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Aug. 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Okay, folks, what do you want?
What do you want today?
Do you want me to tell you about media bias?
Outrageousness, unfairness, racism, and bigotry.
Do you want me to tell you how wonderful and fabulous and it was the best political wife speech ever and Romney was, or do you want me to tell you how bad you thought it was?
Do you want me to tell you what a barn storming knock down drag out over the top fabulous speech Chris Christie gave?
Or do you want me to tell you what a disappointment it was?
And do you want me to review all of the speakers with excerpts from each of their speeches with a top-down review?
Do you want to talk about the overall tone of the convention?
Do you want me to say, my gosh, what a bunch of wimps.
Don't even have the guts to mention Obama's name.
Christie didn't have the guts to mention his name.
Do you want me to tell you how this bunch seems to be afraid to be critical of a party that's destroying the country?
Or do you agree with the party?
No, we don't need to mention that because everybody already knows it, and we're trying to attract swing voters, and they don't want to hear that stuff.
Or do you want to not even talk about the convention.
No, it's not an option.
That's not an option.
I don't.
I uh I don't care to talk about it.
The only thing that's fascinating about football to me is the New York Jets haven't scored a touchdown in the uh preseason.
And I don't think I don't know that that's for the first three games of the preseason.
I don't know that that's ever happened.
That a team has it.
And the Jets say that's okay.
Just wait till week one.
We're keeping it all in reserve.
No wanna don't want to peek too soon.
Uh Little League World Series.
You know what?
I didn't know.
I got a note from a friend.
I've got to mention this before I forget it.
I got a note from a friend so upset over the chickification of the news.
The chicken of the culture.
Apparently, in a Little League World Series.
A pitcher hit a batter with a pitch and went to home plate and apologized.
Now, when I was growing up, there was the Bob Gibson rule.
When you hit them in the head, you throw inside again to show them you meant to hit them.
That's the way I grew up, baseball.
You hit somebody and then you throw inside again to let them know it was on purpose.
What the umpires say.
Then I was told.
This I don't believe.
This I can't.
If this is true, folks, it's over.
Doesn't matter what's happening at the convention.
Little League World Series.
Guy hits a home run.
The pitcher who threw the home run waits at home plate to congratulate the kid who hit the home.
That's what I was told.
That's what I was told.
Yes, I am trying to avoid discussing conventions.
New Orleans is still there.
Yeah, New Orleans still there.
Look at uh it's not an official hurricane till Shep Smith starts crying.
And Shep Smith had it hasn't hasn't started crying yet.
So it's it's not really a bad hurricane.
It's still there.
New Orleans is still there.
Mississippi's still there.
Mobile's still in Alabama.
Uh yeah, it's it's still there.
Storm's still there.
Storm kind of taught uh uh what paused or or uh it it's it's stalled.
It's moving very slow.
It is gonna dump a lot of rain there.
There's but it's a cat one, and uh Katrina was all the way up cat five, revised to a cat five, kind of like the unemployment numbers are revised.
They revised Katrina after the fact.
Well, you know what?
It actually hit Cat 5 there for a couple of minutes.
Here are the media numbers.
Last night uh NBC had 5.3 million people watching the convention.
Which, if you haven't heard NBC and MSNBC did not televise one ethnic minority speech.
They didn't.
NBC, particularly MSNBC, whenever Arth Davis or Mia Love, any, anybody who wasn't white was making a speech, it wasn't covered on NBC.
Or MSNBC.
Then CBS had 3.3 million viewers.
ABC had 2.3 million.
The cable numbers will come in this afternoon at about 4 o'clock.
And the overall, I think a total viewership will be about 20 million when it's uh when it's all said and done, when it's when it's calculated.
So, yeah, here's some some.
Oh, and we're working on getting the audio of this.
During live coverage of the convention in Tampa, an ABC News employee provided great example of the anti-Republican bias that Romney faces in a video broadcast Monday night by ABC over the internet,
an ABC News employee can be heard claiming that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife are unconcerned about the fate of residents of New Orleans.
The ABC News employee said on a hot mic that he didn't know was hot.
They aren't concerned at all.
They're happy to have a party when black people drown.
An ABC reporter said this overheard internet.
We are putting the audio together even now.
No, I know MS NBC did cover Nikki Haley, but they didn't know that she's a minority.
They just thought she had a good tan.
They didn't know that she has Indian roots.
So we got one by them.
We snuck one by them.
High cheek bones is like Elizabeth Warren, but they didn't catch that.
They didn't they didn't catch it.
They didn't think that they just thought, you know, brunette, uh dark skin.
This is the way they look at people.
Here's here are the headlines on Drudge that report this.
Oh, and Mia Love, by the way.
Uh great speech early on.
Black Utah wasn't covered.
Wikipedia.
You know, Wikipedia, you go in and anybody can change whatever anybody's uh entry on Wikipedia is.
And some hackers went into Wikipedia and were calling her dirty, worthless whore.
House N-word.
Because she dared show up at the Republican convention.
MSNBC cuts speeches made by minorities from the coverage of the convention.
NBC News posts clips of white speakers only.
The LA Times headline, RNC puts a brown face on a white party.
And F. Chuck Todd, NBC said the Republicans are putting minorities in the front row of their convention.
They look like they're diverse.
So this is a sample of some of the media coverage that happened.
And the way it is being covered.
And folks, there's nothing you can do about it.
This is not going to change.
It's getting worse.
They're all part of the agenda.
They are all collaborators with Obama.
They're all collaborators with the Democrat Party.
And it's the age old question.
What do you do about it?
And really the question is what can you do about it?
And there's nothing.
I mean, you you you uh interesting too.
For those of you, and I know you're out there, I've been, I I'll tell you, I've I've heard every opinion.
I've heard every I've heard Romney's wife was horrible and the best thing ever.
I've heard the same about Christie.
Uh I've I've I've heard every pro and con you can imagine about this thing.
And I've got sound bites of Republican consultants talking.
It's great that they didn't mention Obama's name.
It's wonderful.
Yeah, because we gotta go get the swing voters.
And yeah, Obama knows.
Everybody knows how bad Obama is.
We didn't need to waste time talking about Obama.
Ed Rollins and Carl Rove particularly.
There's a piece that's interesting here that I had it yesterday stack and didn't get to it.
But I held it over.
It's uh whose piece is this?
Daniel Foster.
Daniel Foster, let me just read excerpts of this to you.
Yesterday afternoon on the seventh floor of a nondescript uh glass office tower on the fringes of downtown Tampa.
So it would have been Sunday afternoon.
I sat in a dark room behind a two-way mirror and watched Frank Lunz put a focus group of 23 swing voters through the paces.
And here's what I learned.
Americans are worried about a lot of things.
It was a two and a half hour session, but I'll give you a for instance.
Americans are really worried about education, about cost and competition from abroad, about kids who mortgage their futures before going college to work, about kids who are too lazy to work and hide away in college.
They think we need better teachers, they think we need better parents.
They think we need to hold educators more accountable.
They think we need to leave educators be.
They think critical and creative thinking skills are the most important.
They think we should stick to the three Rs.
We should learn from Asia, we should reject Asia.
There was agreement, at least, that we should do more of the things that work and less of the things that don't work.
And then above all, these swing voters said things should be better.
Everybody needs to do everything to make everything better, and the children.
Always the children.
The children are the number one concern.
And so it went.
And Lunz covered all the big issues from the economy.
Some are afraid it's getting worse, but they've got hope.
Others are optimistic about growth, but they have their doubts.
Uh, to increase political polarization.
The problem you see is that Republicans pick conservatives in their primaries and Democrats pick liberals in theirs, and that's the problem.
This is all what the swing voters were saying.
Now, as you listen to this, keep in mind that's who everybody's gunning for these people.
Let me just cut to the chase.
Daniel Foster at National Review said he finished watching.
They said, My God, these people are schizos.
They're all over the place.
They don't know what they think.
They don't know why they think what they think.
You can't pin them down on what they think.
They think both sides of everything.
They want everybody to think that they're fair.
They want everybody to think that they're not this and not that, and that they're wonderful people.
The sum total revealed a bizarre truth about swing voters.
It's not that they're divided on any given issue, with half taking one side and half taking the other.
Rather, everybody seemed to agree with everybody else about everything.
And they disagreed with everybody else about everything.
Transitory coalitions formed and dissolved in what seemed like a matter of milliseconds, like exotic particles in a supercollider.
One minute.
Latino nose spectacles was in complete agreement with senior in blazer.
The next they were at each other's throats.
Young yellow dress had a team with hair gel to step in as the voice of reason.
Working majorities seemingly assented to some premise only to split a thousand ways from the previously stated premise.
Everybody hates Congress, but most of these people either voted for their current congressmen or can't name them.
Everybody blames both parties for gridlock, but everybody also wants politicians brave enough to stand for their principles.
Most call themselves moderates.
One described himself as a liberal, and he voted for McCain.
He plans to vote for Romney.
There were even those among them who liked Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan equally.
Such people aren't so much swing voters as they are schizophrenic.
The bad news is that these people are going to determine the election.
The good news is that the vast majority of them are for Romney.
That's what came out of all of this.
Moderate swing voters.
Why are they moderate?
You know what I have a theory about this.
As you listen to me read to you Daniel Foster's description of the swing voter in a Frank Luntz focus group.
I don't think they're schizophrenic.
Well, they may be schizophrenic.
I think they've been driven to it.
I think these people, these poor people, these are your neighbors, our neighbors.
These people have been driven to near insanity because they instinctively know what's right, and yet they see on the media every day that they're wrong.
They know what's right, and they're made fun of.
I think they instinctively know what's right and wrong, good and sensible, but they're told every day by the media and the pop culture that they're not right, that they're wrong.
So it makes them nuts.
They have been made schizophrenic, they're nuts out there.
They also know that they're the focal point of every campaign.
Swing voters undecided.
And when it comes time for them to get in a group and tell everybody what they think, they make sure that they tell you they agree with both sides of everything.
These people in their own minds are beaten up every day.
I think they've got the right instincts.
I think they probably know what's right and wrong, good and bad.
But they're weak.
They succumb to the daily barrage that they're subjected to, that they're kooks, freaks, and oddballs.
And they don't want people to think that.
So when they're put together in a focus group, they make sure that whoever's running that focus group knows that they're for this and against it, for it and against it.
They see both sides, in other words.
I can see what you feel.
I can see how you feel, but I don't necessarily feel that way right now, but I did yesterday.
Everything to avoid criticism.
Truly schizophrenic.
Then they're nuts.
And that's how we get moderates.
It's how we get people afraid to stand for things because they're routinely beaten up.
Look at what happens to conservatives in the media who stand up for it.
Don't care who you are, you get destroyed.
You get creamed if you go public with it.
Well, these people don't want that.
Anyway, the turns out they are for Mitt Romney.
This group of 23 that Luntz put together a supposedly representative nationwide sample is for Mitt Romney.
The Luntz All right, here's the uh audio of that comment.
No, they're happy to have a party with black people drowning.
It turns out it was not an ABC employee.
It was the Yahoo employee.
Uh Yahoo, Washington Bureau Chief David Chaleon, or Chilean, it's C H A L I A N. And he's talking about Romney.
This is on an ABC news feed.
I don't know that this made the air, but this was overheard, obviously, on the internet, and they're talking about Romney and the Republican Party having the convention while Hurricane Isaac threatened a Gulf Coast.
This is a five-second thing goes by real fast.
They're not concerned at all.
They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.
Happy to have a party with black people drowning.
You know, we uh I've been doing this for we're in the 25th year, pointing this stuff out.
All of oh, it didn't make the air.
Did make the air.
I've been pointing this stuff after 25 years.
It just keeps getting worse.
It becomes, it's become more and more frequent.
Uh There's no guilt or shame.
This is these two of these people are.
This is what they really believe.
They this is a young kid, sounds like who has been taught this.
This this is you know rich people want brown people to drown.
They get to have parties.
They laugh about it.
The kid honestly believes it.
It's what he's been taught.
And it's out there.
There's no shame.
There's no embarrassment.
Look at NBC, the doctoring of the 9-11 tape on the Trayvon Martin thing.
Zilch Zero Nada.
It's just what it is that we're up against.
And who these people are.
And so the question do you pander to them and try to make them like you, or you just go pedal to the metal and wipe them out?
And of course I choose the latter, but I'm not running anything.
Back after this.
It turns out that this David Chalian, Chalian, however the hell he pronounces his name, guy, is not a kid.
Listen to this resume.
The guy who here is who we're talking about.
This is over the ABC news feed that did make the air last night.
They're not concerned at all.
They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.
And they're all laughing.
David Chaley and Yahoo!
They're all happy to have a party with black people drowning.
This guy used to work for the News Hour on PBS.
He's now the Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief.
He directs Washington coverage across all broadcast and digital platforms.
He's a seasoned professional.
Absolutely.
Previously served as the political editor for the PBS NewsHour, managing the editorial content.
and From the news hours Congressional White House Supreme Court beats prior to joining the news hour, he was the political director for ABC News.
Well, my I said he's he sounded like a kid.
I assumed Yahoo, he's a kid.
He's not.
This kid's an adult.
He's been around for years.
In addition to that, he has a master's degree.
He teaches a master's degree class at Georgetown.
He teaches a master's degree class, master of professional studies in journalism at Georgetown.
So he is an objective journalist.
Exactly right.
He's a teacher.
He's it he's not.
I erred when I said this kid is just what he's been taught.
This is what he's teaching.
It's even worse than I thought.
This is what he's teaching.
Oh yeah.
Republicans aren't concerned at all.
They're happy to have a party with black people drowning.
Happy.
I asked, folks, how are you gonna change that?
The only thing's gonna change this is karma.
The only thing that's gonna change this is karma.
I don't know.
What are you gonna do to change this?
We can sit here and and and bitch and moan, complain, file complaint letters, emails, make phone calls, ain't gonna matter.
I'm sitting there laughing.
Why are they trying to humanize Romney for crying out what you know?
Rich people are just poor people with money.
What's the difference?
What's the difference?
I said, rich people are just poor people with money.
Oh, look at here.
Let me everybody wants to know what I think about this.
Folks, I tell you, uh there's good and bad.
There's positive, there's negative, there's it's it covers the gamut.
One of the things that struck me, and Catherine, while we're watching this last night, let me just this is one of the the things that that just reared its head at us right off the bat.
There was such a stark contrast.
And Anne Romney.
She was taken home safely from the dance by Mitt.
And they fell in love, and that was the subject of her speech.
*Sigh*
The tone of the convention.
Oh, well.
It's easy to read through.
got home safely from the dance.
Listen for ya.
Oh, yes, it's a beautiful thing.
My old buddy Elton John, that's from the Lion King.
And can you feel a love tonight?
And then, ladies and gentlemen, it wasn't long after that.
This big guy roared out from backstage that the hell with love.
We are talking respect.
That's what we're about here.
I said, well, which is it?
Okay, so can you feel the love tonight?
Heck with that.
My mom said it's respected, we're going for, and we did.
Um that hit me pretty soon.
Not immediately.
I love it till you hit me right smackdown when it happened.
It took a while.
During the uh during the post-mortem.
New York Daily News headline of a news story.
Get this.
Anne Romney leads way as Republicans kick off convention by rapping brutal attacks on President Obama in blankets of sentimentality.
Would somebody please, I watched this last night.
Would somebody please direct me to the brutal attacks on President Obama.
I'm having a tough time recalling his name coming up.
I don't think Governor Christie mentioned his name at all.
A lot of people are making a big deal, by the way, that Christie didn't mention Romney's name for 17 minutes.
And this is, well, look, there are a whole lot of theories to explain what the Republicans are trying to accomplish here.
And one of the reasons, by the way, that I spent some time in the first half hour telling you about that once-focused group of the swing voters, make no mistake, that's the target of this convention.
Thank you.
Those people, the undecided, the swing voters, the independents, whatever you want to call them, that's the target.
And it's clear.
It is clear that we we suspected this.
And we got confirmation of it the day before the convention, and people told me I was wrong, that it didn't really say that, but it's clear that this convention is not going to criticize Obama.
This convention, so far now, it's still two nights to go.
But last night there was not a recitation of Obama's record.
There was not one effort.
I would say I had high hopes when Christie started with his what we believe and what they believe stuff.
I had I had really high hopes for that.
And I thought, okay, now we're gonna get into telling the country that's watching this who the Democrats are, what their policy.
We didn't do that.
And the prevailing reason is well, everybody knows.
So we we don't need to say that.
Let's go to the audio sound start here at number seven.
This is Ed Rollins.
This morning on America's Newsroom on Fox, Bill Hammer said Ann Romney didn't mention Obama by name.
Chris Christie didn't mention him by name, just said the president one time.
Not hitting on Obama was a perfect way to go.
We all know the Obama record and don't need to have it reinforced.
Perfect way to go.
Not to mention Obama.
Not hitting on Obama.
Perfect way to go.
Clearly, what we've known from for years, the Republican hierarchy, from its consultants on down, truly believes that mentioning Obama by name and then criticizing will cause these swing voters that once had that I told you about to run straight back to the Democrats.
It is clear they believe it.
Naturally, I profoundly disagree.
But I think also that it's obvious that these people don't see this as a turning point election.
They see it as just another one in the cycle.
Here, Joe Trippie.
Joe Trippy is a Democrat consultant.
Trippy ran Howard Dean's ill-fated campaign at 2000, what was it, eight?
Four.
I ended up being the nominee.
He was also on the Fox show this morning.
And after Ed Rollins said, yep, yep, not hitting Obama, perfect way to go.
Joe Trippie said.
Christie last night, there's been some disappointment.
He didn't go after Obama enough.
But what he did was talk to the undecided out there.
And if he had pounded on Obama in that way, I think it would have turned those people off.
I I folks, I literally, I'm going insane here here in this.
I want to know why these independents don't get turned off when Obama calls Romney a murderer and a felon.
Why is it that independents only get turned off?
Why is it that our guys are agreeing with a Democrat consultant here?
Why is it that the independents only get turned off when we?
And we're not even critical when we tell the truth.
And I thought that's what Christie's speech was about.
Tell the truth.
We're going to tell the American people hard truths.
We didn't tell the people hard truths about Obama.
We are not telling people the hard truths about where this country's headed.
We're afraid if we do that, that the independents won't want to hear that and to go running back to the Obama.
And yet Christie said in his speech, they can handle the truth.
They want the truth.
The American people, they'll gut it up every time when they know the stakes, just like the greatest generation, a World War II generation.
Well, somehow, what Christie believes hasn't been adopted by the rest of the party.
Because we're afraid of telling the American people the truth about Obama.
You're hearing the Republican consultants say it.
It's good not to do that.
Why that's just going to send these independents running back to Obama, but they never run from Obama when Obama calls us murderers.
The independents don't get upset when they hear this media guy, David Chaley and of Yahoo say, oh, yeah, Romney, they love having a party when black people are drowning.
Brown people are drowning in New York.
Oh, independence, don't mind that.
You notice how the Democrats don't have one ounce of the same fears that we have.
Yes, I know the reason.
I know the answer.
It's all psychological.
It's all we've we're we're we're buying a bill of goods and we have for a long time.
Where was the beef?
Where was the red meat?
There wasn't any.
Everybody doesn't know about Obama's terrible record.
If I tell you something, Mr. Rollins, if everybody knew Obama's record, he'd be down 20 points.
If everybody knew Obama Well, we're talking about the attendees of the convention, Mr. Limbaugh.
They know.
What would you know?
You're talking about people watching on television.
You're trying to take this beyond the attendees in a hall.
And if the people knew Obama's record, if they knew Obama's direct culpability in this nation's economic Disaster, he'd be down 20 points.
Why can't we tell them?
Carl Rove agrees.
This is uh same show, America's New Root Newsroom, after uh Trippy says that Christie would have turned off undecided voters had he gone after Obama.
Bill Hemard then asked uh Carl uh Carl Robert Gibbs last night called this a very angry convention.
They called it the very strange night.
Joe's absolutely right.
Christie made that speech for the people who are watching.
The people in the audience wanted him to treat them like this was some town hall meeting in New Jersey.
But he hit that, I thought perfectly.
He was absolutely focused on the people watching who were sitting there saying, I'm watching the same because I heard about him, and I'm trying to figure out what this is all about.
Well, if that's the case, there was again Christie has a problem.
If that's the case, because Christie didn't deliver what most people are used to seeing him do.
I'll explain that when we come.
Remind Snerdley, well, I can make a note.
31%.
Don't let me forget that.
Now, be right back here.
We'll be right back.
And we're back.
Let's go to the phones.
I want to get some people in on this because I know you want to weigh in it as well.
We'll start in Scottsdale, Arizona with Barbie.
Barbie, great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi, Barbie.
How are you?
I'm awesome.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, Barbie.
I guess I'm really not.
You know what?
I Rush, I am so sick of the Democrats painting Mitt Romney as some out of touch rich guy.
I mean, can we say John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Gore?
And you know, I see Kerry is scheduled to speak at the DNC next week.
Yep.
So they're actually featuring the most out of touch rich guy at their own convention.
I mean, how can they get away with this?
Because he's a Democrat and Democrats care about poor people and Republicans don't, and that's it.
That's look, I'm doing this my 25th year.
I have every day for 24 plus years said what you just said.
I've been pointing it out why I've written columns about I've said it on TV, I've said it on radio, I've made speeches about it.
Kerry is five times wealthier than Romney.
And he inherited it all, and he's much more flagrant in his consumption of his wealth than Romney is.
Romney gave away his inheritance.
He gave it away.
He donated it to charity.
And I look, I understand your frustration.
Why do we have to constantly because it you don't like being on defense?
Why do we have to respond to these guys?
They feel the need to do it because the truth still isn't out there.
And it's wrapped up in something that isn't complicated at all.
Carrie is a Democrat.
They care about the poor.
Republicans only care about the rich at Wall Street, and that's what doofuses, morons in this country believe.
The people who are not informed, um, who think they're lifelong Democrats, born and raised, hearing that every day of their lives, particularly if they're members of unions, that's what they've heard.
I know, I agree, Rush.
And you know, on top of everything else, I mean, you know, Ann Romney gave a great speech last night, I thought.
Yep.
And the irony is that Teresa Hines Carey's speech was an absolute disaster.
So I mean, just look at the dichotomy between, you know, between the two.
Well, exactly.
That was a wonderful speech last night.
It it was it it it could not have been any better.
Uh the the criticism of Ann Romney is is is I don't know if nitpicking him.
The only thing, and I have one problem with what she said, but I know why she did it.
What, Snerdley?
What?
Uh what?
Didn't this say what?
That I had a problem with the speech.
It was it was it was you look at expectations.
Um it it was it was I think it was it was good.
I think we could all nitpick my problems with it.
The um you know the one thing about it that just bothered me was this whole notion that they're responding to the war on women, and so she she went overboard talking about how it's it's really the women that hold his country together.
It's really the mothers.
But I knew why she was doing it.
I knew watching it why she was doing it, they're reacting to this war on women stuff.
And you might say, well, why are they wasting time to work?
Because so many doofuses believe that Republicans don't care about the poor.
Just because they're Republicans.
John Kerry, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy can get away.
Kennedy get away with killing a woman.
Look, I got to back off.
Because he cares about poor.
That's the only thing, folks, is gonna be karma that that does these people in.
I've been trying to rebut this stuff for 50 years.
There's nothing that works.
We'll be back.
We'll be back.
One thing that's undeniable, folks, the Democrats do love poor people.
They seem to create millions new ones each year.
They love poor people so much they create new ones as often as they can.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out here at the top.
We'll go some of the uh some of the good speeches from last night early at the convention when we come back.
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