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July 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 4, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Now we know times are tough for everybody.
Everybody.
It's hit everybody.
Have you heard about this?
The Nobel Prize Committee has reduced the size of their financial awards by 20% because of a sluggish economy.
I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen.
The cash award that comes with the Nobel Prize have been slashed by 20%.
And that means that the Nobel Prize Award amount is now 1.1 million dollars.
After a 20% cut.
The Nobel Committee is blaming it on a sluggish economy and probably George W. Bush.
I've got four or five sound bites today, Obama officials blaming everything on Bush.
It's getting hilarious now, getting laughable.
And pretty soon they're going to be able to blame everything on Jeb Bush.
But I think, folks, it's a poetic justice.
After all, they've uh they've reduced the real value of the Nobel Prize by 20%.
Forget the cash award, the real value of that, in fact, probably more than 20% by giving it to people like Yasser Arafat, Al Gore, of course, Barack Killist Obama Kardashian, getting a Nobel Prize before he's even done anything.
And I say this, by the way, as a as a former uh Nobel Prize nominee.
You know, I'm in the club.
I mean, I'm not a winner, but I have a nominator for Nobel Prize.
I lost to Al Gore that year.
So I'm I'm I'm closer to this than most people.
I'm I'm able to relate.
Great to have you here, folks.
Already it's Wednesday.
Unbelievable.
Fastest week in media.
Rush Limboy here on Hump Day.
Great to have you with us.
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Well, what else do I have?
Um, folks.
Once they start, they never stop.
And they are never happy no matter what they get.
I'm talking about the American left.
First mayor Doomberg comes out.
Well, what was first?
Was it trans fats first?
Was it salt first?
Salt, New York City.
Well, yeah, but but Doomberg didn't do the smoking, did he?
Was Doomberg the guy that led the smoking?
Oh, that's right.
That's right, because Rudy Rudy smokes cigars.
Rudy wouldn't do anything.
Oh, that's absolutely okay.
So Doomberg.
Doomberg is taking the fun out of life in Fun City, in New York City.
So start it with the with smoking, and then trans fans and then salt and large sweetened soft drinks.
And now this.
The board handpicked by Mayor Michael Doomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants, might be looking at other targets.
The New York City Board of Health showed support For limiting the size of sugary drinks at a meeting yesterday in Queens, and then they agreed to start the process to formalize the large drink ban by agreeing to start a six-week public comment period.
And then, after getting the ball rolling on that, some of the members of the board said they should be considering other limits on high calorie foods.
One member, Bruce Vladick, thinks limiting the sizes for movie theater popcorn should be considered.
He said that popcorn isn't a whole lot better than soda.
Another board member thinks that milk drinks should fall under the same limits.
That was board member Dr. Joel Foreman, who said there are certainly milkshakes and milk coffee beverages that have monstrous amounts of calories.
So limiting the size of popcorn, they've already eliminated coconut oil as the oil you can use to pop popcorn, and it's one of the healthiest oils out there.
And it's what always made the movie theater smell like the movie theater.
It's always what it you no matter what you pop popcorn in, if it's not coconut oil, it doesn't smell like a movie theater.
I don't care.
Chrisco, Wesson, uh Mazzola, nothing is like coconut oil.
And there's another reason that coconut oil was used by uh uh concessionaires, and that is it holds the popcorn much longer.
I remember when I worked at Kansas City Royals, the concessionaire at the time was an outfit named Volume Services.
I don't know if they're still around if uh they use Aromark now, and that might be the name.
Anyway, volume services, and then part of my job was to go down and get to know these people, and their operation was underneath the parking lot between Royal Stadium, Kaufman Stadium now, and Arrowhead Stadium, and went down there, and the minute I got down to this cave, all I smelled was the popcorn.
I said, Oh my gosh, this is an opportunity.
I go get some coconut oil from these guys.
So I met the head honcho, and I went down there, and he had vats and vats and vats of the coconut oil.
Gee, can you give me some of this stuff?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
How much?
I said, where do you get it?
Well, we can only get this uh for private service, you can't get it publicly, it's not available at consumers.
I said, why not?
Yeah, I don't know, I forget what he said.
I said, What was the big deal?
He said, the reason we use it is not just because of the smell and taste.
It holds the popcorn.
We can pop popcorn, and two weeks later, as long as we heat it up, it'll taste like it just came out of the popper.
Well, I've tested that, and that's true.
I now have three or four coconut oil popcorn machines throughout my uh my homestead.
And I've tested it, popped the stuff up and put it in Ziploc bags, whatever you don't use, heat it up week later, it's fresh as it can be.
No other oil does that.
So it's economical as well.
Well, the Center for Science of Public Interest took care of that.
They got that banned on the basis that it'll clog your arteries and cause strokes, heart attacks, death, and all that.
Now they're actually going to try to ban certain sizes of popcorn in movie theaters.
And milk drinks.
Where does this stuff stop?
Now we sit here and we laugh at it, but it doesn't stop with these people.
They're not content to limit themselves.
They have to limit everybody else.
They have to make sure everybody else follows the same dictates.
And it's none of their business.
Now, Doomberg was asked about this, CBS this morning, Charlie Rose.
Trevorly Rose never got more publicity it gets on this show.
We probably are making Charlie Rose's career.
Nobody watches that show.
But since I put a ban on MSNBC, the only place we can go to get liberal sound bites, CBS, NBC, or CNN.
And no, I'm not going to lift the ban on MS. Can I tell you something?
I took MSNBC off the top monitor here a month ago.
I can't tell you, overall, it was a slow creeping thing.
It wasn't a an instant massive realization.
It was just one day I realized I wasn't constantly running around ticked off, thinking I had to react to something, respond to something, listen to something asinine, Insane stupid, which is all there is on MSNB.
My life, my professional life, has been enhanced profoundly by not having that network on and not listening to the stupid sound bites that come out of the people at work there.
That's a trade-off.
Now we have to play Charlie Rose sound bites and Anderson Cooper sound bites, but life is made of sacrifices.
And this one has been one of those that turned out to actually be not a sacrifice, but a but a positive.
So anyway, Doomberg is talking to Charlie Rose today.
And Charlie Rose said, You talk about education crime and gun control, but you attract enormous attention for what you're trying to do in health.
There was smoking, there was trans fat, now there's sugar and sugary drinks.
And uh he doesn't mention it, but popcorn and milk products are next.
What is it?
What is it that drives you to impose this stuff on people?
If government's purpose isn't to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don't know what its purpose is.
We certainly have an obligation to tell them what's in the best science and best medicine says is in their interests.
How do we know if that's true?
One of the things we've learned over the course of the last 20 years is what science tells us is bogus.
How many scientific theories, and I'm not even counting global warming in this, how many scientific theories have we heard over the years that turn out not to be true?
I mean, I just ought to keep a list of them because it's it's longer than anybody can remember.
But science has been politicized and it's it's dominated by people on the left, and Doomberg's a leftist, and so whatever they say is unchallengeable.
It's always true.
Okay, so he says, if government's purpose isn't to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don't know what its purpose is.
We certainly have an obligation to tell them what's okay, tell us, tell us, fine, but don't impose on us.
If you want to tell us that large sugary drinks are dangerous, let us make the decision.
If you want to tell us that big vats of popcorn you think are unhealthy, fine.
Let us make the decision.
Put a label on it if you want to.
You know, put a picture of a clogged artery on the popcorn bowl.
We don't care.
Just let us buy it if we want it.
I'm folks.
This is classic liberalism.
This is classic statism.
This is right in front of our eyes, the vast rapid erosion of personal liberty and freedom.
Now you might think it's a minor thing, but these things never stop.
Once they start, they never are satisfied.
No improvement, no ban, no progress, as far as they define it, is ever enough.
Where does this stop?
It doesn't.
That's the point.
It doesn't stop.
These people have to be limited in their access to power.
It is none of their business.
Go ahead.
Do all the science you want, do all the research, and then tell us.
And let us make the decision.
But they can't do that because as far as they're concerned, we don't have what it takes.
We're not smart enough.
We're not educated enough.
We're not bright enough to know what's good for us and what's bad for us.
And not just with popcorn and coke and all the other cigarettes.
No, no, no.
It's everything.
It's health care.
It's buying a house.
It's getting into college.
It's paying for cups.
We don't know diddly squat.
They want to run and control everything.
And who set them up as the arbiters?
They did.
Pure and simple.
So Charlie Rose said, Well, sugar seems to have gotten bigger attention.
You talk about the size of the drink and the big newspaper pictures of you as a nanny.
But that's just because it's the story of the week.
That'll get blended into lots of other things.
The average person today is much heavier than they were.
This is obesity is becoming the single biggest health problem in America and will kill more people than smoking in a few years.
They just throw this stuff out.
No backup, no proof for it.
But so what?
We're all going to die.
See, this is where health care comes in.
Because What he's not saying is we're going to be paying for your health care, and we're going to have to limit how much we pay for you.
So you're going to have a role.
You're going to be told what you can and can't eat, and how much of what you can't eat you can eat.
Otherwise, it's going to put cost pressures on health care, and you may they were wrong about salt, by the way.
Was it just last week or two weeks ago we had that big story?
All of these stories about salt and high blood pressure turn out to be wrong.
Mr. Limbaugh, why do you automatically accept that story and then then simply refuse 20,000 years of previous Mr. New Castrati asking me a question?
Mr. New Castrati's not the point.
The point is for 20,000 years, salt equals high blood pressure.
Last week, two weeks ago, a story.
No, it doesn't.
What are we to believe?
Point is they don't know.
And yet here we are making policy on this.
You've got Doomberg has far more important things to do than this kind of stuff, but this is it's all about control.
It's all about I grow weary.
And then and it's it's not the only thing.
Here's National Review today by proposing a ban on large sodas in New York City Mayor Doomberg made himself a competitive candidate for chairman of the anti-fund committee.
But the FDA might have him beat.
They have now moved to regulate cigars as they already do cigarettes.
We knew this was coming.
Hang on, just a second.
My cigar happened to have gone out.
So I, El Rush, we're gonna torch it up here, and I'm gonna puff on this baby while I tell you what the details of this story are.
All right.
Representative Bill Posey, Republican, Florida, has introduced legislation.
It's currently before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to block the FDA's effort.
So far so good.
He's got 203 sponsors in the House, nine sponsors in the Senate.
What they want to do is regulate cigars identically to the way they regulate cigarettes.
Warnings, bans, can't smoke them anywhere, can't touch them.
This FDA rule would prevent people from going into a tobacco star store and actually touching the merchandise.
Every day, folks, when is this gonna end?
It's not minor, it's not insignificant.
Out of context and by itself, it's laughable, it's funny, but you throw it all in the mix with who these people are and what they're trying to do, and what you end up with is a Barack Obama in his administration.
And these people represent 30% of the thinking in this country.
They are not the majority.
And even if they were, it wouldn't entitle them to impose every scientific belief they hold on the rest of us.
Just because they believe it doesn't mean we have to.
Just because they believe something doesn't mean we must be subject to their mandates on these things.
Not in the United States of America.
Be back after this.
Make no mistake about it, the Democrats are panicking.
Karen Tumulty, the Washington Post, the latest example in the media.
But they're all writing stories now that the Democrats are waking up in the morning now and for the first time confronting the real possibility.
In fact, some are even calling it a likelihood that Obama could lose.
And they're contemplating this for the first time.
They've never ever, up till now, up till last week, thought it possible Obama could lose.
Well, Obama's down two points in North Carolina.
Obama only won that state by 12,000 votes.
Some of the polling data out of North Carolina has Obama down significantly among black voters.
Now let me give you a caveat.
I'm nervous citing polling data in June about an election in November.
And even Obama himself is doing his Alfred E. Newman impressions.
I'm not worried.
Most people aren't even paying attention now.
And he may be right about that.
I'm not so sure, though.
As destructive as his policies have been, as miserable as people are, as hopeless as the situation looks, I think more people are paying attention than would be normally at this time in election year.
Normally the mass population starts tuning in after Labor Day.
Starts building up during the conventions.
I think we're ahead of that.
Tea Party's evidence of it.
These are people that were never involved in politics before, started getting involved three years ago.
I think more and more people are paying more and more attention.
Obama may be fooling himself.
But he's down.
I'll give you the polling date anyway.
He's down significantly.
I don't have a numbers right in front of me, down significantly in black voters in North Carolina and losing the state.
And it just Rasmussen just hit with Romney up by three over Obama in Wisconsin, 4744.
Now, I don't put a lot of stock in polls right now, but they do.
Presidential candidates, presidents live and die by them.
They do, and theirs are worse than even this.
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The public policy polling poll says that Romney would get 20% of the black vote compared with 76% for Obama if the election were held today in North Carolina.
Now, I'd as I say a poll today is worth nothing more than the trend if even that.
I mean, it's a snapshot of today, but it it no guarantee that that sentiment is gonna is gonna hold, obviously, from now to September.
But the thing about it, professional politicians live and die by this stuff, and they are guided and affected in policy uh and other public positioning by these polls.
And I'm just gonna tell you that a poll in North Carolina, and they barely won North Carolina, it turns out to be a crucial state this year.
Obama won it by 12,000 votes, I think, in in 2008.
If he loses 2% of the black vote, forget 10% of it, if he loses 2% of the black vote in North Carolina, it's over.
That's why the Democrat National Convention is in Charlotte was to go in there and shore things up, and it's not working.
Um I guarantee you, this public policy polling poll, and it's a North Carolina firm, big bunch of libs.
If they say that Romney would get 20% of the black vote, and Obama 76, I guarantee you at the White House they see that.
At the Congressional Black Caucus, they see, and they have to believe it.
They can't sit there and say, well, it's only June the 13th.
They have to factor it.
And it does affect what they'll do going forward.
Now, Obama's counting on getting 95% of the black vote in North Carolina like he did in 2008.
Now, according to public policy polling, Obama was at 87% in May.
So he's lost more than 20% of the black vote.
He's at 76% now.
He had 87% of the black vote in the poll last month, and he's down now to 76.
So that's 11% that he's lost.
But there are a lot of reasons for this.
One is that Obama has evolved on his views on gay marriage since back in early May.
That's caused some blacks to probably do some evolving of their of their own.
And then you throw Wisconsin into this, and the people who live and die by polls are going to look at both polls, and they're going to be forced to believe it.
They have no choice but then to believe it.
If they ignore it, they do so at their own peril.
I've always thought if I were an elected official, I would ignore polls.
I will I I I'm sure that My advisors would go batty, but I would ignore them.
But these people won't.
The bottom line is that they live and die by this stuff.
They do largely everything they do based on these polls.
And I think they've been trending like this for a long time, and they're trending in such a way.
We had the numbers yesterday.
We had a caller with a great stat.
uh And I forget precisely what he said in the statistics.
I do remember two-thirds of incumbent presidents since 1825 have lost re-election.
Two-thirds since 1825 have lost.
Everybody thinks that incumbency is an automatic shoe-in factor, and statistically it isn't.
Now, in recent years, if you go back not quite as far as 1825, the percentage changes.
And in recent years, the incumbent does perform better in re-election.
But if you go back to 1825 and factor it all in, it's not a slam dunk incumbency.
And Obama is nowhere near where he needs to be traditionally for incumbent presidents.
You have to be at least 50% of the polls at some point in the year.
And he's not there.
And he's trending the other way.
And that's the uh that's the point about this.
And you take a look at the accompanying news stories.
The combination of fundraising, which is down, I don't care what they tell, all these fundraisers Obama does.
Why do you think he's doing so many?
Is because they're way, way down.
And now they're running an ad.
Folks, they're running another celebrity dinner fundraiser.
The difference in this one is that they want you to tell them who the celebrity will be.
They have decided that they're going to keep up with this uh positioning of being out of touch with the vast majority of their voters.
And they're strict, they're going all Kardashian all the time.
Celebrity of the United States.
Obama's outraising money left and right.
He's done more fundraisers than Bush combined.
And the reason is all he's gonna have is television spots.
He can't run on a record.
All he's gonna have is TV ads to try to scare people about Mitt Romney.
He's gonna talk about Romney care.
That's that's the one shoe that hasn't dropped yet.
And it will at some point.
But Romney's way ahead in fundraising Obama is not where he should be in the polls.
These polls are all trending the wrong way, and so they have really allowed panic to set in.
It's a combination of fundraising in the polls, give us stories like this.
This from politico.
Democrats want change in Obama's message.
I don't see why.
Why would Democrats want to change in Obama's message?
Maybe there's a clue in the story.
Maybe here's what they're talking about.
Then Obama summarized his own message.
If people ask you, what's this campaign about, you tell them it's still about hope.
And you tell them it's still about change, and you tell them it's still about ordinary people who believe that in the face of great odds we can still make a difference in the life of this country.
I still believe that.
So Obama at these fundraisers is telling his donors it's still about hope, it's still about change.
But the Democrats want a change in Obama's because it isn't working.
He's not connecting with anybody.
Karen Tummulty in the Washington Post, Obama's campaign rough patch concerns some Democrats.
Is it time for Democrats to panic?
Look, I'm in charge of that.
I've uh I've assumed the responsibility of telling people when it's panic time for both Democrats and Republicans.
As Tumulty writes, that's what a growing number of party loyalists are wondering amid a rough couple of weeks in which Obama and his political operation have been buffeted by bad economic news, their own gaffes, and signs that Romney is gaining strength.
You know, folks, the number of articles detailing The disaster that's known as Obama's campaign is astounding.
There are at least two of them a day.
And if the liberals are jittery now, you imagine what's going to happen if the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare.
And that's going to come up in this month at some point.
If it's struck down in whole or in part.
Now, as Karen Tumbledy writes, Obama's team isn't insists that it is unfazed by the recent bumps in the political road.
By November, they say it's going to be about who do I trust more in his approach to the debt?
Who do I trust more to create middle class jobs?
Who do I trust more to create an energy future?
Who do I trust more as it relates to Afghanistan?
That's David Pluff, who ran Obama's campaign in 2008.
Oh, let's look at this.
Obama's campaign strategist says to the Washington Post, by November, voters are going to be asking, who do I trust more in our approach to debt?
Is that even a question?
One man is responsible for a third of the national debt that has occurred in three years.
Mitt Romney can't be tied to one penny of debt.
Obama doesn't have one policy to reduce the debt.
He's not even interested in it.
What planet are these guys on?
So I tell you, I d it's like I've always, you know, Hillary, uh, everybody was just in fearful awe of Hillary Clinton back in the 90s.
Wait a minute, just like every other guy, she puts her pants on one leg at a time, and these Obama people the same way, they're nothing superhuman about these guys.
In fact, they're fallible, and they're not that smart.
Anybody could have gotten Obama elected in 08, and I'll say it.
Anybody could have gotten Obama elected.
Look what he was running against.
Look what the media had done to eight years of Bush.
It was by the time McCain started his campaign and gave indications of what he wasn't going to permit, then everybody knew wouldn't have mattered.
And then the next question, who do I trust more to create middle class jobs?
What are they smoking?
They really think that that's a contest.
There aren't any middle class jobs.
Whatever job creation's going on are part-time jobs with no permanent benefits attached.
When the answer to that's to blame Bush or to say that Romney is responsible for it.
These guys are giving themselves an impossible task.
The next question, who do I trust more to create an energy future?
Who is it that is illustrating that wind and solar are busts and lead to debt and bankruptcy.
There isn't any business there.
If this is what these guys are reading, no wonder Democrats are getting worried.
It sounds like he's gonna run on his record.
And he doesn't have one.
Who do I trust more as it relates to Afghanistan?
Believe me, by the time we get to November, the economy is not gonna straighten out.
Afghanistan's not gonna be in the top four of what's on people's minds.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue in mere moments.
We'll be back before you know it.
I'm here, folks, that's waiting on the printer, and we're back.
One of the reasons I think the regime, Obama is quoted as saying that I'm not worried.
I don't think anybody's paying attention, and people aren't paying attention right now.
And traditionally he would be right.
June, not that much.
This is different, though.
I I think far more people are paying attention, both sides of the aisle.
But Obama can be excused because his media is not reporting all that's going on out there.
He can be excused for not knowing what's going on.
I want to tell you a little not tell you a story.
I want to report something to you That happened last Friday, and ask you if you've heard about this.
It's from our old buddies at Newsbusters.org.
One hundred and sixty-four rallies across the United States last Friday against the federal government's abortifaction birth control mandate under Obamacare.
One hundred and sixty-four rallies.
Religious leaders and conservative politicians addressed tens of thousands of pro-religious freedom activists who attended the rallies.
ABC, CBS, NBC did not think they were worthy of coverage, either in their morning or evening newscasts.
By contrast, what CBS reported was the supporters of a group of left-leaning Catholic nuns had four on air segments between May 30th and June 1.
The correspondent Wyatt Andrews hyped how hundreds of Catholics have rallied behind the sisters, and that protests in support of the nuns have been held in almost 50 cities.
Have you heard about any of this?
One paragraph Snerdily said he saw on the 164 rallies across the country.
The nuns story.
Do you know what the nun story is?
Yep.
But what yeah, but what are the nuns doing?
Do you know what the nuns are doing?
The nuns have gone feminizing on everybody.
This small group of nuns in the Catholic church is going feminist.
And the Vatican is is obviously figure of speech slapping them down.
And the Vatican's trying to tamp it down and say, no, no, no, that doesn't happen.
If you there's no such thing as a feminist nun.
Anyway, that's what CBS spent four stories doing.
164 rallies across the country, tens of thousands of people protesting the encroachment by Obamacare on the religious liberty.
They didn't report it.
There are things like this, Tea Party rallies, all kinds of things happening all over the country that are happening and are not being reported.
And so Obama and his crowd might be excused for not knowing this stuff is happening because their media outlets are not reporting it.
On the other hand, Spike Lee is predicting a tough road to re-election for President Kardashian.
He gave an interview to GQ magazine.
Spike Lee said this thing is not a lock.
It's not a lock that President Obama's getting a second term.
People have to really rekindle the enthusiasm that we had the first time.
Now, Spike hosted a fundraiser for Obama in January.
He said he just had a meeting with somebody high up in the Obama campaign to discuss the race.
He said, I can't say to all the people that are unhappy with him that their race is people.
People ain't got jobs, man.
People ain't got jobs.
People are hurting, so I don't care what color you are.
If people are out of work, it's tough.
And then when you're the first African American president, that's not helping either.
What?
Not helping.
Spike Lee, in the end, it says here doesn't sound too worried because Romney is the opponent.
Once we get to the debates, my man's gonna tear him up.
It's gonna be obvious who should lead the country for the next four years once they go head to head, toe-to-toe, elbow to elbow, butt to butt.
And I don't think Romney can hang with him.
I think you people are lying to yourselves.
I think you have an inflated sense of Obama's talent and skill.
You take the prompter away from him, and it's a car wreck potentially.
That's why people are going to watch.
All of these assumptions.
Obama's brilliant, smarter than anybody else.
These people really think David Pluff and these guys really think Obama can win on trust.
And we're going to trust him more on the economy and on green energy and on Afghanistan and so forth and debt.
What are they smoking?
Sounds like the whole campaign's a chum room or a chum, or whatever.
was it chum room and these nuns sound like a bunch of fluke uh flukes I have a question for well will will Spike Lee be taken to woodshed for saying that some people who oppose Obama are not racist?
Is there and have you are you keeping track of the details in the in the Jerry Sandusky trial?
Folks are you reading about do you do you know what's being said at the Sandusky trial?
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