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May 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 9, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Uh, I am tempted, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to sit here and ask you if you remember hearing me say a few things in the past three weeks.
But I think I just I'm just gonna go ahead and report what happened, because I think you do remember.
I think of all the people in this country who are not really surprised at everything that happened yesterday election-wise, it's probably you in this audience.
Great to have you with us.
Here we are back with more broadcast excellence, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telebote number 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
How many of you in this audience watch the TV show Justified on the cable channel FX?
It's a shame.
You should, but uh but it's a sh those of you who watch it.
Let me read to you a little little story here.
This was from last night while the vote count was still going on.
Obama has now lost eight West Virginia counties to federal inmate, number one one five nine three-051.
Federal inmate, one one five nine three-051.
That is who beat Deprezi of the United Steese in at least eight counties in West Virginia.
A federal inmate slow jammed Depreese.
In West Virginia, Obama was unopposed.
In North Carolina, Obama was unopposed, and 20% of North Carolinians chose other.
And I sit here and I look at what happened to Wisconsin.
Scott Walker, the sitting governor, the Republican against whom the Democrats have mounted his recall effort.
The Democrats had a primary to choose who's going to oppose Walker in June.
Walker, whatever happened to Walker on the ballot last night didn't matter.
He was unopposed.
The Republicans did not have to show up for Scott Walker.
He's the governor.
He's going to be the candidate in the election in June.
The contest and the only contest in Wisconsin was between the two Democrats.
Scott Walker got more votes than the two Democrats combined.
Now, how much money have the unions spent in Wisconsin to get out the vote to intimidate Republicans from voting?
How much has the media reported that all the enthusiasms on the Democrat side?
How many stories have you seen just in the last week that the Tea Party is dead?
How many stories have we effectively countered that assumption?
The Tea Party is there, that assertion.
We move to Indiana, where Richard Murdoch beat Dick Lugar by 20 points.
The latest polling data had Lugar losing by 10.
This was a landslide of historic proportions.
It was a Tea Party victory from top to bottom.
I didn't know this until last night.
Do you know, and Snerdley told me this morning he just found out too.
Dick Luger hasn't lived in Indiana for years.
He's the senator from Indiana, and he goes back there, he has to stay in friends' homes or hotels.
He does not have a home in the state that he represents.
It's usually Democrats that do that.
Now, Luger's a nice guy.
Don't let him misunderstand this, and I'm I made the point yesterday when talking about this that Luger's just a nice guy.
Remember that all of the pre-election news coverage yesterday, Indiana, was all about how Luger goofed it up strategically in his campaign.
And I pointed out, isn't it fascinating?
When Republicans or conservatives win, it never has anything to do with issues.
Have you noticed that?
Issues and substance, nah, not a factor.
Luger blew this.
Luger didn't take Murdoch seriously soon enough.
Luger didn't get down in the gutter sooner.
Luger didn't take take the campaign seriously.
Luger didn't do that.
I am here to tell you there's nothing Luger could have done.
There is nothing Luger could have done.
USA Today, a lot of drive-by media headlines today about how disappointed Democrats are that Dick Luger lost.
What else do you need to know?
The people in the state of Indiana have known for a long time what's wrong there.
There is a conservative rebellion going on.
There is resurgent conservative Tea Party, I don't care what you call it, energy out there that the drive-bys probably know exists, but they're in a state of denial.
Just as they try to write that the Tea Party's dead and the Occupy movement is where it's really at, they know that it's 180 degrees out of phase.
They know that the Occupy movement is dead and it was never real to begin with.
They know that the Tea Party is real, that it is huge, that it is reverberating, that it is effervescing and it is exploding.
The senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, refused after he voted yesterday to tell anybody if he voted for Obama.
He wouldn't admit in a Democrat primary, where a federal inmate won eight counties, and this guy is what if you watch Justified, that federal inmate is West Virginia's Boyd Crowder.
Obama essentially lost to a Boyd Crowder type guy if you watch Justified.
If you don't watch Justified, that analogy is not going to mean anything to you, and it's sad that it doesn't.
Boyd Crowder is an incredible character in one of the best TV shows on television.
The character is your average Kentucky hazy, drug running, moonshining, sophisticated, nevertheless, criminal.
How did...
Well, James Carville is not spinning it.
James Carville, both written and spoken word, has is basically spanking in Democrats.
You people think you can't lose this.
You can't lose it.
I tell you what, you're gonna be in gumbo if you don't wake up.
He is nervous.
This gay marriage business.
Oh, in North Carolina, let me tell you something.
All the news stories.
North Carolina defeats same-sex minutes.
It's not what happened in North Carolina.
They'd already done that.
What the constitutional amendment in North Carolina was was simply a definition of marriage.
And they put it in their constitution that the definition of marriage cannot change.
It is a union of a man and a woman.
And that's it.
And they put it in the Constitution, the form of this amendment that was voted on, and that one big.
That was huge.
That was pretty much expected, but but it's still a shock and a disappointment.
Everywhere the media looks today, where there were elections, everywhere the Democrats, the White House looks today, folks.
If they've been living in denial, yesterday was the biggest wake-up call that they've had in probably three and a half years.
And I'm gonna tell you, you know, a lot of people think that issues like the deficit and the national debt and no entitlement reform and no budget and all that.
Those kind of issues drive this, and they do.
There's no question they're important.
But I'll tell you what else.
It's the little things.
It's things that people, when they tell you you can't buy a standard light bulb anymore, people aren't going to put up with this.
They're just not.
Now, when a pollster shows and asks you, what do you think about gay marriage so that you won't be thought of as a big I'm all for it?
I love it.
But when you have a chance to vote for it, what happens?
It goes down in a landslide.
And it's the same thing, don't Doubt me, with all these polls that show Obama's likability, 65%.
If Obama's so likable, how come nothing he stands for gets even close to winning now when put to a vote of the American people?
It's the same thing.
The pollsters don't know it, but they're being lied to, maybe not even consciously.
People just somebody calls you on the phone.
Hi, doing a big survey.
I'm from uh I'm from Gallup acne here, and I want to know what are you, what is your opinion of gay marriage?
You're in North Carolina, and people on the phone, well, I don't want to think I'm a bigot and homophobic.
I'm all for it.
I'm all for it.
Same person goes in the privacy ballot box, got a constitutional amendment defining marriage as that between a man and a woman.
Hell yes, that's what I'm voting for.
That's what it didn't matter what they told the pollster.
It's little things.
TSA agents feeling women up in the line at airports.
That kind of thing turns people out to vote against an administration and a government that seems insensitive and unconcerned that this kind of stuff is going on.
So it's a whole smorgasbord of things that is behind this.
The Tea Party's not dead.
It is very much alive.
And the message, both in Wisconsin and in West Virginia, and from North Carolina and Indiana.
The message sent is that moderate inside the beltway, GOP establishment Republicanism is not the future of the Republican Party at the ballot box.
Now, I'm doing my best here to contain my enthusiasm because this is only May.
The election's a long way off, but I am here to tell you, I don't want you to doubt me on this.
I don't care what you hear and what you see from drive-by media types on television today and tonight, what you read from mainstream media types.
I don't care what you hear from the spokesman Jay Carney or Joe Biden or anybody associated with the administration.
The truth is they have been rocked with what happened yesterday and last night.
These are huge landslide victories with an a barely containable Republican electorate Tea Party electorate that showed up and voted.
Remember the conventional wisdom that all these people on the left had told themselves Tea Party's dead occupies where it's at.
All the enthusiasm is on the Democrat side.
Can't wait to get Wisconsin back.
Can't wait to get rid of Scott Walker.
Can't wait to put the unions back in charge.
North Carolina, these people are lying to themselves.
Even today, the New York Times, you'll read stories of how popular gay marriage is in this country.
It has yet to win.
When put to a referendum tile type ballot in any state, it's either 31 or 32 states.
It's gone down the tubes.
Yesterday was November 2010 all over again.
Yesterday was November 2010, and then some all over again.
And one of the many messages that I'm taking from what happened yesterday is a very comforting one, by the way.
People don't want any more of this.
The people simply don't.
I don't care what they tell pollsters.
I don't care what they say outside the ballot box.
They get a chance to privately count.
They go into a polling booth, polling booth.
Nobody's watching.
It's just them, their conscience, their hearts, their passion, their mind.
The people of this country don't want any more of this.
They've had their fill.
Dick Luger, fine man.
I mean, there's no question in terms of just a guy.
He's a he's a fine guy.
But if you're if you're not from Indiana, I didn't know.
I I Dick Luger's residency Did become an issue in the campaign.
He doesn't have a residence in Indiana.
Well, the North Dakota, the Democrats convention in North Carolina, let me tell you about that.
You talk about they chose, the Democrats chose North Carolina for the convention because it's become a swing state.
They need it.
What is happening in North Carolina?
I guarantee you there are people wishing they could pull out of there and not do that convention in North Carolina now.
You know, you just know the Democrats are having second thoughts about it.
The big the the big problem before yesterday, the big problem was that the unions were upset because North Carolina's a right to work state.
So all the dues that they launder for the Democrat Party go to non-union labor.
The money laundering operation that we've described here doesn't happen in North Carolina.
One of the reasons they went in there was to try to establish it.
But after yesterday, after the constitutional vote on the definition of marriage, there is the problem of so much Democrat money going into the pockets of red net hicks are so backward, they believe that marriage ought to be between a man and a woman.
There are Democrats today saying, what the hell are we doing throwing money into that state?
Look at what happening to us in that state.
Our governor quits.
Our ex-Senator John Edwards on trial for campaign fraud, messing around with uh having child out of wedding, all that kind of stuff.
His wife is dying from cancer.
Now this we got a bunch of.
And in if you look at North Carolina, here's another interesting stat, except for Wilmington.
Every city, every metropolis, from Raleigh Durham to Charlottesville, the definition of marriage amendment lost our how can I put this.
The cities voted Democrat on the initiative.
The cities in North Carolina, they're not large, but the cities, the metropolises, all voted the Democrat position on the Constitutional Amendment, and it's still lost by 22 points.
So the red, sorry, the blue cities in North Carolina all went Democrat as they and they were still dwarfed and outnumbered by all the hayseed hicks that don't live in the cities.
They skunked them.
And so now you're gonna have these Democrats scratching their heads and say, what the hell are we doing throwing money into a state like this where there's so many damn stupid idiots that think marriage is between a man and a woman?
What the hell are we spending our money there for?
Going to break this down in even more detail as the program unfolds.
Luger has issued a very lengthy and quite telling statement.
Thank you.
Luger is comparing his defeat to the end of reason, the end of the Republican Party, the end of compromise, the end of people working together.
Luger is saying that his defeat is a bad thing.
It's gonna lead to partisanship rancor.
Um it's gonna lead to the Senate is gonna descend now.
It's not gonna be nearly the August body.
Not because he's not there.
He's not that kind of an ego guy.
It's clear he's a moderate establishment guy who doesn't want to argue with anybody about anything.
He's not a conservative, and he's part of the Republican establishment that thinks conservatives are the problem, not Democrats.
There's a headline, the Associated Press, Dateline Washington.
Casey Hunt is the authoress.
The headline says that all primaries reflect conservative enthusiasm for 2012.
This was not what they were expecting to write today.
I guarantee you.
I think maybe down deep in parts of their bodies, their minds that they seldom really tap into.
They know.
They know the country doesn't want any more of them.
They know the company doesn't want any more of Obama.
But they've got the media on their side.
They read the media every day.
They watch television every day.
They have, they live in a world where an entirely fraudulent picture of this country is presented every day, and they end up believing it.
So in part they are shocked and surprised.
Richard Luger lived in the Washington suburbs since 1977, since he was elected to the Senate.
Doesn't have a residence in Indiana.
That's what I call real inside the beltway.
But even so, even so, ladies and gentlemen, probably have to admit that Dick Luger is more of an Indian than Elizabeth Warren is an Indian.
Even though he's not got a residence there.
Okay, sit tight.
There's lots more straight ahead, plus your phone calls don't go away.
So the big news yesterday was two things.
The evidence that the Tea Party is alive and kicking and ready to make 2012 look just like 2010 because that's what yesterday was.
Yesterday was the continuation of the 2010 midterm elections.
The Democrats in some places, Democrat voters launched a war on Obama.
The Democrats did not turn out in Wisconsin despite millions of dollars spent by unions.
Republicans turned out in greater numbers to vote for Scott Walker when they didn't need to.
He wasn't challenged.
There was no reason for Republicans to show up whatsoever.
Why did they then?
Why did more people vote for Scott Walker yesterday in Wisconsin than the two Democrats who are in a very heated contest combined?
Answer is simple.
Republicans are waiting to be unleashed.
Conservatives more specifically are fed up.
Conservatives are fit to be tied.
They're angry at how they're being portrayed in the media.
They're angry at how Obama's being propped up.
They're angry at the lack of truth being reported about their country.
They can't wait to show up and show the rest of the country what's really going on.
They can't wait to prove who they are and who this country is.
That's why Republican turnout's through the roof.
That's why conservative turnout is through the roof.
People love their country, and this is how they show it.
This is how they answer all the lies, the misrepresentations.
All of the faux journalism is taking place.
Okay.
You want some reality?
Here's an election.
Take this.
The Democrats are being skunked.
Democrats didn't turn out in sufficient numbers in North Carolina to defeat a defensive marriage amendment to their state constitution.
And again, just so you understand, gay marriage was not so-called defeated.
What North Carolina voted on yesterday in their constitutional amendment was a definition of marriage.
It simply says, and by the way, I'm going to read this to you in due course.
I've got all this in a certain order, and I'm going to get to it in due course.
I'm going to read to you this amendment.
It's the most simple, direct, easy to understand, non-controversial, controversial, non-provocative statement, little amendment.
All it does is say that the Constitution of North Carolina shall define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and nothing else.
Barack Obama, who is evolving on this issue.
Barack Obama, who is publicly opposed to gay marriage, put out a statement yesterday after the North Carolina vote, basically saying that the people of North Carolina Are a bunch of backward thinking bigots.
All they did was agree with him.
All the people of North Carolina did was vote in a manner that, according to what Obama says, right in line with his own thinking, and yet he assaults them.
And in the process gives away what everybody knows about Obama.
He's pro-gay marriage, but he just doesn't have the guts to say so because it will not help him get re-elected, despite what the New York Times says about how popular the issue is.
Even in editions of the paper today, as it goes down for the 31st or 32nd consecutive time, state after state after state.
The New York Times still with a story about how popular gay marriage is, particularly among the young.
Where's the evidence?
Every time there's a poll that counts, an election, it loses.
And in places like California, you have to have a judge who's biased overturn a vote for it to become law.
The only way it can become law in a state so far is if an activist judge tells the people they have no business voting the way they did.
Thank you.
Democrats did turn out, however, well, they didn't turn out in Wisconsin.
They didn't turn out in North Carolina, but guess where they did turn out?
Democrats turned out big time in West Virginia in the presidential primary to vote for an inmate.
A federal prisoner, the Boyd Crowder of West Virginia.
Federal inmate 11593-051 is a picture of the guy.
Let me see if it's still up.
Let me check real quick.
Yep.
Picture of the guy on Drudge.
Picture of inmate 11593-051.
This is the guy that gave Obama a run for his money in West Virginia.
Now, ask yourself this, folks.
Why would Democrats in West Virginia vote for a federal inmate as opposed to a president sitting president of their own party?
Maybe it is something very simple, very common sense, and very explainable.
Maybe it is the people of West Virginia realize that Barack Obama poses the biggest threat to their livelihood of anybody on the ballot this time around, with his attacks on the coal industry, with his attacks on the oil industry, with his attacks on natural gas, with his attacks on conventional energy, with his promotion of green energy, shutting down all these jobs that exist in West Virginia.
And even now, the media, as we're doing, I will admit too, but the media looking at the results yesterday, what will be the effect on Obama?
How about once we look at what will the effect be on the country?
Because that's what the people voting are voting on.
Yes, it's Obama that's getting them out.
There wasn't a single singular Republican leader on a ballot yesterday.
You had Murdoch in Indiana, Scott Walker attracting votes, but there wasn't a presidential candidate on the ballot yesterday.
There was there were ideas.
Ideas were on ballots yesterday.
Ideas are what Trumped.
And it was conservative ideas that skunked.
Socialist utopianism yesterday.
So the Democrats don't turn out North Carolina.
They don't turn out in Wisconsin, but they do turn out in the Democrat primary in Wisconsin.
And in eight, maybe more counties, they beat Obama with a federal inmate.
If I didn't know better, I would say there is a war on Obama being waged by the Democrats.
Certainly looks that way to me.
Looks to me like Democrats in West Virginia want jobs.
It would appear to me that Democrats in West Virginia want lower gasoline prices.
They want higher home values.
They want more disposable income.
They don't want people telling them what kind of light bulb they have to buy.
They don't want a bunch of nameless bureaucracies running around talking about crucifying energy executives.
Well, you see, the Democrats in West Virginia figured out their president put a moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf and refused to okay the Keystone Pipeline.
He spent a trillion dollars on non-existent shovel ready jobs.
He ran up five trillion dollars in new debt in three and a half years, yet Americans are fleeing the job market due to utter frustration.
There is no improvement in the job market, there's no economic growth, there's no reason to re-elect the guy.
And Democrats in at least eight counties in West Virginia said we'd rather have an inmate from a federal prison than Barack Obama.
Now they don't really mean that, but it's a protest vote.
Oh, and there's the Occupy Wall Street riots.
Yeah, these are things supposed to coalesce the vote for Obama.
That's what the media tells us.
It's another reason all these people from wherever party showed up and voted the way they did yesterday.
I firmly believe this.
I think an incalculable number of Americans, a vast majority, are also voting against the media.
I think they've had it.
I think they've had it with the obvious lies, not just bias, but the insults to their intelligence.
With the daily reporting of Obama and the economy as though this is just normal standard fare, Democrats run it for four years, then Republicans know.
People realize we've not had to deal with things like this, but this is not how things happen in this country.
It's no wonder the Democrats are the ones that are so angry, isn't it?
Thank you.
It's uh it's interesting and amazing to watch.
Here is the North Carolina Defense of Marriage Act amendment.
Are you ready?
Reads as follows.
Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.
This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party, nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts.
But marriage is between one man and one woman and is the only domestic legal union that shall be recognized.
So it's clear they they'd already voted down gay marriage.
They did this in North Carolina because they're afraid a rogue judge would overturn it.
So they amended the Constitution to define marriage.
And this has sent the media and the Democrats into a tizzy.
Now, I'm certain this is very well written.
It's very simple to understand, correct, Snerdley, you understood every word of this.
There's nothing nothing confusing about this.
And I'm certain that if the president himself, who is a superb writer, we're told that.
Despite the fact he makes up people and conversations in his autobiography, which is permitted because he can do it.
But I'm certain the president himself sat down to write a defense of marriage act, amendment to a state constitution.
This is how he would have written it.
The president's publicly said that he's opposed to gay marriage.
If somebody said, would you write us a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as that between a man and a woman, I'm sure to come up with something just like this, right?
Because this is what the president said he believes.
Well, no, he's in the process of evolving, but he hasn't moved off his original statement that he is opposed to gay marriage.
It's evolving, and Biden went out there Sunday, gave him a little bit of a problem on it.
But by the way, we've now I got a soundbite.
Biden was sent out, it was done on purpose.
It was not at Biden gaffe.
It was strategic and as we knew it was, trial balloon or what have you.
It was an attempt for somebody in the administration To give a SOP to that constituency without Obama having to do it.
The gutless wonder doesn't want to make the statement himself.
So send Biden, send plugs out there and let that be the statement for the administration.
But it didn't quite go that way because after plugs said it, his problem is he's off the cuff so much, nobody knew whether he meant it.
So they go to the White House, did plugs mean what he said?
Is this the position of and Carney didn't know what to say because they were prepared for Biden's statement to have been conclusive, inclusive of the whole administration?
It was supposed to be over.
But because it's plugs, and he tells guys in wheelchairs to stand up, Chuck, oh gee, Chuck, I'm sorry, Chuck can't stand up.
He's paralyzed.
Well, let's all stand up for Chuck.
Biden does that kind of stuff.
The media properly said, does he even know what he's saying?
So they go to the White House.
Carney uh president's evolving.
So all we can go on is the president's last statement, he's opposed to gay marriage, right?
So why did the president authorize a statement that's particularly vicious after North Carolina voted?
I'll have that statement for you when we come back.
As I pointed out in North Carolina, the uh the marriage amendment uh definition in North Carolina won in the college towns.
It won.
Where it was expected to, the blue areas of the state.
Where young college students are live and let live, fine.
Gay marriage, do it, no problem.
It still went down overwhelming landslide defeat.
That's why Democrats say, what the heck have we done?
We're gonna send all this convention money to a state with a bunch of backwards tobacco juice spitting hayseed hicks with gun racks in the back of the pickup trucks who show up on Saturday nights to get the best parking spaces for church on Sunday.
Who think marriage is between a man and a woman?
What were we thinking?
Now here's Obama's statement.
Well, the statement he authorized, statement from the regime.
The president has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples.
This is his spokesman Cameron French, North Carolina spokesman.
President Obama believes the North Carolina measure singles out and discriminates against committed gay and lesbian couples, which is why he didn't support it.
President Obama has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples and is disappointed in the passage of this amendment.
Well, now wait a minute.
All this amendment does is pretty much codify what Obama's public position is.
He's opposed to marriage being defined anything other than a man and a woman.
And that's all this amendment does.
But now somehow the people of North Carolina have been divisive, discriminatory.
They want to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples.
Well, so does Obama.
If denying rights to same-sex couples is the same thing as opposing gay marriage.
Now I know what the the the White House is uh is saying that some people claim the North Carolina uh amendment goes further that it outlaws civil partnerships.
With that contract language, I'm uh I'm not so sure.
But I think you know, here's you know, Obama's problem with gay marriage.
If you if you you wonder why they send plugs out there on the Sunday show to hopefully make the statement for the administration so that Obama doesn't have to.
That's what O'Biden's appearance was.
Uh Biden's.
We now know that the way it was supposed to be played was O'Biden's Biden says, well, I got no problem with gay marriage.
Yeah, no problem, yeah, yeah.
Totally comfortable.
That was supposed to be the end of it all.
That was the administration's statement.
But because it's plugs, media went to Jay Carney and said, well, see, speaking for you and Obama, and that's when the because gay marriage is opposed by a large percentage in the African American community.
Am I right about that, Snurley?
That's why Obama can't come out and talk about so that's why he's got to sit here and bash what happened in North Carolina.
Yet he might use this as a means of pivoting now and try to turn the people of North Carolina where their convention's gonna be to a bunch of hay seed hick bigots.
And so you what?
I think this is fabulous.
I have to tell you, folks, everybody, and I mean everybody is asking me.
So Wesh, what's going on with Hillary and no more makeup and no more hairdo's and all that?
Come on, folks.
Just be honest with yourselves.
You can answer that.
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