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Aug. 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 21, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Before we officially get going here, folks, I want to say it is great to be back in Boston.
We are back at AM680W RKO today, kicking off a brand new period of broadcast excellence on our original affiliate there, and it's great to be back.
Happy to be back at WRKO in Boston.
And I, L. Rush Ball, am happy to be back, period.
Here we are behind the golden EIB microphone for broadcast excellence, three straight hours, telephone number 800 28282, and the email address.
Looking at the uh at the Drudge Report here, and he says that there are secret service agents in Tampa who say that they are advanced team members for Vice President Bite Me that uh that that Bite Me is coming on Monday and or Tuesday of the Republican convention, which is entirely possible.
They Democrats might have told Bite Me that the Democrat convention is the one in Tampa and they're sending him there so that he doesn't show up at the Democrat convention.
I mean it's entirely it's entirely possible.
I it's it's we we know how confused old Chains gets at times, uh and and we know that the Democrats really would love to be rid of him.
We do.
We do.
No, no, I uh I'm not avoiding it, Snerdley, of course not.
We got three hours here.
I know snurgly yelling at me.
Are you gonna get rid of Aiken now?
Before before I I give my two cents on on all this, folks, let me first say, you know, my natural tendency at two natural tendencies.
One is to avoid the pack, to avoid the conventional wisdom, to avoid when everybody seems to be uttering, voicing, doing the same thing.
That's when I put on the brakes and say, Do I want to join this mob?
And I also have a a uh uh, as you well know, a tendency to want to support conservatives who come under fire.
It doesn't happen enough.
Now we the Democrats circle the wagons around their people.
We circle the firing squad.
It's what we do.
And I think I understand exactly what happened here.
I all these people who say they don't know what Aiken was saying, they don't know what he was trying to say.
I think I know exactly what he was trying to say.
I think I know exactly what happened here.
I think Aiken is one of these guys.
It is a wild guess because I don't know him, but I'm just gonna throw my two cents in here like everybody else.
Yeah, there are people who hang around only like-minded people.
And there are people who hang around and expose themselves to people who disagree with them on things.
And I think Akin may be one of these people who hangs around with people who only think the way he does about things.
And I happen to believe.
Because what is this really all about?
If you strip this down, what Aiken was trying to say was something very simple.
I don't think abortion should even happen in rape.
That's what he was trying to say.
Let's just strip away all the other stuff.
And there are a group of pro-lifers who profoundly believe that, and they talk to each other and they try to come up with ways of persuading other people to agree with them on this.
Because their view is it's not the baby's fault.
Why are we gonna kill the baby?
Where why should there be an exception?
The baby is the essence of innocence in every act of conception.
The baby is entirely innocent, is what they believe.
And so an exception to them weakens the entire argument.
So they sit around amongst themselves.
I'm not being critical of them, don't misunderstand my choice of words or tone, and they try to think of ways to persuade other people who agree with them.
So Aiken goes on TV with Charles Jaco, which mistake number one, but he goes on mistake uh with Charles Jaco on local St. Louis TV.
And this whole business of uh uh a woman's body shuts down in rape, that's there's no evidence for that.
That but this is the kind of thing that people who do nothing but talk amongst themselves will conjure up a belief system like that and end up and and they'll they'll grab on to anything they can to support what their empirical belief is.
Because their ultimate aim is to save life.
Their ultimate aim is to protect the baby no matter what circumstance the conception occurs in.
And I think that's just who the guy is, but he doesn't know how to explain it.
He did he just has no clue how to make his case for it.
And so he hangs around people who are like-minded and they've devised this belief system.
He's not the first guy to say this.
I've I've I've had people tell me that a woman's body shuts down in a rape.
There's no evidence for this.
I mean, it's it's absolutely absurd.
This is this leads to the second problem.
This is absurd.
That belief that a woman's body shuts down, and the whole notion of of legitimate, illegitimate rape.
It's just it's just that's the thing that bothers me about it.
That that's just absurd.
It's not intelligent.
So now we have I I know what he was trying to talk about.
I I know, I'm pretty confident, I'm pretty sure that I know what he was trying to say.
And then as others have pointed out, on the one hand, here we have a guy in glorious ineptitude, attempting to defend every conceived life.
And by the way, God bless him for that.
On the other hand, we got a political party who's gonna have a former president actually accused of rape, introduced and keynote Barack Obama.
And that's fine.
This is why I am hesitant to join the mob that says throw this guy out.
We have a circular firing squad.
I I look, folks, I'm well aware of what happened in Missouri.
I'm well aware that it was an open primary, a bunch of Democrats went in there and voted for Aiken, because it's another question people are how did the guy win?
If we want to throw him out, how did what he the guy won?
Why do we want to throw him out?
Well, he won a three-way race in which the Democrats could vote, and the Democrats were running ads, suggesting that this guy, they couldn't wait to run against this guy because of the issue of abortion and this whole war on women.
They just couldn't wait.
McCaskill was salivating to get Aiken as the nominee, and she got what she wanted.
There's a poll out.
I don't know if you've seen this.
Probably have seen it because it's a little afternoon and this poll has been out since yesterday.
Public policy polling.
Liberal Democrat law polling firm from North Carolina.
Even after all of this, they say Aiken still leads McCaskill by one point.
Yeah, have you seen the sample breakdown on that poll?
You haven't?
Well, I'll tell you about it.
Nine percent more Republicans in the sample than Democrats.
This poll is part of the whole strategy to keep Aiken on the ticket.
Keep him as a nominee.
Public policy polling with a poll out after all this that shows this guy leading McCaskill by one point, but they have to do this with a Republican sample, 9% larger than the Democrat sample.
Now, a lot of you are gonna think I'm insincere when I say this.
I I have a real problem sitting here and telling this man he has to go.
I don't want anybody telling me what I have to do with my radio show.
I don't like people telling me you you know you better quit after you I've said something that I don't even think in many cases this the double standard is undeniable, but it's there, and it's I think one of the reasons, by the way, if I may address this double standard business.
We circle the firing squad, they circle the wagons.
One of the reasons why the double standard exists in the way Republicans in public life or conservatives in public life are treated versus liberal Democrats is very simple to me, too.
We have made it plain we care about truth.
We have made it plain that we care about honesty.
We've made it plain we care about integrity and we care about virtue.
And so there's a standard.
The other side couldn't care less about any of that.
They're animating force.
The thing that gives them life every day, the thing that gets them out of bed is defeating us.
That's not what gets our side out of bed every day is defeating them.
And this proves it.
We are not unified in our desire to rid the earth of socialists.
They are unified in their desire to rid the world of us.
Politically.
And as such, uh we have no unity on our side and a different purpose altogether.
But the double standard exists.
I'll never forget one day twenty years ago.
Oliver North was out making a speech somewhere, and he cracked a joke that was, I don't even remember the the joke, I don't remember the details.
All I know is the Washington Post raked him over the coals.
And it was something that if a Democrat had said applauding and laughing.
And I called him and said, Holly, there's a there's a different standard here.
There's a you know, we we we make it plain we care about virtue and honesty and all that.
They don't, so there is a different standard.
He said, you know, you you're right.
Look at five.
They've got Joe Biden out telling black people that we want to put them all back in chains, and they circle the wagons, they defend that.
I mean, I know they circle the wagons, they'll defend Obama on any.
They're out there now saying Obama's not trying to divide anybody.
Obama never called Romney a felon.
Who the hell are you to make that act?
And we all know what happened.
Uh, Aiken's got to go by five o'clock today, from what I understand.
But then he doesn't.
There's still a way to get him off the ticket or for him to leave the uh uh court order after five o'clock, but there's still a way.
There is still a way he can leave the campaign, seed the uh victory after 5 o'clock today.
Uh I I've seen all of the things that you've seen, people telling him he should go, he needs to get out for the good of the party, for the good of the country, for the good of the presidential campaign.
I gotta defeat Obama.
I under and agree with all that, by the way.
I I think that there are a lot of things here larger than single individuals.
Saving the country from our perspective is at the top of that.
Repealing Obamacare is at the top of that.
And any distraction that uh makes it tougher to vote for Romney and Ryan is something that we don't need.
Understand all that.
I at the same time, uh I'm a guy on the radio.
Who am I to tell this man what to do?
He knows what he's gonna do.
He knows what he's he knows the right thing to do, and he knows uh whether he's gonna do it or not.
And he's got hundreds of people leaning on him, trying to reach him by phone or what have you.
So I I try he's an honest, decent guy.
That's the one thing that I I think you You disagree with me on that, Snergly.
It is stupid.
That's the the he said something stupid.
He said something that's not true.
He said something that can't be proven.
And as such, we don't know how often that kind of thing will happen throughout the rest of the campaign.
Anyway, it's time to take a timeout here, folks.
Our first obscene profit break of the hour in the program.
We'll take it, we'll come back.
I have a soundbite roster here, 43 soundbite.
And I I got it in plenty of time to go through what's what's here.
But choosing where to start, you know, I might as well just roll the dice.
Just pick one and start.
Because it's uh uh encompasses all the days I was gone plus news that happened yesterday.
Condoleza Rice, by the way, admitted to um Augusta National, predicted that.
Didn't predict Candy, but predicted that this would happen.
I even have an audio soundbite.
No, it's it was it was inevitable.
It was it was like Howard Cosell said of uh some guy dying.
It was inevitable.
It was inevitable that a woman was gonna get into um Augusta National at some point.
So anyway, we'll take a brief time out.
We'll come back, continue, get your phone calls in the mix as well right after this.
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I'll tell folks, I have a little bit of a fantasy here, and I don't think this is gonna happen.
But I would love for the media to continue be talking about this Aiken guy from my home state of Missouri.
What did he do?
He said something that's stupid, he said something that is incorrect, but all the guy wants to do is save lives.
I don't you you can tell you call him an idiot, you can call him stupid, but the guy is not evil.
He doesn't want to hurt anybody, and I don't think we can say that about the Democrats.
I don't think we the Democrats live and breathe.
They celebrate 1.7 million abortions every year, or whatever the number is, 1.3.
And I know some of you cringe.
Well, I don't know what we even want this subject broader.
That's gonna stick in the economy.
This guy is a distraction, and we need to stick to the economy.
And don't worry, folks.
We are never distracted here, and we're not gonna be distracted from what an utter disaster Barack Obama is.
And this doesn't change what a disaster Barack Obama is.
This does not change what an utter disaster he portends for the future of the country.
But I think it is important to make the point that while everybody here is pulling their hair out over a guy who said something stupid while in the process of simply trying to tell people that he thinks it's never the baby's fault, so why are we killing the baby?
That's all he believes.
Doesn't matter at the point of conception, it is never the baby's fault.
And so why is there any and a group that he believes like, and the group that he hangs around with and the and the things they say to each other, that's some of the very important things that animate them.
In the meantime, the Democrats, and I think it's important to point out the Democrats are going to have as the star of their convention.
Their keynote speaker was accused of rape, and they love the guy.
He was held in contempt of court, he was disbarred for several years.
He has had numerous extramarital affairs.
You talk about somebody who has less than a respectful view of women.
And this is the keynote at the Democrat National Convention.
And the Democrats love the guy.
And they circle the wagons and they'll do everything they can to defend the guy.
And it does bother me that we have the capacity on our side to get so mad at somebody.
Whatever happened to good intentions.
That's something we always acknowledge, the Democrats.
They do something stupid like destroy the black family with social programs, or they wreck the U.S. private sector with their stupid economic policies.
But that doesn't matter.
Their intentions are honorable, Mr. Limbaugh.
They're trying to do good.
Their hearts are really big.
Yeah, well, where's that accommodation for us?
This guy, whatever he's done, and however stupid he might be when saying things.
He hasn't harmed anybody's life.
He hasn't caused anybody to lose their home.
He hasn't caused anybody to pay higher taxes or any of these things.
We sit around and we're we're told we must accept and consider the good intentions of people who are wrecking this country.
You want to talk about stupid.
Stupid?
How about the economic policies running this country?
They are stupid.
They are indefensible and they are stupid.
The economic policies led by this administration.
They are indefensible and they are stupid, and they are causing real damage and real harm to real people.
And we will be back.
Democrats did the same thing with Ted Kennedy.
Circle the wagons.
Do whatever.
I've always been I've always been amused at the uh the double standard that exists.
People that actually treat women with disrespect, people that actually do sexually assault women, people that treat them with profound disrespect or somehow heralded as great on women's issues and so forth.
Meanwhile, trying to save the life of unborn children is called having blood on your hands.
Here's the fact, though.
Fact is, folks, that this election's bigger than any single candidate.
It's bigger than any double standard.
It's bigger than any debate point that one might try to make and win.
Because this election is about saving the nation.
You know, that point was driven home to me even more so today.
I have a story in the stack of stuff about the class of 16, the class of 2016 born into a world that you and I don't recognize, and they don't recognize the world we came from.
They are and there's no fault in this.
This is just it's it's a great story that illustrates how things change.
But one thing that struck me is that the class of 2016 has no idea about the founding of this country.
They have no connection to the Constitution.
They don't know what it is.
They haven't been taught.
They have been taught other things.
But the role of America in the world, the way America came to be, the whole concept of American exceptionalism, why we are, were a superpower, what made that happen, none of that are they aware of.
And as such, they don't care.
It's not something that even registers with them.
Simply by virtue of when they were born and what was common.
I'll find it in the stack and I'll share with you some of the details.
It's it's quite interesting to go through.
But it served to reinforce in me even more the importance of this election.
And saving this country is what this election's about, and it is larger than any single candidate.
And this is what Todd Aiken needs to consider when he makes his decision.
The calculation must be what is best for America.
He's got to set that aside.
Everybody who is interested in the concept, the objective of saving this country has founded has got to put every other personal concern aside, and that needs to be number one, particularly people in politics.
We just cannot lose this November.
And in addition to not losing the presidential race, we must take the Senate.
We must hold the House.
These things must happen.
There is no question about it.
And this is what Todd Aiken needs to understand.
And that's what he needs to put foremost in his mind.
What I think Mr. Aiken should try to realize here as he makes his decision is that all of these things that he truly cares about will be much easier to make happen if we win the Senate and the White House and hold the House this November.
He must put the nation and its future ahead of everything else that he's considering.
And I hope he comes to the right conclusion.
Notice, folks, what prompted Obama to hold a so-called impromptu news conference.
The Aiken comment.
Obama hasn't talked to the press other than People Magazine or George Clooney or Entertainment Tonight in two months.
The Aiken comment prompts Obama to go to the White House press room for 22 minutes.
Not the unemployment rate, not China's threats to Japan or Iran's threats to Israel.
Not economic misery.
Not the future of America.
No Aiken.
Todd Aiken is what prompted Barack Obama to summon the courage and the fortitude to go face his slavish White House press corps.
Why in the world?
Be afraid of your stenographers.
But Barack Obama is acting scared to death of his own press corps, and they are essentially his stenographers.
Mark Halpert of Time Magazine said it.
The press corps does whatever Obama wants.
When you see the press corps whining and moaning that Obama hadn't come and spoken, it's not because they're trying to learn anything.
It's not because they want news to be made.
It's they want their buddy to come talk to them.
They want to be validated.
They're loving Obama.
They love themselves from Obama.
They're doing everything they can to get Obama and Biden re-elected.
They want some love back.
They want Obama to come tell them how much he loves them and how much he appreciates them.
But all he's doing is going and talking Clooney and Entertainment Tonight and People Magazine.
And they're feeling a little offended.
And then all of a sudden, Todd Aiken goes on TV in St. Louis on Sunday and has this bumbling explanation of why he doesn't think rape should be a reason to kill babies in the womb, and all hell breaks loose, and here comes Obama to the press room.
Unemployment going to the roof, Obama doesn't care.
Did you see this the this was the day after, I guess it's Thursday of last week, or maybe it's Wednesday.
It was Wednesday of last week.
Dinesh D'Souza's column.
I forget where it ran.
Dinesh D'Souza, I had just interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter, the most widely read political newsletter in America.
He's got his movie out.
Dinesh D'Souza went over to Kenya and met with Obama's half-brother, lives in the hut.
George Obama.
Well, something happened.
George Obama needed a thousand dollars for some medical emergency.
He called Dinesh D'Asouza.
The president of the United States' brother called Dinesh D'Asouza.
He says the only George told Dinesh, you're the only guy I know I can call.
His half-brother is president of the United States.
His half brother loves to run around and talk about I am my brother's keeper.
When he tries to quote the Bible.
The president of the United States'own brother doesn't know how to reach him.
And wouldn't think to ask.
And Dinesh writes about this.
Obama's brother needed $1,000 to call Dinesh D'Souza.
Dinesh gave him the money and Dinesh tried to explain in a column why Obama will not help his brother.
And Dinesh theorizes because his brother's not a socialist.
That's what Dinesh, I'm I'm summarizing it, but essentially Obama doesn't like his brother because of political differences.
And that's why it doesn't help him.
Who cares what the reason is.
I I this this inexplicable.
And there was no reaction to this.
I purposely waited all last week, all through the weekend, I wanted to find that that's that's a bombshell of a story to me.
I mean, even People Magazine, I would think get a little upset about that.
The biggest socialist in the world, the guy who tried to tell us he got the biggest heart cares more about anybody than anybody else ever has, Barack Obama, his own brother, doesn't even try to call him for help.
He's still living in a six by nine foot hut and has to call a journalist for financial assistance.
And that's not a story.
And it takes Todd Aiken on St. Louis TV to get Obama to go meet the press for the first time in two months.
Not the unemployment rate, not the sad state of the U.S. economy, not the building threat of Iran or China.
This is this is this is why we have to replace this man and his entire regime.
This is why this election is so crucial.
No news conference for two months, and now he holds one because he's got Achin to play off of and to further his mythical so-called war on women.
Todd Aiken, whatever he is, and however stupid his comment is not got a war on women going on.
I don't know how it is that somebody, anybody who all they want to do is save the lives of unborn children can be said to have blood on his hands.
When there are other people in our society, in our country, in our leadership, who literally do have the blood of others on their hands by virtue of their policies.
So I just I this is crucial.
And Todd Aiken has got to realize that whatever he thinks is the number one thing he should fight for here above all, and above anything that's personal to any one person is saving this country, and that means winning the Senate and winning the election against Obama.
That's what he has to realize.
And I hope he makes the right decision.
And we'll take a brief time out and continue after this on a one and only EIB network.
Right here it is in my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
I mentioned this, so rather than uh then tease you with it and wait, I mentioned this it's an AP story, and it's about the class of 16.
The class of 2016.
And it's it's just a reminder of how things change and how uh your kids, because I don't have any your kids and grandkids are in some ways having a growing up experience that is entirely different from ours.
Now, how many of how many of you had an entirely different growing up experience than your parents?
Let's go through some of this and and you can better, I think, answer the question.
And there's nothing to stop this.
I mean, you can it's not my point here.
No, no way of changing this.
This is about societal evolution.
But I think when I ran through it and started thinking about this Aiken business, it's more important than ever that we save this country because we need to save it for people who have no idea it's in trouble.
We need to save it for young people who have no idea that it is in any threatened state whatsoever.
And if there's ever a role for adults to play, it is to protect and guarantee for their kids that which they sought for themselves.
And what we're talking about here is preserving liberty and freedom, from which everything else in this country sprang.
Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled, or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper.
Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the major league record for consecutive baseball games played.
This year's college freshmen don't.
They never lived in a world where Kurt Cobain was alive.
They never lived when an NFL team played its home games in Los Angeles.
The class of 2016.
It says here, I don't believe this part, but it says there's no need for radios, no need for watches, no need for television.
Except on the internet.
They are addicted to electronic narcotics.
They watch TV but not on TV.
They don't have watches, they use their phones to tell them what time it is.
These are among the 75 references in this year's Beloit College Mindset list.
It's a non-scientific compilation meant to remind teachers that college freshmen born mostly in 1994 see the world in a much different way.
Now the problem here is that we're supposed to bend to the way they see it, and that's that's the point of this.
You know, tell the professors and bend to the way but that's really not what ought to happen.
The students are accustomed to seeing women in positions of leadership.
I must confess, when I was growing up, there wasn't any of that other than at home, where mom ran the show, and most moms did.
So while they might say here that these students are accustomed to seeing women in position of leadership, so did I. Although not in a business.
It started to change during my life, but I wasn't born to that, for example.
They were born at a time when Madeleine Albright was serving as the first female U.S. Secretary of State, and women have held that position for most of their lives.
The old Hollywood stereotype of ditzy, blonde woman has given way to one of dumb and dumber guys.
That's true.
That's true.
The genuine idiots in the world today are guys.
Lazy, dumb, predatory guys.
The only people who care about anything, the only people that are responsible are women.
And it's true, our society has been chickafied profoundly compared to when you and I grew up, folks.
So it's what these kids are born to and what they see.
And it goes on.
I mean, and you can make some assumptions from it as uh as well.
The theme of last year's list was how wired the incoming class was.
This year's class includes students who might be better or bitter, I should say, at the previous generation, while their elders went to college in good times and had jobs waiting for them.
These students grew up watching their parents worry about unemployment and foreclosure.
They're normal.
They're normal.
They grew up with economic tumult and chaos.
So what's happening now is no big deal, other than they don't think they're going to be able to get a job when they get out of college, but they're still going to go to college.
But that's okay because there's food stamps and there's other assistance.
I wish I could continue here, but the constraints of the programming format mean that I have to stop.
you Anyway, folks, this is why Obama targets the youth.
They don't know.
They don't remember America.
They haven't been taught America.
To them, Obama and the Democrats are America.
And that's why we have to save this nation.
For them, they don't know.
It's also why they don't care about the elderly.
The elderly are the ones who do remember what America was.
Death panels, no big deal.
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