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Aug. 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 17, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen, Doug Riansky filling in from Rush Limba.
I'm watching the news here, and I can see that the press is frustrated because um President Obama has not answered any questions from the press corps in about two months.
And meantime, as you're watching the news, you're learning that the entire future of the Republic somehow depends upon something that's contained in Romney's tax returns.
It is amazing, ladies and gentlemen, and yes, it is Friday, open line Friday.
Live from New York City, it's open line Friday.
Love being with you, and thank you to everyone who made today possible.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, we go back to the Clinton campaign way back in the 90s, and there was an old expression.
They would say it's the economy stupid.
It's the economy stupid.
You see where I'm going with this.
You see, I mean, this is the question today.
And the Clintons were shameless about this.
They could go on any show, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, and they were asked anything at all.
Well, Mrs. Clinton, what do you think about these charges coming from Jennifer Clowers?
And what the her answer would be, and his answer would be, you know, so many Americans are hurting right now.
They'd always turn it back.
The Obama campaign does not want that to happen.
You've got a party, the Democrat Party that has not approved a budget in the Senate in 1,200 days or more.
They have added five trillion dollars to the national debt.
If you don't think that debt and spending is a threat to our future and a threat to our national security.
I mean, it is.
It just is.
So it's the economy stupid.
Now, we had a caller in the first hour who made the suggestion, and I know Mike, you're gonna do the right thing at the end of the day.
You made the suggestion that um Romney Ryan would be worse than Obama.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not possible.
This is a look, it's more of a center-right ticket than the conservatives, the hardcore serious conservatives would have wished for.
But it is a center right ticket.
It's and it's moving ever so slowly more to the right in the best way.
I've said this before.
I think Russia's probably said it before as well.
Conservatism, when well articulated, always wins.
It's one of the reasons that Ryan is such a wonderfully exciting addition to the Look.
The Democrats are out there making all these noises that they're happy that Romney has selected Ryan.
They want you to believe that they're happy about this.
They think they can keep Ryan on the defensive regarding Medicare and Social Security, and you've already seen that's not working for them.
They're getting surprises every day.
They walk into a trap that they can't wiggle out of.
Their only hope, Obama's only hope, his only hope is to somehow avoid talking about the economy altogether.
Now, with Ryan in the picture, they're gonna keep jabbing him, and they're gonna keep finding out that he fights back really well.
He has a great command of the facts.
He has a great command of the real numbers that neither Obama nor Biden have a clue about.
Obama and Biden and the entire Democrat machine are going to be sucked into a nonstop discussion of budgets, of which they have none.
They're gonna be sucked into a conversation of about debt, and they are the record setters, and also jobs.
And they have no clue how to create or sustain them.
Welcome to the campaign.
I should also add this.
That the biggest challenge, as you already know, of the Romney Ryan ticket, the biggest challenge is going to be the dishonest shenanigans that were in store for.
You know, if you think that Democrats about to lose power will stop merely at lying, then then you don't understand the nature of the beast.
I mean, we we hearken back to a time where we like to believe that elections are about the difference of opinions held by honorable people, and then let the voters make the choice.
That train, if it was ever in the station, left the station long time ago.
We are now fighting for the survival of this country.
We're fighting for the survival of our way of life.
That's what we're up against.
That is that's what we're up against.
Now, Paul Ryan, as you know, has the math experience.
He understands he's an expert on the budget.
He has an unwavering faith in, he has appreciation of the fundamental philosophy of the founders that was built into the Constitution.
He is a perfect edition of the ticket.
And I, by the way, I did I don't know if anyone's mentioned this.
I think that the name Romney Ryan has a nice ring to it.
This is a well-run campaign at this point.
They are playing the left.
You thought you were going to sit here all summer and let the left keep playing Romney.
Romney is now playing the left in amazing way.
Keep a sharp eye on this.
You will see.
You'll continue to see it.
Ryan is an excellent choice, bold move.
The left are already trying to snipe at him.
I wait, you know, with all this talk about Hillary in the past day or two.
I wait for her.
If she wants to go to be president 2016, let her.
Let her.
Because then we can talk about our record as Secretary of State.
We can talk about the disaster she's left in the Middle East.
We can talk about the terribly inappropriately named Arab Spring.
All of that's on her hands.
Now I am hoping that all of you folks out there who are continue to say Romney is not a conservative.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, we now must not only carry him over the finish line, we gotta make him go through the finish line, we gotta listen to him.
Because when he gets in the right zone, he's wonderful.
And you've got to remember that the conservatives that we elect to the Senate, to the House, they are the ballast.
Romney will do the right thing, but the ballast helps.
Ryan is a very safe pick.
The media will have you believe otherwise.
If you're not a brain-dead fool who can't figure out the that the economy is the central issue this time around, then I got I I got nothing to save.
You're hopeless.
What is the message that the Obama side has to sell?
Well, it's the economy stupid, and that's the message.
So be it.
They're done.
They're cooked.
Now you can decide.
The choice, the stark choice, do you want less debt or redistribution of wealth?
The Romney Ryan, the R, the Rolls-Royce ticket, is the Rolls Royce ticket of economic sanity.
The rich rich, that's very unproductive, sir.
This team resonates, and they're resonating with the Tea Party also.
And the central idea of the Tea Party is fiscal restraint.
Less debt, more freedom, more jobs, people in charge of themselves.
You have something that we've not had in a very long time.
You've got um, well, I'll use the word.
We've got hope.
We have hope in this ticket.
The Romney Ryan ticket is just the thing you need to change.
The current track this regime, as Rush calls it, is headed.
You finally have some genuine, genuine hope and change you can strongly get behind.
Have you watched Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Another one.
The president is out there saying Romney looks unhinged.
Have you watched her?
Talk about unhinged.
Watch her on these shows.
I'm I've I've not been able to hear what she's saying, but I see her on these television shows while I'm talking to you.
When she has asked point blank questions about Ryan's policies concerning Medicare, the economy in general, she can't refrain from defending uh Obama as the greatest thing.
But she doesn't know what Ryan's plans are.
I love, I absolutely love that Romney received four million dollars in the first seven hours after the Ryan announcement.
I mean, um that's it's another Chick-fil-A moment.
Now the Obama surrogates, what are they busy doing?
They're out there memorizing their talking points.
It's the only thing left.
It's the only thing that they do, and they don't even do that well.
It would be a dream come true to see the Republicans be as prepared, surrounding the wagons and ready to pounce on the Democrats with the same vigor that they pounce on us, Mike in the first hour.
Please hear me.
Every minute of every day between now and November 6th is vital.
We don't want to waste time with a lack of preparation with stupid remarks, with talking about flaws on our team as the team gets better and better.
You've got a wholesome team with a wholesome manner and a delivery that is pitch perfect.
And I am convinced that the lowlifes on the other side are going to try their attacks, and it will not make a dent in our guys.
You watch.
Romney plus Ryan equals recovery.
R plus R equals R. That's the new formula.
The Democrats are very used to going out there babbling about issues with no facts.
Ryan is not going to allow that to happen.
That has that isn't happening anymore.
He will confront them.
He will challenge them.
His knowledge on the economy, the budget, the entitlements is encyclopedic.
That's why he's chosen.
That's why he's chosen.
And Ryan himself does you notice he's got a great element of humility in his in his demeanor.
That is a very attractive quality in a human being.
Romney has it as well.
A great sense of service and humility.
Ryan does not let himself get distracted, does not let himself get upset by all these hysterical Democrats shouting, spouting lies, distortions, distractions, all the rest of it.
He points out that they're wrong.
He shows what the reality really is.
The way the Democrats attacked Ryan's budget, Obama and the media, Obama had the media stage mostly to himself, which is not true anymore.
And people are going to look at this calm and knowledgeable guy and compare him to the hyper Democrats who have no information on the backs them up.
And again, I hope listen, I have I have some advice for Obama and his campaign.
And David Axelrod, keep doing what you're doing.
Keep on doing what you're doing.
Keep telling us that Romney looks unhinged.
I'm very happy.
Look, there's one thing this nomination does, two things.
Yes, it it exposes Joe Biden as one of the more entertaining sides of it.
But it opens the discussion on what everyone of us every one of us is aware of, the budget.
I began this segment by saying it's the economy stupid.
It's the economy stupid.
The president has shifted the question.
Do you notice this?
Ladies and gentlemen, last time around, the president ran successfully against George W. Bush, even though George W. Bush was not in the campaign.
He was not a candidate.
It was John McCain.
And then for the first two years of his presidency, he said look at what I inherited from Bush, I inherited from Bush, I inherited from Bush.
He has now flipped the question.
It's we've tried it your way and it doesn't work.
What way is he talking about?
He's talking about America, the free market.
We've tried it your way and it doesn't work.
He's shifted the question.
He can't run against Bush again.
He can't run against his own record.
We've tried it your way, meaning the entire system of the United States of America.
We've tried it the constitutional way, we've tried it the free market way.
We've tried it your way and it doesn't work.
When in fact, my new friends today, please hear me.
We know the way that was tried, and we know what works.
And doing what works is what would like to see done.
I gotta run, I gotta scoot for a moment.
It's Dugarbasky filling in for Rush.
I'll be right back.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, so the the whole thing I've been talking about, the psyops that's been going on since the entire election cycle started.
Think about this.
You had journalists, Kathleen Parker, headline story, are Republicans stupid.
And you saw this headline again and again during the debate cycle.
Politico, is Rick Perry dumb?
Maureen Dowd on the New York Times, Republicans are the now how great is it to be stupid party.
Chris Matthews, we shouldn't forget Pale, and I think she's proven herself to be profoundly stupid.
Mr. Matthews would know about that.
And on and on it goes.
You were meant to feel deflated, depressed.
I am determined that in whenever I have the chance to visit you and wherever I go, that we are not going to let the deflation and depression creep in.
They will convince you of all sorts of ladies and gentlemen, Romney is not the problem here.
The problem is incremental liberalism, the entitlement mindset.
Irresponsible government, cultural decay.
Those things are tied to which party?
The Democrat Party.
The Democrat and we and the Republicans haven't done enough to combat them for sure, but that's the liberal agenda.
Above all.
And you will get more of that.
More cultural decay, more responsible government, more incremental liberalism, more entitlement mindset.
You'll get much more of that with a lot of gusto from Obama if he comes back.
Cynthia, you've been holding a long time in Frederickson, Oh Frederickstown, Ohio.
Welcome to the show.
I'm Doug Arbansky, and it's I'm very glad you're here.
Oh, hi, Doug.
I'm I'm making my dog nervous from jumping up and down cheering the great points you're making about Romney Ryan.
I I just wanted to tell you that I saw Mr. Romney this past Tuesday.
He spoke at a rally in Zanesville, Ohio, and I I wanted to see him because while I agree with his views, I I had a curiosity about who he was as a man.
It didn't seem to be coming across on TV.
I just felt like I needed to see him in person.
So I was fortunate enough to be in the front row.
It was a rather intimate venue there, so we were all in very close.
I was at arm's length from him, and I can tell you that he comes across as a warm, congenial, empathetic man who looks you right in the eye, there's a connection there.
If he made a promise and and shook your hand, you could count on it.
And I'm very pumped.
I'm excited.
As you say, more so than I've probably been in the last 30 years.
And I just have a feeling that the energy is there and it's going to happen.
Well, t take me to this rally for one second.
Where was it held?
It was in Zanesville, Ohio, which is a what kind of a place though did they have it at?
Pardon?
What kind of a place did they have this rally at?
Well, it actually it was a Tom's ice cream bowl, which is a a small type of old time kind of soda shop, and and it was a very narrow street, so it was a rather difficult place.
There were lots of people, it's a huge crowd.
So it was a very, very intimate type of venue, but um as I say, I was fortunate enough, I waited for hours.
But tell me this.
Was there that special energy that I was talking about when you were there?
Yes, I was so glad to hear you mention that because until you feel it, it's hard to describe.
Well, I'm thinking it's coming across on the television, because I'm not there in person.
I'm watching these things, and I'm feeling the energy.
I I agree with you.
You know, I didn't at first and I didn't know if that was just because he he wasn't uh putting that forth, it wasn't coming across.
I have a feeling he's more of a businessman type where he likes to meet you one on one and look you in the eye.
But I think as time goes on, and my friends have said this also, that they're feeling this coming across TV more and more, and that's that's exciting too.
Yeah, and the combination of the two of them.
Yeah, yeah.
I I I don't remember being this excited, as I said earlier in the show.
In in thirty years.
Yes.
It's just um nothing like it.
I think the other side I think the other side, Cynthia, is terrified.
I think so too.
And uh when the president calls Obama um unhinged.
Do you does Obama by the way, d when he called Romney unhinged, does Romney look unhinged to you?
No.
Cynthia.
No, that's that's just desperation.
You sure Romney doesn't look unhinged.
No, not at all.
Just quite the opposite.
He's very together.
He's got his mind on Maybe, maybe if you're if you're uh a lib, that's what unhinged looks like.
I'm starting to develop a theory here.
Yes.
I think they're if you're calm and together and talk sense, they say, Oh my goodness, that person is unhinged.
Uh common sense is unhinged.
All right.
Well, Cynthia, thank you so much.
Very good to talk to you.
Thank you so much for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you.
I I I'm serious, folks.
I I think I think this ticket has them terrified.
Look, the elderly seem to trust Ryan and Romney.
Single single women seem to like them.
There's something fresh and new about them.
They both have kind of they both have kind of Hollywood looks in a way.
There's no question that either of them are much smarter than Obama.
And they're going to try and palonize him.
They'll use Olinsky's Rule 13, just watch.
The next time they're going to go as far as they can to say that these people are controversial, that Ryan is an right-wing extremist.
They're gonna have you trying to they're gonna try and sell him as a loon, as as the devil.
Much worse than a loon.
Let's stay tuned.
I'm fascinated to see how the Ryan thing is being covered in the British papers.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, it's Doug Ransky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
The doctor of democracy's giant brain is being recharged for the very dramatic days ahead.
British papers are calling Ryan's pick controversial.
They're saying he has a lack of sparkle.
Is any of this true?
Ladies and gentlemen, is any of this true?
Is he con who who decides what's controversial?
His budget policies, they're saying are controversial.
The very thing that has put some real oxygen into the campaign.
They're saying some will view him as extreme.
There's nothing extreme about any of these people.
There's nothing extreme about Romney.
There's nothing extreme about Ryan.
And as I mentioned earlier that when I'm driving around Los Angeles, I listen exclusively to left leaning talk radio.
Do you want to know what they've been talking about in left leaning talk radio for a year?
Two things, two themes constantly.
The first theme is how disappointed they are in Obama because he hasn't gone far enough to the left.
I do not make it up.
And the other thing they talk about endlessly on left leaning talk radio is the amount of voter fraud that the right is preparing to I see someone applauding here.
You know that the right is planning to do.
Voter fraud.
They're obsessed with this, ladies and gentlemen.
I'll k that the no that the right is going to commit vote voter fraud.
That is all you I've been hearing on left leaning talk radio for a year.
Well, no, here's the thing.
Here's what's going on, Mr. Producer.
I will tell you.
There is a concern that this will be a close election.
And the worst thing that could happen is that we have an election where one wins a popular vote and the other wins the electoral vote.
This would be a nightmare situation.
The belief is that if it's close that they'll keep throwing a lot of dust on it.
These people still believe that Bush stole the election.
These are the people who believe that the World Trade Centers was an inside job, which which includes huge wide swaths of the mainstream Democrat Party at this point.
So that's what they're talking about on left leaning talk radio is how the right is going to steal the election.
And remember this, ladies and gentlemen.
If it's not close, they can't cheat.
And that's what we're going to watch for.
Now I want to go to the call, because Richard in Connecticut has been holding a very long time, and I want to speak to you, Richard.
Welcome to the show.
It's Doug Erbansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you, Doug?
I'm excellent, thank you.
Uh enjoying the show.
I have a question, though.
Here you are a conservative, outspoken conservative guy living in what seems like the center of uh liberalism in the country.
Are you uh alone there?
You know, I'm asked this question all the time.
I have a lot of liberal friends.
Right.
I am I'll tell you, I'm friendly with Alec Baldwin for twenty years.
Um I'm friendly with Aaron Sorkin.
Um Aaron Sorkid, you know, they d the West Wing and Newsroom and the social network doesn't get any further left leaning, and they're very nice people.
I will tell you this.
There are conservatives in Hollywood, there's a lot of them.
They don't generally speak up because they have a sort of fear about their life and career.
Right.
But one of the things, Richard, that I have never found to be the case, and my my my friend Ron Silver went to his grave believing this was true.
Ron Silver went to his grave believing that he had been blacklisted in Hollywood and didn't work because he was an out of the closet conservative.
And I know this is not true because I also own a talent management company.
We knew what roles were available for Ron Silver and men of his age.
It was the work was hard to get.
Sure.
It had nothing to do with his politics.
And I know there is a belief amongst conservatives in Hollywood to play the victim.
We don't play victims as conservatives.
Right.
It is not what we do.
So I am treated very well.
I get to go on the jet with the head of the studio and I get to go to the places and and and very likable intellectually non curious people, but very likable people.
And I'll tell you how they treat me.
I I knew a Mormon family once, and I I love Mormons.
And the Mormon family had an alcoholic uncle.
And they used to say, you know, there he goes, there goes Uncle Bob again.
And that's sort of how my my liberal friends treat me in Hollywood.
But it it is it is a question that comes up a lot.
And not all of Hollywood is is um is liberal.
Well, it it from outside it certainly appears the majority area.
Well, I think it makes good copy.
They want you to think that all of Hollywood is Alec Baldwin and Madonna and Sean Penn.
Right.
But Hollywood is, you know, th th those are a few people.
Hollywood is behind the scenes people too, with agents, producers, writers, directors.
And there's a lot of conservatives.
And there are some very, very, very high profile conservatives in Hollywood.
You don't hear about them, they're not necessarily public or out of the closet about it, but they exist.
And and I know many of them.
And I tell you this, I wouldn't trade working in Hollywood for anything.
I love the company.
Of course, directors.
I if you've ever spent time with politicians, I much prefer movie stars to politicians.
Is there anything else, Richard, you want to know about Hollywood?
Because I I've been urged to talk about it today, and I I I kind of veer away from it all the time.
No, I I was just like wondering if you were just like a lone voice scratch, you know, screaming in the wilderness.
No, and it's it's better than that.
I know who the other conservatives are.
I have the secret list.
Oh, okay.
I have the secret list.
And they they beg to come to my house and discuss these things, which I of course I hate discussing.
What's your fascination with Hollywood?
Uh nothing except it it seems like uh especially in the Barack Obama uh administration, you see Hollywood people uh all the time around him and uh to the point where it gets uh somewhat nauseating to see some of the things they say about conservative types.
You know, I know many of these people personally who are around who the Hollywood types who hang around him.
Yep.
And I'll tell you something.
I think that there is an element of vanity involved.
There is something very intoxicating when you believe that you have some sort of personal relationship with the president of the United States.
I believe that.
So if your name is, let's say George Clooney to you, and he is a very nice man, by the way.
A very nice man.
Not intellectually curious.
Mm-hmm.
Good actor, good director, good writer.
But when you're that sort of person and you believe that the president of the United States is seeking your advice about this or that and that you've got a personal relationship with him.
Listen, this is intoxicating stuff.
Absolutely.
If you're gonna get an invitation to write on Air Force One, this is it doesn't get any more intoxicating.
I agree.
So I think that that is a seduction, and I'll tell you one other thing this White House has done.
I don't think many people know this.
I certainly I don't think anyone's spoken about this publicly.
They have people who work for the White House who target movie stars and well-known celebrities, and who appear at events where they will chat them up, leave their card, get to know them with the assumption that all Hollywood is a liberal person and that they're going to invite you into their fold at that point.
But they they and they they begin the atox the intoxication uh uh really in a very seductive and subtle way.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
I appreciate you taking the time.
Well, no, it's but it's my pleasure, Richard, to talk to you.
Thank you so much for calling.
Thank you.
All right.
I want to talk to David in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania very quickly.
David, how are you?
Welcome to the Russian Limbo Show.
It's Doug Bansky filling in for Rush.
Thanks much.
I just wanted to make a comment that in in in as far as I can remember back, these this is the first Republican ticket that the left, in my opinion, cannot demonize as being fools or unintelligent.
It's something so beautiful about that actual articulate Couple.
And no, and this is the first time as I can remember in a campaign, even this early, where they're not even going there because they can't.
And I think that's creating a lot of the enthusiasm.
And that's what's creating the energy.
That's what's fueling the there's something so beautiful about that, isn't it?
Oh, it's fantastic.
Because you know what?
When they used to demonized Reagan, and so if we're saying he was a fool with everyone around him, he just kind of went through the motions and he was an actor.
No, David, let's go one better.
And and they can't even go there with this.
David, forget how they used to demonize Reagan.
Think of how all, all hundred percent of Obama's campaigns have been run in the past.
Yep.
They were dependent upon running down the other side.
Whether it was getting divorced records, whatever, whatever it was.
Do you remember there were even hints run against John McCain?
Think of this.
There were hints that there were rumors that dripped into the New York Times about an alleged affair.
There was rumors that John McCain's memory wasn't so good.
There was a rumor out there that John McCain wasn't born in America because of his Panama birth.
Do you remember any of this stuff?
Well, absolutely.
And even with with Sarah Palin, she you she would use some of the colloquialisms and you betcha, and they made that to be well, she's a fool, she doesn't know anything.
Just even the way she spoke.
Impossible to do this with Ryan.
Obviously, we've made we've drawn the contrast with Biden and Ryan.
That's almost laughable.
Impossible to do this.
What do you I gotta go in a second, but let me ask you something here.
How do you think Romney's gonna do in the debates?
I think he's gonna tear them up.
I think I I I I've lost you, David, but I have a positive attitude also.
I think we're losing the connection, David, but it's Doug or Basky.
I agree with you.
I think I I think we're all in some very for some very lively performances by Mitt Romney coming up.
Ladies and gentlemen, Duggar Basky filling in for Rush.
We'll be right back.
Paul Ryan is a polarizing figure, my eye.
That's what they want you to believe.
As I said earlier, the only thing he lacks is experience.
He was never a community organizer.
I am being told that um I'm being told that I should take another call about Hollywood.
That people are very interested in this.
So I'm gonna scrap some of the remarks that I had prepared and talk to Jeff in Maranga, California.
How are you, sir?
Welcome to the show.
Doug Rabeski sitting in for Rush.
Well, thank you very much.
I call it because I hear you're a Hollywood insider, and I've always Yes.
Are you there?
See their work on a collision course with their worldview.
I'll give you three quick examples.
Um in the Star Wars one of the prequels, they uh give the power to the guy who turns out to be the evil emperor, and then she says this so this is how Liberty dies to applause, because he's cheering that they've handed over everything to him.
In Star Trek, you've got the board trying to, you know, take over the universe and and make everybody a drone in the collective.
And just recently in Wiley's news show, they uh they you know they're they're just been invaded by aliens, they're fighting back, and they go to this safe city, and this guy's a classic politician.
He's making sure everybody's fed, and he sees you know, he's got all his votes, or he's buying his votes, but he's just a classic politician.
All he wants is power and more power and to consolidate power.
Have they ever noticed that uh you know what they see as making good drama, they seem to realize that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and yet they love big government and more and more of it.
Well, you seem to like space movies.
Uh, these are just examples.
No, I'm not really a Trekkie, but that goes back a long time.
You're only citing space movies.
Think about the Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino.
Think about the John Wayne movies.
Yeah, there's a very interesting thing here, uh uh about Hollywood.
Do you know that whenever Hollywood makes films with a liberal, strong liberal message, they lose their shirts.
Are you aware of that?
Oh, yes.
I mean, this is what's fascinating.
When there are films that have let's say more traditional messages, good and bad, good and evil, right and wrong.
Um those films are blockbusters.
Right again.
I mean, I am repeatedly asked because of my my association with the Batman movies.
I'm repeatedly asked what are the politics of the Batman movies?
And I have I truly have no idea because I've never discussed it with Chris Nolan who writes and directs them.
And I don't and I've seen people ask him this in my presence, and he always says, look at the films and and make your own decisions.
Uh but I personally see uh tremendously my wife called the latest Batman movie um the Atlas Shrugged of action films.
Did you see it?
Oh, what's great?
It's a little film called It's a Batman movie, Jeff.
Oh, the latest one.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the latest one.
Anyway, it's Jeff, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you very much for calling the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's always good.
You make you you make me you make me homesick, what's that?
Well, I don't want to I don't want to opine too much about the Batman film because of my association with it.
But if you watch the film, I I think it's a message in all the Batman movies, which is starkly starkly conservative.
I mean, I'm not going to put words in in Chris Nolan's mouth and in his message.
But you see good and evil.
You say uh evil that does not prevail, you see brave men doing brave things.
Uh in this movie, there's even a sort of um there's a sort of segment of the cast that looks like the Occupy movement, and they get their comeuppance, and it's about order as well.
So no, I mean, and character, it's about character loyalty and friendship.
Can people talk to me about the Batman movie on Monday?
Well, we can talk about Hollywood.
I love talking about Hollywood, but I also like talking about this other stuff.
Thank you, Mr. Producer, for the uh now that everyone's gonna call about Hollywood.
I will be here Monday, ladies and gentlemen.
Rush will be back on Tuesday, his giant brain is being restored, as you know, getting ready, rested for the very dramatic season coming up.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, it is Doug Rabansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
We've got one more segment coming up, and we'll be right back.
Do you remember the old story of this if it's Monday it must be Paris?
Well, it's Friday, and I see Ahmadinejad says Israel will soon be destroyed.
This this story comes out, you know, with great regularity, and you'll notice, ladies and gentlemen, as we approach the beginning of September.
I predict you're gonna see this more and more and more and more because it has been opined by many that the October surprise might be some Obama activity with Iran.
Just mentioning it, just mentioning, ladies and gentlemen, you've been fed a story about Mitt Romney by the Axlrod uh Obama machine.
Romney is out of touch.
He's a rich, self-interested capitalist, he's not in touch with the people, he's out of touch with the masses.
I don't believe this for a second.
I don't see any evidence of this.
And it certainly by they never said this sort of stuff about the Kennedys, did they?
Now that I think about it.
They never they never made the point that the Kennedys were rich and out of touch.
They seem to handle that very well.
Look, the choice for President Romney between Romney and Obama could not be more stark.
President Romney's gonna be handed a mess of such magnitude that he has no choice but to fix it.
And given that reality, I can't see Romney accepting a job like this unless he intends to fix it.
I mean, you think of think of this.
You remember George Patton's great line, America loves a winner and cannot tolerate a loser.
I mean, today, today, Patton, they'd say he was arrogant, out of empathy, show boating.
But this guy had a determination to never be judged a loomer, r uh loser.
Romney has the same exact thing.
He has the drive of a winner.
And Obama has quite the opposite.
He will gladly lose the war with no regrets as long as he is assured that history will blame his troops and the people doing the work for him, as long as he can blame someone else for it not going the way he wants.
That's it, ladies and gentlemen.
Don't buy into the psyops mechanism mechanisms at work here.
Don't buy into it.
Our team is phenomenal.
I told you this early in the show.
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