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July 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 13, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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So Obama's out there campaigning again.
It's all he does anymore.
No, it's not all he does anymore.
When he's not campaigning, he's rewriting legislation, gutting welfare reform, as he did yesterday.
Anyways, that's some community college in Virginia.
He just said if you try something and it doesn't work, why would you try it again?
Now he's talking about Bush, of course.
But stop and think about it.
If you try something and it doesn't work, why would you try it again?
Like you mean you, sir.
Like your entire stupid agenda, sir.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
If you try something and it doesn't work, why would you try it again?
Oh, you mean like the Great Society?
Like try to redo FDR.
Like welfare.
Like health care, all this stuff that never worked in the world before.
You're trying it again, sir.
You're the definition of insane.
And we're the ones in the freaking asylum.
Hi, folks.
Open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about.
Fair game, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
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I'd say if I'm the Romney campaign, I go get that line, I turn it into an ad.
If you try something and it doesn't work, why would you try it again?
And I get a picture of Alfred E. Newman Obama and put it around that line all over.
If you try something and it doesn't work, why would you try it again?
Now he began his campaign speech in Virginia by uh talking about the negativity and the cynicism in campaign ads.
He said that based on campaign ads, people might start thinking politics doesn't get what's going on in their lives.
Really?
No.
We get that in the media every day, Mr. President.
It's clear that the establishment in this country has no clue what's going on in this country.
They have no idea.
All you do is live amongst a bunch of statistics and figures and numbers.
But they attach to real people.
The unemployment number means real people.
Real lives, real jobs don't exist anymore.
He said that people might think there's a disconnect between the ads and what's important to them.
The ads?
How about a disconnect between you and your entire presidency in this country?
There's no bigger disconnect that people have faced than yours.
This is all coming from a guy who's running an ad campaign lying about when Mitt Romney left Bain Capitol.
The first term of Obama didn't work.
Why in the hell would we want another term?
400,000 real life people went on unemployment last week.
That's almost half a million people.
400,000, a real life increase of 70,000 new claims from the week before.
Now we get a breathless story from AP because they thought it made Obama look good that unemployment compensation claims plunged because of some mythical seasonal adjustment involving the automobile companies, not laying people off like they normally do in the summertime.
Forbes magazine, why you should plan on working to age 70.
Pushing off retiring until age 70, or push off retiring till age 70, your financial world is going to be much brighter.
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College reports in a new study that a whopping 85% of households would be prepared to retire by age 70.
Now I should caution and tell you that all of this is based on these figures are based on social security as it is today.
Now the author of this piece is Carrie Hannon.
and carry in and says, I'd like to believe that.
I'd also believe most of us will want to keep working even beyond age 70.
In our so-called retirement years, part-time or in some fashion for plenty of good reasons.
The findings suggest that today's workers will need to work longer than their parents.
They also are healthier and they're better educated.
They have less physically demanding jobs.
They can expect to live longer.
In short, working longer is feasible for most households, and it doesn't mean working forever.
Well, here you go.
The new norms.
What retirement?
And I'm not pushing retirement.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just a lot of people made plans, oriented their lives around such plans, and they're all out the window.
Why does why why wait till 70?
Why should anybody keep working anyway?
You just go on welfare.
Obama's willing to take care of everybody and bust the bank in order to do it.
Why would anybody want to go to work?
Last night on the CBS Evening News, they played a clip from an upcoming interview on CBS, Charlie Rose talking to Obama.
Charlie Rose said, what do you think the lessons have been that might guarantee success for you in a second?
See, everything is oriented about this guy winning election.
Hell with what happens to the country.
I guess Charlie Rose doesn't care.
I guess he's doing okay.
He can't envision not doing okay.
He can't envision not being whatever he is today, so he doesn't care.
It's all what is it, what does it mean for Obama?
Anyway, here's here's what the one said.
The mistake of my first tri couple of years was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right.
And that's important.
But you know, the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.
What a laugher.
It's all falling apart.
Unity?
Optimism.
There isn't any of that.
Particularly among his voters.
He hadn't been able to tell a story.
All he wants to do is tell stories that distract people enough from the way his policies are destroying the country.
That's the story he's looking for.
So Charlie Rose, so Mr. President, you believe presidency would be a disaster uh hold it.
Uh interviewing President Obama and Michelle Obama.
Rose says, Mr. President, you believe his presidency would be a disaster.
Oh, it's talk about Romney.
You believe Romney's presidency would be a disaster because this is a man who's been successful business person.
Does that disqualify him or make him uh uh not an appropriate candidate for political office?
How do you how do you take the measure of Romney's business experience?
Here's a guy who wouldn't know the first thing about a dime store.
Here, Charlie Rose is asking somebody about Mitt Romney's business qualifications.
Barack Obama doesn't know when he's in a business.
And the first clue that he has, he's in a business is he thinks the guy running it is an enemy.
Twilight Zone.
We're gonna ask somebody who hates business and who doesn't have the slightest understanding about it why Romney and his business qualifications disqualify him from being president.
If you're ahead of a large private equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money.
It's not to create jobs.
It's not even to create a successful business, it's to make sure that you are maximizing returns for your investor.
That doesn't necessarily make you qualified.
Wait, hold on, hold it.
Well, how this is exactly what I mean.
Let's parse this.
If you're head of a large private equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money.
See?
Or that's a strike against you.
Making money is a strike against you.
It's not to create jobs.
Mr. President.
Seriously, sir.
I want you to find for me.
No, I won't believe it when you find it.
I just I'm going to assert there isn't one successful CEO who said he went into business to create jobs.
That is not why anybody starts a company.
It's not why anybody starts a business to create jobs.
They start businesses for entirely unrelated.
Well, they're not unrelated, but but for different reasons.
They have a passion.
They have an invention.
They have a service.
I think people will benefit from.
They're trying to earn a living.
It requires money.
Living requires money.
Most people want to earn their own.
Ergo starting a company is how they do it.
They'd rather not work for somebody else.
But nobody starts a business to create jobs.
Nobody starts a business to provide health care for the community.
Nobody starts a business so that the economy or so the climate is safe.
Nobody starts businesses for these reasons.
Private equity hedge fund that's to make sure you're maximizing returns for your investor.
What the hell is wrong with that?
When that happens, guess what else happens?
Jobs do get created.
People's economic circumstances do improve with a return on investment.
This is what I mean.
This guy hasn't the slightest idea what he's talking about.
Oh does he sound smart when he says it, though?
Does he sound educated when he talks about this stuff?
Wow.
You know what else happens when all this stuff happens, Mr. President?
Growth.
The very thing you claim you're trying to achieve.
That's what these guys do.
They grow businesses.
I don't know what perverted view you have of economies and private sectors, but it is genuinely perverted.
I don't know who put these ideas in your head.
Marks, Alinsky, whoever.
Here's the rest of the bite just for the frustration of it.
About the economy as a whole, because as president, my job is to think about the workers.
My job is to think about communities where jobs have been outsourced.
What's a crack?
So it is not that he is disqualified because of what he's done.
I want us to make sure that we know what your theory is about how to grow the economy.
As though you've got one that works.
You have a theory that grows the economy, Mr. President.
You don't know Jack.
You don't know Jack.
It wasn't very long ago, ladies and gentlemen, that uh Bill Clinton would go out there and say something like how qualified Mitt Romney was to be president.
Bain Capital Private Equity.
We can't criticize these people.
Bain Capital, private equity, they do some great work, and so did uh what's his face, Corey Booker.
And it wasn't long ago the whole Democrat Party was was abandoning Obama on this stuff, but he took them all out to the woodshed.
He got them all back in order.
So now everybody's I guess hunky dory and down with the stupidity.
Everybody's got to sit there and gnash their teeth and support this lunatic.
And I remember when Clinton would speak the last time Clinton said something, remember that they leaked that his staff would say, well, you know, he's 65.
Remember that?
I forget what it was that Clinton said.
Yeah, but I know he play he praised Bain Capital, some other stuff.
Whatever it was that the the media went and talked to Clinton staffers and said, Yeah, well.
I mean, the implication was he's the onset of senility.
Okay, well, bearing that in mind, but Clinton, by his own staff's observation getting senile, we have Glinton sound bites.
This morning on the Today Show on NBC, the brand new co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewing Clinton.
She said recently the Democrats have been emphasizing Romney's personal investments.
In fact, he has some accounts in Switzerland and the Caymans.
Savannah, do you know that so does half the Democrat Party, if not more, have investments in the same places?
Oh well, what does it matter?
Anyway, she said, Mr. President, I wonder if you think it's a legitimate line of attack for us to take against Romney.
She didn't say for us, but she means it.
Is it a legitimate line of attack for us at the Today Show and NBC and the rest of the media to uh take against Romney?
The fact he's got investments in the Caymans and so on.
You think is relevant to his fitness to be president?
Okay, so the final arbiter Clinton on somebody's fitness to be president.
And here's what Der Schlickmeister had to say.
I mean, I'm a little surprised that he only released a year's worth of tax returns.
That's kind of perplexed me because this is the first time in I don't know, more than thirty years than anybody running for president has only done that.
Yeah.
You know, it's typical, I think we all release ten, eleven years.
I think Senator McCainless uh released over twenty years of tax returns.
That struck me as a little odd.
How about your health records?
You ever release those, Mr. President?
Yeah.
Have we ever seen your health records?
Have we ever seen Obama's college transcripts?
Have we seen his health records?
Um I I don't think we have.
So then Savannah Guthrie said, Well, what is the role of the economy in this election?
Mr. Clinton.
What is the role of the economy?
You know, I'm not sure both sides want the economy to get better.
I know the president does, but I know what Senator McConnell said that his number one priority was winning the election.
It sounds like you're saying the Republicans are basically rooting for the economy to fail.
No, I didn't say that, Senator McConnell did.
Senator McConnell said his number one goal was not to get the economy going again.
It was to defeat the president.
So I hope they're not rooting for it to fail.
I think you know they really may believe that austerity now is the right policy.
Well, that's just senile.
I don't even know what he's talking about.
That's absolute drivel.
But there he is, Bill Clinton on the role of the economy.
Hey, Savannah, why don't you go interview the economy?
Why don't you go ask it what its role is instead of going ask Clinton?
What is the role of the economy in the president?
Go ask the economy what its role is.
Okay, here's Stevie in Birmingham, Michigan.
Stevie, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
Thank you.
Um, well, so um I heard you talking about how the uh public schools were brainwashing kids.
And um an example is we had a speaker come in a few months ago, and he was talking about how um coal is evil and dirty.
Stevie um Stevie, how old are you?
I'm 12.
You're 12 years old.
Well, welcome to the program.
It's it's nice to have you uh listening today.
Who was this speaker that came in and said that coal is evil?
He was um, I believe from uh Horton could an organization, greening Detroit.
Uh he was from an organization called Greening Greening Detroit.
Yes.
He came in and said coal is evil.
Right.
What does he heat his house with?
Do you know?
Um he heats it from coal.
Yeah, he does exactly right.
So he's using something that's evil.
Was he trying to brainwash you?
Yes, he was.
Now, how is it that you are able to spot this at age twelve?
Well, um he was he was saying that the coal mines were owned by the evil rich.
And um he called them workers slaves in the presentation, and he said that um they're blowing up mountains and polluting water, killing killing wildlife.
Well, they're blowing up mountains, they're polluting water, they're killing animals.
Uh the rich mine owners are doing this in order to get coal.
Yes.
And his all the turn is were windmills and electric cars.
And windrills and electric cars.
What class was this in, Stevie?
This was in our homeroom.
Home room.
Yeah.
What was it, career day or something?
What why was he there?
I don't know.
He was just there.
He's just there.
Yeah, I don't know.
He just had a guest announcer come in for home room.
Correct.
And of course, approved of the school.
So this this was this was just daily announcements.
This guy starts on a riff on coal.
Right.
Stevie.
I love you, man.
You hang tough.
You hang tough.
Well, I have one question for you, but I don't have time right now.
Can you hang on to the break?
Yeah.
I knew we could.
We'll be back for it.
We are back to 12-year-old Stevie in uh Birmingham, Michigan.
Stevie, I looked up this outfit.
The uh the greening of he didn't hang on?
Oh, darn it.
I wanted to ask Stevie how many of the kids fell for it.
And I also wanted to ask Stevie what he thought of this.
Should Mitt Romney have investments in as many countries as Bill Clinton has girlfriends?
I wanted to see what Stevie thought of that.
Stevie said he was gonna hang on.
Well, the homeroom teacher probably found out about this and uh or the greening of Detroit probably found out about it, sent somebody over to his house.
I really I wanted to find so home room.
The greening of Detroit, according to their propaganda, is a well-established nonprofit resource agency that partners with federal, state, and local agencies, corporations and foundations to mandate that neighborhood groups,
churches, and schools do everything their way to improve the so-called ecosystem in Detroit through tree planting projects, environmental mandates, urban mandates, open space mandates, and workforce development mandates.
They know that by the way, they didn't put mandate in there, I did.
That's just uh just want to tell you the truth about what these people do.
Um statement.
Every time I used it, I added it myself.
Nothing in here about houses being bulldozed.
They do say they want to reforest Detroit.
But that just means replant the trees that have been lost with the bulldozing of houses or whatever.
I don't think they want to turn the whole city into a forest.
Well, when it says reforest Detroit, I think they just mean replace a number of trees that have been lost in the last few years.
Now we don't know why they've been lost.
We don't know who lost them.
Um but they're a 501 C three, uh not for profit organization established 1989 to guide and inspire the reforestation of Detroit.
They can't even afford to replace half of their street lights in Detroit.
Well, they can't.
And here's this bunch of loco weeds running around wanting to plant trees.
Yes, I am in a bad mood, because I just realized how surrounded by stupidity I am.
I'm surrounded by stupidity, irritable people or irritating people.
I'm just surrounded.
You don't want to know who's if I start naming names on who's irritating me, you don't want to know.
Don't ask, don't ask for names.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Oh.
You heard about this Olympic uniform controversy?
I saw a picture of him.
You mean the ones with the berets and stuff?
Apparently Ralph Lorin, Polo, so forth, uh has the contract every four years, do the uh Olympic uniforms.
These are the dress uniforms that are used for the opening and closing ceremonies.
And I get you don't like them?
You don't like them?
You hate them.
You hate the beret, you hate the jacket, the slacks.
Okay, Snerdley says it looks to him like a Euroweenie outfit.
What is it the beret that does that to you?
What do what looks Eurowean if did this?
They're blue blazers, white slacks, and the beanie.
Well, they got a large polo logo, but what would you expect?
Polo makes the damn things.
Anyway, the real rub is it turns out that they're actually made by the Chicoms.
And of all the things to be angry about, why would anybody be angry when this administration loves the Chicoms?
The ChICOMs can show us the way.
I mean, our leaders salivate for the kind of power the Chicom leaders have.
But apparently Ralph Loren having Chicom's manufacturing stuff doesn't sit.
Well, grab audio soundbite number 18.
This is dingy Harry yesterday on Capitol Hill talking about the U.S. Olympic team uniforms being made by the Chicoms.
I am so upset that I think the Olympic Committee should be ashamed of themselves.
I think they should be embarrassed.
I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.
Just because they're made in China.
Just because they're made in China.
You thought I was making it up at the street lights in Detroit?
It's from Bloomberg.
May 24th this year, half of Detroit street lights may go out as city shrinks.
Half the street lights may go out.
I wasn't making it up.
Pelosi, by the way, she's also blasted the Olympic uniforms being made in China.
Strangest things make these people mad.
You know, if they just get half as mad at what their policies are causing to happen to people, they get all exercised here about where clothes are made.
This is kind of funny.
This is uh last night the situation room on CNN.
And it's a uh correspondent by the name of Brian Todd, a report about new allegations against the D.C. mayor, Vincent Gray.
And they're they're trying to figure out here in this report why all of Washington, D.C.'s mayors are corrupt.
And you'll also hear the voice of Mark Plotkin, political analyst Mark Plotkin.
Is this the guy at the Southern Crisis Poverty Law Center?
Mark Plot.
I don't know who this guy is.
Political analyst.
I think he's the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Doesn't matter.
Here's Brian Todd's report on why all of DC's mayors are corrupt.
The swirl of scandal is nothing new.
Other D.C. mayors have been accused of either incompetence or outright corruption.
Marion Barry was arrested when a sting operation targeted him.
He spent time in jail.
Barry's successor, Sharon Pratt Kelly, built up huge budget deficits.
More recently, former mayor Adrian Fenty was investigated for steering contracts to a friend.
He was clear.
I asked analyst Mark Plotkin, what's tainted the D.C. mayor's office.
I do think that if we had these higher positions that people could aspire to and attain, then the people at the starting level would be of a different gallows.
He's talking about the fact that Washington has no real voting power on the floor of Congress.
Okay, it's not the Southern Poverty Law Center guy.
That's PoTok.
That's Mark Potok.
This guy's Mark Plotkin.
He said, I do think that if we had these higher positions that people could aspire to and attain than the people of So what he's-if you could be something more than mayor in Washington, then you wouldn't corrupt yourself.
But since mayor is as high as you could go, you can't go anywhere high.
That's it.
There's no governor.
There's no senator.
There's no mayor, you're it.
And of course, since there's nothing higher to aspire to, what do you do when you max out?
You end up being corrupt.
This is natural, folks.
What do they have?
I'll answer the question for you.
Why are all DC mayors corrupt?
That's the question.
That's the question.
Why are all Washington, DC, and but it's it's not my proposition.
CNN did this.
CNN did the story.
CNN asking the question.
Why are all Washington mayors corrupt?
Let me answer that by asking another question.
What party do they come from?
They are all Democrats.
What kind of Democrats are they?
They are all liberal Democrats.
You want to know why every Washington mayor is corrupt?
It's because they are all liberal Democrats.
That's what they do.
And Marion Barry said the B.I. itch set me up.
That was the cocaine sting in the hotel room.
The B.I. it set me up.
Um plus, you know, there's mood disorders that affect these people too.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbody Carey, North Carolina.
This is Helen.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hello, my mega patriot.
How are you today?
I actually am I'm okay.
Okay.
Um I do I I was told this morning by my son that I sound like an angry old woman because I used the word rich.
How old is your son?
He's in his forties.
And how you're and he has he has multiple patents.
I mean, he's uh he's supposedly very intelligent.
I wouldn't tell him he wasn't.
But when he told me the word rich is a negative, and I should use the word successful instead.
Because he feels just getting the patents that he's reached a level of success.
But I says, uh Well, who were you talking about when you use the term rich?
What were you discussing?
We were discussing how Obama is saying to the people, you'll never be rich under me.
Your children will never be rich.
You deserve poverty.
Under Obama's message, he's he's just feeding us recycled communism.
He'll be rich, his friends will be rich.
You won't be rich.
He didn't like it.
He goes, No, wait, wait, well, hold on a minute.
You can't say rich.
Rich is a negative.
Hold on a minute.
Hold on a minute.
Uh you are talking to your 40-year-old multi-patented son.
Right.
Supposed to be smart.
Now but he told me this one blew me away.
You shouldn't listen listen to Rush.
He's not effective.
What?
What?
I was angry, let me tell you.
I I have spent my finger on this phone all morning because I'm so I'm so mad at him.
I can't talk to him right now.
Well I just can't.
When did Obama say you will not be rich under me?
That's his message.
We hear the message.
It doesn't have to be.
Okay, but I'm saying you are telling your son this is what Obama's message is, and your son says the message is exactly.
Everything he's doing.
I mean, he's offering us death.
Death of freedom, death of excellence, death of the American way.
He says hope.
I say uh death of hope.
You know what I'm saying?
He goes forward.
To where?
To what?
Nobody's there asking these questions.
He offers weakness and compromise and all of hate for America.
I I am just I'm disgusted.
I'm truly disgusted that this could happen in my family.
I'm a Tea Party caller.
I am my son.
He's working out big time, and I'm really mad.
Rush, I'm so mad.
Because he doesn't want he thinks the term rich.
Rich is a a negative negative term, and and you shouldn't use a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wha why did you bother to get the patents?
Where's the next step?
What do you want to do with patents?
Well, in one sense the process.
In one sense, he may have a point, but it's not the way you're thinking.
The it the word rich has been demonized.
It's uh people who are thought to be rich are now targets.
Obama has seen to that.
And your your son might not want to be a target, but I don't think that's what he means.
Oh, he did.
He made it clear.
I mean, he was angry with me.
He was he was yelling and telling me, you know, if you use that word, you're gonna sound like an angry old woman.
How?
Excuse me, how?
I don't understand that.
How can you be so think a uh an angry old?
You're not rich.
You're just using the word to describe the way Obama thinks of people.
Right.
But this is his message.
I see the message.
I see it clearly.
Everything he does is pushing us.
When's the next time you're gonna talk to When's the next time you're gonna talk to your son?
I don't know.
I guess when I calm down or he calms down because it was uh it turned into a shouting match, and when he said you were being effective, that did it.
I'm not I'm like just stop, you know.
I'm I'm waiting.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm not being effective because I use the word rich.
Pardon?
I didn't hear that.
I was venting again, and I'm I'm just really mad about this because I've lost all what's going on.
Um I'm just gonna ask him if the word rich is racist the next time you talk to him.
Oh, I will.
And ask him what do you think of the term kitchen cabinet?
Now, and and who's got his ear?
I mean, I don't get it.
You move away, and this is what you have.
You have a a son who's falling prey to what?
Who's doing this?
We're we're very frustrated here, and I I could just cry.
Seriously.
Yep.
Ooh.
I can't even tell you how mad this makes me because his next step has to be to want to be rich.
If he's not, what's the point?
What why did you get a patent?
Why did you bother?
Wait, where are you going with it?
I don't know.
Ask him why he's so frightened of what people will think of him.
And then ask him, is this really how you want to look you want to be afraid of what people think of you?
And who's putting these thoughts of you in people's mind, if not this idiot Obama?
Oh well.
I understand your frustration.
I I uh I really do.
If I were you, I'd disown him.
Uh let's see, who's next?
Where are we uh Tommy and Joseph City Airs?
Tommy, I got a 45 seconds, but I wanted to get to you before we had to go.
Okay, I'm confused, Rush, because the past three years I've made the most money I've ever made in my life.
I'm 54 years old.
I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I'm driving the truck that delivers liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen, and Argon to Colorado, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.
And I I'm confused.
How can I be making the most money I've ever made in my life?
70 grand a year driving a truck, and there's not even enough people to drive these trucks because they won't get their hazmat.
What do I do?
I'm confused.
I would shut up and not talk about it lest they hear about you in the White House.
Look, the reason why you can get a job, I put it, the reason why there are jobs open to drive hazmat trucks is because you have to pass a urine test.
And you realize how few Americans can pass a urine test to drive a hazmat truck.
So I'm told.
And by the way, Fast Eddie Rendell, the uh former governor of Pennsylvania is criticizing Obama for his latest attacks on Bain Capitol and Romney criticizing Obama, especially on the felony stuff.
Let's see if this opens the floodgates, because I guarantee a lot of Democrats are not happy with the way this is.
See you Monday, folks.
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