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March 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 7, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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This is the Rush Limbaugh program.
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I am still fuming.
Over this 2% of the world's population business using 20% of the world's oil.
And I know I debunked the statistic.
We have far more than 2% of the world's reserves, but here's the real thing.
We are 2% of the world's population, and look at the good that we have done.
We were good people.
Sharing compassionate, generous.
We won World War One.
We fought a civil war to end slavery that cost us 500,000 of our citizens.
We won World War II.
We rebuilt Europe and we didn't destroy it.
We've invented most of the medicines in the world.
We feed a huge portion of the world.
And we have a president who has no appreciation for the people of this country that he's supposed to represent.
Our achievements, our history, our traditions, sneered at.
All corrupt.
All unjust.
All of our accomplishments illegitimate.
They think that's how he was raised.
I think that's what he was taught to believe.
He was taught in the inherent flaws of this country.
But if we only have 2% of the world's oil, shouldn't we be importing 98% of what we use?
Make sense to you, Brian.
and If we have 2% of the world's oil, shouldn't we be importing 98% of what we use?
But we we import right around 50%.
How's that happen?
See that's how that's how he's framing the issue.
I mean, go and look for the stuff.
Prior to March 3rd of 1938, Saudi Arabia had 0% of the world's oil.
That Obama's county, you know why?
There weren't any known reserves there until it was discovered.
A guy named Rockefeller, and then a guy named Getty.
March 3rd, 1938, oil discovered in Saudi Arabia.
So before that, there wasn't any.
But there was.
It just hadn't been discovered and brought out of the ground.
Such purposeful misrepresentations to make this country look greedy and selfish and bad.
We deserve better than this.
We deserve a president better than we deserve leadership better than this.
Much better.
I'll tell you, this guy, he's over there, he's in North Carolina today.
And people have talked about Obama what a cool customer he is, and I've always thought he's not cool, he's cold.
Ruthless and cold.
You remember uh, ladies and gentlemen, not long ago, the uh ongoing debate over the payroll tax cut extension.
And remember Obama talking about how important that we extend that payroll tax cut.
Yeah, because that's gonna put 40 bucks in people's pockets, and a bunch of victims lined up to testify to what that 40 dollars meant.
How many birth control pills they could buy, how many flat screen TVs they could buy?
How many Big Macs, whatever.
That forty bucks, it was crucial, if you recall.
And of course the Republicans wanted to take it away from people.
Forty bucks.
Now, the price of gasoline's going up, easily eclipsing whatever 40 bucks people get back for the payroll tax cut.
And what does Obama do?
Huh, you know, there's them every year.
Nothing I can do about it.
Uh price, I guess.
Skyrockers this time here.
And all these politicians start talking and complaining about it.
I can't do anything about it.
Nobody can.
No big deal.
All it means to me is we can't drill.
Right.
All that means is we can't drill.
If this is not indicative of our times and the entitlement mentality that has taken over some in our country, I don't know what is.
This is a story from I don't know where.
I am getting really tired of people.
Never mind.
Twenty-four-year-old lottery.
I know the story's legit.
Twenty-four-year-old lottery winner buys new house and car, but still gets food stamps.
I feel that it's okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay.
I have two houses.
No, no, no, I'm not making it up.
Twenty-four-year-old Amanda Clayton struck it big when she won a million dollars playing the Michigan lottery.
That's life-changing.
In many ways, it was.
She bought a new house and a new car.
But in at least one way it wasn't different.
Hidden cameras found, she's still using food stamps to pay for her meals.
A TV station got a tip from a viewer saying that Detroit resident Amanda Clayton, who works, sorry, took a $500,000 lump sum payment rather than a million dollars paid out over years, was using the taxpayers, food stamps to pay her food bill.
So the station followed her, and sure enough she was, and the reporter confronted her about it.
Well, you know, I mean.
He goes, I feel that it's okay because you know I mean, I have no income, you know, and and I have bills to have two houses.
I I I thought they'd cut me off, but since they didn't, I thought maybe it was okay, because I'm not working.
Clayton, who gets $200 a month from the state, not part of the lottery.
Winnings, said that when asked if she thought it was right.
Well, yeah, because you know, I'm not really working.
When asked if she thinks she has a right to food stamp money, she said, yes.
I mean, yeah, I kind of do.
I mean, I feel it's okay because, you know, I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay two houses.
She feels entitled to food stamp.
We owe her food.
Forget winning a lottery.
Even we owe her food.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I do kinda.
I have a right to food stamps.
There's a political party that's made this possible are called Democrats.
Democrat Party's done this.
This is music to the ears of Barack Obama.
Music to his ears.
This is a voter.
This is a voter.
From the NBC affiliate in Detroit, W D I V TV.
If that doesn't.
It doesn't say it all, but I mean it's a great illustration of the entitlement mentality that is taken.
What are you laughing at in there?
You think it's funny?
Yeah, what are you laughing at me?
You know, they're all in there saying, I can't believe they expect me to be a little timid here for a while.
The staff is expecting me to maybe go use food stamps myself for a while.
Do-do-do-do.
Let's go back to the phones.
No.
Uh, yeah.
Everything that I thought was gonna happen in a new iPad is gonna happen.
It's got it's it's yeah, it's double quadruple the pixel.
So it's it's it's it's uh it's all yeah, it's it's HD.
They're not calling it anything.
It's iPad, third generation iPad.
But it is a retina display.
It's got it's got uh four times the pixels.
It's it's it's got greater resolution than uh than a 27-inch flat screen.
It it's got more pixels than a 27 inch flat.
Yeah, it that's indisputable.
4G LTE speeds.
Um fast processor.
They have released slew of software.
i Photo uh updates to the iWork suite, which is uh Page's keynote and numbers.
They've updated garage band, they have uh a bunch of uh new games.
Uh uh doing all this off my off the top of my head.
Uh and I that not sure that they're through.
New software today, new Apple TV 1080p.
Not a TV set, but the little black the box unit.
Uh 1080p movies now at uh on the iTun store.
Let's see, what else?
Uh it'll be March 16th.
Pre-orders start today.
New iOS software 5.1 available today.
The new iPad will also have voice dictation.
It won't have Siri, but it'll have voice dictation.
It'll be a keypad with a with a microphone button, just like the iPhone.
Uh same battery life, even though this thing is gonna churn battery like crazy.
At 4G chip is big, uh powering that display is big.
So this thing is practically all battery in there to uh give it the same bat and the same price.
So same configuration, 1632 64.
They're gonna keep they're gonna keep the iPad 2 at a 299 or 3999 price point.
Yeah, they're gonna keep the current iPad with a smaller uh storage capacity inside.
Yeah, yeah.
But they're not through.
I don't think the thing is uh still going on.
They're claiming nine-hour battery life if you run 4G, 10 hour battery life if you use Wi-Fi.
It's got built-in dictation.
Anyway, it's it's it's pretty much everything people guessed about it.
There's just one thing.
There was a late rumor today that it was going to have new haptic technology where you would feel the keyboard, keep you feel the screen.
You would have act you would have uh interactivity as you navigated the screen, you'd get feedback from it.
So that you wouldn't have to look at it for like iPad is not a really good TV remote control because you have to look at it, not the screen.
Because you can't feel the buttons.
Touchpad that touches back, but is so far they haven't announced that, and that was the late rumor uh this morning.
Anyway, Doug in Warsaw, New York.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey Rush, thank you.
Thanks for keeping the pressure on this insane uh energy policy that the administration pushes both the uh the the craziness that there's some magic new energy source waiting in the wings to replace the oil that uh makes the con that the country functions on.
There's no such thing.
There is no replacement or substitute for all.
No, thank you.
The only motive power land base there's ever been is a horse, the steam engine, and the diesel engine that produced the run the economy of this nation and the world.
The insanity of believing that we're gonna just allow it to dry up and stop is uh it's just unbelievable.
It's if you're uh you know, if the American people had any idea that when they go into Walmart that that food on the on those shelves, that comes from the diesel engine.
That's not mad doesn't magically appear and and you don't just quantitatively ease yourself a new supply of it when the oil is in there to produce it.
I mean you're out.
You know, isn't it better stop?
Isn't it somewhat disconcerting that you have to explain that to people?
It's amazing.
Isn't that something that people ought to just uh intrinsically understand?
Two percent of the population are in agriculture and the rest uh go to Walmart and they don't understand it any longer than what it takes to make it run.
I mean, you have your EPA, they're so busy trying to regulate the diesel engine into the mothbald and out of existence.
They I don't think they understand what it takes to make it run.
I mean, awful lot of trucking fleets are trying to run older engines so they don't get uh bankrupt trying to run the latest technologies.
They don't, I mean, that it's insane.
I mean, that's that's what makes the country run.
Those you stop those engines, you people will not eat.
It's a simple equation.
If they stop, you don't eat.
Well, you know, you're reminding me of something here, too, Doug.
We're not running out of oil.
This whole craze to somehow find the new oil.
Uh we're not running out of oil.
The estimates of the world's total endowment of oil have increased faster than oil's been taken from the ground.
There's more oil than anybody knew.
It may be finite.
Some people still argue it's being made.
Uh others say it's a it's purely fossils, and there's uh gonna be an end to it someday, but it's not imminent.
It isn't imminent.
This push away from oil, folks, you've got to be suspicious of this.
It makes no sense.
There is no reason to abandon oil.
Gosh, the the the benefits economically, in terms of liberty, the things that we've been able to do and accomplish because of the discovery of oil and the technology of refining it.
And this totally unnecessary commitment to get rid of it.
There's nothing good about it.
There is nothing cleaner that can accomplish the smallest percentage of what you can accomplish with oil.
And by the way, we're getting better at cleaning up our messes.
They've equated oil now with with with pollution and uh global warming, climate destruction, all it's all of it is lies.
All of it is just another spoke coming out of the wheel of liberalism that seeks to take everybody's liberty away, transfer it to the government.
Oil's not even toxic.
It's natural.
Oil is organic.
It's as organic as anything is.
It's amazing how this substance has been demonized.
But the fact that it has is all you need to know.
Look at everything the American left of Democrat Party demonizes.
Practically everything in the private sector, every business, every industry, they demonized it.
It's striking.
Regardless of the financial condition of their state, voters in Tuesday's Republican primaries considered the economy the top issue, influencing their choice.
And even though the debate in the past few weeks has often involved other issues like contraception or women in combat.
How silly.
There was very little evidence of a gender gap among the leading candidates in several of the major states in play on Tuesday.
Very few voters mentioned abortion as a deciding factor or contraception.
It's not an issue.
It's totally manufactured.
In exit polls in seven of ten states voting yesterday, 75% said economic issues are their top concern.
75% of the people in 70% of the states, the economy is the top concern for them.
um And Obama knows it.
And that's why this mythical war on women has been invented.
It's not even real.
To distract everybody from his utter failure to grow this economy.
Back to the phone, Scottsdale, Arizona.
This is Dave.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, transplanted Pittsburgh Dittoes.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Hey, uh you know, I think a lot of folks are calling up and they're talking about who had the better performance and who can debate Obama and who's going to be, you know, who's going to put him in his place in the debate uh area.
And I think what we're really saying, or what they're really saying, because I don't believe this, I'm I'm ABO, um, is I think they're worried about the mesmerization factor.
You know, four years ago we watched this guy say absolutely nothing.
Anybody with announced critical thinking ability saw through that, and yet he still managed to win the election.
And now we find ourselves four years later, he's gone absolutely down the wrong road.
He's still saying nothing.
And I I have friends who are intelligent, articulate, and they're still mesmerized.
And I think that's what everybody's concerned about.
You know, I don't know anybody who is.
Well, take it back.
No, I don't know anybody who's still mesmerized.
I know people that still uh you know Democrats are gonna still support Obama, but uh I don't know anybody who thinks that of Obama the way they did in 2008.
Uh messianic uh new fresh uh unlike anything we've ever seen before, able to unify, fresh start, none of that.
Then why the emphasis on trying to compete with him from an articulation standpoint and and standing up in front of the group.
The facts should stand up, and and we can see the facts every day.
That's right.
Well, you what you're saying is that there's a record now.
Obama has a record.
He didn't have a record.
He didn't have anything.
He voted president.
That's what he was known for.
So well, wait, uh are you are you um are you telling me you're still concerned?
Well, I well, I hear other people being concerned.
I I will vote for my Labrador retriever if she wins the nomination for the Republican uh party.
Uh you know, it it it uh this guy's gotta go.
But I hear other people worried about the performance aspect and the debate aspect, and and I I it just amazes me.
It's style over substance.
Well, hello, it's television.
I mean, can't take that out of it.
It's uh it's it's part and parcel of the whole process now.
Well, then our candidate has to be courageous enough, unlike our previous candidate, my current senator, to stand up and articulate the the facts.
Well, you gotta be telegenic, yes, look good.
Uh I understand all that is what it is.
See, I but I have to think, I have to believe, otherwise I go nuts, that issues matter now.
I folks, I I think there are more people angry and frustrated over what's been done to this economy on purpose than anybody dares to understand or even hope for.
I think there are so many pe I know the fear that what that people are mesmerized and they've or either they've given up and they don't think there's anything way to beat Obama or any of that.
I um but part of that is because the Republican primary has been fairly uninspiring.
And I don't think that changes in anything about people's perception of Obama on our side.
I I know the media's gonna gin up his charisma.
The the media is is whether it's there or not.
And I'll tell you this about the debates, folks.
Um get skunked in these debates, and the media is gonna say he won them hands down.
And you're that's just gonna tick you off, too.
You're not gonna get honest reporting about any of this stuff.
No, you aren't.
Anyway, Dave, appreciate the call.
Let me get to the sound bites.
We we're gonna start here with uh with number twelve.
This is a series of sound bites of media, uh left and right, during and after.
The vote counting for Super Tuesday last night, first on uh Charlie Rose.
He had Time Magazine columnist Mike Murphy and Bloomberg TV political analysis uh Matthew Dowd.
Both these guys, I think are political consultants now working in other areas.
If it's the same Mike Murphy, I know Matthew Dowd worked for Bush.
Uh Bloomberg TV political anyway, Charlie Rose said, project uh way ahead, Mike.
Suppose or project way ahead.
Let's suppose that Romney is the nominee, suppose he loses to Obama, what is the question the Republican Party will be asking after November?
Get this.
The hilarious irony is that Rush Limbaugh and some of our AM radio mandarins are going to be on the air saying, this is what happens when we nominate a moderate.
Rush Limbaugh and some of our AM radio are going to be on the air saying, Did you hear that?
It's Mike Murphy.
I'm sure he's this it's the same Murphy that's a Republican consultant.
So if Romney is a nominee, and if Romney loses to Obama, Murphy says the hilarious irony is that Limboss, some of the A.M. radio mandarins are going to be saying this is what happens when we nominate a moderate.
What what what's the hilarious irony there?
What am I missing?
What's the irony?
Really?
What's what I'm no, I'm serious.
What what?
What is the irony of saying that a mod if a moderate loses, you say, okay, we lost uh when we nominate a moderate.
What's ironic about it?
Well, uh, maybe.
Well, let's here, let's see what Matthew Dowd said to the uh questions.
This is going to be a bloodletting.
There'll be a huge if Romney goes in this loses this election when all these Republicans from the last four years have thought Barack Obama's right for the picking.
Mitt Romney gets nominated, he loses in the general election.
It is going to be a bloodletting.
Oh man, these guys, but Romney's their guy.
That's what I don't get about this.
Why are they even talking about Romney losing?
Romney's their guy.
And if he's a nominee, Romney's going to be all of our guy.
Well, there can be some defectors.
But but Romney's these guys candidate.
They're already looking forward down the road.
He loses, and there's going to be a bloodletting.
Somebody has to help me understand this.
See, here again, I probably want to ten people that live in Redalville.
This is their guy.
They want this guy to get the nomination.
All along.
Why?
Well, you would think because they think he's the only one of these Republicans that can beat Obama, correct?
Isn't that what we've been told?
The electability factor.
But if he loses, there can be a bloodletting.
And this is what happens when you're nominated a moderate?
Well, then why is he your guy?
if it's going to be so disastrous if he loses.
No, that's not about me.
These guys, you didn't hear anywhere in there that if I would get behind him, he would not.
No.
You think those those guys are not going to say that, Snerdly.
No, the first bite doesn't imply anything.
The first bite, the hilarious irony, is that Limbaugh and some of the AM radio mandarins are going to be on the air saying, this is what happens when we nominate a moderate.
They are not saying, no, no, no, no.
These guys...
Certainly, I can't believe you.
Snerdley's actually shouting in my ear that what these guys are really saying is if I would get behind Romney, then we wouldn't be talking about him losing.
No.
These guys think the exact opposite.
If I get they're going to get pulpably f panicked if I get behind Romney.
Especially right now.
I don't think that's what they're saying.
I don't think they're asking me to come out for Romney.
I I just I find it strange that it's going to be horrible.
They're a guy.
But I don't remember 2000.
Boy, if George W. Bush is our nominee loses, oh God, is it going to be a blood?
Well, then why nominate him?
If it's going to be so bad, moving on.
MSNBC's special Super Tuesday primary coverage, Rachel Maddow speaking with uh NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw about Romney's campaign.
And she said he hasn't contributed any of his own fortune to the race, Tom, meaning he hasn't spent any of his own money.
Does that make a difference when he's trying to appeal for other people's money?
It's not so much that he's become a wealthy man.
That's part of the American dream.
It's kind of how you wear your money.
And he seems to wear his money as a very wealthy man.
He has kind of a country club patina about him, wherever he goes and whatever he does.
I don't know him well enough personally to know what he's like when he's off stage, but when he's on stage, he always does look like he's a very wealthy guy who's kind of separated from the rank and file.
It's just the opposite.
In fact, Katie and I were sitting there watching this last they were watching Romney's uh victory speech, and I looked I looked at it and I said he looks um embarrassed of his wealth.
To me, he looks he looks like he's guilty of it.
Feels guilty about it.
And we were talking about what his wife said yesterday that we that that played that sound by where she didn't think I don't consider myself wealthy, she said, because it's here today, gone tomorrow.
Uh my riches are counted in my uh relationships to people I I love.
Uh this guy does what Romney does not wear his am I wrong about this the the Brian T never mind um uh I never the one thing I never hear about Romney does not come across as an aloof rich guy.
He comes maybe somebody he doesn't connect well, but not because of his wealth.
I honestly strikes me as somebody who's a little embarrassed by it, if you ask me, and don't doubt me on this.
I mean, don't really don't doubt me on anything.
But especially this.
Josh in Omaha, thank you for calling, sir.
You're next on the EIB Network.
Rush, honored to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I have a problem.
I'm gonna ask for your help.
I'm caught in the middle.
Uh on the one side we have a president who is destroying the nation.
And people talk about, well, another term uh maybe it can weather the storm.
I do not believe that this country can weather one one more term with Obama.
I believe stick the fork in it, we're done.
Uh Obamacare alone would destroy us, let alone everything else that's happening, including turning our back on Israel.
On the other side, we have I have uh two people of principle that uh I would gladly support, either Newt or or Rick Santorum.
And these men go out there and beat their brains in and work their heart out for us with speaking principle, and they and and just like uh Rick did last night there in Ohio comes so close, and every time that they go out and try to speak to the people, we have a man who I believe is a one-man reckon ball that comes out there with uh two to four to five times more money than they have that that that uh with his negative attack ads, I believe laced with lies and and things out of context.
And so uh the machine says he's leading and and the great, you know, uh Republican machine, he says he's our man.
And uh my problem, Rush, is that uh as a Tea Party conservative, there's one big guiding principle that that guides me and I think guides all conservatives, it's truth.
Okay, well what is your dilemma here?
And and I'm asked to give up truth uh uh what I when I look at the liberals, Rice, here's my problem.
The means justifies the ends.
Chicago politics.
It doesn't matter if you have more money if you can if you can throw out enough money with uh the negative attack ads and the people follow.
I'm down to a minute, and I don't know what you're I uh you you don't like Romney.
I got that.
Are you telling me you know you're not gonna be able to vote for him?
If he's a nominee.
Well, if he's the nominee, yes.
But but the problem is they're expecting us Tea Party conservatives to give up our principles right now, and we're supposed to fall in line.
That's my problem.
Oh.
Well, how do we give up principles?
Who's a problem with you know who's asking you to do that?
You mean just I mean nobody's making you support Romney, so you don't have to.
They're saying the most electable rush is the most electable, the person who is not conservative.
Well, that's my point.
They're telling us that it's the most electable and they're sitting around talking about the bloodletting.
Exactly.
That's coming.
So I uh you what you have Look, uh Josh.
The simplest way to understand this is that even within the Republican Party establishment, conservatives are not preferred.
Being charitable.
Conservatives are not the support for Romney is as much about that as it is about Romney.
It's just the way it is.
It's not new either.
It's been that way the Republican Party for a long time.
If uh you are in Great Britain, and if the government says that you are too fat for surgery, you will be refused treatment unless you change your lifestyle.
Not kidding.
They say you're too fat.
Can you say Michelle Obama in Obamacare?
Yep, National Health Service.
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