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Aug. 30, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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And we're back.
Great to have you with us, my friends, Rush Limboy, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, despair, lies, distortions, mischaracterizations, and even the good times.
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We get back to the speech excerpts in mere moments.
Up next, Susana Martinez, the governor of New Mexico.
However, I have enforced on this program a ban of any audio soundbites from MSNBC.
And as time goes on, that decision is justified more and more.
I mean, it really is becoming a sick and depraved place.
Now, I am not going to play any sound bites from this play, but I am going to tell you about the singular focus of MSNBC for the past, what is it?
Well, really, I mean, intensely the past six days has been racism.
There's one subject that they're talking about, racism.
The racism of Romney, the racism of Ryan, the racism of every speaker, the convention, the racism of the Republican Party, the racism of every Republican and conservative.
It's all they're talking about.
It's laughably hilarious, except to them.
They are totally invested in it, and it reached a point yesterday of total absurdity.
Lawrence O'Donnell decided that he heard blatant racism in Mitch McConnell's speech to the convention.
Mitch McConnell made a reference to all the golf that Obama plays and said that, making a lighthearted joke, something about the fact that he'd be better suited to be try out for the PGA tour.
To that, Lawrence O'Donnell at MSNBC, who was one of the writers of the West Wing and up until he started working at MSNBC, actually had a good reputation on the left.
But Chris Matthews once used to be a revered figure, a respected political analyst.
Now, he just, these people have lost it.
I mean, they're worse than in the tank.
Their minds have been corrupted.
They have actually become perverted.
It's as though there's a poison eating away brain cells.
They're becoming hysterical, nonsensical.
Lawrence O'Donnell accused Mitch McConnell of attempting to portray Barack Obama as an oversexed black man by kidding him about playing golf.
Tiger Woods, you have to think Tiger Woods.
You have to believe.
In order for this to work, when McConnell starts joking about Obama and golf, you have to, aha!
So they're trying to say Obama just like Tiger, eh?
Black guy plays golf.
Who's that?
Tiger Woods.
What's he?
Well, we all know Tiger Story.
Ergo McConnell is trying to characterize Obama as this Tiger Woods type figure.
It makes no sense whatsoever.
It's embarrassing.
O'Donnell said, Well, we know exactly what he's trying to do there.
He's trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely the lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama.
Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth.
They find every way possible they can.
And then MSNBC host Martin Bashir from the UK said, Do you think that's what he's really trying to do?
But Bashir was normally, this guy's as off the deep end as all the rest of them.
But even this was a little bit much for Bashir.
Are you sure that what you're really trying to suggest here?
That president's not paying attention to central issues.
McConnell really make a connection with Tiger Woods here, who became infamous for chasing cocktail waitresses.
Is that what you're saying?
And O'Donnell said, Martin, there are many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up you want to make.
And if he wanted to make the point you suggested, and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of 10 different kinds of images they could have raised.
And I promise you, the speech writers went through rejecting three or four before they land on that one.
That's the one they want for a very deliberate reason.
These people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Mentally ill, these people are being consumed or subsumed with the poison of hatred that they have.
And they have run out, just as the Democrats have no possible way to run on Obama's record and thus nothing positive to say about Obama's presidency or his governance, they have now descended into the only thing they've got, which is criticism, mischaracterization, impugning of their opponents.
MSNBC has decided that no matter what, it's racist.
And they're going to find a link between whatever any speaker says to racism.
They are a political operation.
MSNBC is not a news network.
They're not a cable network.
They are a political network.
They have an agenda.
Their agenda is the re-election of Barack Obama.
And they are nothing more than a super PAC.
They're nothing more than an arm of the campaign.
Their charge, they've been given, is to run around on TV and to say that everything every Republican's saying is racist because they don't have anything else.
It really demonstrates the depths to which they have descended.
Do you really, even using the word Chicago was said to be racist?
You got me.
You got me.
I haven't the slightest idea other than that Obama is from there.
Yeah, because Obama's from Chicago and Obama's black.
If you talk about Chicago, as in the Chicago Way, whatever, snirdly, there are no limits to what they can say.
They're not using any kind of logic here.
There's no Straight line to get your point A to point B and any of this.
It's all nonsensical.
None of it makes any sense.
Yeah, this Touré guy, what did he do?
He accused Romney.
He tried to.
Oh, all right.
Yeah, that's right.
This Touré guy who hosts their three o'clock show said that Romney was trying to niggerize Obama.
And nobody understood that.
And even at the time, that was so overboard that they appealed to Ture's better angels and asked him to apologize, which he did, while saying it again.
No, he got fired for that.
He's black.
He can say it.
Touré is black.
He can say niggerization.
I can say it, quoting Touré.
But yeah, Chicago is.
Matthews said, they keep saying Chicago, by the way.
Have you noticed?
They keep saying Chicago.
It's another thing that sends that message.
This guy is helping the poor people in the bad neighborhood, screwing us in the suburbs.
Kid, you can't say Hussein, can't say birth certificate, can't say Barack, can't say Obama, can't say Chicago, can't say PGA, can't say golf.
It's all racist.
Not even I thought it would get that.
I mean, I knew that with the election of Obama, every bit of criticism of him would be said to be racist.
I never thought it'd get this insane, which is what it is.
It really is pathetic.
And it's why I've banned these people.
It's why there's no reason.
This stuff is car crash city.
This creates rubbernecks.
You know, people would tune to watch this just to see what the next absurdity is.
You know what we call people obsessed with race?
Racists.
And so, really, what we have here is blatant bigotry and racism on this network of holier-than-thou liberals.
Yes, I've read Ron Fournier's.
I've got Ron Fournier's piece.
Ron Fournier, former AP bureau chief or head honcho, now at the National Journal, which is just the print version of MSNBC.
And it's the same thing.
Racism here, racism there.
It's and you have to ask who believes that who buys it.
Now, their audience obviously does.
I just, but I mean, here's what Tingle's talking about, Chicago being racist?
I just wanted to pass it on because I'm not playing soundbites in this place anymore.
I banned them many moons ago.
Little Indian lingo there.
I banned them moons ago because they've gotten so insane.
They're beyond my ability to describe them.
Hmm.
Hawaii, racist?
Say Hawaii is racist.
That's where Obama vacations.
That's where he's from.
That's where he was born.
Yeah.
You can't say born because that's birth certificate, and that's racist.
But they really think they're going to shut people.
What they're really trying to do here is get Republicans to be silent in their criticism of Obama.
Think that McConnell or whoever else they go after, all the Republicans, will be simply afraid to criticize Obama because they think we'll be afraid of these real lunatics now on MSNBC.
That's what they're banking on.
That the Republicans will not want to even go anywhere near being criticized by destellar, upstanding media figures at MSNBC.
That's what they're trying to do: stifle any criticism of Obama because that's all they've got.
Really is pathetic, though.
And to think there's a management that permits it.
NBC, there's a management.
Comcast, no, there's a management that permits this and is not embarrassed by it.
I don't know.
Quick timeout.
I got to go.
We'll be back and continue after this.
If I didn't know better, I would say that Chris Matthews is having a nervous breakdown.
Seriously.
And I don't know better, actually.
He could very well be having a nervous breakdown.
This, we're watching it.
Everybody's watching it happen in public.
Well, no, everybody isn't.
Very few people are, actually, which could also be part of the problem.
And he's out there saying that his bosses agree with him.
Now, his primary boss, a guy named Phil Griffin, who actually runs PMSNBC, but it's owned by Comcast.
Now, I'm told the Comcast CEO is a huge Obamaite.
I didn't know that.
But I guess it all makes sense.
Anyway, I always go back to the audio soundbites here.
Susan Martinez, New Mexico.
She had another, she had a great speech last night, and she was an unknown to millions of people before last night.
And now she becomes a highly respected member of a Republican bench that stocked well for the future.
I was a Democrat for many years.
So were my parents.
Before I ran for district attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch.
And I knew a party switch was exactly what they wanted.
So I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch, and then say goodbye.
But we talked about issues.
They never used the words Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal.
We talked about many issues, like welfare.
Is it a way of life or hand up?
Talked about size of government.
How much should it tax families and small businesses?
And when we left that lunch, we got in the car.
I looked over at Chuck and said, I'll be damned.
We're Republicans.
Now, I love that.
That was really good.
I'll be damned, Chuck.
We're Republicans.
Now, they may not have used the words Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, but you're talking conservatism when you're talking size of government.
You're talking conservatism when you are talking about welfare.
You are talking conservatism when you are talking about taxes, whether you use the word or not.
Her point was she was, she really wasn't even persuaded.
Her point was she'd been a Republican all along and didn't know it.
She just grown up Democrat.
He goes talks to these two Republicans for the first time with an open mind, finds out, hey, I agree with pretty much everything you guys are saying.
That's why this show is dangerous, folks.
That's exactly why this show is dangerous.
And that's exactly why I am considered to be the most dangerous man in America.
Here's more from Susanna Martinez.
In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different.
Different starts in life, different paths to leadership, different cultures.
But we've each shared in the promise of America.
And we share a core belief that the promise of America must be kept for the next generation.
It is success, and success is the American dream.
And that success is not something to be ashamed of or to demonize.
There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream.
One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of America for the next generation.
And that's why we must stand up and make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.
And so here you go again with another reference to the American dream in an indirect way, another defense of or explanation of success and how it's a good thing.
What the promise of America is.
And it's rooted in optimism.
It's rooted in achievement.
It's rooted in ambition.
Being the best you can be.
It's rooted in your dreams and all of this.
Now, while she was speaking, this is ABC's special coverage, Republican Convention.
While Martinez was speaking, ABC aired a Univision host saying that the Republicans are going to lose the Hispanic vote.
George Stephanopoulos talking with Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos or Ramos about Hispanic speakers at the convention.
He said, look, all week long we expect to hear from Susanna Martinez, from Rubio, Romney's economic message would be, I hope he draws Hispanic voters in.
If they insist on talking about immigration, they're going to lose even more of the Hispanic vote.
The last poll that I saw, they don't even get 30% of the Hispanic vote.
If they can get 33%, 35% or 40%, they're going to lose the election.
The new rule in American politics is that if you can get the Hispanic vote, you cannot get the vote.
They really have to insist on economics because if they insist on immigration, they're really going to lose the Hispanic vote.
So that's what ABC was airing while Susanna Martinez was speaking.
That's right.
So if we don't open the borders, let anybody in, we don't have a chance.
We don't stand for open borders.
If we don't somehow change everything and let everybody know to us, the Hispanic vote is the most, the illegal Hispanic vote.
If we don't start pandering to that, we don't have a prayer.
That's what this wizard of smarts here, Jorge Ramos of Univision, had to say.
While his entire point is being blown out of the water by the Hispanic Republican Governor of New Mexico, Susanna Martinez.
Politico has a story today written for the drive-bys.
This is a story written for the media so the media doesn't start jumping out of windows.
And the message is that Obama is losing the Medicare issue, but that they have ads coming and not panic.
The Politico has a story.
No kaboom from Paul Ryan Medicare bomb.
This story is about how, well, Democrats thought that Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal would shift the focus away from Romney, terrify the elderly, take places like Florida off the table.
That's not happening.
Not yet, anyway.
But we here at the Politico aren't finished.
They didn't write that.
That's for the media who read this to understand.
But it isn't working yet.
We're back.
El Rushbo, serving humanity.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
No kaboom from Paul Ryan Medicare bum.
Democrats thought Ryan's Medicare proposal would shift the focus away from Romney, would terrify the elderly.
Take places like Florida and other key states off the table.
That's not happening.
Not yet, anyway.
This is a great example of how the media write stories for themselves.
This story is meant to assure Chris Matthews everything's okay.
And Lawrence O'Donnell, don't worry, Lawrence.
Everything's okay.
It hadn't happened yet, but it's going to.
Don't worry, Angrier Mitchell.
Everything's cool out there.
We got the forehead working on some ads.
That's also in the story.
The forehead is working on some ads.
Well, you know, Obama's shot is wild on some of these ads, folks.
He has blown out the budget on some of these ads on Medicare, and it hasn't really had a profound effect.
And now Romney is free to start spending since his convention started.
That's when the spigot is opened, and all the money he's raised can now be spent.
I also think, by the way, I had an email during the break ask a couple of breaks ago if I thought it was an advantage or disadvantage that the Republican convention is first.
As the emailer said, I think it'd be better to go second, because that way then you get to respond to what these guys are saying.
And I really think in this case, I disagree with that.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's look at if the Democrat convention were going on right now, what would it be?
It'd be the Republicans hate women, the Republicans hate women, it would be the Republicans hate women, the Republicans are for the rich.
It'd be everything that Obama and the Democrat, and that would force an entirely different Republican convention, would it not?
They'd have to respond to that, or they would think they did.
And so rather than talk about the economy, they'd be talking about this war on women.
It'd be even worse than it was on the first night.
So it's a blessing, I think, that they're going first.
Now, because it puts the Democrats on the defensive to have to respond to some of this stuff to the extent that they will.
Now, I don't think they're going to, I think the Democrats are going to do what they're going to do regardless of what order they go in, because that's really all they've got, is to run out and tell these continual mischaracterizations and lies about the Republicans.
Now, the fact-checkers that are out there trying to tell you that Ryan lied about the Janesville General Motors factory, they are lying their heads off about Ryan's Medicare plan.
The fact-checkers, the same fact-checkers, this is really, it's astounding to me.
It is blatant.
And I know they're gunning for the morons and the uninformed and the people not paying attention.
What they are saying is that Ryan will force everybody on Medicare to leave the system and move to vouchers.
And that's what the Democrats are going to say at their convention next week.
And let me tell you the truth.
You know the truth.
You're 55 or older.
Nothing changes.
Not a single thing changes.
But these Democrat fact-checkers are out saying that everybody on Medicare gets thrown out of the system and is turned into vouchers.
The Ryan plan will give people the option to either stay with the current plan or to opt for the same plan that Congress and federal workers have.
That's the option.
Those are the two options.
If you're 55 plus, nothing changes if you don't want it to, or you get the same plan that a member of Congress or the Senate has.
And their voucher characteristics.
Now, for people who are 20s and 30s, yeah, the system is going to change for them.
It has to, if it's going to be around.
They haven't paid a lifetime's worth of taxes into it yet.
But the people who've paid a lifetime's worth of taxes into it are not going to have the program ripped out from under them.
But the Democrats are actively lying and saying that that's what's going to happen.
That's what the political story is about.
Don't worry.
It hadn't happened yet.
We haven't been able to hurt Ryan yet, but we got some ads coming from the forehead from Bogalo.
Again, I retreat to where I always go.
Sane world, a just world where there's proper karma.
These guys get stoked.
These guys get skunked.
These guys get wiped out in November.
As a matter of justice.
Now, I'm naive and think that it can happen that way.
And I know it doesn't.
But we all can dream.
This is what they're going to do.
They don't have anything else.
They can't tell the truth about Obama's record.
They can't tell the truth about Obama's programs.
They can't tell the truth about Obama's plans.
They don't dare tell us what's in store for the next four years.
They don't dare go there.
They don't dare describe what the next four years of Obama are.
All they have is to lie about Ryan Romney and Republicans in general.
Here's Condoleezza Rice from last night, America Based on an Idea.
We are the most successful economic and political experiment in human history.
That is the true basis of American exceptionalism.
You see, the essence of America, what really unites us, is not nationality or ethnicity or religion.
It is an idea.
And what an idea it is.
That you can come from humble circumstances and you can do great things.
That it does not matter where you came from.
It matters where you are going.
My fellow Americans, ours has never been a narrative of grievance and entitlement.
We have never believed that I am doing poorly because you are doing well.
We have never been jealous of one another and never envious of each other's successes.
Oh, yes, we have.
That has been the trademark of the Democrat Party my entire life.
What she means is the majority of Americans have not yet descended into that.
That's what this election is all about.
But I'll tell you about Condoleezza Rice.
That just that speech, her presence, it just epitomizes class.
Just epitomizes dignity.
Now, you and I watch Condoleezza Rice or Susanna Martinez or any of these other speakers, and we ask her, how in the world does anybody ever get away with characterizing these people as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, thieves, thugs?
How does that ever happen?
How has the Republican brand been so distorted with people like this?
Say what you want about Bush.
Bush was a classy individual, a dignified man.
Dick Cheney, ditto.
I have never understood.
I still don't.
And I'll admit to being naive.
I don't understand this idea that Dick Cheney's Darth Vader.
Now, I know him personally, but he's soft-spoken.
But this idea that, and they've made a lot of people believe it, even some of Republicans talk about that contrast between Cheney and Ryan.
Yeah, Ryan are never going to be able to characterize him as the Satan that Dick Cheney is.
I've never, ever understood it.
And I've, you know, the same thing to Sarah Palin.
I remember I blew up at dinner guests at my own house who started telling me what an idiot Palin was.
They actually weren't saying, they said, we got to throw Palin overboard.
We can't.
That's why.
She's been destroyed.
It doesn't matter, Rush.
She's been destroyed.
She's a liability.
Who destroyed her?
Did she destroy herself or did the media?
It doesn't matter, Rush.
She's been destroyed.
And I said, so you just sit there and you just going to let our enemies determine who our candidates are and who our viable leaders are.
And as they destroy them, you move on to the next one.
And then they destroy that one.
You want to throw that one over.
At what point does this stop?
I remember yelling and screaming at dinner guests at my own house.
I don't understand this.
I've never understood how they so easily get away with this demonization.
Don't tell me they've got the media on their side.
I'm talking about how it is that people believe it.
What mean thing has Dick Cheney ever done to anybody?
Or Sarah Palin?
They tried with Condoleezza Rice.
Some of you may remember when she was Secretary of State for Bush.
You remember some of the editorial cartoons about her as an Aunt Jemima type figure or some of the hideous editorial cartoons characterizing her or exaggerating her racial characteristics as cartoonists do and making her out to be some slave who was performing sex acts on Bush and that's how she got the job.
And then you hear her speak and you, how in the world does that stuff ever stick?
Now with her, I don't necessarily think that it did as widely as it's obviously stuck with Palin and Cheney.
It does continually surprise you.
It makes me wonder who are the people that fall for this?
Who are these people that end up believing this?
We know they're morons, but how does it happen?
I know I sound naive and simplistic, but I can't help it.
One more.
No, I got to run.
Always take this break too late into being squeezed for time.
So let me take the break.
And we're back, Alan Rushboard.
By the way, folks, I guess I should apologize.
I talked about Condoleezza Rice here, and I just realized I just called Obama a racist.
Well, Condoleezza Rice was just admitted into Augusta National, where Tiger Woods is a member and has played and has won championships.
And, of course, Obama's black and place golf and Tigers black and plays golf at Augusta were condoleezers, so I'm racist, according to the thinking at MSNBC.
I want to hear, I want you to hear a little bit of Nikki Haley, but first, Tom Brokaw.
This was NBC after Condoleezza Rice's speech, Brian Williams.
Tom, the dual wars that our nation finds itself fighting longest in our history, Condoleezza Rice, one of the architects of those conflicts.
What is your view of the absence of that kind of conflict?
It doesn't matter the question.
Listen to what Brokaw says here.
What was so striking to me was one other line that she had: Does not matter where you come from, it matters where you are going.
Well, to a lot of delegates on this floor, it does matter where President Obama came from because they've been very critical of his Kenyan father, who had a different faith than many of them would embrace.
And they've raised lots of questions about where his ultimate loyalty is.
It does matter to these racist delegates where Obama came from.
Totally distorting what Condoleezza Rice was trying to say.
Totally distorting it.
You know, people ask, what does Tom Brokaw think of what happened in NBC?
Hell, he's in charge of it.
Crying out loud.
These people aren't embarrassed by what they've become.
They're proud of who they are.
Nikki Haley talking about South Carolina.
She's the governor.
Listen to this.
We build things in the Palmetto State.
We build planes.
We build cars.
The Wall Street Journal said: anyone still thinking the U.S. has lost its manufacturing shops hasn't been to South Carolina.
I work day in and day out to try and improve the lives of the people of my state.
And sadly, the hardest part of my job continues to be this federal government, this administration, and this president.
Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.
That was Tuesday night, and she was one of the stars of Tuesday night.
She went early before the prime time cameras were turned on, but she had some amazingly great things to say.
And I wanted to get a soundbite of her in here before we had to wrap it up for today.
Marco Rubio tonight.
Don't miss Marco Rubio tonight, then the mystery speaker.
Odds are Clint Eastwood and then Governor Romney.
And hopefully a detailed recitation of what he intends to reverse course economically.
That's what's called for next from Governor Romney.
So that's what's on the agenda.
And then us tomorrow, telling you all about it, what to think of it, doesn't get any better than this, folks.
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