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May 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 29, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Scott Walker.
The Wisconsin recall vote.
It'll be this time next week.
June 5, this time next week.
And it is increasingly clear, folks, the Democrats think they're going to lose.
And it's been that way for a couple of weeks.
First, the DNC pulled their money out of Wisconsin.
Then Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz started saying, well, that doesn't mean anything.
I mean, Wisconsin's a standalone.
There's nothing really to learn there.
And then the other side of her mouth, she says something entirely different.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, she runs the Democrat National Committee.
She's really outdoing herself.
She told C-SPAN a couple of days ago that a loss for the Democrat candidate in Wisconsin wouldn't have any implications for other races.
No.
Even the presidential race, it doesn't mean anything.
Folks, they put everything they had.
This was the union's last stand.
This recall election, they failed at every recall.
They tried to recall the legislature.
They've tried to recall judges.
They've done everything they could.
The unions, the Democrats have done everything they could to get rid of Scott Walker.
Republicans elsewhere in government to reverse Walker's policies.
She said on C-SPAN, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, I think honestly, there aren't going to be any repercussions.
It's an election that's based in Wisconsin.
But then she went to CNN.
And let's see, where is it?
She was on CNN.
It was Sunday morning on State of the Union with Candy Crowley.
Candy Crowley asked her about the Wisconsin recall.
So there's a recall movement, sitting governor, but he's now leading in the polls up there.
And you've said you don't think there's national implications to this.
And yet you're going to spend some of your time up there fundraising for the Democrat who's challenging Walker.
If the Republican governor should retain his seat up there, what will it say about the power of unions who've been fighting him?
And what will it say about putting Wisconsin in play this fall, maybe going for Romney?
Well, I am going there Tuesday to campaign with Mayor Barrett.
I think that he has a real opportunity to win.
Ultimately, I think Tom Barrett will pull this out.
But regardless, it's given the Obama for America operation an opportunity to do the dry run that we need of our massive, significant, dynamic grassroots presidential campaign, which can't really be matched by the Romney campaign or the Republicans because they've ignored on-the-ground operations.
All right, now, which is it?
Two days prior to this on C-SPAN, yeah, doesn't mean anything.
It's not the standalone election.
It's just what's going on in Wisconsin.
Now on CNN, somebody got hold of her.
Somebody said, Blabbermouth, what are you doing to us?
Now, all of a sudden, Wisconsin's a referendum.
Now it's a dry run.
Now it's a test run of their massive, dynamic grassroots presidential campaign, which Romney can't match.
Ever heard of the Tea Party, Debbie?
Now, I know she's got to say this stuff, but I think these people are delusional.
Fully delusional.
This Wisconsin race, I can't tell you how this has upset them.
This was getting rid of Walker was going to be easy.
And it's history repeating itself because they go into all of these elections this way.
Well, Walker, if the union is going to win big Democrats, state always has been, but nothing's gone the way they figure it.
The 2010 midterms, these primaries where Obama is only getting 60% of the vote, I'm telling you, inside the Obama campaign, they don't know what's going on.
They didn't have a plan for this.
They wanted Romney.
They thought this was going to be a slam dunk to occupy Wall Street and attacking Bain Capitol.
They really believed, Obama really believed that a majority of this country, a majority of the people who vote in this country, really want a welfare state.
They've got themselves convinced of this.
And it's mind-boggling to watch this.
And I think back to what we've been talking about previous hour, people sense this too.
This is, and it's not, doesn't resonate.
This is not the country people thought they lived in.
I think the Democrats are heading for a big shock, the likes of which they can't even conceive.
I think they are so out of touch, which is good.
And of course, that's today.
I always add the caveat, anything can change on a dime in politics.
But if it were held today, slam dunk, I don't even think it'd be close to telling you the truth.
But didn't she just because she just made it a forecast rope.
She just handed Obama a horrible storyline there.
They're not as smart folks as you give them credit for.
She just said that Wisconsin is a dry run for Obama's massive presidential effort.
His get out the vote techniques.
The massive groundswell of the grassroots uprising.
Now, what, if they lose Wisconsin, what has she done?
She has just set the stage for Obama's whole dry run, test run to go up and smoke, to be discredited like crazy.
Now, how many of you, change the subject, how many of you have often thought, often believed that if the Republicans would make some real genuine outreach effort to the black community and just get 3 to 5% of the black vote, if we could do that, that would end it.
A lot of people believe that.
And the rule of thumb, standard operating procedure opinion is that Republicans just never make the effort.
They just, they don't know how.
They just really outreach the African-American community.
They don't do it.
They should try it.
Well, Romney did.
Romney went to Philadelphia.
The Washington Post has the details.
When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school last Thursday to promote his new education agenda, outreach to the African-American community, he received a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African-American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts.
What persecution would that be?
Persecution of blacks in America.
What are we talking?
Affirmative action?
What is this persecution that's going on?
So Romney goes in for some outreach.
This story, by the way, it was in the Washington Post, and it wasn't picked up.
It didn't get very much attention.
But let me briefly tell you what happened.
Romney goes to this charter school of West Philadelphia.
Local officials attending the event lectured him and insulted him.
The Obama campaign organized so-called residents to protest across the street from the school where Romney was.
They shouted at Romney and they told him to get out of their neighborhood.
Now, I want you to just try to imagine the outrage from our news media if the Romney campaign had organized whites to tell Obama to get out of their neighborhood.
But there was no outrage.
This story caused none.
I mean, even the Washington Post sounds amused.
They think this was funny, what happened.
But you see, apparently the Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Not once in this entire article is it ever mentioned that Romney supports school vouchers, which Obama doesn't.
That's something you think that local school officials would support as well.
The article quotes the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, as saying that Romney, quote, suddenly somehow found West Philadelphia.
Nutter said, I don't know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philly is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America, unquote.
Now, that's a little ironic, given that you might think Mayor Nutter would be in hiding after what he and his fellow Democrats have done to that once great city.
Then there's a quote from a woman named Madeline Dunn who said she was, quote, personally offended that Romney would visit her neighborhood.
She said it was, quote, absolutely denigrating for Romney to come in here and speak his garbage.
Now, who is this babe?
Madeline Dunn.
She's a longtime Democrat political activist.
She has served as a chairwoman for the radical Philadelphia Congress of the National Congress of Black Women.
She's currently listed as one of Obama's truth team.
Now, this is not in the story.
I wanted to find out who, why was this woman being quoted?
I was curious.
Who is this woman?
The Post doesn't tell us.
I found that stuff out on my own.
They just portray her as another legitimately and genuinely outraged resident.
The bottom line is Romney attempting outreach, goes into an inner city school to talk about his education ideas in West Philly and is basically told to get the hell out.
What are you doing here, pal?
We don't want you here.
It won't be long before we hear some civil rights leader saying, they don't care about us, the Republicans.
They don't care about us.
They never reach out.
They never try.
So it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation, which is why this, this, I don't blame Romney for trying this.
In fact, I give him credit for it, but it's why I am of the belief that there's no compromise here.
I mean, Romney shows up and they basically going to say for publication that they're offended he would dare come into their neighborhood and denigrate him for doing so so that when he what he talks, he's speaking garbage.
What in the world is there to compromise there?
Where is the common ground?
That's why to me defeating these people is what's paramount, not getting along with them and not trying to find common areas of agreement.
And particularly in an election year, I mean, I wouldn't expect these people to do anything other than what they are doing.
They're Obama voters.
They're Obama supporters.
They're Democrats.
They're not interested in what Romney has to say.
Now, Romney, to his credit, goes in there and he can always say that he did.
And he can talk about the effort that he made.
But note that it wasn't widely reported.
You probably didn't know about this.
I mean, hell, if Dawn hadn't heard about the new South Beach diet, I'm sure you hadn't heard about this story.
We'll be back after this.
Right, if Romney had not gone to a black neighborhood to campaign, they'd call him a racist.
You know how long this stuff's been going on?
Does the name Jack Kemp ring a bell?
As far back as the early 90s, Jack Kemp had an idea for Republican outreach to inner city communities.
One of the ideas he came up with was something called enterprise zones.
And in theory, they're pretty cool.
There aren't any to speak of, not for lack of effort.
Just the outreach isn't really desired.
They talk about it, but all they do is talk.
Demand outreach.
Show us you care.
Show us you're not racist.
Show us that you're not the KKK.
So Romney goes in, what are you doing here?
Get the hell out of our neighborhood.
You make me sick.
You got no business being here.
Then you had media people that tweet, well, what the hell did Romney think was going to happen?
He goes into a West Philadelphia neighborhood.
What did he think was going to happen?
Well, who's the idiot that sent Romney in there?
Those are media tweets.
They not think he'd be peppered by pro-Obama protesters.
Who was the idiot sent Romney in there?
And once again, it's accepting a premise.
The premise is that we don't care about minorities, which is bogus.
We care about everybody.
We just don't see people as minorities.
We don't see people as members of groups.
Folks, let me, I need to talk about something here.
I'm always uncomfortable talking about this, and I haven't even seen it, but I thought playing golf over the weekend, and a friend of mine says, by the way, these stories about how you've lost audience in April.
I said, what?
Oh, yeah, these stories are everywhere.
I said, I haven't seen one.
Oh, yeah, the story is all about how your audience is.
It's not.
We're up.
It's incredible.
I haven't seen the stories.
But look, I know what's going on.
It's the ongoing effort.
It's been going on for 23, almost 24 years now.
In this case, in large part, there's some radio people actually behind it.
These trumped up bogus stories.
But let me tell you who's really in trouble.
We're not in trouble here in any way, shape, manner, or form.
We are as strong or stronger than ever, audience-wise, business-wise.
All of this is bogus.
It's laughable to hear about this stuff.
It's also instructive because even my friends reading this stuff think it's true.
One of them gets it.
One of them didn't, but it's just the power of the printed word.
There happened to be over the weekend a story in New York magazine by a guy named Joe Hagen.
And it's a story about the New York Times.
What happened when they got rid of their CEO, Janet Robinson?
Janet Robinson was Arthur Schulzberger Jr.'s right hand.
I mean, she ran the newspaper.
They were inseparable.
They were a platonic married couple.
They were that close.
And she was the one who was trying to help the paper recover from all the lost advertising revenue.
You want to talk about people ratings down, revenue down.
It's the New York Times.
And this magazine story, New York Magazine, makes it very clear.
But before I get to the details of that, what happened was that Little Pinch got a girlfriend that he met over at Davos.
She has something to do with the World Economic Forum.
I can't, what's her name?
I can't think of her name right now.
It's Claudia Gonzalez.
She's a Mexican marketing executive who formerly worked for the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Well, it turns out she didn't like Janet Robinson.
Little Pinch gets a girlfriend, fell madly in love with her.
He was, I guess, got divorced in 2008, fell madly in love with this babe, and this babe then started telling him that she didn't like the way Janet Robinson running paper.
The upshot is Robinson gets canned a $24 million golden parachute to get her to go away.
The rest of the Times employees were fit to be tied over this because the unions are having to give things up.
They're giving up pensions.
They're giving up health care, no wage increases and so forth.
And the CEO, an exec, a suit, was paid $24 million to go away because Pinch's girlfriend didn't like her, is essentially the upshot of the story.
But here are the details of the New York Times.
Next time you read about supposed problems here, let me just give you the real truth here.
In the era of Arthur Schulzberger Jr., I'm reading from New York magazine.
When newspapers have flailed under new digital realities, the New York Times company has shrunk dramatically.
Once, it was a wide-ranging media empire of newspapers and TV stations, websites, even owned part of the Boston Red Sox.
The New York Times company was worth almost $7 billion.
Today, it's essentially two struggling newspapers, a very small internet company, and it's all worth less than $1 billion today.
If you've ever heard of the internet company, a music company called Pandora, it's worth twice what the New York Times is worth.
Pandora, a music streaming outfit.
Despite the shrinkage, the New York Times company has retained essentially the same top-heavy management, which it has kept well compensated.
So I don't mean to hit on Little Pinch here, but since he took over, they've built this new building that they couldn't afford.
They've done all this crazy stuff.
They've paid $24 million to their CEO to go away.
$7 billion company is now worth $1 billion.
And you know who's really up?
Apparently, there are 40 members of the Ox Schulzberger family who live off the dividends.
And there aren't any anymore.
And they're all upset.
The newspaper or the magazine describes them as People who have respectable but low-paying jobs, job like ACAT, admirable but low-paying jobs like academics, artists, and so forth.
$7 billion to $1 billion, less than $1, in less than 10 years.
Now, if you want to know who's in trouble media-wise, it's newspapers and liberalism, folks, not us.
I got back to the phones here in a Jiffy.
I just want to read you one more little excerpt here from the New York magazine piece on the New York Times at Twilight.
That's the title of it, New York Times at Twilight.
That was fine for Schulzberger and the five other family members with salaried positions at the company.
But the wider family of sons and daughters and nieces and nephews, and there are 40 of them.
See, what happened was that every year the Times Company paid dividends, and the family described here as academics, novelists, musicians, and psychotherapists, divvied up.
There are 40 of them.
They divvied up the $20 million dividends that were paid every year.
And now the dividend's been suspended because there isn't the money for it.
And so this story describes the pain and suffering of the family members.
They're now forced to sell stock at a historical low just to raise money to live.
Most of them have admirable, if low-wage jobs.
So the heartstrings are being tugged here over the circumstances for the family members that feed off the New York Times.
Meanwhile, you have a newspaper here that rips the hell out of people at work.
And claims are not being taxed enough.
You have a newspaper company that's value has shrunk from over $7 billion to under $1 billion.
The dividends have been suspended.
And the family's not, I mean, they're having to sell stock at low prices just to be able to live.
And this is not unique.
This is happening.
The New York Times Picayune, I didn't know this.
I didn't know this until yesterday.
Have you heard the New York Times Picayune?
The newspaper in New Orleans is only going to publish three days a week.
I didn't find that out till last night.
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, I think they have an online version, but the printed and Super Bowl is going to be there this year.
I mean, for all this talk, folks, I don't want you to ever, we are strong as we have lost in the average.
Well, we've regained whatever advertisers lost.
There were three.
This is all a bunch of BS.
And I really don't want you falling for it or worrying about it or believing it.
The real problem in media is being experienced on the left.
CNN, 54,000 viewers.
Oh, speaking of them, they've come up with a fix.
They're going to now focus on international news.
That's the answer.
CNN is going to do more international news.
They're going to tell us more about the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, and the Greek debt crisis and what's happening in Singapore.
That's the answer.
I kid you not.
I think I read this in the, well, the reason they're doing it is CNN International is doing well.
Worldwide, it does do well.
So they're doing, okay, well, that's working.
Let's try that here domestically.
They're not going to stop American operations.
But I'm just telling you, MSNBC, to anybody listening or watching for all intents and purposes, all these newspapers, advertising revenue is down, circulation is down.
People want to sit here and lie about what's happening on this program.
They're welcome to do it, but they better start paying attention themselves.
Here's Ralph in the Jersey Short.
Ralph, thank you for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm okay.
Doing pretty well.
Well, I'm not.
I'm very, very upset.
First of all, I just want you to know that I am a former U.S. Marine recon Vietnam veteran.
And to hear what I heard this morning on this radio on this station from Geraldo Rivera, who, by the way, is very dangerous because he likes to make people believe that he's a conservative.
But oh my God.
Whoa, whoa, what?
Yeah.
Hold it.
Hold, hold, hold.
Geraldo is trying to do what?
To make people think he's conservative?
Yeah, he's middle of the road, but I lean to the conservative side.
This morning he said.
Well, how's that working out for him?
Well, here's the thing.
You know, the poll you gave before about the veterans like myself that are going to vote for Romney.
It's like 28% more.
Yeah.
His comment to that was, and I heard it with my own ears, that's probably because they're from the South, they're religious and not very bright.
Probably Republicans.
That's his exact words.
And I almost, I was, I was doing my run this morning.
I almost ran into a wall.
Well, look, this should not be news to you.
Ralph, you know full well that the Democrat Party, even pre-Obama, pre-Geraldo, the Democrat Party has denigrated.
This has made me so mad over the years, and I've talked about it on this program.
They have claimed the only reason people join the military is because they're either stupid or America is in such bad shape and it's such an unjust country that that's the only chance some of these poor people have to get an education and get a job.
America is such a forlorn place that the military is their only option.
And I've read this, and alternately, as you heard, they have really been insulting of military people as they're short-sighted, they're not very bright, they're just a bunch of warmongering Second Amendment types, can't wait to pull a trigger, all this kind of stuff.
And I've always asked myself, okay, maybe you're anti-war, but why denigrate these people?
What's in it for you to denigrate these people?
They've done nothing but offer their lives in sacrifice for your freedom.
Why do you find it necessary to insult them?
What is it that makes the left think they have to go out personally impugn people like you?
You've never done anything to them.
All you've done is put yourself up as the line of defense for them.
It's always made me very angry.
Well, I say I've never understood it.
I do understand it.
I know exactly why they do it.
They're just flat-out mean people when you get right down to it.
And it's really no more complicated than that.
But there's some ideological aspects to it as well.
But it frosts me.
Okay, so you're anti-war.
You may not like war.
You may think we shouldn't be in Iraq.
You maybe think we shouldn't have gone to Afghanistan.
These people volunteered.
So we even have to denigrate that.
We can't say they volunteered because they're patriots, because they want to guarantee and defend this country and protect freedom.
No, no.
It has to be something else.
It has to be they're stupid and have no other opportunity in life.
Or it has to be the country sucks and there's no opportunity unless they do this.
And they're all a bunch of hayseeds, all a bunch of Republicans, you know, a bunch of people been fooled by religion.
I just, it really irritates me when these people get denigrated and impugned like this.
And it always has.
And I'm sad to hear that that's for crying out loud.
Obama went out yesterday.
He knows he's in problem.
He saw that Gallup poll.
Obama's Memorial Day speech was all about defending Vietnam vets.
He went back and relived Vietnam vets coming home and being spat on and disrespected.
And he stood up for them by his fellow liberals.
That's the people that were doing it.
Exactly right.
Obama's crowd were engaging in all those quote-unquote atrocities against returning Vietnam vets.
But he knows the trouble he's in with the military.
Understandably so.
So I'll tell you, if what you heard actually happened, that's not helping Obama.
Anyway, look, I'm glad you called.
Ralph, I appreciate it.
I got to take a brief time out, folks.
We're coming back with much more right after this.
Don't go away.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I want to share with you an email that we got at 2IFBT.
This has been such a rewarding thing for me.
I must tell you.
2F by T, I mean, we had a lot of reasons for doing this.
One of the reasons, and we named it 2F by T, is a takeoff on 2F by Sea, one of my land 2F by Sea, Paul Revere America's founding.
The liberals are coming.
The Liberals are coming.
We're trying to have some fun with it.
But we have a sponsor, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
One of the things that we really wanted to do with this, the website that we have and so forth, is to connect to the nation's founding and to have the product be tied as much as it could to the decency and goodness of the country.
And we get emails from customers like you wouldn't believe, and they all talk about how much they love the tea.
And it really, you know, I didn't bring this up to mention this.
I'm telling you, it is the best bottled iced tea in this country, ever, anywhere.
It's not even close.
And I know you would think I would say that, but I wouldn't if it wasn't true.
I'd talk about anything else.
If the tea wasn't that good, I'd try to cover it up by saying it's worth it in other ways.
But we got an email from a man who won a prize on our most recent sweepstakes.
He was a second prize winner, which in this was the ride of a lifetime prize.
And it wasn't much.
It was a treasure chest of mementos from Boston, things that have to do with Paul Revere's ride and the whole founding of the country from there.
And this man took his son, took his family to Washington for the Memorial Day weekend, and they took some pictures.
They went to the Iwo Jima.
Well, they went to all the places, but they took some pictures in front of the Iwo Jima Memorial, which is that famous picture, planting the flag, is on the rear of our label on 2F by T.
So they went there and they took pictures.
And they've got the old Paul Revere hat, this man and his son, and they took pictures of themselves holding the prize, the treasure chest, and a bottle of tea.
And His son is holding up a sign that they made 2F by T. Happy Memorial Day.
Best wishes.
And the man's name is Bud, and his son's name is Carter.
And they sent this little note to one of.
In fact, we've got one of the greatest staff members at 2F by T.
I hope we never lose this woman, Liz Cross.
Everybody, every customer loves Liz Cross.
I've never had an employee get this kind of positive, not even you, Sturdley.
Everybody deals with Liz Cross has to tell us about it.
Dear Liz, thank you so much for the 2F by T Ride of a Lifetime Prize.
It arrived Saturday and it's awesome.
Here are a few pictures of me and my son Carter, the prize suitcase, and the 2F by T at the Iwo Jima Memorial taken this morning on Memorial Day.
Please pass along my sincere thanks to Rush and Catherine and everybody else at 2F BIT, and thank you all for supporting our troops and keep up the amazing work and have a great Memorial Day.
And I'm going to post this, the pictures and so forth at rushlimbaugh.com.
And they did all of this on their own.
Going to Washington was not part of the prize.
It was their own initiative to go to the Iwo Gima Memorial, just like is on our label on the bottle.
And we didn't ask them for pictures and we didn't ask them to dress up with these Paul Revere hats.
And they didn't get those as part of a prize.
They did this all on their own.
And they were not even the grand prize winners.
The grand prize winners went to Boston, Freedom Trail Ride, all of that stuff.
These were the second place guys.
And they were just ecstatic.
So I told Coco to be ready to post that as soon as I talked about it.
This is a good occasion, good opportunity here to make that happen.
So man's name is Bud Harrell and his son Carter.
And you guys don't know who Liz Cross, you've never, that's right, Liz Cross has never been there.
You don't know who Liz Cross is.
That's why she's down in the Regis office.
This is where Liz is.
Global warming skeptics.
This is a study.
It is a fabulous, it's in the, it's in a magazine called Nature Climate Change.
They did a study published it Sunday, found that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming have a higher level of scientific knowledge than the advocates.
People like me have more scientific knowledge than the average advocate of global warming.
And this publication, by the way, is not some secret right-wing think tank publication.
Brief timeout.
Be back right after this.
Don't go away.
New York State has lost 3.4 million residents in 10 years.
Taxes.
3.4 million residents.
I, El Rushbo, am one of them.
We'll have details tomorrow.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
We appreciate it each and every day more than you know.
And we'll see you right back tomorrow.
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