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April 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hey Cookie, I know you're rolling on Carney.
He's answering questions about judicial authority.
I'd love to hear that if it's anything interesting.
Is Obama's thrown all of his people to the wolves here.
And going out there and saying that they no, no, courts don't throw out laws.
Everybody knows they do, and he does too.
And now they've got to go out and support it.
I don't know what the president meant was a case this momentous.
Courts have never that.
I can I can imagine it before I even hear the soundbite.
And CNN, God love them.
You know, you have to strive to have an audience smaller than MSNBC.
But CNN has managed to pull it off.
By the way, do you hear that Keith Olberman was on Letterman last night?
And he said, I made a mistake.
I shouldn't have gone to Gore's network.
I was like the $10 million chandelier.
And what he meant was I'm a $10 million.
He's getting $10 million a year for five years.
$10 million chandelier, but I'm nothing.
If you don't put me in the right room.
Keith, you are not a $10 million chandelier.
You're the guy wearing a $50 lampshade sitting in the corner of the room that nobody else wants to go in.
That's what you are.
Not a $10 million chandelier.
Gee.
Anyway.
CNN.
This is exactly.
God is smiling his countenance upon me today.
I ask for a Marsha, and a Marsha calls and gets through.
I have just explained what Obama's gonna do if he loses at the Supreme Court.
And CNN during the break here at the top of the hour just had a Chiron graphic crawl at the bottom of the screen.
And this is what it said.
Study colon Republicans comma whites more tired of Trayvon coverage.
So somebody has done a study on who's tired of coverage of the Trayvon case and who isn't tired of it.
And guess what?
Republicans and whites are fed up with the coverage.
Republicans, comma whites, more tired of tra and I guarantee you at CNN, they don't think there's anything.
Like NBC has apologized for their Zimmerman tape, but it's it's not really an apology.
It's the chintsiest.
They don't even apologize to Zimmerman.
They they just apologize to I don't have it in front of me, but they they apologize to um anybody who might have I i it's pathetic.
It was an abject pathetic apology.
If you're gonna apologize, you've got to apologize to the guy who you tried to destroy.
That they apologize to their viewers, but but but it was George Zimmerman that they assaulted at NBC with the editing of his 9-11 call tape.
Anyway, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the uh excellence in broadcasting network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, Carney just said that uh uh President Obama still believes that the Obamacare is constitutional and we're gonna keep implementing the law.
Of course they are.
They're gonna implement the law no matter what the court says.
Let's go to Obama and his um really lowest of the low.
The most pathetic Obama has been, and that's saying something.
It was his speech to the newspaper editors yesterday about uh Paul Ryan and uh Ryan's budget and the Republican Party in general.
And here we'll start with audio soundbite number one again.
We led the program with this, but here it is again just to remind you.
Two million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food.
There would be 4500 fewer federal grants at the Department of Justice and the FBI to combat violent crime, financial Crime and help secure our borders.
Hundreds of national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year.
We wouldn't have the capacity to enforce the laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the food that we eat.
This is our weather forecasts would become less accurate because we wouldn't be able to afford to launch new satellites.
This is exhausting.
It was late last year, last summer.
No, it was last October.
Biden running around Flint, Michigan saying if something didn't happen, there'd be more rapes there.
So now Obama yesterday says that translate this for you.
Republicans want mothers and young children to eat contaminated food.
That Republicans want more violent crime.
They want more recklessness from Wall Street.
They do not want to stop illegal immigrants.
The Republicans want to close national parks to keep you out.
Which, in fact, it's the Democrats that really want to do that, thinking that you pollute parks by your presence and that leads to global warming.
But that aside, uh Republicans do not want to enforce the laws that keep the air clean, so the Republicans want dirty air.
The Republicans want dirty water.
The Republicans want contaminated food.
And the Republicans don't want you to know when severe weather is coming.
They want your house to be destroyed by tornado.
They want you to be flooded with heavy rain, and they want hurricanes to wipe you out.
That's what he's saying.
It's the President of the United States, and that's what he's saying.
Here's a talking point that Obama stole from the uh Republican establishment.
Ronald Reagan, who, as I recall, is not uh accused of being a tax and spend socialist, understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal, he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases.
Did it multiple times.
He could not get through a Republican primary today.
That is a crock.
That is something that a bunch of Republican establishment types say today after they say the era of Reagan is over.
Reagan did get snookered twice.
Tax cuts for spending cuts.
They never got the spending cuts.
They never happened.
And he vowed to never do it again.
Here's Obama, the GOP budget, a Trojan horse for social Darwinism.
It is a Trojan horse.
Disguised as deficit reduction plans.
It is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country.
It is thinly veiled social Darwinism.
It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it.
A place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top but grows outward from the heart of the middle class.
I really am at a loss to deal with this because it's it's so far from reality that an attempt to analyze this from a base of reality isn't possible.
This is the purposeful meandering and wandering so far from the truth as to make it practically impossible to put this in any kind of context.
All I can tell you is that uh none of this is true, and I don't even know what he means by socialism.
I think social Darwinism to him is you're on your own, that's what the Republicans believe in, and to hell with you.
And it's never worked.
The only thing it's worked is what we've done the last three and a half years.
I see, but the the architect of the worst economy in the nation's history.
Do you remember 1992?
The Clinton campaign, what did what was its slogan?
Worst economy in the last fifty years, which of course it wasn't.
This may well be.
His economy is the worst economy in the last 50 years.
See, the problem is this is what he wants.
He's the architect of this.
He gave us this economy.
He gave us this recovery.
He wants more marshes.
But he doesn't want them escaping.
He wants them in welfare.
He wants them in a state of perpetual dependence.
Because that means they need him.
And that means they'll vote for him.
It's a cynical and it's no more complicated than that.
It's dehumanizing.
There is nothing uplifting.
There's no social justice here.
There's no economic growth whatsoever.
There's no opportunity, no prosperity with the Obama budget, with the Obama way of life.
They don't believe it's possible anyway unless they are in total charge of the command and control and assigning it to people.
So let's move forward to Paul Ryan.
He was the focus of this.
Last night, as soundbite number nine, he was on um Larry Cudlow's uh report on CNBC.
Cudlow said, I'm not sure I even understand what he means by social Darwinism, Congressman Ryan.
I remember the Trojan horse from my Greek mythology, but somehow he was pretty nasty to you.
What is your first reaction to Obama's attack on you?
Virtually none of the claims he makes about our budget are actually true.
We've kind of come to expect this from the president.
This is fairly common for him these days.
He's distorting the truth, he's dividing the country, and he's becoming more bitter and partisan by the day.
Frankly, it's kind of sad to see.
I think his office is bigger than this.
I think if you look at the tone of his speech, the substance of his budget, it's beneath the office that he occupies.
And so what we're getting here is not solutions, we're just getting demagoguery, we're getting desperation.
We're getting partisan attacks from a campaigner-in-chief, not solutions from a leader who sees a debt crisis coming.
Because we're the ones who are actually proposing a fix to prevent this debt crisis.
He's not, and therefore he's attacking us, and I just don't think that's leadership.
No, it isn't leadership.
But see, even Ryan is struggling with a way to characterize this.
It is so beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency that coming up with ways to characterize this are really difficult, other than to say what Ryan said.
But it's still I I don't know that saying that's not a criticism of Ryan.
I just don't know.
Hope it does.
I just don't know that that kind of critique penetrates with people who think Obama's wonderful.
It's a real challenge, folks.
I'm telling you, it's a real challenge because this is not the only time we're going to have to do this.
This if if this is one election of many that we are going to have to win.
And then after the elections are won, we're gonna have to have the right policies implemented and passed and signed into law and then supported.
Here's more Ryan.
Cudlow said, well, you've got pretty specific in the speech, saying that your budget uh is gonna end research and development, it's gonna end infrastructure, gonna end prescription drugs, uh, that you don't want to forecast the weather anymore, uh, won't be able to know about hurricanes.
Uh you're against education and training.
Uh you you're basically going to get rid of everything but the Washington monument.
What is your response to that?
This is surreal.
Really bizarre.
He has to put this assumption to make all those claims that's not an assumption we have in our budget.
So he's they're literally just making this stuff up.
What he's trying to do is he's not offering solutions.
So he's got to distract the country, divide the country, and attack those of us who's offering solutions.
And I think it's his only chance left to try and win re-election, and so he's resorting to these very sophomore tactics.
And it's just very unbecoming the presidency of the United States, if you ask me.
It is.
It is unbecoming, but how many people that vote for Obama think that it's unbecoming?
How many of them think that he's actually defending them, supporting, protecting them against dirty water?
I mean, what we're up against, I don't I don't know anybody who actually thinks.
No, I take that back.
I am pretty safe in assuming there are people who think Republicans want dirty water.
And That doesn't compute with me.
I don't know how anybody can believe it.
I know that they do, but I can't.
I can't make an intellectual trail that someone can follow to get there.
Well, there isn't any intellect in this.
This is simply blind obedience.
But Republicans want dirty water, poison the air, and people believe it.
And take away your health care.
Uh wanted.
And you can hear Ryan too.
He's non-plussed by this.
Not non-plused.
He's he's he's he's bewildered.
Well, Ryan doesn't want to take away anybody's clean air and clean water.
The idea is frankly absurd.
To even have to say that is insulting.
Cudlow.
Okay, on top of all that, he said you want to destroy Medicare with what he calls vouchers.
You call it premium supports, that you will destroy Medicaid, that you're going to prevent people from getting emergency room care, that you want people to die, that you don't want college students to go to school.
In other words, at what point does this stuff become so ridiculous?
Or do you think some of the public buys this, Congressman Ryan, and his label of you as an extremist will stick?
It's beyond the pale of ridiculousness.
We're keeping Pell Grant levels where they are.
We're just not having this massive increase and then a funding cliff like he does.
We actually save Medicare.
We don't have a board of 15 bureaucrats that are unelected on accountable that he puts in charge of rationing the program.
What I think we're getting from here is sort of a desperate political attack, so beyond the pale.
What I get out of this is it's sort of a desperate move, which is if you go with these Republicans, they're gonna feed you to the wolves.
It's gonna be a doggy dog society.
It's a false choice, and it's for a lack of leadership that it's taking place.
And I just don't think people are gonna buy it.
Now I don't even really know how to describe all of this stuff, but I think he's just getting sort of desperate and demagogic, and it's just part and parcel of the kind of campaign I think we're gonna expect this fall.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
But how many of his voters?
If you go out and say, man's just a demagogue.
Wouldn't it be and then you define it for them and they still don't know what it is, then what do you do?
You know, it's like this uh phony Republican war on women.
Look at how big that got for three months and they're trying to revive it now because uh the coverage of Trayvon's not playing out the way they wanted it to.
NBC is having to apologize for lying and doctoring and tape.
So now CNN's running a crawl that says study whites, comma Republicans more tired of Trayvon coverage.
But they they out of a whole cloth out of literally nothing, manufactured the premise that Republicans want to take away women's birth control pills when no Republican had any such plan, it wasn't even on anybody's mind.
So Snerdley just said to me, you know, the way Robbie Ryan reacted, it's not gonna work.
He just can't sit there and say demagogic and so what would you say?
Well, I just go tell these people we don't want to kill you.
And I said, You can't do that, then you've accepted the premise.
Now you're arguing the absurdity.
That's the old adage, you never get into an argument with a fool because after a while people won't be able to tell the difference.
So if you're gonna try to convince somebody who has been led to believe that you're politics, you exist, your political ideas are to kill them, and you accept that premise to argue, you've lost it.
You've lost it by virtue of accepting the premise to argue it.
No, Mr. Democrat, I as a Republican don't want to kill you.
Well, the president says you do, and he says you want my water to be dirtier, and I'll bet my water isn't as clean as yours.
And I'll bet I'll bet you don't live near a bunch of buses and stuff.
I don't bet you I bet your air is not as dirty as mine.
And you don't care.
And you go, oh God.
How'd I deal with this?
And you don't care if I die.
To which I would say, you know, 1.3 Million babies die in this country every year, and it's your party supporting that.
It's not me.
Well, that's different.
That's a woman's right to choose.
They know all the catchphrases.
Social Darwinism, what is it?
Even Cudlow.
Larry Cudlow didn't know what it was.
We here at the EIB network have been struggling with this.
Would aborting down syndrome babies be considered social Darwinism?
And who's in favor of that?
Who?
Who was in favor?
Margaret Sanger was in favor of that.
Yes.
Planned Parenthood, babe.
Yeah, exactly right.
Um point is when you when you accept the premise that no, I don't want to kill you.
And you start debating that.
Say for all of you, um all of you Obama supporters and voters in the audience, do you know that he doesn't want you to have a car?
Obama does not want you to have a car.
How do I know?
Well, have you heard him propose it?
Have you heard him propose that everybody should have a car?
He has.
I mean, he doesn't want you to have a car.
I don't think Obama even wants you to have a house.
I haven't heard him propose that everybody should have a house.
I haven't heard it.
I don't think Obama wants you to have a job.
No, no, I I haven't heard Obama actually propose a plan that would put people back to work.
I'm not sure that I I I don't I I don't think Obama really I don't think he wants you to have gasoline.
Well, I haven't heard him say he thinks everybody should be able to afford gasoline.
It must be true.
You know, one of the ways to attack this might be a variation on Reagan's question during the 1980 campaign.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
The question is when you run up against these people, folks, that think that you want to kill them or that uh you want them to have dirtier air or water than you have.
Ask them a simple question.
If Obama cares so much, why are you so much worse off?
The Democrats care so much about you.
Why are you so mad?
If if the Democrats care so much about you, why are you doing so much worse than you were when he took office?
Now be prepared for the answer to be Republicans this and Republicans that.
But that's the question.
Who's next?
Dan in Petal, Mississippi.
Hi, you're next.
Rush.
Mega dittos.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, um, I have a theory about what the Democrats are uh may do with this mandate.
Uh I think they're planning on the courts striking down the mandate, but keeping the law, the rest of the law intact.
Um I actually heard I think it was Crowhammer talking about how the courts not do that so that they wouldn't be accused of overreaching and that the rest of the law would fold in on itself.
And I think they're planning for that, and then use the uh Massachusetts Romney care model to try to strong arm the state into implementing a state mandate, and they would use uh Medicaid as uh as a weapon to do that.
The the Obamacare expands Medicaid so much that if the federal government didn't give states uh the federal money for Medicaid, the state would go bankrupt.
Well, no, that's already gonna happen with Obamacare.
Uh I agree, but I think they're going to use that as a uh a mechanism to force state or try to force states into uh putting in a state.
Wait a second as a funding mechanism.
Um look, I you realize how long it would take to force every state to do a mandate.
I don't think it would take that long because the Republicans would be in a bad position.
They wouldn't be able to argue against it because their presidential nominee would have been the one to establish the blueprint.
No, no, no.
That's that's I just I don't I don't see.
I think the error that you're making is to be found in the fact that Obama doesn't want the states to have any power.
He wants it all for himself.
He doesn't if there's going to be a mandate, he's gonna do it.
I that that would take um a long time, and there would be so much opposition to that.
I uh look, I I suppose you could be right.
I haven't even uh considered this.
But the the You know, all the states would have to do, they just it's like Kagan's already said it just dump a boatload of money on the states for Medicaid and be done with this.
I think what they're gonna do is try to make a head-up plunge right into single payer and not wait the 10 to 15 years for people to figure it out.
But the feds can't order the states to do universal coveries.
That's unconstitutional, too.
And even though Obama doesn't care about it, the states would.
They'd stop this.
They'd be in court for decades.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I uh I'm fascinated at um at how people are um thinking about this.
I mean, twenty-six states are in this lawsuit already to stop the mandate.
That's where that's that's why we're doing this.
The states are already opposing the federal mandate to say, oh, oh, yeah, we can do it ourselves.
Why didn't we think of that?
Okay, good.
Yeah, we'll do that, we'll be done with it.
That's um that's a stretch, I think.
But Obama, by the way, you you should know, and I don't know if this is uh purposefully or accidentally, but he said this week that the court can't strike down the mandate and keep the rest of the law.
He said, and I made a big to-do about this.
He said, I think the justices should understand.
That right there is chilling to me.
I think the justices should understand.
Meaning you better listen to me.
And he said, I think the justices should understand that in the absence of an individual mandate, you can't have a mechanism to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can actually get health care.
Without a mandate, there's no mechanism to pay for any of this.
The justices should understand.
Who's next?
I appreciate the call.
Mark in uh in Seattle.
Hello, sir, great to have you here.
Talked in the first hour about uh if they do overturn Obamacare that Obama would then go to all the idiots and say, look, they took away your health care and Republicans took away your health care.
Then what's that?
Republicans took away your health care.
They didn't get rid of their own.
And then he and he would try to use that to his advantage, but I don't think he could, because as you pointed out, sixty to seventy percent of the people want the health care overturned.
That's true.
That's in every poll.
In every poll, a majority of people want Obamacare.
And then don't you think he's seeing look listening, he knows what we're doing.
I know, but but yeah, but still, if you look now, review this again.
Back in November or December, I forget which.
A guy named Thomas B. Edsell, who used to write for the Washington Post, now is the Huffington Puffington Post.
He went out there in the New York Times in a column.
Obama not going to seek the votes of white working class Americans.
He's lost them.
The old Reagan blue-collar uh Reagan Democrats.
Not Not going to worry about them.
It is obvious that this Obama campaign is aimed at the welfare state and what we are affectionately calling the stupid.
Maybe ignorant is better.
And he's hoping that he can get a lot more of them to vote than have been.
Somehow.
And he's going to do it.
I can hear it now.
I don't want to go to the whole thing again.
Well, we've been trying for 60 years.
Working on behalf of the American people to get affordable health care for all Americans.
And here we had it.
And it was then being implemented.
And he cites all the people on pre-existing conditions and the kids on their parents' coverage and all the letters he's gotten from people who are alive because of Obamacare.
And he's got the Republican judges.
Five Republican judges took your health care away today.
They didn't lose theirs.
They don't want you to have yours.
For 70 years we've been struggling for this.
Since the days of Jim Crow, whatever, you're going to throw that in there.
Really rally the troops.
And he's going to try to make hey.
This is this another aspect of this campaign that's that's mind boggling.
He's shooting lower than the lowest common denominator.
The best way to describe it.
All of this is geared to getting out the stupid vote.
Look at Occupy Wall Street.
Look at this.
Republicans want to take away your birth control pills for crying out loud.
That matters to the minks out there.
Okay.
The Minx.
The sexually active.
That matters to them.
And people like DSK, that guy from the world, you take away birth control pills and that guy can't hit up maids as often as he did it.
you you Thank you.
Rush Limbaugh, fighting fatigue.
A cat headbutting me at 5 30, biting my nose.
Cat was really mad at me.
I hadn't done anything.
Okay.
New slogan.
Obama in 2008, it was hope and change.
2012, dopes and change.
That's the campaign slogan.
Or rope dopes, dopes and hope, whatever.
But he's going to have dopes in there.
Because that's who is being targeted.
By the way, the uh Justice Department has announced they're going to try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad before a military tribunal.
The trial will begin within the next 30 days.
It will not, despite the best efforts of Obama and Eric Holder, it will not take place in New York City.
It will be held at Club Gitmo.
Where we still have a thriving licensed merchandise business, by the way, at the EIB store at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Is that the CNN study that you're putting up there?
Is it the one that they the crawl that's that CNN had that said whites and Republicans are more tired of Trayvon Martin coverage?
Okay.
So now we got some details.
Pardon the stipples here, folks.
Here we go.
43%.
Who did the study?
Do we know who did the study?
Probably NBC.
Okay, here's the study.
43% of whites and 56% of Republicans and 16% of blacks say that there's too much coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.
We don't know how many white Hispanics are tired of it.
They didn't survey or they didn't have a category for white Hispanics.
And we don't know how many non white Hispanics are tired of the coverage.
We don't know how many white Asians are tired of the coverage.
We don't know how many non-white Asians are tired of the coverage.
We don't know how many non-white female Hispanics.
They didn't break it down like this.
Non-white male Hispanics.
And of course, the non-white whites haven't been heard from on this either.
All we know is that 43% of whites, 56% of Republicans, and six, and that must be the Martian Republicans, because there's no other category left.
And 16% of blacks say that there's too much coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.
Now I again I don't know who did the study, but we do know why, don't we?
We know why they did the study, don't we?
To promote the idea that we are a racist country.
Pew did the study.
The Pew Center for People in the Press.
It's a pew poll, which makes sense when you say it that way.
Okay, we've played enough with this today.
Here's how you deal with Obama and his abject lies.
You ignore them.
Republicans, Romney, whoever, the whole party, just hammer Obama on his record.
That's all we have to do.
There's not one element of it he can run for reelection on.
Hammer him on his record.
Ignore his arguments.
Don't get caught up in them.
You can't, it's it's a losing proposition.
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