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June 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Fireworks today on Capitol Hill.
Eric Holder was up talking about Fast and Furious.
The Republicans were asking pointed questions.
The Democrats on the committee were interrupting them, trying to prevent Holder from having to answer.
It gets kind of convoluted and complicated.
There was a release of information this week about wiretaps and so forth about all of this.
And when I have time, I'm going to explain it all to you.
This is Fast and Furious is about more than just walking guns across the border to drug cartels and having them used as a means of ginning up opposition to the Second Amendment.
That was the objective.
That was the motive.
But there's much more involved in it than just that.
Because essentially, I'll tell you how convoluted it is.
The Justice Department created crimes.
When you walk the guns across the border, that's the first crime.
When you make the guns available to drug cartels and they use them in commissioner crime, you've created a crime.
Holder's Justice Department created crimes, and they're trying to say they had no idea about any of it.
And there were wiretaps involved, and they're trying to say that the request for wiretaps was authorized almost pro forma.
It led to today's hearing.
And maybe tomorrow, I will, because we'll have the sound bites tomorrow of what happened today.
And then I will endeavor to assemble and put it all together for you so that you don't just hear about it piecemeal.
Because it's a fascinating set of revelations and discoveries that have occurred this week, accompanied by unbelievable denials from Holder and one of his top aides, a guy named Lanny Brewer.
So sit tight for that.
I want to go back to this Obama business and this joke that he told.
And I want to play it again.
I have not seen the video.
All we have is the audio here, obviously.
It's a radio program.
He tells this joke.
Now, here's the guy.
They're asking us to believe that this guy's so unhip that he doesn't know what he's saying.
He's talking to a group of gay activists, hip, gay Hollywood activists.
He makes a joke about his wife doing push-ups with Ellen DeGeneres.
And then with enough of a pause between the push-ups and the line, he utters the line, Ellen claims Michelle didn't go all the way down.
It's not Obama saying Michelle doesn't go all the way.
It's Ellen said Michelle didn't go all the way down.
Well, there is the appropriate laughter and amazement.
And we're being asked to believe that a guy who's done a lot of doobies in his day.
And by his own admission, he's been around sniffing some Coke.
And by definition, he's Mr. Hip.
And he's Mr. Cool.
That all of a sudden he doesn't understand what he said.
And he didn't know that it was on the teleprompter.
And that somebody may be going to get fired for this.
The media, I don't understand.
I mean, we're talking about the media.
Why would they be bothered by it?
They would think it's cool.
They did thought it was cool.
They thought it was cool.
That's why the political run the story ran the story about Obama's double entendre.
And then the White House got involved.
No, no, you're going to walk that back.
And so they've all started walking it back.
You heard Ashley Banfield.
I'll let you hear it again.
We got three bites here.
And now when you see the video at some point, if you do, they say when you can see Obama's face, he looks embarrassed and so forth.
I don't know.
Haven't seen it.
Here's Obama's, what he said.
This is the joke itself.
And we didn't edit any of this in any way for time.
I want to thank my wonderful friend who accepts a little bit of teasing about Michelle beating her in push-ups.
But I think she claims Michelle didn't go all the way down.
That's what I heard.
The, uh, so, the, uh, I just want to set the record straight.
Michelle outdoes me in push-ups as well.
All right.
He meant to say it.
I'm telling you, just the way the line is delivered, there's a pause.
She claimed Michelle didn't go all the way down.
He meant to say it.
I don't care what anybody says.
Video people have seen is he looks tired.
That may be the excuse that they're offering.
He didn't know what he was saying.
Sound an awful lot.
I mean, this guy's a master communicator, remember.
Master communicators ostensibly don't make mistakes like this.
So here's Ashley Banfield after the White House sent word out to walk this back.
I want to be very, very clear.
This was a scripted speech that the president gave.
This was talking about the Ellen DeGeneres show when Michelle Obama appeared into the push-ups contest.
That moment, I got to be honest with you.
If you watch that tape over again, again, transcripts aside, watch the tape.
Some people could easily say that the president was a bit blindsided by that line, did not expect it to be a double entendre.
Stop the tape aside.
What are they asking?
The president was blindsided by the line.
That's like me claiming I was blindsided by something I said, blindsided something I said.
I'm sorry.
People that say things don't get blindsided by it.
You get blindsided by things other people do to you.
What a flimsy excuse to actually tell us that Obama got blindsided by what he said.
Obama blindsided by the line.
Didn't expect it to be a double entendre.
Looks crestfallen.
Here's Soledad O'Brien, audio sound by 26 on CNN this morning.
I'm starting point this morning.
Kind of an uncomfortable moment for President Obama that was caught on tape.
President mentions First Lady Michelle Obama in a speech.
The audience, though, completely misinterprets the joke that he's making.
I'm going to show that what happened straight ahead.
What joke?
I thought he wasn't making a joke.
What joke did the audience misinterpret?
He wasn't making it.
And Ashley Banfield just said, what is it making a joke?
He was blindsided by the line.
Now the audience misinterpreted the joke.
So Ashley Banfield.
I want to be very, very clear.
I want you people to really listen.
I want you to be very, very understanding.
It was a scripted speech.
Whatever that means.
And then Soledad O'Brien.
The audience completely misinterprets the joke he's making.
We're going to show that what happens straight ahead.
And the Politico changed their headline.
They got rid of double entendre.
I forget what they changed it to.
So there's that.
Now, it gets better.
Yesterday on this program, I told you about Joe Biden at a commencement speech making promises to the students who are graduating.
We have those sound bites.
And we're going to start here with, well, I just, there's four, five, and six.
Let me find four.
Here it is.
Joe Biden, he is at Marlins Park, the new baseball stadium for the Florida Marlins.
It's the Cypress Bay Haskrule graduation ceremony.
The vice president of the United States.
We got one, two, three, three of them.
Here's the first.
Imagine the breakthroughs that are on the horizon and just beyond it.
Imagine by the time you're in a position to buy your first home, putting a roof of solar shingles that will cost no more than today's ordinary shingles will be able to power your home, heating, cooling, running appliances, at a fraction of the cost your parents pay today.
Solar shingles on your house that'll cost no more than today's ordinary shingles, power your home, heating, cooling appliances at a fraction of the cost your parents pay today.
Every solar industry firm, except one, I think, that they have bankrolled, has gone bankrupt.
There is no such thing, not for these kids.
He's lying to them.
He's telling them by the time they own their first house that this stuff's going to be available to them.
He was just getting started.
Imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don't depend on the soil, water, or fertilizer or pesticides to thrive.
They're just around the corner.
Imagine famine being a memory and with it the end of so much war and conflict that plagues so many parts of the world.
Imagine a day when the lightweight materials, cleaner fuels, advanced engines simultaneously make our air cleaner, allowing us to go the equivalent of hundreds of miles to the gallon, and maybe most importantly, freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil and all that entails for a nation.
I have to ask you people in the audience who are agriculturalists, because I have not heard of crops that will not need soil, water, or fertilizer or pesticides.
How do you have a crop that won't need soil?
What's it going to grow in?
How do you have a crop that's not going to need water when the vast majority of the content of everything is water?
Where's the water going to end up in the crop if there isn't any fertilizer, pesticides, and it's just around the corner?
When I originally heard this, I was flashing back to John Edwards at the 2004 Democrat convention, promising essentially Christopher Reeve he'd walk again if John Kerry was elected presidency.
You know, this is cruel because there are people believe this snake.
There are Democrats that believe this, people, Americans who desperately want to walk.
These guys out there saying elect John Kerry and if you elect Bush, Christopher Reeve won't walk ever.
He was saying that it's cruel to mislead people like that.
Now, solar shingles that'll do everything for the same cost as the regular shingles on your house now, and now crops that don't need soil or water, much less pesticides, fertilizer, and one more from the vice president of the United States.
Imagine a day within your lifetime when doctors can and will engineer your white blood cells to attack cancer cells and leave healthy cells untouched, allowing cancer patients to live out a full life without undergoing the difficulties some of you observe.
Painful chemotherapy and radiation procedures.
Well, you better hope so because to feed all those people, you're going to need crops that don't need soil or water.
So the vice president of the United States out talking to a graduating high school class and making these commitments and promises to them.
Of course, if they are re-elected, if the Democrats remain in power.
Now, anybody with a brain understands that all of these breakthroughs and miracles, were to happen, would happen in the private sector, where inventions, ingenuity, and entrepreneurism take place.
They are in the process of shrinking the private sector.
They are, Obama and Biden are scaring entrepreneurs into paralysis.
The innovators, look at what they're doing to medical device companies, are under attack from this very administration.
Medical device makers, their taxes have been raised.
Penalties, punishment for success and innovation is what this administration is all about.
And yet Biden goes out completely delusional and off the rails with wild-haired promises like this.
And it's time, ladies and gentlemen, for another brief obscene profit timeout.
We'll take it and be back before you know it.
Stick around.
One of my, I know you're not bringing this stuff from home, right?
This is in our regular bumper rotation.
Exactly right.
Well, it's not just that, but I love this.
The Creedon's Clearwater Revival.
John Fogarty, Little Green River, 1968.
I was 17 years old.
I was playing that song on the radio after school.
Hey, we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB.
You won't believe this.
According to Alan Dershowitz, Florida state attorney Angela Corey, who has been appointed by Governor Scott to prosecute the white Hispanic George Zimmerman.
Honestly, you will not believe this.
This is not Scott Ott writing.
This is not the Onion, not Saturday Night Live.
According to Dershowitz, the prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case, Angela Corey, called Harvard to threaten the university with a libel suit because they haven't muzzled Professor Dershowitz, who has been a scathing critic of her performance.
Honestly, the prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case called Harvard and said, we're going to sue you for libel because you haven't muzzled Dershowitz, who's been critical of me.
Holy smokes.
Palm Beach Post will support her, by the way.
Now, my old friend Andy McCarthy, writing at pjmedia.com, said, why stop at libel?
Why doesn't she just charge Dershowitz with second-degree murder like she has Zimmerman?
It's not like the lack of evidence is a big hurdle for her.
Can you imagine Dershowitz?
The Harvard president called, hey, Alan, we got a little problem.
You know what?
Angela Corey's suing us.
You know, for what?
Libel.
I'll bet she comes.
I better be careful.
I had better be, I might be a party to this because I amplified what Dershowitz said.
Remember when I quoted Dershowitz and my own affiliate called her office.
What do you think of what Limbaugh said about Angela Corey?
I could end up being sued.
What do you bet she comes out of a self-esteem course somewhere in her education?
What do you bet that she took self-esteem, at least as a course or it was a theme throughout her education?
You're wonderful.
You're special.
You're good person.
And now she's being criticized.
It doesn't jibe with self-esteem.
This is not supposed to happen.
Doug in Great Falls, Montana.
I'm glad you waited.
You're up next here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
I'll wait all day to talk to you again.
I want to talk about something you touched on yesterday in that NRO article about the Democrat Party being a criminal empire.
My nine-year-old son got interested in the American mafia about a year ago, and he's done a lot of research.
Does he want to join?
Pardon me?
Does he want to join?
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
He did a lot of research, and he starts telling me how Lepke Buckhalter took over the unions and how Frank Costello was placing judges on the Supreme Court in New York.
And I said, son, this is nothing compared to what this has worked its way up to now with Obama and the unions and the crony capitalism.
I told him I think it's much more of a criminal empire than it was then, but we got talking about it.
And I wonder if maybe Obama isn't the John Gotti.
Because when Gotti went, it fell apart.
You know, he was so arrogant.
He had the Teflon Don thing going.
They thought they were so untouchable.
It reminds me of Obama.
And where's the bench?
What's next?
There's nobody else there.
Let me tell you something.
A lot of you people might be laughing about it.
Let me tell you something.
What did I, just the last couple of weeks, some mob guy or woman, maybe some mob guy's wife started ripping into Gotti for destroying the mob because he went all celebrity on him.
He started going too public.
He started dressing to the nines.
He started attracting attention to himself.
Everybody knew that the big powwows were at the Ravenite Social Club.
The FBI went in there and bugged the place.
That's how they got him.
Previous mob bosses did not flaunt their wealth.
They did not live in public.
They didn't become celebrities and stars.
And there's a lot of mob guys that are joining this chorus of criticism of John Gotti on this.
And here you have Obama as basically Barack Kardashian who's going the full celeb route and now telling Lewinsky jokes to the gays at a fundraiser out in Beverly Hills.
It might be an apropos comparison.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the newspaper, Mitt Romney, is now tied with Obama in Michigan.
I guarantee you this is going to send shockwaves through the regime.
Folks, it is, you know, Obama saved Detroit.
Obama saved Michigan.
He saved General Motors and Chrysler.
You've seen Detroit.
You see how he saved it.
And in Wisconsin, in Wisconsin, I think I saw a poll earlier today where Romney's up two in Wisconsin or tied or maybe only down two.
It's one of those three.
He's either up two or down two.
I forget which.
Now they're tied in Michigan.
And I guarantee you this is sending shockwaves through the regime.
Now, I mentioned earlier on this program, Romney is out with a new line of attack on Obama.
He's basically saying Obama purposely disregarded the state of the economy after he passed Porculus.
That was it.
Didn't care anymore about it despite what he was saying about caring about job creation.
All he focused on was Obamacare.
That was it.
He chose a legacy.
He chose being the first guy in history to get national health care.
He thought that would have a much greater historical legacy, be a much greater historical legacy than economic recovery, because those happen all the time.
We have recessions, we have recoveries.
It's going to happen.
We have Romney making this point.
You know, when I saw this, I'll be honest, I said, my reaction kind of ho-hum.
Yeah, well, not news.
But then I started seeing everybody's reaction to it, primarily in the drive-by media, and they're scared.
The drive-by media thinks this is a great hit.
They're worried about this.
They're surprised.
They didn't think Romney would be doing stuff like this.
I didn't think that.
It's just so obvious to me that it's not news.
But to them, big news, Romney's getting a lot of positive feedback on this.
It was in San Antonio yesterday as during a campaign appearance.
We have two soundbites.
Here's the first.
They concluded that we would all forget how long the recovery took once it had happened.
So they decided to go ahead.
The idea that they knowingly slowed down our recovery in order to put in place Obamacare, which they wanted and they considered historic, but the American people did not want or consider historic, is something which I think deserves a lot of explaining.
Because I think the president's responsibility is to put people back to work and to get people out of poverty and to help people have good jobs and have prospects for a brighter tomorrow.
So he's saying Obama purposely slowed the recovery, not just forgot about it, not just didn't pay attention to it, that he purposely slowed it down because somehow that would help him get Obamacare, people in greater need.
The economy, they're getting fired.
Romney is accusing Obama of purposely slowing down the economy so as to worsen people's economic circumstance so that they would demand health care since they were losing it because they're getting fired.
That's what he's saying.
And that is a bold criticism.
That is something that we would say and have said.
But to hear a Republican presidential candidate say it is kind of cool.
The Republican establishment is shocked again for the second time in three weeks.
The first time they were shocked was when they realized, you know what?
Maybe we can win.
And they were shocked yesterday when they realized they can.
And they want to.
Wow, they actually might want to win this day.
Here's the second Romney bite.
Oh, is that it?
There isn't a, yeah, forget it.
I don't want Pelosi to hell with it.
I thought there were two Romney.
I just misread it.
Okay, well, play Romney again.
Since I said there were two Romneys, play this one again.
Have you already forgotten the number?
They concluded that we would all forget how long the recovery took once it had happened.
So they decided to go ahead.
The idea that they knowingly slowed down our recovery in order to put in place Obamacare, which they wanted and they considered historic, but the American people did not want or considered historic, is something which I think deserves a lot of explaining.
Because I think the president's responsibility is to put people back to work and to get people out of poverty and to help people have good jobs and have prospects for a brighter tomorrow.
There you have it.
So it is a bold criticism.
Romney's made it and people heard it and they're reacting to it.
Jerry in LaGrange, Texas, as we go back to the phones.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Dear Rush, I just had to laugh.
I came in from washing my car, and you were talking about the double entendre that Mr. Balney made to his audience.
And I thought, Rush is exactly right again.
Once again, never fooled.
The very inside that is Rush.
And when I thought of him standing there doing this and not knowing what he was saying, and someone was writing, and he just didn't have any idea what he was saying, I thought, gee, that's just like when he sang Al Green's song, and it was so cute and that big smile.
And he's just all show biz Rush.
He knows how to do it.
And you're not fooled for a minute.
I know that.
It just tickled me to pieces when I.
It's funny to watch the media try to walk this back.
The politico, the TV people.
He didn't mean it.
He didn't know that.
He was blindsided by his own speech.
That's what Ashley Banfield said.
Blindsided by the line.
That's like Josh Steiner lied to his own diary.
But when you sit there, you're talking about Ellen DeGeneres and push-ups, and your wife doesn't go all the way down.
You know, you have to know how that group is going to hear that.
This is a hip, gay group in Hollywood.
You have to know how they're going to hear it.
And they did.
They heard it exactly as I think that it was probably intended.
Ladies and gentlemen, mentioned this earlier.
I want to run back to it very quickly.
Bill Clinton's aides are saying that he screwed up.
Bill Clinton's off-message musings in recent days on Romney and taxes and the state of the economy prompted a series of urgent and agitated calls between senior aides to both Clinton and Obama.
Now, in the past, these kinds of complaints have often prompted Clinton lieutenants to suggest the Obama team just go to hell.
A former president can say whatever he wants to say.
This time, the politico says it was different.
Clinton's team was aghast.
They couldn't believe that Clinton was undercutting Obama this way.
Clinton's own staff couldn't believe that he was speaking in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
Clinton's own team couldn't believe that Clinton was praising Mitt Romney's sterling qualifications.
Clinton's own team couldn't believe that Clinton was talking about private equity being so wonderful and the people involved in it doing good work, being good people.
And so Clinton's own people are telling the press that he's old.
They're blaming his age.
He's 65.
One of his aides said to the police, he's old.
He's 65.
They're blaming Clinton's old age, 65 for these screw-ups.
One advisor explaining how Clinton in a CNBC interview managed to say the economy was in recession.
He's 65 years old.
Wait till Clinton hears about this.
What they're saying is he's at the early onset of dementia.
They're saying Bill Clinton doesn't know what he's saying.
His own staff, he's 65.
It's Thursday.
What does that mean?
Unemployment numbers.
The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell last week.
It says here for the first time since April, a reminder that the wounded labor market is still slowly heaving.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 12,000 to 377,000.
That was pretty much right on the median forecast.
And experts got it right, Reuters says, which has to be a first.
The government revised the prior week's figure up to 389,000 from 383,000.
Once again, for like, this, I think, is now the 64th out of the last 65 weeks that the previous week's number has been revised up, meaning made worse.
And so will this one be.
So we've got a new name for this, Claims Revision Thursday.
Reuters and the AP both reporting the number of new jobless benefits is down, first time in five weeks, even though they both failed to report that the new jobless claims were up in three of the four previous weeks after the revisions.
And this week's number, which again is 377, it'll be 380 or 383, something like that next week.
It'll revise it upwards.
And next week will be the 65th out of 66 weeks that that has happened.
Okay, folks, listen up.
This next is astounding.
Since the beginning of the regime, we have told you that nothing you hear is real.
And what's next is a great illustration of this.
Yesterday in Washington during a House government oversight reform committee, it's Daryl Isis committee, there was a hearing on the Labor Department's jobs report.
The acting commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a guy named John Galvin, testified, and there was a QA, and we put together a montage here of Daryl Issa and Galvin.
They're having a conversation about green jobs.
Now, what's interesting here, this is a regime hack from the Labor Department defining what a green job is.
Now, keep in mind, the regime is pushing green energy, green sector.
They want you to believe that there's a future in green jobs and that they're out there creating a bunch of green jobs.
So what Isa did, he went through the BLS report and he was astounded when he found out what the regime is counting as green jobs.
And that's what the QA is all about.
If you sweep the floor in a solar panel facility, is that a green job?
Yes.
If you drive a hybrid bus, public transportation, is that a green job?
According to our definition, yes.
What about just any school bus driver?
Yes.
What about the guy who puts gas in the school bus?
Yes.
How about employees at a bicycle shop?
I guess I'm not sure about that.
The answer is yes, according to your definition.
What about someone who works at an antique dealer?
I'm not sure about that either.
The answer is yes.
Those are recycled goods.
What about someone who works at the Salvation Army in their clothing, recycling, and furniture?
Right, because they're selling recycled goods.
What about workers at a consignment shop?
That's a green job.
Does the teenage kid who works full-time at a used record shop count?
Yes.
Do garbage men have green jobs?
Yes.
How about an oil lobbyist?
Wouldn't an oil lobbyist count as having a green job if they are engaged in advocacy related to environmental issues?
Yes.
Thank you.
Green jobs.
That's how they're counting them.
Daryl Issa talking to John Galvin, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The next time you hear him talk about how great green job creation is, you now know includes kids at bicycle shops.
Hey, folks, how about that?
How about not going down all the way?
Like in a push-up, is that a green job?
Just curious.
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