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Aug. 1, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, I just sit here thinking about this badminton scandal at the uh at the Olympics.
And can I can I share with you how relieved I am that there aren't any accusations of doping?
That would destroy badminton.
Yeah, that would do it.
If it was doping going on, you know, human growth hormone, uh enhanced performance enhancement drugs, badminton, that would have it.
They're already sports already teetering precariously here.
That would have killed it.
Um still early in the investigation.
You never know.
Um I don't like male synchronized swimming.
Well, no, I saw it fast forwarding through it, trying to get to what I did want to see.
Yeah, of course.
You think I'm actually going to tune in to male synchronized swimming?
No, I did not.
Catherine and I are sitting there, we're in front of the big screen, we're trying to get to the real swimming or the gymnastics or something.
You know what we do.
Here's what we do.
We start at eight o'clock, we we DVR it, and we go in there at 9.30, and we turn it on and we zip through it, fast forward it.
If we see something intriguing, we stop it, see what it is, we zip through all the interviews, we zip through all the commentary, and we get to what we're looking for.
And by 10 o'clock, we've seen what we want to see.
You're gonna have it.
So we saw well, yeah, because I'd never seen it before.
No, it's because I couldn't believe it.
Male male synchronized diving, not swimming.
I I didn't know it was an Olympic sport, and I'm I'm I'm looking at it in in uh stunned.
Disbelief.
So yeah, we stopped and watched about twenty seconds of it.
We made some jocular comments, and then we uh fast forwarded it again.
What so what?
There are people that like it, snurdly.
What's wrong with liking male synchronized swimming?
What's your problem with it?
Diving, synchronized dive.
I don't look it.
I'm not concerned with that.
I'm just hoping that there's not a doping scandal at the badminton people.
Um it's bad enough that they're playing down the competition to face easier competition down the road.
If there's doping in that, that's just too much.
This is August 1st, folks.
August 1st, 2012.
It is our 24th anniversary here at the EIB Network 24 years, starting our 25th year today of talking about and celebrating the wonder of America.
Also happening on August 1st, the Chick-fil-A Revolution.
Supporting the right to voice your religious beliefs.
That's what that's what this is about.
You got two Democrat mayors who essentially said Christians aren't desired in our towns.
You can strip away, you know, Ram Emanuel, Chicago values and all that.
All this is about is the fact that the uh head honcho Chick-fil-A is an open Christian.
He's out of a closet.
And Rahman Manuels, he's not welcome here.
We we don't want people like that.
That's not Chicago.
So Christians are told, don't come Chicago, don't come to Boston.
Well, guess what?
This is how they say up yours.
This is how they say in your face.
So on August 1st, the Chick-fil-A revolution supporting the right to voice your religious beliefs, and August 1st also the beginning of Obamacare mandating that religious institutions violate their religious beliefs by providing birth control and drugs that facilitate abortion against their religious beliefs.
August 1st.
What a profound day in history.
Harry Reid, dingy Harry.
history.
This is a grotesque little man.
Harry Reed is a Is a despicable, grotesque little man.
Dingy Harry has what he says is an informed explanation of why Romney refuses to release additional tax returns.
Dingy Harry says that he talked to a Bain Capital investor who told him that Romney didn't pay any taxes for ten years.
It's in a wide ranging interview with the Huffing and Puffington Post in his Crapitol Hill office.
Dingy Harry said that Romney couldn't make it through a Senate confirmation process as a mere cabinet nominee because of the personal finance problems he's got.
His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son.
George Romney's standard setting decision turned over twelve years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 60s.
Here's Mitt has released two or three years.
Now Harry Reid, this grotesque little man, is the second highest ranking Democrat.
Well he's the highest ranking Democrat in the Senate.
He had second highest ranking Democrat in the United States.
He's been in the Senate since 1987.
He's never released any of his tax returns in all of his years in Congress.
Probably because they would reveal how he got rich from dubious land deals that have been highlighted by the LA Times, which nobody cared about.
The Huffing and Puffington Post fails to mention any of that about Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry said he had no real problem with somebody being really, really wealthy.
Sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further a month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office.
And this Bain Capital investor said, Harry, he didn't pay any taxes for ten years.
He didn't pay taxes for ten years.
Now, do I know that that's true?
Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns.
How would it look?
Isn't it convenient that this charge supposedly comes from a Bain and Look at the absolute bilge and drivel this party puts out each and every day that people have to deal with?
Let me ask you a question.
You are Mitt Romney.
It is obvious, is it not, that Mitt Romney has had political aspirations for many, many moons?
He quits Bain, he goes to the Olympics.
Do you really think that a guy who ran for Massachusetts governor, who has run for president twice now, and who has had plans to do this for many years would actually not pay any income tax for ten years?
How would somebody at Bain Capitol know this, by the way?
Who the only people that would know this would be Romney and his financial people and the IRS.
Are we really supposed to believe that somebody with aspirations to hold the nation's highest office in preparation for this would go ten years without pay, even if it was legal?
By the way, I don't know that Dingy Harry is asserting any illegality here.
But just the fact that somebody was able to whittle her tax rate down to zero obviously would not be helpful, even if it's legal.
Media Democrats take care of that.
But does anybody think Romney would actually do that?
Pay no taxes for ten years?
With full knowledge that there would be people that would know this.
Why would a Bain investor have any knowledge of Romney's taxes over the last this reminds me of all of Dick Gephardt's phantom friends?
You know, little Dick Gehardt had all uh every every now and then he'd tell a story, I had a rich business owner called me the other day.
And this rich business owner said, Dick, I'm not paying enough in taxes.
I'm not paying my fair share, Dick, and I need somebody to do something about that.
Gephardt had these phantom friends all over the place.
These Republican rich people who every time a Democrat idea got into some trouble, little Dick's phantom friend would call him.
And try to make it appear that even the Republicans like the Democrats idea.
So now, out of the clear blue, somebody who invested with Bain calls Harry Reed and says, Harry, I just want you to know that Romney didn't pay his taxes for ten years.
I just thought you should know this, Harry.
Have a good day.
See you later, Harry.
Goodbye.
That's how it happened.
Grab audio sound by 25.
We're gonna go back to April 1st, 2008.
This is on a website called free liberal.com.
And there's a blogger and host by the name of Jan Helfeld interviewing Dingy Harry.
And the interviewer says if the government is in the business of forcefully taking money from some people in order to provide welfare benefits to the others, how will the people whose money is being taken feel about the government?
This April 1st, four years ago, at uh free liberal.com.
So the question if the government's in the business of forcefully taking money from some people in order to provide welfare benefits to others, how will the people whose money is being taken feel about the government?
Well, I don't accept your phraseology.
I don't think we force people.
Taxation is not forceful?
Well, no, voluntary quite to the contrary.
Our our system of government is a voluntary tax system.
The fact of the matter is that if when you pay your taxes, you see, in many other countries, it's not voluntary.
For example, in in many countries, the government makes sure that your employer takes out every penny.
In some countries, European countries is an example.
There are there you don't file an income tax return.
There is no need to because your employer takes all the money out.
That's the difference between a voluntary and an involuntary system.
Well, okay.
So Mitt could, I guess, say, you know, I just decided not to pay for ten years, Harry.
The employer, see, in Europe, the employer takes all the money out.
That's not how we do it in the United States.
This is second most powerful Democrat in the country, the most powerful Democrat in the Senate.
And he said four years ago.
No, no, no, it's voluntary.
Now in Europe, the government makes sure that your employer takes out every penny.
Some countries, uh, you don't file a tax return.
There's there's no need to because your employer takes all the money out.
That's the difference between a voluntary and an involuntary system.
Didn't Romney run for president 2008.
Are we supposed to believe he didn't pay taxes when he was running for the presidency?
We don't know what ten years Dingy Harry's talking about.
Anyway, here you have it's voluntary.
Um in Europe, see they the employer takes all the taxes out.
That's not how we do it here.
You heard him say it.
I wonder is is is uh is Harry Reed, did he commit a felony?
I mean, he's passing out information about someone's tax returns leaked to him.
Is is does is i i is something scratching me that that's not legal.
Is it did maybe Dingy Harry's a felon?
Maybe Dingy Harry, this grotesque little man just committed a felony.
Passing out talking about information about someone's tax returns leaked to him about Romney's taxes, a Bane investor.
Well, Fox News just showed a helicopter shot of the line of cars in front of a chick fillet.
Did you miss it?
It isn't.
They just showed us the power of EIB.
It's just a little aside.
Just a little as that.
Mine got a helicopter shot.
Here is Rick in Springfield, Massachusetts, as we head back to the phones.
Welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Hi.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Listen, yeah, uh in view of if you have Ted Cruz's whopping victory in Texas, uh, where Palin, Sarah Palin played more than a large part, and her endorsements uh in Utah and Indiana and really everywhere she goes, her endorsement is golden.
It would seem that Romney, at least in my opinion, he needs to bring in this large base of conservative and Tea Party voters who are now, you know, somewhat less than fully enthusiastic about Romney and do it with his VP selection.
You know, and when you think about the possibilities, uh, how can a person not be Palin?
Clearly, the most she's the most proven, powerful, popular, despite the mainstream media trying to utterly discount her, you know, it's Sarah Palin.
Anyone else that Romney would pick would be compared to Palin, and the obvious would emerge as being the general consensus.
Why not Palin?
It's like perhaps this is a bad comparison, but after the two 2010 midterm elections and now after Palin's more than whopping power and success in the primaries, Palin's like the giant elephant in the room.
I uh I don't have any idea what's gonna happen here.
I but I think this I just don't see.
Not not two times.
I don't see it.
Uh uh it's it just not gonna happen.
I can't uh of all I can't see her doing it.
I think she would, because she she she would serve.
But you know, Romney acts at his peril, I think, if he not only ignores her at the convention, but really ultimately ignores her as Veep.
Because anybody's gonna be compared to Palin.
And it's gonna be why not Palin?
And I I think when you look at it, you know, politics is being expedient, and she's the most powerful uh GOP politician in the country right now, just like the same way LBJ chose uh I mean uh JFK chose LBJ, they weren't friends.
And uh and he's a thing to do with being friends or not.
I just I think it's a been there done that.
Number one, number two, I'm not sure she would want to re-enter the fray this way.
There's there's there's really there's no upside uh for her in this.
I j I could now, folks, I could be all right.
She she may want to do this.
I I uh I I don't know.
I just I don't I don't see that and I also don't think she's the only choice out there that could make this all happen.
I frankly, this VP thing.
I think the greater danger is picking something wrong, somebody wrong, than trying to find the ideal correct.
See, I I may be a lone wolf on the you know I I don't go in for conventional wisdom, and I'm not contrary to whatever thinks, I'm not a political science student.
I don't I I don't look, for example, all this the way Rove does and these other guys where they got their their whiteboards and they're counting up electoral votes and they're thinking the election's only in three states, that the national election doesn't matter, uh, or it's five states, or whatever the battleground.
I don't look at it that way.
I never have, and and maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I ought to look at it the way everybody else does.
I know that we don't have a single presidential race.
We have fifty of them.
I know that.
There are fifty, and I know that of the fifty, a certain number of them are already known what's going to happen.
We're not going to win California, for example, we're not going to win New York.
Uh I know all that.
But I also factor in the national aspects of this, even though it is said that you can't factor national characteristics into what essentially is fifty state elections uh for for president.
But I think that the VP choice, I always have thought that people spend way, way too much time on that.
Because I don't think anybody votes for the I think it was I think people did vote for Palin in 0 uh eight Because there was such dissatisfaction with the Republican establishment.
But the circumstances are all different this time.
I think Obama is what's going to get our people out.
And people like Ram Emanuel and Thomas Manino.
And every time these liberal Democrats and the media, there's a backlash coming against the entire establishment of Washington, including the Republican establishment, but more specifically, the media and the Democrat establishment, that whole complex.
People don't want any more, a majority of people do not want any more of the way this country's being governed.
There's no future here that a majority of people want.
And I just I don't think that Romney is in a position where he must have the right VP or he didn't have a choice or chance.
I just don't see it that way.
Now, I could be dead wrong, and the the VP selection could matter much, much more than I think it does.
I think it's possible to pick somebody.
I don't say this.
Obviously, he could make a mistake.
He could pick somebody that would so depress people.
I would try to talk them out of being depressed because it doesn't matter, but I know it will.
I just I don't think Romney, let me put it this way.
I don't think Romney's victory hinges on who he picks as VEEP.
Now I may be a lone wolf.
I could be the only idiot who thinks that.
But I don't think that's the primary factor going in.
Ha!
How are you?
L. Rushball.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair on our 24th anniversary here at the EIB Network, August 1st, as we start our 25th year of service to humanity.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Let me just put it out there, folks.
And you can let me know if you think I'm full of it.
And I know some of you will.
I have such a belief that the majority of us do not want to make this Obama mistake again.
The country is hanging in the balance.
We all know we have to win this election, or it's ball game.
You have the full implementation of Obamacare tax a mageddon starting on January 1st.
This, folks, the days of accruing wealth and passing it on to your children and your family and having your kids do better than you do, those days are going to be over for more and more people if we have any more of this.
And I just don't see people deciding essentially to guarantee four more years of this if Romney picks the wrong VP.
Now, I could be all wet.
Some of you in the base might, and I know that there's a lot of you that are not crazy about Romney, he's not a conservative.
I get that.
I understand it.
And who knows?
There may be some of you that if he picks somebody you don't like, that you say harumph, harumph, I'm staying home.
I and you might fine.
You want to destroy the country, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Destroy it.
You're not serious about stopping Obama, go ahead.
You pick somebody you don't like as the V. I just don't see once Election Day gets here that the vice presidential choice could cause people to stay home and thus guarantee four more years of what would end up being the end of the country as founded and as we know it.
I'm sorry, I just don't see people putting up with that.
I don't see this being much about the Republicans at all, frankly.
I'm not trying to dispirit people uh on my own.
I think Romney's a better candidate than a lot of people think, and I think he's if he wins, he's gonna he's gonna surprise people in doing things a little bit more conservative than some people think he's gonna do.
I could be wrong about that.
I could be wrong about all this.
But I see this Chick-fil-A Day.
I see this happening on November 6th, and I see one man making it possible, Barack Obama.
Barack Obama's our turnout.
And I don't think the wrong VB choice can depress our turnout.
The regime, the Obama regime, they're trying their best to dispirit the white working class vote that Obama has abandoned.
It's utter racism, and you get right down to it.
Uh but I gotta tell you, I just I think Palin was the exception to what I'm saying now.
I think Palin was the one VP choice back then that was a game changer.
I thought Jack Kemp might have been a game changer for Dole.
Turned out was dead wrong.
It didn't matter.
Did it?
It didn't.
Didn't well, okay.
He imploded with with the, you know, when Gore said, you know, Jack, you're a good Republican, you're not a racist, and he said, Yeah, thank you, Al.
Instead of being outraged by it, but um it just doesn't matter.
You know, it's it's a fun political exercise talking.
It's like the the fourth man in the in a four-man bobsled.
Who cares?
Or no, the third guy in the four-man bobsled.
Does anybody know who that ever is?
Uh Badminton.
Let me go back to the phones here.
I have made my point.
This is Barbara in Kansas City.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
This is so exciting for me to be able to speak with you.
My husband got me hooked on you during the Clinton administration.
So for me, this is such an honor.
I've tried for years to get through and never could.
Well, I'm glad you did today.
I am too.
Anyway, I was driving by the Chick-fil-A, which is located at the Ward Parkway shopping center here in Kansas City.
I know where that is.
Very oh, yeah, I used to drive by there wishing I had the money to go in.
There you go.
I burst out laughing.
It is packed.
There was a line out the door that was unbelievable.
Cars trying to get in from the Ward Parkway side, the state line side, the 86th Street side, from the target parking lot.
Um it was just hilarious.
And I thought this is so wonderful.
And because there's been no media attention, and it's great that conservatives are able to get out there and say You mean there's no TV media.
We have a voice.
There's no TV media attention.
No, there was no TV media.
Right, right.
Because I know KMBZ is all over it.
Yeah, and I didn't see them there.
But I get a qu I ask you a question.
I I I I know the answer I'm gonna get, but I need to ask it anyway just because I'm curious.
You live in Kansas City.
Yes.
Do you if I were to ask you if you live in a Google fiber neighborhood, do you know what I'm talking about?
Uh is Google Fiber, is that the new word supposed to be a higher speed.
You do know, but yes, and they they're debuting it in Kansas City.
Uh it's it's like uh what a gigabyte.
A gigabyte download speed.
They're they're competing with Verizon's, how do you pronounce it?
FIOS Phios, which is 300 Comcasts is gonna have 355 down.
This is a gigabyte down, of course, it depends on the servers you're connected to.
Uh are you are you in a neighborhood where they're testing this, installing this?
Well, I have not heard that we are, so I don't know.
Well, they're asking neighborhoods to sign up.
Oh and and neighborhoods apparently that among people who know about this, it's uh it's hot to trot.
Um a lot of people I know are moving to Kansas City just to be able to have this.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Now, not really, but they're joking about it.
Anyway, she does know about it.
She does know that she that I'm I'm I'm proud that you knew what I was talking about.
Well, I listened to you.
Well, that explains it all.
That explains Barbara, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Look, all this talk about Romney and VIP, there's A guy out there who's in real trouble, folks, and it's Barack Hussein Obama, who, as we now know, almost has genuine slave blood.
Yes, that had that story yesterday from the joyful AP is almost got I mean almost direct linkage to slave number one in this country.
They can't prove it.
That didn't stop them from running the story.
Don, you weren't here yesterday.
You don't know about this.
Oh, this is hilarious.
Anyway, some black men of the cloth.
A coalition of black ministers is not happy with Barack Obama because of his uh gay marriage support.
You know, Democrats are talking about putting a plank in the party platform supporting gay marriage.
The White House is not saying anything about that.
But there is a black minister out there, the Reverend William Owens, he's the head of the coalition of African American pastors, and he said for the president to bow to the money as Judas did for Jesus Christ is a disgrace and a shame.
He was referring to Obama doing an about face regarding gay marriage and the millions of dollars in campaign donations that the uh flip-flop earned him.
And we have the audio soundbites.
Yesterday in Washington, the National Press Club, the coalition of African American pastors held a presser to launch a nationwide campaign abose opposing Obama's support of gay marriage.
The Reverend William Owens spoke.
Here's a portion of what he said.
The time has come for a broad base assault against the powers that be that want to change our culture to one of men marry men and women marrying women.
The president has ignored the black community because he feels he has us in his pocket.
But we are not in his pocket.
And because he's black, we refuse to give him a pass.
I am ashamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.
He is shamed that the first black pres who was Bill Clinton chose this road, this disgraceful road.
And Reverend Owens continued.
The President is in the White House because of the civil rights movement.
And I was a leader in that movement.
And I didn't march one inch, one foot, one yard for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman.
So the president has forgotten the price that was paid for the president to bow to the money, as Judas did with Jesus Christ, is a disgrace and we're ashamed.
We will not take it back, we will not back down.
I didn't march not one inch, not one foot, not one yard, for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry one.
And these guys are serious.
That's not what the civil rights movement was about to them, and they do not like it being appropriated this way.
They do not like the civil rights movement effectively being expanded or stolen to include the agenda of gay marriage.
They are not down for that struggle.
Well, I'd tell you what, I wonder if Ram Emanuel will ban William Owens and his church in Chicago, because Reverend Owens here is not reflecting Chicago values.
And I wonder if Mayor Menino in Boston will see fit to call a press conference and tell Reverend Owens, don't try to open a church here, pal.
Has this clearly this isn't Chicago values.
This is not Boston values, according to the mayor's.
Reverend Owens, again.
Another very important point I think that needs to be made is if you watch the men who have been caught having sex with little boys, you will note that all of them will say that I was molested as a child.
A man molested me in my home.
Wherever they will say they were molested.
And for the president to condone this type thing, knowing the full facts is just irresponsible.
He's Judas.
He did it for the money.
They were not down for this struggle.
This isn't what they marched for.
Not one inch, not one foot, not one yard.
And this could amount to something.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout here, my friends, because of the constraints of the programming format.
I'm thinking of getting a condo in Kansas City.
One gigabyte down.
One gigabyte down.
That's a you could download a uh a four gigabyte movie from iTunes in 45 seconds.
Instead of two or three hours.
Well, I don't two or three hours for me now.
It's about four minutes.
But I'd upgrade to shave four minutes down to 45 seconds.
I don't have time to take the call, but we got a guy here from Tampa.
He says the local stations go on really playing up this uh CBS New York Times Quinnipiact poll Bill.
That poll is bogus.
I explained this in the first hour, maybe the second hour of the program, whatever it was.
The Democrat sample in this poll is way too high.
In the Florida portion, they've given the Democrats a 9% advantage in the number of Democrats in the respondents uh uh survey in the in the in the pool, and that's not reflective of reality at all.
It's it's they're lying to themselves.
The poll is not accurate, don't worry about it.
At that local station is uh they're just not looking into this and getting it right, which could be on purpose or maybe not.
Anyway, be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Reverend William Owens was quoted by Fox.
Some people saying that because of the position Chick-fil-A is taking, they don't want them in their cities.
That is a disgrace.
It's the same thing that happened when I was marching for civil rights when they didn't want a black to come into their restaurant.
William Owens talking about Rom Emanuel in Chicago.
And folks, have a um have a great day.
We are out of here.
Be back here tomorrow and see you then.
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