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July 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 26, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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We are back.
Rush Limbaugh here is serving humanity.
America's truth detector, doctor of democracy, and America's real anchor, but no, I'm I'm sitting here, I'm trying to think.
Romney was being interviewed by Brian Williams.
I saw the video of it this morning.
And he had one of the greatest subtle put downs of Brian Williams.
I'm trying to remember it while I was finishing my riff.
And it was something about Brian Williams.
Well, I may be close, but I don't remember the verb.
But Brian Williams asked Romney.
They're in London.
Romney's over there.
By the way, Romney is telling people, I'm not sure they're ready here for the Olympics.
And uh UK officials are not happy about this.
They're responding back at Romney.
Romney's got experience.
He knows what being ready for the Olympics is and what it isn't.
Anyway, he asked Brian or Brian Williams asked Romney something that had one of its components the mention of a bland dull boring individual.
And Romney said, Well, you already have a job.
And and Brian Williams got one of these forced smiles on his face, but you could tell he didn't appreciate the reparte.
He didn't take it as good natured humor as which I'm sure is the way Romney intended it.
No, I don't remember.
I shouldn't even brought it up since I can't tell you specifically what it was.
Um, here it is.
Williams Williams asked Romney.
The Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee.
If it's true he's seeking an incredibly boring white guy for a running mate.
And Romney replied, Well, you told me you weren't available.
And Brian Williams gets this smirk of a it's a forced smile, like in the camera had cut to him.
He knew he'd better smile.
But there were daggers.
There were daggers in his I thought, what a subtle wonder how many people will notice this.
I wonder how many people will pick up on it.
So it's true you're looking here for an incredibly boring white guy?
Well, yeah, but you're not available.
Pretty good.
Anyway, uh ladies and gentlemen, great to have you back.
Telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address Lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
New polling data is out.
And this thing with with um uh Obama and you didn't build that and you didn't make that happen.
Obama is down now to 35% approval among business owners.
That was before Jan or uh July 13th at Roanoke, Virginia.
That was before this happened.
Now Trump, let me find the soundbite.
If somebody knows what it is, go ahead and shout it out at me.
It's I guess it was 17, 17 and 18.
Trump was on Greta Van Sustran last night, the Fox News channel.
First question, Donald, the president has said that you didn't build it.
And he said that the Romney campaign's taking his statements out of context.
I'm curious, though.
Your thoughts on what the president meant or how you took what he meant when he talked about people not building it.
I realize there's more to the quote than that, but but what's your thought on it?
It's a very, very tough statement.
People are very upset by it.
It really has energized a lot of people in this country because maybe the truth is coming out finally about President Obama and his attitudes.
It is a very, very hard thing for people that work twenty hours a day, whether it's building a business or just working on jobs where they build great things.
It's very hard for those people to take when they hear a statement like that.
It's a very, very difficult statement for them to take.
And Trump, you know, she said, well, are we getting the scare factor from some people?
What what what's the scare factor?
It's a very serious times.
It's makes a big difference whether tax rates are extended or not.
What what's what what do you mean?
This is one of the most important elections this country has ever had.
You started off this interview talking about building businesses and you know what the statements were and everything else.
The fact is that is a mindset right now that we didn't do it, that people that work hard didn't do it.
It had virtually nothing to do with them.
Well, that is not what it's all about, and that's not what this country is all about.
So I think that people are very nervous, and I think they're actually in many cases scared business people, hardened veteran business people are scared to see what would happen if Obama gets a second term.
That's no question about it.
There is genuine real fear.
And uh even before the Roanoke speech, Obama was down to 35% approval among business owners.
Don, would you back up the uh transcription there to the call we had from Pennsylvania?
Uh because I got emails, as I mentioned, of people who thought that I was me.
Can you back it up or not?
There we go.
But I was mean to the guy.
And I want to read to you exactly uh what he said.
He said, uh, I think the president might have somewhat of a point, because of my experience.
I worked for the state of Pennsylvania, taking care of intellectually disabled individuals for 26 years.
One of the guys that I took care of, his mom and dad ran a family restaurant, very successful restaurant.
And you know, they told me many times that if it wasn't for the state and for many people like me that helped take care of their son, they wouldn't be able to work 14 or 16 hours a day in their restaurant.
And you know, I uh I don't think it's right to minimize public employees and the vital services that we provide.
You know, I was told by these people.
Uh a couple people said, Rush.
I understand what you're trying to say.
Uh poor guy from Pennsylvania, but why'd you have to oh that's that was me on the transcript.
So people thought I was being mean when I reacted.
I this is the problem.
I was passionate.
I didn't have a whole lot of time.
I had to say a lot quickly before we go into a hard break.
But the call really kind of makes the point.
Now, this guy, all I did was spell out exactly what happened.
This guy worked for the state.
He babysat intellectually disabled people.
He was paid for it, I presume.
Why else was he there?
I think what happened was that the business owners were simply the restaurant owner, were appreciative.
They were thanking him.
They were just expressing gratitude.
Which is fine and dandy, but that's that's as far as it goes.
Who paid his salary?
His salary is paid for by taxes, including the taxes of the people that own the restaurant.
Unless for some reason the restaurant owners were excused from paying taxes.
So they they helped pay his salary with their taxes from the restaurant.
But the point is, nobody made him do what he was doing.
He chose to go into that business.
He did not run the restaurant.
He didn't invest in the restaurant.
He didn't take a risk in the restaurant.
He didn't have anything to do with the restaurant.
What Obama is coming along and trying to tell people like him is see those restaurant owners over there.
They could have done it without you.
And what do you get out of it?
Well, you sat around with their intellectually disabled kid.
Well, they're out there making millions.
Well out there using the roads and bridges and everything.
And they're trying.
And and by the way, there's business on them, they probably don't have health care.
But I don't want to get sidetracked with them.
The point is that Obama is trying to make these guys think that they are responsible for a successful restaurant.
Now nobody can deny we're all in this together.
And nobody, at least I'm not, is trying to say anything different than that.
But you also don't start, you don't start assigning credit where it's not deserved.
This guy, the the guy who who who babysat the intellectually disabled kid.
I'm sure there are other people in society in business who enabled him to do what he did.
Taxpayers.
Everybody going to work paid his salary via taxes.
He worked for the state.
Where does this stuff stop?
You want to start crediting people for things they didn't do.
Where does it stop?
You have to realize what the objective here is.
Obama is not trying to make people feel appreciated.
Obama is not trying to say that you deserve more what you have.
And he wants you to conclude that what Obama is pushing for is the notion that there is no individual anywhere.
There's no self-made success.
There's no individual success, that there is no there's basically nobody is anything other than a number.
And that government makes it all possible.
This is tyranny.
The dehumanization of a society is tyranny.
And what Obama is talking about is the dehumanization of our culture, particularly in the business world.
That's why this matters.
That's why this is important.
We can dissect this policy-wise.
We can dissect this ideologically-wise.
But I just as soon look at it in real world terms.
This is about denying that people have anything unique about themselves.
We're all in it together.
Nobody's any different, any better, any worse than anybody else.
Government's the great equalizer, government's the great benevolent.
Now I didn't mean to sound mean to this guy.
I meant to sound when I am attempting to be persuasive.
You know what people thought was mean?
I'll tell you what people.
When I said, well, you didn't have one thing to do with that restaurant.
Well, you have to say it that way, Mr. Limbaugh.
You don't, you don't have to sound so well, truth is the truth.
The people that ran the restaurant ran the restaurant.
They invested in the restaurant, they had everything in the world to do with it.
The idea that they didn't.
Why are we only focusing on business people and trying to discredit what they do?
What if, let's turn this around.
What if I were to say, all of you people that work in nursing homes, you are meaningless.
You are worthless.
You're no what makes you feel so special?
That's what Obama's doing here to people in the business community.
That's what he wants you to think about people who have been successful in business.
And I just want you to realize it's not me, nor is it any conservative I know that seeks to denigrate any work at all.
We promote it, we want to reward it, we want to encourage it.
We consider it valorous, in fact.
It is a Democrats, it's Obama who is attempting to impugn the work of many people.
To discredit it, to deny it, and to get people resentful of it.
It's not us.
It's not us discriminating.
In fact, that might be a good word for what's happening.
There is discrimination being practiced by Obama at the highest levels of government against people who succeed.
Let's take a brief time out and get more of your phone calls when we come back.
go away.
Now one more thing about this folks, and it is very, very important and it's getting lost in all this.
There is a belief, the Left, Obama, are responsible for injecting a premise into this argument that That the rich, the business owner, is not paying for the roads and bridges.
According to Obama, and the way he's not speaking to people, you have successful business owner here who's got his factory.
Everybody else built the roads leading to his factory, and everybody else is babysitting his intellectually disabled kid.
And he didn't pay for any of this.
And that is absurd.
If it weren't for, for example, in the call from Pennsylvania, if it weren't for that restaurant and other businesses like it, we couldn't afford to pay people to babysit the intellectually disabled.
If it weren't for that restaurant, that guy caring for the intellectually disabled kid wouldn't have a job.
If it weren't for that restaurant, and if it weren't for other businesses, there would not be a road.
If it weren't for the businesses and wealth producing, income producing institutions in this country, there would not be a bridge.
And yet the the the premise is that all these successful people, men are they just raping us.
Not only are we building their roads and bridges, they're not paying for that.
They're stealing our labor.
And they're and they're stealing uh our brains.
They're stealing everywhere, and they're not paying us for anything.
And all of this, as I say, all of this is by design.
This this is to eliminate the entire concept of the individual or the self-made man.
You wouldn't have roads and bridges without that restaurant owner and other businesses.
And you wouldn't have a state facility to babysit the idi intellectually disabled without the restaurant owner.
Because the government wouldn't have any money without those businesses.
It's just that simple.
Here's Catherine in Rockville, Maryland.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Rush.
Um, I think Obama's continued hostility towards business and his unrelenting attacks on those who are successful has provided a fertile ground for the phenomenon known as flash mobs.
You know, uh there have been incidences in Florida where uh Walmart was stormed by 300 people.
The sole purpose of this is to go in to overwhelm the business, destroy it, and to take whatever you can lay your hands on.
Um these type of of activities I think are almost a natural outgrowth of the anger that Obama seeks to foment in uh people deprived.
Let's use real world terms.
A flash mob is a riot, and what they're doing is committing burglary and mayhem and crime are rioting at at say Walmart, 300 of them in Florida.
So is it your contention that Obama's public remarks are inspiring these riots?
Absolutely.
Well and also I think that it becomes a source of intimidation for all other businesses because now uh I mean uh they are uh concerned that you know they might be the next target.
So the flash mobs, i.e.
the rioters, are simply acting out what Obama's saying.
Obama's revving them up.
Yeah, that stuff in that store is ours.
My God, that's it's ours, and we're not being paid for it.
We built that store, we built the road that the hell would and they go in there and take what they want.
Right.
And Rush, there's another thing going on.
There's a game.
But they've been doing that long before Obama came along.
People have been rioting and and going into stores.
The Democrats have been doing this for a long time, you think then?
Well, um, I think that it has become much more prominent.
I mean, before it was a rarity.
Now it's like every other week you find the stores and flash mobbed.
You know, and the other thing is there's a a game that's going on.
Uh uh, it's called the knock the knockdown game, where uh uh kids uh go around and they'll they'll target somebody, and the objective is to hit them in the head and see if they can knock them out.
I mean, it's like the it's like fomenting violence on irrational uh uh attacks on each other.
I think that's part of the divisiveness that's just occurring in this country.
Is that is a game called a knockdown game and a knockout game?
I think it must be a knockout game.
It was knockout game.
Sort of uh uh a phenomenon going on.
I don't know about the knockouts, uh, but I did there were let's see, one two, I think there were three flash mob attacks in the day or two after Obama's Roanoke speech.
You may have a point.
You may have a point.
I uh uh Catherine, thanks for the call.
I uh I appreciate it.
See, Lackoff rhymes with Lackoff is uh he's a master introducing these false premises.
So I have Democrats worship a false premise is the rich didn't build the road.
They didn't pay a penny toward building the road.
How many welfare recipients have built roads?
How many trial lawyers have built roads?
How many judges have built roads?
How many radio talk show hosts have built roads?
You know what's getting lost in all the talk about building roads is who actually builds them.
This is really, folks, we're gonna have to I think stay focused on this is because this is getting perverted now.
Um I will admit to you, I'm surprised.
Actually I'm not.
I was gonna say I'm surprised it's lasted this long, but I'm not, and it deserves to last this long, and it deserves to last as long as it takes to get rid of these people.
Because this is hideous.
This is tyranny.
This is the subjugation of the individual, the subordination of the individual to the to the state.
This this effort to wipe out this whole concept of self-made man.
Remember what that was such a thing to aspire to.
And don't doubt me, it still is.
It still is.
Obama is nowhere near representing a majority of people in this country, nowhere near it.
I know it's frightening to think that he does.
It's scary.
This country things are falling apart, and people don't want the country to fall apart.
It's not what the people of this country want.
It's not what they elect.
They didn't elect somebody to preside over the country decaying in front of their eyes.
I just saw a story quickly.
I scanned it, I didn't have a chance to print it out, but it's about it's about people literally abandoning public schools.
They're they're just leaving them.
Enrollment in public schools nationwide.
I think the number I saw was down 10%, and it's increasing.
And in big cities, which means that's that's inner city kids.
This is we're not, we're not talking whites.
These schools are decaying.
And Obama, the Democrats are keeping those schools open in fealty to the teachers' unions and for a whole bunch of other reasons.
I have people ask, I've asked myself all the time, too.
I must I must say, but I've also I have the answers.
So my questions to myself are rhetorical.
People say, Well, I don't understand how African Americans just keep voting for Obama, a voting Democrat.
And you make a mistake if you try to answer that policy-wise or intellectual wise.
It's not about that.
There's no reason for anybody who cherishes success, liberty, freedom to be voting for Obama.
No, but a lot of people are going to.
I think when we had a we talked about this within the past month.
And I hate to say it comes down to something like this, but it is one of many relevant factors.
And it boils down to cool.
Uh and and in a sense, marketing.
In fact, let me illustrate it this way.
I'm I'm reading some of the highbrow intellectuals on some of the so-called, they think they're highbrowed blogs.
And they're highbrow analyzing the election.
And the highbrows have got a theme going in some of these discussions.
The theme is this.
Is the decay of the country is the status of the economy and the worsening of everybody's standard of living?
Is that enough to get rid of Obama?
Or is Romney going to have to do something other than just be Romney?
Because there is a comfort in knowing who you've got.
The people are actually speculating and suggesting that people might, in the midst of all this decay, nevertheless choose to stay with Obama because the other guy might be worse.
This is what the highbrows are postulating out there.
I think that's a crock.
Now, I do think that Romney's going to have to do more than talk about the economy.
And I do think when he talks about the economy, he's going to have to get specific.
And it wouldn't be hard.
Mitt, tell us what your economic policies are going to be and what they're going to mean.
Tell us.
All you got to do is articulate conservatism.
Tell us how you're going to make the economy grow.
Tell us.
Give us your policy.
And that's not hard, folks.
Conservatism takes care of that.
Free market economic policy takes care of that.
It will happen.
It's been proven.
But in the midst of this decay, the schools are being being abandoned, and then that's just one example.
There are countless others.
People think their country's falling apart.
Scares the heck out of them.
And yet, when you specifically talk about blacks, how can you how can they still vote for Democrats?
What the Democrat Party has done, all of the Democrat Party's plans have done, I mean, for 50 years.
The race hustlers, the Jacksons, the Sharptons have been complaining and moaning and whining about the same stuff for 50 years.
None of it's getting better.
And yet they keep voting for the people who have assured them, we're going to take care of you.
We're the ones that are going to protect you from the racism and from a discrimination from all the other stuff, all those horrors that await you out there.
We aren't racist, and we don't discriminate, and we're going to protect you.
And yet their lives don't get better.
They're relying on these people, not themselves.
They're relying on these people to make their lives better, Democrat Party isn't happening, and yet they keep voting for them.
And I don't think it's that they're voting for them.
I think it rather has to do with what the image of Republicans is.
Or the image of conservatives is.
In some cases, it could be said, eh, they're just not cool.
Obama's cool.
Romney's not cool.
He's stale white bread.
Not cool.
Hollywood, that's cool.
You don't see any Republicans there.
I don't see conservatives where the cool stuff is.
Cool stuff happens on entertainment tonight or MTV or Comedy Center.
You don't see conservatives.
You don't see conservatives anywhere where cool is.
Do you?
In fact, it's such that if a conservative is someplace where it's cool, a conservative looks like a guy from Mars.
Betrayed as somebody who really doesn't belong where cool is.
And that's what I think a lot of this is wrapped up in.
And it's no individual's fault.
It's not that Romney isn't cool, for example, or it's not that George W. Bush wasn't cool, any of that.
It's just the power of pop culture media for decade after decade shaping people's minds.
But it's I think you go nuts if you intellectually try to explain, or policy-wise, even try to explain why people would stick with losers.
Why do they stick with people and policies that are harming them?
And you realize that's that's not what they think they're doing.
They don't think they're voting for people and harm them.
They don't think they're voting for People that are responsible for the decay in their neighborhood or in the country.
They don't think they're voting for people to do it.
They don't see it that way.
They see it getting bad out there, and these guys trying to stop it, the Democrats trying to make it better, but they really are afraid what the Republicans would do if they got back in power.
Because of all the lies and distortions that have been told about Republicans that haven't been properly refused, hell, I haven't even attempted to be refuted in many ways.
Well, what are we in?
We're gonna August 5th is our 24th yeah.
Is that right?
August 1st is our 24th year.
And for each of these 24 years, I've had phone calls from African Americans.
Rush is changing.
More and more Democrats sick and tired of Democrat, or blacks are tired of Democrat Party, it's changing, and it never does.
24 years, the Democrats still get 92, 93% of the black vote.
No matter what.
And we do, these people do call, and they do offer these testimonials.
And yet the percentage of the vote doesn't change.
If it did change by 5%, it'd be huge.
If, for example, Obama were to get 88% of the black vote, or 85%, that would be an earthquake if the others voted for the Republican.
And every year I've been hearing, oh, there's transformations taking place, and yet the percentages stay the same.
And I've looked at it intellectually, but 50 years, the 24 that I've been doing the program.
The chronicle, the decay, the destruction, the breakup of the black family, and it's all brought about by big government policy.
It's all brought about by the Democrat Party.
And yet they keep getting the votes.
The last Republican to get a big percentage of the black vote.
I mean presidential candidate.
I can't name one.
Oh, well, I th wait a minute.
You misled me with the question.
I thought you meant a majority.
Nick Nixon got 30% black vote.
But that was Sammy Davis Jr. endorsed him down there in Miami.
Well, it was a factor.
It was uh it was a fact.
Anyway, we're up against it on time.
Let me take a quick time out.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Here is that New York Times story, and I was referring to.
It's in the education section, enrollment off in big districts forcing layoffs.
Enrollment nearly half of the nation's largest scrubal districts has dropped steadily over the last five years, triggering scrual closings that have destabilized neighborhoods, caused layoffs of essential staff, and concerns in many cities that the students who remain are some of the neediest and most difficult to educate.
Now, who are we talking about here?
We're talking about inner cities.
They're abandoning the public school system.
Those who can are getting out.
And there is a ripple effect.
Administrators, teachers, so forth losing their jobs, and the people that remain, according to the New York Times are the worst of the worst.
This is decay.
This is decay all around us.
People don't want decay.
They did not vote for decay.
And that's why I refuse to believe, folks, that we've reached a point where a majority of people are not troubled by any of this.
This is stuff that people are living.
They don't have to read about this in the New York Times.
I got a note from Stanley Kurtz today.
Stanley Kurtz has been one of the foremost researchers of Barack Hussein Obama and his radical ties throughout his whole life.
And he's got a new book coming up.
The title of the book escapes.
I didn't print out this uh this note.
Bob more detail on it in the future, but let me just tell you basically what the premise is.
The premise is that Obama and his band of radicals in the government despise suburbia, blame suburbia and suburbanites for what's happening places like Detroit, for example, and other big cities that are in the midst of this decay.
It is because moved out, and they have moved out to places where they can hang out together and be amongst people like them.
Do you see where this is going?
And one of the according to Mr. Kurtz, one of the fundamental aspects of dealing with Obama, one of the could be very successful things to do in a campaign against Obama.
It's all tied in, by the way, to the Thomas B. Edsall stuff that we pointed out last November, where they've abandoned white working class voters.
Obama wants nothing to do with them.
He's not camping, and now they're running ads aimed at those people trying to dispirit them and depress them and to tell them that Romney hates them and Romney's not going to care.
To isolate them and make them think that uh they've got no representation and nobody's looking out for them, and just try to depress them, suppress their vote, dispirit them to the point that they don't show up.
The bitter clingers, suburbanites.
And this is something Obama's never going to use this terminology.
He's never gonna say he's angry at suburbanites, but he's going to say it in such a way that you'll convey that impression to the people who uh he wants to understand it.
And I think that there's something to it.
I and look, this I'm just giving the real sketch view.
Kurtz has written a whole book about this that comes out.
I think it's next week.
More on it.
I'll print the story out and and and uh fill you in in some of the gaps here.
In the meantime, John St. Louis, thanks for waiting.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Nice to finally talk to you.
Uh thank you, sir.
Uh, I love your show.
Um yeah, I got a couple comments and a question at the end.
Uh uh, you know, earlier you were talking about uh the no meat Mondays and stuff, and I see this creeping more and more into our culture that you know you got some of these celebrities, these artists, uh world-renowned Sir Paul McCartney, which by the way, they keep announcing that sir thing.
Uh that's not really uh American.
We don't like titles like that.
But anyway, so Paul goes to the White House and uh he tells the Obamas that it's nice to have a president that knows what a library is.
A slant to uh about Bush, but anyway, so here you got him, he he's he pushes this no meat thing.
If you work for him and his band, you can't even eat any meat at all.
You have to go out for it.
But you know, it was okay when he ate meat years ago, but then he come becomes enlightened, and now it's bad.
Well, that's the point.
I don't care.
Paul McCartney can go out and find twigs and berries for all I care.
What were what obviously bothers me is McCartney thinking he's seen the light and telling everybody else how they have to eat.
That's why I call them militant vegetarians, militant vegans.
They're liberals, folks.
They're not content to live their lives the way they want to.
They have to force everybody else to.
Because people that do not represent a threat to them.
Whether it's what you eat, what you believe politically, they're not tolerant.
They have no tolerance.
Zilch, zero nada.
Uh I just they just can't leave well enough alone.
He has to try to force his way on everybody else, make it a moral thing, which leaves me cold.
Back after this.
Stanley Kurtz's book comes out Tuesday.
The title of his book, Spreading the Wealth.
How Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities.
And this, you didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
It's all wrapped up into the strategy Obama is implementing.
Suburban swing voters where everybody says this election's gonna be won or lost.
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