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May 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, here's a question for you.
Our people on welfare fat because they suffer from social justice jet lag.
And we have learned today that obesity is called caused by social jet lag, and that is if you need an alarm clock to wake you up, you are suffering social jet lag, and your body clock's all out of whack, and you are gonna get fat.
And that's in Newsweek.
Well, what about fat welfare people?
Social justice jet lag.
You know, by the way, welcome back, uh folks.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
Here's our telephone number, 800 two eight two two eight eight two.
Dawn had not heard of the new South Beach diet until this morning.
Snerdley was in there explaining she had no idea.
I don't know, how do you miss this story?
The new South Beach diet is very simple.
You go get some bath salts and you do you start smelling them or you do something with them, and then you go out and find a four poor homeless guy start eating his face.
And then the cops come and tell you to stop, and you growl at them and don't stop, you keep eating the homeless guy's face, they shoot you and you're dead.
Now I don't know this guy that was uh that was uh employing the latest South Beach diet.
I don't know uh what his sleep schedule was.
But clearly, you know, at first they thought it was a bad LSD.
Then now it's bath salts.
Well, I gotta tell you, in real folks, we don't know about stuff like this.
So when I first heard about frog licking.
You know, I've there was there was a uh I forget the story now, but this was in the early 90s.
Some guy toad licking.
Well, that was no, no, no, no, no.
That was the Arkansas toast sucker.
This this was in that was not Clinton.
There was a different guy in the Arkansas Toast Sucker.
It was in Colorado.
Somebody was licking toads, and the reason for it was that the toad emits some sort of a hallucinogen drug, secretes a hallucinogen drug when you when you lick it.
Well, that's all well and good, but my my first question who would think of licking a frog?
What what kind of person do you have to be?
The first thing you think when you see, well, I think I'm gonna lick that sucker.
In real, this stuff is we don't know about this.
We would never think of sniffing baths.
We wouldn't use bath salts in the first place in Realville, much less find a way to sniff them.
But that's what the excuse is for this guy down in Miami.
Apparently, this is really, really gory story, and it rendered this guy practically inhuman.
Growling like an animal, refusing to stop, cops' orders, and so forth.
And they said it was bath salt.
Who knew?
Calypso Louie, Louis Farrakhan says that it is very sad that Mexico lost California and Arizona and Colorado and New Mexico through American trickery.
But he said payback is coming because soon whites will be the minority in the country that they took.
The day before Memorial Day, Nation of Islam leader Calypso Louis Farrakhan lamented that Mexico had lost territory to America due to the Mexican-American war and disparaged American military action around the globe.
He was in San Diego.
He was speaking to a partially Hispanic audience.
He began by disparaging white Mexicans of Spanish descent before announcing that Africans were in that part of the world, Mexico, maybe before Mexicans got there.
Did you know that?
That there were blacks in Mexico before the Mexicans got there.
Of course, there were no Mexicans, it was the Spaniards.
Then Minister Farrakhan lamented that illegal Mexicans are called aliens and declared that Americans ought to be praising the Mexicans because we're living on land that was once theirs.
And that's when he went on to say that it was sad that Mexico lost California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado after the Mexican American War trickery.
And then he said, but it's payback time because whites will soon be the minority in the country that they took.
Now we sit here and we laugh at this stuff.
But we're talking about somebody who's got a sizable audience.
We're talking about somebody that wields a fair amount of influence within his community.
So yeah, we've we've had our share of fun with uh Minister Farrakhan, and we've laughed at him, but this is serious stuff.
Audio sound by time.
Colbert King is a columnist at the Washington Post.
And he was on the syndicated inside Washington on Sunday, having a panel discussion about the 2012 presidential race.
And this is what Colbert Colby King said.
Republicans and Fox News painted Barack Obama as the devil incarnate.
They had reasons to want to get this son of Karl Marx out of the White House.
But they got to be careful about how they go after Barack Obama.
There is a base out there.
And if there's a feeling that he is being treated unfairly, there's a feeling that they are trying to get rid of Michelle Obama and those two nice cute kids out of the White House and take this job away from the American people gave them.
They're going to be people who will come out there and turn out.
You can counter the nastiness to fire up the base.
The nastiness is going to come out.
The limbs are just going to just let it all hang out, and you will see a response to that.
There will be a reaction.
The limbaughs are just going to let it all hang out.
The limbs.
That's why I praised my family the other day, folks, when I was inducted to Missouri Hall of Famous Missourians.
My family is stuck by me through it all.
No matter what.
Highs and lows, thick and thin.
And now Colbert King has indicted the whole family, saying the limbos, we're just going to let it all hang out and try to take everything away from poor Barack, but we limbos, we had better be careful.
We better be careful how we do this.
Yeah, that's right.
The right wing wants to take Barack and Michelle and those two nice kids out of the White House.
And we're being warned here by the Washington Post.
We better be careful about how we go after Obama.
We might anger the Obama base.
So I think there's a little bit of an intimidation factor here behind Mr. King's statement.
He's trying to intimidate me into not being critical of Obama.
Why should we fear the Obama base?
Wait a second now.
Snerdley has asked an interesting question.
Why should we fear the Obama base?
I've always felt, by the way, that intimidation is a sincerest form of flattery.
The Obama base.
In fact, I was going to get into this later.
But there's a there's a John Pedoritz at the New York Post has a column.
Remember the story last week, Chris Siliza, Washington Post.
Obama losing all these primaries, not losing, but in these Democrat primaries where convicted felons are getting 40% of the primary vote.
Obama in Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia.
All these 40% of the voters voted for anybody but Obama on the Democrat side.
And Chris Silizza, the Washington Post analyzing this, it has to be racism.
It just has to be racism.
But John Pedoritz said, well, wait a minute.
These people all voted for Obama in 2008.
What happened between 2008 and now?
In these places, these are the white working class voters that Thomas B. Edsall and others in the Obama campaign said as recently as last November that we're not going to go after them.
We're not going to base our re-election and Trying to get the votes of white working class Americans, the bitter clingers.
The old Reagan Democrats.
These are white working Democrats, and Obama's losing them.
He had them in 2008.
So Pedoritz kind of blows this whole theory up.
It's a good column.
Well, what happened between 2008 and now?
Well, that these people became racist in four years.
Were they not racist when they voted for Obama in 2000?
What the point is that the regime doesn't even have its own real.
They can't even face facts as to why they are losing support from their base.
The Gallup poll is out.
13% of the American population is military.
And the vast majority, according to the Gallup poll, veterans give Romney an eight-point advantage over Obama.
Obama and Romney currently tied at 46% each among all registered voters.
This is not likely voters, it's registered voters.
But men give Romney an eight-point edge over Obama.
Women give Obama seven-point advantage over Romney right now, and Gallup claims that the male advantage for Romney is driven almost entirely by veterans.
Romney leads by only one point among non veteran men while he leads Obama by a whopping twenty-eight percent among men who are military.
Twenty-eight percent.
U.S. veterans, about 13% of the adult population, and consisting mostly of older men support Romney over Obama by 58 to 34.
Now that 13% is interesting.
That's also the black population of the country.
And the black population would be part of Obama's base.
And this is what Colbert King is.
Well, you but you better be careful.
You, you, you, you better be careful.
Uh you go after Obama, you might anger the Obama base.
What does that mean?
I think I anger the Obama base every day.
I think I anger the Obama base, the Democrat base every day.
You better be careful.
So the um the efforts here of the uh Obama camp full bore top drawer using intimidation.
And I don't even know what it means.
Anyway, I gotta take a quick time out.
Let's get to your phone calls when we come back.
Sit tight again.
The number 800 282-2882 do not go away.
Okay, we're back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limboy.
As always, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
And we start in Bismarck, North Dakota.
And Mark, you're up first.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Hi, Rush.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Uh yeah, I was just calling it uh make a correlation that everybody wants wealth creation over job creation.
That if an employee wanted job creation over wealth creation, they'd simply ask for the lowest wage possible so that every employee employer could create more jobs than the company.
You know, this is an interesting point.
One of the reasons that I wanted to take your call first.
Because I think you're really on to something.
I think you're on to much more than maybe even you realize.
And your your observation is by no means insignificant.
It's uh very significant.
Americans want wealth creation over job creation.
Would you uh say again what you expressly mean by that?
That uh every single person when they get a job, they're looking for the highest wage that they individually can get.
They're not trying to look for the lowest wage so that the company can create the most jobs.
Simple, natural uh healthy self-interest.
In in well, that's undeniable.
Um, actually, I can get a little esoteric with this.
There are some people who are satisfied with what they earn, but I I don't want to I don't want to get off on that tangent.
I'll accept the premise.
And that is that Americans want wealth creation over job creation.
Which Which takes me to an even larger question.
We talk about the job market being bad and people can't find work and the work that they can find is not satisfying.
And there's that.
And there's this.
Home prices fell in the first quarter to new post-crisis lows.
Home prices dropped 2%.
I don't know.
I don't know how these prices could drop even lower than they already have dropped in the last three years.
But for people who own homes, it is their biggest investment.
It's quote unquote American dream.
So home values are plummeting.
Many people are underwater already.
They all more than their home is worth.
And yet that was what they all aspired to.
The American dream encompassed many things, but homeownership was the anchor.
And that was the number one wealth creating asset that people had, so they were told.
And you need a good career with expansion opportunities, high wage opportunities in order to maintain a house, buy a house, make the payments on it, and so forth.
All of these things, everything is gone wrong.
And when you say that Americans and people really want wealth creation over job creation, there's no question, I think that that's true, but there's a lot more than that that's eating people.
And I wonder how many people actually know what is really eating them.
I wonder if they've dug deep enough to try to get their arms around and get a handle on what really is bothering them.
What I mean is, everything seems out of kilter.
This is just not the country we grew up in.
And the future is not the future that we all believed in.
But why?
What is it that's gone wrong?
We've had people like Bill Clinton come along and say he's going to build the bridge to the 21st century.
And what he meant by that was that Clinton and the Democrats, they are the modernists.
We are the guys, they said, we know what the future's going to be, and we, if you if you sign on with us, then your future's guaranteed.
We know how to take America forward.
In fact, Obama's slogan is forward.
But in fact, Obama's locked in the 1930s.
Obama's a new dealer.
Obama thinks the future is to go back 50 years.
Obama thinks this country is a giant failure.
Obama thinks this country's never worked, and the vast majority of Democrats agree with him.
Now, whether people have heard him, and he has said it, now whether people have heard him say it, or whether they intuit it, they know that that's not right.
They know that our best days should not be behind us, and they don't want that to be the case.
But we have a sitting president running for re-election, using the slogan forward, who actually wants to take us back to the New Deal, to the 1930s.
That's American greatness to Obama.
But nobody alive really wants that.
Nobody wants to go back 50 years, maybe culturally in some instances.
People would like a little bit more innocence.
I've been thinking about that a lot too.
And I I generations, you know, as you get older, the younger generation just appears more radical and bunch of losers.
I think it's happened.
Every older generation looks at the young that way for a while.
But this time, people are looking at the younger generation and really thinking, my God, they're not prepared or equipped to do anything.
And those who are going to school are being taught a bunch of gibberish, and they're coming out in such debt that they're never going to get ahead.
And all of these things, when you combine Them add up to an attitude of nervousness and skittishness that I think a lot of people can't really get their arms.
It's not just that we don't have job creation, not just that home prices are falling.
It's not just that we have all this debt.
It's what's behind that.
It is the it's the uh the thinking that's led to this that has people on edge and nervous and maybe not being able to understand why.
And this is in large part what gave birth to the Tea Party.
It is said that all the spending and all the debt, and that's true, but what it represents and what it means for the future is what really got people out of their homes and going to these town halls.
People may not be able to tell you specifically what's going wrong, but they know that the Obama way, the Democrat Party, this is just not the way we have advanced in this because not the way things got done.
Who knows?
Could we win D-Day today, for example?
So it's not just that people want the job market to improve.
They know that things have to happen first before the job market improves.
I think most people who are sensitive to this have a fear that the nation is in a real decline.
It's not a forecast decline.
It's not a warning that we will be in decline unless we do X, Y, and Z. It is that the decline has begun.
Now we have a bunch of different age groups in this country, obviously.
Seasoned citizens, for example.
One reason why so many of them are finally opposed to Obama is they now understand who he is.
They know his record, and they have seen it before.
They have been alive long enough to know that Obama's way doesn't work, that it's 50 years old, that it did not lead and fulfill the promise that all of its advocates made 50 years ago.
A lot of them are old enough to know the New Deal was not all that it was cracked up to be.
And the real reason that Obama is revising his campaign, for example, throwing away white working class voters, not attempting to get their votes, is because he knows he can't fool them anymore.
His record betrays him.
His record betrays whatever lofty language is contained in his speeches, which, by the way, there isn't much.
There's not a lot of optimism that comes out of Obama's mouth.
There's not a lot of hope and change.
There's not a lot of inspiration.
There's not a lot of American exceptionalism talk.
There's not a lot of talk about American greatness.
Thank you.
What you get out of Obama is America has never worked, and it's time to change it.
Well, now they know what Obama's change is.
It's this giant, giant welfare state.
He can only sell this vision to the young, which is why nine out of ten of his speeches are on college campuses today, or other uh places where the audience is of a relatively similar age.
Young people who just haven't been alive long enough.
They don't know enough about the history of the country to know that socialism is not the American way.
They haven't been taught, by the way, that it's a failure.
They've been taught just the opposite, in fact.
They believe best health care system in the world is in Cuba.
They believe nonsense like this.
This is what they've been taught.
They don't know that it's never worked anywhere.
Never.
It hasn't worked anywhere, even at the point of a gun.
And eventually it requires the point of a gun to keep people in line.
Obama genuinely generally is rooted in the past.
The stuff that Obama is pitching for everybody now, is the stuff that the Obamas of old were pitching when Shirley Temple was the new star in Hollywood and King Kong was The big new blockbuster.
That's how old Obama's ideas are.
And they are held by people who have a romantic notion that only they can make socialism work because only they are the ones smart enough in the history of the world to pull it off.
And not enough money has been spent on it in previous attempts.
Now people may not understand it as specifically as I've explained it, but they know the country's in decline.
They see the evidence, no jobs, no job future.
Their home values plummeting, no desire to own a house.
They don't see wealth creation.
They don't see job growth.
They see us not trying to win wars.
They see us looking to pull out dates.
And it all adds up to a nervous tension that it's just not right.
This just isn't America.
This is not what we thought life was going to be when we reached our current age.
And when you think your country's in decline, your view and vision of the future is going to be affected in the commensurate way.
It is, I have it right here.
New York magazine, John Heileman.
This is the co-author of the book Game Change and made the movie that Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that ever happened to America.
Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that ever happened to John McCain.
Sarah Palin, the absolute worst thing that ever happened to the Republican Party.
Those guys.
It's a long piece.
Thank you.
And his point is that for Obama and company this time around, it's all about fear.
It's not, there's no hope and change.
There's no bringing people together.
There's no unity.
There's no post-racial racism, no post-racial, no post-modernism, no post-anything.
We're not unified.
The world is not in love with us.
All of the stuff that was promised or alluded to in 2008, down the tubes now.
But this guy, the author, John Heileman, gets it right this time around.
It's all about fear.
Obama's got nothing to run on, so he's going to try to scare the public with clever ads and half-truths, 100% lies, anything that he can use.
This is a long piece, I'm not going to bore you with the whole thing, but I think I can get to the nub of this with a sentence here that's near the end of this long story.
For all of their brio, Obama's people know their campaign could be derailed by myriad events outside their control.
That's the key.
For all of their brio, for all their confidence, for all of their just this is it's their time.
Obama's people know their campaign can be derailed by myriad events outside their control, dismal job numbers, a spike in fuel prices, hostilities in Iran, an economic shock from Europe, the overturning by the Supreme Court of health care reform.
I would like to make what I think is a profound correction to this.
Every one of those things that this writer claims is out of Obama's control has in fact been caused by him.
Everything that is listed here as a potential pitfall that's out of his control is something Obama has made happen.
Well, maybe he hasn't caused the Europeans problems, but he's out there urging them to do the wrong thing to fix it.
He's urging them to spend.
He's telling Merkel and the rest of these people, don't go austerity on us.
Spend, spend, spend.
That's what he's urging them to do.
In fact, let me give you a number.
I've got a shocking number for you.
CNBC story.
Greece to leave the Eurozone on June 18th, according to some wealth manager.
Greece will leave the Eurozone on June 18th if the populist government Wins the country's elections on the 17th, as the rest of the Eurozone rounds on cheaters.
This is from Nick Dewhurst, director at wealth management firm integral asset management.
He told CNBC.com this yesterday.
Now here's the here's the great line.
This is the stat.
Germans have to work until they are 67.
The Germany is bailing out Greece, right?
What are they bailing out?
They're bailing out the status quo.
Germans have to work until they're 67 to pay for Greeks who retire at age 50.
That's the dirty little secret here.
There is no austerity.
Obama is urging all of this status quo be built upon.
But you go look at here outside their control, dismal job numbers.
Who's killed the job market?
Obama by controlling it, by trying to fix it.
With specific policies, Obama has killed the job market.
A spike in fuel prices.
Who the hell's responsible for that?
We have drilling moratoriums in the Gulf of Mexico.
We have no Keystone pipeline.
We have no drilling in Alaska, no drilling anywhere, no new drilling.
We've got all kinds of oil.
One man stands in the way and his party, Barack Obama, the Democrats.
Hostilities in Iran.
Well, we'll take that off the list.
I think Obama didn't cause that, and that's I don't think he cares really.
Economic shot from Europe, the overturning by the Supreme Court.
He's the one who wrote an unconstitutional health care law.
He and the Democrats are the ones who've made this possible.
They guaranteed that an unconstitutional law would be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
So they're going to run on this campaign of fear now.
But let me tell you what this campaign's going to be.
This campaign's going to be a referendum on Obama, meaning this campaign will revolve largely around things he has had a large measure of control over.
Jobs, fuel prices.
I mean, these are these are things that a president can positively or negatively affect.
He may not have the direct control of the price of oil, but I'll guarantee you, if we had a president, this is another good example.
The American people may not be able, all of us get our arms around this, but not approving the Keystone Pipeline.
Here we are on the one hand, they hear this president and his party for years complain about dependence on foreign oil.
Here is non-foreign oil.
This is oil from Canada, an ally that would come to the United States, and he's standing in the way of it, contradicting himself.
Contrary to Obama's belief, the majority of the American people do not think oil is a problem.
They see him standing in the way of progress, is what it all boils down to.
Obama 50 years old.
He's rooted in 50-year-old policy.
There's not one thing that Obama represents that is progress.
He stands against progress.
People know this.
They sense it maybe more than know it.
And it's just it's all out of kilter, and it's leading to decline.
Now, while they're running this campaign of fear, this author, John Heileman, also points out that the Obama campaign intends to portray Romney as quote the most conservative nominee Republicans have had going back to Goldwater.
I hope they do.
That would be.
I would I hope they do.
I hope they run out there.
This is Romney's big problem.
He's not conservative enough for many on the Republican side of the aisle.
So if Obama tries to tag this guy as Goldwater or Reagan, bring it on.
That'd be the best possible endorsement Romney could get.
People don't fear Barry Goldwater anymore.
People are not afraid of Barry Goldwater.
Fear Obama.
People don't fear Romney.
They don't fear Ronald Reagan.
They don't fear George Bush.
They fear Obama.
They don't fear Goldwater.
This is what I mean about Obama being fifty years in the past, along with some of the Republican establishment, by the way.
Obama has bought into this notion that a conservative nominee equals a landslide defeat, i.e.
Goldwater.
This this is who I whoever's running Obama's campaign, and Obama himself do not know what they're doing.
All this talk about they're the most brilliant strategists and consultants and so forth, they have they're throwing things up against the wall, hoping it'll stick.
Let me take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
We'll continue before you know it.
So John Heileman says that Obama's gonna campaign on fear.
And he's going to run ads and make speeches and compare Romney to Barry Goldwater.
He's saying Romney is the most conservative Republican nominee since Barry Goldwater.
Now Heileman piece, it also quotes some of Obama's handlers as saying that they plan to free Romney like a bug and amner.
Freeze Romney like a bug in amber at the end of the dinosaur era.
Well, that's that's Alinsky.
Right out of rules for radical.
You pick the target and you freeze it.
You isolate it, and then you destroy it.
I'm gonna freeze Romney like a bug in amber at the end of the dinosaur era.
All the while Obama is what?
Running on the same platform that FDR ran on eighty years ago.
That's what we're faced with here.
That's what Forward is is doing an 80-year retro.
And then from the Hill.com, Obama team struggles to find 2012 re-election campaign theme.
Oh yeah, at the Hill.com, they're fretting.
They're wringing their hands over Obama's campaign theme.
Yes, President Obama's campaign has yet to find a clear 2012 re-election slogan that carries the heft of change you can believe in.
Well, that's what happens when you can't run on what you've done.
That's what happens when you have a dismal record.
That's what happens when you haven't done one thing people want more of.
So you need a theme.
You need some sort of a device to fool people.
So you come up with a theme of fear moving forward.
Romney is this or that.
That's it's pathetic.
And all of this, all of this is creating this notion that things just aren't right.
This is just not the way things have happened.
I don't mean the campaign.
I mean actual life.
Living circumstances.
This just is not America.
Having no big dreams for the future, having no grandiose ideas, no big things to reach for, to aspire to it well.
It's distinctly not American.
And people don't want to sign on to that.
People don't want to sign on to the notion that our best days have happened.
Nobody who is an American who has kids wants to sign on to that.
That our best days are behind us.
It's not that's not America.
It's not the America people have known.
Telling people there is no hope.
There may be change, but there's no hope.
All these new norms, 8%, 9% unemployment, the new norms of having a house meaning nothing.
The new norm of gasoline and fuel prices Through the roof.
The new norm of graduating from college, being in debt to the point that no matter what job you get, you'll never pay it off.
Just doesn't sit well.
Not what people bargain for.
And this is the main thing Obama's got going against him.
Doesn't even realize it.
He thinks it's a plus.
Back after this, folks, don't go away.
Now the beauty is the American people are not going to tolerate this.
They don't want this country to be over.
They don't want the best days to behind us.
People in this country are going to triumph over this, over this administration, over Obama.
They're going to triumph over the Democrat Party.
They're going to triumph over this decline and reverse it.
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