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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.
Rushlin Boy here behind the Golden EIB 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 email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Great to have you here, folks.
We make the most of every precious broadcast moment while making them at the same time.
Where's that gasoline price store?
And by the way, let me, I need to find something here.
Let me find it real quick here.
Hang on, just a second.
When Obama took orifice, when Obama was immaculated, a gasoline price is about $1.70 a gallon.
Snerdley doesn't even believe it.
Not even four years ago, it was $1.70 a gallon.
Now in some parts of California, it's over $4.
It is almost $4 here.
Okay, so here I have in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers this Reuters piece from Tuesday.
Rising gas price is 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.
Now, and the gas price $1.70.
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.
Fuel and gas prices rank the last among 10 factors that influence voters in evaluating Obama's job performance.
Health care, the economy, jobs top 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 a 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 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, they think Obama 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.
The 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.
People realize there's just little Obama can do when it comes to the job market.
They're just not very much.
Sadly, more and more people realize, this is obviously all lies.
It is a crock.
I got an email from a friend of mine in California about this today.
Outraged that the price is over $4 where he lives.
And nobody's a lot of people are talking about 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.
Now, we've had a string of mainstream media stories telling us that $4 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 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 emaculated.
The gasoline price in this country was $1.70.
And here are 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 the cost of gasoline.
They realize there's nothing the president can do about it.
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 journalists.
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 because 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 pool 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 in 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 rapped, 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 that tell the truth of what really is going on out there.
We see the smaller crowds, and what are we told?
Well, we're purposely speaking in front of smaller crowds.
Really, why?
Why do you want smaller crowds?
More intimate, the Obama campaign says.
It's much easier to be intimate with crowds.
We're seeking smaller crowds.
And you know what?
In addition to smaller crowds, we're actually trying to raise less money in each one.
Oh, really?
Yeah, because it looks better.
Three dollars.
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.
What are morons in a crowd going to do?
They're going to act and be what they are.
They're morons.
They're going to 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. Harnden...
Exactly right.
It's huge.
Anybody who remembers can see that there's nowhere near the excitement, the anticipation, all that making out of Obama what you want him to be and empty canvas paint what you wanted to be, all this 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 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 going to tell me that.
Have you heard him say, have you heard him tell us what his plan for the economy is?
Other than, I want to go, middle-class job, put people back to work to America, be America again.
No, no, no, no.
Have you heard anything that would qualify as a second term agenda?
No.
Let me answer.
Here's 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 any 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 going to do.
No, I'm telling you, I'm asking you.
No, he's 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.
Green energy is just a code word for more cronyism.
Right, exactly.
He's going to stop Romney and Ryan from kitting grandmother over the cliff.
It's my exact point.
His campaign consists of Bain Capital.
His name is Bain 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, he's going to give away a 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 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 reelected.
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 nothing 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 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 are worse.
Romney and the Republicans say, 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.
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'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 put at the bottom of the stack.
Romney in Michigan today and a little birth certificate joke.
Listen to this.
I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised.
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 on, right.
So guess what now?
The press secretary for Obama 2012, her name is Jen Pisaki, P-S-A-K-I.
So just guessing that she pronounces it Pisaki.
Sound at a disadvantage.
I never hear these names pronounced, so, and I don't purposely want to mispronounce it.
So I have to run through all the possibilities.
At any rate, she's out there saying that what you just heard Romney say, that birth certificate joke, that's gutterball politics.
Now, this is one of the women, this Jen Pisaki, babe.
She's one of the women who said that Romney might be a felon, along with Stephanie Cutter and Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
And Pasaki also lied when she said she didn't know Soptic.
Soptik 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 Saki.
Okay, I pronounced Saki.
That's gutterball 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 is 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 independents.
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.
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 president racist, and it is buttergall.
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 10-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 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 them from being crushed and stuff?
Yes.
The air takes up the weight of the 10-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.
You're welcome.
That's 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 Lay's 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've got a nine-year-old, you take advantage of it.
And so this guy is 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 12 years old.
Here's Roy in 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 bet it.
I 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 I just wanted to bring up a point that you mentioned a lot, actually lately on your show, and that is the random acts of journalism being committed.
And it's very, just that sentence is funny in itself.
And you know something?
I agree 100% 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 Anderson Cooper gets up in the morning and decides I'm going to be honest today on my show?
No.
No, I don't think that happens because I don't think the feeling would last that long.
He shows at night.
He gets up in the late morning.
I don't know.
No.
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, I don't want to go as far out there as to say that is the news media starting to turn on Obama?
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't, don't tease yourself that way.
That is not happening.
That is the last possible explanation to answer your question.
It's a good question.
Why are the random acts random?
You know, I'll tell you, in both recent random acts of journalism on CNN, the target has been Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
The last time it happened, it was Wolf Blitzer going 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 queer.
He kept saying, Debbie, look, they didn't say that.
That's not what they believe.
And she kept saying, you're wrong.
Wolf is 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 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'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 and I'm minding my own business, bothering nobody.
And all of a sudden, I'm deluged with email about how Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz has just been humiliated by Anderson Cooper.
He cleaned her clock.
He mopped the 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.
So I waited.
I knew that Cookie would have a soundbite.
So I didn't hear any of this until 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 protectives, look, look, we're trying to be honest here, Debbie.
We're trying to get the facts out.
We don't want to be wrong.
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.
She got her message out for whatever length of time that by what, two minutes?
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, 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.
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, and if you're going to 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 going to 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?
Was I joking?
Well, no.
Not only was it harmless, 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-based 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 going to 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 codas sodas this guy had at McDonald's with all you know is that Bloomberg is chomping at the bit now.
So that's it.
That's the way the left works.
He's got a McDonald's habit.
Okay, so fast food made him do it.
Trans-fat-fueled frenzy.
His name is Jeffrey, yeah, 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 guard and say, 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-hummer.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Move on.
No big deal here.
Don't forget, folks, Dinesh D'Souza's movie, 2016, Obama's America.
It's going to 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 we're hunkering down here for tropical storm hurricane stuff, hoping for some bad weather for the fun of it.
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