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Aug. 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 9, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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I think I'm going to shut it down, Snerdly.
I got too many idiotic all-over-the-ballpark comments here.
Now, the email.
I just did, I'm just all over the ballpark idiocy.
And Snerdley sees me in here looking frustrated and practically throwing stuff.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, great to have you.
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushbaugh at EIBNet.com, Pueblo, Colorado.
I once remember got in big trouble shortly after this program began back in 1988 because I well, they thought I was making fun of them out there.
I thought all Pueblo, Colorado was a post office box.
Because at the time, every government agency, if you wanted something from the government agency, you were supposed to send a P.O. box in Pueblo, Colorado to get it.
And I found out that actual people lived there and they were indignant.
I had to ban calls from there for a while.
They were so mad.
That was shortly after we banned calls from Reno simply because people there were stupid.
I even wrote that up in the Reno Gazette.
Anyway, Obama, in a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, said, and over the next three months, you will see more negative ads, more money spent than you've ever seen in your life.
I mean, these super PACs, these guys are writing $10 million checks and they're giving them to Mr. Romney's supporters.
And basically, they all have just the same argument.
They all say the same thing.
They say the economy is bad and it's Obama's fault.
So this is what they did.
Obama's out there now complaining about Romney's super PAC while his own super PAC is calling Romney a murderer.
And of course, the question then arises again: is it working?
And a lot of people, Grab, in fact, Grab Audio Somebody 16.
There is this ongoing theory that it's working.
I myself, El Rushbo, I fear, have contributed to the mindset that it works because I have said so in various analytical ways all week long, starting out on Monday.
And I have noted the number of people writing pieces now on blogs.
Oh, yeah, and all this work, and it's very works well.
It's still working.
And what do we do to stop it?
It's all working.
And one of the ways that you can determine whether or not it's working, how many news outlets are reporting that the price of gas has gone up by more than 30 cents in the last month?
That the price of gasoline, the average price of gasoline, is higher than it was this time last year.
How many people are reporting in the news media the retail sales or wholesale sales figures, which are plummeting?
In fact, an umbrella question.
How many stories are you seeing, period, about the economy?
In fact, maybe I have it here near the top.
You know, a lot of, well, I'm going to be very, very careful here.
A lot of, what's the correct word?
Let's see.
Shall we say slow?
A lot of, that's still not right.
Just a lot of idiots get their news from Yahoo.
So what I thought I would do, I'm going to give you the top 10 news stories on Yahoo today.
Headlines.
They have this thing that they run from the AP called the 10 Things to Know for Thursday.
The 10 Things to Know for Tuesday, the 10 Things to Know for Wednesday, and so on.
And here are today's 10 things to know for Thursday from AP on Yahoo.
One, clashes rage in Al Pedo despite regime claims.
Where?
What is, where is, I'm sorry, Aleppo, but still, where is it?
I know it's in Syria.
I'm saying, how many, do you think the average Yahooite has the slightest idea where Aleppo is?
Do you think the average Yahooite knows where Damascus is?
Okay, if they don't know where Damascus is, how in the hell are they going to know where Aleppo is?
That's number one.
Clashes rage in Aleppo despite regime claims.
Number two, Obama won't wait for Romney's pick to trash possible VP candidates.
Number three, murder trial ends for wife of disgraced Chinese politician.
Number four, news groups head to court for release of data on Colorado shooter.
Number five, why livestock ranchers are at odds with corn farmers.
Did you know that, folks?
Did you know anything?
A murder trial ends for number four for a wife of a disgraced THICOM politician.
Snird, you live on the APY every day.
I know you know.
I'm asking you to put yourself in the shoes of the average Yahooite or whatever you call them.
Number six, dry summer is bad news for bears.
Number seven, how Japan marked this 10 things to know for Thursday.
AP via Yahoo.
Number seven, how Japan marks the 67th anniversary of the Nagasaki A-bomb attack.
It doesn't, I'm just reading the headlines.
I don't know how probably a mayor of an American city is over there apologizing.
I don't know.
When I lived in Sacramento, there was a mayor there named Anne Rudin, and she wouldn't, she did she go or did she want to go?
I don't remember which.
But she wanted to go over there and apologize.
Number eight, man accused of killing and Hasidic boy expected to plead guilty.
Number nine, Japanese women's soccer team hopes to repeat its World Cup victory.
And number 10, with Bolt and Blake running, some ask, who's going to get the bronze?
Right?
Number 10, AP, top things to know, who the hell is going to get a bronze medal?
Not gold, not silver, but who's going to get the bronze?
Number three, murder trial ends for wife of disgraced Chinese.
So in the top 10 things to know at Yahoo via AP, not one thing, now admittedly nothing about Romney either, but not one thing about the U.S. economy.
Not one thing about jobs.
In fact, this is Thursday, and it's job revision day, and there is a jobs story out today, and the Reuters people, story high, so they try to make it look pretty good.
But not even that's being reported because they know it's a bunch of, it's BS.
They're all still focused on Romney killing this guy's wife.
So on that basis, just is it working?
Is it working?
Where are the stories on gasoline prices?
What was the Democrat message in 2006?
You remember the midterm election is 2006.
The message in 2006 was the economy is bad and it's all Bush's fault.
What was the Democrat message in 2008?
The economy is bad and it's all Bush's fault.
In the Quinnipiac poll, and there was a Quinnipiac poll last week.
I'll never forget that.
You know, these polls come out and I go to blogs and I look, I see the most serious, detailed, hand-wringing analysis.
Last week's Quinnipiac poll was the one that had a Democrat sample of plus 11.
And when that poll came out, of course, it had Obama winning big in three important swing states.
But then people observed that the sample of that poll was inordinately high with Democrats.
So I go to some blogs and I find out, well, wait a minute now.
That may not matter.
This poll could be right on the money.
This poll could be real problems for Romney.
Because even though the Democrat sample is high, then I got all this esoteric, mind-boggling BS to tell me, and anybody else reading the blog, why we need to be concerned about the Quinnipiac poll.
Because, yeah, even though the sample's high, that poll's got some really rotten bad news for Romney in it.
I wouldn't start jumping on this poll because the Democrat samples too.
That was the message last week.
If you bothered to get into it as I do.
Well, guess what?
Ladies and gentlemen, there's a Quinnipiac poll out.
Got Romney ahead of Obama by four points.
Really?
Well, what happened to last week?
These guys in these blogs were suicidal.
You need steel boundaries to expose yourself to this stuff because what you're also doing is exposing yourself to everybody's roller coaster emotions.
And you have to be able to insulate yourself from being affected by it.
Last week, half the Republican conservative blogosphere was ready to throw in the towel because of the Quinnipiac poll.
Now we've got a new one that has Romney up.
Oh, take it.
Wait, I'm sorry.
I've been misinformed.
That was a Rasmussen poll that has Romney ahead.
Okay, take it all back.
Take it all back.
It was not the Quinnipiac poll.
It's the Rasmussen.
Okay, so we're still to be depressed.
Take it back.
It's okay to go back to being suicidal because the Quinnipiac poll still stands.
It's the Rasmussen poll that has this Romney.
But Rasmussen always has Romney up.
Well, you might say that the negative stuff isn't working because the Rasmussen poll has Romney ahead.
You might also say that the negative stuff isn't working because even the polls where Obama's ahead, it's close.
It's margin of error close.
So you could say that the negative stuff isn't working because if it really were working, Romney would be at 30% of the polls, like they were able to get Bush down to.
But then when you do that, you're throwing all your eggs in the poll and believing everything the poll says, which is also a dangerous thing to do right now.
The election isn't today.
Anyway, let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and we will resume with your calls after this.
I'm sorry about this Quinnipiac stuff, folks.
I was misinformed on that.
We'll be back after.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones and to Chicago.
This is Carol.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, I'm so excited to be talking to you.
I can't believe I got through.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I drive in my car and I listen to you, and I'm like constantly yelling at the radio every day, so I'm glad I have my time to speak.
What are you usually yelling at when you're yelling at the radio?
I'm just frustrated, and every four years I get more and more stressed out when it comes to this political arena.
No, you're not so much yelling at me, you're yelling about the things I'm discussing.
Right, exactly.
I'm very engaged.
Anyway, two points that I wanted to make.
I worked in government for a long time, and my first day on the job, a very astute co-worker said two things about working in government.
The first thing is, never legitimize that which is illegitimate.
And the second thing was, you have to be like Teflon.
And so people are going to throw things at you, and you just have to let them bounce off.
And so, in a lot of ways, I think that by lowering himself to even talking about these ads that they're putting on and all this trash that they're throwing at Romney, you know, it just brings us down to their level.
So, what do you think about that?
Well, look, I've been through this countless times over the years.
There are all these schools of thought.
I'll tell you what happened to me when I first started this show, 1988, National.
It wasn't long before places all over the country, I was seeing stories about me being a racist, a bigot, just I'm neither.
Nobody has ever known me, thinks I hate anybody, or I'm a bigot or racist, or any of that.
And nobody prepared me for it.
I didn't have the brains enough to realize that it was going to happen.
So it was all a big surprise.
And then the dilemma hit: what do I do about this?
And there were as many different suggestions as there were people I spoke to.
And a lot of people had your theory.
You can't react to that.
You react to that, you're just legitimizing it, and they're going to think they got under your skin.
They're going to go more.
They're just, they're going to go, oh, Limbo's responding.
It must bother him.
It must be true.
They're just going to pile on.
Then other people, you can't let them say that about you.
You can't just ignore you.
If you let this racist charge stick, you're going to have to get destroyed.
They're going to be able to wipe you out.
And then other people would have their theories.
And it went on for four years.
And I tried everything.
I tried everything.
And it's 24 years later and it hasn't stopped.
So there is no way to stop it, bottom line.
So then the question becomes: if it's not going to stop, if it's going to be continual, if it is now a part of my career, what I had to do, and this is really something I had no preparation for.
There was nobody that talked to me about this or warned me.
I don't know that there was anybody who could have.
I had to do a major psychological reorientation for myself.
And I had to learn to accept and not just accept, I had to learn to appreciate that being hated was a sign of success.
Now, most people are not raised that way.
Most people don't grow up wanting to be hated.
And most people are not told to be hated.
Everybody's parents tells them to do whatever it takes to be liked.
And everybody wants to be liked.
They want to be liked universally.
They care more about what other people think and say of them than they care about anything.
And here I had to reorient myself and say, the fact that they hate me is a sign of my success.
And then learn to smile about it because it wasn't going to go away.
There was no way to stop it.
As these 24 years have shown.
So that was just for me.
The best piece of advice I ever got, really, came inadvertently and accidentally.
And a guy just said, you know what?
Laugh at it.
Just, that'll drive them crazy.
Just laugh at it and make jokes about it.
So for the most part.
You have to play the game on their playing field.
And, you know, this is what they do.
And so it's hard to, it's frustrating.
It really is.
Well, no.
If you play the game on their playing field, then it's the opposite of the advice you were given.
Right, right.
But it seems like I'm very idealistic.
It's like, you know, put the facts out there, put an agenda out there that's really going to tell people what you're going to do to make changes to this country, and people will listen.
There are very intelligent people in this country that will listen to that.
And understand that.
Hang on just a second.
Since you said that, grab Soundbite 16 real quick.
This is David Rodham Gergen on CNN last night with Anderson Cooper, and he's talking about Obama's dishonest attacks.
And it goes right to what you said, just put your agenda out there.
Just tell people what you're going to do, and they're going to listen.
Here's what Rodham Gergen's theory on that is.
Does it help one of these candidates?
Clearly, the Obama people feel that having a campaign based on this, this is a very different campaign than he conducted four years ago, is helping them.
And if you look over the last few weeks, this was a very close race.
It was a one-point race about three or four weeks ago.
And President Obama has now opened up a lead, especially in some of the Battleground states.
So I think it actually right now is, generally speaking, working in Obama's favor.
He's discrediting Romney in a way that people say, well, I really don't like what Obama's doing, but I can't vote for Romney.
I guess I got to vote for Obama.
Yeah, that's, I can't, I don't like what Obama's doing, but I just can't vote for this Romney guy.
That's the interpretation of the measure of success of the, for example, Romney killing the guy's wife.
Right.
Well, it's too bad.
It's very sad.
I have to say, I think.
Well, I think he's, I disagree.
I don't think Obama's opened up this giant lead here that David Rodham Gergen implies.
And next audio soundbite was last night on Hannity.
Ann Coulter showed up, and she was asked about the return of Sandra Fluck.
You know, Fluck went out there, introduced Obama in Denver as Obama is threatening women.
Romney's going to take you back to the 1950s.
What does that mean, by the way?
For women, what does going back to the 1950s mean?
Is that what it means?
You have to clean your house.
No birth control pills.
You're going to clean the house, wash the dishes, barefoot and pregnant.
That's what that means.
Got to cook for your husband and shut up and like us.
That's what going back to the 50s.
So Obama is saying that's what Romney wants to do.
And then while you finish all that, you've got to take care of the horses.
Okay.
So Hannity said to Ann Coulter, will the return of Sandra Fluck really score points with the voters for Obama?
He is trying to get the stupid single women voters, which is the Democratic Party base.
If Obamacare goes through and Obama is re-elected, you are talking about the total destruction of wealth in America.
It is the end of America as we know it.
There will be no innovation.
There will be no growth.
Great.
You'll get free contraception.
You won't have to pay a $10 copay, but it will be the end of America.
Think about that.
Their base is not women.
It is divorced, separated, single women.
It's women who are looking at the government to be their husbands.
That is the base of the Democratic Party.
Please pay for my childcare, my contraception, my housing, my food.
It's women who don't have a man to provide for them, so they turn to the government.
That's the Democratic Party's base.
Congratulations.
Can you imagine what would happen if I would say that?
I can't, I can't say, well, she's already said it.
I can't say it.
I mean, I could say it, but it's not going to be the same thing as if I had originally said it.
But, well, no, it still wouldn't work because even the lughead drive-bys would know that I'm simply reporting what somebody else says.
But if you could imagine if Ann Coulter had not said it and I came out and said, you know what?
Let me tell you something.
The Democrat Party base, let me tell you what it really is.
It's divorced, separated, single women.
It's women who are looking for government to be their husbands because for whatever reason they can't find a man to provide for them.
That's the base of the Democrat.
If I or any man, if any guy had said that, see, Coulter can get away with it because she's a woman saying it.
Coulter has also said that she thinks the problems with our welfare state, the entitlement state, started the minute women got the vote because women looked to government to be their husbands.
That's what the soccer mom thing was all about, by the way.
You remember the soccer mom phenomenon?
We even said back then that the whole illusion, the soccer mom thing, was that Bill Clinton loved these women more than their own worthless husbands.
And then the soccer moms, that morphed into something else.
But anyway, I just, when I heard this, I wonder, what would happen if I or any other guy said something like this?
And then I'm also wondering, how many women in this audience, hearing Ann Coulter say that, silently agree with her?
Here's Annette Tallahassee, Florida.
You are up next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi.
Hi.
I have a question.
What would that be?
In all of the years between this guy refusing the buyout and getting laid off and his wife passing away from cancer, did he not find a job?
Apparently not.
No, this is Romney's fault.
But you know something I mentioned yesterday.
I want to ask this question again.
The guy didn't have health care, right?
That's what he wants to.
It turns out his wife did.
All this is a lie, but let's just for the sake of it.
If his poor wife didn't have health care, if he didn't have health care, how the hell did she get diagnosed?
Exactly.
I mean, where did she go to get diagnosed?
She thought she had pneumonia, sat around, didn't do anything for a while.
But how did she get diagnosed if she didn't have health care?
See, the point is she had health care.
Whether they had insurance or not, they had health care.
She got diagnosed.
Now, what they did with that information, well, that's their business.
But your question is right on the money.
Six years went by.
Did this guy not try to find another job?
know because that's not part of the story that that doesn't I think he had a job as I very recall a he had a job making $24,000 a year He could have qualified for Medicaid, is the point.
He was a school janitor after the job.
That's what it was.
School janitor after the steel mill shut down, making $24,000.
So he's instant qualifier for Medicaid.
Hello.
Are you still pondering that?
I am.
And this is during a good economy.
And this is when there were plenty of jobs out there.
I'm just wondering why, and she was not pre-existing condition at that point.
I'm just wondering why she didn't have health care.
And she may have been ill, so we don't know the circumstances.
She did have health care for two years from her own job after he was laid off.
She had health care for two years.
She had health insurance for two years after he got laid off.
Yes.
This is what we have subsequently learned.
And this whole thing is made.
This is, if I didn't know better, I said this is right out of Media Matters for America.
This whole thing has been trumped up right out of David Brock's fertile imagination.
Because this has too many similarities to all these other stories that turned out to be totally fake manufactured items that had been created by the Democrats and their allies to create media attention, raise money, whatever.
But the impression left by the ad is wrong in every way.
It is a lie every which way you slice it.
But of course, the big thing is that Romney killed the guy's wife and didn't care.
He wasn't even concerned.
I don't doubt the guy's real.
No, I don't doubt this guy is personally vicious.
He's a union guy for crying out.
I don't doubt that he exists.
I don't think the I just think the whole way that his story has been presented strikes me as artificially manipulated, manufactured, created, and put into the public square the same way all the bogus crap that comes out of Media Matters for America ends up there.
And it always has ties back to Obama or high-ranking Democrats somewhere.
Here's Dave in San Mateo, California.
Hi, Dave.
Glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Rush, what a pleasure to talk to you.
You know, the only thing I can thank Obama for is, you know, because of his arrival on the scene, I started listening to you and, you know, Haven't had a problem with that at all.
In fact, you're the only guy that does this that I can listen to day in and day out.
Yes, I appreciate it.
That's a dual-edged sword, though.
It's a dual-edged sword.
Yeah, well, I know.
It's a burden you have to bear.
I mean, because if somebody said, would you rather have Dave listening or no Obama, I don't know.
No.
No choice.
I'll tell you, you and Ann Coulter last night have been pretty kind about this Democrat woman base description.
And I just want to share something that I've observed.
It seems like there's a huge difference in appearance between the conservative women that I see on TV and liberal women.
So I'd like to add a word to that description, you know, that goes along with unmarried, divorced, single.
You can add ugly to that, too.
Really?
Is that your observation?
Yeah, for the most part.
I mean, look at Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
Look at Hillary Clinton.
There's a whole list of them.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I am reminded of my own undeniable truth of life, number 24, which was feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
I knew you'd understand.
Yeah.
No, it was that undeniable truth, I think.
There were a couple others that really established me undeniably as a great thinker and contributor of great thoughts in our culture.
It's not so much.
Going back to what Coulter said, she says, the base of the Democrat Party is single, divorced, single, divorced, separated women who are looking at the government of their husbands.
What I've always said is that the Democrat Party, via the entitlement culture, set out to become the husband, particularly in minority communities.
I firmly believe that the Democrat Party used the federal government and the welfare system to bust up once the government became the provider for families.
There was no need for the father-slash-husband to hang around.
And the father-slash-husband, in many cases, didn't.
And that's why I've had African Americans tell me that government is responsible for the family bust up in the black community.
And I think the Democrat Party has willingly, in fact, I think, you know, it's a chicken or egg question, which came first, the women who wanted a government to be their husbands or the government deciding to be.
And I've always thought that one of the express purposes of the Democrat Party, modern era, and certainly the American left, was to bring about that.
They want as much dependency as possible, however they can make it happen.
And they've done it.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Dave.
Thanks much.
Acton, Massachusetts, this is Teresa, and it's great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi.
I definitely think you're on to something with regard to Ann Coulter.
I don't think you could have said it originally, but now that she's said it, I think you see it even in the media.
Like, for example, the father figure or strong male figures on TV shows, like even as far back as the Cosby show, they make a lot of the fathers look like they're idiots, like they're dumb and, you know, they're stupid.
And I see it in the culture everywhere.
Did they make Cosby look like an idiot on his show?
Well, not an idiot.
Not so much him, but like, you know, like he'd sneak chocolate cake to the kids.
And I don't know.
I just, I thought at times they made him look like he wasn't.
I don't know, like the Roseanne Barr show.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Not the sensible one.
The father's never the sensible one.
Yeah, it's not like the whole idea of the father knows best or, you know, they don't, that's like the same thing.
That's a great way to put it.
That's a great.
Can you imagine if some network announced they're going to revive Father Knows Best and have a 20, let's say, premiering this fall on ABC, Father Knows Best.
You know what would happen to Bob Iger at ABC?
They would descend on him.
His wife would divorce him.
It would be the end of it.
That's a great way, Teresa, to Father Knows Best.
It would never, ever happen.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
So tonight, the NFL preseason really kicks off.
We got the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Philadelphia Eagles.
And I really don't care.
I don't care to know if it's on TV, whether I can watch it or not.
But I do know that Open Line Friday is headed here, and it'll be here in 21 hours.
And that's what I'm looking forward to.
So we'll see you then.
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