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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 them.
2425.
This is irresponsible.
I 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 sound bites.
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 sound bites, 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 stop.
I I really don't know the word to properly describe what this is.
I have heard a consistent drum beat 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 data, 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 drum beat of concern.
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 lives 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 in mass and 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 a Congressional Black Caucus and ministers of African American churches and the attempting to tell these people or 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 cliche 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 uh is the is the is the weapon here.
Um intellectually this doesn't compute.
Remember now, I live in Realville.
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 them my card.
They have to have a picture.
How in the 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 and Jesse Jackson 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 wives 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 were 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 a 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.
Well, I don't care.
Still, this is folks.
I got a cigar in my mouth.
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 gonna tell you what profanity I wasn't thinking of a profanity.
I knew I just headed in that direction.
This is can't I can't tell you.
This stuff like this is what depresses me.
So, you know, we're never gonna get over the hump.
We are never with stuff like this happening from the highest levels of our government, we are never gonna 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 gonna happen.
This kind of irresponsible.
This is drivel.
Here's the next soundbite.
This is uh this is Holder promising how to fight.
These imaginary laws that are gonna 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 that they sent.
The proposed change would place an unfair burden on non-white voters.
And this past March, we've got to be able to do that.
How the hell does that happen?
Stop the tape.
That's again this is reprehensible and irresponsible.
How in the world does it place this burden on non-white voters?
Attorney General of the United States is not even supposed to think this way, much less talk this way.
State's 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 gonna undermine our whole movement.
The more of you that get photo IDs, 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, top up hold.
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...
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This is the kind of stuff that keeps his 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.
You gotta take a break.
Be back after this.
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This is uh Rachel or Rochelle.
How do you pronounce?
In uh Orange County, California?
Hi.
Well, how do you pronounce your name?
Rachel.
Rachel.
Okay, it's spared spelled weirdly here, but I'm glad my instincts prevailed.
Well, I was just noticing that I think that especially from the last um election that I think uh the black churches are probably now being swayed to uh because of the the whole gay thing with Obama.
I I believe the African American churches, they're very religious and they 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 I'm pretty sure because I've 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 the whole like uh voter fraud or whatever it is, I think that's a distraction.
It's really being no, they're they're going to lose the um You know what I think uh you you may have a point here because I think whatever's going on, they're panicking.
Oh, yes.
They are panicking.
And I've I've I've told my audience, which you are proud member, uh, 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.
Um there's there's uh the voter fraud, it's so ridiculous.
There isn't anybody trying to stop anybody from voting.
So 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 won't don't want you to vote.
And well, 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 gotta maintain your support.
That's what you think is going on here.
Yes.
Yeah.
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.
That I'm pretty sure was had a lot to do with the.
I think she may have a point.
I think I 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 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.
Um you know the deal with uh Dolores Um Huerta.
Right.
Okay.
Um, Jimmy Carter gave the presidential uh freedom a medal to um the founder of the uh ACLU, the communist Roger Baldwin.
And then Ronald Reagan gave the same medal to Whitaker Chambers.
Yeah.
And all the communists uh 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 um I just find it kind of kind of remarkable that uh 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, Delos Huerta, um, she was uh leading uh anti-war protest in California when I used to live there.
Excellent point.
That is true about Dolores Werta.
You're absolutely right.
She was doing that which Obama condemned the day before she got her presidential medal of honor.
But let me let's talk about this.
He's right.
Reagan gives the Medal of Honor to Whitaker Chambers.
Uh That happened long ago.
Whitaker Chambers, author of a book called Witness, former communist who basically spilled the goods, spill 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 Changers 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 uh 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.
Um 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 his uh 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 uh it's pretty heavy lifting, but it's fascinating.
Whitaker Chambers uh is is one of the seminal figures in modern uh Buckley conservatism, and that branch that was focused on uh on anti-communism.
Now, Whitaker Chambers getting the Medal of Freedom from Ronaldus 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 Durante 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 Realville that somebody who despises America would get it.
That 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 tenants 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 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 what's the little things that tell you so much about who people like Obama really are.
We 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, not supposed to mention that.
Do 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?
Okay.
Writing a check.
Well, cashing a check.
If you write a check somewhere at a consumer institution, you're gonna 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, gotta have 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.
Pseudofed.
You need a photo ID to buy Pseudofed.
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 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 uh 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 eleven point margin.
But that's down from a twenty-one point margin last month, giving Romney the better trajectory, meaning trend.
But the big news is in women.
Latest ABC News Washington Post poll.
By the time we meet tomorrow, they might have published the internals, which is where the meat of uh 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.
I'm glad you took my call here.
Thank you very much.
I am too.
I'm a former so former Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
And I want to say something in defense of venture capital.
Wait a minute now.
You're a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
What did you do?
I built uh two companies in the uh well, the internet's built on companies I I built.
The local area and the white area network.
Really?
So you the well that's cool.
You're retired now?
I'm retired now, but you can look me up in the in the uh I'll find you, George.
I know how to do it.
Yeah, I think I know.
Okay, I got it.
But anyway.
Yeah, I know who we can do.
I've I've heard everybody bad mounting r Romney and Ba Bain.
I borrowed money from Bain to build my first company.
You borrowed money from Bain to build your first business.
Uh all I could borrow was one point two million dollars, and I ended up we when we we I took it public in eighty-eight, was named uh turnaround entrepreneur of the year.
Fifty-two million dollars 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.
Fifty-two million had been spent and it failed.
And if Bain came in with and you you borrowed one point two million dollars.
That's all I could get.
That's all you can Bain put in one point two basically.
Bain gave me four hundred.
Bain gave you four hundred.
GE gave me four hundred and Kleiner Perkins gave me four hundred.
Four hundred thousand.
Four hundred thousand.
Right.
And we took it from zero to about two hundred and fifty million and went public in nineteen eighty-eight.
How many jobs you create, George?
Uh at that time we had about two hundred and ten with the day we went public, and uh the obviously the we we got acquired to continue to grow.
The second one, the second company I built, I also built with venture capital.
And uh we got nearly a billion dollars for that company.
I I took it public in nineteen ninety three, I think.
Anyway, that was the the uh local interconnect for the uh internet uh on the local basis.
Well, whatever.
The venture the venture guys jumped right in there and you know they lose a lot of money.
The first company lost fifty-two million dollars before they gave up, and I was able to document and send me some more money.
I just all this talk about Bain make you feel.
Well, at least I I wish I had a seventy-eight percent hitting average.
I mean, that's it's fabulously successful.
I mean, I mean they created millions of jobs.
You you have a first layer of uh jobs and then they're they lay off that work on others and others and others.
It's it's uh and uh Obama has no concept whatsoever what he's even talking about.
Well that's what Romney says too.
Romney's Obama just really doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's a rank amateur.
Well, he is a ranking, he thinks he knows what he's talking about, but I think it's more deceitful than that.
I Well, that's possible, but Rush, I 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 gonna have a depression whether we like it or not.
I don't care who's president.
You just you can't get there from here the way we spend.
You know, we're supporting the world.
Well, we have been, I know.
So you see no way of avoiding a depression?
I don't.
I is the numbers aren't there.
You can't people are out of work so now paying taxes.
The GDP has gone to hell.
And I know.
Eighty-eight million American adults are not working, but they're eating, George.
Yeah, food stamps.
Well, that and and other things too.
Well, look, I I 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 gonna be seen as a tubable bard.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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