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Aug. 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, drill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh, miraculously here, miraculously cogent, miraculously even awake behind the golden EIB microphone with broadcast excellence three straight hours.
Straight ahead.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
As most of you know, I have a most beautiful little cat.
It's an Abyssinian cat.
What?
Oh, there's the ditto.
I'm sorry.
I forgot that I did.
See, I told you I'm not all here yet.
He's whispering.
You didn't turn the ditto cam on.
You didn't turn it.
You know, I have been deaf for 10 years.
It's a 10-year interview.
And people still don't treat me as I'm deaf.
They whisper.
They speak into my wrong ear.
You know, losing your hearing is having a hearing loss.
It's the only disability that makes people mad at you.
People don't get mad at people that can't see.
You don't get mad at people that can't walk.
You don't get mad at people that can't taste or smell anything.
But you get mad at people that can't hear because you can't relate to it.
You think if the person would just listen better and pay more attention that they'd be able to hear.
And it doesn't work that way.
You can't hear, you can't hear.
Snirdly said, they're whispering.
He knows I'm deaf.
Every day this week, would you get closer to the microphone so I can hear you?
And I'm sure he's mad at me because I don't hear him.
You people have no idea.
You literally have not my friends on a golf whisper to me.
Whisper.
When there's nobody within 150 yards, they're still whispering to me in the wrong ear.
And when I, and then, you know, half the time, folks, you know, it's really funny.
I, I, um, my speech comprehension is, is, is, when I first got this implant, it was 80%, and it's gotten worse because of the vagaries of the technology.
I don't want to bore you with how it works, but I've had to turn off some of the innards because they cause facial ticks when I turn the volume up.
So my speech comprehension is getting worse.
It's down to 50% now.
And I can't tell you a number of times.
We were away not long ago, little mini weekend vacation hotel, and I didn't understand 10% of what the room service guy would say or the maid had no clue what they were saying.
And I didn't want to take the time to tell them I can't hear.
So I just said, yes, thank you.
And they're looking at me like I'm an idiot.
I just assume everybody's complimenting me.
And I say thank you when I don't know what they're saying.
It works most of the time.
But when it doesn't work, you get the weirdest looks.
So anyway, despite, really, it's the only disability where people get mad at you.
And without a, anyway, my beautiful little cat, Punkin, is, I assume going to be 11 years old.
And as you people have had cats know, the older they get, the needier they get.
And as they get older, of course, they need more medical attention from the cat doctor, the veterinarian.
We have a specialist.
You ought to read the reports I get.
When Punkin presented yesterday, but our patients are very happy with this new arthritis.
They're talking about my cat.
Our patients are very happy.
Anyway, Pumpkins had some urinary tract problems lately.
We had a senator to the vet, has crystals forming in her bladder that make her think she has to urinate all the time when she doesn't.
It's just, it's very, it's a very disheartening thing to see.
Little cat thinks she has to urinate when she doesn't.
So have to give her antibiotics.
And we were away from home, as I told you last week, for about five days.
And when it happens, now when I get back after being gone for five days, I can't shake the cat.
And last night, the cat in my face on the pillow, head-butting me, demanding to be paid attention to, petted all night.
In the midst of that, I'm having the craziest dream living in Pittsburgh.
My security guy turned on me, shooting at me.
A bunch of ex-girlfriends are taking everything out of the house.
It's just the craziest thing.
And I'm not even asleep when this is happening.
I'm having an awake dream because Pumpkin is sitting there not leaving me alone.
And finally, at 4:30, I said, Pumpkin, we're going to have to do something about this.
So I got up and I opened the shades to make sure I would wake up.
So the sun get me because when you're deaf, you don't hear alarms.
That's another thing people get mad at you about.
So I got back in bed and Pumpkin is waiting for me on the pillow.
Not, not poor Catherine.
I mean, you can imagine.
So anyway, that's basically it.
I mean, a cat just all over me.
Not wanting to be fed, just a combination of mad at me for abandoning her and wanting constant attention.
It's like I've always said, this cat's been one of the greatest.
They'll never, Natalis get me in trouble if I say that again now.
Anyway, here's the phone number, folks: 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, LRushball at EIBNet.com.
So, got a hurricane coming.
The National Hurricane Center, which is a government agency, very hopeful that the hurricane gets near Tampa.
National Hurricane Center is Obama.
It's a National Weather Service, part of the Commerce Department.
It's Obama.
You know, we'll use the media.
It's all about the hurricane hitting next week.
And they're not talking about Biden.
They're talking about this Hurricane Isaac thing.
Well, you know, we who live in South Florida become experts on our own.
We don't need the National Hurricane Center.
We don't need all these weather dolts analyzing this force.
Well, we need the center.
We can look at their charts and graphs.
We know what to do.
We can read this stuff.
And I've been charting or tracking the charted forecast track of the storm.
And they're moving it sometimes to the east.
Now, the latest 11 o'clock, they moved it to the west.
Now, as a Cat 1 impact in Naples, Fort Myers area.
This morning at 5 a.m., the impact was Miami.
And we're still not talking about it till next Tuesday.
So it's going to be all over the ballpark between now and then.
We don't know where this thing's going to hit.
The models are moving it more and more out into the Gulf.
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing hits in Louisiana someplace before it's all said and done.
Just kidding, I don't, nobody knows, is the, but they're desperately hoping.
They're so desperately hoping for Tampa.
The media, you know, I can see Obama sending FEMA in in advance of the hurricane hitting Tampa.
So that the Republican Convention is nothing but a bunch of tents in Tampa, a bunch of RVs and stuff.
Make it look like a disaster area before the hurricane even hits there.
So, anyway, for the fun of it, and I haven't done this in years, and I don't want to get anybody mad.
Our TV viewing habits change as we get older.
I hadn't watched the weather channel since NBC Comcast bought it.
So, I didn't know.
I mean, I knew, but I didn't recall that Al Joker is now on the weather channel.
And I thought he was strictly the Today Show.
But they have Al Joker sometimes on the weather channel.
And I turned it in, tuned it in.
I'm watching it.
I'm thinking, do they think I am four years old?
There's Al Joker sitting there telling me, make sure, kiddies, that you don't light a candle in the hurricane.
What is that?
We're a week away.
Don't light candles.
What are we four years old out here?
And yeah, I got to thinking, local weather is that way it snows.
They sent a reporter out there to stand in the drifts to tell us not to go out.
And I remember if you skid out, turn into the skid, all these things that you learn.
And then I had to stop and maybe people today aren't learning these kinds of things.
Maybe a lot of the country is the equivalent of four or five years old.
But it was weather for babies.
I thought Al Joker should dress up in a diaper, put a, you know, get some apple juice in a baby bottle and do his tropical update from a baby crib.
I kid you not.
Don't light candles during a heavy windstorm.
Anyway, folks, do you know that Todd Aiken defied me?
Yeah, if you happen to see cable news last night or the morning shows today, or if you happen to be watching CNN yesterday, Todd Aiken defied me.
Oh, yeah, you got to hear these soundbites.
So we'll do that.
We've got, what is it now?
Budget analysts, the CBO, projecting a $1.1 trillion federal deficit for 2012, the fourth straight year that we have had deficits of a trillion dollars or more.
Fourth straight year.
There's also economic news out.
CBO reporting the economy could shrink as much as one half of a percentage point, and unemployment could rise to 9% next year if the fiscal cliff hits, tax them again, and all the other things, which it will.
You know, one of the things that I talk about on this program frequently is optimism and false optimism and being the mayor of Realville and so forth.
And it's an ongoing challenge each day during times like this to be optimistic about the future of the country and to be realistic about it at the same time.
Because even if Romney and Ryan win, we've got our work cut out for us.
There is going to be, because there's going to have to be some serious changes.
There are going to be some serious changes which are going to hurt.
Otherwise, this financial implosion is going to happen.
It's going to happen at some point.
We're on the course for the country to go bankrupt, to financially implode.
If something isn't done with the entitlements, if something is not done with all of this redistribution spending, something's going to have to happen no matter who wins the election.
It's going to be tough.
So this is something I think people are going to have to be hit with honestly.
The question is, how honestly do you want to treat it during the campaign?
And at the same time, point out that there is hope to fix this, but that it's going to take a lot of hard work.
It's going to be something that won't be magical simply by winning an election.
Anyway, I'll get into all this in greater detail as the program unfolds.
Let's take our brief first obscene profit break.
We'll be back and continue with all the rest of the program right after this.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair, El Rushbo, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, distortions, lies, deceit, and yes, even the good times.
You know, Republicans at their convention are going to have theme nights.
And one of the theme nights is going to be, we built that.
I think the Tuesday night theme is we built that, which is good.
But I think, and this will never happen, but it's the kind of thing that would make real news.
The Republicans ought to have, as a theme, on one of the nights at their convention, a war on women theme night.
And the war on women theme night, have some of the more famous victims of the Democrats' war on women, like the women Clinton has attacked, because Clinton is going to be one of the stars of the Democratic Convention.
And you know darn well that the Democrats are going to try to go after the Republicans on abortion and the social issues and their own war on women.
You know they're going to, they're already saying so they're going to do it.
So turn it, I know it'll never happen.
Our guys don't think this way.
The idea would scare them.
Just the fact that I am mentioning it is going to cause them to skip some heartbeats.
But you could have a Republican theme night, war on women.
You could have women on the stage like Paula Jones, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Grayson, Juanita Broderick, Sally Perdue, all of the women.
You know, go get some of the women who were waitresses at La Brasserie when Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy did their famous waitress sandwich routine.
Oh, you haven't heard about that that?
Well, Chris Dodd, senator from Connecticut, Ted Kennedy, of course, from Massachusetts, would go to a restaurant.
It was famous, La Braserato, if it's still there or not.
And waitress sandwich.
I mean, it's exactly what it sounds like.
Either have Senator Dodd or Senator Kennedy on the bottom, waitress in the middle, and then the other senator on the top.
It was Legion.
It was well known.
So you could find some of the waitresses that did that.
War on women.
It'd be perfect.
What would Clinton setting up to be one of the stars?
You know they're going to do this.
And we're in the process here of devising ways to deal with this.
If that hurricane, by the way, if that hurricane hits Tampa during the Republican convention, let's see here.
At 8 a.m. Monday, the current forecast track from the National Hurricane Center has a Cat 1 impact landfall around Naples or Fort Myers and just magically skirting right up the west coast of Florida.
On Tuesday, they're right there at Tampa, right there in the Bay Area.
They just, you know, they're hoping for this.
Now, wouldn't, if this happens, if the hurricane gets there, will anybody accuse Barack Obama of steering the hurricane to kill rich white people at the Republican convention?
Come on, Mr. Limbaugh.
What would make you think something so positively absurd?
Well, isn't that what you guys accuse Bush of doing when Katrina went into New Orleans?
You may not have been paying attention, folks, but the Democrats, there were wacko extreme Democrats who tried to tell other Democrats that Bush steered the hurricane.
Had a weather machine.
He wanted to wipe out Democrats and the Democrat Advantage in Louisiana.
That was said.
It was said one of the most outrageous things, and then certain elements of the media went around asking people.
Do you think Bush really didn't do anything about this?
Because he was happy to see Democrats displaced and have to move to places like Texas and so forth, giving Republicans an electoral advantage in Louisiana.
They actually asked the question.
And the idea that Bush didn't care that poor black people were being victimized by Hurricane Katrina, well, we can turn it right around because we know that Obama does not like Romney.
And by the way, we got a soundbite on that today.
I've told you been saving stuff up.
I think Obama's dislike for Romney is personal, and I think it's quite illustrative.
Oh, oh, oh, you know, I've been telling you about Dinesh D'Souza's movie.
It is going gangbusters.
It is playing the sellout houses all over the people who sitting in the aisles.
Thomas Sowell drove 30 miles to, he lives in Palo Alto.
And as he wrote, they wouldn't let that movie in the city limits, much less to be shown at a, I mean, they wouldn't let the film canisters in town.
So he had to drive 30 miles, and it was a stacked, crowded theater.
He sat on the steps in the aisles.
The Hollywood Reporter has a story.
They are shocked and stunned at how well the movie is doing.
And folks, this thing is going to be big.
It's going to have tremendous impact because it goes to explaining to neophytes who Obama really is and what his motivations really are for the things that he's doing policy-wise in this country.
I want to congratulate Dinesh.
It was the next interview, E, the Limbaugh Letter newsletter when it next comes out.
We'll be back here in just a second.
So I checked the email during the break and are you serious about this war on women, Republican-themed nights at the convention?
Well, yeah, I'm serious.
I'd love to see it, and I think it would be really gutsy to do.
Maybe you don't call it that.
I know that they'll never do it, though.
So this is the difference in talk radio.
If I was going out and doing a Rush to Excellence appearance in Tampa the week of the convention, I would do it as part of the Rush to Excellence show.
I would do a war on women theme of my show, and I'd try to get as many Democrat women victims as I could in the audience, put them up on stage.
I'll get Kathleen Woolly up there with me, and I get Juanita Broderick.
Folks, I'll tell you something.
I'm really sick of this phony Republican war on women.
There is no such thing.
It's just as absurd as my Republican war on women theme night at the convention featuring, in fact, that's more realistic because it's rooted in truth.
If anybody does conduct a war on women, it's the Democrats.
They conduct a war on everybody.
How long have they been pushing this nonsense now?
Meanwhile, here's Obama fighting a war on small businesses.
He's waging war on anybody who builds or produces anything or creates jobs in this country.
And I am not exaggerating, and I'm not speaking for effect.
The government of the United States is waging war on the people who produce.
The people who make this country work are having a war waged on them from this administration.
That is not an exaggeration to say.
Obama is waging war on anyone who makes over $200,000 a year.
He wants to penalize achievement.
He wants to stigmatize it.
He wants anybody who is successful to be suspected of something.
He wants them to be distrusted.
He wants them to be resented.
It wasn't long ago that successful people were idolized.
People wanted to emulate them, be like them.
People wanted to experience the same thing.
You know, it used to be when you met or read about a famous entrepreneur, a Steve Jobs.
Well, I could do that.
Gee, I'd like to do that.
Was the attitude most people had.
What's special?
You try to find out what's special about those people.
What made those people able to accomplish?
What was it about Steve Jobs?
And people would write books trying to dissect what it is about these various entrepreneurs, whoever they were that made them work.
There were books written on how to be successful because it's not something people instinctively know.
But now these people are targeted.
They're hoisted up as suspects.
And they are accused of becoming wealthy by stealing from the poor, just as, and this is a point, by the way, that Dinesh D'Souza makes in his movie, and one that we have made in this program since Obama hit the public political scene.
Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism other than, as Dinesh says, that America is exceptionally evil.
And in his movie, Dinesh makes it plain that Obama believes the United States became a superpower by stealing everything from other poorer nations around the world.
And he believes that individual, wealthy people in this country became rich, wealthy, successful, whatever, by stealing from the poor in the country, which I have never understood the math.
I don't know how you become rich by stealing from the poor, but this is what Obama wants people to believe.
So he's waging a war against successful people.
And meanwhile, we got this nonsensical so-called Republican war on women.
It's absurd.
Everything, it's upside down.
Obama is waging war on the blue-collar white working class.
He's attempting to demonize them, and his campaign is aimed at suppressing their vote.
Stanley Kurtz has a book out.
Obama's got his sights set on targeting people who live in the suburbs because the people who live in the suburbs are just like the rich have stolen from the poor.
The people who live in the suburbs are the reason there are poor inner-city schools and lousy inner city services because the successful people left.
They were racists or whatever.
And they want to hang around with poor people or people with different skin color or people of different gender or sexual orientation.
So they fled and they went to the suburbs to hang around each other.
Obama's waging a war on all of this under the guise of transforming the country and finally bringing justice to all these people who've been screwed from the very beginning by the successful and by the rich.
And that's his objective.
At least that's what he wants them to think, that he's going to go out there and punish all of these successful people, taking as much from them as he can and giving it to the rightful owners of all this wealth.
And he's campaigning on that basis and he's seeking votes on that basis.
Now, I don't know what you would call it other than waging a war on successful people.
He's waging war on energy producers.
He's waging war on non-union workers.
He's waging war on right-to-work states.
He's waging war on anybody who tries to protect our borders.
He's waging war on people that want to protect our ballot boxes for crying out loud.
No way can we have voter ID.
No, we're not going to get rid of anything that would enable the Democrats to cheat.
It would probably take me less time to list the groups of people Obama's not waging war against.
But when you get right down to it, Obama is waging war on pretty much everybody in this country because the people that he is telling are going to benefit from his policies are not going to benefit from his policies.
Nobody is going to benefit.
Nobody other than elite leaders has ever benefited from socialism, Marxism, communism, or any other ism that involves an expanding central planning government.
Ask the people in Tampa or Sarasota, wherever it was, town hall meeting in March or April of 2009, shortly after Obama was immaculated.
You remember this.
Woman stood up and said her car didn't run anymore.
She needed a new kitchen.
She honestly thought that the election of Obama was going to change it.
And I'll bet you she's still waiting for all that stuff from Obama.
Go to the people in Detroit who lined up in droves for $15,000 vouchers to rent something or other.
And there wasn't nearly enough to go around.
Obama is waging war on everybody, and it's a false promise telling all of these, for lack of a better word, poor people, just to convey who you know I'm talking about.
All these people supposedly going to be the beneficiaries of all this redistribution.
They're not going to get Jack.
They never do get Jack in any country where this is tried.
It's never happened.
There is a war being waged by this man and his party against practically every institution and tradition that has made this country great.
They have to sit here and Put up with this war on women, B.S.
Something not happening, totally phony, defies logic.
The scary thing, of course, is that there's a bunch of Americans who think there is actually a war on women underway.
And the Republicans, Republican.
Look at what the Republicans want to do.
They hate women.
There's a war on women.
Republicans don't like the poor.
Republicans don't like anybody.
And they want to poison the air.
And they want to make the water dirty.
And they want your kids to get sick.
What would you call that if not waging war?
And it's a real war.
He's waging war on work.
There isn't much to be found in this country.
He's trying to build this big, ever-increasingly large group of people known as the Takers and filling them full of a false hope that all they've got to do is sit around, vote for him, and then wait.
And that house on the beach is going to be theirs.
And that shiny car they see driving down the street, that's going to be theirs too.
But no, no, no.
I can't talk about any of that.
Nope.
We're war on women and Republicans and abortion and all this.
And the fact of the matter is, if you want to discuss abortion, it's the Democrats with blood on their hands.
It's the American left with blood on its hands when you discuss the subject of abortion.
All right.
A brief timeout here, my friends, another obscene profit timeout.
Be tough.
Hang in there.
We'll be back in a jiffy.
A Republican war on women.
How about the Democrats' war on Sarah Palin?
How about the Democrats' war on Michelle Bachman or the Democrat war on any woman who dares to be a conservative?
I mentioned earlier that if you happen to be watching CNN last night, Wolf Blitzer, you might have heard that Todd Aiken defied me.
Well, let's go to the audio sound biceps.
Wolf Blitzer Situation Room.
This is a montage of Wolf speaking about the deadline for Todd Aiken to drop out of the Senate race.
With a critical deadline only two hours away, can the party convince Todd Aiken to drop out Rush Limbaugh and others saying it's over?
Why is he resisting?
Rush Limbaugh has said he should, for the good of the party, get out of my senses.
The next two hours will be critical.
90 minutes or so till that 6 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Central deadline.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Everyone seems to be on board.
Minutes away right now from a deadline.
The embattled U.S. Congressman Todd Aiken.
The deadline for an easy withdrawal just passed right at the top of the hour.
And now it will take a court order for him to withdraw.
The deadline has come and gone for the Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Aiken to easily pull out of the Senate race.
Well, that's the montage.
And we've heard that before, haven't we?
We've had the same format, the same thing.
Let's go back now to March 13th of 2006.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today, Gallipol.
The president's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as the CNN USA Today Gallipol.
The president's a rock problem and his new low point in the polls is available.
Okay.
And that's enough.
That went on for hours, for four hours.
Wolf Blitzer highlighting George Bush's poll plunge.
And just as yesterday, hours and hours of Todd Aiken defying Rush Limbaugh.
Now let's move over to Good Morning America today.
Good morning, America on ABC.
George Stephanopoulos, interviewing Todd Aiken, he said it calls for you to go home from Mitt Romney, Republican senators, Rush Limbaugh.
That's not the liberal media, Mr. Aiken.
You're right on that.
Essentially, the way I see things have shaped up, and we've given this a lot of thought, and that is the fact that over more than a year period of time, a number of us ran in this Republican primary.
Each of us had our messages.
I was outspent by a large amount in terms of media.
And yet, by standing on principle and putting politics aside and talking about the foundations of this country, the people in Missouri chose me to be their candidate.
And I don't believe it's right for party bosses to decide to override those voters.
So I think that really we should allow things to stand up.
So are you seeing that the election process has unfolded?
Yeah, he defied Rush Limbaugh.
How dare he?
He defied Romney.
He defied Republican senators.
He defied Rush Limbaugh, Todd Aiken.
I didn't.
That's the thing.
I never did order him to step down.
In fact, Snerdley, you people don't know this, all day yesterday was imploring me to tell the guy to go.
You remember how I started the program?
I mentioned to you that I'm uncomfortable telling the guy to go.
I did, I was very open, say, I hope he does pull out.
And I tried to make the case why it was the right thing to do to pull out.
But I made the point, I don't want people telling me when to quit this radio show.
The heck with that, that's never going to happen.
So I understand that, but something happened.
He's totally misreading what this is all about now.
And he's made himself bigger than the cause.
And it's unfortunate.
It's just unfortunate.
I don't know, five, I mean, very guarded here.
They're trying to be nice, polite.
You want to hear something really hilarious?
Some writer at the Daily Beast, now that's Tina Brown's publication, big lib, social doyen, known for the perfect watercress salad at lunch.
On the right guest list, that's Tina Brown.
Some writer at the Daily Beast said, Snerdley, I want you to hear this.
Some writer at the Daily Beast said that Mitt Romney waited to hear from me before telling Aiken to pull out.
I kid you not.
Now, I haven't spoken to Romney about this or anything in weeks.
But some reporter at the Daily Beast said that Romney waited to hear from me before telling Aiken to pull out.
The reporter's name is Michael Tomaski.
Rush Limbaugh finally called on Aiken to get out of the race around three yesterday afternoon.
One time after that, the Romney campaign released a statement saying the same.
Who's the leader of that party?
What kind of president of the United States will such a man be who waits for green lights from Rush Limbaugh before taking Bold Stand?
This is an out-and-out lie.
It's typical from the media today.
That's Tomaski.
He's right.
This man's a joke.
Who is the leader of that party?
What kind of president of the United States will such a man be who waits for green lights from Rush Limbaugh before taking waiting for me?
And I never told Aiken to go as most everybody else did.
Anyway, that's the Daily Beast, and it's another opportunity for us to take a brief time out.
Romney waiting to hear from me.
Hey, how about some other women that we can bring up to the stage during our War on Women theme?
Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Edwards, Sylda Spitzer, Huma Wiener.
Bring Huma up there.
And all the women who marry or date or even look at a Kennedy man.
All right, folks, sit tight.
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