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Here I was right in the middle of a really good riff, and I looked up and I saw Oblamo on TV.
Stop me.
I apologize.
I shouldn't have, I should not have allowed myself to be distracted, but I was.
Anyway, folks, great to have you back.
Here we are.
Final hour of a three-hour excursion into broadcast excellence.
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So Romney went out and made speech.
And right before Obama's, Obama's giving his reset.
I'm the guy that you want for the next four-year speech.
Romney went out there literally minutes before Obama.
And he was, we got a couple sound bites.
He was loaded for bear.
He was energetic.
He was enthusiastic.
Our buddy Jim Pethakukis tweeted, I don't think this is the Romney they want to run against at Obama campaign headquarters.
Meaning, this is not who they thought Romney was going to be.
I don't think McCain would have done this.
This is the kind of thing that, yes, that's right.
That's right, Lil Boy.
I would have shown proper respect.
President of the United States is making a speech.
And it's his speech.
And I will schedule my speech for much later or much earlier.
Exactly right.
Romney's taking it to him.
So we're rolling on Obama.
Whatever's noteworthy, we'll have it.
But let's listen to a couple of Romneys.
He's in Cincinnati while Obama is in Cleveland.
He's been president for three and a half years.
And talk is cheap.
Action speaks very loud.
And if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look around Ohio, look around the country, and you'll see that a lot of people are hurting.
A lot of people have had some real tough times.
And the policies the president put in place did not make America create more jobs.
As a matter of fact, he made it harder for America to create more jobs.
And then he predicted that Obama is going to offer a bunch of excuses, a la Barack Kardashian Oblamo.
He will have all sorts of excuses, all sorts of ideas he'll describe about how he'll make things better.
But what he says and what he does are not always the exact same thing.
And so if people want to know how his economic policies have worked and how they performed, why they can talk to their neighbor and ask whether things are better.
They can talk to the 50% of college kids graduating from college this year that can't find a job.
They can talk to the people who represent the unemployed.
The president said that if we let him borrow $787 billion for a stimulus, he'd keep unemployment below 8% nationally.
We've now gone 40 straight months with unemployment above 8%.
But then he'll say, well, but the things he's been doing have been good and helped create growth and put people back to work.
Oh, really?
Go check on that.
That's Mitt Romney just before Obama.
Look, our microphones are there.
We're not going to blow through a commercial break.
And I don't even know how much we're going to listen to this, but let's jip Oblamo.
He's speaking now.
So how did this economic theory work out?
What?
What?
Waiting for the wealthiest Americans.
It worked out pretty well.
I was waiting for applause at the end of the day.
Over the last few decades, the income of the top 1% grew by more than 275%.
That's who you listen to.
To an average of $1.3 million a year.
Right.
Yeah, good.
Good.
Good.
Big financial institutions, corporations saw their profits soar.
But prosperity never trickled down to the middle class.
Where's this speech?
In a mortuary?
2001 to 2008.
We had the slowest job growth in half a century.
It sounds deadly.
The families saw their incomes fall.
The failure to pay for the tax cuts and the wars took us from record surpluses under President Bill Clinton.
I know it's a record.
I know it's a community.
The leftists are unprepared to deal with the retirement of an aging population that's placing a greater strain on programs like Medicare and Social Security.
Yawn.
Without strong enough regulations, families were enticed and sometimes tricked into buying homes they couldn't afford.
iPhone to set an alarm to wake up banks where investors were allowed to package and sell risky mortgages.
Huge reckless bets were made with other people's money on the line.
2008 speech here.
And too many from Wall Street to Washington.
It's simply looked the other way.
2008 speech.
President Obama speaking in Cleveland with.
Well, there you have it, folks.
I mean, that's.
No, I was joking when I said, is it an immortalary?
He's sitting around.
He's waiting for the junior college students to applaud.
And they weren't.
Their cue to applaud was a lot of silence.
And they thought, oh, I guess we're supposed to make some noise here.
Anyway, so that's Obama at a community college in Cleveland.
Yeah, I was going to say, Fox dumped out of that.
MSNBC dumped out of everybody dumped out of this.
Oh, MSNBC.
That's right.
We don't have money.
MSNBC is still wealthy.
They're being paid.
But CNN dumped out.
CNN dumped.
That's why I say it's a 2008 speech.
He's talking about people who were tricked into buying homes.
He's talking about the subprime mortgage thing.
He can't even tell the truth about that.
Let me go.
You kept Cody, right?
So, Cody, this is a 25-year-old guy who has been listening to the program for three months.
He's in construction.
When he heard about the stimulus, he thought, good, all kinds of construction work is going to be coming our way.
And as soon as it was passed, the work stopped, and we had to end the conversation because of time.
Welcome back, Cody.
Hey, how's it going, Rash?
So are you working yet?
Have you found jobs?
Have you found work to go back to?
Oh, yeah.
I started out with my company for, you know, three years and working 15-hour weeks.
And it just started picking up about, say, two months ago.
Yeah.
15-hour works, work weeks.
Yeah.
That's not enough, is it?
No, no, no, no.
And then she can't equal it with unemployment.
It's impossible.
Are you a member of a union?
No, sir.
Oh, you're not?
What do you mean?
So it's what, an independent construction company?
Pretty much.
Third party.
Third party.
Okay.
Third party construction.
So did you vote four years ago?
Oh, yes, sir.
Who'd you vote for?
I voted for, gosh, what was his name?
I'm having a big brain fart right now.
I didn't vote for Obama.
I voted for, gosh, I'm having a brain fart right now, or actually.
Who was you don't let's see.
Who did Obama run?
Sat for the Republican.
I'm trying to think who ran against Obama four years ago.
McCain.
McCain.
McCain, right?
Yeah, you voted for McCain.
And see, I was with him the other day, and the caller called me in and talked about the president being in the military and should be served at least sometime in the military.
I firmly believe in that.
So I voted for McCain that time.
I see.
Well, what did you think of Sarah Palin?
She's really pretty.
But other than that, she's, you know, she's a good speaker for the Tea Party.
I do have faith in Sarah.
I really, I don't know.
It's kind of hard to explain.
No, she's pretty.
That pretty sums it up.
Oh, yeah.
Yep, definitely.
Well, see, I live out in a little town out in the middle of the woods.
So I kind of, you know, Alaska, Alabama.
Yeah, I know.
You got those bonds of relatability there, small town.
Exactly.
Out in the middle of nowhere.
She's pretty.
Not too many women around.
Oh, no, we're pretty close to Seattle.
Close enough.
Well, look, Cody, so you're not going to vote for Obama this time either, I guess.
That's safe to conclude.
No, sir, with the way the economy is and with everything that he has promised, and I don't know, it's kind of weird, Rush.
Like, I quit watching the daily news because it's almost like a scare tactic.
Okay.
Like they're trying to scare you into voting for Obama.
Cody?
Yes, sir.
You are a smart guy.
You're smarter than even you know.
Well, thank you.
And don't ever forget that.
I'm telling you, I appreciate your call.
Thanks very much.
Looks at what we just heard here.
This is 25 years old.
He could remember who he voted for.
It was McCain.
I had a little brain lock up there, too.
But Obama says nobody's paying attention.
Here's 25 years old, the youth of America.
This guy is up to speed on what's wrong with Obama.
He gets it.
And I'm telling you that that's far more widespread than anybody in the media and the Democratic Party would like to think.
Cody, I appreciate your call.
Thank you for holding on.
If the stimulus had worked, we'd have lost Cody.
He was excited about this guy in construction.
He believed Obama.
He believed it.
He thought that he was going to launch his construction, but now he's learned.
That was almost a trillion dollars and his construction business shut down because they didn't get any money.
Obama ended up laughing about the whole notion of private or shovel-ready jobs.
Cody, I don't know if you know where the money went.
I don't know if you've been listening long enough.
That money that you thought was going to go to shovel-ready jobs and construction jobs like you had, that money went to the states so that they could make sure that public sector union employees like teachers and bureaucrats within the state government did not lose their jobs during the recession.
That's where that money went.
And I'll tell you why.
That $787 billion, Cody.
Cody, stop what you're doing.
I want you to listen to this.
That $787 billion, nearly a trillion dollars, was nothing more than a money laundering scheme.
And it's not the only one practically that the entire relationship between labor unions and municipal state worker union arrangements with the Democrat Party is a money laundering scheme.
Here's the way it works.
That $787 billion.
Where did the government get it?
Well, theoretically, they had to take it from the private sector.
That's where the money is.
Either that or print it or borrow it.
But the point is, they didn't have it themselves.
Wherever they get it, whether they, well, two out of three, if they borrow it or if they tax it, they are taking it out of the private sector.
And then they want us to believe that putting it back is going to have some sort of stimulus or boost to economic growth.
It's not possible because it's a net zero or a deficit.
They weren't taking a trillion dollars that wasn't somewhere and putting it somewhere.
They took a trillion dollars from somewhere and then put it back.
Net zero.
Nothing.
The money actually went to keep union workers employed.
Union workers pay dues.
The dues end up largely as campaign donations made by union leaders to the Democrat Party and individual Democrats.
So in effect, all the stimulus was, was an insurance policy to make sure that in the recession, union workers didn't lose their jobs because they needed their dues to be collected so that the money would end up back at the Democrat Party or with Obama.
That's all it was.
It was a scam.
And every other mini stimulus that followed was the same thing, $16 billion or $26 billion, I forget which, to California for teachers, ostensibly to be hired.
Now, what the state of California did with the money in that instance was put it in the pension and health care funds.
They didn't hire any new teachers.
And then those people kept their jobs and then dues were collected and the dues end up as campaign donations to the Democrats.
A portion of the dues, not all of them, but a portion, a large portion.
It's a money laundering scheme.
It's a way for Barack Obama to give himself some money.
It's a way for the President of the United States to give his party some money under the guise of making people like you think that your construction business was going to be jump-started.
But as you saw, that didn't happen.
Let's take a brief time out, folks.
Sit tight.
We're back right after this.
Folks, get this.
Get this.
Snardly from Atlanta, WXIA-TV, eyeball news.
A jury has awarded a Georgia woman $3 million because of her husband's heart attack.
The jury found that her husband's doctor should have warned the cop against strenuous activity like the three-way sex he was having at the time he died.
William Martinez, a 31-year-old Atlanta cop, collapsed and died while he and a male friend were having sex with a woman who was not his wife in an Atlanta airport motel in 2009.
Cop dies during three-way sex.
His widow wins $3 million because his doctor didn't tell a cop, didn't warn him that such things are too strenuous for somebody with his kind of heart.
And we, right before a stress test, and we wonder why malpractice insurance is so high.
$3 million!
The guy's in a three-way.
The widow blames the doctor for not warning her husband that such strenuous activity could damage his already weakened heart.
The official program observer with a question.
What's the question?
You are a student and resident of Realville.
Yes.
So what's the question?
Yes.
No.
The stupid question.
The question was: if the guy's having three-way sex, doesn't he have less work to do, not more?
Don't you understand how it works in three ways?
You got more work to do.
You don't just, it's exactly right.
It's two guys and a woman.
There's more work to do there, Snurdley.
There's performance anxiety.
There's all kinds of stuff that gets wrapped up into this.
You're telegraphing what kind of guy you'd be in a three-way.
You'd be worthless.
I'm glad you asked the question.
It's a great setup to Obama's speech.
We have a couple.
You know what Obama did?
Obama actually told the audience at that community college that recoveries take 10 years.
And he cited Europe.
It says countries need 10 years to recover.
And he pointed to Europe.
We have a couple of sound bites.
I don't know if the sound bites include that, but he said it.
Here's the first one.
Polls will go up and polls will go down.
There will be no shortage of gaffes and controversies that keep both campaigns busy and give the press something to write about.
What the hell?
You may have heard I recently made my own unique contribution to that process.
Run the first time, it won't be the last.
He's talking about his gaffe.
The private sector's doing fine.
He won't let you go out and remind people of that stuff.
That is a fake, phony attempt at humility.
He didn't bring it off.
Polls will go up, polls will go down.
No shortage of gaffe.
I made more.
Economy not.
Here's the next bite.
We've got to hurry and jam stuff in here.
This election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to create strong, sustained growth, how to pay down our long-term debt, and most of all, how to generate good, middle-class jobs so people can have confidence that if they work hard, they can get ahead.
Now, this isn't some abstract debate.
This is not another trivial Washington argument.
What's holding us back is a stalemate in Washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take.
And this election is your chance to break that stalemate.
The guys out there, how to pay down our long-term debt.
You're long time.
How to pay it?
There's not one plan to pay.
I can't wait to hear the rest.
I haven't laughed like this in too long, folks.
Let's go to Wilmington, Delaware.
This is Jerry.
Thank you for waiting.
Sir, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Afternoon, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good, thank you.
It's a thrill.
You know, Rush, for the last couple of years, I've been wanting to scream, you know, the pundits and everyone is saying, you know, Obama, you know, he's still a nice guy.
He's very personal.
He's still positive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know exactly what you mean.
I never, from the beginning, I never thought of as a nice guy.
I mean, how many neighbors do you have that, you know, I always thought him as a creepy guy with creepy friends?
How many neighbors, you know, live next, you know, dealt with racist preachers, ex-terrorists, Bill Ayers, you know, felons, Resco, blonde.
That's exactly right.
And if you want an abortion in the fourth trimester, no problem.
Right.
You got it.
You know, and like, so I don't know where this nice guy comes from, you know, but I don't think it was anything.
It's a media myth.
And they perpetuated with the polling day as a likable, personable guy and so forth.
I've always thought, they always said he was cool.
Before that was racist to say.
They said he was cool.
I've always thought he was cold.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you want an abortion in a fourth trimester, you got it.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, I value your opinion, Rush.
I love your satire and your opinion.
I tell my friends, I always thought of Obama as a liberal white American, liberal white Americans reparations president.
What do you think of that?
You want me to explain what I'm talking about?
No.
I know what reparations is.
And I know what liberal white Americans are.
They're plantation owners.
Yeah, so I always tell my friend, yeah, he's liberal white Americans reparations president.
Well, I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
And if we ever had a reparations program, they wouldn't call it that.
They would just camouflage it and disguise it as some sort of welfare program or however.
And the media says that Michelle Antoinette is likable too.
That she's one of the most beloved people in the country.
They do.
They say that about it.
What are you frowning on?
You know they say that about it, Michelle.
She may be.
I don't know.
The polls say that.
The polls say that she's more liked than Obama is.
They tell us that both of them are liked and respected and adored.
Obama, he's the celebrity president impersonator.
Maybe, I guess.
Is Axelrod on Twitter yet answering questions from the speech?
He was supposed to be.
Who's next?
Darrell Springfield, Missouri.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
Great to have you here, sir.
Thank you.
I would like your opinion on something with two assumptions.
One, that we win the presidential election in November and that we take back control of the Senate.
Is it possible, because we have not had a budget since the budget that was proposed and approved in late 2008 or 2009, is it possible to say, okay,
we've had three years of no official budget that we are literally going to go back to the 09 budget and start this all over and get rid of all of the junk that is embedded in everything that has been going on.
I wish it were that simple, but it isn't.
We have authorized spending with continuing resolutions.
And well, you can't wipe that out and you can't go back just because there wasn't a budget save everything that was spent without a budget didn't count.
Let's say it'd be the political.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I would love it.
I'd like to go back to the 1990 spending levels.
I understand.
You know, when the Democrats talk about how great it was under Clinton, okay, great.
Let's go back there.
Let's go back to those spending.
If that's the measure of success, let's take the Retro Express and head back there.
Now, I understand your point, but one of the reasons they did, there are two primary reasons they didn't do a budget, Democrats.
One is they did not want to go on record with their spending intentions or desires because it would harm them politically, campaign-wise.
Number two, they chose the continuing resolution route because it allowed them to perpetuate a constant crisis, which was an easy way to bamboozle the Republicans and flummox them and get the spending that they wanted incrementally, inch by inch.
And there's a couple of other factors that are tossed in here as well.
But nevertheless, Daryl, I have to tell you, you make a great point indirectly.
If Obama is going to blame Bush, and he did in this speech, he said the problems we have have been in the making for 10 years.
10 years is George W. Bush.
This is 2012.
10 years, and that's George W.
And he means from 2000 to 2010.
That's what he's talking.
So if he's going to blame Bush for all the spending, let's go back to Bush's budget.
The last budget we had was Bush's.
Let's go back to that.
But, of course, this isn't, it's not going to happen, but it's a great thought exercise anyway.
I appreciate the call.
A brief timeout back before you know it.
All right, folks, tell me what you think here.
Obama's still speaking.
It is dull.
It is boring.
And all the networks, is MSNBC still covering it?
They are.
They're the only ones.
Everybody else bumped out of this thing.
Obama, it's reworked 2007, 2008 stuff.
I would be real eager because the media had so much hope.
They had so many hopes invested in this speech.
And I'm going to be eager to see what they say about it.
Now, he just said, my vision works for the middle class.
This is a guy who just said the private sector is doing fine.
We just had the news today, this week, wealth for median families is down 40% under Obama, median families, middle class.
Family net worth has plummeted under Obama.
That news this week, whoever's writing these speeches is writing them in a vacuum.
My vision works for the middle class.
This is what Carville said, don't do.
Do not try to say positive things about the economy.
There isn't any, and you can't convince people.
They're living it.
My vision works.
For the middle class, give me 10 years.
Look at Europe.
Recoveries take 10 years.
But it's a pathetic speech, folks.
He's talking about people that got tricked into mortgages they couldn't afford.
They rebirthed the 2008 campaign.
We have one more soundbite from Obama, and this is it.
I want to speak to everybody who's watching who may not be a supporter, may be undecided or thinking about voting the other way.
If you agree with the approach I just described, if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for Mr. Romney.
Now, like I said, I know I've got supporters here.
No, no, you should vote for his allies in Congress.
You should take them at their word, and they will take America down this path.
So it's Bush's fault.
The policies of the last decade are what we're living under now, and he hadn't been able to fix it.
That's what he's saying.
He hasn't been able to fix it.
He's not qualified.
That's what he's saying.
This is what Romney has got to point out.
The Republicans have got to point out.
He keeps blaming the last 10 years.
And what's happening now, he's been in there three and a half years trying to fix it.
He hasn't fixed it.
It's still dominant.
What Bush did, still carrying the day.
What Bush did is still dominating our politics.
Obama's tried.
He's given it his best shot, and he's admitting he can't fix it.
That's the risk you run.
You start blaming the previous guy.
And you're three and a half years into your own term.
You're essentially saying you don't have what it takes to fix it.
He ran as Mr. Fixet.
He hasn't fixed anything.
Here's Nathan Woodbridge, Virginia.
Thank you for waving, sir.
You're next up.
Hello.
Rush, mega flag day dittos to you, brother.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I have a point about the NFL.
That comment you made about Terry Bradshaw really set me off.
And I tell you, I was hitting redial like a champ because I've been dying to tell you this for the last month or so.
I think the solution to all this problem about concussions and everybody whining, take the Pats away, take the helmets away, and teach them how to tackle correctly.
Well, then you got rugby.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
I mean, rugby players, you know, I mean, not that we have rugby here, you know, as a national sport, but I had friends in college that played rugby, and they still play rugby to this day, and they're pushing 40 years old.
And I mean, you know, just teach them how to.
I'm telling you where this is headed.
Terry Bradshaw, the Pittsburgh Steelers, has, he says the NFL doesn't truly care about former players.
He says he had six concussions.
Nobody cares.
That if he had a son, he wouldn't let him play the game.
And he furthermore said, and I knew this was coming, he said this game isn't going to be what it is in 10 years.
There's going to be a time in the next decade we will not see football as it is.
This is a four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, my friends.
He said that the contact sports are slowly going to phase away while soccer, baseball, and basketball will grow.
This guy's bread and butter comes from the NFL and Fox Sports, and he's out there predicting the demise of the game.
This is happening at a much quicker rate, faster clip than I thought it was going to happen.
Yeah, this Philadelphia suburb gal suggesting banning high school football.
You know, the liberals get their arms around this stuff, take the risk out of everything, even though people sign up for it, know full well what they're getting into.
Mark, you better enjoy it while you can.
I have my new MacBook Pro Retina display, so I got to go home and I have some migrating to do, folks.