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Sept. 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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You know, that ABC Washington Post poll really is amazing.
I just referenced it in the closing moments of the previous Hall of Fame hour.
According to that poll, Obama has a disapproval approval rating of 4650 with women.
46 approve, 50 disapprove.
That is the lowest in the ABC poll since Obama took office, and that is after all the money they spent on the war on women.
All that stuff with Sandra Fluck was for nothing.
All this stuff, the war on women and buying birth control pills, and now last night's first two hours, the convention, all abortion all the time.
The abortions just keep on coming.
This clown, Ture, who is part of the ensemble cast of the 3 o'clock show in MSNBC, actually said, girls, get your abortions now before the Republicans win.
Honest to God.
And this guy is a star.
He's a rising star in the Democrat Party and in the Democrat media.
Girls, get your abortions now before the Republicans win.
Ladies, do you understand?
There's not the president can do anything about abortion.
There's no elected official that can do one thing legally to stop abortion.
It's the law of the land.
It's called Roe versus Wade.
The only thing that can happen is the Supreme Court change, and that's not going to happen anytime soon.
This constant ginning up of fear as though the right to an abortion should be taken away, the most important thing the Democrats think they have.
They've got such a task.
They have got to go so off-the-wall fringe extremist left to keep their base intact.
And then when the rest of the country starts watching the convention, they have to start lying through their teeth about what they believe.
At the end of last night, I wouldn't be surprised if these people had no idea who they are.
I couldn't live the way they have to live.
First two hours of that convention, say whatever.
Abortion all the time, anywhere, anytime.
Girls get them now before the Republicans win.
And start comparing the Republicans to Nazis.
You just have to say all that cockeyed stuff to keep your base intact.
Then when 9 o'clock rolls around, you have to start lying about what you really believe so the rest of the country doesn't reject you.
And meanwhile, or all the while, the country is rejecting you.
And that's what the latest polling data proves.
It's what the latest polling data indicates.
It's amazing.
And The highest, let's put it this way, the lowest approval rating with women in the ABC poll, and that's Washington Post 2, since Obama took office after all that money spent on the war on women.
Now, my cochlear implant just fell off of my head.
It's on the floor.
And I've got a challenge here.
I need to put it back on.
But, well, let me turn the camera off.
This thing, pick it up off the floor.
I'm standing up so I can still talk to you.
I'm now putting this thing back in the little pouch on my belt in there.
Brian is now here and is reconnecting it to my collar via alligator clip so that it won't fall off my head, which it just did.
Now I'm back, sitting back down, lowering the microphone, and turning the camera back on.
There we are.
Now, I don't know why it fell off.
Now, I was going to add three soundbites here that I want to share as an illustration of, well, one's funny, but just illustration of the examples that I'm giving here of how off the wall these people are.
First, here's Ram Emmanuel.
This is the funny thing.
This is June 1st this year in Chicago.
It's at a campaign fundraiser for President Obama, and Ram Emmanuel, the ballerina, the godfather, is introducing Obama.
President arrives.
The rain stops.
The sun comes out.
Coincidence?
I think not.
He arrives, the sun is out, and things are moving again.
And just two months ago, Obama shows up in Chicago.
It's raining, but he shows up, it stops raining.
Ron Emmanuel says, coincidence, I think not.
He arrives, sun's out.
Well, why wouldn't it work tomorrow night then?
I mean, if Obama could bring the sun out in Chicago in June, why can't he do the same thing in Charlotte in September?
Now, here's Julian Castro.
I made reference to this in the previous hour.
This does not sound like a Democrat.
Democrats normally sit there and encourage you to sit on your ass and collect their unemployment checks.
And Pelosi loves to tell you that your unemployment check is actually creating economic growth.
What's her ratio?
Every dollar of unemployment benefits equals $1.73 in economic growth.
For these four years, they have extolled the virtues of unemployment.
They've promised you as much as you need 99 weeks, and they blamed it all on Bush.
And they've talked about how caring it is and how wonderful it is.
And they have told you that if you need more, it'll be forthcoming because Barack cares.
Well, where was that last night?
Where was all the adulation for the things they love?
Where was all the attempt to take credit for the great things they think they've done?
No, we didn't get that.
As an example of what we got, here is Julian Castro, who, by the way, I'm told, doesn't even speak Spanish.
I mean, not that it matters, but this is the guy, Julian Castro.
You know, I don't know if I should say this or not.
Said Democrats are allowed to make comments based on the way people look.
The Democrats, in fact, live off of what your appearance is, your race, your religion, your sexual orientation.
That's how they identify you.
That's how they categorize you.
Oh, I don't know.
Okay.
All right.
I just.
Anyway, here is Julian Castro.
He is the Barack Obama of 2004.
This is the guy they've got high hopes going to be the next Obama.
He was last night's keynote speaker.
Mayor San Antonio.
This is the guy.
He's the future of the party.
That's just who he is.
And he didn't talk about 99 weeks unemployment, how great it is, and all these other government-provided benefits.
No, no.
Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual.
Stop the tape.
Texas.
Yep, they do.
But the Democrats don't.
Texas is not a Democrat state.
San Antonio may be a Democrat town.
Cue that back to the top.
Mr. Broadcast Engineer substitute.
We believe in rugged individual.
No, you don't believe in rugged individualism.
The party does not.
Okay, here it is again.
I'll try to let the whole thing go.
It may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps.
And we expect folks to pull themselves up by them.
But we also recognize that there are some things we can't do alone.
We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.
Your prosperity is.
See, nothing to do with you.
You're only going to have prosperity if everybody comes together and invests, as in pays higher taxes.
But what is this?
We believe in the rugged individual.
We expect folks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
The hell you say?
When did that happen?
Who knew this?
Hey, don't believe that.
You know, people ask me in the email.
I checked it during the top of the hour.
Why did you talk about Michelle's speech?
Folks, I'll be glad to talk about it.
I just don't think she believed a word of it.
Masterfully given speech.
Look, as a performer and judging it as a performance, it was exceptional.
It was as a performance.
Michelle Obama's speech was perfection.
Looked at through the prism of what she intended it to accomplish.
It was flawlessly executed.
It could not have been better in terms of performance, but it was all lies.
She didn't believe any of it.
She didn't believe anything she said in that speech.
It left me cold.
It was a real contradiction as I'm watching it.
I'm listening to it.
I'm marveling at her performance, but I knew she didn't mean it.
And by that, I mean, if they had said, Michelle, go say what you really want to say.
If they weren't in trouble, if they weren't down in the polls, if they weren't lagging in fundraising, you'd have heard nothing.
You'd have heard all about eating right, impacting the grocery store.
You would have heard what she says every day of the week, except last night.
We don't hear her talk this way.
And you know, the sob stories.
What do you mean?
She was she lying about well, I don't know how to tell you this.
This is sort of a no-win position, but she and Barack did not come from poverty, folks.
They didn't face deep struggles.
Michelle's dad in the 70s, his name was Frasier Robinson, and he was a pump operator at the Chicago City water plant.
And it's been said that he earned $50,000, $55,000 back in the 70s.
I went to the inflation calculator.
You know what $50,000 in the 1970s is equivalent to today?
$282,000.
I was making in the 70, when I left home at age 20 and I was making $12,000, $13,000 a year.
I also made that in 1980.
Regardless, it's the equivalent of $282,000 a year.
Her dad was a Democrat precinct captain in the daily machine.
He was politically, he was a ward healer.
And her mother, Marion Robinson, was a longtime secretary at Spiegel's, the catalog store.
That's why I get so, frankly, worn out with this incessant need to try to convince people you came from nothing.
Because the problem with it is we want to attach virtue to that, which, of course, it deserves.
But there's a problem, and that is that somehow now, if you're not born to the struggle, then whatever you have is illegitimate.
If you're born upper middle class, if you happen to be born in an upper income level, somehow your accomplishments and your achievements just aren't the same as somebody.
And it's all part of this class warfare stuff that tears this country apart.
So this incessant need to fabricate the struggles and the hardship that you come from.
Hers wasn't that tough, and neither was Barack's.
And if you want more details, I'll be happy to provide them.
But I just was left cold by it because none of it was true.
Now, this is not the kind of stuff she really believes.
But it made me smile in a sense because it told me, it reaffirmed for me the trouble these people are in, and they know it.
That convention last night, I'm just going to tell you again, that convention demonstrated better than anything that's happened yet that they know they are governing against the will of the people.
They know that who they really are is out of step with the mainstream of this country.
They know it.
The prime time parts of that convention last night had to be structured on falsehood after falsehood after falsehood if they were to even have a prayer of garnering support from undecided independence whoever.
I mean, even the fact that Julian Castro goes out there, even mentions this bootstrap business and pulling yourself up in self-reliance, that means that they know this country still believes in that.
This country still believes in rugged individualism.
This country still believes in all the things that 364 days of the year, they speak out against.
They know it.
I'm telling you, I think these people are having an identity crisis today.
The media is trying to portray this last night's gigantic home run because of Michelle's speech.
But I'm telling, folks, when you live falsehoods and live lies, they catch up with you eventually.
And if you have even a tiny bit of conscience, then you add a little guilt.
And I'm telling you, all is not unified and happy on the leftist front.
Here's Michelle Obama.
A little excerpt.
These are things that I did not know.
And here's another thing about that speech hers last night.
Well, look at that.
I got to take a break.
Folks, I'm sorry.
But I have to, the problem is when I say it, there's nothing left to say.
And I know that's why you can't wait for me to say it.
But I got to take a break.
Otherwise, I'm in deep doo-doo here.
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Here's Michelle Obama.
Another thing that struck me.
Her husband has been president for four years, and she had to tell us who he is last night.
Stop and think about this.
Stop and consider that.
Four years ago, empty canvas.
He was the Messiah.
He was the one, whatever anybody wanted him to be.
But now she had to tell us about him.
She had to tell us who he is.
After four years, it just struck me as strange.
And there's a lot of stuff she said that I didn't know.
When Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate to me, he was still the guy who picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by in a hole in the passenger side door.
He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was a half-size too small.
Oh, oh, gee, poor guy.
And his brother in the hut still living that way.
I wonder if Michelle's ever seen his college transcripts.
Do you think she has?
You think she knows about his college transcripts or anything that he wrote, Law Review, Harvard?
Her parents actually let her get in a car that had rusted out holes in the passenger side door.
We really believe that Obama's proudest possession was a coffee table extricated from a dumpster dive.
Sorry, folks.
I just wasn't buying.
By the way, before we get to the phones, a quick question.
Why were Obama's shoes a half-size too small?
And we're supposed to conclude from that that the guy was so poor and had so little and was just barely surviving.
And he had to have his most prized possession was a coffee table from a garbage dumpster and his shoes that were a half-size too small.
Didn't care about material things.
Down a bunch of so he goes in to buy a pair of shoes and buys them a half-size too small because he doesn't care to buy a pair that fit.
No, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're telling me that he didn't buy the shoes.
He had to get those out of the dumpster too?
Obama was working for a law firm when he started dating Michelle.
He wasn't wearing shoes a half size too small when he was dating Michelle Obama.
He's working at a law firm.
I don't care.
The point is, tugging at our heartstring, Obama did not grow up in poverty.
His grandmother, the typical white woman, worked in a bank.
Don't give me this down with the struggle business.
He wasn't down with the struggle.
That's the whole point.
If you go back to 2008, the Democrats were wringing their hands because he wasn't authentically black.
That's the reason the Reverend Sharp had a problem with him.
And they wrote the column in the L.A. Times of the Magic Negro.
He wasn't down with the struggle.
He doesn't have slave blood.
You know all that.
You're the official Obama criticizer.
What are you telling me?
That's my point.
They revised the story.
It's a new campaign.
It's time for a new story.
Obama was raised by a banker.
Obama went to one, the top private school in Hawaii.
It had swimming pools, tennis courts.
It had photo studios.
They both attended elite schools.
Michelle went to Whitney Young.
Whitney Young was a public magnet school for Chicago's upper class.
That's where Michelle went to school.
Barack went to Pudahoo, which is the private prep school for the top strata of Hawaii society.
And then they were both accepted to Ivy League scrools despite having less than stellar credentials.
You might say that they were affirmative action admissions.
But they didn't come from poverty.
So why is he wearing shoes a half size too small?
Does he not like to cut his toenails?
What is the explanation?
See, these are the things that I ask myself when I listen to this stuff.
And don't get on.
Michelle has admitted that she was an affirmative action admission at Princeton.
You people don't, they're trying to whipped me up into a frenzy on the other side of the glass in there, and I'm not falling for it.
Okay, we're going to go to the phones.
People have been waiting a long time here, and I know you want to weigh in on this, so we'll start in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
Kevin, thanks for your patience and welcome to the program, sir.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener, but a first-time caller, and I'm not nervous because I've never been afraid to speak to the truth, which is what you represent.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
One thing I've learned as a conservative is to not take anything at face value but to do my homework.
And as I was watching the first lady last night speak, it just seems somewhat contrived to me.
And I did my homework this morning, and I found out that, yes, indeed, Michelle had gone to school on scholarships that were basically given by black activist groups.
And I also found out that the way that her and Barack Obama met is because she had been mentoring Barack Obama when they both worked at the same law firm.
And the question came to my mind: you know, why is he dressing shabby, garbage picking, and driving a car with a rusted hole in it when he's working for a law firm?
I drove a car like that working in a fast food restaurant.
Well, let me tell you the answer.
You've asked a legitimate question.
Obama detested his work in the private sector.
He has said he wrote about it.
He felt like he had crossed enemy lines.
He was driving, it was a Ford Granada.
That was his car.
And he was trying to show he's down for the struggle.
All of this is designed to create an image that he and Muchel are both down for the struggle.
I also got, I started wondering about Michelle herself, and I discovered that they were living in her aunt's house at the same time that they were taking vacations at a cottage that they owned in White Cloud, Michigan.
And Michelle's as old as I am.
Now, she would have been of school age during the Jimmy Carter years.
And I'll tell you what, my family couldn't afford a cottage anywhere when Jimmy Carter was president.
So, you know, I just found the whole thing to be very contrived.
That's great.
I love that.
My family couldn't afford a cottage, the second house that Jimmy Carter was president.
Let me tell you, you're touching on some things here that happen to be true.
Michelle nor Barack Obama ever had summer jobs.
They did not work while they went to school.
That's why, folks, the performance of that speech last night was incomparable.
Maybe better than anything I've ever seen in the context of what it was for and where it was given and its purpose.
The little things that she was on a teleprompter, but you'd never know it.
It was really professionally unassailable.
It was unprompter.
That was unprompter.
But you wouldn't know it.
That's how good it was.
But it just wasn't true.
And she didn't believe any of it.
That's not what she would say if there weren't any constraints.
That's not what she would say if they were up 10 points in the polls.
That's not what she would say if they said, Michelle, go out there, let her, whatever's bugging you, whatever, just let her rip.
That's not what she would say last night.
She wouldn't get anywhere near what she said last night.
And Obama himself, he went on vacation to Indonesia, Pakistan, India.
He's written about the family going on month-long vacations to the national parks, flying over from Hawaii.
And yet last night they're trying to paint this picture of poverty, abject poverty.
Not just poverty, real abject, rusted out car doors and shoes that are half-size too small.
Kevin, I appreciate the call.
This is Marion Houston.
You're next.
Great to have you here on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I, too, was impressed by Michelle's performance last night.
It truly was flawless.
And I agree with you that she did not mean those things and that much of what she said was actually diametrically opposed.
But it was very manipulative, particularly the second part of the thing.
And everybody was caught up in it.
And they would pan the crowd and people were crying and very emotionally caught up in what she was saying.
And I thought it was, she kept going over and over again about how Barack cares, Barack cares, Barack cares.
It was like a mantra.
And then when she finished, I turned and said, ah, now America has her own Ava Perron.
Yeah?
Do you know Ava Perron, the wife of Juan Perrone, the dictator of Argentina?
The one Avita was done about, that woman?
She was the wife of the president of Argentina.
And they made the movie Avita about her.
And she came up from poverty and she would work the crowds like that.
And she would talk to the poor and say all they were doing for them and all the wonderful things they were bringing the country up, et cetera, and all the rest of the hilt and expensive clothes.
Who would you rather be compared to, Eva Braun or Eva Perrone?
Well, I might rather be Eva Braun, to tell you the truth.
I don't think she was as manipulative as Eva Perron.
Well, we don't know.
Back then, women weren't allowed to be as prominent.
Yes.
But they did for them what the Obamas are doing for us.
They took Argentina from a first world country to a third world country, and it has not recovered.
And ours won't either if we stay with Obama.
All right.
I appreciate the call, Mary.
Thanks very much.
You're welcome.
You have a wonderful rest of the week.
Okay?
Bye-bye.
But did what just happened happen?
Did somebody in my audience actually ask me if I knew who Eva Perrone was?
I heard that right.
That really happened.
Okay.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh.
Talent online from God.
So I checked the email during the break, and do you really think that she didn't believe any of that, Rush?
Look, I understand, because the previous caller made a good point.
The last half of Michelle's speech was manipulative.
It was a giant emotional tug.
And there's no question that was the intent.
I mean, who are they going after?
They're going after women.
They're trying to shore up the female vote, and they're doing that with a strictly emotional pitch.
Did anybody catch, by the way, when she presents her family history and Obama's?
What's obvious about it?
They both grew up in normal, two-parent American homes.
Healthy mom and dad, two-parent American families.
That's something that doesn't happen enough in this country anymore.
There are way too many single-parent homes out there.
These two do not have, contrary to what they are attempting to accomplish here, they do not have a past that is replete with a lot in common with modern-day poor people, modern-day lower-middle-class people.
They don't have a lot in common.
Their family upbringing and family structure was quite normal.
Kind of stuff that television shows in the 50s were made about, to be quite honest with you.
Black and white TV days, exactly.
Now, Michelle's parents never were divorced.
Baracks were, but still, there was always a father there somewhere.
That was a two-parent, and the upbringing was, you know, solid middle class.
The expectations, go to college, go to school, make it happen.
They did it.
Neither of those two thought they weren't going to live past age 21, for example, which is what I hear is common in poor neighborhoods today.
But I'll just, I'll share with you some other thoughts that I had.
By the way, I mispronounced the name of the High Falutin school.
It's Punaho.
I think I said Punahu.
That's Punaho in Hawaii.
But it is for the upper crust out there.
That's the place.
That's the Sidwell Friends.
It's where everybody wants their kids to get into.
Parents work as hard there as anywhere else to get their kids into that school.
That's where Obama went.
I don't know if he had a voucher to get in there or not.
I don't know what the finances were.
His mother worked at a bank and was not nearly as bad off as Michelle.
What was this glass ceiling?
People she trained got promoted above her.
Yeah, let's yank the heartstrings again.
Now, based on Michelle's speech last night, I'm supposed to know now that the Obamas don't care about material possessions.
She said that.
Despite the cost of her wardrobe, despite the lavish parties, despite the Hollywood fundraisers, and despite she said she traveled this country, I said, well, what about the world?
How about all these separate vacations that you take, madam, with the separate airplane and a traveling party of 35 or 40 that you're not paying for?
And you want us to believe that you don't care about material things?
Sorry, I didn't swallow that one.
I was unable to forget these lavish vacations as I was listening to this hard scrabble story last night.
Now, I was told that I'm supposed to accept and believe that they are caring people despite Barack's half-brother still living in a hut and having to ask virtual strangers for help to pay his medical bills.
Despite that, Barack cares.
That's what they told me.
I have to believe, I have to trust Barack cares, but his brother still lives in a hut.
If my brother lived in a hut, I heard about my brother living in a hut, some days I'd leave him there, but I'd get him out of it.
And you would too.
Particularly after the world found out about it, if the world found out that you are a multiple millionaire and your brother's living in a hut, you don't do anything about it, and your wife goes out and gives a speech to the nation telling us that he cares.
Asking us to believe a lot.
And as I said, I was curious why she felt the need to reintroduce herself and her father and her husband.
I was asking myself last night, did the past four years not happen?
Do we not know that she's got a garden?
Do we not know that she wants to impact the food in the grocery store?
Are we supposed to judge her husband on his composite biography and their dates and the car and the dumpster diving coffee table?
Not the unemployment, not the underemployment, not the deficit, not the 47 million people on food stamps, not the $4,000 annual drop in median family income.
That doesn't matter.
We're supposed to support this guy because he cares.
And he picked his wife up in a car with a hole in a door and dumpster dove for a coffee table, his most prized possession.
His shoes are half size too small.
That stuff doesn't matter to me.
And there was no amount, nothing she could say last night that would make that matter to me.
23 million Americans out of work matters to me.
Economic malaise collapse.
That matters to me.
I have to go.
Remind me when we get back.
I'll make a note myself.
Another thing.
When Michelle talked about late at night, Barack hunched painfully at his desk reading letters from Americans who are struggling and suffering.
And what she said that he told her about that blew my mind.
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