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March 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 15, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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John Harris, Michael Eric Dyson, worried John Harris Politico, Michael Eric Dyson, Professor Georgetown.
Are the polls broken?
The people in these polls are just stupid.
They're just stupid.
All because the New York Times has Obama's approval at 41%.
It's an all-time low.
Let's go back.
Audio soundbite number four.
Let's go back.
We have a montage here from March 13th of 2006.
Now, for those of you new to the program, this is hilarious.
It's what we do here all the time.
March 13, 2006, when George W. Bush reached an all-time low in a CNN poll.
Wolf Blitzer did not ask if the polls were broken.
Wolf Blitzer did not speculate.
It may be the people in the polls were stupid.
Wolf Blitzer celebrated it.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today, Gallup.
The President's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now.
Rock bottom as far as the CNN USA Today Gallup.
The president's a rock problem and his new low point in the polls is his approval and policies now are at new lows.
The president's job approval number in this new CNN USA Today Gallup, rock bottom, the lowest it's ever been.
It's 5 p.m. here in Washington, where President Bush takes a beating in our latest poll.
His approval rating at a low at our latest CNN USA Today Gallup poll just out in the past hour shows the president at an all-time low.
His job approval rating at a new low.
That's rock bottom as far as our poll is concerned.
It's 7 p.m. here in Washington.
The war in Iraq comes home to roost for President Bush.
Our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating at a new low.
Also, President Bush hits a new low in the polls.
Now back to our lead story.
President Bush's approval rating now at an all-time low.
As we noted, a new CNN USA Today Gallup poll shows his job approval rating at a new low.
President Bush's approval rating at a new low, 36%.
We didn't repeat any of those.
Those are actual singular instances.
When Bush hit a new low in the polls, the polls were not broken.
The people weren't stupid.
No.
It was time to celebrate.
You know what the unemployment rate by the white in March 13, 2006?
You know what the unemployment rate was then?
Take a guess.
Come on, you guys.
4.7%.
The unemployment rate when Wolf Blitzer was celebrating Bush's all-time low approval number.
The unemployment rate was 4.7%.
March 13th of 2006.
Today the unemployment rate is 8.3%.
The economy is in a free fall disaster.
The polls show Obama has hit an all-time low in the New York Times poll, and this is how the media reports that.
Some of these uh poll results, they just seem stupid.
So I asked Alex Burns to uh say, why don't you do a piece looking at the question of whether voters are stupid?
And a lot of the things that they say in these uh polls are just plain stupid.
And uh Alex Warm to the assignment, he wrote this, actually found a number of good voices from polsters who say, yeah, that's the first thing you learn as a polster.
Voters are stupid.
It meant that look often they're uh expressing their opinions in a context of ignorance.
Now, if a new poll comes out that shows Obama's approval up to 50, guess what?
The voters will no longer be stupid, I guess, right?
Nope, they can't possibly be stupid if they get it right in the next poll.
That's who we're dealing with.
By the way, speaking of Wolf Blitzer, last night on the Situation Room.
We're up to audio soundbite number five.
Wolf Blitzer was wringing his hands.
There was an unexpected consequence.
Last week, when I was the focus for removal.
An unexpected consequence.
Wolf Blitzer.
The latest casualty in the fire storm engulfing conservative radio talk show host Rush Limba could be the liberal comedian Bill Maher, who's now getting a lot of heat from Republicans and some Democrats alike for his own recent inflammatory comments.
Ooh, Bill Maher, a victim now.
Poor guy.
Bill Maher, the latest casualty in the fire storming engulfing me.
I didn't say anything about Bill Maher.
The latest casualty.
This is the last thing they thought would happen.
And that is attention would be focused on them.
and that they don't want.
You know, liberals, ladies and gentlemen, are still in a state of shock and disbelief over the notion that social issues don't hurt Republicans.
You see, the reason for the manufactured false...
It doesn't really exist.
The attempt to convince people is the Republicans have a war on women.
Which, again, as mayor of Reaville.
Republicans date women, they marry women, they they have uh children with women, and they take women to dinner, uh, they buy women diamonds and they open car doors for for women and so yet there's this Republican war on women.
And the Republican war on women wants to actually somehow reach in their purses and grab their birth control pills and take them away from them.
The Democrats actually think that they're going to win with this.
The Democrats and the media actually believe they can convince in in this era of the American people that Republicans hate women and are actually at war with them.
And the Democrats are like Obama.
Obama spends money on green energy and expects it just to happen by magic.
He invests in all this green energy infrastructure, and when there aren't any new jobs, he's literally befuddled.
Well, why?
He asks his advisors.
Well, I've invested in all the infrastructure, I've spent all the money.
Where are the jobs?
Well, country's uh companies have gone bankrupt, Mr. President.
No, no, no, I spent all the money.
But the same token.
They go out, coordinate with the media, Republican war on women, and then Republican women in Republican primaries go vote for Rick Santorum, who's leading the war on women in their minds, wants to take away their contraception.
Santorum wants them barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen all the time.
Santorum wins.
They can't figure it out.
Discombobulates them.
They think that bringing up social issues will doom Republicans to defeat.
And a lot of Republican establishment types think the same thing.
They're in a state of shock over a lot.
They're in a state of shock over the fact that I'm still here, that you're still here.
That the war on women isn't working.
They're in a state of shock that a guy like Bill Maher is a casualty of all this.
He's a hero to them.
So last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews spoke with USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page about Republican primary candidates talking about social issues.
And Matthews said, on these social issues, these issues that women are particularly politically focused on, although they affect both men and women pretty darn well.
Is Mitt Romney getting in trouble, Susan?
Clearly, the Democrats think this is a great issue for them because I got 115 emails today from Democrats decrying what Mitt Romney said about Planned Parenthood.
But the fact is, if you look at uh the data in both the Gallup poll and the Pew Research Center poll out just today, there isn't evidence that this issue cuts disproportionately with women.
Hey, what's going on?
It doesn't make sense that women ought to be hating Romney.
Women want to despise the Republicans.
They're voting on the economy.
These women, they came out and they said the economy was most important to them.
And don't they understand the Republicans are trying to take their health away from that?
They actually believe this, folks.
They actually believe that all they've got to do is level the accusation, and then all of you are going to believe that Santorman Romney and Newt are at war with you.
Now, Romney, Planned Parenthood, he didn't say he was going to shut it down.
He said he was going to take federal money away from it.
He didn't say that he was going to wipe it out.
He said he was going to stop spending and giving federal tax dollars to Plan Parenthood.
And to the media and to the to the Democrats, that's the same thing as shutting it down, as far as they're concerned.
Last night, also on hardball, Chris Matthews had Melinda Henneberger.
She I think she used to be at U.S. News or Newsweek or Time.
I uh I I forget forget which.
Where is she now?
She's uh is she the Washington Post?
Yeah.
I thought she was at a blog somewhere.
Anyway, Matthew spoke with uh Melinda Hannaburger, who's at the Washington Post.
He said it's astounding to me after all the talk on television, especially about what happened with regard to going after Planned Parenthood, right?
And all this talk about Rush Limbaugh and all this talk about the Catholic Church, all this talk about contraception, all those issues which you would think would have put the Democrats with an advantage over the conservatives, not a big powerful impact yet in terms of big changing in how people are voting yet.
I do think that it's a very powerful, good issue for Democrats because it energizes the base, it energizes women, they're raising a lot of money on it.
But to quote Anne Romney, women are concerned about other things besides contraceptives, too.
So, you know, I mean, a friend of mine who's an independent voter said, you know, I am worrying the top issue on my mind is not who's going to be paying for contraception with my tax dollars.
Oops, I'm unemployed.
I'm not paying taxes.
Oh, Melinda has an independent friend.
That's noteworthy.
And even her independent friend is not worried about contraception and who's gonna be paying for it.
She wants a job.
Shock.
I think it's a powerful good issue for Democrats.
But you hear Matthews, he can't believe it.
All the talk about me, all to talk about the Catholic Church, all to talk about concepts, all this talk, all this talk, all this talk, and and and it hasn't hurt the Republicans yet.
Why not, Melinda?
Why hasn't it hurt?
The whole point here was to hurt Republicans.
Why hadn't it hurt Republicans?
They can't believe it.
Speaking of fundraising and um playing to the base, fascinating little story here out of North Carolina involving dumplings.
The governor there, that's her nickname, Bev Purdue.
She is now backing.
Folks, this is not insignificant.
This is almost approaches the profound.
North Carolina governor Beverly Purdue has decided to support fracking in North Carolina.
That's a new kind of drilling for oil and natural gas.
And that's like showing Dracula the Cross.
The liberals hate fracking.
Democrats, the media hate fracking.
They hate the recovery of oil.
They are totally opposed to it.
Months after she vetoed a bill that would have allowed test drilling for natural gas in central North Carolina.
Dumplins said on Wednesday that she believes drilling can be done safely in the state.
She previously vetoed a bill to allow fracking, but now that she's no longer running for re-election.
She has changed her mind.
The story says that Dumplins recently traveled to Pennsylvania for an industry-sponsored tour of large-scale natural gas drilling operations.
And Governor Purdue said it's jobs.
It's a fuel source produced in this country.
It's something that can help America and North Carolina be globally competitive.
Now, why would Governor Purdue be all for it now?
And just Months ago, totally opposed to it.
Well, I'll tell you why.
She's not trying to hold her base for re-election any longer.
She's not running for re-election, so she doesn't have to do things to keep the fringe kook Democrat base together.
If she were running for re-election, she would not have changed her mind on fracking.
She would still oppose it.
But now that that's not a concern, and now that she doesn't care what the Democrat Party base thinks, she's going to do for her legacy, for her reputation, for what's written about her after she's no longer governor, she's now going to do the right thing.
She's now going to allow fracking for natural gas because by her own admission, it's jobs, it's a fuel source produced in this country.
It's something that can help America and North Carolina be globally competitive.
None of that mattered when she was running for re-election, and this is the thing about Democrats.
Jobs doesn't matter.
A fuel source produced in this country doesn't matter.
Something that can help America and North Carolina be globally competitive doesn't matter.
In fact, if you're for those things, you will anger the Democrat Party base.
What does that say about that party?
But now that she doesn't need votes, now that she needs a legacy, now that she wants wonderful things written about her governorship, now she's going to do the right things.
The Democrat Party base, fringe Olinskyite Marxist leftists that they are the number one impediment to progress in this country.
They and their elected officials.
No question about it.
I'll see you next time.
Thank you.
I don't want to beat a dead horse.
I do want to say one more thing about Wolf Blitzer celebrating uh the George Bush all-time low in approval numbers.
That montage we played for you was March 13th of 2006.
Now I told you that the unemployment rate in March 13, 2006 was 4.7%, which is statistically zero.
The statisticians say that 4.7% is essentially full employment.
But you're getting on that low, you're you're really talking about people who don't want to work, uh, who are part of the 4.7% unemployed.
But but regardless, 4.7 is a lot better than 8.3 where we are now.
Okay.
In addition to the unemployment rate in March of 2006 being 4.7%.
Do you know what the GDP was?
Well, I'll tell you, 5.6%.
Economic growth was 5.6%, unemployment 4.7%, and Bush was at an all-time low in approval.
Today, unemployment is 8.3, not 4.7, and gross domestic product is not even 2% versus 5.6.
Now you tell me, how do you have a president at an all-time approval low with statistically zero unemployment and economic growth out the wazoo at 5.6%.
And you fast forward to 2012, where you have unemployment at 8.3%, and that's the lowest it's been in three years.
Economic growth at under 2% as opposed to 5.6, and you have a president still at 41%.
You think the media might be playing a role here?
You think a media might have played a role in ginning up real hatred for George W. Bush because of the Iraq war.
The economy was by a factor of four in much better shape when Bush was hated than it is today.
The media, folks, the best advice I can give you is to simply distrust everything you hear and read and see and come here for the truth.
I have no interest in anything else.
And we are back.
Rush limbaugh, half my brain Tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've got something somewhat curious, important I want to tell you.
I have uh over the years I've I've uh I've said I don't tweet uh Twitter so forth and so on.
But I have an account.
It's there.
I wanted to establish the uh the account in my name.
There are a bunch of fake uh Rush Limbaugh Twitter accounts, but I've decided to actually activate it now and use it for strategic purposes, since it has become such an effective means of informing people outside the bounds of this program.
Now, I don't know those of you who already tweet, to follow me, you would simply find me at Rush Limbaugh.
Just follow me at Rush Limbaugh.
It's that's simple.
If you don't have a Twitter account, it's simple and it's free.
You can just go sign up, just go to Twitter, sign up, get an account, and then say you want to follow Rush Limbaugh.
And the reason for this, I've got a couple of things, well, one now, but there's one really important thing I want to put up that I want everybody to be able to see.
I don't want to take up a lot of broadcast time with this.
This is one of the actual advantages of being able to tweet it out there is that I don't have to waste a bunch of valuable broadcast time with this, but it's stuff plus I don't have to read the whole thing to you.
This is a way you can actually see it.
And then the great thing about it is that you can retweet it.
Meaning just hit the retweet button and it goes to every other person that you follow.
And it will, by geometric proportion, end up saturating the Twitter verse.
So I'm not gonna put it up now.
I will later today, after some of you have had time to uh go to if you want to, it's totally up to you.
Yeah, this is real.
I'm I'm I'm not gonna be a daily tweeter.
I don't know what's gonna but there's just some things I want people to see, some things I want to share with people.
Um, both items in the news, things going on with this this asinine circumstance situation with me that are important for people to see that I can't I'm not gonna waste time on the radio reading word for word some of these things, but they're really worth people seeing and and being informed about.
And uh we're already up on Facebook, so we may as well close the loop and and and uh and like I say, I've had a Twitter account uh just to lock it up.
A genuine Rush Limbaugh Twitter account, not not a not a uh fake phony one, just to keep it under my domain control.
So we will be tweeting some stuff now and then, primarily items of interest to you.
I'm not gonna be hanging on Twitter 15 hours a day and tweeting, just had breakfast, hope you have a wonderful day.
Bye.
Here's a picture of me eating some cornflake.
None of that stuff.
Uh Dawn, don't need to worry about that.
No, just uh things I want people to see, and there's a really good one today that I want people to see, and I'm gonna just I'm gonna tweet it out.
So give you a chance here to sign up.
You just go to Twitter and set up an account.
It's easy and it's free, and then just follow Rush Limbaugh.
And we'll get it up sometime later this afternoon.
It won't be long.
Now back to the phones, John in Louisville.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey there, Rush.
It's uh honor to talk to you today.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
Hey, uh, I just was curious what the left uh hopes to gain by uh talking down to and and and thumbing their nose to the participants of their own polls, because uh it just seems to me to be uh an example of you know this left um idea of uh this left leftist arrogance and self-righteous attitude they have and kind of contempt anyone who uh disagrees with them.
Well, it's it's um uh let me let me turn it back on you because it's an interesting question.
Why what do you think?
And I know you're reacting to John Harris and uh his reaction to these polls, people are stupid.
What do you think they hope to gain?
I I honestly I I don't know because I don't I mean I don't really follow it.
I don't follow uh, you know.
Oh, okay.
Well then let me tell you.
Let me tell you.
The program that this occurred on, John, was uh uh a political podcast that was being broadcast on C SPAN, which meant that it had a very small audience, and the audience was an inside baseball audience.
John Harris was not talking to people like you.
He was talking to other journalists.
I think a good rule of thumb for you to keep something and to keep this in mind as you watch television news or as you uh read um a mainstream media network or website, newspaper or whatever.
This is the key to understand.
They are writing for each other.
When you see uh say a guy like Chuck Todd go on MSNBC in the morning to talk about whatever's happening in the news.
Chuck is talking to fellow journalists at CBS and ABC and so forth, and impressing them with what he knows that he's got the daily template and narrative down.
They're talking to each other.
So when John Harris says the people these polls are just stupid, he's talking to other journalists, this is the way we're gonna cover this.
He's sending out the this is the way we're gonna deal with it.
People in these polls are stupid.
They're they're not, he wasn't in his own mind talking to people like you.
Right.
He doesn't think that he's insulting you by doing this.
He's he's alerting others in his own circle what the story is going to be.
It's a very closed society, and they write and broadcast for each other.
Well, that's why I keep it dialed into you, man.
Um you should say, but it would be the same thing is if I were to tell you everything I do here is so other talk show hosts will hear how smart I am.
That's not why I my total attention here is on you.
That's why I do not put my audience down.
I in fact have a profound respect for the intelligence and knowledge that people in this audience have of the events that I discuss.
And not just that, but the ability of people in this audience to understand it when I talk about it.
I have total confidence and faith and total respect and love for people in this audience.
And I would never say people in my audience are stupid, and I would never say the people in my own poll are stupid.
But they do.
They think it.
John, they already think you're stupid.
They already think you're an idiot.
They already think you don't have the sense to run your own life.
That somebody like them and Obama has to.
You're not wise enough to make the right decisions in life for you and your family.
You don't have the sense to spend your money in the right way.
That's why you gotta pay higher taxes, so government makes sure that the money gets spent the right way.
You won't do it the right way, according to them.
They have a superiority complex, and there is an arrogant condescension that they have toward their own audience.
John, try it an experiment.
Call your local newspaper and complain about bias.
And I guarantee you that an answer you'll get it, well, sir, you don't really understand what we do here.
Uh you you don't understand, or you're just some right-wing pig and hang up on you.
The news business, and believe me, it's a business.
The news business is the only business I know where the customer is an idiot and always wrong, and doesn't have the ability to understand what the people in the business do.
You're just not bright enough.
And that is uh an attitude they have about most of the people of the country.
Now, they don't have that attitude about each other, which is for whom they write and for whom they broadcast, and uh for whom they intend what they say to be heard and read.
Really, I it sounds crazy and it sounds ridiculous, sounds like, oh, come on, Russ, that's over.
Simplifying this.
No, it's not.
It's precisely right.
I look I'm I'm not the one who said the people of the polls are stupid.
The political guy did.
And the caller here is asking me why, and that's the answer.
They think you're stupid to begin with.
When they get the right answer They want in a poll.
It's not that you're brilliant or right, it's that they have successfully manipulated you into the right answer.
They give themselves all the credit.
When they get a polling result that shows Obama approval numbers through the roof, they pat themselves on the back for a good poll.
When the poll doesn't turn out the way they want it, they didn't screw up.
You're stupid.
That's just who they are.
That's just how they're made.
Folks, you ought to be here in the EIB broadcast facility.
Dawn and Mr. Snurdly cannot believe that I have ventured out into uh the Twitterverse.
I just I didn't tell you.
We were there with my name just to occupy.
Here's the bottom line.
Everybody has been asking me what they can do to help in all of this.
And I've been saying, no, just just do what you've been doing.
Just if you listen, keep listening, that's fine.
But people want to.
There's an army out there that wants to be mobilized.
And so what I I've figured, use Twitter for it.
I'm just going to put some things on Twitter that you can help us circulate.
It's that simple.
You just retweet them.
We'll put them up there.
You retweet it.
We'll take care of everything else.
All you have to do is sign up.
There's no cost.
There's nothing ill.
You're not going to be attacked by a bunch of hooligans and hobgoblins.
You follow who you want.
You don't have to follow anybody at all but me.
Just go up, just go to Twitter.com and sign up, get an account, and follow Rush Limbaugh.
And then you have to do nothing more than push one button on Twitter to retweet what we put there for you to read.
And you will be helping.
It's that simple.
It's going to be fun as well.
And as I say, it's it's a way of circulating things above and beyond the program without having to use valuable programming time.
So there's a couple things that I'm going to put on Twitter.
You just follow Rush Limbaugh.
You will find them, and then you retweet those out.
And we'll we'll wait to put them up there until give enough of uh enough of you time to sign up or decide if you want a Twitter account.
By no means are you under orders to do it, but you've been asking how you can help, and this is one way.
Who's next?
Karen in Richmond, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Thank you.
Hi, Rush.
We conservatives need to start making a demand of our own for separation of press and state.
The press is the only First Amendment entity that hadn't been penned in, hemmed in somehow.
And I don't know if I've been thinking about this for a week or so, and the only thing I can think of to begin with is the demand that these little press meetings in the White House every day cease.
And maybe No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's that's never going to happen.
And we don't want that to happen.
That's I you can't, you you don't want the press to stop talking to government.
You don't want the press to stop having uh uh press conferences or something.
I know what you mean by separation of press and state.
And what you mean is these people have they have become the administration.
They are an arm, they are uh an adjunct, they're willing accomplices.
They're no longer treating powerful Democrats with curiosity or suspicion like they do Republicans.
They are actually part of the Democrat Party agenda now.
And they are not fulfilling their constitutional assignment.
That's right.
So I uh they have a very important constitutional role they're abrogating.
They have decided, and I I actually think, Karen, I must take partial blame for this.
I've done this before.
This is nothing new.
Before I came along in 1988, there there was no other national conservative media then.
In fact, the only cable news network was CNN.
Back when I started, it was ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, and uh USA Today was out there and CNN.
That was it.
And now there is an entire alternative, Very powerful media.
And so they find themselves for the first time with their monopoly no longer in existence, and they find themselves with competition.
And so they can no longer get away with faking objectivity and pretending to not be part of the Democrat Party.
Now they've just owned up to it.
Now they've just They're making no pretenses and they're not trying to hide it.
That's the difference here.
We'll be back after this.
Okay, people are saying, right, there's a lot of Rush Limbaugh on Twitter.
Yeah, but there's only one me.
And the way to find me is Rush Limbaugh, no space between the two names.
Rush Limbaugh, no space, or just use the name Limbaugh.
Either one of those two should work to find the real me.
And there is only one real me on Twitter.
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