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April 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 Podcast.
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What a terrific speech by Romney last night.
The speech that uh essentially inaugurates the campaign.
And it was his best.
There's no question of it.
And you know why it was his best?
Because it was conservatism from front to back.
Now I know there are many people who are still asking, yeah, but did he mean it?
We'll find out.
But for for the moment, for what it was, it was awesome.
At the same time that was happening, Obama was slow jamming the news with uh with Jimmy Fallon on his program on NBC.
Snurdly, how many people do you think in this audience know what slow jamming anything is?
Don't you don't know what slow jamming the news is, uh Brian?
Do you know what it is?
Uh we're gonna play you sound bites.
We've got a very interesting thing that I asked Cookie to give me a side by saying interspersed Parts of Romney speech with Obama slow jamming the news as a means of illustrating just who is presidential.
I know Obama's got these got he's got to get the uh the youth vote.
He's in trouble on the youth vote, and that's why all this talk about student loan program uh and a number of other things, but uh, and there's some a couple of interesting stories too about the Hispanic vote today.
Coupled with Coupled with, have you heard the news?
Illegal immigrants are leaving the country almost as fast as they are arriving.
I think the I don't have the story right in front of me, it's in a stack, because I will get to it.
It's something like this.
One and a half million illegals are arriving every year, and 1.4 million are leaving.
So it's a net of 100,000.
It could be the other way around.
But this is this is horrible news for the Democrats because those are potential voters that are leaving.
No, no, no.
But it sounds I'm not trying to be funny.
I'm naturally funny.
I know I'm one of the two or three most naturally funny people you probably know.
Well, I'm not trying to be funny here.
The Democrats are counting.
Why do you think they care about all this Hispanics?
It's the illegal alien vote, and they want to find a way to get them to the acorn members are fanning out all over this country, getting ready for their usual vote fraud stuff.
Uh stick with the slow jamming.
For those of you who are not hip, like I'm I'm hip.
Um I even got a note from Arsenio Hall once, remember, certainly said that I was hip.
Back when we were on Seventh Avenue at Madison Square Garden.
The old EIB build.
Yeah, back when Arsenio was hip.
And um if you're not hip, or if you have jobs where you have to get up in the morning and you don't have the uh the time to stay up late to watch meaningless dribble called comedy TV, then you may not know what slow jamming the news is.
Slow jamming the news is in this case, is where Jimmy Fallon's band, the studio orchestra.
Well, I wouldn't call this much an orchestra.
Uh the combo, if you will.
They play a slow RB number uh in the background, like a Barry White song.
Uh, music maestro Barry White.
Oh man.
Wife name was Glow Dean.
Barry White, well, some of the greatest music ever.
Can't get enough of YOLO, babe.
What am I gonna do with you?
At any rate.
You have the band, and they're doing this uh this this slow RB number in the background while Fallon and his guests talk about serious subjects like taxes as best they can.
Apparently, it is supposed to be wildly funny if you have a low threshold for humor.
It's supposed to be uproariously funny if everything makes you laugh.
So we've got examples of it.
It's also funny if you smoke certain controlled substances, too.
That could also make it uh uh funny as well.
But you know, folks, you really can't blame the one here.
Uh you can't blame Obama.
He's got to do something to win the Ute vote back.
Even the AP, even Harvard, even Gallup, have noticed that he's losing the under 30 crowd to the Republicans.
All three of these uh uh organizations, AP, Harvard, and Gallup.
Look, people under 30, they live in the Obama economy too, and they're coming out of college.
They had the story yesterday, one out of two of them, unemployed or underemployed, college graduates.
They're the ones that were filled with idealism back in 2008.
They're the ones that thought the road was paved with gold simply because Obama was going to be elected and then was elected.
No, slow jamming the news is supposed to show Obama's hip and uh not a square uh and uh you know a nerd like Romney is.
He's supposed to be hip.
No, no, they do know that they notice they're still broke, but Obama can't do anything about that.
All he can do is forgive their student alone, which don't I mean discount that.
He's president of the United States, and we have shared with you stories already about their plans to perhaps forgive mortgage debt in certain ways.
We've had this.
So this is what running against an incumbent is.
These are some of the things illustrations of the power that incumbents have.
If he wants to forgive the student loan debts, especially since he runs the student loan program now, he can, and he can do it in October if he wants to.
Now that kind of thing it all weighs backfire as well.
But so he's out there slow jamming here, and he's he's just trying to show that he's hip.
But people under 30 live in the Obama economy too, and Obama can't lower the voting age.
Can't do that.
He can't do away with the draft, he can't give them amnesty, then none of that's relevant or going on now.
So he has to resort to going on shows like Jimmy Fallon and promising to pay for everybody's college tuition.
In fact, there's this story here.
This is uh USA Today.
The headline, Jimmy Fallon, comma, President Obama slow jam the news.
Jimmy Fallon gave a microphone to President Obama Tuesday night's late night show taped on the campus of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to help him deliver to news, particularly viewpoints on student loan interest rates.
I'm President Obama, and I too want to slow jam the news, he said at the start.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, the president said at the end, and Jimmy Fallon said, Oh, yeah, you need to listen to the president as I like to call him the preezy of the United States.
That's what it was.
Fallon also used the president to punch up his monologue.
I didn't watch it.
I pay people to do that.
I had people who watch it report to me.
What are you shaking your hand?
It look at.
Look, I'm old enough to remember the criticism that Richard Nixon got for going on Rona Martin's Laugh In.
Remember?
Nixon went on Laugh In and was in one of those uh boxes, sockatumi.
Socatumi.
Goldie Horn was on that show.
Remember that show?
Socatumi, laugh.
And everybody thought that it was a descent into no dignity Whatsoever.
So beneath the presidency.
So beneath the office of the presidency.
You have to go all the way back to Nixon to find a president who's done so much to low lower the no, no.
What am I saying?
We had two terms at Clinton after Nixon.
What am I talking about here?
Going on Rowan and Martin's laughing saying Sakatumi was nothing compared to the demeaning of the office that Clinton did.
He's a big star now.
Rich.
Big star, he'll tell you.
Well, I wouldn't go that far.
Snerdlies out there, Clinton doesn't seem so bad compared to Obama.
What in what way are you talking about here?
The Democrats did you know Snerdly shouting at me that most people take uh Clinton back uh any day over this guy.
Okay, I'll tell you what you do.
You go up to any Democrat and say, you know what, you guys love Clinton.
I go, yeah, yeah, the tongues will hit the pavement and go, yeah, yep.
Well then let's go back to the Clinton era of spending and taxes.
Well I can't do that.
Why not?
You ever think was hunky during?
It's one of the best periods in American history, according to you people.
The Clinton era.
So let's go back to what spending levels were then.
We can cut spending now to what they were during Clinton.
We'll even factor in inflation.
No, no, no, no, no.
Well, I thought it was great.
It's better than what's going on now, right?
Well, yeah, but we can't do that.
Why not?
Because we can't.
We can't cut government.
You know, under Clinton, government spending was 18% of GDP, which is a national average from beginning to end.
It's at 21% now with Obama on the way to 23 and 25.
Yeah, Clinton cut capital gains taxes.
And Clinton probably said sakatumi to Monica.
He just didn't do it on laugh in.
But I'm sure he did it to Monica in that little uh uh the study uh off of the off the oval orifice.
But anyway, I mean it's slow jamming the news, the um the uh preezy of the United Stasie.
Let's do our audio explanation here.
Let's do the side-by-side illustration.
Last night, what we have here is a montage of Governor Romney from his speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, and we have mixed it with Obama slow jamming the news on NBC's late night with Jimmy Fallon.
And uh we also put some of Obama from his speech yesterday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in this.
For every single mom who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids that she needs to take a second job.
I'm President Barack Obama, and I too want to slow jam the news.
For grandparents who can't afford the gas to visit their grandchildren anymore, for the mom and dad, who never thought they'd be on food stamps.
You should listen to the prison.
Or is that not to call him the prizi of the United States?
For the small business owner, desperately cutting back.
That's why they call him the POTUS.
POTUS stands for President of the United States.
To all of you, I have a simple message.
Hold on a little longer.
Is how we slow jam the news.
Oh yeah.
The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do.
But it's not the best America can do.
Can I get an Amen?
Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years.
Can I get an Amen for that?
And we will be right back.
Don't go away.
By the way, all the networks refused to cover or carry Romney's speech last night, even though they were asked to cover it.
But they um they refused to.
Now, uh this is AP story once thought to be solidly behind President Obama.
Younger voters, burdened by a bleak employment picture.
High gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney, but a new Harvard poll, I mentioned this a moment ago.
A new Harvard poll suggests the president may face a harder sales job with younger voters this time around.
Obama led Romney by 12 points among uh those ages 18 to 24.
Among those in the 25-29 age, Obama held a 23 uh point advantage, but it's way down from what it was, and he's losing ground.
So he's out there slow jamming college hipsters.
While he's getting slow jammed at the same time.
Remember what Steve Jobs said about Obama.
The president's very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done.
It infuriates me.
And then an AP story yesterday, one in two new graduates are jobless or underemployed.
And then from today's USA Today, President Obama gets an F for failing our youth, said former Colorado Senator Hank Brown.
President was able to fool a number of college students into supporting his campaign.
The result has been the highest level of unemployment for youth in our country's recorded history.
Now, the student loan stuff is the focal point of Obama's speeches that he's making to youths wherever he uh wherever he goes.
And he talked about it a lot yesterday.
Speaking of Obama's push to try to buy the youth vote by giving them free college tuition.
Remember now that, and we mentioned this yesterday, the the interest rate increase is coming up for a vote on July 1st because the Democrat-controlled Congress in 2007 wanted it that way.
Obama is running around, scaring these students who don't know the facts or the truth behind this, that if something isn't done by the Congress by July 1st, their student loan interest rate will double.
And then, of course, the students in the audience boo, and Obama holds up his hands and I have a solution.
What you need to know is this.
The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in 2007.
They had just won the election.
The House took it back in 2006.
Pelosi's running the House, Democrats being run uh running the Senate.
In 2007, they passed legislation that would return.
Well, what they they cut the student loan interest rate in half and then reinstituted it July 1st this year on purpose.
They wanted the college student loan interest rate to double in an election year in the summer, right before the conventions.
They were rolling the dice.
Back in 2007, they didn't know Obama was going to be elected.
They didn't know that a democrat, they didn't know Obama would be nominated.
But they were rolling the dice.
They were pretty confident they're going to win the White House, didn't know who.
In fact, in 2007, it was pretty much assumed it was Hillary.
In fact, it was practically etched in stone.
2007, it's Hillary's turn.
She has paid her dues in so many ways.
And that was the conventional wisdom.
Then Obama comes along, the press swoons and the rest is history.
But still, it was a strategic maneuver in 2007 to cut the student loan interest rate in half and then put it back to what it was on July 1st, so that it would appear to be doubling to students this year.
The Democrats did all of this.
They did it to have a campaign issue in case they needed it in 2012, July 1st, so five years ago, they planned this.
The one thing that I did not mention yesterday is that Obama was a senator in 2007, and he didn't even vote on this bill.
Twice.
There were two votes on raising the college loan interest rate Back to what it will be, doubling it in effect on July 1st, 2012.
He didn't even vote present.
He was too busy campaigning.
That's how vitally important the issue of student loan interest rates was to him back then, five years ago.
He didn't even vote on it.
Twice.
Back in 2007, he wasn't worried about holding on to the youth vote.
He was way ahead in the polls with them back in 2007.
The whole landscape was roiled because of his entrance into the campaign when it was thought to be Hillary's.
So the Republicans are going to get blamed.
Obama's out there blaming the Republicans for doubling the student loan because they don't want you to go to college, don't you know?
The Republicans want you to go to Broke go broke, don't you know?
Yes, the Republicans, they're gonna they're gonna double your student loan interest rate on July 1st.
Just know the Democrats wrote this in legislation in 2007.
It's happening exactly as they wrote it, so they could have a campaign issue.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Folks, yesterday we took two calls.
And I felt very badly about that.
There were people about on hold for four hours yesterday who did not get on this program.
There well, no, there was one good call and one that got us.
I need a little trouble, but I have to I have to issue a correction because of the second call.
We had a guy call from Detroit.
Remember, Snerdley, you put this guy up there who wanted to know, and even give me a chance to answer his question.
He wanted to know how I felt as a Steelers fan.
How did I stay a Steelers fan?
When the owner of the team, Dan Rooney, dedicated the Super Bowl victory to Obama, campaigned for Obama, raised money for Obama, gave Obama a Super Bowl trophy or a replica of it.
He never gave me a chance to answer the question, then he launched into how tough it was for him in Detroit being a Tigers fan, given that the owner's sister is holding fundraisers for Obama.
Well, all hell broke loose.
Shortly thereafter.
My good friend Paul W. Smith, who does the morning show at our Blowtorch affiliate in Detroit, WJR, Paul W. Smith, is in China.
He's in China for the ChICOM Auto Show.
And the Illich family called Paul W. Smith in China to get a message to me in South Florida.
So I get this note from Paul W. Smith, who's at a some auto show for the Chicoms are putting on.
And by the way, as an aside, no, nope, I'm not gonna tell you what he told me about the ChICOMs and their preferences for cars, because that'll just get me into more trouble with Bob Lutz.
Anyway, it turns out that the the Illich family, Mike Illich owns the Tigers.
His sister owns other stuff, not related to the Tigers.
Her businesses are independent.
They put out a big press release.
It's his sister who did the fundraiser 40 grand ahead for Obama or is doing it.
I don't know.
It's either coming up or it has happened.
The caller assumed that because the sister uh Denise, Denise Illich, uh is the sister of the Tigers owner that somehow this is related to Tigers and Obama, and a press release was put out yesterday because of this guy at his call.
We understand there was a discussion on the show today regarding a fundraiser held in the Detroit area last week.
It's important to correct erroneous reports regarding our involvement.
A media statement below is for your use.
We ask that you please clarify this for your listeners.
Thank you.
There have been several erroneous media reports as it relates to a political fundraiser held on April 18th, 2012, the residents of Denise Illich.
Our organization wishes to correct inaccurate information been reported by your caller.
The following statement's available For your use and is attributable to Karen Cullen, Vice President Corporate Relations, Illich Holdings, Inc.
Here's the statement.
All this because of a caller.
One caller.
And they got hold of Paul W. Smith in China to get this to me.
Our organization is nonpartisan.
In the 52 years that we have been in business, we have not endorsed or supported a political party, a political fundraiser, politician, or candidate, and we do not plan to moving forward.
We respect the personal experiences, values, and political views of all of our customers.
The political fundraiser held at the home of Denise Illich and her husband Jim Scalitzi was hosted independently by Jim and Denise as private citizens.
Was not associated with or supported by our organization's owners, Mike and Mary and Illich or any of their businesses.
So Denise Illich owns businesses independent of her brother Mike.
She has nothing to do with the Detroit Tigers.
Therefore, the Detroit Tigers were not endorsing Obama.
And they wanted it clarified.
That's right, one Illich is not the other Illich.
And these are not to be confused with Illich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal.
The uh the the famous terrorist.
Well, I had somebody send me an email about that too.
No, Illich Ramirez Sanchez did not have a fundraiser.
It's just people wanted me to make sure that I was going to draw a distinction between Illich Ramirez Sanchez and Denise Illich, who did the fundraiser for Obama, okay?
Uh done.
Well, when we when when we or a caller, get it wrong, and people are upset, we do our best to correct it.
And note when we did it, here we're near the top of the show.
We didn't bury it on our Saturday replay.
Ladies and gentlemen, um, Obama sat for an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
And in this interview, I wasn't going to mention this until later in the program, but Cookie just sent me the soundbite.
Obama slow jammed on me and Grover Norquist.
And we've got uh an audio tape of Eric Bates, who is the executive editor of Rolling Stone.
He was on CNN's newsroom this morning with the anchorette, Kira Phillips, who said, he told you straight up when you asked about Mitt Romney, he wasn't going to talk about Mitt Romney, but he did mention John Boehner.
And he said, Look, I got some great relationships with some Republicans, and I'm not going to mention any names.
It's Obama talking.
I have some great relationships with Republicans, but I'm not going to tell you who.
And I'm not going to mention any names.
They're kind of staying low right now, these Republicans, considering the environment.
Well, what was your take, uh, Eric, from that moment when Obama told you that?
When he talked about Boehner and other Republicans.
I think he was really trying to draw a line and distinguish the majority of Republicans from the Republican caucus in Congress that is sort of seized control and taking the party in a more extreme direction.
He made several references to that during the course of the interview and basically said, look, I think there are Republicans in Congress who want to work with me.
But they can in this kind of environment where Grover Norquist and Rush Limbaugh are setting the terms.
So Obama wants to work with Boehner.
He wants to work with Paul Ryan, wants to work with Eric Cantor.
He wants to work with all these wonderful Republicans.
Let me let me say this again, and I'm going to take the names out, because I don't know who he's talking about, so it's not fair for me to mention the names.
But I do want to translate this.
Well, Eric Bates says, I I think there are Republicans in Congress who want to work with me, but they can't in this kind of environment where Norquist and Limbaugh are setting the terms.
What that means is Obama has identified some Republicans who are more than willing to cave.
But they won't because of me and Grover Norquist.
That's what he's saying.
That's what Obama is saying.
That's what that's what Eric Bates is saying, Obama said.
That he's identified.
But why would Obama want to work with any Republicans if they're not going to cave?
Obama doesn't, he's not interested in compromising what he's all about.
So he's telling this guy, and by the way, this could all be B.S. too.
It could be Obama just totally making it up.
But we'll proceed under the uh uh assumption here that he's being truthful, and that there are some Republicans that are willing to work with him, willing to cave.
Republicans willing to let Obama have what he wants, but Norquist and Limbaugh standing in the way.
It's Russia's fault.
It's Russia's fault.
You know that it's yep, it's exactly Norquist has his no tax pledge.
They hate that.
The Republicans all signed the pledge not to raise taxes.
And then there's me.
And I just, of course, I'm just omnipresent, not just on taxes, but on everything.
In fact, you know, uh Cookie, I do not want the audio of this.
I told her earlier I didn't want it.
On Fox this morning.
Uh Martha McCallum had uh an all-female panel to discuss my contention yesterday that Sandra Fluck's tweet on the student loan interest rate doubling, going up on July 1st, within minutes of Obama saying the same thing at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in his speech.
You know, I contended, hey, this isn't coincidental.
And I mentioned that that Sandra Fluck is being represented by Anita Dunn and her PR agency and Hilary Rosen and Anita Dunn, former White House uh employee.
I mean, there's there's coordination.
There's no doubt there's coordination between the White House and Anita Dunn and how they're using Sandra Flux.
I mentioned that yesterday.
That was the subject of the all-female discussion panel.
And Judith Miller, who went to jail for not giving up a source, used to be at the New York Times, said, well, I just don't believe that.
I don't think.
I just, I just rush Limbaugh should never, after what happened, ever mention her name and he should never.
She's a 30-year-old college student.
She's articulate, she's well spoken.
I can't believe that Limbaugh, he has no business talking about her again.
I'm watching this.
And uh and Martha said, Well, why is he standing his ground?
What the heck?
He's just telling anybody what he thinks.
And and uh Jedadiah was on to the conservative uh columnist, and and and she agreed with me.
And then there was another woman who was the uh uh what was this uh spokesman or something spokeswoman for the House Republican conference who thought that I was overdoing a liberal wasn't really planned because all of these kids and people are tweeting about this student alone thing and Obama's talking about it.
It was just a coincidence.
But I mean Judith Miller, I should never mention that name again.
And I thought, you know, former New York Times, former liberal, this is how they think.
Don't ever you I don't now have the right to mention the name.
That's how they do their censorship.
That's how they try to intimidate you into um into uh into shutting up.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here, folks.
We uh much, much more straight ahead here, bursting here at the seams to get it all in.
You'll love it.
Don't go anywhere, we'll be right back.
Okay, I have another correction.
This time from Singapore.
Denise Illich is a daughter, not a not a sister.
So the original report that I got, I honestly got what I got was that she was the sister of Mike Illish.
Now I'm told that she's the daughter.
Well, I tell you what, let's just do the whole show on the Illiches and the Detroit Tigers and and Little Caesar's Pizza and Obama Fundre, and until we get it right.
We'll just do three hours on this till we get it right.
Okay, so Denise Illich is the daughter.
Is that right?
Denise Illich is daughter of Mike Illich.
Still not related to Illich Ramirez Sanchez.
Now you wait.
I'm gonna end up being wrong about that.
And somebody's gonna say, hey, you spoke a little too soon.
So Illich Ramirez Sanchez, no relation to Denise Illich, the daughter of Mike Illich, who owns the Detroit Tigers, had nothing to do with the fundraiser for Obama that his daughter Denise did with her husband.
I think I got it.
All of this because Snurdley didn't properly screen a caller.
Well, if you had vetted the caller, you would have known the caller was wrong, and we wouldn't have been put through any of this.
I don't know.
See, the staff is so used to me taking all the hits, and I do.
Whenever any of them screw up, I take the hit publicly.
So they're not used to being called out.
Snurdley's in there.
Can't believe it.
His mouth's wide open, can't say a word.
I had a frog in the throat.
I had to sip to avoid dead air.
I'm not impolite.
It's radio, and there's no way you would know that I was sipping from a cup of coffee if I didn't slurp.
What?
All right.
Snerdley's screaming at me now.
The point of the call was not even the Illiches.
It was you and the Rooneys and the Steelers.
It was the Illiches.
This guy was fed up.
He was under the mistaken impression that essentially the Detroit Tigers hosted a fundraiser for Obama at 40 grand ahead.
And but he didn't.
He didn't.
It's typical of many callers.
Like they call, hi, how are you, Rush?
And they keep talking.
They never give me a chance to say, fine, or it's been a lousy month, or whatever.
And then they ask me, I want to know how did you deal with the uh when Dan Rooney endorsed Obama because I never got a chance to answer it.
And then you say that was the primary point, what he wanted.
Well, because this how did I keep my passion for the Steelers?
Um, because I understood it.
I under I knew what was going on there.
I understood it, and I'm not gonna tell you what I understood.
I just soon mentioned Sandra Fluck's name as explained this to you.
But I knew what was going on there, but the Steelers didn't do it.
Uh the Steelers didn't endorse.
Dan Rooney did, and he's out there raising money, but it didn't affect the way the Steelers played.
Besides that, James Harrison, number 92, refused to go to White House to meet Obama, so that kind of canceled it out as far as I was concerned.
So we're cool.
There's a great video.
I had some of the audio from it yesterday.
Yesterday I didn't get to it, so I've got it here.
We'll do it soon.
A great young conservative bunch of people, no doubt, uh Rush Babies.
And I don't know it, but any young conservative today has to be a rush baby.
It's called uh free marketamerica.org, and they have released a new video entitled If I Want an America to Fail.
It just now made the top link at Drudge.
It's a great video.
It's about I think it's four and a half minutes or so.
We've got sound bites from it.
If I it's it's it's about environmental wackoism and a number of other things.
So I've got three sound bites from that coming up.
Still some other things to add on Obama the youth vote, Obama the Hispanic vote.
Dick Morris predicts that the liberal media will turn against Obama.
We've got excerpts of Romney's good speech from last night.
We've got your phone calls, maybe.
I don't want any more in this Illich business, though.
So I just now got another note from Paul W. Smith in China thanking me.
Thanking me for straightening this out.
So I think we got it figured out.
Denise is from the uh uh village illliches.
And she is the daughter of Mike, who has nothing to do with anything except pizza and the tigers.
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