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Aug. 24, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks, great to have you back.
Rush Limboy here behind the golden EIV microphone on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
One big exciting broadcast hour remains at 800-282-2882.
And the uh email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Great to have you here, folks.
We make the most of every precious broadcast moment while making them at the same time.
Here's that gasoline price story.
By the way, let me...
I need to find something here.
Let me find it real quick here.
Okay.
Hang on just a second.
The uh when Obama took Orifus, when Obama was immaculated, a gasoline price is about a buck seventy a gallon.
Snerdley doesn't even believe it.
Not even four years ago.
It was a dollar seventy a gallon.
Now in some parts of California, it's over four bucks.
It is almost four dollars here.
Okay, so here I have in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
This uh Reuters piece from Tuesday.
Rising gas prices not a big concern for voters.
Now you remember all during 2007 and 2008, all the media would, I mean, whenever the gas price would rise, they would panic and talk about Bush and economy and the strategic reserve and all this horrible and the cost of living and no family vacations in the summertime.
It was now and the gas price a buck seventy.
Now even as President Barack Obama considers using U.S. oil stockpiles to halt rising gasoline costs.
A Reuters poll released on Tuesday shows that economic pain at the pump is not a big concern for voters.
Oh no.
Fueled and gas prices ranked the last among ten factors that influence voters in evaluating Obama's job performance.
Health care, the economy, jobs topped the list.
Gasoline prices also lag behind foreign policy, immigration, and education.
The pollster, Chris Jackson, said gas prices relative to the rest of this stuff are much less important.
People talk a lot about how gas prices drive attitudes, but it doesn't seem to have a lot of impact on Obama's job approval or how people see the country going.
People seem to see gas prices as separate issue.
There just isn't much people think a president can do about gas.
Isn't that magical?
It's kind of like the economy.
It's amazing when there's a Democrat in the White House ruining the economy.
The stories always are, you know, the American people they realize there just isn't much a president can do about it.
And oh I know, but Bush, Bush could have changed it.
Bush could have gone met with the Saudis, Bush could have told Cheney to go talk to Halliburton, Bush could have done it.
Well, the real proof in the pudding is look at they think Obama is is masterminding every aspect of government.
Obama can make sure you have this, make sure you have that, make sure the country does this.
Obama's in total government can do everything.
Except the gas price and the economy, an amazing thing.
You need a job, they can't do anything about that either.
Just people realize there's just little Obama can do when it comes to job market.
Just not very much, sadly.
More and more people realize this is this is obviously all lies.
It is a crock.
I got an email from a from a friend of mine in California about this today.
Outraged that the price is over four bucks where he lives.
And nobody...
There's a lot of people talking mad about it, but nobody is reporting that, obviously.
But the Democrats hammered Bush in 2006 in the midterm elections...
I mean, relentlessly over the gasoline price.
We've had a string of mainstream media stories telling us that four dollars a gallon, that's not so expensive after all.
In fact, higher gas prices are good for the stock market.
We like higher gas prices.
It helps the oil markets.
It really is astounding.
And it's all because we don't have journalists anymore.
We have collaborators.
Now here's the thing, too.
The gas price, yeah, it's it's near $4 here.
It's over $4 in California and a lot of other places.
But it's up from what?
$370, $380.
No, the real comparison needs to be it was a buck 70 when Obama was immaculated.
The gasoline price in this country was a dollar seventy cents.
And here these fools in the media thinking that we're morons.
Oh, yeah, American people is not a big deal.
American people don't care about cost of gasoline.
They realize there's nothing the president can do about it.
And we never hear during Democrat regimes how the price of gasoline drives everything up.
Food, leisure activities, the price of gasoline raises the cost of everything.
We never hear about that.
In a Democrat regime.
It kills any expansion of the economy.
Any growth whatsoever.
And when Republicans are in office and do anything they can to expand our supply of oil, well then they trot out blood for oil.
No blood for oil.
It's not worth American treasure.
Now four bucks a gallon, no big deal.
Oh, American people realize there's just nothing that Obama can do about it.
Poor guy.
And I'm telling you, I think this is bogus.
I think all this matters.
Let me share with you a story here.
It's amazing.
We do have journalists in the UK.
We don't have Obama collaborators.
We have journalism.
And one of the good ones is at the UK Daily Mail, a guy named Toby Harndon.
And I really am reluctant to praise Toby because it can hurt him with his buddies.
You know, a journalist being praised by me doesn't help them.
As journalists so dislike me.
But the truth is the truth.
And he has a piece that actually was yesterday in the UK Daily Mail, four years after he was swept to victory, how Obama's election campaign is a joyless slog.
And what this story is is a portrayal of life on the Obama campaign trail that you would never know if you were exposed only to American media collaborators.
Here's a pull quote from Toby's story.
In 2008, the Obama campaign was full of endless possibilities and expectations of a bright new horizon.
This time, the Obama campaign is a joyless slog.
And there's something else.
Obama now tends to look emptily past rather than at his audiences.
It's as if the light at his eyes has gone out.
Another remarkable thing is that many of those at Obama's events, like many people across the country, are not listening to him.
At an Obama event in Reno on Tuesday night, it was at times hard to follow what Obama was saying because of all the chatter in the crowd.
A number of those attending seemed only to want to get a picture of themselves with Obama speaking in the background.
In 2008, audiences were wrapped, almost mesmerized when Obama spoke.
At Romney and Ryan events, there is near silence, and many an intent furrowed brow as the case for change is made.
But at these Obama events, there's chatter, people aren't paying attention.
They're posing for pictures with Obama in the background.
And he doesn't even appear to be there.
Not even looking at the audience, just looking past them.
It's little stories like this that we'll never see in the American media.
Tell the truth of what really is going on out there.
We see the smaller crowds, and what are we told?
Well, we purposely speaking in front of uh smaller crowds.
Really, why?
Why do you want smaller crowds?
More intimate, the Obama campaign says.
We were seeking smaller.
And you know what?
In addition to smaller crowds, we're actually trying to raise less money in each one.
Oh, really?
You're trying to.
Yeah, because that's that it looks better.
Three dollars, yeah.
The truth of the matter is, folks, there isn't any magic in the Obama campaign anymore.
And I said yesterday, I mean kicking off of the Bob Tyrrell piece, the American Spectator.
Obama is running a campaign for morons.
Those are the people whose votes he seeks.
Those are the crowds he wants to draw.
Oh, what are morons in a crowd gonna do?
They're gonna act and be what they are.
They're morons.
They're gonna sit there and talk to each other with their mouths wide open, not knowing really where they are or why.
They're just there because somebody said this is the place to be.
But the contrast between now and 2008, Mr. Harndon exactly right.
It's huge.
Anybody who remembers can see that there's nowhere near the excitement, the anticipation, the all that making out of Obama what you want him to be, and empty canvas paint what you wanted to be, all his magic and stuff.
None of that.
And it's easily understood why.
He's got a record and it's dismal.
He's got a record and it's disaster.
He's got a record he cannot campaign on.
He doesn't even he doesn't even campaign on an agenda.
Let me ask you this.
Any of you paying attention to Obama at these campaign appearances.
Have you heard him say what he wants to do the next four years?
Be honest.
Don't tell me what you know he's gonna do.
Don't tell me that.
Have you heard him say?
Have you heard him tell us what his plan for the economy is?
Other than, oh well, go, middle class job, put people back to work in America, be America again.
No, no, no.
Have you heard anything that would that would qualify as a second-term agenda?
No.
Let me answer here's what what you're hearing.
Romney is rich.
Romney's a Mormon.
Romney's dog was on the roof of the car.
Romney beat up a gay guy in prep school.
Wall Street's a bunch of thieves.
Paul Ryan wants to kick grandma over the cliff.
Rich people suck.
Rich people are horrible.
You don't have anything because the rich have taken it from you.
Romney is a felon.
How about those Republicans who went skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee?
Todd Aiken.
Wow, this guy, Republicans hate women.
Republicans want dirty water.
That's what you're hearing.
That's Obama's agenda.
Hey, can anybody tell me what his agenda is?
As he we know what he's gonna know, I'm telling, I'm asking you.
No, he's nice.
Middle class, middle class, middle class.
Well, all he's trying to do with that is to draw some line of relationship with them.
He's trying to make them think he's one of them.
He doesn't have a jobs growth policy that he's talking about, nothing specific.
He doesn't have an energy policy.
He took, you know, green energy is just a code word for more cronyism.
Right, exactly.
He's gonna stop Romney and Ryan from kitting grandmother over to Cliff.
It's my exact point.
His campaign consists of Bane Capital is dang bane Capital.
Romney killed a guy's wife.
Romney had his dog on the roof of the car.
Romney's wife never worked a day in her life.
Romney's rich.
Well, that he's going to give away birth control pill because Republicans want a war on women.
My whole point is that his entire campaign consists of trying to scare everybody in his in his pathetic base of voters.
What a bad guy Romney is.
That's all he's got.
His agenda is to try to get people to hate Mitt Romney.
That's the Obama's second term agenda to get you to hate Mitt Romney.
That's the basis on which he wants to be re-elected.
He is not running around telling you how your life is going to improve.
He's not singing the song about the greatness and the resilience of America.
He doesn't tell us how he's going to keep us safe from foreign.
None of that.
Not one thing traditional to this guy's campaign.
It's all rooted and oriented around you being scared to death of Romney and Ryan.
And then for color, they throw Biden in to go out and tell black people that Romney wants them back on slave camps and in chains.
That's the agenda.
Now I'm sorry, folks, I don't see that winning.
And there's not that there is nothing comparable in this year's campaign to what Obama was getting away with in 2008.
That was lofty.
People thought Obama was going to fix everything.
And when you get right down to it, that's that's exactly what they and that's why he's in trouble.
People thought whatever they thought was wrong with the country in their personal lives, Obama was going to fix it.
He was going to make it right.
And now, after three and a half years, nothing is right.
Everything's worse.
And so the basis on which people voted for the guy is going to fix it.
He is an utter dismal failure.
So all he's got is the Republicans or worse.
Romney and the Republicans hate you.
Romney's rich.
Romney doesn't like his dog.
Romney doesn't like his wife.
His wife doesn't like anybody else.
Paul Ryan wants grandma and grandpa to die, but push him over to that's all it is.
And that's that I'll tell you, I believe that there is all throughout the Obama campaign a big sense of desperation.
They've got nothing.
They can't be honest about what he intends.
So we know what he's going to do, but he doesn't dare tell anybody.
Or that that'll close the deal.
That'll close it out.
Okay, so guess what?
The regime is very, very, very upset.
Grab audio soundbite number 24.
This is Romney, it's 24, it uh put it in the bottom of the stack.
Romney in Michigan today, and a little uh little uh birth certificate uh joke.
Listen to this.
I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised.
Yeah.
Where both of us were born.
No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate.
They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
Right on.
Right all right.
So guess what now?
The press secretary for Obama 2012, her name is uh Jen Pisaki, P S A K I. So just guessing that she pronounces it Pasaki.
See, I'm at a disadvantage.
I never hear these names pronounced, so, and I don't purposely want to mispronounce it.
I want to, so I have to run through all the possibilities.
Any rate, She's out there saying that that what you just heard Romney say that birth certificate joke, that's gutter ball politics.
Now, this is one of the women, this Jen Pasaki babe.
She wanted the women who said that Romney might be a felon, along with Stephanie Cutter.
And uh Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
And Pesaki also lied when she said she didn't know Soptic.
Soptic is the guy in the ad who claimed that Romney killed his wife.
So here you have a woman who claimed that Romney might be a felon because of what happened at Bain, and then Romney killed his wife.
So he's out there telling a joke about the birth certificate.
That's g it's sake.
Okay, but not Saki.
That's gutter ball politics.
Hey, Saki.
Little observation.
I thought this birth certificate thing was a win-win for you guys.
Because only kooks and idiots and extremists believe that Obama's birth certificate's a forgery, right?
So if that's the case, Jen, wouldn't you want people making jokes about that?
Wouldn't you want people because wouldn't it be hurting them?
Isn't that the kind of thing that you claim the independents don't like here?
I don't want to hear about Obama's birth.
They love Obama, the independence, they like Obama, they like his blackness, they like the fact he was born in a white.
I don't like people making jokes about it.
So what's the deal?
why they're so sensitive about this.
And there is one real possibility that, And Obama is such a narcissist.
You don't dare criticize.
I don't care who you are, and I don't care what it's about.
You don't dare criticize Barack Obama.
You criticize the first black press racist, and it is it is butter gall.
Here's Jerry in Chicago, open line Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hi.
Good afternoon, Rush.
I just wanted to thank you for educating America.
And I'd like to help you in that regard by explaining the air in the potato chip bag controversy.
Take a bag of potato chips, drop a 10-pound weight on it.
Remove the weight, open the bag, you've got potato chips.
Take the air out, drop a ten-pound weight on it, open the bag, and you have potato chip dust.
You're going way, way back.
You had a young man call here some weeks ago and wanted to know why uh there's more air in a potato chip bag since Obama was elected.
It's there for protection.
Obama didn't do it.
The air is in the bag for protection.
Yep.
Simple as that.
Okay.
Why is it keeps him from being crushed and stuff?
Yes.
The air takes up the weight of the the ten-pound weight rather than the chips taking up the power of the weight.
Okay, so and all that air in there is like a cushion.
Yes.
So that when you finally get that bag of chips home, they're not crumbs.
You got it.
They're still chips.
You got it.
Thanks again.
Uh you welcome.
That's that's uh an open line Friday call.
Is that it?
Three weeks ago, a nine-year-old called here and wanted to know why there's more air in a bag of layers potato chips since Obama was elected.
And he thought there might be a conspiracy.
And of course, I furthered his thinking in that regard.
When you got a nine-year-old, you take advantage of it.
And and so this guy's calling to throw cold water on all the hard work that I did.
He said, no, Obama's got nothing to do with it.
He was twelve years old.
Here's Roy in uh Chester, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Yes, hello, Rush.
How are you?
Good.
It's nice to talk with you, sir.
Thank you for all that you do.
You better appreciate that, sir, very much.
And I also want to tell you, you're not the Paul Revere.
You are the George Washington of the movement.
Well, thanks much.
And uh I just wanted to bring up a point that uh you uh mention a lot actually lately on your show, and that is the random acts of journalism.
Yeah.
Being committed.
And uh it's very just that sentence is funny.
It's funny in itself.
Uh and you know something uh I agree a hundred percent with you, but I wonder do you think that it's possible there's more to this than meets the eye?
And the reason why I say that is Wait, wait, more to what?
The random acts of journalism.
Do you think that there's more to it?
Do you think it's just uh Anderson Cooper gets up in the morning and decides uh I'm gonna be honest today on my show?
No.
No, I don't I don't think that happens because I don't think the feeling would last that long.
He uh uh shows at night, he gets up in the late morning.
I don't know.
I I I know.
But now you're raising an interesting question.
Why are the random acts random?
Exactly.
That's what you're essentially asking.
Exactly.
I mean, are they it's it I mean, I don't want to go far as far out there as to say that is the the is the news media starting to turn on Obama.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't don't tease yourself that that is not happening.
That that is the last possible explanation to answer your question.
It's a good it's a good question.
Why are the random acts random?
You know, I'll tell you, in in both recent random acts journalism on CNN, the target has been Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
The the last time it happened, it was Wolf Blitzer going after after Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
For the same reason Anderson went, she wasn't telling the truth.
Wolf was saying, look, I forget what Wolf was talking to her about, but it was cut and dried crystal clear.
He kept saying, Debbie, look, uh they didn't say that.
That's not what they believe.
And she kept saying, You're wrong, Wolf, here's what they think, and everybody knows it.
And with Anderson, it was the same thing.
So both random acts of journalism have involved Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper attempting to protect themselves.
I'll tell you what I think it is.
Now that I now that you ask and I articulate this answer, I think what it is is strictly their own reaction to Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
I think it is so obvious that she's a partisan hack.
It is so blatantly obvious that she is nothing but a robotic partisan hack that they cannot afford to let the woman go by unchallenged.
But they agree but they're not really challenging her.
If you'll note particularly Anderson, and I've got to say this, I have to say this, folks.
I alluded to it earlier.
Last night I'm sitting in a minding my own business bothering nobody, and all of a sudden I'm delused with email about how Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz has just been humiliated by Anderson Cooper.
He cleaned her clock.
He mopped a floor with her.
You've got to see it.
Well, I don't watch video on computers much because of the hearing aspect of it.
Uh so I waited, I knew that Cookie would have a soundbite.
So I didn't hear any of this till I played them for you today.
And as I played them, I didn't hear her clock getting cleaned.
I didn't hear the floor being mopped with her, and I didn't even hear her being humiliated.
What I heard was Anderson Cooper trying to help her and protect it.
So look, look, we're trying to be honest here, Debbie.
We're trying to get the facts out.
We're uh uh we don't want to be wrong.
I I it was i if she had been a Republican trying to do what she was doing, he'd have been in there with both fists and pounding away.
But it was kid gloves.
Uh I I she got her message out for whatever length of time that by what two minutes she she was able to perpetrate the lie that her point was that Romney's lying when he says that he's for a rape exception in abortion.
She's saying no, he doesn't.
He doesn't really believe that.
He's just saying it.
And Anderson Cooper, well, no, he's never said it, Debbie.
I mean, the re he does it right, the platform, but it doesn't matter, Wolf or Anderson.
Romney's an evil mean guy, he's a felon, puts a dog in the roof of the car, wants everybody in chains, and he wants women not to be able to have abortion.
That's all and she got the message out.
And Anderson, I think it's all about these guys trying to distance themselves from her a little bit.
I think it's specific to her, because she's not that likable, because she's so over the top that I mean, if you're gonna be a collaborator with the regime, you have to have credibility.
And if you are seen as nothing but a fellow hack, then it's gonna be tougher to maintain the illusion.
So I would not for a moment, Roy, think that what it means is the media is finally seeing the light about Obama.
That's not it at all.
Yes, I meant to say it.
What do you mean?
Does I joking?
Well no.
Not only was it harmless, it's there's a lot of there's a lot of truth in it.
The reason Obama is so desperate to get Romney's tax returns is because Obama wants to show his base voters what a tax return looks like.
What do you bet?
That more Romney base voters pay taxes than Obama voters.
Not even close, right?
And what do you bet the total amount of taxes paid by Romney voters is gonna dwarf the amount of taxes paid by Obama voters?
That's right.
One side pays it, one side takes it.
And that's why he wants Romney's tax returns.
His voters have never seen one.
And he wants to show them a tax return, what it really looks like, these rich people.
Okay, folks, Empire State Building shooting.
Here we go.
Jeffrey Johnson, the suspect.
The alleged shooter is being reported to have been quiet, very quiet cat owner.
With a McDonald's habit.
Yes, that's how it's reported.
A McDonald's habit.
So what we have here is perhaps a trans fat fueled frenzy.
We have who knows.
I mean, how many 32 ounce Coda's sodas this guy had at McDonald's with all the You knows that Bloomberg is chomping at the bit now.
So that's it.
That's the way the left works.
He's a McDonald's habit.
Okay, so fast food made him do it.
Trans fat fueled frenzy.
His name is uh Jeffrey Jeffrey Johnson.
Of course, there was a political shooting.
Remember the guy had 15 orders of Chick-fil-A and went into the family research council?
And fire shot at the security guards.
Yeah, here, I don't like your politics.
We had an actual shooting, a political shooting, a zany left winger made crazy by left-wing politics, and it's a ho-hommer.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Move on, no big deal here.
Don't forget, folks, Dinesh de Sousa's movie, 2016, Obama's America.
It's gonna be big over the weekend.
And if you want to have some fun, some old-fashioned American good guy, real guy smoke cigars, just heroes do good things and win good stuff and have some camp humor at the same time, expendables too.
And uh we're we're hunkering down here for tropical storm hurricane stuff, hoping for some bad weather for the fun of it.
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