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July 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Now, you and I, maybe I, you know, I won't speak for you.
I am just going to talk, I'm going to speak for myself.
I think that this assertion that Romney's a felon is pathetic.
I think it's empty.
I think it's a sign of how little they have.
I think they've run out of stuff.
I don't think they can't say one thing positive about Obama and his regime, his campaign, his record.
I think it's a sign of how pitiful and pathetic and incompetent these people are.
I think it is the epitome of gutter, lowball.
It's just, it, and to me, there's no way, literally no way this can work.
I have too much faith in the American people.
And yet it can because it has.
It is not like the Swiftboat attacks.
You know, these media people are running around, hey, we're fighting you, Nevin.
You were Swiftboating Romney.
No, no, no, no, no.
The Swiftboat attacks were true.
And you don't tell the truth about liberals and live to talk about it if they have anything to say about it.
You don't tell the truth about liberals.
But the Swiftboat attacks on John Kerry were the truth.
Those were people that served with Kerry who were telling the truth about Kerry.
The liberals think that the Swiftboat attacks, well, they want people to believe the Swiftboat attacks were lies.
And they've probably told themselves that a bunch of lies derailed their favorite son.
He had this great guy with the wealthy wife.
Whoa, he was going to be the greatest president ever.
And then these Republicans started lying.
They came up with these Swiftboat guys.
Well, the Swiftboat attacks were true.
But what's being done to Romney right now, and the Romney people had better realize it, is exactly what the Democrats did to Bush.
And I hate to admit, I hate to have to admit that that worked.
Now, it took them six years, but it worked.
A relentless six-year attack on the character, the honor, the dignity, and the trustworthiness of George Bush worked so well that a sizable number of Americans today still do blame Bush for this economy.
That's how successful it was.
You go back after 9-11, pretty much after his dad too, after Gulf Wall I, George H.W. Bush was in the 80% approvals and ended up losing.
George Bush, 43, was known as an honorable, truthful man.
He had incredibly high approval numbers after 9-11.
His strength was his character.
People have forgotten.
I'll tell you a story.
About three weeks after Bush was inaugurated in 2001, I happened to be invited to a dinner at the White House.
The president threw for a bunch of baseball people.
Cal Ripken Jr. was there.
I just said there were 16 or 17 of them.
Don Baylor was there.
Tom Glavin, Atlanta Braves, was there and their wives.
16 or 18 of us.
I was there because I had been in charge of ceremonial first pitches and national anthem singers at the Kansas City Royals.
And I can't tell you how many people at the dinner, and I myself offered a toast to the president expressing the joy, happiness of a nation that he'd been elected and that morality and character were now once again in the Oval Office room.
We're coming off the Clinton years, Lewinsky.
I've told you this story.
He gave us a tour after dinner.
And in the Oval Office, a lot of people want, where was the room with Monica?
And I thought, isn't this great?
Here we are in the Oval Office of the White House.
People want to see the anterroom where Clinton did the nasty with Monica Lewinsky.
I mean, he didn't, nobody said, can I see that room?
Amongst themselves, they were saying, which room do you think it was?
But when I made that toast, I think it was Tom Glavin's wife.
I agree with everything he said.
And a lot of other people did.
We all felt the same way.
This was the time I told you on the tour, we got to the Blue Room.
And one of the women said, is this where state dinners are?
And Bush said, no, they do the state dinners in the state.
We all thought they.
I mean, he wasn't even thinking of himself in big terms.
Everything was in his mind still bigger than he was.
And he always did.
He had profound reverence for the office.
Never sullied the office.
That's why he never got political with it.
So you have this guy who was Mr. Trustworthy, dignified, character above reproach.
And look what six years of relentless media and Democrat attacks did, combined with the Iraq war.
When he leaves office, everybody thinks this country is despised around the world because of George W. Bush.
Everybody thinks that the country's financial crisis because of George W. Bush.
Now, it's true.
Bush never defended himself at all against any of this.
And Carl Rovis said in retrospect that that was a mistake.
But my only point is they did it.
So don't think, I mean, I sit here and think there's no way I laugh.
Romney, Mr. Whitebread, Mr. Milk Toast.
My God, if there's anybody clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, it's Mitt Romney.
I laugh at the notion that these people make the country think that Mitt Romney is a felon, but they've done it.
This is all they've got.
They don't have anymore.
And they're shooting all this stuff out pretty soon.
They're early with this stuff.
I think it's a sign of panic, frankly, but it doesn't matter.
The time, by the time they got through with Bush, this Bush lied, people died.
Do you remember that?
Bush lied, people died, never responded to, never reacted to, never defended.
Bush's reputation was in smithereens.
It was in tatters.
What the left always does is go after their opponent's strength.
There's another strategier that says, go after your opponent's weakness, but the left goes after the strength.
What's Romney's strength?
Romney's strength is he's Mr. Steady.
He's Mr. Backbone.
He's Mr. Fix It.
He's Mr. Morality.
He's Mr. Character.
He's Mr. Dignity.
That's where they're headed.
They chip away at that.
They think Romney's got nothing else going for him.
So of all the things that Romney's got and of all the things that Romney's touting is his stellar business expense.
He saved the Olympics.
He ran Bain.
He created all these jobs.
He's a great businessman, proven track record, knows how to create jobs, can revive this economy.
That's what they're aiming at.
You combine Romney is a felon with Obama out there saying, these rich people, they didn't do anything on their own.
They stole everything they've got.
Obama sees business owners as people who steal other people's property or steal their labor, steal their work.
You combine Obama making that statement, bouncing off Elizabeth Warren with the notion that Romney is a felon, and then you add to it the media giddiness here at thinking they're now being able to swift vote Romney and they're not going to give this up.
And so Romney, I think you ought to, I really, by golly, by gosh, by gum, I really should apologize for that.
This is American politics and people don't apologize.
And you want to hear what Obama said to that?
Friday night, Washington, D.C., WJLA-TV's eyeball ABC 7 News.
Senior political correspondent Scott Thumman, interviewing Obama, said, what about Bain Capital?
Big issue, big 24-hour issue here.
Romney's campaign says he left in 99.
You say he left in 2001.
That's a significant difference, Mr. President.
Is he being dishonest?
Is Romney being dishonest to the American people?
Ultimately, Mr. Romney, I think, is going to have to answer those questions because if he aspires to being president, one of the things you learn is you're ultimately responsible for the conduct of your operations.
But, you know, again, that's probably a question that he's going to have to answer.
And I think that's a legitimate part of the campaign.
Yeah, you better answer this charge.
It's a serious charge.
Romney better answer that.
He's got to be responsible for his operations.
This is after Romney has said the president needs to take control of these people.
If they're out of control, he needs to apologize.
And what's Obama come back with?
I don't think he knows what he's doing.
He's got to understand.
Like I understand.
I'm president now.
I understand what that means.
Romney didn't have any idea what he's talking about.
He's got to be responsible for his operations.
It's all Bush's fault.
Romney's got to be responsible.
And so then the guy at Fox, or no, this is back in, this is in Richmond, Virginia, this on Sunday.
Andy Fox, correspondent for WAVY, Eyeball TV News 10, asked Obama if he would apologize.
No, we won't be apologizing.
Mr. Romney claims that he's Mr. Fixet for the economy because of his business experience.
And so I think voters entirely legitimately want to know, well, what exactly was that business experience?
Yeah, so Mitt, this is the guy that's the author of this campaign that you're a felon.
It's not his campaign staff's out of control.
They're following orders, Mitt.
Obama thinks you're a felon.
Obama's who's telling everybody you're a felon.
Obama's who's telling his people to tell everybody that you are a felon.
And you have something to answer for now.
And you have some explaining to do.
You claim to be Mr. Fixit.
So they're going right after his strength.
They're going after his reputation.
And don't think, as sorry as it is, as absolutely sorry and pathetic as it is.
Obama's got forces working with him that can hammer away at the, can they do it in three months' time?
I don't know.
I do know that they're going to continue to try.
That's all they've got.
So this morning on Fox and Friends, on the Fox News channel, Romney showed up.
Eric Bowling, co-host, said, when you hear, like Ron Emmanuel's out there telling Obama to stop whining.
Did you hear that?
Rom Emanuel said, you got to stop whining, buddy.
Ron Emmanuel said yesterday morning on this week that Romney should stop whining about all these attacks on his main record and just defend himself.
Stop whining about it.
Hey, it's the Chicago what you don't whine.
You know, whatever's said about you, you get in there.
You roll up the sleeves and you punch people out, do whatever.
You got gangbangers murdering people in Chicago.
You tell them.
You don't complain about it.
You just tell them to stay away from the kids and murder other people.
Don't whine about it.
Of course, these are the people whining about George Bush every day.
See, they're allowed to whine.
When it's Bush's fault, it's perfectly fine to whine and moan and childishly complain.
Look what Bush did to us, but hey, Mitt, stop whining.
So Eric Bowling says, you hear Rom Emmanuel say, stop whining.
What do you say back to him, Mr. Romney?
When people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.
I'm very proud of the record that I had in my business career, helping turn around the Olympics and as the governor of the state of Massachusetts.
But what does it say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in his campaign is attack me?
But campaign based on falsehood and dishonesty does not have long legs.
The president has only one thing going, and that is constant attacks on me.
And they're dishonest, they're misdirected.
And I think the American people recognize that kind of politics is something of the past.
It may work in Chicago, but it's not going to work across America.
Well, but it has.
It does.
They had better understand that it can work.
And he can't make the mistake that I'm making.
I am, I'm making a mistake.
People aren't going to buy this.
I said the same thing.
They're not going to be able to bush this.
And they did after six years.
This is why you people call me and tell me you think people in this country are stupid.
I don't think that.
But I do lose faith now and then.
I think I have such reverence for the American people.
I don't think they fall for stuff like, but they do.
And then I get disappointed and I think, oh, my God, what kind of people live in this country?
They're crying out loud.
I'm sitting here telling myself there's no way they can make a majority of people think that Romney's a felon.
But I know that I'm wrong.
They can, if they have enough time.
Well, Romney's not just standing still.
After that answer, Steve Doocy said, well, I know that your campaign was on defense last week, but now you're on the offense.
And you want to draw attention to Obama's political payoffs versus middle class layoffs.
You say if you're a donor to the Obama camp, you'll do okay.
But if you're in the middle class, you got to worry about your job.
There's no question but that when billions upon billions of dollars are given by the Obama administration to the businesses of campaign contributors, that's a real problem, particularly at a time when the middle class is really suffering in this country.
I don't know whether you watched over the weekend the report that was in the New York Times about families really struggling, particularly those that are single parents, that are just having a hard time making ends meet.
This is a tough time for the people of America.
But if you're a campaign contributor to Barack Obama, your business may stand and get billions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the government.
I think it's wrong.
I think it stinks to high heaven.
And I think the administration has to explain how it is they would consider giving money to campaign contributors.
When I hear this answer, I go back to Michael Goodwin's column in the York Daily News or New York Post a couple weeks ago where he said the problem, Romney just born at the wrong time.
It just campaigns, the world is different now.
And almost say the same thing about me sometimes.
But I got to take a break here, folks.
I'm way, way long.
I'll be right back.
We do.
We have two different eras here.
Michael Goodwin, the New York Post.
Romney's just a nice guy, but politics, he's 65 years old, and it's a different America.
We talked about this two weeks ago.
Maybe it was a week ago today.
We had that big, long, drawn-out discussion on whether or not the economy is enough of a campaign issue anymore because of the socioeconomic changes that have taken place in the country and so forth.
Okay, so Mithrid Limboth, if you have the answer to everything, then what will you suggest that Romney do if he's doing it?
Okay, fine.
Look, pal, when I was out creating jobs, investing in business and growing this economy, you're at Columbia smoking weed, snorting coke.
You write about it in your book.
You talk about how you got into Columbia and to Harvard Law and you didn't have to do anything.
That was what's great about it.
You love getting into Columbia because all you had to do is go to class, get your grades, and smoke a little weed.
Well, I was out building the country when you were doing that.
That's the kind of, this is a Chicago barroom guy who doesn't care about the aftermath as long as he wins.
This whole meme about Romney is a felon, folks, the regime, Obama doesn't care if Obama, if Romney's a felon or not.
This is about how is it polling?
Is this working?
Doesn't matter where any of it's true.
If they can convince people it's true and if that helps them in the polls, then they're going to keep at it.
It's that simple.
But there is a gold mine of ways to attack Obama that he himself wrote about in his book.
And it's all made to order, but This is bare knuckles.
This is not two gentlemen squaring off in the ring under some sort of Queen Elizabeth rules or whatever the hell they are.
I don't know.
All right.
I know.
It's the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
I just couldn't think out off the top of my head.
But I know that's what it was.
I just, look, folks.
Romney knows how to do this.
He did it to Newt, and he did it to Santorum.
He knows full well how he has to do this.
But I know what they think they're up against.
They got the first black president, independents.
See, it's easy to go after Newt or Romney because they're conservatives and everybody hates conservatives anyway.
But we can't go after poor old Barack that way because he's a minority and all this other.
Anyway, let's go back to the phones.
This is Todd in DeVernon, Illinois.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Rush, we love you out here, man.
Hey, I heard you say earlier.
Testing one, two, three.
Anybody there?
Yes.
Can you hear him?
I do not hear him.
Can you hear me, Rush?
That's why I've lost the audio feed in here.
Test one, two, three, four.
Test, test, test.
Todd, I can't hear you.
Go ahead and talk, and Dawn will transcribe for you, and I will hear what you're saying that way.
Sure.
I just, I heard you say earlier in the show that you loved the TV show Breaking Bad because it's the only show where every character in it is despicable and unlikable.
So I was going to tell you, if you like that, I suggest you watch the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Well, I didn't say that I liked it because they were all despicable.
I observed that I liked it even though there's not one likable character there in that show.
I made that observation last year.
Every one of these characters irritates me, in fact.
Have an active dislike for, I mean, even the people that are trying to be decent, good people.
It's a fascinating show.
It really is.
Todd, thanks much.
Let me give you the quote here.
This is page 47 from the book Dreams.
Is it dreams of, dreams for, dreams by, dreams did?
What is it?
Dreams of?
My father, whatever.
He said, that's what my last two years in high school had been about.
After Ray went off to junior college somewhere and I had set the books aside, after I had stopped writing to my father and he'd stopped writing back, I'd grown tired of trying to untangle a mess that wasn't of my making.
I'd learned not to care.
I blew a few smoke rings and remembering those years, marijuana helped and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
Not smack, though.
Smack was heroin.
I didn't do any of that.
But he's admitted in his book here.
He talks about getting into Columbia and law review and so forth.
Didn't ever have to write anything.
The standards for everybody else never applied to him.
The requirements for him never applied to anybody else.
And he didn't have to do a whole lot of hard work to get where he wanted to go.
So if I'm Romney, I could simply say, look, you're out there blowing some weed.
You're out there shooting a little Coke, whatever you did with there.
Hey, Obama, how could you afford cocaine when you were in high school?
And while you're out doing all of that, basically checking out of life, I'm in the process of creating jobs, saving the Olympics, and all this other stuff.
But I know they have, they're not, I'm not under any illusion, folks, that they're going to go after Obama that way.
They are convinced that it wouldn't work.
They're probably, they're afraid of what the media would do if such an attack on Obama were a member.
But it doesn't have to be an attack.
It doesn't have to be an attack.
All it's got to do is be a quote from his book.
You know, Obama was so middle class, taking month-long vacations on Greyhound buses and staying at Hojo's.
And he's doing a little cocaine and smoking a little marijuana.
So where'd he get all the money for this?
Let's try another phone call.
I still don't have any audio feed, so I'm going to have to, folks, if there is a pause, the transcription's not quite instantaneous.
So there might be a little dead air while I wait.
And you, when you're on the phone, I may be interrupting you when I don't know that I am.
So if I start talking, you hear me.
Be quiet because I can't hear you.
Here's Greg in Lebanon, Ohio.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how you doing?
I just wanted to call and tell you that I think Obama might be onto something here about how somebody has helped somebody else get successful in business.
Because I've been listening to you for about 20 years now.
It's going back to about 1990.
And then in that time, I opened the business.
We ended up having to close that down, but we got ourselves back on our feet and we reopened business about a year and a half ago.
And I'd like to thank you for all the times that you've pumped me up when various entities just want to kick the crap out of you.
And I've been listening to you for a lot of years, and I think he might be right.
You've helped me a lot.
Well, I really appreciate that.
Thanks very, very much.
But, you know, don't forget, you're part of the equation here, too.
And you got yourself back on your feet.
See, if I were Obama, I would take total credit for everything that you say you did.
I'd happily take total.
If you were calling Barack Obama, it'd be, thank you.
Thank you for recognizing that you couldn't have done it without me and all other people that came to help you and so forth and so on.
But people like you, I consider people like you to be the people who make the country work.
And so I'm gratified when you call and tell me these things.
I thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Bob in Boca, Raton, Florida, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
For President Obama to say no individual started a company by himself is so absurd.
A guy named Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world and Steve Ballmer formed Microsoft in a poker room at Harvard University.
So it just amazes me that he can make such a ridiculous statement about American business.
He either doesn't understand how the free enterprise system works or refuses to admit it or something.
No, I think he understands how it works and he hates it.
I think he resents it.
And look, I'm just, I'm going to say this again.
In fact, grab, what's the sound?
Grab grab soundbite number one.
This is, you know, Elizabeth Warren said this back in September of 2011, not quite a year ago, when she running for the Senate up in Massachusetts.
And it's one thing for some Dumkopf senator who thinks that she's a Native American to run around and talk this way, a Harvard professor.
But here is the president of the United States who is essentially, this Friday night in Roanoke, Virginia, who is essentially telling successful achieved people, which is a lot of people in this country.
It's not a small club.
For this country to have become the world's superpower, a lot of people had to do great things.
A lot.
Millions upon millions upon millions of people have done great things for themselves and for other people.
And Obama comes along and denigrates that.
For a president of the United States to come along and denigrate the entire concept of success and achievement has to mean something.
And I think it means, I think it can be said now without equivocation that he hates this country.
He literally does.
I'm not using that as a throwaway term like you were talking.
Gosh, I hate when it.
I think he literally hates this country and is trying to dismantle the American dream.
His policies are doing a damn good job of it.
He is turning more and more people out of work.
He's ensuring that the whole notion of creating wealth is becoming more and more difficult because of things he is putting in people's way.
Here, listen to the soundbite again.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
The internet didn't get invented on its own.
Government research created the internet.
So then all the companies could make money off the internet.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Well, that presumably is somebody who wasn't there.
Somebody who wasn't there, obviously by definition, made your business succeed.
Made it possible for your business to succeed.
You didn't build that.
If you've got a business, just of all the things in this he said, and I could go line by line and analyze each one.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.
Yeah, well, who?
Who helped to create this unbelievable American, the founding fathers?
Okay, that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody besides you made it possible for you to have good luck.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges, the infrastructure.
You couldn't have done it without people doing that first.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
This is not an accidental statement from someone who doesn't understand how things work.
This is not the statement of an ignoramus.
This is not the statement of somebody ill-educated.
This is a purposeful statement of criticism and attack of successful people who have achieved something.
If you've got a business, do you understand now why he's not coming up with policies to help you grow your business?
That Obamacare and all these other policies that he has in mind are there to punish you because you don't deserve your success because you have done it on the backs of other people.
You have stolen somebody else's property or you have stolen their labor or you have used their work and not compensated them and you're not properly appreciative.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Folks, I think it has to be said without equivocation.
This is a man who hates this country and he's trying to dismantle the American dream.
And I don't know how else to put it.
It's not that he's an ignoramus.
It's not that he's stupid.
It's not that he's mistaken.
It's not that he's got good intentions, but just doesn't understand.
He was indoctrinated as a child.
His father was a communist.
It matters.
His mother was a leftist.
That matters.
He was sent to prep and Ivy League schools where his contempt for the country was reinforced.
That all matters.
That's real world stuff.
His surrogate father, for all intents and purposes, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist, deeply resentful of this country.
And then he ends up in Chicago with Reverend Wright.
That matters.
Bill Ayers, that matters.
These are all people that reinforced, or if they didn't reinforce, they instructed.
But we've got a radical ideologue here who does not like this country, the way it was founded, the way it was structured.
He's not mistaken in his view of what makes the country great.
Back after this.
I just got a note from a legal eagle buddy of mine who says, you know, Rush, it just occurred to me, listening to you, if Obama even handed one of his friends a joint or gave them some blow, he's a felon.
The law doesn't require money to be exchanged.
All you need to do is distribute drugs and you have committed a felony.
Now, do we really think Obama never gave weed to one of his buddies or any coke?
We know.
He admits he passes it around.
What are they doing?
Chonging, chunging, whatever it is in the car.
They're passing the joint around.
Anyway, folks, I just, this guy's out of control.
Should they tear down the statue of Joe Paterno at Penn State?
That report came out from Louis Free, and the report made it sound like it was Paterno who was at the head of this investigation, or that Paterno was the guy that was ultimately primarily responsible for Sandusky being permitted to continue.
So they're now asking, should they remove the Paterno statue at Penn State?
We'll chat about it tomorrow, some other things.
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