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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 sitting here thinking about this badminton scandal at the Olympics.
And 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, enhanced performance enhancement drugs, badminton, that would happen.
They're already sports already teetering precariously here.
That would have killed it.
Still early in the investigation.
You never know.
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.
And yeah, of course, you think I'm actually going to tune into 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, we do.
Here's what we do.
We start at 8 o'clock.
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 know, I have it.
So we saw, well, yeah, because I'd never seen it before.
No, it's because I couldn't believe it.
Male synchronized diving, not swimming.
I didn't know it was an Olympic sport, and I'm looking at it in stunned disbelief.
So, yeah, we stopped and watched about 20 seconds of it.
We made some jocular comments, and then we fast-forwarded it again.
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 at it.
I'm not concerned with that.
I'm just hoping that there's not a doping scandal at the badminton people.
It's bad enough that they're playing down the competition to face easier competition down the road.
If there's doping in bad, 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 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 head honcho Chick-fil-A is an open Christian.
He's out of the closet.
And Rahm Emanuel says he's not welcome here.
We don't want people like that.
That's not Chicago.
So Christians are told, don't come to 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.
This is a grotesque little man.
Harry Reid 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 10 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 12 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.
And 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 L.A. 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 10 years.
He didn't pay taxes for 10 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?
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 10 years?
How would somebody at Bain Capital know this, by the way?
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 10 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 their 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 10 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 10?
This reminds me of all of Dick Gephardt's phantom friends.
You know, little Dick Gephardt had, every now and then he'd tell a story, I had a rich business owner call 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 10 years.
I just thought you should know this, Harry.
Have a good day.
See you later, Harry.
Goodbye.
That's how it happened.
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We're going to go back to April 1st, 2008.
This is on a website called freeliberal.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 is April 1st, four years ago at freeliberal.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, it's voluntary.
In fact, quite to the contrary.
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 many countries, the government makes sure that your employer takes out every penny.
In some countries, European countries is an example, 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.
Okay.
So Mitt could, I guess, say, you know, I just decided not to pay for 10 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 the 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.
I got a voluntary assist.
Now, in Europe, the government makes sure that your employer takes out every penny.
Countries, you don't file a tax return.
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 10 years Dingy Harry's talking about.
Anyway, here you have it's voluntary.
In Europe, see, the employer takes all the taxes out.
That's not how we do it here.
You heard him say it.
I wonder, is Harry Reid, did he commit a felony?
I mean, he's passing out information about someone's tax returns leaked to him.
Is something scratching me that that's not legal?
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-fil-A.
Did you miss it?
You missed it?
They just showed it.
It's the power of EIB.
Just a little aside.
Just a little aside.
Finally 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, in view of Ted Cruz's whopping victory in Texas, where Palin, Sarah Palin, played more than a large part and her endorsements 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 somewhat less than fully enthusiastic about Romney and do it with his VP selection.
And when you think about the possibilities, how can that person not be Palin?
Clearly, she's the most proven, powerful, popular, despite the mainstream media trying to utterly discount her.
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 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 don't have any idea what's going to happen here.
This I just don't see.
Not two times a day.
I don't see it.
It's just not going to happen.
I can't see her doing it.
I think she would because 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 going to be compared to Palin.
And it's going to be, why not Palin?
And I think when you look at it, you know, politicians is being expedient.
And she's the most powerful GOP politician in the country right now, just like the same way LBJ chose, I mean, JFK chose LBJ.
They weren't friends.
No, I don't think it's got anything to do with being friends or not.
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 really, there's no upside for her in this.
Now, folks, I could be all wrong.
She may want to do this.
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.
Frankly, this VP thing, I think the greater danger is picking something wrong, somebody wrong, than trying to find the ideal correct.
See, I may be a lone wolf on this.
You know, I don't go in for conventional wisdom, and I'm not, contrary to what everybody thinks, I'm not a political science student.
I don't look, for example, all this the way Rove does and these other guys, where they got 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, or it's five states, or whatever the battleground.
I don't look at it that way.
I never have.
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 50 of them.
I know that.
There are 50, and I know that of the 50, 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.
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 50 state elections 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 PP.
I think it was, I think people did vote for Palin in 08 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 Rahm Emmanuel and Thomas Menino, and every time these liberal Democrats in 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 is being governed.
There is 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 a chance.
I just don't see it that way.
Now, I could be dead wrong, and the VP selection could matter much, much more than I think it does.
I think it's possible to pick somebody.
I don't, how can I say this?
Obviously, he could make a mistake.
He could pick somebody that would so depress people.
I would try to talk him 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.
Hi, how are you?
El 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 into balance.
We all know we have to win this election or it's ballgame.
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, harump, harump, I'm staying home.
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 VP.
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 on my own.
I think Romney's a better candidate than a lot of people think, and I think if he wins, he's going to surprise people in doing things a little bit more conservative than some people think he's going to 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 region, they're trying their best to dispirit the white working class vote that Obama has abandoned.
It's utter racism when you get right down to it.
But I 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 I was dead wrong.
It didn't matter.
Did it?
It didn't, Okay, he imploded with the, you know, when Gorth said, you know, Jack, you're a good Republican, you're not a racist.
And she said, yeah, thank you, Al.
Instead of being outraged by it, but it just doesn't matter.
You know, it's a fun political exercise talking.
It's like the fourth man in the four-man bobsled.
Who cares?
Or no, the third guy in the four-man bobsled.
Does anybody know who that ever is?
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.
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.
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 we have a voice.
There's no TV media attention.
No, there was no TV media attention.
Right, right.
Because I know KMBZ is all over it.
Yeah, and I didn't see them there.
But I got to ask you a question.
I know the answer I'm going to get, but I need to ask it anyway.
Just like, I'm curious.
You live in Kansas City.
Yes.
If I were to ask you if you live in a Google fiber neighborhood, do you know what I'm talking about?
Is Google fiber?
Is that the new word supposed to be a higher speed?
You do know about it.
Yes.
And they're debuting it in Kansas City.
It's like a gigabyte, a gigabyte download speed.
They're competing with Verizon's, how do you pronounce it?
Feos, Fios, which is 300.
Comcast has got 355 down.
This is a gigabyte down.
Of course, it depends on the servers you're connected to.
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.
And neighborhoods, apparently, among people who know about this, it's hot to trot.
A lot of people I know are moving to Kansas City just to be able to have this.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
No, not really, but they're joking about it.
Anyway, she does know about it.
She does know that.
I'm proud that you knew what I was talking about.
Well, I listened to you.
Well, that explains it all.
That explains it.
Barbara, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
Look, all this talk about Romney and Avip, 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.
He's almost got, I mean, almost direct linkage to slave number one in this country.
Okay, can't prove it.
That didn't stop them from running the story.
Dawn, 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 gay marriage support.
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 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 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-based assault against the powers that be that want to change our culture to one of 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 shamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.
He is shamed that the first black president, 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 are shamed.
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 a woman.
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 tell you what, I wonder if Ram Emmanuel 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.
As this clearly, this isn't Chicago values.
This is not Boston values.
According to the mayors, 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 got to 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.
You could download a four gigabyte movie from iTunes in 45 seconds instead of two or three hours.
Well, 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 station's going really playing up this CBS New York Times Quinnipiac 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 survey in the pool.
And that's not reflective of reality at all.
They're lying to themselves.
The poll is not accurate.
Don't worry about it.
That local station is 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 Emmanuel in Chicago.
And folks, have a great day.
We are out of here.
Be back here tomorrow and see you then.
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