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July 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Great have you back, folks.
Here we are with the final hour of the Rush Limbaugh program today.
This is the most listened to radio talk show in the country and the most talked about, the most envied, uh, the most feared, a most lied about.
Uh and uh uh pretty much just most everything.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number, you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 from Breitbart.com, the big journalism site, according to a new Gallup poll, measuring Americans' confidence in television news, a level in confidence, television news is the lowest since the poll was begun in 1993.
Only 21% of adults expressed a great deal of confidence in television news reporting.
You know what's interesting?
That's pretty close to the percentage that's opposed to voter ID.
Photo ID and uh to vote.
That's around 21%.
Gallup tested 16 institutions, including newspapers and TV news.
Uh TV news ranked 11th, newspapers are ranked 10th.
There was an interesting divide among those on the left of Democrats were the most confident in television news of all the groups surveyed, but postgraduates who are more generally Democrats had the least confidence in the TV news industry.
That would tend to imply that well-educated people were more distrustful of what was spoon-fed them by the TV media, while those who were lower income Democrats didn't question the TV media's bias toward the left.
Now, an important statistic showed that the moderates were much less confident than they were in 2008.
Now, what does all this say?
What does this mean?
I'm not sure that I I believe it because if this is true.
If a vast majority of Americans say they're tuning TV news out and that they have no confidence in it, then somebody explain to me why Barack Obama is at 47 or 48% in the polls.
Seriously.
You know, I've I've seen these surveys over the years about people losing confidence in television news, and there is there's evidence that it's true.
For example, CNN's ratings.
One of the reasons they've only got a hundred thousand viewers in the precious 25 to 54 demographic.
You need to put this in perspective.
I need to try to put that in perspective for you.
This is a national cable news network.
They were the first, and when they started, they were the only cable news network for many, many moons.
To have a hundred thousand viewers at any one time.
In the 2554, it actually the totals around 154,000.
It's it's a thimbleful.
It is a thimbleful.
They have lost ten times the audience that they used to have or that they have now.
And there has to be distrust is one of the reasons.
There are a lot of reasons why people don't watch things on television.
Probably a chief among them is that bored.
Programming is boring or what have you.
But the nightly newscasts on the networks have lost uh uh audience and have been bleeding audience for for years.
You know what the most trusted institution is in this poll?
Military.
Military still the most trusted institution, 75% confidence rating.
Congress is the least trusted institution with a 13% confidence rating.
The news media is in there at uh let's see, newspapers to TV, well, TV News ranked 11th, newspapers are tenth, so they're even below Congress.
Which is saying something.
But then on the other side of this, the anecdotal side of it, how do we really believe this?
W what why Why does anybody care what the media says or does?
If they've lost this much influence, if they've lost this much respect, if they've lost this much believability.
John Voigt, the mother of sorry, the father of Angelina Jolie has come out and defended Brad Pitt's mom.
Brad Pitt's mom lives in Springfield, Missouri.
And somebody sent a letter to the editor of the newspaper, the Springfield, Missouri paper, criticizing Romney as an illegitimate Christian because he was a Mormon.
So Jane Pitt, Brad Pitt's mom writes a letter excoriating Obama.
And all hell has descended on this woman.
Democrats on Twitter are demanding that she die or be killed.
They are calling her names like the B word and the C word and so forth.
And all she did was send a letter to the editor of a local newspaper in Springfield, Missouri.
She's come out against gay marriage.
She has come out against Obama and Obama care, pretty much everything Obama stands for.
And some of these tweets, for example, the gay community made it possible for your son to be a star.
Die, you B.I. itch.
Was a sample tweet.
So John Voigt has uh has come out and said, good for her.
He added he agrees with the points of view that she expressed.
Now, a rep for Brad Pitt, an avid supporter of Obama, didn't respond for further comment.
Jane Pitt declined further comment.
Brad Pitt's brother Doug Pitt defended his mother earlier this week.
They had him on the Today Show.
He said, I think moms and dads and kids agree to disagree all over the world.
So why would our family be any different?
I mean, it could be healthy discussion when people disagree with you.
The bad thing is that when it turns into venom and negativity, and we don't have that in our family, it's an open discussion.
We can learn from each other.
And if anything, it solidifies your point.
That was Brad Pitt's uh brother Doug defending Brad Pitt's mother Jane Pitt, as did John Voigt.
We haven't heard of Angelina Jolie on this.
I haven't heard from Brad Pitt.
No, I take it back.
We have heard from Brad Pitt, not so much of his mother, but that he loves Obama and have to say this.
Anyway, it's made um it's made somewhat big news.
Anyway, uh, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the audio sound bites.
Uh David Rodham Gergen is in crisis.
This Anderson Cooper, 34, last night, Anderson Cooper said, David Rodham Gurgan, this attempt to pivot from a bad jobless report to a full-on attack on Romney, clearly a concerted strategy from a Democrats.
Is it working?
Hard to say, Anderson.
The early indication were that it might be working in some of the swing states, but now we have numbers that have come out on how much the Obama campaign has spent on advertising in swing states like Ohio and the Obama campaign has now spent the Romney campaign on advertising about three to one.
Even if you add in the pack money on the Republican side, Obama's still ahead.
And yet these anti-advertisements don't seem to have moved the needle.
It's still a very, very tight race in Ohio.
David Rodham Gurgen in crisis.
In other words, Obama's attack ads are not moving the needle.
They just aren't working out there, and there's a little crisis.
Because that's all they've got, folks.
All they've got is to destroy Romney.
They can't do anything other than run attack ads.
That's why Obama needs the money.
They can't say I'm sounding like a broken record, but they can't run on one aspect of Obama's uh record.
Let's move on.
We've got the mayor of Scranton.
We talked about Scranton Pennsylvania.
We got to move up to soundbite number eight.
This Chris Doherty.
He was on American uh America's newsroom today with Martha McCallum, and they had a talk about the firefighters filing suit against the mayor because he's cut everybody's salaries down there to minimum wage.
And Martha McCallum said, Well, what are you saying to the fireman?
We've known of the troubles that were going to happen this year because our council passed a budget that was based on borrowing, and now they've been unwilling to fund that borrowing.
And as a result, we have a shortfall.
It's unfortunate City Council has passed a budget that's based on borrowing and is unwilling to fund it.
It's a very difficult situation.
But I always have said this is I've been elected three times.
You have to be honest with the people and say these what your services cost.
You know, we have been burdened with a lot of legacy costs in Scranton.
Our health care bill is $15 million.
The majority of that bill goes to retirees.
Those are agreements that were made before I became the mayor.
And we need to address and understand those costs.
You know, cities like Scranton, where these type of arrangements were made have been very burdensome.
And Bush did it.
So I don't know when Bush was mayor scrambled, but it doesn't matter.
He didn't have to be mayor of Scranton.
He was president.
He caused the uh he caused the problems.
Mayor cut his own salary uh the minimum wage, too.
So he's all in.
I mean, he's not asking of others what he's not asking of himself.
But anyway, you hear they've got $15 million that they have to come up with to pay the health care benefits for retired city workers.
The money was never going to be there.
And what this guy is saying, he's saying it without saying it.
He said, look at I have it's a I'm here, it's an accident of timing.
I happen to be mayor when all this stuff comes due.
All this stuff was done by people before I got here.
Which is true, but he ran for office.
He wanted the gig.
Uh I think he's doing everything.
I don't know if he's chopping the retirees' money off, but he's got to come up with this $15 million for their health care bill.
You know this is obscene.
What health care costs is literally obscene, and there's no reason for it other than the government getting involved in it back when they did in the 60s when all this well actually predates that, but intensified in the in the 60s.
It's just it's just absurd that that health care should be one of the most expensive things in any culture.
Literally absurd.
Anyway, Rom Emanuel.
Rom has clarified.
A recall yesterday we had a soundbite where Rom Emanuel made the heartfelt appeal to Chicago gangbangers to stop killing the kids.
To call on their values, to remember their values.
And if you're gonna kill people, don't kill the kids.
Go to the alley and kill somebody else.
But don't kill the kids.
Remember how you were raised.
Now, Rom has clarified uh gangs ought to stay away from children.
The children are too important.
But just to review, this is Rom Emanuel yesterday morning on CBS News.
Okay.
Is that a breaking news?
So you're not gonna go live with that right now, are you, Scott?
That's the way it seems to you running the third largest city in America.
Dysfunctional.
You should not be more loyal and more of a slave to ideology, be pragmatic, make a decision.
We're doing things in the city of Chicago.
Have nothing to do with philosophy, have nothing to do with ideology, have to do with make sure that taxpayers get and residents get what they deserve.
Okay, that's that was not his original remark on uh on gangbangers.
Uh that, but he did say that yesterday on CBS this morning.
Late yesterday in Chicago, on our blowtorch affiliate, the big 89 WLS.
Reporter Bill Cameron ran up, caught up with the mayor, asked him to clarify his comments about gangbangers and kids.
Not near kids.
That's not me.
No.
I don't think they should do anything.
But the values are our kids are our most important resource.
Stay away from them.
You don't belong near them.
And take the everything that's associated with being a gang away from them.
From the violence to the values that are associated with gangs.
Stay away from our children.
They're too important.
Okay.
What in what was that?
That is that was the clarification.
That was the clarification.
Yesterday Rom warned the gangbangers to stay away from the kids.
We had that bite yesterday.
Stay away from the kids.
So yesterday, our man at the Big 89, WLS Chicago caught up with the mayor for a clarification.
I gotta hear this again.
You can barely hear him.
But once again, he's doubling down on the gangbangers to stay away from the kids.
They're too important.
Just remember the values associated with gangs and stay away from the gangs.
Oh, I he's speaking so softly, trying to carry a big stick, speaking so softly, trying to intimidate these gangbangers here.
Listen to this again.
Not near kids.
That's what I mean.
I don't think they should do anything.
But the values are our kids are our most important resource.
Stay away from them.
You don't belong near them.
And take the everything that's associated with being a gang away from them.
From the violence to the values that are associated with gangs.
Stay away from our children.
They're too important.
Okay.
Okay?
Got it?
Okay?
Stay over the gang.
Not near kids.
Stay with the kids.
Got it?
Gotta be?
Gotta be.
Stay away from the kids.
The values.
Gang values.
Remember what the gang values are.
Remember what the gang values are.
Stay away from the kids.
Keep it away from the kids.
Can you hear me?
No kids.
Got it?
Got a bill, stay away from the kids.
Kill anybody else, but stay away from the kids.
Our most valuable resource.
Remember your values.
Unbelievable.
You know, I I I listened to this Rom Emanuel by fact, we've got the correct bite from yesterday.
What's um Ed, I know I don't have a number for you, but I know they brought you the right.
I want to play these two again.
Because I'm gonna tell you something.
Another thing that we have dumbed down in this country is equality of our politicians.
And I am I am dead serious.
Even the Democrats in office today are ten times worse than the Democrats of yesteryear.
I mean, this makes you long for the old days of daily.
If you're gonna have somebody in Chicago that's gonna.
This is embarrassing.
This is gonna embarrass Chicago.
Here's the first Ron Emmanuel statement on a gangs.
This is what he sought to clarify.
This is from this is from uh Monday, Monday night on the CBS evening news.
You got two gangbangers.
One standing next to a kid.
Get away from that kid.
Take your stuff to the alley.
Don't touch the children of the city of Chicago.
Don't get near them.
And it is about values.
As I said then, Scott, who raised you?
Who were you raised?
And I don't buy this case where people say they don't have values.
They do have values.
They have the wrong values.
Don't come near the kids.
Don't touch them.
Okay, so uh uh mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel letting the gangbangers know who's in charge.
Apparently some people had the same reaction to Chicago that we had here yesterday.
Incredulity.
So our man, Bill Cameron at the big 89 WLS Chicago, caught up with the mayor and asked for a clarification and got this.
Not near kids.
That's what I mean, though.
I don't think they should do anything.
But the values are our kids are our most important resource.
Stay away from them.
You don't belong near them.
And take the everything that's associated with being a gang away from them.
From the violence to the values that are associated with gangs.
Stay away from our children.
They're too important.
Okay.
Okay.
Got it?
Okay.
The rest of you in Chicago, you're expendable.
The kids, Hands off.
Here's uh here's Ned in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIP network.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing?
I'm uh I'm okay.
How are you?
Um pretty fair.
Uh I just wanted to point out that even if Scranton was fiscally sound and well managed, they're still doomed.
Why is that?
It's in the coal region.
Oh, okay.
Our dear leader and his uh minions have told everybody they're gonna destroy them.
Exactly right.
Obama.
Why would anybody invest money there or lend them money?
I am glad you called.
I am glad you reminded me that because I know I don't, never mind.
I'm not glad you called.
Well, I'm glad you called, but um I'm uh what you reminded me of I threw away.
I remember because I didn't trust the source.
Uh was about Obama and oil and energy and that anyway.
Um I had forgotten it.
I had I had fought forgotten to place Scranton in in coal country.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, that covers about a third of Pennsylvania, which uh how can that be a swing state?
Are those people stupid?
Well, um Yeah, I know.
What are you doing in outer banks?
Are you used to live in Pennsylvania?
Uh, I was born there, and I escaped uh very early age.
Scranton?
No, um actually I was in the Amish country.
Oh, okay.
But I had relatives in the uh Scranton area, so I was very familiar with it.
That is an interesting question.
We ask that, you know, about it.
I tell you what, that the serious answer to your question.
Liberals are liberals.
It's it liberals are liberals first, whatever else they are, and that is unshakable.
No matter what beating us matters more than their own selves staying out of poverty.
Okay, we want to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago.
So the the words gum out from on high to the gang members, leave the kids alone.
How are they to know?
This is always the problem when you're trying to identify people.
And the mayor has just said, don't kill kids.
Well, what's a kid?
And the mayor could say anybody under 50 is a kid and really save lives.
But if he did that, then the gangs would have to seek ID from their potential victims before they offered them.
So if he doesn't set an age limit on what a kid is, the gangbangers are now going to have to seek IDs to make sure that the people they kill are kids, eighteen or under, I assume.
What would happen if the gangbangers were told that they had to get IDs, check IDs before they could kill somebody.
Now, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Do you know that's where Biden is from?
Biden likes to brag, ladies and gentlemen, that he is from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
And I wonder, since Scranton is in big big trouble.
You know, one of the things leading up to this, by the way, I should point this out.
I should mention this.
A source in the in the Scranton City Council spoke on condition of anonymity.
Said the big problem there was that the mayor and the city council had agreed to borrow to cover the shortfall, but a couple of consultants warned the banks not to lend to the city until a recovery plan was approved.
So then the city balked at the whole thing.
The city council balked because the recovery plan that was put in place to get loans from the banks included a 78% tax increase on businesses in Scranton.
That's what nobody's telling you.
We're hearing that everybody's minimum wage or cut wagon cut to the minimum wage, but they the uh recovery plan included a 78% tax hike.
That was supposed to encourage the banks to lend money to cover the shortfall coming up in health care payments for the retired and all that.
Well, that led to a bunch of businesses leaving, just like a bunch of wealthy citizens of Maryland are leaving the state of Maryland because of high taxes.
I've had that story in the stack for a couple days and haven't gotten to it, so now I thought I would.
78% increase in taxes on businesses.
And some of those businesses have already left.
So Biden likes to brag that he's from Scranton.
Now I wonder if you'll go back.
I mean, what an opportunity for the regime here.
The hometown of the vice president hanging on by a thread.
This is the town where the walls in the little house where he grew up are so thin that his parents nevertheless got away with doing it in there, and none of the kids and none of the people in the house knew it.
Parents are really good at this.
Biden told the La Raza Convention this story as a as a means of relating to them.
And they were not offended.
They they laughed about it.
So I think Biden ought to go back to Scranton, campaign stop, and talk up how Obama has created green jobs, and it doesn't matter whether they're rooted in coal or not.
Go back in there and tell them, yeah, well, we got a bunch of green jobs.
I don't know what you're waiting on, and we had a stimulus money.
Ask them why the stimulus money hasn't saved the police force and firefighters.
After all, wasn't that what it was for?
If I'm the mayor of Scranton, I'm calling the White House and where how come we didn't get any stimulus money?
I mean, after all, the vice president's from here.
In fact, forget Biden.
Obama.
Obama could travel to Scranton.
He could talk about his brand new plan, which is actually his old plan, which is to raise taxes on anybody left in Scranton who makes over $250,000 a year.
That's what that's the ticket.
Send Obama in there and have him announce his plan that's going to save us all.
I mean, that's what he's announcing all over the country.
Raise taxes on people make 250 grand, that's a ticket.
So head into Scranton, hometown of Biden, and tell everybody who makes over 250 grand, I, Obama, and want to raise your taxes, especially if you are small business, and I'm got all kinds of new regulations I will impose, and that's going to bring your economy back.
That's how we do it.
That's how it works in America.
You work hard in this country, everything pays off, and then I raise your taxes.
Let Obama go to Scranton, which is barely hanging on, and have him announce his plan there.
Because his plan, his new plan is the same old plan.
Destroy the private sector, raise taxes on those who are left to get rid of them, then have a bunch of green energy come in, and eventually the government takes over everything because it flops and save Scranton.
Yeah, this calls for Obama.
Biden can't pull this off.
He'd gaff central.
Yeah, no, no.
It sounds to me, it sounds to me like Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The middle class in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is getting killed by all this compassionate big government.
Yeah, Obama could go in there, he could announce his new emission rules and the EPA and uh all the new regulations.
Obama care, all the great things are gonna happen there, the new emissions regulations and all the fairness that Obama's got planned and raise taxes on the evil rich who are not doing their fair share to save Scranton.
Yeah, that's it.
Have Obama go in and tell the people there that his plan will save their city.
That's what he's telling everybody else.
When the fact of the matter is that the middle class in Scranton is being killed by policies that have emanated from the Democrat Party from the get-go.
It is the American left, it's liberalism, and it's a Democrat Party killing Scranton, and any other city that's being bulldozed or soon to be bulldozed.
I just ask yourself who's been running the place for how long.
And I guarantee you you're gonna find a certain number of elements common to all of them.
Democrats, union members, liberals, they're all gonna have been there with unchecked power.
Yeah, and then Obama hire more teachers, and more policemen and firefighters, and more public sector union employees.
That's a ticket.
That's how we recover.
That's how we rebuild this Economy.
That's what the Democrats are saying.
That's what jobs are.
More teachers and more cops and more firefighters.
Go to Scranton, Mr. President, and tell them your plan.
Go to Scranton, which is a city barely hanging on, and you tell them the details of your plan, and let's just see how they react to it.
Who's next?
Ray in Howell, Michigan.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, first time caller.
Thank you for this rare opportunity.
You better talk Rush, you talked about it earlier.
I'm 56 years old, and when we're growing up, we all knew that anybody could become a millionaire in this country through hard work, dedication, taking risks, and more often than not, a good education.
Obviously, not in your case, however, you went the hard root route.
Are you saying, sir, that I'm not educated?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I know what you say.
I know what you're saying.
I know.
But today I sense that many people, and I could be wrong, but I sense that many people, especially our youth, are not being taught, shown, or they just don't care about the hard work portion of becoming a millionaire.
And I sense that they're levitating towards lottery winnings, Hollywood actors, actresses, sports figures, entertainers, singers.
I think you're right.
I you're right in the money.
And what what is just not talked about often enough is like the lottery, these people for the most part got to where they are by luck, by chance.
When you look at their education level, for instance, I like I said, I could be wrong, but for the most part, maybe.
Maybe they got a high school education.
Maybe.
And what did they do?
They practiced their sports, maybe they went to trade school, learned how to talk, how to act, and the luck of the draw put them in the right place at the right time to get somewhere.
But the hard work, the real world experiences of somebody who started a business to become a real millionaire, it wasn't there.
No, it's impugned, in fact, it's criticized.
It is.
And what's even scarier, though, is that these people are idolized, and it's just not talked about often enough that they just don't have the hard work, the dedication, and they're idolized, and they actually have a voice in our political system without hard work or experience or or or education.
And um, I look, let me say one thing here.
I know uh theoretically what you mean.
Uh talking about actors and uh and and athletes.
The one thing that I have learned, I used to think what you think.
I used to think that one of the reasons actors and actresses were filled with so much guilt was that they knew they didn't have to work very hard and got to pretend being people they aren't.
And after a while they got tired of that and they wanted people to know them for themselves, so they go out and they get political and get involved in uh in issues and they feel guilty over earning so much money for so little work.
I have had to revise one aspect of that, and that is it is extremely hard work.
Uh it's it's not easy to be a great actor.
Uh w what other characteristics you want to attach to it, feel free.
But it's incredibly long hours.
It is constant rehearsal, and it is very hard.
In fact, it it involves a talent more so than a skill, but even the talent has to be worked at and developed.
Same thing with athletes.
Uh they're very rare.
Gifted, great athletes are very rare, but they still the ones that reach the top are the ones that work the hardest at developing their God-given talent or skill.
Now, acting is a is a strange thing.
It's it's it's a tough psychological thing.
You your your whole life is spent being other people.
But to make my point, if you if you see a uh a movie or a television show with an amateur trying to act, you can spot the amateur like that.
You can s you can spot somebody who's not good at acting instantly.
Now, in some cases it's charming.
There's uh uh an example, the movie Act of Valor.
One of the best military movies I have ever seen.
As a powerful, influential member of the media, I benefited from seeing a media screener of this.
And they even, I think it was relativity media, they even captioned it for me so I could follow the dialogue.
And real SEALs, real Navy SEALs occurred in all of the starring roles.
And it was obvious throughout the whole movie that they were not professional actors.
In this case, it didn't take away from it.
It added to the realism of it.
It added to the uh, you can say there was charm to the movie.
My my only point is it is very hard, and it's long hours.
A movie, they're lucky, working 14 hours a day if they end up with two minutes of usable film.
It's take after take.
It's sitting there makes the lighting, it's great.
It's tedious.
I could not do it.
I have I've done guest appearances on sitcoms, and it's driven me nuts.
I couldn't make a living do it.
I don't have the patience.
I'm a one-take guy.
It's over and done with.
I practically went nuts doing the Hank Haney golf show.
That show, which a 22-minute show, took two days minimum to shoot.
And it's a reality show.
And it still took two days to shoot 22 minutes.
And that was a TV show.
There's no way 22 minutes of a of a major motion picture is shot in two days.
So it's it's it's a different kind of work.
You talk about education.
They have to have some in order to affect the talent and use the talent that they've got.
Now, I don't I'm I'm not discounting at all what you say about nobody sees any of that.
They see the end result, they see entertainment tonight, see the red carpet, see the parties.
That's for me.
They don't.
I'm telling you that my philosophy really hasn't changed.
I don't care what it is other than inheritance, there is hard work attached to practically every level of success in every line of work.
Now, the hard work may be not laborous, physical.
Uh it may not be physically challenged, but sometimes in acting it is, but there nevertheless is um a lot of hard work attached to it.
I don't mean that to excuse their idiot politics.
That's a whole nother matter.
I got to take a break way long here, back with uh with uh with more after this.
Don't go away.
CNN reporting a couple of things.
One pressure from Wall Street on the Federal Reserve to bail out Obama.
QE3, they want more quantitative easing to bail Obama out of this mess.
And they're also reporting found one doctor.
CNN found one doctor, the reporting people are fed up with the health care debate because one doctor said so.
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