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July 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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Mitt Romney in Poland today just picked up the endorsement of Lek Vowenza.
Of course, Obama cannot do that.
Hugo Chavez endorsed Obama last week.
Did you hear that?
Hugo Chavez, a communist leader.
Well, socialist leader in Venezuela.
Lek Vauenza has endorsed Romney in Poland, said he hopes Romney is successful.
You know, I had last, I don't know what, a Thursday or Friday, the White House lied about the Winston Churchill bust.
I mean, everybody, I really couldn't believe this.
Everybody knows that one of the first things Obama did after he was emaculated was to take the Churchill bust and give it back to the British.
He did not want it there.
He didn't want it in there.
And it led to a bunch of speculation as to why.
And one of the most popular theories was, which has now, by the way, been debunked by none other than David Moranis.
And that's a funny story into itself.
But anyway, David Moranis has written a biography on Obama because Obama's biography's got a bunch of made-up stuff in it.
So Moranis writes another biography of Obama, this one to try to help him.
Instead, what Moranis has unwittingly done is point out to everybody how Obama made things up in his book.
And now Moranis is scratching his head, all upset, why people like me are highlighting his book to show how Obama didn't tell the truth, where Moranis thought he was helping Obama straighten a bunch of stuff out.
Well, anyway, one of the theories when Obama gave that bust to Churchill back was that he was ticked off at the Brits because they had done something with his grandfather during the Mau Mau Revolution.
His grandfather in Kenya, supposedly imprisoned and supposedly tortured by the Brits back in the colonial days during the Mau Mau Revolution, and Obama had it in for him.
And it turned out that's not true because Obama's grandfather was nowhere near the Mau Mau Revolution.
And the Brits never captured his grandfather and they never held his grandfather prisoner and they never tortured him.
Moranis has uncovered that.
That's one of the things Obama made up in his book.
So that theory went out the window.
But still, so anyway, when this whole Olympics thing came up with Romney going over there and being critical of the security setup and warning that there were some problems waiting.
And by the way, have you seen the empty seats at the Olympics?
I'm going to tell you, I, El Rushbo, I don't even know if I should tell you this.
I tried to get some ducats for the swimming.
And I was told by people as high up as you could go.
And this was six months ago.
Sorry, Rush, they're gone.
Nothing anybody can do.
I mean, not even your friends at NBC.
There's nothing anybody can do.
I said, okay, I understand that.
You turn it on and there's empty seats everywhere.
And it's not just swimming.
There's empty seats everywhere.
And now it's a scandal.
Nobody knows who those tickets went to.
So they're pulling military people in to sit in the empty seats at the gymnastics, at the swimming, and a bunch of other venues.
Anyway, the White House, Jay Carney, I think it was, or Dan Pfeiffer, I think, denied that Obama had tossed the Churchill bust out.
And everybody remembered that.
He got caught, and then they had to, well, actually, you know what?
There are two of those things.
And the one that everybody's talking about is still there.
It's in the diplomatic reception room right there off the residence elevator.
That's not what we're talking about, clown.
It was in the Oval Office, and Obama did order it sent out of there.
And in fact, they found that it was over to British Embassy.
That's where he sent it.
Now, nobody knows why.
We thought it was, well, it was on loan, but the Brits didn't recall it.
The Brits offered Obama a chance to keep it.
And Obama rejected the offer and sent it back.
But it was already in the Oval Orifice.
You know, it was a gift from Tony Blair to Bush because of our friendly alliance during the Gulf Wars and all that.
And so the Brits told Obama, hey, it's there if you want to keep it.
We'd be more than happy.
You come get it.
You didn't bill it.
Hey, I want that.
Take it out of here.
Get it out.
So they got it out of there.
It was back over to the British Embassy.
Now nobody knows why.
Now nobody knows what Obama was ticked off about.
But they tried to lie on Friday at the White House and tell everybody it was still there.
And it was, it was, it's what they, in the first week, first two weeks, Miss, certainly the first month is one of the first things Obama did.
They said never left the White House.
That's a crock.
By the way, I got a question asked many times in the email.
I was talking an hour ago about the media and why they're hiring people who never done it before, why they stick to their agenda when they're losing money and losing audience.
Why do they do it?
And how different the business.
It really is.
It really is.
I mean, one of the you know, when I moved to New York in 1989, believe me, I knew that if I were going to succeed, it was going to have to be real.
I was going to have to have a real audience.
I couldn't have a buzz audience.
I couldn't have an audience everybody talked about and talked about as being big.
It was going to have to be provable.
And I wanted it to be.
I didn't go there to become number five.
I didn't go there to become number four.
I went there to become number one, and I wanted to be demonstrated and provable with ratings, audience research.
And it is.
And it has been since about two years after we started.
Meanwhile, a bunch of programs with 1-100th the audience are raved about and they have buzz about them.
And so it's thought that they're bigger.
But I didn't want that kind of phoniness.
I didn't want that kind of artificiality.
But I'm looking at it, and I'm looking at all these people.
You hired David Gregory, sorry, no Tim Russett, Christian Amonpour to replace, who was it?
I forget what was in there, but that show hadn't been what it was since Brinkley left.
But these people just fill with their agendas, and the stuff that I've always used to measure success in this business doesn't matter to any of them, including money.
They seem to think they should be immune to bottom line concerns.
They should be able to have the freedom to operate at whatever loss they incur because their mission is so important.
Anyway, people in email said, well, Rush, why don't the owners do something about it?
I mean, one of Jack Welch was CEO of GE when they owned NBC.
Why didn't he, why didn't he, Another question, Rush.
This actually is a good question.
Rush.
Can't these people see the success of shows like yours in Fox?
Don't they see what they have to do?
What's so wrong about wanting conservative audience?
They don't want a conservative audience because there go the Pulitzers.
Folks, they do not want you watching their networks.
20 years ago, a network startup like Fox News would have had everybody copycatting them and trying to steal their talent and trying to steal their management.
And everybody would have wanted a piece of that success.
This is what's amazing.
They don't want a piece of it.
They say it isn't real.
They say it's illegitimate.
They say, well, it's just a bunch of mind-numbed robot conservatives.
It's amazing.
You realize if somebody wants, I say this with all seriousness, I know it's never happened, but just we have a weekly audience here of anywhere from 20 to 25 million, 12 million in the course of a three-hour program.
You think if somebody were serious about increasing their audience for the nightly news, they might try to do something to get this audience watching it.
No way.
There is absolutely no, and it's not because I'm not a journalist in their definition.
It's no way.
They don't want any part of you watching them.
It would be embarrassing.
It would be embarrassing for them to have the Fox News audience or the talk radio audience.
Anyway, this question about ownership.
Why didn't Jack Welch, I mean, Jack Welch is a conservative.
Jack Welch knows what the media is doing.
Why did he allow NBC to continue to be what it was when it wasn't what his vision was?
The answer to this, folks, you're not going to like.
But these general managers, these CEOs, and even the owners of these networks are human beings too, and they know that if they, for example, let's take CNN as an example.
Let's say that Jeff Bukes, who's the Time Warner CEO, hires somebody from Roger Ailes' staff, says, I want you to turn CNN into fire.
I want you to do whatever they did over there.
What would happen is that the vast majority of people at CNN would leave and start ripping the hell out of Bukes off the record.
Same thing.
If Jack Welch had tried to impose on NBC to try to drop some of the liberal bias and just do it straight.
Just do straight news.
Just tell us what happened.
The hell with what you think about it.
Just tell us what happened.
Just do it with the news.
You'd have had a bunch of people at NBC who would have gone off the record ripping Welch and telling dastardly stories about what it was like to work there and how much it was destroying the sacred trust and the tradition of NBC News.
And they don't want that.
These guys, people, most people are not like me, folks.
Most people care about what's said about them in the media.
The vast majority of people care what other people say about them.
I had to learn a long time ago to not care.
Most people do.
And it dominates and governs how they operate and decisions that they make.
Pure and simple.
And, you know, it's a rocky road.
I mean, look at me.
I, 24 years ago, just in the modern era, 24 years ago, I left Sacramento.
I came to New York.
I went to New York.
And I wanted to be the most successful radio guy ever.
I did not go there to be in politics.
I didn't go there to be involved in policy.
I didn't go there to have any of what's happened happen other than the radio side stuff.
Now, look, for whatever percentage, my reputation has been destroyed among, what, 30, 40% of the country?
Simply because I have been successful as a conservative.
My reputation, mud.
And the reputation I've got among those people is so far from the truth.
I'd have gone nuts if I cared about it.
All I wanted to do was be a radio guy, and I've got 30, 40% of the country.
I've got totally ruined reputation simply because I have been successful and effective as a conservative on the radio, pure and simple.
Well, I'm just going to tell you that most people don't want to happen to them what's happened to me.
Oh, they would love to take what they think the success is and what they think the trappings are, but they don't want this other stuff, including CEOs and managers and owners.
They don't want this kind of assault on their reputations, their image, and their integrity and all that.
They're not as committed to the cause as somebody like I am.
They're just not.
And most people think that they are, and they're not.
Most people care about themselves first, second, third, fourth, fifth, all the way down to number 25.
And so that's why there's just general fear of what will be said about people if I'm using Jack Welch as an example.
I could be wrong about him.
I don't know.
I'm just using him as an example because he's a well-known CEO who's obviously conservative, who ran the parent company of NBC.
But you could say this about Les Moonvest that runs CBS.
He's not conservative, but if he were, he still wouldn't change CBS because he doesn't want what would be said about him by the people that work at the place.
You know, you fire Dan Rather now and he trashes you.
That's fine because, you know, Rather blew himself up first.
But most people don't want to have happen to them this kind of stuff.
So that's why.
And then these people in the news business, while they are, they're not witnessing the destruction of their own business, they are making it happen.
They are bringing it about.
And they're sitting there blaming the internet, blaming social media, or even they blame conservative talk radio for accusing them of bias, or they blame people at Fox or whatever.
But they are personally involved in their own demise, their own success, their own professional demise.
It's just that simple.
No more complicated.
But that's why the owners or the CEOs are never going to try to change because they're afraid of what will be said about them.
If you can't get rid of that, then you're always going to be a prisoner to what others want you to do.
And that's where they are.
And I got a brief timeout, folks.
Much more Elizabeth Warren.
A commercial for Elizabeth Warren ran, I think, during the Olympics opening ceremonies.
Da-da-da-da in Massachusetts.
Yep.
And in that commercial, Elizabeth Warren said America should be more like communist China.
And she might win.
According to the polls, she's within striking distance.
Some polls, she's ahead.
And she's got an ad in Massachusetts during the opening ceremony Olympics saying that this country needs to be more like communist China.
I'll tell you how when we get back.
It's from the New York Sun.
Massachusetts residents who turned into the Olympics opening ceremony saw a new 30-second campaign commercial from Elizabeth Warren that said America should be more like communist China.
She is running for the United States Senate and is saying that to help herself win.
She said, we've got bridges and roads in need of repair and thousands of people in need of work.
Why aren't we rebuilding America?
Our competitors are putting people to work building a future.
China invests 9% of its GDP in infrastructure.
America, we're just 2.4%.
We can do better.
They are building roads and bridges like crazy in North Dakota.
They're building housing like crazy in North Dakota.
They're building things.
They're going absolutely nuts in North Dakota because there is an oil boom in North Dakota.
But no, no, can't mention that.
No.
She's running for the Senate in Massachusetts, and she's telling people she wants to vote for her.
They have to be more like the ChiComs.
They've got to be more like communist China.
Here's Linda in Lindstrom, Minnesota, as we go back to the phones.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Oh, thank you so much.
It's such an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
I'm very nervous, so I'm going to try to get through this.
You'll do it fine, I have no doubt.
I can always count on you to verbalize whatever I'm thinking.
I was actually insulted by the UK's National Health Service performance.
Yeah.
I thought it was an in-your-face to conservatives everywhere, especially Americans.
It was.
You're exactly right.
I was already dreading Paul McCartney, which, you know, I was certain his performance would have.
You know what?
He's out there singing, Hey Jude, and most of the people in the audience had no idea they couldn't sing along, and they never heard of it because he's old to be their grandfather.
They didn't know what the song was.
I turned my TV off.
I stopped watching it.
But I really believe that the Brits, the French, and the Italians have never gotten over the fact that America had to rescue them from Hitler.
And in their effort to show that they're perfectly capable of determining their own destiny, they need to embrace whatever is opposite of America.
No, I think, I know what you're trying to say out there.
That's why we are here, Linda, to speak your mind.
I understand that.
I think that you have to something.
Although, in this case, the guy that did the opening ceremony is an avowed, huge Marxist leftist named Danny Boyle.
But I think it was in your face to conservatives.
I think everything is in your face to conserve.
I think it's the people who think they're cool trying to rub the noses of the people they think are not cool in it.
Honoring the national health care, that's a political statement chosen on purpose because of the debate going on in America.
There's no question about it.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Hey, we're back.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
That's me, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone.
We have a 12-year-old young man from Pettal, Mississippi on the phone named Trent.
And Trent, welcome to the program.
Glad that you called.
How are you?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
Well, I'm cool.
I'm doing well today.
Thank you.
Well, I had a question.
Well, you've called the rights.
Obama's been elected.
I used to buy chip bags at the store, and they used to be all the way full.
But now they're only half full.
Why is that?
Really?
What kind of chips are we talking about here?
Like potato chips.
What brand?
The Lays kind.
The Lays kind.
So you're buying Lay's potato chips, and the bag is only half full now.
Yes, that is correct.
Since Obama was elected.
Yes.
Well, you know, I'm glad you told me.
I don't, I mean, I eat potato chips, but I never see the bag.
When I get them, they're already out of the bag.
But this doesn't surprise me.
Have you mentioned this to your parents?
Yes, I have.
What do they think?
They really don't know.
They really don't know.
Yeah, I decided to call you and ask.
Well, I think you're on to something.
I don't think, I think, I don't know.
You know, you're in Mississippi, and I don't think the mayor of New York has anything to do with what happens in Mississippi yet.
But this is a toughie.
Have you made this assessment on every bag of potato chips that you bought?
Most of them.
Most of them.
Well, you know what?
Honestly, Trent, if what you say is true, it could be a sneaky way for them to avoid having to increase the published price.
Now, I don't know.
See, the problem is, I don't know what the price for your bag of Lay's potato chips is today versus last year or...
I think they've gone up about $2.
Well, then my theory is wrong.
The price has gone up $2 and the amount of potato chips in there has been cut in half?
Yes, that is.
It sounds to me like the Lays people, the potato chip people, are hoarding product, anticipating perhaps economic drought, potato famine, maybe the Obama administration banning potato chips somewhere.
Michelle would be the one to do that.
And they're just trying to save products so they have supply.
It could be that it's really not happening.
It could just be that the contents of the bags are being shipped a longer distance to your store in the process.
They're settling more in the bag, making it look like that the bag is only half full when it really isn't.
But do you have a theory?
Have you evolved a theory of your own to explain this?
No, not really.
But you think it's got something to do with Obama because it's.
Do because he's raised the price of everything, and the quality and the quantity of stuff has gone down.
Well, I think it's because of Obama.
Well, that's hard to disagree with.
Obama does not personally have the, he's not personally in charge of the price, but the things that have happened to the country economically have resulted in the cost of everything going up.
Yes.
For a host of reasons.
Well, does this, are you eating fewer potato chips now?
Are your parents buying fewer bags?
No, they're buying the same amount, but there just aren't as many in there.
Well, if your parents have a problem, just buy more bags.
Yep.
Thank you.
All right.
Wait, were you on the Haney Project?
What's that?
Were you on the Haney Project?
Yeah, I was on the Haney Project.
Cool.
I watched that show.
You did?
Well, now, you know what?
Mr. Snerdley, don't go away out there, Trent.
Mr. Snerdley just brought me a bag of Lay's potato chips.
And they're wavy hickory barbecue.
What kind of potato chips do you eat?
The wavy original.
The wavy original.
Okay, well I got wavy hickory barbecue.
I'm looking at the price here.
Oh, $4.29.
This is a 10-ounce bag.
Probably the standard bag at your standard corner grocery store.
And you know what?
He's right.
It's half full.
Yeah.
You know, you're right out there, Trent.
It's half full.
There's a lot of air in this bag, too.
And I charge a lot for that.
But it's, he's right.
It's half full.
This is something Obama was doing, and we didn't know until you called.
Wow.
Well, I appreciate the heads up.
But did you like the Haney Project?
Yes, I did, and I liked it.
He's a good teacher or coach.
Yeah, that he is.
He loves it, and he takes it very, very seriously.
He's very committed to it.
Do you play golf?
You play golf?
Yes, I do.
Well, if you ever, I don't know that you will, if you ever have a chance to get a lesson from Hank Haney, you should take it.
He takes it as seriously as anybody who teaches anything, which is good.
It's what you want.
Anyway, we'll look into this potato chip controversy for you, Trent, because you're absolutely right.
The bag's half full in there, and it's brand new.
And it could be, you know, you might have spotted another area in life Obama's been messing around that we didn't even know.
So, heads up.
Thanks much.
Appreciate it.
Brooke, Willard, Utah.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to help you make you aware of another, yet another way socialism has corrupted our wonderful Olympic Games.
The girls' gymnastics, they no longer take the top 24.
They take the top two from each country.
Only they are allowed to compete in the all-around Olympic final.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it a minute.
First, how old are you?
14.
You're 14.
Are you in gymnastics?
No, I'm not.
Okay.
Now, when you say that they no longer take a top 24, who no longer takes top 24?
The judges, they don't let them compete.
They changed the rules a couple years back that they take the top two from each country to compete in the finals.
So, in the case of the USA, we have three girls, and only two can go.
So, the third girl, she doesn't get to compete in the finals, even though she would be the top four or five in 24 competing.
Wait a minute, Brooke, because I watched a little of the female gymnastics last night.
There were five on the team.
Yes, but only two get to compete in the all-around finals.
Only two from each country?
Yes.
So, it's the U.S. Olympic Committee that's made this rule.
Uh-huh.
And so, even if, say, a U.S. gymnast has higher scores than, say, a gymnast from China, if she is the third best American, she won't make the team.
Correct.
Not the team, but she won't get to compete in the final.
The finals.
She won't, yeah, she will not be allowed to compete in the finals because they have a rule that says every country has to have at least two participants.
Correct.
I didn't know this.
Yes, and I'm looking at an article right here, and it says the Olympic philosophy is: quote, we want to spread the wealth.
We want to spread sport to other parts of the world.
So, I mean, it's just pure socialism.
Well, it sounds the way Obama talked to Joe the Plumber.
You know, we just want to spread the wealth around.
You know, I saw the story this morning.
One of the five did not make the finals.
It was a story about this, one of these girls did not make the finals.
I didn't have time to read the whole story as to why you may have the answer here.
They made it look like she got the shaft somehow.
It was Jordan Weber or Weiber, unless you pronounced her name.
Yes.
That is Jordan Weber.
She better than 99% of the girls that will end up in the finals.
But this story says that three of our gymnasts are in the top four all around, but only two of them can compete.
You're exactly right.
Yep.
It's not socialism, it's political correctness.
Yeah.
In addition to everything else.
So Jordi Weber doesn't get to compete, even though she's better than 99% of the girls that are going to end up in the finals.
By scores, she's better.
Not by subjective judgment, but by virtue of her scores.
So only two from our team get to go.
I did not know this.
Do you know how rare it is, Brooke, that a 14-year-old tells me something I didn't know?
I don't.
Well, it's rare.
Believe me.
And you, you have done it.
You deserve a prize.
Well, wow.
I don't know what to say.
Because we're not socialist here.
Re-reward merit on this program.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I just got a bunch of fresh iPads that came back from the engraver.
Tell you what, I'm going to give you your choice.
You can have a brand new third-generation iPad with the big retina high-resolution screen, or, you can have a 15-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro laptop computer.
Do you have a computer?
We have a family computer, but I don't personally own one.
Well, you take your pick.
Which one would you like?
I think I'll take the laptop.
Good call.
Thank you so much.
Good, good, good call.
Okay, you hang on.
Mr. Snerdley will get your address.
We'll FedEx it to you, and you'll have it tomorrow.
Wow, thank you.
That's what happens.
That's what it, well, we reward merit on this program.
And she told me something I didn't know about something I could have known.
It's not, I mean, there's certain things 14-year-olds know that there's no way I would know it.
This I could have known, but didn't.
She told me.
So she deserves it.
We'll take a quick time out here, folks, back after this.
Don't go away.
It's a good thing Brooke chose the computer.
If she'd have chosen the iPad, her dad or her mom would have killed her.
But they'll get to use the computer as well.
Goldendale, Washington, Mary High.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Thank you so much, Rush.
Yes, it's still morning out here.
Yeah.
I'm a proud Rush babe from Eastern Washington.
Well, I'm honored to have you in the audience.
Thank you very much.
I had just a quick comment on the fine young man that phoned that was saying he had less chips in his package.
And I believe it's because it's like the Obama administration.
It's full of hot air.
You may be onto something.
He clearly is because our bag is half full.
And we're not trying to start.
Please don't.
I do not want people from Lays calling here and say, what are you doing to us?
Nothing.
We're not doing anything to you.
No, they make a great product.
Hey, we love it.
We eat it.
We've got it here and so forth and so on.
Young man had a question.
We tried to tie it to Obama somehow.
There's no doubt a connection.
We're just looking for it.
That's right.
And like I told Mr. Snerdley, one thing about your breastfeeding stint with Mayor Bloomberg is I think Bloomberg is still on this kick of lowering childhood obesity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what it is.
That's, well, that's how they're going to use this.
They're going to claim that baby formula leads to obesity, and that's why you must breastfeed.
There's no doubt that that's what it is.
I want to play the Elizabeth Warren ad.
We got time to squeeze this in.
Sound by 29 here.
Is that right?
30, number 30.
Here it is.
We've got bridges and roads in need of repair and thousands of people in need of work.
Why aren't we rebuilding America?
Our competitors are putting people to work, building a future.
China invests 9% of its GDP in infrastructure.
America, we're at just 2.4%.
We can do better.
We can build a foundation for a strong new economy and get people in Massachusetts to work right now.
I'm Elizabeth Warren, and I approve this message.
Let's go to work.
Yeah, that'd be like China.
That's Elizabeth Warren.
That's the ad she's running to elect herself to the Senate or get elected to the Senate, asking people to Massachusetts.
Look, I'll do for you what the Chinese communists have done.
It's just unbelievable.
Sadly, my friends, that's it.
Constraints of time force us to conclude the fastest three hours in media.
It's already gone.
But as I always say, back in 21 hours.
And that'll go by slower than you think as you eagerly anticipate our return, which will be tomorrow.
Thanks so much for being with us today, too.
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