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June 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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This is really good.
This is really good from the AP Romney declines to condemn supporters heckling Obama, says U.S. politics has a long history of heckling.
Do you know Romney for the most part has to keep his campaign schedule and location somewhat secret to try to keep from being overwhelmed by paid professional protesters?
The Democrat Party, George Soros, you name it, paid professional protesters are out hounding Romney everywhere he goes.
In fact, according to a report recently, Romney told the if it's today being heckled by a bunch of professional protesters, people who have been hired to do it, and he shouted to him.
He said, You can stay on that side of the street, and those who want jobs will stay on this side of the street.
His audiences have been drowning out the protesters with chance of four more months.
Last month there was five more months.
Now down to four more months.
But you have to love for you have to love the irony of the Democrats sending out people to disrupt Republican candidates for decades.
And now the news media is outraged that Romney will not disown or try to rein in people, have a nerve to protest President Kardashian.
The Democrat Party has a long history of heckling, and they're allowed to do it.
But when somebody goes out and heckles Obama, Romney is supposed to condemn it.
And he is not doing it.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
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Thousands of women representing social and farm movements.
Marched in Central Rio Monday to rail against the green economy, advocated by the Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development.
This is women protesting the green energy movement.
Women protesting.
These are agricultural babes.
These are farm babes.
You saw cool hand Luke, farm babes washing cars.
These women do not want any part of this green energy stuff.
Several hundred men closed off the march to show their solidarity.
That makes sense.
Perched atop a truck fitted with loudspeakers, a female activist howled, this is a march of urban and rural women against this Rio charade.
West Virginia Democrats.
This is amazing.
The Daily Caller.
In a move showing how politically toxic President Barack Obama has become in parts of the country, three prominent West Virginia Democrats announced yesterday that they will not attend the Democrat National Convention in September.
Those opting out of appearing at the gathering of Democrats across the country to officially renominate President Kardashian include Senator Joe Manchin, Governor Earl Ray Tumblin, and Representative Nick Ray Hall.
They're not going.
When's the last time you ever heard of that?
A Democrat governor who values the energy productivity that comes from his state.
Knows that Obama wants to shut it down, not going to the Democrat National Convention.
Folks, they are in panic.
Mike Grab Soundbite 19.
Let's let's start in order here.
I let's get to this because I've been alluding to this the whole program.
I really believe that at the Obama campaign inside the White House, they are in a full-fledged panic.
And I think they have polling data that's even worse for their guys than what public polling data is available to us.
And I think all the policy changes and all the uh public pronouncements coming from from Obama are indicative of it.
Last night on uh Cavuto, well, yesterday afternoon, it was his afternoon show, four o'clock on Fox, he talked to Pat Cadell, the Democrat pollster, and they're talking about Obama and the presidential race and listen to what Cadell said.
They look like they're in some strategic chaos.
And you see this last week, you give a major speech on Thursday, 55 minutes on the economy, which was reminiscent to me.
If we had a campaign theme in 1980 of two futures, this was to pass.
And it didn't go over well with even liberal supporters.
We saw it in gay marriage where two-thirds of the people said he did it for political reasons.
We've seen the same thing in Bin Laden.
This Hispanic thing smacks a base strategy of we can't win the middle.
We have to get our base out.
And if you're in June and your strategy is we must get our base out, you got problems.
And Pat Cadell knows.
Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide in 1980.
Pat could and he ran it.
Well, Beckel, no, no, Cadell ran it.
It was Beckel ran Mondo.
That's right.
But Cadell knows.
And they really are abandoning the independence.
Now, the independence, by the way, on this immigration thing, I should tell you, you're not going to want to hear it, but there is polling data out.
People by two to one approve of Obama's immigration statement.
By two to one, people like Obama the Constitution.
They like it.
And I think even among independents, it's two to one.
But aside from that, Obama and his campaign, well, it's like we had the story earlier.
White, straight, old guys, that's who Romney's going for.
Obama is going for all of the extremes and trying to put together a coalition of extreme minority groups in this country, and that's his uh path to victory.
They've lost the mainstream.
That's what Cadell's point is.
And when you have to start going after your base in June, when you don't own your base, and you're the president, you're an incumbent president, and your base is abandoning you, or your base is getting chilly, and they're not excited, you've got problems.
And that's what Cadell was saying.
Cavuto said, well, they might look at it and say this just a snapshot that we're uh we're going through a downfunk right now.
And you know, these funks go, they come and go, and then by the time the summer gets here, we'll be bouncing back.
What about that, Pat?
As I said when the job numbers came out, which I've said to you all along, they start to tick back up, all hell's gonna start falling apart here.
And the auto rising again.
Gotcha.
Jobs collapsing on the job market, and that's just spiraling.
This has been a month, you know, to quote Elliot.
June is the cruelest month.
This is very cruel.
And we still have next week's decision or this week or whenever it comes on health care.
Right.
And don't forget the Arizona immigration case.
That is yet to come.
And the smart money is looking what Obama's doing and thinking he knows what the decisions are.
There's a but there's a story uh, say I can find it here very quickly.
It's all about the regime making plans to continue health care after the decision on the premise that they are going.
Yeah.
Administration Mored Health Law.
AP.
Covering all the bases ahead of a momentous Supreme Court ruling, the regime plans to move ahead with major parts of the health care law if it's most controversial provision doesn't survive.
So they're it could be fainting us out, you know, the the the old uh double cross.
The news makes it look like they expect to lose some of these things.
The news makes it look like they think they're gonna lose some of these things.
Now that could, as I say, be a head fake.
We won't know till we know, and I'm not falling for it, but I'm just telling you, things are out there right now that indicate utter panic inside the uh regime.
And then this next by this is David Moranis, he was on Piers Morgan tonight, which nobody saw because it was on CNN, which is why I want to play this sound but for you.
David Moranis is an associate editor at the Washington Post, and he is the author of Barack Obama, the story.
And it's amazing, you know, Nobody in the media bothered to vet Obama in 2007 and 2008.
And amazingly, what we're learning now is that nobody in the media bothered to fact check Obama's biography.
They just accepted it.
Now a friendly biographer, Moranis admits that Obama's autobiography is full of um.
Well, it just doesn't all add up.
Well, we'll see.
Here's here's Piers Morgan says it's a fascinating book to read next to the Dreams book because there are at least, I think someone counted 38 significant parts of Barack Obama's version of events that you take if you with 38.
My gentleman, sir.
The Republicans have jumped all over this, you'd expect, saying, you know, this is evidence that Obama's a fantasist, a liar, made up half of his story.
What is the reality about your findings in totality, sir?
In terms of the veracity, the honesty of Barack Obama's story.
The mythologies range from early on when, for instance, in high school, in his memoir, he says that he wasn't a starter on his basketball team because he played black and the coach coached white.
Of course, I discovered that in fact Barack Obama was about the eighth or ninth best player on that team, that he was one of the few players who couldn't dunk the ball.
So it had nothing to do with race.
Everything in his book is seen through the lens of race, and that sometimes distorts things.
Like the girlfriend that he writes about in his memoir in New York City, he sort of defines her through the lens of race as a white woman who didn't understand the anger of black people.
The real girlfriend, who was Genevieve Cook, had a completely different perspective on race.
Moranis says he's lying in his autobiography.
This is what Moranis is saying.
And this basketball stuff that's been out there for a while.
Obama is saying that he had trouble on a team because he played black basketball.
And the coach coached white basketball.
Now, I don't know the difference.
I, your humble host, I don't know the difference in black basketball and white basketball.
But Obama did say that he played black and a coach coached white.
The official program observer, Mr. Bow Snerdley, with a question.
What's the question?
That's what Moranis said that Barack Obama couldn't dunk the ball.
Can't jump.
You have to jump, that's correct.
You have to jump to be able to dunk, and he couldn't dunk, so one would conclude he couldn't jump.
So if you can't jump and dunk, you have to play white basketball.
I guess.
And Obama said he played black ball.
The coach coached white ball.
And that's why Obama didn't play much.
But Moranis says, no, he's the eighth or ninth best team player on the team.
He's not one of the best top five.
He's not a starter because he can't play.
This is a friendly biographer telling us that Obama lied about it something as insignificant as basketball in high school.
And then he makes up this composite girlfriend and talks about how he had trouble with her because she didn't understand the anger of black people, and the girl in question of reality had no such problems with race.
He made it up.
I don't know who was on the basketball team.
I don't know the makeup.
I don't know how many Hawaiians, I don't know how many Samoans, I don't know how many people from from Kenya.
I don't know how many, how many from uh from what's South of Hawaii?
No, not Indonesia.
There's a there's a resort down there that's five hours south of Hawaii.
I mean to uh doesn't matter.
I don't know the makeup of the team, snurdly.
I don't even know what white ball versus black ball is.
Obama said he played black ball, the coach coached white ball, and as such, the coach was a racist, The team was racist.
Strategy of the game was racist, and Obama rode the bench.
Would Obama have worn the Adidas sneakers if they were out there?
No way.
No way.
I don't I don't need this cancel the uh the slave sneakers uh the uh shackl sneakers.
Uh um it's on the tip of my tongue.
I can't think of this.
It's uh uh not Bali.
Uh anyway, I don't know the makeup of the team.
I don't know.
Uh all I know is that Obama played black ball, which somebody tell me what that is.
There must be such a thing.
Okay, Snerdley says there's no such thing as black basketball.
What would you know?
You don't play.
Well, you don't we've got to take a break.
Sit tight, much more straight ahead here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
Snartley, I looked it up, and there is such a thing as black basketball.
The New York Times.
Politics of color, issue of style.
The uh article describes black basketball as played with more athleticism and flair.
Basically, it's a game of no defense.
It's just fast break, run and shoot, uh lots of uh uh lots of showbiz type stuff, and and hardly any defense whatsoever.
And that's the kind of game Obama said he had, and that the coach didn't coach, coached uh coached white basketball.
Here we go to Jose in Miami.
Jose, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet oh, sorry, two points.
The first will be really quick.
When you were talking about the Arab Spring, uh, I thought back to what Bill Chrysler said, I think it was on Fox.
Uh he was waxing poetic about Jeffersonian democracy, uh, you know, just uh, you know, developing in the Middle East, and I just wanted to pull my hair out.
But that's one.
Uh the many now wait, that that was when the whole thing first started, right?
Correct, yeah.
Yeah, that's the crystal boys, they were thinking it was the outbreak of.
I remember, yeah, you're right.
That drove me insane.
But uh the the main point of my call was uh earlier when you were talking about the uh amnesty by fiat and how the government is not set up really to uh you know handle this, police it or or whatnot, and how the folks on the ground who have to deal with it don't have uh the information they that they I guess would need at hand.
Consider this.
If the folks on the ground start denying uh people entry, that's gonna open a floodgate of claims uh with the EEOC that they people are being discriminated on the basis of race, you know, religion, whatever.
Wait, wait, wait, I'm losing you.
You're if if if the folks on the ground start denying people entry, you mean at the border.
Correct.
How's that gonna involve EEOC?
Oh, very simple.
Uh the laws are equally applicable to citizens and non-citizens, and and these amnesty by fiat folks are.
Wait a minute, do you learn the you're saying that somebody trying to get in here illegally is gonna say, hey, I tried to get in illegally and I'm being discriminated against?
Yeah, because of this amnesty by fiat.
They they will be entitled to the same protections, and the folks at the border denied my entry solely on a basis that I'm Mexican, for example.
Well, uh I look, I think I understand what you're saying.
I think the more the more appropriate analogy would be that if if you can get your kids across, if you can get your kids across, and then if you can defy the immigration laws long enough, you win.
If you get but I don't I don't I don't see how I don't see a bunch of illegals after all this calling Washington and saying, hey, I'm trying to get in your country illegally, but I'm being denied.
Well, the thing is, no, I'm not saying illegals.
What I'm saying is the folks that that ostensibly qualify uh for this aminency by fiat, that if one of them gets rejected by one of the folks on the ground because the folks the person on the ground says, Oh, I you know I I I don't buy your documents or I don't think you're credible that they can then turn and start squawking that their civil rights are being violated.
No, I don't because the policy, as as as absurd as it is, is about people who are already here.
It's not, it's not about people trying to get in.
And I know what you're trying, you're trying to say that this is going to facilitate people getting in because, well, look, my my my cousin's illegal and you're not deporting him and I why don't you let me in and sue for discrimination and so forth.
Now I think if people are just patient, that's going to happen anyway.
That's where Obama wants to take this.
Obama wants this to end up where there is a de facto not a border.
That's where he wants this to end up and I don't my so I said at the top of the program I live in Realville and I don't know how you do this without first securing the border.
And this is kind of what Jose is saying in a roundabout way if you don't secure the border you're opening floodgates and that's all any of us have been saying when it comes to comprehensive meaningful immigration reform.
First thing has to happen is secure the border and then start implementing various policies to deal with who's here but stop the influx.
And nobody, nobody wants to do that.
Nobody wants to protect the border.
Nobody wants to seal it up.
Nobody wants to secure it more so than it is today.
So whatever policy you end up with people who are here, you're going to have to have it apply to all those who managed to get here and then stay here for a while, defy the immigration law long enough and they end up winning, particularly if they have a bunch of kids with them.
Bora Bora is what I was thinking a Borabora is a place that's five hours south of Hawaii.
Anyway I finally have to go up there on uh on on Apple maps and try to try to find it which I did.
Welcome back folks Rush Limbaugh the EIB network interesting piece here from Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard it's about the possibility that Leon Panetta is the leaker of all of these national security secrets about Obama and the kill list and the Stuxnet computer virus all of these things designed to make Obama look like John Wayne Mr. Tough
Guy.
And here's what Hemingway says about it at the Weekly Standard the recent congressional anger over the Obama regime's convenient national security leaks reminded me of an unusual bit of political trivia.
Defense Secretary, prior to that the CIA head, Leon Panetta, is the prime suspect in one of the most notorious political leaks of all time.
Tevi Troy, a former Bush administration official and the author of Intellectuals in the American Presidency, wrote about this when Panetta was first tapped by the regime to head the CIA.
After the 1968 campaign, Nixon hired Pat Moynihan, who who had served as assistant secretary of labor for policy in the Kennedy and Johnson regimes as his urban affairs advisor and all around White House intellectual Moynihan was already a somewhat controversial figure having authored a book actually a report called The Black Family Then and Now which attributed the disproportionate poverty in the black community to rising illegitimacy.
By the way, that's Pat Moynihan in 1968 working for Nixon wrote a report got him in big trouble.
Illegitimacy was his primary reason for black poverty disproportionate black poverty.
The liberal intelligentsia pilloried Moynihan for this conclusion he left the Department of Labor not long after it was learned that he was the author of that report the memo was leaked to the press and on March 1st the New York Times ran an article headlined Benine Neglect on race is proposed by Moynihan.
The White House was swamped with criticism from civil rights leaders and editorial pages.
Moynihan had to hold a press conference to defend himself.
Although memos leak all the time and the leakers are rarely identified, the New Republic's John Osborne reported in a March 1970 profile of Moynihan that Leon Panetta was a prime suspect in the leak.
And there was certainly some reason for his suspicion.
In February, Panetta had resigned from the uh health educational welfare department.
That's the old HHS because he opposed the Nixon administration's approach to desegregation.
Panetta later went to work for New York mayor John Lindsay, switched parties, successfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1976.
The leaker of the Moynihan memo and report has never been definitively identified.
Now Tevy Troy, the former Bush administration guy, suggested that Senators used the occasion of Panetta's CIA confirmation hearings to ascertain whether Panetta was the Moynihan memo leaker.
As being able to keep a secret would seem to be an important qualification to head the CIA.
He also raised the issue again when Panetta was tapped to head the Department of Defense.
Now there's no particular reason to suspect that Panetta is behind the current leaks.
And outwardly, Panetta seems to be committed public servant, but the seriousness of the national security issues involved, maybe we shouldn't rule out anyone.
So it's speculation.
But Panetta has uh has been thought of to be a high-level leaker in the past, and he is a loyal Democrat.
I tell you never forget this.
And I've always been suspicious of it.
Panetta was chief of staff for Clinton.
And I guess he was leaving as chief of staff, and he was heading back home to Carmel, California, which is a beautiful place.
And he was going to open the Panetta Institute.
I met Panetta playing by the way at the ATT program one year.
I was being interviewed by Neil Cavuto, and as I left a trailer, Panetta walked in, said hello, yuck yuck, and I went on down to the practice stage.
Anyway, when Pannetta left, he gave the most glowing report and endorsement of Bill Clinton as perhaps the country's greatest president ever.
And it doesn't mean anything other than he's Mr. Loyal, which is fine.
I have a great appreciation for loyalty.
All I'm saying is that if people are going to suspect that Panetta is the leaker here, for the purposes of make Obama look good, it would make sense.
CIA director for uh for Obama Defense Department for Obama.
Uh it would somebody's leaking and it's bad stuff.
And it's all political.
It's all designed to make Obama look like something he's not.
Mr. Tough Guy.
Personally going over the kill list.
Yeah, I want to kill Earth terrorists today.
And I'll kill Earth terrorists tomorrow.
And we'll put the news out three days from now.
Who's next?
This is uh Linda in Paducah, Kentucky, right not that far from where I grew up in Missouri.
Hi, Linda.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to make one point about the immigration uh situation.
It's uh it's I haven't heard it made, but it's so obvious it sounds kind of lame, and that is that we have the problem with these young illegals now uh that we do because we did not tend to immigration as we should have in the past when their parents first came over here, and it ought to be a lesson to us to do something about it now, uh, the illegal immigration so that we don't continue to have these problems.
Very, very good point.
Wouldn't have the problem if we'd hunkered down earlier.
Mm-hmm.
Well, we thought we had.
Remember Simpson Mazzoli 1986?
Illegal immigration back.
There were three million illegals in 1986.
And we had Simpson Mazzoli, which was to secure the border, prevent any more from coming in, and we granted amnesty to three million.
And Ted Kennedy, yep, and Ted Kennedy to Boy said, we do this one time, then that's it, and we're never gonna we need to grant amnesty to these three million, and we did.
Reagan went along with Alan Simpson and the Democrat sponsored the bill was a guy named Mazzoli.
First name was Oil.
And as we see, we now look at upwards of 20 million illegals, and we're back to talking about the same thing.
Exactly.
So everybody's opposed to amnesty, but what does Obama do?
Basically grants it here.
And you're we're nowhere near getting a handle on it.
But folks, I'm gonna remind you of something.
And I want to I want to try to buck you up with this.
Because I've checked my email, I've looked at the polling data, two to one people supposedly love Obama's idea.
People on our side, it's like conservative media personalities on television and radio and in the uh the blogs all say that they're sympathetic to the policy.
It involves children.
Now, what we have here basically are a bunch of uh people, and it's this is understandable, for two reasons, afraid to come out opposing this policy.
One is involves children, two.
This was a part of Marky Marco Rubio's Dream Act.
Well, Rubio has been headed off at the pass here with this.
This Rubio had not yet lined up full-fledged support for his overall comprehensive immigration plan.
He's in the process of trying to get support rounded up.
So Obama comes on with this small part of what Rubio was going to suggest.
And so if Republicans come out against what Obama has done here, they are also coming out against Rubio, which they can't afford to do because Rubio is a rising star and will be president someday.
Odds are Rubio will be president of this country someday.
I'm fairly confident.
So they don't want to cut Rubio off at the pass.
So they're they're I understand they're they're caught between a rock and a hard place.
They have to say they're sympathetic to the issue because it involves children.
But I just want to remind you.
The summer of 2007.
It might have been 2008, but I think it was summer 2007 when the big push for amnesty for 20 million, and they still weren't calling it that.
That's what it was.
The Republican Congress for seven years had not opposed President Bush on anything because of party unity.
Just don't do it.
But they were at their wit's end, and they were tired of being criticized for supporting massive spending.
They're tired of being ripped to shreds.
So they finally decided to distance themselves from President Bush because he was essentially lame duck.
They asserted themselves, and if you recall, that summer, Washington was flooded with telephone calls and faxes and emails and FedEx and UPSs and that town was swamped with communications from people who wanted no part of amnesty.
They wanted no part of 20 million illegals being made legal.
They wanted no part, and they shut it down.
You, the people of this country shut it down.
And it's because of that plan that Obama implemented Friday went down to defeat in Congress.
Obama basically said, I don't care what Congress did, I'm gonna make this the law of the land with a stroke of my pen.
He did it.
The sentiment in this country, when the pedal hits the metal, when the rubber hits the road, the sentiment in this country is not changed.
There is not majority support for amnesty for 10 people, much less 20 million.
And whatever the polling on this is now.
This is it, this is this immigration.
If it if it approaches amnesty, there's gonna be hell to pay for anybody who supports this.
My point is this is ultimately, I think, not gonna end up moving Obama forward.
It's gonna he all he's doing now is trying to shore up a base that was abandoning him.
Hispanics, I can show you a poll here that 20% of Hispanic voters are now deciding they're not gonna support Obama.
In North Carolina, the same percentage of blacks say they're not gonna vote for Obama.
He's doing all this to shore up his base, and in the process of shoring up his base, he is irritating the true vast majority of the mainstream of this country.
He's between a rock and a hard place.
He's got nowhere else to go.
He can't run on his record.
He can't run on the future other than to scare people about Romney.
So all he can do is try to give away the store to every wacko extreme or otherwise minority group in this country.
And that's why I say don't be surprised if he forgives student loans come August or September.
Don't be surprised if he proposes forgiving mortgages that are underwater come September.
Because that's all he's got.
He doesn't have universal love.
He doesn't have he's the Messiah.
He doesn't have any of that anymore behind him.
There's no wind at his sails.
Everything for him is a headwind.
So he's doing all he can do.
And the Constitution, compared to his reelection, doesn't matter.
The border, southern border compared to his reelection, doesn't matter.
All that matters is his reelection.
Brief timeout, and then we will return.
You know, I really think, folks, that Barack Obama is the first president in history to run for re-election as a fringe candidate.
it.
That is the best way to describe where he is and what he's running for election as a fringe candidate and running against capitalism.
No question about it.
Now, folks, I had a couple sound bites here, maybe three from Marco Rubio on Obama's action.
It's it's a couple 24 and 25.
I'm gonna hold those over till tomorrow, and maybe we can round up even more because Rubio has got a great comeback in response to what Obama has done with this policy announced last Friday.
So we'll have that for tomorrow, and who knows whatever else happens between now and then.
We, as always, will be on top of that too.
So I just checked the email.
Hey Rush, how come the phone lines aren't melting now in Washington?
How amount of emails and faxes aren't melting Washington now?
Well, because there's not a way to stop it.
Back in 2007, Washington was flooded with communication people.
You better not tried to stop it.
Obama's done it by executive fiat.
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