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July 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 17, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Your bulwark, your guardrails, your guidepost, your guiding light, El Rushball, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, maha rushy, America's real anchorman here and America's truth detector.
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Let me see if I understand this.
On the one hand, we have over here Barack Hussein Obama, who has, with the help of his party, the Democrat Party, unleashed untold damage on America, particularly the private sector economy.
We have somebody who's created a new entitlement which is going to fundamentally forever change the relationship between citizen and government in a way never contemplated by the founding fathers of our country.
We have rampant unemployment, underemployment, more part-time and temporary workers getting jobs than are getting full-time jobs.
We have no end in sight to the economic misery that people face.
It has all been done systematically and purposefully for the last three and a half years, and there's no end in sight to it.
What we're hearing is the promise of more.
We have the president of the United States openly saying that if you've done anything worth anything in your life, you really haven't done it.
Everybody else did it.
They didn't get the credit.
You are successful because you've either stolen labor or you have stolen money or you have stolen something.
And it's time now for you to give back.
We've got the president who has never earned a paycheck, who is disdainful of the private sector in his own books.
He has been surrounded by Marxists, Leninists, and avowed communists.
They have been his mentors, his educators, the people who have influenced him.
He's never earned a paycheck in the private sector, wouldn't know the first thing about it.
On the other hand, over here, we got Mitt Romney.
Who is Mr. Milquetoast?
Mr. Whitebread.
He has saved the Olympics.
He started Bain Capital, successful governor of Massachusetts.
Not a hint of scandal or lawlessness anywhere.
But what do we have?
We have Mitt Romney is a felon now.
Mitt Romney is a felon.
He's got offshore bank accounts.
He's hiding money.
He's not paying his proper amount of taxes.
We are supposed to take this and debate it.
And we on our side, some of us sit around and say, Mitt, you better release your tax returns.
Mitt, you better deal with this.
Mitt, you better do that.
Mitt, you better do this.
You better respond to what they're saying.
Mitt, you better come clean, Mitt.
Our guys are saying this.
On the other hand, we aren't supposed to say diddly squat about Obama because that will irritate the independents or it won't work because the media is not on our side.
We can't go on offense.
The truth is, Romney is not a felon.
He's not hiding anything.
We're supposed to debate that.
We're supposed to take it as though it's a legitimate charge and refute it.
Tell Romney to get his tax returns out there.
But we can't say anything about Obama.
So, Obama can launch in his campaign a series of lies that we have to accept and take seriously in debate.
But if anybody on our side decides to, my question is, then how do we campaign?
Somebody tell me if we're not supposed to, if we can't say that Obama, while everybody, while Romney's out building jobs and building a company and saving the Olympics, Obama's blowing a little weed and snorting coke and school, if we can't say that, if we're not supposed to say that, and if we're not supposed to say that Obama is purposefully doing damage, how are we supposed to campaign?
On what basis then do we deserve to win this election?
No, no, that's, I don't, I want to know how are we supposed to win this.
If we are to accept every premise they put out, and because we're honest and forthright people, whatever premise they will deal with it intellectually as the smart people we are, and then we will refute it.
But meanwhile, the point is, they can lie about our guy all day long.
We accept it.
We can't even tell the truth about their guy.
So, would somebody tell me how we're supposed to win the election?
If they can lie about us and we accept the lie and we tell ourselves we've got to debate the lie and refute the lie and do it in a way to satisfy our intellectuals, fine.
We can't tell the truth about Obama.
We've got to deal with lies about our guy.
We can't tell the truth about Obama.
How do we run the campaign?
I need some extraordinarily expert political consultant to tell me how we do this.
Now, compare the level of outrage.
Excuse me.
Compare the level of outrage, the media over Sununu's remarks.
And there is outrage.
There's outrage over Sununu's remarks, and there's outrage over my remarks.
The remarks I made yesterday, I said, folks, I don't think we can equivocate any longer.
There's only one explanation for this.
When you go out and say, if you got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
And that's part of a larger soundbite where you basically attack the credibility, the achievements, the accomplishments, the character of successful people.
What else explains this other than a disdain for this country?
What else explains it other than a resentment?
A dislike, maybe even a hatred for the country as it was founded.
What else explains?
Okay, so you say that.
All hell breaks loose.
Media says it's racist, it's guttural, it's inappropriate.
Meanwhile, they can go out and tell lies about Mitt Romney all day long, and that's perfectly fine.
And we shouldn't respond to that.
No, in fact, Mitt, get your tax returns out.
The list of Republican prominent names, I can tell you, is get your tax.
So let the Democrats set the agenda.
Let them go ahead and establish the premise under which our campaign is going to be run.
Yeah, because that's how we'll prove to the independents or whoever we're trying to prove to them.
We're nice people.
I hate this.
I hate the assumptions going in that Republicans don't like people are supporting big business.
Everything's out of whack, 180 degrees out of phase.
So you compare the level of outrage from the media over Sununu's remarks to the lack of outrage over Obama's campaign calling Romney a felon.
And no outrage.
There's just.
Well, you got to deal with it.
In fact, ladies and gentlemen, let me find it here.
Put it near the top of the stack, I think.
It's a piece by Chris Saliza in the Washington Post.
And it's, yes, here it is, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
And by the way, the media know that what Sununu is saying is true.
The media know that what I'm saying is true.
Obama was a pothead.
Big time for a long time.
They also know that the Bain charges are lies, but it doesn't stop them from being outraged at Sununu.
They give the Obama campaign a pass.
Mitt Romney's unsolvable Bain problem.
Chris Saliza, one of the many full-time Obama flacks at the Washington Post, claims in his story that Romney's Bain problem is unsolvable.
He begins his piece of journalism this way.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to struggle to get out from under questions regarding just when he departed from his job at Bain Capital.
And there's reason to believe he won't be able to solve his Bain problem anytime soon.
Really?
He doesn't have a Bain problem.
There is nothing unsolvable about Romney's Bain problem because there is no Bain problem.
There is only a lie that has been knocked down by every reputable fact-check organization and news outlet, as well as by the Democrats' own local paper, The Washington Post.
This problem is invented.
It is manufactured by the Obama campaign's truth team.
It's being ginned up by his lick spittle lackeys in our one-party media.
Mitt Romney's unsolvable Bain problem.
Yep, there's no reason to believe that he won't be able to solve this.
What's he supposed to do?
He left Bain in 1999.
That's it.
He wasn't there in 2001.
He wasn't there in 2000.
He left in 1990.
What do you mean, unsolvable problem?
Yeah, can't solve this anytime soon.
This is what the left calls logic, by the way.
You make something up totally out of whole cloth.
Then you proclaim it to be true, and then you say, by the way, there's no way Romney can fix this.
And they're right.
They're not going to let him fix it.
The truth isn't what this is about.
Why is it unsolvable?
Why is this an unsolvable thing for Romney?
Well, because of the seeming contradictions about when Romney left the company and the exotic nature of his financial life, says Mr. Salizza.
That's why it's unsolvable, because of the seeming contradictions about when Romney left.
There aren't any contradictions about when he left.
And the exotic nature of his life.
You know whose lifestyle has an exotic nature?
It's Obama's.
He can't pay for anything that he's doing.
Well, he can't afford very much of what he's doing.
If other people weren't paying for Obama, he wouldn't be able to live 80% of his lifestyle if we weren't paying for it.
Talk about an exotic financial life.
So you have here another shining example of professional propagandists at work.
There are no contradictions about when Romney left Bain Capital.
There's no problem.
There is not a problem.
So therefore, there's not a Bain problem.
And therefore, this is not a problem that needs to be solved.
There isn't a problem.
The date Romney left is well established in legal documents.
Romney's finances have been in a blind trust since 2003.
We never heard any of this kind of talk when John Kerry ran for the presidency.
John Kerry is five times richer than, well, Kerry's wife is five times richer than Romney.
At the time, Kerry was probably the richest man to ever run for the presidency.
And John Kerry had a history of Cayman Island accounts that were not done by a blind trust, by the way.
And we never even got to see a single one of Teresa Hines' tax returns.
But the news media never mentioned Kerry's wealth, not once, because they were so busy trying to figure out what to do about the truthful Swiftboat vets campaign attack.
But even Soliza admits in his piece where Romney has an unsolvable problem.
He says, yeah, most independent fact-checkers agree.
Romney had no involvement in Baines' day-to-day operations after 1999.
Somehow, though, he still has a problem that's not solvable.
He says here that the issue has been made fuzzy, so it won't ever go away.
It's fuzzy.
Yeah, it's fuzzy.
Yeah, he left in 1999, but there's some fuzziness about it.
So this is what passes for journalism now in the Washington Post.
Doesn't matter if the charge is untrue, doesn't matter if the charge is true.
Somebody can make it fuzzy.
That's good enough for them to constantly repeat it until the stupid and uninformed believe them.
So there's not a problem to solve.
The whole thing's made up.
The whole thing manufactured.
It's working like a charm.
Meanwhile, they live and triumph on a lie and a series of lies.
But we're told, don't tell the truth about Obama.
Well, then find somebody who is an expert campaign consultant, who has a track record of winning elections.
Somebody tell me how we do this then.
A brief timeout, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll come back and we'll start with phone calls.
Don't go away.
Here we start in St. Louis.
This is Lyssa.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thanks so much.
Listen, as far as what Obama said about successful people, it wasn't just what he said, which was absolutely adolescent.
I mean, it was just an absolute adolescent thing to say.
It was the tone.
His tone was so snarky and condescending.
Hateful.
It absolutely was.
I mean, it came through so loud and clear.
And, you know, when I say his thinking is adolescent, it's like after I heard it, I wanted to go, well, duh, he sounded like a 13-year-old.
Of course, every generation stands on the shoulders of the generation before, every civilization on the civilization before.
I mean, yes, we are all beholden to the guy that invented the wheel.
But, you know, he wants everyone.
What I think he's trying to do is erase in our culture that independent streak that we have.
And I swear there's a part of me that thinks, you know, we're all going to be walking around in Mao jackets at some point.
I mean, he wants to take away individuality.
Yes.
The government is going to be the source of everything.
Government's going to get the credit.
It'll never get the blame, by the way, but it'll always get the credit.
He wants everybody looking to government for anything.
He wants everybody thanking government for making anything in their lives that's worthwhile happen.
He wants government getting the thanks for that.
But there's something else going on here, too, and I just want to reiterate it.
Obama cannot wait to raise taxes to confiscatory levels.
And he wants to have support for this.
What better way of ginning up that support than to go out and talk to college kids who haven't had a chance to succeed or fail yet?
But there's no job market for them.
They're looking at student debt that's insurmountable.
The idea of success and creating wealth is something that depresses them.
So here comes Obama delegitimizing all the success that's out there.
All the successful people, other than the people that donate to him, he's out there trying to stigmatize as much achievement and success as possible by telling his audiences that those people couldn't have done it without you.
I mean, they didn't do anything on their own.
As he says, you got a business.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Not somebody helped you.
Not somebody assist.
Somebody else made it happen.
And he said it, you're right, with this contemptuous, condescending, snarky attitude with resentment and supreme intense dislike for these people.
So then when it comes time to raise taxes to confiscate their wealth, look at the people going to support him because he's already told them, hey, it's only fair to take money away from them.
They shouldn't have it in the first place.
So that's also part of this.
That's exactly right.
I mean, you know, it's easy to be average.
Most people are.
It's hard to be successful.
Hard work to be successful.
To make the choices that you have to make to be successful is really tough.
Well, get used to the new world.
The new world is that there is valor in being average.
There's valor in having not achieved anything because that makes you a victim.
And there is honor.
There is excuses.
There are excuses.
There's explanations in being a victim.
If you're a victim, then you can blame somebody else.
And who better than the president to support you?
Who better than the president say, yeah, you know, you're right.
You could have been somebody, except these other people, a bunch of cheaters and liars and they stole it all from you, but I'm here.
I'm here to get it back for you.
So there's not going to be a stigma to achievement.
There's going to be an air of suspicion about it officially from the White House down.
And there will be almost an honor or a sense of valor in being average because you fought the good fight, but you lost to a bunch of reprobate cheaters.
Hey, we are back and we go back to the phones.
This is Patty Naughtuck, Connecticut.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Oh, great to speak to you, and thank you so much for taking my call.
You bet.
Thank you.
In response to you had talked about what would be a way around getting out a political ad that is nothing but complimentary and get your point across.
I have a thought.
It's a three-part thought.
There was a recent interview with Charles Krauthammer, and he had described a great respect and admiration for Romney and Bain Capital, of which he concluded in there that Romney, he doesn't have any skeletons in the closet.
In fact, he doesn't have a closet.
And then in the middle of the interview, you could put people, real people, who have had jobs, prosperity, due to the intervention of Romney and Bain Capital through maybe Staples and other companies that Bain Capital have gone in and restructured so that there was success.
And the third conclusion, and you could have a series of people, because I am sure he has touched many lives with his wealth and prosperity.
And it starts at the top and trickles down.
He could be our role model.
The third avenue would be ending with a conclusion of, I believe, President Clinton on CNN.
And he had spoke of Romney about his, I believe the word was, sterling business, you know, past businesses, and of Bain Capital.
And I think it would be a very positive ad coming forth, and it would addressing it in a very positive way.
Although I do think that he needs to define himself very quickly before he gets defined, because people repeating something over and over, sometimes legend becomes fact.
All right.
Well, how does he define himself?
He's only been running for president since 2008.
So how do you do that?
How do you define yourself?
What do you do?
I think by your record.
I think by, you know, Bain Capital was put in, is part of the United States because it saves companies.
It creates jobs.
It creates wealth.
It spreads the wealth.
It actually spreads the wealth by everyday people getting up and going to work and having jobs.
And the rich are the people who employ Americans and increase everyone's quality of life.
And money, there are things in life that are very important and our personal values, our principles, but money does bring quality of life.
And the rich have enhanced this country through our jobs, through prosperity, through me.
So you want a Romney ad campaign that explains the rich to people.
Well, through example.
The lives that Bain Capital has touched, the everyday people who have got up and gone to work, who continue to have jobs because of his interventions, it is interesting.
Think back to all of these Democrats.
When Obama started this attack on Bain, all these Democrats came out and said, don't do it.
They came out and defended Bain.
They defended private equity.
Corey Booker, Fast Eddie Rendell, Bill Clinton, as you mentioned.
There were numerous Democrats came out and criticized Obama for doing it.
What happened to that?
What happened?
Apparently, they've all been taken to the woodshed.
Every one of them has been silenced and shut up by the White House.
And we're back now to Bain Capital equals disaster, evil, misery, cheaters, offshore accounts, all of the stereotypes that attach themselves to the filthy rich that somehow rich Democrats never seem to have attached to them.
All of this stuff is now attaching itself.
All these Democrats who came out and told the truth have apparently been silenced and shut up.
And sir, may I ask, too, what happens?
What are the results of the rich leaving this country?
Where would we be without the avenues that the rich have provided this country?
And wealth and prosperity, he earned it.
Governor Romney earned that.
And if he succeeded, he would be the person who leads by example.
And if he could help the United States of America restore our economy and put us on a road that has avenues again to prosperity, I would be, I am sure with many Americans, very grateful because we can come back to our problems.
And they have to do with debt, finances.
We need restructuring in our economy to bring us back to having things coming up.
Yeah, you know, aren't these kinds of attacks that we're seeing on Bain, aren't they the kind of things that force companies offshore in the first place?
Yes, sir.
Isn't this the kind of thing that makes a company open offices in foreign countries and relocate and take their leave of the United States?
Isn't Obama in effect with his attacks on Bain, isn't he sending a signal to other businesses?
If you're not with me, pal, and I mean politically, I'm coming for you next, is this not actually making other companies look at foreign investment more favorably?
They may be looking now to see what happens because we may be left with a country that the rich find out that it isn't so great to be here and it isn't marketable for them to be here.
And there are other avenues in the world that actually welcome business.
India may be a prime example.
A lot of our businesses have gone to India and they're thriving in their economy over there.
We need to re-examine our values.
We need to re-examine how we are setting up our structures because our Americans and our future Americans, we have many, many problems that we face, but we cannot solve the problems without having the wealth restored to this country.
Let me ask you a question.
Serious question, Patty.
Yes, sir.
As you go through this idea, your three-pronged ad idea for Romney, and I like one of them.
Have some campaign on the lives that Bain Capital has helped.
People whose jobs were saved, people whose businesses grew.
That's a good idea.
My question to you, and I'm only, I'll just ask it flat.
How many people in this country do you think are interested in learning how to be prosperous?
How many do you think want the same list of objectives that you have mentioned here as the end result of your mythical ad campaign?
Well, with all due respect, sir, I think when you give up something, you may end up giving up more than you think.
My husband always said there is no free lunch.
And sometimes when something is free, it ends up costing you a whole lot more.
And quite honestly, I think we need to look at the whole structure and widen what we're looking at and seeing what people are getting for giving us tokens, because the tokens may end up in the end be withheld from us.
No, no, I'm asking you and you lose liberty.
But how many people care about that?
I'm asking you a question.
How many people want to do what it takes to become prosperous?
They don't have to anymore.
How many people want to understand the role wealthy people play in a prosperous society?
How many people want to do what it takes to become one of those people versus how many of them are content just to sit there and resent them and have the government take care of them to one degree or another?
Well, what happens when there's no more money?
Who does the government want to?
Well, we're already there.
Yes, sir.
But after when things really begin to, even if they should worsen down the road, who would be first so hurt by the exact thing of not having money if the government no longer has money or China no longer is willing to give us that X number of pennies on a dollar to give us so that we could have these programs that benefit people?
And I am not saying we should not take care of the poor, the disabled.
We most certainly should.
We have always been a country of that.
But we need to examine exactly what the structure is and how we're doing it.
Because with all due respect, I'll come back to my husband's thing.
This man worked and worked and worked since he was younger than a teenager until he was 65 years old and had some health problems.
Do you understand?
Do you understand that today, if put it this way, the President of the United States is out receiving standing ovations and applause when he attacks the kind of life your husband lived?
The President of the United States is getting standing ovations when he tells people your husband didn't do anything.
Your husband never did Jack.
Everybody else made your husband what he was.
Your husband didn't do anything.
I've got a little clip from my husband.
Obama's getting standing ovations, Patty, when he denigrates people like your husband.
Just because you say it doesn't make it so.
And you can say the truth.
You can say the truth.
You can say the truth.
And I would continue to say the truth because you may affect some.
But when you continue a legend and you keep repeating the legend, the only thing left standing is the legend.
And the American people deserve to be told the truth.
But the truth is hard, Patty.
The truth is hard.
A lot of people don't want to hear the truth.
I agree.
That's what we do here: tell the truth.
You do it all the time.
We do the truth, and I'm hated and despised.
I think you're respected.
Well, that too.
Of course that's true, but I'm hated.
I'm looked at as a big threat.
Because you become, you know, you stand up for principles.
You stand up for values.
And, you know, you're not going to give into them.
You're going to stand firm on them.
So there's something to be said for that.
And in the end, this country was made just on that.
People worked.
They worked real hard, and they never complained about it.
And the worst days of their lives are the days that they could no longer work because that is what pulled you up.
It's what defined you.
It is where you took your identity.
It's work is where you derive your self-worth.
My father only worked his whole life, his whole entire life.
And when he retired, he worked his whole retired life at the church until he was ill and died of a stroke.
And that's what he lived by.
He was in World War II.
He was under patent.
He won medals for it.
And you know what?
He never spoke of it.
It was a deep pride within himself.
And those things were very, very valuable.
But they never spoke of the war.
They never touted their success.
But when I look back at my father, when he fell down stairs that were concrete and had all broken rims, do you know he never missed one day of work?
Do you know he got up the next day and he strapped himself up and he went to work?
The President of the United States is today getting standing ovations for denigrating, criticizing, and basically impugning everything your father and your grandfather did and stood for.
And that has not happened in this country before.
Leave behind that counts.
And it is what he left behind that counts because I never forget the lessons he taught.
He's a man who went to church.
He's a man who prayed every day.
He saw things that most people never see in their whole entire lives that go off.
And he probably was opposed to gay marriage, in which case he was a creep and a jackass and a hateful bigot.
That's where we are in our culture today.
You described characteristics that used to be those things that everybody in this country strives for.
Now they are laughed at, impugned, made fun of, marginalized by no less than the president of the United States.
Patty, thanks for the call, and God bless.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Rushlin bought talent on lawn from a god.
Yes, my friends, it sometimes seems as though we have been transformed past these outdated concepts that Patty, our last caller, just talked about.
Hard work, personal responsibility, commitment, stick-to-tiveness, humility.
We seem to have been transformed past all that now.
I mean, those qualities, those characteristics, they were okay in their day when people didn't know any better.
But, you know, only bitter people still cling to that kind of out-moded value system now.
It's just the bitter clingers that go to church.
It's just the bitter clingers that believe the lie that hard work gets you where you're going.
I mean, you heard the president.
There's a lot of hard workers out there.
And there's a lot of smart people out there.
And they get the shaft every day.
They never get what's theirs.
They never get what they deserve because these other people are out there who didn't do anything.
These business owners, they didn't build it.
Somebody else made it happen.
And these out-moded values, that's when people were suckers.
That's when people actually believe that hard work and application mattered.
The smart people now know that that was all a bill of goods.
That was all just a bunch of gobbledygook.
The smart people now know that nine out of ten people are going to get ripped off, taken advantage of, because capitalism sees to it that way.
If you're not dishonest, if you're not a cheater, if you're not willing to walk all over people, then you're not going to get anywhere.
But now we finally have a president that understands how life really works.
That the only people achieve things are thieves.
The only people that have great success are the people that somehow were sitting around not doing anything and they saw somebody else do something really well.
And they just went in there and took it.
Just went in there and absconded with it and put their own name to it.
That's what the smart people believe now.
That's what the cool people believe.
Now, all that stuff about God faith country saving America from our enemies.
That was how camp was that?
There were never any real enemies.
That was all just a bunch of stuff to get people riled up.
But we all know that's not the case anymore.
You know who's next?
Doctors.
And it's not Obamacare.
It's not Medicare co-payments.
It's not any of that.
You know how they're going to go for doctors?
Very simple.
And I might even see Obama make this speech this summer.
It might even happen before the campaign.
Depends on how successful they judge this current tactic to be.
Let's see if you can envision President Obama, the president of the United States, after giving a speech where he says, you got a business.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Transform to doctors.
Is it really fair that people should get rich off the misery and sickness of their neighbors?
Where's the justice in that?
How come somebody should have a bigger house than you do, a bigger car than you do?
How come somebody should have more money than you do, just because they are capitalizing on the sick and misery that you've experienced?
You know how these doctors are.
They'll amputate a leg when they don't have to, just for the extra 30 grand, or they'll pull a tooth, or they'll do, Obama's already said that.
So how big a stretch is it for Obama to say, you know, those, it's just not moral.
It's never been right that people should get wealthy simply treating the sick.
That's something that ought to happen for nothing.
Out of goodness of people's hearts.
It's the fastest three hours in media already.
Two of them are down and in the can, but there's one exciting, busy broadcast hour remaining where we make the most of every precious broadcast moment.
Sit tight, my friends.
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