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Aug. 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Silly me.
Silly me.
You know, sometimes I'm really dumb.
Well, in the last half hour, I was wondering where the Democrats are in Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama.
Where are they?
Contrasting themselves with Bush, how much they care.
Where's Obama?
Where's FEMA?
Passing out bags of goodies, packs of money, ATM cards for food stamps.
Where are they?
I could have sworn they'd be.
And you know what?
I forgot how they do things.
Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama are all in the Romney tank.
The Democrats have written those states off.
Obama is not going to win Louisiana or Mississippi or Alabama, and that's why he's not there.
That's how the Democrats do things.
Folks, it is.
I should have been the first to know that.
Don't care.
The optics doesn't, the way they look at it, what is there to gain with the optics?
If you're not going to get the support, majority support of people in that area, the hell with that.
That is why so many people are worried about Obamacare.
This is the way.
Obama is strictly cronyism.
So if you are a Republican and you're in line at the DMV to get treated for an injury, that's what it's going to be under Obamacare.
If you didn't vote for Obama, didn't vote for a Democrat, maybe you end up at the back of the line all day.
Don't laugh.
Snurdley's in there laughing.
That's exactly how they do things.
That's why they're not there.
They're of no value to Barack Obama in this election.
Mr. Limbaugh, that's the most absurd thing I've ever heard because everybody knows that liberal Democrats care more about people than compassionate, right?
Well, where are they then?
You got evacuations, you got flooding, you got destruction, you got everything you have during Hurricane Katrina, different degrees, but you still have it happening down there.
Where are they?
That's how cynical they are.
One other thing on immigration, before we get to the Paul Ryan speech excerpts, was just pointed out to me.
It's a good point.
And I'll stress again, because we had a guy in the last half hour from Boston, Ronnie, upset that illegal immigration not being talked about at the convention.
It's a big issue.
It's a big deal.
It relates to the economy.
It relates to unemployment.
Why aren't the Republicans talking about it?
And I answered him.
I said, Rubio tonight will.
The odds are.
It's a signature issue for Marco Rubio, and he speaks about it intelligently and passionately.
So I wouldn't be surprised if you do hear about it tonight.
But beyond that, if you pay attention to these speeches, every speaker is talking about this being a land of immigrants, and they're talking about how it works the right way.
Every one of these speakers talks about having come here, or their parents having come here, because they wanted to be Americans.
They wanted to be part of this country.
They wanted to be part of the American experience.
So in an indirect way, proper immigration is being discussed.
I'm not trying to give anybody a pass here, but in a way, it is being talked about.
Every one of these speakers is mentioning it one way or the other in a positive way.
As it should happen, as immigration should happen.
Which, of course, primary characteristic of proper immigration is assimilation.
And the word isn't being used, but they're all talking about it.
Okay, here we go.
Paul Ryan.
Excerpts from his speech last night that has the Democrats discombobulated.
They don't know how to characterize it.
They don't know how to react to it.
They don't know how to smear it.
They haven't found anything smearable yet.
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new.
Now, all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed.
Like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.
Yes.
He said his job is to, quote, tell a story to the American people.
As if that's the whole problem here?
He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners.
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House.
What is missing is leadership in the White House.
Hand on!
Exactly right.
And what I love about that is characterizing Obama as in the past.
Faded, tired, worn out old news.
And I like it, obviously, for the reason that it is in the past.
We are done with it.
That's our dream.
But I also like it because I know how irritating it has to be to Obama.
Because he still thinks of himself as the Messiah.
This guy is narcissist number one.
He's incapable of thinking of himself as anything other than the most important person in every human being's life.
Here's the next bite from vice presidential nominee Ryan.
Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland.
And we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good.
We know what these communities look like when times are good, when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by.
And we know it can be that way again.
We've had very different careers.
Mine mainly in public service.
His mostly in the private sector.
He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones.
And by the way, being successful in business, that's a good thing.
Look at the stuff that gets standing ovations.
Being successful in business is a good thing.
Why does it get applause?
It's because success is targeted by this administration.
They want to punish it.
Successful people are in Obama's crosshairs.
They are the problem.
That's what he tells people.
And as such, there's no inspiration to be your best.
There's no inspiration to strive for great things with Obama.
You are born, and that's it.
You are Julia.
That video that they made of the quintessential Obama female voter.
You're born and every step of your life is directed by government.
Every move you make, approved by government or not.
And so something as simple as, and by the way, being successful in business, a good thing, gets applause.
It used to not be that earth-shattering a statement.
But the fact that it is, is quite telling in and of itself.
There's much more, folks.
Sit tight.
El Rushbo back after this.
To the phones we go.
We have Lee from Scowhegan, Maine on the phone.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
Good to be here.
You bet, sir.
Rush, I want to share an observation with you, and I'd like to get your insight after I tell you what I need to say.
Okay?
Yeah.
I'm a truck driver, and I kind of have traveled from coast to coast, border to border, all around the United States the last two or three years, and I'm kind of primarily cruising around the New England states now.
And I've made an observation that people are getting sick and tired of the political banter all around.
Oh, wait.
Did you say your primary routes take you to New England?
Yes.
That's great news then.
Who's in New England?
A bunch of liberals.
That's what we want.
We want a bunch of liberals fed up, dispirited, uninspired.
That's great news.
That's a great report out there, Lee.
I was at my distribution center, and of course there was talking of showing Paul Ryan's speech there on the accepting the vice president.
And next thing I know, three or four of the people inside the break room say, I'm tired of watching this, and they turn the channel to house concerts.
Well, where again was the, where's the distribution center?
It's in Lewiston.
It's in Lewiston, Maine.
It's where?
Lewiston, Maine.
Lewiston, Maine.
Fine.
Perfect.
By the way, if your senator was Susan Collins or Olympia Snow, you'd be fed up too.
Yeah, well, Susan, you know, my senator was Olympia Snow, and I was actually having been that impressed with her for the last two elections.
Actually voted against her.
Let me treat this seriously.
I do think this geographic, you're talking about a primarily liberal area of the country.
If they're fed up with it, all that means is they are not inspired by Obama.
They may not like Republicans, but fine.
That's normal.
But if they're fed up with politics, it just means they think they're losing.
It means that they're not, then there may be some of them just tired they can't get away from it and the constant grind.
But I'll tell you, there are always people that way, and I actually think that there are more people paying attention now than usually are.
And it's evidenced by the polling data on Obamacare alone.
Obama and his gang have been counting on the fact that people aren't paying attention.
And I think the polling data argues against that.
But whatever.
Traditionally, this is when people do start paying attention, when the conventions start.
And then traditionally, after Labor Day, you call me back in a couple of weeks or a month and you tell me what you're finding.
And then we'll have a better feel for it.
But I'm serious.
If you're running into this kind of attitude in liberal hotbeds, right home, Mama.
Right on.
Absolutely.
Renee in Murals Inlet, South Carolina.
Great to have you here on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks.
And I want to thank Snerdly for letting me on today.
I wanted to talk to you about this.
Sounds like you'd almost like to continue talking to Snurdley instead of me.
Well, he's a very nice fellow.
Yeah, yeah, I get that.
This phony war on women.
One of the other things that I noticed last night, and I will have to preface my statement by saying that I am southern-born and bred and keenly aware of how men love and respect and honor their women.
Now or used to.
Well, yes, historically that has been true.
But in the South, we still have that honor and dignity.
Chivalry is alive and well.
Yes, it is.
Okay, good, good.
And I think it still is in the GOP, but I'm not seeing it across the aisle in the Democrat Party.
And last night, you had mentioned earlier the Ryan statement about his mother and how he honored his mother so lovely in his speech last night.
Well, the other thing that I noticed was he talked about the caregiving that he gave as a young man to his grandma who had Alzheimer's.
He is right.
And I'll never forget, he said, we gave her the love she needed, even though she often was unaware.
Yeah, that was poignant.
Sure.
And for people who have suffered with that illness, they know that the onus is on the caregiver, that the victim of that disease has very little to give back.
So that shows to me an integrity and a love of a man who really cared for his grandfather.
You have nailed it.
Paul Ryan wreaked character last night, and that's what the Democrats are not going to be able to penetrate.
Right.
His character and integrity.
Damn right.
One thing that I want to recall is the only statement I have ever heard Barack Obama make about his white grandma, who gave him all the privilege that any young man would be proud to have, is that she was afraid of black men.
And I just think there's such a start.
That's right.
In fact, the actual phrase that Obama used was, she's a typical white woman.
Yes.
Very.
That's right.
That is exactly how Obama characterized in his big race speech where he threw Reverend Wright overboard while still continuing to sit in the pew.
And Rush, if you can't love and honor and respect your own mama and your own grandma, then you're not going to respect and love and honor other women or other people.
It starts at home.
It goes right to character.
Right.
He called the grandmother who raised him, typical white woman.
And what that, you're right, it meant, see a black guy afraid.
Which is something Reverend Jackson also admitted that he is frightened when he sees a black guy following him if he's in a dark street.
He did say that.
Reverend Jackson did too one day.
Anyway, Renee.
That's an excellent point.
Excellent point.
Another great contrast.
That's going to be up.
That'd be a good ad.
I don't know if they would do it.
She's probably one of the few people to remember that and make that connection.
I don't think a lot of people have.
Now, since we have made the connection here, broadcasted, of course, millions and millions will make the connection and spread the word about it.
Back to Paul Ryan's speech.
Excerpts.
The theme of this little bite, time for a turnaround.
After four years of getting the runaround, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.
I've never seen opponents so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power.
They've run out of ideas.
Their moment came and went.
Fear and division is all they've got left.
With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money.
And he's pretty experienced at that.
And there again, another reference to Obama is tired, another reference to Obama in the past.
I love it.
Here's the next one.
This is one of the rare moments in this convention where we learn that the president of our country at this convention actually has a name.
President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis.
As he has reminded us a time or two, my home state voted for President Obama.
When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.
A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant.
Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, I believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years.
That's what he said in 2008.
Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year.
It is locked up and empty to this day.
Within five minutes, the drive-by media was on a mission to try to prove that Paul Ryan had lied.
And they got their bogus fact-checkers up and in gear.
And lo and behold, they put out stories themselves filled with misleading data in order to make the point that Paul Ryan lied.
Obama didn't shut down that factory.
And we've got the facts for you.
And in the next segment, I'll run through them very quickly.
But the fact of the matter is, the Democrats and their fact-checkers have it wrong.
Ryan was right.
And even CNN's fact-checkers grudgingly admit it at the end of the day.
The interesting thing is that 22 million people are out of work.
22 million people don't have a factory or a job place to go to.
The Democrats are trying to hold on to one as though it makes any difference.
That plant got shut down before Obama.
Yeah, you can't blame him.
The other 19 million that are shut down, yeah, but you can't blame that one.
They've got no place to go on this.
They're flailing away, folks.
I love it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
The Janesville, Wisconsin General Motors plant closed April 23rd, 2009.
Barack Hussein Obama emaculated January 20 something, 2009.
So the GM plant was announced to be closed in late 2008 when George W. Bush was still president, but it was open when Obama was president and Obama said he was going to save it.
He was president.
He bought GM.
He bailed out GM.
He could have bought that factory as part of the deal.
He chose not to.
They got bolts of wood to stand on here.
They tried to make hay out of this and they are having major problems.
Here are the facts about this.
Oh, by the way, not everybody knows it, but I think it's official.
Clint Eastwood is the mystery speaker in the 10 o'clock hour tonight.
It's been confirmed.
At least enough confirmation for me.
It is Eastwood.
And believe it or not, there's some Hollywood people wondering, I don't know how Eastwood's going to go over.
You know, Republicans don't like Hollywood people.
I'm thinking, I really think I don't know if they're that idiotic or that far out of it, but they so many clichés about conservatives and Republicans.
And one of them is that we hate Hollywood and hate Hollywood people, and so Eastwood coming might not be all that helpful to Romney.
He had some Hollywood types that are saying that in response to the rumor, when it was a rumor that it was going to be Eastwood.
Eastwood's always been a libertarian.
If anything, he's always been a Republican.
He's always been dirty hairy.
He's always been the tough, no-nonsense Western movie star.
And nothing wussy about Eastwood.
Well, that, you mean the Chrysler spot for the Super Bowl?
Eastwood went out there.
He said, well, I don't know.
That's the spot for Obama.
I don't know what anybody's talking about.
I was hoping, since I knew it wasn't me, I was hoping that the guest speaker was going to be George Obama, Obama's brother who lives in the hut.
But it's.
I'm not disappointed.
No, no, no, no, no, don't misunderstand.
Eastwood's cool.
Eastwood's fine.
Gave me grief one year for not playing any ATT.
Dinesh D'Souza already did that.
Pass the hat for Georgia.
George Obama needed $1,000 for medical treatment for himself or a member of his family.
He called Dinesh D'Souza.
And Dinesh gave him the money.
And why are you calling me?
He said, Dinesh, you're the only guy I know.
Well, why don't you call your brother?
And the guy lives in the hut left.
Well, of course he needs a kitchen.
He lives in a hut.
He doesn't have a kitchen.
Have you seen this movie?
Have you been to C2016 yet?
You ought to see the slum where Obama's brother lives.
It's not, it's a hut, but it's a hut among many huts.
It looks like a Kwanza hut, corrugated steel.
It's in a shanty town.
I mean, it is abject, real poverty where the president's brother lived.
Well, see, you can't distinguish Obama's brother's hut from the other huts.
They're in like a warehouse of huts.
It's like this giant long warehouse with holes in it, aluminum siding.
And you go in one door, and then the huts are subdivided inside there.
It's a warehut.
The interview with Obama's brother lives in a hut did not take place in the hut.
They went away from the shantytown, from the slums.
It's in Nairobi, Kenya, and they did the interview there.
And I think they call it Obamaville.
No, I'm making it up.
But they should.
They should.
They should call it Obama.
Anyway, here are the facts on a GM plant.
February 13, 2008, Obama in Janesville.
February 13, 2008.
This is before, like 11 months before he's emaculated.
I believe if our government's there to support you and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition at this plant, we'll be here for another 100 years.
Well, he's implying that if I am there, if I'm the government, I'm going to support you.
And I'm going to give you the assistance you need to retool and keep this place open for 100 years.
That's what the people of factory thought he meant.
June 2008, General Motors announced Janesville would stop production and medium-duty trucks of medium-duty trucks by the end of 2009 and stop production of large SUVs in 2010 or sooner.
Any wonder why Obama let this place go?
They're making cars he hates.
Trucks and SUVs.
In October of 2008, before the election, Obama said, as president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so that we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow, create good paying jobs in Wisconsin across America.
So he promised in October 2008 that he would retool that plant, get rid of the trucks and the SUVs, and start making fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow, like the Volt.
Then in December of 2008, General Motors idled production of SUVs at the Janesville plant.
The truck manufacturing continued.
So in December 2008, it's open.
In April of 2009, four months after Obama was immaculated, GM shut down the production of the medium-sized trucks.
April 2009, it's still open.
January 31st, a week, 10 days after Obama's emaculated, it's open and producing trucks.
He has promised them to keep it open, retool it to make whatever his efficiency cars are.
In September 2011.
So Ryan is right.
The point is, Ryan's right.
Ryan did not lie about anything.
In September 2011, more than two years after Obama was immaculated, General Motors reiterated that Janesville is on a standby status.
An automobile industry observer David Cole told a Milwaukee Journal it would be premature to say that the plant will never reopen.
So it wasn't bulldozed.
Manufacturing was ceased, but it was still there as a factory, perhaps to be reborn.
Today, it has not been reborn.
It has not been retooled.
There are no fuel-efficient cars or SUVs or trucks being made at the plant.
So Paul Ryan was dead on right.
As right as anybody can be.
Obama was going to save it with green technology.
He was going to save it with green.
He was going to turn it into a cylindra.
It just didn't happen.
They're falling flat, right on their faces, trying to say Ryan lied about this.
Here's another excerpt, and this is about Obamacare.
If everyone out of work stood in single file, that unemployment lied would stretch the length of the entire American continent.
You would think that any president, whatever his party, would make job creation and nothing else his first order of economic business.
But this president didn't do that.
Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care.
Obamacare comes to more than 2,000 pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
You know, I got the biggest kick.
Ryan would utter a line that nobody liked, and they'd cut to the crowd.
I just, for some reason, it amused me when the crowd on schedule started booing: here is the truth about Obama and the Medicare cut.
The biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with the new law and new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn't have enough money.
They needed more.
They needed hundreds of billions more.
So they just took it all away from Medicare.
$716 billion funneled out of Medicare by President Obama.
The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
There you go.
There you go.
You just, you got to cheer this stuff.
This was another truth being told, and he wasn't through talking about this.
My mom started a small business, and I've seen what it takes.
Mom was 50 when my dad died.
She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison.
She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business.
It wasn't just a new livelihood, it was a new life.
And it transformed my mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn't just in the past.
Her work gave her hope.
It made our family proud.
And to this day, my mom is my role model.
And viewers could see a tear in his eye.
At that moment, it was at that moment in the speech for those watching that women and undecideds were turned to Romney Ryan at that moment among the women and undecideds watching.
He still wasn't through.
There's more.
We got more when we get back.
For many people, this next soundbite was the line of Paul Ryan's speech.
The issue is not the economy that Barack Obama inherited, not the economy that he envisions, but this economy that we are living.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
Oh, yeah!
Love that.
As I told you, we were watching five minutes behind.
Paused the whole thing on our DVR phone call or something came in.
So, and we resumed and promptly forgot we were watching five minutes behind.
I started getting emails from people about this.
And I hadn't heard, I thought, oh my gosh, my hearing is getting worse than I even thought.
Did I miss that?
And then five minutes later, here it came, and I knew what people were talking about.
And I just think, again, faded Obama posters in the past.
This pure Reagan, this next bite on the American dream.
None of us should have to settle for the best this administration offers.
A dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.
It's the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin or at college in Ohio.
I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life.
I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey, where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
That's what we do in this country.
That's the American dream.
That's freedom.
And I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
I'll tell you, you don't even need to mention Obama there.
I mean, coming after Condoleezza Rice's speech, it melded great.
Just could not have been better in terms of reaffirming for people what this country is all about.
Inspiration, ambition, desire.
And all Paul Ryan's doing, all he was doing was explaining conservatism, folks.
Who are we as conservatives?
What do we want?
We want the best for everybody.
We understand the blessings of being Americans.
We understand the greatest opportunity a human being has is being born in this country.
The opportunity for realization of dreams exists in this country more than any other at any time in American or human history.
And we want that for everybody because we want a great country.
We want boundless opportunity, boundless prosperity for everybody.
We want everybody looking at life this way.
The way Paul Ryan described his life, not stuck in some station, not having to settle for whatever you can get from a central planning government, a life without adventure, where you just go from one government plan to the next.
You decide for yourself what your dream is.
You decide for yourself and define for yourself what your happiness is, and then you go for it.
And if it doesn't happen the first, second, third, fourth time, you keep trying.
You find people who are inspiring.
You find out what it is that you love.
You pursue that.
Life's liberty pursuit of happiness.
The American founding.
This is what we want for everybody.
And it's what he was saying.
You could hear the frustration.
I don't understand why.
He told the story about he was mowing yards and in his early 20s, make some extra money.
He didn't think that was his destiny.
He didn't think that was the rest of his life.
While he was doing that in his mind, he's planning his life.
He's planning his future, determining for himself what he wants to be.
And this is the life that's been sucked out of so many Americans.
This is the Americanism that's being denied so many people.
They're told daily by their leaders, by their president, their political party, that America doesn't exist.
And furthermore, it never did, they're told.
This game has always been stacked against you.
The rich, they make sure that they got everything and that you've got nothing.
It's a cynicism that destroys the very things about humanity which set us apart.
And they do it for their own power.
All the while claiming they're the ones who have all the love and compassion for people when it's we who do.
A brief time out.
We will continue right after this.
Don't go anywhere.
Yeah, we still have some of Condoleezza Rice's speech, and I want you to hear a Little bit of Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina from a couple of days ago, and much more with you.
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