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July 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
We are going to need all three hours today, ladies.
Well, we we need three hours each and every day, but I mean, we are going to need all three today.
We're loaded.
There's all kinds of stuff happening out there.
And a lot of it looks like it's happening and going our way.
And it always makes you feel good, at least it does me.
Happy to have you here, folks.
Broadcast excellence as hosted and defined by me.
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So a bunch of reporters start shouting questions at Mitt Romney in Poland.
We have the audio of this coming up into course.
Bunch of reporters start shouting at Romney.
He's very, very close to their tomb of the unknown soldier.
And one of Romney's press people starts shouting at the reporters.
Shut up.
This is a holy sight for the Polish people.
Kiss my butt.
He told the reporters to shove it.
So now they're all over this guy.
He eventually called and apologized.
Now, it wasn't long ago at this guy Neil Monroe at the White House.
Obama's out there delivering some sort of statement.
When he thinks Obama's finished asks a question, the reporters get so mad at the disrespect shown Obama, they chase this guy, this reporter, down to the Washington Monument.
But now the reporters are harassing Romney.
They're trying to create gaffes.
They are trying.
They're working on behalf of Barack Obama.
They are attempting to carry forth the meme that Romney's foreign trip is a disaster, that it's one gaff after another.
They're trying to do this in the mainstream media.
And the fact of the matter is Romney is having a home run of a trip.
He is having a grand slam of it.
He's doing such a good job that Mahmud Ahmadini Zad actually came out and for all intents and purposes endorsed Obama yesterday.
Romney's over in Israel.
And he makes an obvious truthful statement.
He's been doing that a lot on this trip.
Talking about the Palestinians versus the Israelis.
Palestinian economy, Israeli economies.
Well, there's a cultural difference here.
There's a clear reason why the Israeli economy is vastly superior.
It's cultural.
All hell broke loose.
The spokesman for the Palestinians says, "That's racism!
That is out and out racism!" Mahmood Ahmadini Zad joins in criticizing Romney.
Didn't mention his name, but there was nobody else he could have been talking about.
So effectively.
The uh the grand poo of Iran, working with the permission of the Mullahs, has come out against Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney.
So effectively a Barack Obama endorsed, which is nothing new.
This all happened during 2008.
All these foreign dictators supporting Obama ripping into uh McCain and so forth, and it was tantamount to the I mean you couldn't tell the difference.
Mahmoud Ahmadini Zad would criticize America.
You listen to a Democrat criticize America, sounded the same.
Word for word.
Have you heard about the uh second blackout in two days that has hit India?
Six hundred seventy million people are now in the dark.
The population of this country is 200 what?
50 million?
310 million?
300 million.
310 million.
I was thinking the adult population.
300, 310 million, whole country, 670 million people in the dark in India.
Boy, you know Obama's got to be green with envy over this.
Well, for Obama, he wants as many people in this country to be in the dark as he can arrange.
That's his whole re-election strategy.
Keep as many people in the dark as possible.
Seriously.
India has lost half of its power grid.
Trains are stuck stick with me on this.
Trains are stuff.
What do we care about India, Rush?
We're about to lose them.
Hang on.
Trains are stuck in tunnels.
Miners are stuck in mineshafts.
Imagine that now.
Hospitals are without any power.
Just last week, tens of thousands of ChICOM citizens drowned in Beijing and other cities simply because it rained hard and washed away some cheaply built homes and bridges.
Speaking of, it rained hard in Beijing.
Tens of thousands of Chicom citizens drowned.
India and China are the two countries that Obama and other Democrats, like Elizabeth Warren are always citing as models for their infrastructure.
These are the countries that we have to be more likely.
Elizabeth Warren running a commercial.
A TV ad in Miss in Massachusetts, urging citizens there to elect her to the Senate, claiming that this country needs to be more like communist China.
This is not an ad running in San Francisco.
This is an ad running in the whole state of Mass.
And she's in the race.
She's tight.
She's close.
She could win this.
And she's running an ad.
Encouraging the citizens of Massachusetts to elect her because she wants this country to be more like the communist Chinese.
I was going to talk about the Olympics, but I don't want NBC getting my Twitter account canceled.
You hear about this?
Guy Adams works as a writer for the Independent.
It's a UK newspaper.
He lives in LA.
And throughout the Olympics, he gone to Twitter and he has been ripping NBC repeatedly for its coverage.
And everybody, it seems, is ripping NBC.
NBC is laughing all the way to the bank because their ratings are through the roof, even though everybody knows.
Well, everybody.
You can't miss.
With communications, what it is today, you cannot miss running into the results that NBC won't show you until later on in prime time.
People who are trying to avoid get pop-ups when they go to cooking sites on the internet.
A little pop-up will come up.
It'll tell them what happened to Phelps, what happened to an American gymnast, the little Chi-Com swimmer that everybody thinks is doping now.
And now the Chi-Com guy has come back.
Oh, yeah, well, then we think we think Phelps was doping and was drugged up four years ago, so take that.
Anyway, all this stuff is happening live real time, and five hours ahead.
It's now 5 15 practically in the in the UK.
NBC saving all the stuff for prime time.
And yet everybody knows it, and they're watching, and the ratings have never been higher.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, well, uh, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Ratings all-time highs, with everybody knowing.
Now, everybody's upset with NBC for insulting their intelligence.
Come on, they go on TV and try to act like none of us know what happened.
They try to act like it's live, it's happening now, even though they tell us it isn't, and a lot of people feel like their intelligence is being insulted, and yet people are watching.
So what do you think NBC's gonna do?
Change.
They're getting the best of both worlds.
However, all this criticism is all over the place.
And this guy, Guy Adams, who writes for the independent, went to Twitter and ripped NBC for all this, and he specifically criticized NBC's reliance on tape delay.
And now he doesn't have a Twitter account.
Because he tweeted the public email address of an NBC executive.
And Twitter rules specify that you can't do that.
You can't tweet private information about people.
You can't put their address up there, you can't put their email address, they can't put their phone number up there.
Well, this guy Tweeted the publicly listed web address, email address for the NBC exec.
So somebody, it is theorized, called Twitter from NBC, and Guy Adams had his Twitter account just canceled.
Now, do you remember the name Spike Lee mean anything to you?
Spike Lee tweeted the home address of George Zimmerman.
Turned out to be the incorrect address, but he still did it.
And his Twitter account wasn't canceled.
But Guy Adams' Twitter account was.
But if you happen to be a racist movie director, you think Spike Lee knows ice tea.
You think Spike Lee and Ice T are buddies.
That's a pretty good bet, right?
Spike Lee.
So if you're a racist movie director who tweets the incorrect home address of George Zimmerman, an action that results in death threats.
You get to keep your Twitter account.
If you are a journalist criticizing NBC's Olympics coverage, and you tweet the public email address of an NBC executive, Twitter kills your account.
I wonder if Twitter then calls Obama.
Or calls the authorities.
I wonder if Facebook calls the author.
I wonder if Google calls the athletes.
I wonder if Yahoo calls the authority, because all these people are in the Obama tank.
That's right.
Twitter giveth, Twitter take it away.
I probably lose my Twitter account now.
What do you bet?
By the end of the program, my Twitter account's gone.
We also, the 100th birthday today of Milton Friedman.
It might have been yesterday.
Milton Friedman, some of you in this audience may not know.
Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, a brilliant economist.
He and his wife were a dynamo.
They were dynamic team.
I had the, and he's a he in economics, free market capitalism.
Milton Friedman's a rock star.
Milton Friedman should be the Bible for young people or anybody trying to understand capitalism and free markets.
Back in, I think the year was 1995.
Excuse me.
Back in 1995, interviewed Milton Friedman for an issue of the Limbaugh Letter.
That's still the most widely read political newsletter in the country.
You can subscribe to it.
You go to RushLimbaugh.com and find all the information.
You get a combo subscription to that and rush 24-7 the website.
And Milton Friedman, while being interviewed by me.
Snurdly will remember because Snerdley, this is back in the days when Snerdley hung around to listen to the interviews taking place.
I wish I could remember the exact words, but but Milton Friedman paid me a high compliment simply by had he suggested that it would be very helpful if more people listened to me.
I think that's what it was, wasn't it?
And that, believe me, that made my month, day, even year.
Because Milton Friedman was in a class...
If he wasn't in a class all by himself, it certainly didn't take long to call a role.
And he was just a ended up at the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank out at Stanford.
But he was just from would be a hundred years old today.
And I have a soundbite I want to play for you.
Actually, two sound bites.
One soundbite is two minutes of Milton Friedman schooling Phil Donahue and his audience in greed and capitalism and virtue.
Before that, though, I want to play for you a soundbite of Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm-mm.
Reading the audio version of his book, The Audacity of Hope.
This is Obama talking about a sermon by Reverend Wright that moved him.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port au Prince see in a year.
Where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere.
That's the world on which hope sits.
He was quoting Reverend Wright, and he said, That's for me, man.
That's that that's I love that.
White folks' greed runs a world in need.
So let's go to 1979.
Ancient times for many of you.
We may as well be going back to the Roman Coliseum for this.
1979 was I was 28.
Ancient times for many of you.
Phil Donahue interviewing Milton Friedman, and they had this exchange, and Donahue starts off wanting to know about greed and capitalism.
Here it is, and listen to this.
When you see around the globe the maldistribution of wealth, the desperate plight of millions of people in underdeveloped countries, when you see so few haves and so many have nots, when you see the greed and the concentration of power, did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed's a good idea to run on?
Well, first of all, tell me, is there some society you know that doesn't run on greed?
You think Russia doesn't run on greed?
You think China doesn't run on greed?
What is greed?
Of course, none of us are greedy, it's only the other fellow who's greedy.
The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests.
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat.
Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way, in the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you're talking about.
The only cases in recorded history are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade.
If you want to know where the masses are worst off, it's exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by uh free enterprise.
But it seems to reward not virtue as much as ability to manipulate the system.
And what does reward virtue?
You think the uh communist commissar rewards virtue?
You think a Hitler rewards virtue?
Do you think American presidents reward virtue?
Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
You know, I think you're taking a lot of things for granted.
Just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us.
Well, I don't even trust you to do that.
Milton Friedman back in 1979 schooling Phil Donahue and everybody else who heard that on the notions of virtue and greed, and just basically upsetting Phil's apple cart.
Phil didn't have smart enough to know it was happening.
He's still running around lamenting the accident of birth.
If he'd been 30 miles south, he would have grown up in poverty.
Anyway, we wanted to uh play that for you and recognize Milton Friedman, 100 years old today, and now uh in a testament to Milton Friedman of Free Market Economics, here is our first obscene profit timeout of the day.
This is interesting.
I like this.
I I got an email during the break.
I always check, always check for reaction in the uh in the breaks email.
Somebody said, Well, why did the power fail in India?
You didn't tell us that.
It's a good point.
It is an excellent point.
Our uh official climatologist here at the EIB network, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama At Huntsville points out that one tenth of humanity is now without electricity.
Six hundred and fifty million people in India.
One tenth of humanity.
Why?
Because India decided to reduce the role of coal in electricity production.
They closed some coal mines.
They drank the Kool-Aid on the fact that coal causes global warming, that coal is a polluting thing, that coal is dirty and disgusting and poisonous.
This is what Obama wants to accomplish.
This is what Obama wants.
He wants to put the domestic coal business out of business.
The Indian government went all in on that.
Well, not all in, but close.
And so they reduced the role of coal in electricity production, and they don't have any electricity.
One tenth of humanity without electricity.
There are lessons to learn here.
Did you know that I don't know if you know this or not?
They're a today show.
NBC News is doing man on the street interviews in London.
And they come across this big black guy and they start asking him questions, and he's a great guy.
He's having a great time.
He's a tourist in London.
And they didn't know that it was Evander Holyfield.
They didn't recognize that it was Evander Holyfield.
Gotta wonder who they're hiring at these networks.
These executive producers, these little liberal busybodies behind the scenes.
Folks, let me ask you a quick, did you ever think when you were younger that you would someday be listening to a radio show where you learn more than in all the years prior to your discovery of that radio show?
I just asked that question of Rachel.
Rachel's in for dawn this week.
Dawn's where is Dawn?
What?
Oh, that's right, family reuse.
Dawn's in here.
She's the uh she's the subtran.
And I just asked her how it felt to be learning more now on the other side of the glass than in all previous years of her life.
It's it's amazing.
It really is true.
I know.
They didn't recognize Evander Holyfield.
By the way, headline on the uh in the Boston Globe.
Snerdley, listen to this.
I don't want any calls on this, I just want you to hear this.
The headline in the Boston Globe, Republican hopeful's jockey to fill Barney Frank's seat.
That's an unfortunate headline.
How would you like to be one of the named Republicans in that story?
Jockeying to fill Barney Frank's seat.
Milton Friedman.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years there'll be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman, underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Another Milton Friedman quote.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Boy, isn't that true?
Isn't that that is most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Man, pass another law.
Government comes along, creates program.
Program is an absolute disaster.
Government says that's got to get fixed.
Government says, okay, we'll fix it.
And it compounds itself, one error atop another.
Another Milton Friedman quote.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
I'll say the guy was great.
He was genius.
Lived to be into his 90s.
I think late 80s.
We would have been a hundred years old this week.
You know, yesterday we talked About a new book by a guy named Richard Minater.
This is the book that claims Obama called off the raid to get Osama bin Laden three times at the urging of a woman.
Valerie Jarrett, a White House spokesman, now calling that a fabrication.
But you have to love this.
On the day Newsweek comes out with a with a cover saying that Romney is a wimp, the White House is denying that Obama's whipped.
That whatever the women in the White House tell him to do or not to do is what he does or doesn't do.
And yet they say that Romney is the whim.
Public policy polling, ladies and gentlemen.
Connecticut.
I'll never forget my first trip to Connecticut.
Well, the first trip.
The first real social trip.
I mean, I went to Connecticut to appear on a TV show in New Haven.
Didn't spend any time.
And my first real trip to Connecticut was last 10 years.
Where I was there for three or four days and went out socialized with natives.
People lived there, Republicans, conservatives.
And it was depressing as it could be.
Went to this house, guest of uh husband and wife, and about ten people there.
And their worldview, they're Republicans, they're conservatives living in Connecticut, but all they know is what's in the New York Times.
Well, they listen to this show.
But all they know is what's in the New York Times.
And they're just depressed.
Because whatever's in the New York Times is the truth, as far as they were concerned.
And it was eye-opening and it was frustrating at the same time.
And I finally, you know, I patiently sat there and tried to be reassuring, and I tried to answer all of their fears and concerns.
After a while, I was getting the impression they weren't hearing me because they just kept repeating the same complaints.
The same wines over and over.
This is a three-hour dinner.
And finally I said, would you stop reading the New York Times?
For crying out loud, what in the way?
You are poisoning yourselves.
But they were part of the Great Northeast and the Northeast dominated by the left, of course.
Which makes this interesting.
Public policy polling.
A dyed in the wool, left wing polling outfit out of North Carolina at 11 o'clock Eastern Time this morning, released results of a poll they've been working on in Connecticut.
Romney is up by seven with independence in Connecticut.
47 to 40.
You didn't build that.
You didn't make that happen.
That is still resonating.
There are still people writing columns about it.
There are liberals attempting to justify it.
Now the charge is that if you think negatively of Obama because he said you're a racist, it's gotten under their skin like very little has.
That is a giant puddle that Obama stepped in.
Thank you.
Big time, and it's still resonating.
If Romney is up, seven with independence in Connecticut.
Mr. President, just keep doing what you're doing.
And Mr. Axelrod, just keep doing what you're doing.
Now, Romney is up nationwide in the Rasmussen poll and a couple of others in independence by great number, but Connecticut.
So I think we need more Elizabeth Warren.
Let her beat her Marxist war drums.
Wait, can I say claiming to be an American in war drums?
That could be racist.
I had to dial that back.
But they're going to let her speak at the convention.
She's going to go out there and she's going to go, oh Lord, we oh, folks, oh my God.
Oh, geez, how did I forget?
I meant to mention this in one of the top five stories.
Oh, do you know what?
They have discovered that Obama does have slave blood.
Oh, folks, it is, they are so happy on the left today.
It is they they are actually eating meat, they're so happy.
They are celebrating.
They found slave blood in Obama's genealogical trace.
Oh, yes, they did, Mr. Sniff.
Yes, they did.
But it's on his mother's side.
White woman.
It's not on the side of his father, Barack Hussein Obama, mm-mm.
Senior.
The slave.
Oh, let me find this.
Who is it?
Reuters?
Is it AP?
Yeah, let me see.
What version do I have?
There, so it's uh mine is AP.
Folks, they they are overjoyed.
A team of genealogists has found evidence that Barack Obama could be.
It might be.
It could be.
It is slave blood.
That's right.
The first recorded slave, not just any old slave.
But Obama's slave blood is traceable to the first slave.
Which, after Eve was created, was Adam.
I kid.
Here's the story.
Team of genealogists has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendant of an African slave, but not through the lineage of his black father.
The most likely route that researchers had followed and exhausted.
Oh, yeah, there has been an exhaustive search.
They've been searching DNA, red blood cells, white blood cells, blue blood, red blood, white blood, they've been searching everything.
They they have been they've been tracing markers and uh guardrails, anything they could find.
And they'd exhausted it all.
However, genealogists with Ancestry.com said Monday, yesterday, for those of you in Rio Linda.
In fact, through an examination of his white mother's family history, yes, we were surprised and we were excited to make that connection, said Joseph Shumway, a member of Ancestry.com in Utah.
Obama's father was from Kenya, his mother was from Kansas.
It had been generally assumed that the president had no slave ancestors.
Remember, the Democrats couldn't stop talking about this during the 08 campaign.
It was all about whether or not Obama was authentic.
Remember that?
The real reason the Reverend Sharpton was not in the tank from the get-go was because Biden was out there talking about finally the Democrats had a clean articulate black guy.
And Sharpness, well, I take showers.
What do you mean?
How come Obama's first clean guy?
So he wasn't on board.
And then folks, I'm not making up trying to be funny.
I know it sounds funny.
There was an ongoing debate of Obama's authenticity.
You can't in the Democrat Party be an authentic black unless you can have ancestral traces to the deep south in slavery.
Because you're not down for the struggle otherwise.
If if if you don't have provable, documentable, genealogical trace to slavery, then you are not down for the struggle and questions of well, you yeah, and you have to be marching too.
I mean, that that was qualifier number two in a march.
But I mean a lot of people marched it that were not with slave blood.
But they have to marched.
James Garner marched.
A lot of people who weren't alive then marched.
Just listen to them tell you.
By now everybody, every white liberal marched, every white liberal in Hollywood marched.
But anyway, I'm getting distracted here.
They Couldn't find it, tracing the lineage of Obama's father.
But no one had performed an exhaustive research into the lineage of his white mother.
Who, it turns out, had a mixed race family history.
Ancestry.com now said the maternal line traces back to one of the first documented African slave.
Folks is not just slave blood, it goes back to slave number one.
Slave and they find this in late July during the summer of Obama's re-election campaign.
He's now authentic.
They're breathlessly reporting all of this.
However, folks, quickly I gotta go here.
If you actually read the article that AP writes, you'll see that the researchers say they cannot establish a definitive link because of gaps in the punch family history.
And we're back, Al Rushbo and the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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Let's go.
Speaking of slave blood, uh genealogy, genealogical traces, Obama now.
You know this is really it it boy, it's pathetic.
Here have AP breathlessly reporting that they finally found a trace.
Obama too to slave number one.
Oh, my God, not just slave blood, but I mean all the way back to slave one.
And then later in the story say they can't prove it.
So why do the story?
Why?
What's the importance of the story?
We know everything done is for the prism of helping Obama get re-elected.
What?
How is he assisted in his reelection campaign by having it reported by the AP that he has slave blood?
Are there still people worried about whether or not he's an authentic African American?
Who are these people?
On the left, so preoccupied with all of this surface stuff.
It doesn't mean anything.
Yesterday morning on CBS This Morning, senior White House correspondent Bill Plant reported about new information about Obama's family tree, and they had the Ancestry.com genealogist on air, Joseph Shumway, listened to this report from yesterday.
Barack Obama is related, however distantly, to people as diverse as Warren Buffett, Sarah Palin, Russ Limbaugh, and George W. Bush.
But now the researchers have discovered startling new evidence, a connection in his mother's family tree.
President Obama is the 11th great grandson of John Punch, who was the first documented African to be enslaved for life in the American colonies.
The president's white mother is a direct descendant of the first known slave in the American colonies through a family by the name of Bunch.
In 1640, John Punch, an African, was a servant in Virginia who escaped, was caught, and sentenced to remain in bondage to his master for life.
But no, no, the story says that they have no proof.
If you read the whole story, researchers say they can't establish a definitive link because of gaps in the punch family history.
Did you know that there was a slave one?
I didn't either.
I L. Rushbo, your host.
I have a apparently a genealogical trait.
Let them call me racist, ha.
Here's Bill Plant continuing on the story.
This is yesterday on the CBS This Morning Show.
Punch with a P versus Bunch with a B. Researchers say that's not unusual.
That early record keepers wrote names as they sounded.
Ancestry.com genealogists say the slave John Punch is the only likely person to have been the father of John Bunch.
John Bunch's father was white.
And so was his wife, which means that President Obama descends from the first known black and white couple who left traceable descendants.
Yeah, but see, one of these characters named Punch, the other's name Bunch, and they're assuming it's the same family that people just didn't pronounce it right when they showed up at the Department of Wreckers, Say, hey, I'm here.
I'm the first recorded slave.
Uh mark it down.
Now there you have it.
But you somebody tell me how does this help Obama?
And with who?
I'm serious.
I want to know.
Obviously, AP thinks this is a big assist.
I don't get it.
Okay, folks, so one way of maybe the only way of looking at this is based on the news today, is that Obama's white half is more authentically black than his black half, according to Ancestry.com.
Breathlessly reported by AP.
Okay.
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