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Aug. 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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It's August 1st, and we are starting our 24th year behind the golden EIB microphone.
24 year anniversary today.
And first hour, we did some reminiscing, but now folks it's time to move forward with the issues of the day.
Eight female badminton players were disqualified from the Olympics today for trying to lose matches the day before.
This is according to the badminton World Federation.
I made this announcement after a disciplinary hearing, and now the world wonders whether or not the sport of badminton will ever recover.
From such an outrageous controversy.
The players are from China, South Korea, and Indonesia.
They were accused of playing to lose in order to face easier opponents in the future.
They were booed by spectators.
They were warned by badminton officials on Tuesday night.
All four pairs of players were charged with not doing their best to win a match and abusing or demeaning the sport.
And again, the question must be asked, can badminton survive.
What about the rule?
You have a tournament set up so that it's to a team's advantage to lose.
What did they expect would happen?
This is a politically correct world.
You know they could have gotten out of this if they said we weren't trying to lose.
We were trying to make it fair.
We were facing vastly inferior competition, and we didn't feel it would have been fair to just smack them.
So we dialed it back, give the fans a better show, and to give these people a chance to win.
If they'd have said that, it would have been tough to penalize them.
But they didn't think of it because they are competitors.
Today is also the day that free contraceptives must be distributed by people that don't agree to it.
Part of Obamacare, that aspect, the religious consideration out the window now.
Whether you believe in fact, if you expressly do not believe in abortion, you still must make it possible.
For members of your organization or employees or parishioners, or what have you.
Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat from Iowa.
Today, this is a story from Cybercast News Service, justified what the Catholic bishops of the U.S. have unanimously called an unjust and illegal mandate that forces Catholic business owners to provide coverage for free sterilizations, free contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs.
Harkin said some women need birth control pills to deal with the cramps.
He did, I'm the making it up.
Tom Harkin said some women need birth control pills to deal with menstrual cramps.
Okay.
So Don's saying, well, that's true, they do help.
Okay, so we're all supposed to pay for this now.
We're supposed to pay for women's cramps.
As of today, yes.
And that's the justification for it.
To hell with abortion.
Women have cramps out There for and by the way.
Harkin doesn't say it, but you know what he's implying here.
You don't want to be around when this is happening.
And if a little pill over here can bring some peace to your life, what the hell?
Gut it up.
A lot of people will find it a compelling argument.
I get terrible headaches when I hear Tom Harkin speak.
Maybe he should buy me my aspirin.
Harkin said there are many women out there take birth control pills because they have terrible menstrual cramps once a month.
Some of them almost incapacitated.
They can't work.
I know of young women myself who, because of this, aren't able to work and be productive, and it's prescribed by their doctor.
And for that reason alone, everybody should be forced to pay for it.
Barack Obama donating to himself, ladies and gentlemen.
From the politico in an email to supporters this morning, you know what a lot of people are noticing?
There are constant email appeals from Obama to his supporters for money.
And these emails are getting more desperate.
They are occurring much more frequently.
And even Obama's supporters are getting nervous every day.
There's a new appeal.
And some of them are really weird, like forego your wedding gifts and ask your guests to instead send the equivalent money to Obama.
That was real.
It didn't work.
So in an email to supporters this morning, Obama said that he had given to his own re-election campaign for the first time as a symbolic gesture.
Folks, he even made a video of his donating to his campaign.
And of course, of course, this is unprecedented.
It's historic like everything else Obama does.
We ought to bet this is the first time Obama's ever put money where his mouth is, his own money.
On its own, what I gave won't be enough to surmount the unprecedented fundraising we've seen on the other side, both from our opponent's campaign and from the outside groups and special interest supporting him, and says here in Obama's email, but we have always believed that there's nothing we can't do when we all pitch in, and that includes me.
So he's whining here about how much the Republicans are raising.
Now, in the story, the Politico could not bring themselves to mention how much Obama gave to himself.
Instead, what they say here is that while there are no limits on a candidate donating to his or her own campaign, Obama's donation is the federal maximum that an individual can give to a campaign.
You know how much he gave to himself?
$5,000.
His wife wore a $7,000 jacket.
To a meeting with uh Kate, the Duchess or whatever of Cambridge, the new wife over there, meeting with the Royal, she wore a $7,000 jacket.
Obama is giving himself $5,000.
You didn't build that.
You didn't, you didn't you you didn't make that happen.
There's a new poll out.
CBS, New York Times, Quinnipiac, University, CBS and the New York Times are using a new pollster.
And folks, they are having an orgasm over this poll out there today.
It's a poll of battleground states.
And of course, the end result shows Obama way up in all these battleground states.
It's exciting.
They can't wait to tell everybody about it.
Except there's a problem.
They do not break down the sample in the story.
New York Times nor CBS let the reader know the partisan identification of the participants in the poll.
Now it is likely voters.
Another reason they're so happy.
But it has been learned.
There were people that dug deep and found out the sample.
The CBS New York Times sample has Democrats plus nine in the sample in Florida.
That is not how the turnout was in the 2010 midterms, and it's not how the turnout was in 2008.
So nobody can figure out well, why give the Democrats a nine percentage point advantage in the sample.
2008, the Democrats were plus three in actual turnout.
And in the 2010 midterms, it was even split.
There's not an election, a recent election that shows the Democrats winning by nine points or turning out by nine percentage points greater than Republicans, and yet this poll assigns the Democrats a nine-point advantage in Florida.
In Ohio.
The Ohio sample has exactly the split in 2008, which is Democrat plus eight, which is nine points better than the Democrats did in the midterms.
Folks, they're lying to themselves.
They're putting together a vote sample.
Pennsylvania the same thing.
They are giving themselves greater numbers.
They're asking many more Democrats than Republicans, is what this means in this poll, who they plan on voting for.
They're asking Democrats in greater numbers that have not been reflected in the in the past two elections.
Now you couple this with the fact that everybody knows that Republican voter enthusiasm on any poll you look at is sky high.
Democrat voter enthusiasm is way down.
There's no way, for example, in Florida that 9% more Democrats are going to turn out and vote than Republicans in November.
Ditto, Ohio, and Ditto, Pennsylvania.
The only way you can believe this poll, and by you're going to be seeing it because it's all over the place, and they're ecstatic with it.
They think this is the poll that has it locked up now.
Shows Obama everything he's doing is working, so it's good they're lying to themselves.
But but these polls would only mean something if you believe that the Democrats are going to show up much more in greater numbers than Republicans in any state, but in these three, Florida, Ohio, and uh and Pennsylvania.
Truth of the matter is that Romney's in good shape in all three of these states.
These states are still toss-up.
There's no way they've gone for Obama yet.
And I I I don't, you know, Ohio, it's always a toss-up.
But and and Pennsylvania's Florida, there's no way.
That's just it's they're but if they're lying to themselves, and in a way that's good.
And that's what they do.
They lie to themselves about all kinds of things all the time.
And the more they lie to themselves, the more confident they're going to be when they have really no grounds for I mean, Romney, if you look at this poll is such that Romney may as well just quit.
He may as well just give up.
Every one of these states, every one of these swing, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, they all have bad economies.
Why would anybody believe that Obama would be more popular in those states?
Those states' economies are in the tank.
There's no common sense reason why Obama would be up by the numbers he's up in this poll in these states.
Don't doubt me.
Be right back, folks, as we move on after this.
Okay.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushboat, talent on loan from God.
We have the audio of the new ad of Obama donating to himself.
You know, it sounds vaguely obscene.
Obama donating to himself.
He's sitting at a dinky little desk.
He's using a dinky little lack laptop.
He's whining about all the money that Romney is raising.
And he's well, I'm trying to set the video stage here for you.
He's pretending to type in credit card information and donate to his own campaign, which he says he cleared with Michelle.
He's trying to show his idiot base how to do it.
He said, Michelle gave him permission to do this, and then they dare call Romney a wimp.
Here's how it goes.
I'm not just talking the talk, I'm walking the walk.
Let's see.
Address.
We depend on $5, $10, $25 donations.
You know, we don't uh get some of the massive checks that the other side does.
Clear this with Michelle.
I want everybody to know.
This is all pretty uh pretty convenient.
What the hell?
Lawyer.
United States of America.
And my occupation is president.
If you can, now's the time to do it.
And the earlier you do it, the better off it is.
I would like to save my payment information.
That's that we're talking about the president of the United States here.
Syria is about to fall apart or blow up.
You really know that talking about getting weapons of mass destruction out of Iraq.
Have you heard this?
They got to get WMD, some of Saddam's chemical weapons.
I didn't think they're worried.
You got to get them out of there now because what's happening in Syria.
And some of them are in Syria.
And McCain's running around talking about that.
It's it's the twilight zone.
And here's this guy sitting down his dinky little desk with his dinky little laptop, actually typing in a donation to himself, and telling us that he has cleared this with Michelle.
It's only $5,000, and she said no more than that.
Only $5,000.
And Romney's a wimp on the cover of Newsweek.
This is he's up nine in uh in Florida with this kind of clap trap.
Okay, back to the phones.
Raleigh, North Carolina.
This is Jay.
Thanks for the call, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thanks for having me on, Rush.
You bet.
Hey, just want to touch base with you in regards to what I saw.
I went to a Chick-fil-A in Raleigh, North Carolina today.
It took me 20 minutes just to even get my order placed.
It was packed full of exciting people and and uh a lot of people there, just excited to be there.
I've been through that Chick-fil-A a lot.
I've never seen it so crowded.
Let me tell you something.
I am being bombarded with email from my website account, the Rush 24-7 member email, with stories just like the one you're telling from all over this country about how crowded the Chick-fil-A's are, about how long the lines are.
I just got an email.
Get this.
Jay, I just got an email from a guy who said where he lives, that on the sign at the neighboring Wendy's, it says today go to Chick-fil-A.
I don't know where this is, but I bet it's not the only example of it.
A local Wendy's is telling us today we think you should go to Chick-fil-A or something like that.
Um it's happening all over.
It's it's it and it's political.
Rom Emanuel and Thomas Manino, mayors of Chicago and Boston, made this political.
And now the people of this country, this, I'm gonna tell you, you're looking at a microcosm of what's going to happen on November 6th, or whatever the date is.
You're looking at a microcosm of the Tea Party, you are seeing that great silent majority or the sleeping giant that our first caller talked about.
Everywhere.
People, you know, we have these commercials we've been doing for Freedom Works.
The people want to do more than vote.
They want to get involved.
They somehow they want to let everybody know how they feel and when what numbers they exist, and this is the latest opportunity they've got, and they are utilizing it.
I literally emails out the wazoo Today, talking about quarter mile.
My cousin Andy in St. Louis sent me a picture of the uh of a Chick-fil-A in in De Peir outside St. Louis of uh jam parking lots, traffic jams, people wait.
Other stories about Chick-fil-A someplace ran out of breakfast at nine o'clock and immediately started serving lunch.
Now, meanwhile, Chicago, you got the mayor there, Ron Emanuel talking about well, they don't represent Chicago values.
And a guy in Boston essentially saying the same thing.
And I tell you what, and then Ted Cruz, who was supposedly down by 13 points, coming back and winning huge Tea Party candidate in Texas last night, sending a message of generational change to the Republican establishment.
Big Tea Party candidate, Sarah Palin endorsed.
There is uh uh an explosion like waiting to happen in this country.
People are fed up, and this is a sign.
I tell you what's gonna happen on November 6th.
Obama's gonna get Chick-fil-A it himself.
That's he's gonna get Chick-fil-A'd, and we got a Chick-fil-A, and folks, pictures continue to come in, and I'm asking myself, where are the uh the news media satellite trucks today?
Where are all the man on the street news reports of this?
I wonder if your local news will cover this tonight at 5 and 11, amidst all the murders and blood and everything else they cover.
Government corruption.
Oh, wait, they don't talk about never mind.
But I'm just wondering.
Where are I mean, this is a major, major event.
Um the owner of the largest Wendy's restaurants franchise in the world showed his support for Chick-fil-A with a message on some of the signs at Wendy's in the Carolinas.
One sign in Columbia, South Carolina said a Wendy sign says we stand with Chick-fil-A.
There's another one, I don't know where it is.
I wasn't told where it is.
It's the uh that's uh uh today we recommend Chick-fil-A.
Wendy's.
I don't know where it is, didn't say.
Uh well, I tell you, it it's it is huge, and it's fascinating.
It's as it's a giant, in a way, a tea party rally, and it's not being reported.
It's it's as if a million and a half people showed up on the mall for a tea party gathering and the media not in the park service is 10,000 and never showed me pictures of it.
Steve in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, it's great uh to be on Rush.
Um in Fort Wayne, they are covering the uh uh the um uh Chick-fil-A.
The local media.
Yeah, the local media is.
So that's pretty cool.
Well, I'm told that our affiliate in Kansas City, KMBZ, is also doing the same thing on radio.
I think that's great.
Hey, I wanted to say something about the badminton.
Uh I was having my breakfast this morning and was was watching it and they were they were just acting uh you know, terribly offended that uh they used this strategy of uh you know trying to play easier upon the code.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, who was acting uh uh terribly offended?
The um the commentators.
The commentators on MBC?
Yeah, yeah.
And I wanted to know what's the difference between these what these athletes did with Badminton and what the Olympic Federation did to Jordan Wiber, who wasn't allowed to compete, even though she was good, even though she was better than many of those who got to go to the it's an interesting thing.
That's political correctness.
Let me see if I understand this right now.
You you tell me if I have this right.
Okay.
She was denied the to uh participate in the all-round final, right?
Yeah, the individual, all around.
Individual all-round final, because each team can only have two members from that team.
Exactly.
And she is better than 99% of all the competitors all over the world, but she's third on the U.S. team in terms of scores.
Yeah.
And and if you read the rule, it basically is just socialism.
It says we want to spread uh uh we want to spread uh people being seen on TV and that kind of thing around.
And what I find so interesting about the badminton controversy is the only difference is the athletes took it um in in their own power.
Well, but they were still done from the top, it was done from the grassroots, and that's exactly why people are mad with the Tea Party and Cruz and everything today.
It's so simple.
As you say, they were all they were trying to do was follow the spirit of the rule.
Exactly.
Here we have in the Olympics, political correctness is all these.
It's like the um the All-Star game in baseball.
There is a requirement that everybody play.
And a lot of people don't like it because it takes away the competitive advantage and uh people that uh uh fans who do want to see certain people play have to get pulled out of a game.
Baseball, you can't go back in once you've been pulled out.
Um, but that's that's not really competition.
The only thing on the line there is uh who gets home field in the World Series, which is no big deal.
The uh this this is a silly rule.
It's it's on par with uh what we first heard about uh high school teams, junior high school football teams being penalized at the start of a game, a couple touchdowns, if they were that much better than another team.
So here these badminton people look.
Uh we're we're gonna play down to the level of our competition so that we can have an easier time of winning this thing down the road.
The rules are the rules, and they simply uh tried to be politically correct in their own way.
That's a good analogy that you have.
Hey, thank you very much.
Enjoy the show.
I appreciate it.
Thanks, uh uh Steve.
James Carville.
You remember Brian Ross and uh George Stephanopoulos tried to tie the Tea Party to the mass murderer in Aurora, Colorado.
Brian Ross.
First thing out of his mouth.
George, we got big news here.
Uh there's a there's a Tea Party member with the same name.
Really?
That could be big, Brian.
Yeah, George, it could be really big.
Uh we're not sure, we don't know for sure, but it could be, George, that the mass murderer at the night rises is a member of the Tea Party.
The Daily Beast had a headline back in February.
Tea Party is dead.
How the movement fizzled in the 2012 Republican primaries.
And then there was James Carville.
The Tea Party, a Tea Party is over.
Liberal political consultant James Carville sent a fundraising email to supporters of upstate New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter entitled The Tea Party Is Over.
These Tea Party Republicans, they've worn out their welcome, and I'm telling you, getting rid of them won't be easy.
They're not leaving on their own.
We're going to have to boot them out the door like unwanted house guests, Carville said.
They have wanted you to believe the Tea Party is finished ever since the 2010 midterms.
And the reason that they thought they could get away with it was the Tea Party started as a protest movement, and then it matured and grew, and the Tea Party has become one of the largest grassroots political organizations, and it is an organization that this country has seen in a long time.
And candidate after candidate after candidate are winning nomination races and then winning elections.
Ted Cruz, Tea Party candidate, won the Republican runoff for the Texas seat of Kay Bailey Hutchison yesterday.
And listen to how Politico reports this.
This is the politico reporting on Ted Cruz's stunning victory over David Dewhurst.
Note the violent language here.
The storm-the-gates conservative movement that keeps finding ways to stick it to the establishment did it again.
Tuesday night in Texas.
This time propelling the insurgent campaign of an Ivy League educated son of a Cuban immigrant, Ted Cruz, to perhaps its most impressive victory yet.
Throughout this story, the language is violent.
the Storm the Gates movement that keeps finding ways to stick it to the establishment.
You'll note the media never talks that way about the violent Occupy Wall Street crowd.
The political also never manages to mention that Ted Cruz won by more than 13 points despite being outspent by nearly three to one by Dewhurst.
Instead, the politico notes that Dewhurst finished 11 points ahead of Cruz in the primary and was seen as the prohibitive favorite.
What does that matter now?
All that means is you should never believe the news media when they call anyone a prohibitive favorite.
They had Dewhurst up by 11 points.
They thought this was in the tank.
And Cruz wins by 13.
Don't believe the polls.
Media political, whoever had no desire for Ted Cruz to win this.
It's never ever good news for the news media when the Tea Party wins elections.
Gotta take a brief time out, my friends, but we march on right afterwards.
Don't go away.
Hi, how are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Let's go audio samba number 10.
I'm gonna skip all the stuff before that, Mike.
This is Ted Cruz in Houston at his campaign headquarters last night, uh, speaking about his victory in the primary runoff.
Tonight is a victory for the grassroots.
It is a testament to Republican women to Tea Party leaders, and to grassroots conservatives.
Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
That is exactly right.
It's one of the best kept secrets going if your only source for information on such things is the mainstream media.
And this Chick fil I think just one microcosm example of it.
Now, uh last Sunday on this week, Jonathan Carl interviewed uh Dick Cheney.
And this is the soundbite where Cheney says that picking Sarah Palin was a uh was a mistake.
And yeah, this was a this was a toughie, it's it's not a defensible comment.
I wouldn't even I wouldn't even try.
The thing to note about about this is that shortly after this, Liz Cheney sent out the following tweet.
Rarely do I disagree with the best VP ever.
But Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama and Biden combined.
I have huge respect for all she's done for the GOP.
So Liz Cheney tweeted that that didn't get a lot of coverage either, but she tweeted it.
It was about a, I don't know, three or four hours.
Maybe it was the next day.
Nope, three or four hours later that afternoon on Sunday when when she tweeted this out.
Cheney uh had some of the most critical comments ever about Obama that never ended up being repeated or covered because the media so salivates, this was what was unfortunate about this, so salivates over the uh any discord, and then they so hate Palin.
They hate Cheney, too, but since Cheney came along and criticized Palin, oh, all of a sudden, Cheney is the world's foremost authority.
All of a sudden, they have they have unbridled love for Cheney.
Now, I just wild guess here.
You know as well as I do that Dick Cheney's area of primary concern is foreign policy.
Uh Cheney was shaped by 9-11 like little else.
And it was his sole focus, well, that's so primary focus of vice president was keeping the country safe.
And if there's a problem that he has with Palin, I would assume that it's in that in that Regard.
Anyway, here's the bite.
And following that, uh, I want to play Palin reacting to the victory of Ted Cruz and hitting back at the uh at the vice president.
Here's Cheney.
Pretty important.
Uh that one I don't think was well handled.
The test to get on that small list has to be is this person capable of being president of the United States?
And that's usually a very, very short list.
I like uh Governor Palin.
Uh I've met her, I know her.
Um attractive candidate, but based on her background, she'd only been governor for two years.
I don't think she passed that test.
Being ready.
And um I think that was uh a mistake.
That's just it was so it was just sad, it's unnecessary to say.
It just it just as they say in the intellectual circles, ladies and gentlemen, it wasn't useful.
That's the way they uh react things like this.
I mean, ready?
Obama had been what?
A senator for a hundred and some odd days?
And how many of those had he shown up?
Um anyway, let's move forward.
Last night on the record, Greta Van Sustern.
She spoke with Sarah Palin about Cruz and his victory over David Dewhurst.
She said, Look, big victory for one of your candidates tonight in Texas.
Ted Cruz winning a nomination.
I suppose a victory for the Tea Party tonight, too.
And I know that you were you were out campaigning for him.
You campaigned in Nebraska for another candidate.
You've had some wins recently.
What what are your thoughts about this?
It's a victory for Tea Party Patriots who just want to get our country back on the right track and defend our Republic.
The Tea Party Patriots who came from all over the country recognizing that Ted Cruz is the man to not just embrace status quo in Washington, but will engage in the sudden and relentless reform of our big centralized federal government, trying to shrink that government and allow more states' rights and allow individual rights and opportunities.
They recognize Ted Cruz was the man.
It's the Tea Party Patriots who work so hard for him.
He's going to do so well for all of Americans when he makes it to Washington, D.C. I'll tell you for everything I've learned, people I've spoken to, uh what she says about Cruz is right.
Apparently the Democrats are scared to death about this guy.
He's not a verbal reformer.
He doesn't just talk it.
They're really, really concerned that this guy, as a freshman, is going to have a profound effect on the Senate.
That he's going to go in there and and really shake it up.
That's the expectation people have.
And the expectation is based on a belief that he means it when he said it, and a belief that he can do it.
This guy, the the expectations, the the um uh aspirations people have for Ted Cruz.
Uh people are talking about him as a future justice on the Supreme Court, any number of things.
Really, really uh a lot of accolades about the guy.
So the next question Van Sestran's, though, Dick Cheney said he didn't think you were particularly good choice in 2008, and his daughter tweeted something to the contrary.
She thought that you were, but what will you have a response to this?
Seems how Dick, excuse me, Vice President Cheney never misfires, then evidently he's quite convinced that what he had uh evidently read about me by the lame stream media having been written what I believe is a false narrative over the last four years, evidently Dick Cheney believed that stuff, and that's a shame, so he characterized me as being a mistake.
I was honored to accept the nomination from the GOP.
And I think that the mistake would have been me just uh deciding that, hey, I love my 86, 87 percent approval rating up there in Alaska as the governor.
I could have decided I don't want to be bloodied up.
I don't want my family to go through what we will have to go through in the name of service to this country, but I did it.
I believe I did the right thing in accepting that call.
And we all know that that campaign would have had Zilch zero not a energy, and wouldn't have had anywhere near the chance it had were it not for Palin.
No question about it.
The mistake on that ticket was not Palin.
Pure and simple.
Sarah Palin was not the mistake on that ticket.
I just got an on-the-spot man on the street report from Cranbury Township, Pennsylvania.
The Chick-fil-A there has everything shut down.
And there are no TV trucks.
There is no media.
It's great to see people sending me the pictures and so forth that what's going on out there.
And totally under the media radar.
Totally I have no clue.
Many of them probably have no idea why this is happening.
What why would they be upset over what Ram Emanuel said?
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