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March 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 6, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, welcome back.
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I am Rushlin Boy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, lies, distortions, assaults on freedom, and yes, the good times as well.
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Obama's press conference today.
I don't know how many voters heard it, but it should help Republican turnout in the primaries today on Super Tuesday.
Obama's pressure today should motivate people on how much we need to get him out of office.
It was striking, striking.
Press conference.
Anyway, great to have you back.
800-282-2882 is the telephone number, email address El Rushbo at eibnet.com.
Remember Labor Day 2011?
What would that be?
Six, seven, eight months ago?
James Hoffa Jr. at an event with Obama on the Tea Party.
James Hoffa Jr. told the union to, quote, take these sons of bitches out, unquote.
Mr. Civility didn't say a word about it.
Mr. Obama said not a word about it.
Laughed about it, in fact, didn't he?
Chuckled a bit.
Well, those, quote, sons of bitches, unquote, are somebody's sons and daughters.
These Tea Party SOBs are somebody's sons and daughters.
They are participating in public discourse.
And they're not public citizens.
They're private citizens.
They're anonymous.
But it just goes to show the rules don't apply to Democrats.
This is what we were talking about yesterday, the double standard.
Double standard is alive and well.
Now, this is somewhat comical and interesting at the same time.
F. Chuck Todd of NBC News gave an interview to the Politico.
Dylan Byers, or Byers, Dylan Byers of the Politico, and F. Chuck Todd of NBC suggested that the media's coverage of politics is often wrong.
Chuck Todd said we incorrectly cover American politics 60% of the time.
He insists that there has not been a liberal ideological bias for a long time, but quote, we don't understand their day-to-day lives outside the New York DC bubble.
We look down at their church-going and Walmart shopping.
Nothing upsets me more than New York-centric coverage of American politics because it's through the New York prism that we incorrectly cover American politics 60% of the time.
To me, said F. Chuck Todd, the ideological bias in the media really hasn't been there in a long time.
But what is there that people mistake for ideological bias is geographic bias.
It's seeing everything through the lens of New York and Washington.
For instance, I've always thought that we collectively as the media covered this recession horribly because the two markets that actually weathered it better than almost any in the country were New York and Washington.
That didn't mean we didn't cover it, but we only covered it statistically.
We didn't cover it from the kitchen table.
Imagine if we still had news bureaus in Denver and Miami, these places where it was really frontline.
Isn't Chuck admitting, even though he lives in Washington, he knows it was bad?
But because they didn't have a bureau in Miami or Denver that they didn't report it, F. Chuck is originally from Florida.
So he sits there in the New York-Washington bubble, laments the fact that there's a New York-Washington bias.
They see everything through that prism.
And we need bureaus out there.
That's how we would see the recession.
Well, then, how do you know what's happening out there?
I guess what he's saying is gas price goes up, but in New York, we don't buy gas.
We get in a cab or we walk.
And in Washington, well, who knows?
But it doesn't affect us.
And by the way, he's right about one thing.
One of the wealthiest counties in America now.
Well, the two wealthiest counties, suburban Washington, D.C. is Washington is where the money is.
Someone who thinks the media are ideological would reply that the networks didn't cover the recession as a red state kitchen table issue very deeply because that might hurt Obama on the polling question, asking if the president understands and sympathizes with the struggles of people like you.
The next paragraph suggests that Chuck Todd really does see at least a cultural bias.
He says, I think sometimes there are too many people who cover politics that don't understand the grassroots of the Republican Party.
And part of it's motivated by this anti-New York and Washington bias, if you will.
Part of what animates them is: if you're pushing it, I'm against it.
So the ruling elites in Manhattan and Georgetown have a habit of opposing whatever they're favoring in flyover country, but that's not ideological.
How could it not be ideological?
Of course, this all is ideological.
He's an anti-religion bias, too.
Chuck says, also, we don't understand their day-to-day lives.
We don't respect the fact that they go to church twice a week.
That when we look our noses down upon Walmart, they see it as the only place to shop.
Now, these are striking admissions because F. Chuck is telling us that he doesn't know what he knows.
He's telling us he doesn't know that there's a recession.
He's the political director at NBC News.
He knows there's a recession out there, but we don't cover it because we don't see it.
New York, Washington bubble.
Yet he knows it's there.
And this is a geographic bias.
Well, if he knows it's there and it's not covered, isn't it then to protect Obama?
There's no question that's the case, and that's where the ideology comes in.
And then we get a takeoff on the bitter clinger stuff because F. Chuck says, yeah, we don't respect the fact they go to church twice a week and we look down our noses at Walmart.
So in Chuck's mind, everybody outside Washington and New York goes to church twice a week and they all shop at Walmart.
Now, Chuck, I have to tell you that Americans know that there are far more places to shop in Walmart.
We have malls.
We have malls here.
And we've got fine restaurants you have in New York and Washington.
This is interesting here as far as what Chuck is trying to admit.
In fact, Chuck, you might be surprised to know that there are people in small towns that really, some of them don't favor Walmart coming to town.
I remember in my little town where I grew up, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, when I was growing up Main Street, right down there, parallel to the Mississippi River.
It's where my dad's law firm office was, my grandfather and my uncle.
And that's where the action was.
There was a Woolworths there, and there was a it was the street that you see, and it's a wonderful life.
It was all there, including the Christmas decorations, looked the same.
You had a department store called Hechts.
You had Woolworths.
You had a grocery store, a jewelry store.
It was all that.
The bank was there, the savings and loan.
They called it building and loan.
Then it was there.
And then, and by the way, there were also stores on Broadway, which led you to Main Street.
So it was Broadway and Main Street in Cape Girardeau.
And then one day, when I still live there, I left in 1971, somebody, an evil, mean-spirited, that's a town of 25,000 people, an evil, mean-spirited developer decided to build a mall out by Interstate 55, which was at that time about as far away as you could get from Main Street, still be within the city limits.
And the mall was going to have all kinds of neat stuff in it.
It was before Walmart's day, but it was going to have stuff in it.
It was going to have Anchorster Famous Bar out of St. Louis, a number of other stores in it.
And all the merchants on Main Street, oh, no, it is going to kill us.
No, the movie theaters were on Broadway, leading down to Main Street.
So my point here is that even when a Walmart shows up in a small town, a lot of the people there are not crazy, but it's not that everybody loves Walmart because that's the only place they shop.
I applaud Chuck for trying to deal with the bias issue and try to categorize it as geographical and not ideological, but it's probably a little bit of both.
But despite his best efforts, he still makes it clear that they have a lot of ignorance and confusion about what life is like outside of Washington and New York, and that there is a disdain for it to boost.
Sit tight, folks, coming right back.
Okay, Snerdley, I don't want you blowing up in there.
We get audio soundbites from the president's press conference.
Yeah, I think I want people to hear it.
They're going to hear it anyway.
It was at 1.41 this afternoon.
The question came from a Huffing and Puffington Post reporter.
Do you believe Rush Limbaugh's apology was sufficient and heartfelt?
And do you agree with the number of sponsors that have stopped supporting his show?
And has there been a double standard?
Liberal commentators have made distasteful statements, and there's not been such an outrage.
You know, I'm not going to comment on what sponsors decide to do.
I'm not going to comment on either the economics or the politics of it.
I don't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart, so I'm not going to comment on the sincerity of his apology.
What I can comment on is the fact that all decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don't have any place in the public discourse.
And, you know, the reason I called Ms. Fluke is because I thought about Malia and Sasha, and one of the things I want them to do as they get older is to engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on.
I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way.
And I don't want them attacked or called horrible names because they're being good citizens.
And I wanted Sandra to know that I thought her parents should be proud of her.
And that we want to send a message to all our young people that being part of a democracy involves argument and disagreements and debate.
And we want you to be engaged.
And there's a way to do it that doesn't involve you being demeaned and insulted, particularly when you're a private citizen.
Well, I don't know if she's a private citizen testifying before a congressional subcommittee, but nevertheless, he doesn't know what's in my heart, but you do.
And that is the key.
This is the guy who stands next to Jimmy Hoffa and chuckles when Hoffa talks about the sons of bitches, quote unquote, in the Tea Party being taken out.
He laughs when they're demeaned and insulted.
And he doesn't answer the question about other people who have been really, really ripped and criticized and so forth by people on the left, liberal commentators and so forth.
Next question was from Jessica Yelling of CNN.
She said, top Democrats said that Republicans in a similar issue are engaged in a war on women.
Some top Republicans say it's more like Democrats are engaged in a war for the women's vote.
Now, as you talk about loose talk of war in another arena and women, this could raise concerns among women.
Do you agree with the chair of the DNC that there's a war on women?
One of the things I've learned being married to Michelle is I don't need to tell her what it is that she thinks is important.
There are millions of strong women around the country who are going to make their own determination about a whole range of issues.
It's not going to be narrowly focused just on contraception.
It's not going to be driven by one statement by one radio announcer.
It is going to be driven by their view of what's most likely to make sure they can help support their families, make their mortgage payments, who's got a plan to ensure that middle-class families are secure over the long term.
What's most likely to result in their kids being able to get the education they need to compete?
So that's a long, drifting, incoherent answer on the so-called war on women, but that is a page of the Democrat Party playbook.
And that's what this contraception issue is all about.
And as I said yesterday, the whole purpose of the appearance by Ms. Fluke before the Democrat subcommittee was to take away and distract from the real issue that Daryl ISIS committee was looking into, which is, does the president have the constitutional authority to demand and mandate that Catholic universities or churches or schools provide not just contraception,
but other medication that facilitates abortions taking place or that causes them to happen.
Does he have the right to mandate that?
That was the original purpose of ISIS hearing.
And they had a witness lined up for this hearing, Barry Lynn.
And at 4.30 in the afternoon, they canceled.
The Democrats pulled Barry Lynn out and said that they wanted Sandra Fluke to show up instead.
And ISIS said, who's this?
We don't know who she is.
Does she have any expertise?
There's a 72-hour vet rule.
You got 72 hours to figure out who their witnesses are to see if they're qualified.
Democrats didn't want that to happen.
I don't know why.
I don't know what they didn't want the Republicans to learn about Sandra Fluke, but they didn't want them to learn something.
Or maybe it was just that they wanted to spring this on him and try to twist them and tails.
And ISIS stood firm and said, sorry.
So the Democrats staged a press conference made to look like a congressional hearing.
And the whole purpose was to change the subject from Obama's mandating anti-constitutionally that insurance companies or churches provide free of charge contraception and abortive fashions.
They had to desperately change the subject.
They changed the subject to contraception.
And how supposedly the Republicans are opposed to it.
And thus the war on women.
I've always thought in circumstances like this, where's the logic?
At what point does the logic occur to people?
Hey, here's the Republican Party, and they have as their objective winning elections.
And they don't want just men.
They need votes from as many people as they can get.
What is the point in having a war on half or over half of the voters?
What's the point in telling them you don't want their votes?
In fact, folks, if I could be honest with you, it's the Obama administration which is telling groups of Americans they're not interested in their votes.
And one group is white working families.
They used to be called Reagan Democrats.
Thomas Edsel, who used to write in the Washington Post, wrote a piece in the New York Times months ago now laying out Obama's reelection strategy.
And one of the things that he made the point was that we've lost white working-class voters.
That's not an area we're going to focus on.
The Republican Party doesn't write off anybody.
The Republican Party, my gosh, does everything it can.
It doesn't know how, but it tries every way it can to get women vote, Hispanic vote, black vote, minority vote.
It's doing everything it can.
They just don't know how to do it.
But they're out there trying all the time.
It's the Democrats who alienate voting groups.
But the way it ends up being reported is all that has to happen is Obama, the Democrats assert that there is a war on women, and the press is right there with its New York-Washington bubble to pick up the theme.
Ooh, Republicans, a war on women against contraception.
Republicans want women living in the stone age.
That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it, when you want their votes?
No, it makes no sense whatsoever.
But that's all Obama's got.
He cannot tout his record because it's shameful.
It is abysmal, his record, what he has done to this country.
He cannot run on it.
And we are back.
One more audio, Sunday, from the president's press conference.
It was a follow-up from Jessica Yellen.
In fact, let's do these two.
Let's grab 27.
Let's play them within proximity to each other.
Jessica Yellen asked Obama, do you think, you agree with the chairman of the Democrat National Committee that there is a war on women?
One of the things I've learned being married to Michelle is I don't need to tell her what it is that she thinks is important.
There are millions of strong women around the country who are going to make their own determination about a whole range of issues.
It's not going to be narrowly focused just on contraception.
It's not going to be driven by one statement by one radio announcer.
It is going to be driven by their view of what's most likely to make sure they can help support their families, make their mortgage payments, who's got a plan to ensure that middle-class families are secure over the long term.
What's most likely to result in their kids being able to get the education they need to compete?
Okay, and then she continued with this, and you'll hear him in the answer here as well.
For this language to be changed, you know, Jessica, as you know, if I start being in the business of arbitrating, right, and what I do is I practice it.
And so I'm going to try to lead by example in this situation as opposed to commenting on every single comment that's made by either politicians or pundits.
I would be very busy.
I would not have time to do my job.
That's your job to comment on what's said by politicians and pundits.
Well, he just did.
Five minutes earlier, three minutes earlier, he just did.
Jessica yelling, is there a war on women?
I don't know, Jessica.
They're going to get it with a casket.
Well, do you agree with the language about this?
Well, it's not my job to comment on what pundits.
You just did.
You just commented on me.
He says he leads by example.
He called Tea Party supporters teabaggers, knowing full well what an insult it is.
It's Barack Obama who said, and it's not surprising then they get bitter and they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
He doesn't know what's in my heart.
I'll bet he knows what's in Jeremiah Wright's heart.
He was in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
Everybody knows what's in my heart.
Everybody who listens to this program and every one of these critics who's jumping on this for the political advantage they think it gives them knows what's in my heart.
Everybody knows what I do here.
Everybody knows how I do it.
And everybody knows what kind of person I am.
All of this is pure trumped up for politics purpose, pure and simple.
But here's a guy.
Well, do you agree with the language on a war on women?
Ah, Jessica, I can't start talking about it.
I lead by example, as opposed to commenting on every comment made by politicians or pundits.
And he just got through commenting on me.
Your job is to comment on what's said by politicians and pundits, but he just did comment on me.
And he will not be called on this.
He will not be called on it.
No member of the media will point out not, this is not even hypocrisy.
This is just forgetting you said one thing and going out and saying the exact opposite.
This is doing something and then deny you do it.
This is robbing the bank and saying, no, I didn't, when everybody saw it on videotape.
Here's a guy commenting on pundits saying, I don't comment on pundits.
I lead by example.
I'm the guy that leads by example and civility.
Sarah Palin tweeted a good point on Obama.
She said, President Obama says he called Sandra Fluck because of his daughters.
For the sake of everyone's daughter, why doesn't his super PAC return the $1 million he got from a rabid misogynist?
That would be Bill Maher.
He took a million dollars from somebody who's called Sarah Palin the T word, the C word, and everything in between.
And they're not going to give that money back, I guarantee you.
It's Obama's super PAC.
It's a guy who doesn't comment on pundits.
But the first two weeks he's in office, he brings the congressional leadership up.
He says, don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
He comments on me all the time while saying he doesn't comment on pundits.
He comments on me frequently while claiming he doesn't comment on pundits.
Who's next on the phone?
Steve in Huron, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Ross said, it is truly an honor and a privilege to talk to you today.
Just want to let you know that we're at Ground Zero here in Huron, Ohio.
And I've been both to the Rick Santorin camp.
I've been to two of his meetings.
And just want to let you know, he's the meat and potato guy.
He's the type of guy that most of us who are just blue-collar workers and want what's best for their country.
And, you know, I don't want to necessarily say more religious, but we're the meat and potatoes.
We're really behind Rick Santorum, where I believe Mitt Romney is appealing more to the establishment, the blue blood Republicans.
Well, everybody's keeping an eye on Ohio.
The conventional wisdom is, and that's what Steve's calling me.
Conventional wisdom is that if Romney wins Ohio Snippen Tuckmere, then that's it.
I mean, that's the conventional wisdom.
That's what the conventional wisdom architects are saying.
That that's it for Santorum.
Well, the terms of delegate count, that'd be tough to come back from.
But I don't think it's over till it's over.
So, but I'm just telling you what the conventional wisdom the pundits are saying, the ones Obama won't comment on.
And that is that Ohio is it for Santorum.
Steve, thanks.
Christian, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Great to be here.
First time call a long-time listener.
I just had so much, and I started telling Snerdley, and he let me on to finish it.
First of all, I listened to the press conference.
I turned her down, listened to the president.
We have a lot in common.
I'm a black, and I'm a Harvard Law graduate.
But as far as morality, there's so many dissimilarities that they're more dissimilar than similar.
First of all, Obama's a big liar, as you keep pointing out, and people who can see through him can see.
He called you indecent because he said there's no place in the public discourse.
All decent folks agree for that type of comment in the public forum.
Well, that's just his opinion trying to force it on others.
And what he's doing by that is he's just cutting out the First Amendment altogether.
We have a right to express our opinions.
And when it doesn't agree with it, he tries to belittle you, just like you said, by saying he's not, but he is.
It is indecent.
Isn't it amazing, though, Christian?
Here's a guy who is, I've never seen a guy so afraid of words.
I have never seen, and he's not alone on the left, but I've never seen a man so afraid of words as Barack Obama.
Very sin-scanned.
He's very egotistical.
He asked women reporters, about eight out of them were eight out of the ten reporters questioned were women.
Right after he said he was not a Democrat going for the women's vote, he had an audience full of news reporters who are male and women.
He calls on about 80% of them are women.
It's just when you listen to Rush and when you see what's going on, then you can put so many more pieces of the puzzle together.
It's just he becomes transparent.
He talked about the registration, excuse me, he talked about, as John Bolton said right afterwards, Iran and how a woman reporter asked him three years ago, you said Iran's time for talk is running out.
And now, when Israel comes in, the next day you come out, we're ready to talk to Iran again.
Again, he's tying Israel's hands by that position.
And as John Bolton said, it's like sleepwalking past the cemetery.
You know, this is a bad dream that keeps recurring, and Israel is running out of time.
And what I'm afraid is going to happen is Israel is going to have to go it alone against Iran, and they're going to take the blame.
And Obama is just going to sit back and say, well, he should have waited a little longer.
There's just so many things in this press conference that just set me off.
There's also, you know, I know you don't talk about this much, but what you're dealing with and so effectively, Rush, is you're countering every day not just Democrats, but you're countering the spirit of Antichrist.
How the Catholic Church is being forced to pay for health care for morning after pills.
And you talk about indecent.
President Obama is indecent.
He's the one.
Infanticide is indecent.
Being the abortion president who forces people against their conscience to pay for other people's abortion is indecent.
It's just beyond the pale that people can't.
I'm afraid for America that we're not seeing this.
This election is coming up is so crucial.
Just stay on guard and be the watchman on the wall, Rush.
And you're fighting the spirit of Antichrist.
Just redistribution of wealth, infanticide, government controlling everything, clamoring against Christianity, and everybody else has rights, and Muslims, but not Christians.
All this is the spirit of Antichrist.
You're doing a great job, and you're right.
You are a gift from God.
On loan.
Thank you.
Christian, thank you very much.
You're very welcome.
I sincerely appreciate that.
I really do.
Again, the guy is right.
Who is indecent here?
Stands for abortion, afterbirth, infanticide.
Wants every abortion possible to happen.
Thanks, Christian, very much.
Brief timeout.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
You know, Obama is really standing in quicksand when he wants to attach virtue to himself.
He's the leader in this new wave of civility.
He is going to lead by example.
He's the guy that's going to sit around and police all this incivility.
Like when he sat there and laughed at the White House Correspondence Dinner when the comedian Wanda Sykes said she hoped my kidneys failed and I died.
The president of the United States sat there and laughed, the guy who wants now to attach himself to the virtue of civility.
And of course, you remember all of the offended audience members of the White House Correspondence Center who walked out on Wanda Sykes.
Well, of course you don't, because none of them did.
That's why I said what I said yesterday to you in this audience.
Everything we do here is about you.
If you're not here, all the rest of this is academic.
All the rest of it is of no consequence.
And even now, I'm getting more email than I have ever received in my life in both the El Rushboat EIBNet.com account and the Rush 24-7 subscriber website account.
And it's all wonderful.
It's all fabulous.
And so many of you are asking, how you put up with this?
And the answer is very simple.
I know you're there, and I know you get all this.
And I know you know what lies are being told.
I know you remember all of these things.
You remember Obama laughing when a comedian wishes for me to die.
You remember you, you are not fooled by Obama.
You and this audience understand exactly as well as I do what we're dealing with, who we're dealing with, and I know that you're in this every bit as deep and as committed as I am to it.
It's not an exaggeration, and it's not a cliché to say that I know you're in this with me.
I don't feel like I'm in this alone.
Mighty stretch of the imagination.
And then my family, all the radio broadcast partners, everything's cool.
I often say to myself, this is the league that I play in.
And I know the rules.
And I know that they're not fair.
It's just the way it is.
I don't lose sleep over it or cry about it.
I will call attention to the hypocrisy and all that.
But as you know, we laugh about it.
My whole aim is to have as many fully informed voting Americans as possible.
If I ever had to attach a mission statement to this show, that's what it would be.
So there's no lying to you.
There's no misleading you.
I don't want you all involved in the public arena believing a bunch of stuff that isn't true.
Policy-wise, I'm talking about here.
We're not like them.
Even when these people make these vicious, crude remarks, we don't demand they be shut up.
We don't demand their advertisers leave them.
We don't demand that they be fired.
We don't demand that they quit.
That's what they do.
We're not afraid of words.
And we're not the ones that lie about them.
It's the other way around.
When you have a moral core, that's a firm foundation.
A moral code and core is a firm foundation.
Everybody strays from it.
Nobody's perfect.
Everybody falls off of the moral foundation they're on.
You try to get back on it as quickly as you can when that happens.
We don't try to pretend there isn't a moral code.
And we don't advocate for the abolition of the moral code, all of which they do.
And all of this, that's my primary source of strength, folks.
It's you.
A little bit of me, too.
See, here's the thing, folks.
Even for a moment, when I slip up like I did and talk like a Democrat, you know that I don't really think like one.
Even when I slip up and sound like them, which is not very often, you know that's not me.
And therefore, you're able to keep everything in perspective.
I love you for it.
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