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Sept. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 4, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, El Rushbow of the EIB network.
Happy to have you with us today, folks.
The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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By the way, it has just been announced that John Burton.
He's the guy in California's a California Democrat Party leader who accused Paul Ryan of big lies like Joseph Goebbels.
Essentially calling the Republicans Nazis.
It has just been announced that John Burton has had to leave the convention to return to California for a pre-scheduled root canal.
Kid you not.
Now does anybody believe that this guy scheduled a dental appointment during the Democrat convention?
Root canals, my experience with them is that they're sort of like a merch they just pop up, you need it.
You don't schedule a root canal for three weeks down the road.
But that's what they want us to believe.
They obviously don't want Burton at the convention.
Something else.
As is always the case.
Talk radio show hosts take their shows on the road to the conventions.
They were at Tampa and they are in Charlotte.
The word has gone out from the Democrats they are not to appear, no Democrat, delegate or official or celebrity, what have you, is to appear on any conservative talk show.
I'm not making that up.
No Democrat is being allowed to appear on a conservative show on Radio Row at the convention.
Thank you.
Now here's the here's a number uh another way of looking at are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Here's some numbers from four years ago compared to today.
Unemployment 7.8% when Obama is immaculated, eight point three percent now.
The median family income four years ago fifty four thousand nine hundred eighty-three dollars today, it's fifty thousand nine hundred and sixty-four dollars, basically median family income down four grand.
That's not insignificant.
Gasoline prices a dollar eighty five a gallon four years ago, three dollars seventy-eight cents a gallon national average now.
In some places it's over four dollars.
The national debt four years ago ten point six trillion.
It's fifteen point nine trillion today and will surpass sixteen trillion during the Democrat convention.
So the national debt is up over five trillion dollars in four years.
And that's because Obama has had deficits in excess of a trillion dollars every year.
Now here's Obama grading himself.
Isn't this rich?
The drive bys ask the president to grade himself.
He gives himself an incomplete.
I wonder what his college transcripts would show.
We've never seen them.
I wonder if they're incomplete.
Yes, we're talking about grades.
Doesn't that kind of open the door to the question?
But then ladies and gentlemen, since when is an incomplete something to brag about?
What are we doing here?
We're choosing leaders.
That's what presidential elections are about.
Choosing leaders.
This country needs new leadership.
This country is absent leadership right now.
It hasn't had any real leadership in a while.
People want leaders.
Most people are not self-starters.
Most people like being inspired.
That's what leaders do.
Obama is not a leader, and I'm gonna tell you an incomplete grade is is this is this how we choose leaders?
Five trillion dollars spent, over five trillion dollars spent, and his grade is incomplete.
We nationalize health care, and his grade is incomplete.
We have a one trillion dollar stimulus, and his grade is incomplete.
We have corporate cronyism all over the place in the so-called green energy sector led by Celindra, but there are countless other examples.
The grade is incomplete.
We have a takeover, a nationalization of General Motors and Chrysler, and then the majority of the company of General Motors given to the United Auto Workers.
incomplete?
The president dares talk about one of his achievements is that college tuition is now cheaper?
Are you graduates hearing this?
Did you know after you have amassed anywhere from $20,000 to $200,000 in student loans that college has gotten cheaper?
Obama just said so.
We just played the soundbite.
And his grade is incomplete.
Unemployment eight point three percent grade incomplete, median family income off four thousand dollars in four years, grade incomplete, gasoline price a buck eighty five four years ago, three hundred seventy-eight now, grade incomplete.
Five trillion dollars in new spending, a trillion dollar stimulus.
This is how we choose our leaders.
I don't think so.
This president isn't a leader.
I mentioned earlier the uh guy at Forbes magazine, Rich Carlgaard.
He's on a Forbes staff.
He saw a New York Times piece on Sunday written by Jody Cantor.
And so he posted a piece on Forbes.
New York Times proves Clint Eastwood correct.
Obama is lousy CEO.
A New York Times front page story.
Might have been yesterday.
I get this is Tuesday.
Yeah, it was yesterday.
New York Times story was yesterday.
New York Times front uh take it back.
It was Sunday, because the date of Carl Gard's story is yesterday, so he's talking about Sunday.
New York Times front page story might have killed Obama's re-election hopes.
The story is called the competitor in chief.
Obama plays to win in politics and everything else, and it is devastating.
With such a title and from a such a friendly organ at first, I thought that Jodie Cantor's piece would be a collection of Obama's greatest political wins.
His rapid rise in Illinois is win over Hillary, passage of health care and all that, but the New York Times piece is not about any of that.
Instead, it's a deep look into the two outstanding flaws in Obama's executive leadership.
Number one, how he vastly overrates his capabilities.
And here's a pull quote from the New York Times story.
Even those loyal to Mr. Obama say that his quest for excellence can bleed into cockiness, and that he tends to overestimate his capabilities.
The cloistered nature of the White House amplifies those tendencies, said Matthew Dowd, a former advisor to Bush, adding the same thing happened to his former boss.
There's a reinforcing quality, a Tendency for presidents to think I'm the best at this.
And number two, how he spends extraordinary amounts of time and energy to compete in trivialities.
And again, from the New York Times piece, for someone dealing with the world's weightiest matters, Obama spends surprising energy perfecting even less consequential pursuits.
He's played golf a hundred and four times since becoming president.
He asks superior players for tips.
He decompresses with card games on Air Force One, but players who don't concentrate risk a reprimand.
His idea of birthday relaxation is competing in an Olympic style athletic tournament with friends keeping close score.
The 2009 version ended with a bowling event.
Guess who won?
Despite his history of embarrassingly low scores.
The president, turned out, had been practicing in the White House alley.
The story goes on to quote from the New York Times about how Obama is devoted to inconsequential things, highly competitive in all kinds of inconsequential things, and runs around telling about nobody in better.
In fact, there's a quote in the story that two weeks into the presidency, he's telling people that he's really good at it.
Two weeks into office.
He was running around telling people how much he likes being president and how good at it he is.
So Rich Carlgaard here, I guess, is theorizing that the people that read the New York Times are Obama voters.
I mean, they are in the tank for Obama, and they're going to read this, and they're going to see that Obama's devoted to all these trivialities and inconsequential things, and not spending any time whatsoever on things that truly affect the country.
While everybody thinks he's got his sleeves rolled up and is working hard on this stuff, this story in the New York Times actually does convey the impression he doesn't care much.
And my friends, uh this is why I have feared that many of Obama's policies are oriented purposely for the outcome that we've got.
He started the ball rolling, unemployment getting worse, family income dropping, spending up.
He started that ball rolling.
All he's got to do is get out of the way.
Health care reform is massive government expansion, massive government spending, massive tax increases that we haven't even seen yet.
If that isn't repealed, he doesn't have to do much else to be totally destructive of the foundations of this country as founded.
incomplete.
Breitbart even has a story, Ezra Doulis, on this New York Times story.
Democrats air their frustrations with Obama's cockiness.
The New York Times'Jody Canter airs complaints from loyal Obama associates.
He has mentioned more than once in recent weeks that he cooks a really mean chili.
He has impressive musical pitch, he told an Iowa audience.
He's a surprisingly good pool player, he told an interviewer, not to mention that he's a doodler of unusual skill.
These are the things he's telling people in the White House.
And they told Jody Cantor at the New York Times.
He's bragging about how good he is at all of these trivial things.
The article reports Obama's associates in the White House, characterizing this bluster and political zeal as cockiness.
Washington Democrats in this story say he's all too eager to offer unsolicited advice on how to shake hands, on how to write, on how to parent.
Well, that follows, doesn't it?
Mr. and Mrs. Nanny thinking nobody knows how to do anything.
Obama reportedly dedicates considerable time to practice, no matter how trivial the pastime.
It talks about the golf and the card playing and the bowling.
And that Obama even rates and ranks others around him, always elevating himself to the position of superiority.
And here's how this is how the Breitbart piece ends, despite a strong push to negatively define Mitt Romney.
Obama finds himself neck and neck with Romney two months before the election and even falling behind in some polls.
As the election draws nearer, Obama will need to rely heavily on his personal likability to draw independent voters.
The New York Times and Allied Democrats airing these grievances is a serious problem for somebody who needs to rely on likability because, as the story points out, he's not all that likable.
You've got his own so-called associates in the White House talking about how irritated they are at the way Obama conducts himself inside the White House in this hyper competitiveness in trivial things.
Rubs people the wrong way.
Not cool, but rather kind of chilly, kinda cold.
Hubbahubba, Duba Duba, back we are on the EIB network.
So here we have a guy bragging about all of these things.
After two weeks, I like being president, I'm good at it.
As just this is an example.
H.R. asked me during the break, is there anything in that story about people in the White House liking the guy said, no, there's only a reference to Obama's likability in the polls.
But there's nothing about Obama being liked inside the White House.
But what kind of people do these things?
I mean, you work with somebody or somebody in your neighborhood brags all the time.
Then this rub you raw.
Here's a guy bragging about everything, insisting he can win at anything, knowledgeable about all things, gives you advice on how to properly shake hands.
What kind of people have this kind of personality?
Look around the world.
Look at the so-called leaders who hold themselves out this way.
And ask yourself, do they lead democracies or do they lead tyrannies?
You don't hear Romney described this way by anybody.
You never heard Reagan George W. Bush describe this way by anybody that knew him.
And the further, this is a guy who's good at nothing.
He stinks at golf.
Have you ever seen him throw a first pitch at a baseball game?
It's embarrassing, folks.
It's you want to give him a shopping cart and say, here, go pick up the groceries.
He's actually good at nothing.
He's not good at being president either.
All right, let's uh let's hit the phones.
We're gonna go to Oradell, New Jersey.
This is Marvin, and I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, sir.
Your program is more enjoyable on the phone than on the radio, because you could hear all of the out uh the promos and the different skits.
Oh, yes, all of the parodies that we've used over the years.
Yeah, really great.
Uh, sir, I wanted your view on something.
I didn't think it was appropriate for the president of the United States to use coded racist comments to describe the Republican convention as black and white TV.
I was wondering how you felt about that.
Yes, I see.
I knew exactly what he meant, though.
I um see, I I don't automatically assume this racism stuff like they do.
But let me take your question seriously, because I think there's something serious that can be said about this, or at least something something uh pointed about it.
You you are of the belief that talking about their convention, black and white TV, clearly a dog whistle, right?
You you think Obama was trying To subtly say that these guys are a bunch of racists.
Oh, we're a bunch of old white guys.
Yeah, well, but they're not.
They weren't a bunch of old white guys.
That's that's the point.
There are more elected Hispanic Republicans than there are Democrat Hispanics, for one thing.
But what they're really saying is black and white TV business.
What what Obama's really saying is the Republican convention was old fashioned, out of date.
Fifty years ago kind of stuff that we can't go back to.
We we can't go back to those times.
Well, all of the symbols and all the ideals that this country's had forever.
This is what I loved about this convention.
They were on display.
The greatness of this country was embodied in that convention.
Faith, proudly.
Family, proudly talked about.
Freedom, proudly talked about.
Patriotism, proudly discussed, hard work.
It was recommended.
It was advocated.
It was rewarded.
Success, entrepreneurism, legal immigration.
Those are great things.
They were on full display.
But according to Obama and the Democrats, faith, family, freedom, patriotism, hard work, success, entrepreneurism, legal immigration are now obsolete.
Outmoded.
Passe.
Charming, sweet things of the past that we can't go back to.
That that America doesn't exist anymore.
What do you mean, father knows?
Don't give me that crap.
They're scared to death by that stuff.
They are scared to death.
They have no role in a country where those values are prominent and they know it.
A casual perusal of the cable networks shows that they are still occupied with this whole question of are you better off now than you were four years ago?
So I'm going to stick with the audio sound bites on this because the Democrats are over a barrel on this.
Let's go to Fox News Sunday.
It's audio soundbite number eight.
David Axelrod, he wouldn't say.
He wouldn't answer the question.
Chris Wallace said, David, can you honestly say the average American's better off today than four years ago?
Here's what I can say, Chris.
I can say that we're in a uh better position than we were four years ago in our economy in the sense that when this president took office, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month.
The quarter before he took office was the worst quarter that this country has had economically since the Great Depression, and we are in a different place.
Twenty-nine straight months of job growth, four point five million private sector jobs.
Are we where we need to be?
No.
These people are that really are delusional, and they think everybody's morons.
And that 800,000 jobs lost in the fourth quarter of n of 2000 uh 2008, that's most of that was after Obama was elected, and everybody knew what the hell was coming.
That's when unemployment started skyrocking was after he was elected, after he won the election.
So Wallace then ticks off all the ways we're not better off to Axarise.
You keep talking about Romney, I want to talk about the Obama record.
And I want to put statistics up on the screen.
Unemployment was 7.8%, it's now 8.3.
Median household income, almost 55,000, now 51, less than that.
Gas a buck eighty-five a gallon, now it's 378, almost double.
National debt, 10.6 trillion, may go past 16 trillion this week.
So just looking at the president's record and those stats, David, is the average American better off than four years ago.
Chris, I as I said to you before, I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create uh the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009, and it's going to take uh some time to work uh through it.
The average American sees nothing of the sort.
The average American says this is not how this country works.
This is not how we get out of trouble.
We don't make excuses for what happened four or five years ago.
We do something about it.
And this bunch is doing things that are making it worse.
On ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos talked to David Fluff.
This is the guy, by the way, who picked Charlotte.
David Fluff is the guy who picked Charlotte for the convention site because they need North Carolina, and they thought it would help.
It turns out it isn't helping.
Stephanopoulos says, can the president argue that Americans are better off today than they were four years ago?
Listen, George, I think the American people understand that we got into a terrible economic situation.
A recession only that the Great Depression is the only thing the country's ever seen like it.
So they know we had a deep hole.
It took us a long time to get into that hole.
It's going to take us a long time to get out of it.
Well, what is this?
Took us a long time to get into the hole.
We were fine in 2007.
The thing that blew up was the subprime mortgage crisis brought to us by Democrats and the government.
There wasn't a long build up to this.
Well, take that back.
There was a long buildup to it, the subprime mortgage crisis started 1999, making loans to people can't pay it back.
It did take a while for that to finally bubble up and show that there was nothing there.
But that's what it was.
It wasn't Bush.
It wasn't Bush economic policies.
Gosh, these people ticked me off.
I I cannot tell you how these people ticked me off.
So their excuse now is, well, it took a long time for this mess, and it just happened to coincide when our wonderful president was in was elected.
That's a bunch of crap, folks.
He has exacerbated what was wrong, and he epitomizes what was wrong in all those years that led up to this.
So they continue talking about Stephanopoulos essentially asks him three times about this.
Yes or no.
Are Americans better off today than they were four years ago?
Listen, George, you know, they did a good job of reciting all the statistics everyone's familiar with.
I think everybody understands we were this close to a Great Depression because of the leadership of this president.
We stayed that off.
We're beginning to recover.
We have a lot more work to do.
We need to grow jobs more quickly.
We need to grow middle class incomes more quickly.
Stephanopoulos again.
So it sounds like, you know, a year ago the president told me I don't think Americans are better off than they were four years ago.
You still can't say yes.
We've made a lot of progress from the depths of the recession.
We have a lot more work to do.
Uh and that's the question we're gonna lay out for the American people is the Romney path uh would be the wrong path for the middle class, the wrong path for this country.
We've got to continue to recover from not just from the recession, but again, how do we build an economy from the middle out so that we have an economy tax policy all centered on how do we make the middle class more secure in this country?
Well, I mean, the bottom line is this.
You know, you guys fluff Axlrod, you can talk all you want about what led up to this.
But the bottom line is this.
We are having the worst recovery in the history of the country.
Now we've had recessions, and this recession is no different than any other recession.
What's different is this recovery.
And that's you guys.
You guys are pathetic.
Am I ticking off the independence?
Should I dial this back, Mr. Snurdley?
Am I am I sending the independence running?
Well, you know, I'm telling you, I just guess ticked off about this.
Oh, they want these bunch of crybabies.
You know, real leaders, inherent problems.
And the measure of a leader is what you do moving forward.
You guys have sat there and you've done nothing.
This is the worst recovery in the history of the country.
And there's no excuse for it.
There is simply no excuse for this other than you guys are dead wrong.
Philosophically, economically.
That's the only measure that we ought to be talking about here is this recovery.
And it's pathetic.
It is embarrassing.
This is a third world dictatorship, tin horn type recovery.
This is this is embarrassing.
You can talk all you want.
You can you can lie to yourselves and the rest of us, and you can cry and whine and moan about Bush and whatever the hell you think led to this.
But people are measuring your leadership by virtue of this recovery, and you are failing big time.
There isn't a worse recovery than anybody can point to.
This is the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
And that recovery was exacerbated by another Democrat, FDR.
And that's the only measure the American voters going to be looking at.
The American voter's not going to go.
The American voter is going to go on a voting booth and they're going to ask are the people running a show competent to get us out of the mess.
They're not going to go in there blaming the mess on somebody and voting for who they think's responsible.
That was four years ago.
They're going to be voting on leadership and who's better qualified to get this fixed.
There might be some stragglers who can't get past the fact Obama's first black president.
Poor guy can't vote against him because of that.
That's not fair.
Maybe some of that.
These people are not growing the middle class at all.
Pluffing these guys want to talk about the middle class.
They're not growing it at all.
How can they grow it more quickly when it isn't growing?
Median family income is down five grand in four years.
There is no growth.
And if there's no growth, how can you grow it more quickly?
Median income has gone down.
That is the middle class.
55 to 50 is the middle class.
And once again, incomes for all income levels declined more during this recovery than during the recession.
These guys haven't got anything to stand.
They're in quicksand.
The only thing they're growing is government and government dependence.
That's it.
Latest food stamp numbers show it.
What are we supposed to believe?
Obama's lying flax here are our own lying eyes.
And I don't I don't if if if if this is too strident for the independence, I'm sorry.
This is I'm simply passionate about the country.
This is unacceptable to find median income, wealth creation plummeting like this in this country when it isn't necessary.
There's no reason this has to happen.
But to some people, it does have to happen.
Some people who think this country's had an unfair advantage since the beginning of time, since its founding.
Some people think this country has uh unfairly unjustly come by all of its wealth.
It's time that we found out what the rest of the world has to live like.
And meanwhile, Obama's out playing golf 104 times, shooting pool, playing uh going bowling and this kind of stuff, and bragging, apparently, about how better he is at that stuff than anybody else.
Right there it was in the New York Times.
Be right back, folks.
So I checked the email during the break and I got an interesting rush.
Why doesn't the Romney campaign detail Obama's record like you just did?
Folks, I don't know.
I I can't answer questions about why.
I just have one guess.
I think they are afraid.
That's why I sort of I was being facetious asking Snurley, am I am I offending the independence?
Republicans, consultants, whoever they are think that reciting be critical of Obama is is gonna is gonna tick off the independence.
They they they think there's too much attachment to his uh uh race, black presidency, first one, you gotta you gotta uh give people permission to vote against him.
You gotta gently guide them.
This is what I think they believe.
You have to gently nudge them to the point where they think it's okay.
Remember, we played those sound bites of Reagan hammering Jimmy Carter.
Now the Republican consultant say, yeah, but it's a different electorate now.
It was uh 80 some odd percent white back in Reagan's year.
It's only 74% white now, Mr. Limbaugh.
You can't run a Reagan campaign in 2012.
Bullsh.
Of course you can.
I said BS.
Of course you can run a Reagan campaign.
You're stoma's the political opponent.
You've He's got a record.
It's dismal.
And there's nothing unfair or mean about pointing it out.
For crying out loud, the mainstream media said that Ann Romney's speech was too vicious.
I don't know.
They're going to say it about you anyway.
Might as well get the um as well get the truth out there.
By the way.
It seems that Doug Band, Clinton's aide who said he's going to vote for Romney, got his own personal tour of the Corey Booker Memorial Woodshed.
He reportedly said today that the ID he would vote for Romney was preposterous.
Now he supposedly made the comment that he was going to vote for Romney to the national memo website as he got aboard a plane to Charlotte with Bill Clinton.
So he and Clinton were getting on planes.
Somebody's there.
And Doug Ban said, I'm going to vote for uh for for Romney.
And so they run the story.
And now a couple days later, oh no, no, no, it's preposterous.
Whoever said I was going to vote for Romney, that's utterly preposterous.
There shouldn't be any doubt that I'm going to vote for Obama, Ban said.
The national memo is of left-wing fringe Democrat front sight, if you've never heard of it.
So he's had to walk it back, but I don't know.
I I still say he said it on purpose.
And he's happy to walk it back.
What the hell?
Confuse people.
But there's nothing with the Clintons that is coincidence.
Don't doubt me.
Nothing.
No, I but I I wish I wish Romney and Well, Ryan, Ryan got close to detailing the Obama record at the convention.
But I I I don't think these guys they're gonna hurt themselves by doing that.
It's the truth.
Unemployment, gas price, family wealth, national debt, deficits, it's right there.
Deborah Jackson, Mississippi, welcome to the program.
I wanted to get you on with 45 seconds.
Hi.
Oh, thank you so much for taking my call.
I just wanted to know if you liked the prayer that Cardinal Dolan gave at the end of the convention.
You know what I thought when I saw that prayer?
I thought Democrats are watching getting mad.
And then I thought there's no way we will see this at a Democrat convention.
And you know, he when he was asked, he let the Democratic Party know that he was gonna appear because he didn't want to uh come off as being partisan and political.
Well, I just read that the Democrat Party stripped the word God from their platform.
I was surprised it was in there.
You know, he used a lot of excerpts from the declaration.
Yeah.
And I think that really, in order to be nonpartisan, he should say the exact same prayer.
Well, they won't let the thing that this administration is at war with the Catholic Church.
Her name's Sandra Fluck.
They're at war with the Catholic Church.
We will be back.
Now, I'm told, and I don't know that I believe this, but I'm told at Reverend Wright, Jeremiah Wright's gonna give the benediction at the Democrat convention.
I uh uh he's a spiritual mentor of Obama.
And I think after this convention, everybody's gonna understand why.
I'd be no doubt about it.
No, that's what I'm told.
That uh Reverend Wright the Benedict gosh, I hope that's true.
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