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Feb. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And just as I told you yesterday, just as I told you, it's Friday, folks, so let's go!
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, and we are expecting smoke today.
And I could be wrong, but we are expecting melting telephone lines.
And that's just based on what happened yesterday.
Wait till you hear what I have to say today.
For example, I didn't do this.
I'm just telling you, there's a website, Boston Catholic Insider.
He did a fact check on the Republican debate.
Did Romney lie about the Cardinal and contraception during the Wednesday debate?
He said he never did mandate contraception as part of Romney Care.
The Catholic insider in Boston says he did, and they've published two pages about it.
We've got Obama.
Folks, do you know that Pond Scum is now the algae?
Pond Scum is now the new source of energy in this country.
Obama, we were on the air yesterday.
He's done at Coral Gables.
He's making a speech.
I told you that if we had anything memorable from that, that we'd play it today, and we do.
We've got about 19 sound bites, no, nine, nine or ten soundbites on gas prices alone, including some things Obama said about algae, pond scum.
Now, this needs a czar.
We need a pond scum czar, and that means we need somebody slimy.
And I think Obama could probably find a lot of slimy people to be pond scum czar.
Bill Maher would fit the bill.
Any number of people probably would.
I got an email.
Stand by on audio soundbite number 24.
I got an email, one of my golf buddies late yesterday afternoon, just beside himself, just depressed as he could be.
He said, what in the world is going on in this election?
We got a guy who's making up things on the economy.
We got a guy who's responsible for $6 a gallon gasoline.
And he recited all of the economic stats, all the unemployed people, 13 to 14 million, all of the homes underwater, all the economic stats.
All of this is going on.
We got Obama lying about now suggesting pond scum as a new energy source, making fun of and putting down drilling.
Why are we talking about contraception and abortion?
As though I'm responsible for it.
And he wanted, he is demanding an answer.
Now, this is noteworthy because this guy follows stuff every day.
He ought to know that we're talking about this because of a Democrat trick.
We're talking about it because Obama brought it up via George Stephanopoulos.
We're talking about it because Obama mandated contraception on the Catholic Church.
That got all this started.
He knows that, and yet he's ticked off at the Republic.
So I sent him something.
There was a story in the Washington Post.
I was busy doing show prep last night, and it's a shock poll from the Washington Post and ABC News.
And I sent him a little paragraph from it.
I sent a lot of my friends this.
Rick Santorum is winning more support from Republican women.
And I sent this to him, and I said, patience, man.
Patience.
And let's set this up by the grab audio somebody 24.
Jonathan Capart of the Washington Post was on Morning Joe today with Joe Scarborough, and they were talking about Santorum.
Scarborough said, for Rick Santorum to be scaring pro-life voters off, it's not an indictment against the pro-life movement so much as his own view, which is, I think, extreme by modern political standards on contraception.
He doesn't have an extreme view on contraception.
He's not said a thing about it other than he wouldn't come up with a government program to deal with whatever his view is.
That's all he says, nothing extreme about.
This is how this stuff gets started.
So after making the claim that Santorum's views on contraception are extreme, this is what Capart said.
Yeah, very extreme.
And when you get to a point where someone like me who has no dog in this fight at all, listening to him, but concerned about the impact of what he's saying, being very uncomfortable by what Rick Santorum is saying, hearing what you have been saying about your wife and Republican women, you just backed out of the kitchen to listen to them talk about what Republicans are saying and doing on contraception and abortion issues and just being completely uncomfortable by the tone and tenor of what Rick Santorum is saying.
Doc, tape.
Rick Santorum winning more support from Republican women.
Washington Post, we are talking about contraception because the mainstream news media controls the conversation.
We're talking about it because Obama wants it discussed and the media won't let it die no matter what the Republicans do.
Amy Gardner of the Washington Post over the past several weeks, Republicans have watched squeamishly as presidential contender Rick Santorum has waded into multiple controversies that risk alienating half the 2012 electorate women.
But in fact, comma, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control, and his view that the federal government shouldn't pay for prenatal screenings.
A new Washington Post ABC news poll shows not only as Santorum is doing better among Republican women than he was a few weeks ago, but also that he is less unpopular among Democrat and independent women than Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich.
He is less unpopular than those two among Democrat and independent women.
How is this possible?
Voters and political strategerists alike, by the way, you Romney people, chill.
Your moment in the sun is coming on the program.
I'm dealing with an email I got from a friend of mine who's in a state of panic, like I imagine a lot of people are, and I'm trying to calm everybody down about this social issue stuff.
It's not a killer.
Abortion is the killer, not the Republican Party.
Obama is the guy who supports infanticide, not us.
The American mainstream culture has not yet gone to hell.
And that's partly shown and illustrated by this poll.
Jonathan Capart sitting there at the MSNBC studio, all holier than now.
Hoity-toity.
Republican women.
Santorum and the boys want them pregnant in the kitchen.
Can't stand them outside.
Doesn't have the slightest idea what he's talking about, living in the world of cliché after cliché after cliché.
Voters and political strategists alike say that Santorum's rise has less to do with his views on these issues than on his ability to relate to the daily struggles of the middle class.
Oh, okay.
So they're claiming that his popularity is due not to the abortion stuff, but to his ability to relate to the daily struggles of the middle class.
And by the way, this abortion stuff isn't hurting him.
That's the point of the story.
In fact, he is less unpopular among Democrat and independent women than Romney or Gingrich.
Now, the only other possibility here is the Washington Post and ABC News got together and totally made this up because they want Santorum to keep talking about this stuff.
That's the only other possibility.
They totally made it up.
It's a giant head fake.
It is a total attempt to sandbag us.
That's the only other thing this could be.
So I sent my buddy this and I said, patience.
And I didn't hear back.
I think he's watching a continuous loop of the Accenture Match Play World Golf Championship.
He's a big golfer.
He's out in Arizona.
What?
What's new?
No, no, no, no.
No, did not say more popular, less unpopular.
How can Santorum be less unpopular than Newton?
Well, he's less well known, for one thing.
This poll point is he's less well known, but he's less unpopular with Democrat and independent women than Romney and Gingrich.
My guess, snerdly, it might have to do with the fact that it's now widely known that Santorum is a loving, devoted father.
You think that might have something to do with this?
He's got a little girl that's lived three years beyond her life expectancy.
She was just in the hospital.
He suspended the campaign.
You think that might affect women positively?
Could well be.
I mean, no, he's not Bill Clinton running around trying to score with soccer moms, but at least he's showing himself as a good family man.
I'm just guessing, but I think that could have something to do with it.
But they say here's no evidence that Santorum's position among women in either party has dropped in recent weeks, which is a surprise, it says here, to some Republicans who've watched uncomfortably as he has engaged in high-profile discussions about abortion, contraception, prenatal screening.
Yeah, he's asked questions about it.
Stan Greenberg, pollster extraordinaire.
He's got this polling company with Carville.
Stan Greenberg is married to Rosa DeLora, a congresswoman from Connecticut.
Enough said.
National Journal.
Democrat pollster Stanley Greenberg is out with a must-read polling memo this morning, which offers some eye-opening advice to President Obama and his re-election team.
After testing several of the president's economic messages, comma, he finds the argument that the economy is back on the right track, polls miserably, and produces disastrous results.
Read that to you again, folks.
Look at me when I say this to you.
Greenberg, Democrat pollster from the Clinton era, along with Carville and the forehead.
After testing several of the president's economic messages, Greenberg finds the argument that the economy's back and on the right track is polling horribly and quote produces disastrous results.
Quote, this is from the memo.
I have printed it out from Greenberg.
The memo reads, as a glaring wake-up call to the White House, which has been trumpeting, no, sorry, just a paragraph.
Here's from the memo.
It is weaker than even the weakest Republican message and is 10 points weaker in intensity than Evie Republican message.
A third of our respondents said that the message made them less likely to support Obama.
I mean, the economy back message.
Alarmingly, this message barely receives majority support among self-identified Democrats, even less support among all other guys.
Let me translate for you.
Obama's running around on this virtual economy.
It's back.
We're roaring back.
Unemployment's down.
Jobs are being created.
Got algae and ponds come out.
They're going to bring gasoline prices down.
It ain't working.
Now, you're probably saying, well, why?
Why?
I'll tell you why, because Greenberg also discovers why it isn't working.
The voters don't believe him.
It's even in the headline.
Democrat pollster, voters don't think America's back.
Greenberg has sent out this memo as a warning to Obama and the White House.
Do not sit there and think that you've got the magic of 2008.
You go out there and tell everybody pond scum is going to bring gasoline prices down to $2.50 a gallon.
Don't think that lying to them about how good employment is, because people don't believe it.
And you know why they don't believe it?
Because it isn't happening.
Gas prices are going up.
It's getting harder and harder to get a job.
There's nothing evidentiary to support a roaring back economy.
And while this lie is going on, here you've got Mucho on the slopes in Aspen.
The next night, a big blues bash with the wrinkled one, Mick Jagger, needs to iron his face.
Like and what's her face?
Ma Richards.
She always thought, just iron your face.
Mick Jagger, the same thing, had B.B. King.
Did you know this?
I love B.B. King, one of my all-time favorite tunes, my all-time top 10 favorites.
He sang it.
He's in a wheelchair.
B.B. King's diabetic.
He's 80-some odds, thirdly.
And he can still belt out.
And you know, he sang the thrill is gone to Obama and Muchel.
He acts, that was part of his repertoire.
That's really good.
Grandma, I know we got it in our prophets.
It's enough to find it right now.
Mike, get this, get it up.
We'll have it ready here.
Song up in mere moments.
Gosh, it's a great song.
Back from early 70s.
Oh, I remember playing that song in my very first ever radio job.
And I remember it was popular in February or March.
I remember songs seasonally.
And that's when it was huge, wintertime and the very end stage of wintertime.
So Greenberg is warning Obama, hey, you need to find another big lie.
So two bits of information.
Independent Democrat women are not bothered by Santorum.
Republican women are not bothered by Santorum.
The American people are not buying Obama's big lie on the economy coming back.
They're not buying the notion that pond scum will bring down the price of gasoline to $2.50 a gallon.
And Gallup tells us his approval numbers last week, or maybe earlier this week, fell five points.
He's like 42, 43% in Gallup.
Chin up, folks.
Chin up.
And all, as a powerful, influential member of the media, I occasionally am given screeners of movies that are due to premiere soon.
And I got one.
It's indescribably riveting.
Opens today.
Act of Valor.
You know about this movie?
This is real.
Let me take a break.
I'll tell you about it.
They even closed captioned it for me.
Relativity Media did.
It is just real Navy SEALs who will not be identified in the credits.
And one of the reasons they wanted to use real SEALs in the get-go, but they turned out, they found out they had to because no stuntman was capable of the physical demands of the role.
Only the SEALs could pull this stuff off.
And the photography, just mention that.
Gosh, it's gorgeous.
It's beautiful.
But, man, is this great?
It just, from the moment this thing opens, it's riveting.
I'll be back with more after this.
Don't go away.
Act of Valor.
Folks, it's a goosebump movie when you realize that real Navy SEALs, this opens with a training jump in San Diego and ends up in the Philippines.
Actually, shot the movie Cambodia, but it ends up in the Philippines where the first act of terrorism takes place.
And it just, the photography is gorgeous.
When you know that real seals were used and the Navy granted permission for this, the Navy got the raw footage to use this in training videos and so forth.
But I've only got about 10 seconds left here in this segment, so I can't get into much detail, but it opens today.
I've had a lot of people talking to me about this for the last two weeks, Act of Valor, so I learned what it was.
And by quirk of fate, the DVD arrived yesterday.
And I watched it, and you will not be disappointed.
Okay, let's ramp up the discussion of act of valor and move on.
We got lots of stuff in the news.
For example, Jeb Bush.
Former Governor Florida Jeb Bush said yesterday that he found it troubling that the 2012 presidential candidates are, quote, appealing to people's fears and emotion on the campaign trail.
Bush expressed concern about the type of rhetoric the candidates were using without getting specific or naming names.
Here's a quote, Jeb Bush to Fox News.
I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates.
I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective.
I have all the respect in the world for Jeb Bush, but I wonder how many Republicans actually understand what's going on.
Fear and emotion?
Governor Bush, the people of this country are scared to death without the Republicans saying a word.
Republican conservative primary voters are already scared of what's being done to their country.
Yes, they have to hear Obama promise, Ed, in five more years, look out what I can do.
Yeah, he gave an, by the way, this is funny.
Gave an interview to what the media is called, Univision Radio, what the media is calling the Latino Rush Limbaugh.
There is no Latino Rush Limbaugh.
I am the Latino Rush Limbaugh.
But they're out there saying Obama's told these people, and what he was doing, he was telling the Hispanic audience, look, just I got five years, I'll handle this illegal stuff next term when I don't have any accountability.
I don't have to run for re-election.
Just hang in there.
Be cool, be patient.
I'll take care of it.
That was the unspoken message from Obama to Univision Radio.
But I presidential candidates are appealing to people's fears and emotion.
What do the Democrats do?
Every day, isn't every day in this country a crisis that needs an immediate government solution right now?
Isn't that the Democrat Party modus operandi?
There's already fear and emotion in everybody's everyday lives because of what's happening to the country.
Honestly, when I hear some of these high-ranking Republicans discuss what this campaign is, I wonder if they really have a grasp on what's happening, at least in the minds of Republican voters.
In fact, I will tell you, I bet it's a Tea Party, and a number of Republicans will tell you that they're mad because the Republican elites aren't being scary enough.
That they're not warning people of the dangers ahead enough.
That would be my guess.
So, as you can see, folks, we've got stuff all over the news that plus Open Line Friday.
That means that means your phone calls.
Act of Valor, they made this movie with, which says here between $15 and $18 million.
They shot this movie on a Canon EOS SD Mark II.
That is an SLR camera.
That's a $3,000 camera.
You will not believe it when you see the cinematography of this movie.
Now, what happened?
A couple of guys, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandito Brothers Production, filmed a video.
And that video was for the special warfare combatant craft crewmen.
It led the Navy to allow him to use active duty SEALs.
And after spending so much time working closely with the SEALs, McCoy and Waugh got the idea of a modern-day action movie about the SEALs.
So Act of Valor was developed with the SEALs on board as advisors.
And once they started putting this together, the filmmakers realized that there were no actors or stuntmen who could realistically portray or physically fill the roles that they had written.
And so actual SEALs were drafted to star in the film.
And they're all going to remain anonymous.
Their names will not roll in the credits.
And of course, the movie has its critics.
The left-wing media doesn't like this at all.
And they don't like the fact that untrained professional actors were not used.
They say these SEALs, you can tell they're not professional actors.
They do their lines and it sounds stilted and so forth.
The left-wing blogosphere is doing their best to kill.
Honestly, they really are.
They're afraid of it because Act of Valor portrays the SEALs and the U.S. military in as positive, and by the way, not only in as positive a light as you can imagine, that is deserved, as it should be.
It's an amazing thing to come out of Hollywood.
Now, it's not a political movie at all.
It's just about the SEALs starring real SEALs.
And I want to thank him for sending me a copy because I had heard about it.
People, in fact, I was out to dinner on Tuesday night and a friend was saying, I can't wait for Friday.
I'm going to go Friday afternoon and see the movie.
And so he's not going to be disappointed to see.
Oh, and they used live ammo, I'm told, throughout the movie.
Live ammo, except in all the scenes that involved sniper shots, sniper kill shots.
Audio Subway 2829, Mr. Broadcast Engineer, late yesterday afternoon, this is in Coral Gables.
This is at a fundraiser.
This is after Obama sang the praises of pond scum as the next substitute for oil.
We've got to make sure that everybody's doing their fair share.
Everybody needs a fair shot.
Everybody's got to play by the same set of rules.
Everybody's got to do their fair share.
Everybody's got to do their part.
Everybody in this room, we are here successful because somebody down the road was not just thinking about themselves, they were taking responsibility for the country as a whole.
What an absolute crock.
That is the exact opposite of what goes on.
That is his translation of Karl Marx from each according to his ability to each according to his need.
This is absolutely full of it.
Everybody got to do their part.
Everybody in this room, we're here, successful, because somebody down the road was not just thinking about themselves, they were taking responsibility for the country as a whole.
That is not what propelled this country.
This country was propelled by rugged individualism and rugged self-interest.
And it was made possible by virtue of the freedom this country offers its citizens thanks to our Constitution, founding documents, and founding fathers.
Now, this may be a fine line.
Obama wants you to think that everybody that he deems successful is first thinking of government and then second thinking of government.
And then the last thing they think of is government.
And everything they do is oriented toward making the government better.
And that is a most people today are finding a way to avoid the government.
Because of guys like Obama, most people are trying to find a way to evade the government.
Because the government run by guys like Obama is an obstacle.
It's in people's way.
Here's the next soundbite.
We're not going to win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if we're responding to today's challenges with the same old, tired, worn-out, you're on your own economics that hasn't worked.
What these other guys are peddling has not worked.
It didn't work in the decade before the Great Depression.
It did not work in the decade before I became president.
It will not work now.
Do you believe this?
The country has never worked.
Capitalism has never worked.
America was not great until the New Deal.
And then America plunged into the abyss again and only is on the path to reclaiming its greatness now that he is replicating the New Deal by a factor of 10.
Has he ever heard of the Roaring 20s?
Has he ever heard of the boom in the 50s and the 60s and the 70s?
Has he ever heard of what happened in the 1980s?
It never worked.
This is the second time he said this in such prominent way.
Last time was when he made his speech, I guess it was in December, might have been January.
The days are running together so quickly now in Ossawatomie, Kansas, where he said America as founded hasn't worked.
Mr. President, you keep talking.
And by the way, Stan Greenberg has a memo out there saying that what you're doing isn't working.
But don't bother reading that memo.
People aren't believing your lies about how great this country is doing, how great the economy is doing.
They're not buying it because they're not living it, sir.
And contrary to you, most people don't get up every day and face the direction of Washington and bow down and pray.
Government is not first and foremost in people's lives.
That's not how Americans are wired.
But he wants us to be.
Brief timeout.
Much more straight ahead.
Open Line Friday.
Il Rush Bowl.
We will get phone calls coming out of the break.
I got an email.
It's a good question.
Act of Valor is not a documentary.
It's not a training film.
It's not, it's an action movie.
Think the Born Identity series, except with a much better story and absolutely real people in real life roles.
But it is a story.
There's nothing documentary.
It's not a remake of some actual mission that took place.
These are real SEALs portraying themselves in an action movie.
That's what's so unique about it.
Made for $15 to $18 million using a $3,000 camera.
And you will not believe that when you see the cinematography, it's an exciting, riveting movie.
It's just that when you learn that actual, real Navy SEALs are the stars of this thing.
That's what blows your mind.
And then when you learn that that had to be because they couldn't find actors capable of the physical demands of the roles.
Here's Jerry in Wilmington, Delaware, as we start on the phones in the first hour.
We always try to do that on Open Line Friday.
Jerry, thanks for the call.
Ooh, first row.
Thank you, Rush.
Listen, Rush, big fan of yours.
I've been listening for years.
I agree with 98%.
But I had to call in today.
Last couple weeks, I've been getting more angry.
Seminar callers, seminar caller alert.
No, I'm not a seminar caller.
Every seminar call.
I'm not a seminar.
I'm a conservative.
I was going to talk about Santorum and what you said about the poll.
Okay, go ahead.
Okay.
Here's what I think.
I think this poll is bogus.
I think it's Democratic Operation Chaos in Reverse.
I think they want Santorum in there.
And that's what I really believe.
The debates the other night, I think he looked like a deer in the headlights.
I suggested to you that if you don't believe this poll, the only option you've got is to think that ABC and Washington Post got together and totally made the poll up so that Santorum will stay in because what he's really doing is destroying the party.
Well, maybe they just got Democrats or lean or lied.
Well, but that's what you think.
That's what you think this is.
I think it's reversed.
You think it's a rigged poll.
I think it's reversed, and we're going to see more and more of it.
And they haven't even got to the worst part.
Let's say Santorum gets near the lead, then they're going to reverse it again and start going into his, you know, his nickname, Sanatorium, and things like that, and then they're really going to be vicious at him.
Yeah.
And I bet you can't wait.
As soon as he starts rising again, then they're going to put a knife in him.
And then where are we?
You know, we spent all this money, all this time.
Yeah.
Okay, so, Jare, old buddy O'Powell, to avoid all this, what should we do?
What should we do?
Yeah.
Oh, good question.
Ignore those polls.
Don't even listen to the Democrats.
Well, no, I'm saying if the Democrats are getting together, the Washington Post and ABC to rig a poll in order to run a reverse operation chaos, essentially.
That's what you're saying.
Then I guess we have to support Romney, right?
or Newt.
Well, what I'm saying is...
Just tell me who it is.
Just tell me who it is you think we should support.
Well, if I really got to say, you know, words mean something.
When you think of somebody, what do you think?
Let me guess.
When I think of Romney, I only think of two bad things.
Flip-flops, not a purebred.
Okay, that's what I think of.
Is that real bad?
When I think of Newt, I think of divorce, marriages, really three bold ideas, and really bad ideas.
I think of Fannie and Freddie.
And what do you think of Ron Paul?
Oh, well, I don't think of him at all.
You know, Ron Paul doesn't have a chance.
I like his fiscal ideas.
Well, it doesn't sound like you think any of them have a chance.
No, if I had to, you know, if you want my opinion, one of them, I think, unfortunately, yeah, the other guys aren't going to come in.
Everyone's wishing these people would come in.
Tell me who.
Just tell me who.
Of the four, if I was wanting to run Romney.
Of the four.
Romney, I knew it.
Okay, great.
I knew it.
Seminar caller, Romney.
Don't doubt me.
I'm not going to tell you how I knew because that would give it away.
Then your seminar callers would start trying different tactics, and I would still catch you.
I just know.
I just know.
It's my business.
I didn't say anything about what kind of callers are for Romney.
I just said this guy, I knew.
The minute he said, this poll is a fake.
This poll is designed to keep Santorum in the race so as to hurt the party.
I knew however long it took that the alternative was going to be Romney.
And so he thinks that the poll was totally rigged.
And that's the only, if you don't believe it, if you don't believe the ABC poll, then you have to believe it was totally faked in order to fake all of us out.
Now, all polls, as we've discussed on this program countless times, all polls have bias.
They are all rigged in one way or another from the percentages of each party as samples.
For example, Democrats are always oversampled in every drive-by media poll.
Independents are always oversampled.
Republicans are always undersampled.
And the way the questions are phrased, I mean, there's rigging in practically every poll that's out there.
But this one, if you don't believe this one, you have to believe it is a lie from the first word to the last word.
And the purpose of the lie is to keep everybody.
Wow, Santorum, well, okay, let's keep supporting Santorum because you think the Post and ABC realize or believe that Santorum is a nominee is instant victory for Obama.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And that's it, folks.
Another exciting hour.
Where did it go?
Into the ether.
Actually, not in the ether.
It'll soon be transcribed for the media to fully misquote at rushlimbaugh.com.
Don't miss the second hour and the hour after that.
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