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July 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, hang on here, folks.
I'm I'm I'm really getting frustrated here.
Hang on, I've got to test something.
Okay.
Testing, testing, testing.
Why the hell isn't this dictation working?
Question mark.
They're coming up on almost 24 hours.
I'm running some beta software on the new iPhone and a dictation stopped working.
But it hasn't stopped working on the iPad.
And it hasn't stopped working on my computer, but it stopped working on the iPhone.
I have no idea why.
I've been testing it.
You know, I get obsessive about this stuff.
Yeah, I've done look it, I know about this.
I've rebooted it.
I've power rebooted it.
I've done a clean reinstall of the beta software.
I've done it all.
Well, it's no, it's uh it's just from last Monday, Monday or Tuesday.
So it's uh it's beta.
No, the iPhone's not old tech, but it's a software, it's a beta three.
It's the third beta just released.
It's not it's really curious to me.
The same software, the same program on the iPad, dictation's fine, the computer's fine.
One more time and we'll get back.
Testing one, two, three.
When are you gonna start working?
Period.
Still nothing.
Well, I'm gonna find out.
Anyway, welcome back here, uh folks, Rush Limbaugh.
And the uh EIB network, documented to be now almost, according to latest opinion audit, documented to be almost always right ninety-nine point seven percent of the time.
Great to have you here, and we will be getting to the phones uh very soon in this half hour.
Now I want to go back, honestly, uh uh Obama did say as a follow-up to here play soundbite number two.
This is what we're bouncing off of.
This one I'm I'm still non-plussed when I when I hear this.
I mean, I've known it, I've known who this guy is from before his his presidential campaign, because I know liberals.
I I know who they are.
I I know particularly the radicalized ideologues that today's liberal democrats are.
I know they don't like this country as founded.
I know they resent it.
I know that they've sworn to get rid of the capitalist system.
I know exactly what they're all about.
Here's Obama out now admitting it.
And I hear him say this and you've got business.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
Now they claim we're taking him out of context.
He was talking about roads and bridges that he mentioned in a previous sentence, but I don't buy it.
And even if it's true, you got a guy who can't communicate properly because everybody's thinking that he just said if you got a business, you didn't build it.
And somebody else made it happen because everything else he said in that 49-second sound bite is oriented toward the same thing.
You are nothing on your own.
You are nothing.
You don't amount to a smithereen hill of beans on your own.
And he's followed that up with his typical straw man construction.
He's out now saying that there are a lot of wealthy, this is a quote, there are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they want to give something back.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
He's repeating it.
And now telling us that he's got all these wealthy people coming up.
I agree with you, Mr. President.
I want to give something back.
Let me tell you the the the achievers and the successful are not those who ought to be giving anything back.
They already do.
By virtue of their success, by virtue of their achievement, they are giving back.
They share it.
The old cliche about a rising tide lifts all boats.
I've always been bothered by this give something back.
Oh, it sounds wonderful.
Man, it sounds big hearted.
And it sounds selfless.
But I like what our old buddy Walter Williams says.
You want to start talking about Giving something back, well, who ought to give it back is the thieves.
Criminals, life's reprobates who've taken what isn't theirs.
They're the ones that ought to be giving back.
Government, the ultimate sponge.
But anyway, he says.
Wealthy quotes from the same speech.
It says it's in the Roanoke speech.
It has followed it up.
He's got this straw man.
Probably one rich guy says, you know, I uh if you want to give it back, write a check.
But keep your hand out of everybody else's pocket.
So he says a lot of wealthy people want their taxes raised.
Who cares?
You know, a lot of people don't want their taxes raised too, and I would venture to say that there are more people who do not want their taxes raised than there are people who do.
But here's the thing, folks.
Obama is targeting people who are not wealthy.
He's targeting small business people.
He's targeting families and individuals who have the temerity not to buy health care.
You're gonna have a penalty or a fine if you don't buy health insurance or a tax now.
He wants to raise taxes on everybody.
He's just fooling the middle class and everybody else by making them think he's only targeting the rich.
There's not a person in this country who will not have their taxes raised if Obama is re-elected or if any Democrat is re-elected.
Maybe you have the temerity to work for somebody who provides you a so-called Cadillac health insurance policy, and you don't need to buy one on your own.
Obama is targeting people who mine coal.
He's targeting people who drill oil wells.
He's targeting people who work on assembly lines.
He is attacking anybody and everybody who earns a paycheck or who runs a business.
Everybody is in his crosshairs, not just the rich.
People who owe nothing to the government.
Where is this idea everybody owes something to the government?
This country was founded on the exact opposite proposition.
That's why he went on this rant Friday in Roanoke to tell all of you that you owe what you have or what you are going to get.
You owe it to him.
You owe it to liberals, you owe it to bureaucrats, you owe it to politicians, you owe it to the beloved Democrat Party, but not your own individual labor.
You don't owe it.
It's not from the private sector.
Not the American dream.
No, no, no.
You don't you don't get anything you want from that.
It all comes to you from the government.
That's why he went on that rant.
He wants you ashamed of your success.
He wants you thinking your success is undeserved because it has been come by in ill gotten ways.
He wants you embarrassed and ashamed of your success, and he wants you hiding it.
He doesn't want you flaunting it.
He wants you embarrassed of it.
He wants everybody else to think of your success the way people thought of an SUV not too many years ago, as something destroying the climate.
He wants to stigmatize success as something that's undeserved and uncalled for and illegitimate.
It isn't right that some people should succeed when others don't.
And in true Democrat liberal fashion, instead of seeing people at different levels of economic success and wanting to equalize it or improve it by raising everybody, Obama wants to lower the people at the top.
So that we all have shared equal misery.
The Democrats have never been about elevating.
The Democrat Party, Obama need a permanent underclass.
They need a growing permanent underclass that is in total dependence upon them.
That's why they are so radically opposed to upward mobility.
Upward mobility takes people out of dependence.
It is why the Democrats are totally in favor of whatever cultural rot that comes along that busts up the family.
Because as families are busted up, Obama and the government get to move in and take over the role of provider, be that from the mother or father.
Whichever.
There shall be no upward mobility, and those who experience it shall be ashamed.
And shall be embarrassed of it.
And those who do not experience upward mobility will be justified in resenting those who are improving their lives.
That's why he went on that rant Friday.
To tell all of you that you owe whatever you have or whatever you're going to get to him and his decision to let you have it and keep it.
Or to liberals or to bureaucrats, politicians, the government.
I think, you know, everybody running around.
I have to, by the way, this tax return business.
You people of Republican establishment, you know what you've done with this?
For the last well, let's just look at this particular campaign.
What would you say it is, snurly?
Last two years the Republican establishment, and I I say this without judgment, have been pushing Romney, right?
Republican establishment, it's been clear as a bell.
They've wanted Romney all along.
They've done everything they can to split the conservative vote in the primaries.
They did everything they could to denigrate genuine conservatives in the primary.
They wanted Romney, Mr. Moderate, Mr. Mainstream, Mr. Establishment, Mr. Respectful, whatever they wanted him.
Fine and dandy.
They're the ones.
And the establishment media on our side.
They're the ones that were pushing Romney.
Fine and dandy, as I say, I'm not making a judgment here.
But now those same people who were telling all of us it's Romney, it's Ronnie, are now telling us that Romney hasn't done what's necessary to establish his validity as a candidate and therefore needs to release his tax returns?
Where was this two years ago?
Why now?
Why now do you want to undercut the guy you told us was the only chance we had.
No, I'm dead serious.
The Republican establishment was obviously pushing Romney.
And now that Obama and the Democrats are squealing about his tax returns, for some reason they get scared about that.
And all of a sudden, after two years of telling us Romney's the guy, now they tell us well Romney's got some more to prove.
Really?
Interesting position that you've put yourselves in.
You push a guy that you tell us now has not been fully vetted.
And it's up to him to do it.
We need to turn this around.
It's Obama who should release his loan and mortgage records in the Resco deal.
That hospital where Michelle was hired in the no-show job for 300 grand because her husband was a state senator.
Let's see those hospital records.
Let's see the history of Michelle Obama's being hired at that hospital.
Let's see the truth of how that happened.
Since everybody's making a demand for records of some kind here.
How about the admissions office that accepted Obama into Occidental and Columbia and Harvard?
Well, how about releasing all of their records, as well as his transcripts?
We haven't seen Obama's medical records, his health report we haven't seen other than the annual physical from the White House doctor.
We haven't seen anything on paper which would establish all these wonderful credentials.
The elites in our culture have told us Obama possesses.
I think everybody who currently works for Obama, who worked at Bain or Goldman Sachs or other investment firms, ought to release all their tax returns in the last 10 years.
and Right here, Democrats attack Romney over layoffs made by Obama bundler.
In 2001, a steel plant Kansas City run by Bain Capital laid a bunch of people off.
The guy running Bain Capital at time is now a bundler and fundraiser for Obama.
Romney left in 1999.
In 2001, Bain closes down this steel plant.
The media and the Democrats now are attacking Romney over layoffs orchestrated by Bain Capitol when an Obama bundler was running the place.
How's that for Chutzpa?
How about an Well, there's a lot of paperwork that Obama could release that would help us validate all these claims that have been made about Obama that we haven't seen any evidence of.
I gotta take a break.
Phone calls are next so we get back here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
My friend Andy McCarthy posted uh a three-pager at PJ Media.com yesterday on this whole business of us versus them and they how we're getting away with letting Obama appropriate this whole notion that the infrastructure is government, that somehow he owns the infrastructure.
And by he I mean government.
Government does the infrastructure independent of the rest of us, and because they do that, everybody else succeeds.
And Obama loves to talk about the Golden Gate Bridge.
Now, as you people know, the Golden Gate Bridge to me is one of the top wonders of the world.
I have been to the top of the South Tower that I am stunned.
I I am still in awe of the of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I was in San Francisco in May, played the Olympic Club, the site of the U.S. Open three weeks before they opened, boys and girls clubs fundraiser tournament.
Every time I'm in San Francisco, I take a car privately and I go down, get used to be able to go down to Fort Point, Old Fort Point underneath the South Tower.
Some days you can get down there, some days you can't because of TSA.
But and Homeland Security.
But I try to get as close as I can to bridge as stare at it because I marvel.
If that bridge was not there, I'm standing at old Fort Point.
Somebody says, let's build a bridge here.
I wouldn't know the first thing to do.
I wouldn't know after it's designed.
I wouldn't know construction wise.
What do you do first?
I marvel if people could do that.
The thing about the Golden Gate Bridge, and Andy wrote about this yesterday to PJ Media.
The federal government did everything they could to stop the Golden Gate Bridge being built.
They owned the land on both sides of the bay, and they refused to sell that land for the longest time.
And when they did sell it, they sold it to a state commission, not to private developers, and the delay building the Golden Gate Bridge was profound, and it ultimately ended up the private sector, a private developer by the uh the name of A.P. Giannini, actually built the Golden Gate Bridge.
He put in 1.7 million came in 1.7 million under budget.
He put in his own money, the personal wealth of APG and ENE came to the rescue.
They built the Golden Gate Bridge without government, without union labor, without all kinds of it came in 1.7 million under budget.
The federal government didn't want it.
The Department of Defense didn't want it, or whatever was the DOD back then.
They it was a strategic area.
They wanted to own the land because of the vulnerability to attack.
They didn't want the bridge built.
Here's Obama running around acting like government does all these wonderful things.
Gianini is the Bank of America.
AP Giannini was Bank of America.
Which, by the way, is the name of the football stadium where Obama's accepting a nomination, and they're not going to call it Bank of America Stadium that night.
Even so much for naming rights.
They're going to call it Panthers Stadium or Panthers Field or something.
I gotta get a phone call in here.
We've only taken one.
And Dawn's in there saying, why am I aiming here?
I'm not mean.
I'm just having fun.
Joanne in Knoxville, Arkansas.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, thank you.
You bet.
Um, I just uh understand how uh the critics and how the people are saying that what Obama said is being taken out of context.
But first of all, he's saying what they want to hear, and second of all, they don't seem to get it, and neither does he, that the roads and the teachers we don't have those without the businesses and without the work and what we don't have the roads and bridges without people earning money that's taxed in the first place to build the things.
Well, if you think about Frontier Day, businesses were very successful without the government and without paved roads.
Well, you know, that's a good point.
Um I forget we played the sound somebody.
If if if all you needed was a road in front of your business for it to be successful, everybody would have a successful business.
This is we're we're yet to we're really listening to the words of a child.
We're really listening to the words of a neophyte.
When Sununu says he doesn't understand, to a certain extent, that's true, and I think it's his lack of understanding is what makes possible his resentment.
He doesn't understand it.
He and and be he just thinks it's a golden goose that's always gonna be there, immoral and unjustified by virtue of its own existence, and therefore the private sector, I mean, if he can tax it forever, uh I but I I he is ignorant.
He's childlike about this, but that's what paves the way for him not liking it.
Thanks for the call.
What are you laughing at?
Are you talking about Sheriff Arpayo?
Yeah.
I'm gonna let that efferves on its own out there.
See what happens with that.
I I I saw that last night when I was I look I I get home and I start doing show prep for today.
I said about 4 30, I saw that.
I said, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna let that bubble up out there see what um did you have you seen the video of the 300 kids at Flashmob and at Walmart and you s third plus uh kids flash mobbed a Walmart?
The video's up there, it's a drudge.
Now, of course, I, uh L. Rushball, America's truth detector and doctor of democracy.
Uh what could be causing this?
What could be causing 300 kids to go in and ransack a Walmart?
Do you think all this talk about how success is undeserved and unfair?
Um you think that has anything?
I don't know if I'm just asking.
You think people flash mobbing basically ransacking a retail establishment?
Do you think that might be reflective of anything that we might be hearing said at uh high levels of power in the country?
You didn't deserve it.
You didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
Somebody else made that happen.
And all this talk about profit, why should there be profit?
Why should somebody make any money when they sell something?
It's like I told you yesterday, and I I tell you how they're gonna go after doctors next.
I'll tell you how Obama's going after doctors.
I want you doctors to listen to me.
Because what's going to be said is just immoral.
It's just not right that people should get so wealthy treating the sick.
Why should there be profit in that?
Why why should there be obscene profit?
Why should doctors be so rich?
Which they're not anymore, but the cliché is the stereotype is that they are.
Why should they be?
They're treating the sick.
Shouldn't that be more of a calling like Mother Teresa?
You wait.
You wait, that's gonna be said sooner than later.
The President of the United States is saying, look, stealing from the rich is not stealing.
This is social justice.
Because they didn't do it on their own.
They did it with you.
Hey, Diddy, you actually made their success happen.
That store over there, you made that.
But have you been paid for it?
No way.
Stealing what's rightfully yours, that's social justice.
Why should there be profit?
It's unfair and it is immoral.
These are the seeds that are being planted out there.
Hey, folks, you know what?
There's a lot of roads in Detroit, and you know what's happening on some of those roads?
They are raising abandoned, worn-out houses.
Have you seen that?
You haven't seen you've seen the news.
You've seen the sort of rulldozing houses in Detroit.
Just like they did in uh Flint.
They're bulldozing houses in Detroit.
And there are a lot of roads in front of those houses.
How in the hell can that happen?
I thought if you had a road in front of whatever, that the whatever was big and successful and solid.
A lot of roads there in Detroit.
Look what's happening on those roads.
All right, here's uh here's Ken in Iberia, Missouri.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Megadidos from America's Heartland, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thank you.
I'll be very quick because I know you got a lot of people in the queue.
Couldn't agree with you more that Obama revealed his heart when he made that statement about, you know, you are nothing without the collective.
That's right.
This whole idea of the individual versus the collective.
But he's he's right about one thing.
There is a collective out there without which every every entrepreneur that Romney named in his speech today would not be successful.
And that collective is the market.
It's the as defined by Adam Smith.
It's the collective economic will of all the suppliers and producers and consumers, you know, that participate in the market.
And it's what made him, it's the engine that drives that success.
And if Obama had one logical thought, it would be to get the hell out of the way and let the market do its job.
He doesn't want the market to do its job.
I know, you know.
You're you're absolutely right that he's right, permanent underclass.
Don't doubt me on that.
Oh, I don't doubt you on that.
But a permanent underclass requires one other thing, and that's a permanent class enemy.
Okay?
And that's this whole campaign against the rich.
Well, that is an excellent point.
The underclass needs an enemy.
And the enemy of the underclass is the achieved.
Yep.
Stone did the same thing with the Kulaks.
Well, I know that that you know, you took the word collective.
I know what you're saying, but the problem is that collective is a is a Marxist word.
Uh I I'm not really fond of it being attached to the market, but I know the point that you're making.
Obama doesn't use the word collective.
It's just you who are educated and informed in these things know exactly what he means.
The collective is all of us sacrificing our individuality.
The collective is we're the masses.
We're the great unwashed.
We are not the elites.
We are the masses.
We're the nameless, faceless people that comprise the collective, all working together, all equal in a wonderful, magnificent utopia.
Of course, led ruled, reigned over by Barack Hussein Obama.
Okay, comma.
Test, test period.
One, two, Three, period.
Why the heck aren't you working?
Question mark.
It's still not working.
This is a I'm I'm gonna spend two hours on this after trying to get to the bottom of this.
These tech problems, for some reason they fire me up.
I've got well, all of my i devices, every one of them, the dictation's working, except one iPhone.
It means the system's working.
But it's not doing it on the phone.
Anyway, Romney on fire again.
We got a couple sound bites.
He's in bowling green, Ohio, at a campaign event.
Here's the first of two sound bites.
You would think the president would focus all of his energy and his passion on helping people get jobs.
But you know what he's been doing over the last six months?
In the last six months, he has held 100 fundraisers.
And guess how many meetings he's had with his jobs council?
None.
Zero.
Holy zero in the last six months.
Wait a minute.
I just asked that question an hour and a half ago about the jobs council.
It's a bogus thing anyway.
It's a bogus there is no job.
I mean, there is a jobs council, but what if they don't do anything?
Romney sounds like his hair is on fire out there.
Somebody has really and it was Obama who did it.
Obama struck that match.
Here's the second sound bite.
Um where Romney is making business owners stand up so he can thank them.
I just want to say it exactly as he said it.
Speaking about small business and businesses of all kinds, he said this.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
How many people here with the people who began a business or are leading a business in this room, please stand up?
Wow, thank you.
Thank you.
I actually love that.
It's like asking members of the military to stand up.
And they are also frequently under attack by the left in this country.
So the the the new enemy of the Democrat Party is business owners.
The new enemy of the sm of of the of the administration is business owners.
And Romney's ought to stand up.
Kind of reminds me of Biden in Missouri.
Stand up, Chuck, let him see.
Oh God love you.
Oh no, Chuck's in a wheelchair and he can't stand up, and I look like a buffoon.
Everybody, let's stand up for Chuck.
I uh testing one, two, three, stand up for Chuck, period.
It's still not working.
No, it's it's Sirian dictation are the same thing.
It's the same system.
They both work in the same thing.
Siri's not working on the iPhone either.
It's working on everything else.
It's working on the iPads, it's working on my other iPhones.
It's just not working on this one.
But the others are running beta software anyway.
Uh uh Robin Buffalo, Buffalo Gap, Texas, it is.
Hello, sir, and welcome.
Yes, greetings from a huge George Washington fan in Texas.
Thank you, sir, very much.
So I went up to Virginia this summer, and as I'm listening to the radio, all these stations are talking about Obama saying we've got to have his back.
We've got to have his back.
Obama's campaign is counting on the ill-informed.
And so it's not unusual for Hollywood to give free advertising to progressives.
Bain is just a fortuitous name for them.
Just like the most recent Spider-Man movie when Sally Field is standing in the kitchen.
What's over her shoulder?
A large union magnet on the refrigerator.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And in fact, Chuck, the addiction of creator says, I don't I love all this.
I just I don't like Rush calling me a liberal.
I'm not a liberal.
But he says if if his controversy makes him buy uh Batman paraphernalia and movie tickets, that's fine.
The Democrats clearly want people to go see this movie because they are hoping the Democrats are gonna help them make the connection to the evil villain Bain to the Bain capital of uh of Romney.
No question.
That's what we're up with.
We got we have a struggle going on here, folks, between Romney's Bain Capitol and Obama's Das Capital.
That's the nature of the struggle.
Bain.
We have the struggle.
This election is a struggle between Romney's Bain Capital and Obama's Das Kapital.
This election is a struggle between Romney's Bain Capital and Obama's Das Kapital.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Time for our 21 hour break.
Program never ends.
It just gets interrupted.
But you sit tight because we'll and by the way, not gonna be here Friday.
It's uh it's uh member guest golf tournament time.
Be out Friday only, so we're gonna do open line Friday on Thursday tomorrow.
Tomorrow's Thursday, right?
Yeah, okay.
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