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May 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 10, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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I forgot.
I forgot to tungsten.
Tungsten is used primarily, well, it's in drill bits, but it's primarily found in incandescent light bulbs.
Tungsten is necessary for incandescent light bulbs out there.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The Washington Post has a huge story today by Jason Horowitz.
Mitt Romney's prep screw classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents.
Now, this is May the 10th.
Well, I tell you, time's flying by someday.
Some days it creeps, but today, lately, I've been zipping by here.
The Washington Post can find out what Mitt Romney was doing 50 years ago in high school, but they still can't be bothered to find Barack Obama's transcripts at Columbia, at Harvard.
They can't find real girlfriends who got to go with this compressed composite.
They can't find, they're not interested in finding.
They're not interested in finding, did Obama pull all any pranks in high school?
What did Obama do in high school?
Did Obama discriminate again?
Where did Obama go to high school?
At what ages did he wear a turban or what ages did he not?
They haven't found out any of this stuff.
Well, are there pictures of him wearing a turban?
I think in Kenya.
My point is the Washington Post can find out what Romney was doing in Hashkruel, but they can't be bothered to find out what Obama's transcripts, even some of his writings from college and law school.
These incidents that the Washington Post has dug up, dug deep, happened in 1965.
And what they focus on here is that Romney teased, mocked, taunted a student that even the Post says could have been gay.
Could have been gay.
Now, we know what's going on here.
This is the campaign.
This is exactly you've been warned.
You knew.
You don't need to be warned.
You know, this kind of stuff's coming.
This is what the Drive-By Media does in conjunction with the Democrat in the White House.
When I saw this, I just started laughing.
And I just, how as recently as 2000, when they dug up the George W. Bush DUI the weekend before the election, well, everybody was really upset about that, panicked over the impact it might have, and it did make the election closer.
But here we are 12 years later.
Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I think most people are going to laugh at this.
It's so obvious now.
It is so pathetically transparent what this is.
Media ganging up on Romney, a pro-Obama media, ganging up on Romney.
1965.
Probably a stretch to say it had anything to do with the kid being presumed gay.
If you had long hair in 1965, you're going to get razzed.
It didn't matter.
They weren't going to think you were in the Beatles.
If you had long hair in 1965, you were going to get made fun of.
See, 1965 is a great year.
Bullying was legal.
Watch that be a quote that shows up at Media Matters.
Limbaugh praising bullying while defending Romney.
Ah, yes.
Remember now, this is the same Washington Post that found that the N-word was painted on the underside of a rock at a summer camp where Rick Perry used to go 100 years ago.
Remember that, Rachel?
You don't remember.
That's why I'm here hosting.
During the Republican presidential primaries, the Washington Post ran a story.
You know what?
They found a rock, some summer camp that young Rick Perry went, they found the N-word written on the bottom of it.
Somebody had to go there.
You know, there used to be a rock here years and years ago.
It had the N-word on it.
Really?
Where was that rock?
They went out, they found it, turned it over.
Lo and behold, there it was.
And since Perry had once gone to that camp, guess what?
Perry either wrote it himself or knew about it and didn't say anything.
Either way, Rick Perry was a dirty dog racist and actually had to spend time in a Republican debate, quote unquote, defending this.
Now, if the pattern holds true, what we're going to find out here, so we've got a story in the Washington Post about Romney and the pranks he pulled, and he might have taunted a gay student in 1965.
So if the pattern holds true, like with the dog story, remember the dog story?
You do?
Tell me about the dog.
I want to make sure you understand the dog story.
You're not going to be on the air.
I just want you to tell me what is the dog story.
Right.
So what do we find out?
We find out that Romney is also insensitive to animals, hates dogs, mistreats them just this side of Michael Vick.
Romney and the family got in the family sedan or family station wagon.
They couldn't fit the dog in it, so they put it in a cage on top of the family sedan.
They drove down the highway.
Dog loved it.
Romney accused of having no heart where it comes to dogs, right?
Then we find out some quite accidentally that Obama admits to eating dog in his in his one of his autobiographies.
So if the pattern holds, what we're going to find out here, not only will we find that Obama harassed a student in high school, but that he cut the student's hair off, just didn't make fun of the kid for long hair, and then ate the hair and wrote about the nutritional value of the kid's hair.
Obama admitted in his first biography that he's tried cocaine.
Does the Washington Post ever try to find the seller?
They haven't.
The Washington Post ever tried to find, well, the neighborhood where it happened, where you talked to other people who might have been around when Barry was doing cocaine.
Yeah, I haven't seen that article either.
But we got, when you print this thing out, one, two, three pages here, Mitt Romney, prep school classmates, recall pranks, but also troubling incidents.
Now, here's some of it.
Mitt Romney returned.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan is the date line.
Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies at a hasscrew And the prestigious Cranbrook School.
Oh, well, now it's even worse.
It's a prestigious school as opposed to some dump public school.
Yeah, he's a high-scruel senior, the prestigious Cranbrook Scruel back on the handsome campus.
Oh, it was a handsome campus, too.
Like Romney's hair.
It was handsome.
Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields.
Oh, what a picture they're painting.
We're not even finished with the first sentence.
And we have a picture of Romney's school as though it's where the titans of industry gather for the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Back on the campus, Romney spotted something he thought didn't belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases.
Here's the picture.
Got this idyllic setting, the prestigious Cranbrook Scruel.
Romney, 1965, coming off spring break.
Look at, I was in school in 1965.
It wasn't any such thing as spring break.
There was not spring, not for hat screw, but minor point.
Comes back from spring break.
And among the tudor brick buildings and the manicured fields, the ever-observant Mitt Romney saw something that he think didn't belong at this place.
The right people, you see, wore ties and carried briefcases in high school.
John Lauber, soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, perpetually teased for his nonconformity and his presumed homosexuality.
Presumed.
And now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleach blonde hair that draped over one eye and Romney wasn't having it.
An incensed Romney said to Matthew Friedman, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, he can't look like that.
That's wrong.
Just look at him.
So according to Friedman's recollection, Romney kept complaining about Lauber's look.
A few days later, Friedman, the friend of Romney's, the tattletale here, entered Stevens Hall off the screw's collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse, shouting about their plan to cut Lauber's hair.
Friedman followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him, pinned him to the ground as Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help.
Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.
The incident was recalled by five students, comma, who gave their accounts independently of one another.
Four of them, Friedman, now a dentist, Philip Maxwell, a lawyer, Thomas Buford, a retired professor, up prosecutor, and David Seed, a retired principal, spoke on the record.
Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named.
The men have differing political affiliations, although mostly lean Democrat.
Buford volunteered for Obama's campaign in 2008.
Seed, registered independent, served as a Republican County chairman of Michigan.
All of them said that politics, in no way, ain't no way, no way, did politics color their recollections.
Didn't matter.
It happened very quickly, and to this day, troubles me, said Buford, the school's wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber.
Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was terrified.
What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.
Friedman said he's just easy Pickens, presumed gay, blonde hair, over one eye.
The student prefect, student authority leader at Stevens, expressed remorse about his failure to stop that be Friedman.
The incident transpired to Flash.
Friedman and Romney, said Romney, then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room.
And Stevens, wow, Romney's dorm room had bay windows, too.
He had bay windows to go back to after harassing and cutting the hair of a presumed homosexual student whose hair was too long at the idyllic and prestigious Cranbrook school.
That's just first three or four paragraphs, folks.
Look at what all the Washington Post found out.
Look, they went out and they find five guys.
Politics, nothing to do with, of course not, no, no.
Five guys to give Romney up on this story.
They can't find anybody that even knew Obama anywhere.
They don't care to find anybody that knew Obama.
If somebody has come forward, say, I knew Obama.
Sorry, we're not interested.
We've already got the story on Obama and we're not changing it.
They're not even interested.
Now, we've got, grab audio soundbite, let's see here, 26, 27, Fox News, radio, Fox News Radio, Kill Mead and friends.
Brian Killmead, they had Romney on there.
Killmead tells him about this Washington Post story and says, is it about what you did?
It's a kid around high school age.
How would you characterize the Washington Post piece?
Governor Romney, did you really terrorize, bully, threaten, taunt, mock, make fun of, yell at, laugh at, humiliate this presumed blonde-headed gay guy?
They talk about the fact that I played a lot of pranks in high school, and they described some that, well, you just say to yourself that back in high school, you know, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, why obviously I apologize.
Okay, so he apologized for it.
Killmead said, Governor, in a situation like this, and everybody's talking about gay rights, same-sex marriage, this article, in my humble opinion, Governor, is put out to show that you grew up in an intolerant environment.
Do you think that characterizes you properly?
No, of course not.
The incidents that they're speaking about in both cases, they indicated that the people involved didn't come out of the closet until years later.
The idea that this was something that was known by me or, oh, I can't speak for others by me is obviously absurd.
I had no idea that this person might have been gay.
And the article points out I participated in a lot of hijinks and Franks during high school, and some may have gone too far.
And for that, I apologize.
Right.
So Romney's apologized.
I mean, that's early this morning when this happened.
So Romney apologized.
Washington Post dug deep and got the details on this.
Should Romney have apologized?
Should he have, because that basically ends the story, moves it on.
Should he have ignored it?
Did he do the right thing, snurdy, and apologizing?
He couldn't ignore it.
This is not so obvious as to be laughed at.
This is not, I mean, the timing, the presumed game.
I don't know.
See, I think the audience, the voting public, is so much more sophisticated and aware now than they were even 12 years ago in 2000 that maybe I'm projecting.
I'm sophisticated.
This, I recognize what this is.
This is absolute BS.
Yeah.
Well, but my audience doesn't believe the stuff about me.
I don't doubt it works with Brian, you know, brain-numbed, maybe independent.
I don't, but this is so gay marriage goes down to, hey, see, what is it to post today?
Romney beat up a gay kid in 1965.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
That's it for Romney.
I've had it.
I didn't like him anyway, but he beat up a gay kid in 65.
That's it for me.
I just don't see things working that way.
I guess maybe they still do.
I got to go.
Quick break.
Back after a little bit.
I assure you, I've got to print this.
Sorry, I've got to print this.
Come on, Print.
Come on, Print.
I've got to show you something here on the diddle cam.
I just, I can't describe it.
Turn the diddle camera off because I have to zoom it.
I got two minutes.
I got to print this thing out.
It's the next cover of Time magazine.
The headline, Are You Mom Enough?
Let me zoom in here.
Hang on, folks.
Hang on.
Zooming in.
I'm zooming in.
Okay, are you ready?
There it is.
The latest Time magazine: Are You Mom Enough?
It is a mother standing up in a jogging outfit tank top.
Her left breast is exposed and her son is eating.
We don't, well, her name is at the bottom here, but it does.
I can't read it because this is a small picture.
I've blown it up.
Her name and the son's name is on this.
I just can't read it.
It's a real mother and child.
And this story is about a psychiatrist or psychologist that, well, you read the headline there: the why attachment parenting drives some mothers to extremes and how Dr. Bill Sears becomes their guru.
So this apparently is attachment motherhood.
This, to some people, would be pornography on the cover of Time magazine.
Some people, certainly after this, this would be pornography.
You have, how old do you say that kid is, Rachel?
What, four, five?
How old's that baby?
Not a baby.
Five years old.
Okay, and five years old.
The woman's 30, 27, 30, looks like a model.
You'd have to say.
Blonde, short hair, smiling, looks happy.
26, and the boy is three.
Okay, Brian Simon knows this.
He can barely read it.
And the three-year-old is what?
Well, it's what do you call it?
Nursing time.
Breast fully exposed, chowing down there.
That's exactly what's happening.
Talent on lawn from God.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Okay, we know the name of the woman and her child, the cover story of Time Magazine.
I thought I'd name it Julia.
But her name is not Julia.
Her name is Jamie Lynn Grumette.
She's 26.
Her kid is three.
She's described a Time magazine piece as 26-year-old stay-at-home home schooling mother of two in Los Angeles.
She writes a blog about parenting issues.
She's an advocate of this guy, Bill Sears, Dr. Bill Sears, and his work on child rearing and breastfeeding.
She's an advocate, and she often posts photos of herself breastfeeding her son on her blog.
That's probably how Time Magazine came across it.
Now, the main story is not about her.
She just cover photo.
The main story in Time is about this Bill Sears guy, a pediatrician known as Dr. Bill.
He's written more than 30 books on parenting.
He promotes attachment parenting.
Attachment parenting, a child-rearing philosophy in which parents are encouraged to be more emotionally available to their kids.
Attachment parenting advocates breastfeeding.
It says no to spanking and other finds of corporal punishment.
Grumette's son in the picture, Aaron is his name, will be four next month.
And Grumette said in the interview that her mother breastfed her till she was six.
Her son's four.
Is that a long time?
I wouldn't know.
Really, I thought her name would be Julia.
I thought this would be a story on utopia.
That's what I thought it was going to be.
You know, follow-up to the slideshow Obama had about Julia.
Here's what you could do.
If you replace her, hey, Michelle, the art director at rushlimbaugh.com, I've got it.
I've got it.
Here's what we're going to do.
This is going to be our mock-up of this.
Michelle, you go out and you get this photo and you put it up.
Time, I'm sure, won't care.
And then we're going to do a mock-up of what it really means.
And we're going to replace 26-year-old Jamie Grumette with a Statue of Liberty.
And the kid is going to be suckling the breast of the Statue of Liberty.
And it will be called Obama's child-rearing technique.
That's what I thought that it was going to be.
Have the Statue of Liberty.
Replace the mother with a Statue of Liberty and the kid sucking on the government's breast.
And you've got the Obama platform.
We can offer it as a suggestion to the Obama campaign or to the Romney campaign.
Whatever.
If there's any art director at any website that could do this, it'd be Michelle.
And now, you know, I have nationally commanded her to do this.
So she's no doubt feeling it precious.
So she'll do a great job.
You wait.
Wait till we update the site later.
That's going to be fun.
Statue of Liberty.
And by the way, the breast is fully exposed, this picture.
Well, from a side view, yeah.
The kid's mouth is full.
What the heck are you supposed to assume from this?
All right, okay.
Blues Creek, North Carolina.
Hi, Michael.
We go back to the safety confines of telephone.
Great to have you.
Swatcha from God's Country, Rush.
Thank you, sir, very much.
20-year listener.
Hey, Rush, got a little bit of a different take.
There was no way Peebo's handlers, Axelrod, or any of the rest of them were going to allow him to back a losing horse.
If he'd have come out and backed that, you know, and said that he was not in support of that constitutional amendment beforehand and because it won over 12 years.
Well, that's it.
Look, practically, yeah, it's a good point.
BMS, but the day before, but where was he?
This has been on the ballot for a while.
It's been a campaign agent.
Where was Obama leading on?
This is my point.
All these people opening up their checkbooks to the guy.
Where is he leading?
He sits on the sidelines.
He lets this thing in North Carolina from his standpoint go down to defeat.
Where was the leadership?
Where was he campaign?
The Democrat convention's in your state.
Why is he?
He's been in there a lot doing economic speeches.
Why doesn't he try to gin up support for this?
Well, because he knows he's going to lose.
I mean, he knows, although they say North Carolina is a swing state, he knows he's going to lose North Carolina.
Well, but wait a minute.
He is the one.
He is the guy that's supposed to change people's minds.
He's the leader.
He's supposed to take the country into 21st century.
Yeah, it's come down to a select few in Research Triangle Park, according to some of the pundits that have been.
Yeah, I am aware.
Yeah, where are they?
What's going to happen there?
And if you talk to the people in Research Triangle Park, I mean, he loses.
He's a loser.
It's not going to happen.
Wait, what isn't going to happen?
There's no way in the world he's going to get re-elected.
No way.
Oh, oh.
Dick Morris is of the same.
Dick Morris thinks that Obama could lose big, like landslide big.
Yeah, of course.
I mean, there's no way he carries North Carolina.
He may carry Charlotte.
He may carry Raleigh.
He may carry Greensboro.
But, I mean, those aren't North Carolinians.
Those are halfbacks.
Those are the folks that came from New York when the Florida halfway back.
The blue parts of the state, college towns.
He loses North Carolina.
That's big.
I didn't hear that, so let me ask again.
Michael, are you still there?
Yeah.
Did you use, you're a native North Carolinian?
Yes.
Did you use, let me ask, what term did you use to describe New Yorkers and other Northeasterners who have migrated to North Carolina?
Halfbacks.
Halfbacks.
Yeah, New Yorkers that moved to Florida.
They move halfway back to New York.
They settle in North Carolina.
Oh, oh, I got they went to Florida first.
Why didn't they stay there?
Too hot.
Too hot.
Back to North Carolina.
Halfbacks.
Okay.
We were worried here for a second.
Again, there's no way Peebo wins in North Carolina.
Yeah.
By the way, by the way, Michael, thanks for calling.
He absolute exactly right.
When I first got to Florida, 1997, I was kind of shocked to realize that Floridians go someplace for the summer.
I mean, well, Floridians.
I know that Florida's got a lot of New Yorkers that go back to the Hamptons, to Michigan, or wherever, but they go to North Carolina.
They go to the mountains of North Carolina where it's cooler.
They built golf courses up in the mountains of North Carolina.
That's where they go.
I would have thought North Carolina would be much more insufferably hot in the summertime than Florida, particularly on the beaches anyway.
But they go to the mountains.
So I didn't know the name was halfback.
And that means they're halfway home.
Okay, we got them out of Florida now.
We're waiting for him to just make the move, get all the way back to New York.
Halfbacks.
And that's why, in addition to being college towns, the cities in North Carolina are blue.
Vote Democrat.
Be right back.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, Cutting Edge Societal Evolution.
By the way, the Politico says, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama's support for gay marriage could cause him to lose at least seven battleground states.
Politico says this.
The battleground states that Obama could lose because of support for gay marriage are North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, and Ohio, and Missouri.
And of course, every one of those states, you're going to get hayseed hicks or dead old, nearly dead old white people or whatever.
That's also part of the story.
The reason why Obama might lose them is because of the reprobates that live there.
The people that are caught living 50, 60 years ago in the past and so forth and so on.
Want to rush babes for America?
The numbers of people, the women who have signed up at Rush Babes for their Facebook page, we have zoomed past the total membership, the number of friends that the National Organization for Women has.
We're over 55,000 now, maybe even higher than that.
But we're only 5,000 members away from beating Media Matters for America in terms of people who like it, friends, all that.
And we've been up 48 hours.
And I've mentioned it.
This is the third time I've mentioned it.
And we're only 5,000 away from beating Media Matters.
We're way ahead of the NAGs.
And the purpose of the site is to demonstrate that there are far, far more women in this country who disagree with the national organization.
They do not speak for women, all women, not even close, either in number or in the way women think.
The media presents the National Organization for Women as the one organization speaking for, representing the interests of women, and it's a crock.
And of course, they say that I am a reprobate and filled with hate, and I must be taken off the air.
So we've assembled a Facebook page that has many more women who don't want anything that the NAGs want.
And we put items of interest up at this Facebook page.
The address, by the way, if you'd like to check it out and become a friend, is facebook.com/slash rushbabes for America.
Facebook.com slash RushBabesforamerica.
And by the way, I'm getting lots of emails from people who are subscribers of the website who say, look at it, I want to be counted, but I'm not going to use Facebook.
Some people don't trust social media, don't want to go there, but they still want to be counted.
So we are keeping a running tally, and we are counting you too.
One of the most respected, prolific professional football writers in the country is Peter King of Sports Illustrated.
He's probably, he's on the Hall of Fame committee.
He's one of the most accomplished, one of the most respected of all writers in the NFL.
One of his good friends is a guy named Rick Goslin, who might be the second most.
You know, Rick Goslin, I knew from Kansas City, he's at the Dallas Morning News.
And Goslin was part of the bunch of us that played flag football.
When I was with the Royals, played flag football every Thursday afternoon after work.
Well, we'd leave work early at 4 o'clock.
After the baseball season, we'd play the Chiefs' front office.
Royals' front office would.
Sometimes some players would come out and members of the media.
And Goslin played every Thursday.
Rain or shine, mud, snow, didn't matter.
Went out there.
It was those afternoons, some of the most fun of my lineup.
Peter King wasn't there, but Goslin was.
And I just want to read to you something Goslin wrote, I think in his Tuesday morning quarterback column on the Sports Illustrated website.
I'm thinking about the game, the NFL, and about all the head trauma.
And I need to do some more thinking about whether it's in anyone's long-term interest to play this game.
I read this to you because I wanted to have it confirmed for you that people whose lives, whose livings are made from this game, are thinking about the possibility that it should be shut down, that it might be shut down, that it's in nobody's interest to play the game.
For Peter King to write this, I need to do some more thinking about whether it's in anyone's long-term interest to play this game.
I told you, folks, there are people paving the way for some people down the road to officially or adamantly suggest this game be banned.
People paving the way, media people who cover it.
I thought that was incredible.
I need to do some more thinking about whether it's in anyone's long-term interest to play this game.
All the head trauma, the junior sayho suicide.
Don't doubt me.
Ladies and gentlemen, don't doubt me.
I knew it.
National Journal, big-time Washington publication.
They do the hotline.
National Journal's big.
F. Chuck Todd used to work there.
Ron Brownstein now works there.
Headline, all I need to know: Democrats having second thoughts about Charlotte.
I told you, I knew this had to happen.
Well, I knew they would consider it.
Like I told you yesterday, the Democrats said, why in the world should we spend all that money in a state with a bunch of redneck hayseed hicks show up Saturday night to get the best parking spot for church on Sunday who think that marriage is between a man and a woman?
What are we doing?
Spending money in a state with people like that in it.
Don't know where they're going to go.
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