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Feb. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Do you realize what that means?
Is there anybody else who can say that?
Documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
That's a feat.
That'll never be duplicated.
It'll never happen.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushball at EIBnet.com.
We're in Los Angeles all week, by the way, folks.
You people are very clever.
You're watching on the ditto cam.
What is that rush on your computer?
Is that weather radar?
What is in fact?
It's Southern California weather radar.
I'm trying to scope out whether or not I'll be able to indeed play golf as planned this afternoon.
So it's not working.
I have to manually, it's Google's Wonder Map, which should refresh automatically every two minutes.
Not doing that.
I haven't had time to set it up properly, which is why I've got it up there constantly because I got to check it manually every two minutes.
Anyway, by popular demand, as you know, Clint Eastwood with a two-minute PSA during the Super Bowl yesterday, and it's become somewhat of a controversy over what was intended.
What's he really saying?
Let's face it, folks.
When you hear, you don't leave.
You got to hear this.
Dan Jukelson's here is about to walk out when it's getting really good.
You don't do that.
If I were a lesser stature prior, my ego would be hurt here.
I'd be crushed for the rest of the day.
Always just getting a better view.
Ah, okay.
When you hear that Clint Eastwood is going to have a commercial or a PSA at halftime of the Super Bowl, this is what you expect.
It's halftime.
Both teams are in their locker rooms, getting ready to win the first four years or second term.
It's halftime in America, too.
People are out of work and they're hurting.
And they're all wondering what Obama's going to do to them next.
And they're scared because he thinks this is a game.
The people of Detroit know something about him.
From the bondholders who were told to roll over when GM went under to the guys on the line who were forced to build an electric car to save the world that nobody on earth wants.
I've seen a lot of tough downturns in my life.
A lot of nasty primaries, too.
But all that matters now is that we come together as one great nation and kick his skinny butt back to Chicago.
This country can't be knocked out by one punk.
We'll get right back up again.
And when we do, Obama's going to hear the roar of our engines.
Yeah, it's halftime, America.
Are you ready to win?
Go ahead.
Make my weekend.
That's what you expect to hear from Clint Eastwood at halftime of the Super Bowl.
Snurdly will not leave me alone on this Tom Brady stuff.
What does Brady tell his teammates?
I'm going to tell you something.
I'm going to tell you right now his teammates don't have a problem with what his wife said.
His teammates know him.
His teammates know the kind of guy he is.
They know of his obsession with winning.
They know that nobody is more focused or passionate.
And not to say that they slack in that area, his teammates.
There is nobody more competitive than Tom Brady.
His wife can run out.
She look at, I was, I was, I was within feet of where that happened after the Super Bowl yesterday, and she was being heckled by a Giants fan.
It's all, hey, hey, your husband just got outplayed by you.
She was being a loyal wife.
My husband can't catch and throw the ball at the same time.
Look at he made supposedly some cardinal rule has been violated where you don't sell each other out in public.
He didn't sell them out.
And it's not that they believe that she is echoing what he's thinking.
I mean, she said that before she had even spoken to him after the game.
She was on her way down to the locker room area after that.
The teammates don't have any problem with Brady over that.
They're married.
Understand this stuff.
They see a loyal wife.
The ones that are married have wives.
Yeah, that would stand to reason, Snerdley.
And no, they just understand that he's not the one who said it.
They know they wouldn't even be in the game if it weren't for him.
And that's not to put them down or for them to put themselves down.
This is the media trying to make a big deal out of it.
This is a little worse than it, but it's no different than when Brady, a week before they, well, yeah, they leave a week before the Super Bowl.
They have a pep rally at their stadium, and Brady says, let's hope the party is a little bigger next Sunday after we win.
The New York media tried to make that out.
Joe Namath guarantee some babe from some Newark newspaper stood up.
Brady was stunned.
Couldn't believe it.
He's looking at a genuine idiot, the press corps.
And he looked at it and he said, that's a pep rally.
And the New York media tried to make a big thing out of that that fizzled.
And they're trying to do that again now with if you want to know what bothers Brady is that they lost.
What bothers Brady, he's beating himself up.
He doesn't need his teammates to beat him up.
He's beating himself up.
He's not beating them up.
This guy's in agony.
He's in.
No, he's in agony over this because they lost.
That's why he's beating himself up.
He's the epitome of a professional.
He's expected to win.
He's just disappointed over that.
Nothing more.
I'm going to tell you something.
Snerdley's asking me if Eli is that good.
I made during the game, I told Catherine a couple of times, I have never seen Eli Manning in this much control.
I've never seen him this poised or confident.
Eli Manning looked like he was in total charge.
Snerdley, you got a, why would the media try to make a story out of a supermodel?
You ever figure that out?
Here you've got a supermodel having married at a quarterback, so she opens her mouth.
They can't help themselves in the media.
They can't help themselves.
But this is Tom Brady is Tom Brady's beating himself up over this, just like he did four years ago when they had that 17-0 season or 18-0 season, and they lost to the Giants again in that Super Bowl.
Look, that's it.
That's, you know, I, I, I think I predicted this outcome on Friday with the Hutch.
You know, Hutch is in there taking a, you know, taking a hundred.
If there is somebody's close in the fourth quarter, they'll win it.
Anybody can say that.
And of course, then the Hutch sends me a note over the weekend.
I told you, bro, I told you if they were close.
He's all excited.
Hutch Nicky calling him.
Anyway, folks, former Democrat Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, who is a Catholic from Erie, Pennsylvania, she voted for Obamacare in 2010.
This is from the Weekly Standard, by the way.
She lost her seat in the midterms of 2010, in part because she voted for Obamacare.
Kathy Dahlkemper, Catholic from Erie, she said recently she would have never voted for Obamacare if she had known that health and human services require all private insurers, including Catholic charities and hospitals, to provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and week after pills that can induce early abortion.
And she's quoted, I would have never voted for the final version of that bill if I expected the regime to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic colleges and universities to pay for contraception.
Now, we must go back to Pelosi, who said we have to vote for it to find out what's in it.
And we did.
Now, a lot of people had read the 2,000 pages and knew what was in it, but the Democrats hadn't.
Remember, they were using budget reconciliation to pass it.
Then we're going to try just deeming it to have passed.
Half these people, more than half the Democrats had no idea what was in this health care bill.
And I know some of you think the regime has bitten off more than it can chew on this one.
Some of you think that the regime has stepped in it here with this.
Maybe so.
Well, time will tell.
I do know that they probably got some opposition that they didn't really think they'd get, but I don't think they care.
I really don't think they care.
They'll do what they have to do to deal with it because winning the election is the primary objective now.
And they can always relax this and then re-implement it after he wins.
I had a guy call me, what do you think about Obama going to super PAC?
Hey, don't forget, Obama, he lied on campaign financing.
Remember ABC News, Obama to break promise, opt out of public financing for general election after he'd wrapped up the nomination and all of a sudden Obama, you know what?
You know what?
I'm not to hell with this public financing.
I don't want any part of it.
He starts out by saying he's going to take it, then he backs out of it.
So it's not a big deal that Obama would change his mind on the super PACs at all.
Now, I want to wrap up something.
I mentioned the first hour of the program, we've been tracking as best we can, the amount of money that the Treasury Department is collecting in payroll tax withholding, because they had this major discrepancy in the raw data from February or December to January.
We lost 2,500 jobs and 12 or 1.2 million, well, 2.5 million, sorry, we lost 2.5 million jobs December to January and 1.2 million of those the regime just erased.
They no longer exist.
And that's the labor force participation rate.
So saw something that said the Treasury Department had collected less money in payroll tax withholding.
Okay, well, if that's true, then it would argue against any new jobs.
How can you take in less money on payroll tax withholding if you've got brand new jobs?
So here's the, this is where this ended up.
Best we could determine.
The U.S. Treasury collected $310 million more in tax withholding in the first four months of fiscal 2011 than in the first four months of this year.
Fiscal 2012, the first four months, is October through January.
And this year, they collected $300 million, $310 million less than last year.
So they would argue, okay, there's fewer people paying.
Maybe not.
You could have an increase in employment, but with low-wage jobs and smaller amounts of withholding.
Regardless, what does not add up is federal tax withholding on payroll tax withholding is not up commensurately with 243,000 jobs created in December.
And if you just look at calendar year 2011, just look at calendar year 2011, the tax receipts from federal withholding collected by Treasury do not jibe with the unemployment numbers that we got.
We were losing jobs throughout, but toward the end of the calendar year, remember they started saying, ooh, we got fewer applications, unemployment.
We got more people working.
That was not reflected.
And this data is hard, or these data are hard, whatever.
But for calendar year 2011, payroll tax withholding, the dollars that businesses withhold and send to the government tax revenue, far, far less than what it should have been given the unemployment picture.
So the bottom line is these numbers are still being monkeyed around with and jimmied and they're, I think, made up, manipulated, or what have you.
Can't trust them.
From the BBC, more people, students actually, are wetting themselves, according to teachers.
More children are starting school before they are fully toilet trained, teachers say.
Snapshot surveys suggest that many primary school staff are noticing a rise in the number of children wetting themselves.
The online survey of 848 staff for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers suggested that the main cause was a lack of toilet training, which means there are going to be fewer left-handed people, by the way.
If there's less toilet training going on in Europe, you have fewer left-handers.
Everybody knows that.
Anybody sought out Bart Stupak?
Anybody remember the name Bart Stupak by any chance?
Anybody ask Bart Stupak about his views on this Obama mandate regarding contraception and abortion pills?
Because remember, Bart Stupak was the decisive vote for Obamacare after he was promised it wouldn't involve abortion one way or the other.
I'll never forget Stupak got set up as the go-to guy on it, and he loved every minute of it.
Bart Stupak, Obamacare hangs in the balance.
Pro-life Democrat, an oxymoron.
Stupak says, I'm holding out.
I'm not good.
If this involves abortion in any way, I'm out of here.
Somebody call Bart Stupak and ask him what he thinks of this.
Who's next on the phone?
Dick in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rush.
You are truly the evangelist for the American Way.
I appreciate you taking my call.
In your assessment of this imposition of a federal religion, you're exactly right.
I'm involved in it personally right now with one of the cabinet members, cabinet-level member, arguing this.
But the other thing that has fallen aside in these two pieces of recent history with the court decision is an age-old support by the courts for communities to establish their own mores and standards.
It's why communities were allowed not to have bars or strip clubs near churches and schools.
It's why we don't have public sex.
It's why we don't have nudity on billboards.
And the California taken as a community, and that used to be the ruling, if all the people in that community were affected and they spoke loudly, which is what a ballot does.
In fact, I can give you the phrase that the court handed out, contemporary community standards.
That's correct.
And that was long upheld by the court.
And in this case, it's the first reversal.
And the domino effect could be just atrocious across the country.
It's extraordinary.
The court has always said if the people, I can't vote to say that Detroit can't do something and the people in Sterling Heights can't dictate to people below 8 mile.
But if the whole community speaks loudly, the courts have always observed it.
And this is the first time they haven't.
Well, that's true.
But of course, it's really not true any longer because now you've got people like the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals saying that's unconstitutional.
Well, this is, you know, Rush, not to be reactionary, but from the federal government down starts to impose what equates to a state religion.
Isn't this an impeachable offense?
If a certain murder...
Let me put it to you this way.
General Morey, held by all churches, stands one way, and the court says, no, you're going to believe this.
This is the argument I'm having with one of the secretaries, a cabinet member right now.
I work for the federal government.
And one of the things they're imposing upon us is this idea of celebrating these alternate lifestyles.
And I have protested saying, I won't bother anybody, and I'm not going to try to evangelize them.
But you cannot use the force of government to make me celebrate these things.
As understand.
As it relates to your question, is it impeachable?
In the instance that you've cited, even if it is, nobody's going to pursue it.
Now, I don't know that what you've described rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor.
It's just unconstitutional.
You can do unconstitutional things all day until somebody stops you.
A court stops you.
Congress stops you.
You can do unconstitutional things.
This is the whole point of a loyal opposition.
Obama can violate the Constitution all day long, make recess appointments when there aren't any recesses.
If the people that run the Senate are not going to stand up for themselves, there's nothing to stop him.
Harry Reid clearly is not going to stop him.
Same party.
So if the Republicans in the Senate do nothing but get on TV and issue their statements of dudgeon, which they profoundly disrespect this callous regard for the Constitution, and they go back to the bar, nothing's going to happen to stop them.
Somebody has to take action.
Somebody has to implement the tools that are available to stop this.
So a president can be as unconstitutional as he chooses to be until somebody tries to stop him.
And I don't see any of that.
And I, because it's an election year, and I'm telling you, what's governing this election year, the Republican establishment side, is fear.
Fear paralyzes people.
When fear becomes terror, literal paralysis takes place for a while.
And well, what's the Republican Party afraid of?
They're afraid of the independence.
They're afraid of what the consultants are telling them about the independent.
And they're afraid that they're going to be called racists if they oppose Obama too much or too loudly.
And so fear has them paralyzed.
Grab audio soundbite number 10.
I said seven.
Well, grab seven, too.
We'll do number seven.
List these two soundbites next.
Seven, ten, and eleven.
This is another one of those instances where if the journalist in question, oh, which reminds me, and I called myself a journalist last week and somebody in the press took it seriously and is profoundly offended.
What fight is that?
Where is that?
I can't.
I can never find these things when I want them.
Grab number seven.
This is John King on.
Did I put it at the bottom?
Yep, John King.
This is CNN special Nevada caucus coverage.
And John King is talking about which voting groups helped contribute to Romney's big win there.
Just look at one more as we come down the line here.
If you look here, Among Faith, obviously, Governor Mormon is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He's a Mormon.
He won big among Mormons.
Governor Mormon is a member of the church and leader, Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon.
Governor Mormon is a Mormon.
He won big among Mormons.
Governor Mormon.
He, of course, means Governor Romney.
Now, you let some conservative news person say, Governor Jew, Governor Muslim, Sionarapel, adios.
It's the Tijuana for you.
Governor Mormon.
Yeah.
Governor Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints.
He's a Mormon.
He won big among Mormons.
Here's Obama.
I just want to go back.
We were talking about saying, what about Obama?
Changing his mind on super PACs.
This is Obama.
October 22nd, 2010.
He's in Los Angeles.
Millions into phony front groups.
You've seen them.
They're called the Americans for Prosperity.
They don't have the guts to say, we're funding this, so they hide behind these front groups.
You don't know who these groups are.
You don't know who's funding them.
They can spend without limit.
Keep their contributions secret.
These rulings are not just a threat to Democrats.
They're a threat to our democracy.
Right.
Now, Obama is just, to hell with that.
I'm going to do super PACs now.
It's because they don't have this billion dollars.
They don't have nearly the amount of campaign dollars they've wanted everybody to believe.
Axelrod, this morning on Morning Joe, was asked by Scarborough, is the president a hypocrite for championing a super PAC now after saying he was opposed to them and they were phony and nobody knew who they were and it's a really bad thing.
We were faced with this situation as to whether we could afford to play by two sets of rules.
And the answer is obviously no.
That doesn't mean that we believe that this is the best way for the system to function.
The president's going to continue to fight for ways to reform that system in the future.
But that's not going to happen in this campaign.
And we have to live in the world as it is, not as we want it to be.
Yeah.
So we got to win.
Winning.
We have to win.
So if it takes super PACs to win, then we'll do super PACs.
It's that simple.
We'll do whatever it takes to win.
We're not being hypocrites.
And the couch is, well, there's two sets of rules out there.
Now, I mean, the other side's doing super PACs.
We're going to do super PACs.
Yeah, well, the other side never said they opposed them.
Now, let's grab soundbite 14.
Let's see.
And then 16.
This is funny.
This is reliable sources on Sunday with Howard Kurtz.
And he had daily caller contributor Matt Lewis and Newsweek magazine correspondent Michelle Cottle talking about the Republican primary and me.
And Kurtz introduced me, played a clip of me talking about my vote in the Florida primary.
As Rush Limbo, the day before Tuesday's Florida primary, couldn't seem to make up his mind.
And that's why I'm not going to tell anybody for whom I voted.
It would destroy my objectivity as a journalist.
I'm not going to tell you.
It isn't going to happen.
Because when this is all over, I am not going to be in a position where my credibility is such that I can't support whoever the nominee is.
Okay, so I said it would destroy my objectivity as a journalist with my tongue so buried in my cheek that it nearly came out of its socket.
We fast forward to later in the program, Kurt's talking to Michelle Cottle.
They have this little exchange about what you just heard me say.
Burt says he doesn't want to compromise his credibility, depending on who emerges.
I'm just stunned that the words as a journalist came out of that man's mouth.
He spends all his time telling us how he's an entertainer.
But now he's a journalist with objectivity and credibility.
I've never seen Michelle Cottle look so stunned.
It's so easy to fool these people.
It is so easy to yank their chains.
It's just it's it's it's like shooting those little arcade games at the county fair where little ducks go by.
Just one, two, three, just knock.
I mean, they are so predictable.
I, by the way, have never called myself an entertainer.
They do.
And then the next day, they'll call me the titular head of the Republican Party.
I was mocking Brokaw for cracking.
Brokaw, he was concerned because Romney was using him from the nightly news in an ad, and Brokaw was concerned about his objectivity as a journalist being compromised, appearing in a political ad.
And all Romney was, or all Brokaw was doing was ripping Newt.
And they didn't add to what Brokaw said.
Brokaw said it.
It's in there in the public record, but Brokaw didn't want to be part of a campaign because he likes to do it stealthily.
He's going to seek out and destroy Republicans.
He doesn't want it known that plainly.
That's what he's doing.
And Romney made it look like that's what his point was.
He didn't like that.
Who's next?
Beth in Boulder, Colorado.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
I appreciate you taking my call.
You bet.
I'm calling today from Boulder because I love freedom.
And as we're having our caucuses in Colorado today, and this weekend, I wanted to, I've been listening to the debates, and I wanted to actually see some of the candidates and hear them before I made my decision.
And so I went to the Santorum speech that he gave up in Loveland on Saturday.
And I was surprised.
I've heard a lot in this, the debate process about jobs and the economy and immigration.
And those are vitally important issues, Rush.
But I feel like the most important issue in this election is freedom.
And I've gotten glimmers of that in the debates.
You know, when Santorum was talking about health care and challenged met Romney on that.
And when Newt was talking earlier in South Carolina, I've heard those glimmers, but I haven't heard anyone come out and express to me as an American, talk to me about my freedom.
And I went to this speech on Saturday, and it wasn't a stump.
For the next hour, Rick Santorum, he came out.
He had no notes, no teleprompter, and he had a conversation with us as Americans about our freedom.
And it was the most amazing.
It was like the CPAC speech that you gave, I don't remember, several years ago.
No, nothing's like that.
But I get your, but it was beautiful.
It was amazing.
And he started with King George and the French Revolution and how Americans figured out after the French Revolution, a war that was fought on our soil, kind of for the benefit of England, really, by Americans, that basically the government that gives to you can take away from you.
And he went from there to the Declaration of Independence and our founding fathers.
And he talked, and he dialogued with us about this, or not dialogue, because that's back and forth, but he talked with us about this and how our founding fathers laid their lives on the line.
They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for this.
And how the French Revolution was going on at the same time.
And they had the liberty.
Yes, they had the equality, but they had fraternity.
And it didn't work because their freedoms were from each other, unlike Gimme Smith.
Let me tell you something.
Santorum is sneaking up.
Public policy polling has a story out to the North Carolina polling firm that he's going to do well in Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado.
And if all these things happen, it could have the potential, the possibility to upset the apple cart, at least from the standpoint of inevitability for Romney.
And I find it fascinating.
Romney, all of us, now there's a big opposition research file on Santorum.
Now they've banished Newt, they think, now Santorum.
The only difference between Santorum and a bag of excrement is the bag.
Last week, Santorum, nicest guy in the world.
Sweet guy.
So sad about his daughter.
Today, Santorum is no different than a bag containing the excrement.
That's it.
And I think it's too late to pull this typical opposition research.
All of us people are sophisticated now.
All of a sudden, all this rotten stuff about San Big government conservative.
He is talking about freedom.
You're exactly right.
And this HHS Health and Human Services mandate against the Catholic Church is a great example of how we are losing our freedom.
It's about how it's being challenged on all fronts.
And I said, Santorum of the conservatives remaining, he's the one with the least baggage in terms of abandoning conservatism at times over his career.
I got to take a break.
I'm glad you called, Beth.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back right after this.
Here is Annette, Highland, Illinois.
Great to have you.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call.
Certainly said I have a minute, so I have to get right to it.
I know a lot of Catholics.
I'm not Catholic, but I know a lot of Catholics, and they will vote for Obama no matter what, mostly because they're union teachers, employees, and the ideologues.
The ideology, I guess, and the liberalism comes way before the faith for these people.
Exactly right.
They're Catholics.
And the other thing is, as far as it upsetting the Muslims, I guess, who are voting, I don't see that happening either because the Islamic faith is very anti-homosexual.
And Barack Obama has done so much to liberate and to cave into the special interests of special treatment of homosexuals.
And that hasn't seemed to bother him either.
So I think this points out, his election points out a very serious crisis of faith in this country.
Well, it's been the case for a long time, too.
And it's, how old are you, if you don't mind my answer?
You don't have to answer, but if you don't mind my answer.
44.
44.
Well, it's been going on longer than you have been paying attention, and people have been talking about it.
Hollywood Jewish people, they're Jewish third or fourth.
The fact that they're liberals are first.
With leftists, that's first, second, and third of their lives.
Everything else comes next, as you've noted.
Yeah, and these are serious practicing Catholics.
These aren't people who are just, you know, talk the talk.
I mean, they are.
Okay, I'm sorry, I got to run.
I appreciate the call.
I'm a little bit long.
Don't go away.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We are simply out of time.
There isn't any more left, but there's always more in 21 hours.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Already going to be Wednesday tomorrow.
See you then.
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