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May 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 1, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, the Purple Mountains Majesty, the deer in the Antelope Rome.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbo here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, where I serve humanity each and every day just by showing up.
Great to have you here, and we will get to your telephone calls in this hour.
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Have you seen the news that uh Native American groups are upset with Elizabeth Warren?
For those of you in uh Rio Linda, uh Native American groups, they're thinking Indians.
They're going after Elizabeth Warren for her uh claiming to be a Native American.
Elizabeth Warren, who considers herself the uh the grandmother, the mother, the womb of the Occupy movement to Harvard Professorette.
She was running against Scott Brown for the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
It was once held uh occupied by Senator Kennedy.
Uh she's claiming to be Native American.
She described herself as Native American minority in various professional law school directories during the 80s and the 90s.
Now the thinking is that Elizabeth Warren lied to get an advantage via the affirmative action policies of various law schools.
Now she wouldn't be the first Democrats trying to get ahead with affirmative action, and who knows, maybe maybe she is a white Indian.
If you can have white Hispanics, why not white Indians?
Well, look, I'm just following the lead of the New York Times and describing George Zimmerman as a white Hispanic.
So maybe Elizabeth Warren is a white Indian.
Now uh sh this is a woman, by the way, who is the first to admit that nobody ever gets ahead on their own.
That's her whole shtick.
You recall Elizabeth Warren said that rich people only got where they are because other people paved the roads and built the bridges that they used and built their factories for them.
And nobody ever really ever does anything on their own.
And all this talk about rugged individualism is just a bunch of BS, because without the uh Hoy Peloy, uh the rich wouldn't be who they are.
But what happened apparently Elizabeth Warren uh realized that she didn't have enough qualifications on her own, so she borrowed some from the uh from the Indians, and she's using the bridge of affirmative action that others made for her.
Nobody ever does anything on their own.
Now here's a story from the Associated Press out of Boston today.
A genealogist.
How convenient.
A genealogist in Massachusetts has uncovered evidence that Elizabeth Warren does have Native American heritage as she claims.
Christopher Child of the New England Historic and Genealogy Society said today that he found an 1894 document in which Elizabeth Warren's great great great grandmother is listed as Cherokee, which would make Elizabeth Warren 132nd American Indian.
She's a white Indian.
She's one thirty-second Indian.
That's the ratio.
One over thirty one thirty-second American Indian.
And uh Christopher Child says that more research is uh is needed.
But he's got Enough here in the genealogical trace to confirm that she is 132nd American Indian.
Cherokee.
Well, I don't know, but I if I were her, because she's going, well, I don't want to prejudge it.
But let's say that she loses this election and does it on her own, loses it all by herself, without any help.
I wonder if she would qualify for a casino.
Or some kind of a casino, or maybe sell cigarettes with no sales tax.
This is hilarious.
13 says that's what this genealogist says.
13 seconds.
One thirty second.
I mean, I this is this is why this is who liberals are.
It just impossible, folks, to take these people seriously.
And it again, everything is not about what's inside, it's what's outside.
It's it's it's group status, victim status, uh they had to verify her use of affirmative action or what have you.
Uh Barack Obama, Bloomberg story.
Here's the headline.
Obama fails to stem middle class slide he blamed on George W. Bush.
Barack Obama claimed a campaign four years ago assailing President George W. Bush for wage losses suffered by the middle class.
More than three years into Obama's own presidency, those declines have only deepened.
That's the lead.
And Bloomberg is a state controlled media outlet.
The rebound from the worst recession since the 1930s has generated relatively few of the moderately skilled jobs that once supported the middle class, tightening the financial squeeze on many Americans, even those who are employed.
John Forsythe, 58 railroad car inspector and a political independent from Lebanon, Ohio, said it started long before Obama, but he hadn't done anything.
He kept pushing this change, change, change.
He hadn't done anything.
Underlying the erosion of the middle class are trends that stretch back decades, including the competition from lower wage workers overseas, technological advances that allow factories and offices to produce more with less labor.
Don't mention anything here about the uh illegal immigrant population.
Here's the story on Walmart moms.
And I'm I mentioned this the first hour.
This is ABC News.
And what happened here is that two different groups, one a Republican polling group, the other a Democrat, assembled some folk focus groups of Walmart moms.
And ABC News has the story.
Now, what is a Walmart mom?
Have you ever heard of a Walmart mom politically?
We've heard soccer moms and NASCAR dads and all this.
Here's what a Walmart mom is.
A Walmart mom is defined as a voter with kids under 18 living at home, who shops at Walmart at least once a month.
And political consultants say that Walmart moms are a sought-after demographic, and even more important.
The women engaged in this online discussion were from the key battleground states of Florida, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
The discussion was moderated by public opinion strategies, a Republican polling firm, and Momum Analysis, a Democrat firm.
And what they found was that these women are hurting financially.
What amazes me is that they had to discover that people are hurting financially.
That this might not have occurred to them.
Maybe it did.
But of course, nothing can ever be assumed from common sense.
You can't assume that people are hurting when unemployment's over 9%.
You can't assume people are hurting when their homes are underwater.
You can't assume people are hurting when their homes are being foreclosed on.
Nope, you have somehow substantiate it.
So they did.
And they get focus groups assembled to these Walmart moms.
ABC News says, if you want to know why Americans are frustrated and fed up with Washington, I present exhibit A, the debate between Democrats and Republicans over bin Laden.
I don't have the author of this story.
I don't know who wrote this story.
It's just some ABC News.
Democrats suggest that Mitt Romney may not have had the guts to take out the Al-Qaeda leader while Republicans sniff that the president's public preening over the successful operations unseemly.
Americans, meanwhile, have been very clear that they want the candidates to fix the economy, not one up each other on their anti-terrorism credentials.
In January of this year, 51% of Americans polled by the ABC News Washington Post unit said that the economy was the single most important issue in their choice for president.
A paltry 2% picked the issue of terrorism and national security.
Eight years ago, in the first presidential campaign after the 9-11 attacks, 22% of Americans said terrorism was their top concern.
Today, it's the GDP, not Osama bin Laden driving this election.
And as many Americans feel that Washington doesn't understand or appreciate just how tough the economy has been on them.
Nowhere is this frustration more evident than among a group of 29 mothers brought together by Walmart for an online discussion about the economy and the upcoming election.
These Walmart moms, defined as a voter with kids under 18 living at home who shop at Walmart at least once a month, are a sought-after demographic.
Now there is a quote.
There's a singular quote in this story that stands out.
Walmart moms are frustrated with the state of the country, but they are skeptical about Washington's ability to address the key issues that will have a positive, tangible impact on their household.
Now you know me.
I have on this program repeatedly defined the people who make this country work.
And it's apparently people like this in this uh ABC story.
They're anonymous.
They get up every day, they do the best they can to play by the rules, do the best they can to live as uh morally proper a life as they can.
They care about their kids, they try to keep them sheltered from all the pitfalls that are awaiting them out there.
Nobody's perfect, and these people clearly aren't, but they're not seeking fame, and they're not seeking any kind of notoriety.
They just great and washed, they're anonymous.
Nobody knows who they are.
But they're the ones who get up every day and go to work, make this whole thing churn, make it happen.
And they are frustrated, this is Tea Party, by the way, too.
Let me add that, and they are frustrated with the state of the country.
They may not know in an ideological sense why, but they know that this isn't right.
They know that this is not how things get done in America.
They know that that all of this gigantic government is not going to fix their lives.
They know it.
They may not be able to tell you why in a conservative versus liberal way, although my objective is that one day they'd be able to.
Because I think if we ever get to the point where people are steeped in ideological understanding, and that's it for liberalism.
If people could simply understand liberalism 50% as well as I do, it'd be the end of it.
But that's a that's a big project.
I mean, it can illustrate that.
You go back to the 1980s, robust economic growth, lowering taxes, it was all there, and people lived it.
And yet the Democrats for 50 years have been playing this class warfare stuff, the evil rich, stealing from the middle class.
They never changed.
They say the same stuff over and over, year after year, election after election.
And despite their policies never working, people continue to still vote for them.
Their policies never work.
The latest volume in a four or five volume series on Lyndon Johnson just came out yesterday.
It's by Robert Carrow.
And I downloaded it.
And in uh but between power failures and Wi-Fi screeching tone UPS fries and so forth, I had enough time to read the foreword.
And the i i it was it was eye-opening, even for me.
Because the foreword described, of course, what's coming in the book, laid out the premise of the book, the period of time in Johnson's life the book would deal with, and spoke of his Civil Rights Act, war on poverty, and great society as the single greatest best thing that has ever happened in America.
And the author, Robert Carrow even admits none of it worked.
And it was still the greatest thing since life.
I mean, not just the greatest thing, the superlatives used to describe this are these policies and plans by Lyndon Johnson and how he did it, being hated by the Kennedys, being relegated to obscurity as vice president,
desiring to be president all of his life, and finally realizing that when they made him vice president was over, and then one day in Dallas changes everything, and all of a sudden there he is as president.
It's time to get even with all these people who were trying to shut him up, and in his career, it was time to go transform America.
Pick up where Elber where FDR left off.
And this guy, Caro, writes of Johnson.
The press doesn't talk about Obama the way this guy was describing Lyndon Johnson in the forward of this book.
Or the introduction, I forget which.
Just uh I don't have the words, and I don't have his words in front of me, I don't have the book in front of me to describe the way he was talking about the Great Society and the war on poverty and uh while admitting sadly none of it worked.
But it's still a best damn thing ever.
All it did was destroy the families of poor people, particularly minorities in this country, the very intended recipients of all this great stuff were the ones harmed the greatest by Lyndon Johnson and his ideas.
And it's still to this day, those policies, plans, programs, war on poverty, graces, they are still wreaking havoc with people to this day.
Medicare and Medicaid, Lyndon Johnson.
Greatest damn things ever came down the fact that it never works.
And yet, even when it fails, it's the best thing ever.
Because of the great personalities and the great people who wanted it to work and who came up with the ideas, good, big hearted, brilliant politician liberals.
It it was it was well, I want to say sickening.
I never but my point here is these Walmart moms don't look.
They know something's wrong.
They know that government's the problem.
They don't know why.
They just know it doesn't work.
Anyway, I'll pick up on this.
Plus uh we'll start mixing your phone calls when I get back.
Don't uh don't go away.
Let me grab a quick phone call here, and we'll get back to Johnson, that book and the Walmart moms, it all goes together.
Uh but Sarah in Tacoma, Washington, I want to get you first here.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you for waiting, and welcome to EIB Network.
Thank you so much, Russ.
It's nice to talk to you.
Um I work at a nursing home, and I was really bothered the other day.
I was listening to that uh interview with Leslie Stahl with the uh the interrogator from Guantanamo, and they talked about how giving somebody insure was like torture.
Yeah, as Orwell is torture.
How we don't do that.
Yes, exactly.
Um I Like I said, I work at a nursing home, and we have a lot of people who do not want to eat.
I suppose when you turn 85, 86.
I know.
You either give them eating.
And this is something that gives them the nutrients that they need every day, something to sustain life.
And I just it's a big thing.
You see, you either you either give them that or some marijuana to stoke their appetite.
Right.
And uh well, no, there is a there's a there's a my mother took it uh in the last days of her life.
It was it's it's not, it's a pill, and it's got one of the ingredients in marijuana that enhances the appetite.
Uh it's either that or insure.
Uh there you're but I'm we're I got those sound bites coming up because uh Jose Rodriguez uh has made more media appearances, and I've got the new stuff he said plus that's I'm gonna play those sound bites again, uh, with Leslie Stall thinking insure is is is torture.
It's exactly right.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Twenty-nine Walmart moms in a focus group run by Democrat and Republican strategy groups.
And what they find out, Walmart moms are frustrated with the state of the country, but they're skeptical about Washington's ability to address the key issues that'll have a positive, tangible impact on their household.
So I I'm convinced that if more people equated Washington failure with liberalism, Washington failure with Democrats, then we would be much more ahead of the game.
I gave you the example, this Lyndon Johnson biography.
This author just over the top praising all of these failed ideas, praising them from the present back fifty years, knowing full well how they failed, admitting in the forward of the book they failed, and yet they're the best ideas anybody's ever had.
You know what Diddy men was Vietnam.
If Vietnam hadn't happened, oh.
Let me read to you from the description of this book on Amazon.
We see how within weeks, grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery, LBJ propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy's death seemed hopelessly log jammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary war on poverty.
Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own.
This was without doubt Johnson's finest hour.
Before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam.
The trap of Vietnam.
Kennedy and Johnson laid the trap.
Hoy, as my friends say...
But you get a flavor that's just the description of the book on Amazon.
Here's another one in its exploration of this pivotal period in Johnson's life and in the life of the nation.
Passage of power is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency, but is as well a revelation of both the pragmatic potential of the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and the determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation.
Which is just astonishing insofar as no sentient being can deny LBJ's programs have done more to destroy this country than even Obama could dream to accomplish.
LBJ did it in three years.
All that stuff, Medicare Medicaid, and he capitalized, not the right word, um, was aided by the death of John Kennedy Because everybody wanted to honor the dead president.
So here came Kennedy Kennedy's tax cuts were, but they passed a lot of Kennedy stuff in sympathy.
And then Johnson, while that was going on, started larding things on it.
And the Civil Rights Act, Johnson had voted against every civil rights bill that had come before him before he became president.
Then he becomes president and authors his own.
And there are other biographers who will tell you that Johnson told them, I'm going to make sure that my party has the African American, well, the black vote, it wasn't African American, but the black vote from now to eternity.
That's what it was for.
My in the in the face of, in the midst of here, demonstrable destruction and failure.
We're getting a book about how this is one of the greatest presents ever.
Marshalling his power, overcoming the hatred of Robert Kennedy.
Oh, the book details how Kenny Robert Kennedy hated LBJ, did not want him on the ticket.
But JFK knew he wouldn't win Texas if he had LBJ in a ticket.
So here have these Walmart moms.
They're frustrated with the state of the country.
They're skeptical about Washington's ability to address the key issues.
Yeah, anybody paying attention should be skeptical about Washington's ability to address the key issues that'll have a positive, tangible impact on their household.
If you work, if you don't work, Washington matters.
If you do work, Washington's in your way when run by liberals.
The reason that this is a key quote to me, is because Washington cannot address key issues in a positive, tangible way, which has been our problem since I would say the New Deal, even before the Great Society and the War on Poverty.
But that's what Johnson wanted to finish, the New Deal.
He wanted to build on it and cement it.
Washington can only do a couple things: tax, spend, and regulate.
And none of that helps anybody in a tangible way for long term.
They don't create wealth other than for themselves, but they don't do anything other than take it, redistribute it, some cases destroy it, but they don't create wealth for anybody.
Look at what Washington proposes to do when it aims to fix the economy.
It promises, proposes to provide tax relief and freedom from government bureaucracy.
That's when they're honest about it, what do they do?
They tell you they're going to get out of the way.
They're going to lower taxes or do something.
I sit here and I get frustrated because turning liberalism into the genuine electoral minority that it is in terms of just numbers.
I mean, the percentage of people in this country who admit to identifying as liberals is 20%.
40% self-identify as conservatives.
If people, if these Walmart moms just understood the ideological makeup of big government types.
As I say, it just astounds me that in the midst of demonstrable, provable failure of liberal policy after liberal policy, they still run the same kind of campaigns.
They still use the same rhetoric, they still do class warfare, they still have the same enemies' list, it's always successful major corporations, it's always successful rich people other than Democrats.
They always tell the middle class that uh they'd be rich if it weren't for Republicans and businesses stealing money from them, or uh charging them too much for gasoline, or in some cases killing them.
Uh it ought not be anywhere near as viable as it is.
Now, you and I know why it is.
The appeal, all this compassion, and as much as anything is the demonization that they have succeeded in labeling Republicans as various types of demons, racist, sexist, bigot, homo, all those kind of things.
But it's an ongoing frustrating thing to me.
Has been.
You have the 1980s, and there's still plenty of people who vote, who were alive then, who loved America, their patriotism was at an all-time high.
The military was being rebuilt after this disastrous Carter.
We got the second term of Jimmy Carter now.
And this is why I said last week I think that this election could surprise a lot of people.
Dick Morris, by the way, is predicting 5545 landslide for Romney.
Bob Beckle at the five thinks Rush is dreaming.
Because there's this thing called the Electoral College.
And that means the popular vote doesn't matter.
And Beckel said, remember when Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000.
Gore actually won the popular vote.
By 200 and some odd votes, whatever it was.
And Beckel's right about it.
He's right the Electoral College does factor in.
But if it's a 55-45 popular vote, the Electoral College will fall into play.
It'll fall into place.
Let me take a brief timeout.
We'll come back and I uh I promise your phone calls are up next.
Okay, back to the phones as promised, and we're going to Huntington in Long Island.
It's Felicia, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor.
Rush, you know what I wish?
I wish we could get back the mess Obama inherited.
Gas at a dollar eighty-nine and unemployment 4.7%.
I think uh unemployment was in the fives, but your s your point is well taken.
Just go back to where we're three and a half years ago.
Just take it back.
Just put it back in the box.
I I agree with you.
Hell, I'd take the Clinton years over this.
I can't well, let's not go that far, but I I definitely definitely would take the Bush years back.
And Rush, one more thing.
Yes.
When the president is down in Colombia, it's pronounced Columbia, not Columbia.
Wait, wait, no.
What am I are you saying I'm mispronouncing something?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I'm saying just like he misses mispronounces Pakistan, he also mispronounces Colombia.
What does he call it?
Columbia.
Columbia?
Yeah.
Columbia.
You know, he has to put in his Latin accent so that, you know, he can be cool.
Columbia.
Right.
Instead of Columbia.
Right.
It's just, it's like, you know, like nails down a chalkboard.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
Like like Pakistan.
Exactly.
Pakistan.
It's Pakistan.
Like we say it in this country.
We say Pakistan.
Right.
It's Pakistan and it's Columbia.
Columbia.
And it's Cartagena, not Cartagena.
All right.
Well, that's good.
Okay.
I appreciate it.
Thanks much, Felicia.
Who's that?
This is Walter in Modesto, California.
Hey, Walter, I'm glad you called.
Hi.
Yes, I'm going to say I agree with the Democrats, because not everyone would have pulled the trigger on bin Laden.
How many chances did Bill Clinton have to do it?
Um that's true.
That's uh that's true.
Clinton was handed bin Laden on a silver platter two or three times and rejected it.
We still have him.
That's right.
And see what Walter's point here is, while out there trying to say Romney wouldn't have pulled a trigger.
It's Clinton that didn't.
Twice.
And he wouldn't have even had to pull it.
Well, one time could have pulled a trigger.
One time we saw the movie.
Remember that ABC edited a couple minutes out of, but I, of course, have the full version.
Sandy, I th I don't know where Clinton was.
Golf course.
I don't remember that could have well been.
Sandy Burglar was doing the Richard Clark, too, don't forget.
Clark was running that show.
But uh they had everybody set up.
They were ready for the kill, and then uh the movie had it.
Clinton wouldn't pull a trigger because there were citizens.
Um near the mosque or near wherever bin Laden was, women and children pulled back.
There were another times, what was it, uh uh Sudan?
Not Sudan.
Uh Darfur.
No.
What well some one of those countries in Africa offered bin Laden to us, and and Clinton said, I don't have the legal authority to accept him and hold him.
I don't have anything.
So while Romney is being accused by Obama of not having us pull the trigger, it's Clinton who didn't when he had the chance.
And Biden, who is out, who was out advising Obama not to do this.
Thanks for the reminder there, Walter.
This is Edward in uh is it Novi Michigan?
Is that how you pronounce it?
Novi Michigan, yes.
Well, see my.
I'm really honored to talk to you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
How is everything going with you?
Everything, well.
I'll just tell you that everything's fine.
What do I have to complain about?
Nobody likes hearing people complaining.
I'm fine.
Couldn't be better.
Another thing to complain about.
One of the best golfers I've ever seen, and somebody that's made the best tea I've ever tasted.
Wow, that I think you're talking about me.
Yes.
You like the tea?
That's really nice of you to say.
What flavor?
What flavor does it's the greatest tea I've ever tasted.
What flavor?
I just got the original.
The original.
Yes.
Well, you're making my day here.
And you're making Catherine's day, too.
I hope so, because you made mine when I got the order.
Well, uh, I've really appreciated that.
It's nice of you to say.
We've got an announcement coming this week, by the way, on a new addition to the product line.
We have uh there had ever since we started two if by tea.com.
And by the way, we called the two winners last night of the uh the trip for four to Boston for a total of eight people.
Yes, yes, HR, I call them personally.
The the well, Catherine is on the road, so we conference, so she placed the call and conferenced me in.
As soon as we figured out that the caller ID would block.
Then she conferences me in.
But normally we call from the same phone.
The phones were working.
Yes.
The phones were working last night.
And this was funny.
We um the uh the the first winner didn't answer and didn't have an answering machine the first time.
The second winner, a woman answered, and we said, Is Bob there?
Who?
Bob.
This is Rush and Catherine Limbaugh, and we're calling to oh come on!
He's not here, he just stepped out.
Oh, well, that's too bad because it is Russian Catherine Limboy were calling to say that he is the winner of really?
Yeah, and and it's uh the the three-day two nights in Boston.
Well, and all of a sudden Bob's on the phone.
Bob had not stepped out.
Bob was there all along.
Bob picks up the phone, couldn't believe it.
Uh and both it's fun to do that.
It's fun to do that.
When we when we get an answering machine, I always say, Boy, you are going to regret this.
And I leave a message, and I say, by the way, don't re don't don't erase this so you can play for your friends that it actually happened.
And but they're always they're sweet as they can be, these people, and they're they're so appreciative.
But we've got a new product entering the product line.
I think we're gonna be announcing it Thursday.
It's uh it's one day this week, and from the from the very beginning of two if by tea, this has been something people have been, some cases demanding, others asking for.
So we've decided that we're going to uh throw it in.
So that'll be uh but I I hope you have tasted the new uh the new peach and the blueberry.
Yeah, but uh blueberry with tea, yeah.
But we didn't do lemon because you you can add your own lemon to tea anytime you want, but how do you how do you make peach tea or blueberry?
How do you do that?
Takes professionals like us and our food scientists.
We have food scientists.
We own the recipes, it's a secret stuff.
And I tell you, you unscrew the the the top of the bottle of the blueberry iced tea, and you s you get that aroma you think you are smelling blueberry muffin batter.
It's just with with the the hint of tea.
Then when you taste it, taste the blueberry, of course, but it doesn't camouflage or mask or cover up the tea either.
It's uh it's a really good mixture.
So I appreciate the phone call much.
I gotta take a brief time out here.
Sit tight, my friends, and much more awaits right after this.
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