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July 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I remember if you think about um I'm sorry, folks, I am totally distracted here with the audio problem that I've got here.
I'm testing one, two, three, test, test, test one, two, three.
Okay.
Um I was thinking about this this stuff in Chicago, Rom Emanuel, and no, it's got to be something different coming down the line from New York today.
It's entirely different.
I don't can't describe it.
Um remember in 1993, there was a gang summit.
I think it was in Chicago.
It was it well, yeah, the East West Coast uh uh gang wars and so forth, but but but uh Clinton was there, and and uh I think Ben Shavis, who ran at the time the uh NAA LCP at the time, and that remember midnight basketball.
Midnight basketball was a creation of Bill Clinton as a means of getting gangbangers off the streets at midnight and onto the basketball court, so they weren't killing people.
Remember that?
So my point is I thought we solved it.
I thought Clinton and a Democrats solved this problem way back in 1993.
Midnight basketball, we had the gangbanger summit.
I and I'm I think it was Kansas City, I'm not sure, but I think it was Kansas City.
Yeah, and they were and oh, that's something they were calling for jobs.
Jobs is a big problem.
Do you realize with this mess going on in Chicago, this rampant murder rate, if there were a Republican president, it wouldn't be the mayor's problem at all.
No, it'd be the Republican president's problem.
It'd be the lack of jobs, it'd be the horrible economy.
But they can't blame Obama for this.
And they can't blame Ron Emmanuel for it.
I mean, he's a godfather, he's the mayor of Chicago.
They can't blame him for this.
So they're lost.
All they can do is beg the gangbanger, stop killing kids.
Kill other people, but leave our kids alone.
Now I'm not an expert on things, but but uh I think in organized crime, kids have always been off limits, haven't they?
Well, apparently not in Chicago.
Nobody's off limits in Chicago organized crime, whatever kind of organized crime it is.
But I'm just sitting here thinking it's another liberal program.
Remember how it was all celebrated?
Midnight basketball.
Remember that?
And and the gangbang sum.
Then we had the million-man march that uh that Calypso Lewis organized, uh Minister Farr account, where he explained the satanic uh content of the number 19.
Remember that?
Yeah, I thought all of that fixed this problem.
Just like the war on poverty was gonna wipe out poverty.
Yeah, here it is from the from the summit report, Kansas City 1993.
Participants made several concrete proposals.
They called for creating half a million jobs for at-risk youths.
They recommended citizen patrols to videotape the actions of cops to prevent brutality.
They asked that President Clinton appoint a commission of people of color to address police brutality.
That yeah, I'd forgotten that part too.
But yeah, the cops were a major part of the problem.
The cops were too zealous.
Yeah, if you recall this, cops are too zealous in enforcing crime.
And so the cops are brought in and told them back off at midnight basketball, uh, asked for 500,000 jobs into the million men march, which by the way, Obama helped organize.
People don't know this.
Obama helped organize the million man march.
I kid you not.
He did.
The summit agenda also emphasized the need for changes among blacks and Hispanics.
Traditional values, respect for women, and effective parenting were listed as goals.
That's what it said.
What do you what are you uncomfortable with it for?
This is this I am reading to you from the summit agenda.
They emphasis racist, if Emphasize the need for changes among blacks and Hispanics, traditional values, respect for women, and effective parenting were listed as goals.
What's racist about that?
Sounds like it didn't.
Um, it's that's I don't know how else to say it to you.
That's exactly uh uh violence was was denounced.
The gangs were not.
Gangs were not denounced, violence was a familiar refrain among participants was that street gangs are the equivalent of police, um military fraternities.
And so we can't get rid of them.
That's a cultural thing, like hip hop, it's a cultural.
We have to understand this.
I'm just telling you what the reports I'm reading to you from news accounts of the summit that occurred in Kansas City in 1993.
I'm just reading to you.
I'm not making this up.
It's exactly what it was all about.
Plus, of course, midnight basketball.
My look at folks, my only point is 1993, nearly 20 years ago, the Democrats fixed this.
They had a summit, they got together, they addressed the issues, they identified the issues, and they came up with their solutions.
What I've read to just from the Baltimore Sun.
I'll put the link at Rushlimbaugh.com if you want it.
Just read to you from the Baltimore Sun.
Snurdly asking me if I'm insane.
I can understand how some people would be offended at the notion that a gang summit uh would be told that they need to respect traditional values and respect for women.
Well, whose traditional values and whose respect for women are we talking about here, dude?
I can imagine was a question that was asked by many of the attendees.
Yeah, really, respect for women, who's respect for women?
Ted Kennedy's.
Uh whose respect for respect for women are we talking about?
Anyway, uh it's just another illustration.
You leave these problems to the left and you get more of the problem.
And by the way, now we're going to need more government to fix this.
It's exactly the recipe.
It's exactly what happens.
Government comes up with a program to fix a problem.
Makes the problem worse.
This is exactly what's going to happen with healthcare.
Health care is going to become the biggest nightmare of people's lives after it's fully implemented.
A new government program is going to be called for to fix what's wrong with it.
And it's going to progressively deteriorate and become as ineffective as every liberal program that's ever come down the pike is.
And we will never be allowed to examine the results of the program.
We are supposed to examine the good intentions of the people who propose the program and attempt to uh to implement it.
No, I am not going to suggest they try Sharia law in Chicago, Sturdley.
Sorry, you're not going to get Snerdley wants me to suggest to Rama Menu hey, try try Sharia law.
Leave the kids alone.
I mentioned it toward the end of the previous hour that yesterday a lot of the media was shaken up.
The media has been comfortable, and you may find this hard to believe the media, the the Democrats, the left, have been comfortable with the way Romney's going about campaigning on the economy.
Because they have been of the opinion that it's ineffective.
And it largely is ineffective given the discussion that we had yesterday.
We live in a new era.
Traditional campaign theory, tactics, everything in the playbook, you pretty much have to throw out.
We've never had this degree of dependence before.
We have you've got more people signing up for disability than getting jobs in the month of June.
That's unprecedented.
It's never happened.
People are signing up for disability when their unemployment compensation expires after their 99 weeks is over.
They need the money.
There aren't any jobs.
But it doesn't matter as much now that you don't have a job.
First place there's no stigma attached.
The second place you can still eat, and you can still have your cell phone, you still have your cell phone coverage paid for, and you can still have your uh your car and your and your plasma.
And so the the degree of pain that's attached to not having a job for a lot of people, not everybody.
Some people have a have a moral aspect to it, they just despise, but for a lot of people, there's not that much pain.
And there's a uh an aspect of 8.2%, 8.1% unemployment as a new norm.
It's been three and a half years, it hasn't gotten any better.
The media is not holding anybody to account on it.
The Romney runs around campaigning on this in a traditional way that probably isn't going to get a lot of traction.
Or is it, and it was the only thing he was campaigning on.
The economy was it.
So yesterday, pointing all this out yesterday, some in the media got a little nervous over this.
Got a little nervous about this.
Because there was a comfort level attached to the way the Romney campaign was dealing with the economy, a comfort level on the part of the Democrats.
Here is an example.
We go to CNN.
By the way, I think I've figured out what CNN's going to do to try to recapture their lost glory.
I think they're going to move further to the left, try to even out left MSNBC.
That's based on a couple of things I've seen.
It's too early to know for certain, too soon to tell right now, but it looks to me like that CNN is going to move even further left in their valiant effort to recapture the 98% of their audience that they've lost since the 1980s.
Now, this morning on a program called Newsroom, they anchor Carol Costello, who is also the CNN assigned stalker of this program.
She spoke to a columnist at the Daily Beast by the name of John Evlon about the Romney campaign and me, and the question was she played audio of me saying that the economy is not enough for Romney to win on.
And then she said, So is Rush Limbaugh right?
Are we dealing with something new in 2012?
What Rush Limbaugh is alluding to is that this race is going to get uglier.
It's going to get nastier, it's going to get more negative.
When he talks explicitly about how Romney he believes needs to do to Obama what he did previously to Gingerton Santorum, that's a very specific prescription.
That's what Rush Limbaugh is encouraging Mitt Romney to do, to go negative and to use a financial advantage to try to, you know, look, politics ain't been bagged, but that's the prescription Rush Limbaugh's saying that Mitt Romney needs to follow.
Well, that's pretty much right.
And that worries them.
It worries them.
They don't want that to happen.
Romney does have a financial advantage.
They want Obama to own Mr. Negative.
They want Obama to be Mr. Cutthroat.
They don't want to see the Romney that destroyed Santorum and that destroyed Newt with his super PAC.
They don't want to see that.
So now they're a little worried, which takes us to President Obama himself.
Even while I was away, I was still making news.
It's amazing how this happens.
Oops.
I told you, here we go.
Wrong stack of sound bites.
This is Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio.
And here's Obama talking about Romney and the Supreme Court to health care ruling.
What's going to happen, and we saw this when Medicare first started, uh a lot of times politics uh gets in the way of common sense.
And so there are a lot of Republican governors who feel pressure from Rush Limbaugh and members of Congress not to implement them.
So they think it's bad politics.
Over time, though, when they start seeing that more and more people in states that do implement are getting a better deal on their health insurance.
Costs are going down, fewer people are uninsured.
Over time, what happens is the politics fades away, and this thing gets implemented.
Let me translate that for you.
What Obama is suggesting is that I am going to pressure and influence Republican governors into not establishing state exchanges.
And there's a reason he has that fear.
If the states do not establish the exchanges that are called for an Obamacare, because of the quirks in the law that we mentioned to you, they can deal a serious blow to Obamacare.
They can't shut it down or nullify it, but they can deal it a serious blow.
They are upset that this has been discovered.
There are a number of governors who've already said Rick Perry in Texas, a number of them.
What they mean is we're not going to set up these exchanges.
We're not going to do it.
And without the exchanges, there is no Obama tax.
And so what he's trying to capitalize here on is the presumption that my name is instant negativity, instant discreditation.
And these governors are going to be pressured from, you know, Rush Limbaugh not to implement my Obamacare.
Gosh, if that's only true.
Thank you.
If that's only true.
And then Obama wasn't through.
He was uh uh this is eyeball news Channel 5 in Cincinnati.
The fact that a whole bunch of Republicans in Washington suddenly said this is a tax.
For six years he said it wasn't, and now he's suddenly reversed himself.
And so the question becomes um, are you doing that because of politics?
Are you abandoning a principle that you fought for for six years simply because you're getting pressure for two days from uh Rush Limbaugh or some critics in Washington?
Whoa, it's a second time he's mentioned my name here in relationship to Obamacare.
A president of the United States a little worried over the influence I might wield over Republican governors on his health care bill.
So in the first bite, I'm telling these guys not to go along with the exchanges and the Medicare expansion, and then I'm telling these guys to tell everybody else that this is a tax, that Obamacare is a tax.
And this is very illustrative.
It's highly indicative of what they're worried about.
It was Obama.
Everybody running the Democrats swore it wasn't a tax.
This is Pat Cadell's point.
They're the ones that said it wasn't a tax.
Supreme Court just said that it is.
And this is not a debate over tax or penalty.
Don't care.
It is brand new costs to you when Obama promised your costs were going to go down.
It is a tax.
It is the biggest tax in the history of the world when this thing is fully implemented.
That's what Obamacare is.
It's the biggest tax in the history of the world in order to grow government like it has never grown before.
We've got to take a break.
A couple more of these and we come back.
Don't go away.
you So the media finally caught up with Romney, and they wanted to ask him, Are you being influenced by Rush Limbaugh?
It was in Wolfboro, New Hampshire last Friday.
And this was after the jobs report came out.
A reporter said President Obama said in an interview with a newspaper in Ohio that you were effectively abandoning the principle in the form of the individual mandate that you purported in Massachusetts when you were governor because of criticism from the right from Rush Limbaugh from other conservative voices in the Republican Party.
What do you say to that?
I've spoken about health care from the day we passed it in Massachusetts, and people said, is this something that you'd apply at the federal level?
And I said no.
So the right course for the federal government is to allow states to create their own plans.
And by the way, the proof is that I was right.
Because Obamacare is costing jobs in America.
When three-quarters of small businesses say that they are less likely to hire people because of Obamacare, you know the President has put his liberal agenda, Obamacare, ahead of the interest of creating jobs.
And for me, job one for the president has to be creating good jobs for middle income Americans.
And that's what I'm going to do.
Okay.
That's what he said.
So he's not being influenced by me.
Then they caught up with Axelrod Friday, CBS this morning.
They said the president denied it was a tax.
Supreme Court says it's a tax.
How do you reconcile all this?
Whether you Call it a mandate, whether you call it a tax, what it is is a penalty.
It's a penalty on the less than one percent of Americans who can afford health care and refuse to buy it, then show up in our emergency rooms and stick the rest of us with the tab.
And this is precisely the argument that Governor Romney made for six years in his campaign made as late as last week.
And then as the president said, he got some heat from Rush and the right and the guys uh in the Republican caucus on Capitol Hill, and he folded.
More than a discussion of health care, it does give you an insight into how he would operate if he were president.
Now something is going on here.
I mean, three out of four sounds four soundbites, I think my name is brought up.
Now, why are they talking about me in this health care business?
No need to think about it, ladies and gentlemen.
We will do that for you here at the one and only Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
Happy to have you here, telephone number 800 282-2882.
I'm going to get to the phones here in just a second, but before we do, I want to relive or not relive, I want to remind you of some of some history.
In June of 1980, basically the same period in a campaign where we are now, minus a month or so.
In June of 1980, Jimmy Carter led Ronaldus Magnus 39 to 32.
John Anderson, third party candidate, independent candidate at 21%.
Even into August and into early September, Jimmy Carter was leading Ronaldus Magnus in the polls.
Now, what I'm leading up to is that Reagan won that election in a landslide.
Jimmy Carter conceded on election night before the polls in California had closed.
The pre-election polls into September did not indicate anything of the sort.
In fact, there was not one poll that showed the landslide that happened.
Now a quick question.
The Carter presidency was a disaster in June of 1990.
It was a disaster in June of 19 or 1980.
It was a disaster in June of 1979.
The Carter presidency was a disaster in June of 1978.
The Carter presidency was a disaster for three of the four years.
In truth, the Carter presidency was a disaster from the moment Jimma was sworn in.
It was an utter disaster.
And everybody knew it.
The misery index was created in order to give life to the devastation.
Unemployment was sky high.
Interest rates, I confuse interest rates with the inflation rate, but they were both in the teens.
Or maybe it was unemployment was in the teens and the inflation was high at six, whatever.
It was disastrous.
Interest rates.
People couldn't buy homes.
It was, it was, it was an utter disaster.
Now in June of 1990, Carter led Reagan by seven points.
My point to you is I don't believe any of this rot gut.
I don't believe Carter was up by seven points in June of 1980.
I think Carter was destined to lose in a landslide from that entire campaign.
I don't think the polls were that wrong.
I think people talking of the pollsters were not being that honest.
For whatever reason.
If there were a disaster, a landslide for Carter reflected in the polls, that would have been a massive cover-up for all the polls to lie about it.
So I'm not...
And I think we've I think we've got a carbon copy going on here.
I think now, we didn't have nearly as many people comfortably unemployed in 1980 as we do now.
We didn't have as many people comfortably in economic distress as we do now.
But we Arguably are in a worse circumstance today than we were then because the country was not hanging in the balance like it is today, and like a majority of people think that it is today.
It is why I say to you every day, if the election were held today, I think that Romney would win in a landslide.
And I mean it.
I'm not just whistling Dixie, and I'm not trying to be falsely optimistic or anything of the sort.
And by the way, Ronaldus Magnus was outspent by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Carter had the media on his side, just like Obama does.
And up until the last couple of days of the 1980 campaign, pollsters had it close.
It was a toss-up.
In the final days the polls had it, a toss-up.
Carter leaving even a couple of polls.
October 26th, Gallup poll 1980, two weeks before the election, Gallup had it, Carter 47, Reagan 39.
It ends up a landslide.
Well, what the hell happened?
People just didn't decide with two weeks to go that they wanted to get rid of Carter.
They knew it months ahead of this, just as they know it now.
But the one thing that's constant today and 1980, and that is the media, and I am here to tell you, they are scared.
Off camera, off mic, unseen while they're writing whatever they write, they are scared to death.
Common sense, which they all have a little of.
They all know this country's a disaster.
They all know this economy is a disaster.
They all know it's not Bush's fault.
They all know that Obama hasn't the slightest clue what he's doing.
None of that matters to them.
Keeping Republicans out of power is all that matters to them.
No matter what else happens, that's all that matters.
And so the coverage and what's not covered, news wise, each and every day, is going to be structured in such a way as to reflect, hey, it's the new norm.
Nobody cares.
It's fine.
We wish job situation was a little bit better.
And we wish that debt situation was a little bit better.
But uh we're gonna have health care for everybody pretty soon.
Just cast this circumstance just as normal as when the country is robustly healthy, all by design, because that's what they want it to be.
But I'm not even here last week for three days, and every time Obama makes speech, he mentions me talking about health care, and that Romney gets a question based on what Obama has said about me.
What do I have to do with this?
I'll tell you what I think I have to do with this.
Ever since the Supreme Court ruling came out, rather than talk about is it a penalty or a tax, what did we do here?
We went back to the beginning and started telling everybody what is in this bill.
This program offered detailed explanations and analysis of the substance of the bill and what it meant for people, tax-wise, health care-wise.
The media was totally happy with this mindless twiddle little debate about penalty versus attacks, because all that was was a diversion and a distraction.
It allowed the substance of things to be ignored.
I have learned in my nearly twenty-four years that when they are invoking my name, it means they're worried about what I'm saying.
So I had to look back.
What was I saying?
We were talking about health care in terms of what Obama care is and what it will mean.
We went back and we relived, and we've got, by the way, I should point out to you, remind you, our audience has expanded geometrically ever since that fluck business.
So there are people listening for this program for the first time in the last six months.
Who are hearing things they've never heard before?
And a lot of it was the substance of that health care bill and so forth.
So I'm I'm convinced you go back and look at the the uh campaign of 1980 and Reagan and Carter and compare it to today, you find a lot of similarities.
you may think I'm jumping back and forth.
One day I sound depressed, down and out, it's over, and that was not the case yesterday.
Uh and and the other days like this, if the election is held today, uh Obama loses in a landslide.
I think that every day.
Because I still call me Jimmy Stewart here.
I still believe in the America as founded and that it still exists.
And I still believe that a majority of the American people want that country to continue to reassert and prosper again.
I firmly believe this.
And that is why I believe Obama would lose in a landslide, and I think Obama's people know he would lose in a landslide if it were today.
They are out there.
They are out there.
They're now sending out emails that we're gonna lose if this keeps up, meaning if Romney keeps out raising us.
And every day you can find a story in the state control media about some media figure or some Democrat somewhere, somebody in the administration finally realizing, you know what, we could lose this.
You see, one of those stories every day.
You know what?
We could as though this reelection was in the bag.
As though it was a fate accompli, as though it was a foregone conclusion, but now all of a sudden, you know what, we could lose this thing.
Well, I'm here to tell you they have been afraid of that for two years.
They have been convinced they and because whereas you may have forgotten the 210 midterms, they haven't.
They created Occupy Wall Street because of the 2010 midterms.
They got I mean, some of the things that Obama is out saying on his teleprompter.
I have to take a break.
I'll get there's an example I can't think of it right as well right before the show started.
I'll get it.
I'll remind uh myself here to find it.
Uh there are days that I don't think he knows what he's saying.
Which means somebody's writing it for him, sending him out there, and he's blabbering it.
There's a lot of incoherence out there.
Because I gotta tell you something, folks.
They have based all of their re-election uh opinions, hopes, whatever, on the fact that Obama is messianic and likable, lovable, smart, respected, and that's what's gone down the tubes.
I'm just here to tell you if Barack Obama's winning is entirely based upon his likability, then they could lose this thing and lose it big because I don't believe those likability numbers either.
What is there to like?
I think that's another myth that has been perpetrated, perpetuated by the drive-by media.
Not that he's disliked or hated, but this universal like and respect.
No, it doesn't happen in economic circumstances like this.
Let me take a brief time out.
I said we're going to get to the phones, and we are.
Be patient.
It'll happen before you know it, maybe.
Obama said yesterday, this election will be a test of the model that got us here.
I don't know what that means.
I don't think that makes any sense at all.
I think they put it on the prompter, or they put it on his notes.
He goes out there and says this election will be a test of the model that got us here.
Now I know what he's trying to say.
He's got this notion that this is a campaign of the continuation of Bush, which is what got us here.
The Bush tax cuts, which he just extended yesterday.
He just extended the problem.
He just extended that which he has blamed for his inability to fix this.
He just extended the number one problem he inherited.
The Bush tax cuts.
He just extended them yesterday.
He just extended ninety-eight percent of the model.
That's why I don't think he knows what he's talking about.
In his remarks on extending the Bush tax cuts yesterday, Obama told America that his plan to only extend the cuts for those making under a couple hundred grand.
Quote, shouldn't threaten you.
It shouldn't threaten the ninety-eight percent of Americans who just want to know that their taxes won't go up next year.
Now wait.
This is a gu.
This is a guy who thinks tax cuts are destructive.
And now he wants people to not feel threatened that their taxes might go up.
He is in effect saying he doesn't want people to be threatened with him as president.
I'm sorry, I don't see this elite cut above everybody else's intelligence.
I don't see it.
Of course, I, El Rushball, am not fooled by the way people talk.
Now what he was talking about, he said, we'll learn whether it's still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a president, whether ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy.
The model is a grassroots campaign.
The model is the Tea Party.
He wants to find out if the American people and their grassroots efforts still have the ability to elect a president, or whether the Olinski way can finally prevail.
That's what he's saying.
He can't dare say it that way, but that's what he's saying.
Anyway, okay, Clayton, California, we're gonna we're gonna start with Paul.
I really appreciate your patience and holding on.
Glad to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
Uh watching you on the uh DittoCam from Clayton, California, a city far enough from real Linda to still be happy yet close enough to Oakland to dodge the gangbangers' bullets.
Well, it's a dangerous location you're in.
No way other way around it.
Hey, in response to uh Chicago's uh midnight basketball program, you know Oakland's uh Mayor Kwan has her 100 block uh community initiative to reduce violence by uh attempting to correl all the gangbangers in a 100 block uh radius within the poorest parts of the city.
Of course.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, ho, ho.
Mayor Kwan wants to corral all of the gangbangers in a one hundred block radius in the poorest parts of the city.
Now she doesn't say it that way, does she?
Oh, of course not.
Okay.
How is she going to corral them?
What will be the boundary she erocks to make uh erects to make sure that they stay there?
Well, she actually has a map of uh of the boundaries of the uh city.
Uh this is an area in uh Yeah, but okay, look, gangbangers, I want you to head to our worst poverty stricken areas and stay there.
Um, why would they go be what's gonna keep them there once they do go?
Well, of course, now she's finding that out uh uh that they will uh operate outside the 100%.
You mean she was serious?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
It's a program that's in effect right now.
You know, uh she's uh she's absolutely serious about this.
Uh what she wants to do is concentrate all the uh um all the officers uh that are on uh gang details into that one particular area.
And uh all in the meantime, Rush, while she's laying off over 200 cops in the city.
You know, just two days ago, Rush, uh five people were shot, uh, one a 15-year-old boy uh outside a movie theater in Jacqueline Square, I know an area that uh you've probably visited uh several times.
I've been to Jack London Square, actually have.
The All-Star Game was in Oakland when I lived in uh Sacramento.
Right.
You know, Rush, people uh people here in the Bay Area are scared to death to even drive on the freeways that's well, I know, but they're gonna be safe because I just saw the clock.
I got it.
Oh, I'm sorry, I must take a quick break.
Back after this.
Okay, folks, we've got uh another timeout here at the top.
Sorry, the audio levels have everything messed up here.
I you can't hear it, but it's distracting enough.
But we'll for me, sorry, but we'll be back here in just a second.
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