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May 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 17, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Some drudge headlines.
Reuters, Europe could sink Obama.
Bank run fears hit the European Union.
There had been a run on banks in Greece, by the way.
Gallup has a poll out.
Mitt Romney, a nine-point favorability lead over Barack Obama.
We haven't talked about presidential politics much today, but nothing is much changed.
In fact, somebody sent me something last night.
One of the members of the Bush family, his John Ellis is his name.
In fact, John Ellis, if my memory is right, back in 2000, John Ellis was one of the directors of Fox election night coverage.
He was the guy who made the calls state by state for Fox as to who won the state, be it Bush or Gore.
I think it was John Ellis.
He's no longer there, but he is a Bush family member, somewhat distant.
For example, uh Jeb Bush, the J.E. and Jeb is for John Ellis.
This guy's name is John Ellis.
But anyway, just trying to establish who the guy is.
I think he made the original call for Bush in Florida and then had to change it, and then the whole thing blew up on every network.
But now he's out on his own as a polster blogger and analyst.
And somebody sent me some of his stuff last night.
He's he's got two predictions on the presidential outcome.
It's either going to be a narrow Obama victory or a sweeping Romney victory.
Those are the two scenarios that he sees.
A narrow Obama win or a sweeping Romney win.
And he doesn't side on uh either way, that doesn't uh emphasize either way, have a preference for either way or doesn't have an indication of either way.
But it sounded pretty right to me.
I I think if Romney wins this, my point's going to be big.
I don't think it's going to be eking out some victory.
If Romney wins this thing, it's going to be huge.
And I think he's exactly right.
If Obama wins this thing, it's going to be very, very narrow, and it'll be narrow for a lot of extraneous uh reasons that have nothing to do with civics.
101.
We played some soundbites at Joe Biden yesterday.
We're literally lost it.
Just uh lost control.
And it sounds that way, but when you see the video, we're going to play the soundbites again.
We've got a couple of new ones.
When you when you see Biden saying what you're going to hear.
He looks off balance out of kilter, not all there in the eyes.
It is the strangest, strangest thing.
And everybody was talking about it yesterday.
And was he doing it on purpose?
What's he up to here?
One of the theories is that Biden is genuinely fearful that they're going to get rid of him.
And he's doing everything he can to stay on the ticket.
In fact, that theory has it that Biden purposely went on meet the press and said that as far as the administration is concerned, same-sex marriage totally acceptable to us now.
Totally fine.
I have no problem with it.
And of course, we've now heard that that was not planned, and that this forced poor old Obama's hand, because Obama really wasn't through evolving.
But this sped up Obama's Obama's evolving.
Obama had already reached His decision, he let the cat out of the bag to Robin Roberts.
He had already reached his decision.
He just didn't want to announce it now.
He wanted to announce it either before the convention or sometime this summer to get more bang out of it.
Now there's another theory going around that the uh to indicate the nervousness on the Obama side.
That story of the Washington Post last week about Romney bullying that blonde-headed long-haired maggot-infested guy at the prestigious school.
Front page, Washington Post.
Uh the story smacked of desperation, and it turned out to be not true to boot.
And so one of the theories is that everybody on the Obama side is panicking right now because nobody thought that Obama would be where he is in the polls.
Nobody thought he'd be as as laughed at, uh not taken seriously.
Everybody on the Obama side, including the media is sort of out of kilter.
Because they really expected to be able to relive the 2008 campaign, to recreate the whole messianic business.
Going to North Carolina, the convention at Bank of America Stadium, bringing back the Greek columns, accepting the nomination in front of 70,000 people.
That may not be possible.
They may not be able to get they can't get 20,000 people at Ohio State.
And they want 70,000 people, and they want big bucks renting the sky boxes in order to get in there to be able to hear and see Obama live, accept this momentous nomination for a second term.
Nothing's playing out the way this should.
So here's Biden on the campaign trail losing it.
And let's go to the audio sound bites.
This again, this is uh yesterday afternoon at Youngstown, Ohio.
And we're gonna see two from Youngstown, and he's in Martin's Ferry, Ohio today.
And he was in Steubenville last night.
So here are the two from yesterday.
We'll take them individually.
First from Youngstown.
Things really are starting to come back.
There are signs of life and hope in the heartland.
Jobs are starting to come back.
And the ones that are coming back are the kind of jobs you can build a middle class family on.
They're manufacturing jobs, decent paying jobs.
So you can live in a safe neighborhood.
Own your home, not rent your home.
If the kid wants to be able to send your kid to college or send him to trade school.
It's working.
It's working.
We're coming back.
We're coming back.
Jobs are starting to come back.
And it wants you to go.
It was off the rails.
Oh, by the way.
News flash just breaking on the Bloomberg wire.
Hewlett Packard considering cutting as many as 25,000 jobs, eight percent of its workforce.
The day after Joe Biden says things are really starting to come back.
Signs of life and hope in the heartland, jobs starting to come back, the ones that are coming back, the kinds of jobs you can build a middle class family on.
Hewlett Packard laying off eight percent of its workforce.
Again, there are very few times I wish this was a television show.
This is one of I wish you could really see Biden's eyes and his face.
I mean, it it's it's it's hard to describe uh with with uh inoffensive language.
This doesn't seem all there, folks, and and the theories abound that he's trying to save his spot on the ticket here.
That he's really worried.
Here's the next one.
I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in.
I resent the fact that they think we're talking about we're envy, it's job envy, it's wealth envy, that we don't dream.
My mother believed, and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.
My mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire.
My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams.
They don't get us, They don't get who we are.
Let me tell you why, Mr. Vice President.
They don't get you because you're out there trying to punish everybody that becomes a millionaire.
You're blaming millionaires for everything that's going wrong in the country instead of blaming you and your party and President Obama because you, Vice President Biden, are responsible for this destruction of the U.S. economy.
You are responsible for irresponsible debt creation.
You are responsible for people all over this country thinking it's over for their own kids and grandkids.
Nobody associates economic growth with you.
Nobody associates prosperity with you or the Democrat Party.
Nobody associates escalating opportunity and the opportunity to become a millionaire with a Democrat Party.
All they hear from your party is how those people are evil.
The rich are not paying their fair share.
The rich are not contributing enough.
The rich are stealing everything from everybody else.
The rich have more than anybody should have.
I don't know where this guy gets off thinking that he and Obama and the Democrat Party are inspiring people to do better.
Mr. Vice President, what you are doing is paving the road for people to accept mediocrity.
That's what you're doing.
You are paving a picture of this country as the best days are behind it.
And you're trying to say this happened because of people like George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Except when you're trying to be Reagan.
But he's off the rails here because he understands exactly he's not inspiring anybody to be a millionaire.
My mother believed my father believed.
I remember also at the convention when Biden was in Denver, we made this acceptance speech.
Remember when you remember the sturdy?
Biden got up there and said, My mother taught me when I got hit, I want to hit the other guy back and I would have bloody his nose.
I said, Well, why don't you teach that?
You teach everybody to waffle and lay down and let people walk all over them.
You believe in conflict resolution.
You don't people standing up for themselves.
This is psychotic.
See, it's difficult to describe this with without using inflammatory language.
And I'm I'm but I listen to this.
Who do these people think they are?
You can't have it both ways, Mr. Vice President.
You can't tell people that you want the best for them in terms of their being able to do their best.
The best for them, what you mean by that is what you're gonna give them if they vote for you.
And it's going to be a hell of a lot.
How many mortgages have you saved?
How many people underwater water homes have you saved?
How many shovel-ready jobs have you created?
Zilch.
Everything Biden said about job creation after stimulus bill, not one thing has come true.
800,000, 500,000 jobs a month, not even close.
115,000 jobs created last month.
We're not even anywhere near a replacement level of job creation, much less growth.
Run around trying to make people think that your party inspires people to be the best they can be.
You are training people that if they become millionaires, there's something wrong with them.
That they're cheaters.
You're trying to get people to literally despise the rich.
You are the authors of class envy and class warfare.
Your parents may have told you that in this country you can be anything you want to be, but you don't tell people that anymore, Mr. Vice President.
I firmly believe his parents told him that.
I firmly believe his grandparents believe the greatest country on earth.
And Joe, whatever you want to be, you grow up, you can be.
That's the beauty of this country.
Joe's not teaching that to people anymore.
Obama doesn't teach that to people anymore.
This morning he's in Martin's Ferry, Ohio at a campaign event.
Not anti-capitalist, for God's sake, it's a system that built the country.
We hope investors do well.
But you can't build an economy.
Economy of the future where the only people who do well are the investors and everybody else pays the price.
You can't do that.
Oh, you just said yesterday that you want people to become millionaires.
And now here you are out ripping them to shreds.
We're not anti-capitalists.
For God's sake, it's a system build the country.
Yes, it is, and you have totally thrown it overboard.
We hope investors do well, but you can't build an economy of the future where the only people to do well are the investors.
Whoever said that in the first place.
Where is it written that only the investors do well?
And by the way, what is an investor?
An investor to them is a hedge fund guy.
An investor to them as a billionaire.
You want to hear grab somebody 26.
You want to hear what this administration is all about.
Little Timmy, the tax cheat, the Treasury secretary, the egghead theoretician from academia, who's never worked a day in his life in the private sector and doesn't understand profit and loss and doesn't understand risk and doesn't understand capitalism and furthermore hates it, was at the uh banking and regulation uh JP Morgan's well, he was he was in Baltimore talking about banking and regulation.
And the and the two billion dollar JP Morgan Chase loss.
Now let me just tell you something.
A genuine capitalist.
Biden says that we're not anti-capitalists, good God, for God's sake, Chuck, stand up, let them say Oh, God, oh, God bless Chuck.
Oh, gee.
Stand up for Chuck.
What an...
Yeah.
you Yeah.
We're not any capitalists for God's sake.
Okay.
If you're not an anti-capitalist, then what you know about J.P. Morgan Chase and their two billion dollar loss is it happens.
There are winners and there are losers multiple times a day.
In every walk of life, not just high finance.
There are winners and losers on construction sites.
There are winners and losers in the classroom.
There are winners and losers in the media.
There are winners and losers in politics.
And you cannot guarantee that nobody will ever lose.
And you cannot guarantee that nobody will ever suffer.
And you cannot guarantee that nobody will ever win either.
Okay, so JP Morgan Chase, somebody there screws up.
Two billion dollar loss.
And what does Little Timmy want to do about it?
Makes a very powerful, compelling case for the financial reforms we've already put in place.
And the ones we're still in the process of shaping.
And the Federal Reserve and the SEC and the other regulators who have responsibility for these rules are going to take a very careful look at what actually happened.
Right, so we want more regulation.
That's not capitalism, Mr. Vice President.
You are not capitalists, and you don't even understand it.
And little Timmy.
Pure egghead if there ever was one running around now saying the only problem with JP Morgan Chase is that there isn't enough oversight by people like me.
Meaning himself.
I have to take a break.
These people, folks.
They are destructive, whether they know it or not, whether they're trying to or not, I don't actually don't care anymore.
I'm just they haven't the slightest idea what they're doing.
Obama has 500,000 to a million dollars invested in Chase, not General Motors.
Do you know that?
He's got maybe a million dollars invested in it.
He's out there, so he loves Jamie Dimon.
Gotta take a break.
Don't go away.
And a little Donna Summer into the bumper rotation.
Donna Summer dead today, 63 years old of cancer.
We grew up with her, snurtly.
It really is said.
We grew up with Donna Summer.
I um I met Donna Summer one time and her husband on an airplane.
She and her husband, after the flight took off, came up to me and introduced themselves.
And uh we had a nice conversation.
They they were uh nice as they could be.
And I was I'm I'm sitting there in awe.
I can't believe and she was beautiful.
She was she was tall, she was she was beautiful, and she was dressed to the nines on this flight.
Her husband uh also a singer.
He was he was uh a good looking guy, and they were quote unquote friends.
They They were one of us.
They were.
That's what that's what they wanted to come tell me.
It really was uh.
I I uh during her big string of hits, um the disco era, and I was I I played those records on the radio.
It was a disc.
You listened to them, I played them.
Uh I I uh when I was in charge of producing the games, Kansas City at the Royals and Donna Summer stuff, pre-game between innings and so forth.
Um, there was a guy in the um in the business department of the Royals that just had a crush on her that wouldn't stop.
They're talking about nothing but Donna Summer.
And just um nobody knew she was sick.
She she tried to keep it well, people knew that she was sick, but not that it was as advanced uh as it was.
But yeah, she was a committed Christian.
She was a uh she's one of us, she was a right winger.
She she came to hate the smut on the radio.
She was not a fan of uh of rap music at all.
Remember the but you remember this Love to Love You Baby?
Oh to love you, baby.
Oh.
She was a it was controversial back then.
She was a pioneer.
There's uh no question, I'd much rather talk about her than Joe Biden anyway.
But I have to go back to Biden.
I have to, we're not through there.
We'll be back.
We're back, Rush Limboy here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Vice President Biden.
Tomorrow there are going to be a bunch of brand new millionaires and a couple of billionaires made in this country when Facebook goes public.
Facebook doing their initial public offering tomorrow.
And I read where uh Mark Zuckerberg, if this thing tops out, Zuckerberg could end up number two on the wealthiest guy in the country list.
He could get past Warren Buffett.
He could end up with 40 plus billion dollars.
Are you gonna have a problem with that, Mr. Biden?
And what about all the millionaires that are gonna be created tomorrow after the Facebook IPO?
See, here's the thing with these people, folks.
This is what Biden's telling them it's okay to dream about being a millionaire, but won't you damn ever accomplish it?
That's what his parents told him.
He could dream to be.
You can dream it, you can be a millionaire.
If you become one with Obama and Biden in charge of things, you are a target.
They're coming after you.
You are going to be blamed for everything going wrong in the country.
You're gonna be accused of not paying your pay a fair share, and they're gunning for you.
And they're gonna try to drum up as much animosity toward you and the general public as possible.
They're gonna try to make sure you are hated.
All you you you you people that are gonna score tomorrow with Facebook, understand that Barack Obama has been for the past three and a half years drumming up hatred for people like you.
Resentment for people like you.
You are gonna be blamed.
You're not paying your fair share.
Remember the New York Times story on Apple and how they try to structure their business to pay as little taxes as they can.
And they found that junior college administrator who blamed his college's financial problems on the fact that Apple wasn't paying enough in taxes.
Not that his stupid state leadership had spent the state into oblivion and sixteen billion dollars.
Oh no, it was Apple's fault.
Right down the road in Cupertino.
This little guy running his little junior college or community college, whatever it was, it was Apple's fault.
They weren't paying enough in town.
Why would this guy think that?
Well, he might think it on his own, but it doesn't hurt that Barack Obama's out there reinforcing it.
It doesn't hurt that the president of the United States is validating this guy's perverted belief That his college's problems are because Apple isn't paying enough in taxes.
And by association, everybody else has a lot of money, not paying enough in taxes.
Yeah, I'm mad.
This stuff infuriates me.
It's not the way this country was built.
It is not the way this country is going to recover.
Ticks me off.
Big time.
I got one more Biden soundbite, and this is from last night's Steubenville, Ohio at a Dairy Queen ice cream shop while buying around ice cream cones for his staff and some residents.
Biden spoke to reporters.
Reporters said, You sure you got enough money?
We saw your disclosure form yesterday.
I know you're wondering.
Did you see his first comment?
It's probable no vice president will assume the office of zero assets and Joe Biden.
I assume they were talking about financial assets.
So here you have Biden bragging about his lack of income in Steubenville, Ohio at a Dairy Queen.
Could you hear that?
You make it out.
It's probable no vice president ever assumed the office with fewer assets than Joe Biden.
Well, you're in a race for for the fewest amount of dollars given to charity with Al Gore.
That's for sure.
Whatever happened, your parents told you you could be a millionaire, Joe.
Your parents, your grandparents, maybe a millionaire.
Now he shows up and brags about how little he has.
Well, I assume he's bragging, but what he's doing, he's trying to build a bridge.
I don't have much, and I know you don't have much, and that makes me one of you.
Somebody should have said, Well, who paid for your hair plugs?
They're not cheap.
Well, I'm sorry, just these people just they just irritate me with all this never-ending assaults on achievement.
Not just millionaires they're going after.
They are targeting achievement.
And what Biden's saying is perfectly fine to dream.
You go right ahead.
Dream all you want.
But the minute you achieve something, we are coming after you.
That's exactly what they're doing.
Here's a story.
It's a it's a UK telegraph story.
This story convinces me that I'm right, even though I don't need to be convinced that I'm right.
But nevertheless, the story does.
I believe that Obama's internal poll numbers are bad.
I think they have been bad for a long time, and I think they are deteriorating because I don't think the White House would have allowed this statement to be made.
And I'd be interesting to see now, we'll be interested to see how widespread this news ends up being.
UK telegraph, get this.
The United States has acknowledged the existence of a fully fledged military plan to attack Iran, significantly increasing tensions with Tehran ahead of crucial nuclear negotiations next week.
Daniel Shapiro, Washington's ambassador to Israel, warned the Iranian regime that only a brief window now existed to settle the impasse over its nuclear program through democracy.
Issuing one of the most candid assessments yet made by a senior administration official.
He assured Israel that if diplomacy failed, the U.S. was fully prepared to resort to military force to end the threat to the Jewish state from nuclear Iran.
They haven't gotten close to saying anything like this.
In fact, this administration is more popularly known for telling Israel, if you go in there, we are not going to help you.
If you move into Iran, we're not going to be there to help you, and we are not going to back you up, and we are going to be highly critical of it if you do.
Thank you.
And now all of a sudden, they've authorized our ambassador to Israel to tell Tehran that we Have a full-fledged military plan ready to implement.
That is election year stuff.
And if they're popping it out now on May 17th, my instincts are that their internal polling numbers are not well and are deteriorating to boot.
You know, I have to say I feel sorry for the people in Ohio.
The Obama administration will not leave him alone.
If you go back, the 2008 campaign, I shall never forget this.
Muchel my bell, Obama goes into Steubenville.
And do you remember what she told the nurses and the women of Steubenville?
Don't go to college.
Don't seek corporate work.
Stay in work that is of service to the community.
You don't need to earn a lot of money to be fulfilled and to make a donation to society and a contribution to human race.
Michelle Obama, Steubenville, Ohio, to women, hold on to these service jobs that you've got, and don't complain of.
Don't seek out the corporate world.
Like she did.
And like Warren Buffett, and no, no, no, don't do that.
Stay poor.
Now they got Biden in there talking about dreaming to be a millionaire and how they're not against against it or anything.
And he goes in another place in Ohio, brags about how little he's got.
All right, what you realize we might lose the people in Ohio to insanity.
Well, I'm just jumping.
These people are going in and telling these people in Ohio everything.
Well, I don't know whether Ohio's recovered or not.
I'm just they're being bombarded with all this conflicting rhetoric from this administration.
All right, uh quick call.
Here we got Redmond in Miami.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Just called to set the physiologic record straight for you as a heart surgeon in Miami.
Oh, a heart surgeon, okay.
So, Rush, we operate on blue babies every day in Miami.
And it doesn't matter what color they are when they start, because we take care of everybody.
They could be red, orange, yellow, blue, indigo, violet, or black, and we're gonna try and save their lives.
And I can tell you, every one of them has red blood.
There you have it.
There is Snurdley didn't believe me, but he's got to believe you because you're a heart surgeon.
So tell Snerdley, I hold their hearts in my hands, I cut them open, and the bluest of blue babies has dark red blood.
See?
I was right.
And we have it confirmed now for a heart surgeon.
What is a blue baby?
Well, blue babies get their, as you said, their dark red blood gets filtered by their surface skin.
It's sort of uh an artifice.
It's a it's an illusion.
Yes.
Blueness.
That blueness is an illusion.
And it does change the dark red into a bluish tinge, and that's what the parents see, and we tell them, you know, your baby's blue skin color will change.
But their blood is dark red.
Like everybody's is.
Well, you know, if you're really healthy, it's your your blood is bright red, and it's beautiful when we see it.
And when they're really sick and they're really not doing well, it's dark blue, and and our goal is to go in there and change that for those families and increase the oxygen level.
Redmond, thank you so much for the call.
I appreciate it.
There you have it confirmed, folks.
No blue blood in any.
See how you were lied to?
In science.
Snerdley and Dawn were both lied to.
Yeah, and I know.
The new plan that the regime has has had our ambassador to Israel announce that we've got a full-fledged military plan way to go, ready to go, uh, the launch against Iran.
I know what this.
I have so many people email Rush, don't you understand?
I know exactly what it is.
The plan is to open up Jewish donor pocketbooks and checkbooks.
Just as Obama made a statement on gay marriage and money started flooding in from gay activists, Obama's in trouble with the Jewish vote because of this whole stance he's had on Israel.
So this news report that's on uh the UK telegraph about having a full-fledged military plan ready to go if Iran doesn't shape up.
And having our Israeli ambassador announce it, it's an appeal to Jewish donors.
It's just it's another sign, folks, that things are not hunky-dory in the White House.
Folks, I want you right now.
Show's over.
I want you right now to go to the Drudge Report and take a look at the lead item.
Drudgereport.com.
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