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Aug. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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I just uh people start to ask me if I'm going to convention.
When's the last time I went to a convention?
No, I did it with 1992, it was in Houston.
That's a last convention.
I mean, I'm too famous.
I can't go to these things any.
No.
I mean, I I I could go for a cocktail party or dinner, but I can't go to the actual convention.
Anyway, I'm not going.
Do you know the networks are going to televise only one hour each night?
Not the not the cable nets, the ABC's CBS and MBC, one hour, 10 to 11 p.m. each night.
And I'll tell you who actually started that, David Brinkley is the guy saying, you know, nothing happens to these things anymore.
Back back in Kansas City, 76, that convention, they have a big knockdown drag out between Gerald Ford and Reagan, and that was you couldn't you couldn't get the networks out of there.
Every night it was rockin' and roll.
I lived in Kansas City at the time.
But once the nominees chosen weeks before the VEP is named, and nothing happens.
As far as the networks are concerned, it isn't really news.
And what's going to happen?
You're going to have 10 to 11 p.m. coverage.
And the journalists slash analysts, the pundits, they're going to be talking all through the speeches with their comments and commentary, laughing and making fun of the Republicans.
That'll uh that'll be what's happening.
Anyway, Irene, you know, it turns out that Irene from Southern California was right.
A year ago, the New York Times compared Paul Ryan's plan with what the federal government workers in Congress has.
It was a story on April 18th, 2011.
They note that Ryan has said the same thing in an op-ed piece, the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Ryan wrote, starting in 2022, new Medicare beneficiaries will be enrolled in the same kind of health care program members of Congress enjoy.
Now the New York Times story, I just had a quick scan it.
They try to nitpick what they say are uh differences.
It looks pretty much like Ryan's plans very close to, if not identical, to what Congress has.
And here is what Ryan wrote.
This is from his Wall Street Journal op-ed from last year.
Starting in 2022, new Medicare beneficiaries will be enrolled in the same kind of health care program that members of Congress enjoy.
Future Medicare recipients will be able to choose a plan that works best for them from a list of guaranteed coverage options.
It's not a voucher program, it's a premium support model.
A Medicare premium support payment would be paid by Medicare to the plan chosen by the beneficiary, subsidizing the cost.
So there's Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz out there calling it a voucher program, this and that.
Nothing she said about it is accurate.
Now it's interesting to note, and this ABC, a poll of seasoned citizens, Paul Ryan, moved in his favor from a 28-28% favorable unfavorable view to 4628 favorable this weekend among seasoned citizens.
An ABC poll.
If you go to Ryan's district in Wisconsin, it's a district that has voted for every Democrat president.
Well, might be a couple of exceptions.
a very Democrat district.
He wins it, hands down.
The support he has from seasoned citizens in his district is over the top.
So when the seasoned citizens have had a chance to hear him explain the details of his plan, they love it.
They're cool with it.
But this ABC poll, Ryan's gone from 28-28 favorable, unfavorable, to 46-28?
Over the weekend with senior citizens?
Here's Obama two days in a row in Iowa.
Wayne Allen Root.
By the way, this is a good idea.
Wayne Allen Root.
This is the guy who went to Columbia with Obama.
The Las Vegas bookmaker.
He's got a column today.
His idea is that Paul Ryan should shadow Obama.
Wherever Obama goes, hours later or the next day, Ryan shows up.
Same place Obama spoke.
Get to get a crowd in there and simply refute everything Obama says.
Just shadow him.
Wherever Obama goes, Ryan follows.
I love that idea.
Do you know what that would do to Obama?
No matter where he went, he knows the next day Ryan shows up.
No matter how secret he keeps his agenda, he at some point has to show up.
I love the idea.
And then there's this from the Washington Examiner.
recent frantic email theme to supporters from Team Obama about Romney's runaway fundraising success has been expanded to the crowd size gap between the thousands who rushed out over the weekend to see Romney and Ryan and the hundreds who cheered on Obama.
The big worry expressed in a new email from Chicago headquarters, the Republican base is energized.
and they cite Romney Ryan drawing 15,000 here 1500 there Biden in North Carolina 660 people the other day Obama in Chicago hundreds and even a New York Times reporter Jody Cantor tweeted that there were empty seats all over the place at a Chicago fundraiser where the price was 51 bucks and
Obama couldn't even fill it then and of course the rest of her journalist buddies got all over her upset with her for doing that.
Now folks stop what you're doing and and and look at me here for a second there are two stories out today one in the Hill.com the other at the politico they essentially say the same thing Republican strategists are worried that Paul Ryan's addition to the presidential ticket will cost their party House and Senate seats this fall their concern Democrats
will successfully demonize Ryan's budget plan, which contains controversial spending cuts and changes to Medicare.
If we are to believe this, what's happening is that, and by the way, not one of these Republicans in either story is named.
And they say that they don't want to be named because they want to be able to be fully, 100% honest with no recriminations.
Not one name.
the politico talks about 30 of them the Hill.com not that many and the stor but no matter either the hill of the political story of the same there are unnamed Republican strategists unnamed Republican campaign consultants unnamed Republican managers who are just petrified that Ryan is such a bad pick
that he's going to lose the Senate any chance of the Republicans winning the Senate and may cause the Democrats to win the House now here's the question is this true or is this a story that the Hill.com and the politico have had waiting in the drawer for any nominee,
and then they just plug in the name and change some of the reasons.
Because have we ever seen any articles in the Hill.com or the Politico or anywhere else in the drive-by media about how Obamacare would hurt the Democrats in 2010.
Did we ever see such a story?
Were there nameless Democrats who called up the Hill dot com and the politico and said, hey, I don't want to go on record here with my name, but let me tell you something.
We're going to get creamed.
This Obamacare is going to destroy us.
I'm really worried we're going to lose the House in 2020.
Did we ever see that story?
We never do, do we?
We never see stories where unnamed Democrat consultants are worried that something Obama's doing or Biden's doing or that they're doing together is going to really, really be problematic.
Really, really hurt the Democrats.
We got this story after Palin was nominated.
Except now we know the names.
We know with Palin it was happening.
We know that there were Republicans undermining her from the day she was nominated.
There were Republicans who were assigned to her during that campaign who tried to undermine her.
There were people on the Republican side who helped spread this idea that she was adult.
So it is believable to me on one level that we have some Republicans who are worried about Ryan, but they're really not worried that he's going to cause us to lose the Senate.
And they're really not worried that he's going to cause us to lose the House.
What they're worried is that the conservative wing of the party is going to be able to lay claim to victory here.
And that they, these unnamed establishment Republican consultants and what have you, they are the ones who are going to lose their positions of power and influence because they aren't on board with this.
So I don't for a moment.
This, the Republican Party, you and I both know it.
We have in it some saboteurs.
We know it from four years ago.
We know that the Republican establishment is made up of many people who dislike conservatives almost as much as the Democrats do.
We've talked about it on this program.
We have provided for you evidence of this.
We know that this is one of the fundamental battles that was going on during the whole primary season, in fact.
But that doesn't automatically make these stories true.
Here they are happening on the same day.
No names.
But a bunch of Republican strategists and consultants that the Politico reporters and the Hill reporters are buddy-buddy with.
These people feel comfortable enough with these reporters to call them up and say, "You know what?
I'm really worried.
It's horrible.
Going to lose everything.com story starts.
Republicans strategists are worried that Ryan's addition to the ticket will cost their party house and Senate seats this fall.
They're concerned, Democrats will successfully demonize Ryan's budget plan, which contains controversial spending cuts and changes to Medicare.
Let me tell you something.
Obamacare is 15,000 times as unpopular as Ryan's plan is.
If these Republicans actually exist, and if this is actually true, if they are actually calling and making these, they need to be ashamed.
Do they not know?
Why do they not understand it's Obama and the Democrats who are the opposition?
What's in it for them, for the Democrats to win?
And when you answer that question, Then you'll have an idea what's going on.
What's in it for these Republicans for the Democrats to win?
And make no mistake, there are Republicans happy to be losers.
If it keeps them in the money, in positions of power in a second-tier party, as opposed to out of power in a first-tier party.
I I where are these 30?
Do the Republicans even have 30 strategists who are saboteurs?
I know we got some.
Do we have that many?
Haven't they all joined that no labels crowd by now?
Maybe that's where they're coming from.
They're not identified.
We don't know.
The Hill store even mistakenly puts Ryan at the top of the ticket twice in terms of the fears that the GOP strategists have.
So I just wanted to alert you.
I just wanted to warn you.
We make the mistake of thinking that got an R by the name that we're all on the same team, and we're not.
I was talking about it last week.
You know, Byron York called me.
So how come when Andrea is so screwed up, you guys called her out on it?
Democrats never do that.
When Harry Reid goes out and makes a fool of himself, uh, or Dan Radder makes a fool of himself, Democrats all circle the wagons and defend our people.
How come you don't do that?
Well, because we're not unified.
They are.
They have one purpose.
The Democrats exist for one reason to beat us.
Folks, this is profoundly important.
You may think it's simplistic, but it isn't.
The Democrat Party is made up of many different constituency groups.
You got the environmentalist wackos, you got the feminazis, you got big labor, you have it, but they all have their own separate interests, and sometimes they conflict, but they remain unified despite their conflicting objectives.
How do they stay unified?
One objective that they all share is wipe us out.
Because if there's no opposition, they will all get what they want.
And so their number one enemy is us, conservatives and most Republicans.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's the cohesive substance.
Their absolute hatred of us winning.
They can't that's why they hang together.
But the Republican Party is not so oriented.
Republican Party does not think that its primary objective is to wipe out Democrats.
So we're not unified as they are.
Let's take a break.
Sit tight, we're coming back.
Don't go away.
Here is an excerpt from the political piece.
They gave you an excerpt of the Hill.com piece.
Here's the political piece.
There is an unmistakable consensus among Republican operatives.
Unmistakable consensus among Republican operatives in Washington.
Romney has taken a risk with Ryan that has only a modest chance of going right and a huge chance of going horribly wrong.
Maybe it's time we hired some other Republican operatives and sent these operatives packing.
Talking about being on them on the wrong page.
Listen to this soundbite, folks.
November 9th, 2009.
This is Obama's first year.
And he's being interviewed by our old buddy Jacob Tapper at ABC News.
And they're talking about Medicare cuts in Obamacare.
Listen to this.
One of the concerns about health care and how you pay for it, one-third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.
Right.
A lot of times, as you know, what happens in Congress is somebody will do something bold and then Congress, close to election season, will undo it.
Right.
You saw that with the doc fix.
Right.
Are you willing to pledge that whatever cuts in Medicare are being made to fund health insurance, one third of it, that you will veto anything that tries to undo that?
Yes.
I actually have said that it is important for us to make sure this thing is deficit neutral without tricks.
I said I wouldn't sign a bill that didn't meet that criteria.
Here is Obama admitting the $700 billion in Medicare cuts.
Our old buddy, Jacob Tamper, asks him head on.
What are the concerns about health care and how you pay for it?
One third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.
Obama, right.
So are you willing to pledge whatever cuts in Medicare are being made to fund health insurance?
That you'll veto anything, tries to undo those cuts?
Yes.
Right here it is.
Obama admitted to our old buddy, Jacob Tapper at ABC News.
He was cutting $700 billion out of Medicare.
And swore to keep it in there.
By the way, you notice how Obamacare is no longer deficit neutral.
It's gonna blow a trillion dollar hole in the budget next year.
And uh wonder if Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz likes her health care plan because it's Paul Ryan's plan.
We've since learned that the option you get if you opt out of Medicare under Ryan's plan is the same plan that Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz has.
Okay, gotta take a break.
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I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program and hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Congratulations on your anniversary month.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Um you know, this morning I was watching some of the morning news shows, and they were questioning Romney's motivation for selecting Ryan.
Right.
And they were saying that it might be that it was desperation.
And I say, Obama Loney.
I like that's what Romney called it.
Yes.
The Romney team, I think, is focused on the ballots, not on the views of the media or the polls, but on the ballots of the last two years.
The 2010 election and the Wisconsin recall vote election.
And where have the voters been voting?
In the last two years.
Right?
Well, you mean Wisconsin?
Wisconsin and the 2010 election.
Where have the voters been going?
Oh, I thought you said where have they been voting?
They have been going anti-Obama.
Every chance they've had, they've been going anti-Obama.
Exactly.
They want fiscal responsibility, truth-telling leaders, balancing the budget.
And that's exactly the way Romney and Ryan are positioning themselves.
I don't think this is a desperation pick at all.
I think this is a governance pick.
Exactly.
I think this is a pick that presumes they're gonna win.
Mm-hmm.
I think this is a pick that makes this a serious campaign.
I think this is a cut as a pick that brings issues to the forefront, ideas to the forefront.
I don't think there's anything desperate about this.
Exactly.
And I think it is a strength to Romney, because I think strong leaders pick strong people.
I think it elevates Romney even more.
Well, I'll tell you that's who he is.
Romney, God bless the guy, is energized himself on these campaign appearances now.
Yeah.
Romney is fired up.
I mean, they got a they got standing room only crowd right now in Colorado to see Paul Ryan.
Uh it's it's the I this enthusiasm is is uh it's great to see.
And I you know you talk about the 2010 midterms Wisconsin.
I I have this, and I've Had it for a while this sense, but our voters just can't wait to get these chains off and get to the ballot box.
They want November to be here tomorrow.
And the Democrat voters are not like that at all.
Look at Obama picked.
Obama picked a buffoon.
This guy, folks, I think this Ryan pick has really rattled bite me.
He's out there, he's in um uh where was he either in Virginia or North Carolina?
He's in Virginia.
I think we can win North Carolina.
While he's in Virginia, he says that.
I think we can win North Carolina.
He doesn't even know where he is.
He insulted Ryan's dad the other day.
Well, Ryan's dad died at 15, and uh uh Biden said, you know, I really enjoy people influencing their fathers.
I know Congressman Ryan says he uh learned a lot from his dad.
Well, let me tell you about my dad.
You go to my dad, you start talking about values, and my dad is, I don't want to hear about your values.
Let me see your budget.
I can tell you everything you want to know about your values if I see your budget.
What the hell?
Uh to talk about influenced by father.
It was just, it was, it was it was very cold.
Ryan's dad died when he was 15.
And then that comment about my dad, he didn't he didn't want you talk about your values.
He wanted to see your budget.
Well, what the hell is that?
Household budget, family budget, federal budget.
Joe, you guys don't have a budget.
I don't know what he's talking about.
He's a he's a legitimate buffoon, and then earlier, earlier today, this is this morning, grab somebody 24 in Danville, Virginia.
The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, a campaign event, and there are a lot of African Americans in this audience.
They said it.
Every Republican's voted for it.
Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing.
Romney wants to let the he said in the first hundred days, he's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules.
Unchain Wall Street.
They're going to put y'all back in chains.
They're going to put y'all back in chains.
He says to a predominantly black audience.
I'm gonna put y'all back in chains.
And of course, three, oh, that's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
Sees a guy in a wheelchair.
Stand up, Chuck, let him say, oh God bless you.
Oh, God, what have I done?
Everybody stand up for Chuck.
Say walking buffoon.
And Obama knows it.
They all know it.
But it's getting the point it's too late to do anything about it.
Well, is uh Obama gonna be in chains?
That's a good question.
Good question.
Is Ryan gonna put chains back on Obama?
Michelle Obama.
By the way, you hear what Michelle did.
Gabby Douglas is on a leno.
I think we've got this.
Let me find this.
We've got the soundbite here somewhere.
Uh Gabby Douglas was on the Leno Show.
Tonight show.
Here it is.
Grabs number 22.
You gotta hear the gold medal gymnast, Gabby Douglas.
She's on the tonight show with Michelle my Bell Obama.
Leno says, Gabby, after you won your gold medal, how did you celebrate?
What did you do?
After the competition, I splurged on uh egg McMuffin out of Gabby.
We don't don't encourage him.
I'm sure it was on a whole week McMuffin.
And a whole week vont.
You're setting me back, Gabby.
Sorry.
Get on get on our gymnast for eating an egg McMuffin on the tonight show.
I crush it like jocularity there, Roger lighthearted.
Don't make too much of it.
Well, I think that's where you misunderstand these people.
Of all things to say to this woman, Debbie, you're setting me back, babe, or Gabby, you're setting me back, babe.
It's an egg McMuffin is some kind of transgression that needs to be called out.
And yes, it does.
And then you had Barack.
Do you hear what he said the other day?
Michelle told me that I can't eat a fried Twicky.
He said this in Iowa.
Said it yesterday.
Michelle told me I can't eat a fried Twinkie.
A, who would?
I have you ever eaten a fried Twinkie.
Are they?
Fried Twinkies?
Well, you would know you eat fried cheese.
I love that vegan diet.
Uh, but okay, so Michelle won't let him eat fried twinkies.
Here is the leader of the free war.
Michelle won't let me eat fried Twicky.
He does it anyway.
He does it anyway.
That's why he leaves the White House.
Head to the nearest hell.
This guy wolf's egg McMuffins and burgers left and right.
This is his wife jumping on our Olympic gold medal champion for having an egg McMuffin.
Who's next?
Kristen in uh Virginia.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's wonderful to talk to you.
I have loved you since I was a teenager back in the eighties.
I was actually first introduced to you through your television show.
Well.
And I've been a fan ever since.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Well, the reason I was calling was I got to thinking about something you said earlier about the fact that Obama is waging war on seniors, and it seems like we're hearing that a lot.
He's waging war on seniors, he's waging war on women.
I want to know when we're just gonna stop generalizing it and say the actual truth.
Obama is waging a war on America, period.
He is waging a war on every American who loves freedom, loves liberty, loves the Constitution, and wants us to remain a constitutional republic and not turn into a communist state where we're all completely dependent upon the federal government of the United States and on him.
Let me ask you a question.
When was the last time you ate an egg McMuffin?
Um actually I don't like them, but I do love McDonald's, and I actually just finished a huge burger from Wendy's.
No lie, that's the truth.
Okay.
Now when you say that Obama's waging a war on America, do you mean to imply, or are you stating directly that it I mean, if you're waging war, that's not something that's accidentally happens.
Are you suggesting that this is a purposeful uh set of policies that are designed to harm America?
That is exactly what I am saying.
That is what I believe he came into office to do.
That is what everyone in my entire family who is and we're all devout conservative Republicans, we've never voted any other way, has been saying for years that his policies are in intentionally destroying our freedom and our constitution and our republic has been.
When you when you say this to people uh who um are not as into all this as you are, what is their reaction?
I know you do say it.
What what's the reaction you get from people?
Depending on their individual beliefs, some agree with me, some believe he's guided, and of course others think that I'm just I'm being difficult or that's a good thing.
Yeah, but is it is it that they think you're nuts or that they just can't believe that a president would would actually want to do the things he's doing.
Is it really that they just can't believe people who know me are gonna say, oh, well, that's not that's not what he's trying to do.
The people who don't know me just think I'm being some conspiracy theor theory wacko.
Right.
But what I'm asking is, and that's not about you here.
What I'm asking you is those people who think you're a wacko or just disagree with you, Whatever.
Is it because they have such a um respectful notion of the office of the presidency that they just can't conceive that any president would not love this country?
They just can't conceive that, right?
No, no, they can't.
They cannot believe that anyone would come in with the intention to take a country and take its 2004 history and the city.
That's why they think you're a cook.
It's not that they think you're a cook from beginning to it's because they can't imagine.
They can't get their arms around the notion that any president would not love this country, that any president would not want job creation and a growing economy.
They can't understand it.
And they don't want to believe it either.
That's another thing.
They don't want to.
Anyway, uh I appreciate the call.
I have to take a quick break here.
We are up against it on time again, and I'll uh be back before you know it.
Don't go away.
How are you, Rush Limbaugh?
Talent on loan from God.
It wasn't it wasn't just Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz who got in trouble on the CNN.
It's Soledad O'Brien, twice in two days.
I think it was last night, Soledad O'Brien or some some yeah, last night, she was interviewing, she's substituting for Anderson Cooper.
She's interviewing Barbara Comstock, well-known Republican consultant, strategist and so good conservative all that, who's now an elected official, I think, in Virginia.
Yes, Virginia House of Delegates.
And all during the questioning of Barbara Comstock, Soledad O'Brien was consulting pieces of paper.
And eagle-eyed viewers did a start-stop, expanded zoomed in, and found out that she was actually questioning Barbara Comstock with talking points from a blog called a Talking Points Memo, a well-known left-wing blog.
And she was reading the myth of Paul Ryan, the bipartisan leader from that blog.
She never cited it.
She used its contents.
She claimed to be reading a direct statement from Ron Wyden's office.
Ron Wyden's out there trying to distance himself from Ryan.
He was the co-sponsor of Ryan's budget, including the Medicare reforms, but now he's out there under orders from the Democrat to distance himself from it and to say he never signed on to this.
Yeah, no, never, never did.
So Soledad O'Brien was giving it up.
There was no journalism going on.
She just didn't even know what she's talking about.
She's got blog posts and questions being posed for her by these blogs.
When she talks to a Democrat, she has no pieces of paper, she needs no guidance, no assistance, no help, whatever.
Then today, this morning on her own show, she had Sununu on they were talking about Medicare, Obama.
She said to Sunu, you know, I understand this is a Republican talking point because I've heard it repeated over and over again.
These numbers, they've been debunked, you know.
They don't buy them a cut Medicare.
This is this is not true.
And you know it, Mr. Sununu.
I have the Congressional Budget Office report right here.
I can tell you what it says.
Yes, it cuts a reduction in the expected rate of growth, which you know, not cutting budgets to the elderly, benefits will be improved.
The focus is on the focus of the city.
And the fact is that he reduces services.
Soledad, stop this.
All you're doing is mimicking the stuff that comes out of the White House and gets repeated on the Democratic blog boards out there.
If you're gonna mount the case, I'm telling you what traffic.com tells you.
I'm gonna tell you what the CBO tells you.
I'm telling what CNN's independent.
And I'm telling you what it says.
I've read it several times.
Put a mama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this.
Thanks.
Put an Obama sticker on your forehead when you do this.
She's she's been nailed twice.
And this is another reason.
CNN, if you want to know why nobody's watching.
I mean, you want the names?
Candy Crowley, Soledad O'Brien.
What makes you think that I mean you you you want to make the claim that you guys are objectively in the middle?
Soledad O'Brien's doing McCarthyism.
Charlie McCarthy is she is a puppet.
Somebody's mouthing for her.
She doesn't know what to ask unless she goes to a liberal blog for guidance.
Has to print it out and use it on the air.
And she's one of their stars.
Anyway.
Brief time out again, folks, but much more straight ahead next on the EIB network.
Now, of course, Sununu was dead right, and Soledad O'Brien had no clue what she was talking about because she was reading from a biased, bloated blog.
Congressional Budget Office.
July 24th of this year, just a month ago, Obamacare includes $741 billion in cuts to Medicare.
Congregational Budget Office.
And that's what Sununu had.
He was reading to her.
She was clueless.
Talking Points blog did not say that.
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