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May 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 30, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
It's the little stuff that is so telling.
The little stuff that most people don't even notice.
Actually, maybe most people do.
Doesn't get a whole lot of attention.
It's here and gone before you know it, but it is so telling.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Broadcast excellence already.
Already Wednesday.
Unbelievable.
Happy to have you along.
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I get to that small thing here in just a second.
But first, former Texas Solicitor General and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz did indeed get enough votes in yesterday's Republican primary to deny Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst 50% of the vote, which means there will have to be a runoff in Texas nine weeks from now.
It also means that for the third time in three weeks, a Tea Party candidate has successfully taken on a Republican establishment Senate candidate and either beaten them or as in this case for runoff.
Earlier this month, Richard Murdoch in Indiana beat Dick Luger.
Just had Deb Fisher upset two better known candidates in Nebraska.
And yet the drive-bys continue to talk about the death of the Tea Party.
The Tea Party's gone.
The Tea Party's a non factor.
The Republican establishment talks about the death of the Tea Party.
All because they don't see it, except on election day.
And then they see it, and then they hear it, and then they start cursing.
The Tea Party started as a protest movement, and of course you can't miss a protest movement, people showing up at town hall meetings.
They move beyond that now.
These are people working at the grassroots to get people elected.
And it's working.
Meanwhile, the Occupy Wall Street movement appears to be completely shovel ready.
Where the heck is it?
The Wall Street movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement has been nothing but a protest movement.
That's all it's been.
This cannibal, this guy down in Florida, he's got more in common with the Occupy movement than he does any other group in this country.
Well, the same kind of perverted stuff goes on, maybe not cannibalism, but I mean you've got every other example of human depravity going on within the Occupy movement.
We never hear anything about the Occupy movement anymore.
Unless it's a report about some of their members being arrested for terrorist plots, like wanting to blow up bridges or something.
So while the Occupy movement has been busy trying to blow up bridges, the Tea Party has been busy winning primary after primary.
See, the Tea Party's not a movement.
The Tea Party is an idea.
The Tea Party is a series of ideas.
It has a core.
Occupy doesn't have a core.
It's just a bunch of rabble rousers thrown together.
And they are a movement.
By the way, speaking, speaking of Texas, what I do with it.
Did I put it in the wrong stack?
A major Democrat has bitten the dust.
Here it is.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
A major upset.
Long time U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes has lost the race for the Democrat nomination to retain his congressional seat in far west Texas.
Sylvestre Reyes lost narrowly to former El Paso City Councilman Beto O'Rourke.
Reyes appeared to be closing the gap.
But he came up short at the end, a 67 years old, first elected to Congress 1966.
And he received a rare primary endorsement last month from none other than The one.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
So coattails anybody.
Obama with a rare primary endorsement, and as is somewhat common.
Obama endorses you and your toast.
Like Catherine's computer.
Among the well, of course among the Democrats.
It's a Democrat primary.
Damn right, this especially by the way.
It's the little things.
It's the little things.
Polish Americans, Polish people are angry.
They're angry at Barack Hussein Obama.
He referred to a Nazi death camp as a Polish death camp.
It was a Nazi death camp in German occupied Poland.
The Polish foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, tweeted the White House will apologize for this outrageous error.
Sikorsky said the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will make a statement.
It's a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.
That's pretty tough stuff.
I mean, this is the Polish foreign minister referring to the Obama regime as ignorant and incompetent.
And he's right.
The president had been trying to honor a famous poll, awarding a presidential medal of freedom to Jan Karski or Jan Karski, a resistance fighter who sneaked behind enemy lines to bear witness to the atrocities being committed against the Jews.
Obama referred to him being smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself.
Now you can't really blame Obama.
He was distracted by a far more important honor.
Giving the medal of freedom to a proud Marxist and socialist.
Sikorsky, for his part, the Polish foreign minister, tweeted, few things annoy Polish people more than being blamed for the crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers of their homeland.
For many years, Polish media diplomats and politicians have tried to persuade outsiders to stop using the phrase Polish death camps as a shorthand description of Auschwitz and other exemplars of Nazi brutality.
And you know what the Polish people well, somebody put it on his teleprompter, as though that's some sort of an excuse.
Somebody in this administration doesn't know.
This is supposedly where you have the best fact checkers.
You have the smartest, you don't you never, if you're a speech writer, you never send somebody out, the president out to make a glaring error like this.
But it happens.
It happens way too often, all too frequently with this administration.
And Obama doesn't know himself.
He's just reading the words off the teleprompter.
And this from a guy who worried in the 2008 campaign about our standing in the world and how America was so disrespected and so unloved.
All because of the evils of that stupid cowboy George W. Bush.
But now this is it it really is a profound insult.
But aside from that, folks, it's it's some of you might think it's a little thing, but it tells you so much.
It tells you so much about the glaring ignorance of people at the highest level of the executive branch in this country and their incompetence.
Based on what the Polish foreign minister tweeted, it's become a cliche.
Polish death camps become a cliche.
And guess who it is that believes it?
The White House didn't know enough to get this right.
They're demanding an apology.
I haven't seen one.
Has there been a White House apology?
What?
Well, okay, Obama misspoke.
Of course he misspoke.
I no, I don't suspect this was purposeful.
I look no reason Obama wants to insult Poland.
I can't think of that.
I can't think of a reason why.
He didn't bow to him either.
But I don't know why I just think it's incompetence.
But the next little thing.
And nothing incompetent about it.
Oh, yeah.
The next little thing, that's the one that's telling.
The next little thing.
More than all the big speeches in the world.
We know a lot more about who Obama is.
Based on for example, when he complained to Maureen Dowd about being sensitive over her joking about the size of his ears.
That told us a lot about Barack Obama.
It's a small thing.
But somebody made some comments about Obama's big ears, and he took Maureen Dowd aside after speech, appearance, whatever it was.
And sort of in a figurative sense, wagged a finger at her and warned her he's very sensitive to comments about her his big ears.
She said, We're just trying to toughen you up.
But it's very telling.
Somebody running for the presidency would take time to say, well, it really bothers me.
You'd make fun of my ear.
Well, what what's telling about it?
What's telling about it to me is there's a guy that can't laugh at himself, and that's huge.
When that's that's a big tell, folks.
Somebody can't laugh at themselves.
It's a sign of how seriously they take themselves.
It's a sign of how demanding they can be to be respected, whether they've earned it or not.
They're demanding it.
Sign of insulation.
It's a sign of being protected.
Sign of weakness.
All kinds of things wrapped up into.
I can't think of another presidential candidate or president actually take somebody to media and say, would you stop making fun of my ears?
I mean, for crying out loud, look, presidential cartoonists routinely exaggerate the characteristics of every public figure.
You go with the flow.
You laugh about it.
But the next thing, the little thing, seemingly so.
I'll explain when we get back.
I just got a little economic blurb here.
Home sales fall five and a half percent.
A pending report.
Home sales fall five and a half percent.
Home values drop two percent again earlier this week.
Home sales down five and a half percent.
I thought they told us it was all coming back.
So we hit the bottom and turn the corner and back from the brink and all that stuff.
Home sales down five and a half percent.
Must go along with all the brand new jobs being created.
It's the little things.
I don't mean to be redundant or repetitive.
Yesterday in the White House, it was time for the president to present the Medal of Freedom to this year's recipients.
And one of the recipients, the little things like this, folks.
One of the recipients of the Medal of Freedom was a woman by the name of Huerta, Dolores Huerta.
Do any of you the mention of the name Dolores Huerta?
Does it mean anything?
H-U-E-R-T-A.
Let's listen to President Obama presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta.
When Cesar Chavez sat Dolores Huerta down at his kitchen table and told her they should start a union, she thought he was joking.
Dolores helped lead a worldwide great boycott that forced growers to agree to some of the country's first farm worker contracts.
And ever since she has fought to give more people a seat at the table.
Don't wait to be invited, she says.
Step in there.
And on a personal note, Dolores was very gracious when I told her I had stolen her slogan, Cisepuere.
Yes, we can.
Knowing her, I'm pleased that she let me off easy because Dolores does not play.
Dolores Huerita has said, among other things, Republicans hate Latinos.
She has said we didn't cross the border.
The border crossed us.
Dolores Huevita is a Marxist, a co-founder with Cesar Chavez, as you heard, the United Farm Workers, whom Obama honored yesterday.
A Marxist, a professed Marxist and socialist with the presidential medal of freedom.
Now it's a small thing.
It's a small thing, and hardly anybody is making any big deal of it.
Obama gives the commemoration, she gets the medal, and everybody goes on and does their business.
but it is quite telling.
The small stuff is never small.
you President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerteta, now 82 years old, reported to be a labor activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union.
However, Dolores Huerta is an honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America.
The Democrat Socialists of America describes itself as quote, the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.
She has claimed Republicans hate Latinos.
She speaks fondly and frequently of Hugo Chavez's regime in Venezuela.
And despite her Marxist ties, her proud socialist ties, despite her radicalism.
She receives accolades from top Obama administration officials, including and understandably, the labor secretary, Hilda Solis.
And she's now the recipient of the nation's highest civilian honor.
From Discover the Networks, a little bit about this woman, co-founder, first vice president emeritus, United Farm Workers of America.
Dolores Huetita has long worked radicalize migrant farm workers, board member Democratic Socialists of America, board member feminist majority, Latinas for Choice, the Center for Voting in Democracy, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, which is a left-wing media group, much along the lines of media matters.
As a young adult, she taught school, but she never had an education degree.
She did that until 1955 when as a single mother of seven, she now has 11 children, she launched her career as a political activist.
Driven by a belief that true democracy can only be achieved through a redistribution of wealth.
Dolores Huerta has been imprisoned more than 20 times as a result of her participation in various protests.
In an interview in 2002, she stated, "I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy.
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth." Recipient presidential medal of freedom.
Dolores Juetita has actively opposed the post-9-11 war on terrorism.
She says it is a war on immigrants.
She's out publicly rabble rousing, claiming the war on terrorism is a war on Hispanic immigrants.
She accused President Bush of possessing a cowboy mentality.
She told War Times.org in 2003 that the U.S. had trained the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, whom it was fighting to.
She's a truther.
She believes that we were behind 9-11.
She believes that we trained the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
She said it's always been a part of U.S. foreign policy to first put a dictator in power and then get rid of them.
Responding to critics of illegal immigration, she said we didn't cross the U.S. Mexican border.
The border crossed us.
We were minding our own business.
And all of a sudden you moved the border on us.
And you took our country away from us.
That's what she means.
Much like whoever it was we had yesterday claiming.
Oh, it was Minister Farrakhan.
Minister Farrakhan and Dolores Huerta are of the same mold.
And she won the presidential medal of freedom yesterday.
Like everything else the Democrats do, the presidential medal of freedom is now being rendered meaningless.
It's just a political award.
That's all it is.
It's just, it's it's been politicized.
It's another great tradition, institution down the tubes.
I remember my last trip to the White House was on my birthday in 2009.
This was before Obama was immaculated as President Bush's guest.
And after lunch, there were three recipients, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
They were Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Australia, John Emily and Middleblock of his name, and another world leader.
I mean, they were they were genuine freedom fighters, genuine people who had no particular.
I mean, Tony Blair was a member of the Labor Party, was uh but an ally of Bush's in the Iraq War.
It's a little things, folks, that are so informing that are so telling.
More than any large speech Obama would ever make.
Dolores Huerta, who I should also point out.
In 2006, Dolores Huerta said, our theme will be Republicans hate Latinos, okay?
Republicans hate Latinos.
I don't think this is the kind of language belief, what have you, that this honor was intended for.
Lovers of freedom are not genuinely people who run around talking about hating entire groups of people.
Now, Obama didn't mention any of this when he inducted her, or not inducted her when he gave her the medal.
Tony Morrison was also a recipient of the Medal of Freedom yesterday.
She's an authorist.
You remember Tony Morrison Dawn back in, you know, 1988 or 1998, sorry, Tony Morrison wrote that Bill Clinton was our first black president.
Another winner of the Medal of Freedom yesterday.
It's just it's little stuff.
I'm sure many of you said, why are you talking about this?
Because I think we still have a lot of work to do, folks, in telling people who Barack Obama is.
First black president.
I mean, and here is the first black president giving an award to someone who claimed a white guy was the first black president.
The Medal of Freedom, Tony Morrison.
And Tony Morrison said, well, I mean, Clinton is uh he can relate a lot to the boys in the hood or some such thing.
He's got no, he plays sax phone.
It didn't no, no, she didn't say anything about sex, but uh almost made it sound like Clinton came from from a ghetto neighborhood and a ghetto up.
Clinton can relate to and understand.
That's again, I just we got a lot of work yet to do.
Telling people who Barack Obama is.
Now tomorrow's Thursday.
What's Thursday?
Thursday is when the previous week's job number gets revised upward and made worse.
Yesterday we'll get some unemployment numbers.
Or tomorrow we'll get some unemployment numbers.
Last Thursday we got unemployment numbers.
They were unchanged in the previous week, so there wasn't a big hubbub about them.
The media couldn't write that the change was expected or unexpected because there was no change.
Except that there was a change.
The previous week had been revised up by 3,000.
It wasn't as good as it was originally reported and never is.
59 out of the last 60 weeks.
Unemployment numbers have been revised upward the week after they have been reported.
Here's what Tony Morrison said.
White skinned notwithstanding this, our first black president, blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime.
After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness, single parent household, born poor, working class, saxophone playing McDonald's and junk food loving boy from Arkansas.
That woman who said that, who wrote that, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday.
Okay.
And she's not even right.
She said blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime.
Sorry, Obama came along and rendered her wrong.
Not going there, Snerdley.
I'm not good.
You can say it all you want.
I'm not going there.
Snerdley wants me to zero in on the blacker than any actual black person, and he thinks it may still be jury out on this.
No, no, no.
I'm not.
Well, all I know is that all Bill Clinton had to do to qualify as the first black president is to display almost every trope of black.
Here he is a civil rights leader, and this is what being black is to her.
Single parent household, born poor, working class, saxophone playing, McDonald's and junk food loving boy.
And you throw in from Arkansas, and she wins presidential medal of freedom, along with Dolores Huerta.
Meanwhile, people like Alberto Gonzalez are destroyed for being conservative, like Clarence Thomas are destroyed for being conservative.
Shelby Steele and try to destroy him, Thomas Sowell.
You got legitimate candidates there for the presidential medal of freedom.
Never stand a chance.
In America's dominant liberal media culture today.
And that's the only that in the academy is the only place liberalism is dominant.
In fact, Gallup has a poll out today.
Twice as many of over twice as many Americans self-identify as conservative economically or economic conservatives.
Forty-eight percent of Americans say they are economic conservatives.
Twenty percent say they're liberal on economics.
Self-identified across the board.
Are you liberal or conservative?
Gallup poll.
40% say conservative.
20% say they're liberal.
A genuine minority, but because they own the media and the academy, and you have to throw in Hollywood, books, movies, music, TV shows.
You have to throw that in as part of the media organization.
The appearance is quite the opposite.
Now back to the unemployment numbers.
Washington Post with a story today, and here's the headline.
Job recovery is scant for Americans in prime working years.
The guy who writes the story is Peter Wariski.
The proportion of Americans in their prime working years who have jobs is smaller than it has been at any time in the 23 years before the recession, according to federal statistics, reflecting the profound and lasting effects that the downturn has had on the nation's economic prospects.
By this measure, the jobs situation has improved little in recent years.
The percentage, no, it's not news to you and me.
The percentage of workers between the ages of 25 and 54 who have jobs now stands at 75.7%.
That's just a percentage point over what it was at the downturn's worst.
Before the recession, the proportion was around 80%.
During their prime years, Americans are supposed to be building careers and wealth to prepare for their retirement.
Instead, as the indicator reveals, huge numbers of Americans in their prime earning years are out of work.
They are on the sidelines.
And that is an important point.
You don't get the years back.
You don't get your prime years back.
I remember, ladies and gentlemen, back in my day, before I had reached the age of 40, the time you started high school or college, it was just a rule of thumb.
That you wouldn't know until you were 40 whether you would really make it or not.
As a general rule, there are always exceptions.
The Ray Crocs, the entrepreneurs, the Zuckerberg types, there are always going to be exceptions.
But if you hadn't made it by 40, you were toast.
I remember when I was at Sacramento, California, to illustrate this, and I was buying what I considered my first house, it was actually the second.
But the first one was just a dump in a shack.
I didn't even want to buy it when I bought it.
That was a dumb move.
But I got talked into it by a bunch of people I shouldn't listen to.
So I don't count that.
first house.
And I'm at the now closed Mesa's.
Which is a great restaurant and bar.
And I'm talking to the developer of the real estate where I'm going to buy a house.
And this is 1985, maybe 86.
And he said to me, you know, they don't let you make any money until you're 40.
Now, what he meant was they don't let you make any meaning that's the way our society is.
People under 40 just aren't invested in with huge salaries or compensation because you haven't proved yourself until you're 40.
You haven't done enough.
That's just the way it was when I was growing up.
It's not, I don't think it's the case now, but every generation changes.
But it was that way for many generations prior to mine, and it was mine.
And the point in telling you this is that if you blew off the years when you were 30 to 35, you You couldn't get them back.
They were wasted, and you could not get them back.
An athlete football player, national football, you hit 30, 9 out of 10 players, and the team starts looking for your replacement.
It's not personal, it's you lose speed skills, hand-eye coordination.
Some positions can last a little longer, like quarterback, but running backs, especially 30, the wheels are gone.
And if you have an injury and you miss a season or two, you can't get those years back.
Well, here we have the proportion of Americans in their prime working years who have jobs is smaller than it has been in 23 years.
Thank you, President.
This Obama's America.
During their prime years, Americans are supposed to be building careers and wealth to prepare for their retirement.
Instead, huge numbers of people are on the sidelines, and they're not going to get these years back.
How does it manifest itself?
Well, the fall off has been sharpest for men.
I can't believe this is in the Washington Post, but it is.
A guy named Peter Wariski.
The falloff has been sharpest for men, for whom the proportion had been on a slow decline before the recession.
The percentage of prime age men who are working is smaller now than it has been in any time going all the way back in 1948.
Can I tell you that again?
The percentage of men in their prime earning years who are working is smaller than at any time all the way back to 1948.
This according to federal statistics.
The proportion of prime age working women is at a low, not since 1988.
Now what happens when these people hit retirement age?
They're not going to have contributed much of anything because they'll not have worked in key earning years where their earning potential is at its highest.
I tell you all of this.
No, I'm not trying to be a downer for Christ.
I live in Realville, and I'm hellbent here on people understanding exactly who Barack Obama is.
I don't think this guy ought to get 10% of the vote if there were an election today.
It is an utter disaster what's happened and what is happening.
Let me take a brief time out.
My friends will come back and continue in mere moments after this.
Okay, so President Obama gives the highest honor.
Presidential medal of freedom to a Marxist socialist.
What is the media narrative?
The media narrative is Romney is out of kilter with America because he will not denounce Donald Trump as a supporter.
While Obama is honoring Marxists and socialists, Tony Morrison is one as well.
The media is ripping Romney to shreds for being out of touch with America because Trump is a supporter and contributor.
Last night and this morning, we have a media montage of media people demanding that Romney denounce Trump and me.
Mitt Romney holding back and being fundamentally silent while Trump is vocating, as he was on Rush Limbaugh.
He can't even stand up to Donald Trump to Rush Limbaugh.
Wouldn't stand up to Rush Limbaugh.
He feels like he can't afford to alienate, certainly not Rush Limbaugh.
Not only would Mitt Romney not stand up to Donald Trump, but he wouldn't stand up to Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, uh throwing me in there, and I haven't done anything lately.
I haven't done all I've done is survive.
So they're throwing me in there with Trump, and that means Romney's out of touch.
Romney doesn't have the slightest idea what to do, what's going on.
He's not qualified to run this country because he won't denounce me or Trump.
Last night CNN, Aaron Burnett out front, the guest was who is it?
Democrat strategist Jamal Simmons.
Here's the question.
Mitt Romney said he doesn't agree with all the people who support him.
Does he need to come out and say something about Trump?
He wouldn't stand up to Rush Limbaugh.
Wouldn't stand up to uh Rick Tantorum.
And now he won't stand up to Donald Trump.
At some point he's got to put the Lulus back in the cage and tell them I'd love to have your support, but not under these circumstances.
Meanwhile, the President of the United States spent the day with Madeline Albright and Dolores Hartha and Tony Morrison, you know, bestowing these medals on them, and Mitt Romney is with Donald Trump.
It's just a great contrast for the Obama people.
It damn well.
Do you think the vast majority of this people relate to Tony Morrison and Dolores Huerta or Trump?
Everywhere Donald Trump goes is a sellout.
Donald Trump teaches a course at the new school, it's a sellout.
Donald Trump does a lecture on wealth creation, it's a sellout.
I know it's popular to make Trump a caricature and a joke in the left-wing media.
And the same thing with me.
But look at this.
Romney's running around with Trump, and he won't denounce limbaugh, and yet there's our guy, Obama, with a couple of Marxists.
It's a great contrast for the Obama.
Exactly right.
If this were the Soviet Union.
Which it isn't yet.
Probably safe to say that Donald Trump and I, singularly or combined, have created more jobs than Obama has.
Or the Obama administration.
Certainly created more jobs than the Democrat Party has in the last three years.
This is very, very uh telling.
And we're not through with the sound bites.
The dumping on Romney and Trump continues.
We have more sound bites like that.
Plus, I'm going to get to your phone calls sooner and a little bit more frequently today than yesterday.
So hang in there, be tough.
Lots still to come.
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