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April 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 18, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
And nobody even close to that, folks.
And I and I seriously doubt there will be.
We are here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I am Rush Limboy, your highly trained broadcast specialist.
Telephone number 800 282882, if you want to be on the program.
Again, a reminder, I am out tomorrow and Friday, annual spring fling time.
And uh also on Monday, not a vacation day, won't be here on Monday.
We've got Mary Madeline who'll be back, guest hosting the program on Monday.
Mark Davis will be here on Thursday and Friday.
So something for you to look forward to a little in my absence.
Snurdly, where will you be in New York?
Um, when do you fly up to New York?
You fly up to New York tonight.
Well, that's right, because there's yeah, you would have to do that.
Okay.
So Mark Davis out of Dallas, uh, Thursday and Friday, Mary Madeline on Monday, and I, L. Rushbow, uh will be back on Tuesday.
Andrew Breitbart's big journalism website.
When Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock.
Really is that her name?
Flock.
Okay.
Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock wrote a post last year falsely accusing Mitt Romney of using a Ku Klux Klan slogan in his campaign speech, she wasn't fired, nor was she disciplined.
However, when Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock stole from the work of another mainstream organization and did not properly attribute, she abruptly resigned from the Washington Post conveniently and coincidentally before another editor's note went up on her post that described it as having serious factual errors and a significant ethical lapse.
Elizabeth Flock told the French news agency that she resigned on Friday before the Washington Post published a second editor's note about her work and that she was not pressured to quit.
Washington Post spokesman said that they would not comment on personnel matters.
Flock, that'd be Elizabeth Flock, a latest member of the mainstream media caught plagiarizing, which should be treated with the same shame that doping is in professional sports, but it isn't.
But the more disturbing question is this.
Why she was not fired or disciplined for making up a piece about Republicans that showed extreme negligence at best or complete dishonesty and hackery at worst.
In December of 2011, Elizabeth Flock wrote a story wherein she tried everything she could to frame Republicans as racist by falsely writing that Mitt Romney stated he wanted to keep America American.
What Romney really said was keep America America.
But those were not the words that Flock wanted to hear.
She used the misquote to tie Romney to the Klan, which had used the Keep America American slogan in the past.
Now, if Flock had worked for an obscure publication, her article may have been overlooked, but because she wrote it for the Washington Post, numerous other outlets took the story as fact and they ran with it.
Romney said he wanted to keep America American.
After airing multiple segments based on Flock's falsities.
MSNBC anchors Thomas Roberts and Chris Matthews had to apologize with Matthews saying, quote, it was irresponsible and incendiary of us to do this, and it showed an appalling lack of judgment.
We apologize, we really do, to the Romney campaign.
Chris, this is an aside here.
A little professional advice, honestly.
This is the way you need to react to everything fed to you by media matters.
You need to assume that it's wrong, made up, or totally taken out of context.
Anyway, here's the the the point that the Breitbart people make is here's this woman who purposely goes to the end of the world to lie about, to mischaracterize what Mitt Romney said in order to make him look like he's a racist.
Nothing happened to her.
But she plagiarizes somebody else in the mainstream media.
Oh, uh-uh, can't tolerate that.
And she's gone.
So the message is if you're a mainstream journalist, you can go ahead and lie about and mischaracterize Republicans all you want.
And we you might even get a raise.
We don't we don't know.
But certainly you won't lose your gig.
But if you plagiarize from another hallowed mainstream journalist, then you are in trouble.
Scott Walker, sitting governor of Wisconsin, as you know, is in the midst of a heated recall effort.
The polling data has shown that it's really close.
And a lot of people are puzzled.
The Democrats, one of the Democrats that they're going to have their primary next month to oppose Walker in June, the recall election.
One of the Democrat candidates is, I think is the mayor of Milwaukee.
I don't recall who the other one is right now.
But the Democrats are at one of their campaign planks is a promise to raise property taxes.
Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, has turned that state around.
That state is working.
The unemployment rate in Wisconsin is below the national average.
The economic activity in Wisconsin is on the uptick.
And people have been puzzled because the polling out, and that's a it's a it's a very liberal state in certain parts of it, Madison.
But the polling data has been very, very curious because it showed a dead heat.
It showed whoever the Democrat is with a pretty decent shot against Scott Walker until yesterday.
The Daily Cause did a poll.
And the numbers show a drop for Democrats from the last survey.
The polling company is public policy polling.
I that they're a lib group.
I think they're out of North Carolina.
And so all of a sudden, yesterday, the Democrats in the recall poll against Scott Walker lost a lot of ground.
They were saying, Well, what happened?
Did Walker say something?
Did Walker do something?
Something magnificent happened here that hurt the Democrats.
Nobody could think of anything.
So they went and asked the pollster, whose name is Tom Jensen at public policy polling.
And you know what his thoughts were?
You know what he said?
He said, Well, the biggest change is probably this was our first time using a likely voter sample.
Well, duh, all of this time they have been polling the least likely to vote people.
When they finally do a screen of likely voters, the bottom practically dropped out of the Democrats, and Walker has a huge lead in a poll of likely voters.
So they've been living in fantasy land.
I don't know what's going to happen by the time we get to June and the recall.
But it hasn't been that close.
The polling data has suggested that it is, and people have been scratching their heads.
Walker is not doing anything to get thrown out of there other than angering the left.
And you know what he did?
He straightened the state out with the you know all the union abuses and so forth, and the Democrats have been cheating and getting all these recall signatures.
Adolf Hitler was allowed to sign, Mickey Mouse was allowed to sign, Donald Duck was allowed to sign a uh a recall petition, even though neither of them, none of them are alive, and two of them never existed.
They're cartoon characters.
So public policy polling has been living in fantasy land with their poll of people who are not among those most likely to vote.
When they finally do a vote or a poll of people most likely to vote, lo and behold, Walker's way ahead.
I don't have the numbers, but he's uh he's way ahead.
It just confirms everything that I have suspected about these polls from the get-go, and that is that they are not at all to reflect public opinion.
These polls are used by the media to make news and to shape public opinion.
And there's a third thing they try to do with these polls, and that is depressing turnout by dispiriting Republicans and making them think that there's no hope, that there's no prayer.
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Ted Nugent, Saturday in St. Louis, the annual NRA convention.
He was interviewed by um NRA News.com host Cam Edwards said, we have been talking about how important it is that NRA members are active, that we vote, that we care about this election because of really what is at stake.
If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
If you can't go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil America-hating administration, I don't even know what you're made out of.
And if you take an offense at that, tough.
Our uh president and attorney general, our vice president Hillary Clinton.
They're criminals.
They're criminals.
And a nugent also said we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.
So the Secret Service said, you know, uh, we're recalling the gang there out of Columbia.
We want to talk to Nugent.
Well, Nugent has now agreed to talk to him.
By the way, I has the Secret Service said that they want to talk to uh Reverend Farrakhan.
Reverend Farrakhan said that the leaders were gonna start dying pretty soon here if they didn't shape up, right?
Something like that.
And uh how about Jimmy Hoffa Jr.?
Let's take those SOBs out, except he said the words SOBs instead of the initials.
Now we don't know.
The Secret Service might have called Farrakhan.
They might have called Snerdley's frowning there.
Why wouldn't they call Farrakhan?
His threats just like anybody else's.
In fact, his threat is probably a more genuine threat than Nugent's.
You don't think the Secret Service would uh would try to get hold of Calypso Louie.
Are you telling me?
Are you telling me that you think the Secret Service would give people a pass on threats against our leaders because of their race?
Is that what you're telling?
No, the Justice Department said, Eric Holderson are going to pursue, this according to Jay Christian Adams, who was in there, that they're not going to pursue black defendants.
But the Secret Service is the Treasury Department, I believe, not DOJ.
I stand to be corrected on that.
They all work for the Obama regime.
But uh but I just you you you think that the Secret Service would ignore Farrakhan.
Far Farrak Farrakhan warned that people are gonna kill their leaders for selling them out.
You want To be leaders, right?
You're sure you're sure you better check yourself because leadership's 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 have corrupt people or people who started off good and got corrupted.
Now, I know he's not talking about Mitt Romney.
Okay, so Secret Service Snurdley says Secret Service will totally ignore Minister Farrakhan.
All right.
Well, Nugent said today that he is scheduled to talk with the Secret Service following controversial remarks that he made about Obama and his administration.
The Secret Service said today the agency is aware of Nugent's comments, but they're not going to say whether Nugent will be interviewed about them.
Nugent, uh who said his comments were not a call to violence, said that he will meet with agents tomorrow if they want to.
He was on Glenn Beck's program.
He said, Oh, meet with agents tomorrow.
The Democrats are calling on Mitt Romney to denounce what uh what Nugent said.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz said, We have more than 200 days to go in this election.
If the GOP and Romney are willing to accept this kind of rhetoric at this stage of the campaign, I can't imagine what they'll accept in September or October.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
Uh wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
I just got a note here.
They're asking who I haven't heard that.
They're telling me that they're calling on me to denounce Nugent.
Who's calling on me to denounce Nugent?
I haven't heard anybody call on me to denounce Nugent.
This is the first time I've been asked to denounce anybody.
This is a red letter day.
Somebody has asked me to denounce somebody.
It has never happened.
I don't know who did it.
Frank Rich, I'm told.
Frank Rich.
Frank Rich.
He's not at the New York Times anymore.
Is he?
He left the New York Times.
He's at New York magazine or New Yorker magazine or HOT Living or I don't know what happened.
I I I don't I don't know.
Oh, it was a tweet.
If Romney can't stand up to Nugent or Limbaugh, who can he stand up to?
If he gave Romney can't stand up to Nugent or Limbaugh, who can he stand up to?
Uh at any rate, uh well, I'm not gonna denounce the Nugge.
He called on Romney to denounce Nugent and me.
That's what it's now.
He okay, so I'm wrong.
He did not ask me to denounce anybody.
Asked Romney to denounce me again along with the Nugge.
I saw the Nugent.
Last time I saw the Nugge, he was singing the national anthem at Cowboys Stadium before a uh I guess it's a Cowboys Giants game.
I think last year in uh in Dallas.
The Nugge got his start in politics on this show.
The Nugge got his start in politics calling this show.
And I the audience loved him.
He called here during the Clinton years, and he was loaded for bear.
He was saying things like, I eat everything I kill.
I believe in hunting.
If I go out and shoot a deer, my family's eating it.
If I shoot a chicken or whatever, that's what we have for dinner.
So the way it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me.
Ah.
No, no.
And in fact, Snurdley asked me if I heard back from Apple.
I didn't expect to hear back from Apple on this thing yesterday.
But what I I got in a car yesterday afternoon, and I I head to the airport, and I luckily I ran into the bridge, the drawbridge had to stop.
So I tried some dictation, and it was perfect.
That stuff that happened yesterday morning has not happened since.
It was flawless yesterday afternoon in the car.
Same setup, Verizon hotspot with my Bluetooth uh phone system in the car.
Perfect.
Back to the phone stringo, Tim and Salem, Oregon, your next.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
Before I start, I would like to challenge your uh listeners to get the message out locally that addresses your humanity.
Uh that addresses my humanity.
Yes.
All the work you did.
Oh, uh I'm surprised I run into somebody who thinks I have any.
It stops me for a moment.
Uh appreciate that.
That's very, very nice of you.
Appreciate that.
Thank you, sir.
You're welcome.
Here's some interesting uh facts or comments that were made.
First of all, by some people in their early thirties.
I thought you would find those interesting.
The first one was they felt that in every campaign they use the same tactics in the same token.
They felt that they really didn't believe in the system because the candidates wouldn't be able to, and Congress won't change anything.
And so what do they base their decision on?
Oh, you're like this.
They felt that they were vulnerable, and they used that word to a charismatic leader.
Okay, so basically what what I'm hearing you say here, what you're telling me is that you you've talked to some uh young people in their twenties and thirties, and they don't believe either party.
They don't believe the system.
They think both parties say the same stuff.
The same campaign slogans are used every four years, the same charges, the same allegations, same this or that.
And so what they do is they make up on their mind make up their minds on charisma, uh likability, person whoever they like the most doesn't matter what they stand for, because these people don't think there's any difference.
So it's who they like the most is who they vote for.
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, sir.
All right.
Now you know how you combat that.
This is exactly why I have gotten blue in the face telling people That we are going to have to get to these people ideologically.
There may, as far as they're concerned, every campaign may look and sound the same.
The two parties may look and sound the same, but conservatism and liberalism are in no way similar.
They don't share anything in common.
That's why these people that you're talking about, and they'll eventually figure this out when they get older, it always happens.
If they haven't already been corrupted and turned into little liberal skulls full of mush, then it's still possible to get them.
And as they get older, they will automatically many of them, whether they know it or not, start living their lives and managing their lives according to conservative tenets.
But they may not want to admit it because of how conservatism is labeled, impugned, laughed at, made fun of in the media.
That's why we've got to get to these people ideologically.
That's why Obama has got to be described as an i the ideologue that he is, not that he's a Democrat.
Liberalism has to be explained.
That's that's what everybody wants Romney to do.
That's what everybody wants a republic, especially now.
When we've got the biggest example of it we've ever had in our lifetimes.
Governing the country and ruining it.
Everything wrong with this country today is because of liberalism.
Everything in Detroit that's going wrong, liberalism, New Orleans, liberalism.
You go anywhere.
Any state, any city that has been run unchecked for years by liberals, and you're going to find destitution.
You're going to find destruction.
You're going to find bulldozed houses.
You're going to find elevated levels of poverty, hopelessness, all of this stuff.
That's the earmark of liberalism, all those things.
So your job, I'm telling you here, when you run into these people, your job is to educate them.
They don't know what they are talking about.
They are wrong in what they think.
Totally understandable, given what they think that they would vote for who they like the most.
Your job, any of you, when you run into people like this, particularly young people, don't be afraid to tell them about liberalism.
I'm telling you it's our salvation.
It is the way this country is ultimately going to be saved.
would vote for this garbage that's happened.
That's why I said I hope he fails, because I knew what would happen.
And if more people knew that, the guy would have never stood a chance.
It's an uphill battle.
The media's contradicting it each and every day.
No matter what we teach about liberalism, they're making it look like it's compassionate, big-hearted, loving, fair, all that rot gut BS.
But that's the answer to it.
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The Gallup poll, the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll is in today, and it's Romney 48, Obama 44.
So Obama is down four today.
He was down five in the Gallup tracking poll of uh of yesterday.
Also from Fox News, 70% of the American people support voter ID laws.
Which only makes sense.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Hi, Bill.
Glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Happy Wednesday.
Thank you very much.
Hey, just a quick question.
Um, how long will it be before Michelle Obama tells us nutritional value of eating dog?
This makes me uncomfortable.
I look at my dog differently now.
Um.
Oh, folks, Obama admitted that his family fed him dog when he was a kid.
And uh it's in his book.
He did the audio version of the book.
He did it himself.
And it's come up because the Democrats are trying to make hay out of uh Romney putting his dog in a kennel on the roof of the family sedan as they tool along the highway on vacation or some such thing.
Uh and the jokes are flying.
The one-liners about Obama eating dog are all over the place.
Um there.
By the way, there's a New York Times.
I don't have time to get into it right now.
See where if I have it here in the stack somewhere.
The New York Times has a story on all these food theories being dead wrong.
Uh Michelle Obama's food theories being dead wrong.
They don't mention her by name specifically so much, but it's a it's it's it's buried in the uh in the paper.
Here it is.
They put it in the research section of the New York Times.
It's a report on two studies that completely contradict Michelle Obama's food doctrines.
And it's all about um the idea that that uh neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than most than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets, and full service restaurants, too.
The idea that that there's a shortage of quality food in poor neighborhood is been disproved.
It's total bunk.
The poor are not denied quality food or access to it, like Michelle Obama is trying to convince people.
And there's another element of this survey with something similar to it as well.
Studies question the pairing of food deserts and obesity.
There's no correlation, they say, to uh the kind of food available in uh in poor neighborhoods and obesity.
It's the exact uh the exact opposite of what Michelle Obama has been saying.
What is this?
You've gotta be kidding.
Our station.
Our station, Jackson, WOKV, called Angela Corey's office to get a reaction to Rush Limbaugh calling her incompetent.
We didn't.
That it was not fair to say to call her incompetent, that the charging document may have been, but she might have had a reason for writing it the way she did.
I specifically said it's not fair to say that she was incompetent.
And I'm not the one that's been characterizing her work.
Dershowitz did.
You people ought to call her office and ask her to react to Jerseywitz, not me.
Our own affiliate doing this.
Well, it's uh Snerdley says that he just got a call from an angry listener in Jacksonville saying that that's what they did up there.
I did not call her incompetent.
I specifically said that it wouldn't be right to characterize her as incompetent, even though the document might be.
Did say that.
Get this.
Fox News is running a Chiron graphic crawl at the bottom of the screen.
And it says taking a look at whether Ted Nugent can be charged for rant.
Taking a look at whether Ted Nugent can be charged for his rant.
Are we going to charge Calypso Louie?
Are we even going to look into Calypso Louie?
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Spring fling for me.
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Have a wonderful next few days.
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