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April 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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I don't think people are making the right point about this.
That's why I'm here, of course, to make the right point about most everything.
Great that's not.
Now don't confuse that's not bombast and it's not even Braggadocio.
It just happens to be the truth.
Hang on, I get the hiccups.
A little chug of water here.
Yeah, I'm smoking a cigar down to the nub, and sometimes that causes a cups.
That should do it.
Okay, back we are.
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If you want to be on the program.
David Axelrod was on um Fox News Sunday.
And here's what he said.
No.
Well, yeah, he misspoke.
But what was actually given away by this comment, I think, is quite illustrative of something.
Chris Wallace said in one paragraph, two or three sentences, what's the choice in this election?
The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, uh, and an economy that continues down the road uh we're on, where a fewer and fewer number of people do very well, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace.
Now the road that we're on is Obama Boulevard.
The road that we are on, where fewer and fewer do very well, everybody else running faster and faster just keep is Obama Boulevard.
That's the road.
It may not be a boulevard, probably a county road or some such thing.
Axel Rod said this because their mindset is that this is 2008.
There is no incumbent president right now.
We're running against George W. Bush.
We are not going to well, we're going to pretend that the last three and a half years uh didn't happen.
We're not we're not in office.
There is no Barack Obama who's incumbent.
I don't I don't believe, and nobody else does either, by the way, that he really meant to characterize the Obama economy the way he did, but he did describe it accurately.
He didn't mean to.
That's the point of this.
He really screwed this up.
Now the White House acclaiming Axelrod's statement was an accident.
And they're actually correct.
It's always an accident when a Democrat speaks the truth.
It's never intended.
Now we're on a toll road, by the way.
Obama Boulevard's a toll road, and that's the road that we're all on.
And he spoke the truth, and that's the accident.
It's always an accident when a Democrat speaks the truth.
They're stuck in this 2008 mindset.
They're stuck with it's all Bush's economy.
They haven't done anything yet.
It all boils down.
It all goes back, folks, to Obama's personal belief that this country was founded in an immoral, unjust way, uh, including economically.
That the the founding fathers were the equivalent of today's one percent, and they set everything up to benefit them and their families and their friends and people like them.
Uh and forever sentenced the 99% to essential, well, slavery and poverty and discrimination, uh racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, all of that rot gut stuff that they in a cliche cliched way assigned to their political enemies.
But here he comes.
Uh and just happens to tell the god-awful truth about his guy.
The choice in this election between an economy that produces a growing middle class, gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids.
There's nothing in the Obama economy that's doing that or that will do that.
There's nothing in the Obama economy that can do that because Obama is shrinking the private sector where all of that happens.
The private sector is where the middle class grows.
The middle class is not in the government sector.
It can't possibly grow there.
The middle class.
Well, the pri the private sector is where people have a chance to get ahead and where their kids have a chance to get ahead.
And Obama's shrinking it.
There are two million fewer jobs than plus now since Obama took office.
The government has grown from 18% of GDP to 21 or 23, on its way to 25% of our total economy.
That's where the Obama economy is headed.
The government is getting bigger and bigger.
And that's you know, if if if health care is fully implemented, then those numbers change.
And when the Democrats start talking about choice, you can be sure that they're lying.
Because choice is not what they want you to have.
Pro choice doesn't even mean pro-choice.
Try telling them, as I did once as an a as an experiment.
Spearment for those of you in Rio Linda.
I said I'm pro-choice, I choose abortion.
You can't say that.
Why not?
I choose life.
I'm pro-choice, I choose life.
You can't do that.
Why said?
Well, because that's not what it means.
Well, what does choice mean?
Well, choice means that we stand in opposition to the oppression of Republican Nazis.
Oh.
But so choice doesn't really mean I have a choice.
No, pro-choice.
You can't say you're pro-choice and then be pro-life.
I had I can't tell you the number of liberals that called me and try to tell you you can't say that.
Because that's not what pro-choice means.
Little did they know how they were tripping themselves up.
That's quite fascinating that Axelrod utters the truth, which the Democrats only do when they make a mistake, and gives away the mindset.
It's two thousand eight again.
They're they're not gonna run on their record, they can't.
Not uh not one aspect of it.
Dick Cheney.
Heart transplant and all back on stage, a Wyoming Republican convention or gathering of some kind.
He and his daughter Liz are up there on stage.
He spoke for an hour and fifteen minutes, and the media said without getting tired, damn it.
Well, they didn't say damn it, I added that in there because I know that that's what they think.
It was Saturday in Cheyenne.
It was a Republican state convention.
Here is the vice president.
I can't think of the time when uh I felt it was more important for us to defeat an incumbent president than uh today with respect to Barack Obama.
I think he has been on a mitigated disaster for the country to be in a position where he gets four more years in the White House to continue the policies he has, both with respect to the economy and tax policy and defense and uh so many other areas would be uh a huge, huge disappointment.
Yeah, it'd be worse than that, but he was being politic.
It'd be a disaster, like he said at first, an unmitigated disaster continued.
So you can always count on Dick Cheney, fearless, just right in there, and he said this about Romney.
I think it's very important that uh we get together and uh gather together and get behind our uh likely nominee, it's uh Matt Romney.
Uh I've known him for a long time.
I've got a lot of confidence in him.
Byron York, speaking of Mitt Romney, Byron York uh posted uh at his blog Beltway Confidential this morning at a closed to the press Florida fundraiser Sunday night, by the way, folks, I know where this thing took place because I was I was uh asked to go.
I sh I shot 78 Saturday in a member member tournament.
I had five birdies.
I had too many double bogeys that I shot even better, but I had five birdies.
One of the birdies was a chip-in for ten feet off the green, but the other four birdies I didn't sink long putts.
My approach shots were within four and five feet, and I sank those putts.
But I mean I was striping it.
I t I I I uh I changed my stance, but I used I I sent Hank Haney a note.
Hank, I just shot a real 78 here.
It wasn't it was a tournament.
Everything counts.
None of this, no gimme putts or any of that, like when you're just horsing around.
And uh he wrote back, that's the greatest news I've had all week.
And so uh uh anyway, um the guy who hosted the thing was playing in the tournament on Saturday, and uh I can't go to these things.
It was $50,000.
That's you know, I'm I'm powerful influential member of the media.
I I don't go to fundraisers or contribute to them.
The No, no, no, not that the price is too high, I'm telling you what the price was.
There were that they had it was the largest, it was three plus million dollars they raised with something 90 people.
It was 50 grand to get an air.
It was it was um anyway.
I I I I I know the the guy and his wife who hosted the thing.
They're nice people.
Uh and uh Jerry Jordan, his wife, his wife has worked for Romney for a long time.
Anyway, anyway, anyway, the point is here, I've shot 78.
And I didn't know it until the round was over.
No, it wasn't in the zone.
We're just caught up in the in the in the score of the tournament and how the team was doing.
It was two-man best ball, and it was uh uh it was a member member tournament, and I I didn't feel I I thought I was gonna be close to 80, but I thought I had too many double bogeys to be under 80.
But I I had forgotten to count the impact of the five birdies.
And I in fact, three of the birdies happen the first five holes.
I mean, I was striping a dang thing.
Any rate, at any rate, uh, at a close to the press Florida fundraiser Sunday night, here in Palm Beach, at which his remarks were overheard by some reporters standing outside.
Romney was asked about his media strategy for the general election campaign, and according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and PMS NBC, Romney said his campaign's been treated well by Fox News, but that he needs to expand his audience behind or beyond Fox.
He says Fox is watched by the true believers.
We need to get the independence of the women.
We need to move beyond Fox's true believers.
Romney said.
Now that may well be the case.
That's standard procedure, by the way.
You secured a nomination with the so-called base, but that's not what Romney's done.
Romney has not secured this with the Republican base with the conservative.
That's not how he's got that.
The Republican establishment kicked this whole primary off wanting to secure the nomination for a moderate with moderate votes from the get-go.
They wanted to de-emphasize uh the conservative vote, and they they lucked out with so many conservatives running that the conservative vote throughout all those early primaries was split seven or eight different ways.
So a lot of people.
Well, uh a good friend of mine heard about this.
What do you mean?
Time to move beyond Fox's true believers.
He hadn't hit the true believers yet.
I mean, there's some real, not felt by me, I'm just saying there's still some real animosity out there.
And that's why Cheney is saying it's time to unify.
It's time for everybody to get together now.
You know, it would help if Romney would reach out to Santorma get Santorma to help if Romney reach out to Mr. Newt.
It would, it would the whole unity thing.
I don't know if it's going to happen.
Don't ask me.
Uh I suspect that it will, because I think when we get to the point where the pedal hits the metal and the rubber hits the road.
Uh I think the whole specter of Obama will be a unifying characteristic or aspect of the uh of the campaign.
But who said that before about having to widen the base beyond conservatives?
Somebody said that.
I can't remember who who who said you've got to widen the base beyond the conservatives.
Some establishment guy.
So there's a way to say this, but to move beyond Fox's true believers, people, true believers is not a complimentary characterization, would you say?
Or is it true believers?
I guess you go either way on it.
A question before we go to the break and get to your phone calls.
And by the way, we've still got some funny audio sound bites from the Sunday shows about the women on these panels talking about Hillary Rosen.
And who's allowed to say what and what whoever is allowed to say should say and all that.
But I have a question before we get there.
I meant to ask this last week.
But given that George Zimmerman turned himself into the police.
Shouldn't he collect a million dollar bounty reward from the new Black Panther Party?
Calypso Lewis, ladies and gentlemen, was in Memphis, Tennessee Saturday at Lemoyne's College, the Nation of Islam leader.
And we have a brief portion of the remarks of Minister Farrakhan.
Leadership is nothing to play with.
Because people tomorrow, maybe in a few days, are gonna kill their leaders.
Who've been selling them out?
That's why we're in the shape that we're in right now, because we had corrupt people.
Or people who started off good and got corrupted.
Now, who is Calypso Louie referring to here when he warns that people in a few days are going to kill their leaders who've been selling them out.
That's Minister Farrakhan.
Will the Secret Service leave Cartagena and come home to investigate this.
Well, I'm saying this is the whole Secret Service down there.
Well, I mean, this is serious stuff.
This is the Nation of Islam leader is in Memphis on Saturday, and he's saying, cause people tomorrow, maybe in a few days could kill their leaders who've been selling them out.
He doesn't identify which leaders have been selling out who.
But I just I just wanted to hear it.
Okay, back to the phones, or to the phones.
We're going to start Raleigh, North Carolina with Paul.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Maha Russia, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
Before I offer my theory on the Secret Service, I like to say I hope Dick Cheney with his new heart outlives Sergeant Schultz.
But to my theory with the Secret Service.
Yeah.
These guys go ahead of the president.
And uh then they have to report to his team when they show up.
So that means I'm a little nervous, Rush.
So let me uh just take it easy and and and pretend you're talking to the second most important person in your life.
Okay.
So when President Obama arrives, they debrief the agents that come in, and then they move on to the next location.
So that means for the last three years, they haven't been home.
So they have needs.
Well, I don't know.
What he's saying is this is the advanced team.
They go in a week or so before the president arrives, and they secure the hotels and the routes and all that.
And his belief is these guys are constantly on the road doing advanced work, and therefore they have needs.
And as we've learned, all of the attractive women are not working.
They're available.
And I think the problem with the theory there, Paul, is that it's not the same guys.
I think they rotate them.
I don't think people are away from home for years with the Secret Service.
Okay.
But this is the point.
Everybody has their needs.
There's also discipline.
There is uh there's there's also propriety.
There are all kinds of uh of things.
Um but look, I I still think a lot of the people of Secret Service uh with Obama's constant travel.
I I I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these guys are really overworked.
People, I mean, they're they're female agents too, but he is on the road constantly.
You know George W. Bush On Thanksgiving, and most Christmases would stay in the White House so that the agents could spend time with their families.
And then shortly after is when he would split the scene.
Not always, but as as often as he uh as he could.
So anyway, interesting theory.
Janice Shilo, Illinois, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, last man standing.
And it's wonderful to talk to you again.
And ask your wife to give you give me a really give you a really big kiss for me for what you've been through since you've taken President on.
All right, we'll do.
I wanted to talk about Hillary Rosen, because I she said this truth too, Rush.
She didn't her words, she was correct when she said her words were pro poorly chosen.
The mistake she made was she made that comment about Ann R Ann Romney.
If she take the whole thing that she said and removed that one line, she was going after the single white white single mother vote of Fishtown in Charles Murray's uh new book.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, because see the thing is stay-at-home moms are not unionized.
They can speak out, and that's why the left has been so gobstocked.
Well, I'll tell you there's another thing.
The single and and this is a you have you have a good point here.
Uh but there's another reason too, why stay-at-home moms, and I shared this earlier.
There's a reason why stay-at-home moms uh are a threat, and that is the essence of independence.
The essence of rugged individualists.
They do not need the state.
They're not asking the state for anything.
They're not asking the government to pay for this and to pay for that.
They're not putting any any stress on the federal budget, for example.
And as such, they're not controllable.
And they're not dependent.
And that to any statist is a huge threat.
And we will be back.
Hit the wrong button there, folks.
Sorry, greetings, and welcome back, Rush Limbo, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
There's another reason.
Why stay-at-home moms actually I think are a threat to women like Hillary Rosen and other leftist pundits who want the state paying for school lunch, school breakfast, uh, school dinner, uh, food stamps, contracepts,
you name it, every aspect of life, as much as the state needs to be involved with they want, and a stay-at-home mother doesn't involve the government, married stay-at-home moms, that sewer attacked, and Romney married, stay-at-home, he never had to work a day in her life.
You know what really irritates them.
In addition to stay-at-home moms being the flip side of a welfare mom, a stay-at-home mom, look at me, talking to you now.
Instead of having the government, stay-at-home moms have a husband to support them.
And you don't think that irritates some of these leftist women.
Remember the early days of feminism, women were to ignore, put aside relationships as one of the reasons for happiness in life.
Now, I realize some of you are new to the program, and some of you are uh maybe too young to remember what was going on in the late 60s and 70s.
I lived it.
Don't doubt me on this.
The the the dawning era of this current age of feminism.
Women were told all kinds of things, a relationship, a man were were that that was shackles.
That was holding you back.
It was denying you your full potential.
Being a mother staying at home, you're letting the sisterhood down, but you're letting yourself down too.
It was a it was a full court press to throw away as many traditions in male-female relationships, both at home and at work as possible.
I kid you not on this.
And it was it was not hidden.
There was nothing subliminal about this message.
It was dead on right between the eyes.
There were books, lectures, the feminists went on TV, made remarks about it.
Uh, and And and and having uh a life that depended on uh a man for any amount of your happiness was a sin.
And if you don't like it that way, depending on a relationship for any part of your happiness, you were missing the boat.
You were falling prey to the old traps that had been set by the patriarchal dominated society from the get-go.
Because all it was was slave work.
It was vacuuming and ironing and and uh cleaning up the messes with the kids and all this.
This is this was this was the liberation of women's lib.
It was liberating women from all of these traditions, and you cannot have women's lib without also requiring liberation from men and relationships and marriage and so forth.
The feminists would say back then, for you young ladies in the audience, the feminists would say, I mean, Gloria Steinem and Betty Ferdan and uh Molly Yard and a whole bunch of them, uh uh Elinor Smeal were constantly say that that women need men like a fish needs a bicycle.
That was one of the statements.
Women need men like a f I and it was militant.
This was not advice that they were given.
These were demands.
Now, the reason I remember this stuff, for those of you young ladies and young men in the audience too, is because I was just turning uh in 1971, I was just turning 20 and 21.
Uh those are just I uh I'd moved out of the house, I'd moved to Pittsburgh, I was on my own, it was uh new, fresh, exciting times, and this feminism stuff hit, and it was a mess.
Because it turned women angry.
Uh they even if you uh went on and had a date, uh the the the whole d there was no fun to it.
And it wasn't every woman, of course.
They all didn't fall into it, but a whole lot did.
I'm I'm simply trying to give you backup for the assertion here that women like Hillary Rosen, these leftist uh feminist, liberate women from all these traditional shackles.
The fact that Ann Romney had a husband supporting her and not the government, that is as irritating a factor as anything else in this.
More so than I mean, it's the reason Ann Romney, quote unquote, never had to work a day in her life.
Or as Bill Marr so eloquently said on Friday, it's why Ann Romney never had to get up at seven o'clock in the morning to get her ass out of the house, quote, unquote, Bill Maher.
It's because there was a husband there who provided for her and the kids.
And that, see, the women they were not supposed to depend on that.
It was okay if the government ended up providing for you.
That was cool, but not a husband, not a man.
You're supposed to do that yourself, and if you couldn't do it yourself, then you turn to government programs.
Now, today's Ann Romney's birthday.
Did you know that?
Anne Romney's birthday.
Democrats actually a couple days early with their gifts uh last week.
But it's probably uh a happy birthday.
I'm just telling you, I'm not making these statements to be provocative.
I'm not trying to make anybody mad.
I'm just telling you what is.
And I lived it.
Grew up in an era where more women than you can count were told the worst thing could happen to you is to have your happiness derive from a relationship for a man.
Now they still needed men they wanted, but they didn't it was not pleasant.
It really was true.
Compliment her appearance, and it was an insult.
It was sexist.
It was objectifying.
You know, open the card.
I can do that myself.
I'm not some weakling.
This stuff really happened.
And it was uh it was commonplace.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
We're gonna go now to uh ABC's this week.
George Stepanopoulos, this is the round table, and they're talking about Bill Maher's remarks on Friday night uh about Ann Romney, and the uh guess that this is this is Melanie Barnes, if the former uh no, yeah, former White House domestic policy advisor for Obama.
So this is uh this is Stephanopoulos and Melody Barnes talking about Bill Maher.
I wonder if the president has a continuing problem with Bill Maher.
You know, you saw those comments he made on Friday night.
He's given a million dollars.
He's the biggest single contributor to the super pack aligned with the president.
This has now happened a couple of times.
Do you think the president's gonna have to cut ties?
The language, the sentiment are problematic.
And the campaign has, and the president has said, look, disability is it matters.
The way we talk to each other matters.
I saw David Axelrod in earlier situations when comments have been made by Bill Maher say, I'm not going on your show.
I'm backing away, I'm distancing myself.
Okay, so that's don't think they solved anything there.
Melody Barnes uh, you know, struggling in vain for a cogent thought to uh answer the question.
Because what she didn't want to say is, yeah, the president ought to throw him overboard because they don't want to get rid of his money.
They do not want to give back the million dollars.
So they've got to they've got to say, well, Marr is not one of us.
It's like Hillary Rose, she's not one of us.
She works at CNN.
So later during the round table, talking about Marr's remarks, they got Cokey Roberts of ABC News, Stephanopoulos, and Hurricane Katrina Vandenhoov from uh The Nation magazine.
What Maher does and what Rosen did, even though I know certainly know that you're just talking on television, sometimes you say things.
We've all done it.
But the but the fact is is that it plays into an image of the Democrats as this out of out of touch with regular people and uh an elitist and and kind of snooty.
To pick up on what Cokey says, I think these discussions about Bill Maher and the Hillary Rose and Ann Romney, much of that plays into a view that our politics are failing to deal with the massive deep-seated problems this country has.
There are people in this country who are looking perhaps at us right now on this round table and saying, you're not connecting to my problems or my life.
Let's get with it.
Forget Bill Maher.
Right, right, Russ.
Forget Bill Maher, but if it's Rush Limbaugh, we'll sit here for a month and talk about it and try to connect with your life.
Bill Maher, why don't we we're not Katrina, what do you want to talk about?
On your round table.
What what problems do people have that you don't think you're connecting with here?
Is it Obama's economy?
So they're eager to just they they want to sweep Bill Maher away.
Women are from Venus.
Democrat women are from Bill Mars.
And that's the uh problem that they have here.
They don't quite know what to do.
See, secretly they love Mars.
They're the funniest guy.
When he comes out and he zings a goal, nobody but they love Bill Maher.
When he does this, you know, they sit there, ah, gee, they have to defend him.
They can't throw him overboard because to them he's way too valuable when you measure it on balance.
So this kept up.
Uh so here what we have.
We have Melody Barnes answering saying nothing.
Cokey Roberts, Katrina Van and Hoovel step in to say, everybody says things come out wrong.
It's no big deal.
Let's move on to the real issues.
Except Cokey thinks, you know what, this is by the way, who thinks this is a quasi important point too.
Cokey Roberts says that this plays into the image of the Democrats as his out of touch with regular people, elitist kind of snooty.
Who has that image of Democrats?
Isn't that the image of Republicans that Democrats put forth?
Isn't elite and uh out of touch with regular people and snooty?
Isn't that Romney?
Isn't that what Obama and Axel weren't that what they say of Romney?
Did Cokey let another cat out of the bag here?
Inadvertently.
Now these people live and die on polls, and particularly internal polls.
And who knows what they've got there at ABC News and the Washington Post.
But I will guarantee you there is polling data that shows that people think it's a Democrats who are out of touch, that it's a Democrats who are elitist and snooty.
And I I think she's blown it big time dimension.
That's what the Democrats try to say about Republicans.
All of a sudden she said that this Mar thing plays into that and makes it Democrats look that way.
Everybody says things that are wrong sometimes.
Let's move on.
Really?
Let's not let's not create a phony media feeding frenzy.
For a month on the No, no.
We're outraged out.
Everybody knew what's going on.
There's nothing to see here.
Let's uh let's move on.
Which takes us to the next bite.
And this is uh Koki Roberts and Stephanopoulos says, look, this uh this issue of the Romney being very, very rich.
This this issue seems to hobble the campaign a little bit.
They had some trouble putting out the first returns, tax returns earlier this year.
Now they're putting off the release, Romney.
How big a deal do you think this is?
And should we expect to see those twelve years of tax returns that Obama's demanding to see if Romney's Romney has to find a narrative about his wealth?
I mean, that's really where he is.
He's we're not talking about his taxes, we're talking about how much money he has.
And uh he's very, very, very rich.
And he needs to find a way to talk about that so that voters don't aren't turned off.
Really?
He does.
Why doesn't Warren Buffett have to?
And why doesn't Bill Gates have to?
Well, I know they're not running for office, but doesn't it go back to the point that those guys are excused because they're liberals, and they sit there and they say their taxes ought to be increased.
And they sit there and say they've got too much money.
Well, let's, you know, Obama wants Romney's tax returns last 12 years.
Let's see Obama's school records.
How about his transcripts from Havan and uh and from Columbia?
There's a lot of stuff Obama hasn't released about him.
How about we see that stuff?
Anyway, Romney filed an extension to his taxes.
Did you know that?
Well, he did.
You have to pay what you owe on April 15th or 17th.
You have to pay what you owe, but you can get an extension to file the return to all the paperwork and so forth.
And I think it's October 15th is the day.
Does that ring a bill for folk?
On October 15th.
Not in April, where there's six months to forget it.
Any any time between yeah, you can file any time now.
You don't have to wait till October, but but but that is the limit.
That's exactly right.
An emailer wants to know, why does Mitt Romney have to explain his wealth?
When John Kerry didn't have to explain his.
Well, that's easy.
It wasn't John Kerry's.
It was his wife's.
Uh Teresa Hines?
She did not work, in fact.
Nope, she uh clipped coupons.
Um she inherited.
But it wasn't careful, but Obama had made millions from his books, and he wasn't forced to explain his wealth.
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