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May 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 30, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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I've got Eric Holder audio soundbites explaining what this black church, it's really, folks, it's irresponsible.
It's much, in fact, let's just go right to him.
2425.
This is irresponsible.
It's worse than irresponsible.
This is reprehensible what Holder is doing here.
This was this morning in Washington.
It was at a Congressional Black Caucus Faith Leaders Summit on Voting Rights.
And this is why Holder is having meetings with the black churches, the ministers.
And he's going to bring the IRS along.
He's going to bring the Congressional Black Caucus along, the ACLU along.
And we've got two soundbites.
Now, keep in mind, this is the Attorney General of the United States.
This is not some rabid pundit on the left on MSNBC.
This is not some say anything to get noticed rabble-rousing media person.
It's not some kooky left-wing communist member of Congress.
This is the Attorney General of the United States who is supposed to look at this country in a nonpartisan way and enforce the laws of this country, the number one law enforcement officer of this country.
And his job is to protect and guarantee freedom, along with everybody else who takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
But this, this is just what he's doing here in these two soundbites is reprehensible.
Of all the freedoms that we enjoy today, none is more important or more sacred than the right to vote.
I've heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who often for the first time in their lives now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation's most noble ideals and that some of the achievements that define the civil rights movement now hang stopping.
Stop this.
I really don't know the word to properly describe what this is.
I have heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who often, for the first time in their lives, now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to the most noble ideal, the right to vote.
Where is this happening?
I want to know who in this country feels threatened.
Who feels like somebody's trying to keep them from voting?
And don't pop this voter ID thing at me.
If you look at polling daily, you will find a majority of African Americans favor a photo ID.
African Americans are human beings.
They have the same concerns as anybody else.
They don't want an electoral system that's filled with fraud and deceit.
They don't want to be taken advantage of.
They don't want to have their vote not count or to count 25 times.
A majority of them favor a photo ID.
Well, where is this movement that's designed to get people to stop voting?
Who's behind it?
I want some names.
Holder ought to name names.
He ought to name the organizations.
He ought to produce the evidence.
Who is it in 2012 that has a stated effort to deny anybody, I don't care who it is, the right to vote.
And these people that Holder says are hearing a consistent drumbeat of concern for the first time in their lives.
They have reason to believe that people don't want them to vote.
Who are these people that have this fear and why do they have this fear?
Could it be they've been told a pack of lies by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton or other civil rights leaders?
Who is it that's scaring them?
The last I looked, everybody was campaigning to try to win their votes.
I don't see anybody trying to stop them from voting.
Not en masse on a racial basis.
This is absurd.
It is irresponsible.
This is the Attorney General of the United States making this claim.
He doesn't name names.
He doesn't name organizations.
And here he is having meetings with the Congressional Black Caucus and ministers of African American churches and attempting to tell these people their people don't want you to vote.
You know, play the rest of the bite.
In the balance.
Congressman Lewis may have described the reason for these concerns best in a speech when pointing out that the voting rights that he worked throughout his life and nearly gave his life to ensure, and I quote him, are under attack by a deliberate and systematic attempt to prevent millions of elderly voters, young voters, students, and minority and low-income voters from exercising their constitutional right to engage in the democratic process.
Unquote.
John Lewis is who he's talking about from Georgia.
Made famous in the march to Selma.
I want to know who is it that's trying to prevent millions of elderly, young students, minority, low-income, pretty much covers it all, doesn't it?
Every victimized cliché and group you could come up with, he's covered it.
Who is it that's trying to stop millions of people from voting?
I know, I know they're trying to say that photo ID, voter ID is the weapon here.
Intellectually, this doesn't compute.
Remember now, I live in Rielville.
I have a photo ID.
I can't vote where I live without it.
I have to show my photo ID when I go vote.
I have to prove that I'm the one in the register.
I can't just show my card.
They have to have a picture.
How in the world?
And it's up to me to get the picture.
And nobody is stopping anybody from getting a photo ID.
I've heard what Jesse Jackson's telling people.
In Georgia, they tried to do this.
And they said, we'll even do it free.
Just come down to the office and we'll, and Jesse Jackson said, don't leave your home.
That's what they want.
They want to get you out of your home.
And they want to get you in there and they want to take away your privacy.
Well, somebody ought to ask these people.
You see, all the millions of Americans have photo IDs, just exactly what's happened to them because of that.
How have their lives worsened?
How have people who have photo IDs been prevented from voting?
When's the last known case of this?
Somebody showed up with a photo ID, and because of that, we're told they couldn't vote.
This really is irresponsible.
It's absurd, and it's a classic illustration of the disservice done to the black community by black leaders.
Lying to them, scaring them, keeping them huddled in fear in the corners of their homes with imaginary monsters and threats.
They're going to do imaginary, monstrous things to them.
If I didn't know better, I would say they're setting up an excuse for Obama losing here.
If I didn't know better, I would say they were already scared that Obama's going to lose.
The black vote's not going to turn out, and this is all to set up an excuse for it.
But I reject that because it's way too early for anybody to be thinking that way.
Don't you need a photo ID to get a food stamp or to use the food stamp?
I don't know, but you need a photo ID for virtually everything.
You need a photo ID to buy cigarettes.
Well, but I mean, to get the EBT card, I know it's an ATM card, but maybe not.
Government probably passes those things out.
They don't care who gets them.
I don't care.
Still, this is, folks, I got a cigar in my mouth to help me.
I know you do.
You need a photo ID to buy cigarettes.
I got this cigar in my mouth to make sure I don't utter a profanity.
I am so ticked off here.
I'm not going to tell you what profanity I was.
I wasn't thinking of a profanity.
I knew I just headed in that direction.
This is, I can't tell you.
This stuff like this is what depresses me.
So, you know, we're never going to get over the hump.
We are never.
With stuff like this happening from the highest levels of our government, we are never going to get these people who are the prisoners of liberalism free and liberated to join the rest of the country and pursue happiness and prosperity.
It just isn't going to happen.
This kind of irresponsible, this is drivel.
Here's the next soundbite.
This is Holder promising not to fight these imaginary laws that are going to keep people from voting.
The recent wave of changes to state-level voter identification laws also has presented a number of problems requiring the department's attention.
In December, we objected to South Carolina's voter ID law after finding, and this is based on the state's own data, the data they sent, the proposed change would place an unfair burden on non-white voters.
This past March, we have to say, how the hell does that happen?
Stop the tape.
This is reprehensible and irresponsible.
How in the world does it place this burden on non-white voters?
The Attorney General of the United States is not even supposed to think this way, much less talk this way.
States own data, proposed change and place an unfair burden on non-white voters.
Why?
Because they don't have photo IDs and they'd have to go get them.
Why don't they have them?
Whose fault is that?
Nobody's preventing them from getting them.
The only people telling them not to get them are people like Holder and Reverend Jackson, a civil rights leader.
Don't you dare go get one because if you do, you're going to undermine our whole movement.
The more of you that get photo ideas, the more you undermine our number one vote technique, which is fraud.
Here's the rest of this bite, if I can handle it.
Because it would have a disproportionate impact on Hispanic voters.
We also will continue working to enforce provisions like the motor voter law.
And to that end, have recently filed two lawsuits to increase access to registration opportunities.
In addition to these and other efforts to ensure access to the ballot box, there is no lack of access to the ballot box.
You can register to vote when you buy a Big Mac, practically.
In many places, they register you to vote when you have no idea you can.
That's not a problem.
Voter registration is not a problem.
Maybe getting people interested in registering in certain places is, but it's not a burden.
It isn't hard.
It's easy.
It's just this is the kind of stuff that keeps this country torn apart, folks.
And this is the kind of stuff that puts a big obstacle, giant roadblock in the way of ever overcoming some of this stuff.
I've got to take a break.
Be back after this.
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This is Rachel or Rochelle.
How do you pronounce it?
In Orange County, California.
Hi.
Well, how do you pronounce your name?
Rachel.
Rachel.
Okay, it's spelled weirdly here, but I'm glad my instincts prevailed.
Good.
Well, I was just noticing that I think that, especially from the last election, that I think the black churches are probably now being swayed because of the whole gay thing with Obama.
I believe the African-American churches, they're very religious, and they, you know.
Really?
You think there might be, you think Holder and the boys are heading out to talk to the preachers because there's some panic that set in over Obama supporting gay marriage.
Black voters are not cool with it?
Yes, I'm pretty sure because I've heard that a lot from, you know, you talk to young people, to even older people in African-American communities.
They are not really cool with that.
I think the whole like voter fraud or whatever it is, I think that's a distraction.
It's really being known they're going to lose the You know what?
I think you may have a point here because I think whatever's going on, they're panicking.
Oh, yes.
They are panicking.
And I've told my audience, which you are a proud member, for months now that internally, Oval Office, White House, the campaign, they're in trouble and they know it.
They're not at all where they expected to be.
And they're doubling down on all the stuff that's hurting them.
This Bane Capital ad is hurting Obama, doubling down on it.
Promising gay marriage.
There's the voter fraud.
It's so ridiculous.
There isn't anybody trying to stop anybody from voting.
They're trying to create panic and fear.
They're trying to take these people that listen to them and say, you know, a lot of people don't want you to vote.
And the truth is, these people are probably, as you say, ticked off at Obama because of policies.
And so they're trying to come, they're trying to get the black preachers on board to preach to the flock and understand, hey, we can't hold it against Obama.
He's got to do what he's got to do.
You got to maintain your support.
That's what you think is going on here.
Yes.
I mean, I'm in California, and we voted for Prop 8 to ban gay marriage, and it was a big turnout by the African-American vote.
That's right.
2008, that I'm pretty sure had a lot to do with.
I think she may have a point.
I think you may have a point here.
I think that probably is a good explanation for what's going on here.
Yes, I believe so, too.
Yeah.
Well, something is going on, whatever.
They are panicked.
I mean, to be worried about the black vote as we near the first of June, with the first black president running for re-election to be worried about the black vote, something's going on out there.
I appreciate the call, Rachel.
Thanks very much.
Jerry in Cookville, Tennessee.
You're next.
Hello.
Hey, thank you, Rush.
You know, the deal with Dolores Huerta.
Right.
Okay.
Now, Jimmy Carter gave the Presidential Freedom a medal to the founder of the ACLU, the communist Roger Baldwin.
And then Ronald Reagan gave the same medal to Whitaker Chambers.
And all the communists, excuse me, all the Democrats were really upset that Reagan would give it to Whitaker Chambers, who was a former communist who testified against the communist Alger Hiss.
They were really upset about that.
And I just find it kind of remarkable that Monday, Obama was lecturing people about the way that the Vietnam veterans were treated when they came home.
Yet the lady that he just gave the medal to yesterday, Dolores Huerta, she was leading an anti-war protest in California when I used to live there.
Excellent point.
That is true about Dolores Huerta.
You're absolutely right.
She was doing that which Obama condemned the day before she got her presidential medal of honor.
But let's talk about this.
We just said you, he's right.
Reagan gives the Medal of Honor to Whitaker Chambers.
That happened long ago.
Whitaker Chambers, author of a book called Witness, former communist who basically spilled the goods, spilled the beans on communism in America and around the world and focused on Alger Hiss.
Alger Hiss, the real reason Richard Nixon was hated for his whole life is that Nixon was who successfully prosecuted Alger Hiss as a spy, as a communist spy.
Hiss was convicted.
There's not a media person alive today that doesn't hate Nixon for that.
They loved Alger Hiss.
They hated Whitaker Chambers for giving up the goods.
So you might hear him say, okay, here's Whitaker Chambers, former communist turns, writes book Witness.
By the way, Whitaker Chambers was a fatalist when he wrote Witness.
And in the aftermath, he thought the communists were going to win.
Even after his defection, even after he gave it up.
Yeah, Alger Hiss worked for the State Department.
Yeah.
Alger Hiss was a government spy.
He was a communist in the government spy.
Yeah.
But Chambers was a fatalist.
He thought that communism was going to win, even after he had defected.
He was a farmer.
You ought to read some stuff that he's written.
He edited a book that William Buckley published called, Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking?
It's going to be impossible to find, probably.
My dad had it, and I found it years and years ago, and I was blown away by it.
A series of essays with commentary.
But Hissaker, Whitaker Chambers' book was Witness.
It's a huge, big, long.
Let me take a break here.
I'll finish this so we get back.
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Welcome back.
Great to have you.
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The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Whitaker Chambers, wrote the book, Witness.
He went to his grave, believing that he was on the wrong side of history, that communism would eventually win.
But he writes the book.
It's pretty heavy lifting, but it's fascinating.
Whitaker Chambers is one of the seminal figures in modern Buckley conservatism and that branch that was focused on anti-communism.
Now, Whitaker Chambers getting the Medal of Freedom from Ronaldos Magnus, somebody like me makes entirely, perfectly intellectual sense.
Here you have the Soviet Union, state-sponsored communism, which murdered people, starved millions, gunned down millions of its own people, built walls to keep them in.
Whitaker Chambers made his life project to tell everybody the truth because the New York Times was lying about communism.
They had a reporter that won a prize.
I don't know that the Pulitzer was around, and it might have been.
Walter Duranty wrote a piece denying the Ukraine famine of Stalin.
Piece after piece, praising Stalin as this great humanitarian leader.
It was all lies.
Stalin was one of the world's greatest mass murderers.
So Whitaker Chambers comes along.
It's the presidential medal of freedom.
Makes entirely perfect sense that somebody like Whitaker Chambers would get that honor.
And it doesn't make intellectual sense to those of us in Rielville that somebody who despises America would get it.
As somebody who thinks America is the land of despotism, that thinks Americans need to be liberated from freedom or liberated from bondage or whatever they think America is.
Somebody believes in tearing down the Constitution.
Somebody believes in redistribution of wealth.
Somebody that signs on to the tenets of Marxism.
Like Dolores Huerta gets the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
It doesn't compute.
Not if you have the founding concepts of America as your guide.
But if you believe that this country was unjust and immoral in its founding and subsequent existence, if you think this country is the focus of evil in the modern world and somebody who opposes it, it would make perfect sense to you that they should get the Medal of Freedom.
But the point is, only about 10% of the population of this country thinks that about this country.
15% tops.
Well, I don't, that may be even high.
How many people do you think want, as a percentage of the population, want this country overthrown?
It's nowhere near 50%.
It's nowhere near 40% when you look at it that way.
But these people who want that are getting the Medal of Freedom Award from Obama.
That's the little things that tell you so much about who people like Obama really are.
Don't need speeches in front of 200,000 people in Berlin to figure out who this guy is.
All we need to know is who he respects and admires.
Reverend Wright, sorry, you're not supposed to mention that.
Would you like to hear a list of things, just a partial list of things that you need a photo ID for in America?
Some are federal, but most of these are state laws or activities for which a photo ID is required.
Boarding an airplane.
Can't get on an airplane without a photo ID, right?
Writing a check.
Well, cashing a check.
If you write a check somewhere at a consumer institution, you're going to have to prove that it's your check.
Cashing a check.
Using a credit card.
Driving a car.
Applying for a business license.
Applying for permission to hold a protest or rally.
You need a photo ID.
You need a photo ID when applying and securing employment.
Got to prove to them who you are.
When you buy a house or real estate, got to have a photo ID.
When you rent a domicile, when you rent a car, when you purchase a firearm, including BB guns, you need a photo ID.
When you walk into a place in Iowa and say, Can I get me a hunting license here?
Now that's waived for 16 and 17-year-olds when their legal guardian provides a photo ID, but you need a photo ID for hunting license or fishing license, certainly for purchasing adult beverages, purchasing tobacco or products that contain nicotine.
Purchasing a car, photo ID.
Initial registration of a car, need a photo ID.
Applying for a building permit.
Receiving prescription medicine.
Purchasing over-the-counter medicine that contains pseudo-ephedron.
Pseudo-Fed.
You need a photo ID to buy SudaFed.
People in Rio Linda know what that is.
Photo ID to serve on a jury.
Photo ID to open a bank account.
Photo ID, cash transactions of $5,000 or greater.
And that's a partial list of what you need a photo ID for.
And the Attorney General is out trying to scare African Americans into thinking that somebody, probably the Klan, is riding tall to make sure they can't vote.
That's what he's doing.
It's no different than calling a meeting and saying the Klan is having meetings tonight and they want to burn crosses on your front yard.
That's what he's doing.
It's the equivalent of what he's doing.
It's irresponsible.
And the results of all this are on him.
Say, folks, we got a pre-release here of the latest ABC News Washington Post poll.
We don't have any internals yet.
They just threw this up on their website.
Headline says it all.
Romney rebounds among women while Obama's favorability slips.
ABC News, Washington Post, a sharp advance among women, has boosted Mitt Romney to his highest favorability rating of the campaign.
Albeit still an unusually weak one, while Obama's personal popularity has slipped.
Obama still beats Romney in favorable ratings overall by an 11-point margin, but that's down from a 21-point margin last month, giving Romney the better trajectory, meaning trend.
But the big news is in women.
Romney with significant gains.
Latest ABC News Washington Post poll.
By the time we meet tomorrow, they might have published the internals, which is where the meat of any poll is.
George in Big Piney, Wyoming.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm fine, sir.
How are you?
Good, and I'm glad you took my calling.
Thank you very much.
I am too.
I'm a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and I want to say something in defense of venture capitalists.
Wait a minute now.
You're a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
What did you do?
I built two companies in the, well, the internet's built on the companies I built, the local area and the White Area Network.
Really?
So you, well, that's cool.
You're retired now?
I'm retired now, but you can look me up in the.
I'll find you, George.
I know how to do it.
On the internet.
Yeah, I think I know.
Okay, I got it.
But anyway.
Yeah, I know who we can do.
I've heard everybody bad mouthing Romney and Bain.
I borrowed money from Bain to build my first company.
You borrowed money from Bain to build your first business.
All I could borrow was $1.2 million, and I ended up, when we took it public in 88, was named Turnaround Entrepreneur of the Year.
$52 million had been spent on this company, and it failed.
And I came in and took it over and took it in a different direction.
Wait a minute.
I want to follow this.
$52 million had been spent and it failed.
Bain came in with, and you borrowed $1.2 million.
That's all I could get.
Bain put in $1.2, basically.
Bain gave me $400.
Bain gave you $400.
GE gave me $400 and Kleiner Perkins gave me $400.
$400,000.
$400,000.
Right.
And we took it from zero to about $250 million and went public in 1988.
How many jobs you create, George?
At that time, we had about 210 with the day we went public.
And obviously, we got acquired, so it continued to grow.
The second one, the second company I built, I also built with Venture Capital.
And we got nearly a billion dollars for that company.
I took it public in 1993, I think.
Anyway, that was the local interconnect for the internet on a local basis.
Well, whatever.
The venture guys jumped right in there, and they lose a lot of money.
The first company lost $52 million before they gave up, and I was able to talk them into send me some more money.
So how does all this talk about Bain make you feel?
Well, at least I wish I had a 78% hitting average.
I mean, it's fabulously successful.
I mean, they created millions of jobs because it's like it cascades.
You have a first layer of jobs, and then they lay off that work on others, and others, and others.
And Obama has no concept whatsoever what he's even talking about.
Well, that's what Romney says, too.
Romney is Obama just really doesn't know what he's talking about.
And a rank amateur.
Well, he is a ranker.
He thinks he knows what he's talking about, but I think it's more deceitful than that.
Well, that's possible, but Russia, I can sit here and do the numbers, and I can tell you, for every day you go down, it takes you two days to come back financially.
Yep.
And we're going to have a depression whether we like it or not.
I don't care who's president.
You can't get there from here the way we spend.
We're supporting the world.
Well, we have been.
I know.
So you see no way of avoiding a depression?
I don't.
The numbers aren't there.
You can't people are out of work without paying taxes.
The GDP has gone to hell.
I know 88 million American adults are not working, but they're eating, George.
Yeah, food stamps.
Well, that and other things, too.
I defy anybody that has any economic sense whatsoever to point to me how we're going to get out of this hole.
Romney.
They're not.
George, everybody's trying to kick this down the road.
Everybody is trying to kick this down the road so that when it blows up, they're dead or otherwise not around.
New University of Hawaii research.
If you're fat, people will always see you as fat, particularly if you're a woman.
If you lose weight, it doesn't matter.
You lose 70 pounds, and people will still see you as fat.
So the story says, don't bother losing weight, because no matter what you do, still going to be seen as a tub of art.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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