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Aug. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney paid $3.5 million in taxes last year.
Mitt Romney paid $4.7 million in taxes in 2010.
So if you add that up, you get $8.2 million in taxes Romney has paid in the past two years.
Is that what the Democrats call not paying your taxes?
$8.2 million in federal taxes the last two years.
And I kid you not, U.S. News and World Report has just posted the following link.
Quote, here's how Mitt Romney might have paid no taxes.
They've had somebody on their staff look at a whole bunch of hypotheticals and come up with a way that a guy like Romney might not have paid any taxes.
I don't know if this is for 10 years or what, but they've actually done it.
So a lie has come to life in the left-wing media.
It is said, by the way, that Romney paid 42% of his 2011 income in taxes and charity.
Let's see Dingy Harry's.
Let's see his returns so that we can compare.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Wayne Allen Root, a former libertarian vice presidential nominee, the author of The Conscience of a Libertarian.
He posted yesterday at Beck's website, deblaze.com.
Let me read to you excerpts from what Wayne Allen Root wrote.
I am President Obama's classmate at Columbia University, class of 83.
I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas odds makers and prognosticators.
Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas walk of stars.
And I smell something rotten in Denmark.
Obama has a big skeleton in his closet.
Tis college records.
Call it gut instinct.
My gut is almost always right.
Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia, a secret hidden there, and it's a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency.
Gut instinct is how I've made my living for 29 years since I graduated Columbia.
Obama and his infamous strategist David Axelrod understand how to play political hardball, the best it's ever been played.
Team Obama has decided to distract America's voters by condemning Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns.
It's the perfect cover.
Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense.
Just keep attacking Mitt, blaming him for secrecy and evasion while accusing him of having a scandal that doesn't exist.
Then ask followers like Senator Dingy Harry to chase that lead.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader appears to now be making up stories out of thin air about tax returns he knows nothing about.
It's cynical, it's brilliant, and vicious.
Make Romney defend so he cannot attack the real Obama scandal.
I think Romney's not spent a lot of time on this, but nevertheless, this is a classic Axelrod.
Obama has won several elections in his career by slandering his opponents and leaking sealed documents.
Not only do these insinuations and leaks ruin the credibility and reputation of Obama's opponents, they keep them on the defensive and off Obama's trail of sealed documents.
By attacking Romney's tax records, Obama's socialist cabal creates a problem that does not exist.
Is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader making up stories out of thin air?
You decide.
But the reason for this baseless attack is clear.
Make Romney defend, so not only is he off-message, but it helps the media ignore the real Obama scandal.
My answer for Romney, call Obama's bluff.
Romney should call a press conference right now and issue a challenge in front of the nation.
Romney should agree to release more of his tax returns only if Obama unseals his college records.
Simple and straightforward.
Mitch should ask what could possibly be so embarrassing in your college records 29 years ago that you are afraid to let American voters see it?
If it's that bad, maybe it's something the voters ought to see.
Suddenly the tables would be turned, and now Obama is on the defensive.
My bet is that Obama will never unseal his records because they contain information that could destroy his chances for re-election.
And once this challenge is made public, my prediction is that you will never hear about Romney's tax returns ever again.
Why are the college records of a 51-year-old president so important to keep secret?
I think I know the answer, writes Mr. Root.
If anyone should have questions about Obama's record at Columbia University, it's me.
We both graduated, according to Obama, Columbia University class of 83.
We were both, according to Obama, pre-law and political science majors.
And I thought I knew most everybody at Columbia.
I certainly thought I'd heard of all of my poli-sci majors, but not Obama, or as he was known then, Barry Sotoro.
I never met him, never saw him, never even heard of him.
And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia have ever met him, saw him, or heard of him.
But don't take my word for it.
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our college Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
Now, all of this mystery could be easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to the media.
But even after serving as president for three and a half years, he refuses to unseal his college records.
Shouldn't the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama's records as Romney's?
Shouldn't they be digging into Obama's past beyond what he has written about himself with the same boundless enthusiasm as Romney's?
The first question I'd ask is, if you had great grades, why would you seal your records?
So let's assume Obama got poor grades.
Why not release the records?
I mean, he's president of the free world, for God's sakes.
He's commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.
Who would care about some poor grades from 30 years ago, right?
So then what's the problem?
Doesn't that make the media suspicious?
Something doesn't add up here.
Secondly, if Obama had poor grades at Occidental, how did he get admitted to an Ivy League university in the first place?
And if his grades at Columbia were awful, how did he ever get into Harvard Law School?
So again, those grades must have been great, right?
So why spend millions to keep them sealed?
Third, how did Obama pay for all those fancy schools without coming from a wealthy background?
If he had student loans or scholarships, would he not have to maintain good grades?
I can only think of one answer that would explain all of this.
Here is my gut belief.
And this again, Wayne Allen Root.
My gut belief is that Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student.
He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia.
But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen?
When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii, or as he neared college age, preparing to apply, did he ever change his citizenship back?
I'm betting not.
If you could unseal Obama's Columbia University records, I believe you'd find it A, he rarely attended class.
B, his grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard law.
C, he attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.
D, he paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign student like this Barry Sortoro from Indonesia.
Now, if you think I'm phishing, then go out and prove me wrong.
Open up your records, Mr. President.
What are you afraid of?
It's okay for the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go on a phishing expedition about Romney's taxes, even though he knows absolutely nothing about them, nor will he even release his own.
Well, if that's true, then I think I can do the same thing.
But as Obama's Columbia Class of 83 classmate, at least I have more standing to make educated guesses.
It's time for Romney to go on the attack and call Obama's bluff.
Wayne Allen Root, writing yesterday, not for the first time, by the way.
And then I mentioned that Trump was on CNBC early today.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns only after President Obama makes public his college transcripts, according to Donald Trump.
A vocal Romney supporter who once toyed with a run at the top office himself, the Trumpster took up the latest controversy.
Said, if I were Mitt Romney and I'm not, I would say very simply, I'll release my returns, which are 100% legit.
Everything's fine if you release the information that we want.
Obama spends $4 million trying to hide lots of things that he's done, whether it's his passport records, college applications, and college record.
Trump's allegations, meanwhile, could get an even bigger sounding board.
He has been invited to speak at the Republican convention in Tampa.
So that's what some are advising as Romney's way of dealing with this blind call for his tax returns to be released.
Quick time out, my friends.
We'll come back and continue.
More of your phone calls straight ahead after this.
Hey, look, the Boston Globe just last week was able to get hold of a Romney freshman high school report card from 1961.
I had it in the stack.
I didn't report on it, but boy, it was amazing.
The teacher had a note, and I'm doing this from memory now.
Let me see, if by chance, if by chance, it's in the top of the stack.
The teacher wrote a note on Romney's report card to his parents that Mitt is doing fairly well, is acquitting himself fairly well, and is on the way to establishing himself as a good citizen.
How old-fashioned, absolutely uncool.
How screwball!
How, I mean, whoa, that's on the way to acquitting himself as a good citizen.
That's what the schools used to be about: is to prepare you to become a more responsible citizen.
That's what it said.
Mitt is a more responsible citizen this year.
That's what the schools, that's what education used to be about at the secondary level.
But apparently, apparently, folks, unbeknownst to the teacher that wrote that note, somebody was teaching Romney how to kill guys' wives when he later on became an adult.
Because we learned that today in an Obama super PAC ad.
So you can take that responsible citizen comment that the teacher wrote on Romney's report card in 1961, and you can toss it.
Here's the full teacher quote: Mitt is doing well.
He's a more responsible citizen this year.
Yeah, my teachers used to write stuff like that on their, well, except I wasn't headed in the direction of being a good citizen, but they used to write stuff like that.
They wanted the parents to know how the, and of course, as I said a couple weeks ago, the teachers were always right.
To my dad, the principal, the teacher, they were a boss.
Everybody with authority over me.
They were always right, no matter what.
He's on the way, becoming a more responsible citizen.
How uncool.
Okay, here's Martin in Miami.
Martin, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
It's a great honor to be on the line with you.
I've been listening to you since the late 80s.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'm a proud born American, Cuban descent.
Actually, your name is known in our family, including my mom.
I got her hooked on you back with the Ilian Gonzalez.
And she listens every day.
My call has to do with this ad that they're running, having to do with the health insurance and the guy being left without work.
I, too, was left without work, a 20-year career in the mortgage industry up into 2008, where I had to go ahead and pick a new career.
Were you one of those predatory lenders that was out picking on poor people to give money to that you knew couldn't pay it back?
No, we'd actually give money.
I was one of those evil subprime lenders where we brought in the game where basically people that couldn't get it, couldn't get a loan somewhere else because whatever ding they had in their credit, they'd come to us and keep them in their house for a little bit longer.
And the whole idea behind it was, you know, you got to pay your bills.
You can't just sit there and not pay.
But you know what?
They just didn't want to pay.
Where is that – when does – what did you say the whole – Would you pay your own bills?
Yeah, they had to pay their mortgage.
I guess they didn't read that in the fine print when they signed.
Where does that happen?
I know.
That's the problem that we're having today.
And I'll tell you, based on what I've seen with this whole thing, is that people don't have an income problem most times.
They have a spending problem.
And this guy saying he can't afford health insurance and all that.
What I'd like to know is how many times did he go out to a ball game instead of paying his bills or paying insurance?
Or how many times did he go out and buy the latest shoes out there instead of going out and buying health insurance?
Because I've seen that way too often when I got into this field, going out to people's houses and they wanted to get some type of insurance.
And when you tell them how much it was, they had the money to afford it.
They just chose not to do it because they wanted to go ahead and buy an expensive car or the latest TV or the latest cell phone.
Yeah, that's big, yeah.
Latest TV.
You got to have your cell phone and the coverage, yeah.
So, you know, that's stuck.
And a tip for the Rodney campaign, and this is me listening to you all these years, is, so he's an unemployed worker.
We're in his contract.
Maybe did he have so many coffee breaks that he had to have during the day that maybe drove the company out of business.
Well, now I don't know that we necessarily want to go that far.
Hey, you got my staff getting nervous all over again.
We just calmed them down.
So you think some people would rather die than pay for their own health care?
No, what I think is that people make poor choices and poor decisions.
And health care is always there.
So whether you can afford it and you have your insurance or you go to the hospital and they see you, and even here in Florida, people can't afford it.
If they're really down on bottom, they got Medicaid.
And if they're a little bit higher up and they can't afford health insurance for the kids, they have Florida Kid Care where they can go that route.
And they're pushing that all the time at Dayton County Public Schools.
All the time they're pushing that for kid care.
That's the dirty little sea.
You're absolutely right.
You're absolutely right.
Look, Martin, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
And you mentioned Elian Gonzalez.
I wonder what he's up to now.
I'll never forget Fidel back during the Elian Gonzalez controversy when Janet Reno flew down here and basically followed that ATF agent into the house and took Elian Gonzalez out of there.
I mean, not physically, sent him back to Cuba.
But during that whole thing, Fidel was talking about his father, Juan Gonzalez.
And Juan Gonzalez, a good worker.
He's a good worker.
He does really good work.
He works well.
He's a good worker.
I'm just cringing when I'm here.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they've turned poor old Elian Gonzalez into a child of the revolution.
Anyway, I have to take a time out here.
Martin, I appreciate the call.
After the program today, folks, I'm talking to Dinesh D'Souza.
Dinesh D'Souza, remember his book, The Roots of Obama's Rage?
His theory is that Obama's father, anti-colonialist, profound impact on Obama.
He's made a movie out of this, The Roots of Obama's Rage, the movie.
And he went over and talked to Obama's brother in the hut as part of the movie.
And the movie is playing the sold-out theaters.
It's opening wide soon.
We're talking to Dinesh today about it.
The name of Dinesh D'Souza's movie, it's a documentary.
It's called 2016 Obama's America.
And the poster for the movie is 2016, Obama's America 2016.
Love him, hate him, you don't know him.
That's clever.
Love him or hate him, you don't know him.
And the film, as it says, have been generating lots of buzz.
The Hollywood Reporter says that people crammed into the Edwards Houston Mark Stadium for Thursday's showing.
Where was it?
Yeah, it was in Houston, Texas.
They had to turn away 200 people, and it opens wide soon.
So he made a documentary off the book that he wrote, The Roots of Obama's Rage.
He actually went over to Kenya and found Obama's brother's hut.
And he interviews Obama's brother.
I don't think they could fit in the hut.
So I think the interview was done outside the hut.
And I'll ask.
I don't know if the brother got paid.
We'll find out after Dinesh if the brother got paid.
If he did, it probably made a huge difference.
Guy lives on a dollar a year or some such thing.
20 bucks would change the guy's life.
He might be able to get a door on the hut.
Anyway, sitting here minding my own business today, and I get a FedEx that's brought into the studio here.
I said, what's that?
It looks like iPad covers.
I said, iPad covers.
I didn't order any iPad covers.
So I opened it up.
It's from an outfit in Roseville, California, which is just up the road from Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
And it's from a company called DeviceWare.
Dear Rush, my name is Robert Dodge, and I'm the owner of DeviceWare.
I'm very excited to see that you recently purchased two iPad cases from our company, which I, a long time, well, a month ago now, I was searching, mass-bought a bunch of iPad covers.
I'm looking for different kinds.
And there were two from this outfit that I bought.
This guy sends a note.
He says, I've been a big fan of yours since 1991.
I even wore a deficit awareness ribbon on my t-shirt much of my sophomore year of high school.
He says, those deficits seem laughable by today's standards.
A deficit awareness ribbon, we premiered, a debut that on Rush the TV show.
He said, your radio TV show books helped give a teenager with very little interest in school something to care about our government and what Bill Clinton was doing with it.
So I went on to UCLA.
I majored in political science.
I became the first person in my family to graduate college.
And I don't think I would have made those choices without your influence.
In the midst of this government-created recession, I decided to get my MBA and I started a new company.
We've had great success and triple-digit growth each year, despite the economy.
He sent me a couple of the cases, the iPad cases with the EIB logo branded into them.
They're black leather and they rotate.
You can have the iPad either horizontally or vertical and slant it at whatever angle you want for the best reading.
And he sent me a couple of these As a thank you with all these nice things to say about how he came to discover everything.
He says, I had two personalized cases made for you.
The EIB logo is a thank you.
Please let me know if you would like some more made up for your iPad giveaways.
We'd be happy to donate the cases.
Just out of the blue, just came in over to Transom.
Yeah, let's see.
There it is.
There's the iPad case with the EIB logo on it.
It is very nice.
And see, that circle back, that's where the Apple icon goes in the back of the iPad.
You open this thing up and you rotate it vertically or horizontally.
And it's what's great about it, it doesn't cover the iPad.
The iPad's totally uncovered, even when you're using it.
There are a lot of good.
This is the second iPad case entrepreneur that has reached out to us.
But this guy's up in Roseville.
His name is Robert Dodge.
Went back to get an MBA in the midst of this economic destruction after majoring in political science.
Anyway, I wanted to acknowledge it.
It was very nice.
Why are you asking me that?
You're trying to get me to stop talking about the ad.
I'm going to pretend you didn't ask the question.
I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear it.
Anyway, oh, DeviceWare also makes Samsung tablet covers.
Nexus covers Kindle and Nook cases, too.
Gee, I hope Apple doesn't sue them.
Just kidding.
Just, okay, here's Ann in Buffalo.
Ann, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi, Rush.
You're right on today.
And just an aside about D'Souza's upcoming show: love him or hate him, you don't know him.
That is so right on.
I just got back from vacation out east.
I was trying to talk to different people about who they were voting for, why they were going to vote for him.
I ran into an old couple, and the woman just sat there and she said, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just love them.
And I said, What do you love about them?
She said, I don't know.
I don't know.
Don't make me talk about this.
I can't talk about this.
I just love them.
And finally, at the end of this conversation.
Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
I want to make sure I'm hearing this right.
Yeah.
She loves the guy, but she doesn't want to talk about it.
Right.
She doesn't know why.
She doesn't want to talk about it.
It was making her sweat to think about it.
But she's.
She's 75 years old.
75 years old.
Yeah.
Anyway, end of the conversation was she said, well, maybe I just won't vote then.
I said, good idea.
All right.
That's the way they handle it.
That is a great catch line.
Love him or hate him.
You don't know him.
That's right.
Yeah.
I tried to tell her a few things about Obamacare, and the door was shut.
There was no way to get through.
I was going to say.
Well, like, give me an example of one thing that you told this woman trying to talk her out of love.
And that's a tough thing to do.
Okay.
Well, I just told her she had been talking about how many operations she got through Medicare in the last two or three years.
Well, that's all you need to tell me.
Well, but it's not the fact she loves Obama.
She loves Democrats.
Obamacare gets into place.
I said, you're not going to get any more operations.
I said, you're going to get a pain pill.
Death panel is what she's going to get.
What she said.
That's exactly it.
Well, what did she say to that?
Yeah.
I told her that.
I told you.
But what did she say?
I told her.
What did she say?
She couldn't talk about it.
She said, I'm starting to sweat here.
I just can't discuss this.
It was flop sweat.
And her husband was there, and I said to him, What is it about Obama that's going to make you vote for him?
And he said, he's going after the 1%.
Yeah.
That was his whole.
You know what?
I don't even think it has anything to do Obama.
I just think they're Democrats.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, listen to this.
The reason I called was your question.
How come people are going to vote for him?
You got to consider the Libs have been in control of education from head start, which incidentally does not have any positive results, to postgraduate education in this country.
Yeah, I know all these answers.
I just, I ask these questions rhetorically.
See, in a, admittedly no such thing, perfect world, I don't understand how these guys would get one vote.
I just, it's not a perfect world, obviously.
I know why people vote for them.
But the people that do are not thinking.
You just illustrated that with this pair of seasoned citizens that you ran into.
Anyway, and I appreciate the call.
Thanks very much.
Got to run.
But before, I got a story here from the UK Guardian.
Every day, I was hoping it was nothing yesterday, but we got controversy at the Olympics, folks.
Controversy at the Olympics.
London 2012 Organizing Committee investigating how a bucket of unofficial condoms found its way into the Olympic village without official consent.
The Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan tweeted a photograph of the bucket of unofficial condoms, which featured a sign reading kangaroos condoms for the gland down under and a picture of a boxing kangaroo.
Now, I'm wondering how many people in this audience are asked, what do you mean unofficial condoms?
There was a story before the games began, a couple weeks before, in, I think it was the New York Post.
It might have been the New York Daily News.
I forget where it was.
I read so much every day, but it was a prominent publication by a former Olympian describing what goes on in the Olympic village.
And it's nothing but a wild, endless sex booze party romp.
And it was a woman that wrote this.
You got the best athletes in the world, most of them finely tuned, perfectly sculpted bodies, the best athletes in the world, and you throw them together for two weeks.
Now, what do you think is going to happen?
The first thing that you see when you walk in the Olympic Village, there literally are bowls of condoms all over the place.
A friend of mine told me that her daughter, 22 years old, heard about this and was just crestfallen.
Thought that the Olympic athletes were the epitome of morality and virtue.
Didn't smoke, didn't drink, had no vices.
That was part of being a good athlete, she thought.
And saw this stuff and saw that this article was written by somebody who says that basically what goes on there is debauchery.
And as an athlete gets closer to the end of his or her event, that's when it really breaks loose.
For example, the swimming for the most part ended over the weekend.
Those people, according to this story, haven't come up for air yet this week.
And as the events end, they just, and as you get closer to the end of the whole games, it's an orgy because they know that the days are dwindling and they got to get back to real life.
Nothing but hookups.
Nobody falls in love with these things.
That's not the point.
Don't want to do that.
You don't want to walk away from there with any ties.
All you want is notches in your belt.
Do you remember Snerdley back during the 80s, back when we actually had an enemy in the Olympics?
I mean, that's when they were really good.
The Soviet Union and the East Germans and so forth.
Now we need Al-Qaeda to have a team if we're to really replicate those days.
Maybe the Muslim Brotherhood have a team.
Right now we don't have an enemy like that anymore.
Back, you remember the figure skater in the Winter Olympics, Katharina Witt?
She was a Stasi agent.
Or she reported, she informed for the Stasi, which was the East German secret police.
And even after the Berlin Wall came down, she was still active.
Her controller still tapped her for whatever she was doing.
I don't even know where she is now.
But my point, there was a big, big story.
There was some skier back then from Italy named Alberto Tomba.
And the media tried to put those two together as almost an immaculate conception.
It's sort of like when Andrew Cuomo married one of the Kennedy babes.
Media went nuts over that, folks.
They're going to throw the Bible away with that marriage.
But she was a secret agent, an informant for the Stasi, for the secret police.
Let me take a brief time now.
Sit tight.
We'll be back and continue before you know it.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time.
Just for today, however, we've got our usual 21-hour break and then back tomorrow at it, revved up, and ready to go.
Thank you so much for being with us today.
It's always a thrill and a delight, genuine pleasure to be able to be here and discuss all these things with you.
And can't wait for tomorrow.
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