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July 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 24, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Rush Limbaugh.
Brian, would you come in here, grab, put some new batteries in here?
I just put some new batteries in and the batteries are dead.
No, it's a magic trackpad.
It's not it's no big deal, snerdly.
Don't sweat it.
Thanks, great to have you here, folks.
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And the email address, Ilrushbow at EIB net.com.
The media's becoming a joke.
Well, it's been a joke for the longest time.
We had Stephanopoulos and Brian Ross yesterday, and we got Stephanopoulos back again today.
And I, you know, I knew this yesterday.
I just didn't, I didn't have the backup for it.
But they totally misquoted the mother of this guy in in Colorado and made it look like she was confirming for them that they had the right guy when she said that she said you've got the right person.
She was talking about herself.
They've just become a joke.
Even, you know, I uh John Stewart, I never watched Comedy Central.
I probably shouldn't admit this.
Because the younger demos are going to, what kind of what kind of screwball is limbo?
I just never do.
It's just Comedy Central is just not something on my channel selector radar.
It just never has been.
So um.
John Stewart even rips Brian Ross.
He said, what does it take to get fired at ABC?
What does it take to get fired?
It's it's it's a good question.
What does it take to get fired at NBC?
And now, uh folks, uh uh according to the latest Gallup and USA Today poll, despite the concerted Democrat attacks on his business record, Romney has a large advantage over Obama when it comes to managing the economy.
And the politico has the story on this Gallup.
Bain's still a positive for Romney.
This has been a total bomb by Obama.
This effort to castigate Romney on the basis of Bain Capitol.
It may be the political question of the summer, says Politico.
Are team Obama's attacks on Romney's business background working?
Priorities USA polling says yes.
Other independent polls, Gallup, NBC, Wall Street Journal say no, not not really.
Reuters says it's working, but nowhere else gallops out with a round of data for USA Today suggests whatever the marginal impact of the Bain assault, Romney's businessman brand is more of an asset than anything else.
And that in the big picture, he's well positioned on the economy by more than two to one.
63 to 29%.
Those surveyed say that Romney's background in business, including his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital, would cause him to make good decisions, not bad ones, in dealing with the nation's economic problems over the next four years.
This is a um and Obama hits how much how many millions of dollars is Obama spent to bring about the exact opposite result.
I'm gonna tell you something, folks, that stuff like this that that uh I I really do.
I I think that there is a hidden you know, we've always since Nixon first talked about it, the uh silent majority.
I think that there is a groundswell of anti-Obamaism out there that is set to explode and shock and surprise everybody in the media and on the Democrat side.
I don't think this is a tight race.
I don't think it's nip and tuck like the polls say.
I you don't you don't attack the U.S. economy this way.
You don't damage it this way and have people just sit by and say, oh, okay.
We have not become a passive people.
We are not a passive country.
Now the only poll that claims that Obama's attacks on Romney have had any effect is from Reuters.
They claim that 36% of registered Voters say the issue has made them see Romney less favorably, but that's the only poll out there.
And Reuters' polls have traditionally been pretty laughable.
Just a week ago, they claimed that Obama had surged ahead of Romney by six points.
If you recall that one, no other poll has found that then or now.
So they're probably deep in the tank, obviously deep in the tank for Obama.
And trying to outlie even the outliers is the uh way to put it.
Now, it is also now some concern.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, that we are seeing about negative campaign ads and whether they're working for Obama or not.
See, that's the focus.
Not whether the ads are true, not whether there's any merit to them, but they're these negative ads working.
That's after the Gallup USA Today poll comes out.
Oh, Romney's still doing well.
So it's it's not that are negative ads good or bad.
Are they uh working?
It's are they working for Obama?
Um even the AP's article on this poll has to admit, quote, the findings raise questions about Obama's strategy of targeting Bain's record in outsourcing jobs and hammering Romney for refusing to commit to releasing more than two years of his tax returns.
The AP says that the um Americans seem focused on the economy.
Damn it.
Americans seem focused on the economy where disappointment with the fragile recovery and the 8.2% unemployment rate are costing the president.
Costing what about costing the country?
What about costing the American people?
So despite what Newsweek says, we aren't all socialists now.
And these polls just continue to shock Obama is floundering.
I'm telling you, they've got their story here.
Chris Salisa, Washington Post, scariest chart of the day for Democrats.
I don't bother with charts, folks, because you can't see them, and I'm not going to take the time to zoom in and out with my little ditto cam remote control here.
So I don't do charts.
Charts are for television.
But I will tell you, Crystal is a scariest chart of the day for Democrats.
Democrats from Obama on down have spent months worrying publicly and privately that the massive influx of money to Republican aligned super PACs could create a massive inequality in spending over the final months of the 2012 campaign.
Those fears are now well on their way to being realized as Republican super PACs continue to rake in sums well in excess of what their Democrat counterparts are collecting.
The Sunlight Foundation, which does great things with data visualization, did the math.
They graphed out the total amount of itemized, that's $200 and above contributions to Democrat and Republican aligned super PACs since the start of 2011.
Republican super PACs have brought in $228 million since January of 2011.
Democrat super PACs have collected 80 million.
This is why the Democrats so hate the Citizens United case and so hate the idea that corporations.
Any liberals in the audience?
Corporations are people.
That just sends them into orbit.
Corporations are people.
They hate that ruling because of imbalances like this.
$228 million to Republican Super PAC.
There are people giving money to Romney and these Super PACs to get rid of Obama in droves.
Folks, it is unlike anything you've seen, and you're not hearing about it.
But I'm telling you, there is an undercurrent.
It's unseen because it's not reported.
It's feared.
It's feared.
I mean the media, the Democrats, they all know it's there, but they're scared to death of it, but they don't dare talk about it in real terms so as not to give it any greater life than it already has, but they're worried to death over it.
There's a three to one advantage here in Super PAC contributions for conservatives.
This is conservatives that are giving this money.
That chasm is even more consequential when you consider that Romney and the Republican National Committee ended June with $170 million in the bank compared to $144 million for Obama and a Democrat National Committee.
So Salizza says, it's now an absolute certainty that Republicans, from Romney's campaign to the RNC to Super PACs, will outspend the Democrat combined money efforts between now and November.
The only question is, will it work?
That's the only thing they're worried about.
Will it work?
So I'm just I've uh I'm feeling a bullion, not overconfident.
Don't misunderstand, as I have said countless times, they'll say anything can happen between now and November and politics or huh?
Oh, the electron today, landslide, huge landslide.
I mean it you know, I'm trying to play golf over the weekend, a member guest.
And I don't care where we went, golf course, uh the heavy hors d'oeuvre cocktail party on Friday night, the beach club dinner on Saturday night, people come up.
So, Rush, tell me.
Tell me what this is gonna be.
What's the and I just, you know, normally in situations like that, I kind of soft sell it so as not to inspire further conversation.
All I'm trying to do is sit down and pretend I'm having fun.
Uh party.
But I just lie long shadow.
Landslide.
Romney Landslide.
And they all nod, great relief.
And well, what about the Senate?
Oh Reed's gone.
That's key, but Reed's gone.
And that's when they start arguing with me.
That's when they start having that people still there's a tendency here to want to believe bad news.
There's a tendency to want to believe that the bottom's dropping out.
And I understand that.
I mean, we're living in the middle of the bottom dropping out, and that's what we hope to stop and and uh and arrest.
But no, if the election of today landslides, not even what these guys are all saying and that they report these polls, they know it.
They know how Obama stepped in it in Roanoke.
Now we're not through with that, by the way.
They know how Obama's stepping in it practically every time he goes off prompter.
Carville's out there today warning a Democrat, you better get off this gun control business.
You better leave it alone.
You're gonna lose big if you keep harping on this gun control business.
Stay away from it.
This incident, Colorado has not galvanized people against the constitution of this country.
This incident has not galvanized people into wanting more gun control.
Fast and Furious would not have worked either.
Despite what they were trying.
Let me take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll come back and we'll get started with the with today's incarnation of Obama and you didn't make that happen.
You didn't build that.
Somebody else did that.
After this.
Don't go away.
Now, some of this advantage that Romney has in his uh super PAC fundraising, of course, is big labor.
Um Obama has that advantage.
Uh big labor is the equivalent of a super PAC.
It's not, it's not uh thought of as such.
Well, no, it is thought of as such, it's not discussed as such.
So he's got big labor.
So Obama's gonna have his share of money.
I don't buy this notion that it's it's the poor house for Obama.
But they're not where they thought they would be.
In fact, I just got a note reminding me Obama's campaigning in Seattle and Oregon.
Why would Obama be spending money in Seattle and Oregon?
He's raising money in both places, too.
But, I mean, it's not a place where they thought they would be.
Now, this Chris Salizza article, it's It's got some gold in it, I think.
This poll that shows not having any effect on Romney with their attacks on Bain.
It's probably why Silizza wrote his article in the first place.
Because I mean, these it's it's it's a branch office of the Obama campaign.
And according to Chris Saliza, some within the Democrat Party are starting to get concerned about the way Obama's burning through his campaign funds.
They never show the same concern for the way he burns through taxpayer dollars when it's their own money.
Look at how how concerned they are.
They're actually concerned Obama's spending more than he's raising.
They're actually concerned about the Obama campaign going into debt.
They don't care about that for the country, of course, but their money, yeah, it matters.
Now here are the hard numbers.
According to the Washington Post, Obama's uh campaign spent $58 million in June alone.
38 million of it went to attack ads against Romney and Bain in the swing states.
None of which seems to have helped Obama at all.
To date, the Obama campaign spent 107 million dollars on TV ads compared to 35 million dollars by Romney, and they don't have anything to show for it.
Romney's still neck and neck with Obama.
If not inching ahead.
And my own personal opinion is that these polls that show neck and neck are not really accurate, well.
They may be accurate in terms of what people are saying, but they're not accurate in terms of how people are going to vote.
And I can't tell you why.
It's not wishfulness, it's not hopefulness.
It's it's not pie in the sky uh uh utopianism here.
Um I'm telling you what I genuinely think is going on there.
Now think where Romney would be if we had an even slightly objective or fair news media.
Now, according to Silizza, the regime is following the strategy of the 2004 Bush campaign, which was turn out the base, forget the independence.
That's what they say the Bush 04 campaign was.
Just rev up the base, play to the base, and turn the base out.
Don't target independence.
But that's not what Obama's doing at all.
We had the piece from Thomas B. Edsall yesterday in the New York Times.
We quoted from it.
The Obama strateger is to try to suppress the Romney vote by running ads aimed at his white blue-collar supporters.
They are trying to suppress the Romney vote.
They are going to run ads and are running ads that are designed to depress people like you, to dispirit people like you, to make you think it's over.
Romney hates you.
You may have even seen some of these ads.
It's all tied to Romney as Bain.
Bain is rich, rich ain't you, and they hate rich, hate you because you're not rich and you're never going to let you get rich and don't want you to become rich.
These are the focus points of the Obama ad campaign.
It's designed, they've they've written off white working class voters.
That was the first Thomas B. Edsul piece in November of last year.
Now, in addition to writing off those voters, now they're running ads designed to suppress that vote.
So they're not just replicating the Bush 04 campaign and trying to turn out the base, although they are doing that because it's about all they've got.
And they're losing independence big in every one of these polls.
They're way behind in independence, as of now.
And so this gallop poll.
It's interesting when it's a when it's a when it's a gallop, it's always gallop USA Today.
When when the news is good for Obama, it's a gallop poll.
When it's bad for Obama, they call it the USA or Gallup USA Today.
USA Today in there when the news is bad for Obama.
And they're calling it the Gallup USA Today poll today.
And in this poll, like all the other polls of late, showing that the strategy of suppressing the Romney vote.
Going after Bain Capital, trying to tell you that Romney hates you.
Tell you that Romney laughs at you.
Romney looks down his nose at you.
Romney is this rich guy.
His wife does horses and equestrian things, and you don't even know what the word means.
And they're hidey toity and highfalutin'.
I don't care about you.
Uh just as soon as see you in the mud and so forth.
This is the focus of the campaign.
It's not working.
Now, what do we learn from this?
It's apparently hard, at least for Obama and his campaign.
It's apparently hard to make voters hate somebody simply for having made money by virtue of his own hard work.
Because that's what they're trying to do, and it's not working so far.
And I guarantee you, they're in a tizzy at the White House over this, don't know how to deal with it.
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All right, let's go back.
I guess Obama will not let this go.
This is a perhaps the telling moment of Obama's presidency and his campaign.
This little 50-second blurb from Roanoke, Virginia on Friday, July 13th.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
The internet didn't get invented on its own.
Government research created the internet.
So then all the companies could make money off the internet.
Okay, I'm going to put this internet thing in perspective and to bed once and for all on today's program because the government did not develop the internet.
They sat on it.
It was the private sector that developed the internet.
The private sector turned it into a commercial enterprise.
The government didn't have the slightest idea what they had.
They sat on it.
I'll get to that in just a second.
The real thing to grasp here, what Obama is really saying, as I've mentioned a bunch of times, he is he's literally saying to this audience and to the people he hopes are a majority of the country.
The people who've succeeded and the people who've achieved and the people who have wealth don't deserve it.
They did it stealing from you.
They used work or labor from you that they didn't pay you for, not fairly, or they ran businesses that cheated people or overcharged, or they made too big a profit.
They're no smarter than you are.
And I'm here to get it back for you.
I'm here to equalize this.
I'm here to balance this out.
This roads and bridges stuff is just liberal clap trap.
What he's doing, what he's setting the stage for, is trying to socialize profit so that he can claim it.
What he wants people to conclude is that profit was not possible, is not possible, without government first making it possible.
And therefore government owns it.
It's government's profit.
He wants to socialize the profit, and he wants to be able to then claim that it's And that's that's then the vehicle for going after everybody's money via higher taxes, a wealth tax, uh, whatever technique that he tries.
Now he's out saying that Romney, he's whining now.
He's not saying that Bush took him out of context.
He's now there saying that Romney took him out of context.
He says it's last night in Oakland during a campaign speech.
Earlier today, Governor Romney was at it again.
Knowingly, twisting my words around to suggest that I don't value small businesses.
I understand these are the games that get played in political campaigns.
Although, you know, when folks just like omit entire sentences of what you said, they start kind of splicing and dicing.
Yeah, it's NBC.
That's what happens at NBC.
Well, when folks leave out whole sentences.
Doesn't matter.
There's no taking Obama out of context.
In context, Obama's mad.
In context, he's mad.
You didn't do anything on your own.
Who do you think you are?
You're no smarter than anybody else.
There's a resentment for achievement.
There is a resentment for success.
It is a resentment for success and achievement that all intellectuals feel toward capitalism.
As I explained yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.
People have always asked, why are intellectuals so anti-capitalist?
Why why are they it's a it's a derivative of the question I why I often ask, why do people hate this country?
Intellectually, I don't understand it.
Well, I had it explained to me a couple of days ago.
Some intellectual wrote 2,000 words that I was able to synthesize down a couple sentences.
And it's basically this.
People who who traffic in words, specifically the written word.
This is why people who speak are not considered intellectuals.
You have to write the words.
And you have to have your words published somewhere.
You have to be a word smith.
You have to be a man or woman of letters.
Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, I know what you're thinking.
You hear the term, this is a man of letters, and you wonder how you can become a man of letters.
Do you think, well, you gotta sit around and you gotta write a lot of letters to people.
So you sit there, you write a letter to your mom, then you write a letter to your friend, and you start repeating the process, and you think you're a man of letters.
It's not what it means.
You could apply at the post office for it, but that's not a man of letters is simply somebody that writes all the time and thinks that they're hot stuff for doing it.
Letters means letters of the alphabet.
And they know them all and ought to put them all together in ways you don't.
And they know how to create words and thoughts and philosophy that you can't possibly understand.
They're smarter than you.
It's the bottom line.
Exactly like the stuff I read yesterday in the Washington Post.
That's classic.
That's that's and they're smarter than you, and they think that because they're smarter than everybody else, they ought to be richer than everybody else.
It's no more complicated than that.
They really think that capitalism is unfair and capitalism is unjust because it doesn't reward the smartest people.
Them.
The intellectuals in our society either they have to inherit it or steal it, or what have you.
They might have tenure and they might get six-figure salaries, but there's not a Warren Buffett among them.
There's not a Steve Jobs among them, there's not a Bill Gates among them.
They don't do anything.
But they think they should be rewarded simply for their intelligence, and they're not, therefore, capitalism is flawed.
It really is any more complicated.
And Obama thinks that he's one of those guys.
And they think the intellectuals think that Obama is one of those guys.
And so when he starts talking, there's a lot of smart people out there.
And he's thinking of himself and his other intellectual buddies.
That's a lot of smarter people than you out there.
They ought to be doing better than you are.
But he's going to fix it.
So there is a in context, there's there's a resentment for success.
There is a resentment for achievement and a desire to punish it.
Particularly if, in the world view of the intellectuals, the people achieving Success are not that smart.
Or if they're not judged to be that smart.
So a small business owner who has a bait and tackle shop, for example.
Or a gun shop, this guy could be one of the most successful people in his community, and that would merit him nothing more than derision.
As the intellectuals look at it.
So Obama can talk about how he's taken out of context, this or that.
Romney left the sentence out, but the bottom line is in context, it was clear that Obama holds a deep resentment for success and achievement.
He's got chip on his shoulder about it.
And he aims to do something about it.
So he says Romney's twisting his words, then he goes on after saying Romney twisted his words.
After he says, Romney left out the sentence.
I was talking about roads and bridges.
I wasn't talking about you didn't build your business.
I was saying these business people didn't build their roads and bridges, which is a crock because they did.
They paid the lion's share of taxes that built those roads and stupid bridges.
Here's the next thing that Obama said.
I believe that the free market is the greatest source of prosperity in our history.
But I also believe that if you talk to any business owner, they'll tell you that what also helps them succeed, alongside all their hard work, all their great ideas, is the ability to hire workers with the right skills and education.
What helps them succeed is the ability to ship and sell their products on new roads and bridges and ports and wireless networks.
Yeah.
They understand that they couldn't have done it out there.
They uh Billy ship their sell their products on new roads and bridges and ports and wireless networks and all this.
Again, don't let me forget Snertley to to close up this misunderstanding on the internet before this uh for the program ends.
So here he is back to roads and bridges.
This lunacy that roads and bridges and the internet are the reason businesses need government to survive and to prosper.
So here's Romney.
Last night on the Cudlow report, Larry Cudlow says to to Romney, well, why do you think uh Obama, what did he mean if you got a business you didn't build it?
Someone else made that happen.
He claims to be taken out of context.
What do you think it means?
Do you think that this is Obama anti-business anti-entrepreneur?
Do you think maybe he's been treated unfairly here?
The context is worse than the quote.
The context he says, you know, you think you've been successful because you're smart, but he says a lot of people are smart.
You think you've been successful because you work hard?
A lot of people work hard.
This is an ideology which says, hey, we're all the same here, we ought to take from all and give to one another, and that achievement, individual initiative, and risk taking and success are not to be rewarded as they have in the past.
It's a very strange and uh in some respects foreign uh uh to the American experience type of philosophy.
And by the way, we pay for government.
Government doesn't come free.
The people who begin enterprises, the people who work in enterprises, they're the ones paying for government.
So his whole philosophy is a upside-down philosophy that does not comport with the American experience.
Exactly right.
It doesn't comport with the American experience.
That is exactly right.
What Obama thinks and what he's doing and what he envisions does not comport with the American experience.
Well said.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Cybercast News Service, the number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to eight million seven hundred and fifty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-five during the month, and that was the previous record of eight million seven hundred and thirty-three, so twenty thousand.
New people on disability.
This is from uh the Social Security Administration.
Also be interesting to see if the number of new jobs went up twenty thousand in July.
So more people are signing up for disability than are getting jobs in America.
I have to tell you, I I am I I have not yet come to the belief that this is something people want to do.
I don't believe that a majority of these people want to live their lives this way.
Obama and the Democrats are banking on the fact that people do.
I have not yet been persuaded that we've lost the country to that degree.
I don't think this is good for Obama.
A lot of people do.
I don't.
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