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July 19, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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I am your host, Rush Limbaugh from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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I question that I raised at the end of the first hour, Snerdley looked at me like I was an idiot.
When most people look at you like you're an idiot, does it make you feel like maybe you are an idiot?
That's not how it affects me.
When somebody looks at me like they think I'm an idiot, I think how thick are they not to understand what I'm saying.
So Obama goes out there Friday night in Roanoke and says this.
The soundbite that is aired a million times that everybody's reporting.
Obama says clearly, they they made a day-long attempt to say it was out of context, that people were taking it out of context, but that didn't work.
And so what survives is Obama saying to business owners, you got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made it happen.
That is active.
Everybody is acting on the assumption Obama said it and he meant it.
It's doing inflicting great damage.
They're doing nothing to walk this back.
They're doing nothing to tell people, no, no, no, no, that's not what he meant.
He's not going out and saying, no, look, I I misspoke the other day.
I was he didn't, he's not doing that.
Well, you might think if he did, it'd be a futile effort.
But to let something like this stand, clearly he did not mean to say this.
Let the guard down.
Finally, we got it we got a dead on look at who he really is.
I've always said that that at some point these liberals are going to give themselves away.
You can't survive in a mask and a costume your whole life.
You just Well, the fact that they haven't tried to walk this back in any way is telling, is it not?
It must mean that they don't want to even try to walk it back.
So could it mean that Obama, okay, well, that's out there, and he really thinks that this is how he's gonna win re-election.
That there are more people who will agree with him on this and support him on this, because they will interpret this as Obama says, I'm gonna go get him.
They have gotten where they are by walking all over you, and I am your defender.
I am your protector.
You're just as smart as they are.
You work just as hard as they do, and you build a road and you build a bridge and they used it and you got nothing.
Well, I'm here to take it back for you.
He must think that if he puts all together, uh all the people together who think that way, plus all the other campaign groups that he's uh targeting that he's got a winning coalition.
He must think that.
I I don't know why they're not trying to walk it back.
Do you?
It it's living, it's breathing.
Romney is getting mileage out of it.
It has brought Romney to life.
There's a new Mitt Romney.
Now, we need more than two days out of this.
This needs to be the real new Mitt Romney for the rest of the campaign.
And it needs to it that this message needs to penetrate small business owners who are still open and small business employees who are still working because they could be next this unemployment situation not getting any better.
I'm just I'm a little curious that there hasn't been one effort, not a s not one serious effort to walk this back.
Instead, what have we gotten?
We've gotten Romney Baincap.
By the way, I think they're letting that go.
I I this New York Times pull it's out today factors all of that, the Bain Capital of Cayman's uh Cayman Islands.
It doesn't.
This poll does not include what Obama said in Roanoke on Friday.
That is too recent to have shown up.
So Romney being up by two and big among independents in the latest CBS New York Times poll does not include Obama at Roanoke saying, You got a business, you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen.
The next poll that includes that, that's going to be interesting.
So I'm not hearing much about Bain.
And now they're fit to be tied because I said that they were going to try to link the Batman villain Bain to Mitt Romney Bain.
They're fit to you believe two days they've spent on that.
It's like I said, uh Catherine asked me last night, are you in this movie?
You didn't tell me.
Is this movie if I by the way, for you movie, look at I'm not even in a movie, and look at how much publicity you're getting about it.
Imagine what would happen if you put me in a movie.
I mean, this Batman flick, I'm sure it was eagerly anticipated, it was going to have a big audience.
But it's being talked about in places it wasn't going to be talked about.
It's now got controversy attached to it.
And the bottom line is that when people watch this, when they go see it, it's just like I remember we talked about the first Dark Knoving.
Andrew Claven wrote a piece, Wall Street Journal, I quoted from it extensively, in which he made the point that the Batman that, well, the Dark Knight movie, the one with Heath Ledger is the joker.
That movie, without being braggadociously up front about it, was all about the triumph of conservative values.
The evil gets beat, good guys win, people do the right thing, triumph.
And Clavin made that point.
And I spent a lot of time, and this movie's the same way.
That if Romney, you want to make a political connection.
If Romney's anybody in this movie is Bruce Wayne, the rich guy, Bruce Wayne, but it was put the costume away.
In the movie's gone away, is tired of being Batman, he's down on his luck, he's a little depressed, still got the butler around, but then some new villain comes out, claims take over, gotham going to destroy everybody.
Batman puts the uniform back on, goes into high gear, uh, and saves the day, and he's the rich Bruce Wayne, rich guy, milk toast, boring, dull.
Same way they characterize Romney, that's the good guy in the movie.
The attempt to make Romney into the villain isn't going to work.
It's the exact opposite.
In fact, the producer or the creator, Chuck Dixon, says that the villain in this movie is almost forget his exact words, but he links the villain in this movie to Occupy Wall Street.
And yet the Democrats are out there trying.
I think this is the frailty of their position.
They're trying.
They're trying to link this villain to Bain Capitol.
They've given up on Romney as a felon.
They've moved on.
And there's going to be, Jeff Lord has a great piece in the American Spectator about this today.
The technique that the Democrats and Obama are using.
You go from one distraction to the next.
All for the express purpose of keeping attention off of yourself and your horrible failing record.
There is a, apparently, a political term for this that has its origins back in the days as Spiro Agnew.
I will not repeat the term that is used to describe what happened.
But Jeff does in his piece, admittingly, admittedly saying that he could encounter some trouble because it involves what some people would consider an ethnic slur, but it's not the point of it.
It's just what the strategy, the move is called.
But you move from one that and Michael Ramirez, Who's one of the greatest editorial cartoonists of our age has a great cartoon on it?
It's a blackboard, a green blackboard.
And on the green blackboard is Obama's record.
And Obama is on a ladder plastering individual piece of paper on the blackboard so you can't see Obama's record.
And is filled with Romney Cayman Islands.
Anne Romney's horse.
All these things that they're using to try to focus people on Romney and his problems rather than focus on Obama and his destruction and his failed policies.
And that's what they're trying to do, and it's not working.
So you come out now they come out with this thing on Friday in Roanoke, and they're letting it stand.
They're letting it stand.
I maybe I'm missing something, but I'm thinking if you let it stand, okay, it's you you're either you're calculating, yeah, I think I can win.
I think there's a coalition of people that I can put together that'll outnumber my opposition that agrees with me on this, or you think, okay, let's just let this play out and die because if I go out, try to walk it back, it's just gonna breathe new life into it, and I'm gonna look like an idiot.
People laugh at me.
That could be what they're doing.
But it isn't going away because it's hit people where they live.
This is not people reacting to something I've said about Obama or Romney has said about Obama or anybody else.
This is people reacting to what Obama said about himself.
This is people reacting to Obama revealing who he really is.
I mentioned this piece in the Chicago Tribune.
It's by a man by the name of John Coss, K A S. It's entitled Who Else, Mr. President.
When President Obama hauled off and slapped American small business owners in the mouth the other day, I wanted to dream of my father.
But I didn't have to close my eyes to see my dad.
I could do it with my eyes open.
All I had to do was think of the driveway of our home.
My dad's car gone before dawn.
That old white Chrysler with a push button transmission.
It always started, but there was a hole in the floor of that car and his feet got wet in the rain.
So he patched it with concrete mix.
He kept on driving it to the little supermarket that he ran with my Uncle George.
He'd come home long after dark, physically, mentally exhausted, take a plate of food, talk with us for a few minutes, and then flop in that big chair in front of the TV, and even before his cigarette was out, he'd begin to snore.
And the next day he'd wake up and do it again, day after day, decade after decade, weekdays, weekends, no vacations, no time to see our games, no money for extras, not even from McDonald's.
My dad and Uncle George and my mom and my late Aunt Mary killing themselves in their small supermarket on the south side of Chicago.
There was no federal money for us, no Republican corporate welfare, no Democrat handouts, no bipartisan lobbyists working the angles, no Tony Rescoes, no offshore accounts, no Obama books, just a couple of immigrant brothers and their families risking everything, balancing on the economic highwire, building a business in America.
They sacrificed, they paid their bills, they counted pennies to pay rent and buy health care and food, but not much else.
And for their troubles, they were muscled by the politicos, by the city inspectors, the chiselers, the weasels, all those smiling extortionists who held the government hammer over all of our heads.
I thought about this after I heard what Obama told a campaign crowd the other day, speaking about business owners and why they were successful.
You didn't get there on your own, he said.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was so smart.
He goes through all of what Obama said in Roanoke.
If you've got a business you didn't build at Rights, Mr. Coss, somebody else made that happen.
Somebody else Made that happen, Mr. President.
Who exactly?
Government.
One of my earliest memories as a boy at the store was that of the government men coming from City Hall.
One was tall and beefy, the other was wiry, and they wanted steaks.
We didn't eat red steaks at home or yellow bananas.
We took home the brown bananas and the brown steaks because we couldn't sell those.
But the government men, they like the big red steaks, the fat ribey's two to a shrink wrapped package.
You could put you could put twenty or so in a shopping bag.
Thanks, Greek, they'd say.
That was the government.
We didn't go to movies or to restaurants.
Everything went into the business.
Uncle George and Dad never bought what they could not afford.
The store employed people, the workers fed their families, educated their kids, put them through college.
They were good people, all of them.
We worked together, we worked hard, but none worked harder than the bosses.
And it's the same story with so many other businesses in America.
Immigrants, native born, the entrepreneurs risk everything.
Their homes, their children's college funds, their hearts, all for a chance at the dream, independence, and a small business of their own.
Most often they fail.
And they fall to the ground without a government parachute.
But some get up and start again.
When I was grown and gone from home, my parents finally managed to save a little money.
After all those years of hard work and denying themselves things, they had enough to buy a little place in Florida and a fishing boat in retirement.
And Dad died only a few years later.
You wouldn't call him rich, but Obama might.
Gone is that young knight drawing the sword from the stone, selling hopium to the adoring media, preaching an end to the broken politics of the past.
These days he wears a new presidential persona.
Fighting for that second term.
And he offers an American dream much different from my father's.
Open your eyes and you can see it too.
Obama stands there in front of the mob in his shirt sleeves, swinging that government hammer, exhorting the crowd to use its vote to take what it wants.
John Coss in the Chicago Tribune.
I don't know if he voted for Obama or not, but I know he probably won't.
This year.
And he's got that mob rights, that's exactly what Obama's doing.
Obama exhorting the crowd in Roanoke to use its votes to take what it wants.
Obama's out there telling them.
Those people own businesses, those people successful, they're no better than you.
They're no smarter than you.
You made it possible for them to be successful.
You built the roads, you built the bridges.
And you re-elect me and I'll get it back for you.
That's what he's telling them.
That's what he's telling him.
Elect me and I'll get it back for you.
That's why he's not trying to walk it back.
All right.
Mr. Coss, it's a great column you wrote in the Chicago Tribune.
I must take a brief obscene profit timeout.
Your phone calls are next when we get back.
Hutchinson, Kansas is where we start on the phones today.
This is Dawn.
Dawn, great to have you.
Thank you for waiting.
Yes, sir.
Hey, I strongly believe Obama will never go back on his word because he believes like he'd said.
The only way he got up there into the White House was using everybody to get up there, so he feels that anybody who has a successful business must have used tons of people or whoever they could just to get a little bit ahead of everybody else, and that's how they got up there.
He's projecting.
Yeah, but he didn't say that 2008.
He didn't get elected on that basis.
That's why this is standing out now.
Yeah, but I really I really feel that he um knows that this is how the only way he got up there.
I mean, I really feel that.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Obama got up there because he's smartest guy in the world.
Obama got up there because this country and this world needs him.
Obama got up there and was elected because it's about time somebody came along and saved this mess and got rid of all this discrimination and got rid of all the unfairness and got rid of all the stuff for people didn't get what they rightfully deserve.
Somebody come out, really make government do what was intended.
No, you're you're dealing with an egomaniac here.
You're not dealing with somebody who thinks he got there on the back of other people.
He thinks he's bringing people along with him.
I know your your theory is that because it happened to him, he thinks everybody else does it the same way using the old the projection business.
No, no, no, no.
Obama's uh he's this is deceit.
That whole 2008 campaign was deceit.
The Obama team figured out that what he was was an empty canvas.
The media had such a good job of depressing everybody that Obama quickly found out, just go out there and say a bunch of platitudes and don't get specific about anything other than lies, like I'm gonna get rid of political disagreement forever.
We're gonna have a new politics.
We're all gonna get along, and uh and the world's gonna love America again, and we're gonna lower the sea levels that we're gonna save the planet from global warming and climate change, and we're gonna stop all the political arguments, we're gonna get along and we're gonna have prog.
A bunch of platitudes, and then people could make him whatever they wanted him to be.
They were so depressed, and he allowed that to happen.
Well, when you live by Buzz, you die by it.
You live on PR, you die on PR.
If you succeed on phoniness, it's eventually gonna come take its toll.
Hi.
And we are back.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me you've uh heard people describe Obama as a community organizer.
You heard Rudy laugh about Obama being a community organizer at the Republican convention in Denver in 2008.
No, Republicans are in Minnesota.
Obama was in Denver.
And a lot of people prior to Obama, they know what a community organizer was.
On Friday night in Roanoke, when Obama's out there saying you got a business, you didn't bill in.
Somebody else made that happen.
That is what a community organizer does.
What Obama was doing was agitating.
He was trying to organize that crowd.
He was trying to whip that crowd into an anti-capitalist frenzy.
He was pitting a group of Americans against another.
This is a man conducting a war on achievers.
Not just a war on achievers.
Obama is conducting a war on people striving for success.
And he's talking to that crowd in Roanoke.
That's what a community agitator or organizer does.
He was trying to agitate those people to organize them, whip up a frenzy.
He's telling those people, you are justified in resenting the people owned businesses in your town.
You're justified.
You did.
You made it all happen for them.
And what are you getting out of it?
You get nothing.
But I'm here for you.
I'm gonna show you how to get what's rightfully yours.
I can only do that in the White House.
I need you to send me back there and I'll get it back for you.
That's the kind of stuff that agitators say.
This is the kind of stuff people say that creates unrest in a population.
That was Obama at his most authentic.
That's when the guard for some reason came down.
That's when the curtain dropped.
And the wizard of eyes was exposed for what he really is, an agitator.
A born agitator.
That's what he did on the South Side of Chicago.
That's what Acorn does.
That's what all of Obama's precious groups do.
There's a fascinating story.
He's got a nominee to head up the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a woman by the name of Erica Groshin.
She is a committed.
I don't know how to describe this.
This I'm wont to use the word.
Let's just say that she is a huge leftist, huge socialist.
And there's opposition to her because of this.
She is Obama.
Everybody says, gee, how these how these wackos like Van Jones, how'd they get past Obama?
They are Obama.
He picks them.
He knows who they are before he runs for office.
They're a crowd, folks.
They're a click.
The Daily Caller has an interesting story about Erica Groshin.
A forthcoming report from the conservative organization, Americans for Limited Government, details how Obama's nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics sent her children to a politically left-wing Jewish summer camp with communist roots.
Obama nominated Erica Groshan to be the BLS commissioner in February, but this new report obtained by the Daily Caller, set to be released today, reveals for the first time publicly that she sent her children to Camp Kinderland.
The report reveals how Groshan and her husband are listed in the Kinderland Directory, 2011-2012, which indicates that they sent children to the camp during the 1990s and the 2000s.
Camp Kinderland was founded in 1923 as a place for the children of radical Jewish activists.
The report continues.
According to New York University, some of the camp's founders were activists in the Communist Party, and all were associated with left wing, the left wing of the workman's circle.
What's his name?
John Drew.
I forget where it is from.
I've got it somewhere in a stack.
Apparently this guy dated one of the composite women in Obama's book.
The woman named Regina, this guy dated her for two years.
And according to this guy, Regina was not black.
She wasn't from the South Side of Chicago.
She was white.
She was they were all left-wing radicals who spend their summers in San Francisco.
And Obama at Occidental College was a Marxist.
This is this guy's writing it.
We finally found a friend of Obama's and back then.
Now this is not going to get a wide birth, but it's it's out there.
I don't I don't care about the labels, communist this kind of.
We don't we don't even need them.
Obama is now telling us who he is.
And I but I look, I must convince there's a bit of rejoicing going on with me.
I'll rush this my friends is something that I've been confident in knowing since Obama was a senator.
It's not hard.
Like I said, you don't even need a high school diploma.
All you have to do is understand who modern liberals are and what they are, what they want to do.
It's the after that it's easy.
The hardest part is admitting that there are people like that amongst us in positions of power with so many friends.
But it ought not be.
But the more people that could that could come to grips with that, the farther along we would uh we would be.
See a story out of Canada.
From Slate.com Economic Times here in America are pretty tough.
Things aren't so shabby in Canada over the past five years.
The net worth of the average Canadian has crept up, overtaking the average American's wealth for the first time.
These days, Canadian households are about $40,000 richer than American households.
The figures are from InVironix Analytics Wealthscapes.
First published in Toronto's Globe and Mail last month.
They place the net value of the typical Canadian household at $363,000 versus $319,000 for us.
The writer Michael Adams points out these are not 60 cent dollars, but Canadian dollars more or less on par with ours.
Not only are Canadians richer, says Bloomberg columnist Stephen March, they're also more likely to have a job.
You know, $40,000.
That's a big differential.
Canadians can average Canadian household is $40,000 wealthier than an American household.
First time in history.
Nancy Pelosi says the Democrats ought to skip the Democrat convention.
House Democrats stay in your district.
Stay in your district and campaign.
Stay in your district and pass out food stamps.
Stay in your district and pass out loaves of bread, whatever it takes.
Don't go to the convention.
Pelosi says that Democrat members ought to stay home, campaign, rather than go to North Carolina.
I'm not encouraging anybody to go to the convention.
Having nothing to do with anything except I think they should stay home and campaign in their districts, use their financial and political resources to help them win their elections.
We nominated a president last time.
We've got an incumbent.
We're very proud of him.
There'll certainly be enough people there to express that pride, but I'm not encouraging members to go to convention now, no matter what the situation was, because they can be home.
There's no big deal.
Nothing extraordinary happening.
No need to go there.
Well, there's no unions.
That's one of the reasons or unspoken reasons.
They don't want to be seen with Obama.
That's what nobody is willing to tell you.
But I wonder would anybody notice, see here.
OLI's message.
She is on the one hand, she's consistently confident in her predictions that Democrats will retake the House.
And then she expresses all kinds of great pride in her incumbent president.
Now, if retaking the house is such slam dunk, why do you have to stay home and campaign?
If it's such a slam dunk, why do you have to campaign?
If it's such a slam dunk, why can't you go to North Carolina and be present for the coronation for the second term of our historic first black president?
Why wouldn't you want to be there for that moment of history?
Why wouldn't you want to be seen by the TV cameras around the world on the floor of that great stadium, which used to be called Bank of America Stadium should be called New Black Panther Stadium that night.
Did I say new Black Panther?
You know what?
That's not a bad idea.
Call it New Black Panther Stadium.
Well, they call it Panther Stadium, the Carolina Panthers play there.
So much for naming rights.
Your Bank of America, you paid.
It isn't cheap.
It'd sometimes be 20 million dollars over a length of time to have your name on that stadium.
By this aside, I have nobody's ever explained to me the value of that, but I guess if people make these calculations and say, yeah, Bank of America.
I laugh at some of the names of these stadiums.
Well, I don't want to because I I don't want to run down the businesses that name these.
I have nothing against them.
I d uh just Heinz Field.
They call it Ketchup Field.
Um not that.
Um of them are just a sound.
Anyway, anyway, they bought the naming rights.
Bank of America and Obama's nope, not that night.
I don't like banks.
Well, I like banks, but I can't have my voters thinking I do.
They're gonna go a Panther Field.
Why wouldn't you want to be there for the coronation of the first black president second term?
Why wouldn't you want your face seen?
Why wouldn't you want to be seen cheering this wonderful once-in-a-lifetime moment on television around the world?
Why wouldn't you want, especially if taking the House back is such a slam dunk, you don't need to be campaigning.
If the Democrats in Congress are so proud of Obama, like Pelosi says, why?
Why are they running away from him?
And such an historic time.
I don't remember such a long list of recognizable elected officials skipping a national political convention and making news about.
I mean, I sure there have been a lot of people doesn't show up, but I've never heard of so many prominent elected officials calling press conferencers or issuing statements saying, guess what?
I am not gonna be there.
Please note that's unprecedented.
Pittsburgh and Elizabeth, you're next on the Rush Lib Ball program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Megastieeler did her from uh Red Baby.
Thank you very much.
Well, who's calling about the Batman movie, actually?
Oh.
Been excited and following it for a long time since it filmed last summer downtown where I worked.
And uh just wanted to comment real quick because it seemed that before anyone had seen it, the Democrats scrapped on to this Bane idea, probably probably thinking it would be a major blow to Romney to connect him to a villain and a big blockbuster.
But now that people have seen it, and I've read a lot of the reviews, and without spoiling anything, it's pretty obvious that Bain leads an occupied Wall Street like uprising that blows up the stock market and throws the rich out of their homes and then even sets up these trials and executes the rich for cra crimes against humanity.
You are you you're you're you're spoiler alert, spoiler spoiler alert, but she she's right.
She she's right.
The villain in the movie.
I wasn't gonna say this, but it's out there.
The villain in the movie picks up where Obama left off in Roanoke.
The villain in the movie takes the one percent and puts them on trial and wants to put them in prison and all that.
That's so this morning, it's like all of a sudden some off-eds are starting to pop up from Wall Street people, Occupy people saying that the movie's fiction and then Occupy Wall Street is nonviolent, and nothing like this would ever happen.
But you know, it's pretty obvious.
Well, see what happened.
The movie premiered in Pittsburgh, uh, what, last night or the night before?
When do what was it?
I think it was last night.
Last night, because a bunch of Steelers are in the movie.
One of the owners, one of the co-owners of the Steelers is a producer of the movie, Thomas Tull.
And so they filmed a lot of it in Pittsburgh, and one of the scenes has the evil villain literally vaporizing Heinz Field during the game.
And and you might in the trailer, you might have seen the players running off the field while the field is literally being eaten alive behind them.
And they filmed that last summer at at Heinz Field with uh I think Heinz Ward was in it, Rothlisberger.
Cower, Bill Cower brought back to be the coach of the Gotham whatevers.
And so, yeah, it premiered last night, so people in Pittsburgh have seen it and said, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, well, wait a minute.
There's nothing about Romney in this thing at all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're right.
That see, we blew their cover here, Elizabeth.
We blew their cause that the the reason why they're they're mentioning me and trying to tie me to conspiracy, they were gonna try to take the name of the villain and attach it to Romney.
And John Stewart's flipped the cat out of the bag, Letterman did they've already Chris Lahaine, which is a campaign strategist for for Al Gore, they were going to do this.
And now you're right.
Now they've seen the movie.
Ooh, it's gonna be a tough sell.
Yeah, my hope is that the people my age, so you know the millions and millions of younger people that are gonna run to this movie this weekend are gonna get a real eye opener as to where revolutions like this always lead.
I mean, all you have to do is look at history and see it's always violent.
Well, it's a good point.
I wasn't gonna you kind of I'm glad you called.
Let the let's just put it that way, Elizabeth.
I'm um I'm I'm glad you called.
It it is Chuck Dixon, the comic book creator, is he was on KFYI and Phoenix.
It's uh he's he's not he's not a panty waste liberal.
He made the point.
The movie shows this.
He said yesterday, Dixon even said Bain is far more akin to Occupy Wall Street type if you're looking to cast him politically.
And that's what Elizabeth here just pointed out, folks.
Okay, that's it, folks, for this hour.
But don't go anywhere.
Uh some interesting stuff happened.
This Batman movie on the Rotten Tomatoes uh website.
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