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June 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 20, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, happy to have you along.
I am the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all concerned, all everything maharashi.
And this the Excellence and Broadcasting Network already Wednesday, hump day.
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From the New York Times, world leaders make little headway in solving debt crisis.
Appeared to make only modest headway in persuading Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to drop her opposition to more government spending to alleviate Europe's debt crisis.
They want more spending in Europe.
Obama, everybody urging it.
Merkel is reluctant to go along with it.
They say here that Obama is getting desperate with his own re-election chances directly tied to the European economic crisis.
This is according to Helene Cooper at the New York Times.
Now I don't know if you think that, but this is what the media thinks.
You really think that Obama's election chances are directly tied to the European economic crisis?
As it drags down growth in the U.S. Come on, folks, who stupid do they think we the European crisis dragging us down?
Of course that's the template.
Poor Barack.
Poor President Kardashian.
He's trying so hard.
He's doing everything, but those stupid Europeans.
They won't listen.
Angela Merkel won't go crazy with spending.
They won't save Obama.
It says here Obama desperately wants Merkel to loosen the reins on spending and the austerity programs that have been imposed on Greece.
The Obama administration spent the last year trying to point to the example of the steps they took.
I I kid you not.
Let me read this paragraph to you of New York Times.
That may be an oversimplification of the American position since Obama administration officials have spent the last year trying to point to the example of the steps that Obama took, including the stimulus to jumpstart the economy in 2008-2009.
So Merkel won't let go.
Obama administration officials at this G20 thing.
Look what we did.
Look what we you gotta do, what we look how we jump started our economy.
It's what the New York Times says.
I kid you not.
I kid you not, a poll I've never heard of.
Uh We Ask America poll.
Never heard of it, but it's in Michigan, and they confirm that Romney leads Obama in Michigan.
It's within the margin of error 45 to 43.
And there's a uh, let's see, was this is not the piece I wanted.
I'm looking it's a piece in the New York Times by a guy named Frank Brunei, and I'm not sure how he pronounces his name, Bruni or Brunei.
We've got the audio sound by this the guy I was talking to you about earlier, who said that uh Obama just looked like he's on his game over there.
This is last night.
It's on CNN, Piers Morgan tonight, New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni.
That's how I'm gonna pronounce it.
About Obama's press conference, the media not happy, the way Obama conducted himself.
Piers Morgan said the president looks a little bit on edge at the moment, a little less self-assured.
Uh what's going on here, Frankie, my boy?
He looked really de-energized.
I was watching him, you know, as he stepped to the podium.
One of the whole advantages of being president of being the incumbent is you get those settings, the flags behind you, the podium, you get the international audience.
He strode out there, and the cadence of his speech was very slowed down.
There was a lot of hemming and hawing.
He got the first question from the press and answered that answer went on and on, and he provided this really strange tutorial on European economic dynamics, and I just I don't think that's what he meant to do when he went to that microphone.
He doesn't seem in command.
He doesn't seem in command.
Have you people ever noticed how Obama handles himself at a press conference?
It's exactly what he does.
He gets a question, he doesn't answer it for 20 minutes while sounding brilliant, and then moves on to the next question.
In a one-hour press conference, you take three questions, you take 15 minutes to answer each one.
You guys will sit there and marvel and dazzle at it.
But now that Obama's sharing the stage with world leaders, uh oh, doesn't look so good.
A lot of hemming and hauling.
There's always hemming and hauling.
You know what that means?
The uh and uh does it all the time when there's no teleprompter.
I I wasn't even watching this last.
When was this about 6 30?
I forget when it was.
I'm I'm I was actually reading a book, and I get an email.
Boy, this Obama guy is really bad with no prompter.
This is what they were talking about.
This was New York Times guy's oh no, worried.
This nothing new.
But he's sharing the stage with world leaders.
And he's not looking good in comparison.
Hem-howing around, got the question, answer went on and on, really strange tutorial on European economic dynamics.
He's just telling them to do what he did.
Look, we're here to wreck world economies, and we put them back together the way we want.
You got to do what I'm doing before you can join me in it.
These guys, I'm telling you these people immediately uh they they they don't have the slightest idea what they're covering.
They really don't.
They don't it's right before them every day.
They look at it every day, they still don't get it.
But the bottom line is this Frank Bruning guy in the New York Times was not happy.
Obama didn't look in command.
He didn't look like he knew what he was doing.
He didn't look like he belonged.
Which he doesn't.
You see, uh, ladies and gentlemen, that's the bottom line.
He uh he doesn't.
Investors business daily.
Story here by Andrew Malcolm, formerly of the Los Angeles Times.
Obama's immigration ploy has gained him nada in the polls to help smother the dismal reviews of his economic reset speech last week in Cleveland.
Obama scheduled a last minute Rose Garden appearance Friday to add some presidential heft to his executive order about immigration.
Whenever he's in trouble, the one time real good talker throws another speech out there.
Until this spring's troubles, everybody always said that speaking was Obama's strong suit.
His Fidel Castro Link economic remarks blamed Europe, Congress, and the usual Texan George Bush for the nation's resync economy.
So you here's here's Andrew Malcolm reviewing Obama that we all know.
The same guy goes on and on and on, says nothing, stutters in hems and haws without a prompter.
It's common, it's every day.
To the guy at the New York Times, it's panic time.
Oh no, my God, he doesn't look so smart now, doesn't look so in command.
It's the same Obama that everybody gets every day.
And then Andrew Malcolm writes, but are you sitting down?
Obama's 54 minute speech contained no new ideas, and his immigration and no new ideas.
He's still waiting for Congress to do something, you see.
So the 6300 words ended up merely calling more sustained attention to the administration's idea of bankruptcy to the dim outlook for job improvements and how bad the economy remains despite all the promises more than 700 days ago of a magnificent recovery summer.
Two-thirds of Americans remain convinced their country's still mired in recession.
So, to change the subject quickly, Obama's Friday schedule was amended for him to get some news coverage about what he'd already told Homeland Security to do, permit illegal immigrants who come here as children to remain here under certain conditions, not including citizenship.
The unexpected announcement, which always raises the attention level in the DC hot house, was widely touted with the media as a brilliant political move that would not only back Republicans in a corner somewhere, but earn a badly needed poll boost for the Democrat languishing dangerously well below 50% approval in an election year.
But one day before his immigration remarks, Gallup's seven day rolling average, had Romney ahead 4645.
Four days later, the same forty-six forty-five.
Rasmussen, three day average, just before the Rose Garden remarks, Romney 4745.
Three days later, Romney had gone up.
Obama down forty eight forty four, So there was no bump.
There was no polling, but Obama didn't get any polling bump from his immigration remarks on Friday.
And I told you, Monday or Tuesday of this week, I asked you to remember 2007.
The people of this country are diametrically opposed to amnesty.
They don't want any part of it.
Obama announced us, it's not going to help him.
Everybody thinks it's going to.
But he what he's doing, folks.
He has given up on mainstream America.
His bet is that his electoral chances are better coalescing all these disparate extreme fringe groups into one voting block, and he thinks that munch will outnumber mainstream America.
That's what he's counting on.
Said it was brilliant.
But it ain't gonna happen.
Not gonna happen.
Let's see.
David Moranis.
David Moranis has this book on Obama.
And he's upset.
Moranus is not happy over how the right wing is using his book.
What Moranus is doing, and I I don't think he realizes it, because he's he's angry at what's happening.
He's angry at the reaction to his book.
What he's doing is pointing out all the things in Obama's autobiographies which are not true.
We talked about Obama's great basketball talents in high school yesterday that he writes about in his book.
Turns out he wasn't a special player.
Moranis is poking holes in many Obama assertions in his autobiography.
And he's pointing out that they're not true.
Moranis is saying, I don't know what's happening here.
The right wing is taking my book, and I don't intend this to be the I'm not a fact checker here.
I'm I'm a historian.
I'm just help, I'm just helping get the record straight.
I don't think he really realized he's he's vetting Obama and doesn't realize it.
What he's doing is demonstrating that nobody read Obama's books.
That's not true.
What he's doing is demonstrate nobody questioned anything in Obama's books.
So Moranus has come along.
He's documenting lies and falsehoods, and as far as he's concerned, all he's doing is getting the record straight.
He is now a little shocked here that people are reacting to his book the way that they are.
Let's grab Soundbite number 18.
This is on CNN's starting point today.
And the host is Soledad O'Brien, and all she says was that President Obama wrote a memoir, Dreams from My Father, and Moranus took over.
The buzz about the book challenging his memoir.
That's not the point of my book.
I'm not writing it as a fact checker.
I'm writing it as an historian.
People for ideological reasons are pouncing on that part of what my book is.
But in fact, I'm just trying to tell the truth.
A memoir is far different from rigorous factual biography.
It's not as though I'm trying to say a hi, I got your each point.
It's just I'm trying to present the way I really found it, which is in many cases different from what he presented.
The right wing sort of is at once dismissing the book in the cherry picking every single negative thing in it to use against Obama.
It's almost why I didn't want to write this book.
Oh, could you by heart bleed?
So here we have Moranis, who is an Obama supporter, and he wrote this book with Obama's blessing, and it was supposed to be a campaign valentine.
This book was supposed to help Obama, it was gonna add to Obama's marvelous history.
And he's pointing out all the things Obama did not tell the truth about or lied about.
And so people are picking up on that.
So, well, where was the press vetting Obama?
Obama can't even tell the truth to his own autobiography.
That's not what this is.
I'm not a fact-checking book.
I'm an historian.
He's he's he's not happy.
You know, you really have to wonder how bright some of these people are.
And when it comes down to his plain old common sense.
You got a guy who wrote a biography, autobiography, you research it, you find out a bunch, and it's not true.
You write a book that corrects it, and you get mad at the people who focus on it.
Well, you know, a memoir doesn't have to be accurate, a memoir doesn't have to be memoir.
What it doesn't?
Somebody can lie about their own life, and it's okay as long as somebody comes along and corrects it and adds to it.
So let's see.
Uh the Blaze.com columnist Will Kane, also the same show, said, I think it raises serious questions about the r what what the role of a memoir is, Mr. Moranis.
Is it truth-telling or is it the ability to massage and composite characters?
I think through your research, it questions what the purpose of a memoir is and if it's fiction or nonfiction.
He wrote it when he was in his 30s before he was running for president.
He had no clue that people like me would be coming along later and and trying to tell the real story.
But it is a legitimate question about where the line is in memoir.
My major point is yes, there are discrepancies between what really happened and the way he presented it.
I don't think they're venal.
I think he did it for reasons of trying to tell a story about his search for to find himself.
I don't think he was trying to create this mythological character.
Many of the mythologies in the book were just passed along to him by his own family.
Are you following Am I the only one who's incredulous over this?
So it's perfectly fine.
We're now gonna debate where the line is in memoir.
Have we gotten so smart, become so intellectual that a memoir does not have to be true?
No, he's just trying to find himself.
Uh of course there are discrepancies.
We can't hold that against him.
He didn't know that he was gonna run for BS.
The only reason he wrote the books and money.
Well family told the lies, not him, big whoop.
Let me tell you one of the lies.
There's a bunch of them that are that Moranus has found.
You know, one of the things everybody has has been led to, because Obama says in his book, Obama said that his grandfather.
Let me take a break.
Hussein Anyango Obama.
His grandfather was taken prisoner and tortured by the British during the Mao Mau Rebellion.
It didn't happen.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Be right back.
you New biography, Barack Obama has established his grandfather was not.
Detained by the British in Kenya, found that claims that he was tortured were a fabrication.
Barack Obama The Story by David Moranis catalogs dozens of instances in which Obama deviated significantly from the truth in his book, Dreams from My Father.
The 641-page book punctures the carefully crafted Obama narrative of his life.
And one of the enduring myths is that his paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who served as a cook in the British Army, was imprisoned in 1949 by the British for helping the anti-colonial Malmao rebels held for several months, tortured and so forth.
This has been advances the reason that Obama hates the Brits and gave back the Churchill bust.
It turns out nothing of the kind happened to his grandfather.
And we're not supposed to think anything of this.
Back we are.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have it as always, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
An outfit called Buzzfeed has listed the nine lies uncovered accidentally by Moranis.
You know, it is fascinating.
Moranus doesn't understand what he's done here.
He thought he was writing an election year Valentine for Obama.
And he's pointed up fundamental flaws, very serious misstatements, lies, prevarications, and he doesn't understand why people are focusing on it that way.
Right wing people are cherry picking it.
Exactly.
It's it's it's it's uh he's just you know, there's there's literary license in memoir.
My God.
The more we listen to the left, the less reason there ever is for truth.
Truth floats, and wherever you want it to be is where it ends up, and whatever you want it to be, it is.
So here are the nine lies.
Number one, as I just mentioned, Hussein Anyango Obongo Obama uh Barack's grandfather was not imprisoned and was not tortured by the Brits.
So there's no reason he should hate Churchill or the Brits.
The father of his Indonesian stepfather was not killed by Dutch soldiers in the fight for independence.
Remember now, this memoir, the entitled, the entire title of uh Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, a story of race and inheritance.
And the point of this book is what a tough time Obama and his family have had because of race.
How unfair the world has been to the Anyango Obongo Obamas because of race.
So nothing happened to his grandfather.
The father of his Indonesian stepfather was not killed by Dutch soldiers.
Regina, a friend at Occidental College, who Obama writes about as a symbol of the authentic African American experience turns out to be based on Carolina Boss, who is white.
Regina was the name of her Swiss grandmother.
Remember, I think this is the woman who Obama complained didn't understand the anger of a black man.
Number four, Obama projected a racial incident onto his New York girlfriend that he later told Moranis had happened in Chicago.
Obama wrote that he broke up with his New York girlfriend in part because she was white, but his next girlfriend and anthropologist in Chicago was also white.
Obama cuts out two white college roommates entirely because it didn't advance the racial narrative, just they didn't exist.
Obama wrote about his has-screwed friends as alienated, ne'er-do-well, club of disaffection.
In fact, most members of the Choom gang were decent students and athletes who went on to successful careers.
They were not reprobates as he writes about them.
Obama's mother left his father, not the other way around.
Everybody's of the opinion that Obama's dad ran off.
Barack Hussein Sr.
Barack Kardashian Sr. ran away from his mother that left.
His father.
In his memoir, Obama mentions he missed out on playing time in high school basketball because he's coach preferred players who play like white boys do, quote unquote.
In fact, Obama had to work hard just to make the team, and race had nothing to do with it.
And when you get into all these things in detail, what becomes obvious is that all of these lies and composites and whatever other techniques that one uses in memoir now have been created to make Obama out to be a victim.
He's a victim of an unstable family, he's a victim of a white-oriented basketball coach.
He's a victim of the Brits who put his grandfather in jail and torture.
Victim here and a victim there.
And all of this also is to explain his rage.
And to justify the range.
But this Toby Harden writes about this in the um I think the UK Telegraph or the Daily Mail, I'm not forget which telegraph.
Writes that Moranus also casts a skeptical eye on Obama's grandmother's tales of racism in Kansas, doubting whether she was ever chastised for addressing a black janitor as mister or ridiculed for playing with a black girl.
That didn't happen.
Obama himself, according to Moranus, deliberately distorted elements of his own life to fit into a racial narrative.
And Moranus doesn't understand why people are interested in this for that, the reasons that they are.
Moranus says that Obama himself deliberately distorted elements of his own life to fit into a racial narrative.
The author writes that Obama presents himself in his memoir as blacker and more disaffected than he really was.
The memoir accentuates characters drawn from black acquaintances who played lesser roles in his real life, but could be used to advance a line of thought while leaving out or distorting the actions of friends who happen to be white.
Dick Opar, relative by marriage to Anyango Obama and senior Kenyan police official gave what Moranus judged to be the most authoritative word.
People make up stories.
If you get arrested, you say it was the fight for independence, but they're arrested for another thing.
That was about the grandfather.
He was arrested, but it wasn't because he was working with the Mau Maws and opposing colonialism and all that other stuff.
So anyway, well, that's your term, Snerdley, race obsessed manipulator.
Snerdley said that.
And Snurdly has 100% slave blood.
And I don't have to make it up.
Snurdly is certified...
Right.
He's certified to criticize.
He's our official Obama criticizer.
He's certified to criticize.
100% slave blood.
What was useful?
You don't need calm cal calm down in there.
I I got it handled here.
Snerdley is screaming at me over the IFB.
Who is it that makes up blackness?
Why do you have to make up blackness?
Well, that's a good point.
We could ask blue-collar Joe Biden.
I mean, Joe Biden's out there now ticked off, but Obama's saying that he's a blue-collar guy.
Here, grab Soundbite 17 before we get to Soundbite 35.
Here's we had this earlier in the week.
Obama is out there telling everybody that his vice president is a blue-collar guy, knows what it's like to work.
And and and Biden is ticked off about this.
My dad never worked in a food fair.
My dad never wore a blue collar, and the Brock makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania carrying a lunch bucket.
No one in my family worked in a factory.
So Biden is intent, everybody knows that his family never did a day's work in their life.
It never worked.
Blue collar.
Who do they think you're kidding?
My family didn't wear blue collars.
So Moranus doesn't understand why all this is important to people.
Now I want to go back to one of our all-time top five sound bites on this program.
It is from October 30th, 2008, the Charlie Rose show, Charlie Rose and Tom Brokov.
Now you've heard it, but you say, well, I'm going to play it again because remember now.
These guys say that they know Obama principally from his books.
That's how they know Obama.
In admitting here they don't know anything about him.
They they say that all they know came from his books, which Moranus is now exposed as not factual.
Here's the sound bite.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't know.
I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who Are advising them.
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
It's an interesting question.
You know, it's an interesting question.
Charlie Rose says, you know, I don't really know.
We know anything about the people who are advising him.
Broke.
You know, it's an interesting question.
They're two journalists.
Their job is to find out stuff for us.
Journalists.
It's a lot about him we don't know.
Your job is to find out, tell everybody else.
And they admit here that, well, basically all we know is what's in his autobiographies.
And Moranus has taken care of that for us.
So the bad week of Barack Obama has morphed into a bad two weeks and looking down to a bad month, and now we got Fast and Furious, and everybody with the big question.
What's Obama hiding?
That's a question asked and asked again.
What is Obama hiding by claiming executive privilege on Fast and Furious?
A spokesman for John Boehner today told reporters that the White House, by invoking executive privilege, either lied to Congress or is involved in the Fast and Furious scandal.
It's got to be one of the two.
By invoking executive privilege, Boehner says he either lied to Congress or he's involved in Fast and Furious.
One of the two.
Now, this thing with Obama in his books.
This disturbs me.
I don't know why.
Who is he lying to here?
Who's he going to read this book?
Why?
Why go through all this?
Now look what's happening.
We're talking about the president of the United States.
It's been president for three and a half years, and we are still learning things that we don't know about the guy, and we're not sure that what we know is accurate.
Now, contrast it with me.
I just just to use myself as an example.
Twenty-five years, well, twenty-four years here behind the golden EIB microphone and three and a half years Sacramento before that.
If somebody went out and started doing a biography on me, there's not one thing you'd learn about me that you don't already know for all intents and purposes.
I have not lied about various aspects of my life for authenticity or whatever.
This guy is obsessed with race.
He is obsessed with coming off as authentically black.
And it it's troubling.
It's disturbing.
Who does this?
Who does this kind of stuff?
It's pardon the snipples.
I I just I can't quite put my finger on it, but this doesn't jibe.
And we're talking about somebody who is president of the United States.
And we have people excusing it.
Making excuses for it.
Well, it's memoir.
Memoir.
Plenty of latitude, Mr. Limbaugh.
You need to understand that.
An autobiography was what happened to you in your life, as told by you.
I don't understand composites and making it up and leaving out certain people who helped you along the way because they're not the right skin color.
What is that about?
Why do you leave certain people out that helped you because they're not black?
I don't know what it is, but it's disturbing.
And it's disturbing that we got all kinds of people, the cognizante on the left are doing everything they can to cover it up and I don't know why anybody'd want this guy reelected.
Policy?
Why is I don't why?
What is there that we want more of?
Hey, folks, our friends at Brightmart have found 38 falsehoods.
Breitbart tallying things up.
So far they found 38 falsehoods in Obama's first autobiography.
The left will defend this as simply an optimistic story about race and identity in the 20th century, something along those gobbledygook lines.
Been great being with you today.
We'll be back tomorrow at 21 hours.
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