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Aug. 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Dear Rush.
It's an email I just got.
Emails running the gamut, folks.
Today, I don't have the slightest idea what I'm doing.
According to the emails.
I have I don't, no matter what I I've I don't know what I'm doing.
Here's a sample.
You have spent the past two days making fun of, diminishing, belittling, trashing all the things at the convention.
I hate the rhinos only a little less than the Democrats, but last night was a delightful show of all the things you've been talking about for 22 years.
It was all about conservatism, individualism, free markets, marriage, equal opportunity for everyone, even immigrants, especially immigrants.
Is it perfect?
No, but they made a great effort last night.
It's painful to listen to you trash it.
They're giving a summation of your 24 years on the radio last night.
I thought that a whole thing, every time I heard someone speak, this person listens to Rush.
That person listens to Rush.
And I'm shocked and stunned to hear you making fun of it.
What?
Uh I I don't know.
But anyway, and plus there are emails on the other side.
You keep going, buddy.
This is exactly right.
Somebody's got to speak truth to it's all over.
The uh the reaction, there's no there's no which a good thing I have a steel spine.
I would I'd be one of these schizo swing boaters.
Anyway, what I was gonna say before the top of the hour break about about Governor Christie.
Uh people, I think, judge some of these speeches at expectations.
And the expectations of Chris Christie were no holds barred.
This guy's gonna drop the hammer, it's gonna be great.
And then word leaked out, no, it's not.
He's gonna spend a lot of time talking about himself as a Republican governor in New Jersey and how he straightened things out there, and uh it's gonna be a it's gonna be an autobiographical speech, and I I heard that previous, and oh, that's interesting.
Then I saw something, you know it's fascinating.
This this 31%, this statistic.
Thirty one percent of people who watch TV don't watch TV.
They don't they don't get their TV from a TV set.
They get it from Hulu, from YouTube, from Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, what they get, what they watch are highlights.
And so in the case of Governor Christie, a lot of people who were really looking forward to Christie last night have seen what?
They've gotten to know the Chris Christie at Town Hall meetings or the Chris Christie responding to uh uh media people, you know, hammering these guys, which everybody loves.
And so the expectations that a lot of people had for Christie's speech last night obviously were unrealized or unmet.
Uh I got up today, Byron York has a piece, why Ann Romney's speech worked and why Chris Christie's didn't.
So the analysis of this uh of this is all over the ballpark.
They have uh questions how to respond.
Okay, you do have, you have Obama out calling Romney a murderer, essentially.
You have him his campaigns calling Romney a felon, uh, hates dogs, commercial with Romsey Romney's dog on the roof of the car and so forth.
Now there are there are those who believe, and I want to ask you.
There are those who believe that the way you respond to that, the way you respond to people who are accusing you of being inhumane or being cold hearted, you hate the poor,
you hate the way to respond to this is simply show up and be you know, have your family around you and speak without profanity, and it will expose the accusers as the liars they are.
That is an ongoing theory.
I just heard that theory pronounced by a learned wise man on Fox.
And it does sound good.
It does sound in a fair world, it's exactly the way it would work.
Let's take Romney and Obama.
On the one hand, we have Obama calling Romney essentially a murderer.
We have the allegation that he might be a felon.
The business about the way these just scratched the surface.
The attempts here to make people hate Romney based on ads that the Obama people have run.
Hundreds of millions, over a hundred million dollars in ads.
The way to respond to it is show up at your convention and have your wife go out make a speech and be lovable and normal and have the kids there looking normal and have as many normal people as you can and speak about love and devotion, flag family, and you win because you're obviously not a murderer.
You're obviously not this.
And all you have to you don't have to do anything to respond to it other than show up.
It only that worked.
I've had trust and faith that that would work.
For me, I've had it said, and I hate to make this personal, I really do, but it may help illustrate here.
Okay.
Without specifying instances, many of you have been around here for years, you know of the various attempts that have been made to portray me in various inhumane, mean spirited, racist, sexist, thuggish ways.
And I come here every day and do what I do, and I'm none of that.
Has it changed any of those people's minds?
No.
In fact, it they don't care to have their minds changed.
They're going to make the allegation regardless of the truth, particularly the Obama people, when they got nothing else to rely on.
They can't talk about themselves positively.
They can't, what they've done is so bad they can't lie about it.
They can't portray this economy as roaring.
They can't portray the recovery as happening.
They can't portray the country as on the right track.
They can't lie about anything.
So all they've all they can do is level these accusations.
George W. Bush, for let's let's just say six years.
For six years, the media and the Democrat Party set out to destroy George Bush.
After six years, George Bush's approval numbers were in the 30s.
George Bush, George W. Bush, not even close to anything.
He was accused of being or doing.
George Bush was on television as president every day.
The theory is that just being human, just being who he is, just going on television, being president, being well-spoken, all these things, this...
That alone, all you have to do, and you beat them.
Did it work?
Did they keep Bush's numbers out of the 30s?
Were the Democrats, it took them six years, but they convinced in six years they convinced the people of this country that we were in a recession when we weren't?
That we were losing the Iraq war when we weren't.
They lied about Petraeus, the surge, all of this.
Afghanistan, you name it.
They were lying about the economy.
They were lying about unemployment.
They were lying about inflation.
They were trying to make everybody in the world think Bush didn't care about them.
Hurricane Katrina, Bush didn't care.
They have the picture of him from Air Force One flying over New Orleans.
They had you tell me it didn't work.
And somebody try to tell me that Bush with a crafted strategy of not replying, a crafted strategy of not responding, tell me it worked.
How can it be said to have worked when they succeeded in getting his approval numbers down to the 30s?
They were so happy Wolf Blitzer spent two hours reporting it.
We have played for you the montage.
Now, in what we would all like to believe is a fair and just and sane world, accusing somebody of killing another man's wife wouldn't last five seconds.
And yet it remains something the Romney people think they've got to deal with.
The same thing about Romney doesn't care about the poor.
The same thing with the war on women.
They believe they have to counter that, which was a large portion of the purpose of last night's convention.
Woman after woman after woman after woman came in.
I loved it.
And I thought it was great.
And I've got Nikki Haley was awesome last night.
Fabulous speech.
Nobody saw it because it was prior to prime time and it was nowhere near the networks.
Archer Davis was over the top fabulous, and he did ream Obama.
I don't mean to be leaving anybody out.
We've got sound bites.
Mia Love was just fabulous.
It was superb.
I'm only discussing this notion of how you deal with this, because 24 years, you know people call here, Rush, why don't you Republicans or why do the Republicans or why aren't the Republicans?
I don't know.
I never have known.
But I did hear just 20 minutes ago that the way to deal with this stuff is show up and have your family there and a dog and and speak about the flag and be normal, wonderful Americans, and you win.
And maybe in this case they did.
I hope so.
Don't misunderstand.
I just know that in um real life, in the case of George W. Bush, for example, didn't work.
And arguably still hasn't.
I mean, what else can Obama get away with blaming Bush?
I mean, how many we've seen the polling data?
How many people?
It's in the 40s.
Maybe close to 50% still think that Bush is the architect of this problem.
Poor old Obama just inherited a big mess.
It's it's unusually high.
Number of people that believe that.
Even after three years, the decision has been made not to try to counter any of that.
But when you all boil this down, it seems like at every turn, whoever the Republicans of prominence of the day happen to be, because of all this, they have to go out of their way to prove themselves normal.
When they already are.
They already are normal.
So...
They're average.
They're harmless.
They're none of what they are alleged to be.
And the party of abnormal and the party of genuine mean spirited extremism gets away with making these allegations, and they are never on the defensive about any of it.
Anyway, I gotta take a break here.
We'll do that.
Your phone calls are coming up, some highlights of some of the uh the really good speeches of the convention last night as well, so don't go anywhere.
We'll be right back.
Hey, folks, a quick question.
If you are for the rich, does it mean you are against the poor?
No, no, seriously, does it?
And when the Democrats make this allegation that Romney only cares, he'sn't for the rich.
Oh, it means he actively is against the poor?
That's what they want you to believe.
Let me ask a very simple question.
The poor are helped by what?
Money.
The poor, by definition, don't have their own.
Right.
So when the poor are assisted, where do they get the money?
Obama's stash is right.
But where does Obama get the money?
Our stash.
The point is that the poor would have nothing if it weren't for the rich charity and the rich are charitable out the wazoo, particularly in this kind of middle class too.
This is so cockyed and convoluted.
Just because you're w why w why is it a crime to defend the rich?
I mean, after all, they're citizens too.
They've worked hard.
Why what what is it that everybody thinks they have a claim on everything the rich have?
This is this is the perversion that the Democrat Party, the American left liberalism has has visited upon our culture and our country.
And it's sickening and it it is pathetic.
The rich are Americans too.
Well, look at it.
Oh, Rogerly's depth in and now defending the rich.
That's really gonna help the Republicans.
That's right, Rush, you may as well just sign up as a Democrat.
Uh by the way, according to the latest ABC News poll, ABC News Washington Post poll released two days ago.
Ready for this?
Now it did oversample Democrats by seven percent, but according to the latest ABC news poll, people still blame George Bush for the economy by fifty-two to thirty-four percent.
Two days ago.
ABC News, Washington Post, but yeah, Democrats oversample by seven percent.
Okay, so take all seven out.
You still have forty-five to thirty-four or forty-one blame Bush for the economy.
The there hasn't been any any pushback on that by Bush or his team to the phones.
This is Amanda in Orlando.
Hi, Amanda, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
It's an honor.
Thank you very much.
I have to say, normally I agree with you, probably ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, but I think I disagree with you when discussing the speeches.
I think I think what they did for me anyway.
Wait, wait, wait, before you what did I say you're disagreeing with?
Well, when you when you were saying that um you sort of everyone was expecting Chris Christie to go in there and really just lay down the hammer and to sort of stand up for themselves and uh point out things that are wrong with the administration and you know, specific examples instead of being um you know, framing law.
Well, no, I think maybe I wasn't clear.
I th the people who were excited to hear Chris Christie, I think had those expectations.
And I prefaced it by saying a lot of people only know Christie by these little YouTube clips where he's battling uh little jerks from the media or jerks from the Democrats in the New Jersey legislature where he hammers them and slams them and takes no prisoner.
I do think that there was a segment of the crowd thought that's what they were gonna get.
Well, I I was one of those that was very excited to see Chris Christie speak.
And I do love when he, you know, takes down Joe Heckler in the town hall.
Um I think what they did last night, though, very effectively was I feel that they somewhat, which I think haven't been done in quite a long time, was I think they were able to frame the campaign a little bit.
And normally I feel like we're always on the defensive, and I feel like the Democrats always throw it out there, they lay the gauntlet down, and then we're always scrambling to defend, defend, defend.
And I think by what they spoke of last night, it was very classy, it was kind of at the top of the game, and they were able to frame it such that when the DNC goes into convention next next week, instead of being able to just sort of answer tit for tat, like you know, yesterday, you last week at the Republican convention, they said XY and Z, but we know blah, blah, blah.
Well, see, here we go.
And I think that I think that now the DNC doesn't have anything to stand on for the last four years.
They've been in office.
They've done nothing.
And I think that we didn't give them anything where they can just stand around and answer back to our accusations.
I think they're gonna have a hard time talking about some things next week.
Amanda, you know I love you, right?
Back at your rush.
Um I do want to react to that.
I've I've got a mere fifteen busy broadcast seconds remaining was not enough time for me.
Normally I could I could do it, but I want to spend a little bit more time than that.
So, can you hang on to the break?
Because you've you've mentioned an interesting premise here.
And I I'd like to react to it.
Can you hang on to the break?
Is it three and a half minutes or so?
I will, and if I get disconnected, I will call you back.
Uh good luck with that.
Okay, we're back.
El Rush Bow, we return now to Amanda in Orlando, Florida.
What you said is as fascinating to me.
You No, no, no, no.
Please, do you want to we're talking I'm not being critical.
I don't uh I I'm as open to suggestions, interpretations last night as anybody.
Sure.
We're we're in uncharted ground here as far as I'm concerned.
This is the this is this is this convention's unlike any other to me.
Uh going into it, now after one day of it, this is this is new territory for me.
Right.
Can't explain why.
I don't know.
I mean I haven't gotten deep enough into myself to get in touch.
I but it just doesn't it feels different.
Now you said that what you liked last night about not being specific uh about Obama or uh uh uh Christie not uh dropping the hammer as he's known to be able to do.
Correct.
Is that as a result of that, Democrats don't have anything to aim at at their convention next week.
Well, of course not.
Let me rephrase.
Not that they don't have anything because they'll do what they do best, which is well, but my my point uh about that um is that you're you're you're making that assessment within the realm of what you and I consider to be the truth.
They don't live there.
Listen to this.
This this is from a New York Times editorial today.
The genius of Mrs. Romney's diva performance was the way she smiled so warmly as she just delicately slipped the knife into President Obama.
Now you saw Ann Romney.
She didn't have a knife last night.
She didn't stick a knife into anybody, she didn't twist a knife into anybody.
She might I I'll tell you what I think she did do.
I think she stared Barack Obama right in the eyes and said, You're toast, buddy.
I think that's what she did, and I think they're scared to death.
But that doesn't mean when they get to their convention next week, they're not gonna just tell us same old lies about Romney and Mrs. Romney and Christy.
Other words, there's I have learned, Amanda, there is nothing we can do to stop them from characterizing us the way they do or saying what they're going to say.
It doesn't we can't.
And so it's pointless to be defensive about it to me.
I agree with you, but I also think what they did uh I think what Ann Romney did very fantastically last night was she's almost as rich as God, yet you really felt like you could identify with her and you connected with her.
I felt like I could sit down and have a cup of coffee with her or a tuna fish sandwich and she would be like, you know, my Mrs. Smith neighbor next door, and I don't think the repo I don't think the Democrats were counting on that.
They try to paint them as, you know, out of touch and you can't connect with them, and you know, how could she possibly connect or reverberate within the single mom community?
And I thought, you know what?
I thought in that sense she knocked it out of the park last night.
I thought she did too.
I agree with all that.
Now, what about Juan Williams' reaction?
Ah, she just came off as a corporate wife.
Do you hear about that?
Um consider the source.
Well, yeah, I I I think he is trying to get hired by PBS again.
NPR or whatever.
But do you know what that means?
She came as a corporate wife.
You know what that means?
That means kept woman.
It means a woman who doesn't do diddly squat.
She's a trophy wife, and her husband's off being corporate CEO, taking care of her.
She's going to Tiffany, she doing all this other stuff during the day.
She got a cushy life.
That's what Juan Williams said.
Now, there's no basis.
Well, no, no.
That's not my point.
My point, I'm strictly addressing.
You said they didn't get any ammo, and I'm telling you they don't need it.
They make it up.
Well, I think yes, they will get ammo.
So I'm saying, could we fire both barrels?
That's all I'm saying.
We don't gain anything pussy footing around.
I think what what the GOP did last night was made it a little bit harder for them to make it so easy to use that ammo.
I think there are going to be a few more people scratching their heads when they try to bring that ammo out that will say, you know what?
I'm not so sure that that's really right.
I'm not so sure that I buy that.
Uh well.
Uh but that's just my that's just Well, I don't think they're universally believed.
No, I I don't think they're universally believed.
Don't don't listen.
I I don't think they always get away with it.
Right.
Don't misunderstand.
We got tons of ammo ourselves.
We do.
And we have.
And we have all the way till November to use.
And the added benefit of our ammo is that it is the truth.
Yes.
But see, nobody's going to question them if we don't.
The DNC not gonna question the media's not going to question them.
Uh nobody's gonna held hold them accountable to anything they say.
If we don't, who will?
Well, I'm hopeful that the more time we have between now and November, the more we will start doing that.
And I hope that's there's another thing.
Just to offer you some comforting resolve.
I think that this convention is taking place in a bubble.
I think when it's over, I think you're gonna see Romney soup.
Don't forget now.
Now the convention's here, Romney now can start spending the money.
Yes.
That he has raised.
And I think you're gonna see all kinds of fur flying in the Romney Super Pack ads and the Romney ads.
Romney's already running a lot of effective reply ads, if you will, or even attack ads against Obama.
And I think they're working.
And I think you're gonna see more of that.
The convention itself probably is a uh a little bit of a bubble in that regard.
But don't forget now, Amanda, in 2008, we weren't allowed to say Obama's middle name.
We couldn't say Barack Hussein Obama.
This time, we're not supposed to say his first name or his last name either.
Is one way of interpreting this.
And this is considered to be a positive.
This is helpful.
Our consultants are telling us that, yep, this is the way to uh go about this.
They're the professionals, they're the ones who earn their living doing this.
So who am I, El Rushbo to question it?
Anyway, Amanda, I appreciate the call.
I really do.
Let's uh grab somebody number 12.
1213.
Yeah.
Let's do three Mia loves, because we did get last night, long before what is considered prime.
Uh and it and by this was only on Fox.
We now know MSNBC didn't carry it.
NBC didn't carry it.
CBS ABC didn't carry it.
CNN was split screening with the hurricane.
They did and did it, but this did not get wide play.
Mia Love is African American.
She is from uh Utah.
She's a congressional candidate.
She is running against an entrenched Democrat out there who's apparently pretty popular.
She's the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah.
And she addressed the convention.
She started off introducing herself and talking about American exceptionalism.
My parents immigrated to this country with ten dollars in their pockets, and to hope that the America they heard about really did exist.
When tough times came, they didn't look to Washington, they looked within.
The America I know is grounded in the determination found in patriots and pioneers in small businesses with big ideas.
It's found in the farmers who work in the beauty of our landscapes and our heroic military.
It's found in the Olympic athletes.
And every child who looks at the seemingly impossible and says, I can do that.
That's the America I know.
We edited the applause, but it went on and on and on.
African American and the New York Times and the LA Times.
Well, they just put these brown people up to make the party look like it's diverse.
And they put brown delegates in the front as a Chuck Todd said.
They put the brown delegates in the front row to make it look like they're diverse.
They're all racists.
They're all racist thugs.
They all are.
They're the ones who are the bigots.
What in the world is there to disagree with what she just said?
This woman loves her country.
And for that, because she's black, she got tarred and feathered all over the internet.
Her Wikipedia entry was forged.
Yeah.
It's it is, it it's it's outrageous.
And they're and all chalk this up to is they've got to be scared to death.
They have to be scared.
They're worried about the Mia loves.
They're worried about Clarence Founders.
They're worried about Archer Davis.
They're worried about this, these defectors.
Here's more.
This this is where Mia Love's speech really took off.
She went after America's problem, Barack Obama.
President Obama's version of America is a divided one, often pitting us against each other based on income level, gender, and social status.
His policies have failed us.
We're not better off than we were four years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or Hollywood campaign ad can change that.
Red off.
Red off.
Mr. President, I'm here to tell you the American people are awake, and we're not buying what you're selling in 2012.
Let's hear it from Mia Love.
Saratoga Springs, Utah Mayor running for Congress, African American, loves her country, and thinks the biggest problem it faces is Barack Obama.
She was on around six o'clock, I think, six or seven, long before the primetime stuff hit.
And here is the last bite that we have.
This you know really, really gets to the libs.
She references Dr. King and Rosa Parks.
The American dream isn't just my story.
It isn't just your story.
It's our story.
It's a story of human struggle, standing up and striving for more.
Our story has been told for over 200 years, with small steps and giant leaps.
From a woman on a bus to a man with a dream, from the bravery of the greatest generation to the innovators and entrepreneurs of today.
This is our story.
This is our America.
This is the America we know because we built it.
Random, random, but now you understand.
You understand why MSNBC wouldn't want their viewers to see Mia Love.
You understand why NBC wouldn't want their viewers to see Mia Love or CBS or ABC or the New York Times or the Washington Post.
We gotta take a brief time out, my friends.
We'll come back.
Maybe the best speech of the night was Arthur Davis.
Don't go away.
Back we are, the EIB Network and L Rush Ball.
Now This didn't take long.
Yahoo News has fired Washington Bureau Chief David Chaleon after.
He was caught on a hot mic during an online video broadcast today saying it Romney and his wife Anne had no problem with African American suffering in Hurricane Isaac.
They're not concerned at all.
They're happy to have a party with black people drowning.
We have the audio tape.
The Yahoo knew his Washington chief.
And this is uh it's on an ABC feed, and this is what he said.
They're not concerned at all.
They are happy to have a party for black people drowning.
They're not concerned about they don't care brown people drown in a hurricane.
They throw a party.
Now who is this guy?
Again, he's Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief.
Now you might know Yahoo News.
Who the care cares about Yahoo?
Well.
He previously served as the political editor for the PBS News Hour with Jim Lara.
He managed the editorial content from the News Hour's congressional White House Supreme Court beats, and prior to joining a news hour, he was the political director for ABC News.
He also teaches a master degree class in journalism, Georgetown University.
David Chaleon.
Forgive me if it's a mispronunciation.
Mispronunciation.
Yahoo News issued the following statement.
David Chaleon's statement was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo News today.
But look, folks, the CEO at Yahoo is not only a donor, but a fundraiser for Obama.
Marissa Mayer is her name.
She's from Google, and she's a huge Obamaite.
Anyway, their statement continued.
David Chaley's statement, inappropriate, does not represent the views of Yahoo.
He has been terminated effective immediately.
We've already reached out to the Romney campaign.
We apologize to Romney and his staff and their supporters and anyone who was offended.
And if you weren't offended, we don't apologize to you.
So Chaleon's gone, so where will he end up next?
CNN.
NBC probably already calling the guy.
I guess the NBC people say, you know what, Chaley and you are exactly what we're looking for.
We need an we what?
We yeah, can you edit?
Because we need a guy to handle 9-11 calls.
Let's see, that's gonna be there's gonna be a mad dash to get this guy.
CNN, NBC, ABC might even want this guy.
New York Times.
This guy's sitting so pretty right now.
It's only a matter of time before he's hired, probably with a raise.
By the way, this guy has won any number of journalism awards.
He won an Emmy Award for producing ABC News inaugural coverage January 2009.
He produced Sarah Palin's first television interview with Charlie Gibson.
And he received an Emmy Award nomination for that.
He produced Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin.
That's who this guy is.
And he's uh he's blown up.
By the way, grab audio sound by number 32, Barack Obama yesterday, Ames, Iowa.
By the way, speaking of that, Obama can't get out of Iowa.
Folks, they are, I am here to tell you they are in real trouble.
Obama was up 10.
Now he's up two.
The people at public policy polling are worried.
They say that it's it may come down to wind energy.
I kid you not, as an issue to save Obama.
Here we got time.
Here's what he said in Ames yesterday.
Governor Romney promised that sometime between taking the oath of office and going to the inaugural ball, he'd sit right down, grab a pen, and kick seven million young people off their parents' plan by repealing health reform.
Day one, that's what he says he's gonna do.
Maybe we should call his plan Romney doesn't care.
Because I do care.
Yeah, see?
I do care.
That's right.
Romney doesn't care.
And Obama can talk about Romney anyway, any time he wants.
Romney doesn't care.
Kick people off of health care.
Not gonna have any other I care.
We don't mention his name, folks.
We just don't do it.
What would your reaction be if you heard that David Axlrod and David Plough and Barack Obama told speakers of the Democrat convention, you will not mention the name Romney, you will not mention the name Paul Ryan, you will not mention Aiken, you will not mention Limbaugh.
What would you think if that edict went out?
Well, it would never happen, of course.
Obviously.
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