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June 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Folks, I want to tell you something.
I'm very serious about this.
This business of all these Democrats defending Romney and defending Bain, defending private equity.
If it were just that, that'd be one thing.
But in doing that, they are undermining their president.
They are undermining Obama.
And Obama had better do something about this or it's going to spin out the control audio.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
This is a much bigger deal than it appears.
We're all getting our chuckles out of it.
We're all getting our yuck-yucks out of it.
But this is insubordination.
This is political insubordination involving the president of the United States.
Public humiliation of the president of the United States.
And if he doesn't do something about it, it's going to spin further and further out of control.
I'm glad to have you back.
It's Open Line Friday, and I'm going to take phone calls in this segment.
I just realized I only take one so far.
I'm sorry about that, but I'm just loaded here.
And you know me.
I always have so much to say.
800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
So there's a quick little monologue, a couple soundbites and phone calls.
Look at this as a, well, football team, mafia family.
I don't care.
You've got the president of the United States and his number one campaign premise is destroying Romney.
Taking Romney out by virtue of his being a huge capitalist, pain capital, private equity.
And in the midst of your attack, prominent Democrats, including a former president, come out and defend Romney, essentially endorse Romney.
Corey Booker, the mayor of Newark, a rising Democrat star, Fast Eddie Rindell, entrenched.
The governor of Pennsylvania done everything in the Democrat Party.
Lanny Davis, number one defender of Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton.
Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, who has doubled down today on his defense.
Stenny Hoyer has come out and said that Clinton was right in what he said about Romney.
Now, folks, the Democrats, the White House here, somebody, Axelrod, Fluff, whoever, they had better start disciplining these people.
I mean, it's woodshed time.
Well, look at what happened to David Stockman when he, back in the 80s, undermined Reagan and supply-side economics.
Look what happened.
A very public trick to the woodshed here.
Now, the Democrats had better start disciplining these people, and it's going to be tough.
How do you discipline a former president?
How do you discipline the sitting governor of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania?
How do you discipline the mayor of Newark, who is one of your rising stars?
Because they are telling the truth, and the truth is a slippery slope for Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
They are not often found on the same side as the truth.
That's what's so remarkable about all this in one way.
Admit it.
Aren't you shocked just because the Democrats are opposing Obama?
They're supporting Romney.
The double shock is they are telling the truth at the same time, which they don't, they're not known for telling the truth.
Can we just be honest here?
The Democrats and the truth are strangers.
The Democrats normally can't use the truth.
The truth about what they are and what they want to do would kill them.
As evidenced by this, when's the last time the Democrats came out for capitalism, private equity, Wall Street?
When have they done it?
Well, the only time they've done it in recent years is to defend the Republican nominee.
Now, it could well be, and I think we must consider this.
Clinton might be doing it just because Obama's black.
I don't know.
Fast Eddie Rendell, Lanny Davis, they might be just not like Obama because he's black.
There might be racism causing them to do it, but that will not explain Duval Patrick, Corey Booker.
Well, I'm telling you, the only time I can recall in many years prominent Democrats defending capitalism is in the context of endorsing the Republican nominee while undermining their president's primary reelection strategy.
Once you admit one truth, others are likely to follow, and the truth will doom the Democrat Party.
And before you know it, the whole edifice of liberalism and progressivism slides down the hill to the bottom.
These people, folks, I'm not trying to be funny here.
I'm trying to get everybody to realize how profound what's happening is.
They're not just defending Bain, and they're not just defending Romney.
They are defending capitalism.
They are defending the number one enemy of their sitting president.
Whether they're aware of that or not, I don't know, but they're doing it.
And in the process, they're not just undermining liberalism or Obama, they're undermining their whole ideology.
I'm not trying to make it bigger than it is, and I'm not saying it's turned things around.
Well, this is profound for Obama.
This is profound for the presidential reelection effort.
Once you admit one truth, others are likely to follow.
I don't know how you let this go if you're Obama without disciplining these people.
But then again, I don't know how you discipline them.
What does he do?
But I'm going to tell you, if Barack Obama causes a worldwide depression, the Democrat Party is not going to survive it.
And the Bill Clintons will be forgotten.
Footnotes in history.
The Democrat Party will be in the ash heap of history if this guy is allowed to do what he wants to do.
It isn't Bush.
It's not Reagan.
It's not any of Obama's enemies.
Barack Obama is the one that put us on this path, and he's driving the car.
He's got the keys.
And he's got pedal to the metal.
You remember what happened?
Illustrate my point.
When Gorbachev came out with Perestroika and Glasnost, what was Gorbachev trying to do?
Save himself, save a Soviet Union.
They knew it was over for whatever reason.
It was Star Wars, but they knew it was over.
They didn't want to give up communism.
They couldn't.
So they tried to parcel out a little freedom and they told a few little bits of truth and it all imploded not long after the Berlin Wall came down.
And all it took was for one Marxist to admit that it didn't work.
All it took was for one Marxist to admit they needed to change.
And suddenly it all went down to drain, at least as far as the Soviet Union is concerned.
Not all of capitalism, but that branch of it, which was pretty important and big at that time.
So what is happening here is of profound weight.
A little honesty is a dangerous thing for Democrats.
But even if they were lying, still the fact that they are publicly undermining Barack Obama and for all intents and purposes, endorsing his opponent and his credentials, qualifications.
And this is not happenstance.
It's not coincidental.
What do we have?
Here's number nine.
This is Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts.
Last night, CNN, again, nobody saw it, so I'm going to play it for you.
Anderson Cooper said, you have said that some of the attacks on Bain Capital have been distorted.
Some of the ways that Bain Capital has been portrayed have been distorted.
How so?
I don't think Bain is a bad company.
I don't think that private equity has an inappropriate role in the private economy.
The question is, what was Governor Romney's record when he was at Bain?
But the Obama campaign has had people coming forward saying this is vulture capitalism.
Anderson, you haven't heard that from me.
I've spent most of my life in the private sector.
I respect Bain and I respect Bain's role.
He doubled down.
Here's Anderson Cooper doing his best.
Come on, just tell it's vulture capitalism.
Please just parrot Obama.
Just as vulture capitalism, uh-uh, I like it.
You might not have heard this because Cooper was talking over him, but Deval Patrick said Romney created a lot of wealth.
Now, the White House message is Romney destroyed jobs.
Romney destroyed jobs, destroyed companies, but took profits out for himself.
That's what the White House wants the Democrat Party saying.
Here's Deval Patrick after the controversy has erupted, doubling down on it, saying, no, no, Romney created a lot of wealth.
Anderson, you haven't heard vulture capitalism from me.
I spent most of my life in the private sector.
I respect Bain.
I respect their role.
Starting to make me wonder about Bain, to tell you the truth.
Just kidding.
One more bite.
This is kind of funny.
I'm told CNN this afternoon, CNBC power lunch this afternoon.
Tyler Matheson breaks away from Obama's speech.
They're covering Obama's fundraising appearance in Minnesota.
We're going to break away from the president's remarks at a Honeywell manufacturing plant in Minnesota.
We should note, and we're going to monitor that speech as he concentrates on new initiatives to put veterans back to work.
We should note that the Dow Industrials, when the president began speaking, were down about 220 points on this really down day in the marketplace and now down about 252 points.
Folks, they cut away from Obama to tell their audience the economy's tanking.
CNBC, that's GE, that's NBC, that's in the tank for Obama.
They cut away from his big speech about how the economy, they're going to bring him to Congress's fault, whatever he was saying about his fundraiser in Minnesota, to point out that the market is plummeting.
And they go on to say, yeah, it was down 220 when he started, and now it's down at 252.
Holy Shmoly, let's go to the phones.
Dimitri in Houston.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts with the audience.
Thank you, Dimitri, very much.
Well, I was on hold here.
I wrote something in my book here on my live piece of paper that the private equity is probably the spine of capitalism.
And I wanted to connect that to my history.
I come from a former Soviet Union.
I grew up and left the country right around the Berlin Wall falling down.
And I wanted to tell the audience that back in the Soviet Union, you could not go and borrow money from the government.
You cannot go borrow money from the bank because the government and the bank didn't allow you to have anything private.
You have to have a special permission from the Politburo, from the secretary of the party for you to buy a TV, to buy a refrigerator.
You have to wait 20 minutes to get a vote.
Wait a minute.
Who had those kind of connections?
The average citizen didn't have connection to the Politburo or the Secretary of the Party to buy a fridge, so nobody had them?
The local, the local party commissioner.
So you had to go to local commissar, in other words.
Commissar, yeah, and he's the one who's going to sign off a piece of paper so you can put your name on the line so you can get six or eight or twelve months later a refrigerator or a TV.
They did not want you to have anything private because everything was a commune.
And the Congress resided every five years and they put this plan, what's going to happen in the next five years and how much rice and how much steel and how much coal we will produce.
And then if this doesn't happen, we blame someone.
Right.
So capital was outlawed.
Money was out.
The only way you can have money is if you go to the government to get it.
And they wanted you realizing it.
You only had anything because of them.
No other source provided you anything but the government.
But the reason I called and they put me through is the fact that we're experiencing something very unique back as far as media and as far as propaganda is concerned.
You know, there was Joseph Goebbels and Molotovs and Gorky's of the world back in Russia and the Nazi Germany.
There was the one guy running the entire propaganda machine.
Here we have something unique.
We have all those cohorts of CNBCs and TVs and radios and NPRs and Oliver Stones and Spielberg and Bloomberg and everybody running in sync.
And they throwing all those numbers and they speculate and all of a sudden when everything tumbles down, then they come and revise the numbers.
They're throwing all kinds of information at us subliminally.
Sometimes they show a little commercial and the next is, oh, this is happening so subliminally.
They put their message so calculatively using terms like education and information and public relations.
But this is a very calculative way of delivering an information because people going by their day, driving up their car and listening to this message after message after message, they all of a sudden start believing that this is the greatest.
It's institutional propaganda is what it is.
It's institutional propaganda, right?
Not just one guy, but an entire media network.
And it's unique that back in the day, during the Soviet days, the government owned one paper.
The government owned one TV station and one radio station.
And over the seven or eight or nine time zones, all that information was delivered over and over and over again.
They put those big pictures of Lenin and big pictures of Stalin and pictures of Gorbachev in our schools, in our restrooms, in our libraries.
And then we sang the song.
Toilet lids, too.
I saw them there.
And that's how they were able to achieve that.
Here We have this millions of small networks like wasps.
They fly and sink.
This is what's very unique.
How these people hate capitalism, how they hate the very principle of this country was found.
This is an interesting point.
Dimitri, I'm up against it on time here, but I really appreciate your call.
He's making an interesting point here.
The Soviets had one TV station and every time Zone had one newspaper.
And they were still able.
The TV station was seen everywhere and nothing else.
Same with the newspaper.
He said, what's unique here is we've got an entire industry of propagandists that are linked.
He's right, too.
And he's also, you know, Obama, Obama wants you thinking everything you have comes from government.
No question about it.
I got to go.
Thanks, Dimitri.
Excellent.
Back after this.
So to sort of illustrate Dimitri's point, here you have Deval Patrick on CNN with Wolf Butcher.
It doesn't matter who, but it was Anderson Cooper last night.
And Anderson Cooper is not interested so much in what Deval Patrick says as he is interested in making sure or seeing if he can get Deval Patrick not to undermine Obama.
The role of the propagandist is the point.
We got a newsmaker on Deval Patrick.
He tried to steer Deval Patrick into criticizing Bain as vulture capitalism as Obama wants it criticized.
Now let me ask you a question.
We have Bain and we have people with opinions about Bain.
We have Obama and then everybody else.
Who's the extremist?
Obama.
Obama's the only guy.
Well, plus his unnamed menu, the pluffs and the axle rods, but Obama's the only guy who holds his opinion on Bain.
Now the media, this is why they're depressed at MSNBC today.
It's why it's the jobs numbers, but this Bain thing, we're all invested in it, and it's not working out.
And they can't get these guys to walk it back.
They can't get Deval Patrick to walk it back.
They can't get fast Eddie Randell to walk it back.
They can't get Corey Booker to walk it back.
They can't get Clinton to walk it back.
In fact, more people end up echoing the Clintons and the Duval Patricks and the Corey Bookers.
Stenny Hoyer is the latest today.
Chris Matthews called Corey Booker a traitor.
So Dimitri's point really being illustrated with this one episode.
But stop and the Soviet Union had one paper, one news agency, one television station that they boomed everywhere.
We got thousands.
We got thousands of propagandists working for whoever the Democrat president happens to be at any given time.
Back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
We have Karen in Albuquerque.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I had an experience a couple months ago.
I was getting on an airplane in Dallas, and I was heading for Albuquerque, and I was the second to the last person.
There was a guy behind me getting on board the aircraft, and I said to him, are you getting off in Albuquerque?
And he said, no, ma'am, I'm not.
I'm going to San Diego.
And I said, are you in the military?
Because I'm a military brat.
And he said, yes, ma'am, I am.
And I said, well, and I was going to thank him for being in the warrior class for our country.
But before I even got a chance to do that, I was talking to him and I said, you know, I'm doing everything I can.
I'm as busy, as active as possible with the Tea Party, and I've gone to the national tea party events, and, you know, I do everything I can.
And he said, well, I want to thank you for being part of that and your service, because he said, I want you to know that when we're over there and we're getting shot at, we wonder, we see the Occupy people and we wonder, what in the hell are we doing over here?
What are we over here for?
I'll bet they do.
I'll bet they do when they see that.
And he says, and then we see the Tea Partiers.
And he said, and we know what we're over there fighting for.
How did that make you feel, Karen?
Here is a military man thanking you for your service in the Tea Party.
How did it make you feel?
Oh, you can't imagine.
I was just shocked.
I've been spat on.
I've been flipped off.
And I just, it made it all, all worth it.
And when I got on the airplane, there were only middle seats left, and I sat in the middle seat, and he sat right behind me.
And before I got off the airplane, he thanked me again.
Did he pull your ponytail or anything?
No.
But I tell you what, I was just, it made me even more determined to do what I can do.
I'll bet it did.
Oh, I was just, he did, you have no idea.
Because sometimes you, you know, you get frustrated because you're out there and you hear what the media is saying about you and then you other people and what they're what they're working so hard.
And he made me realize that I'm fighting for my country just like my dad was in Vietnam and the Berlin airlift in Vietnam.
And I feel like I'm doing my part.
You know, I had a similar experience to that once, and it humbled me like I can't tell you.
Exactly.
Told it before.
It's a very brief story.
It was in Washington at some museum type stayed building.
It was the 50th anniversary dinner for National Review.
And they had a bunch of guests, wounded warriors from Walter Reed.
And I walked over to say hello.
And they started thanking me.
And I put my hand up and I said, no, no, wait a minute, guys.
I mean, one guy didn't not have an eye.
One was missing an arm.
I mean, these are really wounded people.
And I said, wait a minute.
All I do is talk.
They said, sir, we all have our role.
And that's what that guy was telling you.
You know, I see you.
I can understand it when they say it to you because I feel the same that they feel when it comes to you.
But you're right.
We do all have our role.
And if we don't fight for our country now, when are we going to fight for it?
Well, I can't think of a more heartwarming thing to happen to you because I know that people in the Tea Party and just conservatives in general often feel alone.
Even as a part of the group, you still feel isolated because the media coverage, they're laughing at you.
They're making fun of you, impugning you.
They are lying about your strength.
They're lying about your existence now.
Exactly.
And you know that other people watch that and you're afraid that people are going to believe the lies they're being told about you.
So this is a great reinforcement thing that happened to you.
It is, and it's for all those people out there for the Tea Party.
I want them to know, too, that those guys are over there thanking us, thinking of us.
It means, like you said, it meant everything.
I just couldn't believe it.
I still, you know, I'm not an emotional person usually, but I still get a lump in my throat when I think about that kid.
It's just, it was wonderful.
Well, you know, I'm not trying to trump you here.
I'm trying to relate to you.
I've had the same thing happen when I did my little troop visit in Afghanistan in one of the Kellogg Brandon Root cafeterias on the that they had news, cable news networks on.
And I can't tell you the number of military men that asked me, why aren't they talking about what we're doing here?
All we ever see is what's going on in Iraq.
And I said, because you're winning.
You're not news to them.
We're having a little trouble in Iraq, and they can't wait to report that.
But the point of all this is that they do know.
They do pay attention.
They're very much attuned to what's happening here as it relates to what they're doing.
So I know he meant every word of what he said to you.
Well, and those people that said it to you do.
And I want to thank you too for your service because I tell you what, you make my day every day.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
And I really appreciate your call.
I'm glad you got through.
And I'm glad that happened to you because it's you share that story with as many people as you can because it'll inspire everybody you tell it to.
I will.
And have a good weekend.
You too.
Thank you, Rush.
Okay, it's Karen and Albuquerque, who's next is Brandy in Louisville, Texas.
Not Louisville, it's Louisville, Texas.
Hello.
That's right.
It's Louisville, Texas.
And I want you to know that I have been listening to you since September of 88 when I was in high school.
And I adore you.
I've prayed for you.
I've cheered with you through victories.
I'm just so glad that you are part of America's history now.
And my history, whether you like it or not.
But I have rushed babies.
My rush baby sign was stolen out of my car.
I used to love getting your newsletters.
That was the highlight of the month.
And my oldest rush baby just voted in the Texas primary.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who you used to get the newsletter?
What is that?
Well, you know, it's a sucky economy.
So we had to make some budget cuts.
This is intolerable.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to peer you up.
Why didn't you do a bake sale or something to get the money for a subscription?
I could have sold one of my kids.
I get to listen to you.
I have the privilege, you know, since 88, this is 23 years I've been trying to call you, and this is the biggest thing I can never imagine, just getting to talk to you.
I just adore you.
I can't say it enough.
I can't say it.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I want you to hang on.
We finish because we're going to comp you on a limb ball letter.
That's unacceptable.
Go ahead and give that up.
Well, I'd rather have your autograph so I can Photoshop myself next to you.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I'll sign one here.
We've got the latest issue.
I'll sign one.
Yep.
Snortly's got a bunch of them in there.
Well, I'll send you one.
So don't hang up.
Don't hang up when we get through.
Is that all you wanted to say?
It's perfectly fine if that's all you wanted.
I could gush on you some more, but I know other people don't want to listen to that.
But what I wanted to say yesterday, I tried calling in, and you were talking about the abortion issue and the select births and all of that stuff.
Sex selection abortion.
Yes.
And that reminded me of one of my duties as a mom going to lessons.
And I was talking to this woman from Finland, and we were comparing our children and lifestyles in Finland versus America.
And she said that in Finland, they get a monthly paycheck for every kid that they have.
But if they have a kid with dark eyes and dark hair, they get more money from the Finnish government.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
They get a paycheck?
That's how that was her word?
A stipend, I think.
Paycheck per child and dark eyes and dark hair get more money?
Yes.
And so those with money will go and have the sperm and infertility clinics go there and have the sperm and egg washed so they can get a genetic child that has dark hair and dark eyes so they can get more money a month.
Well, that just sounds wonderful.
And, you know, this is why our election is even more important because it's only America's morals that prevent us.
Because legally, she said you couldn't do that in America.
We're headed that way, though.
So that's what all this is.
That's the thing that troubles me about the same sex selection.
You know, abortion in and of itself is, yeah.
But when you start, it starts at, well, rape and incest.
Okay, well, okay, now we come up with other inconvenience.
Now it's, well, I really wanted a boy.
It's just, it can't be good for the culture because it ends up cheapening the sanctity everybody holds for life.
Well, and you don't know if somebody was aborted that was supposed to do, you know, find a cure for breast cancer.
Or, you know, I mean, we have lost.
See, I can't tell you the number of times, Brandy, in the heat of this debate in the early 90s, I had people calling it Rush.
You really, we don't need more children born into poverty and despair, as though we're doing them a favor.
So that made me start looking up how many of the world's most renowned people were born into great wealth.
And the vast majority, of course, aren't.
A lot of people who have become great and historic were born poor.
It was silly.
It was a cheap excuse and so forth.
I don't know.
It's an unpleasant subject for a lot of people.
And it does portend a story out of Chicago.
I think beginning of the week, what was it, 42 people shot over the Memorial Day weekend or some such thing in Chicago?
And everybody's asking why?
What?
Gang.
Gang activity.
Now, the story I saw did not mention gangs or race or any of that.
But life must not be worth much.
And what is it that leads to that?
Any number of things.
Anyway, Brandy, hang on.
Mr. Snerdley needs your address so we can copy you a subscription to the limb ball.
Brandy, what I got you.
Do you use a computer?
I do.
What do you mean you think you do?
No, I do technically.
I know how to Facebook.
I'm Rush Babe for America.
And so I Facebook, and I joined a Twitter account for you.
Okay, so you have a computer.
You know how to use it?
I have a little, yeah, I have a little one.
What kind?
You know, it's a little phony little seven-inch screen thing.
Unacceptable.
Yeah.
Unacceptable.
Look, I'm going to send you an app.
I'm going to send you a MacBook Pro because I've got some here and I've got to clean out my inventory because the refurbishes are coming soon.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no, no.
These are top of the line.
These are top of the line.
And I've got them here for this express purpose.
Oh, you're so thoughtful.
Thank you.
Okay, so remember...
Can I ask you one more question really quick, though?
No.
No.
Okay.
No, of course.
What is it?
I was just wondering why brandy has never been in your top 10 names, favorite girl names.
Because I drink brandy, it's, I don't know.
I guess it could work.
I guess it could.
Have a little breaking news here.
George Zimmerman's bond has been revoked in the Trayvon Martin shooting case.
George Zimmerman must surrender himself to the authorities within the next 48 hours.
Now, you're probably saying, well, why?
Well, according to the breaking news, they have found out that George Zimmerman had more money in his PayPal account that his wife realized and because he has a second passport.
So his bail has been revoked.
He's got more money in his PayPal account than his wife knew, and he's got a second passport.
So we are getting a very important lesson about what social justice looks like.
And it ain't blind.
Here's Joe in Glendora, California.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here with us, sir.
Thank you, sir.
It's an honor and privilege to speak to you.
My comment is no one could be this stupid like Obama.
He's doing this completely by design.
He has too many people surrounding him, as Anita Dunn and Van Jones and Michael Ayers and old Drive Shaft, I mean Axle Rod.
All these people are avowed communists.
And you don't surround yourself with people such as that unless you're that way too.
All this is designed to tear down capitalism, to tear down our country, so everyone will have to depend on the government.
Well, that's all it's for.
Look at, he's got a good point here, folks.
I can't tell you that the Van Jones thing, when it happened, I can't tell a number of people.
How did a guy like that get by?
Obama's, how did he get by?
Obama wanted him there.
So old Joe here is right.
This guy at the EPA that couldn't wait to crucify big oil, gosh, how did some extremist like that get past?
He is Obama.
Obama is that guy.
But this is hard for people to get their arms around.
By the same token, Joe, you should know that most of the original members of Obama's economic team have left.
They got out of there.
Some got out because I'm sure they wanted no part of where it was going, even though they're Democrats.
The others got out maybe because they were sent to other areas to do their jobs.
But some of them got out of there clearly because they wanted no part of where it was going.
But the people that remain, you're exactly right.
They are all true believers.
There's nobody in there by accident.
Here's another way to look at it, folks.
If all of this economic destruction of Obama's were accidental, then now and then he would do something that's good for the economy.
He hasn't done one thing good for the economy.
Not even accidentally.
So it has to be by design.
That's how we look at it in Rioville.
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