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July 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 27, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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No, I'm trying to fix it.
Snerdley was, I'm in here working on my iPad, and they can't see that from the window, but they see I'm in here feverishly working on something asking me about.
No, no, no, no.
The AT ⁇ T people trying to help me.
I've got an LTE in a 4G LTE iPad.
Snerdley's not trying to snurdle it.
No, no.
At any rate, no matter where I have been, the LTE won't show up.
Now, I've got a Verizon iPad.
The LTE shows up there fine, but the AT ⁇ T won't.
New York, LA, and they just turned it on here yesterday.
It's exciting.
They just turned on 4G LTE here in our area.
So the AT&T people think it's because I migrated account data from a previous iPad to this one, and we're trying to, and I'm doing all that while a program, and I can multitask.
Everybody's in there.
What are you doing in this?
So that's what I'm doing.
That's Friday.
So let's move on with the program.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Righto.
And whenever you call and get through, whatever you want to talk about, even if it sounds kooky, that's what today is for.
800-282-2882 is the number.
The email address, lrushbow at EIVNet.com.
In fact, might be a good way.
If you're a kook and you don't, they don't let you on other shows.
This is what Friday is for here.
Well, it is.
What are you panicking for in there?
Snerdley is very, I just sent out basically an open invitation to kooks.
How many kooks admit that they're kooks?
How many, how many, most people don't.
Most kooks don't know they're kooks.
That's what's fun about it.
The Keepers of Odd Knowledge Society, the Kooks, very few actually admitted members in the Keepers of Odd Knowledge Society.
Telephone number 800-282-2882, the email address LRushbo at EIVNet.com.
Patrick J. Buchanan, column, human events.
In the long run, is the GOP dead?
Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the Republicans.
Only twice since 1928.
In his 49-state landslide, Richard Nixon failed to take either house.
In his two landslides, Ronaldus Magnus won back only the Senate.
Yet Mitt Romney is even money to pull it off.
Mitt Romney, even money to pull off the House and the Senate when Reagan couldn't do it with 49 states and Nixon couldn't do it.
Don't read too much into that.
It's just an indication of where we are.
With this hopeful prospect, why the near despair among so many Republicans about the long term?
In his New York Times report, In California, GOP fights steep decline, Adam Nagourney delves into the reasons.
In California, a state Nixon carried all five times he was on a national ticket, and Reagan carried by landslides all four times he ran.
The Republican Party doesn't even hold a single statewide office.
Not a single statewide office in California.
Republican Party gained not a single House seat in the 2010 landslide.
Party registration has fallen to 30% of the California electorate and is steadily sinking.
Now let that settle in.
You may know it, but having it read to you hit you right between the eyes.
Not one Republican seat in the 2010 midterms.
30% party registration of the California electorate and sinking.
Why?
Well, it's said that California Republicans are too out of touch, that they are too socially conservative on issues like right to life and gay rights.
Republican consultant Steve Schmidt said, when you look at the popular growth, the actual party is shrinking.
It's becoming more white.
It's becoming older.
Race, age, ethnicity are at the heart of the problem, and they portend not only the party's death in California, but perhaps its destiny in the rest of America.
Consider.
Almost 90% of all Republican voters in presidential elections are white.
Almost 90% are Christians.
But whites fell to 74% of the electorate in 2008, and they were only 64% of the population.
Christians are down to 75% of the population from 85% in 1990.
The falloff continues and is greatest among the young.
Now consider ethnicity.
Hispanics were 15% of the U.S. population in 2008 and 7.4% of the electorate.
Both of these percentages will inexorably rise.
Yet in their best years, like 2004, Republicans lose the Hispanic vote 3-2.
In bad years, like 2008, they lose it 2 to 1.
Whites are already a minority in California, and Hispanics will eventually become the majority.
So you can say goodbye to California as far as the Republicans are concerned.
Asian Americans voted 3 to 2 for President Kardashian.
Black Americans 24 to 1 for President Kardashian.
The Asian population in California and the nation is rapidly growing.
The black population, 13% of the nation, is also growing.
Whites, already a minority in our two most populous states, will be less than half the U.S. population by 2041 and a minority in 10 states by 2020.
Now consider the electoral college picture.
Of the seven megastates, California, New York, and Illinois appear lost to the Republicans.
Pennsylvania hasn't gone Republicans in 1988.
Ohio and Florida, both crucial, are now swing states.
Whites have become a minority in Texas, and when Texas goes, that's it.
If it does.
And Buchanan's right about that.
When Texas goes, America goes, as far as the Republican Party is concerned.
So Buchanan says this year, I mean, Romney could win and win the House and Senate.
This could be the last hurrah.
The Republicans must work harder to win Hispanic votes, we're told.
But consider the home economics in the self-interest of Hispanics.
Half of all U.S. wage earners pay no income tax.
Yet that half and their families get free education K through 12.
They get Medicaid, rent supplements, food stamps, earned income tax credits, Pell Grants, welfare payments, unemployment checks, disability, and other benefits.
So why should poor working and middle-class Hispanics, the vast majority, vote for a party that'll reduce taxes they don't pay, but cut the benefits that they get?
He asked that question to you again.
Why should poor working middle-class Hispanics, the vast majority of them, vote for a party that'll reduce taxes they don't pay?
I mean, the Republicans are running around talking about tax cuts for everybody, but we know the numbers, 47, 48% don't pay taxes, so big whoop.
But the Republicans also say, we're going to have to cut entitlements.
We're going to have to cut this leviathan.
And we do.
There's no question.
We have to cut the size of government if this country is going to be saved, if it's going to be preserved.
But as Buchanan says, the voting interests of the Republicans, why should they vote for a party that's going to reduce taxes they don't pay and cut the benefits that they get?
And they like.
The majority of Latinos, African Americans, immigrants, and young people, 18 to 25, pay no income taxes, yet they enjoy a panoply of government benefits.
Does not self-interest dictate a vote for the party that'll let them keep what they have and maybe give them more rather than the party that'll pare back what they now receive?
But Rush, but Rush, don't they understand that there's going to be an end to it?
No, they don't.
That message hasn't been forcefully enough delivered.
Why should anybody think the end of the road is at hand?
We keep raising a debt limit and everything goes on.
Everybody points to Spain and Greece and so forth, but it really doesn't happen here.
It is going to, but it hasn't.
It's hard for people to believe something's going to happen that hadn't happened before.
And the degree to which our demise is scheduled hasn't happened before, and it will happen.
But there's no evidence of it here.
And so the messaging to people, okay, you like what you get.
I can understand that, but the means by which it's provided to you is about to end.
I don't believe it.
I mean, the guy on the Democrat side running for promising more and more.
If it's going to end, how can he do that?
So what are, Buchanan asks, what are the historic blunders of the grand old party that may yet appear on the autopsy report as probable causes of death?
First, the party, intimidated by name-calling, refused to stop a tidal wave of immigration that brought 40 million people here whose families depend heavily on government.
40 million immigrants, illegal, over the course of who knows however many years.
The vast majority depend on government.
We needed a timeout to assimilate these people and to see them move out of the tax-consuming sector of the nation and into the tax-paying sector, but that didn't happen.
We didn't assimilate, and we all know why, because the political pressure of political correctness didn't permit it.
Plus, we have a bunch of Democrats who don't think there's anything so great about America.
Why should we spend time having them assimilate when we're trying to tear this country apart ourselves?
Republicans acquiesced in the importation of a new electorate that may provide the decisive votes to send the party to the ash heap of history.
This is why so many people, Tea Party and others, have been so alarmed about illegal immigration because of how it adds up electorally, in addition to the obvious cultural problems associated with it, the lack of assimilation.
And you couple this, as I say, with a Democrat Party that doesn't think this country's in great shakes anyway and is more than happy to accommodate people who don't want to become part of it.
I mean, Democrat Party pretty much, yeah, why should you?
This unjust, immoral country, look at all it's done, allowed the rich people, exploit everybody, steal everything they've got.
Democrat Party making an excuse for poverty, maybe even turning it into something valorous.
Certainly isn't stigmatized.
It's a badge of honor because it's not your fault.
The Republicans, they've prevented.
They've taken everything from you.
They've gotten rich, taken everything you had.
Never understood the math of that, but nevertheless.
Second, Republicans, when enacting tax cuts, repeatedly dropped millions of taxpayers off the rolls.
Now, I know what Buchanan means by this.
See, the Republicans, in order to prove that they weren't what the Democrats were saying about them, the Republicans, in order to prove that they weren't just the party of the rich, which is a laugher, did eliminate taxes.
They worked with Democrats to eliminate taxes for a whole bunch of Americans, saying it was compassion.
See, we care about you.
And what they ended up doing was creating a huge class of people that contributes little to pay for the expanding cornucopia of benefits that it receives.
Third, the social revolution of the 1960s captured the culture and converted much of the nation, according to a new poll.
The number of Americans who profess a belief in no religion at all has tripled since the 1990s and is now one in five.
20% of the country profess a belief in no religion.
So if your racial and ethnic voter base is aging, shrinking and dying, your moral code is being rejected, and the tax-consuming class has been allowed to grow to equal or to dwarf the taxpaying class, the GOP's got a problem.
But see, the problem there is that so does the country.
That's the problem.
If the Republicans have a problem, it's even worse for the country.
Now, as I told you before, I read it's a compelling column, is it not?
Buchanan makes compelling arguments there.
Buchanan's essentially saying we've reached the point where there are more takers than producers, and they'll continue to vote as takers to continue to be takers.
Yet, Romney might win this.
Buchanan thinks it'll be a last hurrah, though, if Romney wins it and wins the House and the Senate to go along with it.
Now, if that happens, doesn't that say something a little different than Buchanan's premise?
If Romney wins this, let's be bluntly honest, if Romney wins this, one of the huge factors is that a whole lot of Americans don't want any part of an America like this.
Okay, so now brief timeout.
I'm back to my iPad.
I'll be back here three and a half minutes, and we will resume.
Don't go away.
Now, one thing, folks, on this Buchanan business, incumbent in this piece, so you've got to assume the Republican Party is not conservative.
Buchanan's not saying conservatives have lost.
I don't want to put words in his mouth, but as I analyze his column, he's strictly talking about mainstream Republican Party is who's losing.
I have always believed we can get the Hispanic vote and the women's vote and another number of votes if we just effectively trumpet conservatism.
I myself have done it.
Now, I know what I do is different than seek votes and get elected to public office, but still, I believe in it.
The Republican Party doesn't.
That's its problem, or one of many.
Back to the phones.
Elliot in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's good, sir.
Question to you is, why are you so when it seems to be such a restrictive corporation?
Oh, my.
Hang on a minute.
Elliot, Elliot, we need a better cell connection from you.
I want to take your call, but I can't right now.
I'm going to ask you to give Snerdley your number.
We can call you back where you got a bigger cell connection.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
Who are we going to?
Phyllis in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
You're next.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rudge.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I'm a little nervous.
Sorry.
I just wanted to thank you for converting me.
I used to be a liberal, but I've been listening to you for 20 years.
And how I actually stumbled across you was I wasn't aware of you, but I was home from work, and I was working 3 to 11, and I was flipping the channels.
And this is 1992 when Clinton was running the first time.
And I caught you on TV.
You caught my attention.
And I started listening to some of the things you were saying.
That was about the time you kept playing that clip of Clinton at Ron Brown's funeral.
At the memorial, yeah.
That was so funny.
But anyway, I actually was very liberal my whole life.
And when I started listening to you, and then you had mentioned your radio show, so then I started listening to the radio.
And I started to, even though I didn't agree with a lot of the things that you were saying at first, after listening to your logic for so long, I started to realize that liberalism does not work.
And I'm like, why didn't I see this before?
Well, no, no.
You eventually did.
That's the key.
And you came to it the right way.
You intellectually now understand it.
You can help spread it.
Everybody remembers where they were when they first heard this show.
Okay, check the email in the break.
And people, some of them don't believe the story about the subprime thing being repeated.
And some question, how can they get away with it?
Why are they doing it?
The why is what's interesting, folks.
And I want you to listen to me here because this is why they're doing.
There is, if you've noticed, I'm sure you have, there's a massive run on the Treasury now.
This regime is spending like crazy.
Obama is violating the Constitution with his executive orders granting amnesty essentially to what was it, a million, i.e., children of Hispanic parents.
This subprime thing, there's any number of examples.
The potential bailout of the student loan program.
What there is, there's a massive run on the Treasury.
And I think it's all an insurance policy case they lose.
It's just raid the Treasury now for all it has, for all it in the future to healthcare, put as much claim on as much future federal money as you can.
It's the same thing as getting judges throughout the judicial system.
You lose elections, big deal.
You've got the courts, and if Congress writes bad laws, assist to strike them out.
Activist judges just writing new laws.
They populate the bureaucracy with career appointees.
I shudder to think how big the bureaucracy's gotten, how many appointees Obama's put in there that are going to stay after he's gone.
You remember when Bush 43 was inaugurated in another Republican show of good faith, he didn't get rid of the U.S. attorneys like Clinton did.
He didn't get rid of any of the career appointees and replaced them with his own people as a means of bringing the country together.
You'll recall we were so ridden with strife over Clinton and Lewinsky.
And George W. Bush wanted to be seen as the great unifier.
So you leave the Democrats and the liberals in positions of power in the bureaucracy.
We always do this.
We're always out trying to show these really, why do we care whether Rob Emanuel thinks we're a nice guy?
All he's going to do is take advantage of us.
Why do we care whether Mayor of Boston thinks we're nice people?
What is this constantly having to demonstrate that anyway?
That's inside the Beltway ITIS.
That's just years and years, decades of being pummeled by the Democrats and the media, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
No, we're not.
No, we're not here.
Look.
And we make all these silly concessions.
And they laugh at us.
And we think we're making them like us.
It's just, it's an utter waste of energy and utter waste of time.
So this subprime thing is just a raid on the Treasury.
And it's making the banks create a new wave of dependency.
They're simply ordering the banks to make another bunch of loans to people who can't pay them back and creating a new bunch of dependent people to which the Democrats can point and feel, we did that for you.
Even if they win this election, folks, they look at government in ways we don't.
They know that they're not going to win every election.
They know they're not going to control the Treasury forever.
So they're trying to put in place as many irreversible policies, spending policies as they can.
It's the same thing, spending as much as possible, as soon as possible on Obamacare to make it harder to repeal.
So that's why they're doing it.
All of those reasons, pure and simple.
Okay, we got Elliott back on his cell phone in Cranston, Rhode Island.
And Elliot, thanks.
Appreciate you letting us do this because it was a really bad intermittent connection we had when you first tried.
Well, it's an honor just to speak with you.
Thanks for letting me talk.
My question originally was: what made you fall in love with Apple products?
Because everything that I've seen, it's such a restrictive corporation.
The apps need to be approved.
You can't even write an app without a Mac.
I can't stream an AVI to my Apple TV.
It's just so restrictive.
And as a freedom-loving band, and I know you are, yeah, it's a good question.
This is actually a really, really good question.
And what he's talking about is restrictive, he's software developers with the new operating system for computers, for the Macs, Mountain Lion.
You don't get your app in the App Store unless it's sandboxed, which means restrictive is the word.
The best way to explain it is that it can't access the data in any other app and very little of the operating system itself.
Apple's doing this for security reasons.
They're trying to make sure that they're the toughest nut to crack for malware, all of the Trojan software that's out there.
Apple's made a decision.
Just to answer your question about that, they're de-emphasizing their push into what's called the enterprise business, large business, corporate.
They're focusing on business side, small business only, but they're really going lowest common denominator consumer.
They want to make their machines as simple, as intuitive, as easy to operate for the most people.
They're just mass marketing here.
They're not running the company for the geeks or the nerds anymore.
They're not running the company for the power users or the power writers.
Unfortunately.
So that's on the restrictive side of what you're talking about.
That's my theory about what they're doing.
The reason I like it, I learned on Mac.
I'm sorry, what was it?
It works.
Well, it does.
And it's innovative and it's ahead of the game.
But I learned on a Mac.
And I've had a BlackBerry once, and I could not keep it in sync.
There was an app to keep it in sync with my Mac for my address book and phone numbers.
It just didn't work.
And the primary reason I couldn't wait for the iPad is so that I would have a remote device, a handheld device, that had all the stuff on my computer on it that I needed, that was kept in sync automatically.
I think one of the greatest things around is iCloud.
But, you know, I just read something the other day about Apple that they got this big patent lawsuit going on with Samsung.
Steve Jobs always said, we don't do market research.
The consumer doesn't know what he wants.
That's our job.
Well, they did do a little bit.
Some document dumps have shown that they did do market research of iPhone buyers.
And it was shocking.
You know what they found, Elliot?
What's that?
They found that the primary reason people buy iPads or iPhones is because trust in the Apple brand and design.
And the last reason that they buy is the first reason I buy it.
The last reason people buy iPhones of all the options given them was the option to keep all your data in sync across all your devices.
That has me scared.
I don't think they'll ever give that up.
I just, I don't know.
Apple wouldn't let me in the door if I went out there.
We tried for years to get them as advertisers.
They wouldn't talk to us.
Politically, they have nothing in common with me.
And your question is very valid.
Why in the world do you want to tout people that have no desire to do anything with you?
It just, the stuff works.
I think it's state of the art.
I think it's the best out there for what I need to do.
Their stuff has facilitated my productivity like nothing else has.
I was sitting on my sofa last night, and I was doing a shop.
I had my new laptop.
I had the iPhone and the iPad doing shadowways, using all three for different things for three hours.
Did not have to sit at a desk, did not have to be in any one particular place.
I could have a TV on if I wanted to.
In addition to that, it's fun.
It's my hobby.
It's my avocation.
If I weren't doing what I'm doing, I'd try to figure out a way to get involved in this stuff.
I'd love to be an advisor, tell them how they need to innovate for me, selfishly.
But I understand a lot of people.
These people politically, they probably despise you.
Oh, yeah.
For this, it doesn't matter.
I set it aside.
I just have found that it's fun.
I'm one of these people.
I'm on the edge of my chair when we get close to the release of a new product, a phone or an iPad.
It's like, Apple stuff is my Christmas morning.
Best way to put it to you.
As a kid, what Christmas was when you were a kid, that's what Apple stuff is for me at age 62.
That's cool.
I like being able to have that feeling at age 62.
Yep, it's a great product.
I love it.
I just can't believe you don't get paid for as much advertising as you do.
That's what Catherine says to me.
Catherine says, I can't believe that you don't get paid for it.
Why should they?
When you look at it, but they make the greatest toys for adults of anybody out there.
Plus, I have to tell you something.
You know, I'm a student of marketing, and they own it.
They have it down pat.
I'm fascinated by how they run their business.
Well, see, the dirty little secret is that Apple didn't do it.
Apple wouldn't be where they are if it weren't for me.
And Obama.
Now, who built the road that one infinite loop in Cupertino is on?
Anyway, greatest toys for adults.
Yeah.
Apple builds the greatest.
What are you thinking?
Dildos?
What are you thinking?
Toys for adults.
I'm talking about this stuff, the iPhone, the iPad.
They're the most productive toys that anybody has ever had.
I marvel at what they do.
I marvel at the technology.
I am in stunned amazement.
I can't believe that I'm able to sit here and dictate whole paragraphs.
I don't have to ever type anymore.
I actively enjoy that.
I don't take it for granted.
I sit every time I dictate a response to Catherine on the iPhone or an email to somebody.
I sit there after I've done this.
I can't believe this just happened.
To me, it's probably how Edison felt after inventing the light bulbs.
I'm not inventing anything.
I'm just using it.
And wait till you see Siri in the new OS.
Everybody's talking about Siri's this.
It's been a failure.
It's in beta.
Wait till you see Siri this fall when they come out with what's called iOS 6.
It's going to be what, well, it already is.
It is what everybody hoped and thought it was going to be when they first announced it.
Anyway, Elliot, I'm glad you called.
It's a brief timeout time here on the EIB network.
Sit tight, folks.
Do not go away.
Oh, one other thing, Elliot.
Keeping current on this stuff keeps my mind sharp and active and young and gives me a diversion from being constantly focused on a crap that's happening to the country.
Back after this.
Let me explain one more thing or tell you about one more thing regarding Apple and that'll be it.
Everybody's talking about their move to television and what's it going to be?
Is there going to be one?
I got to make a TV set.
What are I going to do?
Steve Jobs in his biography written by Walter Isaac and said, I finally cracked it.
What does this mean?
I'll tell you, when you realize that on your phone, I don't care what phone, Samsung, you got a Blackberry, the phone is just an app.
If you look at it, the phone is just an app.
Then TV channels can just become apps.
If I were in the cable TV business or direct TV, I would be very worried right now because of something that they just released in Mountain Lion.
It's called AirPlay Mirroring.
You have an Apple TV box, $99.
You can mirror, mirror everything on your computer on your television set, which means you can buy for 99 cents a television show from iTunes, watch it on your computer, and project it to your 1080p high-definition TV without needing cable TV, without needing direct TV.
Now, there's no live TV streaming or nothing, but you're watching a YouTube video that you want to watch on your 60-inch screen, just mirror it from your computer with AirPlay.
And you need a $99 Apple TV box to make it happen.
But they've got their hooks into the future in that company.
I would love to know.
They're three to five years ahead of everybody.
Alfred Talari, California.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
How are you doing, Rosins?
Excellent.
Thank you very much, sir.
I just wanted to call and tell you how much I love your show, and I've been listening to you since 1995.
But I wanted to give you some hope to tell you that there's a lot of Hispanics out here that even though we don't get rushed limbo in Spanish, there's people that have Mexican shows that kind of talk about the stuff you talk about.
I made $60,000, $65,000 in gross last year.
I spent about $40,000 in fuel, $35,000 in fuel, not counting maintenance and not counting registration and insurance fees.
And over here in Central Valley, California, sometimes we have to work seasonal.
So sometimes, you know, there's times where I'm on food stamps.
I mean, even though you see where I grossed $65,000 and I still was on food staffs, if I was able to have lower taxes, I mean, lower gas prices, I would love to pay my share.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a lot of fuel costs you've got, bro.
Well, we spend about four bucks a gallon out here, and because the fuel is so high, the trucking companies that we work for don't want to pay the high prices, so they take it out on the independent subhaughlers.
Well, How many people do you know?
No, wait.
I just don't be insulted with the question.
I'm just trying to learn here.
How many people do you know who want to do what you're, you're trying to find a way to work.
You're trying to find a way to make it happen working.
How many people are like you who want the same thing out of life that you're trying to find?
There's about 5,000 to 10,000 subhaulers in the Central Valley out here.
And a lot of us, if you talk to one guy and you talk to the other guy, everybody knows everybody by the time he gets around to the next guy.
And there's a lot of people that vote for Bush.
I mean, I hate when people talk about Bush because I admire Bush.
Yeah, see, this is the thing.
What bothers me about, and I love Buchanan.
Don't misunderstand this is, but there's a tendency to treat all these groups monolithic.
And maybe they are right now, but it's only because they haven't been appealed to in the right way or approached in the right way, because in human terms, they're not monolithic.
Anyway, Alfred, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I got a quick break here, folks.
We will be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Washington Examiner, Obamacare levies $1 trillion in new taxes.
This is from the Congressional Budget Office, and the raid on the Treasury continues.
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