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June 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 22, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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And it is Friday.
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Obama's at the Latino convention in Lake Buena Vista.
Romney was there yesterday.
Obama's there still speaking.
And I didn't hear any of it.
I saw the graphic on the screen.
He said, This is a country where you can make it.
You work hard, you try.
You can he mouths all this stuff.
It's it's it not even good platitudes.
And then he said, This is not a country where people come and expect handouts.
But I'll take care of that once they get here.
Which is what he's doing.
He's still speaking to them.
I tell it's a we've we I think we're up now to seven prominent Democrats who say that they are not going to attend the Obama Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Three from West Virginia, a couple from Georgia, and there are more who have announced that they are not going to the Democrat convention.
And there's this story, this is from something called the Georgia tip sheet.
Our show prep knows no bounds here.
The Georgia Democrat Party's 50% reduction in ticket costs for a reception next week in which Georgians can meet Barack Obama has prompted some Republicans to ask if the president's fundraising operation is slowing.
In other words, they can't move tickets.
There's an Obama reception in Georgia next week, and they can't sell the tickets.
They have cut the price in half.
A joint fundraising effort by the state party and the presidential re-elect effort.
The Atlanta reception originally pushing three graduated ticket prices, $10,000 to earn co-host billing, a thousand dollars for a sponsorship, and five hundred dollars just to get in.
But the state party emailed donors on Wednesday to say that a new tier had been created for young professionals.
The Gen 44, what they're calling it, said they have limited availability, would run donors only $250.
Half the original value of the general admission ducket.
A prominent Georgia Republican operative told a tip sheet if the Georgia Democrats can't hawk a $500 reception ducket with the president of the United States.
They're in worse shape than we knew.
If that's true, that is pretty interesting.
I know it's Georgia, but still.
So Obama's a markdown.
They're marking down Obama.
Obama's a lost leader for the for the Democrats.
Here it is yet another vulnerable lawmaker to the growing list of Democrats who plan on skipping the party's convention.
This one is Utah Representative Jim Matheson.
He told the Daily that he will not be going to the convention in early September where the president will formally receive a nomination.
Yep, I'm going to be spending my time this summer and fall doing my job in Congress and visiting and listening to people in Utah.
I am not going to North Carolina.
So we're up, I think now to seven.
I don't know if you've heard this.
Christian and Mesa standby, you're coming up.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
The environmentalist wackos are very worried, very concerned that there are so many iPads out there coupled with iPhones, that the pressure on electricity generating power plants is too much.
That if people keep buying iPhones, we're not going to have the ability to power them all.
Well, it turns out, do you know what it costs you to keep your iPad fully charged for the year?
A dollar thirty-six cents.
That's what it costs you.
Everybody, the annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36 according to the Electric Power Research Institute, which is a nonprofit bunch funded by electric utilities.
By comparison, a 60 watt compact fluorescent bulb costs $1.60 a year.
A desktop PC costs you $28.21 to keep fully powered for the year.
And a refrigerator runs you $65 a year.
Now, your air conditioning and other stuff really adds up, but your iPad, handheld computer devices, chump change.
Now, Jonathan Fahy, this is an AP story, by the way.
So it probably costs less than a buck 36.
The AP reporter says that if the number of iPads triples, they're currently 67 million that have been sold.
If the number of iPads triples, they would need the electricity from a small, one small power plant operating at full strength.
However, if people are using iPads instead of televisions as often to play video games or to watch video, if they're using their laptop or desktop computers less while they're using their iPads, then the shift to tablets could mean lower overall power consumption.
A desktop computer uses 20 times more power than an iPad does.
And yet the environmentalist wackos are trying to zero in on the iPad as an environmental threat.
And they're zeroing in on it simply because it's popular.
And it's they're setting the stage for somewhere down the down the roof, suggesting we limit the sales of these things, destroying the planet, climate change, or what have you.
So somebody's run the numbers on it, and as usual, it's another faux crisis from the environmentalist wackos.
Now this takes us to Christian in Mesa, Arizona.
You're calling about iOS 6, the new operating system for the iPad and the iPhone, right?
Yes, sir.
I'm just wondering your opinion on it.
You have it?
Are you running the beta?
I am not.
No, I'm I got the iPhone 4, and I haven't seen it for my model yet.
I haven't seen it yet.
Well, the the iOS 6 is going to run on your iPhone 4.
Uh I just I just thought maybe that you might have a developer copy of the beta that's out there.
No, I know you're a big uh guru on Apple products.
I thought you might have some insight on the new features that they have.
I do.
Uh plenty of insight on the features in Iowa.
They are monumental.
Uh there's not a whole lot of visual pizzazz.
They're not changing the home screen.
Uh one of the things I has me really curious about this.
You're gonna get too esoteric here, but I'm gonna mention anyway.
Last year, Apple hired some young guy who had put together a hack of the iPhone home screen and multitasking, and it was a brilliant way of genuine multitasking rather than just the multitasking bar that keeps your recently used apps available to you at the bottom of the screen.
This was genuine, multiple apps open at the same time, go back and forth to them, just like on your laptop or your desktop.
And they hired that kid.
They hired this kid because what he had done was so revolutionary.
And I was confident that why hire the kid if you're going to use what he had done.
Everything I've seen about the new iOS for the iPhone and the iPad doesn't say a word about this.
That the home screen isn't changing, the springboard, nothing, nothing really new there.
But there are a lot of things operationally about the software that are light years ahead of what happens now.
One of the things that they've done, they're in a battle with Google.
You know, Jobs said that he would go thermonuclear war to destroy Google because they had stolen the whole iPhone and iOS concept when they created Android.
Google makes its money off search.
Maps are a fundamental aspect of search.
Apple's getting rid of Google Maps in iOS 6.
They're gone.
They bought three map companies.
One of them was a 3D rendering company using Vector.
And it apparently is over the top.
In fact, it is.
I've seen it.
It'll blow your mind.
And it's going to have turn by turn navigation, which Google Maps for Android does have now.
There's going to be an addition to the iOS 6.
It's going to have that.
The one thing it's not going to have that some of these fanboys are upset about, it's not going to have street level view like Google Maps does.
But that's just because a bunch of nosy twerps want to spy on people.
So it's not going to have street level, but the maps apparently, well, they've only got four or five cities, I think, or six in this beta.
San Francisco, Chicago, uh, forget which, but it is stunning.
It's it's going to be one of the uh one of the major selling points.
But I don't think you're going to be disappointed in it at all.
Thank you for taking my thoughts.
Did it answer your question or did it inspire further questions?
No, it was it was very um very good.
I'm just wondering how how this whole maps about Google is gonna run.
Well, what's gonna happen?
I nobody knows, but Google probably will attempt to have an app authorized by Apple that you can download called Google Apps Maps that you will be able to access.
Right now it's it's automated, it's in the system, Google Maps are the system.
Um Apple's gonna replace that.
Everybody thinks that Google's not gonna sit for this and that they'll come up with an app that reintroduces Google Maps to iPhones and iPads, but Apple has to approve that before they let it in the store.
But with the Justice Department watching what they're both doing, they probably will.
So you're probably gonna have your pick of both.
If you're a big Google Maps fan, that would be my purely uneducated wild guess.
Okay.
Well, Snerdley's asking what are what are some of the uh other big changes.
One of them is a thing called Passbook, and this is useless for me.
But it is perhaps the future of mobile payments.
Everybody is trying to corner that market.
And they're trying to do it with uh the near-field communication chip.
Now, an NFC chip, if you have a key, your car key, if it'll unlock your keys in your pocket, if you can just walk up to your locked car and open it, that's a near-field communication chip in your key that enables that.
Well, Google has some some phones have the NFC chip in it.
And if you're at a retailer that also uses NFC, then the phone can be used to pay the bill, restaurant bill or whatever.
But it's not been widely accepted yet at the point of sale at retail outlets.
The iPhone's not going to have NFC.
Apple is looking at they've got a database of 400 million credit card payers in their iTunes store.
They're going to go at this in a whole different way.
This passbook thing is not going to be a payment system when it starts.
It's to replace what you have in your pocket.
Boarding passes, bus passes, Amtrak passes.
It'll have barcodes on all those things that your phone will project and example, you'll be able to use your phone as your boarding pass because you would put it in there.
I don't use any of this stuff.
So it is a Zilch Zero, not a value to me.
But for people who use this kind of stuff, it's going to be a pretty big step forward, but it's a ground level first step into a whole bunch of possibilities that Apple could end up controlling, which I'm sure they they want to do.
That's that's that's a pretty big thing.
I have to get the list in front of me, snurredly to go rat tat right down the list for you in in terms of things.
IOS 5 was major in in some of the uh updates that happened to it.
Plus, there's some there's always like Siri, we never knew until the new iPhone came out last year that there was something like Siri.
Uh none of the betas had Siri.
Nobody knew a thing about Siri until the week before the phone was introduced when Apple uh Apple leaked it.
I gotta take quick time out here, folks, as I look at the uh at time speeding by sit tight.
We will be back and continue right after this.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
you Look, there's a couple other things about iOS 6 for Apple.
One thing that they really are after Google.
You know, Google makes most of its money from search, and you know, with all the advertising that's on all of those searches in any number of ways, and Siri is being set up to replace Google.
Right now, Siri doesn't search.
You ask Siri a question that it doesn't have the answer, it'll take you to Google search, a Google, Google search or bing if you want to set it up there.
But Siri is going to do searches.
Even mundane stuff, like uh what's the score of the Yankees game?
Siri will tell you.
You need to open an app.
Siri will open the app for you.
They're gonna really expand Siri.
It's um it's much better at understanding what you say now too in terms of dictation, which I've always found fabulous anyway.
I really haven't had a problem with with Siri in that regard.
But they're gonna really, really improve.
I mean, Facebook integration is gonna be part of the system, and that's gonna be a huge deal for the kids.
They've already did that with Twitter, Facebook will be part of it in the fall.
They're gonna go much, much deeper with iCloud and the unification of the uh iPhone and iPad with your desktop computer.
It's it's just it's amazing stuff.
A lot of the headline stuff is stuff that I don't use, so I'm going kind of ho-hum.
Passbook's no big deal to me.
Movie tickets, I don't go to movies.
I don't get boarding passes.
I don't have Starbucks uh investment, I don't have none of that stuff.
But for people that do, it's gonna be uh a vast organizational improvement for them.
Here's uh who's next?
Where are we going next on the phones?
Ene meanie, uh Andrew in Lakeland, Florida.
Glad you uh called welcome to the program, sir.
Thank you, Russ.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Appreciate that.
Been listening to you since before I even knew what the radio was.
And uh anyway, it's it's great to talk to you now.
Thank you, sir.
Um you know, I was listening to the show today, and I was browsing drugs report, and I thought you'd find this funny.
Obama, the one that uh wants to give everybody who can't afford anything, you know, the Obama phone.
Um now he's asking people to give up their stuff On his website today, I'm reading this.
It's called the Obama Event Registry.
Have you heard of this?
The Obama event.
Yes.
I just just today.
I didn't study it.
I saw it it go it.
Somebody sent me an email about it with a web link in a commercial break, and I didn't have time to look at it.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It says uh let your friends know how important the election is.
Register with Obama and forego your gifts and give him a donation instead of a gift.
So now on the one day that that you know, it looks like a wedding invitation, right?
Yeah.
Well weddings, birthdays, uh, you know, uh anniversaries.
Just give up what your friends want to give to you and you know, give it to Obama.
Yeah, I also saw there's a fundraising letter from Michelle, and she tells people when they were living in Chicago and they were poor, and it snowed, Obama went out there and shoveled the sidewalk for her so she wouldn't fall when she left the house.
And he's doing the same for us.
And she it's a fundraising letter.
Obama is your spouse too, is is the theme.
Hang on, Andrew.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to Andrew Lakeland in Florida.
Here's this Michelle letter.
I wanted to read it to you.
All right, go ahead.
You can hear it on the phone.
It it starts out uh this way.
For the first ten years of our marriage, Barack and I lived in an apartment in my hometown of Chicago.
The winters there can be pretty harsh.
But no matter how snowy or icy it got, Barack would head out into the cold, shovel in hand.
Do they not get the irony here?
She's got Obama leaving the family abode with a shovel.
Here's a guy that promised shovel ready jobs and then joked about him.
He leaves the family abode shovel in hand to dig my car out before I went to work.
In all of our years of marriage, Barack has always looked out for me.
Now I see that same commitment every day to you and to this country.
The only way we'll win this election is if we can rely on one another like that all the way to November 6th.
You should know that your recent donation means a lot to both of us.
Barack is working hard, but he can't do this alone.
He needs your help.
Will you make another donation today to build this campaign?
When you do, you'll be automatically entered to join Barack and me for a casual dinner.
You know, I'm surprised that uh that uh you know he doesn't have us helping shovel snow so that he can get his weight from you know whole nine to whole ten on the golf course.
Uh or I mean, why would he have time to shovel snow for Michelle when he's too busy having popsicles with his daughter?
But hey, he's I guess he's I don't know why Michelle is leaving the house.
She had a no-show job.
When there's ice and snow on the ground, stay home.
Obama was shoveling the place so he could leave.
Exactly.
If he even did that.
Uh but yeah, this this uh this wedding invitation thing that you saw, that's just a new name for redistribution.
Instead of giving like let's say you're your your best friend's getting married, instead of giving them a gift, tell them that you're donating to Obama instead.
Can you imagine what they would say?
Yeah, I uh I gave my gift your your new gift to Obama.
Hope you support him.
Yeah, I know you were registered there at Neiman Marcus.
Uh and and instead of uh giving you the gravy boat, I decided to spend the equivalent on Obama for a president.
Right.
The funny thing is, I mean, even the people commenting on Obama's site, all the comments on this are negative.
I mean, even people who are on his site can't believe that he's doing it.
Well, he's becoming in in in a lot of ways a laughing stock.
He's you know, uh the the Alinsky rules for radicals, one of the many rules that it uh hypes is heap ridicule on your opponent.
That's the one thing that they can't answer.
It's the one thing they can't do anything about is when you ridicule them.
It's starting to happen to him.
But the what you what you're the this this uh invitation thing that you saw, it's just it's just crass.
And it also smacks desperation.
There The story was yesterday we had it.
He's spending more money than he's collecting, which is no surprise, actually, given the way he spends.
Right.
But now I think you're not noticing this stuff in a vacuum, Andrew.
This is uh well, you've been telling people for 23 years.
It's not just you noticing a lot of people are.
And I uh I'll sit here, I haven't not changed my mind.
I I think it is right now much worse for the Democrats in the White House and their re-elect effort than anybody, particularly in the drive-by media wants to admit or recognize.
But I think they're a full-fledged panic.
And I I think they're waiting with bated breath to see what happens with Obamacare next week.
But this is nowhere near what I thought they were going to be.
And I'm sure they thought that that Romney would be the never ending joke once he got the nomination.
And I don't think they expected the kind of rapid response that they're getting from from Romney to some of the attacks.
So I uh I think he's in heap big trouble.
And it would be only logical for him to what about anything in this country that's happening?
Does anybody want more of?
Oh, I know they're in the the people on the welfare want more.
Of course, but I mean talking about the people who make the the country work.
There's still more of those than not.
And a lot of the people unemployed want jobs.
They want to go back to work.
Work is how most people identify themselves.
It's where they take their sense of identity.
Most people don't like sitting around doing nothing.
It's easy to think that most people do.
It's easy to think it's a nation of slackers, but I don't I don't think that we're there yet.
A lot of people do disagree with me.
I mean, I'm looking at things through rose-colored glasses.
I don't.
In fact, Grab Audio Soundbite 5 and 6.
They're getting worried over at CNN.
They can't hide this anymore.
They they they can't pretend that we're in some kind of recovery here.
This is this morning on Starting Point at the Soledad O'Brien show, and she had the business and economics correspondent, Christine Romans on, and they had this little chat about the economy.
Rattle nerves sending the markets around the world lower, triggering some new fears of a double dip recession right here in the United States after looties downgraded 15 of the world's biggest banks.
It was a really ugly day.
Yes, second worst day for stocks in this country this year.
When you have people worried talking about a slowing global economy, what that's going to mean for banks, it just caused all kinds of concerns.
We've got contagion from Europe we're concerned about.
We're concerned about it's slowing numbers from China, from Europe, from Germany in particular.
Uh, we had a lot all kinds of macroeconomic data yesterday that was starting to show what many people have feared that the global economy is slowing down.
When it slows down, that means American factories are selling fewer things.
It means American business owners are not hiring people because they're worried about the global slowdown, it starts to feed on itself.
She's just not figuring this out, but at least they're figuring it out.
They're late to the party on this, but at least they're figuring it out.
And it's not just the global slowdown.
They're not uh small business on Main Street is looking at the fact that they don't have any customers.
Heck would Germany and Europe right now, they don't have any customers.
There's no reason to expand.
No reason to hire anybody.
And they don't know what's coming.
No what's coming with health care.
Don't know if Obama's gonna get reelected.
If he does, they know it's disaster.
Why invest the money now?
It we're we're we're in a in the midst of paralysis here.
So after hearing that, SolarDat O'Brien is scared to death.
She wants to know if this means that we are headed for a double dipper.
Does that mean then, yes, a double dip recession?
We can't say right now there will be a double dip recession.
We just know that growth is slowing around the world, and that is the big fear.
We've got other things going on.
The fiscal cliff is looming, debt ceiling stuff that's gonna be coming up, political problems around the world.
When there's prosperity, politics is not quite so dangerous.
But when you don't have prosperity, the politics become that much more important.
So many things to worry about.
I can make a list of all these things to worry about and maybe two things you don't have to worry about.
So that's where we are in the middle of the summer.
And they're not happy, folks.
They're very concerned.
Very concerned at CNN.
Double dip recession.
What happened to the recovery talk?
Oh.
Now, Mike run forward to Soundbite 14.
This is last night on Charlie Rose.
He had an author on a guy by the name of James Mann.
James Mann has a new book called The Obamians The Struggle Inside the White House to redefine American power.
Now you listen to this.
I can't believe Charlie actually had this guy on.
And I and after that, I can't believe this guy walked out of there without needing a wheelchair.
After what he said, it's another book on Obama.
Another window into what Obama's really all about.
And this is key to understanding Obama's worldview.
And I've I've thought for the longest time, just set this up.
I've told you, I don't know how many times.
I think Obama's a guy he's been educated and raised, he's got chip on his shoulder, and he's mad at this country.
It was unjustly founded.
It's immoral.
Slavery, all that stuff.
Discrimination against the poor.
It's set up by a bunch of rich guys for a bunch of rich guys.
And this country's isn't a superpower.
It's stolen everything.
It's stolen resources from other people around the world.
We're the reason that the rest of the world's in poverty, because we steal everything they've got.
I think he really believes this.
I think that that's why he apologizes for the country.
He thinks we're a bunch of imperialists have been marching around the globe taking what we want.
That's why he blanches at this whole notion of American exceptionalism.
You keep that in mind.
Charlie Rose asks James Mann, the author, can you define an Obama doctrine?
At the heart of this book is the notion of American primacy in the world.
That post-World War II, that America is the unquestioned world leader and is able to serve as the world leader and has always looked to.
That lasted through the Cold War, even more so after the end of the Cold War.
And it's not that Obama at all wants to do away with that role, but he has in mind that maybe we won't always be the maintainer role of primacy in the world.
Obama gives speeches that are quite intriguing that say we have helped underwrite global security for the last six decades, sometimes without thanks.
That perfect tense in there kind of suggests that maybe we won't always be the world's leader.
Yeah.
We won't always be.
I disagree with the author.
I think it's on purpose.
I think his mission's to cut America down to size.
This guy's saying that.
He's just trying to give it legitimacy.
We never did have the ability to police the world.
We never did have the ability to protect the world.
We never did have the.
And Obama knows this.
Obama's smart enough to know that we never had the ability to be this superpower.
It's all been a dream.
He's going to cut us back to size.
That's reality.
We're number two.
Or three.
You listen to him.
He admires the Chicoms.
He salivates.
He wishes this country to Chicoms.
Like Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, these guys sit around and they speculate how much fun it would be just to be able to sign something and make a decision without a Congress, without any political opposition, and the smartest people in the country and have them fix everything by just implementing what they believe.
That's how they see China, and they see it wonderfully.
And that's what they want here.
And of course, they think they are the smart people who should be in charge of all this implementation.
Be right back, folks.
I check the email, as I always do during the break.
And there's some people that do not believe.
Our caller Andrew.
But he was making it up about Obama asking you to forego wedding gifts.
He's not.
This is at the Drudge page.
It's called the Obama Event Registry.
And here's what it says.
You got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?
Let your friends know how important this election is to you.
Register with Obama 2012 and ask for a donation to Obama in lieu of a gift to you.
It's a great way to support The president on your big day.
Plus, it's a gift that we can all appreciate and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.
I'm not the guy was not making it up.
The Obama event registry, and you can click on register with Obama 2012.
You're getting married, you got a birthday.
You're supposed to tell your guests to donate to Obama instead to you.
It's it's it's right here.
Obama's asking people getting married to forego gifts for themselves and ask their guests to donate to him.
Yeah, it's a guy that calling other people greedy and selfish.
Exactly right.
Now, Valerie Jarrett got married.
Her daughter got married uh not long ago.
I want did she forego gifts, Valerie Jarrett's daughter?
For did Obama ask Valerie Jarrett's daughter to ask her wedding guests to send money to him.
No way.
You know it didn't happen.
How long is it going to be before Obama starts asking people to remember his campaign in their wills?
Can you see it now?
A website.
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