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June 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 5, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Well, I have say folks, I was right again.
Yet another story about how too much exercise is harmful.
I have it here right in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
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Right here, the UK Daily Mail.
Excess exercise hurts the heart and can cause dangerous long-term harm.
Say scientists, extreme exercise, marathons, may permanently damage the heart and trigger rhythm abnormalities, warn researchers.
They say the safe upper limit for heart health is a maximum, a maximum of an hour a day, after which there is little benefit to the individual.
And you can get that hour a day in about eight minutes of sex.
A review of research evidenced by U.S. physicians say that intensive training schedules and extreme endurance competitions can cause long-term harm to people's hearts.
Activities like marathons, Iron Man distance triathlons, very long-distance bicycle races may cause structural changes to the heart and large arteries leading to lasting injury.
And this review was published in the Mayo Clinics Medical Journal.
Now, as you people know, I play it safe.
Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down on the sofa, on the floor, on my back until the feeling goes away.
And I must confess, I don't get the urge much.
But when I get the urge, I sit.
It's another one of these myths.
Another one of these myths that everybody fell prey to.
Now, why is this the case?
Because we're all different.
That is why we're all different.
You know this raffle?
I've been thinking about this, this contest, Anna Winter.
Grab the Anna Winter commercial again.
What is it, number, I don't have it in front of him.
I'm going to put it at the bottom of the stack.
Trying to help out and find it.
26.
This is Anna Winter.
She's the editor of Vogue.
Listen to this again.
It's about Obama and the big dinner they're going to have.
They want you there.
Hi, I'm Anna Winter, and I'm so lucky in my work that I'm able to meet some of the most incredible women in the world.
Women like Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama.
These two wonderful women and I are hosting a dinner along with the president in New York City to benefit the Obama campaign on June the 14th.
It'll be a fantastic evening and you can join us.
We're saving the two best seats for you, but you have to enter to win.
You can enter right now by going to barackobama.com slash New Yorknight.
Sarah Jessica and I both have our own reasons for supporting President Obama.
We want to hear yours.
So please join us, but just don't be late.
Right.
Did I not hit the – my mic was on when I blew my – oh!
Oh, no.
Don't tell me that.
I didn't turn the mic off before I blew my nose.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean for that to happen.
Yeah, I think we should play it again.
Look, I don't want to be accused of purposely blowing my nose and Anna Winter plug for Obama.
Hi, I'm Anna Winter, and I'm so lucky in my work that I'm able to meet some of the most incredible women in the world.
Women like Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama.
These two wonderful women and I are hosting a dinner along with the president in New York City to benefit the Obama campaign on June the 14th.
It'll be a fantastic evening, and you can join us.
We're saving the two best seats for you, but you have to enter to win.
You can enter right now by going to barackobama.com/slash New York Night.
Sarah Jessica and I both have our own reasons for supporting President Obama, and we want to hear yours.
So please join us, but just don't be late.
They don't want to hear what you have to think.
That's the last thing in the world.
And that's how she talks.
That's how Anna Winter speaks, yes.
Anyway, I was thinking, by the way, I went to the website $15 minimum donation to be entered, but there's a checkbox for other or more.
But $15 is the minimum.
But you're just putting yourself on a mailing list.
Oh, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, the same thing you do with Tua Bite T when you give away three takes prizes.
We're not creating a mailing list for anybody.
We're not fundraising.
We don't send emails to people.
We don't sell the list anybody.
We're not, there's nothing below board about what we're doing.
These people are, you think they really want to have dinner with any of you?
Anyway, Maureen Dowd, at piece of hers in the Sunday New York Times, ripping Obama, it's precisely for this kind of stuff.
She wrote, The president who started off with such dazzle now seems incapable of stimulating either the economy or voters.
His campaign is offering Obama 2012 car magnets for a donation of $10, cat collars reading I Meow from Michelle for $12.
An Obama grill spatula for $40.
And discounted hoodies and t-shirts.
How the mighty have fallen, she writes.
Well, add to it dinner with Anna Winter and Sarah Jessica Parker.
And you know, human nature is what it is, folks.
And on the left, there are jealousies and rivalries.
And I will guarantee you, somewhere in the Obama universe, there are a couple of actors or magazine editrixes or whatever.
Why them, not us?
Why is Obama using Sarah Jessica Parker?
What's she ever done for him?
Anna Winter, give me a break.
How come I'm not being you?
I guarantee you.
Envy, jealousy.
The story we had last hour: the partisan divide in the country, according to a survey of thousands of people over many years by the Pew Center for the People and the Press.
And they found that the partisan divide in this country is sharper than the racial divide or the religious divide or anything else.
The partisan, left versus right, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, is the most pointed divide in the country.
Given that, I want you to listen.
I got Tom Barrett, the Democrat candidate for governor of Wisconsin.
He was on CNN's starting point this morning with the host Soledad O'Brien.
And the first thing she did, she played a clip of Governor Walker saying the people of Wisconsin are tired of the negative attack campaign ads.
Then she said, Do you think that's true?
Not just the assault and attack ads.
I find them annoying, but recalls.
Wisconsin leads the way in recalls.
12 recalled elections in 1990.
It's expensive.
Does the governor have a point, Mr. Barrett?
There's no question people are tired of what I call this political civil war where neighbors don't want to talk to neighbors.
Relatives don't want to talk to relatives about politics because it's too bitter.
It's too divisive.
What Governor Walker doesn't say is he was the one who, and these are his words, dropped the bomb and attempted to divide and conquer.
I agree with him that people are tired of the fighting, but I think the cause is to get rid of the instigator rather than to allow him to continue because I think the state will remain this bitterly divided if he continues in office.
Walker started it.
They are the ones who authored the recall.
They say that Scott Walker started this.
I wanted to play this in the next bite too, because it's very illustrative of why the partisan divide exists.
Walker campaigned.
He got elected on an agenda.
He implemented the agenda.
They fought him at every step of the way of implementation.
He prevailed.
Everything he said he was going to do, he did, and it has resulted in benefits to the state in terms of lower unemployment, higher economic growth, and the state has a surplus now instead of a budget deficit.
And they recall him.
They're recalling him over policy differences.
All he did was what he said he was going to do.
So now they start this recall business claiming that he started it.
And they think that he started it how?
By winning.
As far as the left is concerned, he had no business winning.
He's a conservative Republican.
They are gnats.
Conservative Republicans are just insects.
You get a can of raid.
They're not supposed to take over your house.
They're not supposed to win anything.
That his crime is that he won.
And that's simply intolerable.
We don't like elections, say the left.
Elections are a problem in a democracy because sometimes the people we don't agree with win them.
That's intolerable.
That's how they think.
I am not exaggerating or making it up.
And this next bite, this is exactly what is at stake.
Soledad O'Brien says, well, people have said that this could be a predictor of where the national election is going to go.
Yet you don't really see Obama's fingerprints in this.
He sent out a tweet yesterday.
Imagine that.
Obama did, he sent out a tweet as a campaign support statement for Tom Barrett.
By definition, it was less than 140 characters.
He sent out a tweet.
That's as close as he wants to get because he doesn't want the loss tied around his neck.
The greatest indication that they don't think they're going to win this thing is Obama wanted to get nowhere near it.
So Soledad O'Brien says, sends out a tweet yesterday.
It's Election Day in Wisconsin tomorrow.
I'm standing by Tom Barrett.
He'd make an outstanding governor.
But that's not exactly the president showing up and saying, this is my guy.
Vote for him.
Come on, we need him to win.
Do you feel like you've been a little ignored by the president, Mr. Barrett?
Not one bit, because this started as a citizens' movement.
There were literally a million people, close to a million people, who signed their name to a petition to have this election.
So this is the largest grassroots movement that this state has ever seen.
It started out as a grassroots movement.
It will end as a grassroots movement, as it should.
I think that there are some that want to make it a national election.
That's part of my gripe about this: I don't want Wisconsin to be the experimental dish for the right wing.
Right.
That's exactly what is at stake here.
They know the Democrats know that if Wisconsin affirms what Walker's doing, liberalism is in trouble all over the country.
They know liberalism's in trouble anyway.
There is no grassroots in Wisconsin.
These were bust-in union thugs from all over the country, primarily out west, but they were bust in there.
The grassroots in Wisconsin's the Tea Party.
The Republican Party's the minority party in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's a blue state, or has been.
The grassroots is the Tea Party.
That's what they can't deal with.
That's what they can't get their arms around.
Let's take a quick time out, and we'll get back with Bill Clinton out of control, according to the Politico.
Roger Simon has a piece of the politico today.
The Democrat Party on the Obama side is not happy with Bill Clinton.
It started with Clinton's endorsement of Romney.
At least that is how I interpreted it.
I mean, sterling qualities, Bain Capital's fine.
We've got to learn to be happy with the work of private equity people.
They do good work.
The number of Democrats that have run away from Obama on Bain and private equity continues to grow.
Clinton is one of them.
And he was asked a question about Romney's qualifications, and he said that they're sterling.
I interpreted this as practically an endorsement.
Clinton the next day, I didn't endorse anybody.
I heard what I was.
No way.
I'm endorsed.
But we've been told, here, listen, Dick Morris, grab soundbite number six.
It's on Hannity last night.
And this is Morris talking about private conversations Clinton has had with certain conservatives that he knows.
Clinton does not want Barack Obama to win.
I've spoken to several good friends who are staunch conservatives, who have had a lot of exchanges with Bill Clinton in private.
And at one point, one of them quotes him as saying, you have six months to save the country.
And he never liked Obama.
They never got along.
He's an in-law, in a sense, because she's in the administration.
And he has to do what he has to do, which is what he's going to do, what he did today, I think, in running around helping him raise money and is going to do tonight.
But when it comes to a little jab here or a little jab there, you can count on Clinton to do it.
Now, MSNBC, I didn't see this.
I have a spy.
MSNBC is running a graphic right now that says Bill Clinton back on track.
Bill Clinton back on track.
They were not happy with him in the political story today from Roger Simon.
Bill Clinton has to be the smartest guy in the room, even when he's not in the room.
Clinton's not on Obama's campaign staff.
He's not a trusted advisor.
Doesn't set Obama's strategy, but Bill Clinton is pretty good at sabotaging Obama's strategy.
And he did so last week when he went on television and said Romney had a sterling record while running Bain Capital.
The Obama message is exactly the opposite.
The Obama campaign had just run a TV ad claiming that working Americans had been harmed by Bain Capital and included one man saying that Bain had been a vampire, sucked the blood out of us.
Obama doesn't need Clinton undercutting him.
The two are not close, but they're not supposed to be enemies.
They've golf together.
They attend fundraisers together.
Their staffs talk.
And oh, yeah, Clinton's wife is Obama's Secretary of State.
Now, Roger Simon says there are two things going on here.
First, Clinton's always been cozier with Wall Street than Obama.
And it's cozy is a good word.
Clinton's in tight with these guys.
In January 1999, Roger Simon says, I was at a very odd event for then President Clinton on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center.
Richard Grasso, then chairman, New York Stock Exchange, stood up.
He said, in my little corner of southern Manhattan, the Dow Jones industrial average during the course of President Clinton's tenure tripled.
We have the lowest unemployment in 30 years.
16 million jobs have been created.
The crowd, which included a number of financial titans, cheered.
This was a year after the Lewinsky scandal, months after Clinton had been impeached.
But Wall Street didn't care.
Clinton had been good for the street.
The street liked him.
Times were good.
Clinton got the credit.
Today, he still has a lot of friends in business and high finance, and these friends helped fund his philanthropic endeavors, the Clinton Global Initiative.
Barack Obama has fewer friends in high finance.
He inherited an economy devastated by a derivative bubble and a housing bubble and ravished by the unbridled greed of some Wall Street firms, which took taxpayer bailouts with one hand and gave themselves big bonuses with the other.
So the two men have different views of how Sterling, the street, operates.
It goes on.
This is a huge attack on Bill Clinton in the Politico from Roger Simon, and he's their chief political columnist.
And I think Simon, just as a casual observance here, is very hardwired into the Obama White House, along with Mike Allen and Politico.
I mean, they're connected.
Simon points out Clinton always has to be the smartest guy in the room.
Clinton's undermining, sabotaging Obama when he gets the chance to.
In this story, it's not just about Obama.
Roger Simon claims that Bill Clinton ruined Hillary's chances in 2008 by insisting that she compete in South Carolina.
That's right.
Roger Simon said South Carolina was her waterloo.
It ended up being the first blowout of the primary campaign.
Nobody wants a blowout on the primary.
South Carolina was the blowout.
And Simon says, everybody knew Obama was going to win that for crying out loud at South Carolina.
And that's where Clinton accused the Obama people throwing the race card on him.
And by the same token, the others said that Clinton was throwing the race card at them.
Some of Clinton's comments were taken as race baiting.
And Simon in this story even says that Bill Clinton might be mad at Obama because we never blame ourselves for our mistakes.
We blame those who profit from them.
And this story, it ends with a particularly vicious dig.
Roger Simon quotes Hillary's campaign manager, Patty Salise Doyle, who basically says that Hillary campaign only used Bill Fray to raise money.
That's in this, I mean, it is a full-fledged attack on Clinton.
And it says here that Hillary's campaign managed, yeah, the only thing we wanted Bill for was money.
And they further say that that's all Obama wants.
The only thing Hillary wanted with Bill is his fundraising ability, and that's all Obama cares about.
Obama doesn't like Bill.
Bill doesn't like Obama.
They're both Democrats.
Hillary is in there, so he's kind of like an in-law, like Dick Morris said.
But all Obama wants is Clinton's fundraising ability, just the money.
That's an insult.
It's an insult.
So Clinton, last night in New York City, formally endorsed Obama after all this.
That soundbite.
And then back to your phone calls when we come back from this obscene profit timeout.
Huge turnout in Wisconsin, supposedly 30-minute wait to vote in some places.
I read that it's going to exceed 60%.
Certainly, how would you interpret a high turnout today?
Bad for Barrett.
Bad for Barrett.
Why will you say that?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I was going to say, in the primary, Walker got more votes than Barrett and the babe combined.
And that was a heavy turnout then.
But what was most striking about that was that nobody needed to vote for Walker that day.
Nobody needed to.
He was the de facto incumbent governor.
There was no serious opposition.
Republicans could have easily stayed at home.
They showed up in greater numbers than Democrats who wanted the recall.
And that was just a month ago.
So what's changed that would make Republicans stay home?
Not much, if anything at all.
I'm hearing that the election officials have had to call in more poll workers because the turnout is so heavy.
And it's a blue state.
I think that remains the telling point.
If Barrett was going to win, Obama would have been there.
Obama would have been on stage shaking hands, arms raised, you know, the whole nine yards.
Here's Obama with six fundraisers bordering Wisconsin, but never once setting foot in the state last Friday, and then sending out some paltry little tweet to endorse Barrett.
Here's Clinton last night at the Waldorf Astorium, and all of this apparently has gotten to him.
Remember me, I'm the only guy that gave you four surplus budgets out of the eight I sent.
So I hope what I say to you will have some weight because I want you to say it to everybody you see between now and November.
I don't think it's important to re-elect the president.
I think it is essential to re-elect the president if we want this country to have the kind of future that our children and grandchildren deserve.
Okay, so I guess Clinton ended up in the woodshed and he found a reason to endorse Obama.
It'd be more like me.
Hey, you know, I'm the only guy that gave you four surplus budgets out of eight that I sent, and those four wouldn't have happened if it weren't for Newt Gingrich and the Republicans.
Of course, nobody's supposed to say that, but it wouldn't have happened.
There wouldn't have been a damn penny's worth of surplus if it hadn't been for those stupid Republicans.
I could have spent just as much Obama.
Hell, I know how to spend money as good as Obama does.
It's those damn Republicans that kept me shackled.
This does not sound, that did not sound like a full-throated rah-rah endorsement to me.
The words were there.
No denying the words were there.
I want to say it to everybody that you see between now and November.
I don't think it's important to re-elect the president.
I think it's essential to re-elect the president if we want this country to have a kind of future that our children are grand.
See, this is If Bill Clinton's daughter didn't have her way paved for her, no way he'd support this.
No way.
No parent who expects a child to make their own way in the world would support this.
No way.
A parent who expects government to take care of the child and health care and all this other benefit rotgut, yeah, vote Democrat.
I don't know.
It didn't sound full-throated to me, but that's just me.
That a bashed, bashed Romney.
Well, I guess we better play that too.
The Romney Republican plan is austerity and more unemployment now and blow the lid off later, just at the time when we were worried about high interest rates.
What's the difference here?
Shared prosperity versus continued austerity and high unemployment.
A politics of cooperation versus constant conflict and divide and conquer.
He's got it exactly opposite, and he knows it.
And that's another less than full-throated criticism of Romney.
Anyway, Dick Morris says he knows a conservative big-time in-tight with Clinton.
I think I know who that is.
I think I know exactly who that is.
Chris Ruddy.
Ruddy and Clinton have become close.
Chris Ruddy of Newsmax and Clinton have become close.
They've had a, I don't know, a meeting of the minds.
Chris Ruddy and Clinton are now, Clinton shows up here.
Ruddy runs photos of Clinton in their office.
They have, I wouldn't call them friends, but I mean, it's a business relationship.
But the only, it may not be, but no, this is not criticism.
I'm just, I just know that Clinton and Ruddy have a buried the hatchet.
I don't know if you'd call it mutual admiration society, but they see each other with respect now.
And I know that I know that Morris is tight with Ruddy.
Morris works with Ruddy.
That's why I assume that it's Ruddy that Clinton has said, you know what, you guys have six months to save this country.
Six months.
And I guess Chris might have told Dick.
Dick puts it out there.
It's something he's heard.
I'm just wild guessing, and I'm not being critical of anybody in this.
Okay, who's next?
Tom in Odessa, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Well, thanks, Rush.
I'd like to say hello to my bride of 25 years, my lovely wife Debbie, and my good friend Mark, who's in the city.
You have the same anniversary date as Catherine and I do right then, June 5.
Well, it was May 16th for us, but it was just a couple weeks ago.
Oh, okay.
Close enough, government work.
But anyways, in regard to compromising with these brain-dead liberals and the idea of compromising, it's crazy.
And I want to harken back to the Gong Show and Chuck Barris back in the early 70s.
He had a saying, which I always loved.
He said, well, I have three things to say about that.
So what?
Who cares?
And get lost.
Well, in regard to these brain-dead liberals going forward, I want to change that mantra to the following.
Defeat them, ignore them, and leave them behind.
I like it.
Those are the directives.
Defeat them is the objective.
There is no compromise.
In fact, now that you brought this up, look, Tom, thanks for the call.
Grab Soundbites 34 and 35.
Cookie got me a couple of sound bites from the Luntz focus group last night with Hannity.
And there's a lot of shouting back and forth.
I hope I haven't heard the bites.
I watched the show, but I had closed captioning on, so I was able to read more than I could hear.
I could see these people's facial expressions too.
But the first bite, Hannity says to Luntz, Frank Governor Walker ran on a platform and he followed through.
He inherited $3.6 billion in a budget deficit.
Now the state has surplus.
He has 23,000 new jobs in the state, 6.7% unemployment, much lower than the national average.
Are these people in your group not happy with these results?
They're not happy knowing that the state can't continue to borrow and spend to create these deficits.
Are they not happy knowing that these circumstances have been fixed?
So then Lunch and the group and two unidentified female participants have this little exchange.
First question got asked him is, do you believe those statistics?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Okay, who believes them?
Who does not believe them?
You don't believe them?
But these are official numbers.
Like I said earlier, the numbers on the jobs are the jobs Walker's created, but it doesn't talk about the jobs that Walker's taken away.
And those way outweigh what's been created.
Are those minimum wage jobs and we're losing high-end jobs?
That's not enough money for a family of four to live on, the jobs he's creating.
So the facts were put out, but no, no, no, it's not true.
We're not telling you about the jobs that Walker's destroyed.
Unemployment rates come down.
The state has a budget surplus.
I'll tell you what to really learn about this, folks.
The items or the terms of the debate that we get into, they don't care.
They didn't care the state was running a big deficit, and they don't care that the deficits become a surplus.
They didn't care about all the rising unemployment.
As long as it wasn't them, they didn't care.
They don't care what other people in the state earn or don't earn.
They don't care if people in the state were being fired or hired.
All they care about is is their pension going to continue and are they going to have to pay anything for it?
The condition of the state, the circumstances of their fellow citizens, they don't care.
And that's why this argument never had a meeting point or a middle ground.
Hannity and Luntz are talking to them about the budget deficit coming down, becoming a surplus.
They don't care.
They didn't care that it was a deficit.
They're not impressed that it's a surplus.
They couldn't care less about the financial health of the state.
They don't see that that has a relationship to their economic circumstance.
It doesn't matter to them.
They don't care that there have been massive numbers of new jobs created and an unemployment has fallen.
They don't care.
All they care about is whether or not their fellow union buddies still have the same benefits and the same work schedules with no salary cuts.
That's all they care about.
It's the same as if the only source of money was the printing press and the printing press broke.
They wouldn't care as long as whatever amount of money was available, they got most of.
They don't care about what creates the wealth.
They don't think that way.
As far as they're concerned, the wealth is always going to be there.
It doesn't need to be created.
Government has it.
That's all they think about.
Government has all wealth, and it's their job to get as much of what government has.
And what happens to anybody else, they don't care.
And that's why this conversation or this focus group didn't go anywhere last night.
You could hit them all day with the unemployment rate coming down.
You can hit them all day with the deficit becoming a surplus.
They don't care.
As far as they're concerned, it has nothing to do with their way of life.
It has nothing to do with their pensions and nothing to do with their health care.
They couldn't care less if the state is bankrupt as long as they have their health care and as long as they have their union benefits and as long as they have their pension.
They don't care about anybody else.
It's the epitome of selfishness.
Coupled with a profound sense of entitlement, for some reason, they feel entitled to a majority share of the wealth.
Because they're a union, because they're, I don't know what, they do nevertheless feel it.
So this thing continued.
And Hannity said, I want to go back to the woman in the back there, Frank.
I want to talk to her.
The choice was $3.6 billion in state deficit, small population, relatively speaking.
Governor says we got to pull back on some of these benefits.
You've got to make some parity with the private sector, save everybody's job.
Nobody lost a job as a result of Walker's plan.
He brought $3.6 billion to a surplus.
How can you not say that this is not a good thing for your state?
Yeah, that is good, but that's not all true.
I just don't know what that is.
So what part is not true?
We've seen job loss.
We've seen incomes go down.
What part is not true?
The budget that Scott Walker inherited was actually in the black.
Scott Walker falsely created a budget crisis.
Okay, so Walker didn't inherit a deficit.
He inherited a surplus and then he created a deficit all to screw the union.
They are certifiable.
They are nuts, but they don't care.
There was a surplus.
Walker inherited a surplus, but he turned that into a deficit to screw us.
That's what they think.
Let me remind you what these union people of Wisconsin are really ticked off about.
They were asked, part of Walker's plan, they were asked to pay 12% of their health care costs and to contribute 5% to their pensions.
And that's what set them off.
They don't think they should have to pay for anything that they think is a benefit.
They think other people, their fellow citizens, should pay for their health care and their pensions.
And they don't care about their fellow citizens' economic circumstances.
They don't care.
That's what ticked them off.
Fox News, an eyewitness alleges Democrat union vote fraud in Wisconsin.
No big deal like the sun coming up in the morning.
It just means that Walker is going to have to win by more than the margin of fraud rather than the margin of error.
And we'll see you on Wednesday, folks.
Take care.
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