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Aug. 22, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 22, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this show make more sense in anything anybody else out there happens to be saying, and I make no excuses for that, because the views expressed by the host on this show are rooted in a daily relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth.
In addition to that, it documented to be almost always right 99.7% of the time.
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Here's the story from the Hollywood Reporter shocked.
Hollywood reporters shocked that an anti-Obama movie is doing so well in New York.
It is already the number two grossing documentary of the year.
It's titled 2016 Obama's America.
It's the Dinesh de Souza movie.
And we have uh spoken of frequently on this program, an anti-Obama documentary, this is from a Hollywood reporter.
An anti-Obama documentary based on conservative author Dinesh D'Souza's book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, will expand nationwide this weekend after doing notable business in select markets across the fruited plain, including in a liberally minded New York City.
Overall, 2016, Obama's America grossed an impressive 1.2 million dollars last weekend as it upped its theater count from 61 to 169 for a total gross of 2 million.
It's the second best showing of the year for a documentary after bully.
Bully was at 3.2 million.
I saw that.
That does not include nature documentaries like chimpanzee into the Arctic.
It's already the number 12 political documentary of all time.
That's a market that Michael uh more supposedly has uh has cornered.
But anyway, uh on Friday, Dinesh's movie will be playing in 1,075 theaters in an aggressive expansion that comes on the eve of the Republican convention in Tampa, which uh gets underway August 27th.
Some in Hollywood were stumped by the amount of business the documentary did at the Regal Union Square Stadium 14 in Lower Manhattan, situated in a liberal neighborhood, where films from Michael Moore have done huge business.
I'll tell you it is a it's a fascinating thing to watch.
I told you the story, Dr. Sowell, Dr. Thomas Sowell, he lives in Palo Alto.
And they wouldn't let this movie cross the city limits in the film can, much less in a projection room in a theater.
Dr. Soule had to drive thirty miles to watch it.
The theater he went to was so crowded he sat in the balcony in the aisle.
The only place to sit.
He said the audience was at wrapped full attention.
It explains Obama's motivations.
And for many, it's the first time.
Now they uh they are hearing about Obama's views on colonialism, uh, the influence of the mentors in his life such as his father, and a man by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, a noted communist in Hawaii.
And basically what you come away with, you watch the movie, is that Obama considers himself a global citizen.
Not so much an American citizen, American citizen too limiting.
He's a global citizen, and he has the global view of America, which essentially is that our wealth and superpower status has not derived from anything special or exceptional about us, that instead what we've done is simply pillaged the rest of the world.
We've stolen resources.
Folks, it's exactly what I've told you from the get-go, That Obama has a chip on his shoulder about this country, that it's illegitimate, it's immoral.
Its founding was unjust.
And it's his role, it's his job to cut this country down to size because that's what this country deserves from the perspective of a globalist who sees the world as this giant egalitarian place that ought to be a lot more fair and a lot more equal.
But the United States has taken much more than its share.
And it's Obama's job to finally level the playing field.
And not only in a global sphere, but domestically as well.
Obama's view that the country has become great by virtue of pillage.
So have the achieved in this country become successful by stealing from fellow citizens, or by cheating them in business, or by screwing them, or just literally taking from them, or not being fair in wages or what have you.
And so it's his job to even it out.
And Sowell writes about people watching this, and you can see that the people who are exposed to this uh explanation for the first time are held at wrapped attention.
And it's the movie is not preachy, it's not uh table pounding.
This is the movie where Dinesh went over to Kenya, met with Obama's brother, who lives in a hut.
I told you the story yesterday that George Obama, the brother that lives in, it's a half-brother of the president of the United States, lives on less than $20 a year.
And it turns out that George, this is a column that Dinesh wrote for Fox News ten days ago, two Fridays ago.
He said he got a phone call from George Obama.
He said George Obama was reaching out to Dinesh at a medical emergency.
He needed financial assistance for somebody in the family in this remote village in Kenya where they all live.
And Dinesh said, Why you call me?
And George Obama's the only guy I know to call.
And Dinesh makes money.
His own brother's the president of the United States who loves to spout this biblical phrase that we are our brother's keeper.
But we ought to start a foundation to help this guy called the I am my brother's keeper foundation.
George Obama, the chief beneficiary, and anybody else named Obama that lives in a hut in uh in King.
I'm just joking, but uh my brother's keeper could be the name of the foundation.
George lives on $20 a year.
Obama will not help him.
And Dinesh explains why his theory is that George doesn't believe the same things Obama politically believes, and so George is a cast off.
And this is in the movie.
People are watching it.
This is one of these sleeper things.
You know, movies, pop culture, very influential, a lot of people.
If it happens in a movie, it's real.
And so this is one of these things that's happening, at least in the political sphere under the radar.
It'll be fascinating to watch.
It's going to open in um, well, not open, it'll it'll play in a thousand seventy-five theaters this weekend, and it's already doing gangbusters in New York and a Hollywood reporter can't figure it out.
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Okay, Gallapaz just released their latest trial run poll with registered voters.
Presidential election, Romney 47, Obama 45.
I've got this new app uh picked up on the iPhone over the weekend.
And a poll tracker.
Every poll in the world, I get a notification alert.
And this Gallup poll is uh it's been consistent for uh two or three days.
And folks, I don't you know me.
I uh I don't rely on polling at all.
I think polling is used to shape opinion rather than reflect it.
I think polling is used to make news, and particularly as you get closer to the election, they become more relevant.
A poll in March or April is worthless because the election's not in March or April.
But you can, if you want to study them, you can detect trends.
And in swing states, Romney and Ryan are gaining ground.
And in some places it's it's it's small, but it's perceptible.
I d I just get there's something happening uh out there.
And I frankly have been of the opinion that, and I've been very careful saying this, but you've heard me say it.
If the election we're held today, I think we're looking at landslide.
I thought that a week ago.
I don't think this is I I don't want to say this too often because uh political situations are too volatile as the Aiken thing illustrates.
But they're not looking Obama isn't looking happy.
Nobody on the Democrat side's looking happy.
These people are at war with each other, and they're getting even if it's possible more maniacal in their TV appearances, and and they're saying some of the craziest, wackiest things.
And uh the Achin thing's unfortunate, but I'm gonna tell you, I f I think the Democrats are I'm don't want to say this too loud either, because I don't want to affect what their inclinations are, but I think they're set to implode over this.
I you know, they they have these hot button boilerplate issues that cause them to go to page two of their playbook that's 30 years old, and they put plans into motion uh that just are not relevant.
I you know, they they live in a bubble, they lie to themselves about their own popularity, they they fall for it because the media creates a false impression of just how many people do support Democrats and liberals in this country.
I just have a uh sneaking and yeah, this, yeah, like like for example, i i nobody showing up at Obama appearances so they say, Oh, well, we're doing that on a purpose.
All right, we are limiting the audience size so the president could have a more intimate uh event with the attendees.
And we're also limiting the amount of money at any one time.
That's such a crook.
There isn't the enthusiasm for Obama that there was.
Nowhere near it.
Anyway, I let's go back to the phones.
Jim in uh Poplar Bluffs, Missouri.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Megan Diddles, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Popper Bluff, yeah, you bet.
Right in the boot heel.
Hey, I drive a truck, Russ.
Yesterday I was listening to radio by five o'clock I was off for get Athens off, and I was about ready to tear the radio out.
I was sick of listening, everybody.
But I got to thinking, I was stationed in the service up there at Fort Linnerwood, and our company model was deeds not words.
And if I look at the deeds that that Aikins has done, he's been conservative 100% straight down the road, and that's why I voted for him.
And I think what I like I said yesterday I was aggravated, and I just wanted to uh just throw him under the bus also, and I got to thinking about that.
I thought, no, the man.
What were you uh what were you what were you aggravated about?
Well, I was aggravated because of the words he said, and no one was supporting him.
You had Romney, you had Ashcroft, you had Chip Bond, all of them ready to throw this guy under the bus.
Uh just for a few words you said, and I guarantee you all the words they have said and the things they have said, we've stood behind them.
And Missouri is conservative, we're the show me state, and and through through Atkins deeds, he has showed me he is conservative.
And it's time for conservatives stand in front of that fire squad instead of circling the fire squad.
Well up, it's time to go up.
You know, we have said a stupid thing.
I think say a stupid thing.
But we are Yeah, I got a lot of I got a lot of calls from people like you yesterday on this who who think that there's a whole lot of disloyalty uh going on out there.
And I'm gonna tell you, Jim, it's simply because this is cru we have to win the Senate.
All the rest of this is academic.
We have to have 51 senators.
If we're going to repeal Obamacare, and we have to have people that are gonna do it.
We've got a tremendous challenge ahead of us.
Winning the White House, taking the Senate, getting rid of Harry Reed and Chuck Yu Schumer and the rest of the Senate leadership.
And what what Aiken did not further that.
It remains to be seen if uh it's if it's gonna hurt.
Well uh but but it just it it was just unfortunate uh that the whole thing happened, and uh then the aftermath when he attempted to turn this around and make it look like he was a martyr and standing up for this wasn't about abortion, this wasn't about pro-choice or pro-life, it wasn't about any of that.
It it's it's it's about shooting ourselves in the foot unnecessarily.
We can't make any unforced errors.
We just can't afford them.
And that's why there was the uh the outcry.
This is not something that you would suggest somebody do or say.
There we go back to phones.
Des Moines and Michael, thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hey Rush, how are you doing?
This is an absolute pleasure.
Thank you, sir.
And hey, the reason I'm calling is I got a little different take on Aiken and you know why he didn't back out.
You know, everybody, I was given like every most other people, I was extremely angry.
I'm listening to his interview yesterday.
He seemed clueless and everything, but let me set this up for about five seconds.
You know, I'm in sales, and what hit me when I was listening to him is when he said he's an engineer.
And you know what?
When I'm in I'm in sales right now, when I can get someone emotionally involved, I've got a huge chance of success.
And whenever I run into an engineer, I'm in a dead end.
Because you cannot get them emotionally involved.
They're strictly looking at it analytically, and you just can't get them to make a decision.
And I see this guy as you know what, he's an engineer.
He's looking at, you know what?
I just made one mistake, one little misstep.
And to him, that's such a small percentage of anything he's ever, you know, that that he can even comprehend.
He can't comprehend the emotional aspect of this situation and how it can possibly affect this thing down the road.
He's looking at it as an engineer, and it's and it's just like beating your head against the wall trying to get through to this man.
Yeah, but wait a second.
In a in a in addition to being an engineer, he's a marine, and he's a politician.
He's been a politician for a lot of years.
He's in the Missouri House of Representative.
Well, he's he's in the U.S. House, Missouri House.
Um, and he's he's a uh he certainly understands politics.
And he's he's got to be able to reach people on a certain emotional level to get their votes.
Well, I agree with you there.
I just think this is ingrained in him, though.
I mean, when he said it, it struck a chord with me, and all I could see is so many engineers I sit down with, and they're the ones I can't you can't get them emotionally involved, and this is a huge emotional issue.
Well, one thing that I I will I will agree with you on.
I probably would uh uh understand this.
He he no doubt thinks that he worked damn hard to get this far.
And you're right, I think, in his mind, hey, I misspoke.
Big deal.
Okay, I apologize for it.
Big deal.
It's one mistake.
I worked really hard for that, and he's a stick to it kind of guy.
And so um uh just uh he probably all of these appeals from people hardened him the other way.
I think it became a little defiant.
I know I would yeah, that's my nature to a point, but when you when you when he sits there and says, you know, he doesn't want to harm the party, he doesn't want to do this, he's totally detached that he is harming it.
And he has totally decreased his chances of winning.
He's totally decreased our chances of taking over the Senate, and uh you know, well now wait.
If you're saying he's an engineer, he ought to be able to calculate that, right?
Right, but he's still stuck on that one little statement.
This can't possibly you know, this is such a small percentage of everything I've done in my life that that shouldn't preclude him, and he's not getting that, or he's not comprehending that hey, this one little thing, this can't possibly explode into this big of an issue.
Well, so are you are are you making these uh assessments here as a as a means of excusing him?
No, I I think it's I'm angry with how what his decision is.
All right, is that I'm trying to say is I you know it it ticks me off in that he can't separate himself from that.
No, I'm not excusing him at all.
I'm definitely not on his side.
All right.
Not accusing you.
I just wanted to understand um the vantage point that you were making this assessment for.
Oh gosh, no, I'm I'm for taking over whatever we can possibly do it, and and have the best chance at it.
And I just see him throwing us under a rock here, and or that's probably not the best term, but you know, just making it a little bit more difficult when we don't need any distraction.
And he's a distraction, and he says, Oh, I'm in it for you know, this isn't about me, is what he says.
We got to but no, see that's that's that's it is he made it totally he put himself above everything else.
See, he did the exact opposite.
He'd put himself above everything.
The future of the country, uh the cause uh getting rid of Obama.
He put himself above that.
He's elevating himself to be more important than that.
And that's what's irritating people.
Most people, I think, if they try to put themselves in this in a similar circumstance.
Well, let's say that you fervently believe that your country is hanging by a thread and you do something to weaken the thread.
Most people will say I uh I'm I'm back, I I I don't want to hurt the cause.
I do not want set this effort back.
And most people probably think of themselves behaving that way.
Uh they they would they would put everything else above their own personal uh ambition given the objective here, and when he doesn't do that and puts himself to that that's what rubbed people the wrong way afterwards, I think.
But uh you could be on to something with his engineering background and and so forth.
I appreciate the input, Michael.
Thanks much, Roanoke, Virginia, and Kathy.
You're up.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Hey, Rush Ditto's from the city where Barack Obama proclaimed that I didn't build my business.
I'd say the women on this show have been on fire today.
Listen, I just wanted to uh respond to a previous caller that you had today, and she was talking about pulling out the page from the Affordable Health Care Act, Obamacare, about where it talks about he's cut the 716 billion dollars from Medicare.
Betsy McCaskey was on Fox this morning as a panelist, and she pulled it directly from the Affordable Care Act, the page and the paragraph where it talks about that doctors are going to be receiving less money for those Medicare patients in order to bump up the Medicaid, and she debated it and talked about it.
It's in her book, and I just thought it was wonderful to finally hear someone talk about exactly where it was in that act that's a speech.
You're you're referring to Betsy McCoy.
McCoy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If it's She spells it in a way that it doesn't look like McCoy.
And so that's why you think it's McKenzie, because it looks like that, but it's McCoy.
She has been a noted health care expert since the first days of Hillary care.
She has written books, commented extensively on it.
I didn't see her on Fox yesterday morning, but if she went to the page and read from it, that's exactly that caller was a woman from Philadelphia.
Yes.
And what she wants Romney and Ryan to do that.
You know, take that affordable care thing up there and actually read from it.
Well, what it concerns me is, you know, in in my business, I deal with um a number of senior citizens.
And I was talking about it to some of them this morning.
And their response to me is, are we going to be told about this?
And you know, I'm I'm saying, you know, are you educating yourselves?
Are you not reading?
Are you not?
You know, and it it is a concern for me because I hear them saying this, and they think exactly what the Democrats are trying to p portray Romney and Ryan as being, that they're gonna throw them over the cliff, and I just have to reiterate to them, you've got to educate yourself.
You've got to read.
It's not true.
But see, you're doing it for them, and I think this is important.
It's you know, Romney and Ryan are doing great on this, but they're up against an opposition media that's trying to uh not cover what they're doing or mischaracterize it.
Uh and I I think that uh we all are in this to try to get the message out to people that don't hear it or don't understand it.
And the real frustrating thing, and if you do let's let's say you go get a copy of the Affordable Care Act, and you get that page, you have your senior citizens come in, you're gonna run into this.
You're gonna read from it, you're gonna show it to them, and they're still not gonna believe it, because they won't believe that a Democrat would do that.
And then you're gonna really start pulling your hair and go, Well, more do I have to do?
It's right here.
This is Obamacare.
I'm reading to you.
$716 billion of Medicare.
That's you cut.
And guess what for?
To pay for health care for everybody else.
That's right.
And they're still not going to believe it.
Some of them are not going to look it.
I've been doing this.
You think you're frustrated.
Try having a radio show that reaches twenty-five million people.
Twenty-five years, we're in our twenty-fifth year.
I run into people all the time who don't know Jack.
Uh and you Yeah, I know how frustrating it is, is my point.
I know you know how frustrated.
I'll go play golf with my friends, and they'll say, you know what?
Did you see that column written by X yesterday?
And I said, no, what?
Well, it made the greatest point.
I said, well, uh, I said that three weeks ago.
I don't say that to them because it it it doesn't matter.
Uh uh the the the fact that they end up knowing it is all that matters to me.
I'm just telling you, I know your frustrations.
I can't tell you the number of people who throw back at me things I have said that they read somewhere else.
You know, and I want to grab them by the collar.
You Doomkoff.
Now I said, what am I doing here?
Um what did I don't have them on in here.
CNN just ran my picture with Ryan and Romney over.
Okay, Snerdley just told me that CNN just ran a graphic, a picture of me and Ryan and Romney with the uh uh the the graphic that said Republicans who want Aiken to go.
Okay, fine and dandy.
Well, like I told you, if I had told Aiken to go yesterday, he'd be gone.
I didn't do it.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Hey, CNN, I have a Better idea for you.
Instead of running a picture of me and a picture of Ryan and Romney and the and the graphic Republicans who want Aiken to go.
It should say Republicans who want Obama to go.
Because that's what we're all focused on, CNN.
That's exactly right.
Put me and Romney and Ryan up there, and it says Republicans who want Obama to go.
And by the way, we don't even need the health care bill, folks.
For this $716 billion in Medicare cuts.
We have the word of the Congressional Budget Office.
I mentioned this to you.
July 24th, the CBO sent a letter to John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, detailing the budget impact of repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The CBO letter said if Congress overturned the law, spending for Medicare would increase by an estimated $716 billion.
Now what does that mean?
If we repeal the law, that means for those of you in real ended, tear it up and throw it out.
Like your last parking ticket.
Means the law doesn't, that means we would save Medicare spending would increase by $716 billion because it wouldn't be taken away.
Obamacare takes $716 billion out.
You know, it's frustrating.
It's true.
Why do we have to go show all kinds of pieces of paper?
It's true.
I know the visual aid counts.
We'll do whatever it takes.
Still, I know it's it's uh frustrating.
Okay, my friends, it's been a delight, as it always is, to be with you and discuss these things that matter so much so dearly to uh all of us.
I wish I had time to squeeze.
Well, I probably do, but it wouldn't be fair.
Uh and so we'll just put it all off and come back in 21 hours and get started and revved up all over again.
Uh this abortion business uh Democrat Republican Party platform planks in their conventions.
Uh, we're ready for it.
Uh I had some stuff ready to go.
If it reared its head, it didn't, but I have it standing by, so don't panic on that front.
We're loaded and ready.
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