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Sept. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Obama did give himself a grade of incomplete after 42 straight months of unemployment over 8%.
I shudder to think what he means.
incomplete?
Apparently there are still too many people with jobs too many businesses still trying to make a go of it.
Obama just said somewhere that he's um he's gonna get all misty watching Mrs. Obama tonight, and that he doesn't want his daughters to see him cry.
It's going to get all misty, which reminds me of a Clint Eastwood movie, Play Misty for Me.
It was about the killer groupie.
uh Eastwood was a disc jockey in Carmel, California.
And what was the actress's name?
Oh, I'm having a metal block on the actress's name, but she played a groupie.
Jessica's no, not Harper, it was Jessica uh Jessica Walter.
Close.
Jessica Walter played the groupie who tried to tried to kill Eastwood.
And Obama now says he he's gonna get all misty watching Mrs. Obama speak tonight.
I wonder if she'll ask us, are you eating better today than you were four years ago?
Well, what has her reign been about?
But food and what people eat.
Anyway, folks, great to have you.
Telephone number here, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program in advance of Clinton's speech at the Democrat convention, there have been amazingly been a bunch of articles recalling Clinton's disparaging remarks about Obama during the 2008 campaign.
Now that book uh Game Change, which HBO made into a movie about Sarah Palin, Mark Halpern's book, Mark Halpern and John Heileman, they uh they described Clinton trying to get Ted Kennedy's endorsement for Hillary.
And they had Clinton talking to Ted Kennedy, and they quote Clinton as saying, you know, Ted, a few years ago this guy be getting us coffee.
In the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza reports that the late Tim Russert told him of a similar comment by Clinton.
According to Ryan Lizza, via Tim Russert, Clinton said to Ted Kennedy, hey, you know, Ted, a few years ago this guy'd have been carrying our bags.
And Clinton's impression of Obama hasn't improved since 2008.
Last year, he told a bunch of friends, and this is Ed Klein, you know, in that book, The Amateur.
Obama or Clinton told a bunch of friends, you know, this this guy, Obama, he doesn't even know how to be president.
He doesn't know how the world works.
I mean, how could he?
Oh, he's been too busy fetching my coffee, carry my bags.
Ha ha ha.
CNN's Soledad O'Brien, named after a prison, interviewed Ryan Lizza on Clinton's remark about Obama fetching baggage.
And Soledad called the remark racist.
Ryan Liza said, no, no, no, this is not it's not racial.
Clinton doesn't have a racist bone in his body.
See, when a Democrat describes a black guy as the step and fetch it, that's not racism.
Because Democrats can't be racist.
Clinton was just trying to talk about how relatively inexperienced Obama was.
They didn't have any experience.
That's all Clinton was saying.
When he told Ted Kennedy.
This is a few years ago, this guy would be fetching our coffee.
Now I don't know.
I don't know if Ryan Liza wants to come off as an expert about every bone in Clinton's body.
There are a number of women who could testify about that, I'm sure, with far more credibility than Ryan Lizard.
But the bottom line, Clinton may claim that Obama would have carried his bags a few years ago.
But this week Clinton's going to carry Obama's dirty water.
And what if he doesn't?
He won't let anybody see his speech.
And I'm seeing stories.
This is something as a human being, I don't understand.
In the real world, we're getting stories, these two guys don't like each other.
I don't know if that's true or not.
But let's say that it is.
I mean, some of the stories have said it's not it's more than dislike.
It is a visceral hatred that these guys have for one another.
And the reason that Clinton has this hatred for Obama is obviously what he did to Hillary, uh, that he played the race card on Clinton in the 2008 campaign.
And that Obama is a much bigger star than Clinton ever was, which is saying something because in the Democrat Party, Clinton was it.
And then on the other side, we're told that Obama has no love lost for Clinton either, and it's more than just dislike.
So why, if you're Obama, would you dare have this guy?
If they're really enemies, why would you give this guy prime?
Now you know that he's going to be promoting his wife.
The whole idea here is for Hillary to be back in the White House 2016, not now.
I guess the assumption is that they're going to gut it up for the party, and at the end of this, Clinton is ultimately going to end up advocating for Obama.
But it's still a risk.
So I don't know if these stories about how these guys hate each other is really true or not.
But they're out there.
And knowing Obama as I think I do, this is what when if you're Clinton, you're running and say, hey, Ted, you know, this kind of guy, this guy be cashing our baggage not long ago, fetching our coffee.
That's the kind of stuff that would live, make Obama live and and and not ever forget that.
And then you know, chalk it up and pack it away for further use later on down the line.
Uh I just this stuff is really perplexing to me.
But it boils down to this is this is the sad shape Obama's in.
If he has to give prime time to somebody he really doesn't like, he's the most powerful man in the world, and he has to give a prominent prime time hour to Bill Clinton, somebody he really doesn't like, he must need the Bubba vote.
It really just boils down to nothing more than that.
And I think also there's a um a good possibility that what Clinton's gonna do is talk about how great things were when he was president.
You know he.
Clinton's gonna talk about all of the unemployment was down and jobs are up and the tax increases that he said they make it made it happen.
And Obama's gonna like hearing that.
Obama would much rather run on Clinton's record than his own.
So to the extent that Clinton can make his record seem like Obama's because they're in the same party and the same philosophies, then there may be an upside in that regard.
Well, uh no, it it not in their thinking it wouldn't undermine Obama if Clinton's success is what Obama's aspiring to in his next four years.
That's why the grade's incomplete, but I want to I I can see it look, it's it's it's perverted.
Uh and I'm not an expert in perversion, but I can still see how this might the first black president wants to feed off of the success of the first black president, right?
Uh when you when you uh when you boil all of this down.
But if if uh if the Republicans are smart when this whole thing is over, you know, after Clinton speaks, what Mitt or Ryan ought to go out there and say is, hey, Bill, your record you didn't build that.
You didn't build that, you couldn't have done that without the Republicans in Congress.
You couldn't have done welfare reform without the Republicans in Congress.
Throw it right back at them.
So anyway, I I'll tell you, who who could carry all of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton's baggage anyway?
Is that really a cut to Obama?
Who right?
When we come back, audio sound bites before we get to your phone calls, a little bit of the trouble that the Democrats had on the Sunday shows trying to answer the question are are we really better off after four years of Obama?
By gosh, I want I am joking.
I end up being right.
I moments ago postulated that Michelle Obama's speech tonight, she would ask, are you eating better now than you were four years ago?
Lo and behold, she did an interview for Parade Magazine, that liberal shill that shows up in the Sunday newspapers.
And she was asked the following question.
What do you hope to accomplish in your second term?
And she said she wants to quote, impact the nature of food in grocery stores.
Close quote.
She wants to impact the nature of food in grocery stores.
Holy schmolly, that's the objective for the first lady.
Impact the nature of food in grocery stores.
Is that doesn't even need any commentary.
Sorry.
You can fill in the blanks on your own.
I uh uh folks, I'm gonna I'm gonna move the sound bites to the next segment of the busy broadcast today.
I how I don't know how you impact the nature of food.
What the hell does that what is the nature of food anyway?
I can understand if somebody asks a question, you say, Bill, what's the what is the nature of your question?
What are you really getting at?
Impact the nature of food?
Impact the I mean that classic liberal gobbledygook speak.
Here's Tony in Oklahoma City.
Hey, Tony, welcome to EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
Sit on Edo's Russ, God bless you, and turn your staff.
Hey, how in the cornbread hell can anybody be undecided when you got two candidates so diverse in their views of America, how it is, how it was, and how it could and should be.
Well, in fact, we asked this question last week because the the pollsters have put out news that there are anywhere from four to eight percent of the electorate still undecided.
I have a better question.
Um and I'm you know, I ask this only half in jest.
But I ask it to illustrate the point.
Just building on your question.
I don't understand.
I intellectually do.
But I mean, given I have a romantic attachment to this country.
I have a romantic attachment to its founding.
I I have a a constant daily, hourly appreciation for how blessed a people we are to be Americans.
And therefore, I don't understand how anybody can vote for this bunch, not much less be undecided.
But they do, and I intellectually emotionally understand why there's still a lot of takers.
Uh and and the Democrats have succeeded in branding the Republicans as you know, racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes, hate the poor, and all that kind of understand all that.
But given life in America in 2012, what there is about current leadership to recommend it for another four years to people.
I mean, even if you're a taker, how how well can you possibly be doing?
So, I mean, I I I hear you.
It's a it it's it's a frustrating thing.
But as as each day passes, my my confidence in the eventual outcome here rises.
Subject to change daily.
Anything can happen.
But like this Hill.com poll that we uh shared with you earlier today with the 52% American people think Obama's doing a lousy job, don't think he deserves re-election.
That's more like it.
I mean, that's where we really are.
And I think it's higher than 52%.
And we got a decent sample in this poll as well.
It wasn't Democrats plus nine.
But it's a great question.
How can anybody be undecided about the last four years?
But you have to understand there are a lot of morons out there, Jerry.
It's just a sad thing to say, or Tony, there are morons.
And Obama's aiming at them.
Obama is trying to wrap up the moron vote.
Hell.
Give you a give you an example.
Here's a here's a moron.
I'm thinking of having a moron stack of stuff every day because I could do it.
Torrance, California, an 82-year-old woman with a rap sheet dating back in 1955 has been arrested on suspicion of burglarizing at least eight doctors' offices throughout Torrance, California.
Doris Thompson arrested Thursday after detectives tracked her down at a motel in El Segundo.
Police believe that Doris Thompson visited doctor's offices, hid inside until everybody went home for the night.
When the coast was clear, she would come out of hiding, search for keys, open lock boxes, remove cash.
She is believed to have stolen $17,000 from eight burglaries since March.
Now, according to a newspaper, she told detectives at her sentencing that she wouldn't do all this if the government gave us more money.
She's eighty-five.
And when they sentenced her, she told the detectives, I wouldn't be doing this if the government gave us more money.
So there's clearly morons out there.
You see them every day.
You run into them every day.
And the sad thing is Obama's exploiting them.
He is trying to uh burnish their moron status.
He wants to keep them morons, and he wants to embellish them so they're more moronic.
And then he wants their votes.
This is not about greatness.
It's not about great country, not about I mean food stamp use climbed to record 46.7 million in June, all under Obama's watch.
46.7 million.
23 million Americans not working.
That's what Clint Eastwood said he cries about.
Jerry in the Bay Area, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Oh, good morning.
Good to talk to you again, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I'm I'm a truck driver, and I'm driving around uh Bay Area, Sacramento area, and all the local stations have been all a gog about this local Democrat bigwig that made the point that the uh Republican convention was too much like uh Nazi propaganda.
What was this?
Is this guy's name Burton?
That sounds familiar.
I think this is John Burton.
I know that name from when I when I worked out there.
Yeah, he did.
He said that the uh he called Ryan was gobbles.
Joseph was spreading the big lie in a Republican convention, just a bunch of Nazis.
Yeah, I saw that.
Yeah, I think the real problem, you know, he's having to apologize all over the place.
But I think the real problem he has is that he telegraphed the whole uh Democrat convention.
Has he apologized?
He didn't tell the big lie over and over and over till people believe it.
Well, He did apologize for it.
But your point is that's what he really thinks.
And that's what a lot of these delegates really think.
Oh, yeah.
And you know, and the Democrats are not going to be able to do that.
Folks, he is the head of the California Democrat Party.
I know I knew that name.
John Burton is the head of the California Democrat Party.
Um, and uh he he did a Democrat-like apology.
But this is what they think.
This is what they really uh when when somehow they get they drink a little too much or something else happens and they're feeling uninhibited.
And so old Jair here, calling us in the Bay Area thinks that that's what the convention could possibly end up being with uh statements like that.
It's entirely possible, or things at least close to it, and I I won't be surprised if it uh if it does happen.
Okay, soundbite's coming up, folks, sit tight.
Here's what John Burton said.
This was uh yesterday, San Francisco, KCBS radio correspondent Doug Sovereign interviewing uh John Burton, the California Democratic Party chair, he said, What did you think about Paul Ryan's acceptance speech?
Many fact checkers claim it was rife with falsehoods and inaccuracies, which the Republican rejects.
They lie and they don't care if people think they lie as long as you lie.
Joseph Goebbels.
The big lie, you keep repeating it.
They lie.
They don't care if people think they lie.
As long as you lie, Joseph Goebbels the big lie, Nazis.
Would you like to hear his apology?
Here's the apology.
Said, and this is a typical Democrat apology.
If Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or the Republicans are insulted by my describing their campaign tactic as the big lie, I most humbly apologize to them or anyone who might have been offended by the comment.
He didn't apologize for making it.
This is typical.
I apologize if you were offended by it, but I meant to say it.
I'm sure he did.
And of course Pelosi was right there, and she pretty much gave it the stamp of approval when she said that you have endless money, you can try to sell any misrepresentation to the American people.
You saw the factual misrepresentations in the Ryan speech.
You know, they're talking about the GM Janesville plant, and and Ryan was not wrong about that.
I'll tell you, these people are standing in quicksand.
And it really is rich to hear them talk about spreading lies, the big lie.
And I mean their whole existence is a big lie.
Their whole agenda is a big lie.
Their whole reason for wanting to do things is a big lie.
They can't be honest.
If these people, if the Democrats of today were ever really honest about their intentions, they wouldn't get any votes.
Even the morons, if they finally knew what was intended for them, wouldn't vote for this.
Because eventually morons are going to realize in order to be given something, somebody's got to have something.
So, And if somebody doesn't have something, then you can't take it away from them to give to the morons.
And eventually, even the morons could be made to understand that, even if they failed math, which they most likely did.
I don't recall Pelosi ever apologizing for an effect calling the Tea Party supporters Nazis.
She said she saw a lot of swastikas, if recall at Tea Party uh rallies.
My my question for Democrats is why don't you people ever run on your record?
Mr. Burton, Miss Pelosi, President Obama, why can't you people run on your record?
Why can't you go to your convention and tell people that the gasoline price record high is the new norm?
Why can't you go tell people?
8.3% unemployment, that's the new norm.
Why can't you go tell people that standing in the way of domestic oil production, that's what you're for?
Why can't you go trumpet what you've done?
Why can't you run on your record?
Why don't you ever do that?
You know, if if if both sides were ever forced to run on their records and on their agenda for the next four years.
Is there any doubt which side would win?
And now to the audio's.
Oh, one other thing here.
Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker.
They're making a big deal out of this, by the way.
This is this goes back to Clinton and his speech at the convention, how he and Obama don't like each other.
Clinton hasn't turned his speech in yet, so they can vet the thing.
At least he hadn't, as of this morning.
New Yorkers Ryan Lizza is reporting a former White House aide and longtime political advisor to Clinton, a guy named Douglas Band is going to vote for Romney.
Now I venture to say most people never heard of Douglas Band.
Now stick with me on this.
I know who he is.
He's in Clinton's office.
He's like a Reggie Love.
He's a body guy with policy responsibilities.
He's he's an im is like a Huma is for Hillary.
You could call this guy Huma, Mr. Huma.
But other than that, nobody knows who he is, other than junkies like me.
Why announce what he's gonna do?
Who I mean.
So he's gonna vote for Romney.
Why do you put that out?
If you're the Clinton office, why do you make a big deal out of that?
This guy, Douglas Band, is gonna vote for Mitt Romney, as Liz, Ryan Liza, the New Yorker here says, describes the uneasy relationship between President Obama and Clinton from the magazine.
For Clinton, the politics are more complicated.
His associates take it as a given that he would like nothing more than to see his wife become president.
Hillary will step down as Secretary of State after the campaign and start the process of deciding whether she's gonna go for it in 2016.
By some measures, a defeat for Obama in Novom uh November would leave Hillary, the undisputed leader of her party, and propel her toward the oval orifice that much faster.
At least one of Clinton's closest advisors seems to be backing that strategy.
According to two people with direct knowledge, Douglas Band has said he's gonna vote for Romney.
Okay.
Why put that out there?
Nobody would know this.
Is that a dog whistle?
We got a white guy on Clinton's team saying he's not gonna vote for Obama?
Is that racist?
But seriously, why announce this?
It's it's like saying that Enos Slobodnik and Oshkosh is gonna vote for Romney, as far as most people are concerned.
But since it's not Enos Slobotnik and Noshkosh, it's Doug Band in Clinton's office.
Now people go, whoa, and it becomes a story.
The day before Clinton's supposed to address the convention, ostensibly promoting Obama, they put a story out that his big guy, one of his big guys is voting for Romney.
Is it sabotage?
Is it keeping the Wall Street guys happy for 2016 and for Hillary?
Is it undermine Obama?
This this guy banned, I just want he's he's he's one of Clinton's closest advisors.
That's why you don't know much about him.
But he's big, but he's not big.
I mean, even now with the news getting out.
Who?
Imagine the morons trying to deal with it.
Doug Who uh what does it mean to me?
Here's Ronaldus Magnus.
October 28th, 1980, Cleveland, Ohio.
Jimmy Carter and Ronaldus Magnus engaged in a presidential debate.
And here is a portion of the closing statement from Ronaldus Magnus.
Ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago?
Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?
Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago?
Is America as respected throughout the world as it was?
Do you feel that our security Is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago.
And if you answer all of those questions, yes, why then I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for.
If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have.
And that would be me, Ronaldus Magnus.
So that's where it all started.
Yesterday on the Sunday, well, Sunday, on the Sunday shows, and and even carrying over to yesterday.
The drive-bys and the Democrats struggled with this.
And we have a montage, media montage, where the members of the media here say the Obama camp is struggling with this question.
Now, how do you struggle with the question?
Either you are or you aren't better off.
It was the economy stupid, 1992, cut dried.
Somehow Obama's struggling with the most fundamental measure of whether a president should be elected.
The Obama campaign is struggling to answer the question that stopped Jimmy Carter.
He was seeking a second term.
There is this nagging question they're struggling to answer.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
They're really struggling with that.
Democrats have been struggling to answer a critical question about President Obama's first term.
Struggling this weekend to answer the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Democrats are still struggling to come up with a good answer.
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
The Obama camp is struggling to articulate a unified response.
This Democratic convention is getting off to a bit of a defensive start as the Obama campaign seems to be struggling.
Now, recently I saw somebody, I read somebody said there isn't really any bias in the media.
There's just consensus.
Meaning they all think alike.
It's not so much that there's studied contrived conspiratorial biases as they all think alike.
It's still bias.
But every time we get these sound bites are legion.
It's either gravitas, now in this case, struggling.
The Obama campaign is struggling.
The reason they're struggling is because the answer to the question is no.
And it doesn't help them.
Are you better off than you're for no?
Of course they're struggling with it.
How to answer this?
We'll let you hear some of their struggles when we get back.
Honestly.
Well, not not anybody, because there are people doing better, but but they're at the upper end.
They always will do better.
Well, even their exceptions there, some people lose it.
But the bottom line is this we had a study.
We reported study some two weeks ago that found that all incomes have declined more in the last three years during the recovery than they did during the recession.
And remember, these people are living off the news that the recovery started in June of 2009.
That's what the regime has put out there.
And that's going to come back to bite them, and it is, because there hasn't been a recovery, but that's what everybody even think of the fragile recovery showing that job growth and the fragile recovery.
You've heard the news.
Well, the fact of the matter is that since June of 2009, all incomes have declined more since June of 2009 than they did during the actual recession.
How can anybody be better off?
The cost of food stamps has doubled in the last four years.
The number of people on food stamps has doubled in the last four years.
An 85-year-old career criminal blames it on the fact the government isn't giving her enough.
Thank you.
Doris What's her name, the Moron Club out in Torrance, California.
Martin O'Malley, Maryland governor, stepped in it, stepped in it on Face the Nation, Bob Schiefer.
They're talking about presidential race and the economy.
And are people better off now than they were four years ago?
Can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?
No, but that's not the question of this election.
No, no, they're not better off.
And then he got taken to woodshed, a la Corey Booker, and hours later he was back correcting himself.
Yeah, we're of course everybody's better off.
I forget that what he said the rest of this bite was not the question.
The question is, you know, the usual Bush caused this, and who's better equipped to fix it?
Do we want to continue the policies that got us in this mess?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Same old uh Rigamer roll.
Here was Joe Bite Me yesterday in Detroit, AFL CIO Labor Day.
Uh and this is what Bite Me had to say.
Let me make something clear and say to the press.
America is better off today than they left us when they left.
And if it weren't so hot, it weren't so hot and going to detail why I say that.
So Chains, did you hear what Chains said there?
Let me make something clear and say to the press.
America is better off today than they left us when they left.
You imagine a morons trying to figure that out.
America is better off today than they left us when they left.
And if it weren't so hot, if it weren't so hot, I'd go into detail why I say that.
Okay, so here's, I guess this is the this is the campaign.
Osama is dead, Cylindra is dead, your job is dead, the economy is dead, and all that hope and change stuff is dead too.
And Bush made it happen.
Here's Biden.
Joe Bite Me.
It wasn't too hot to continue with this.
You want to know whether we're better off?
I got a little bumper sticker for you.
Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.
Pathetic.
It's absolutely pathetic.
The vault is dead.
They just shut it down.
They just shut down protect uh production.
And folks, again, I want to stress to you.
Nobody.
General Motors has been nationalized.
The regime bought it and gave it to the United Auto workers.
It has not rebounded.
It has not paid back its its so-called loans.
And there's nobody.
I hate talking this way about General Motors.
General Motors is American iconic.
Nobody likes sitting here using General Motors as an example of American failure.
We don't even like talking about it.
But we can't avoid it because this party, the Democrat Party and Obama, are the architects of it.
Here's Obama giving himself the incomplete grade.
You know, uh I I would say incomplete.
But uh what I would say is the steps that we've taken in saving the auto industry in making sure the college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we're gonna need to grow over the long term.
This is delusional.
This is really delusional.
Saving the auto industry?
Making sure that college is more affordable.
What's the lament?
The lament is college graduates coming out of school with so much debt that they have no hope of paying it back.
What college more affordable?
Is there anybody who's going to college or recently graduated that buys that?
College is more affordable.
Investing in clean energy?
Cylindra anybody by the way, guess what we just learned today?
Dingy Harry's son Rory Reed.
I think this is a UK newspaper.
Rory Reed, son of Dingy Harry, is involved with the ChICOMs to bring a solar energy business plant, whatever, to Nevada.
There is no solar business.
It doesn't exist.
Well, without subsidies, but even the ones that get subsidies.
Look at Cylindra.
They're just they're i the business isn't there yet.
Investing in clean energy science and technology and research, that's like roads and bridges.
It's meaningless.
Private sector makes those investments.
Private sectors where all that stuff happens.
We need to grow these things over the law.
This is delusional.
This is pure, 100% delusion.
Okay, folks, we have to take a brief break here.
Top of the hour.
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