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Jan. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, every time I mention a blogger, it doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter what blog site I cite.
Other bloggers send me emails saying they're phonies, they're creeps.
The hatred in the blogger community is funny.
Uh so sometimes I'm hesitant to mention bloggers because I don't like getting emails and that blogger, he's a phony, he's a thief.
That was mine first.
Everybody's still.
But I've got a blog here, a guy named Dan Real.
I I think that's how you pronounce his name.
It's R I E H L. Might be Ryle.
And he claims that the video of Newt bashing Reagan is bogus.
This 1988 uh audio that we played of Newt saying that Reagan's wrong and this kind of that.
Uh here's a little blog post.
There's a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Ronaldus Magnus, as my word, when talking about how Bush Sr. should run his campaign, should not run as more Reagan, but do something new.
Real writes, as I suspected, it's edited to give a false impression.
What you don't see is immediately after when Gingridge praises Reaganism and the Reagan platform.
If you can't watch it all, it begins at about two minutes and thirty seconds in to confirm it's the same segment.
It's the minute or two afterward that you also need to hear to understand that Newt was not bashing Reagan.
He was merely saying Bush isn't Reagan, the GOP needs something new to sell.
So I knew something like this was going to happen.
It's not really that it's been doctored, is that it has been selectively chosen from.
So I sent it up to Cookie.
Because I can't listen to it.
I didn't have the time to listen to it.
Cookie said, Look, this thing is an hour long.
I'm sure he praises Reagan at some point or another, but I wouldn't say it's doctored.
So my expert says it's not doctored.
The blogger says it's been selectively edited or chosen.
So I just wanted to get it out there.
I think Cookie is protesting, having to listen to an hour of Newt, basically here, in order to find what I asked her to fight.
Anyway, uh, folks, great to have you back.
Rush Linball having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Apparently, Muchell Obama did not go with Barack Obama to Vegas.
Well, no, there are media reports that he just ordered 12 pizzas and cannolis from uh Dom DeMarco's Pizzeria and Bar in Vegas.
You know darn well if Muchell was there, that wouldn't happen.
By the way, Dawn, you'll be interested in this.
Let me f oh, how about this?
I got folks, there is so much here.
I need a six-hour show today, and I I just I don't have the time, and your station wouldn't carry it.
GM says the vault has become a political punching bag.
Really?
Uh Reuters has a hit piece coming on Marco Rubio, and in it he sunk the Titanic, he set the Hindenburg on fire, he was the second shooter in the grassy knoll, and he's encouraging children to abuse pets and skip school while fundraising for the Nazis.
No, it doesn't say that, but it may as well.
I mean, that I'm trying to illustrate what an absolutely horrible hit piece Reuters is running on Marco Rubio.
I'll tell you, every gun in politics is trained on Republicans in Florida today, except Santorum and Romney.
Those are the two that nobody's shooting at.
Wall Street Journal.
Dawn, this is for you.
What is the modern marriage killer?
It's more common than adultery.
And as toxic as adultery.
What is it?
According to the jurors, not my opinion, there's a news.
There is an actual Wall Street Journal story on this.
Meet the marriage Killer.
It's not adultery.
It's more common than adultery.
And potentially as toxic.
And it's not money.
I'll give you a hint by reading the first paragraph.
Ken McDougall bit into the sandwich his wife had packed him for lunch and noticed something odd.
A post-it note tucked between the ham and the cheese.
He pulled it out of his mouth.
He smoothed the crinkles and he read what his wife had written.
Be in aisle 10 of Home Depot tonight at 6 p.m.
Mr. McDougall was renovating the couple's Oak Ridge, New Jersey kitchen.
His wife had been urging him to pick out the floor tiles.
He felt he had plenty of time to do this task.
She felt he wasn't listening.
I thought the note was an ingenious and hysterical way to get his attention, said his wife, Janet Pfeiffer, who is a motivational speaker.
When recalling the incident, which occurred several years ago, her husband didn't see it that way.
I don't need a reminder in the middle of my sandwich.
I don't need a post-it note between the ham and cheese.
Okay, now I asked the question.
What is more common than adultery and potentially as toxic toxic?
What is the marriage killer?
No, not nagging women, nagging.
That's what the story nagging the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a demand, the other person repeatedly ignores it, and both become increasingly annoyed is an issue every couple will grapple with at some point.
While the word itself, nagging, can provoke chuckles and eye rolling.
A dynamic can potentially be as dangerous to a marriage as adultery or bad finances.
Experts say it's exactly the type of toxic communication that can eventually sink a relationship.
Why do we nag?
We have a perception that we won't get what we want from the other person, so we feel we need to keep asking in order to get it, said a psychologist.
It's a vicious circle, the naggie tires of the badgering and starts to withhold, which makes a nagger nag even more.
Personality contributes to the dynamic, the psychologist says.
An extremely organized, obsessive or anxious person may not be able to refrain from giving reminders, especially if the partner's laid back and often does things at the last minute.
Other people are naturally resistant.
Some might say the lazy and could bring out the nager in anybody.
And wives to No, it is possible.
It is possible for husbands to nag and wives to resent them for nagging, but women are far more likely to be the naggers, experts say, largely because they're conditioned to feel more responsible for managing home and family life.
Men are to blame too, because they don't always give a clear answer.
Anyway, in the Wall Street Journal, a typically long Wall Street Journal story on nagging as the marriage killer.
And our resident expert on women in marriage is nodding his head in agreement in there.
Also serves the official program observer.
Mr. Snerdley, to the sound bites we go, ladies and gentlemen.
This afternoon in Vegas at UPS Las Vegas South.
Barack Obama talking about the economy and developing American energy.
A quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle class households.
Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
I know because she was at the State of the Union.
She told me.
Now that's not fair.
Now he's dragging her around.
She just happened to show up.
Did you know that?
She just Warren Buffett's secretary, who works in the Buffett sweatshop at Berkshire Hathaway, got out, happened to find her way to the house chamber.
She's up there sitting next to the first lady, and Obama said, Well, why might look who's here?
And he talked to her, and she told him That she's paying twice the tax rate as her as her sweatshop boss.
Except Warren Buffett's not the problem.
America is the problem.
Now we gotta get Bill Gates in the rotation.
Here's Obama again.
When Americans talk about folks like me paying their fair share of taxes, it's not because they envy the rich.
Just yesterday, Bill Gates said he agrees with me that most that Americans who can't afford it should pay their fair share.
I promise you, Bill Gates does not envy the rich.
He doesn't envy wealthy people.
This has nothing to do with envy.
It has everything to do with math.
Let me tell you what it is.
I made this point yesterday, and this is exactly what it is.
Every filthy rich person, the vast majority of them, can't say every in all instances, but vast majority, the filthy rich have figured it out.
In public, you say and act liberal.
Why?
It's your insurance policy.
You're filthy rich.
You have 40 billion dollars.
You run around and say you're not paying enough, and nobody else is either, and the peasants with the pitchforks will leave you alone.
You think when they get fed up and come for the money.
It worked for the Kennedys.
It's working for Bill Gates.
It's working for Buffett.
This is why they do it.
They're protecting themselves.
This is how they hold on to their own money, folks.
This is how they turn hatred and resentment for the rich into love and respect for themselves.
They align themselves with Democrats, they align themselves with the social welfare.
They constantly talk about the poor and the disadvantaged, how the rich aren't paying enough.
How could the peasants disagree?
How can the peasants get mad at them?
That leaves only the Republicans who are the filthy rich who want to hoard it all and share it all.
And unlike Buffett, who didn't get rich by stealing from the poor, that's exactly how the Republicans do it.
Nothing about envy.
These guys, Gates and Buffett, they're using Obama as much as he's using them.
This is how they end up being left alone.
This is how they have an insurance so that the peasants with pitchforks are not following around everywhere asking for money or extorting money or whatever, because the peasants with pitchforks end up thinking Buffett and Gates are on their side and are working very hard to make sure that the rich pay more, but not that the poor get more.
It's such a it's a s it's a scam, it's a game or what have you.
But this business of Buffett's secretary as a victim.
They're really making this look like Warren Buffett is a guy with a sweatshop with one in in five minutes.
Warren Buffett could fix his secretary situation.
If it even needs to be.
Now I want to go back to something we had on this program August 5th of last year.
It was a story in the UK Daily Mail.
This story did not make it into the American media.
It was a report from the Internal Revenue Service that the U.S. media did not report.
And I'm reading from my transcript of this show August 5th of last year.
And in the Internal Revenue Service report, the rich are defined this way.
There are 8,000.
You'll remember this when I give you the numbers.
If you were listening that day.
There are 8,274 people with incomes of $10 million or more in this country.
What do you think the combined income of those 8,274 people was in 2009?
And at the time, I asked Snurdly and Dawn and Brian to take a wild guess.
And Brian came within $10 million.
I'll ask you again.
Since we're talking about people not paying their fair share.
And Warren Buffett and Bill Gates out there joining this scam.
Which is all, in their case, oriented toward protecting themselves.
These guys both love fawning media coverage today.
They thrive on it.
Both these guys strive for and love to be either number one or number two on the Forbes richest list.
I remember when I was growing up, and I I mean this was true with you.
When I was growing up, you did not talk about how much money you earned.
It was the epitome of being boorish.
It was a sign of having no class.
If you had a you didn't talk about your money, you didn't laud it over anybody, you didn't, you just didn't talk about it.
It was not considered good manners.
I know that sounds quaint.
Now, just the exact opposite, and don't think these guys are trying to hide it.
They're jockeying, they want to be number one and number two.
They have fun switching back and forth.
They have people working Forbes get on these lists and so forth.
Don't doubt me.
Listen, I'm just telling you, they want and they crave fawning media coverage.
They're not unique in that regard.
The people who don't care about how they appear in the media, those are the people that are unique.
Most people just live and die by people of the public eye, they sweat it out.
They have PR agents and firms trying to get good coverage and so forth.
Hollywood people, financial, you name it.
And these guys are no different.
And one of the ways you avoid being tagged as a rich, heartless, mean-spirited Republican, is to simply be a liberal and tell everybody how much money you've got.
You run around and say, I don't think we're paying enough taxes.
I'm gonna give all of my money to charity.
I'm gonna set up this foundation, and you are gold.
You're golden, you're protected, you're safe.
You become a protected member of the elite wealthy Democrat Party class, and they'll go out of their way to protect you.
Do a couple inside deals with the president, whatever, and you're in like Flint, and you're guaranteed good coverage.
Why, even some lughead like Schwarzenegger might seek your advice when he runs for governor.
And then in the midst of all that, we hear a story about how your secretary is mistreated.
Well, here's the answer.
The combined income of the 8,274 people with incomes of 10 million is 200 forty billion dollars.
240 billion dollars.
That's the combined income of everybody in this country who earns more than 10 million a year.
240 billion.
How long could you run the government on that?
18 days.
Well, 24 days, but 25% of the money already goes to the federal government for federal interest.
So 18 days.
You could run the government on 18 days on the combined income of the 8,274 people who make incomes over 2 million, 10 million a year.
Which means the answer to our problem is not raising their taxes, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here, the excellence in broadcasting number cookie is defiant.
She's given me a minute and a half of the Newton bite, and she's insistent that nobody's doctored this and nobody's changed.
And I've read the transcript, and I think that's that's true.
Newt still says uh look, the 80s were great, but we got to look forward.
Uh people people care about the future.
He praises Reagan in the bite, which the first the uh excerted by doesn't include any of them, but it doesn't change the fact that uh while praising Reaganism, he still says to George Bush, you you're wasting your time if you campaign on Reaganism.
Nobody wants some more of the past.
We want to look forward.
Nothing changes about that.
So the um Cookster was right.
So 8,274 people earn 240 million or billion dollars.
Run the government for 18 days.
And they're not paying their fair share.
Right.
And taxing them more is gonna improve what?
From the Hill.com, an Obama-backed electric car battery maker has filed for bankruptcy.
An Indiana-based energy storage company whose subsidiary received a 118.5 million dollar stimulus grant from the energy department filed for bankruptcy today.
Enner one is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York to approve a plan to restructure the company's debt and infuse 81 million in equity funding.
Oh, yeah.
The private equity for the capitalism.
Looking to cap.
So part of the stimulus to get you jobs went to a battery company.
That's a new name, uh, energy storage battery company.
118 and a half million dollars from Obama's porculus bill.
Bankrupt.
Sylindra.
All this green energy stuff goes nowhere.
Here's uh here's Dan, Cherry Hill, North Carolina.
Hi, Dan, great to have you on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Thanks for taking my call, Megadiddo's from Otario State, right?
Thank you, sir, very much.
I was listening to you on the way home from work rush, and I was listening to you read the Bob Dole piece, and I was listening to you talk about the established Republican uh elite up in Washington, doesn't want Newt Ginger just as a nominee.
And you know, for us go to work every day, you know, middle-class guys, that just fires me up.
That just means I won't nuke that much more.
We need somebody in Washington to shake the Republicans up.
So we need you those new guys got elected in 2010, and and they're under the weight of the Republican establishment.
Nah, we need somebody up there that will shake some stuff up.
I I was wondering.
I Dan, thank you.
Let me tell you what he's saying.
I was wondering, I was hoping.
I don't hope.
I was I was curious to see if I'd get any calls today from people who say this Newt stuff doesn't bother us.
And I'm now Newt is dropped precipitously in the Rasmussen poll.
At the beginning of the week, I forget Rasmussen was newt up, he was either tied or up.
I can't they they arrived here from South Carolina, and Newt was leading in the polls at one poll he was up twelve, I know, and another poll seven or eight, and they were talking.
Oh my God, what we thought it was gonna be Romney.
My God, if Newt wins Florida, oh no, the whole thing is upset.
Oh, gee, what are we gonna do?
The latest Rasmussen today has Romney 39 and Newt 31.
So Newt's gone from whatever he was over Romney, he's now 3931 trailing Romney before I think this stuff hit.
I'm not the poll came out today.
I don't know if it's a phone poll that included uh phone calls last night when this stuff started.
But I was just wondering how many people on the Newt bandwagon look at all this stuff, say, you know, you people, you think you can turn us off to Newt.
You think you can drive us away, you think you can force us to run to Romney, but you're just wrong.
And this guy from Cherry Hill, North Carolina, Dan, you know what he's basically saying?
We want somebody who everybody hates.
We want somebody who doesn't get along with people in Washington.
Washington is the problem.
If somebody, if Washington hates somebody, that's good enough for us.
That's what he's saying.
That's what he's saying.
Washington hates Newt newts who we want.
These people, Tea Party, they're sick and tired of the Washington Insiders, the elites running everything, both parties.
And I was wondering how many new how many.
Not in this campaign, he's not.
We're not talking reality here, Snertley.
Snurtley shouting at me.
What are you talking about?
Newt's the ultimate Washington says lived there 35 or 40,000 years.
I know, I know.
But perception.
Perception is that everybody in Washington is now trying literally take him out, and the newsters are saying, that's exactly who we want.
If they hate him, we love him.
I don't know how widespread the sediment is.
But it um it is out there.
And that's what Dan from Cherry Hill was talking about.
Tom in uh Lenore County, North Carolina.
Hi.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next.
How are you doing, Rush?
Just fine, sir.
Thanks much.
Glad to talk to you.
I'm calling from the great state of North Carolina.
Right, just said that.
But that's not why I called.
Tell us why you called.
I called to tell you some great news from the state of North Carolina that's just come out today, and that is Family Purdue is quitting.
Yeah, I saw that.
What is her nickname, Dumplin?
You got me there.
Dumplin, uh, a little dumpling or whatever.
Yeah, she's uh she's getting out, and this is this is not cool.
Uh one of the reasons.
North Carolina has become a very important state for Obama for the Democrats, and one of the reasons they chose to have their convention in Charlotte was to prop up Dumplin.
Bev Purdue, and she's this is the governor who suggested last year suspending the congressional elections for a couple terms so as to take the pressure off of them and let them do the right thing rather than have to do everything to get re-elected.
And then when there was an uproar, everybody said, she said, eh, just kidding.
Come on, she doesn't really think that.
She was just in a lighthearted moment.
And she wasn't kidding.
Suspend a couple of uh congressional elections so that the members can vote conscience free without having to worry about being re elected.
So speaking of that, there this next story.
We haven't had a homeless update, and I can't, because we generally don't get homeless news when you have a Democrat in the White House.
And we have we've had occasional homeless stories, but nothing big.
There haven't been a whole lot of stuff to talk about here, but we've got a genuine homeless update here.
There are a pair of bills making their way through the Florida legislature, authored by Republicans, that would have local homeless people sleeping on the 50-yard line of Sun Life Stadium or up in the rafters of the American Airlines arena in Miami.
Florida State Senator Mike Bennett from Bradenton, State Representative Frank Artilles from Miami, uh, or R.T.S., I'm not sure he pronounces it, have introduced bills to demand Florida's professional sports franchises to either start housing homeless people in their stadiums and arenas or give back the hundreds of millions of dollars they have received from the state.
When you don't build your own stadium, when you ask the taxpayers to build it, load a couple Republicans and they come along and say, you know what?
The state built that taxpayer money.
We got a homeless problem.
When you're not using a stadium, we're putting them in there.
We're gonna put them on the 50-yard line.
We're gonna put them in American Airlines Arena.
These are Republicans who propose this.
Two Republicans proposed this.
I want to make good citizens out of them, Bennett told CBS 4 News on Tuesday.
Here we are cutting money for Medicaid, we're cutting money for education, we're cutting money for homeless programs and shelters, all these other things, and we're saying, you know what?
Maybe we should ask for that money back since they don't do it, they don't comply, they choose to ignore the law.
Uh and and the law Bennett refers to as a provision of a 1988 statute requiring teams that take state money to convert to homeless shelters when the teams aren't playing.
It's a law that's already on the books from 1988.
In the 23 years the law's been in existence, it's never been enforced.
They're simply asking that it be enforced.
You know what?
You you Republicans in North Carolina, you might want to try this.
Because Obama's gonna use what what I forget the name of the stadium.
Bank of America Stadium, is it?
In Charlotte.
That's where Obama's gonna do his acceptance speech.
74,000 people with the fake Greek columns again.
Put the homeless in there.
Democrats like to sweep the homeless as far away from their venues as they can each time they're going to do something like this.
By the way, the story that we've heard for years that fried food is a heart risk.
It's a myth.
There is no added heart risk to fried food.
Especially it's in fact, if you eat fried food with olive oil, you might even be helping yourself.
But eating fried food does not increase your risk of heart problems at all, according to the latest research.
That's just what the experts say now, folks.
Here's Sherry, Morris, Illinois.
Sherry, I wanted to get to you.
You've been holding a while and I appreciate it.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I support Newt Gingrich.
I am not at all shocked by these revelations.
Newt Gingrich is a very smart man.
And there is absolutely no way you can become an agent of change in the Republican Party unless you become a part of the establishment.
And if that meant recruiting Ronald Reagan to move into the establishment, then that's what he did.
You can't do anything from outside the tent.
You gotta become part of inside the tent.
I firmly believe that Nancy Reagan, Michael Reagan, would not be endorsing Newt Greenbridge if he wasn't a conservative.
Maybe Newt is behind these attacks on himself on purpose.
Because this seems to be firming up his support.
You know, I don't doubt it.
He is a very intelligent man.
And, you know, you have to be an idiot to look at and say he had to become part of the establishment to do several things.
We never would have had a contract with America.
He never would have been Speaker of the House.
That's right.
And once both sides of the aisles realized they'd been duped, they both closed ranks around him, and that's why he got pushed out the door.
There you have it.
All right.
Uh Sherry, thanks so much.
I wish I had more time.
We're really up against it here.
But um consider that.
It's uh she thinks it's possible that Newt himself orchestrated the attacks on him.
You know what I think Newt uh Newt's next move might be?
Newt after tonight, look for him to offer himself as the conservative alternative to himself.
Newt will be the conservative alternative to Newt.
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