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Aug. 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know, folks, the more I think about it, the more shocked, stunned, and amazed I am that Bill Clinton is going to be a featured speaker to Democrat National Convention.
Well, follow me on this.
And as scary as this thought is, this is probably true.
Clinton probably will be the most conservative speaker at the convention.
And not to say that he's maybe the least liberal.
Whatever.
But more than that, Bill Clinton ran for the presidency twice on the issue of welfare reform, and he even signed welfare reform into law.
So clearly he's a racist.
And then you've got the whole war on women business.
Greetings, by the way, great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our phone number, 800-282-2882, and the email address, LRushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
Thrill and a delight to have you here to the audio soundbites.
I'm going to pick up number 11 and 12 here.
This is last night on the Fox Bidness Network Willis report, Jerry Willis.
And her guest is Bill Crystal.
And they're talking about the calls for Todd Aiken to quit his campaign for the Senate.
And they had this little exchange.
Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, they think that Aiken's comments are going to dog Mitt Romney.
Do you agree?
No.
No, are you kidding?
All the idiotic comments of various Democratic congressmen and senators dogging Barack Obama.
Some of the Republicans try to get them to dog him, but voters aren't idiots.
Voters know that Todd Aiken isn't Mitt Romney.
Voters know that Mitt Romney has never said anything like that.
Voters know that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have distanced themselves from and indeed denounced what Todd Aiken said.
So I think there is no chance that it will have any effect on the presidential race.
It may cost Republicans the Senate seat in Missouri, and that would be unfortunate if you're a Republican.
I'm on the air three hours a day, 15 hours a week.
We are not on a super secret frequency.
You don't need a secret decoder ring to listen to this program, to hear what I say.
It is amazing to me the number of people in the media who comment on what I say who have never heard me.
They get it from somewhere else.
I never said that Aiken would dog Romney.
I never said that.
I don't know where Jerry Willis got it, but I didn't, just like this guy at the Daily Beast is writing that Romney waited to hear from me before telling Aiken to drop out.
No, no, no, he doesn't mean waiting for me to call Romney.
He's waiting.
He means he waited.
Romney waited to hear what I said, but I didn't issue a demand that Aiken drop out.
I set up some circumstances.
I let him know what I thought the right thing to do.
But I started the program out yesterday by saying, I know there's my job to come here and tell people what to do with their careers.
And I don't join the crowd on these things.
I've conventional wisdom forums and I run the other way.
It is amazing the things that I say on this show that you in the audience never hear.
I didn't issue a formal fatwa.
Folks, if I had demanded Aiken drop out, he'd be gone.
If I had demanded that Aiken quit the campaign, he'd be gone.
I didn't do it.
And I didn't say that whatever Aiken says is going to dog Romney.
Now, Crystal doesn't know it.
He's just got to respond to the question.
Sarah Palin, by the way, is out positing the idea of a third party.
She was on with Greta last night on the Fox News channel.
And Greta said, I think it's only fair to take a few seconds and to gloat a little bit.
You chose the candidate that the Republican Party did not choose in Missouri, Sarah Steelman.
Now, all the leaders in the country, Republican leaders, are trying to get Aiken to go.
So I think they probably love who you endorsed.
I won't gloat about it, but I was right.
Sarah Stillman was the right person.
I supported her then, and I'm going to continue to support her.
We've got to take back the Senate, and Missouri is a must-win state.
The way we do that is to have someone like Sarah Stillman be able to run, even if it's as a third-party candidate, to be able to run and help us take this back.
Now, that's quite interesting.
Throw out a possible third-party candidacy for Sarah Steelman or anybody else in Missouri.
We are now on August 22nd.
I don't know what filing dates are or any of that, but I do know there isn't a whole lot of time here.
But that's, you know, I'm telling you what I'm sensing, and this is not the first time, and I'm looking at the call board up here.
And folks, there are a lot of people who think that Todd Aiken's being done dirty.
A lot of people think Todd Aiken is being mistreated.
And a lot of people have decided they want to stand by him and that everybody else should too.
So a third-party candidate, that would split the vibe.
I think that would handle it or hand it to McCaskill.
So I think she can still lose big.
McCaskill is unpopular on her own in Missouri.
She's unpopular even if she were to be unopposed.
I won't go so far as to say that unopposed would beat McCaskill, but it'd be close.
She's not popular.
I don't know.
No, I'm just I continue to think about this war on women, and I know how this Aiken business is going to be handled.
The Democrats already are laying plans for their convention and their media formulating questions to ask Republicans to try to embarrass.
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
Republicans go first, therefore their platform will be made public.
And the Republican platform doesn't say anything about a rape exception.
So what's going to happen is it may already have happened.
I don't know.
But Republicans are going to get hit with a question about the platform not having a rape exception in it.
The Democrats are going to try to go to town on this Aiken thing as much as they can.
They're going to try to turn, their convention is going to be the pro-abortion convention.
They're going to end up celebrating abortion at their convention.
And folks, let me tell you something.
I don't want you to tell anybody.
Let them do it.
Let them turn their convention over to Planned Parenthood and to NARAL and every other feminist out there.
You let them do it.
Let them go right ahead and turn their convention into pro-abortion.
If that's what they think is going to win the election for them, they really think this war on women thing that they can play it out there, let them do it.
As you and I know full well that their view on abortion is not the majority position in this country, not their view on it.
Now, this question that they're going to ask, that they're going to attempt to embarrass Republicans.
Whoa, where's the rape exception in your platform?
I don't see an exception for rape.
Well, by the same token, can I read to you from the Democrat Party platform in 2008, their position on abortion is more extreme than you would believe.
In fact, they have as their nominee a guy who believes in infanticide, which is Barack Obama.
As a state senator, Obama supported legislation that would allow, essentially, babies who survived abortions to die.
The original intent of the mother was for the child to be aborted.
If the abortionist botches it and the baby's born alive, another doctor is called in, finish off the original intent.
Obama supported that as a state senator.
Now, isn't that kind of extreme?
And here's the Democrat platform from 2008 on choice.
A Democrat Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion regardless of ability to pay.
And we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.
Well, this includes now partial birth abortion and taxpayer-funded abortion.
The Democrats are making it plain they support all of that.
The American people don't support taxpayer-funded abortion.
The American people don't support partial birth abortion.
You don't even have to get into infanticide.
I'm just telling you, if it comes down to it, they have the vastly more extreme position.
They're the ones with blood on their hands when it comes to the abortion issue.
The Republican position is simply one that supports life.
Pure and simple.
GOP platform is going to have the same wording that it had in 2004.
There was not a rape exception in 2004 or in 2008 in the Republican platform.
And by the way, there is not a rape exception in the Democrat platform.
They don't talk about it either.
I don't believe.
At least it's not in the copy of their plank here that I've got.
But it doesn't matter.
They're going to try to make hay out of this.
So the Republicans are going to have to be very, I think were I to advise the Republicans, and of course I do, do I not?
According to the drive-by media, when asked, for any and all of you Republicans, when you are asked why you don't have a rape exception in the party platform on abortion, don't answer it.
Don't get into the substance.
That's the trick.
Turn it right around on them and say, have you asked the Democrats why they have blanket support for partial birth abortion and taxpayer-funded abortion?
Have you asked the Democrats why they think it's permissible for the government to tell the Catholic Church and other organizations they must make abortion available against their religious belief?
Don't answer the question, Republicans.
Don't go anywhere near it.
It's a setup.
It's a trap.
You turn it right back around on them and you ask the reporter if they've asked the Democrats about the extreme aspects of their position.
And either report, I'm not asking the Democrats, I'm asking you.
It's right.
I want you to go ask the Democrats.
Pure and simple.
You remember when Obama was asked about abortion in 2008?
He says it's above his pay grade.
They don't want to go anywhere near it, and they don't want Obama as a state senator supporting, call it infanticide, but what it really was, was a law in Illinois that allowed a botched abortion to be completed.
It's essentially what it was.
I don't, side by side, in A-B comparison, there isn't any comparison in the extremism of the positions by the two parties.
Brief time out.
Let's go to your phone calls when we come back.
Sit tight, folks.
Okay, folks, here we go.
Here we go.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the Rush Limbaugh program, we're starting in Fort Mills, South Carolina.
This is Bill, and I'm glad you called, sir.
Hi.
Well, he hung up.
You just took him off the board.
Yeah, so this is the guy, folks.
He was going to tell me that my refusal to support Aiken equals the libification of Rush Limbaugh.
We're going to put that call up first.
We did put that call up first.
And I went there and Snerdley took it off the board right as I went to the phones, which means the guy hung up, which means Snerdley knew he hung up before I said we're going to go get the guy.
So Snerdley leaves me hanging out there when he knows the guy's not there.
I still went and tried to get anyway.
This guy was going to say that this is it.
I'm done now.
I have become a lib.
They've gotten to me.
The libs have finally gotten to me.
The establishment got to me.
Since I don't support Aiken, I have become libified.
But he's not there to discuss it, so we move on.
Croton on Hudson in New York.
I have spent many a Saturday afternoon at Croton on Hudson.
It is a gorgeous place.
Saturday afternoon water volleyball games at Roger Ailes's place.
Way, way back in the early 90s.
Here's BJ.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi.
Very nice to be here, Rush.
I wanted to let you know that I am a feminist for life.
I'm a single woman.
And I am going to contradict you on your thinking as well as what the media said.
The thing is, what this gentleman said was about the body shutting down and so forth.
There is some, you can use this as a footnote.
It comes from the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
They had a publication back in 1970, which talked about rape victims Their body shutting down.
So that would be an excellent footnote because Alan Guttmacher is a arm, very important arm of Planned Parenthood.
Yes, that's very important.
So they could throw it right back in their face as this is exactly what was from one of their own operations.
The other thing which I first heard just.
Can I ask you a question first?
Yes.
What is a feminist for life?
Well, I think one way of looking at us is we're kind of the double agent in the feminism world.
In other words, when you usually think of feminism, you think of people who are pro-abortion.
And they have even manucured the word, so it's pro-choice.
Male lesbians.
Yeah, and what it does is it kind of takes away that whole sense of abortion.
When you say, oh, I'm pro-choice, you can't leave it at that.
You have to say pro-choice for abortion, because otherwise you really leave the monster masked.
You know, I've tried this over the course of many years.
I used to say on this program I was pro-choice, and I choose life.
And the feminists would call, the Democrats would call, outraged.
And I said, you're proven my point.
You're proving pro-choice doesn't mean choice at all.
You are mandating that people be pro-abortion.
That's what pro-choice means.
That was the point I was trying to make to them.
That's what you're saying, essentially.
Yeah.
But in addition to that, when I first heard, all I heard from the liberal press was legitimate rape, legitimate rape, and nothing else.
And when I went to try to get the entire transcript of what I couldn't find it, or it was very difficult.
So when they said legitimate rape, I said, what is this guy talking about?
And then what came to mind was what happened in the case of Tawana Brawley and that poor assistant DA up in Dutchess County.
There was a case of a woman who said this man raped her, besmirched his entire reputation, the poor guy, I don't know what he's doing now, when it was found out it was no rape at all, but that she was having sex with her boyfriend, and I guess she was afraid of what her family was doing.
I don't think that's what Congressman Aiken meant.
No, of course it isn't.
But my point is.
Well, then why bring it up?
Because that is what the news people were trying to get across when they would say, when all they said was Aiken and legitimate abortion.
I said, you know, what planet is this guy from?
And then I thought to myself, well, go ahead and look at this is a case where there was no rape at all.
Now, let me short circuit this because I know exactly what Congressman Aiken was trying to say.
There are people who don't believe in a rape exception because they don't believe it's ever the baby's fault.
To them, the baby is the essence of innocence.
It is guilty of nothing, no matter what else.
Doesn't matter.
And they believe to be consistent, if they're pro-life and it's based on life is first and foremost above all other issues and that the baby is the essence of innocence, then there is no way at any time you take the life of the baby.
Now, you have to be very articulate to explain this to people, and he isn't.
And that's where this legitimate rape, illegitimate rape came from.
All he was trying to say was, I know it.
He was just trying to say it's not the baby's fault.
Why?
How could we kill a baby?
It's never the baby's fault.
That's all he would have had to say.
But he wanted to try to dress it up and stepped in it.
Hi, how are you, Rush Lindbaugh?
Talent on loan from God.
Here having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
I've got somebody trying to find this article from the 70s from the Guttmacher Institute.
Well, it's going to be tough.
The Guttmacher Institute is, as the Feminist for Life pointed out, an arm of Planned Parenthood.
But the Feminist for Life, our last caller from Croton on Hudson, said that she read in a Guttmacher Institute report in the 70s that they used the term illegitimate rape or legitimate rape, some such thing.
And I was pressed for time and I neglected to ask her for the site.
I would love to know when exactly what the date or the name of that article was.
But our crack research staff can find it if it's to be found.
Maybe, and then we'll have it for you if it exists.
Because what the Feminist for Life said was that Aiken was right.
By the way, Aiken's apologized for it.
Aiken has said he didn't mean what he said.
So the Feminist for Life was defending what Aiken had just apologized for in part.
But regardless, the Feminist for Life from Croton on Hudson said that the Guttmacher Institute claimed that women shut down during rape.
That's what she said.
She said that's where the origin of this is.
Basically, the feminazis.
So we're going to try to find that.
Just for the fun of it.
In the meantime, Pam in Philadelphia, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
I have two calls.
Must be on Sprint.
Thank you.
Hold it.
Pam, you're cutting out.
We've got a very, very poor cellular connection.
Okay, can you hear me now?
I hear you.
Don't move.
We hear you.
Whatever you're doing, don't move.
Even if you're in the middle of the road, don't move.
Okay, well, I had another call coming in.
I think that was it.
Oh, okay.
Okay, okay.
Okay, but my comment, I have two of them, important ones.
It appears that he's been bought off by Chicago-style politics because we learn about sex education in grade school.
And for an educated man to make a comment like that and make an entire fool out of himself, and then after he's upset the entire Republican Party, none of this feels the way that he feels.
There is no war against women.
It's just a bunch of, you know what, just so they can win an election.
For him not to step down is indicative that he's been bought off.
That's my one comment.
Well, you think that the Democrats bought the guy off?
I do, yeah.
Nobody, if I, I just want to understand you, nobody's that stupid?
No, that's my opinion.
And I think he is that stupid.
I think money talks, and I think that's what he did.
I think to make to whatever his reason, probably for money.
I don't, I must disagree with you.
I don't think he's been bought off.
Think, and God, God bless me for this.
I think he's so tough.
Clueless.
He went to grade school and he had sex education.
Now that he's called this and jumped into this, he needs to get out.
Wait a minute.
The guy has been bought off.
Hang on just a second.
He's 65.
I'm 61, and I did not have sex education.
I'm from Missouri.
It was not part.
No, this is what I'm you're talking about.
Babies are made.
I mean, the guy knows better.
And now that he's done what he's done, he needs to hop out and Republicans.
It's hot.
I agree with that.
But I know it's hard to believe somebody actually thinks that the body shuts down because of rape.
But I don't think this is about birds and bees.
I think he's been told this, and I think that a lot of people believe it in his group.
And as I said yesterday, I think they don't talk to people outside their group.
And they fervently believe this stuff in their heart.
And they've come up with ways that they've devised they think that will persuade people of the position that they hold.
And, you know, people can be made to believe the craziest things, Pam.
Pam, are you still?
Have we lost your cell connection again?
I'm here.
I'm here.
He says it's funding for office party because he's crazy.
It's a crazy statement, and it makes the Republicans, it tarnishes the whole party just because of one fool that's in there.
And he needs to understand: okay, I'm foolish and I've done something crazy and I need to step aside for our country.
Doesn't see it.
He needs to get rid of Barack Obama.
Obviously, no, that was my point yesterday.
He doesn't see it that way.
He now looks at himself as a martyr.
No, he's not a martyr.
He's a fool, and he's ruining our country.
What?
Because it just puts Barack Obama one more step toward becoming elected.
There's one more point that's important I want to make.
The next point is they keep going back and forth about this $700 billion taken out of Medicare.
Why don't the Republicans just show the part that is in there in this Obamacare, the page, and read it and say, okay, are you going to deny?
They are.
They are, Ryan.
And Ryan, especially on the stump, is making it.
Quote the page.
Quote the page.
Because all they do is say, no, that's not true.
Quote the page that it's on.
All right.
So you want them to hold up the page from Obamacare.
Absolutely.
And read.
So all the non-believers can say, well, you know, what do you have to say now, Obama?
Interesting.
Okay.
Would that work or would they say that Ryan just wrote it himself and printed it out on his laser writer and brought it with him?
I understand your frustration.
I think they're doing a great job on this.
Look at the polling data.
So far, seasoned citizens love Ryan in great numbers and including in Florida.
But I understand your frustration.
I know she's hot.
Everybody's hot.
Let me tell you something.
This is the country we're talking about here.
You know, when she or me or anybody says this election is it, that's not hyperbole.
When we say we have to win the Senate, we've got to have 51 votes to repeal Obamacare.
49 ain't going to do it, and 50 isn't going to do it.
We've got to have 51.
It is very serious.
That's why she's mad and passionate about it.
And this isn't a time to be accommodating of stupidity because it's a nice thing to do.
This is not a time to be accepting of stupidity because we're big people.
We don't have time for it right now.
She's exactly right about this.
But on the $700 billion Medicare stuff, Romney's up by 14 points in Florida now, according to the latest poll.
I think they're doing a pretty effective job on this.
But I'll tell you what, I'll call Mitt this afternoon and I'll tell him to read from the bill.
Here's Pam, thanks much.
This is Connie in Monroe, Louisiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Glad to have you back, Rush.
Thank you very much.
My comment is when girls do go to Planned Parenthood and there is statutory rape, Planned Parenthood aren't releasing the names of the men to the authorities.
They came under fire about this a while back, and I think that needs to be brought out, that that is a platform to run on.
And also, I saw Juan Williams, he had, I think, a documentary about the number one killer among blacks is not black young men killing each other every night, which is horrific, but abortions.
Oh, boy, now you stepped in it.
I know.
And now that they equate to me, like, you know how they talk about blood diamonds?
When there are babies who are being killed and the number, most of them are black, I think they equals those WIC cards.
Every time you see someone in with the, what is that, that women, infant, and children's card?
Yeah, WIC.
How do we know that that money to go to that card is not coming from babies that have black babies that have been aborted?
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where's all that money going?
But I think there should be outrage that Planned Parenthood do not release names anyway to the authorities.
No, she's exactly right about that.
Folks, if you're hearing this for the first time, she's exactly right about it.
Planned Parenthood does not release the names of men in statutory rape because Planned Parenthood makes their money off abortion.
Everybody thinks that this is a political issue, and it is, but for Planned Parenthood, and don't think the Libs don't care about money.
They care about it as much as anybody else.
And every abortion is money to them.
And they're not going to jeopardize.
That's why when there is a Planned Parenthood office and what you call it, adoption clinic right next door, the Planned Parenthood people will do everything they can on the street to try to talk a girl out of going to the adoption clinic.
Exactly.
And one more thing, Rush, if I may.
I am still upset about Vice President Biden and what he said.
And I cannot believe the number of blacks who are not outraged.
I see now that there are more blacks still on the plantation than I thought.
They actually think they're off.
But tell me why.
Tell me why, Connie.
Why is because I'll tell you what I think is just like Howard Dean on TV a couple of weeks ago said, you guys go ahead and claim Obama took $700 billion out of Medicare.
There is nobody going to believe that Democrats cut Medicare.
Nobody will believe it.
Nobody's going to believe the same token that Democrats want to have blacks living on the plantation.
Nobody's going to believe.
So when Biden says I'm going to put you all back in chains, nobody's going to get mad at Biden because nobody believes that Biden or the Democrats have any ill will toward blacks.
Only the Republicans do.
It's so ingrained in the political culture.
And you know why it's ingrained?
Because I have heard it for the longest time.
Republicans are for the rich.
Democrats are for the poor.
Yeah, they're for keeping them poor.
Russ, that money that they give in the form of wick and these welfare checks is crumbs.
But yet, a thing about a crumb is they still have the whole pot.
A crumb is just a crumb.
I know.
They still have the whole pot.
Look, you're singing my song.
The Democrats are for the poor.
That's right.
For keeping them poor.
The Democrats, if you want to ensure poverty, vote Democrat.
If you're in poverty, you want to stay in poverty, vote Democrat.
I agree with you, 100%.
I've been asking for 25 years.
Why don't people wake up and see it?
It's just, it's ingrained politically.
If I had the answer to it, I'd be doing something else in addition to this.
People would be beating down my door for advice if there were an answer to this.
And I got to take a break.
I'm really glad you called, Connie.
Thanks much, folks.
Back after this.
How about these women callers that we got today?
They have been over the top great.
You hear the passion in these women.
I sit here and I think about the Democrats and their war on women theme and how the Republicans have this desire to keep women secondary status and so forth.
I listen to these women call here and they are outraged.
They are more passionate about this than the average guy that calls this program.
And they're fed up with this.
They're fed up with male stupidity, this Achin situation.
It's great.
Makes me want to carry through with the Republican war on women theme at the convention and get the real victims of politicians up on stage.
And they're all going to be women that have been negatively impacted by Democrats.
Bill Clinton, John Edwards and women in his life and so forth, Ted Kennedy, all the Kennedy guys.
They're loaded for bear out.
This is Greg.
This is Greg in North Redding, Massachusetts.
You're next.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you doing?
Very well.
Thank you.
This guy's been bought off.
It's clear and simple.
No one's that stupid to make a statement like that.
And if you want to talk about that, hold it a minute.
Which statement are you talking about?
The statement that he made about rape and women.
No one believes that.
And nobody, I mean, even my friends who are fundamentalist Baptists or people who are Catholic or priests or anybody you talk to today would believe a statement like that.
You know, this is the 21st century.
And for him to come out, that's a hot-button issue that the Democrats have been using as a Hail Mary for the last 35 years.
And this guy's a congressman.
He's been briefed on that before.
And for him to come out and say that and to step on a landmine like that is just unbelievable.
And the fact that he knew as a congressman and as a Republican that this could throw that election, put the Senate in jeopardy, and put the general election in jeopardy as well.
And for him to make a statement like that, and as you already know, Claire McCaskill has thrown millions of dollars into this campaign to have him as the candidate.
He's already got a House seat that he can go back to.
And he makes a statement like that.
I think someone should look into his background, see if this guy owes a lot of money or he's going to get a lot of money or whatever.
But this guy's been bought off.
Well, you are the second caller today to level this charge.
Absolutely.
You know, and the theory is that nobody can be this stupid.
That's what you're thinking.
Right.
The Democrats are great at the big lie.
We saw Harry Reid with that last week when he came out and said Romney hasn't paid taxes in 10 years.
And the only reason why Reed had to do that is because Ted Kennedy's gone.
Ted Kennedy was the one who usually came out with those statements.
Remember, like Christmas turkeys on Bush's judges and stuff like that?
That used to be Ted Kennedy because everybody felt his seat was secure.
But they had a Reed come out and do it last week.
And then this sort of goes along the same vein, the big lie.
No one believes that.
It's something that's so colossive, stupid, and nobody believes that.
And for him to come out and say that is just unbelievable.
I don't know that nobody believes it.
Um, well, I look it.
I have to take a break.
It's probably a very fortunate thing for me, too, that I have to take a break.
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