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April 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yet Sir Rebob, right here in the Politico, Republicans to slash food stamps.
From food stamps to child tax credits and social service block grants.
House Republicans began rolling out a new wave of domestic budget cuts Monday, but less for debt reduction and more to sustain future Pentagon spending without relying on new taxes.
So the these dastardly Republicans are going to take food away from your kids.
They're going to take the healthcare away from you, all so they can buy rockets and missiles and guns to kill people.
They're not even worried about deficit reduction.
And this is a news story.
It reads more like an editorial.
Going into November's election, President Obama's signature health care and financial market reforms are again favorite targets.
By the way, at the White House press briefing, the White House is having trouble pointing to any examples of oil manipulation today.
So Obama goes out to his big Rose Garden appearance, talks about they're going to crack down on those speculator.
We're not going to let this happen anymore.
They're going to rip people off.
So the reporters at the press brief, well, who's doing this?
And the White House has no answers.
It's just like we said there are no examples of this.
There are no examples of illegal, fraudulent speculation in the oil market.
The White House cannot point to any.
So here we go.
The evil Republicans are going to slash food stamps.
See the bottom line is we're going to have to start cutting spending with tax reform.
That's what this is all about.
Forty-eight, almost 50 million Americans are on food stamps.
That many don't need to be in the program.
This stuff is going to be hard.
It's going to be hard to do because these attacks are going to come.
Look at this.
The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize.
Pull it.
The Pulitzer Prizes showcase journalism's power to shine a powerful light on the forgotten or the unknown, it says here.
And the awards honored work, including stories from the AP revealing the New York police department's wide spread spying on Muslims.
Yep, that sounds like it went a Pulitzer.
And the Huffing and Puffington Post, a blog, a website got a Pulitzer for pieces about the suffering endured by American troops severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And an expose on the New York police department spying on Muslims.
That gets a Pulitzer.
A Jah Huffington piece on the suffering troops in Iraq, a glowing book on Malcolm X got a Pulitzer.
A play about an Iraq war veteran's search for meaning got a Pulitzer.
And a New York Times report on how the rich use loopholes to avoid taxes.
One a Pulitzer.
And a story on African famine.
Good thing that these prizes are political.
Do you know that William Buckley National Review?
Not one Pulitzer ever.
The Pulitzer Prizes are controlled by the left wing, and it's a closed club, and they award themselves with these things.
That's simple.
Washington Examiner has a story.
Even as the Democrat National Committee profits from the Republican war on women theme.
Liberals opposing Governor Scott Walker, Republican Wisconsin, have decided to attack the governor by targeting a woman in his campaign on the basis of her history of unnatural sexiness.
No, I'm not making that up.
Ciara Matthews.
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
Spelled C-I-A-R-A.
Ciara Matthews, Scott Walker's communications director, is under fire for being both pro-life and a former waitress at Hooters.
Profiting from selling a plasticized form of unnatural sexiness designed to arouse men.
While simultaneously believing that women should be forced to face the consequences of actually giving in to their sexual desires.
That's what this woman's being criticized for in Wis in Wisconsin.
Her unnatural sexiness.
She worked at Hooters.
She's pro-life.
She can't possibly be a real woman.
She can't possibly be a woman who understands what life is really like for other women in America.
This is a st I'm not making this out.
I got a picture of the woman here.
She's uh blonde, looks like a fox anchor.
But whatever.
Barney Frank.
Have you noticed all these Democrats that are that are either very openly or uh surreptitiously saying that, yeah, we tried to tell Obama not to do health care.
Barney Frank, Obama made a mistake with health care.
This is a national journal.
Barney Frank said he advised Obama against taking up health care reform following a special election in 2010 that changed the Democrats' fortunes in the House after they lost 60 seats.
Barney Frank said that he Obama should have instead turned his focus to financial reform.
Barney Frank referenced Bill Clinton, said his failed health care plan from the 90s.
He said Obama made the same mistake Clinton made, Frank said, in a wide-ranging interview with New York Magazine.
When you try to extend health care to people who don't have it, people who have it and are on the whole satisfied with it get nervous.
So you see, the only thing wrong with health care, as far as Barney Frank was concerned, was the people who already have it are a bunch of selfish louts who do not want to pay for other people who don't have health care to get it.
And Obama screwed up by not realizing that.
Now, many people are beginning to, you know, why are these Democrats running around now wanting to be on record as having told Obama, "You shouldn't do this." It's leading people to conclude that it is known how the Supreme Court voted on that fateful Friday.
The theory is that Barney knows that the mandate's going down, maybe the whole thing's going down, and so Barney wants to be on record here as being one of the Democrats who knew this was going to happen, knew it was a bad idea, told Obama not to do it way back when.
That's the theory that is being bandied about.
Let's go back to the audio soundbites and Mitt Romney.
Back to Diane Sawyer.
She's already asked him.
Are you too rich to relate?
Look, recycling.
Are you too rich?
Now Diane Sawyer wants to know why the family drove around with the dog on the roof of the car.
It's on Good Morning America today.
And it was more of Diane Sawyer's interview with Romney last night at World News Tonight.
They're having a discussion about the Romneys traveling around with a dog on the roof of the car, and this is how it went.
Would you do it again?
Certainly not with the attention is received.
You said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign.
The dog loved it.
But the dog got sick, right?
Once.
We traveled all the time, and he ate the turkey on the counter.
I mean, he had the runs.
That's Ann Romney describing the dog.
This is this is.
Well, don't you understand what's going on here?
The Romneys are out of touch.
They're rich feet.
And plus, as as is the case with all rich people, they're heartless.
And they're cold hearted and cruel.
They put their dog on the roof of the car while they're driving around.
That's just mean.
Don't you understand, snurdly?
It's just mean.
Oh, then this is chump change compared to what's coming.
This this is that's nothing compared to what's coming.
There's a way of dealing with all of this, but it isn't happening yet.
And I don't think the Republican established has the slightest idea how to deal with this stuff.
I think that well, yes, I'm gonna tell them how to do it in due course.
It's still only April.
If I tell them now, they'll forget it by June.
Here's George Stephanopoulos, also on Good Morning America today.
And here, it's self-explanatory.
Just listen to it.
Romney poll shows Romney still faces this challenge getting voters to like him, but the Gallup poll dead heat with the president.
Romney's favorability issue is serious.
He's the first nominee in our polling to be underwater at this time.
More people have an unfavorable view of him than favorable.
Look, there are a couple of polls out here.
The Gallup poll has Romney ahead overall by a couple points.
The Gallup poll has Romney ahead massively with independence.
Then there is a CNN poll that shows almost the exact opposite.
A lot of people have looked into that CNN poll.
You know what the CNN poll does not tell us?
The CNN poll did not break down what percentage of their respondents are Republican, Democrat, and independent.
They don't tell us that.
And that happens to be very important at a poll like this.
I'm going to ask those of you in this audience to trust me as I always do.
The CNN poll.
When if you look at the crosstabs, if you look at the questions, if you look at the lack of information they provide, the CNN poll is worthless.
It doesn't mean anything.
We don't know what the sample sizes of the various uh self-identified parties are.
Well, it's a sample of 800 some odd.
Uh the CNN poll ha has Romney down by nine points.
Uh probably done by their employee over there, Hillary Rosen, who probably did the poll.
The Gallup poll has these people scared to death.
Let's go to the Washington Post.
This is a better way to illustrate this.
Chris Salizza and Aaron Blake.
Why the presidential race is going to be closer than you think.
Now, this Gallup poll, we shared with you the results of it yesterday, has started some fear in the drive-by media.
And the ABC Washington Post poll a while back didn't help either.
That came out at the same time the New York Times poll came out, showed Obama with a 41% approval number.
It's about a month ago now.
In Gallup's first tracking poll of the general election, Romney took 47% to Obama's 45%.
Both men won ninety percent of their self-identified partisans.
Romney's overall margin coming from his six-point edge among independent voters.
The rest of this Washington Post story warns their readers, don't think this election's a slam dunk.
This election's nowhere near over.
This election is going to be closer than any of us thinks.
This is from the perspective of people who think Obama should win and and they want him to win in a landslide.
And they're a little bit upset.
Here's some more liberal poll jitters from the politico.
Obama lead over Mitt shrinks.
It's a Reuters poll that shows Obama leading now, down from 11 to just above the margin of error.
Nine hundred registered voters, and a hundred who weren't registered.
Why'd that kind of sample?
Sometimes they do adults, not very accurate in terms of election indications.
Registered voters, and then likely voters is the sample you want.
This is 900 registered voters and a hundred who weren't registered.
And Obama's lead is plummeted from eleven points to four in this Reuters poll.
LA Times, CNN Gallup polls find opposite front runners in presidential race.
Now, this story's perspective looks at all of this from the uh uh at the internals and so forth from the standpoint that Obama wins everything.
Obama's gonna win Obama's, and they're shocked.
They're they're confused.
They think Obama's got this in the bag, maybe even with a landslide, because they think Romney's the biggest blithering idiot to come down the pike and they're gonna wipe the floor with him because of Obamacare and Romney care, and yet these polls don't show that.
And these people remember live and die by polls, even though the polls today don't matter.
This is April, not November, but they still live and die by them.
They rely on these polls to make news to shape public opinion.
From the political working class whites wary of Obama, considering a vote for a Republican for the first time since 1984.
Quinnipiac has Romney up by three on page two of this story.
The only poll out there that has Obama ahead is CNN.
Every other well, at the Reuters poll has him up in the margin of error by four.
Everything else, he's down.
And this poll, or this story, working class whites wary of Obama.
For those of you new to the program, I gotta take a break here real quick, but let me remind you that there was a story last November, the New York Times, The Future of the Obama Coalition by Thomas B. Edsel, who used to write for the Washington Post, now at the Pulitzer winning, Huffing and Puffington Post, and it's all about how Obama has written off white working class voters.
Doesn't have a prayer.
Reagan Democrat types.
All pretense of I'm reading from it, all pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up on the one hand of voters who've gotten ahead on the basis of education, professors, artists, designers, editors, human resource managers, lawyers, librarians, blah, blah, and a second substantial constituency of lower income voters who are African American and Hispanic.
That's the voting block.
Those are the voting blocks they're going for.
White working class voters, quote, have been jettisoned.
And they know it because they're now showing up in polling as not supporting Obama.
But the Obama campaign is jettisoning, writing off white working class.
They know they can't win with that group.
What does that tell you?
Throw the race out of working class voters.
Obama's going after the elites in the academy in Hollywood entertainment and minorities.
Okay.
Quick timeout here.
Don't go away.
I'll be right back.
Standby audio sound bites uh six and seven.
As you know, Gallup started its presidential daily tracking poll yesterday.
So today is day two of the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll.
Romney is up by five today.
48 to 43.
He was up by two yesterday.
He's up by five today.
There's a Washington Post story today with this headline.
Romney is the least popular presidential nominee in three decades.
And that's not even true.
Even in their own article, it's not true.
They point out that Bill Clinton had worse numbers in his re-election run.
At one point in 1996, then Romney asked, this is this is, folks, it is it is journalistic malpractice what's going on here.
Now, Snerdley, what did you just ask me about Romney and likabilities?
What was the question you just asked me?
It was about the dog.
You asked me, you were all.
You wanted to know how come somebody's not is popular when they're not popular and disliked when they're not disliked.
You asked me when somebody's going to change that.
Um just five minutes ago, just ten minutes, you were yelling at me in here.
What's what was the question?
What?
Okay.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
That's what it was.
Rom uh uh uh Snerdley was beside himself with the Thomas B. Edzel story with this paragraph.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in the Obama campaign in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up of elites and journalism and entertainment and academia combined with African American and Hispanic minorities.
And the point being, this is Thomas B. Edsell, and he is in the Obama campaign.
He just writes a story that's in the New York Times last November.
They're writing off white, writing off white working class voters.
They're not seeking their votes.
So Snerdley said, when is somebody going to write what a mean guy this is?
And this is my question.
Every one of these polls where Obama is losing to Romney, every one of them, the the network reporting it, says, but Obama's popularity is at an all-time high, or Obama's likability numbers are skyrocketing.
People really like Obama, but they just are not hip to his policies.
Where on the other hand, Romney's looked at as this mean spirited, Uber rich guy.
My question is, I want to know what is there so much to like about Barack Obama.
This guy says cold mean things.
He has policies which are destructive and and uh very harmful to individuals and institutions.
He's not a warm and engaging person.
What is this likability?
Where does it come from?
If Romney is not liked, why is Obama liked?
None of this makes any sense to me.
Romney's not dividing the country.
Romney's not setting fires all over the place to create anger and frustration.
Romney's not out there supporting bounties by the new Black Panther Party.
Romney is not telling his attorney general not to pursue the Black Panther Party.
Romney's not doing anything to divide the people of this country, and everything Obama's doing is dividing the people this country.
Romney hasn't thrown millions of people out of work.
Obama did that.
Romney hasn't driven up the price of gasoline.
Again, that would be Obama.
We house, we feed, we clothe Obama.
We pay for his general services administration to have drunken orgies in Las Vegas.
We pay for his wife to take a Boeing 757 four hours before he takes a 747 to Martha's Vineyard on a vacation.
We pay for his wife and daughters to go everywhere on vacation, separate from him.
Romney pays for himself.
Romney has not played 80 rounds of golf in the middle of a bad recession.
Obama did that.
Romney isn't confrontational.
Obama is confrontational.
So where does this likability stuff come from?
What's Obama ever done but hurt the country?
Romney's not around the world apologizing for the United States.
Oh, wait, I Forgot.
Romney put his dog on the roof of the car back in 1983.
That's a very hateful thing to do.
Have you ever seen dogs riding around the back of a pickup trip?
Have you ever seen dogs in a car with a window open and sticking their heads out?
They love it.
And by the way, if the dog's got the runs, better on the roof of the car than in the back seat.
Well, that's what Ann Romney said.
But I just don't know where this like him.
I think it's another one of these things the media just says.
Romney has not told, nor has he instructed his campaign people to disregard certain segment of the voting public.
Obama's doing that.
I just don't believe this likability stuff.
I just, I'm sorry.
Here's Charlie Rose.
Let's let's let the listen these two back to back.
Especially for those of you who are new to the program.
This is uh this morning.
CBS News this morning.
Charlie Rose said this about Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney's now almost certain to be the Republican nominee, but there's still a lot of questions about who he really is.
Oh, is that right, Charlie?
A lot of questions about who he really is.
Well, let's go back to October 30th, 2008, the Charlie Rose show, where he had as his guest, the moderator at the time of Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw, and we put together a montage of what they were discussing just a few days before the election in 2008.
Remember now, Charlie Rose just said there's a lot of questions about who Mitt Romney really is.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't know.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
That didn't bother him, though, but it's a lot about him we know now.
There's a whole hell of a lot we know now.
But we didn't know then.
The thing is, back then they didn't even care to answer these questions.
This is October.
This is a week before the election.
Here's Charlie Rose and Tom Brokaw, too.
Of the most proud members of the media establishment, proudly admitting they don't know a thing about the guy they can't wait to elect.
They don't know who his friends are, they don't know who his who his uh mentors are, they don't know uh who he listens to in foreign policy, they they they don't know what books he's read, they don't know Diddley Squat, they're journalists, and they admit they don't know anything.
And furthermore, they didn't care, didn't matter.
But now, now that Charlie Rose doesn't know who Mitt Romney really is, you know what that means?
It means we can make up whatever we want.
Nobody knows what Romney is or who he is.
We get to tell you who he is.
And he's a mean rotten SOB to put his dog on the roof.
And you're gonna have an elevator in his garage for his cars.
I'll bet you you know what?
I'll bet Romney's even gonna have air conditioning in that garage.
Not to mention air conditioning in the rest of his house.
And who is this Romney guy?
We just came out of nowhere.
Nobody knows a thing about this guy.
Wait, Tom, he ran for president 2008.
Well, that doesn't count because in the win, we don't know who he is.
Well, you ever heard of George Romney who's yeah, but that's his dad.
We don't know who he is.
Although he puts his dog on the roof of his car.
Yeah, well, that was back in 1983.
Doesn't matter.
He'd do it again now if he could.
Gail King, the BFF of Oprah Winfrey.
That stands for best friend forever, right?
In uh in Girl Talk.
Right?
Okay, well, she was on CBS this morning, too.
Uh she's I guess she's one of the hosts, is that right?
She what?
She okay, she's Charlie Rose's co-host.
I haven't seen this show.
I haven't seen the Today Show.
I don't know these things.
You can't hold this again.
Now, last thing, look at.
I arise each and every morning with an attitude of optimism and good cheer and excitement about the day ahead.
The last thing I'm going to do is turn on some morning TV show.
Have the day ruined.
So I didn't know she's co-host, so spank me.
Co-host with Charlie Rose.
They had a guest on there today, the author Jeff Benedict.
Who's the author of a book called The Mormon Way of Doing Business?
And during a discussion about the way, you guys ever think about getting a book about the communist way of taking over countries.
At any rate, uh during a discussion about the way Romney is being portrayed in the media, Gail King and the author Jeff Benedict had this little discussion.
What's wrong with the narrative?
Yes, I'm wealthy, I'm successful, I worked really hard.
I've made some smart business decisions.
I don't know why that's not embraced in some way.
I don't think it is a negative.
I mean, who we want a leader who's been successful.
Right now, the economy is the biggest issue, and it's going to continue to be.
And this is someone who's been at the top of that world for a long time, so I don't think it's a negative.
Right.
You don't, huh?
Well, you're one of five.
But here's Gail King.
Do you find it interesting?
I do.
Gail Gail King, Oprah BFF.
What's wrong with being rich?
Gail King knows where her bread is buttered, and she's not comfortable with all this rich bashing.
She doesn't want people coming taking her money.
And she doesn't want people hating her because she's been successful or knows somebody who's rich.
She doesn't want any of this.
She knows that if they head after Mitt Romney with pitchforks, won't be long before they are at Oprah's Gate.
Joe in Coventry, Connecticut.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Excellent, sir, to outstanding now and then.
That's good.
I like I love your show.
Hey, I just uh I just thought that the Republicans really should start a new movement.
You know, considering uh the Buffett rule.
And one of the few times that I agree with President Obama in fairness.
Um we're taxed right now at about a 30% rate.
And of course the wealthy and the rich they're saying is quite a bit below that.
So hey, my thoughts are hey, let's keep it fair.
Let's keep the uh the rich where they are, considering, you know, they basically do it all.
They promote jobs and you know create wealth in the United States.
And uh, why don't they just take our 30% rate and bring us down to 20?
And then everybody's gonna be happy.
The liberals will be happy because everybody's fair.
No.
Too long.
Everybody, it'll be a dream, Rush.
I'll have more money in my pocket.
I can buy some of your tea.
The big flaw.
That case of tea is 1999.
I mean, even the unemployed can afford that.
Food stamp people, and we don't take food stamps, but uh the unemployed can afford 1999.
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But the big flaw in your argument is that the liberals would be happy.
Nothing will make them happy.
Maybe for a couple minutes, but they're not happy.
If everybody has the same, they don't want equality, they claim they do, but they don't.
They don't want fairness, they claim they do, but they don't.
They want inequality and they want unfairness on the people they want to punish.
Which is most everybody.
But I I understand the fair tax, flat tax, everybody charges the same thing.
We're all equal in this, and make it work on the spending side.
And I couldn't agree more.
Uh answering an email about two if by tea dot com and the ride of a lifetime sweepstakes.
No, we don't supply the hookers either.
I can't there are no hookers in this, and and no contraceptives or anything in the sort.
Obama paid a 20% tax rate.
That must make it right.
I'd love that.
I'd see you tomorrow, folks.
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