
We are bec we're we're less mobile.
This is a it's a very unreported thing.
This is actually on one hand, you could say that's a good thing.
Okay, if we've got enough ex uh gas need that we get exported, but on the other hand, it's a bad thing.
It indicates a slowdown of economic activity.
Anytime you have a reduction in the use of energy, you have a concurrent reduction in economic activity.
The two go hand in hand.
It's a product of Obamaism.
No two ways about it.
Who's next?
Trisha, in Tom uh Trumbull, Connecticut.
There's an R missing up there.
Trumbull, Connecticut.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Um I'm a Tea Party conservative, and um I agree with you about um the uh distaste over um McCain endorsing Romney, and I'd like to come back to that if we have time to converse on that.
Sure.
But I uh initially called to disagree, which I seldom do, about uh Michelle Bachman.
I think she has always said exactly who she is and uh what she stands for, limited government and the social conservatism and everything, which makes her unelectable by the masses of um typical general election voters.
And I would say that because um the typical general election voter, they're either ill-informed, um, they vote on an emotional basis, or they hate social conservatives, or they're looking to the government to be their daddy.
Wait a minute.
I I understand all that.
Uh what are you disagreeing with me, El Rushbow about?
Maybe I misunderstood, but it sounded like you were saying earlier that Michelle Bachman revealed herself in this speech, um, which was excellent, but uh that she did her best job of revealing herself in her um Oh with all I know what you mean.
I mean no.
What no, what I meant was that the speech was the best one she's given.
Not that she's never said this before.
It's just I I think, and I said about everybody, every candidate getting out of a race, the exit speak.
Look, McCain in in 2008, his exit speech, everybody said was the best speech of the campaign.
And I was simply remarking why that is.
It's human nature.
The fear is gone.
There's no fear of making a mistake.
There's no because what can happen?
Um you're getting out of the race.
That that's that that that's uh it's over.
Um I I all I was saying was how good it was, not that she's not said those things before.
Oh, okay.
Well, I guess we don't disagree on that.
Not at all.
I didn't think we did.
Okay.
Good.
Um Romney, uh, you know, as I said, I'm a Tea Party conservative, and I am really kind of puzzled why Romney is so despised by most Tea Party patriots.
Uh in Connecticut, I know most of them, and uh and uh I'm wondering why you think that is.
Is is Romney a proxy for the hatred of the GOP establishment of the of the Tea Party.
Well, that's part he's not is he's not despised.
He's just he's not considered to be the best nominee.
He's not conservative.
A lot of people think that he's not conservative.
He's a flip-flopper, that he's a moderate, that he's he's not going to they they don't think that Romney sees the state of the country as dire as they do.
They don't think that Romney is at all focused on reversing the direction the country is in as drastically as it needs to be, and that he's uh more of a moderate and and and willing to work with Democrats, uh not willing to run a uh uh uh uh hard-hitting campaign because of the fear being called a racist for going after Obama and this kind of thing.
And a lot of people think, you know, we're we're this is like Michelle Bachman said, this is it.
A lot of people this election is gonna determine whether or not we go down the road to full socialism or not.
And a lot of people don't think Romney sees it that way.
That's all.
Well, I I disagree with them on that.
I I think he exactly sees those things.
And if you read even the overview of his uh financial plan, his executive orders and um the legislation he would submit to Congress on his first day in office, it it's there, the recognition of the desire the dire state we're in.
And socially, I believe he is would give the social conservatives everything they're looking for.
He's just a stealth conservative in that way.
Well, but see, they've heard him say he's not a conservative.
They've heard him say he's a moderate, he's a Massachusetts moderate.
That they've heard him make it, they've they've heard him uh his health care plan's a dead ringer for Obamas.
They there's they uh Romney thinks the country's in trouble.
The people I'm talking to, people you're asking me about think it's in danger.
Well, he he thinks it's in danger too.
If you read read what he says on on his website, and I would just say that as as governor, he has the most executive experience.
I would love to have uh a Michelle Bachman or you got less less executive experience than Perry has.
Perry even governor for longer.
Well, yeah, but I I think Romney is is more conservative when you get down to it.
And Romney has been, he's been tested, he's been inoculated, you might say.
He's been burned even by the legislative and the judicial branch in in Massachusetts, so that he knows the traps.
And I'm convinced that he would spoke earlier about an anal thing with your vehicle.
Uh he would give any judicial nominees an anal exam before even I think he was right in there with that.
I I I don't I I I think on the judicial stuff in Massachusetts, I I think he's used that as a cop-out.
I I but I look I I I don't may well end up being the nominee here, and uh at at this uh be very careful, but uh on this on the judicial thing.
Uh there have been see this is the one of the things that bothers people is that is that he's look the judges did it.
I uh I couldn't do anything about it.
Nothing I could do.
Uh judges did that I was powerless.
That this is uh people are not looking for that right now.
Somebody's gonna take it to the judges.
Well, I'm just at least verbally.
You know, th this uh the great things are at stake here.
But he recognizes uh more than all of them, I think because of his father's experience when he ran for president.
Oh, see, that doesn't help either.
He has to get elected first.
Ed's father was...
George Romney was I mean the quintessential definition of a moderate.
I have a question for you.
Okay.
Tricia, how you you love Michelle Bachman?
I do.
I I went to tea parties.
I w uh on Capitol Hill with her, and I've been she came to Connecticut.
I was in a meeting.
Have you heard the things she said about Mitt Romney?
Well, I didn't like that.
I didn't like the Newt Romney.
I hated that, but I love her in Congress, and um my husband thinks that uh that Mitt should choose her for VP.
Well, hey, speaking of that, you should know that somebody in the crowd in New Hampshire told Romney, choose McCain as your VP.
I kid you nut.
Somebody In the audience of McCain's endorsement of Romney said it'd be great if Romney would pick McCain for his running mate.
And would you be surprised if that happened?
You would.
You would be surprised if that you would, okay.
Trisha, I appreciate your call.
The constraints of time are such that I have to uh wave my butt.
It's been great to have you here, brief time out.
We'll be back and continue momentarily.
Let's play a little game here.
Let's just assume for the fun of it that Romney did choose McCain to be his VP running mate.
Like the guy in New Hampshire suggested.
What kind of combination would that give us?
Here's what we'd have.
And it's a killer combination indeed, folks.
A Romney McCain ticket.
The man who could not beat Obama teamed up with the man who could not even beat McCain.
And that's what somebody in the audience in New Hampshire actually asked for today.
What a deadly combination.
Also, a friend of mine, Colonel Mark Hassara, U.S. Air Force retired, flew KC-135 tankers in the Air Force, part of the original invasion of Gulf War of the War in Iraq.
Said he was amused listening to my conversation about how I like to goose my car off the starting line next to a Prius.
He said, You ought to tell them what we burn in a KC-135 tanker.
You know, in jet aircraft, you measure fuel by pounds, not by mileage.
In an automobile, you measured by how many miles to the gallon.
In an airplane, you measured by pounds for a number of reasons.
A, the mileage, it'd be embarrassing.
But also you have to calculate the weight of a full load or a partial load for takeoff distance landing and this weight and that kind of thing.
So Mark informs me here that a KC-135, which is the military version of a Boeing 707.
The KC-135 tanker burns 2500 pounds of jet fuel just to start the engines, taxi out and take off to 2,000 feet.
2500 pounds of jet fuel just to start the four engines, taxi out, and get up to about uh anywhere from 800 to 2,000 feet.
The B-1 bomber oftentimes requires the afterburners on for takeoff, depending on the armaments load, the fuel load.
B1, you know, I've I've when I did the Diet for Peace, I was in a B-1 cockpit.
And the B-1 bomber, which is two engines, burns 8,000 pounds a minute during afterburner takeoff.
Now you stack that up against your priests at whatever your miles to the gallon are, and you think you're safing the earth.
I love it.
I love putting this stuff in perspective.
I just got the numbers on the fuel burn for the uh for EIB 1, which uh you can see at the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at Rushlinboard.com.
It's a Gulfstream G550.
Uh 430 gallons per hour flying at Mach.85 at about 45,000 feet.
So at 45 uh 40 to 30 gallons an hour is what uh we burn on EIB 1.
You can see, folks, where uh eight miles to the gallon in my car is not really a big deal, particularly when I'm trying to goose somebody driving a Prius.
Okay, we got to take a break.
21 hour break.
But we'll be back tomorrow.
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