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Feb. 8, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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John Boehner went to the floor of the House today during one-minute speeches, the Speaker.
Very seldom does the Speaker actually speak in the House of Representatives.
It happens.
But mostly the Speaker is a behind-the-scenes marionette pulling the strings, making the trains run on time or late, whichever is the case.
This is what Boehner had to say during one-minute speeches on the House floor.
It was around noon today, right as this program began.
So you might not have heard it because you were all listening to this.
In recent days, Americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized an objection to a rule put forward by the Obama administration that constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country.
This rule would require faith-based employers, including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals, to provide services they believe are immoral.
Those services include sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, devices, and contraception.
This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand.
Now, there you have it, the fiery John Boehner.
This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and it will not stand.
So he's saying the House will act to reverse the regime's attack on religious freedom.
If the president does not reverse the department's attack on religious freedom, the Congress must.
The House will approach this matter fairly and deliberately through regular order and the appropriate legislative channels.
This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand.
Washington Post has a story.
Why White House sees political opportunity in the contraception battle?
There were some stories yesterday about White House getting nervous, maybe walking this back.
No, they love this.
They love this battle.
Obama loves.
I made the point yesterday.
Obama loves tweaking us.
Obama loves getting us up.
The media does too.
They have the biggest time doing this.
They love doing things just to get a rise out of all of us, including you.
And the Washington Post, why the White House sees political opportunity in the contraception battle.
Now, the article's based on a chart from a public religion research poll that shows that only a majority of white evangelicals care about this abortion and contraception stuff.
Just isn't that important to other groups.
That's what the White House thinks.
And it's what the left thinks, by the way.
I should tell you this.
The left thinks that this stuff of the Catholic Church is not Catholic-wide, that a lot of Catholics don't care.
No big deal.
The only people, this is what the White House, the media, the Democrats, the left, what they think is the only people who get riled about this are white evangelicals and typical pro-lifers.
And you know what they think of them.
White evangelicals are a bunch of racists, and the pro-lifers are a bunch of eggheads.
So, and they love the bitter clingers.
Obama and the left, they love sticking it to that group.
They have no respect for them.
They think they're a bunch of hayseeds and hicks.
And so, contraception battle, abortion battle, going against the Catholic Church, they think most Catholics aren't going to care because they don't think Catholics are like pro-lifers.
They don't consider Catholics to be evangelicals.
Now, here's more from the Washington Post article.
While Catholic leadership has blasted the new regulation, there are polls that show a majority of Catholics are actually more supportive of the provision, the Obama provision, than the rest of the country.
Did you know that?
The Washington Post has a story with polling data, which says that a majority of Catholics actually support Obama in forcing Catholic schools to sell contraceptives and the morning after abortion pill.
Did you know that, folks?
Yeah, it's right there, right there in the Washington Post.
A poll out yesterday from the Public Religion Research Institute finds 52% of Catholic voters agreed with this statement.
Employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception and birth control at no cost.
No, it doesn't specify Catholic.
It just says, well, snurdly, it's a poll.
You can take the sample.
You get any result you want.
I'm just telling you, you have a coordinated effort here again with the White House and the media and this probably left-wing religious group that's designed to dispirit you and make you think that you are in a minority of 10% of the country.
At 90%, damn right.
If I want an abortion, you should pay for it.
If I want a birth control pill, you should pay for it.
If I want the morning after pill, they want you to think that if you oppose that as a Catholic, you are in a small minority of people.
This is the whole point of this.
Again, public research, the Public Religion Research Institute finds 52% of Catholic voters agreed with the statement employers should be required to provide their employees with.
Now, the question does not say 52% of Catholic voters agreed with the statement Catholic institutions should be required.
Just the boss.
Doesn't specify Catholic schools or institutions outside the Catholic Church.
And by the way, all this stuff should be provided at no cost, 52%.
And they say this is pretty much in line with the overall support for the position, which hovers at 55%.
And according to that poll, again, from the Public Religion Research Institute, Catholics care almost the least about this.
Never mind Bill Donahue, the Catholic League saying this is war and it might even end up in the streets.
Bill Donahue doesn't know what he's talking about.
Most Catholics, let's put this, Catholics are the least concerned about this, according to this poll.
This poll claims that Catholics support Obama's mandate in Obamacare 58 to 37 percent.
Which takes us to Jay Carney.
White House press secretary this afternoon says the regime's not going to reverse this.
We're not going to walk this back.
He's asked by Wendell Gohler at Fox, you pushed back strongly on these other points.
Are you not interested here finding a compromise on this?
It is true and has been true since the day that this was announced that we intend as an administration, as Secretary Sebelius said, to work with religious groups that have concerns about this to see if there's a way to implement that policy.
That these are some of those concerns.
And both are true.
But I wanted to be clear yesterday and I want to be clear today that the commitment to ensuring that women have access to these important health care services remains very strong.
So it's not a compromise because you won't walk back from access without a copy.
Correct.
We're not going to compromise.
No way.
Nothing for us to compromise.
And plus, they've got this poll now at the Washington Post today, which backs them up.
My friends, how do you have an office without having an actual office?
You have a virtual office.
That's how you do it.
Now, if you called Brady Financial Planning in a suburban area of Detroit, for example, their receptionist would answer the phone just the way any Fortune 500 company receptionist would answer the phone.
If you looked at the business cards of everybody working for Brady Financial, you'd notice the address is right next door to the big banks and brokerage firms in the suburbs.
It's in Troy.
And if you took a meeting with Scott Brady, who's the company president, you say to yourself, wow, when he led you into their conference room, you think, well, this is a big company.
Okay, so the Washington Post basically says via a poll that Catholics don't really care about this.
This is much to do about the only people that care about the mandate that Catholic schools and institutions provide abortions, contraceptives.
The only people care about that are these hick hayseed pro-lifers and a bunch of white evangelicals.
Catholics don't even care.
From the Business Insider, Catholic Church has launched a fight against Obama that is unprecedented in American history.
I pull quote: And now the bishops are reported to be discussing, organizing an enormous march on Washington to protest the law and indirectly the president himself.
The truth of the matter, according to Business Insider, truth is the Catholic Church, the bishops have rarely been this united about anything.
So now you're faced with a dilemma.
Who do you believe here?
Here's the Washington Post with a poll from some outfit called the Public Religion Research Institute that says 52% of Catholics agree with what Obama's doing, and that of Catholics, they're the ones that least care about any of this.
The only people that do are white evangelicals and the usual pro-life hayseeds.
And over here, you have Bill Donahue saying could lead to war in the streets.
Catholic Church launched a fight against Obama unprecedented in American history.
Who do you believe here?
This is the kind of obfuscation that takes place in the drive-bys each and every day.
But for an issue that so few people care about, it's amazing how it won't go away.
Here is Dingy Harry.
I wanted you to hear in his own words, talking about Republicans.
This is on the Senate floor, Monday in Washington.
Republicans are insisting, among other things, that we pass an unrelated ideological piece of legislation that will make our water less safe to drink.
This would allow mercury and other carcinogens to be put in our water supply.
That's a pretty stark compromise.
We'll give you a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans if you will let us continue to put things like arsenic and mercury on the water of the American people.
That's not a very good deal.
Right.
Yeah, that's he really wants people to believe that Republicans want to put arsenic and mercury in the water.
We'll give you a payroll tax of $160 million if you let us put arsenic and mercury in the water.
Now, we're told, by the way, independents don't like that kind of talk.
Independents don't like this kind of confrontational accusations.
Independents want compromise and people getting along.
Somehow, have you ever noticed that independents never, ever get worried or upset or angry or bothered by what Democrats say?
Only Republicans.
It's just amazing.
Who's next?
David, Naples, Florida.
Been waiting a long time.
Appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Russ, from a disabled veteran in Marco Island, Florida.
How are you doing?
I don't have any idea what you said, but I think you asked me how I'm doing.
I'm doing well.
Basketball, I called because I'm not a conservative member of the base.
I'm not part of the establishment.
I've been following Paul practically all my life.
And I support Romney because I watched what he did as a governor of Massachusetts with an impossible problem of a totally Democrat legislature.
I watched Gingrich, who I supported actively in 1994, basically run out of gas and lose the advantage that we all gave him.
And I lost Rick Santorum, who I do admire, but his biggest mistake and a very, very serious mistake for us was his support of that turn code,
whose name I can hardly speak any longer, the senator from Philadelphia, who had cancer and basically turned everything that the Republicans tried to do in the Senate into an impossibility.
And I particularly admire Ron Nashville, what he did in Salt Lake City.
That was a shambles, a dysfunctional organization, and he turned it around in a way that very few people could have done.
If you read Cheney and Rumsfeld, as I have, I'm convinced we need a guy who can run the country and who can get what he's asserted that he will get done.
He will get it done.
And so, you know, again, I'm not part of the establishment.
I've had to turn off Newsmax because they bounded Gingrich so badly, I felt that they've established a new establishment.
But anyway, I just want to let you know that there are those of us out here in the base who are studious of the politics.
And just like you said, we're all independent.
We're not going to do what anybody tells us to do.
And I think Mitt Romney will put somebody in who's competent.
All right.
Well, I get it.
I mean, you're a member of the base and you like Romney.
I'm, by the way, I don't think anybody thinks I dislike Mitt Romney.
I do not dislike Mitt Romney.
But I have to tell you, the phone on your round was so bad.
I wasn't able to understand 10% of what you said.
So he's a competent administrator.
Okay.
Well, yeah, they need a competent administrator to run the country.
We need more than a competent administrator right now.
We need somebody who's going to actively roll back 100% of the crap that has taken place.
Now, you can sit there all day long and say that Santorum supported Specters.
Romney voted for Paul Tsangas.
This stuff cuts both ways.
Romney voted for Paul Tsangas.
That's when Romney says, I voted for Republican every time there's one on the ballot.
But anyway, look, I appreciate the call, David.
Thanks very much.
Rush Limbaugh talent on lawn from God.
We are in Los Angeles all week long here at an EIB, what will we call this?
Western Enclave.
It's more than a satellite office.
Anyway, we're out here accomplishing a bunch of things.
It'll be back in our South Florida confines on Monday.
But it's the same as I always say, as long as I'm here, it doesn't really matter where here is.
Back to the, oh, by the way, the Politico is reporting that Newt Gingrich in Ohio says he likes Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl ad.
Newt said he likes it.
He was speaking to employees at a manufacturing facility in Cleveland, said he liked the Chrysler ad.
I like that Clint Eastwood ad, Gingrich said.
I liked the tone of that ad.
The Politico then continues to quote Gingrich, we're just regrouping.
I believe with your help in the primary, with your help in the general election, we can, in fact, develop an approach to put America back on the right track.
So, Newt liked the ad they make this show so hard.
These guys make doing this show sometimes really so hard.
Do we have the original?
No, we don't.
This is the ad.
If you hear that Clint Eastwood is going to be doing an ad in the Super Bowl at halftime, this is what you think you're going to get, not what we got.
And by the way, by the way, folks, it has just been the Hollywood Reporter has uncovered the fact that the people on the marketing side, the creative side who put together the Clint Eastwood ad, actually donated time to help market advertise produce the Obama campaign in 2008.
Shazam FU.
I thought he got scammed.
said yesterday got scammed and I stand by it today.
And in fact, the Politico, the Politico is reporting.
They report this verbatim that I said I thought he got scammed.
It's over here in one of these stats.
Here's the big story on what?
Oh, was it all over Google News?
Yeah, I didn't see.
Here it is.
Politico, Limboy, Eastwood got scammed.
And then they quote me verbatim, accurately, unheard of that that happens from the program yesterday in their website on their website.
And they don't say that I'm wrong.
They just put it out there as this is what's being said in the upper echelons of the right.
But if you hear that Eastwood's going to do a halftime at the Super Bowl, this is what you think you're going to get.
You know, I don't even know that Newt watches football.
I don't know that he watched the Super Bowl.
Maybe he heard that ad.
Maybe that's what he thought the Eastwood ad was, our ad.
Maybe he didn't really hear the Eastwood ad.
But they don't specify that.
They did say that the ad that he heard was Super Bowl ad and that he liked it.
I want to stick with the audio soundbites.
I mentioned at the top of the program that the drive-bys are all over this notion that I am the reason, along with some others, that Santorum is winning in these primaries last night.
Up first, Jansing and company, this is this morning on PMS NBC.
She had on Karen Hunter, who is Simon ⁇ Schuster publisher, yeah, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph.
And they're talking about the Republican primary in Santorum.
And Chris Jansing said, you heard what Rick Santorum said about the money, which is that a one-on-one contest, not a lot of super PAC dollars, not a lot of advertising, and I won.
He said, what do you think of that?
Mitt Romney does not resonate with that base, and it doesn't matter.
He can change his underwear.
It's not going to matter because they don't like him.
Last week, the conservative base, which is really Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, went on an assault of Mitt Romney on the airwaves.
And I think that this is a result of that.
Every day, they talked about how he's not a real conservative.
And that's really what this race is about right now.
There you have it.
So I, your host, El Rushbone, not only am I responsible for Santorum coming up, but I'm responsible for the fact that the base doesn't like Romney.
Now, I could sit here and accept the accolades, and you would totally understand and agree.
I could sit here and say, yep, I am that powerful.
But I don't do that.
Because I'm offended by this in a sense that I think it portrays you as a bunch of mindless robots.
And that's the real message of this.
They're trying to say that you people don't have the ability to make up your own minds, that you're simply a bunch of mice, and I'm the Pied Piper.
And whatever I tell you to do and think you do.
And when I tell you not to like Romney, you're not going to like Romney.
When I tell you Santorum's a great conservative, you're not going to know that unless I tell you.
And I'm telling you, I resent it.
It's funny.
I mean, I'm not losing sleep over it, but I think that it's ridiculous.
But it's instructive of how they continue to look at you, the average Republican or conservative voter.
You're a mindless twat.
Twiddle.
And the fact of the matter is, did you hear what Scarlett Johansson said today?
Scarlett Johansson, I can't have it in front of me where she said it.
Maybe Us magazine or Us Weekly or some such thing.
But she ripped into Santorum for wearing sweater vests.
That that's not stylish.
That they're unfashionable.
And she has some statement that it's ridiculous.
It's from Us Magazine.
Santorum's sweater vest, slammed by Scarlett Johansson.
Keep in mind, you are the mindless numbered robots.
You are the idiots that can't make up your minds.
Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson, others like her, those are the wizards of SMART.
Those are the people we should be listening to.
The sartorial choices of Rick Santorum and the Republican National Committee were fair game for Scarlett Johansson, who stepped out at a Tuesday fundraiser for Obama hosted by Vogue in New York City.
And here's what she said about Santorum's mode of dress.
Oh, gosh, this is so sad.
You know, my dad wore sweater vests.
And I mean, they're charming for family photos, I guess, and dinner with the grandparents.
I think there's an ironic way to wear a sweater vest.
But other than that, I'm not sure.
Now, what does that mean?
But Scarlett Johansson, wizard of smart, you unable to make up your own mind about who to vote for.
Skip number two.
Moving on to number three, this is WJBK-TV, Fox Eyeball News Detroit.
And the correspondent is Cam Carmen talking about Santorum's wins last night.
Santorum won Minnesota and Missouri.
It appears the endorsement from radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave him a big boost.
Since then, his fundraising has skyrocketed.
I'm asking myself the same thing.
When did I endorse Santorum?
But see, yeah, I endorsed and didn't tell you.
How about that?
You've been begging me to endorse somebody, and I did it on this line.
You didn't even know it.
I haven't endorsed Santorum.
I've just said some things about him as a conservative.
Anyway, there was a story yesterday, his fundraising up by a factor of three.
And I took credit for that.
So that made the news now as a narrative that Santorum's fundraising is up because of me.
And this infobabe in Detroit, she read it somewhere and is regurgitating it here.
I'm being asked, what is Scarlett Johansson's preferred form of dress?
If Santorum's sweater vest looks rotten and doesn't make any sense, then what is the approved, I guess from Scarlett Johanson would be more nude photos, right?
Isn't that what that was right?
Or close to it?
And we're going to start talking about what people wear or don't wear.
Isn't that what Scarlett Johansson's?
Am I confusing her with somebody?
I didn't think so.
I didn't think I was.
Okay, Wolf Blitzer hyperventilating last night over Santorum's huge upset.
This is a Montage of Wolf last night on CNN, number eight.
Guess what?
A huge upset in the works.
There could be a major upset in the works tonight.
A huge upset for Rick Santorum.
Could be a very, very huge upset, a huge upset, potentially a significant upset in the workshop.
Potentially, this would be a huge upset.
That's why I love covering politics.
You never know what's going to happen.
OMG, look at this.
Remember what happened in Iowa?
That was worthy in an OMG.
Right now in Colorado, we got an OMG going on.
We've got an O doesn't mean, oh, my God.
It's oh, my God.
Wolf, you can say, oh, my God.
They didn't say you couldn't say, oh, my God.
You just can't say shotgun and that kind of thing.
You can say, oh, my God.
OMG, OMG.
Wolf clueless had no clue that this was going to happen.
And they're shocked that we're not surprised.
David Rodham Gergen, who is Washington Conventional Wisdom.
If you want to know what Washington Conventional Wisdom is, seek out David Rodham Gergen.
He was on CNN's special coverage last night on San Toma.
Soundbite number nine.
We thought just a little while ago that this was just going to be a romp for Romney right through February.
He's going to run the board.
I think it's a big surprise for a lot of us in the press as well.
Yeah, it's a lot of big surprise for a lot of us in the press as well.
A big surprise, though.
We thought this was going to be a romp.
Especially Trump came out.
Trump endorsed.
That's it.
Romney over the top.
In February, it's over.
Then last night happens, and nobody knows why.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Fighting fatigue, L. Rush.
You probably wouldn't know that had I not told you.
This has been an incredibly distracting day because practically everything that could have gone wrong with the audio has.
And of course, without the audio, you ain't got radio.
And it's been an absolute mess.
And we are such pros.
Well, I am.
You would not have noticed, even other than the one time when I had no choice but then to tell you.
Valentine's Day is next week.
It's next Tuesday.
It's six days away.
And you might resent it because it's one of these perfunctory holidays.
And even if you resent it, it's not an excuse for passing.
You can't pass it.
You need to look at it a different way.
Look at it as an opportunity to really impress your sweetheart.
Try to change negatives into positives.
Really impress her.
She probably knows you don't really care about it.
She probably knows you're lumbering around out there doing it because you think you have to.
Make it look like you really got into it this year.
You can do that very easily because these things work every time they're tried.
Flowers work every time.
One of the biggest secrets out there.
Even when they're expected.
In fact, when they're expected, that's when you had better come through.
I just found out that there was a period of time in the past hour here where none of the audio made it on the DittoCam audio line.
Why should you be surprised?
Everything else audio-wise blew up on us today.
We had a Zephyr drop out.
And if you don't know what that is, you shouldn't know what it is.
It's highly technical broadcast jargon.
It blew up.
It got fixed.
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