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Jan. 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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All right, so the drive-by is now fixated on whether or not Newt will surge in South Carolina since Huntsman has pulled out.
Newt may surge.
I have no idea, but what's the connection with Huntsman?
A huntsman have enough votes to go to anybody that make a surge.
Five percent.
Big whoop.
Now, if Nude got them all, shows up polling data, they might say, hey, look at this.
It's a new surge going on.
They're looking for it out there.
And anything is still possible, by the way, folks.
Anything's still possible.
People think this is all now in the can.
It's just a matter of letting time play out.
But anything can still happen here.
This is politics.
Great to have you back as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
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Now Snerdley just told me a story.
He knows as a female journalist, right?
Would you tell me where in the city?
Where does the journalist live?
You gotta be kidding me.
Oh, come on.
Oh, that almost makes the story not worth telling.
A journalist lives in Port St. Lucy.
Port St. Lucy is where the New York Mets Spring Training is.
Port St. Lucy is where a woman called 911 when McDonald's ran out of chicken McNuggets.
So Snerdley knows a journalist that lives in Port St. Lucy.
I know you're not going to tell me where she works, but it can't be.
It's print, but there's not, it's not an outlet in Port St. Lucie, right?
Can't be.
I mean, they don't have one.
They do.
They've got a newspaper, but it's not that.
She doesn't work for the Port.
Okay.
So she just lives there, but she doesn't work there.
All right, I just wanted to try to set as much of the table as I can.
The snerdly tells me that uh this woman had a raccoon problem in her garden.
This destroying her edible crops in her garden, plants and whatever else.
So she told Snerdley that she set traps for the raccoons.
And when the traps worked, when she caught the raccoons, she then took the raccoons to the neighborhoods of the affluent, the rich, and she released them.
So that they would have a better forage for a better grade of food in the yards of the wealthy.
That is not what I did when I discovered a mouse in my plastic trash can in Sacramento.
You wouldn't believe how many emails I'm getting from people who remember that story.
And I haven't told that story in 20 years.
I did.
I told you eight years ago because you remember you guys you've heard the story.
Well, still, okay, so I told it eight years ago.
I was still amazed that many people remember it.
So anyway, I don't have to tell it again because everybody.
Well, everybody knows it.
Everybody.
All right, very quickly.
I'm not going to take nearly the time that I took.
I've I've uh mouse in the uh well, I hear a noise in the laundry room.
Just it's within the first week of moving into my prized first ever house that I owned.
Uh there were three bedrooms.
I think there were three bedrooms, yeah, three bedrooms.
Yeah, it's about 1,800 square feet.
So it was, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
There's a model home in the development.
I I arranged that.
It's already decorated.
Pink in the master bedroom.
Don't I want to tell all this.
This just anyway.
Um I hear a noise.
Can't tell really where it's from.
I hear a noise.
It's a noise you know is not supposed to be there.
So I'm walking around the house trying to find source of the noise, and I got to the laundry room, and that's where it's loudest.
So I start looking.
I don't see anything, but I hear the noise.
I kept walking around, and finally I got to the trash can.
I look in, and there's a mouse at the bottom of it, trying to jump out.
It's about a three foot tall, three foot tall plastic trash can, yellow, no trash bag in it.
It's the bare plastic trash can mouse is trying to get out.
And I, oh my God, mouse.
That to me equals filth dirt, poison.
Oh my God, I gotta get rid of this.
But I I'm not gonna take this trash can out, so I just dump it because the neighbors will see that I got a mouse in here.
So um called my mother.
She said, Oh no, mice are cute.
I said, thanks and hung up.
And I w I don't know why, but I I went, I grabbed a can of Pam.
I just started spraying the mouse with it.
Just well, I was trying to also lubricate the side of the trash can so it couldn't climb out.
And I and the mouse liked the Pam.
Started licking the Pam wherever it could find it on itself on the side of the trash can.
Oh no, so I it wasn't working.
So I think about this.
This is a horrible I just I just started shaking that trash can as hard as I could.
The mouse bouncing around in it.
It took a long time.
And I waited for nightfall.
And I took it out and dumped it in the street.
And that's that.
I mean, but I just I actually thought the Pam would poison it.
I was looking for poison.
You know, I believed all the food Nazis back then.
That stuff was bad for you.
It didn't poison it.
The rat liked it.
The mouse, it was a little mouse.
Mitt Romney, as we move on.
Mitt Romney reached into his pocket Saturday at a rally in Sumter, South Carolina, and gave some money to an unemployed woman who started volunteering in his campaign offices this week.
Ruth Williams, 55, a Columbia, said that she was at a stop sign along I-26 on Wednesday when she saw the Romney campaign bus pull through town.
I was on the highway praying.
I said, God, tell me how to get my house lights on.
I pull up to a stop sign, his bus was there.
Williams said she followed the bus to the airport because the Lord told me to.
It sounds strange, but he really did.
God really talked me about this.
The bus was picking up Romney after his New Hampshire primary win.
Williams did not get to meet him upon his arrival, but AIDS told her to head to a rally in Columbia that evening, which she did.
Romney, briefed by his staff about her story, came over to talk to her after that rally.
She spoke to him tearfully and asked him about his economic policies.
He was kind to me, she said.
He stopped doing everything.
She told Romney she had a sixth son and was looking for a job.
I told him about my problems, and I just want to work.
I just want to work, she said.
William said that she'd been cleaning houses for home builders, but with the downturn in the housing market, had been unable to find work since October.
She said Romney took down her contact information, told her that perhaps the state of South Carolina would be able to help.
She took down the contact info for the campaign, found a warm welcome at his Columbia campaign headquarters the next day.
She said she'd been volunteering there ever since.
On Saturday, Romney recognized her at a rope line and handed her 50 or 60 dollars, according to his staff.
William said it was the first time that she has directly received money from the campaign, but South Carolina treasurer Curtis Loftus, who chairs Romney's South Carolina campaign, paid her light bill this week.
Okay, so that's the story.
Now you can imagine the cacophony on the left.
You oh buying votes.
Romney buying votes.
How shameless how Romney buying votes.
Not talking, of course, about how Obama wants to forgive every mortgage out there or refinance it.
Everything a Democrat Party does been to buy votes.
this woman works the Romney campaign.
She better work.
Anyway, CNN interviewed the woman who Romney gave money to.
The press is epoplectic that mean old Mitt Romney came to town and handed a poor woman 60 bucks to pay her light bill.
This doesn't fit the template of a mean-spirited, cold, cruel, heartless Republican.
So this morning on CNN's starting point, the hostette, Soladette O'Brien, interviewed the unemployed South Carolina woman, Ruth Williams.
This is the woman that Romney gave 60 bucks to Saturday.
Soladette O'Brien said some people who say this morning that it's an indication Romney's an out-of-touch millionaire.
Now I know you've had a rough go of it, but how would that?
How would wait a minute now?
How would giving a woman $60 equate to being an out-of-touch millionaire?
Should it have been $600?
But how how does that connection get made?
No, seriously.
What did Obama do when some woman shows up in a town all begged for a new kitchen for crying out loud?
Begged for a new car.
Obama put her together with somebody who gave her that.
Give her a house for crying out loud, if I recall right.
It was over in Tampa or Clearwater.
Well, publicly Obama gave her a bunch of words.
Technically, Obama said, Well, oh, oh, well, it's typical of the way things are.
That's why we got a stimulus program.
And then behind the scenes, the couple Democrat donors, hey, hey, I'll give her a house.
Obama campaign said cool.
Gave her a house.
No, it wasn't out of his personal stash.
It's never out of a liberal's personal stash.
It's always somebody else.
Here Romney gives her 50, 60 bucks of his own money.
So the question that Solidan O'Brien said, you lost your job in October.
You were praying for some guidance when you saw Mitt Romney's bus.
What happened?
I saw Mitt Romney bus on the highway.
And the Lord told me to get off to exit.
So me and the bus driver started saying, Go Romney, go Romney.
And God told me to follow the bus.
And I followed the bus to the airport.
During that time when I spoke to him, and I told him my problem, he just didn't walk away from me.
He held my arm, and he called Governor Haley and a couple of her aides.
Um, I think it was Curtis Lofton, and he went in his pocketbook, and he got money and he paid for my light bill.
People wonder why I'm black and I'm going for a Mormon.
But it's got nothing to do with that.
I think Martin Luther King's main thing that he said today was not to judge a person by the color of their skin, but by the context of their character.
Yeah, content, but we're not supposed to remember that.
So Soladette O'Brien said, okay, now there are a bunch of people who will say, you know, that was a media event, right?
He gives her some cash, could pay her light bill, and now this morning they're talking about it on the news.
It was a calculated political strategy.
Romney really didn't mean it.
Romney's really not a nice guy.
Romney was really using you.
That's what a lot of people are gonna say.
What that means is this is what I, Soladette O'Brien, am thinking is what I hope you now say.
So what is it, Ms. Williams?
It wasn't, it was a divine intervention by the Holy Spirit.
And I listened to what God said.
I've never known anything about him.
I've never done anything for him.
I've never even spoken to him.
You cannot bow, vote with 55 or 60 dollars.
I need work.
I used to have a cleaning business, but my son was in coma.
We lost everything.
All I asked for is work.
My daughter worked at Kmart.
She worked 15 hours a week, and that's how we live.
And it's really hard.
We don't even have a refrigerator.
I'll clean, I'll I'll work while it's his honest and I can go to sleep on it.
I think that's what most people want.
I don't think people want handouts.
I think you feel better when you work for I'm 55.
Do you know how hard it is to get a job at 55?
Yeah.
So they were hoping that uh, of course, this woman would indict Romney.
He thinks he could buy my vote for 55 dollars.
He's got another thing coming.
What do you think I am?
Rick Perry?
That's what they were hoping for.
But it got the woman, African American, loving Hurstom Romney, as Huckabee says, and it just didn't fit the template.
Just didn't fit the template.
Some mean-spirited rich guy not supposed to be doing stuff like this.
Yep, yep, it's exactly what I said.
The left is saying Obama, or I'm sorry, Romney giving this woman 55 or 60 dollars is like the Rockefellers passing out dimes.
55 or 60.
Come, it's more of a that's really an insult.
It's an insult.
How do you give somebody 55 or 60?
Maybe that's all he's carrying.
Who knows?
But still it's not enough.
They don't give her a dime.
The media people gave her jack, you know what?
Unless they can get their hands into the back pocket of somebody else.
By the way, here's how this works.
In Atlanta, Ebenezer Baptist Church, this is the day before Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, gave a political speech from the pulpit.
Democrats can do that, you know.
In support of her boss, Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
And congressional Democrats.
And here's just 11 seconds of what she said.
Teachers and firefighters and policemen whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress.
Well, let me be specific.
Because the Republicans in Congress.
Teachers.
Firefighters and policemen.
When was the last time those were paid by the federal government?
When were firefighters and policemen paid by the federal government?
Well, yeah, the stimulus, but they gave the money to the states.
Remember, they gave the money to California.
They got an additional stimulus, and California's supposed to use it to hire teachers, and they didn't.
They used the money to uh give the existing teachers raises and pad the pension funds.
They didn't hire anybody new.
But that's not my point, really.
So here's Valerie Jarrett railing again.
Congratulations, Republicans, who will lay off teachers and firefighters and policemen.
Barack Obama is going to fire 80,000 soldiers.
It's defense cuts.
So it's okay.
We're supposed to applaud the regime getting rid of 80,000 soldiers.
Maybe shutting down an aircraft carrier.
But boy, we're not going to fire a policeman.
What's the difference in a cop and a soldier, really, when you get down to it?
The glaring big difference is the soldier doesn't kick anything back to Obama.
It's not a unionized.
The teachers, the police officers and the firefighters, whether they want to be or not, are unionized.
Who's next?
We go to Oh, Madison, Mississippi.
Jim, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Ah, Master Maha Rushi, this neophyte grasshopper slips carefully across the rice paper to bask in the majesty of your wisdom and intellect and offer a humble observation.
Let's hear it.
Joanne was headed somewhat in the right direction, but she missed your point earlier in the program, and that is that it's all about ideology.
And it is all about ideology.
And these moderate conservatives and these Tea Party's members that rep that uh are in favor of these isolationist candidates are going to keep splitting the vote, and we are running out of time.
In about 60 to 90 days, any of those candidates out there that are truly conservative that would run against these rhinos in the Senate and in the House, they're gonna have to declare.
And if they don't have confidence in who's going to be the nominee, they are not going to declare.
And Reed and the Democrats have already recognized this.
He came out this weekend and stated that the Republicans, he hoped they had learned their lesson from the Tea Partiers and not to listen to them.
And he hoped the Tea Partiers would stop interfering with government.
And he knows that between the media, the Democrats, and the establishment Republicans, that Romney and his like will fold like a cheap lawn chair.
And they cannot withstand the media scrutiny.
And that's what's going to promise us possibly 12 years of Democratic control of the Congress and the Senate.
Well, I lost track of you.
I'm still fixated.
I'm obviously you are you were criticizing Ron Paul in there.
Correct?
Yes.
You're criticizing Ron Paul as a pseudo-conservative who is attracting people under false premise.
Right.
That this is splitting the vote.
And the moderate conservatives and the I don't know what a moderate conservative.
Who is who is a moderate?
There's no such thing.
Who's a moderate conservative?
Rhino conservative.
Oh, a moderate Republican.
Yeah, moderate Republican.
You're right.
Okay.
So mod that that would be McCain Romney so-and-so.
Yes.
And you think time gets tough though.
What's the Harry Reed point?
The Harry Reid point is he came out over the weekend and he said that he hoped that the Republicans had learned their lesson, especially the Republicans in the House, on following what the Tea Partyers were attempting to push, uh following the direction that the Tea Partyers were attempting to push them in.
And so what he's trying to do is he's trying to send out a warning signal to those who are following the Tea Party more conservative uh attitudes, and he's also trying to intimidate the Tea Partyers into not taking a more viable uh road.
He won't succeed.
He won't succeed with the Tea Party people.
Um, and I doubt that he but he could he may not have that much work to do, really, with the Republican leadership.
They're already leery of the tea party.
And they've tried to put them in their place ever since they got there.
You know, our caller from Mississippi.
Um Mississippi was making a really, really good point.
This Harry Reed business, what what Harry Reid really wants everybody to forget is the midterms in 2010.
That's what Harry Reid wants everybody to forget.
But what Harry Reid's words over the weekend, he is he is he's trying to uh confirm in the minds of Republicans that the Tea Party will lead them astray.
And he cited the battle that the Republicans took this huge PR loss on with Boehner Du Bois on the uh extension of the payroll tax.
And that's Gingy Harry said he hoped the Republicans would have learned a lesson.
Quote unquote, learned a lesson, talking about the fight House Republicans put up in the payroll tax holiday debate in December.
Says it was a disaster for them politically.
And it might have been at the moment, but it's not now.
People have forgotten it.
It's not a thing that's going to be remembered.
Uh well, some Republicans may remember it, but it's not going to be a presidential election issue when we get to November.
What Harry Reid, Harry and the Democrats are scared to death of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives.
They are scared to death of it.
The Tea Party caucus in the House is what is the door jam, if you will, on legislation being rubber stamped in the House and Senate.
And he is trying to intimidate Republicans into saying you're going to lose PR battles, you're going to lose uh image-wise, you'll these Tea Party people have their way.
And I hope you learned a lesson.
We cleaned your clock in that payroll tax extension debate.
We embarrassed you, and it was because Boehner and the boys had to pay attention to the Tea Party people.
What they really are afraid of is conservatives conservatism triumphing or winning, and they don't want anybody to remember the midterms, the November 2010 midterms.
That's what they want to wipe from Everybody's mind.
And if they could do that, that would be huge.
November 2010 was a shellacking for the Democrats.
And it was independents and Republicans coming together to vote against Obama and his policies as often and as frequently as they could, and as far down the ballot as they could go.
Was a devastating defeat for the Democrats.
And naturally Dingy Harry.
And every other Democrat would like to recast that election.
Position it as a quirk of fate.
The over the weekend dingy Harry also called the Republicans in Congress obstructionists on steroids.
He obviously thinks that we have forgotten that he said just last week that no matter who the Republican nominee is, if he's elected, Harry Reed will not work with him.
Harry Reid said, no, I'm not going to work with whoever.
While we are being told that we have to elect a candidate can work with the other side to get along with people, got to come together.
The Senate majority leader is out publicly saying, I'm not going to work with whoever the Republican nominee is if he wins.
No way, Jose.
It ain't happening.
Yeah, Democrats have not produced a budget.
They haven't done anything.
They're constitutionally required to do it.
It's all been politics.
Pure and simple.
But this whole notion that the Tea Party is a bunch of extremists, and the Republicans had better learn that.
And they should ditch them.
The Democrats, if we will just have the courage to listen, will tell us every day what they are really afraid of.
Do you think Harry Reed is really interested in Republicans doing the right thing?
I mean, things that'll help them.
You think Harry Reid really is motivated by having the Republicans do well, elect people that will do well from the Republican point of view?
Hell no.
Harry Reed is telling us they're scared to death of the Tea Party and they're ticked off at them, and that the Tea Party is the only thing stopping them from getting done what they want to get done.
The Tea Party's the only break on Obamaism.
That's what Harry Reid's telling us.
Now, whether our people have the courage to admit this to themselves is another matter.
Well, no, I doubt it because what happens when the Democrats and the media started ripping into Sarah Palin, what's our party do?
Throw her overboard.
Did they not?
It's sad but true.
We can't have the media saying that about our candidate.
I can't tell you the number of people I know who said, Russia, you got to drop Palin, they've destroyed her.
Oh, you're going to make it that easy.
You want to make it that easy?
The left, you admit the media just destroyed.
Yeah, we got to nominate somebody they can't destroy.
Well, can you give me a name?
Can you give me a name of somebody they won't destroy?
Can you give me a name of somebody the media on our side respect so much that they'll not only not destroy, they'll support?
Can you give me that name?
Really?
I look at I look at these people I know, my friends, and what in the world are you smoking?
When did you get so stupid?
They tell us, they tell you to get rid of Palin, you say, okay, when?
How about tomorrow?
And then after that, what have you won?
Then they tell you to get rid of Sharon Angle.
They could tell you get rid of Christ O'Donnell.
And then they tell you, don't let Newt get anywhere in it.
Don't let anybody.
You haven't the slightest idea what they're doing here.
You think they really want us to nominate somebody can beat them?
Do you think they really want us to nominate a candidate that can beat Obama?
Do you think they really want to help us out?
Is that really what Harry Reed's all about?
Harry Reed really trying to help us beat Obama?
Is Harry Reed really trying to tell us how to beat him in the Senate?
That's what he's doing.
When he tells us you guys got to get rid of the Tea Party.
They're embarrassing you.
He's doing this for our benefit?
Harry Reed?
Who said last week he's not going to work with whoever wins the Republican nomination if that person's elected president?
Why is it so hard to believe these people?
We sit around, we demand truth all the time.
We get it from them, actually in a camouflaged way, but what's so hard about believing them?
I remember, whoa, that early.
I remember blowing up at some guests at my own house, dinner table.
I literally blew up.
I think I told you people the story.
And I lost my cool.
I lost my patience because these guys were telling me they were just quoting media report after media report how stupid Palin was.
They said, look, they've destroyed her.
We got to move on.
I said, thanks.
I don't want to have you guys in my foxhole if I'm ever in one.
You run around, you have a white flag in your back pocket to wave it whenever it's convenient.
Since when are these people trying to help us?
Harry Reid says over the weekend, you gotta get rid of the tea party.
You guys if you want to avoid being embarrassed like we embarrassed you in December, then Harry Reed, I Harry Reid said, I don't want to embarrass you guys.
I actually want to work with you.
I I would like to help you guys win something now and then.
That's Harry Reed.
Right.
We're gonna believe that.
God help us.
Who's next?
Nancy in uh Matuchin.
Metuchin, New Jersey.
Hi, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Honor and a privilege to speak with you.
Thank you.
Um been a long time listener, thanks to my mom.
Um I was I was listening earlier.
You had a woman on there who uh didn't care for Romney, but she would vote for him.
And I'm a small business owner for 23 years now.
And that would be the only reason why I would vote for Romney also if he was our Republican nominee.
Because of his business experience?
Absolutely.
I got a poll here.
I wasn't gonna mention this, but no, I'm gonna it's a Rasmussen poll.
And um 48%, I don't know what the universe is here.
I'm not sure if it's voters or Republicans.
No, a plurality of all voters think that Romney would do a better job with the economy than Obama by 48 to 39 percent.
So in the Rasmussen poll, Romney has a nine-point lead in Obama on the question of who would do better with the economy.
Absolutely.
I mean, sometimes you gotta know when to fold them, you know, and start over.
And uh yeah, that's what makes you successful.
You can't hold on to things that fail.
Yeah, Clint Eastwood said dirty Harry wants it after murdering a bad guy.
So the man's got to know his limitations.
That's it.
Guy was lousy with a gun or something.
That's what's worked for me.
And but see that that conflicts with everything that we like Winston Churchill in the other hand says, never, ever, never, never give up.
Dirty Harry, man's got to know when to give up.
You know, you gotta know what's evil in front of you.
Well, what you're saying is, okay, we gotta figure out here.
Some point if Romney's a nominee, that's there's nothing we can do about that.
What's the objective?
Beating Obama, right?
Absolutely.
And so there's one alternative to that.
If they if the only alternative to that ends up being Romney, then it's a no-brainer.
That's what you're saying.
Absolutely.
And you do it with maybe uh, you know, you'll you'll hold your nose, but you'll still do it.
Absolutely.
You know, I can't afford four more years of him.
So uh, you know, anybody that we have would be far better than Obama.
I just have to ask, is your business owned by Bain Capital?
Oh, no.
All right, I just had to ask.
No, no, it's not.
Has it ever been owned by Bain?
Has a member of the Bayern Board ever bought anything at your business?
No, I've never been contacted by them either.
Has Mid Romney ever given you 55 or 60 dollars?
No, he hasn't.
Okay.
No.
All right.
Here's, folks, the way I look At it, and I uh by the way, Nancy, I appreciate the call.
Um I don't know.
I gotta think about it.
I was gonna say something, but I've I gotta think about it.
I got um I'm thinking about the concept of the lesser of two evils here and throwing Obama into that mix, and I'm just need to think about it a little.
Here's uh Nora in Fort Lauderdale.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Oh gosh, Rush, I'm so happy to be able to speak with you.
You're the best of the best.
Thank you very much.
I have a point I'd like to make.
Uh I think that Newt Gingrich is the only one that can smash the Obama regime.
Uh I think he'll throw everything at him.
And I think he knows all the dirty little secrets in Washington that he could handle.
Not only that, but when I when I hear my friends talk about Ob uh about Romney, they say, Oh, he looks so presidential, but who cares about what he looks like?
Not only that rush, but he got the the endorsement from McCain, who is I think that's the kiss of depth, because McCain is the one that is the reason we have this problem.
Yeah, I I I I kind of it kind of puzzled me too up there in New Hampshire.
The presidency to Obama.
And I'm so mad at him, and then I also blame Huckabee for pushing uh uh endorsing uh McCain.
And then when his he ran such a half-dead campaign, and Sarah Palin was the only spark uh in his campaign, and then all she got, she and her family is criticism.
And so I am so angry at McCain.
And I and I just think Newt is fantastic, and I'm glad that he's going after Romney.
And I think that's the only thing he could do because Mr. Nice Guy finishes last.
I'm glad you got through.
Glad you got through.
And by the way, I, just for the record, am a nice guy.
CBS Sports is trying to hire Tim Tebow for the broadcast team coverage of the AFC championship game, the Patriots and the Ravens for this Sunday.
Sean McManus, whose father was Jim McKay, has uh contacted Tebow's people and are hoping for a response by midweek.
CBS Sports wants T bowl on the broadcast coverage Sunday.
Which means, folks, that some people will even put profit ahead of their agnosticism.
Just goes to show.
And we will see you tomorrow.
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