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Sept. 3, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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I'm not sure I like this.
I'm not sure this is a good idea.
But I gotta guard against being an old fogey here at the same time.
Well for some reason I've had ESPN up here.
Oh, I know why, because it was on for the British Open last.
Anyway, on ESPN.
During the program today, even before the program started, ESPN's been out at the first day of Denver Bronco training camp.
They've been televising the first day of Broncos training camp, and they're focusing on Peyton Manning.
And most of it has been Peyton Manning standing around.
Uh taking a few snaps.
He's going through three-step drops, five-step drops, handed the ball off.
Didn't throw a lot, at least not on camera.
They've been out there all day.
They've had their two big time analysts sitting off to the sideline telling us what's been going on.
It's training camp.
They're destroying the mystique of all this and now they're they just finished an interview after the first practice with with a play Eric Decker.
There's no mystique left.
That's just maybe it's just me.
I'm sure a lot of football fans are eating this up.
Uh now they're being able to watch Broncos training camp, and who knows where ESPN's gonna be tomorrow, or maybe they're gonna have cameras out there every day to chronicle Peyton Manning, but I don't know, folks.
There's something about keeping it a little distance.
The stage is the stage, and we don't get on the stage.
The performers are on the stage, and we're and they're taking us to the stage.
And uh get to the point where the game is gonna end up being anticlimactic.
And that's just me.
That's just my impression of media and coverage, the way it affects people.
Anyway, great to have you back.
I'm just sharing observations here off top of my head.
Rush Limbaugh at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, telephone number 800-282-2882, and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
This is from the Orlando Sentinel.
36-year-old Jacksonville, Florida man is accused of performing a sex act on himself while driving south on I-95 near Ormond Beach.
Uh Dawn, you may not want to hear this.
Um I don't know how you can avoid it.
Ronald Ayers was charged with indecent exposure on Wednesday.
He denied performing the sex act.
He said another driver who reported him to authorities misunderstood what he was doing while driving.
Said he was using drumsticks to hit his steering wheel.
He's a drummer.
He told deputies he's a drummer who commutes between Jacksonville Daytona Beach.
He frequently simulates playing the drums while driving by hitting his steering wheel with the drumsticks.
So what happened was a woman from Flagler Beach called authorities at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning and said that a driver, later identified as this guy, was performing a sex act on himself while driving a Chevrolet Astro van.
Don, a question.
If you were driving I-95 and you saw a guy who you thought was performing a sex act, would you call 911?
Would you call the authorities?
Snur.
You don't think you'd notice.
Now stop and think.
This woman, this guy claims he's playing the drums.
He's got his drumsticks on the steering wheel.
She thinks she's watching a sex act.
Snurgley, you're driving along I-95 next door, a guy or a woman, whatever, you think performing sex act, would you call 91?
Brian, would you call I wouldn't call 9-1.
Now it would never occur to me.
Well, it doesn't say he was driving a rash.
He was in his astro van and uh Chevrolet Astro van.
Oh, by the way, you've seen General Motors News?
General Motors is is now it's a mess.
It's it's lost more money than what we paid to bail him out.
Now classic.
And you hate it.
Nobody wants to see General Motors decay like this.
He did not save them.
Obama didn't save anything.
He doesn't say he will he will not save anything.
Anyway, back to the drumstick guy here.
Well, just sit tight here if you just hang in.
I'm going to explain how you drive a car by uh playing drumsticks on the steering wheel.
The woman said she was driving alongside the Chevrolet Astro van in which the guy was playing the drumsticks.
She called the authorities.
She gave the authorities the guy's tag number, and she followed him until the authorities pulled him over.
When a Valusia County deputy approached the astro van, he spontaneously explained he was hitting drumsticks against his steering wheel as he drove.
He invited the deputy to search the astro van.
The deputy did and found two sets of wooden drumsticks between the two front seats.
The drumsticks were a natural wood color, and they closely resembled Ayres' own skin color, says the report.
The deputy reinterviewed the woman and asked if it was possible that she confused Ayres drumming for a sex act, and she was adamant.
She had a clear view of his penis.
She stated it was not possible she mistook the drumsticks for his penis.
She said she wanted to pursue criminal charges.
She completed a sworn written statement detailing what she said she saw.
I've seen drumsticks and I've seen the penis, and believe me, I know the difference, particularly when I'm looking at them in an astro van driving on I-95.
It's uh the Orlando Sentinel.
All right, now here, folks, this Obama business.
Stanley Kurtz's book, Spreading the Wealth, How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.
And Kurtz uh powerful, influential member of the media, Stanley sent me a note about his book, and he says the core revelations of his book focus on the fact that although and I'd like to be interested in your thoughts on this, folks, although no one knows it.
Obama is closely working from the White House with some of the original Olinskiite community organizers who first trained him in Chicago and other places.
He is personally working with these Alinskyites.
It's a very ambitious plan to transform America by undercutting America's suburbs in order to redistribute suburban money back to the cities.
Now many people think that the upcoming election suburbs are the key.
And I've seen some pollsters, some consultants who are saying that the suburbs are the key swing constituency of this election.
And Kurtz claims that uh his book will illustrate almost nobody realizes it, but Obama has had a lifelong hostility to the suburbs.
His community organizing mentors hated suburbs.
They blame the suburbs for the problems of the cities.
They believe that suburbanites were just greedy racists who didn't want to share their tax money with the urban poor.
Now, forget again, folks, the intellectual aspect of this, whether it's right or wrong.
We're talking about the way Obama was mentored.
And the point is if Obama was raised and trained by a bunch of Olinskiites who want to explain the evils of America, the inequities, the unfairness, by saying, Look, Barack, what happened was that all these rich white people fled to cities and they went out to suburbia.
They're a bunch of racists.
They want to hang around with people who lived in the city.
They don't like people like us Barack.
I mean, imagine how this happened.
He's young, he's impressionable, this is what he's being told.
And these suburbanites, that's where the bitter clingers are.
Suburbanites and in rural areas.
But you don't have bitter clingers in the inner city.
All these people have left the cities, they've taken their wealth, they've taken their businesses, they've taken their lives, and they've gotten away from what they don't like in the cities.
And they've left the cities in an absolute mess.
And although it's not mentioned here in the little blurb, Detroit might be an example of this.
And clearly there are other examples of big cities around the country where the inner city is decaying like crazy, and Obama has been led to believe and been taught that this basically because it's racism.
White people have left the cities for suburbia, and so Obama is hellbent on penalizing them.
And that that's what his campaign is all about.
They believe the suburbanites, just a bunch of greedy racists, didn't want to share their uh money, tax money, with the urban poor.
Obama, and this is what Kurtz's book is about.
He claims to establish all of this as fact.
Obama adopted their worldview, supported this movement.
Many of the leaders of this anti-suburban movement, supported by Obama for years are now advising the regime on redistributive anti-suburban policies that few people know anything about.
Bottom line, Kurtz believes that if the election is framed this way, that if enough people begin to look at this election through the prism of Obama and the radical left despising suburbia,
that it will have a profound impact on the votes of people in suburbia.
And I take you back to the belief on the part of many that this election features suburbs as the key swing constituency of the election.
In fact, it's a very important thing.
In the swing states, for example, where are the swing votes?
And the theory is the swing votes in the swing states are in suburbia.
And if the suburban voters are made aware that they are the targets of this redistributive policy of the you didn't build it.
You didn't do that on your own.
That when Obama says things like that, he's talking to suburbanites.
He has suburbanites in their mind.
He has people who fled the cities.
They are a problem.
They have committed an act for which they need to pay.
The cities are in trouble because of racism.
White people didn't want to live among blacks in the inner city and fled.
All the way back to the 50s when suburbs began to pop up.
Not something new.
This has been a Linskyite belief for uh for years.
Now you couple this with the fact, folks, the left, if you listen carefully, it isn't hard to believe.
The left has always had it in for the suburbs.
The left believes that the suburbs is everything that's wrong with America.
That's where all the cars are.
That's all the SUVs are.
That's all the malls are.
You can't have mass transit in the suburbs.
It's too spread out.
You can't control everything.
Cell phones, all this stuff.
It's all part of suburbia.
Environmentalists hate the suburbs because that's where all the environmental destruction takes place.
All the driving takes place.
It's where all the gas stations are.
It's where all the reasons people spend their money have to be or happen to be.
There is a, to buttress what Kurtz is saying, there is a report just out from the Brookings Institute.
It's titled, Demographic Reversal, Cities Thrive, Suburbs Sputter.
Last year, for the first time in more than nine decades, the major cities of the nation's largest metropolitan areas grew faster than ever.
their combined suburbs.
At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life.
The pervasive suburbanization of its population, which began with a widespread automobile use in the twenties to the present day when more than half the country lives in the suburbs.
And this reversal is identified in an analysis of newly released census data for 2010 and 2011 and can be attributed to a number of forces.
And so Kurtz's book is going to make the case that the real Obama campaign, unstated, is an attack on suburban flight, suburban life, and the people who are there.
They are the real problem.
They are these business owners.
They are self-made.
They are the people who have built the factories.
They are the people who have the use the roads and bridges and haven't paid anybody for it.
They are the thieves.
They are selfish and they abandon people because of what they look like.
The suburbs are the repository of evil.
Well, not evil.
The suburbs, that's where the real problem people in this country live.
The people with whom we have to get even.
And by the way, the Brookings Institute institution, they call this Move Back to the Cities the New American Dream.
A bunch of libs at Brookings, so Kurtz could well be onto something here.
Let's take a brief time out and come back and continue after this.
So here is a potential bottom line.
Let's say that the upcoming campaign, suggestion for Romney perhaps, instead of, well, not Romney, he's not going about it this way anyway.
Instead of appealing to undecided voters on ideological grounds, as I have always thought would be a winning thing to do, and I still do.
There may yet still be some people that don't want to look at Obama or Romney ideologically.
They just don't want to go there.
They're not that political.
But they live in suburbia.
So you go to them and say, this guy, Barack Obama, is upset with you.
He doesn't like the suburbs.
If a campaign can be based around the fact, is Obama's real purpose to punish suburbanites?
Is that who he's talking about when he says, you didn't build that, you didn't make that happen?
Given the premise that the election in these swing states, the swing constituency is suburbanites.
Let them know that they are the target of Obama's destructive policies, simply because of where they live, not because they're Democrats, not because they're Republicans, not because they're liberals or Democrats or conservatives or whatever.
It's he doesn't like suburbs.
The president of the United States has a problem with people who've left the cities.
He thinks they're racist.
He thinks they have run out on problems, he thinks they've exacerbated problems, they've taken their tax revenue and they've taken their wealth and they moved out and the cities are decaying and fair, and he wants the money back.
Interesting premise.
In the meantime, Mary Ann and Roanoke, Virginia.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
First time caller, longtime listener.
Thank you very much.
And I want to thank you for educating me.
I I love listening to you.
You're absolutely fantastic.
Here's my comment.
There's two I want to make.
First, suburbions being the evil one.
People that live in the slums or projects.
Wherever they live, if their environment is not good, they want to get out of it.
They want to move to a better environment.
If they have the opportunity to move to suburbia, they take it.
Whether it's Section 8 housing, or they start their own small businesses or they educate themselves and move out.
Let me tell you how the left thinks about this, since you bring that up.
How many minority success stories have there been where we are told or they are told that they have abandoned the hood.
The minute they score, they're out of there too.
And they have a duty to stay in the hood.
Well, they don't.
Or they have to go back.
Snerdly knows what I'm talking about.
Right.
Right.
It's it's along the same lines.
If you get if your grades are too good, you're being too white.
Right.
We heard that some years ago.
Right.
Well, speaking of that, Obama only knows how the way he grew up, that people give you a hand up and help you.
You can't go to high school and smoke dope, do uh blow and various other drugs and blow off high school and get into Occidental, get into Columbia and get into Harvard.
Who says?
Well, somebody somebody is padding his grave.
That's all I can say.
I have three children who's now wait a minute.
Um somebody that I vr relatively familiar with admitted to playing around with cocaine and smoking marijuana and got into those places.
In his high school years?
What?
In his high school years.
Uh well, no, he's president now.
No, I know.
But did did this person in his high school years.
Pre-high school year, yeah.
Okay, well, from what the what the Even in his college years.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It was in the in the cars.
It was so smoke filled that you couldn't see the speedometer.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, despair, chaos, decay.
And yes, even the good times.
And we go to Lafayette, Louisiana.
This is Richard.
Thank you for the call, sir.
Yes, sir.
Uh, question about the uh the Roanoke speech.
Obama was talking about the great system that uh created all these millionaires and whatnot.
But he ran on change.
What's going on here?
Okay, you're talking about the Roanoke speech.
Right, yes, sir.
Uh grab audio sound by thirteen.
Let's listen.
I think you may be on to something, but I want to listen to it again just to make sure.
If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
Okay.
You didn't get there on your own.
I I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.
There are a lot of smart people out there.
It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.
Let me tell you something.
There are a whole bunch of hard working people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and that must be what you're talking about, right?
There was uh does somebody uh does it help to create this unbelievable Americans.
That's what you're talking about?
Yes, sir.
And so your question is, how can this be such a wonderful system if he wants to change it?
Yes, sir.
Well, you're not supposed to ask questions like see, he doesn't he that this this sound bite is filled with problems for Obama.
You have just cited another one.
Um he is running, he says, We gotta transform the country, uh it's unjust and it's unfair.
Um in fact what's it what's the latest uh uh he's talking the urban league.
He's talking the urban league, and he talked about uh our union is less than perfect, but it is perfectable.
And that's that is that whole notion of perfectable is rooted again in liberalism or in the left, perfectable.
They it's it's the uh uh the this this whole stupid utopian uh pursuit uh nature that they have.
Perfect.
We're less than perfect, but we are perfectible.
So there's inherent problems in the founding.
We are flawed.
This country was unjust and immoral from the days of its founding, but with the right people in charge, we can perfect it.
And so he gets caught here.
Now he has to talk about what a great system we have.
Unbelievable American system.
What he's doing is simply trying to relate to people who think of the country in ways that he doesn't.
That's just he's lying to them.
He doesn't think that this is an unbelievable Americ Well, actually he doesn't say great.
He does say unbelievable, which is open to however you want to train.
It could be unbelievable, and I can't believe how bad this is.
I can't believe how flawed and imperfect this country.
But he was clearly trying to tell you we got a great country out here.
It's a great somebody made this country great and they left you out of it.
Somebody made a great country here and they left you behind.
Somebody made a great country and they did it on your back.
And I'm here, take care of you.
And this is getting under their skin.
Now, what are they working on another second response ad?
Richard, thank you.
Chris in Memphis.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you for having me, Mr. Limbo.
You better.
Um I was calling about what you were speaking about in the last segment, and I watched a documentary not too long ago on the Prue and I go housing complex in St. Louis.
Oh, I have yes, I remember Prue and I go.
I'm sure you do.
Bedsty, think bed.
The entire documentary was they started it with the beginning speaking of the creation of the suburb and how St. Louis couldn't expand its borders and so is losing tax revenue, and they blame the failure of the complex on the fact that they didn't have enough tax revenue to keep it up and things like that, and there's a lot of undertones of white racism.
Yeah, white flight, it was called.
White flight to the suburbs and places like Pru and I go, which is a federal housing project, uh it just it it it became a slum.
It became a slow they are trying to blame that on the flight from the city to suburb.
This is exactly what Stanley Kirst is talking about in his book.
Isn't it amazing?
I bring this up and you remember having seen this documentary.
Yeah, I watched it just a few weeks ago, actually.
And I mean, it was everything that they said in that documentary is what it sounds like his book is about.
Did you really they really tried to paint the picture that's now what did you think when you watched the documentary?
You remember what channel it was on?
Uh it was on Netflix.
Netflix.
Yeah.
And they're they usually most of the documentaries on Netflix are pretty liberal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you had to order this.
No, it was a watch instantly.
On Netflix.
It was a watch.
We got it hooked up through the Roku device to our television.
So uh kind of like Apple TV, but a different brand.
Yeah, but but still you had to choose it.
You had to be hunting for documentaries, right?
Well, I was just cruising through, it was late one night, my wife was sick and the baby was asleep, so I was just cruising through, and I saw it and it looked interesting, so I checked it out.
Okay, your wife was sick, the baby was asleep, and you thought I'm gonna watch a documentary.
Yeah, I guess I can be kind of boring sometimes.
No, I didn't.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There's no don't do that.
I'm fascinated by what people choose to do to relax or or or focus themselves, whatever.
So I like anything of a political nature.
Yeah.
And I said, you know, okay, well, so what was your reaction when you when you saw this, Chris, when you saw the the forget what you've heard today.
What was your reaction when you saw them try to construct the blame for Prue and I go?
It blew my mind because you have all these people, you know, testimony from people that actually live there, and they would admit to how terrible the the conditions were because of the people that lived in the place, but then they would blame it on, well, we didn't have the tax revenue for the maintenance.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So he's not a destroying it, they'd blame it on somebody else.
That's exactly it is exactly right.
For the again, for those of you in in New York, if Prue and I go just think beds die.
That's what it's a it was just a mess of a housing project.
And and the uh the whole excuse for these housing projects fail, or not the whole, but one of the biggest excuses was white flight suburbia, uh tax base fleeing, tax revenue fleeing, and of course that turned the people who live there into lives of crime.
It's never their fault.
And I'm telling you, this is what Kurtz's book is about, one of the premises of his book, is that Obama and his Olinskiites harbor a profound resentment because of suburbia, suburban flight, white flight.
They do think it's there's a racist component or a racial component to suburbia.
So people see a housing project going up, they're oh God, I don't want to live anywhere near that, and they leave.
And Obama says, that's why these cities are in bad shape, is because racists decide a day they want to live next to people that look like them.
This is what Alinsky teaches the community organizers to use as a rallying cry when you're organizing people at agitate them to get them all worked up.
Well, no.
I know uh but see, Snerdley is yelling at me, Obama lives in a sweet spot next to Resco in in the floor, he doesn't live in the hood.
But see, liberals, Snerdley, you're forgetting.
The rules are for everybody else.
They're the elites.
They be b they're entitled to not have to live by the rules they require everybody else to live by.
That's that's one of the perks of being in the elites is you get i it is like being in the Politburo.
You get your DACA.
You don't live in Moscow with the s with the the human debris.
You uh you got your place outside.
That's it's it's the way liberals lead us everywhere have always been.
But that's still the the point here is that in running a campaign, if you tell people who live in forget that they're Republicans or Democrats.
If you can run a campaign, if the if the swing voters in the swing states are genuinely, if it's true that it's the suburban voter where his election's gonna turn on, then it makes sense to try to tell them a truth to convince them, look, the President of the United States is a man who believes that this country is in the trouble it's in because you live in suburbia.
Not that you're a Republican, not because you're this or that, but you abandon this.
You're selfish.
You took your tax revenue and your job and your your uh small business or whatever, and you fled and you left disaster behind.
So the the the point of Kurtz's book is to educate, inform the suburbanite swing voters.
Exactly how they are in the crosshairs.
It is their wealth Obama wants to come get.
It is their lives he wants to transform.
He holds them responsible.
And not just Obama, but the Democrat Party.
Them responsible for the plight of the inner city public schools.
It wouldn't be that way if you hadn't left and taken your kids.
Whatever, folks, I if that would persuade them, that's fine with me.
And we've got a little assistance here.
You got Obama talking about it, Roanoke, Virginia on July 13th.
You didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
Somebody made the roads.
So he's talking to here.
That's who he's talking about, and we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Bob in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the suburbs.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, good afternoon, Rush.
Uh it's a pleasure after all these years to have a chance to talk with you.
I'm glad you made it through.
Me too.
Uh I am, I guess what you would call one of those evil suburbanite entrepreneurs.
I've had uh successful business for ten years.
Makes you an Obama target.
Uh I probably am.
You're right.
But what I wanted to say was uh he didn't help me with uh any of my business activities like marketing or engineering or anything like that.
But what the government does is they provide roads.
Now by by providing that I mean they provide the responsibility.
They don't actually build a road, but they contract with a private company, a contractor to do that.
And then what they do is they assess everyone who owns property along that road the cost of the construction.
And if it happens to be a main road, they not only assess the property owners along the road, but they assess people within maybe several hundred feet or a thousand feet or more.
Now they call those user fees.
Yeah, well, it's an assessment, and basically what they're doing is they're passing the cost of that along to the people around it.
So I sit here and I look out in front of my business, and I have a gravel road, no sidewalks, and we do not have uh water and sewer because we're in kind of a semi-rural part of the city here.
So if I wanted to upgrade to a paved road to add sidewalks, or particularly to put in water or sewer, they're gonna pass along those costs.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Is your well is your business successful?
Yes, absolutely.
How can that be?
You you you got a successful business, you don't have a road.
Well, I do have a road, but it's a gravel road.
It's uh you don't have sewage plumbing and you got a successful business not possible.
Obama says not possible.
Well, I don't have a retail business.
I don't have people coming into my shop.
I I do engineering and so I serve my customers.
Well, you still have to get there, and then you got people that come there now and then.
I mean, I'm sure you're not they're all alone.
Well, I and your drumsticks manager, and that's uh the extent of it.
It's a very small business.
But my main point is that if I want to improve those services, I have to actually we've looked into this, I've had to actually pay the same amount as if I had done it privately.
Exactly.
So what is the city really providing me?
Excellent point.
That's exactly right.
We all pay for the roads anyway.
We all do this.
That's the the false premise here is that these successful people have somehow managed to not pay for the roads, which is a crock.
Okay, folks, that's it.
Sadly, sorry, I don't know where these uh hours are going.
They're zipping by so rapidly, but same thing with eating.
There's always tomorrow when you're on a diet.
There's always tomorrow.
And we'll be back in twenty-one hours.
Open line Friday coming up.
Can't wait.
See you then.
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