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Sept. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Tonight, tonight's a big night.
Tonight, tonight, everybody's been waiting for.
Ha ha.
It's the Star Wars bar scene come to life in Charlotte, North Carolina.
That's exactly what this is going to look like.
It's, I can predict it right now.
You can too.
You know exactly what this is going to look like.
You know what it's going to sound like.
And it's the contrast.
What's going to happen the next three nights and what happened last week in Tampa, the Republican Convention is going to be stark.
It's going to be profound.
Great to have you here, folks, as we kick off a, well, for all intents and purposes, since we had a best up show yesterday, a full week of broadcast excellence.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushboardEIBNet.com.
Boy, yesterday on the Sunday shows, the Democrats representing Obama just had no answer for the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
They had no, they were fumbling, bumbling, stumbling all around the answer to that question.
We have all the relevant audio sound bites to illustrate this.
The Clint Eastwood bit at the Republican National Convention is still being talked about, which is testimony alone to its effectiveness.
You know what everybody who's analyzing this, and I must include myself in the first 10 minutes of his routine, forgot, he's an actor.
He's an actor.
Everything that happened in Eastwood's gig intended, was intended to happen.
He wasn't nervous.
He wasn't bumbling.
It didn't take him a while to get going.
It was exactly what it was intended to be.
And you know what it really was?
He was, among many other things, he was telling people who have a sentimental attachment to the historical nature of the one's presidency, i.e. he's the first black president.
Some people are going to vote for Obama just for that reason alone, just like they voted for him originally for that reason.
Eastwood was giving them permits.
Okay, when somebody's not doing a job, we let them go.
That's all he was telling those people.
It's okay.
It's no big deal.
It's like everybody else.
If they're screwing up, it's time to let them go.
And he may not be the guy that you think he is.
He may not be this nice guy if you look at some of the ads running out there.
So I, I, and the empty chair, the empty chair day yesterday, because, snurdy, why does it get under their skin?
Because Obama has never been ridiculed in his life.
He's never been made fun of.
You just don't do it.
And now he's being laughed at.
It's a whole new world for Obama.
He's not been laughed at.
He's not been mocked.
He's not been ridiculed.
That's what he does.
That's what the Yelenskyites do.
It doesn't happen to them.
And that's why it got an.
And of course, the empty chair also means empty suit.
And I think the reason it's getting under their skin, another reason is that it has an element of truth in it, which is what made it effective.
It was masterfully done.
It was extremely, extremely well done.
And I notice all of the, put it to you this way.
If Eastwood had come out, and I think everybody was expecting him to come out and do a traditional convention political speech, and if he had done that, which is what people were expecting, it would have just gotten lost in the panoply of speeches.
And just some Hollywood guy come, but this one, everybody says, these things are so scripted and they're so predictable.
This was totally off the wall.
And purposely said it was masterfully done.
And of course, Eastwood is masterful at what he does.
He's a director, he's a producer, he's an actor.
He memorizes lines for a living.
And I just, I think it was really, really well done.
Even some of the early analysts on our side, the button-down coat and tie crowd, wringing their hands, worried, oh, no, I don't.
Even they have come along.
If you heard, they're requiring a photo ID to attend the Democrat convention.
That is true.
It is true.
It's very racist.
Not only are they requiring a photo ID to attend, you have to produce it three times.
You have to produce a photo ID three times to get in the door.
You even have to show a photo ID to get close to the convention center.
Apparently, Democrats are trying to suppress their own delegates.
Well, I tell you what, well, Snerdley just said, next thing you know, going to be asking for a birth certificate, get this.
You, I'm not making this up.
I'm not kidding you.
You're going to think I am.
You have to prove your citizenship to buy an Obama birth certificate mug or t-shirt.
They're selling those.
They sell birth certificate mugs and t-shirts.
The Democrats do.
You have to prove your citizenship to buy one of those because it's a campaign contribution.
Kid you not, folks.
Snerdley's in there laughing.
He's got fluids coming out of every bodily orifice in there laughing so hard.
It's true.
You know, man, they get so upset when you talk about who was it?
Romney.
He's never had to show where he's proof where he was.
They went nuts.
They're the ones out there selling all this birth certificate stuff, trying to make money on it.
They're going to be bussing people in left and right.
They're really worried not filling up at 73,000 Bank of America Stadium.
And they're not, folks, I just want to tell you, if they do fill it up, it's because they've bussed a bunch of people in from all over the place, young people, and brought them there because it's not going to happen of its own volition.
Obama's not even selling out or filling up 20,000 seat arenas now in some places smaller than that.
You know, I love these stories.
They come along the pike now and then, and they just serve me so well.
Organic food, no healthier than non-organic.
Yes, this is from Reuters Health.
Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional varieties.
Now, I'm not targeting those of you in the organic food market.
I appreciate entrepreneurism.
And if the environmentalist wackos are going to come along and tell people that eating chicken and vegetables that has been lathered and dung is healthier for them than the process, fine and net.
It's just like if the wackos convince a bunch of customers that buying something green is good, go green.
If I understand the marketing, totally.
But I also love the truth.
Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence.
However, organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
This is from researchers at Stanford, but it isn't any healthier.
It's got no more vitamins, no more nutrients, same vitamins, all that stuff.
Organic tastes better?
Really?
You know, I wouldn't, again, got to be very careful here because people in the organic foods business and we love business people.
I never, I wouldn't know the difference.
I saw the other day some guy, organic egg form, egg farm, won an award for the best eggs anywhere.
It's all how you cook the stuff.
If you put butter on anything, you're going to think it's better.
This is why male chefs are better than female because they don't fear of any using butter.
My dad always made this point.
Always, you're going to go to a five-star restaurant.
Make sure the chef is a man.
If it's a woman, there won't be butter anywhere near it.
And it's Thirdly laughing again with more fluids coming out of every bodily horror.
He did.
My dad did say that to me.
With my mother sitting right there and she's nodding in agreement.
She hid the butter in our refrigerator.
I'm not kidding.
Well, because it's supposedly so fattening and all that.
But can you imagine if there's just one empty seat at Bank of America Stadium on Thursday night?
Fox will find it.
CNN and MSNBC won't.
If there's an empty seat, it will be found.
Somebody sent me a picture over the weekend, first known picture of Karl Marx with Obama.
And it was a picture of Mark standing next to an empty chair.
This stuff, it's all over the place out there.
It's, it's, okay, I have done something for you.
I have put together all of the news reports that I have seen about the convention in summary form.
Just to give you a flavor for what a big mess this thing could potentially be.
First at the top of the list, Clinton will not hand over his speech to anybody.
As of now, Bill Clinton has not let anybody see the speech he's going to give.
This is not done.
Everybody who pens a speech, writes it, turns it in, has it vetted, convention organizers, of course, because it's Obama's convention.
His people are going to look at it.
Clinton hasn't turned his in and says he's not going to.
Bill O'Reilly, in a rare excursion into humor, did you hear about this?
Suggested that when Sandra Flux speaks, instead of dropping balloons, they drop condoms.
And more bodily fluids emanating from the cavities of the face of Mr. Snerdly.
Yep.
And Sandra Fluke is profoundly offended by this, by the way.
They're worried.
No, don't even tempt me with that condom comment.
We're just going to assume they're all brand new and unused.
Anyway, it's O'Reilly's idea.
Cassandra Flock is profoundly offended by this, but she says that she's going to persevere despite this latest insult.
Oh, man, wouldn't that be great?
A condom drop.
And if we hadn't mentioned it, if O'Reilly hadn't mentioned it, the Democrats might have come with that on their own.
Then there's a story, there's a massive bed bug infestation in hotels in Charlotte.
Right.
Shortly after the delegates arrived, exterminators began to discover bed bugs in a number of the hotels.
And not the delegates.
They are actual bed bugs.
There was a California delegate who showed up, got rip roaring, destructively drunk like a rock star drunk, and they sent him home.
The union thugs are ticked off that they are in North Carolina in the first place.
They are really mad, and they're giving angry speeches about Romney and the Republicans.
Barney Frank, I kid you not, I've got the picture.
Barney Frank checked into his hotel.
It's one of the Marriotts there with a leather belt around his neck, buckled.
The kind of belt you would wear in your slacks.
Barney Frank, photo from the side on his right side, taken, checking in, checking into the hotel with a leather belt buckled around his neck.
Don't understand it.
I'm not going to offer any analysis.
I'm just telling you, I've got the picture.
I'm just sharing with you some of the news stories that I've seen as I've been feverishly prepping the busy broadcast today.
The governor of North Carolina, Beverly Dumplins Purdue, says that if we're not careful, we're going to find wire coat hangers in the bathtubs where women go to have abortions.
If Republicans start winning elections, we're going to see bathtub abortions with wire coat.
The governor of North Carolina made this claim.
The weather forecast is for thunderstorms daily, late in the afternoon, moving through there, which has happened.
There are record high gasoline prices over the Labor Day weekend, record high gasoline prices.
The deficit, the national debt, is going to hit $16 trillion during the Democrat National Convention.
Democrat-run cities and states are in economic freefall, and the mayors of many of those cities and the governors of many of those states are in Charlotte with speaking engagements at the convention.
Vice President Biden said that he would be happy to tell people how we're better off now than we were four years ago, but it was too hot, and he had to get back inside.
The Democrat Party is shrinking.
There is a story out, came out over the weekend.
It might have been a Rasmussen poll.
More Americans self-identify as Republicans than Democrats for the first time in I don't know how many years.
Now, it has always been the case in recent years that people self-identify as conservatives almost two to one.
Latest numbers on that was 40% say they're conservative, 20% say they're liberal.
This is party ID.
Self-identification as Republicans leads self-identified Democrats for the first time in a long time.
The mayor of Chicago can't stay in Charlotte long.
He's got to get back to Chicago to stop the bloodshed there.
The gangbangers are still killing people.
The empty chair is still alive and kicking.
The faded poster is still being mentioned.
And the you didn't build that theme.
That has survived the Republican.
That's just what I've assembled before they've even started this thing.
So you sit tight, my friends.
We got a poll from thehill.com.
It's not good for the regime.
My guess is this poll mirrors their own polling, their own internal polling.
Details coming up right after this first obscene profit timeout.
In addition to all the other news, food stamp enrollment, ladies and gentlemen, just hit another record last month.
More Americans than ever before are on food stamps.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
No sooner.
Had I finished our first segment and I looked at the computer and I see one of the lead items on Drudge, Democrats set to move Obama's big speech indoors.
Democrats, this is Toby Harndin reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina, UK Daily Mail.
Democrats are poised to avoid the danger of Obama accepting his nomination before a partially empty stadium by shifting the speech to an indoor arena and citing severe weather.
Now, there have been thunderstorms rolling through there for the last week or so.
It's the usual late afternoon condensation buildup.
They've been roaring through there.
Well, that's the thing.
I mean, if you're going to heal the planet and you're going to lower the seas, stop the storms.
After all, this is the one.
This is the big O.
The Obama campaign has been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seat Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte would be filled.
It is Bank of America Stadium.
They paid millions of dollars for the naming rights.
Democrats have refused to call it that.
They're continuing to call it Panther Stadium.
It's not Panther Stadium.
The Democrats had buses for students all across North Carolina, and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged.
Bus people in there to fill up the 74,000-seat stadium, and I don't think they're anywhere near it.
Obviously, nowhere near it.
So now they're going to move it inside.
That's the latest.
And use severe weather as their explanation.
Hey, I got a headline.
I have a headline for anybody wants to use it on Thursday night.
If they move the speech, if they move Thursday night's proceedings from outdoors to indoors, the headline is, you didn't fill that.
And then they show a picture of Panther State and Bank of America Stadium.
You didn't fill that.
We might even use it ourselves at rushlinbaugh.com.
Speaking of ads, the RNC Republican National Committee on their YouTube channel has come out with a very good ad.
And what this is, it demonstrates the emptiness of Obama's words and how they get recycled.
And what we have here, I have to explain this to you.
Every statement you are going to hear twice, the first time you hear the statement is from 2008.
The next time you hear the statement will be from 2012 or 2011.
But basically, it compares Obama campaigning in 2008 to campaigning this year.
We've got about 51 seconds left.
It goes a little longer than that.
We tightened it up to make it a little punchier.
These are the steps that we must take.
There are plenty of steps we can take right now.
Right now.
To start getting our economy back on track.
To help create jobs and grow this economy.
If we are going to deal with our dependence on foreign oil, if we're going to end our dependence on foreign oil, we'll recruit an army of new teachers.
I want to recruit an army of new teachers.
Make college affordable.
Make college more affordable and repair our crumbling roads and bridges.
We've got crumbling roads and bridges.
Tonight, more Americans are out of work.
We've still got friends out there and family who are looking for work.
There's a time when so many people are struggling to keep up, a moment when so many people are still struggling.
If you are willing to work with me, if you're willing to work even harder in this election, then I promise.
Then I promise you.
I promise you change will come.
Same speeches, same promises.
Are you better off?
That's the graphic at the end of the ad.
Same speeches, same promises.
Are you better off?
It is remarkable.
You know, we've put together similar examples of Obama over the years and how elements of speeches are simply repeated words almost.
I don't even know why he needs a teleprompter.
He's been saying the same exact thing for going on five years now, and yet he still needs the prompter.
Here's the devastating news from thehill.com.
And I think this poll probably reflects White House internal polling.
A majority of voters believe the country is worse off today than it was four years ago, and that Obama does not deserve reelection.
A majority of voters.
Have you ever seen or heard of a poll with these results from ABC, Washington Post, NBC, Wall Street Journal, CBS, New York Times?
Oh, speaking of the New York Times, they had a story on Sunday which a guy at Forbes, after he read the story, posted an analysis piece of it thinking that this piece pretty much ends Obama's presidency.
It illustrates what a lousy CEO he is, what a lousy president he is.
In fact, here's how the guy starts at a New York Times front page story Sunday.
New York Times might have killed Obama's reelection hopes.
Details coming up.
First, this poll.
52% of likely voters say the nation is in worse condition now than four years ago.
54% say Obama does not deserve reelection based solely on his job performance.
So 52% of likely voters say it's worse.
54% say we got to let the guy go.
51% of women believe he doesn't deserve re-election.
Now, it's interesting.
This is the time of year in the campaign we start receiving or start getting polling data of likely voters, not registered voters or adults.
Only 31% of voters believe the nation's in better condition.
15% say it's about the same.
Only 40% of voters said Obama deserves reelection.
Now, these results highlight the depth of voter dissatisfaction confronting Obama as he makes his case for a second term.
And they also suggest strongly that Democrats need to convince voters the election should be a choice between Obama and Romney rather than a referendum on Obama.
If it's a referendum on Obama, which it's going to be, there's nothing they can do about that.
They have shot everything they've got at Mitt Romney.
They haven't been able to tarnish him.
Over $100 million has been spent so far trying to cast Mitt Romney as some sort of evil villain, mean-spirited extremist, murderer, felon.
It hasn't worked.
Now Romney has access to all the money he raised, and he can start firing back on his own.
This poll, by the way, very important to point out, does not sample, does not oversample Democrats.
It's one of the first.
Here, let me give you the breakdown.
The breakdown is shocking.
Democrat 34, Republican 36, Independent 30.
Now, remember, they come up with these samples, they tell you, to reflect voter turnout in previous elections.
What's apparently going on here with this poll is that they are sampling what they think might be reflective of turnout in this coming election based on all the information on enthusiasm, who has it, who doesn't.
And it's clear that the Republicans are far more enthusiastic, conservatives far more enthusiastic about voting than Obama's supporters are.
And I hasten to remind you that we had the news on Friday.
I forget the poll now, but Obama was down 15 points among independents.
15 points.
So slowly but surely, we are getting news stories and polling data which reflect what's really going on, not what the media hopes they can make happen, but rather what's really going on.
Now, it's easy for me to sit here and tell you that in the past six months when I've seen polls that show Obama up eight or up 10, I don't believe them.
I never have believed them.
You know, I'm on record.
I don't know how many days in the past three months saying, quote, if the election were today, Romney would win in the landslide.
And I haven't wavered from that.
The Pew Center for People in the Press say fewer people are going to watch the Democrat convention in 2012 than in 2008 by 17%.
The Republican convention had the same level of interest 2004 to 2008, but the Pew people have gone out and they've surveyed Democrats and they have found that their projections are that 17% fewer people are going to watch the Democrat convention.
I'm not afraid of people saying this convention.
This convention, I'm telling you, the contrast is going to be amazing.
It's going to be stark.
It's going to be profound.
It's going to be the Star Wars bar scene.
They think they have a convention that reflects the diversity of America.
They think they've got a convention where the people there In the crowd.
The delegates, speakers look like America.
The problem is the Democrat Party is a party of grievance.
It's a party of victimology.
Everybody's incompetent.
Everybody's a victim.
Everybody's got a grievance against the Republicans.
Everybody's miserable, and the reason for that is Republicans.
Everybody's unhappy because of the Republicans.
Everybody has got all sorts of negative vibes about them.
That's because of the Republicans.
You're going to see speaker after speaker after speaker trying to sound optimistic about Obama and his great work while at the same time portraying this country in ways that you don't see it, you don't recognize it, and you don't want it to be.
They're going to try to tell us that the presentation they make is an honest reflection of America, but it isn't going to, for example, the gay population of America is, according to the census, 1% gay.
9% of the delegates and the attendees of the Democrat convention are gay.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender group, big in the Democrat Party, but it's not a mainstream American subgroup.
But the Democrats, they work because they're victims, you see.
These are people victimized by the evil majority since the days of the founding.
And it is without even seeing this convention.
I've seen enough of them in the past, the Wellstone Memorial, all kinds of examples, particularly when they can't make the case for their record.
They can't stand up and talk about how gas prices are the new norm.
They can't talk about how 8.3% of unemployment is new.
They can't make the case for what's happened.
They cannot affirmatively, positively, with good cheer, make the case for anything that's going on in the country right now.
They just can't do it.
Some of them want to try.
Some of them think this is what we deserve.
Some of them think this is what we deserve for what we've done as a country around the world.
We deserve this.
We deserve this kind of economic melees.
We deserve this kind of misery so we can find out what it's like to live in the rest of the world, but we've caused it.
So you're going to have people with all kinds of grievances against the country and try as hard as they can.
Here, forward.
Forward is their theme, and we're going backward to Bill Clinton as the star of the show.
And Jimmy Carter, also not just sitting there as job of the hut overseeing the convention, now he's got a speaking role this time, doesn't he?
Forward.
Jimmy Carter with a speaking role.
Man, anytime you think Jimmy Carter offers an opportunity for your party to look better, but they can't make the case for anything.
They've tried demonizing Romney.
They've tried demonizing Paul Ryan, and they're not through.
I expect to hear my name mentioned now and then at this convention.
They believe they can gin up hatred for Republicans by mentioning my name.
They believe they can motivate and raise interest and enthusiasm on the part of Democrat voters by mentioning my name.
So they will.
And there will be others that they think cause Democrats to react the same way.
Carter's going to speak via video.
That's safer.
All they can do is hit the screen when they throw things at it.
They can't hit him if he's not actually there.
You've got, what is it?
Obama said that the Republican convention looked like the old black and white TV days.
Well, Democrats, like Paul Ryan said, see, Jimmy Carter's the good old days.
What was wrong with the black and white TV?
What was wrong with strong families?
What was wrong with all of that?
So old-fashioned and quaint, and it simply doesn't relate to anything going on today.
That's a shame, too.
Maybe true, but it doesn't.
But it should.
I think Obama sees everything in terms of black and white.
So it makes no not surprising to me he would reflect on it that way.
Mrs. Clinton, nowhere near this convention, but at least halfway around the world.
Claire McCaskill, not going to the convention.
Corey Booker.
You know, another bad open?
Corey Omen?
Corey Booker, the Newark mayor, who has already been taken to Woodshed once for saying he liked private equity, liked Mitt Romney, liked Bain Capital.
Corey Booker was scheduled to address the Florida delegation Tuesday morning, this morning at the convention.
He got out of the car.
He tripped on the curb and injured his leg pretty badly.
But he gutted it out.
He toughed it up.
He proceeded to address the Florida delegation standing on one leg and then headed to the hospital to be treated.
So a rising Democrat star trips on the curb on the way to speak to the Florida delegation.
No, no, I don't think the SEIU was involved.
I think the curb actually got in the way.
Now, if the SEIU is involved, that will come out at some point.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the growing by leaps and bounds increasingly popular Rush Limbaugh program here at 800-282-2882 and to the phones we go to Thurmond, New York.
Carolyn, you're first.
It's great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Just wanted to make a comment that if they were going to be busing in people for the convention, they should have no problem because a lot of us don't have jobs to go to.
Problem is that a lot of them don't have IDs, and you've got to have an ID to get in a convention.
Oh, that's true.
You've got to have photo ID to get on the buses.
You have photo ID to get anywhere near this convention site.
And a lot of Democrats don't have photo IDs because it's just too oppressive.
You know, it's too racist.
It's too bigoted to have to have a photo ID.
I don't know how these people get on airplanes.
I don't know how they shop.
What am I saying?
They don't.
They have their government debit card.
The debit card doesn't have to.
But you're right.
You're thinking they could easily fill the place up with the unemployed.
Absolutely.
I'm available, unfortunately.
You don't want to go, though, do you?
I don't think I could sit through it for more than an hour, unless they want somebody yelling at them.
Well, I can't imagine you would want to go.
I mean, even for the historical aspect of it, who wants to be in that crowd?
I don't know about that crowd, but I'd love to go to North Carolina again.
When was the last time you were in North Carolina?
I think it was about, oh, it must have been 15 to 20 years ago.
Now, if you don't remember exactly when it was, why are you so excited to get back?
Oh, I loved it.
You loved it so much you don't remember when you were there.
True.
That must be old age creeping up on me.
No, no, no, no.
It has nothing to do with age whatsoever.
This is strictly a gender thing.
Oh, okay.
This is the Republican war against women.
Got it.
Exactly.
Carolyn, thanks much.
I appreciate the phone call.
You do.
They would have trouble with photo IDs.
getting enough people.
They've gone out of their way to make sure members of their party do not have photo IDs.
And now it may be coming back to bite them.
You see where Obama was asked in an interview what grade he would give himself?
He gave himself an incomplete.
I guess there's still too many people with jobs.
Doesn't that give him incomplete?
What the hell does that mean?
There's no progress, so what does incomplete mean?
By the way, Apple has made it official.
They're going to announce the iPhone 5 on September 12th, the week from tomorrow.
And I've got some iPhone 4Ss here that I better, I guess I should give those away today because they're still great phones.
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