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Aug. 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
We care about fairness here.
We've always done that.
Rushlin Baugh, talent on loan from God on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Okay, folks, one busy, exciting broadcast hour remains before the Labor Day weekend.
By the way, we do have a best of show on Monday, right?
No, we have a best of show.
Yanking my chip.
This one I know of.
This is not one of those three-day holidays that can sneak up on me when I don't know about it.
You better have a best of show because I've got plans.
Because after that, I mean, it's pedal of the metal all the way.
Here's the phone number, folks.
If you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbaugh at eibnet.com.
Remember, on Friday, we go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about is what we talk about.
It's not the case Monday through Thursday.
I have to care about it, or it's Sayonara for you.
But we broom that on Friday.
And if I don't care about it, I'll act like I do.
Commonly known as faking it.
Hasn't happened.
It hasn't been a bomb today.
Some days we bomb out, not often, but it has happened.
So again, 800-282-2882 and 800-282, or El Rushvo at EIBNet.com.
If you want to go the email route, this is from politico.com.
Headline, women minorities added to roster in Charlotte.
Democrat National Convention organizers today released the names of more expected speakers in Charlotte, and the lineup reflects a heavy focus on women and minorities, which is right up Bill Clinton's alley, especially with Hillary halfway around the world in New Zealand.
Not unexpectedly, Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry are among the newly announced speakers.
They originally were not going to be there.
Pelosi will lead a special presentation of other female House members, including Representative Rosa DeLauro, Donna Edwards, Carolyn Maloney, Gwen Moore, Allison Schwartz,
Nydia Velasquez, all that according to CNN, unclear if they will have full speaking roles or if they'll be just objectified, just put up on stage so that people say, hey, look, women, of course they're worth.
Well, that's the thing.
Only an hour of its televised.
I don't think this bunch, well, it's not even.
The announcement brings the number of female participants to 28 out of a total of 61 people who will take the stage identified so far.
Also added to the roster, Judy Chu, Democrat California Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Emmanuel Cleaver of the Congressional White Caucasians, Black Caucasians, and the Charlie Gonzalez of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Representative John Lewis.
So they are scrambling now.
All these late editions.
A Democrat Party trying to make itself appear to be something that it isn't, friendly to minorities.
You know what the black unemployment rate is in America?
Try 14%.
You know what the Hispanic unemployment rate is in America?
Try over 10%.
More women have lost most of the jobs under the failed regime of Obama.
But of course, the exact opposite picture is one that must be presented.
From the New York Times, Democrats outline convention schedule.
Just when it seemed as if there couldn't possibly be any more red, white, and blue speeches ringing across the airwaves, the Democrats are unveiling their counterpunch to the Republic.
You know, this is going to be great.
They think they have to go out there to look patriotic now.
They don't know how to do that.
And that's going to be funny to watch.
Unlike the, I mean, this is New York Times.
Unlike the Republican National Convention, we had to be cut short to three days because of Hurricane Isaac, Democrat festivities were always scheduled for three days.
No, they weren't.
No, they had to cancel a day for lack of interest and money.
This news is not that old.
It's only a month or so old.
They didn't have interest or money for their four.
Remember, they were going to do a deal at the beach or something?
Yeah, deal at the racetrack.
That's why they're going to do a deal at the racetrack.
And a bunch of Democrats.
Are you kidding?
We're not coming down there.
We don't want to go there anyway.
And then you're going to take us to a NASCAR track?
Hell with that.
So they canceled the day.
And then they said it was because of money.
And it probably was true.
But it was originally scheduled for four days.
They don't have the money for a third day.
And the unions aren't forking up enough for a fourth day.
Then on Wednesday night is the NFL opener.
The Cowboys at the Giants.
And that's 8 o'clock NBC.
And they're not leaving the football coverage.
And that's Clinton night, I believe.
So I don't know if Clinton's going to speak before 8, or is Tuesday night Clinton night?
I don't know.
Here you have a convention, a party.
What is their slogan?
Forward?
And everybody with a prominent role in this convention is out of Jurassic Park, led by Bill Clinton.
I don't know when he's scheduled to speak, but the NFL usually opens on Thursdays, and that would have put him up against Obama.
So NBC went to the NFL, said, look, we can't go up against Obama.
Everybody readily agreed.
So they moved the NFL opener to Wednesday.
So that night will not be on NBC.
And there will be not very many people watching the convention that night anyway, because it is the NFL opener.
Do you know, folks?
I saw this deal.
I saw Eric Erickson at Red State in a post that he had filed about the rules change controversy at the Republican convention.
In his post, there was a statistic there, a fact that I didn't know that there are more elected Hispanics who are Republican than there are Democrats.
There are more elected Republican Hispanics, including mayors and so forth, than there are Democrats.
Which, of course, I didn't know, but it stands to reason here.
More Republican senators, a greater percentage, signed the Civil Rights Act 1964 than did Democrats, and yet who are the racists?
Al Hunt was on Charlie Rose on, let's see, was this, I guess it was, well, I don't know when this was.
It has to be this week sometime, and they were talking about the Republican-Hispanic problem.
Charlie Rose said to Al Hunt, who is the executive editor at Bloomberg News, that two of the issues during this convention we've just seen, I was there with you.
One is the number of Hispanics that came to speak, elected officials of the Republican Party, whether it's the governor of New Mexico, whether it's looking like the Senate candidate in Texas who may very well win, Ed Cruz, attractive people who are Hispanics, who are holding office, who are Republicans, Al.
I mean, Al, all these Hispanics who are Republicans.
What do you make of that?
It's number 13.
It's really interesting.
There are a lot of those.
The governor of Nevada also and the Republican Party, particularly in 2010, did a very good job of electing more Hispanics than they had before.
That doesn't detract, however, from what I think is their Latino problem in this election.
Yeah, it really is interesting, Al Hunt.
There are a lot of those elected Hispanic Republicans.
There are a lot of those.
Like, what?
Insects?
Yeah, there's a lot of those.
Al Hunt to Charlie Rose.
Yeah, you know, Charlie, that's right.
It's interesting.
There are a lot of those.
Governor Nevada, but I don't think all those elected Hispanics changes their Latino problem at all.
Now, why would that be?
Well, because people like Al Hunt and Charlie Rose are going to make sure that as far as anybody knows, Hispanics hate Republicans and wouldn't dare ever become one.
And yet there are more elected Hispanic Republicans than there are Democrats.
Yeah, there are a lot of those.
That doesn't change anything, Charlie.
Don't worry about it.
We got it handled.
Pat Oporowski, Republican National Convention, Romney family friend Pat Oporowski spoke about how Romney helped her and her family when her son was dying.
This is the story that had rivers of tears on television on the convention floor last night.
This man and woman went out and talked about their teenage son, 14 years old, that came down with terminal cancer in Massachusetts, and they told the story of how Romney went to visit him often.
And they became friends.
Romney and the young boy became friends, actual real friends.
And the young boy knew he was dying.
And that's where Ms. Oporowski picks up the story.
Together, they made David's will.
That is a task that no child should ever have to do.
But it gave David peace of mind.
So, after David's death, we were able to give his skateboard, his model rockets, and his fishing gear to his best friends.
How many men do you know would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs?
David also helped us plan his funeral.
He wanted to be buried in his Boy Scout uniform.
He wanted Mitt to pronounce his eulogy.
And Mitt was there to honor that request.
We will be ever grateful to Mitt for his love and concern.
Now, that's the tail end of it.
The whole story.
Ted and Pat Oporowski couple lived in Medford, Massachusetts in the 70s.
They knew Romney from church.
And when their 14-year-old son, David, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1979, Romney, because of the church connection, visited the boy regularly, and they developed a loving, genuine friendship.
And Pat Oporowski recounted the many times that Romney came to see her and her son.
His cancer was terminal.
During one visit, Ms. Oporowski recalled David, knowing Mitt had gone to law school at Harvard, asked if he would help him write a will.
He had some prized possessions that he wanted to make sure were given to his closest friends and family.
But after what you heard, the audio soundbite, David had great peace of mind.
After his death, they were able to give away his skateboard, his model rockets, and his fishing gear to his best friends as he had bequeathed.
And he had also made it clear that his brother Peter should get his Ruger 22 rifle.
And then she asked the question, how many men do you know who would take the time out of their busy lives to visit a terminally ill 14-year-old and help him settle his affairs?
And there were no dry eyes to be found.
And then another story.
This is a woman named Pat Finlayson.
Romney family friends spoke about how Romney helped her and her family when her daughter was born prematurely.
As I sat with her in intensive care, consumed with a mother's worry and fear, dear Mitt came to visit and pray with me.
As our clergy, he was one of very few visitors allowed.
And I will never forget how, when he looked down tenderly at my daughter, his eyes filled with tears, and he reached out and gently stroked her tiny back.
I could tell immediately that he didn't just see a tangle of plastic and tubes and wires.
He saw our beautiful little girl, and he was clearly overcome with compassion for her.
She was born prematurely.
Keep that in mind.
As Ms. Finleyson continues.
When Thanksgiving rolled around, Kate was still struggling for life.
Brain surgery was scheduled, and the holiday was the furthest thing from our minds.
But that morning, I opened my door to find Mitt and his boys, arms loaded down with a Thanksgiving feast.
Hmm.
For a family and their daughter born prematurely.
You know what they always say?
Character is what you do when nobody's looking.
And nobody was looking.
Nobody was paying attention.
Nobody knew about any of this till last night.
Ms. Finlayson, one more time.
After 26 years of both miracles and struggle, she passed away just a year and a half ago.
In the midst of making the final decision to run for president, which had to be the most difficult of their lives, when they heard of Kate's passing, both Mitt and Ann paused to personally reach out to us and extend us sympathy and express their love.
It seems to me, when it comes to loving our neighbor, we can talk about it or we can live it.
The Romleys live it every single day.
Dare I mention, again, we have here a little girl born prematurely.
Dare I mention the nation's number one supporter of infanticide in Illinois?
I know, should I do that?
Barack Obama is the leader, was the leader in the state of Illinois for making sure that if a baby survived an abortion, that a new doctor be brought in to finish the job.
That's what Obama's known for.
In his party, he too is a hero.
He's a hero for a different reason.
A woman intended the abortion, and by God, I'm going to bring a doctor in here.
If the first one botches it, we're going to bring one in here to finish the job, take the pressure off the original doctor and off the mother.
Now, after what you've just heard, let's go back to Obama Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, talking about Mitt Romney.
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 going to do.
Maybe we should call his plan Romney doesn't care because I do care.
Right, I do care.
Mitt Romney doesn't care.
Exactly right.
What Romney wants is for people to have health care, and he knows that Obamacare is not how that's going to happen.
It's Open Lion Friday, El Rushboat to Galveston.
This is Larson.
Larson, thanks for waiting.
Great to have you here.
Oh, it's nice to be on with you, Rush.
I have been listening to you for years and years, and it's a bright spot, three hours in most of my days.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that and understand it.
Okay, so here's my point.
I saw Mitt's speech last night and was absolutely blown away by it.
I thought it was a wonderful speech, and two things went through my mind as I watched that speech.
I heard the American exceptionalism being trumpeted, and I absolutely loved it.
And it felt like you could be allowed, again, to love America.
And that took me back then to when I was in fifth grade, because I'm a year younger than you are.
And when I was in fifth grade was the year President Kennedy was shot.
And I remember I was in the principal's office.
Well, not for bad reason, as I think probably my mom was coming to pick me up for a doctor's appointment.
So anyway, I was in there.
Well, I guess the president, news of the president, had just come across the wire, and my principal came out and just told everybody that some damn right-winger just shot the president.
And I was just, I was kind of stunned.
Isn't it amazing how things don't change?
I know.
Isn't it amazing?
You probably are going to continue to tell me stories about your teachers for telling you how rotten the country was, even back in the 60s.
My teachers didn't.
But, and our principal didn't come out and say that, right-winger, but we weren't in Texas either.
But how about the Times Square diaper bomber underwear, whatever it was, and Mayor Doomberg goes up?
Yeah, it's probably somebody, some tea party freak.
It doesn't like Obama's health care plan.
And we find out it was a legitimate Islamo fascist.
Legitimate, I mean, we have real enemies.
But I'll tell you something, Larson, and don't doubt me on this.
To the Democrat Party today, there's no greater enemy than the Republican conservative, no greater enemy than conservatives, no greater enemy than the Tea Party.
They fear us, and they are singularly united on defeating us more than anything else in their world.
I'm just sitting here, I'm asking myself, I don't know if anybody knows, how many, because PBS is not rated, how many Hispanics watch Charlie Rose's show?
How many Hispanics, Charlie needs to do a better job of appealing to them?
I mean, we wouldn't, wouldn't you think?
What's racist about it?
I'm asking how many Hispanics watch PBS without your pledge, we cannot dust.
Where are all the acts of generosity by Obama?
Look at what we heard about Romney all week long: quiet, compassion, generosity.
Where are the similar stories about Barack Obama?
I mean, you would think after nearly four years in the presidency, we would know about these stories.
There's a Wall Street Journal editorial today.
I think I put it at the bottom of the stack something about somebody might have learned something about his time at Columbia, but they're not sure.
So he might have learned something about his time at Columbia University, but they're not sure.
We don't know anybody.
In fact, we do know that the brother who lives in the hut called Dinesh D'Souza, George Onyango Obama's son needed some medical care, $1,000 worth.
He called Dinesh D'Souza, who had interviewed him for his movie that he has out now, 2016.
And Dinesh said, okay, look, anybody can call here and make this up.
So he found out it was George Obama, and it was a legitimate medical issue.
So he gave him the money.
He didn't call his own brother.
He didn't even think to call him, my brother's not going to give me anything.
And obviously not.
His brother is still living in a hut.
And yet, automatically, it's just a simple.
Yeah, there's real compassion there.
Real compassion.
That's true.
He has compassion for his cronies at places like Solinda.
See, there's a real difference between caring for people and being seen as caring for people.
There is a real difference between real compassion and being seen as compassionate.
And with the left, it's all imagery.
Again, as this convention illustrated all week long, Justin in Casper, Wyoming, nice to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
So last time I called you, I told you how I broke my back when I was 18 and how I should be the national welfare recipient criticizer.
But for me, I just want to tell you real quick that you've been a real encouragement as far as my life goes, telling us what a great country we live in and reminding us that encouraging us of all the opportunities.
And today, you know, I'm living the American dream.
But my point was, I guess I'm a birther, I guess you'd call it.
But when I was watching the speech last night.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, just a second.
What exactly does that mean?
When you ought to call here and confess to being a birther, what are you telling us?
Well, for me, I just don't believe that Obama's been truthful as far as his past goes.
I don't buy the latest certificate of okay.
Okay.
I just wanted to get that out there so everybody knew who you were.
Okay.
Yeah.
Take it away.
So now I was listening to the speech Romney gave last night, and I heard that line about where he said it takes an American to do the great things.
And until I was listening to you today, it never even occurred to me that he was talking about taking a shot at Obama over the birth certificate thing.
I never even once thought that.
So I don't know where the Let's coming up with that idea.
Oh, they're sick people.
They are.
It was at a moment in Romney's address where he was memorializing Neil Armstrong.
And I don't have it right in front of me, but paraphrasing what Romney said: when you need something big done, you get an American.
And immediately last night into today, led by the Cretans at MSNBC, that was coded language to birthers.
That was Romney sending a coded message to the birthers that he knows Obama's not an American.
Now, any, and I'm going to say this, any normal person watching that, listening to what Romney said, just like you, knew exactly what he meant.
It was a testament to American exceptionalism.
It was a reflection on a past in this country that was accurate.
Whether it's a disaster that strikes somewhere in the world, who has to show up before it's going to be fixed?
Us.
Traditionally.
And we did it because we could, and it was the right thing to do.
And that's what moral superpowers do.
They stand for freedom with their allies.
They help out when necessary.
We were the ones able to do it.
When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.
The very idea that there are people who can be offended by that, to me, is illustrative of what we're up against.
See, for me, I don't understand being offended by that.
I can't relate to being offended by that.
I can't relate to somebody seeing birtherism in that comment.
Just like I can't see racism when Romney mentioned Chicago or some of these other outrageous things.
That's one of the best lines of the night.
The best line of the night was when Romney said that Obama promised to lower the sea levels and heal the planet.
I promise to do everything I can to help your family.
That was the convention.
That was the speech.
That was the essence of it, boiling everything down to what we are all about, particularly now.
Justin, I'm glad you called.
Thanks very much.
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Here's the entire Romney bite in context, Neil Armstrong.
And when you need somebody to do the big stuff, you need an American.
Here's that whole bite.
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls.
And I watched those steps together on her parents' sofa.
Like all Americans, we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.
That is so true.
God bless Neil Armstrong.
Tonight, that American flag is still there on the moon.
And I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us.
That unique blend of optimism, humility, and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American exactly.
Now, I hear, ladies and gentlemen, many people.
We're going to move on, Mike, to Soundbite.
Let's see.
Let's see.
2728 right now.
I hear many people asking, what does Tom Brokaw think?
He's the dean of NBC News.
He's the crazy aunt, uncle in the attic now.
Tom Brokaw is the slobbering granddad up in the bedroom in the attic.
He's the dean.
What does he think of what has become of NBC News and MSNBC?
And of course, the question is, based in a belief that Brokaw would have to be profoundly embarrassed at what has happened to this network and this news division, that it's reached the gutter.
It no longer even makes a pretense at journalism.
And so if you are one of the people that wonder what Brokaw thinks of what has become of NBC, you have to hear this.
Last night on NBC's coverage of the Republican Convention, after Romney accepted the nomination, here is the first of two things that we have for you from Brokaw.
I happen to have spent some time covering his father, and he was a remarkable man of great integrity.
He fought within this party to make it more moderate and make it less extreme and to make it more inclusive.
And the evolution of Mitt Romney, the son, has been to go from being a moderate to being much more conservative.
Oh, Tom sounds like he's right at home with these people now.
Yeah, covered.
I'll guarantee you, back in those days, they hated George Romney like they hated any other Republican back then.
I remember George Romney, he fought hard, tried to make this party inclusive.
And there again, that we have more elected Hispanics than they do, and we're not an inclusive party.
We've got female governors, Hispanic female, first ones ever.
We're not inclusive.
No, no, no.
Okay, so there's that.
Then you just heard celebration of Neil Armstrong from Mitt Romney.
Here's Brokaw.
He continued with his partial, I guess, reaction to that.
The other thing that was quite striking me tonight, the centerpiece of what's possible for this country was putting a man on the moon.
There have been fewer, larger government projects than that.
And it did spin off a lot of private enterprise, but it was an enormous public government investment that made that extraordinary achievement possible.
And then, as I said earlier, it also spawned lots of scientific achievement across this country that was transferred to the private sector.
I hate to break it to Brokaw, but the private sector did everything in the Moon Project, built everything.
The government took the bids, awarded the winners with the project.
But if you remember, Lockheed was all over everything.
McDonnell Douglas made the Mercury capsuling, the Redstone Rocket, I forget, McDonald look out of St. Louis.
They were right there.
So even that, even Moon trip, oh, yeah, government did that.
And then government shared what it learned with the private sector.
It's the other way around.
So yeah, you didn't build that.
So what do we have now?
We have the specter.
Compare and contrast.
have the media defending Obama's you didn't build that and attacking Romney for saying you need an American.
And then Brokaw comes along and yeah, yeah, that private sector build that government did everything and then shared what it learned with the private sector.
So for those of you wondering what happened to Brokaw, he's probably running the joint.
He clearly isn't embarrassed by what it's become in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Quick time out here, my friends.
We'll be back and continue before you know it.
Don't forget, folks, the left hated NASA anyway.
They didn't want to go to the moon.
They don't want to go to Mars.
They want all of that money for their precious social programs.
And that's why Obama has basically shut it down.
So look at the stretch Brokaw has to go to to try to reclaim NASA because Romney did too good a job of making it quintessentially American.
Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend.
We'll be back Tuesday.
Democrat Convention.
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