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Aug. 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings folks and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Happy to have you here.
Our telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 28288 to the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
By the way, a little programming note.
Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you probably are aware, every August I have a traditional week ten days away for golf trip to Hawaii.
However, not so this year.
I have canceled that golf trip because of the importance of the busy broadcasts that are necessary from now through election day.
I am I'm gonna be away.
I got some things I have to do uh tomorrow through Monday.
I'll be back next Tuesday.
But this is it for me this week.
So we've got Mark Belling on Wednesday and Thursday, Doug Urbanski on Friday and Monday.
Uh we're gonna get back here next Tuesday, and barring anything unforeseen, that's it straight through.
The uh the election.
Cancel a golf trip, uh no football games, this kind of stuff.
Uh just at least none of it.
I don't think so.
I don't have any football games on the schedule as of now.
Let's look at that's that might be tough to pull off.
I mean, they happen on weekends, it's not a big deal.
But as of now, none of them none of them are on the uh on the on the schedule.
So uh just want to let you know that this is it for me this week.
This I've got some things to do here in lieu of the golf trip.
Still some things that I did during those ten days I gotta take care of, and then we'll be back here uh next Tuesday.
How many times have we heard Obama lately take great credit for saving General Motors and restoring it to number one?
We've heard that.
And we heard him say he wants to do that for every business.
Well, what is that?
You realize this guy, Barack Obama ended up giving the United Auto workers more money than we spend on foreign aid for all of you who are diametrically opposed to the foreign aid budget.
It always comes up during budget discussions, saving money, wasting money, the deficit, oh well to cut out the foreign aid budget, Rush, and some of the other stuff that was just waste of money.
The United Auto Workers got almost twice the amount of money that we spend on foreign aid.
The United Auto Workers receive more in a government transfer of money than the State Department budget.
The United Auto Workers.
And even with all of that, General Motors is not solvent.
Treasury Department says in a new report that the government expects to lose more than $25 billion on the eighty-five billion dollar auto bailout.
That's 15% higher than uh the previous forecast.
In a monthly report sent to Congress last Friday, the regime boosted its forecast of expected losses by more than 3.3 billion dollars.
And the report may still underestimate the losses.
The report covers predicted losses through May 31st, when General Motors stock price was $22 a share.
Now, if you come over here to the Heritage Foundation and their blog The Morning Bell, taxpayers will lose even more on the auto bailout than previously thought, as the Treasury has just revised its uh estimate upward to $25 billion.
And again, this may underestimate the losses to come.
And yet Obama's out there touting the auto bailout as one of the key achievements of his regime.
Now the political recently obtained a draft of planning documents for the Democrat National Convention, and they found a repeated focus on the auto bailout.
Apparently, at the Democrat convention, Obama and the regime are gonna really make a big deal out of this.
It's a big success story.
The draft report that the political got hold of described the objectives of the convention thus.
Tell the story of the president's accomplishments, the auto rescue, manufacturing, ending the wall, health care, energy, as central to his fight for the middle class and America's long-term economic strength.
Now, as the losses continue to grow at General Motors, there is no recovery, there is no this is all bogus.
Heritage Foundation asks, will the president acknowledge that the only people that were truly rescued were the unions.
More than twenty-six billion dollars went out the door and into the pockets of the United Auto Workers.
That is bigger than the budget of the entire State Department.
It's bigger than all U.S. foreign aid spending.
It is 50% more than NASA's budget.
And the UAW isn't going to be exploring Mars or the Moon anytime soon.
These are staggering figures.
A union was given an automobile company and 26 billion dollars.
I hope they do.
I hope Obama, the Democrats, make a big deal out of this at the convention.
I hope they cite this as a success story.
This is an example of how Obama protects the middle class and economic growth.
The automobile rescue, manufacturing, ending the war, and of course health care.
Oh gosh, I hope they bring all that up.
I really do.
Then there this story, folks, this is um.
Well, you tell me for the Associated Press, Penn State University has been put on notice by an accrediting organization that says the university status is in jeopardy based on recent developments in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which accredits universities in the mid-Atlantic region, cited information in the Scruals internal investigation led by Louis Free and the severe penalties imposed with the NCAA.
In an August 8th notice, the Commission said that Penn State remains accredited while on warning, but it wants a monitoring report submitted by the end of next month, detailing steps taken to ensure full compliance with government requirements,
that the university's mission is being carried out, that the commission will be fully informed, and that Penn State is complying with standards on leadership and governance as well as integrity.
We're talking about their accreditation as a university, academic accreditation.
If they lose that, they may as well close down.
There's no reason to be in business.
A degree from Penn State would be meaningless.
It would be worthless.
Losing your academic accreditation, that is the worst thing that could ever happen to a college.
Now why would they lose their academic accreditation?
Are we supposed to believe in a sex scandal of coaching staff of the football team means that they don't have the academic standards that teach college students?
What?
What are you nodding at?
It's totally ridiculous.
I'm a little shocked by this.
I'm a little shocked about it in a lot of ways.
I better be careful here.
I better be real, real careful.
I didn't...
Well, but but it is but but it happened in the football program, and they've already stripped that bear for the for all intents and purposes.
Even if he'll never get out of the jail, even if he gets it a jet, so the but the but but I mean, this is this is real piling on.
There are some people out there who really want everybody to understand they disapprove of this.
A lot of people understand they this is an incredible amount of piling on.
Also in the story here, the the accreditation board is questioning Penn State's financial security.
Well nothing will threaten their financial stability like threatening to take away their accreditation.
Yeah, it's looking like piling on, but there's something else here.
This looks like some people are out to destroy this university.
But I know what Sandisky did was reprehensible.
I'm by no means the first time anything like this has ever happened anywhere, and the reaction to this incident is way out of proportion to the way it's been reacted to in other instances where adult child sexual molestations taken place.
Something's going on here.
I mean, this is a huge threat to threaten to take away their credit.
That effectively shuts down the entire school.
Oh, and on a related subject, uh companion story.
Dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts in the Lebanese capital on Saturday, capital of Lebanon, for those of you in real India.
You know what that is, Snerdley?
Capital of Lebanon.
No, that's Syria.
It would be Beirut.
At any rate, I was gonna say Louisville, but because that's my answer to all.
Anyway, dozens of people demonstrated outside the law courts on Saturday to protest.
The use of uh ladies and gentlemen, if if uh if you listening to this program with your child, or if you become nervous at the discussion of uh certain uses of the female anatomy, then I'm gonna count to five.
I'm gonna give you a chance to turn off the radio here because I we don't like shocking people.
This is not what we do here.
We don't just blurt things out for the express purpose of creating outrage, so people will talk about it.
We really don't want to offend you.
If if you're made uncomfortable by the discussion of certain uses of the uh human anatomy, uh by the time I get to one, if you haven't tuned out, you still hear it, then it's on you.
If you call and complain, nobody's gonna have any sympathy for you because you've been warned.
Okay, ready?
Five, four, three, two, one.
Okay, if you're still here, it's on you.
Dozens of people demonstrated outside the courts in the Lebanese Capitol Saturday to protest the use of anal tests on men suspected of homosexuality.
You see, that is a criminal offense in Lebanon, and in every Arab country.
Homosexuality is a criminal offense.
The rally on Saturday followed a July 28th police raid on a gay venue in a working class district of Beirut, when 36 men were taken into custody and forced to undergo the anal examinations to determine their sexual orientation.
Lebanon-based.
Sounds like when you clear your throat.
Khulm.
Considered the Arab world's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights group.
Called for the rally under the slogan stand up against the tests of shame, vaginal or anal.
And it also voiced solidarity with women subjected to so-called virginity tests.
They said, we're here because we want a clear statement from the Ministry of Justice that these kinds of tests should be completely abolished and punished by the law.
Said one of the participants.
I read a story like this.
In Lebanon, people suspected of homosexuality have to undergo anal tests.
And I think about in this country, the problem's Chick-fil-A.
Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager, President Kardashian said, of course we have no problem with Biden's comments about putting everybody back in chains.
I mean, President Obama probably agrees with Vice President Biden.
It's what she said.
I just read it.
Stephanie Cutter believes that Obama agrees with Biden.
It's just a metaphor, but everybody knows that's what the Republicans want to do, is put the black people back in chains.
It's just a metaphor.
We totally stand by these comments.
They're just decent guys, you know, Ryan and Romney.
Decent, decent family men.
They want to put people back in chains.
I don't know what the test is.
I I'm sitting here.
I just I just hate the fact this stuff gets rewarded.
I I just I just despise the fact that this stuff gets rewarded.
And it uh it does.
It works.
Uh I don't know what percentage, 30% of the country stands up and applauds when Biden says this kind of stuff.
Now the Romney people said, this is deplorable.
This is absolutely the bottom of the barrel.
This is the lowest of the low.
And Kardashian campaigns, no.
President Kardashian totally agree.
We stand by the vice president fully.
Anyway, Biden's exploding.
He's uh uh something's gotten under his skin.
Biden's just a walking gaff machine.
He's out there letting fly.
He's in Virginia saying, we're gonna win.
We're gonna keep North Carolina in our camp while he's in Virginia.
Stephanie Cutter said, if you want to, if you want to talk about the use of words, then take a look at Mitt Romney's stump speech where he basically calls the president un-American.
That's that's their response to Biden saying that uh Ryan and the Republicans want to put black people back in chains.
And uh Stephanie Cutter was on with uh Andrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
We have no problem with those comments.
Here's Doug in Nashville.
Doug, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey there, it's great to talk to you, Rush.
I believe you are absolutely right that the Democrats are vulnerable and unprepared to defend themselves on this Medicare thing, and I believe that the Romney campaign needs to go on the offensive and actually run metascare ads against Obama, accusing Obama of gutting Medicare by taking out 700 billion dollars and then promising to restore Medicare by repealing Obamacare and by replacing Obama.
What do you think of an ad that shows Biden pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair over a cliff?
That sounds awesome.
That would be great.
Really?
Because they ran one of those against Ryan long ago, long before he was even named a VIP.
His budget just came out and they ran it.
Would you you like that tactic?
Maybe maybe Obama and Biden together pushing an old man and an old woman together off a clip, both of them in wheelchairs.
That sounds great.
I believe we've got to go on the offensive instead of waiting and defending ourselves, attack them.
Well, you know me.
I'm a firm believer in offense, offense, offense, and throwing them on defense.
And I think you know, this is we we saw Rachel Maddow on defense.
She didn't know what to talk about.
She had no clue that Obamacare cut 741 billion dollars out of Medicare.
And Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz didn't care.
But she acted like she had no clue either.
So it's it's uh it's an opportunity, there's no question.
Doug, thanks.
This is Tom in Dexter, Michigan.
You're next, sir.
Great to have you here.
It's the delight to be here, Rush.
Shameless one-time EIB sponsored Ditto.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Um, I'm uh a writer, and I've done some political speechwriting and candidate debate prep.
So I'm thrilled with the Ryan's election, and I'm wondering how do you uh are you looking forward to the debates this fall with uh particularly with Ryan and Biden.
Yeah, I am.
In fact, uh the Ryan Biden debate ought to be choice, but I think the Romney Obama debate uh has an opportunity to be excellent as well.
I concur.
I think they're they're both gonna be great, but you know, Ryan going up against Biden's gonna be like Muhammad Ali taking on a sock puppet.
Well, it appears, you know, on paper, there's I don't think there's any any uh any question, but don't forget, in every one of these debates, we're gonna have a moderator that's going to be going overboard to make the Democrat look good and to embarrass the Republican in every one of them.
Every one of them.
Oh, the moderators might have a couple of instances where they up here to challenge the Democrats so as to convey this myth of objectivity.
Uh but yeah, on paper, Biden Ryan looks big.
I got it.
I got it.
You have you have two people, old man, old woman, both in their own wheelchair, chained to the wheelchairs, and there's Obama and Biden pushing them over to Cliff.
By the way, folks, there is a new uh Romney ad going after Obama's Medicare cut.
Uh the part of it that makes sense on radio is 12 seconds, and we have it.
Um this is uh the announcer in the adjust now released.
You paid into Medicare for years.
Every paycheck.
Now when you need it, Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare.
Why?
To pay for Obamacare.
Okay, that's the latest Romney ad.
Now, Ryan, this afternoon on Fox News Channel uh with Britt Hume.
Hume has uh talking about the first solo sit-down interview with Paul Ryan.
They ran an excerpt of the Brit Hume interview with Paul Ryan.
And Britt Hume said, now this ad that you guys are running is suggest that you and Governor Romney think that Medicare, despite having been a difficult issue for Republicans for a long time, and uh polls suggest that people automatically think Republicans are hostile to Medicare.
You think you can turn this into a winning issue?
How?
Absolutely.
Because we're the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare.
We're the ones who are not raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare.
We're the ones continuing the guarantee of Medicare for people in or near retirement.
And you have to reform it for the younger generation in order to make the commitment stick for the current generation.
President Obama is actually damaging Medicare for current seniors.
This is a monumental task.
This is the second time in this program today we've had a reference to the fact that conventional wisdom is.
The Democrats would never cut Medicare.
It's only the Republicans that would do that.
Now there's a reason why this is conventional wisdom.
The Democrats have been accusing Republicans of this my whole life.
Well, my adult life, a period of time in my life I've been paying attention, like from age five on.
Going to cut Social Security, going to cut Medicare, going to kick old people out of their homes.
You know the drill.
You've heard it.
It's gone on and on and on.
And the Republicans, for most of these years, have never really responded to it other than to concoct policies, which essentially do the opposite of what the Democrats accuse them of.
And in the process, the Republicans come up with new spending on these entitlements in an effort to prove that they're not the mean, cold, heartless creeps that the Democrats accuse them of.
So after all of these years, finally, well, maybe not finally, after all these years, we are at a point where in a presidential campaign, the Republican nominees have decided to take this on.
Head on.
Now you heard Howard Dean, we had the soundbite earlier today.
Howard Dean on Sunday was on the ABC show this week, and he essentially said it doesn't matter, because nobody is going to believe that Democrats cut Medicare.
It doesn't matter what they say, because nobody believes that.
And Britt Hume, in his question to Paul Ryan, just said, You really think you can win on this because the polls say that people automatically think Republicans are the ones that want to cut Medicare.
And you think this is going to be a winning issue.
See, this is this was my point yesterday in trying to explain why I like the Ryan pick.
At some point, this stuff has to be taken on.
Now I'll share with you here is as a host of a of a radio program.
I'm sitting here for two days in a row talking about Medicare.
And I can I can tell you that throughout my career, deciding to do that was a death knell.
Medicare, the budget, Social Security, talking about that stuff, no, no, no.
That's what happened on all the boring public service shows that ran at three in the morning that nobody ever listened to, that were put on the air just to satisfy federal requirements of service to the community.
And now here I am, and it's not just this week.
We've been talking about this a long, but two days in a row.
And basically, what what what am I trying to do here?
What are we all trying to do?
For the second day in a row, we're trying to hammer home a simple truth.
We have aired a soundbite today of President Obama admitting that he cut $700 billion in Medicare.
In an interview with Jacob Tapper in 2009.
We played that.
We've got the Congressional Budget Office report.
We've got Ryan and Romney.
We've got Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press on Sunday with Rich Lowry having no clue.
We have proven conclusively, there is no doubt it's not arguable.
There is not one Republican budget that cuts money out of Medicare.
It's just the opposite.
Medicare is like everything else in this country.
It is threatened.
Its existence is threatened.
Medicare, if nothing changes, is bankrupt in 11 and a half or 12 years.
For two days, essentially what we've been trying to get across here with some of the other things that we discussed, of course, is that it is Barack Obama and the Democrat Party who have cut it's gone.
Seven, well, it it happens as Obamacare is implemented, but it's done if it's not repealed, $741 billion cut out of Medicare.
Now, on one hand, there are some of us that are damn right, we can't keep spending on these entitlements.
We've got to do some cuts.
On the other hand, the argument is, wait a minute, I'm fed up of being lied about here.
We've actually got a plan that saves this program.
People have had it promised to them, they've oriented their lives, they're retired around retirement around it, just like Social Security.
So for two days, for two days trying to hammer home a simple fact, and it still may not work.
That's what Brit Hume is asking Ryan.
Look at you really think you can win on this.
All the polls suggest that everybody thinks you guys cut Medicare, that You cut Social Security.
Howard Dean said, nobody's gonna believe that Democrats cut anything.
Let them say it.
A simple, unarguable fact that the media will not report, that they will not accept.
I'm I just I I'm I'm a little nonplussed over this.
I never thought.
A lot of things happen I never thought would happen, but have as a major objective to have people accept a simple fact.
That's a very hard thing to do.
This this team, Ryan and Romney, have admittedly bitten off a huge chunk here.
This is a major project they've got, and all it is is a simple fact.
It's as true as two plus two is four.
Obama cut $741 billion out of Medicare.
And there are people who will not believe it.
Simply because Democrats don't cut.
Democrats care about people.
Republicans don't.
That is etched in the American fabric for so many years now.
Anyway, that's why I like the pick.
It has to happen at some point, folks.
And those of us on the radio can't do it alone.
It has to be something that the party and the movement and the nominees are willing to carry forward.
And they are.
So but I'm still it still has me amazed that it's this hard.
And maybe it isn't.
We will uh we'll find out.
Back to the phones to Jacksonville, Florida.
Ron, thank you for waiting.
Nice to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I've been waiting four years to drop this Obama bombshell on you, and now it's become a nuke in the past year, if you'll indulge me.
Uh you recall last year when he released his long form birth certificate.
That wasn't the big thing that happened.
You see, everybody tripled down on that short form he released in 2008.
And for the first time, Obama himself.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You said you wanted to talk about Newt.
Yeah, okay.
Let me get about Newt, that Newt was the one who told Ryan that it was uh right wing social engineering, and Ryan changed the plan, worked with Ron Wyden to make it acceptable to where it wouldn't change everybody.
And it would save CDs.
Oh, so we owe all of this to Newt.
Oh, okay.
So Newt.
Newt criticized Ryan's plan as right wing social engineering, and that forced Ryan to go talk to liberal Democrat Ron Wyden.
And uh that made it well.
That's interesting because Wyden is now making tracks back out of this as fast as he can backpedal.
He making Dion Sanders look like an amateur.
At uh at backpedaling out of Matt in Lake Conroe, Texas.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you for the uh for waving your patience.
I appreciate it.
Nice to talk to you.
Uh I heard uh I listened to Fox News quite a bit, and a couple of months ago they were talking about the uh stimulus and how great Obama did on the uh automobiles and stuff, and they reported that seven out of every ten vehicle that's produced in the GM plants are uh outside the U.S. You talk about your outsourcing.
That was a Fox report?
Yes, sir.
And how how how how recent is that?
Uh it was a couple of months ago, and I let it go kind of because it would just it would just hushed up and uh nobody said any more about it, but they said seven out of ten uh the let me tell you what everybody's reporting today.
What everybody's reporting today is that the bailout of General Motors is an abject failure.
The losses are mounting.
No matter how many cars they're selling, and no matter where they are selling, the General Motors bailout essentially did one thing.
Kept the company alive so that Obama could send twenty-six billion dollars to the United Auto Workers.
Pure and look at folks, I General Motors is an iconic American company, and nobody hates being critical of more than I do.
I d I what this guy has done uh is it's just unconscionable.
I gotta take a break out of time.
Back after this.
Folks, thanks for being with us today, and uh I'll be gone through Monday.
Just a few things to take care of, and then back next Tuesday, we have suitable guest hosts all coming up to delight and to entertain you.
And can't wait to be back.
See you next Tuesday.
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