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Aug. 29, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 29, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, folks.
Great to have you back.
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Okay, we're going to get to the soundbites for what I thought was the best speech of the night, Arthur Davis, former Democrat, now Republican, used to be in Alabama, lives in Washington, not running for anything yet in the Republican side, but hopefully someday will.
I interviewed him recently for the Limbaugh Letter.
It's a great interview.
It was the most widely read political newsletter in America today.
And he was fabulous.
A couple of things here about Governor Christie, this speech.
As you know, I'm perusing the email from you during the course of the program.
And it's running the gamut.
And I'm taking my share of heat today, too.
Folks, all I can do is come here and I never have asked myself, what do I think the audience wants to hear and say it?
I've never done that.
And as a result, some days this is very hard.
I'm not whining.
I'm not complaining.
And don't misunderstand.
I'm just telling you, I always tell you what I really think about things.
And I'm never falsely optimistic.
I'm a naturally optimistic person.
I think we're going to win.
I think we're going to win this big.
But I think that this election is all about Obama.
I'm holding back, too.
I have not told you a lot of what I think about this convention for a host of reasons.
Some of it not necessary, even though people are clamoring to know what I think about things.
But Governor Christie, there are people who are not jazzed by this convention.
They haven't been jazzed about it since it started on Monday.
And a lot of them can't put their finger on why.
Now, when it comes to Governor Christie, the keynote, that is for people that are old enough to have made a tradition or habit out of watching these things.
The keynote is where you go for the other guy's jugular.
That's traditionally what the keynote speech at a convention has been.
In recent year, Rudy Giuliani did a keynote, and it was for McCain, and it was a good one last year.
That's the one laughed about Obama being community organizer.
But I think a lot of people had expectations.
That's what Governor Christie was going to do last night, and he didn't do it.
And as such, just a wild guess on my part.
But for those who are disappointed, and there are many of you who aren't, there are a lot of you who think this is just fabulous and wonderful, and that's good too.
I'm not trying to talk anybody out of anything, nor into anything.
I think the reluctance on the part of the convention to go after Obama equates to a perception that there's no leadership.
And people want leadership.
And there was a lot of hope that Christie was going to do that last night.
And he chose to go another way.
Now, the criticism of Christie, I think, is also a little baseless in this regard.
Well, he didn't even mention Romney's name for 17 minutes.
That's no big deal.
One of the best keynotes by reputation in the history of keynotes was Mario the Pious in 1984 in San Francisco.
Mario the Pious, who was the nominee that year?
Do you remember?
1984.
Walter F. Mondo.
And do you know that Mario the Pious did not mention Mondale's name once in that keynote address in 1984?
I was there.
I got out of there alive to host this show today.
Not once did Mario the Pious.
In fact, Mario the Pious flew in and arrived a couple of three hours early and flew out right afterwards.
He didn't even hang around there because they all knew that it didn't matter that Mondale was going down in a landslide.
Even before Mondo promised to raise everybody's taxes, they knew what was going to happen.
I was there.
I'll never forget.
I ran into some Missouri delegate from Missouri, my home state.
He actually said to me, if you spot me 50 electoral votes, we can win this.
And I said, what do you mean, spot you 50 electoral votes?
He was trying to tell me how close he thought it was.
You spot me 50 electoral votes and we can win this thing.
John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, the haughty John Kerry, Obama did the keynote in 04, and that's why Obama's president today, by the way.
Obama spoke about 20 minutes and it took him 10 minutes before he mentioned Kerry's name.
And he didn't mention Kerry's name all that much.
So I don't think that's a bit.
Everybody knows Romney's a nominee.
If you're going to say everybody knows Obama's record, we're going to talk about that.
Who the hell doesn't know that Romney's the nominee?
So why is it incumbent upon Christie to mention Romney's name all over the place?
But I just, I think it's just a leadership thing.
For those people who feel something is amiss.
I think this is academic because I don't think the election is going to be about this.
I think it's going to be a referendum on Obama, and I don't care what anybody else thinks or says.
It is going to be a referendum on Obama.
The Democrats are doing everything they can to make it not be the case.
That's why they're doing all this dirty junk on Romney and stuff, but they know what they're up against.
Four years ago, Artur Davis was the first congressman outside Illinois to endorse Obama.
He delivered a nominating speech at the Democrat convention in Denver.
No, Minneapolis.
No, it was Denver.
Republicans are in Minneapolis that nominated Barack Obama.
Now, four years later, Artur Davis shows up at the Republican convention.
I think this, and Mia Love was great, and Ann Romney was great.
Don't miss, it's, but I think this speech that Artur Davis delivered last night was just a home run.
And I only have three excerpts, three sound bites of it, but they are enough to get the point across.
Here's Artur Davis saying that Obama is a mistake that has to be fixed.
America is a land of second chances.
And I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
Remember, my friends, the president's saying of negative politics and untrue ads, not this time?
Who knew not this time just met, not unless the economy is stuck and we can't run on our record?
Remember when the president said of his own election, this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
Who knew the plain English version of it was?
Middam America, get ready to shell out 60 bucks to fill up your car.
Artur Davis.
Damn right you go after that.
This is the moment the rise of the oceans begins to slow and the planet begins to heal.
Who then?
We don't need to heal a planet.
We need to heal America.
Here's the next sound bite from Artur Davis, where he looked straight in the camera and spoke directly to Democrats like him.
To those Democrats and independents whose minds are open to argument, listen closely to the Democratic Party that will gather in Charlotte and ask yourself if you hear your voice in the clamor.
Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you.
When they say we have a duty to grow government, even when we cannot afford it, does it sound like compassion to you?
Or does it sound like recklessness?
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success, when you hear the minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
Do you even recognize the America they are talking about?
That's a great question.
Who can possibly relate to the America these people talk about?
And here's the next bite where Artur Davis, it's not Arthur, by the way.
A lot of people think there's a misprint out there.
The name is Arthur.
It's Artur.
Now, a lot of people think that there was a misprint on his birth certificate, and so he was stuck with it.
But no, that's his given name, Artur Davis.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, damn it.
Oh, gee.
Oh, I blew it.
Oh, no.
I'm going to get a demerit from the RNC over in Tampa.
Oh, they'll send somebody out to rip me.
I just said birth certificate.
Oh, well, I can't take it back.
We've gone past the delay, so I can't.
Is it too late to delay it?
It's too late to delay it.
Oh, damn, I'm stuck with it.
Well, okay.
I'll take the heat.
Artur Davis, the last soundbite we have.
My fellow Americans, when great athletes falter, their coaches sometimes whisper to them, remember who you are.
It's a call to their greatness in a moment when their bodies and spirit are too sapped to remember their strength.
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows.
But we bend, we do not break.
This is no dark hour.
This is the dawn before we remember who we are.
So may it be said of this time in our history, 2008 to 2011, lesson learned, 2012, mistake correct it.
Artur Davis, and we'll be back.
More of your phone calls when we get back here on the EIB network.
I got to turn the TV off.
I'm just being inundated with idiocy.
No matter where I go in a commercial break.
I don't know.
80, 85.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Here's Kevin, Columbus, Ohio.
Great that you held on.
I appreciate your patience, sir.
Yeah, it's been kind of tough listening to all the whatever you want to call it.
But my whole point was about the dishonesty of your party and the conspiracies that you got.
But my main plus was about Governor Kasich giving that impassioned speech that he gave about jobs coming back.
Like he was trying to take credit for that when, in fact, during the time of the crash, he was part of Lehman Brothers.
And then Obama has, well, I mean, I don't want to be like you guys.
President Obama saved auto industry.
We saved those jobs.
But does he get any credit?
No.
You guys have been conspiring against this man since he got inaugurated.
Your people need to know that.
If they do, they just don't accept it.
And all they're doing is they're racist, but they're using these as excuses to be against Obama.
Okay.
Plain and simple.
All right.
Let me explain.
Well, let me, no, no, no.
Let me explain to people what you just said.
Well, you assume that you assume that some people knew what you were talking about to begin with.
I just want to set it up.
Last night.
If they know, if they're paying attention, the auto industry was about to go under.
Now, I could just see the headlines.
Would you stop being contentious with me?
You've got no reason to be contentious.
I haven't done anything to you here.
Oh, you haven't done anything to me right now.
That's right.
Except you waited for an hour and a half or two.
So what?
Everybody else does too.
Yeah, well, you.
All I want to try to do is put in context what you said because you said it so poorly.
I'm trying to help you.
You don't need to help me, sir.
I already know what's going on.
Oh, no, you're a Democrat.
You can't do anything on your own except complain.
I am trying to help you.
Okay, let me see how you're going to help me.
Let me see.
Here we go.
Last night, John Kasich gave a speech.
John Kasich's the governor of Ohio.
Yes, sir.
In the course of the speech, John Kasich reveled the audience at the convention with all of the great improvements, economic improvements, since he became governor that have taken place in Ohio, such as deficits being reduced, debt being paid down, and employment going way up without any tax increases.
And what Kevin here is saying is that Kasich doesn't deserve any credit because he once worked at Lehman Brothers.
It's Obama that deserves the credit for this, and we should know it.
That is not what I said, sir.
All I said is he never mentioned once that the president saved the auto industry.
What have a big car factory?
You might have heard of it.
Well, the auto industry isn't saved.
It's a Honda plant.
What do you think?
The auto industry.
See, this is why it's put.
The auto industry isn't saved.
The auto industry is in debt.
The only thing was saved was the United Auto Workers Union and their pensions.
The auto business wasn't saved.
That's a big joke.
They haven't come close to paying back the loans.
They're still in debt.
They just, I have a story in the stack.
They just shut down production of Chevy Volt.
You know why?
Because nobody uttered Obama's buying any.
They just shut down production.
You think I like criticizing General Motors?
General Motors is an American icon.
This guy's come along and tainted it.
I don't like saying this stuff, But you did say, why isn't Obama getting any credit?
Kasich up there too.
Let me tell you something.
If Obama had anything to do with economic improvement in Ohio, then why hadn't he done it anywhere else?
You guys.
You can live out there in your dream world if you want to.
And you can think he saved the auto business and so forth.
I don't know how in the world you call it being saved when he buys it using taxpayer dollars and gives it to the United Autoworkers and then eliminates it from the market forces of competition.
Under that definition, there's no way it can fail because it doesn't have to show a profit because it's a government-run business.
And therefore, it can stay in business forever.
Chrysler is now owned by Fiat.
GM was given to the UAW.
GM went bankrupt.
How were they saved?
General Motors has announced that they don't want to be used by Obama or anybody during the campaign.
Some of the people there are not happy that the regime owns them.
Here's Mike in Hanson, Massachusetts.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hey, Rush, it's a true honor to speak to you from our real liberal cesspool up here where our last three speakers of the House were all convicted of felonies.
Okay, thanks.
Hey, Rush, my plan is this: you always say that the Conservative Party right now isn't as conservative as it can be, but Scott Brown's having a lot of success up here.
He's going to win this race in Massachusetts.
And I already put out 85s and in my travels, I'm meeting elderly Democrats who want anybody but Obama right now.
Really?
Yeah, and the number one reason is that they don't believe he's patriotic.
And I think Obama's missing that part is that the elderly people aren't going to buy the Medicare.
Wait a minute.
I want to make sure I heard you.
You say you're traveling around, you're meeting elderly Democrats who want anybody but Obama because they don't believe he's patriotic.
That's the number one reason why I talked to him.
I asked to put up a brown sign, and then I asked him who's going to be the next president.
And the large majority just say it has to be anybody but Obama.
They just don't believe what this guy's doing to our country.
Well, you know what?
It doesn't surprise me.
If you look, if you look at polling data of elderly people, seasoned citizens, they like Paul Ryan.
His numbers are really great with the elderly, the people he's supposedly going to throw overboard, throw off of the cliff.
Well, Mike, I'm glad you called.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
Here's that Iowa story: Obama lead collapses Iowa tide.
It's from Breitbart, John Nalty.
For in-depth polling analysis, I defer to my colleague Mike Flynn.
The latest poll out of Iowa, however, is noteworthy because what you have is the same pollster using the same polling methods, finding Obama standing in Iowa is collapsing fast.
Just a few months ago, back in May, according to public policy polling, the liberal Democrats out of North Carolina, Obama had a 51-41 lead over Romney.
Two months later, in July, it was a five-point lead.
Today, it's a two-point lead, 47-45.
A couple of weeks ago, Ras Mussen released a poll showing Romney up two in Iowa, and they can't get rid of Obama in Iowa.
He even did a campaign appearance there while a hurricane was wreaking havoc on poor people.
Folks, I don't want this next story to get lost in the hubbub of the convention.
It is a story out of Atlanta.
A former fifth grade teacher implicated in a cheating scandal in Atlanta reportedly gave students illegal assistance because she thought they were dumb as hell.
According to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, math teacher Shayla Smith was accused of offering students the answers to a test that they were taking at the time.
She had reportedly been responsible for supervising them while the tests were being completed.
The snitch student was snitch teacher.
I'm sorry, it was a teacher across the hall.
Sashuan Jones is the name of the snitch teacher.
Snitch teacher taught a fourth grade class across the hall from Shayla Smith's former room, overheard her talking to another teacher about the test.
The words were, I had to give your kids, your students, the answers because they're dumb as hell.
Jones was quoted as saying about the interaction between Smith and the unidentified third teacher who was not a snitch.
A former student also allegedly accused Shayla Smith of cheating, adding that the educator offered the girl now in eighth grade the answers to a math test in 2010.
The tribunal deliberated for just one hour before handing down the guilty verdict.
Smith had been charged with willful neglect and immorality.
And she subsequently lost her immorality?
Immorality?
Cheating on it.
They're worried about immorality in a school?
Well, that's a positive sign.
So it's more cheating in Atlanta, which apparently is the school cheating capital of the world.
But now we have a reason.
The kids were dumb as hell.
And without cheating, they would never get out of there.
And have you?
It's actually pretty compassionate in the liberal way of looking at things.
Rather than teach them and make them smart, hell or dumb as hell, give them the answers.
Just want to help them out here.
There was widespread cheating throughout the Atlanta schools.
We had stories on that all the way back in July of last year.
That's where the teachers were helping the students cheat in order to hold on to their jobs.
This is a different case than that.
Now, this is also somewhat interesting.
How many of you have an extensive iTunes music library?
And how many of you have now an extensive collection of e-books, either on a Kindle or on your iPad?
Or if some of you who've been duped, well, have something other than an iPad, no brand name mentioned.
How many of you do?
Well, this is fascinating.
Do you realize that when you die, your heirs do not get it?
For example, Snerdley, if you, if in your music library and you want one of your daughters to have all the stuff by LL Cool J And you want another daughter to have all the stuff by Sinatra?
You can't.
You can't give it away.
You know why?
Because you don't own it.
When you download a song, an album, or a book, you are buying a license to use it, but you can't give it away.
You can't resell it.
If you go buy the CD, for example, you own that and you can pass that on as part of your estate.
But the digital collection of the stuff that you have is technically not yours.
The Beatles never give up ownership.
You just are buying a license to use it on your computers.
I don't know who ever thought of this, but there's a whole big story on this.
Market Watch, CBS Market Watch.
Not that it's a big deal.
I mean, I wouldn't think about it, but it's still fascinating.
It's just another thing for the lawyers to – back to the convention.
One of the things we heard last night, we had a lot of governors at our convention last night make really great speeches.
Scott Walker, Wisconsin, Bob McDonnell, Virginia, and Christie.
And each, and Nikki Haley.
You know, Nikki Haley, we don't have any sound bites from Nikki Haley, but she was awesome.
She was, and she took it to Obama, too.
And as I said earlier, MSNBC did cover her because they didn't realize she's a minority.
They thought she was just a babe that had a good tan.
They didn't realize that she was Indian in her heritage.
And every one of these governors told the stories of economic revival.
And Nikki Haley was the only person I heard last night mention illegal immigration.
I must confess, it's another reason I was a little less than satisfied.
I think that's a winning issue for us.
I don't know why it wasn't mentioned, but she mentioned it.
Of course, it wasn't prime time.
And Kasich told great stories too.
But so all these governors, but she specifically talked about the problems they're having in South Carolina with illegal immigration.
And what does she do?
She has to do the, because the federal government will not enforce the law.
They have to do it themselves.
And then Obama sues them.
And I thought this is great because how many people in this country don't know that Barack Obama is suing individual states because he's not enforcing the law.
Arizona, South Carolina, how many people need to know the president of the U.S. is suing states.
The National Labor Relations Board telling Boeing, you can't build a plant, South Carolina, because it's a right-to-work state.
She did all that.
But here's my point about this, folks.
As each Republican governor addressed the convention with specific details showing how they turned their state's deficits into surpluses without raising taxes, every one of them.
Nikki Haley, Kasich, McDonnell, Christie, Scott Walker, they all did it.
They raised employment.
They turned state deficits into surpluses.
And they did it without raising taxes.
And so I'm asking myself, well, where are the accompanying stories then of starving kids and garbage pileups and bridges collapsing and school businesses crumbling?
Because isn't this what we're told by the Democrats?
Well, we've got to raise taxes.
Infrastructure's falling apart.
We've got to raise taxes on the rich.
And you hear all these Republican governors with overwhelmingly profound success stories.
And the states are in fabulous shape cutting taxes, or at least not raising them.
I just thought it's an interesting point.
I'm going to tell you one thing positive at this convention last night.
We have got a great bench.
We have got some really, really top-flight people out there who are building up fabulous records in addition to their communications abilities, skills, and so forth.
It's a positive.
I can see Snerdley is still scratching his head over the fact that he can't bequeath LL Cool J albums to his kids.
It's just like beer.
You're just renting it.
You don't really own beer either.
Quick timeout.
Well, that's cool because the exit out of here is blocked.
Oh, well, what does it matter?
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Hey, AP has just tweeted that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrew, I think this guy's the brother of Mary Babyfette Landrew, has just proclaimed a dusk to dawn curfew.
That, for those of you real in, it's nighttime, dusk sundown to sunup, dusk to dawn curfew.
And of course, they're worried about looting.
The real looting people need to be worried about is a Democrat convention next week.
Speaking of which, how many Democrat mayors, how many Democrat governors will be able to show up at the Democrat convention next week who've cut taxes and increased employment?
Zip Zero Nada.
How many Democrat governors or mayors will show up with posited stories to tell about their governance in their states and communities?
Zip Zero Nada.
I almost wish that Nikki Haley and Walker and these guys had been prime time last night.
Those were just, they were, Kasich was wired.
Nikki Haley was really, really, really good.
Along with, well, I get some soundbites for a speech.
Stop talking about this so much now.
Maybe we'll do that tomorrow because we are vanishing.
Time is vanishing for the busy broadcast today.
Here's Richard Arlington, Texas.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
I just wanted to report a random act of journalism.
Oh, cool.
I love random acts of journalism.
They don't happen much.
That's why they're random.
That's right.
Schaefer and CBS.
They were switching from the speakers to the commentators, and they just caught him flat-footed.
He couldn't say anything but nice about Mrs. Romney's speech.
He was gushing about her, and I could just see he was choking on the words.
I've watched him for 49 years.
Well, you mean he didn't really want to say nice things?
I don't think so, but he was doing it.
He reminded me.
First time I saw him, you know, it was 49 years ago.
He was sitting in the garage of the Dallas police station reporting on Ruby, shooting Oslo.
Bob Schaefer's the dean of these guys now.
That's true.
Yeah.
But he was saying nice things about her, and that's all I could say.
I don't know how you couldn't.
In the New York Times, again, editorial today, the genius of Mrs. Romney's Diva performance was the way she smiled so warmly as she delicately slipped the knife into President Obama.
She didn't have a knife.
There wasn't any twisting any knife.
Didn't delicately slip or any other way a knife into Obama.
Nobody did.
And then, of course, there's Juan Williams desperately trying to get back to NPR, no doubt, by saying she came off as a corporate wife to me.
Corporate wife is that evil word.
Here's Mark on the road in Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, I consider you the Ronald Reagan of Talk Radio with all your disciples behind you.
So it's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Sir, I appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
I come from a liberal family.
I'm the dark sheep or black sheep in the family.
I don't know if I can say that or not, but I'm a.
It's just don't say birth certificate.
Okay.
But I want to let you know, I've got two brothers.
My family lives in New Jersey, and they're all unemployed.
Two of my brothers are unemployed, and they all voted for Obama.
And they watched, we're deep into the politics, and we were talking to each other during the last night.
And my dad's a 93-year-old Democrat.
He did vote for Reagan.
That's the only time he voted.
He really liked Ronald Reagan.
But he just said he feel, now, as a 93-year-old, he feels the party's lost.
He said what happened to the Kennedys and John Kennedy's philosophy.
And I have two sisters that watched last night.
And they were reluctantly, really impressed with the women, particularly Mrs. Romney.
What about your brothers who are out of work?
What did you say about them and their reaction to it?
Well, one of them's a GM worker, so I heard that guy talking about GM.
I worked for GM for 20 years as an engineer.
This guy was an assembly line worker in Linden, New Jersey.
He got laid off.
He's been out of work a long time.
And my other brother is a VAL Company.
Yeah, but did they watch the convention?
Did they have a reaction to it?
Is that what you were going to tell us?
Yeah, they're reluctantly, I think they're going to vote for Republican because they're really disappointed with Barack.
It kind of makes sense.
I mean, they're sitting out there without jobs.
And it doesn't sound like they want to have no work.
So that's cool.
All right.
Mark, I appreciate the call.
I don't mean to be abrupt or rude here.
I've just basically run out of busy broadcast moments.
Have to take time out.
Tonight is Rhino Night at the Republican National Convention.
McCain, the other guys, probably talk about their wives, how important they are.
And Paul Ryan, who will probably go, but sometimes between 10 and 11.
Paul Ryan, that's the big get tonight.
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