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June 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And here we are back at it.
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So the media telling us it's been a bad week for President Obama.
I'd rather look at it through a different prism.
It has been not just a bad week.
It has been a bad three and a half years, but not for Obama, but for us.
Every week is a bad week for America.
With Barack Hussein Kardashian in the White House, every year is a bad year for us.
It has been a bad three and a half years.
And as much, ladies and gentlemen, as I am dedicated to the educational and informative task of teaching people about the destructive nature of liberalism and its latest vehicle, Barack Hussein Kardashian.
And by the way, you know that's popping up everywhere, all over the I it was on a Breitbart headline the other day.
Last night, the Breitbart website is I'm sure there's a whole Barack Hussein Kardashian website now.
That's what show prep for the rest of the media.
It's all over the place out there now.
But see, I'm not when it comes to America, I am not Obama centric.
We were better off before Obama and will be better off after Obama.
See to me, and particularly if if you are one of the millions of new listeners of the program, the country is what matters.
The people who make this country work are who matter to me.
I grow weary.
I laugh at it, but I still grow weary every day.
Multiple media stories.
How will this impact Obama?
How will this affect the Obama campaign?
What does this mean for Obama's reelection?
The hell with that.
What does it mean for the country?
That's our concern here.
What does it mean for the people who make this country work?
That's our concern here.
It's been a bad week for Obama.
I'm sorry, it offends me.
Boo-hoo.
A bad week for Obama is a worse week for us.
What is a bad week for the guy?
He's flying on Air Force One as often as he wants, from party to party, from celebrity to celebrity.
And while he gets off that plane, he asks for money.
He asks for praise.
He asks for adoration.
He asks for those that he has hurt the most to have his back.
What bad week for Obama?
Oh, you didn't hear this.
It's a new ad.
It's a new ad for Obama.
We had it yesterday.
Here, listen to it again.
Four years ago, we made history.
Now it's time to move forward and finish what we started together.
We have to show the president.
We have his back.
We can't afford to spend the next four years going back.
I refuse to pay for another millionaire's tax cut by kicking children off of Head Start programs.
We're asking students to pay more for college.
Or eliminating health insurance for millions of poor and elderly and disabled Americans on Medicaid.
Have the president's back and register to booth.
Go to Gotaboo.org to register now.
That's got a vote.org.
You know we've got you back.
Pay for by Obama for America.
We got Joe back.
We got the president's back.
These are the people.
What is unemployment in the black community?
Did I see 50 some odd percent?
What is unemployment in the black community?
Black youth, black youth, 50 some odd percent.
And yet, here they are running ads for these people to have Obama's back.
What about Obama having their back?
What about Obama having our back?
Oh, it's such a horrible week for Barack Obama.
Oh, by the way, you should try this.
A Google search of Obama and Kardashian returns 71,400,000 hits.
Ha ha.
A little throwaway line off the top of my head on this program a couple of weeks ago.
And look how it is now rooted itself in the American pop culture and even certain certain parts of the political culture.
So we've got what is it?
What's the number?
13.6% unemployment in the black community, and Obama's running commercials asking black people for his back.
Bad week for Obama.
Party to party, celebrity to celebrity, asking for money, asking for praise, asking for those he's hurt the most to have his back.
We have the first community organizer to occupy the Oval Office actively working to keep illegal voters voting in Florida.
The state of Florida is trying to purge illegals and people illegally registered from the voting rolls.
And the Justice Department, the Kardashian Justice Department, with the with the Holder, Eric Holder, is suing the state of Florida.
I...
It...
Let a Republican president try anything like this.
And you've got a nuclear explosion in the movie in the media.
And I'm telling I'm going to see what's happening.
The media doesn't report this stuff, and they think as a result, nobody knows about it.
They continue to live in a state of denial.
That there is an alternative media that is just as penetrating.
They can pretend that by not covering a story, the story doesn't happen.
They can pretend by not covering a story or not condemning an action that nobody hears about it.
But people are fully aware of all of this of the new Black Panthers in Philadelphia and the Justice Department declining prosecution, as was said, because we're not going after black defendants.
Here we have a president who sued the state of Arizona to stop the state of Arizona from enforcing laws that protect their citizens.
He simply created a law in Arizona that mirrors the federal law that Obama will not enforce, and he sues them.
He's given billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars to supporters of his in a losing industry, green energy.
So he can use that as an excuse to pick on a winning industry, fossil fuel producers, doing everything he can to limit oil production, discovery, and expansion.
Bad week for Obama.
Oh, my heart bleeds.
Every day.
We've had two in a row from the Washington Post.
Oh my God, Democrats are worried.
How's all this affecting Obama?
You know, most of the country, Mr. Milbank and Ms. Tumulty, most of the country is not asking with wringing hands and deep concern.
Oh my gosh, how is this news affecting our wonderful president?
They're asking themselves, when the hell is somebody gonna do something to change the direction this country's economy is going.
They're not worried about the impact all this stuff is having on Obama.
They see him having the life of a party.
He's bragging about it.
Television commercials, dinner with Anna Winter and Sarah Jessica Parker, then George Clooney, and they're going to do it again.
Obama flying all over the place.
Muchell flying all over vacation after vacation after vacation.
Martha's Vineyard, Las Vegas, Spain.
Poor Obama had a bad week.
On his worst week, President Kardashian has had it better than the richest man on the planet in recorded and unrecorded history.
I'm growing weary about hearing about Barack Obama having a bad week.
The people who make this country work are suffering every day he's in office.
And we have to hear about a bad week that Obama had.
Really, it is so out of proportion.
It's insulting.
You know, the scary thing...
The scary thing to contemplate is what would a good week for Obama be?
What would it take for the media to report that he had a good week?
Let that scare you.
Because it should.
A bad week for Obama is having to sit next to a movie star that he doesn't particularly like.
Nixon hounded out of office 40 years ago for a second rate burglary that even to this day nobody can figure out.
We have got Watergate type scandals in three different spots in this administration, and what's the media writing about?
40-year-old Watergate.
I'll never forget, folks, my dad.
Oh, you would have.
You would have loved.
If my dad were alive, get him on the phone, I'd say, hey, what's going on?
And shut up for half hour.
During Watergate.
I forget it was Klondike's.
Well, Cronkite was still doing the news.
The end of the CBS, he'd turn off TV.
He would look at me and he would scream, what the hell did he do?
What did he do?
People are still asking.
What really happened?
Nobody can figure out what Watergate really was.
We know it was a burglary at the Democrat National Committee, but beyond that.
We still don't know what Nixon really did or didn't do and what the purpose of this was and how it.
Yeah, yeah, Nixon covered it up.
Trying to protect his boys.
Liddy E. Howard Hunt.
No, don't, folks, don't misunderstand me now.
I'm not saying nothing happened.
But there's a sense of proportion is needed here for crying outline.
We have a regime which ignores federal judges on drilling moratoriums.
We have a regime that is running an open money laundering operation with union dues.
We have an administration that is bankrolling, knowingly bankrolling, losing industries, crony capitalism out the wazoo.
Whatever Nixon did, it pales in comparison.
Woodward and Bernstein just wrote a 4,000-word editorial for the Washington Post.
And you know what their point was?
Nixon was even worse than what they knew.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, when Nixon was even worse than what they knew.
I'll tell you what I think.
I think this deep throat guy.
What was his name?
Oh, I'm having a metal block in the deep throat guy's name.
Mark Felt.
I think this guy played Woodward and Bernstein like Yo-Yo Ma on the cello.
And you know what Felt was ticked off about?
He wanted the FBI director gig, and E. Patrick Gray got it, one of Nixon's buddies, and what Felt was trying to do was get even with Nixon.
Which he did.
Meanwhile, Woodward and Bernstein, everything Deep Throat told them they bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
They didn't question it at in the end.
And this guy uh at any rate, you look at you know Eric Holder and and the um fast and furious for crying out loud.
Nobody died in Watergate.
Federal agent dies in fast and furious.
You Holder taunting members of the Senate yesterday.
I'm gonna stick to my guns.
Yes, I'm sticking to my guns holder.
Somebody said to me, well, uh talk about insensitive.
It's not insensitive.
He's Godenham.
He's got a sense of entitlement like Obama does.
Nobody can touch me.
Nobody can stop me.
Status dictatorship mentality that exists here.
Lanny Davis.
Some really vicious people working for Obama.
Don't tell me about Obama having a bad week because I have no sympathy for Obama and his tough week.
My concern is for the country and you and everybody who makes this country work.
Our Justice Department is more corrupt than anything this country has seen in a long time.
We have never been so far in debt with no plan to get out.
Wages haven't budged in four years.
The aver what is it, the increase of ten cents, the hourly wage is up ten cents.
Job creators have been demonized.
Votes in Congress have been bought.
The pharmaceutical industry was bought off, public sector unions bought off.
State controlled media has encouraged all of this.
And we're told that eight plus percent unemployment is the new normal.
The bottom line is Barack Hussein Kardashian does not have bad weeks.
We do.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think what I'm about to tell you equals the country going backwards.
Retail sales in April fell 0.2% after being revised.
That's compared with the previously reported 0.1% gain.
So this marks the revised figure and last month's figure.
The first time in nearly two years that retail sales have fallen in consecutive months.
Now that's going backwards, folks.
I I don't I don't want to get lost in the revision aspect of this.
The important point's a Wall Street Journal point uh story, and the important point is retail sales are sliding backwards, and to a considerable extent, consumer purchases drive the economy, meaning after five trillion dollars in deficit spending, after thousands upon thousands of regulations, program after program to help people with their mortgages, unemployment compensation.
Remember Pelosi saying that unemployment benefits return two dollars for every one dollar?
Remember her saying that?
How can retail sales be plummeting?
Second consecutive month, two months in a row for those of you in Rio Linda.
So five trillion dollars in deficit spending, thousands of regulations.
Obamacare.
The president has caused great damage to the economy, jobs, and future.
Retail sales down, people are not spending what they don't have.
To the phones, and we are gonna start Birmingham, Alabama.
This Orson Orson, thank you for calling.
I'm glad to have you with us today.
Hi.
Oh, hi, Russia.
It's good to talk to you.
Thank you.
Oh, I just wanted to make a confession to you.
I voted for President Barack Obama, and I happen to be a black American.
I'm a I'm also a conservative.
And I voted for him because he was black.
I know that may offend some people, but it wouldn't be realistic in my opinion that a minority could offend to the presidency, so I would have voted for the first minority, whether you've been Jewish or Asian or Hispanic.
I understand.
But look at it now.
Orson, I totally understand that.
You don't you don't have to uh apologize or make excuses for that.
I everybody's aware of the historical nature of that election.
Particularly for black Americans.
Totally understandable.
The question is, what are you going to do this year?
Absolutely not.
I mean, that decision was made a long time ago that he would not get our vote again.
Mine or my wife's, because we talk about everything together, and we're small business, and he's been a lousy president.
I mean, that's just a fact of it.
And we don't have the option for only job training, so we need someone who really understands and knows what they're doing on the first day they take office.
Orson, let me ask you a very serious question.
And I'm I'm asking this because I really want to know.
I'm I'm I'm trying to learn here.
That never stops with me.
At what point for you did the fact that the president is black stop being a factor for you?
When the economy just continue to get worse when we're running up a debt that we cannot pay.
I mean, we have a small business, my wife and I. And we can't run a business that way that we can't incur bills that we have no hopes of paying.
Have no hopes of paying and no way to get out of this.
We don't have the income coming in, so we can't just keep running up massive debt and you turn down the pipeline.
Well, you I I uh you're still uh in in terms of that kind of thinking, your minority, uh, but it does appear that, at least according to polling data in North Carolina, that Obama is losing some support that he had from black voters in 2008.
And no question.
A lot of white people voted for Obama in 08 because he was black.
They was they they were hoping it'd be the end of racism and all the acrimony.
But I'm glad you called.
Great to have you in the audience, Orson.
Let's take a look at some more statistics.
Story from the uh politico.
Election angst wages have barely budged since 2008.
Hourly wages have increased ten cents a year under President Kardashian.
I know probably some of you might be saying, but Rush, what about the minimum wage?
Not a factor here.
That should tell you something.
The minimum wage is an arbitrary number that's not related to anything.
The minimum wage has no relationship to economic activity whatsoever.
All the minimum wage does is lose jobs.
All the minimum wage does is guarantee that young people are gonna have restricted entry-level job opportunities.
That's all it does.
When I take that back, the minimum wage actually is a great PR move for the left, the way it's covered with the media, minimum wage, ten dollars an hour.
Everybody thinks, well, at least that's what everybody's making.
They don't stop to report the truth about it.
So talking about it, promoting it, seeking increases in it.
It's a PR victory for Democrats, but in reality, the minimum wage harms the economy and entry-level workers.
So in each year since President Kardashian was immaculated, hourly wages have increased ten cents.
When President Bush left office, gasoline was a buck eighty-five a gallon.
Today, the average price for a gallon of unleaded, the closest I get is three dollars fifty-four cents.
If you add to that that wages haven't budged since Obama was immaculated, we have disposable income for millions of Americans going backwards.
And believe me, they are paying attention.
They're not gonna wait until August or September to start paying attention.
They're paying attention now because they can't avoid it.
It's their life.
Adjusted for inflation, the average hourly wage has gone up for cents over the past four years.
The average hourly wage in America now twenty-three dollars forty-one cents.
That's according to the regime's labor department figures.
High unemployment explains some of this, but salaries have dis have stayed disturbingly flat, say economists.
It's unprecedented how modest the wage gains have been over this recovery, said Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at BMO Financial Group.
It's painful for consumers.
It's detrimental for labor.
Unprecedented how modest the wage gains have been over this recovery.
Anybody stop to think that maybe it really hasn't been a recovery?
Anyone stop to consider that we may still be in the recession for all practical purposes.
So we've got Obama here has created a twofer, a jobless recovery, and a wageless recovery.
And yet they tell us it's a recovery.
And yet every news story is looked at to the prism.
Oh no, how will this affect Obama?
You see, folks, I thought green energy company is going to create millions of high-paying jobs of the future.
That's what the president told us.
What happened?
He keeps saying that we're not going back to pro-growth policies.
He says we tried that approach.
We tried that approach for 210 years.
It didn't work.
It's never worked.
All that prosperity and wealth that was created in the 200 years since the founding of the country, false, phony, never happened.
Never worked.
Only now.
Only now would Barack Hussein Kardashian in office.
Are we finally doing it the right way?
Private sector jobs have increased by an average of just 105,000 over the past three months by 89,000 a month during the Obama quote unquote recovery.
And they tell us Obama is having a bad week.
The U.S. economy is suffering its longest sustained bout of 8% unemployment or higher since the Great Depression.
And they tell us Obama is having a bad week.
The U.S. stock market is down.
7% since April, early April.
Real take home pay is down over the past year.
Barack Obama is having a bad week.
The first quarter GDP report also showed that after tax corporate profits dropped for the first time in three years in this recovery.
And Obama is having a bad week.
Barack Obama has not been able to transition from being a community agitator to being a president.
He's been unable or unwilling to make that transition.
And you know, Hillary was right.
Simply wasn't ready.
And Clinton knows he's not ready.
And more and more Democrats know he's not ready.
More and more Democrats are publicly undermining him.
Believe me, the American people are paying attention.
Audio sounded by time, James Carville.
We reported it yesterday.
Today he says it.
He was on Good Morning America, talking about Obama and the polling data that they have at Carville's company and what Obama should and should not say.
I'm worried that when the White House campaign talks about the progress of being made, people take that as a signal that they think that things are fine, and people don't feel out of believe that.
They want to be reassured that he understands the depth of the problem and that he has a plan to deal with the deterioration of the middle class.
Deterioration of middle class, is that happening?
What deterioration of the middle class?
We're three and a half years into this regime.
We're in a recovery.
We've turned a corner.
We're back from the brink.
We're uh Obama's the judge of the middle class.
What do we deterioration of middle class?
Is Carville know what he's saying?
Yes, he does.
See, that's the key.
Mr. Democrat, James Carvel.
Shortly after Lanny Davis comes out and Says, boy, there's some really vicious people in the Obama campaign.
James Carver, you better not talk about the economy.
It's not going to work.
People aren't feeling it.
They're living it.
There's middle class deterioration.
I don't know what the president's going to do.
He can't talk about this.
People, people want to know.
They want to be reassured he understands.
People would like to know that he cares.
And that's what there's not much evidence of.
Let's go to Obama himself.
He was in Baltimore yesterday campaign event.
This is his new tack.
I inherited a trillion dollar deficit.
We had a surplus.
Stop, stop, stop, tape.
Did I say new tech?
Sorry, folks, there is no new tack.
This is all Obama's got.
Play it from the top in Baltimore, the president yesterday, continuing with the tired, worn-out theme of three years ago.
I inherited a trillion dollar deficit.
We had a surplus.
They turned it into a deficit, built in a structural deficit that extends for decades.
This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong.
They baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for.
And the war.
So all this stuff's baked in with all the interest payments for it.
It's like somebody uh goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff.
And then, just as you're sitting down, they leave and accuse you of running up the tab.
Yeah, uh, who is it going to six parties tonight that we're paying for?
Who is it paling around with all these celebrities?
Everybody else picking up the tab.
James Carville's going to have a new slogan.
Won't be long.
The economy isn't improving stupid.
You can't talk about the economy improving.
Late yesterday in Baltimore, Obama wasn't through after trying to tell everybody that all of this mess was bequeathed to him, that he was presented the bill for this steak dinner after everybody else had eaten and drank everything they wanted.
Obama nevertheless had another point of view.
This crisis did not happen overnight.
It will not be solved overnight.
The fact is, job growth in this recovery has been stronger than the one following the last recession a decade ago.
We've recovered more effectively than most other advanced nations.
He's not helping himself.
Nobody believes this stuff.
It isn't happening.
He's not living it.
We aren't living it.
Nobody remembers the Bush recession.
Nobody remembers that.
It's 11 years ago now.
Well, I mean, longer than that, 12, 13 years ago.
So not only is it a lie, it's a lame argument.
He really wants people to believe that job growth and his recovery is stronger than the one following the last recession.
This one's so bad people don't remember any previous recession and recovery.
That's how bad this one is.
Still in Baltimore, in the same speech, Obama decides to try the same tech on Mitt Romney.
He should be proud of the personal success he achieved as the head of a large financial firm.
But I think he's he has drawn, he's drawn the wrong lessons from these experiences.
He seems to believe that if CEOs and wealthy investors like him are doing well, that the rest of us automatically do well.
For over a decade, harder work hasn't led to higher incomes.
Bigger profits at the top haven't led to better jobs across the board.
So the attack on Romney continues, the open expression of sheer ignorance about how an economy functions on full display, coming out of the mouth of Barack Obama.
incompetent.
The best way and the most charitable way to characterize the guy is Believe me, it is the most charitable, just incompetent.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
He's not rooted in any kind of reality.
And we will be right back.
Hi, great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies is a piece here in the Washington Post by a guy named Ed Rogers.
The headline of the piece is Obama, his message, and the 2012 battlefield are getting smaller.
And here are a couple of pull quotes.
As Obama and his message get smaller, I think the race is narrowing to fewer states than most analysts might believe.
We will probably know for sure after the Fourth of July, but I think we'll have a six state campaign starting pretty soon.
And the states are going to be Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Wisconsin for a combined 53 electoral votes.
In the next few weeks, writes Mr. Ed Rogers.
And no, I don't know who he is.
But in the Washington Post, so he must be somebody.
We'll just assume that he is.
He says in the next few weeks, I expect it'll become clear to the Obama campaign that Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia are lost and not worth the fight.
In the next few weeks, by July 4th, the regime will understand and admit that Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia are lost and not worth the fight.
I thought Carter was bluffing when he talked about Obama's money woes, but it is looking like Obama really will not have the money to keep as many states as he would like competitive.
We will have a relatively long campaign fought on a small field.
Given the lack of creativity, imagination, and honesty that the Obama campaign's been able to sustain so far.
His operatives should fear that the president will wear out his welcome when he has to campaign for so many days in so few places.
Washington Post.
It's a bad week for Obama.
Yeah, I think they're going to lose Virginia.
I think it'll lose North Carolina.
I'm going to lose Ford.
I think this guy's exactly right.
I think it's all upside down.
I think all the conventional wisdom's out the window.
I think this guy is in huge trouble.
They know it.
All of these fundraisers, he's not getting the donations that he got in 2008.
Remember all that hub of about a billion dollars?
He's nowhere near Romney is out raising Obama.
And Romney's not doing nearly as many fundraisers as Obama is.
And all this focus on celebrities, pop culture, idolatry.
They're asking for $3.
To have a chance to be the next winner at a dinner with Obama and some celebrity.
$3 minimum donation, and you're entered.
He's flying all over a gave up Wisconsin.
This guy's got a great point.
This race, the battlefield is getting smaller.
I can, yeah.
Now, I know a lot of people live in Northern Virginia who will never accept the fact that Obama could lose it.
I mean, that's a D.C. suburbs.
That's all liberal Democrat.
And they just they're gonna have trouble believing that.
But North Carolina, it's on the way.
Florida, it's on the way.
Again, the six states that Mr. Rogers believes are going to be the states for it all matters.
Colorado, nine votes.
Iowa six, Nevada, six, New Hampshire four, Ohio 18, and Wisconsin 10.
And Romney's up in Wisconsin now by three.
That's a combined 53 electoral votes.
And he's got another good point, too.
If he spends all his time in those states, you realize how people are getting sick and tired.
They got a story in Der Spiegel.
It was four years ago.
Obama went to the uh went to Berlin.
Remember, he wanted to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.
And they said, Who do you think you are?
The Messiah?
He said, Yeah.
They said, Well, that's too bad.
You're still not speaking at the Brandenburg Gate.
Unlike the Nobel Committee, you got to do something before you speak of the anyway, 200,000 people showed up at Germans at Giant beer fest.
They were loving it.
They were eating it up.
Der Spiegel.
Germans increasingly disillusioned with Obama.
Germans were ecstatic when Barack Kardashian took over the keys to the White House and George W. Bush.
Now, though, a new Pew Research Center survey shows that disillusionment with the U.S. president is widespread in Germany, and that Obama has not lived up to the high expectations that Europeans had of him.
Now you might be saying, so what?
They don't vote.
It's illustrative.
If the Germans can figure it out, what do you think Americans have been able to do?
The guy has one stump speech.
And you've heard it today.
I've got the spokes kid.
I'll play you these bites next spokeskid.
We got Gene Sperling.
We've got all kinds.
Bush's fault.
That's what they're back to.
It's Bush's fault.
All of the there, they are tacitly admitting that we're in a big mess.
They're no longer trying to say we're going to recovery and we're on the way back.
It's a big it's Bush's fault.
Now it's I inherited all this.
It's worse than we knew.
That's.
And by the way, it's exactly what we predicted, they would say.
Sit tight, folks.
Lots more straight ahead.
I have always thought this was going to be a referendum on Obama.
I have always thought Ed Rogers, by the way, conservative blogger, Washington Post, he's been involved in numerous Republican political campaigns.
Uh Reagan, George H.W. Bush.
It's his story.
I just quoted in the Washington Post, and we coming right back.
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