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June 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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So as a Washington Post headline from yesterday, president says GOP has simple campaign slogan, it's Obama's fault.
He's actually out there.
That is an IMAX-sized projection.
Obama's running around.
He says, yeah, you can put their whole campaign in a tweet and still have characters left over.
It's Obama's fault.
That's true.
But what is he saying?
For three years, he's been saying it's Bush's fault.
And that, apparently, folks, is going to become the centerpiece of the campaign.
It's appearing with greater frequency yesterday, last week, and today.
Before we get to the evidence of that, this Wisconsin poll, the Rasmussen poll, has Romney up by three points in Wisconsin.
Doesn't that put the lie to all of those stories that we had about how popular Obama is in Wisconsin?
And doesn't it also put the lie to all the exit polls, the original exit polls that show?
Well, you know, really that Scott Walker recalled.
Pretty big day for Obama.
As the media said, it was a big win because, look, the exit polls have him beating Romney by nine.
Remember that?
Well, seems to me, and by the way, those exit polls, Michael Barone reanalyzed them with taking some of the bias of the exit poll out.
He found out that Romney and Obama were tied in the exit polls in Wisconsin.
So the exit polls were wrong, just like they almost always are.
Where do we sign the petition to get the media recalled?
You know, the next recall needs to be the media.
I'm joking.
Never happened.
Speaking of polls, the pre-election polls in North Dakota were right on the money.
The property tax repeal went down by a three-to-one margin.
You didn't know that, snurdily?
North Dakota voters rejected proposals to institute religious freedom laws and rejected proposal to repeal all property taxes during yesterday's primary election.
The defeats are a blow, it says here, to conservative leaders who had hoped North Dakota would become the first state to repeal property taxes and the 28th state to implement a religious freedom law.
Both proposals attracted strong opposition from moderate and progressive groups statewide with fears that the religious freedom proposal could legalize child abuse and domestic violence, ritual animal sacrifice, and the marriage of 12-year-olds.
What in the name of Sam, what?
Moderate and progressive groups successfully made people think that the religious freedom proposal would legalize child abuse, domestic violence, animal sacrifice, and the marriage of 12-year-olds.
62% of the returns counted when this story was published.
Measure three, property tax repeal, I'm sorry, measure two, the property tax repeal, was being defeated 78 to 22 percent, and the margins remained roughly the same throughout the county.
I have some additional numbers on the North Dakota situation.
Remember that the state is flush with revenue because of the oil boom that's taking place.
In addition to the sales tax revenue that was up 86 percent from two years ago because of the boom, they didn't raise the sales tax rate.
There's just been that much more commerce going on.
Sales tax revenue was up 86 percent.
In addition to that money, they had $3 billion in revenue from taxes on oil and natural gas production in the current and next fiscal years, and $5 billion in surplus state funds at the end of the latest fiscal year.
In North Dakota, that is huge money, a $5 billion surplus.
A lot of this, sad to say, was unexpected.
And I say sad to say because economic activity ought to be understood.
If you're in the middle of an economic boom, an oil boom, it ought to be understood that your revenues are going to go through the roof.
Anyway, with a $5 billion surplus of state funds, $3 billion in expected revenue from taxes on oil and natural gas in the next two years.
That's why there was a movement.
Okay, let's get rid of the property tax.
The state has enough money and it's going to have enough money.
But the unions and even some conservatives who feared that this couldn't last and the state might run out of money and it would just come back to them didn't want the possibility of the state running out of money.
So they voted to keep their property taxes intact.
And it's a lesson.
Snurdley is inquiring of me as to what I think the state of North Dakota will do with the extra money.
Well, what is the state of North Dakota?
It's a government.
What does government do?
Government spends money.
I don't know.
What would I do if I was running the state and I had this kind of a surplus?
The first thing I would do is hide it from the federal government.
And the next thing I would do is make sure that people like Jesse Jackson can't get to it.
And then the next thing I'd do is make sure that Al Sharpton couldn't find his way to the money.
I, since you ask, if I ran, if I was governor of North Dakota, I would move to repeal some taxes.
I'd want the boom to continue.
I'd want to keep as much money in the pockets of my citizens as I could, figure out what it takes to run the state, keep a little for rainy day, and give it back.
Realizing that it was never my money in the first place.
Realizing it was never the state's money in the first place.
But that's just me.
And I am but a lowly talk show host, a mere pawn in the game of life.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
I want to illustrate what apparently has been voted on as the single best message that Kardashian can use here for reelection.
This afternoon of the White House, the press briefing, the spokesperson Jay Carney got a question from Jacob Tapper, ABC News.
Tapper said, James Carville, in an interview in a memo that he wrote with Stan Greenberg, expressed concern the president when he talks about how the economy is improving, risks leaving the impression among voters that the economy is doing well when it isn't.
I'm sure you disagree.
I just wanted to give you an opportunity to respond.
This country has been through the worst economic cataclysm of our lifetimes.
That is what was taking place in 2008 when the last election happened and in January 2009 when President Obama was sworn into office.
And that has stopping that cataclysmic economic slide, that decline, reversing it and beginning to climb out of the hole that the recession dug for this nation has been the principal mission of this president and this administration.
So it's the same strategy.
It's three and a half years old.
It's Bush's fault, coupled with a bunch of lies.
Reversing the decline?
Nobody thinks the decline's been reversed.
Everybody thinks we're sinking deeper.
These people want to lie to themselves.
They are more than happy to, folks.
I am content and let them lie to themselves.
If they want to continue to live in a little cocoon that is devoid reality, that is fabulous.
It's going to taint everything they do going forward.
They want to sit there and actually believe that what they're doing is helping.
Let them think it.
They'll do more of it.
Then the Q ⁇ A, this is Jay Carney again.
He wasn't content just with that answer.
He continued here with his answer to Jacob Tapper.
Look, we are highly cognizant of the fact and understand deeply the fact that the American people are still hurting.
This economy and the recession that we went through resulted in something on the order of 9 million jobs lost.
We saw recently in the survey by the Federal Reserve about the wealth of the media and American family being devastated by the recession.
Devastated.
From the fourth quarter of 2007 until the first quarter of 2009, we saw a 40% decline in median wealth.
That's a fancy way of saying that the bottom fell out and the American people paid a huge price for the recession and the policies that led up to the recession.
All right, so it's Bush's fault.
I'm through picking that apart.
I just want to establish that's their big message.
That's what they're going to hang their head on.
Here's more evidence.
Last night, CNN's Aaron Byrne announced, oh, by the way, CNN, a canceled John King show, John King's America.
They cancel it.
They've announced that it's over.
They're going to extend Wolf Blitzer an hour, from two hours to three hours.
So what's that called?
That's right.
Situation Room, but Wolf Blitzer is going to expand from two to three hours.
John King's show is gone.
I don't know.
I think it's very strange of all the problems they've got.
But that's just me.
And they called King's King show as a, they thought it was a hard-hitting political show.
It's a strange show to cancel in election year, but like everything else over there, nothing makes sense.
Really?
I mean, you could make the case that everything ought to be canceled and blown up over there and start fresh.
And that's what they're trying to do with Erin Burnett.
Last night on her program out front, Gene Sperling, the National Economic Council director, was on, and they were talking about Carville's new paper saying that Obama better not go out and tout the economy.
It won't work.
She said, do you see James Carville's point?
Not really, unless you put it in a very simplistic way.
I think the American public is smart enough to understand three points at the same time, that this president inherited the worst financial recession, the deepest recession and downturn that we've had since the Great Depression, so that we were in a very deep hole.
I think they can recognize that we have made progress.
Okay.
You on board with that, folks?
Bush's fault.
Obama's making progress.
Working hard.
First 200 years of America stunk up the place.
Never worked.
Sperling continued.
When you look at average hourly earnings, so what people just earn from their jobs, the number outpaced inflation.
But then when President Obama took over in 2011, that stopped.
Inflation started to rise more quickly than wages.
Now, who can he blame that on?
Well, you know, Aaron, I mean, we went through the worst financial recession in our country.
Obviously, the president inherited that midstream.
It must be Slim Pickens at the campaign, if that's all I got.
And it's clear, Carville has shaken him up.
Carville's told him, you can't talk about the economy.
People aren't going to buy it.
Don't tell them the economy is coming back because it isn't.
They're living it.
They know it's not.
So they're heeding the Carville message with the only thing they think they can do.
Go ahead and blame it all on Bush.
Everything happening today is the result of what happened three and a half years ago and further back.
We've had nothing to do with it.
We are valiant fighters.
We have done everything we can to reverse this trend.
And it's all Bush's fault.
It's worse than we knew.
And they lied to us about how bad it was.
And our brave, courageous President Kardashian is doing everything he can.
He talked to Sarah Jessica Parker about it just the other day.
And he's be talking to Anna Winter about it next week.
We're working very hard on getting this all reversed.
But it's Bush's fault.
We'll see how that works out for him.
I wonder if CNN has called John Edwards to replace John King.
Well, they called Elliot Spitzer client number nine.
Edwards is going to need to do something.
And he's a good Democrat.
He understands there's two Americas out there.
I wouldn't put it past him to call John Edwards.
If he doesn't, Al Gore might for current TV, which just hired Maude Behar.
You didn't know that?
Maude Behar bombs out on headline news, goes back to the view, and now Al Gore has hired her for the 54 viewers that they have.
They want to up that to 125.
That'd be 100% ratings increase.
By the way, this blaming everything on Bush stuff, don't forget, by this government's own definition, the Bush recession ended in June of 2009.
Now, the reason that's important is because by June of 2009, Obama's stimulus had yet to be implemented.
It was signed into law in March, but it all was implemented after.
In other words, the recession ended before Obama did anything.
Not one substantive Obama policy started before the recession ended.
So blaming this on Bush, in a technical sense, and of course, in a practical and real sense, is bogus and a non-starter.
The recession was over.
We were coming out of it.
And then Obama's, I mean, by definition, we were coming out of it.
And then Obama's policies kicked in.
And look what happened.
We made a beeline for the gutter again.
I'm going to predict.
I'm going to tell you, it ain't going to be long.
Maybe tomorrow, maybe tonight.
New York Times, Washington Post, cable news, network, whatever, somebody out there is going to say they don't like this business of blaming Bush, that this isn't going to work, and it's old and tired and worn out, and there's no evidence that it ever did work.
They've been blaming Bush since before they were emaculated.
And it's obvious blaming Bush doesn't work, and yet they're circling back to that now.
And you watch.
Troubled supporters of Obama in the state-controlled media are going to gently try to say, get off of this.
Like Carville's saying, don't tout the economy.
Now others are going to say, don't blame Bush.
It's three and a half.
It'll be four, almost four years of the time you're like, don't.
And it's not practical.
You watch.
I wouldn't be surprised if I'm reporting that on tomorrow's program.
Ha!
How are you?
I owe you getting back to the phones.
We've had one phone call here today, right?
From Snerdley nodding at me like, that's right.
What am I doing here?
It was a great call.
That's the point we did, great calls.
It was Orson was his name from Birmingham, Alabama.
Who's next?
Tommy in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Hi, Tommy.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Rush.
I owned my own trucking company during the Bush administration, did great.
And about a year and a half into the Obama administration, I was put out of business because I had three contracts with two different companies, and they could not afford to pay us the fuel surcharge.
And that basically put me out of business.
And I went from basically over $100,000 a year to $12 an hour, which I've been stuck at for the last two years working with a 10 company that my wife owns.
Let me ask a deeply probing question based on your comment.
Sure.
I just want to make sure I understand here.
You said that you had a four-truck truck company.
Yes.
All during the Bush years, and all four trucks are on the road.
Yes, they were.
Throughout the Bush so-called recession and the Bush recovery.
You're four trucks.
You're on the road constantly, and you were successful.
And you had you pulled in at the end of the year 100 grand for yourself, correct?
Exactly.
So did my other three drivers.
And so, okay.
So there was no interruption to your business during the eight years of Bush.
And then a year and a half into Obama, you lost most of the trucks, the fuel surcharge.
You just couldn't stay in business.
That's exactly right.
And even during when the prices spiked and spiked during the Bush administration, we passed along that cost and we were paid very well for it.
But then once we got into the Obama administration, the companies did not sustain it.
Why?
What was the difference?
Why were you able to pass along costs in Bush, but unable to do that during Kardashian?
Well, actually, from what we were told, one of the companies went bankrupt, and because of what was coming down the pike with the Obamacare, they could not sustain the cost of all their other employees.
Oh, wait a minute.
So, my deeply probing question is produced answers.
So, in other words, the businesses that you were frequenting and doing business with did not go out of business in the eight years of Bush, but they did.
A lot of them shut down during Kardashian.
That's exactly correct.
Well, there you go.
Yes?
That's why we ask deeply probing questions here.
So, the Bush recession, did you even know there was one?
Things got tight from time to time, but we just chugged along.
And there was a few times when fuel was running short, and I sat for a day or two, but everything worked out.
And, you know, I always listen to you.
I've been listening to you since day 63 of the hostage crisis.
And I appreciate and thank you very much for your education.
And you've got me through a lot of mean, lean times.
Well, I appreciate that.
I really do, Tommy.
What?
Pardon?
Day 63, the hostage crisis.
Yeah, America Held Hostage, Clinton.
You new listeners, that really ticked them off when we did that.
We started America Held Hostage Day One on the day Clinton was inaugurated.
And he's talking about day 63 here as when he started listening.
That's what that means.
So when you say $12 an hour, does that mean you're out of the trucking business and you're working hourly wage jobs now?
Yes, I work in a warehouse for a heating air conditioning distributor.
Do you hope to is it is your trucking business dormant?
Could you revive it if economics no?
Two of the guys that actually worked for me, they bought two of the trucks out from under me, which they helped a lot.
And they run containers out of Charleston, South Carolina, and they're lucky if they pull two trucks a week as opposed to one every day from Charleston to Charlotte.
I see.
Yeah, so it's they're doing okay.
I mean, they're making a living.
They're just making it, though.
Right.
But you got in trouble because your clients got in trouble.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
Your clients fell prey to the Kardashian recession.
Tommy, I'm sorry that that all happened, but I'm glad you called.
I love hearing your news, but I don't at the same time.
Yeah, well, I thank you for everything you've taught me, and I love everything you do.
And I'm just telling you, Tommy, it's people like you.
When I read that Obama are here, Obama had a tough week.
I just want to get sick.
Obama doesn't know what a tough week is.
I'm not having a hard week.
People like you are having hard years because of Obama.
Anyway, hang in.
Hang in because it's going to get better.
And you'll once again be the master of your universe in time.
Of that, I am profoundly confident.
Tommy, thanks much.
Here's Bill.
Houston, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Hello, Lungstar Dittos from the Great State.
Thank you.
You bet.
Earlier today, you played the Obama campaign radio ad that is running in Florida targeting African Americans.
And after hearing that, I was reminded of the soundbite that you played earlier in the week from some Democrat activist who was complaining about one of the conservative PAC ads of President Tukul Obama.
Remember that?
They said it was race.
Yeah.
It was racist because it used a soundtrack that sounded like it was from those black exploitation films of the 70s.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was some babe that ran the Congressional Black Caucus outreach something.
Yeah, I remember that.
We played that on Monday.
That's it.
So my confusion about that is when Obama uses an overt racial tone in his ads, it's okay.
But if a racial overtone is assumed in a conservative ad, then it's racist.
Yeah, yeah.
What is racist about calling the guy cool?
That's a good question.
And if we call him Joe Camill, it'd be one thing, but we haven't.
I mean, it's much more specifically racially tinged to use the voice narration that they used in that ad, to use the rhetoric they used in that ad, to use the soundtrack that they used in that ad.
That is much more racially charged than anything that any of the conservative ads have put out at all.
No question.
But there's, look, you know, I mean, you can answer your own question.
You know, as well as I do the double standard that exists.
And the double standard is that it's not possible for blacks to be racist.
They don't have the power to enforce their racism.
And so they have free reign.
They can say whatever they want to say.
They can't be racists.
But again, I'll tell you what, all this is, is an indication that they're flailing away and they're grasping at straws.
For that Congressional Black caucus babe to say that the Republican ad's racist, I think all these blaming everybody else and it's not my fault and they're making fun of me and they're racist.
I just, I don't think it's not playing with a vast majority of the American people.
Nowhere near a vast majority of the American people.
Bill, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
I'm looking for something here.
It goes along the lines.
Here it is.
Here it is.
I just found it.
Apparently, sometime it was recently, there was a big American Film Institute tribute to Shirley McClain.
And they had a whole bunch of people here.
Jack Nicholson was there, and Dennis Hazebert was there.
Warren Beatty was there, Shirley McLean's brother.
And the thing was televised.
It is going to be broadcast on TV land.
And Don Rickles was one of the performers.
And Rickles told an Obama joke.
And the story is that they are editing the Rickles joke out of the televised version of the event.
And I want to tell you what the joke was.
And it was noteworthy because comedians don't make Obama jokes.
I mean, all these late-night guys say, you know, he's just too cool.
There's really nothing funny about the guy.
There's just really nothing to make fun of him about.
So Rickles was typical.
He was insulting everybody.
He was insulting Nicholson.
He was insulting Shirley McClain.
He insulted everybody who was there.
Dennis Hazebert insulted him for doing all-state commercials.
Hazebert played the president on 24 in season one.
And when he got to Obama, Rickles said, President Obama is a personal friend of mine.
He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.
So the joke is Obama was a janitor, came over to clean a Rickles' house, and the mop broke.
And there was the usual Nervous laughter, but there was some raucous laughter, it's reported.
And so people say, was this racist or was this just Rickles?
And Hazebert was quoted.
See, I thought Don, though, Don, what Rickles said about me was very funny.
Now, if you recall, in the South Carolina primary in 2008, Clinton is talking to Ted Kennedy.
And they're talking about Obama.
And Clinton said to Ted Kennedy, you know, Teddy, not too long ago, just a few short years ago, this guy, Obama, will be serving us coffee.
This guy would be bringing us our cocktail, Teddy.
And of course, a minor furor erupted, and they accused Clinton of being a little racist.
And Clinton got mad at throwing the race card down on him because he thought they had thrown the race card at him first.
Because Jesse Jackson went out there and said something about South Carolina.
Of course, well, we don't have any choice.
No way we're going to win South Carolina.
How can I possibly South Carolina?
And made some connection with Clinton going there to rally white votes in South Carolina.
Clinton thought they were playing the race card, so he told Ted Kennedy, who is this guy?
This guy's a nobody.
Just a few short years ago, this guy be serving us our scotch teddy or what have you.
So here's Rickles.
Yeah, President's a friend of mine.
Came over to house yesterday, but the mop broke.
Anyway, the joke has been pulled from the telecast.
I just wanted to pass that on.
We'll be back, folks.
Sit tight.
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And in one of my, my second book, I dedicated my second book to my grandfather, Rush Limbaugh Sr.
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Man by the name of Dennis Bowman took it upon himself with no advance and no funding from anybody to write a biography of my grandfather.
And he peddled it and peddled it.
And the University of Missouri Press in Columbia and London has published the book.
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And Mr. Bowman did this clearly as a, what's the phrase?
It was a labor of love and respect.
Everybody that knew my grandfather was profoundly impacted by him.
The mythological figure, you've heard everybody in their family has somebody who's Mr. Perfect, never smoked, never drank, never had a moral failing or anything of the sort.
If anybody ever got close to that, it was my grandfather.
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Throw somebody in there just to give somebody else a chance.
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And I just wanted to make mention of it because Mr. Bowman has worked, Dennis Bowman, very hard on this, talked to a lot of us in the family and a lot of people outside the family who knew my grandfather.
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There was no advance.
They just did this.
It really is as a matter of respect.
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So thank you, Mr. Bowman.
It's a great piece of work, too.
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