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June 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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No, no, no, no.
I was not kidding about that.
The Milwaukee Police Department says that it is evaluating threats made against Governor Walker through social media.
It's happening Twitter, probably Democrat Underground Daily Cause in the comments section, probably Facebook.
I don't know.
No word yet from Eric Holder on any of this.
Just kidding.
Why should he care that a Republican governor is being threatened?
And one of the tweets is, I want to kill Scott Walker.
So, so effing bad.
And the racist, dumb blank that voted for him.
So apparently, according to Democrats, you're racist if you voted for Scott Walker, which is a compliment.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
How to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Oh, darn it.
I just, where did I see this?
Somebody, Michael Barone, where is it?
Somebody just, I think it was Barone.
I can't find this.
I can't find it.
I'm going to have to find this later.
Somebody did a reanalysis of the exit poll data and show that the exit poll data shows that Obama and Walker ended up being tied.
It was Obama and Romney tied in the Wisconsin Exit Poll, not Obama up by nine.
And I failed to print it out.
So much going on.
Here's another think piece for you.
From the Associated Press out of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday proposed cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount of marijuana.
Andrew Cuomo proposed cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount of marijuana, which is a change in state law that would diffuse some criticism of the New York Police Department's stop and frisk policy in minority communities.
With three weeks remaining in the legislative session, Governor Cuomo said that his bill to reduce the criminal misdemeanor to a violation with a fine up to $100 would save thousands of New Yorkers, disproportionately black and Hispanic youths, from unnecessary arrests and criminal charges.
Governor Cuomo said there's a blatant inconsistency.
If you possess marijuana privately, it's a violation.
If you show it in public, it's a crime.
It's incongruous.
It's inconsistent the way it's been enforced.
There have been additional complications in relation to the stop and frisk policy, where there's claims that young people could have a small amount of marijuana in their pocket.
They're stopped.
They're frisked.
The cop says, turn out your pockets.
The marijuana is now in public view, and it just went from a violation to a crime.
And that's not good.
New York City prosecutors and the police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, whose offices handled almost 50,000 such cases last year, endorsed Cuomo's plan, as did Mayor Doomberg.
Mayor Doomberg said the bill largely mirrors the city police directive issued last year for officers to issue violations, not misdemeanors, for small amounts of marijuana that come into open view during a search.
Now, you heard about this, I'm sure, in the context, here's Doomberg, wants to stop you from being able to buy anything over 16 ounces, if it's a Coke or a Pepsi, seven up or whatever.
But he wants to relax the penalties on small amounts of marijuana.
But that's not the point here.
And reading you the details here, I wonder how many of you caught something.
This law disproportionately affects blacks and Hispanic youths.
And the police commissioner said that his office handles 50,000 such criminal cases last year.
And that's just, it's not worth it.
It's not that big a violation.
50,000.
Let's take this from just a misdemeanor, get rid of it, just call it a violation and move on.
Fine.
What did Moynihan say, defining deviancy down?
It's too much trouble to enforce this law.
Let's just say it's not a crime anymore and be done with it.
Okay, fine.
Now, you know me.
I care about the culture.
I care about the roots of our society.
And my question, does Governor Cuomo, does Mayor Doomberg, I mean, even the police commissioner, do they ask themselves why this is an issue that disproportionately affects black and Hispanic youths?
In other words, are they not interested in why black and Hispanic youths are the primary users here?
And do they not care that that might be a problem?
Or are they saying, you know what, it's so many cases and it's so much trouble and it's not really worth it being a crime, a misdemeanor.
We just want to call it a violation.
Okay, so let's just change the law so that these kids are not the targets anymore.
Instead of trying to figure out why this is happening, let's just change the law and it's no longer a big deal.
I don't know.
It bothers me.
I care about the culture and the things that people do that might be impediments to their future that if caught early and stopped could be helpful.
But that's just me.
So in New York, from the governor on down, it's just, you know, it's just too big a hassle.
And, you know, there's nothing in it to be targeting those two groups politically.
There's really nothing to gain by targeting those two.
Is there, Snerdley?
I mean, there's really nothing to be gained.
I mean, nobody wins when people sees black youths and Hispanic youths being reprimanded or held to account for small amounts of marijuana.
Nothing to be gained politically by that.
So let's just make it like it's not happening.
What surprised you in the story?
Snerdley can't believe they're allowed to frisk black and Hispanic youths in New York like that.
Well, it is called the stop and frisk policy, where the officer says, well, no, but they can do it to anybody.
But the officer, turn out your pockets.
Marijuana is now in public view and it just went from a violation to a crime.
And without the stop and frisk they'd have never found it, so it wouldn't have been a crime.
It would, it would have stayed a violation, but nobody would have known about it.
So basically, what they're saying is, we don't want to know.
We just we don't want to know.
It's called wash our hands.
We don't want to know.
And they wonder, oh, never mind, let me take a break.
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Okay, what happened was that Michael Barone this in the Washington Examiner.
Michael Barone resampled the Wisconsin exit polls to match the results and he finds Obama and Romney are tied at 4848.
Now the exit polls do show Obama leading Romney by nine.
But if you match the exit polls to the results and make the corresponding adjustments and you end up with Romney and Obama tied.
It's kind of convoluted, the uh uh way it happened.
But the thing to understand is that exit polls in in Wisconsin have always oversampled Democrats by at least four percent.
That is something that is known.
And when you do that if you, if you take the four percent bias away, if you take that's what the resampling means if you take the four percent bias, uh, Democrat sample, take it away, then you end up with neck and neck 48 Obama and Romney in Wisconsin.
So what it means is if you do the proper adjustments, get rid of the bias, that there is no good news for Obama, no matter how much you want to lie to yourself, in the Wisconsin exit polls.
It's just that simple.
By the way, we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, that the Reverend Sharpton, MSNBC anchorman and journalist, is going to lead a silent march on Father's Day to bring attention to New York's stop and frisk policies.
But I don't think he's going to have to.
They're going to get a, well, no, take it back.
He is going to have to getting rid of that.
They're changing a law based on what they find with stop and frisk.
Have you noticed, by the way, also Muchel My Bell Obama, shortly after Doomberg came out with his call to limit the size of sugary soft drinks to 16 ounces.
You know, Muchel Obama came out, big time supporter of that.
And she's gone silent.
She's really dropped off the edge of the earth on it, which tells me the polling on this is not good.
Do you realize even sports writers have come out in favor of Doomberg?
I kid you not.
Sports writers are making the case for this.
I don't know.
Is Sharpton on the MSNBC payroll when he is doing the silent march?
Well, I don't know, snirdly.
I mean, if he's on the payroll, he gets paid per year.
It's paid for what he does on MSNBC.
Probably they wouldn't say at MSNBC they're paying him to do that.
No.
But, yeah, he's not being paid for that.
And I wouldn't think.
The real question is, would they let Tom Brokaw do it?
Or would they let Brian Williams do it at NBC?
That's the question.
I don't know.
All right.
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Who is Charlie?
As we head back to the phones, Charlie's in Cape Coral, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Charlie.
How are you doing, Rush?
Mega Dittos.
I've been a longtime listener.
So long, in fact, I think I was in your inaugural class of the Limbaugh Institute.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for all your service that you've done over the years.
I want to get to this.
I've got two real quick points.
One was the main reason I called and begging your indulgence.
A second quick point regarding the hypocrisy of these unions, both public service and the teachers and school unions.
The first is that if we use their mantra and apply their mantra right back at them on the pay your fair share, when asked to pay actually less than their fair share in contributing to their retirement programs and the like, you hear nothing but them squealing like stuck pigs out there.
It's okay if it applies to you, but do as we say nothing.
Well, see, the difference is they don't consider themselves in the 1%.
Thirdly, what happened to that guy from Bakersfield?
It was going to give me grief.
Darn it.
We had a guy from Bakersfield who said that I am doing irreparable damage to police unions, municipal employees who are cops and firefighters because they're conservatives and I'm ticking them off by lumping.
Okay, well, I have to address that in the next half hour.
See, the bottom line here, Charlie, is that the people we're talking about don't think they're in the 1%.
They don't think they're getting their fair share even now is the whole point.
So when you hit them up with how about paying your fair share, no, no, no.
It's a sense of entitlement that many of them have simply because they think they're being taken advantage of to start with.
We're all trying to figure out what a silent march is here.
MSNBC anchorman and journalist the Reverend Al Sharpton leading a silent march on Father's Day against the stop and frisk policy in New York City.
And if you have a protest, if you have a silent march and nobody makes any noise, does a protest occur?
We might need Yogi Berra to figure this out for us.
The Reverend Sherry, I've never heard of a silent march.
Is that where you make no noise when you march or walk?
Is that where you don't say anything?
No megaphone.
By the way, speaking of megaphones, our microphones were there in the White House as the results became known in Wisconsin last night, ladies and gentlemen.
Our microphones now take you behind the scenes at the Obama White House as the reality of Scott Walker's victory sinks in.
Tough, Bright Barack.
I did what I could.
Well, while you were there, are you sure you didn't just happen to say that Walker's record was sterling?
Hey, look, Barry, at least I went there.
I didn't just tweet.
Best wishes.
Hope you win.
I was busy.
Yeah?
Really?
Doing what?
Were you having another fundraiser with a private equity group?
Or were you still trying to get that war on women thing off the ground?
Well, I wanted to go, but...
Well, they begged me to go to Wisconsin, and I went.
You ran away from a fight for government unions.
And you endorsed Romney four days before you endorsed me.
I was just saying you can't say he's evil just because he's in the private equity business.
It's the Chicago way.
That's great.
If you want to go back, keep it up.
Four balanced budgets.
Count them.
And I think I like tax cuts.
Don't you walk out on me.
Join us next time.
Don't you walk out on me?
We take you behind the scenes at the Obama White House.
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Now, snurdly, we had a call from Bakersfield, California, right?
It was Bakersfield.
And was it a cop or he was a cop?
This is troubling.
I lost sleep over this in the break.
The bottom of the hour.
Well, I didn't sleep.
I'm going to lose sleep over it tonight.
I was thinking about it.
Guy said, look, and I guess he couldn't hang on.
You are.
What did he say?
What was the exact words?
I'm driving away police officers who are ultra-conservatives who are members of municipal unions.
And he may have a point.
I have not been distinguishing.
Here's my problem.
Well, the problem.
I respect the intelligence of the audience.
I assume that people understand that to me this is a left-right issue.
It's not anti-union per se.
I mean, if you want to join a union, go right ahead.
There's some jobs you have to, such as being a cop.
Most of those jobs are unionized.
But I have first, I don't think I'm driving them away.
I think they're smart enough to know what's going on here.
I think Snartly's looking at me like, are you sure about that?
I'm not talking.
What do you mean I'm talking their paychecks?
What do you mean?
I am not suggesting they do away with their pensions.
Yes, they do.
There's not one cop union member who thinks I'm against his pension.
There's not one cop.
As you said, the guy could have been a rabble-rouser.
But, no, I can understand that.
I just, this is one of the problems with talking about this stuff is not every union member is a liberal.
The union leaders are, and the people who take their dues are, and the people who give their dues away as campaign donations are liberal.
But the mathematics is the mathematics.
And if the money isn't there, then the promise to pay lifetime pension and health care can't be met.
If the money isn't there, the promise doesn't mean anything.
There have to be adjustments made.
People do it all the time.
Unions, the Wisconsin crowd wanted to be exempt from it.
That's what the fight was about.
And nobody was talking about doing away with the pension.
They're just saying you're going to pay 5% towards it.
I don't even have a pension.
I don't even have health care.
It's not that it's denied me.
I just choose not to.
I don't have a pension.
I've always assumed I have to take care of that myself.
I would be living on eggshells if I had laid off on other people all that responsibility because I don't have nearly the confidence in them to come through as I would on myself.
But I understand the precarious nature of this and the fear people have because it's always all about the money.
And people in this fight, if they don't listen carefully, can think somebody wants to take their money away from them.
That's what the union leaders want the rank and file to believe, is that Republicans want to take away their pensions.
Republicans want to take away their health care.
And that's not true at all.
It's just we've reached a point in time where we don't have the money.
We just don't have it.
I got to have faith, Snurdley, that these cops that this guy's talking about, cops are self-reliant individuals anyway, by definition.
What do you mean, fire?
Why do we feist up the firefighters and look at that union?
What?
We haven't said anything about the fire.
The firefighters union can't stand it.
Well, that's the firefighters' problem.
I'm not even talking about the firefighters.
You're bringing up the firefighter.
Trying to keep it focused on the cops.
Anyway, let me grab one more before we have to take the break.
Gary in Buffalo, thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Honored to speak with you again.
Thank you, sir.
As a taxpayer, what I saw in the run-up to the election was the following: I saw unions, Communist Party USA, the Socialist Party USA, the anarchist, and the professional poor, along with the Democrats, marching arm in arm against me, the taxpayer.
That's what I saw.
None of those people like America.
Most of them want this country and its capitalistic system, which made them successful, destroyed, and they were marching against me.
And you are the one paying them.
You are the one paying.
When they march against the country and you, they're marching against the people who pay them.
Right?
That's what you're saying.
Exactly.
And I'm tired of it.
And I think that everybody's tired of it.
And the people of Wisconsin were obviously tired of it.
And the only change in Wisconsin, well, not the only, but one of the changes was that when it came to the health insurance, they were being asked to pay 12.5% for the cost.
Cry me a river.
Walk in my shoes.
You just paid the bills and everyone's forgotten it.
Yeah.
Or they never thought about it in the first place.
Well, the taxpayers are suddenly realizing what's going on.
And, you know, there used to be a time when I was, you know, younger, Communist Party USA wasn't really a good thing.
It didn't mean happiness.
It wasn't a smiley face.
How old do you think the public sector unions are?
How long have we had them?
Do you know?
I do.
Do you know?
I do not.
1959.
Municipal public sector unions in Wisconsin were born in 1959.
So what did they do before that?
Like everybody else did.
They got along.
Well, I don't know.
They made their own way.
They relied on rugged individualism and rose as their skills and mind let them rise.
Remember those days?
Still alive as far as I'm concerned.
Sorry, I'm just a little angry about all this.
Well, I know a lot of people are.
That's the especially you're out there being ripped as somebody not paying your fair share.
You're out there being blamed for all the deficits.
You're being blamed for the fiscal mess.
And then you hear people.
I pay my fair share, trust me.
Pardon me?
I pay my fair share, trust me.
And so do all of the taxpayers out there.
You know, the people who pay the bills.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then some, I'd say.
All right.
Well, look, Gary.
Gary, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
We got to take a break, though.
I'm really up against it on time.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Matt, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Hey, Mr. Russell and Baum.
Finance Matt, I'm 18 years old.
And I just wanted to say it's an honor and a privilege to be talking to you today.
Thank you, sir.
Oh, no problem.
I just wanted to talk to you about what happened this morning.
I went to go see Vice President Joe Biden speaking downtown Salem, and he didn't mention one thing about the governor recall election and the result.
And even afterwards, we asked him point blank, some of us in our cheese head and Packers gear asked him, and I don't think he got the message he's just.
Can I ask you a question?
I want to ask you, Matt, I saw, I wish I had sounded this.
Saw a video of this and I forgot.
Biden spoke at Weston Florida, at some graduation.
He said the most incredible stuff.
Did he promise, if Obama was re-elected, a cure for cancer?
Did he promise that that food and crops would grow with no soil and no water and no sunshine?
I wasn't.
I, I was at the one in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
I know, but sometimes they the message travels and he was speaking.
Did he say that today?
I know he didn't talk about Walker, but did he say anything like that today?
No no sir, he didn't say anything like that today.
Okay well, i'm not surprised he wouldn't mention Walker.
I mean, why talk about a big, humiliating defeat?
I don't even know why you went, but yes, I do you.
You wanted to see what the other side's doing and I applaud you for going.
Matt, I really i've got to get this audio.
He really cure for cancer.
Uh uh, and and.
It was the place where he said Michelle and Here, and and uh Jill, his wife.
They wouldn't amounted to anything if it weren't for government.
There be food.
No food, short food will grow without soil, sunlight or water.
I'm not kidding, I gotta find that out of time now.
I gotta find Matt.
Thanks much for the call.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away, Biden Said, imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don't depend on soil, water, or fertilizer, or pesticides.
It's just around the corner.
And it's with solar shingles on your house and no more electricity bills.
It was incredible.
We got to get it.
See you tomorrow.
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