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July 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 247 podcast.
So I'm in the library last night, and I'm doing what I always do.
I'm doing show prep.
And I get I get a text message from Catherine who's in with the dogs in the kitchen.
She says, Are you in this Batman movie and you didn't tell me?
Is this Batman movie about you?
And I said, What now?
She says, I can't.
I can't go anywhere without reading about you in this Batman movie.
And I finally, in that moment, folks, I finally figured out what's going on.
I outed them.
Forget the creator.
I don't care the creator created the character Bain in the Batman movie back in the night.
It doesn't matter.
The Democrats clearly were going to try to link this villain to Mitt Romney.
And I outed him.
They've even got a couple Democrats admitting they were going to do it.
Chris Lahanus and John Stewart.
And they're still trying to do it.
It was a, you know, independently of the producers and the actors and all the people associated They saw it.
They were going to try to make the linkage.
And now I'm out there basically accusing them of that, so they've got their backs up.
They're acting like I'm some sort of conspiracy creep.
But I outed them.
I have I have shined the light of truth, as it were, on their technique.
Anything.
Tax returns, is Romney a felon?
And you know the interesting thing is that out there, where you live, nobody cares.
Nobody cares about Romney and Bain Capitol.
Nobody can, at least in terms of whether or not he was a felon, nobody cares about the villain in the movie Batman being named Bain.
Nobody cares about Romney's tax returns.
Nobody cares what Obama cares about.
In fact, this country is standing up in outrage over what Obama said.
And by the you Democrats are trying to tell us that we took him out of context.
They're doubling down on this now.
Elizabeth Warren is back, doubling down on this whole notion that if you got a road in front of your business, that road and the people that built it are the reason you succeeded.
You had nothing to do with it.
She's back, they're doubling down on it.
Hi folks, how are you?
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies.
The people of this country have finally seen what I've been trying to say for four years.
That, and I don't mean to make this about me.
I don't have to try to make things about me.
They're gonna do that anyway.
This is why I said I hope he fails.
This is who he's always been.
This is who Barack Obama is, and all this about how likable Obama is, and what a great guy he is.
He is snarky, he's sneering, he's angry when he made those statements in Roanoke, Virginia last Friday night.
For some reason, the truth emerged.
He was irritated, fed up, tired, not supposed to be here in the polls.
Wasn't supposed to be this close.
It's supposed to be way ahead, rocking on to a practically uncontested secondary.
Romney was the guy they wanted.
Romney was the opponent they wanted Romney.
Occupy Wall Street, run against Wall Street, Bain Capitol, they wanted Romney, and now the CBS New York Times poll is out.
Registered voters, not likely vote.
This poll is amazing.
You dig deep in the internals.
Romney is ahead of Obama for the first time in the New York Times CBS poll.
That's a detail, by the way, that the CBS article in the poll ignores completely.
In fact, according to the New York Times, 45% say they would vote for Romney if the election were now.
43% say they would vote for Obama, which means that Romney's really up by two.
But the pollsters decided to throw in undecided leaners so they could cut Romney's lead by half down to uh one percent.
And so they've and the guys over to political Mike Allen says, Well, come on, it doesn't mean anything.
Nobody's ahead And nobody's behind.
This is all a margin of error.
And so when the Republican launches ahead in the polls, then all of a sudden the polls don't matter.
But you dig deep in some of the internals in this poll and you find some amazing stuff.
You go back and you compare the results of this poll to the to the, and they did this at Power Line.
Compare this poll to the same polls results in April to get a trend.
Handling of the economy.
Back in April, Obama at 44%.
Today's poll 39.
Impact of policies on respondents' own financial situation.
Not good for Obama.
Just you lose the abidum.
Well, 64% blame Obama's policy.
This is that I mean it's it's folks, it's all in this poll.
And this is registered voters, not likely.
If it were likely voters, it'd be even worse.
Finally, folks, you've been asking, when the what are these polls going to match up?
What are all these polls that say we're going in the wrong direction?
Um my life isn't getting better.
When is it going to match up with an accompanying decline in Obama's approval?
Looks like it's happening in this poll.
favorability rating, Obama 36.
You remember when Bush hit the 30s on CNN?
It was all they talked about for three straight hours.
We had that montage of Wolf Blitzer, breaking news, everything coming to a screeching halt, the president's approval numbers, a new low in the CNN poll in the 30s.
Well, here we go, the CBS New York Times poll Obama.
Back in April, he was at 42% approval, 45% disapproval, well, favorable and unfavorable.
36% favorable in the New York Times CBS poll.
A plurality of voters think Obama's policies will make them worse off, and that Romney's will make them better off.
It's all here in this poll.
And it's a couple of um a couple of other interesting aspects here.
The uh the independence.
The independence among independents, Obama's personal favorability is at 28%, not 36.
Now, this is the group that the Republican establishment said, don't criticize Obama.
No, no, no.
They want to compromise.
Uh shake hands.
Everybody uh get together across the aisle, work together, compromise, blah, blah, blah.
Among the independents.
Obama's personal favorability.
28%, 52% unfavorable.
It's among independents.
Romney, 32% favorable, 31% unfavorable.
So I guess this Bain stuff's really working, didn't I guess his tax return stuff's really working, isn't it?
And I guess this you didn't bill that.
Somebody else made that happen.
I guess.
I guess this stuff is really working.
By the way, this poll, uh, ladies and gentlemen, has weighted the Democrats with a six and a half point sample advantage.
What they've done, and this is another indicate, what they did in there in the composition of the respondents in the poll, they basically went out and they duplicated election returns.
They had a Democrat sample of about 52%, 53% in the poll, and a Republican sample, independent sample that pretty much equaled what the uh uh election in 2008.
Well, we all know that those numbers no longer work because a lot of Democrats have abandoned Obama.
He's not gonna get 53% if he wins.
He's not gonna get 53%, and they have so this you know, waiving Obama by six and a half points, Democrat over Republican in the CBS New York Times poll.
Even doing that, Obama's losing by two points.
Even with a six and a half point respondent Democrat advantage, Obama is down to.
Now the media, they're gonna look at this and uh you're probably gonna hear this.
I I think the the um standard reply is gonna be what the politicals do.
Well, it's margin of error.
And this race has always been close.
It's always gonna be close.
Every poll's gonna be like this for the remainder of the race.
It doesn't, there's nobody ahead, and there's nobody losing.
So when Romney Romney vaunts ahead, all of a sudden, the polls do not matter.
And now the uh the Democrats doing everything they can to distract, but see, as I said, the people they don't care about Romney's tax returns.
They don't in fact, I saw, I can't remember where I saw this, but this is a great idea for Romney to do.
If Obama or somebody starts uh ripping into it for having money in the grand Caymans and elsewhere offshore, Romney said, Yep, and if you win, I'm taking even more money out of the country and putting it offshore.
And anybody who had the ability to would be wise to do the same thing.
You know, be aggressive, go on offense with it.
You don't have to make excuses for anything.
Romney is on fire.
I think Romney now, you know, even Jeb Bush has come out and criticized Obama.
Do you realize how major a thing that is?
Even Jeb Bush doesn't like this business at Ob.
Yeah, he doesn't like this idea that uh that Obama's out there saying people didn't build their own businesses.
And as I say, they're doubling down on this with Elizabeth Warren now.
She's doubled down on it.
All this talk about being taken out of context, not true.
This is who he is, folks.
It's what I and you have been trying to tell everybody for four years.
I had an interesting uh email from a cousin, my cousin Andy lives in St. Louis.
He said, you know, I got a tweet, Rush.
One of my friends said you need to redo your economics 101 lecture on a zero sum game and how this economy's not one.
It's not a zero-sum game.
He said that that rush lecture is what turned me and helped me to understand the economy.
And his point is that the only reason this class envy stuff works is because the people that don't understand the economy think it's a finite number.
And the rich are grabbing up more and more and more of it.
And as the rich get more and more, everybody else gets less and less.
And of course, that's true if you're talking about a zero-sum game.
But we have a finite, or we do not have a finite economy.
That's what growth is all about.
How can you how can you have economic growth if if the pie never gets bigger?
But a lot of people do not instinctively understand.
They think that there's only so much money, there's only so many businesses, there's only so many customers, there's only so many products, and if they don't get in on it early on, they're gonna never get in on it.
The zero sum game.
So it might take some time and uh and revisit that.
We're gonna do open line Friday on Thursday today, folks, because uh annual member guest golf tournament.
But I want you to know something, folks.
The annual golf trip to Hawaii takes place in August, cancelled.
No, I haven't rescheduled it.
Probably I I really I should take some days because it's gonna get intense once the convention well before Labor Day, the Republican convention starts, which is August uh 20th, something.
Yeah.
So um uh and everybody under the sun, when are you taking vacations so that I can plan mine?
Take it anyway.
No, no, no.
So I got all this pressure on me.
Vacations ought not to be pressure, but they're pressure now.
I gotta take everybody else into account when I figure out what I'm gonna do mine.
It's a that's what it's like to be important, Snerdley.
I did just but anyway, I as of now, there is no vacation scheduled.
A brief time out here, my friends, we'll come back.
We will continue with all the rest of the program right after this.
Don't go away.
No, Snerdley, my dictation still isn't working.
People don't care about that either.
But it's still not working.
No, it's it's it's not an it's not an audio problem.
It's it's uh do you know you you know how IOS 6 dictation works?
Do you know how it works?
Or if IOS, Apple dictation.
You know how it works.
You say what you say, it's sent to servers at Apple's data centers, transcribed and then sent back, and it displays as text on your iPad or your iPhone and on your computer coming in the new operating system.
And it happens in a split second.
Well, that's not working.
It's a server problem.
It's like my phone has been turned off from the servers.
I'm not getting to the servers.
And I don't know if it's just my phone they've turned off or the whole system's down.
I can't find anybody else's having the problem.
So I figure Apple is targeting my phone.
I don't know why, but it's just this one phone.
Every uh the the the dictation's working on every other i device I've got.
I've got one other i device running the beta and the iPhone running the beta.
The other thing, the iPad running the beta, everything works fine.
It's only on this one iPhone where the dictation isn't working.
It's just it's a it's a it's a challenge, and I want to be able to fix it.
And I'm unable to even find anybody who's having the same problem.
Now, Elizabeth Warren, this is from the Boston Herald, Elizabeth Warren yesterday running for the Senate, came to the defense of President Obama and his controversial statement that business owners can't take credit for their success.
They mean to say this.
There's no out of context.
There was, in addition to the words, there was a sneer snarky attitude about this.
Folks, I am telling you, these are full-fledged, dyed in the wool.
Marxist Leninists, and they have a deep-rooted dislike, resentment, in some cases hatred for capitalism for this country.
And I uh I've spent my life trying to figure out why.
I've told you on this program, I don't know how many times.
I sometimes I descend into mindless idealism.
I can't intellectually understand why anybody would hate this country.
The freedom, the opportunity, the but the freedom is such a big thing, that's why the rest of the world still wants to get here.
A guy at National Review, I forget who, like Peter Kirstenau, I think, making a point about you got a road in front of your business.
He said, they got roads in the Soviet Union.
They got roads in Cuba.
They get bridges in Myanmar.
But they don't have anywhere near the kind of human existence that we have in America.
So what's missing?
They get roads in Detroit.
Bridges everywhere.
But you listen to these people, roads and bridges.
Roads and bridges are casually thrown out cliches almost like we need to invest in education, as though we haven't been.
Our problem is we'll be investing too much money in education and not enough learning.
Roads and bridges, got a road, got a bridge, people to build debt.
That's why your business is successful.
Well, as he points out, there are roads throughout totalitarian countries, and the businesses that are on those roads are nothing.
Because there's a big missing figure or factor, and that's freedom.
Well, even though I intellectually don't understand people hating the country, I intellectually understand that they do.
And at times I've tried to figure out why.
It's a wasted exercise, other than for the fun of it, to see if you can actually peg it.
And I I know that I have.
I know that I have.
It's a combination of things.
It's a it's a devotion to collectivism.
It's a devotion to a central planning authority that they run.
They don't want to be in the Hoy Poloi.
Obama and the they don't want to be the subjects of their ideas.
They want to be those who implement and administer their rules.
But it's not about being fair.
It's not, those are just methods.
Those are just ways to get where they want to go.
It's it's about contempt.
They have contempt for average people.
Average people cannot do anything on their own.
They're just not capable.
It's probably the umbrella under which it all operates.
So don't buy this out of context stuff.
This is who they are.
This is who Obama has always been, and this is what he is attempting to implement.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limboy having a more uh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
You didn't build that.
You didn't make that happen.
You didn't have anything to do with that.
There's a lot of smart people out there.
A lot of smart people that don't have anything.
You've got a business you didn't build at somebody else made that happen.
You didn't build that captures the split of the left and right in America today, 2012.
I'll tell you, I I speculate on these people hate the country.
One of the things they do, it's Obama's a classic illustration.
They start with the kids.
Cartoon shows, classroom, day-to-day life, communist parents, leftist parents start maligning the country.
How unfair it is.
How unjust.
All the horror stories of our nation's past.
They get these kids literally hating this country.
And the kids grow up and become occupy Wall Street members, or they want to go into journalism and change the world.
They want to take down a presidency.
I read a fascinating piece.
Conrad Black reviewed Douglas Brinkley's book on Walter Cronkite.
And in the review, Conrad Black makes a point, some of you might think is a little narrow in its scope.
But he said the real that the place that we can trace the current sharp ideological cultural rot divide is two things.
The Vietnam War and Watergate.
And he blames Cronkite for both of them.
But the left in general.
His point essentially is that when journalists discovered they could secure defeat of the United States in a war, and take out a president.
It forever changed the way they look at their job.
And of course, the Democrat Party and the media are one and the same.
They don't even stop to consider that we could have won in Vietnam.
They don't stop to consider that Watergate was basically a fraud.
Conrad Black writes Watergate was a fraud to this day.
Nobody can really tell you what Watergate was.
But this the sense of power that the Democrat Party and the media felt and achieved, losing a war, securing the defeat of a war they thought was unjust, so we had no business winning, and then ridding the White House of a president they despised.
He said that forever changed the nature of journalism.
And in fact, Congresses.
And he says, until, and this is never going to happen, until liberals admit their culpability by securing defeat in Vietnam and ridding the country of a president.
Until that Happens, every presidency is going to be a failed presidency.
Because the objective of the media is going to be to either get rid of a Republican president or artificially prop up a liberal president who is doing horrible rotten things.
All for the express purpose of seeing the power unfold.
And I think he's on to something with this.
I think much of what the media does today, you know, that the monopoly is not what it was during Vietnam and during Watergate.
They don't have a monopoly anymore.
They long for the days of their monopoly.
And I think much of what they do is now designed to show themselves, and everybody else, they've still got the power to shape opinion, majority opinion amongst the population.
That that is what motivates them, excites them to prove to themselves they can still do it.
If it takes six years, we're going to destroy George W. Bush.
Because we destroyed Nixon.
We showed it can be done.
So that's now the objective.
In fact, that's, you know, Woodward Bernstein getting rid of a president's why so many people wanted to go into journalism.
They wanted to take truth to power.
They wanted to wipe it powerfully, unless they're liberal Democrats, of course.
So you start with the kids, they go into journalism school, they go into movies entertainment, what have you, they go into pop culture, they are taught from the moment they can understand the language that this country is horribly rotten.
I think it's exactly who Obama is.
Every influence he's had, every formative influence, from his father on down to his stepfather to his mother to his mentor Frank Marshall Davis to his professors, it's all been how rotten this country is.
And now he's president.
Now they can't be honest.
They still haven't gotten the point where they can be honest about it.
That's what's amazing about this slip up.
For some reason, Obama was really frustrated on Friday, and he just let fly with what he has been covering up.
He let fly with what they've been trying to mask.
And that is their distaste, their literal dislike for this country.
And now people who were having trouble getting their arms around the idea that we'd elected somebody who doesn't really like the country, now they're seeing it.
And they're not happy about it.
Six pages when you print it out.
The New York Post went around and talked to business people.
This is happening all over the country.
Chicago Tribune.
Business owners, people that voted for Obama are livid with this.
And they're writing and they're talking about their hard scrabble stories.
Their parents, their grandparents, the hard work establishing and maintaining a business and all that went with it, no vacations, no extra money, no movies.
And many of these people voted for Obama, and now they hear him say, you didn't do that.
You didn't build that, somebody else made that happen.
Finally, people are getting their arms around this now.
And it's helping to put all this other stuff in perspective.
What do you mean Romney's tax return?
Who cares?
They're not talking about Romney's tax returns anywhere.
Ask yourself, wherever you live, if you still read your local paper.
How much attention did in the in the local news is there about Romney's tax?
You might see on the front page a wire service story from the New York Times about it, but is anybody in your local town talking about whether or not Romney tax returns he needs to release more or whether Romney's got offshore money?
You know what they're talking about?
386,000 unemployment applications just out today.
It you remember last week the media was excitedly and breathlessly reporting the plunge in applications for unemployment.
Oh now, Reuters today is despondent over this news.
We're inching dangerously close to 400,000, that magic number of unemployment compensation applications.
386,000.
We have a country in a tailspin.
And this is what people care about, and this is what people are talking about.
They're not talking about what Obama wants everybody to talk about.
All the media is, but the media is not succeeding in distracting people.
And this CBS New York Times poll today with Romney ahead by two, yes, it's margin of error, but still it's a first.
Trust me, in the White House, they're not saying it's margin of error.
You know it's gonna be like this the rest of the way.
They're not saying that.
Because the trend, which is easy to see.
The trend is not good news for Barack Hussein Obama.
So you got weekly unemployment claims now at 386,000.
Next week that's gonna be revised up.
It's gonna be at least 390.
Foreclosures.
People are still losing their houses.
For what do you mean?
How's it possible?
We're not turned the corner.
We have not done one that we have not gone in a positive direction in its economy in three and a half years.
Everybody knows it.
That's what people are talking about.
Factory activity contracted for a second month in a row.
U.S. manufacturing, therefore, is on a downward trend.
Home sales dropped 5.4%.
That's the biggest decline in home sales in nine months.
Retail sales dropped for the third straight month.
Consumer confidence is down to 84.7.
US business inventory is increased by point three percent.
That's replacement.
That's not sales nationwide, retail sales down.1%.
Food prices are skyrocketing because of the uh the drought.
And where's Obama on that?
By the way, he's gonna lower the sea levels.
Why not make it rain?
And last week we learned that more people are signing up for disability than are signing up for unemployment.
This is what people are talking about.
All these things, John Nolte assembled this list at Breitbart.com and all these things.
This is what real people are living, what real people are talking about, and what real people are starting to understand Obama doesn't care about.
And even if he did, they're starting to realize there's nothing he could do about it because he doesn't know how and he doesn't really care.
And a precious few people are beginning to understand that all of this news actually facilitates what Obama wants to happen.
And that is a bigger government come in and fix all these problems that of course will not be fixed, but the government will get bigger.
The government will have more power.
The government will have more power.
But all of these things, yeah, they may be reported, but that's it.
After the unemployment news today and Reuters, that's all they'll say about it till next Thursday.
If it were a Republican president, it would be the only news of the day, and it would carry over to the Sunday shows with job expert here, job expert there, trying to explain what it all meant.
Obama wants well, whatever he wants, he gets.
He wants this to be a one-day story, that's it.
But they can try as hard as they want, try to make people care about Romney's tax returns.
And they can think about how frail your position must be.
If you really, and don't doubt me on this, if you really think that you can score political points by associating a villain in a movie to an American human being running for if you really think you can do that, if you think you must do that, where are you?
How pathetic is your current situation if that is a campaign strategy?
All right, a link a movie villain to a and don't don't fall for they were going to do it, they're still gonna do it.
Letterman's already doing it, John Stewart's gonna do it, Chris Lahanus is doing it, they're already trying to do it.
Problem is I outed them.
And because I outed something they were really going to do, they're now doing what they always and predictably do, trying to make me look like an idiot.
A conspiracy tinfoil hat kook.
When all I am is Rush Revere warning you in advance, the liberals are coming, I see them hit the trail before you do.
And what you're gonna, if you don't admit it yet, you're gonna have to start admitting it.
I'm always right about it.
Four years ago, I hope he fails.
They didn't want any of this.
I knew we had a guy who didn't like this country.
I knew we had a guy who had a chip on his shoulder about this country.
I knew we had a guy who didn't respect the American capitalist system.
I knew it.
How did you know him at the Limbohawk and you know what nobody else did?
Everybody could have known it.
All you have to do is understand liberalism.
You don't even need a high school diploma to understand this.
It's that easy.
Even the New York Times is admitting that nobody cares about Romney's taxes.
Here's from the New York Times in their polling story today.
Obama's class warfare has been a failure.
New York Times says, quote, despite months of negative advertising from Obama and a Democrat allies seeking to define Romney as out of touch with a middle class and representative of wealthy interests, the poll shows little evidence of any substantial nationwide shifts in attitudes about Mr. Romney.
Because try as you might, New York Times, this election isn't about Romney.
Selection is about Obama.
You can try all day to make it about Romney.
And what you're admitting is everything you've tried to do, it did not work, and it is a tax cheat, not working.
Uh he's got money in the Cayman's, it didn't work and make fun of his wife's horse.
Didn't in fact they're even apologizing for this.
You know that the Democrat National Committee is uh they're pulling back, they're announcing they're pulling back on criticism and Romney's horse and uh and apologizing for doing that.
Yep, yep, yep, got it right here in the stack.
Romney's put together an ad.
It's an internet ad, runs a 140.
We've edited some of the music here, so the the total runtime here is about a minute and a half.
We've we've shaved 12 seconds out of this.
But what it's a great ad, it cuts to the heart of what the country is all about, what it's always been about.
He uses a real person to tell Obama what we've been feeling for three and a half years.
Guy's name is Jack Gilchrist.
He is the owner of Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company.
In Hudson, New Hampshire.
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.
If you got a business, that you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
My father's hands didn't build this company.
My hands didn't build this company.
My son's teams, I'm building this company.
Somebody else take out the loan on my father's house to finance the equipment.
Somebody else make payroll every week and figure out where it's coming from.
President Obama, you're killing us out here.
Through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business.
Why are you demonizing us for it?
We are the solution, not the problem.
It's time we had somebody who believes in us.
Someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded, not punished.
We need somebody who believes in America.
The idea to say that Steve Jobs didn't build Apple, that Henry Ford didn't build Ford Motor.
To say something like that is not just foolishness.
It's insulting to every entrepreneur, every innovator in America.
That's wrong.
President Obama attacks success, and therefore, under President Obama, we have less success, and I will change that.
Mitt Romney, that's the new ad, it's an internet ad, and it's pretty effective.
And you can find stories with I I'm gonna read one from you uh to you from the Chicago Tribune today.
And there's six of them in the New York Post.
But here's a question.
This is a major, major.
If he didn't mean this, this is a major gaffe.
This has been allowed to fester and settle in for five days.
If you didn't mean this, you go out there, you take this back, you you you try to make people understand that you didn't really mean it.
They're letting this sit there and settle it.
They want people thinking that's that's how he's running his campaign.
He wants to be elected by people who believe this, folks.
I'm telling you.
Okay, first hours in the can, folks, on the way over to the uh warehouse housing artifacts for the forthcoming Limbaugh Broadcast Museum.
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