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May 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 7, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Shot of 79 on Saturday, broke 80 again.
Two out of the last three times I've played golf, I broke 80.
And that 79 could have been a 76, because I no, it could have been a 75.
And I don't know whether it could have been a would have been a but.
My 17th also par three, and I just barely off the green.
I chunked the chip.
It took a double on my seventh.
I did not know I was anywhere near 80 again, and nobody was telling me.
I don't keep scorecard.
And there were two part threes.
Well, there's a part three to part four where I missed the birdie putt by literally one of those putts missed by just a half inch, stopping short of the hole.
It was uh it was a fun time.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
Hope your weekend was good.
Although I doubt it.
Um, just the odds.
Uh here we are, full week of broadcast excellence, straight ahead.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, Elrushbo at EIB net.com.
So a lot of people are asking me, what does this mean?
This uh the the election of the avowed socialist in France.
Uh, Monsieur Holland, what does it mean?
It means that France is gone.
It means that there are more people on the take than there are producing.
Pure and simple.
They fell for I mean, don't think Obama hasn't noticed this.
It what it means, it only means what it means for France.
It's impossible to extrapolate this unless you want to say that we become France.
And if we have become France, I don't, and I we I don't think we're there yet, but this guy promised to raise taxes on the uh top 1% by 75% and millionaires' tax or what have you, and everybody just went for it.
Left the only the second avowed socialist ever elected in in French history.
The first was uh Meetheron in the 80s.
And they they said no to austerity.
They said, no, we're we're not gonna cut back government, we're not gonna cut spending we're not no, no, no.
I want my goodies, I want my benefits.
Uh the French rich are leaving the country, snerdly.
There are accompanying stories about the French elite, the wealthy elite making plans to go to Great Britain.
I don't know how wise that is.
But uh no, there are stories.
I don't know if there's going to be a genuine exodus out of France among these targets, but they clearly are targets, and there are more people.
Look, you've got perpetual unemployment of 14%.
And I don't know if they doctor their numbers like Obama does here, but if they do, uh unemployment in France is higher than 14%.
But the thing is, it's constant.
Whatever the number is in France, that unemployment number is constant.
It's been it's it's accepted, it is the norm, and there are more people on the take than there are producing, and those people turned out in greater numbers.
And don't think Obama's not noticing that.
Obama went out.
I I don't know if it means anything for the United States folks.
And anybody who tells you that they do know what it means for our election is um engaging in wishful thinking.
There's no way anybody can extrapolate.
To the extent that we are France, I've never heard that that uh connection made, and it would have to be made for there to be some relationship to the French electorate and ours.
And I don't think there is much.
Uh, but we're trending that direction.
There's no question about that.
But uh, and and the same thing, where else was it that they said they didn't want uh Australia?
Was it was it Germany?
What was the other kind?
I'm having a having a metal block.
There were there were two elections.
Merkel is holding steady.
No, maybe Greece.
I I I forget which, but uh uh regardless, yeah, it's Greece, and we all knew this was coming.
We all suspected that uh that it was coming.
That what you when you have more takers, they're gonna continue to vote for it.
They're not prepared to start working.
They haven't been working, they're not prepared.
There is uh there are two stories today That are aimed at helping Obama.
One of them's in the Washington Post, I forget where the other one is, trying to explain our dismal unemployment numbers.
And you know, folks, it's not really as bad as anybody thinks.
What's happening is the baby boomers are retiring.
That's why the labor force participation rate's so high.
The baby boomers are just retired.
That is such smoke that they are blowing.
The number, and I I I harped on this on Thursday and Friday last week, and this is the number.
Forget percentages.
The number of people, adults not working in this country, is 88 million out of an adult population of 200 million.
That's simply unacceptable.
That doesn't equal great nation.
That doesn't equal national productivity.
That does not equal growing economy.
88 million people not working.
And if you want to try to come in here and massages, well, yeah, but some of them are retired, baby boomers, it's really not that doesn't matter.
Still able-bodied people, 88 million of them are not working.
The numbers of people on food stamps today versus the beginning of the decade doubled or tripled.
So we're clearly trending in the direction of phones, but that's what this election's about.
We're going to find out this election is about stopping that trend, or at least um at least slowing it down.
There's all kinds of polling data out there today.
Politico has a story that Romney, depending on how you read this, is up with undecided and independence by plus 20.
It's a battleground poll.
Six months out from election day, with the Republican primary drawing to a close.
There's been a predictable tightening in the presidential race according to latest politico.
While no one would ever mistake Romney as the consensus candidate of a still skeptical GOP, many have underestimated this facile candidate's ability to etch a sketch his way to competitive standing in the general election.
Let's move to page two and the numbers.
The attitudes of undecided voters are key.
Of course they always are in the inside the beltway crowd.
The independents of the undecided.
They're the only people that determine elections.
They compromise only a sliver of the electorate, but they tend to be independent, secular, and downscale.
They like Obama personally, 65% approve of him, but are much more unsure of Romney.
30 approve, 33 disapprove, 38 unsure.
They are critical of the president's job performance, only 30% approve in the independent.
Figure this, 65% personal likability, 30% job approval.
Thank you.
That means twice as many people like the guy personally as think he's doing a good job.
Now, what could possibly explain this?
What could possibly explain it?
65% personal, as we have asserted on this program on several occasions.
I don't I don't buy this likability, but I don't, and I don't I think it's all a myth.
This cool hand luke kind of guy, calm, cool, collected.
This is the wilder effect.
We have to consider this.
We have to consider the wilder effect, and that is simply non-African American non-minority respondents in polls, telling the pollster, either on the phone or in person, however it happens.
You like Obama.
Oh, yeah, yo, yo, yeah, you put it down.
Right.
I love Obama.
Put it down.
I want to see it.
Put it down.
I love Obama.
I want to write, I want to see you write it down.
What about his job performance?
Stinks.
Guy's doing the worst job, but I like him.
You put it.
I like him.
Don't you dare put anything.
I like him.
You got that, Mr. Polster?
I love the guy.
He don't know what he's doing.
I love him.
You got it.
No question that there's uh some of that going on.
The independents, who largely make up the undecided vote, uh give Obama to Well, what this boils down to is that Romney basically has is up 10 in independence.
They I'm not gonna bother too many numbers to follow here as I read it.
They break it down on middle class, uh lower class Democrat versus Republican, pro economy, uh, anti-economy.
With all finished and said and done, uh Romney's up plus ten in independence.
Even now, as we speak.
Obama announces, oh, and voter registration is down among Hispanics and blacks.
From the Washington Post, the number of black and Hispanic registered voters fallen sharply since 2008, posing a serious challenge, it says here, uh, to the Obama regime in an election that could turn on the participation of minority voters in the 2008 election, the robust turnout among black and Latino voters credited with putting Obama over the top in key swing states, including Virginia and New Mexico.
Did you know that?
It was only the black and Latino vote that made Obama.
I don't buy that either.
But that's what they want us to believe here in the Washington Post.
Voter rolls typically shrink in non-presidential elections.
Let me tell you something about this.
I have a good friend here in uh in in South Florida here who is involved in local politics, showed me a website.
And this is nothing you haven't heard.
It's nothing that that is gonna shock you.
There is a house across the bridge here that's vacant.
That on the voter registration rolls has 10 people living in it, all Democrats.
Um this website is devoted to finding all these various types.
The fraud in the voter registration rolls is nationwide.
It's it's it's everywhere, predominantly Democrat, but you will find some Republican, but statistically it's unavoidable.
But when therefore there becomes shrinkage, there is real panic on the left.
Because they know they're living a lie.
And when realville enters the village of lie, realville always trumps.
Voter rolls typically shrink in non-presidential election years.
Registrations among whites fell at roughly the same rate, but this is the first time in nearly 40 years that the number of registered Hispanics has dropped significantly.
Why would that happen?
Why for the first time in 40 years?
When I hear this, and I'm naturally curious person.
Why is it the first time in nearly four decades that the number of registered Hispanics has dropped significantly?
Tell me what.
Tell me why could that be?
How could this, we're talking registered voters now, folks.
First time in 40, wasn't there a statistic that we shared with you either last week or the week prior, in which it has been discovered that illegal immigrants are leaving the United States at about the same rate they are arriving.
1.4 million leaving, 1.5 million arriving.
Maybe it's verse visa.
But it's a near washout.
Now you might be saying, but Rush, we're talking about voter registration rolls and illegals can't register.
You don't think so.
You don't think an empty house that has 10 Democrats registered voters?
Some of them can't be Hispanics that are illegal.
With acorn and the unions and all the other interest groups that are working to make this possible.
So I don't know this, but it's the first thing I thought of.
If first time in 40 years, Hispanic voter registration has dropped significantly.
The figure fell five percent across the country to about 11 million, according to the Census Bureau.
But in some politically important swing states, the decline among Hispanics is much higher.
Just over 28% in New Mexico, for example, about 10% in Florida.
For blacks whose registration numbers are down 7% nation, by the way, all this is why the left does not want photo ID required to vote.
Here's Antonio Gonzalez, president of the William C. Velazquez Institute, a quote unquote nonpartisan policy group focuses on Latinos.
The only explanation out there for this 40% drop is the massive job loss and home mortgage foreclosures.
When you move, you lose your registration.
So according to Antonio Gonzalez, it's because job losses and foreclosures are forcing people out of their homes, and when you lose, when you move, you lose your registration.
Not when you're a Democrat, you don't.
Voter registration for white Hispanics on the Democrat side is down one.
There's actually been one percent, just total, one white Hispanic has dropped from the Democrat vote.
It was in Florida, I think.
By the way, folks, if as the Washington Post today says, and I think there's somebody else, a guy from Moody's name is Mark Zande, uh both are saying that part at unemployment number.
It's really, really bad is uh baby boomers retiring.
Well, what do you retire from?
A job.
You retire from a job.
If you're retiring, you're doing something.
Now you would think, therefore, that if people are retiring, then more people should be hired.
I think this there are the efforts being made here to mask how bad it is.
The number that, as I say, you need to keep in mind is 88 million.
88 million, mostly able-bodied Americans are not working.
By the way, grab audio sound mic number 24.
Snerdley, listen to this.
This is ABC's this week.
It's the round table on Sunday.
Jacob Tapper sitting in for George Stephanopoulos, who's sitting in for or no, is Stephanopoulos, I guess, is permanent now.
And Jake Tapper says at George Will, George, is football in trouble, or is this just the media making a muck?
Trouble for two reasons.
First of all, the human body is not built for the violence that is inherent in football at the highest level.
Second, people are going to watch football differently from now on because they're going to feel a little bit like the spectators in the Coliseum in Rome, watching people sacrificed for their entertainment with a kind of violence that is unseemly.
Told you.
Told you, told you, folks, if this is going to happen faster than I thought.
Maybe not an outright ban of the game, but I guarantee you this is going to happen faster than I thought.
And it's it's funny for me.
I read a lot of uh NFL blogs, and they're mostly written by typical uh liberal media types, and these guys don't know what they're doing.
As they write about this, they are paving the way for fundamental structural changes in this game that will make it not football.
While they think they are doing compassion, well, for example, they're asking for federal commissions on concussions, and we'd better have uh mandatory counseling for every player who retires.
Otherwise, they're all gonna commit suicide for two reasons.
A, all the head trauma, and B, people stop cheering for them.
And their lives immediately turn meaningless.
Every one of them.
It's amazing to read this stuff.
And I'm sure these guys all think that they're writing and positing with great compassion, but they are paving the way for people who want to take the risk out of life to move in on football.
There was a story, the guy who the author Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger, had a piece over the weekend, I think it might have been the Wall Street Journal.
Ban college football.
Ban it.
It loses money for most universities.
It does not emphasize academics.
It's nothing more than an unpaid minor league system for the NFL.
Get rid of college football.
I'm telling you, this is a groundswell now, and I told you.
Let me tell you how this is going to work, this NFL stuff, and you'll recognize this the minute I remind you of it.
And it's going to start this season.
With all this attention now to the concussions, the head injuries, the brutality of the game, all the focus on this stuff.
And, you know, with the suicide of Junior Say all the study of brains, other players, David Dewers and some others have committed suicide this year.
So much attention focused on this.
The first game of the season, which is going to be a Wednesday night, September 5th, I believe it is.
I'm not sure the date, but it's it's the Wednesday night for Obama accepts the nomination.
I wonder how many people show up at that one.
He announced his campaign over the weekend, and barely half of a 20,000 seat arena was filled.
More on that in due court.
Oh, here Tom Brokoff says it's time to rethink the White House correspondence dinner.
It doesn't look good for members of the press to be seen drinking cristal champagne on camera.
Members of the media are drifting too far away from the audience, from the people they are supposed to be uh covering the news for.
We have more on that as the program unfolds.
You remember when the SUV thing first started in 1996, the era club got to ban the SUV causes global warming.
And global warming itself.
Every after a while, every unseasonably warm day, whatever time of year.
Didn't your first thought go to either, wow, global warming, maybe it's true, or some consciousness on your part that somebody was going to say that.
It's the same with uh various food warnings.
Uh people have said that coffee, because it's hard, you see somebody ordering coffee, you're no, no, no, don't drink that, don't drink that, that's everybody gets it.
Doesn't take much for people to get caught up in this stuff.
So the first injury that is seen on national TV in a football game this coming season.
You watch the discussions of the brutality of the game and the uh uh the potential damage to a father, a player, a father who in his retirement wakes up one day and doesn't know the name of his kids.
That'll be a story.
And it'll be because of football.
And the consciousness raising will have already taken place, and there will be a groundswell.
And there will be George Will is right.
People are gonna start watching the game.
The casual fan is gonna feel guilty as heck watching the game when there's a serious injury.
Why do they let that happen?
Why don't they do something about that?
Why don't they make that illegal?
I'm telling folks, the days come.
The people who make a living off the game are in the process of killing it, and they don't know that yet.
They don't they think they're doing a good thing here.
Their intentions are honorable.
Just like Lyndon Johnson's, although I doubt his role, I don't think LBJ did the Civil Rights Act with good intentions.
I really don't.
In fact, LBJ said as much.
LBJ was like FDR.
I'm locking up the black vote for the Democrat Party for the rest of time with this legislation.
FDR said, I'm locking up the welfare and the poverty vote for the Democrat Party for the rest of time with the New Deal.
Everybody wants those great compassion and wonderful intentions and so forth, but it's all political.
The motives are all political.
And it's the same thing here with the sports writers.
They have to show compassion.
They have to look like they care, yet they have to cover the brutality of the game.
They have to support the game.
The game is their livelihood.
The game is their living.
But they don't know it, but they are paving the way for its end.
And it's going to happen sooner than I thought.
I thought it wouldn't happen in my lifetime.
Probably still won't.
But you watch the pressure brought to bear this season.
It's not conspiratorial.
This is just going to be the result of inertia.
That's it's it's just it's it's gonna be a tidal wave.
Nobody's gonna be able to stop it.
Somebody tries talk sense in the middle of this, is gonna be shouted down, laughed at, uh, thought to be insensitive or cruel or what have you.
Make no money.
This guy Buzz Bissinger ban college football.
Ban it?
And he and his reasons are numerous.
The last reasons he mentions in his piece happen to be the physical dangers.
His primary reason is the games of fraud.
There aren't any student athletes.
There's too much time required to play football.
These guys don't go to class.
Everybody knows that.
And then most of these programs don't make money for the schools.
The only reason football's a big deal because the quality of the school is determined by the quality of the team.
I mean, who would care about Oklahoma if it weren't for the football team?
This guy's point is.
And the boosters and so forth.
So the move is all over the place to get rid of the game.
And in large part, the people behind getting rid of the game, whether they know it or not, some of them are activist libs.
I think it's libs are behind this.
They are behind most things like this.
But it's it's it's uh people who want to take the risk out of everything, take the danger out of everything.
It's just not right.
Uh civilized people should not be engaging in this kind of brutal behavior.
The Roman Coliseum, those days are in the past.
We shouldn't be doing this kind of thing.
It's gonna happen.
Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion over the weekend at Ohio State University.
Ohio State is the largest college in the crucial swing state of Ohio.
And there was a photo of the crowd that was posted to Twitter by Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Ryan Williams and Ryan, not Bryant, Ryan Williams, and the place, the upper deck is empty.
Twenty thousand people is the capacity, and I think there were just over ten thousand people there.
According to the Toledo Blade, the venue for Obama's rally seats 20,000, but there were a lot of empty seats.
Comparatively, Obama drew a crowd of 35,000 at Ohio State when he campaigned for former Governor Ted Strickland two years ago.
2010, he drew 35,000.
Now he barely draws 10 or 11,000.
We've got Axel Rod on ABC yesterday, basically running a campaign of hope and change.
They're still running against Bush.
And Obama's been reduced to say, well, you may not be better off now than you were four years ago, but you will be in 10 or 15 if you stick with me.
But if you go back to Romney, if you go back to Bush, you're not gonna be better off in 10 or 15 years, but you will be better off in 10 to 15 years with me.
They're stuck.
You know, they they moved the convention final night to the football stadium in Charlotte because they thought of a huge crowd and donors.
They want they want big bucks buying luxury boxes and all that stuff in the stadium for the final night where Obama accepts, like they did in Denver in 2008.
But he's not drawing the crowds.
Now again, be very risky to extrapolate that into votes.
But what can be Said is the enthusiasm for Obama personally, 65% like him personally?
Uh-uh.
Not when 9,000 show up as empty seats.
At a rally where he's announcing his campaign, and how many people didn't know that he was going to run again?
Anyway, I have to take a break.
We come back.
We want to do something with the audio sound bites.
This morning on Obama's website, Barack Obama.com, they launch a new TV ad entitled Go.
And it involves Brian Williams.
Do you, by the way, have you noticed there are more campaign commercials for candidates?
And some issues, but mainly for candidates, involving news people and things they've said on the air that serve as an endorsement of sorts.
Like the Obama ad titled Go is Obama's lame attempt at mourning in America.
It's a ripoff of the Reagan morning in America ad from 1984.
So apparently Brian Williams, the objective right down the middle, anchor of the NBC Nightly News said something that the regime thought constitutes a plug, at least, or an endorsement at best for Obama's reelection.
Put it in there.
And I'm told that a number of these journals, not all of them, because some of them are, you know, face camera hogs and pigs.
But some of them are worried that their objectivity is being squandered by being used and appearing in these ads.
Maybe it's just they're not being paid, and they don't want to say that.
Anyway, we're gonna do we have some fun things to do with this, but I gotta take a brief timeout, not obscene profit timeout here at the EIB.
Oh, by the way, folks, case you hadn't heard other news, Vladimir Putin, who is patiently waiting for Obama to get re-elected, has more flexibility in getting rid of our nuclear weapons.
Vladimir Putin was sworn into office for a third term in Russia over the weekend, which now means that even Russia has a leader who is to the right of the leader in France.
By the way, uh, we're kind of chuckling at this crowd or lack of a crowd for Obama's official announcement that he's seeking re-election.
But folks, um this says something pretty important about the campaign.
We are led to believe, and many people think it just by virtue of history, that the Obama campaign, flawless, tops, best, gonna run rings around anybody we have.
It's just the way people think.
I, of course, don't.
I don't believe in the infallibility of liberals or Democrats, but I gotta tell you something.
This was a huge, huge error.
Now, granted, the media is is hiding pictures of this.
You have to see pictures of this half-filled arena at Ohio State on right-wing blogs, and certain left-wing blogs, mainstream media not doing anything with this at all.
Certainly not as much as they did when you know Romney spoke in front of 50 people at Ford's Field or Ford Field capacity 97,000, whatever it is, had a lot of fun with that.
This is a big faux pas of the party campaign.
You don't, even if you have to, you know, get cardboard cutouts of Colombian prostitutes and put them up there in the upper deck.
You do something, it's somebody in the seats.
But look at what I'm sure they assumed that just announcing, because they're living in the past, they still think it's 2008, and they just assumed Obama's coming, overflow crowd.
Just assumed it.
Didn't happen.
They don't have a handle.
They know things are bad polling data-wise.
I think every day is a shock for them.
And I think they show up on the Sunday show's Axarod looked like he was in a state of shock trying to explain this.
Deer in the headlight eyes, uh, and all that.
I it's it's um it's tough.
You know, the football players and the cheering stops and meaningless meaning meaningfulness in life stops.
I mean, this is what they're saying about Sayo.
He just he couldn't go on anymore.
There was No cheering.
Football was his life.
It was his regimen.
And it ended, and nobody cared about him anymore.
And there were no cheers, plus the concussions, and it all added up to suicide.
Well, they're not cheering for Obama.
Now he hadn't had concussions unless golf balls hit him all the time.
We haven't been told about, but they're cheering's now.
People aren't fainting anymore.
I mean, it isn't 2008.
Let's listen to the ad.
On the Barack Obama.com website today, new TV campaign ad entitled Go.
I'd kind of like to retitle it.
Just go.
Just go.
Just go.
But it's not called just go, it's called go.
And here it is.
2008.
An economic meltdown.
First financial collapse since the Great Depression.
4.4 million jobs lost.
American workers were laid off in numbers not seen in over three decades.
America's economy spiraling down.
All before this president took the oath.
So help me gotta.
Some said our best days were behind us, but not him.
He believed in us, fought for us.
And today our auto industry is back.
Firing on all cylinders.
Our greatest enemy brought to justice by our greatest heroes.
Our troops are home from Iraq.
Instead of losing jobs, we're creating them.
Over 4.2 million so far.
We're not there yet.
It's still too hard for too many.
But we're coming back because America's greatness comes from a strong middle class.
Because you don't quit, and neither does he.
That's pretty inspiring, wouldn't you say?
I mean, that's really uplifted.
What that makes me want to go out and get a second job today.
Maybe a third job, too.
Man, we're back.
All that horrible stuff.
Yep, they're running against Bush.
They're still there back in 2000.
4.2 job, million jobs created.
Ah!
Then Laden Dead still gonna live off of that.
No longer in Iraq.
Um, I don't know, folks.
Still running on hope.
Still running unchanged.
It kind of reminded me of uh the Super Bowl ad.
I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of downturns in my life, times when we didn't understand each other.
Seems that we've lost our heart at times.
The fog of division, discord, and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead.
But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right and acted as one.
Because that's what we do.
We find a way through tough times, and if we can't find a way, then we'll make one.
All that matters now is what's ahead.
How do we come from behind?
How do we come together?
And how do we win?
Detroit showing us it can be done.
And what's true about them is true about all of us.
This country can't be knocked out with one punch.
We get right back up again, and when we do, the world's gonna hear the roar of our engines.
Yeah, it's halftime America.
And our second half's about to begin.
Right, and here it is.
From the Chicago Tribune, quote, the bone shattering truth.
U.S. football is doomed.
From the Kansas City Scar.
How many more deaths can NFL fans take.
I'm kidding you not?
See, you didn't believe me.
You thought just like when I warned you people they were coming after SUVs.
You thought, ah, here goes Rush.
He did football's one of his personal passions, and he's scared about it.
But yeah, they never too much money.
Never take look at the ground swell already.
Chicago Tribune, the bone-shattering truth.
U.S. football is doomed.
George Will, hey, it's no different to Roman Coliseum days.
It's barbaric.
We can't have this anymore in America.
It's spiraling out of control much, much faster than even I, Il Rushbo thought that it would.
And now it has an inertia.
It has a momentum all its own.
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