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March 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
Happy to be here, serving humanity simply by showing up.
I am America's real anchorman, the real one, America's real truth detector, and the doctor of democracy all combined here as one harmless, lovable, little fuzzball.
It has now been about a month, almost a month since Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida.
Why did it take everybody so long to bring this up?
Why did it take so long for this to become a political issue?
Was it because the so-called Republican war on women was in full swing and they didn't want to interrupt that?
Or their war on me was in full swing.
They didn't want to interrupt that.
Trayvon Martin was gunned down almost a month ago, being treated as though it happened just over the weekend.
Just a question.
New Black Panther Party with a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman.
5,000 black men have been asked to round up George Zimmerman, wherever he is, wherever he's hiding, and turn him over to the new Black Panther Party for justice.
Great to have you with us here, folks.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address LRushvo at EIBnet.com.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
I mentioned some of this stuff earlier, and I want to get started.
This was in Seoul, South Korea this morning.
President Obama, the outgoing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, they held a powwow.
And near the end of the meeting, Obama and Medvedev were overheard having this exchange, one of these hot mic situations.
And nobody knew the microphone was on.
My last election, please.
Were you able to hear that?
Let me read the transcript for you.
Obama on a hot mic said, this is my last election.
Dmitry Medvedev said, space for you.
Obama said, after my election, I have more flexibility.
Yeah.
Medvedev said, yeah, I understand.
I transmit this information to Vladimir.
I stand with you.
I will tell the KGB.
So here you have the President of the United States telling the President of Russia, hang loose, Dmitry.
Sit tight out there.
Once I get past this election, I'm going to have a lot more flexibility.
What he means is that nobody can stop me.
I don't have another election, so I don't have to worry about popularity, and I don't have to worry about doing things the American people won't like.
I'll be free and clear to do whatever I want to do, Dmitry.
And that's when I'm going to really be able to reduce our nukes.
Just tell Vlad to sit tight and be patient.
And Dmitry Medvedev said, yes, I understand.
I transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you.
No one ever leaves the KGB.
This is not, by any stretch of imagination, the first time something like this has happened.
I remember when Ronald Reagan was president, Ted Kennedy actually, I think he was in Russia, told Soviet leaders at the time.
I forget the specifics, but he told them, look, just wait till we get rid of Reagan, and we'll be fine.
During the 80s in Nicaragua, the Iran-Contra battles, the Soviet client state, little tinhorn, was a guy named Daniel Ortega.
And when he wasn't shopping for sunglasses with Peter, Paul, and Mary on Fifth Avenue in New York, he was down in Managua, Nicaragua.
And this was during a time where the Reagan administration was trying to support the Contra-rebels who wanted their freedom, make sure that a Soviet client state was not established in Nicaragua.
And the Democrats in the House of Representatives, first led by Jim Jones, he was a congressman from Oklahoma who went on to run the American Stock Exchange in Chicago.
And then Jim Wright, the former Speaker of the House from Houston, coupled with George Miller and a number of others, would constantly go down and advise Ortega on how to deal with Reagan.
And more specifically, not to embarrass them, his Democrat sponsors in Washington.
The Democrats would oppose aid to the Contras.
They would have legislating the Boland Amendment or other pieces of legislation.
Reagan wanted money for the Contras.
The Democrats would vote it down.
After one such incident, Danielle Ortega flew to Moscow and asked the Soviets for $500 million.
The Democrats sent George Miller, who's still a member of Congress.
He's in Martinez, California.
I think it's Martinez, the Bay Area.
They sent George Miller down there to slap Ortega on the wrist.
He said, don't embarrass us this way.
You can't go flying off to the Soviet Union and ask for $500 million after we vote day.
You got to sit tight here.
You're making us look bad.
And the Democrats would say, we don't support communism.
You can't say that we support.
Well, how would your vote be any different if you were supporting communism?
So it's another instance of a Democrat president saying to a foreign leader, hey, just hang with me here.
You know, when I don't have to worry about the people, I don't have to worry about Congress.
I don't have to worry about anybody my country wants.
I can get rid of more nukes.
Just tell Vladimir to sit tight.
Now, what else is he telling other foreign leaders to sit tight on, aside from nuclear weapons?
Just wait till I get my second term here.
Wait till I win this election.
Then we can really do business.
What's he saying to Hugo Chavez, for example?
Or what's he saying to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Syria or wherever?
Here's Benjamin Bernanke.
He is the Federal Reserve chairman in Arlington, Virginia this morning, the 2012 Economic Policy Conference of the National Association for Business Economics.
Just 15 seconds of Bernanke here.
Conditions remain far from normal, as shown, for example, by the high level of long-term unemployment and the fact that jobs and hours worked remain well below pre-crisis peaks.
We cannot yet be sure that the recent pace of improvement in the labor market will be sustained.
Well, that's just wonderful.
Obama in South Korea, can you imagine what he did when he heard what Bernanke said?
So here's the Fed chairman saying, wait a minute, all this so-called good news and the unemployment numbers probably can't keep that up.
Now, there's a reason for this, according to the way they tabulate the number.
If people think the economy is improving, and the media is trying to tell them it is, and thus they re-enter the job market, try to find a job, they then once again will resume being counted as unemployed.
People who have left the job market who are no longer looking for work are not counted as unemployed.
So if those people, or some of them, start looking for work again, they will be counted and the unemployment number will go back up, even while there is supposedly economic growth going on.
That's probably what Bernanke is talking about.
It could be worse.
Bernanke could be saying that the economy itself is going to slow down and thus hiring will slow down and whatever.
He's preparing these people for forthcoming bad news on unemployment.
Now, let's move on to Rick Santorum.
Santorum has a campaign ad in which he describes life in America as Obamaville.
Small businesses are struggling and families are worried about their jobs and their future.
The wait to see a doctor is ever increasing.
Gas prices through the roof and their freedom of religion under attack.
And every day, the residents of this town must come to grips with the harsh reality that a rogue nation and sworn American enemy has become a nuclear threat.
Threats, threats, threats.
Welcome to a place where one president's failed policies really hit home.
Welcome to Obamaville.
Welcome to Obamaville.
I was particularly gratified to hear this Santorum ad because let's go back to January 19, 2009.
This is a couple days before Obama is emaculated.
Obama can save us, say Americans, as polls show a wave of optimism sweeping the nation.
You know, and he did.
He gave a speech of optimism yesterday.
He did.
He gave a speech of personal response.
We talked about it in the first hour.
The problem is that the people who are responsible in this country are the targets in Obamaville.
At any rate, if America believes that only Obama can save us, they must believe that change is going to happen.
I don't think they know what change.
I don't think they care.
But I do, and I want to see change tomorrow.
I am not going to wait.
I am expecting miracles.
I am part of the cult that believes Obama is for hope and for change, and it's happening tomorrow.
It's going down tomorrow and the day after that, and it's going to change.
That's the day before the one was imaculated, and I started calling it Obamaville back then.
So I was gratified to see it and hear it in Santorum's commercial.
Now, Santorum has gotten into some trouble here because he claims he's being misquoted, misrepresented, taken out of context on purpose by the media, particularly the New York Times.
Let's go to Racine, Wisconsin yesterday during a campaign event.
This is Santorum.
Why would we put someone up who is uniquely pick any other Republican in the country?
He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.
Why would Wisconsin want to vote for someone like that?
Now, what he claims he was talking about was Romney is the worst of all Republicans because of RomneyCare.
RomneyCare takes Obamacare off the table because the regime is out there saying that Obamacare got its idea from Romney Care.
Romney Care was the inspiration, if you will, for Obamacare.
And Santorum claims that what he was talking about there was Romney is the worst Republican because of Obamacare and Romney care.
So Jeff Zelany of the New York Times wrote a piece in which Santorum thought that he was misreported, misrepresented, taken out of context, purposely lied about and all of that.
And on the rope line yesterday in Racine, after a speech to supporters, Santorum was shaking hands, signing autographs along the rope line.
CBS television camera was there and picked up an exchange between Santorum and Jeff Zelany of the New York Times.
Zelany said, you said Romney's the worst Republican in the country.
Is that true?
Stop lying.
I said he was the worst Republican to run on the issue of Obamacare.
And that's what I was talking about.
I have said uniquely, for every speech I give, I said he is uniquely disqualified to run against Barack Obama on the issue of health care.
Would you guys quit distorting what I'm saying?
You can use the worst Republican to run.
You can run against Barack Obama on the issue of health care because he fashioned the blueprint.
I've been saying it in every speech.
Quit distorting our words.
If I see it, it's bull.
Come on, man.
So he just told Zelany that what he's writing about in the New York Times is bull bleep.
Come on, man.
Taking it to Jeff Zelani in the New York Times.
Now, Zelany loves this.
I mean, the media, they don't care.
They write about you and upset you.
They love it when you get upset.
They love it when they tick you off.
They love it when they think they've taken you off your game.
Santorum's not apologizing for saying bull bleep to Zelamy.
He thinks the Romney campaign is behind this.
This was this morning on Fox and Friends.
Gretchen Carlson said, you use the BS word.
If you could have it back, would you do the same thing?
Is that the level of frustration where you finally just let it out?
Yeah, you know, if you haven't cursed out a New York Times reporter during the course of a campaign, you're not really a real Republican is the way I look at it.
They had the Romney press secretary in the back of the room spinning these guys, and he's out there just sort of parroting this.
And, you know, I'd already answered the question a couple of times, and he comes back at me again, and I'm not going to keep doing this.
Yeah, I'm going to call him on it.
Now, let's move forward here to audio soundbite number nine, David Pluff, Obama's campaign strategerist.
This is yesterday morning on Meet the Depressed.
David Gregory is talking to Pluff, and they're having a discussion about opposition to health care reform.
And Gregory said, you're not really winning the argument.
You feel like you're winning the argument in terms of public approval for this.
By the end of this decade, we're going to be glad the Republicans call this Obamacare, because when the reality of health care is in place.
But listen, if Mitt Romney, by the way, Mitt Romney is the godfather of our health care plan, okay?
If he's president, remarkably, he's running away from that past, and he's going to say he's going to try and throw all this away.
We're going to have a big fight about health care again.
We know we have to do this for our economy, for our deficits, for the health and safety of the American people.
There you have it.
David Plough of the regime saying Romney care is Obamacare.
Mitt Romney's the godfather of our health care plan.
They finally admitted it.
Actually, they've said it before, but this is just out in the open now.
Mitt Romney's the godfather of our health care plan.
And that's Santorum's point.
And this is why a lot of people think that the regime wants to run against Romney, that he's the guy, that Occupy Wall Street was about running against Romney.
And now out there saying that Romney's the godfather of Obamacare, let's take the issue off the table.
Go back and get soundbite number eight very quickly because Santorum said, if you haven't criticized the New York Times, you're really not a real Republican.
This September 4th in 2000, Naperville, Illinois, on the campaign trail, right before he was to address the crowd at a rally, George W. Bush and Cheney are overheard having this exchange about Adam Clymer, who is at the New York Times.
Were you able to hear that?
There's Adam Clymer, major league ass from the New York Times.
And Cheney said, oh, yeah, big time.
Back to the phones we go here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Trevor in Ogden, Utah.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I just wanted to tell you about the people that are supporting Obamacare.
They need to talk to a disabled veteran because we know what government health carers run like.
I've got an older friend of mine, he's 55, his knee is blown out, and the doctor wants him to have a knee replacement.
But according to the databases that the doctors have to work with, he is too young to get the knee replacement.
What do you mean too young?
Last 10 years, and if they gave him one now, they would have to give him another one 10 years from now.
Too young?
Too young.
He's 55, and he's too young to have a knee replacement.
You mean they only want to do it once.
That's right.
They want to save money, and that's government health care right there.
And you say this man's a disabled vet?
Yes, he is.
And disabled veterans, I'm fortunate to have a job.
I have private health care, so I'm also a disabled veteran, but I don't use the VA unless I have to because when you sit down with the doctor, all he does is type, and he can't, and it's not their fault.
They have to go by whatever the computer screen tells them to prescribe.
They can't do their own care.
If you like the Veterans Administration, you're going to love Obamacare because that's your point, right?
That's my point.
That is the tip.
That is government-run health care, and it's very absurd.
He's too young to get a knee replacement.
It's not about the quality of life, it's about the money.
The money is an excuse.
It really isn't about the this is if it were about the money, they wouldn't be submitting budgets like they're submitting budgets.
They wouldn't have budget deficits in the national debt skyrocketing.
That is a convenient excuse not to do it, but it really isn't about the money.
There are many other factors going on here.
You know, government loves to turn down people for knee replacements.
If you're too fat, they'll tell you that it's a waste of money.
If you're too thin, then it's going to be a problem.
But that's all the doctors will do from now on.
Just what you just described.
They will type.
They will fill out papers.
A decision will be made from afar based on what the doctor types on the form.
He'll be told what he can and can't do and what he will be compensated.
Well, that's the VA.
It's happening.
Medicare, this happens already.
It's what we're all headed for if this thing ever becomes fully implemented.
And once it does, and I use the phrase, it's ballgame, and I think Mona Charon first used that in a that term.
It's a common term.
She's the first I saw that used it in this context in a piece that she did at National Review, but it means that's it.
The game's over.
Once this is fully implemented, virtually every aspect of our lives will be said to have some impact, cost impact on government health care.
And that's how they will be able to exert control over the things that we are permitted to do.
Eat, exercise, all of these things because of the impact on eventual health treatment that we will need because of it.
As we head back to the all-important content portion of the program, and Mark Stevens is back.
Let me refresh your memory.
Mark Stevens is a local advertiser on this program in New York on WABC, our flagship station there.
And last week, he appeared on the Fox Business Channel on Varney and Friends to describe how he's being targeted by Media Matters for America and related groups.
And he said two interesting things last week.
He said that this is not a boycott.
It's terrorism.
It's a small number of people trying to make themselves sound like a large number of people.
They're trying to make themselves sound like they're angry customers who are never going to patronize the business again when that's not who they are.
They're Democrat operatives and they are running a terrorism campaign.
They are calling and sending emails to his female employees and they are threatening them.
He said after his appearance on Varney and Friends last week and after we played the sound bites, he received 40,000 emails.
That's his number.
38,000 of them were supportive.
2,000 were critical of him and his decision to keep sponsoring.
Well, today he showed back up on Fox with Megan Kelly.
And she asked about two soundbites.
She asked him, does the intimidation campaign cause you any concern?
Absolutely no concern.
Let them come.
Let them come.
The emails I've been getting, Megan, by the tens of thousands, I'm trying to answer them all because they're so heartfelt and they're really tapping into something that's going on in America that the story is not being told.
People who run little manufacturing businesses, retailers, people in the military, all kinds of people across the country who feel powerless, they're suffocated, like the lid is blowing off.
And the emails they write me, they, God bless me, they think I'm a hero, which I'm not.
But I have to answer all of them because their emails are so heartfelt.
Something is going on here that has to be addressed because the country's at risk.
If I can't advertise where I want to advertise, my business, because of a small group of people, we can tell, because the vast majority of emails are in support of us, Rush, America.
He wants to advertise.
And he is, by the way, he has doubled or tripled down on his buy.
He's not being intimidated against it, but he wants people to know what is going on.
Tens of thousands of emails here.
And she asked him, Megan Kelly said, well, Ms. Stevens, what are you going to do next?
Advertise more heavily.
Stand my ground.
Absolutely not give in in no way.
Give no quarter to those who will intimidate me or my company.
And if I can do anything else for others, try to be the bulwark that stands in the way of this terrorist activity because I love the country and it's got to stop.
And his advertising works.
That's why it's a business decision.
He said on the show, he doesn't care about the politics of it.
And he said he had a problem with what I said, but he accepted the apology.
But the advertising works.
It's a business.
And he's not going to stop advertising.
He wants to run around and tell anybody else who's got a little fear over what's happening to them out there.
You know, people still send me emails.
You sound like you're fine, Rush.
You're doing okay.
In fact, I have to tell you, so this is a little inside baseball.
But we were in New York last week.
We went up Thursday night for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation annual gala and ball.
It's really a great night.
The Commandant's own drum and bugle corps performed, and there were a number of people who spoke.
MCLEF, by the way, we sponsor them at 2H by T.
And they provide college scholarships for the children of men and women, Marines, killed in action.
And sometimes in extreme circumstances such as 9-11 or the Oklahoma City bombing, they will extend assistance to the children of other federal law enforcement agents who were killed.
And there was, I hate to single one out, but there was a father who lost his son.
I believe it was a real hearing challenge for me that night.
But I believe his son was killed in Afghanistan.
He spoke for 20 minutes.
Rip your heart out.
And so many people came up to me and were supportive.
Are you doing okay?
You sound great on the radio.
Are you doing okay?
Again, I'm fine.
Nothing's, well, all these boycotts.
No, no, no.
There really isn't one.
There's a fake boycott.
It's not, there's no advertiser boycott.
There's no consumer boycott going on.
Something that's being made to look like it.
It's as phony and ginned up as the Occupy Wall Street movement is.
They were all concerned.
And then the next day, we went by, saw some people over at Fox, and we stopped by Neil Cavuto's office.
And he put his arm around me.
Are you doing okay?
Are you okay?
Yeah, Neil, everything's fine.
Everything's good.
Are you ready?
Tell me now.
Are you really okay?
Yeah, yeah, everything's.
Yeah, a couple other people.
And I came to the conclusion here that a lot of people think that this has been profoundly effective, and it hasn't been.
Again, it's the power of the media to create a picture and an image.
But we're fighting back on this.
That's why we've activated our Twitter account.
People ask, let me tell you, folks, people ask, why do you want Media Matters?
Media Matters is like Jock Itch.
You ever had Jock Itch?
Most every guy has had Jock.
Dawn, have you ever had Jock Itch?
Well, women get jockitch.
Yes, they do.
Media Matters is like jock itch.
It's a chafing little rash in there.
Just that's all they are.
And that's as serious as it is.
Yeah, just a bunch of little twerps sitting around with nothing better to do, trying to occupy themselves.
But they're just jockitch, folks.
Pure and simple.
David Brock is jockitch.
And any of these other people whose names come out, they're just jockitch.
That's all it is.
We're moving forward.
This guy, Mark Stevens, is exactly right.
They're little terrorists, jock itch terrorists who are trying to make themselves sound like they are numerous when they're not.
They're trying to make themselves sound like they're consumers and angry customers when they're not.
And they've even admitted to this.
So they've had this program in their drawer waiting to activate it since 2009.
And it's the fourth or fifth such attempt.
It's just an election year, and it's a little bit heightened, but it's jock-itch, folks.
That's all it is.
It's the way you need to look at it.
Jerry in Chicago, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor.
Quickly, if I could, I'd like to just articulate a few facts that I've determined relative to this shooting in Florida.
Also, as a retired police officer from San Francisco, now residing in Chicago, I think I have an interesting perspective.
It's worth noting, Axelrod is based here in Chicago.
As a result, he was clearly aware of the fact that there were over 40 shootings in Chicago over the St. Patrick's Day weekend, 10 of which resulted in murders or homicides, deaths.
These were predominantly on the south side of Chicago, which is a black neighborhood.
The current state Democratic chairman for the state of Florida, as I understand it, a person by the name of Rod Smith, was in 2005 a member of the Florida State Senate, which voted 39 to 0 in favor of the stand your ground law.
The House voted 92 to 20 in favor of that law.
Now, Rod Smith, correctly, I think, is in defense of the law, but also agrees that an arrest should have been made in the case.
Now, here's my personal observation as a police officer, former police officer.
Mr. Zimmerman, I think, fits the profile of somebody that we might refer to as suffering from the John Wayne syndrome.
He was a person equipped with a weapon and chart with certain responsibilities as a neighborhood watch person that overstepped his balance.
I don't think he was necessarily a racist, but he made poor decisions based on court judgment.
Jerry, what I've read is that Mr. Zimmerman, who again, the New York Times refers to as a white Hispanic, and the rest of the media has now picked that up.
Because that fits the template.
You need white on black here to gin this up.
I understand he wants to be a cop.
And he just loves law enforcement.
And he is a self-appointed neighborhood watch commander.
And he wanted to protect his neighborhood.
It just got a little overzealous and so forth.
We still don't know what the real facts of this are.
I don't think that.
That's why this is, it's a month ago that this happened.
And yet it's being portrayed as though it just happened last weekend or something, at least with the tensions being focused on it.
But I just, it really is troubling that there are people trying to fan the flames of this rather than cool it down.
I mean, at the highest levels, we know who the people trying to benefit from this are, but at the highest levels of our government, you would think with a powder keg like this that people would want to try to douse it, cool it off a little bit.
I just don't see any of that.
Well, it may be ultra cynical on my part, but I did not hear the president interjecting himself into the argument or the controversy by saying that if he had a son, you know, that is that the 10 people that were murdered on the south side of Chicago, that they would all look like his son as well.
Well, I know.
We talked about this earlier.
This is one of those things I can't relate to.
I don't look at people and see a race or a sexual orientation or, I mean, I'm a red-blooded American guy.
When I see a woman, I know that she's a woman, but I don't see the political context.
I don't see feminist or a female victim of some oppressive society.
And I don't see black versus white.
The left is the one that do this.
For Obama to come out and say that if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
Okay, fine.
What then?
What does that mean?
What are we supposed to infer from that?
I don't even want to answer that question.
It's a disconnect to me.
I don't get it.
It's the last thing I would ever think if I were president or anybody else, somebody gets shot.
Well, that looks like my son.
I don't have a son.
Neither does he.
I don't understand it.
But it's certainly, yeah, he's not saying it about any other murder victim, and he didn't call their parents or the kids' parents, I don't think.
It's a mystery to me.
I just, I have no, well, it's not a mystery.
I mean, I know these people like back of my hand, but I can't relate to this.
This way of looking at people and events, look at everything through a political, we have a dead 17-year-old, and this is looked at through a political prism by people is just something that escapes me.
It just really does.
Back to just say.
You ever notice, folks, when a conservative does not like a talk show, they change the channel.
They don't watch.
That's why these left-wing networks don't have much audience.
But when a leftist doesn't like a talk show, they scream racism, elitism, bigotry, homophobia, and then they start demanding censorship.
That's exactly who they are and what they do.
Okay, Obamacare tomorrow.
Oral arguments on the mandate.
That'll happen before the program starts.
We'll see you back here in 21 hours.
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