Rush Limbaugh Program - August 24, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
Aired: 2012-08-24
Duration: 36:48


=== Obama's War on Bosses (04:22) ===

[00:00:00]  Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
[00:00:05]  The New York Daily News and a lot of the New York media, some of the television networks, New York Daily News reporting that the Empire State Building shooter.
[00:00:17]  You heard about this?
[00:00:18]  Okay.
[00:00:20]  New York Daily News reporting the Empire State Building shooter did indeed kill his boss.
[00:00:30]  Well, he was fired yesterday.
[00:00:31]  He went out there and he killed his boss.
[00:00:34]  I wonder if Obama's constant warfare on bosses and so forth might have led this guy to pull the trigger.
[00:00:44]  Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
[00:00:52]  Oh, you ought to see the faces of the people on the other side of the glass.
[00:00:56]  Oh, no.
[00:00:57]  Rush, you didn't really say that.
[00:00:59]  Say that we got time on the delay.
[00:01:02]  No, Rush.
[00:01:03]  Oh, you didn't really say it.
[00:01:04]  Yes, I said it, and we're not going to bleep it out.
[00:01:08]  I'll guarantee you, the last time there was a shooting in New York, who the mayor blame it on?
[00:01:14]  Tea Party people that didn't like health care, right?
[00:01:17]  Gabby Giffords, you name it.
[00:01:21]  The shooting out in Colorado.
[00:01:23]  Brian Ross, Tea Party did it.
[00:01:26]  Well, here you got a guy shooting his boss for being fired.
[00:01:31]  Who's out there ripping bosses to shreds every day?
[00:01:34]  Who's out there ripping businesses to shreds every day?
[00:01:37]  And who's out there killing jobs every day?
[00:01:39]  So, yes, we're trying to illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
[00:01:44]  The absurd way the news media, the rest of the left try to capitalize and politicize any terrible crime that they think they can associate with Republicans or conservatives.
[00:01:54]  We've seen it time and time again.
[00:01:56]  So why not give them a dose of their own medicine here?
[00:02:02]  You think Obama and the Democrats have any blood on their hands with this shooting today?
[00:02:07]  Don't be frightened in there on the other side of the glass.
[00:02:10]  It isn't any big deal.
[00:02:11]  By the way, Mayor Doomberg went out there immediately stressed the shooting had no relation to terrorism.
[00:02:21]  And that's how we know that the alleged perp can't be connected to the Tea Party because people like Doomberg and the Democrats think the Tea Party is a bunch of terrorists.
[00:02:33]  Yep, did kill his boss.
[00:02:35]  So Obama's constant class warfare, could it be a factor?
[00:02:41]  Might it be a factor?
[00:02:44]  The Democrat Party and all this fear they're putting in people's hearts and minds.
[00:02:49]  How are you, folks?
[00:02:52]  Great to have you with us.
[00:02:53]  It is Friday, Open Line Friday here on the EIB network.
[00:02:57]  There's a lot of reasons why we do Open Line Friday, and that is to give everyone, no matter how uninformed, a chance to ask the host anything, a question that might begin their journey to becoming a better informed citizen, a better voter.
[00:03:16]  That's what we're here to do.
[00:03:19]  It's a golden opportunity.
[00:03:20]  Monday through Thursday, you have to talk about things I care about.
[00:03:23]  If you don't, you don't get an ear unless you trick Snerdly, which is getting increasingly easier to do.
[00:03:30]  But on Friday, it doesn't matter what you want to talk.
[00:03:35]  I don't care if I care about it or not.
[00:03:37]  You have your chance.
[00:03:38]  Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
[00:03:48]  We don't know.
[00:03:49]  I don't know whether or not the Empire State Building shooter used a legal gun or not.
[00:03:58]  I don't know.
[00:04:00]  It's a good question.
[00:04:01]  It's a good question.
[00:04:02]  Did he have a 32-ounce soda in his hand when he pulled the trigger?
[00:04:06]  Or, more importantly, had he maybe consumed a 32-ounce soda in the hours preceding the dastardly deed?
[00:04:16]  These are important questions the mayor of New York City needs to look into.

=== Chicago's Gun Laws (04:00) ===

[00:04:22]  He could have been a celebrity.
[00:04:24]  Very easy for celebrities, politically connected people to get gun permits in New York City.
[00:04:29]  You just never know.
[00:04:31]  By comparison, folks, at least 19 people were shot in Chicago last night.
[00:04:37]  19 people.
[00:04:41]  There were 15 homicides in Chicago last week.
[00:04:45]  And Chicago probably has the second or third most stringent gun laws after New York City and D.C.
[00:04:54]  And the mayor of Chicago, the godfather, Ram Emmanuel, is now all for building casinos in the city.
[00:05:02]  He says they want to do it for the kids.
[00:05:05]  They want to build the casinos for the children.
[00:05:07]  And they want to get the gangbangers to stop shooting the children, the gangbangers to start shooting other people.
[00:05:15]  Lance Armstrong, what to make of this?
[00:05:21]  I'll tell you, ladies and gentlemen, you know me.
[00:05:25]  I think if you wait long enough, you will detect politics in everything.
[00:05:35]  Now, let's do a quick comparison.
[00:05:38]  When Roger Clemens was accused of doping, the sports media turned on him like that.
[00:05:48]  He was guilty.
[00:05:50]  Lied to Congress, they needed to throw him away and throw away the key at the same time.
[00:05:57]  They were just, I'll never forget it.
[00:06:00]  I thought Clemens was this beloved sports figure, but when this happened, the media turned on Clemens.
[00:06:05]  Now, it'd be interesting to watch the media deal with Lance Armstrong and how they react to this.
[00:06:12]  But, and it won't take long.
[00:06:14]  In fact, we got a couple soundbites from the CBS early morning show today.
[00:06:19]  In fact, let's play those.
[00:06:21]  Let's get those out of the way.
[00:06:23]  It was Charlie Rose talking to Bicycling Magazine editor-in-chief, Peter Flax, about Lance Armstrong dropping his challenge against charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
[00:06:37]  I'll tell you, Lance Armstrong is a hero to millions of people.
[00:06:42]  He wasn't supposed to survive testicular cancer.
[00:06:45]  His percentage chances were single-digits.
[00:06:48]  He got involved with the doctors.
[00:06:50]  He learned everything he could about it.
[00:06:51]  He overcame that and goes on to win seven Tours de France, a number of other championships.
[00:07:00]  He has passed over 500 tests of urine, blood, other bodily fluids, precious and otherwise.
[00:07:13]  Some of these tests have been random when he didn't know they were going to hell.
[00:07:17]  He's passed every test.
[00:07:21]  And here comes this agency that they say it's not a government agency.
[00:07:28]  It's just a private sector nonprofit.
[00:07:31]  But I'm not sure that it doesn't have ties to the government.
[00:07:35]  And they have been after Lance Armstrong and practically every other winner of the Tour de France and other bicycling events.
[00:07:44]  In Armstrong's case, I think since 1999, they have been after him.
[00:07:47]  And then yesterday, Armstrong finally, I'm not going to go to arbitration.
[00:07:50]  I'm not fighting anymore to hell with it.
[00:07:55]  And so the immediate question is: well, what does that, what does that say?
[00:07:59]  What is the most natural conclusion?
[00:08:04]  And sadly, the most natural conclusion is it's guilty.
[00:08:09]  He's going to stop fighting it.
[00:08:13]  The next phase of the Armstrong battle with this agency was to go to arbitration.
[00:08:20]  And that's what he's not going to do.
[00:08:22]  And he said, look, I'm tired.

=== Armstrong's Tattered Reputation (15:33) ===

[00:08:23]  I'm tired of putting my family through this.
[00:08:24]  I'm tired of putting myself through this.
[00:08:27]  I don't know what more I can do.
[00:08:29]  He claims they've got no evidence.
[00:08:31]  They are pursuing him even in retirement.
[00:08:36]  And so many people think it's a witch hunt.
[00:08:39]  Many people.
[00:08:41]  I'll tell you, folks, let me go out a little bit on a limb here.
[00:08:49]  If you look at what's going on at Penn State University, we had the story a couple of weeks ago about how the entire university might lose its accreditation over what happened with Sandusky in the football program.
[00:09:04]  If it loses its accreditation, it may as well close up shop.
[00:09:09]  There's no reason to exist.
[00:09:11]  If an education from Penn State is said to be worthless.
[00:09:16]  Now, the Louis Free report at Penn State indicted everybody from Joe Paterno to Spaniard to every underling in the president's office to football coaching staff and so forth.
[00:09:32]  Prior to this, and that statue of Paterno at the stadium, and there was nobody, there was nobody with a more impeccable reputation for integrity than Joe Paterno.
[00:09:47]  And now Paterno passes away, and whatever reputation he had, if it's not in tatters, it's seriously questioned.
[00:09:56]  Paterno politically was a very conservative guy.
[00:10:01]  I never told anybody this.
[00:10:04]  But after each of my books came out, I received requests for autographed copies from Coach Paterno.
[00:10:14]  And I never met him.
[00:10:15]  I never spoke to him.
[00:10:18]  But I remember the first book I autographed.
[00:10:22]  I couldn't believe that Coach Paterno wanted my autograph, wanted to read my book.
[00:10:29]  I just said it's an honor to sign this to you.
[00:10:31]  Blah, blah, blah.
[00:10:34]  He was a for all of his career and for a few months after his death, he was impeccable.
[00:10:42]  Now it's gone.
[00:10:43]  His reputation in tatters, finished.
[00:10:47]  Louis Free, well, no, he can't fight back, but of course that's true.
[00:10:54]  But even when he was alive, he was doing his best to fight back.
[00:10:59]  And I don't want anybody to misunderstand.
[00:11:01]  I'm not trying to say he didn't do anything here.
[00:11:04]  This whole Sandusky thing is sordid and in itself it's despicable.
[00:11:10]  But they're trying to make it out like Paterno was Sandusky.
[00:11:16]  And that I don't believe.
[00:11:19]  So you have this great, impeccable reputation now totally destroyed, not partially, totally destroyed.
[00:11:29]  Somebody worth looking up to going.
[00:11:32]  I do believe that there are forces that want to tear down such people.
[00:11:37]  We see it every day.
[00:11:39]  I mean, part and parcel of the purpose of the United States media is to build people up.
[00:11:44]  You've heard this yourself, build people up and then eventually tear them down.
[00:11:49]  It's why, ladies and gentlemen, I may inject myself personally.
[00:11:52]  Here's something I very rarely do.
[00:11:55]  It is why I have studiously, and I've made the point to you many times, I have studiously avoided any opportunity to let the media have anything to do with my success.
[00:12:05]  The media didn't make me, meaning you don't list this program because way back long ago, the media said, wow, this is a great show.
[00:12:13]  This is a funny guy.
[00:12:14]  You know what?
[00:12:15]  You need to be listening.
[00:12:16]  And they weren't doing daily, weekly, positive profiles of me.
[00:12:21]  You listen here because you found the program on your own or however you found it, and you listen to it, you like it, it's a good show, it provides you whatever you want, and that's it.
[00:12:30]  And because of that, the media can't tear it apart, but they try.
[00:12:34]  Doesn't stop them from trying.
[00:12:36]  You know the drill.
[00:12:37]  Now we have Lance Armstrong, somebody who is universally respected by people for overcoming incredible odds.
[00:12:46]  If there was doping in cycling, he clearly wasn't the only one.
[00:12:49]  Somebody won those Tour de France races.
[00:12:52]  And there were witnesses.
[00:12:54]  Lance Armstrong won them.
[00:12:56]  They haven't found one bit of evidence he doped.
[00:13:00]  It's just supposition.
[00:13:04]  And you've got people, oh, I have no question.
[00:13:06]  I have no doubt that he doped.
[00:13:08]  There's no evidence of it.
[00:13:12]  So here's somebody else that's in the process of being ripped to shreds that a lot of people admired and looked up to.
[00:13:18]  Now, Armstrong's not conservative.
[00:13:23]  At least as far as anybody knows.
[00:13:25]  He's not, I don't know that he's actively political in any way, but culturally, he'd be closer tied with the pop culture left than he would anybody else.
[00:13:37]  Doesn't matter.
[00:13:38]  They're still after him.
[00:13:40]  But then when he stops the fight, it's only natural to conclude that there must be something there.
[00:13:54]  Oh, it is.
[00:13:55]  It is a personal vendetta.
[00:13:56]  That's why he puts a personal, if it's not a professional vendetta against success, against achievement, rip it down, tear it apart.
[00:14:06]  I said, it happens to people in our culture every day.
[00:14:09]  Media rips people apart after building them up.
[00:14:14]  It's how small people make themselves feel big.
[00:14:18]  It's how small, irrelevant people make themselves feel like they matter, is to disqualify the achievements of others or to criticize them or to destroy them.
[00:14:38]  It's the only way that these little people can build themselves back up or make themselves feel like they're something.
[00:14:44]  But then, on the other hand, Armstrong is dropping the fight.
[00:14:50]  And the only natural conclusion is that he's this is what most people are concluding.
[00:14:59]  He's guilty.
[00:15:00]  But some are saying they don't care.
[00:15:02]  Everybody else did it.
[00:15:04]  And since everybody else was doing it, he might have been doing it.
[00:15:06]  It was all fair because everybody was doing it.
[00:15:10]  You know, Floyd Landis, a couple other people that won the Tour de France have been found to be doping, but they haven't found it on Armstrong.
[00:15:19]  Let's get his audio sound bites.
[00:15:21]  Peter Flax, bicycling magazine editor-in-chief, talking with Charlie Rose, who said, Is there any doubt, any doubt, Peter, that he in fact used these doping products?
[00:15:36]  I'm absolutely convinced that he did, but I'm also convinced that he is the victim of a witch hunt, and there's no justice possible here.
[00:15:43]  The legacy is being shaped on Bicycling's Facebook page.
[00:15:46]  Hundreds and hundreds of comments, and I'd say 95% of them are pro-Lance people communicating their support for him.
[00:15:52]  He is guilty, but in a lot of people's eyes, he's still an inspiration.
[00:15:55]  He still won those tours to France, and it takes some time to see how this all plays out.
[00:15:59]  Now, here's this guy.
[00:16:00]  I'm absolutely convinced he did dope.
[00:16:03]  I'm absolutely convinced.
[00:16:04]  Has anybody ever seen any evidence?
[00:16:10]  Some of you have to help me out.
[00:16:11]  I don't know if there's any evidence.
[00:16:16]  I'm not aware of it.
[00:16:17]  I got to take a break.
[00:16:18]  There's one more soundbite that goes with this.
[00:16:20]  We'll get to it when we get back.
[00:16:24]  We got a guy in his truck in South Bend.
[00:16:26]  Is it Kansas?
[00:16:29]  South Bend, Kansas.
[00:16:30]  This is Joe.
[00:16:30]  Joe, I want to get you in here real quick.
[00:16:32]  How are you, sir?
[00:16:33]  Doing good.
[00:16:34]  You?
[00:16:34]  Very well.
[00:16:35]  Thank you.
[00:16:36]  Yes, the reason I think he's being torn down is because he's an exceptional person.
[00:16:40]  He did many things in his life that makes him extremely exceptional.
[00:16:45]  And to a liberal, you cannot be exceptional.
[00:16:48]  You had to either steal it from somebody else or cheat to get there.
[00:16:53]  Yeah, that's why I wanted to get old Joe in here because he's singing my tune to a certain extent.
[00:17:03]  It's like Obama now.
[00:17:06]  We're not a superpower.
[00:17:07]  We never were.
[00:17:09]  All we did was steal from the poor people around the world.
[00:17:13]  That's how we became a superpower.
[00:17:14]  And the rich and the successful in America.
[00:17:18]  Nah, nah, nah, nah.
[00:17:19]  They just stole it from people.
[00:17:20]  They had an unfair advantage, or they got lucky or they cheated or something.
[00:17:27]  And so we're going to spread the wealth and we're going to redistribute.
[00:17:30]  So liberals do have a big problem with individual achievement.
[00:17:37]  This Armstrong business, folks, we're told now that Lance Armstrong didn't win those seven tours de France and Penn State didn't win all those football games for 10 years.
[00:17:48]  The Soviet Union was never this good at rewriting history.
[00:17:54]  They tried, but the Soviet Union was never this good.
[00:18:01]  Armstrong has never been found guilty of anything.
[00:18:04]  He gives up on proving a point after over 500 tests that prove his innocence.
[00:18:12]  He's simply exhausted.
[00:18:14]  What more do I have to do?
[00:18:16]  Now, this agency, United States Anti-Doping Agency, the USADA, it's a taxpayer-funded nonprofit.
[00:18:27]  They say it's not government, but it's taxpayer-funded.
[00:18:32]  So it's not simply cut and dried that it isn't a government organization.
[00:18:40]  They call themselves the anti-doping organization for the United States, created by the Olympic Committee back in 2000.
[00:18:51]  That's just an amazing thing.
[00:18:53]  I saw it.
[00:18:54]  Catherine pointed it out to me last night.
[00:18:56]  And she admires Lance Armstrong for a host of incredible reasons.
[00:19:02]  A lot of people do.
[00:19:03]  A lot of people don't want to believe this and are sick and tired.
[00:19:07]  This kind of behavior by government agencies.
[00:19:10]  It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
[00:19:16]  Here is that second soundbite.
[00:19:17]  It's Armin Katayan.
[00:19:20]  CBS this morning, Charlie Rose talking with the bicycling magazine guy, Peter Flax, who in a previous soundbite we heard say he is convinced that Lance Armstrong doped.
[00:19:33]  He's convinced of it.
[00:19:35]  But he's also the victim of a witch hunt.
[00:19:39]  How?
[00:19:40]  I mean, if he did it and they're trying to track him down, what's the witch hunt?
[00:19:45]  Witch hunt if he didn't do it.
[00:19:47]  Now he's into his retirement, and they're still pursuing the guy.
[00:19:50]  Armstrong says, I've had it.
[00:19:52]  I've had it.
[00:19:53]  I got 500 tests.
[00:19:55]  I passed every test.
[00:19:56]  They've got no evidence.
[00:19:57]  I've had it with this.
[00:20:01]  So Charlie Rose says, okay, Armin Katayan, Armin Katayan is the CBS chief investigative correspondent.
[00:20:11]  He's on Gumbel's show on HBO or was at one point, Real Sports, is sports investigative guy.
[00:20:19]  Here's what he said.
[00:20:20]  This process has become so politicized from going back five years now.
[00:20:26]  It's not a government agency.
[00:20:27]  It's a private organization, a nonprofit organization that has a stake in this politically to prove that Lance Armstrong has been doping to send a message to other athletes.
[00:20:37]  And I don't know when you talk about a fair process and safe sport how much this really adds to that.
[00:20:42]  So he loses all these titles.
[00:20:44]  What happens if they just hand the jersey to whomever came in second?
[00:20:47]  All of those men are convicted dopers, people who've made financial settlements to get out of a doping case.
[00:20:53]  Well, I spent seven years watching it.
[00:20:54]  Someone won those Tour de France.
[00:20:56]  Lance Armstrong did.
[00:20:57]  I saw it.
[00:20:58]  Yep, he did.
[00:20:59]  And other people have doped, and they've proved it on the others.
[00:21:05]  And they're also talking, Snerdley, they want to take away his endorsement money retroactively.
[00:21:13]  They want to get every dollar he was ever paid.
[00:21:16]  He was on the U.S. Postal Service team.
[00:21:20]  He was on the U.S. Postal Service team, and as such, the team was bankrolled by the Postal Service.
[00:21:28]  But they want to go after his endorsements, prize money, everything.
[00:21:33]  They want to strip Lance Armstrong of everything he's got.
[00:21:42]  Well, Snerdley said, who did he make mad?
[00:21:45]  Who the hell did he tick off?
[00:21:49]  That's sadly, it's a legitimate question.
[00:21:52]  Speaking of this, I was reading Phil Mushnick today.
[00:21:56]  Oh, speaking of Mushnick's sports columnist, the New York Post, he had a piece earlier this week on politics.
[00:22:07]  He's an acknowledged Democrat, and he says he's finally become convinced of media bias.
[00:22:14]  And his story was about David Plough, Obama's advisor, going all over the world, making $100,000 a speech from little countries that can't afford it, advising them on the ins and outs of the U.S. political process.
[00:22:32]  And Mushnik was like, why the hell is this not a big story?
[00:22:35]  Why is the media not reporting?
[00:22:36]  Now, of all the things that are out there that would convince somebody in the media that his buddies are biased, I mean, there's a, but nevertheless, he thinks it's a big story that the media isn't covering the fact that one of Obama's chief advisors is out making $100,000 a speech from little countries that don't have the money to pay it in the first place for advice on how to get in the American political cronyism.
[00:23:06]  And he's got a point.
[00:23:07]  Anyway, reading Mushnick today, Mushnick's every Friday, Sunday, and Monday, New York Post.
[00:23:14]  And he has a thing about Warren Sapp, the former defensive tackle number 99 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
[00:23:23]  Sapp has filed for bankruptcy.
[00:23:26]  One of Mushnik's big causes is the cultural rot that is taking place in sports on television and throughout our society.
[00:23:42]  And he chronicles it.
[00:23:43]  And he also is a critic of various sports telecasts, ESPN, this sort of thing.
[00:23:52]  But he, in discussing this Warren Sapp business, is Warren Sapp filed for bankruptcy.

=== Anderson Cooper Defends (12:51) ===

[00:23:57]  He's got alimony and child payments and so forth.
[00:24:03]  And when it listed his assets, Warren Sapp has 240 pairs of Air Jordans.
[00:24:11]  And I'm thinking, what do you, what do you need 240 pairs of Air Jordans for?
[00:24:17]  And I, well, I collect stuff.
[00:24:20]  So maybe it's a collection.
[00:24:23]  Anyway, just a little side note.
[00:24:27]  But, yeah, they're going to take everything away from Lance Armstrong.
[00:24:30]  That's their objective, including all the money.
[00:24:36]  A random act of journalism.
[00:24:39]  By the way, Nike is standing by Armstrong.
[00:24:43]  They're going to keep Armstrong's endorsement contract.
[00:24:45]  That's what they did with Tiger Woods as well.
[00:24:48]  I mean, Nike.
[00:24:50]  Nike loves guys with tood.
[00:24:55]  Nike loves the guys with attitude.
[00:24:57]  They love them.
[00:24:59]  They love the guys that skirt the edge.
[00:25:03]  I love those guys.
[00:25:05]  So anyway, random act of journalism on CNN last night.
[00:25:09]  Everybody was getting emails all night long.
[00:25:12]  Rush, you got to see this.
[00:25:13]  Rush, you got to talk about this.
[00:25:14]  Rush, you got to tell people.
[00:25:17]  Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz was taken to the woodshed by Wolf Blitzer.
[00:25:23]  Now, folks, can I say something about this?
[00:25:27]  We've got a lot of soundbites on this.
[00:25:29]  And there's no question.
[00:25:31]  Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz went on CNN and tried to lie about a story in the LA Times and Mitt Romney and Wolf.
[00:25:40]  No, I'm sorry, it's Anderson Cooper.
[00:25:42]  Anderson Cooper would not let her get away with it.
[00:25:46]  Anderson Cooper just jumped down her throat, made her look like the blabber mouth fool that she is.
[00:25:55]  Now, stopping the, I'm getting emails all night.
[00:25:59]  The conservative media press came to a stop.
[00:26:02]  It was stop the presses.
[00:26:03]  Look what's.
[00:26:04]  And it struck me how rare real journalism is.
[00:26:10]  How rare it is that a mainstream media outlet actually questions the honesty and veracity of a Democrat.
[00:26:21]  How rare that is that when it happened last night on CNN, everybody stopped what they were doing and told everybody they knew about it.
[00:26:31]  And to me, that alone is an illustration of just how out of whack the media is.
[00:26:37]  We all know it is.
[00:26:39]  But it's great to find unique different illustrations of it.
[00:26:42]  And I think this is a good one.
[00:26:44]  Here we have, this ought to be happening every day.
[00:26:47]  I mean, the media loves to say that what they do is speak truth to power or whatever that convoluted phrase is.
[00:26:54]  The media loves to tell us that they're the ones that are going to make sure the powerful are kept in check.
[00:27:00]  We are going to make sure that the powerful are held accountable for what they do.
[00:27:04]  When we find cronyism, of course, they don't anymore.
[00:27:08]  They align themselves with the power when the power is with Democrats.
[00:27:13]  There is no interest in holding the powerful accountable.
[00:27:16]  The only thing the media cares about is the same thing the Democrats care about, and that is defeating, however, necessary conservatives.
[00:27:25]  Tarring, feathering, discrediting, impugning the character, honesty, and veracity of conservatives, whatever it takes.
[00:27:33]  The media has joined that.
[00:27:34]  And here we have a random act of journalism.
[00:27:39]  Here we have the media actually doing something that ought to be happening every day for everybody in power.
[00:27:48]  They ought to be doing this to Republicans, conservatives, liberals, Democrats, whoever.
[00:27:53]  But they never do it with Democrats.
[00:27:55]  And when they do, it shocks and stuns everybody.
[00:27:59]  And they looky, looking, that's how rare it is.
[00:28:03]  So we've got to take a brief obscene profit time out.
[00:28:06]  We come back.
[00:28:06]  I'll let you hear this random act of journalism that took place with Anderson Cooper on CNN last night.
[00:28:14]  It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh executing assigned host duties flawlessly, zero mistakes.
[00:28:20]  Here we go.
[00:28:20]  Last night's CNN Anderson Cooper 119 talking to Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, the Democrat National Committee spokeswoman.
[00:28:32]  Anderson Cooper said, factually speaking, you know what's interesting?
[00:28:36]  See, the media normally, the reason this stands out is that most people in the media are not journalists.
[00:28:45]  They're collaborators.
[00:28:49]  And so when one of them acts like a journalist, it's stopped the presses.
[00:28:57]  It's jarring.
[00:28:58]  It's unbelievable.
[00:28:59]  Because they are.
[00:28:59]  They're collaborators.
[00:29:01]  The media collaborates with the Democrats, pure and simple, with the regime.
[00:29:06]  Well, I don't know what it is, but they've been going after Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz lately.
[00:29:13]  When was the last time?
[00:29:14]  Who was the last time?
[00:29:15]  Somebody went after Debbie Blabbermouth.
[00:29:16]  It might have been somebody on Fox.
[00:29:21]  So anyway, Cooper says to Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, factually speaking, Mitt Romney didn't design or direct the writing of the Republican Party platform.
[00:29:32]  In particular, the language on abortion is the same as it's been for years.
[00:29:37]  And you can fault Romney and Ryan as you did for not pushing their position, but you can't say that they designed the abortion section.
[00:29:44]  Anderson, we definitely can say it because even in the previous platform, Mitt Romney has embraced previous Republican Party platforms and embraced that language and said he'd be delighted to support a constitutional amendment banning all abortion.
[00:29:59]  You have to acknowledge he has for years publicly said that he supports abortion in the case of rape, incest, and where the life of the mother is at stake.
[00:30:07]  I can certainly acknowledge that he says that out loud and I think it's very clear that Mitt Romney talks the talk, certainly doesn't walk the walk.
[00:30:16]  Anderson Cooper is not accepting that.
[00:30:20]  Do you at least acknowledge that the quote that you gave from the LA Times is completely incorrect?
[00:30:25]  No, I don't acknowledge that.
[00:30:26]  I know that's what you're saying, but I can read it to you right now.
[00:30:30]  What you said is, guess what?
[00:30:33]  It doesn't matter.
[00:30:34]  I think what you say does matter.
[00:30:35]  You're quoting the L.A. Times, and again, you've misquoted them.
[00:30:38]  And to back up a position.
[00:30:40]  Anderson.
[00:30:40]  Anderson, the point of the email, and there's no getting around that, and I would think you would agree that there's no way that a presidential candidate, a party's nominee, can separate themselves from that party's platform.
[00:30:53]  There is no exception for rape and incest in the Human Life Amendment.
[00:30:57]  So she's out there.
[00:30:58]  She is lying.
[00:30:59]  And she doesn't care what he said.
[00:31:01]  The thing that Anderson doesn't get through all this is that she doesn't care.
[00:31:08]  Anderson doesn't care whether she doesn't, Debbie Blabbermouth doesn't care whether what she's saying is true or not.
[00:31:16]  That's what Anderson does.
[00:31:18]  The truth is never going to get in the way.
[00:31:19]  He's trying to tell her, look, you're lying.
[00:31:22]  Romney is for a rape exception.
[00:31:26]  And she's trying to tell, no, he's not.
[00:31:28]  He may say so, but he doesn't believe it.
[00:31:31]  She's just blatantly lying about it, and she's using the CNN forum to do it.
[00:31:36]  And Anderson Cooper keeps challenging her.
[00:31:40]  And it's becoming a daily occurrence now.
[00:31:42]  Her lies are so blatant that even these hosts, after a while, can't help but accidentally call her out.
[00:31:53]  Here's the next bite.
[00:31:54]  I do think accuracy is important, and my job is to point out things that are not factually correct.
[00:31:58]  What you said, you said, guess what?
[00:32:00]  The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the platform was, and I quote, ridden at the direction of Romney's campaign.
[00:32:06]  That sounds very direct, but that's not actually what the LA Times was saying.
[00:32:10]  The bottom-line message of our email is that A, women need to know the difference between the two parties and the two presidential candidates on a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices, and that Mitt Romney can say that he's for an exception for rape or incest.
[00:32:26]  His party platform doesn't reflect that.
[00:32:29]  By the way, the party platform doesn't talk about it, nor does the Democrat Party platform.
[00:32:33]  The Democrat Party platform doesn't talk about a rape exception.
[00:32:38]  Anyway, the great thing here, after all, there's still one more soundbite.
[00:32:42]  The great thing here is that the Democrats really are in the midst of utter economic decay, in the midst of their own policies wreaking havoc on the middle class.
[00:32:56]  They are excited to make this about abortion.
[00:33:00]  Let them, folks, let them.
[00:33:02]  They are just jazz.
[00:33:04]  Their whole convention is going to be about abortion.
[00:33:08]  It's like a knee-jerk reaction to something.
[00:33:12]  Somebody's tripped them.
[00:33:13]  The next bite is Anderson, he's so frustrated.
[00:33:18]  He says, look, he's only really trying to help her.
[00:33:21]  He tries to look at, Debbie, lying doesn't look good.
[00:33:24]  You have to understand that.
[00:33:25]  It's my job on both sides of the out to point out things that are inaccurate is in a fundraising email to misquote something to serve your argument just doesn't seem in the long term to serve your argument very well.
[00:33:35]  I understand your point, but I think we, I mean, the balance of the email makes the case very clearly.
[00:33:42]  And the main thrust of the information we're trying to convey is that Mitt Romney is disingenuous when it comes to his position on a woman's right to make her own reproductive choices.
[00:33:50]  And he's extreme and has embraced an extreme position.
[00:33:54]  And we want women to know that.
[00:33:56]  But he hasn't.
[00:33:57]  He's said he's for the rape exception.
[00:34:01]  And she's out there on CNN and saying, no, he's just lying about it.
[00:34:04]  And Anderson Cooper said, but it's not true what you're saying.
[00:34:08]  Anderson, it doesn't matter.
[00:34:10]  Don't you get it, pal?
[00:34:12]  I'm here to advance the agenda.
[00:34:15]  And Anderson said, well, but look, my job is to hold both sides accountable.
[00:34:18]  My job is to point out things that are inaccurate.
[00:34:20]  Come on, Anderson, wake up.
[00:34:21]  What do you think I came here for?
[00:34:23]  A lesson on the truth?
[00:34:24]  I'm here to smear Romney.
[00:34:27]  And I'm going to smear Romney no matter what you do.
[00:34:29]  There's nothing you can do, Anderson, to make me smear Romney.
[00:34:33]  Now, when I got these emails last night from people saying, you've got to watch this, I'll be honest with you.
[00:34:39]  People told me that Anderson Cooper just creamed Debbie Blabbermount, that she was just embarrassed her to all.
[00:34:48]  I don't hear that.
[00:34:50]  I hear him very sheepishly.
[00:34:53]  You know, Debbie, really, you know what?
[00:34:56]  What you're saying isn't true.
[00:34:57]  Don't you think it'd be better if it was a, Anderson, look, you don't understand our fundraising email is designed to lie.
[00:35:04]  Romney is saying one thing, and it doesn't help us what he's saying.
[00:35:07]  So we've got to tell people that he's lying.
[00:35:10]  He doesn't really mean what he's saying.
[00:35:11]  He's an extremist.
[00:35:13]  Every Republican is an extremist.
[00:35:15]  Every Republican wants babies to live.
[00:35:19]  Oh, John, we can't have that.
[00:35:21]  Every Republican, because we're the ones killing babies.
[00:35:25]  But I don't think he profoundly embarrassed.
[00:35:28]  I don't think she can be embarrassed.
[00:35:31]  I don't think Biden can be embarrassed.
[00:35:34]  Oh, speaking of that, Charlie Wrangell.
[00:35:39]  You're damn right, Biden was talking about slavery, and he's damn right about it.
[00:35:46]  Yeah, Wrangell's out, you're damn right he was talking about slavery.
[00:35:51]  Another circle in the wagons around plugs.
[00:35:57]  Anyway, maybe I'm hearing this differently than you guys, and I didn't see it.
[00:36:01]  Maybe Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz looked guilty, but as far, okay.
[00:36:08]  HR says he saw it.
[00:36:10]  She looked guilty.
[00:36:11]  Fine.
[00:36:11]  When you just hear it, she got her message out.
[00:36:15]  Romney's lying and hates women in his extreme.
[00:36:19]  Now, it's absurd, and again, it's illustrative of their pursuing the moron vote.
[00:36:24]  No question about it.
[00:36:27]  Mitt Romney and Ryan drawing a huge crowd in Michigan.
[00:36:32]  And get this.
[00:36:36]  I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born.
[00:36:41]  No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate.
[00:36:43]  They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
[00:36:46]  Rado!
[00:36:47]  Rado!