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July 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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And we're up to audio soundbite number five, Mr. Broadcast Engineer.
And we're back, folks, broadcast excellence.
Another hour.
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A couple of quotes.
I mentioned the two stories James Taranto found at Wall Street Journal, best of the web today, E.J. Deion Jr. and Drew Weston, these two guys worried about Obama's loss.
And if these two guys are worried, there are a lot more who are.
And it means that they're talking about it.
And they, I think for the first time in four years, are dealing with what for them is something truly shocking.
Obama could lose.
And so in dealing with that, the number one concern is that liberalism not be blamed.
No, no, no, no.
It cannot be seen, reported as an ideological failure.
It can't be that socialism screwed up the country.
It can't be that liberalism screwed up the country.
So a pull quote from the Drew Weston piece.
Whether or not, well, this is Taranto writing about it.
Whether or not Drew Weston's 2,450-word story titled, If Obama Loses the Election, Here's Why, whether or not that's plausible, he has a political reason for telling it.
This may be the most important election ever, but it's not the end of history.
If Obama loses, it will matter whether the loss is seen as an ideological repudiation.
Weston aims to save leftism from Obama.
They're not going to be able to do that.
I mean, they're going to try, of course, but Obama is leftism.
If Obama loses, socialism will have lost.
Liberalism will have lost.
And Obama will have lost.
There are going to be a whole bunch of things tied into this and rolling together.
E.J. Deion Jr. fears a mandate for conservatism if Obama loses.
He fears that people, oh my God, people have voted for conservatism.
The same fear they had when the Republicans took control of the House in 1994.
The conservatives made that mistake of assuming that that's what it meant, and they stopped teaching.
They assumed the country had overnight become conservative, which it had not.
It simply didn't like Democrats and the corruption and 40 years of monolithic control.
I'm sorry, where Weston fears a repudiation of left liberalism, Deion Jr. fears a mandate for conservatism.
Either way, it is in the interest of the left to find a way to pin a prospective Obama loss on non-ideological factors, either impersonal ones like economic discontent or personal shortcomings of Obama's.
If Obama loses, even if he wins, unless the economy finally takes off in his second term, the left will have to work to distance itself from his legacy, as Drew Weston is already doing.
No wonder Stephanie Cutter is down in the dumps, writes James Taranto.
Look, folks, you know, and I know that if Obama loses, the first thing they're going to do is blame it on racism.
And then the next they're going to blame it on is racism.
And then the third thing that they will blame Obama's defeat on is racism.
And then the fourth thing they'll blame it on is racists.
And then the fifth thing, they'll blame Obama's loss on his racism.
And then the sixth thing that they will cite is the reason for Obama's defeat is racists.
And then the seventh thing they'll cite is that people were not swayed by the AP story that Obama had authentic slave blood.
Therefore, the people were racist.
You know it, and I know it.
Taranto writes, the Obama campaign has been overconfident and complacent for sure.
If you need a reminder, read the second item in our May 7th column and Mark Halperin's Time.com piece of the same day.
If the Obama campaign has now come to terms with the reality that victory isn't in the bag and adjusted its strategy and tactics accordingly, that can only be good for the president's prospects.
But it's an odd thing to advertise.
What, after all, is the emotional payoff of making a minuscule donation to a political campaign?
Surely not the illusion that one is making the difference between victory and defeat, but rather the idea that one owns a piece of victory by virtue of having invested in it.
This is all the $3 donations and how they're running around and trying to get as many people involved here and invested in Obama's victory as possible.
Now, audio soundbites, Mitt Romney, ad that ran yesterday on the Super PAC Restore Our Future website, a new ad entitled Olympics.
We've got the ad, and in the ad, gold medal figure skater Christy Yamaguchi, the 2002 Olympic Games chief operating officer Fraser Bullock, gold medal skeleton racer Jimmy Shea, speed skater Derek Parra, and an unidentified announcer.
This is the ad that pretty good.
As an athlete, you're training your whole life for that one moment at the Olympics.
But America's Winter Olympics were mired in scandal and deficits.
They turned to Mitt Romney.
He faced a $400 million budget deficit and turned that around to $100 million surplus.
And after September 11th, Romney delivered the Olympics safe and secure.
Mitt gets things done.
He changed my life.
Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope.
That's an ad that is pretty effective.
It's running during the Olympics.
It's got the Obama people all ticked off.
The only linkage Obama has to the Olympics is losing them for Chicago.
You remember?
Shortly after he was immediate, he triumphantly, after he'd been given the Nobel Peace Prize on the come, never before had they given a peace prize and somebody hadn't done it.
Well, that's not true.
Practically every recent winner hasn't done anything for peace, but they gave it to Obama.
He'd been in office a month or so.
He gets on a plane.
He goes over to wherever it was.
I don't know, Geneva, wherever the IOC was meeting to award the Olympics.
And it was just assumed Obama's going to show up.
Oh, man, automatic, Chicago.
He was out of there in five minutes.
Chicago didn't get it.
I think Rio de Janeiro did.
The IOC said crime is the same in both places, so where would we rather go?
And they decided they'd go to South America.
Anyway, the latest piece from the left on Obama's, you didn't build that.
You didn't make that happen.
You had nothing to do with your success.
Who do you think you are?
The roads and the bridges.
That's too successful.
The roads and the bridges did it.
You didn't do that.
The latest entry is from a guy named Jonathan Chait.
Jonathan Chait, I think he writes for New York magazine.
It's either New York or the New Yorker or I forget which.
Yeah, Jonathan Chait, you may remember, is a guy who in I forget which Bush term it was, but he wrote a piece that was titled, Why I Hate George W. Bush.
And it was celebrated.
It was welcomed.
You know, the left always talks we need to have more civility in our political discourse.
We need to be polite.
We need to be respectful.
And here comes Chait writing this piece, Why I Hate Bush.
And it was applauded and celebrated.
Jonathan Chait says that Obama's You Didn't Bill It speech revived racial resentments about redistributive fiscal policy, partly because the president was speaking in a black dialect.
Could we grab audio soundbite number three?
Here is President Obama, July 13th in Roanoke, Virginia, with the famous, you didn't build it.
And I want all of you to listen to this and tell me if you think Obama by a cookie, if you can, I don't know this, I should have thought of this two hours ago.
She's not going to have enough time to do this.
See if you can find Obama speaking in Silm during the campaign of 2008.
Went down there with Hillary and everybody trying to demo that he was down for the struggle.
Now, everybody knows he had nothing to do with Silm, but he tried to go down there and make it look like his roots were in Silm.
And I think he said that his father, Barack Obama, had told him that if it weren't for what had happened in Silm, that nothing would have happened for him.
Some such thing.
Maybe we can find.
I know we've got it archived.
This is a matter of getting it prepped.
But I want you to listen to this.
I want you to tell me if you think that Obama is speaking here in a black dialect.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own.
I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we had that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
The internet didn't get invented on its own.
Government research created the internet.
So then all the companies could make money off the internet.
Is there a black dialect in there?
You don't think so because of what?
Yeah, you understood it.
What black dialect was.
Snerdley, you have 100% slave blood.
Was there, whoa, not a black dialect.
What did you say about, it was racist for me to put, oh, all.
Oh, it's racist to say that it's racist to say that it couldn't have been black dialect because you could understand it.
It's racist.
I didn't say that.
I got.
No, it wasn't me.
I've got somebody shouting that in my ear, and I repeated it.
And Snerdley is refuting it.
I'm just, all I'm interested in, is that a black dialect.
All right, it's not a black dialect.
Fine.
Jonathan Chait says the president's you didn't build it speech revived racial resentments about redistributive policy, partly because the president was speaking in a black dialect.
Now, maybe this was a problem with the speech, but the key problem is much simpler.
The president was needlessly insulting.
He wasn't just calling on successful people to pay more in tax.
He was being dismissive of their accomplishments.
This is a piece by Josh Barrow, by the way, at Bloomberg.
I mean, he's right here.
The whole thing was insulting.
And it was filled with resentment, Obama resentment.
Hardworking.
A lot of hardworking people out there.
And they got nothing but the shaft.
And a lot of smart people out there.
And they got nothing but the shaft of this country.
You're smart.
And what Obama's doing, he's setting everybody up who agrees with him to accept the idea that he's got to go get all the money that the rich have because it's not theirs.
It's the members of the audience.
It's the middle class's money.
They built all the stuff and made it possible for the rich guy to get rich.
And Elizabeth Warren's out there saying the same thing.
Obama was trying to whip up resentment in a predominantly black audience in Roanoke.
That's what he was trying to do.
This notion that smart has smart or you worked harder than everybody else.
A whole lot of smart working, hardworking people out there, a lot of smart people out there.
So what's ironic about it?
Here's Obama upset, apparently, by people who take credit for their own success.
Yet doesn't he do the same thing?
Isn't he I, me, my throughout every speech he makes?
I got been luck.
And I did this or I did, I did whatever.
But Mr. Barrow here has it, Naley was right.
He was insulting.
Now, Mr. Barrow has done something interesting.
He went back to the second season of West Wing.
That's the TV show written by Aaron Sorkin.
And he remembered a scene in West Wing.
Speechwriter Sam Seaborn, played by Rob Lowe, explains to the staff of some liberal House members why he will not insert a line in President Bartlett's upcoming speech.
They want, in this TV show, they want the president to attack Republican tax cut proposals as financing private jets and swimming pools for the wealthy.
And the speech writer for the president, Sam Seaborn, Rob Lowe, says, Henry, last fall, every time your boss got on the stump and said it's time for the rich to pay their fair share, I hid under a couch and I changed my name.
I left Gage Whitney making $400,000 a year, which means that I paid 27 times the national average in income tax.
I paid my fair share, Henry, and the fair share of 26 other people.
And I'm happy to because that's the only way it's going to work.
And it's in my best interest that everybody be able to go to schools and drive on roads.
But I don't get 27 votes on election day.
The fire department doesn't come to my house 27 times faster.
And the water doesn't come out of my faucet 27 times hotter.
The top 1% of wage earners in this country pay for nearly 22% of this country.
Let's not call them names while they're doing it.
That's all I'm saying.
That was a script.
That's from the West Wing.
Aaron Sorkin attacking this whole notion that the rich aren't paying their fair share in that show, even.
Let me take a timeout here.
We'll come back.
We'll continue this before you know it.
Okay, Mike, grab soundbite number four.
We'll just play a brief excerpt from Obama in Roanoke, Virginia.
And then we're going to go back to 2007 with Obama at Selma.
Here we go.
This is July 13th in Roanoke, Virginia.
If you've got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
All right, that's this year, mere weeks ago.
Now let's go back March 4th, 2007, at a breakfast before the big speech in Selma, Barack Obama.
This is the site of my conception.
I am the fruits of your labor.
I am the offspring of the movement.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
Now, that was the black dialect.
It's almost as embarrassing as Hillary.
I ain't no way tired.
Remember that?
I ain't no way.
And by the way, Harry Reed has often talked about Obama's ability to slip into black dialect and then sound clean and pure.
And Obama, it's Harry, it's just a gift.
I am the offspring of the movement.
That's how Malik Shabbat says it.
Of the movement.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
Here is Obama at the church now assuring the congregation that he's black enough.
It's March 4th, 2007 in Selma.
My grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya.
Grew up in a small village.
And all his life, that's all he was, was a cook and a houseboy.
And that's what they called him even when he was 60 years old.
They called him a houseboy.
Wouldn't call him by his last name.
Sound familiar.
So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama.
Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.
I'm here because somebody marched for all free.
I'm here because y'all sacrificed for me.
I stand on the shoulders of Jack.
Right on.
So that was Obama in Selma.
Well, that's how the Reverend Sharpton says it.
In Selma.
That's the black dialect.
Not so much in the second bite, but in the first bite.
So when people ask me whether I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home.
Roanoke does not sound like that.
That's the point.
There was no black dialect in Roanoke, like Jonathan Shait says.
So his whole premise that people were reacting to Obama in a racist way because he wanted to redistribute as a black guy, it's all out the window.
It's irrelevant.
We got a lot to do this half hour.
I got some good calls waiting, and I've got some audio soundbites.
Let's just get started.
For the fun of it, let's go back to Selma.
March 4th, 2007, here's Hillary and the black dialect.
Let us say with one voice the words of James Cleveland's great freedom hymn.
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
Yeah.
So who pulled it off better, do you think?
Hillary or Obama?
I ain't no way.
She blew it untired.
I ain't no way tired.
No.
It's I ain't no way tired.
She didn't, she just wasn't able to pull it off.
She tried.
She tried.
I come too home from where I started.
Man, that's screeching.
understand why can you imagine I can't I can't win saying this.
Never mind.
Nancy in Akron, Ohio, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. Lembaugh to talk to you today.
Thank you.
I'm calling in regards to the DNA propaganda, so to speak.
Oh, the slave blood linkage to our president.
Yes, I am a genological researcher, and I have eight.
I am administrator and or co-administrator of eight DNA projects at Family Tree DNA in Houston, Texas.
And I would suggest that to put this to rest, Mr. or President Obama needs to do a family finder test at Family Tree DNA, which is nothing more than a cheek rubbing, and that would tell us the percentage of African-American that he is and the percentage of European slash Caucasian that he is or any other race that would come in.
They're not going to do that.
They're going to leave it to the AP to make the linkage, which they've...
Well, the first thing is that you must have a paper trail, and the paper trail...
Wait a minute now.
Who are we talking about here?
He has to have a paper trail.
No, no, no, no.
That ain't going to happen.
Someone needs to do it.
If you're going to believe what they're saying, he has to have a paper trail, and then the DNA will just be on the cake.
Are you telling DNA will show slave blood?
DNA will show African-American blood.
It will not show slave blood.
But the African-American would have to come in through his female line.
I mean, the slave blood would have to come in through his female line.
And the female, this particular test takes the mother and the father of him, him being the fifth generation, goes back four more generations.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Why does it have to come in through the female line?
I thought that his father was from Africa.
Yeah, that he is.
Okay, you're oh, okay, so you're talking about specifically in this case, the slave trace would have to be from his mom because his father is not from here.
Okay, okay.
Correct.
I thought it was some genealogical requirement.
No, that would be the only way to ascertain if he has African-American blood on his mother's side.
Is African-American DNA different from African DNA?
No.
It's the same.
It's the same.
It's the E haplogroup.
And I don't.
Oh, man, you are rocking a lot of people's worlds here today.
So it is E, meaning African-American.
It's J if it's Jewish.
It's C if it's Native American.
Yeah, but what if it's just African?
It's the same.
Because we didn't have African-American people here until they brought them from Africa.
Okay.
That's good enough for me.
We'll just have to tell AP about this because they're still trying to establish the link.
Pay portrail is not that a good fly, though.
Big problem.
Don't you think, like the story?
If slave number one actually had 450 acres of tobacco in Virginia, don't you think we'd know about that?
And it complicates the talk of reparations, but I don't want to go there.
Nancy, thanks very much for the call.
Atascadero, California.
It's Madeline.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, thank you.
During the opening monologue, I heard some misinformation coming from the press where they are reporting that Romney made a racially insensitive gaffe when he compared the Israeli culture versus the Palestinian culture.
And that is not true.
I know.
He was making a comparison of cultures in general.
I recognized the misquote immediately because I read his book where he compares culture, education, politics, history, and he shows how they all affect the economy and the wealth of a nation and where they are on the world stage and what their power is on the world stage.
He was just talking about culture in general, and he analyzes it very.
You're exactly right.
And everybody knows this, but this is you have you have you serve here as the perfect transition to the soundbites that I spoke about.
Because this is all about what the press is intending to do to Romney.
This is a really good foreign trip of his, and they're panicked by that, and they're trying to turn it into one gaffe after another.
By the way, folks, I must apologize here.
There's something that this Obama slave story, down for the struggle, slave blood, I have neglected to mention in this whole program, and that is that Bill Clinton was the first black president.
AP didn't go there, but still, I mean, Bill Clinton, and that was said by Tony Morrison, and they say that Obama is the first gay president because he's so supportive of gay marriage and so forth.
Which means that Obama, I mean, Instead of going to film, Obama ought to be going wherever Barney Frank goes to establish cred.
I mean, this is all about trying to establish credibility.
I'm trying to help out here.
They're doing it the wrong way because the black president thing is already done.
Anyway, I want to take you back February 1st this year, me on this program.
Anybody who thinks that we can nominate somebody who is not going to be the focus of a media destruction campaign is asinine.
Whoever we nominate is who the campaign is going to be about.
It's not going to be about Obama.
The media can't let it be about Obama.
It's about Obama.
He's sunk.
It's going to have to be about what a reprobate, racist, sexist, mean-spirited, heartless creep the Republican is.
And it don't care who the nominee is.
It's going to be about that.
And they're setting up Romney as Romney's going to be Mr. Pennybag's money back on the Monopoly Game Board.
That's who they're setting him up to be.
So I agree with you.
Didn't come around and say only so-and-so is electable.
I don't.
You know, that's something that they try to intimidate everybody into silence by saying.
Yeah, this is back during the primaries.
Well, we got all our Romney's the only guy that's electable.
I'm trying to tell the establishment, you can't nominate somebody safe.
You can't nominate somebody they're not going to go out and try to destroy.
So let's move forward.
We have a montage.
Romney told the truth.
And here is a left-wing media montage trying to set it up as a gaffe.
A new diplomatic dust up.
Mitt Romney in the Middle East says culture makes Israelis economically superior to Palestinians.
The day began in Israel with another diplomatic misstep that forced the Romney campaign on the defensive.
Another overseas controversy in a trip with missteps already.
One Palestinian leader later called racist.
The Palestinians denounce the remark as racist.
He's making this kind of what the Palestinians call racist kind of statements.
This is perhaps more upsetting, especially to the Palestinian leadership than the comment about Jerusalem.
Jews do a lot better because of their culture and the Palestinians economically do not, I thought was an unbelievably outrageous thing.
What's outrageous about?
It's demonstrable.
Go to Jerusalem, go to Gaza.
What is so hard to believe about this?
There are profound economic differences, and Romney's right.
It is cultural.
I'll give you another example.
Jonathan Chait.
Jonathan Chait's other point was Obama's, you didn't build it.
He says that that's working, meaning it's a problem for Obama, because Republicans fear that Obama is redistributing wealth from job creators to shiftless food stamp users.
Well, isn't he?
It's not a fear.
It's a reality.
Check the number of new food stamp users since Obama was emaculated.
And where's he getting the money?
It's not a fear.
It's happening.
Now, this business about, you know, there are cultural differences that lead to economic philosophical differences.
How many people in this country are saying, you know what?
We need to do what the Palestinians are doing to fix our problems.
How many people are saying that?
Nobody is saying that.
What this is, is politically incorrect.
The greatest casualty in American politics today is truth.
The one thing that is at the greatest risk in our politics today is the truth because of political correctness.
She, the caller, provided a perfect transition into this.
And the press is doing everything they can to take Romney off his game.
In Poland, they're shouting questions at him during a solemn moment at the Polish Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
We got some bites on that, plus more phone calls, but I have to take another obscene profit timeout.
Livermore, California.
Hi, Ray.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
It's great to have you, Rush, and your brother.
You guys are a national treasure.
I just wanted to compliment you, Rush, and tell you, when I started listening to you, the left just flat-out ignored you and pretended you weren't there.
Then when they couldn't pretend that anymore, they mocked you.
Then they called you a disc jockey or an entertainer with an opinion.
And then I don't know what happened if there was a road or a bridge built outside of your studio, but you are no longer an entertainer, Rush.
You're the de facto leader of the Republican Party.
The titular head.
Yes, and you're operating the Romney campaign also.
You are one amazing fellow.
And I must say, you must have some fantastic roads and bridges there in Florida because I don't know what else can it be, Rush.
I think it's a great point.
I live on a road.
I drive on a road to get here, and I'm real close to a bridge, real close to bridges.
Well, I've been running a business for about 20 years, and I have a road in front of my business, but I don't have a bridge.
I was wondering, who do I contact in the Obama administration to get myself a bridge so my business can be more successful?
Well, it's a great point.
Maybe the fastest thing could be to do to move somewhere where there's a bridge, much faster than to have one built.
But, you know, you're very kind.
Obviously, you've been listening to this program a long time.
And it sounds like you take personally all this mindless criticism of me.
Well, Rush, you know, it was supposed to be directed at Romney, but he didn't realize how badly he did it when he directed it at the people who are responsible for the most job growth in the entire nation through small business owners who bust their bus every day to try to make this thing happen.
And not because we're told to by any government agency.
Exactly right.
Because you're following your passions.
And whatever obstacles are put in your way, you try to find a way around them or over them or whatever.
Ray, I'm really glad you called.
I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
I am, folks.
I mean, he's right.
I am the titular head of the Republican Party.
Always breastfeeding the rest of everybody out.
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