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February 2, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3

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	All right, all the big gun media people are saying it Trump's gonna endorse Romney now.
	CNN Washington Post.
	Solos uh if that ends up being true, all those Romney bloggers are gonna have to erase all the rotten stuff they said about Trump being a womanizer and a pig.
	Jokes about throwing his hair in the ring and that kind of stuff.
	Oh yeah, it's all out there.
	Now remember one of Newt Gingrich's at least biggest donor to his uh super pack is Sheldon Adelson, who is Mr. Las Vegas.
	This guy he owns uh Las Vegas Sands is the name of the company his big hotel in Vegas that he owns is the Venetian.
	He's big in Macau.
	And uh might stand to reason that Trump would endorse somebody other than the guy Sheldon Adelson has gotten behind newt.
	There's all kinds of stuff here to uh to factor in.
	I could influence Trump's endorsement, don't know.
	But it's still not assured that it is Romney.
	It's just that's the latest wild guess by the people in the big media.
	Hi folks, how are you, Rush Limboy?
	And we are back at 800-282-288-2.
	The email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
	By the way, ladies and gentlemen, there's all kinds of conflicting news uh about the status of uh of HARP III.
	Uh can you refinance your mortgage if you're underwater?
	Will the regime forgive your mortgage?
	Uh i i i will they refinance it with no credit?
	Do you have to have no proof or any proof?
	There is so much confusion as to what you can do and what Obama's latest program is.
	Some people think that uh if you play it right, the government will totally forgive your mortgage and wipe it out, and you have your home for free.
	Others say no, it's gonna cost you eight hundred dollars a month max.
	Uh, but that the regime is is is gonna work this all out.
	We thought that would make sense to go to the guy who's responsible for this mess, and who's responsible for the for the mess that's the Dodd Frank financial regulatory reform bill.
	Barney Frank recently engaged at uh at age seventy-one and have him explain to us, and you actually what really is going on here with Obama's mortgage refinance assistance program, and here it is.
	Now a message of hope to homeowners from Congressman Barney Frank.
	Are you still underwater in your home?
	Does the Greedy Republican bank still insist that you pay principal and interest?
	Do you resent those who have still a credit?
	Because they can refinance it, whoa weights and you can't?
	Then listen to this special offer for my friends at Freddie and Freddie and the Bank of Obama.
	For women of time only, you can refinance your home for less than you paid for it, even with bad credit.
	First, we will force banks to wipe down up to 63 cents on the dollar and pass the tax-free savings on to you.
	Then will we finance the ballots in a ridiculously woe interest rate of 4.25%?
	No appointment required.
	Your word is good enough for us.
	If you're stuck in a house, you really couldn't afford in the first place.
	Count on the Bank of Obama HARP program to bail you out.
	Now's the time to keep that dream home you never deserved.
	Barney Frank is a well-paid spokesman for Freddie May and Freddie MacBoar assumes Republicans will go along with this limited time offer.
	The Bank of Obama is closely affiliated with Obama for president 2012.
	Well, that explains it.
	Now you know.
	The bank of Obama.
	Back to the audio soundbite here.
	We're up to number eleven, and we're sticking with the Scarborough show.
	The drive-by's went nuts with my assessment of Mitt Romney's statement that don't worry about the poor.
	They got a safety net, I'll fix it if it breaks.
	I've worried about the middle class.
	Having a lot of fun with Heileman is the uh national affairs editor at New York magazine.
	He's on Scarborough Show.
	Scarborough said, uh, look, Romney ran a powerful company.
	A lot of our children are not gonna have to worry as much as I know some of us here had to worry growing up.
	Joe, this is where God love you.
	we're all going to have to worry.
	Even us rich people in the media, Joe.
	Everybody's going to have to worry.
	Well, Joe said that he's not going to worry, his children aren't going to worry, but a lot of other people.
	Joe, no fortune's safe.
	I mean, if this bunch is out of money, where are they going to go to get some?
	They have to go to the people who've got it.
	And that includes you.
	It's this notion that people who've made it make it forever.
	Not true.
	People fall out of and jump back in.
	All the different income quintiles.
	Nobody's income or financial status is the same their entire life.
	And once you've made it, doesn't mean you're not going to lose it all.
	And it doesn't mean an aggressive government can't try to come take it from you.
	This is what many people fear.
	But anyway, Joe said, look, uh Romney ran a powerful company.
	A lot of our children, John, we're not going to have to worry as much as I know some of us here had to worry growing up.
	Am I going to be able to take care of my family?
	Am I going to be able to go to a good school?
	There's a disconnect here that's really troubling because a lot of Americans are not going to be able to answer yes to those questions where you and I can.
	People start to get the start to wonder, well, maybe he is just a prototypical rich Republican.
	Joe, you remember back when Jack Kemp was a major figure in national Republican politics, a very conservative guy.
	These kinds of things would never have come out of Jack Kemp's mouth.
	Because Jack Kemp was really concerned about the very poor.
	Jack Kemp was trying to figure out a way in an active way all the time.
	And there were other Republicans, but I'm single out of him because he was a Republican vice presidential nominee in 1996.
	He made a big part of his conservative agenda.
	How do we use conservative tools to help the worst off?
	Well, conservatism is the way out of poverty.
	You don't need special conservative tools.
	conservatism is.
	But whether you say prototypical or stereotypical, the point is the media has concocted a false image of rich Republicans.
	The truly dastardly wealthy today are Democrats.
	There are far more of them.
	And if you want to have this, the true evil mean spirited, don't care about people rich, it's the Democrats.
	They don't use their own money for anything.
	They give very little to charity.
	My problem with what Romney did is it feeds the stereotype.
	The rich Republican who doesn't relate to or understand or care about the poor.
	It was a gaffe in that regard.
	Scarborough replied the high level.
	Conservatives aren't bashing the media here.
	It's Rush Limbach.
	You're talking about the most influential conservatives saying Mitt Romney is really making our job a lot harder.
	Conservatives got an opening too with the content of what he said.
	They weren't worried about him saying I'm not concerned about the poor.
	They were worried about him saying we need to strengthen the social net.
	They went, no, no, no, no.
	That's not the answer.
	That's exactly right.
	The social safety net has been proven to be a failure.
	Once people fall into that net, they don't get out of that.
	That net swallows them up.
	It becomes a hammock.
	As it was designed.
	That safety net was not designed with compassion.
	That was what they said it was for.
	Oh, yeah, it's always that we care for the poor.
	We need to help them.
	If you really help the poor, you teach them how not to be.
	And there's a word for this call a job.
	Now you go out and say that now and you get cynical reaction.
	Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.
	Well, what if we all said a job is something cynical that's not worth having?
	It's just ridiculous.
	F. Chuck Todd was out there in the same show, and and uh Willie Geist, the last guy you heard speaking, said, so F Chuck, what happens here?
	I think a lot of Republicans have come to the point where they say, okay, this is Mitt Romney, this is the guy.
	At some point there's a pattern.
	How do they deal with this guy going forward?
	They were hoping to run as the successful businessman.
	And you know, part of this has been the pressure that the Obama campaign's also been trying to put on Romney of trying to paint him as a caricature of a successful businessman that wasn't really involved in the job creation process, was more involved in this idea of creative destruction, wall street capitalism versus main street capitalism.
	And I think that that pressure has gotten to the Romney campaign a little bit.
	You know, maybe I'd I'd perhaps.
	But that's not what's going on here.
	What's going on here is that a root level of understanding doesn't exist.
	The root level, understanding conservatism doesn't exist.
	That's all this is.
	I from the get-go, said the you know, the way to do this, the way to overcome the fact that media is going to be going after our nominee, whoever it is, just stick to conservatism.
	Particularly given what we're up against, the contrast is dynamic.
	But the establishment of Republicans just don't like conservatism.
	They don't like conservatives so much, except on election day every four years.
	So on uh Daily Rundown on MSNBC, F. Chuck Todd's show that comes on after Scarborough, he had uh political editor from Bloomberg Business Week, Josh Green, on to talk about Romney's remark, and F. Chuck said, hey, Josh, are we seeing Rush Limbaugh's right?
	The idea that Romney wouldn't be a focus in a general election like Newt would be.
	I don't know.
	Maybe he's right.
	Romney could be just as much of an issue as Newt.
	There's F. Choxie to say, you know, uh Republicans might be wrong.
	They think only Newt would be the issue.
	Maybe Romney could end up being an issue, too.
	What do you think about that, Josh?
	Absolutely.
	Whoever the Republican candidate is, it's gonna get pilloried for whatever their weaknesses are.
	You know, Newt would be his explosive, you know, temperament anger on steadiness.
	For Romney, it's obviously it's gonna be this profile of kind of an uncaring, out-of-touch, rich guy, vulture capitalist.
	Last night in Minneapolis, on local news, Romney said this while apologizing for his remark on CNN that he's not concerned about the poor.
	This is what he said.
	Sometimes things don't come out exactly the way you'd like them to.
	That's not exactly what I meant to say.
	My focus is on middle income Americans.
	We do have a safety net for the very poor, and I said if there are holes in it, I want to correct that.
	Okay.
	We know what he was trying to say.
	All of these critics on the left who are harping on the out-of-context line, know exactly what he was trying to say.
	But it's easy for them to ignore what he's trying to say.
	If if he was Obama, if they were sympathetic, give him the benefit of the doubt, and this wouldn't be a story.
	But since it's an opportunity to nail conservatives, they'll take the out-of-context meaning and run with it and then run every other comment by me and other people that have been forthcoming.
	Uh holes in the safety net, yeah, I want to fix it.
	Means take care of the halls and maintain the safety net.
	Look at I'm getting blue in the I'm not going to repeat myself.
	You know what I've said about this.
	I've over and over.
	Let's just keep going with Newt responding to Romney.
	Let me just say something here.
	I am fed up with politicians in either party dividing Americans against each other.
	I am running to be the president of all the American people, and I am concerned about all of the American people.
	That was yesterday in Reno, Nevada.
	And uh Newt trying to say, look at it I don't look at people in the safety net and not in the safety net, rich, poor, middle class.
	I'm gonna be president for everybody.
	The way he is trying to make hay out of this.
	Here's Crowdhammer from National or uh Crowdhammer Review Online.
	He was on Fox News special report with Brett Baer last night.
	This is bad.
	It's not just that the day after a big win in Florida.
	The real problem here is that it shows he doesn't have a fluency with conservative ideas.
	Conservatives are not the one who either engage in the war of the classes or in a division of America into classes.
	Obama, the Democrats will win that kind of argument every day.
	The moral case for conservative economics is that our policies are gonna help everybody, including the poor.
	The idea that somehow we consign the poor to the safety net and we patch it.
	And dependency is a liberal idea.
	It's not our idea.
	And Romney is a guy who came late to his new ideology, and he still can't speak it very well.
	It's pretty true.
	Came late to conservatism and can't speak it pretty well.
	It's like learning a foreign language.
	That's what Krauthammer is uh saying.
	Mark McKinnon ran Bush's media operation 2000-2004.
	He started a group called No Labels.
	A bunch, basically moderate to liberal Republicans who didn't like being tied to conservatives and didn't like being associated with conservatives and labeled as such.
	Say start this new group out there, no labels.
	Which is, look, we're bigger than labels.
	We're moderates, we're mainstreamers, we're the really smart people.
	We don't like these labels, and that's that's that's just who McKinnon is.
	McKinnon was on Larry Cudlow on CNBC last night.
	Cudlow said, they're all saying Romney doesn't care about poor people.
	What do you think about this?
	Utter nonsense or what?
	I think his instincts were to try and get a message that's designed to the middle class, which the President Obama is successfully getting a lot of traction with.
	So the instinct was right, the execution was just bad.
	And that's where I think this long-drawn-out primary is in many ways problematic because we're seeing independents turning against Mitt Romney.
	Well, okay, that's it.
	The independents are turning against Romney and it's all lost.
	You see.
	If we lose the independence, it's all lost.
	It's going to lose conservatives.
	But if we lose the independence, the execution was bad, the uh instinct was right.
	But this so what we're hearing is we gotta shut down these these campaigns.
	We've stopped the debates, they're gonna shorten these campaigns so that our guy doesn't talk as much.
	Because it's a danger when he talks as much.
	I don't know, folks.
	I don't know.
	You know it's all about reflexes.
	This Romney thing, it's all about reflexes.
	And it pains me to say this stuff.
	This show has not been easy.
	You don't.
	Well, maybe you do know, but it's just he just doesn't have conservative reflexes.
	It's like trying to learn golf late in life.
	And it's it's the the the this the reflexes aren't there.
	You've got to have a foundation, a basic understanding to have the reflexes, and then they're just they just aren't there.
	And I don't know if you can alert them.
	We will find out.
	Amy, one of my all-time favorite top ten female names, Amy in San Antonio.
	Amy, welcome to the program.
	Thank you.
	How are you today?
	Very well.
	Thanks very much.
	I'm calling because I've been listening, and I heard I've heard everybody saying that in Florida, the reason Romney won it was because he had more money.
	Right.
	And my thought here was well, why?
	That's my first question, because I question everything.
	Um, you know, Pico Gingrich is a career politician, smart man, and a well-paid historian.
	And you're telling me that he didn't know from all of this experience that he was going to need money and an organization to conduct a national campaign, especially going.
	Well, just a second.
	Just a second.
	I'm not going to mention any names.
	But I had a meeting once with a guy whose name you would know, who has served in administrations, who wanted to run for president.
	He didn't want to ask people for money.
	Did not, couldn't lower himself.
	Thought it was beneath himself to ask people for money, didn't want to owe them anything, so he convened a meeting at a very famous luxury hotel in Washington.
	I was one of the many experts there, and he bunch of campaign consultants and went around the table.
	Is it possible?
	Could I run for the presidency without asking for people and receiving a lot of money?
	And they all said, no way, pal.
	He thought the power of his personality, power of his ideas, power of his persuasion would be enough.
	I think that's new.
	I've heard Newt say they don't want to ask people for money.
	But I do believe Newt thinks he can do it without a lot of money.
	Mitt Romney has confirmed...
	I'm sorry, Trump has confirmed he's going to endorse Mitt Romney.
	Okay.
	He has confirmed it.
	Trump wanted me to be able to have the news before the program ended.
	So it is Mitt Romney that Donald Trump will endorse.
	And again, I've been funny to see all these Mitt bloggers now have to run to their blogs and do these giant erase jobs with the things that they have said about Trump today.
	We've got to find some of them, cash them, put them on our website so that people can see before they get scrubbed.
	For the fun of it.
	James Carville, last night on Anderson Cooper 291, spoke with James Carl was on with Anderson Cooper about Romney, and Cooper said, so you have 24 hours distance on it now.
	Romney goes out, says this stuff.
	24 hours after his win in Florida.
	How do you look at his victory now?
	The problem that Mitt Romney has, he just is not that good a candidate.
	The guy is not good on his feet politically, he comes across as some kind of a detached doofus.
	You look at the comments today among conservatives.
	You look at the concern, and he always conforms he has a stereotype, whether it's aggregate or not, that he is just kind of out of touch guy.
	That's why I said politically comes across as a detached doofus.
	And then this comment today just feeds into a perception that is about him.
	He's just not that good on his feet.
	Now, somebody want to tell me that Democrats are not looking forward to running against Romney.
	You notice that Carville gave himself the option there to call him a detached doofus twice in a 36-second soundbite.
	As if Obama does not come across as detached.
	There's nobody more detached from reality than Barack Hussein Obama.
	Mm-mm-mm.
	And there's no bigger doofus than Barack Hussein Obama.
	No bigger doofus and nobody more detached, and nobody could be more wrong about things than Barack Hussein Obama.
	And here are wonderful Republican establishments.
	Can't have Newt, man.
	They're going to make the campaign about him.
	You know the Democrats are working on bumper stickers now.
	Detached doofus.
	And you have a picture of Mitt Romney with needle and thread.
	Sewing up the safety net.
	I can just see it.
	It was going to be an ad.
	It's going to be an ad.
	It'll be a caricature of Romney.
	It'll be, you know, crocheting a safety net with a bunch of poor people bouncing up and down in it.
	Detached doofus says I don't care about the poor.
	He established it, yeah, that's right, that's right.
	If Newt had been a nominee, look what the campaign would have been about.
	Moon companies.
	51st state.
	We'll find the first 13,000 American suckers to move up there, and we'll call it the 51st state.
	Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the Peace Prize original selection criteria by choosing such winners as Obama.
	This is all happening as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed yesterday.
	The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations.
	So they say, how can you give it?
	Remember, they gave it to Obama on the come.
	They gave him the peace prize.
	He wasn't even in office four months when they announced it.
	Gave him the Peace Prize, or maybe it was less than a year.
	And since then, he's gotten us into two wars.
	He's killed Osama bin Laden.
	He got rid of Moamur Qaddafi.
	And he holds the Peace prize there.
	So they're a little embarrassed.
	I think this is just blowback because I got robbed.
	People at the Nobel Committee understand how they blew it.
	By not awarding the people, I've done more for liberty than anybody else that was nominated.
	And I'm a I'm a peaceful guy.
	General Motors extended range electric Chevrolet Vault.
	This is from the Detroit News.
	Did I read that right?
	General Motors extended range electric Chevrolet Volt.
	Also they've got an ER version, extended range.
	45 miles instead of 40.
	General Motors extended range electric Chevrolet Vault had its worst sales month since August.
	As negative publicity over fire risks hurt vehicle sales in January.
	GM sold just 603 volts above its sales in January 2011, but not by much.
	And it's far below GM's best ever sales month last December when they sold 1,529 volts.
	Last week, GM North America President Mark Royce said sales of the vault have been hurt by bad publicity.
	Said bad publicity from the government's investigation into fire risks of post-crash vaults is definitely a component of the decline in sales.
	Well, I've got another story in the stack of an electric car ran into a school bus somewhere.
	Nobody was hurt.
	There wasn't a fire, but it did happen.
	Also, this consuming too much sugar is just as harmful and addictive to you as smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol, claimed researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, in an editorial published in Nature Magazine yesterday.
	According to Professor Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis, the increased consumption of sugar throughout the U.S. has been primarily responsible for many chronic diseases reaching epidemic levels in this country with obesity and liver disease seemed to be among the highest and biggest repercussions caused by the overconsumption of the substance.
	Sugar is now a substance.
	And they say that the only method for dealing with this is a public health intervention.
	U.S. scientists, same kind of people that brought us man-made global warming.
	Sugar is now a substance.
	And since they'll never be able to ban sugar, what do you think is going to happen?
	Tax increases.
	Drinking diet, soft drinks on a daily basis might increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and vascular death, U.S. researchers.
	This is a different study.
	Diet soda now, not sugar.
	Diet soda linked to stroke heart attack.
	Hannah Gardner and colleagues, University of Miami Miller's School of Medicine, and at Columbia University Medical Center New York also found regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events, but diet soda is.com.
	So far, no research on any deleterious effects whatsoever from the consumption of any flavor of two if by tea dot com.
	The Dukes of London Hotel has created several initiatives catering to women, including 19 new Duchess rooms with fresh flowers, women's magazines, and size appropriate slippers and robes, and female staff members who are escorts at check-in.
	As a result, the hotel says bookings by women have surged 30% in the last two months.
	And the program is part of a trend.
	The 180 room Georgian Court Hotel in downtown Vancouver has created an orchid floor, a women only floor, 18 rooms with irons.
	It says that Flatirons, yoga mats, and beauty products.
	In Copenhagen, at the 1814 room Bellis Sky Comwell, the 20 room Belladonna floor is available to female guests by an elevator key card.
	This is an old concept once dismissed as sexist that's having a resurgence primarily as a result of more women traveling solo on business, said Anne Mack, director of trend spotting at the marketing communications firm JWT, who said that she had tried a women's floor and liked the extra security and the smart decor.
	If it had been all pink and frilly, I would not have enjoyed it.
	But it wasn't all pink and frilly.
	So new trend hotels are creating rooms and floors just for women.
	What do you think of that, Snertley?
	That's the thing.
	I like it.
	You know exactly where to go.
	That's what you're saying, right?
	They're going to consign them all to the same floor.
	No guesswork left.
	It's it, half job done.
	All you need to know is find out which floor.
	And then get a key card.
	And I'll bet you they'd be happy to see you.
	They might think they wouldn't be, but after a while they'd be happy.
	From uh Washington, D.C., with today's smartphones, more people are taking their work and personal lives wherever they go, even to the toilet.
	A new study of mobile phone habits shows that 75% of people have texted, emailed, and used apps or surf the web while on the toilet.
	More than 90% of people between 28 and 35 will return a call or text while sitting on the toilet.
	One in five men joined a conference call while sitting on the toilet, despite the possibility of people on the other end hearing noises or accidentally hitting the FaceTime video conferencing button.
	The survey by the marketing agency 11 mark shows 16% shop while on the toilet.
	However, they are concerned.
	People are very, very attuned to the possibility of the other end of the line hearing noises or accidentally hitting the FaceTime video conferencing button.
	How many of you people do this?
	You know who you are.
	You do.
	You know exactly who you are.
	And what's going to happen next?
	They'll give up the notion that cell phones cause cancer.
	But how long is it going to be before they start warning us of the dangers of hemorrhoids?
	As a result of texting and using your cell phone on the toilet.
	Okay, Donald Trump has confirmed he's going to endorse Romney.
	Says he made the decision after getting to know Romney after meeting with him several times the past few months.
	He also cited Romney's performances in debates and said his tough stance on China as a reasons.
	Now Trump has said negative things about Romney in the past, but he said his comments were a reflection of not knowing Romney well enough.
	And furthermore, Trump is going to say that he will not run for president third party if Romney becomes the nominee.
	So if it isn't Mitt, he might still run third party.
	So Trump is holding the party in the country hostage.
	Basically saying if Romney's not the nominee, I'm going independent or I might.
	Here's Robert in San Diego.
	Hey, Robert, great to have you.
	Hi.
	Hey, Rush.
	I just wanted to say, if I may, what really concerns me about Romney, whether he's conservative or not, is the way he's been treating conservative groups.
	All the way back to Iowa between Florida and Iowa, there's a definite record of Romney refusing to take in pro-life forums, meeting with evangelical Christians, and other Tea Party groups.
	If Romney even refuses to acknowledge us today, what is he going to do as president?
	It's a question people are asking.
	If he refuses to acknowledge you today, what's he going to do as president?
	I don't know.
	Have you seen Romney actively boycotting all those groups or not participating?
	Well, caller says he has.
	We can't doubt it.
	I don't know, but I'm just looking.
	You're putting me in an uncomfortable position here because it sounded to me like the callers reading.
	And you know, we don't we don't allow people to read here.
	We want passion.
	We don't want callers think.
	Not what somebody else thinks.
	And I know that everybody's out for bear here.
	The Newt people are out, the Mitt people are out, and they're all gunning for me.
	Sharon Angle in Nevada has endorsed Rick Santorum, by the way.
	Trump is endorsing Mitt Romney, who's already leading in Nevada by 20 points.
	So he had Trump's endorsement there.
	Time will tell.
	But that's supposedly what's going to happen a half hour from now.
	So folks, we're done.
	It's over.
	But actually it never is.

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