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Sept. 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Boy, you know, folks, people just can't wait till I make a mistake.
They just are all over me, like Ali said, like white on rice.
When I make well, I've goofed up a minor error which doesn't take away from the point that I was making.
It was not Obama's mother that worked at a bank, it was his grandmother's grandmother, typical white woman.
It was a grandmother, the second biggest bank in Hawaii.
Uh his mother ran off, left him with the grandparents, had another baby, or married uh that's what she married the Satoro guy who ended up uh adopting uh Barry, who was he was Barry back then.
Well you oughta see it.
You were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong.
This is what really It's just I make so few mistakes.
People just love.
Even when the little nitpicking errors don't even take away from the overall brilliant point that was being made.
Don't you just hate it when that happens to you?
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Great to have you here.
This segment of the speech, Michelle Obama, I literally came out of the couch when I heard this.
And then there was another portion of the speech.
This this actually happened.
When she was talking about how Obama doesn't care if you're a Republican or whatever, Catherine and I both at the exact moment shouted boost at the TV.
We didn't even look at each other first.
Boosh.
Tell that to Paul Ryan.
Doesn't care if you're a Republican, does it crying out that's the most partisan president we have ever had in office, and that's saying something.
Anyway, here's Michelle talking about Obama hunched over late at night reading the letters written by the struggling and the shuffling all over the country.
You see, that's the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night, patiently answering questions about issues in the news, strategizing about middle school friendships.
That's the man I I see in in those quiet moments late at night, hunched over his desk, pouring over the letters people have sent him.
The the letter from the father struggling to pay his bills.
Get the struggle.
From the woman dying of cancer whose insurance company won't cover her care.
From the young people with so much promise, but so few opportunities.
Now wait.
And I see the concern in his eyes.
Wait, wait for it.
And I hear the determination in his voice as he tells me we won't believe what these folks are going through, Michelle.
It's not right.
We've got to keep working to fix this.
We've got so much more to do.
I about threw up.
I stood up, I could not, I could not contain myself.
He's the president of the United States, and it requires letters from the struggling for him to know the pain and suffering out there, and then when he learns about it, he says, Michelle, you won't believe what these folks are going through.
We've got to keep working to fix this.
Michelle, you won't believe what the what the hell does twenty-three million unemployed mean to this guy.
What does median family income dropping from fifty-one thousand a year to forty-seven thousand a year mean to this guy?
What does annual budget deficits of a trillion dollars plus mean to this guy?
What is sixteen trillion dollars ever a national debt mean to this guy?
I I was I I I this this was another classic illustration of this thing is all a pack of lies.
And she doesn't believe any of this.
This heart string stuff, the the people that fall for that.
We talked about them yesterday to morons.
I see the concern in his eyes, and I hear the determination in his voice.
He tells me, you won't believe what these folks are going through, Michelle.
You're causing it.
Mr. President, you're causing this.
Mr. President, your policies are making all of these things happen to real people.
That's what's always bugged me about these unemployment numbers or job growth numbers or economic growth numbers.
Real people.
Real lives are behind these numbers.
These are real people that want to work who can't find jobs.
These are people who want careers, not just workers who want wages.
We have people in this country who look at having a career making something of themselves.
Michelle, you won't believe what these folks are going through?
Shouldn't the president of the United States, particularly this one, who cares?
Who has all this empathy?
Shouldn't he know better than any of us what everyone's going through?
He's the guy that's had all the summits, all the job summits.
He's commissioned all the panels, all the experts to try to come up with solutions.
And we're told last night that he doesn't know how bad it is till he gets these letters from people.
And it's not right.
We've got to work even harder.
We have so much more to do.
Well, if you keep doing what you've been doing, the numbers of people sending you letters like that are going to expand geometrically.
I just didn't believe that.
That's probably only time in a speech I got mad.
That's when I thought my intelligence is being insulted.
The other times I know she wasn't trying to insult everybody else's.
That's the when you try to insult my intelligence, that's when I start taking it personally.
Well, I, you know, I wonder.
Well, that's, you know, you talk golf scores are I wonder I wonder if uh she ever sees him leaning over the golf scorecard at night while he's erasing the five and making it a four.
You know, for presidential posterity.
And I wonder, has it ever occurred to Michelle that her husband has caused so much of the misery that she says he's fretting over.
Does it ever occur to her that the cause of all this misery she sees every day?
Hey, Michelle, look at it.
I don't believe what these people are going through, Michelle.
By the way, did we lock in that trip to Martha's venue?
Michelle, I don't believe what these people are going through every day.
Uh how was Spain?
Michelle.
I don't believe what these people are going through, Michelle.
Did I tell you what happened at Clooney's house in Hollywood at the fundraiser, Michelle?
This guy's barely at the White House.
I don't know if he signs these letters, he returns.
Anyway, so once again, where are we?
Another election cycle.
Where the real Barack Obama is concealed by the Democrats, and the made up Barack Obama is who they want you to vote for.
They're out there constructing a brand new Barack Obama, folks.
You are not to see the guy you've seen every day for the past four years.
That's not the real Barack Obama.
No, no, no.
The twenty-three million Americans unemployed.
All the Americans whose family income has dropped.
All the Americans who can't afford to send their Kids to college, all the Americans who can't afford health care, all those things.
Not supposed to see that Barack Obama.
Nope, nope, nope.
Time now to make up another version of Barack Obama.
Create a new Barack Obama V 2.0 for you to vote for this year.
He cares.
And he's a saint.
That's right.
Fact checkers are not going to be checking much of this, which is why I am.
Instead, we have media types on all the networks and all the cable stations.
Impressed with the delivery, as I was too, but they leave it at that.
The delivery is the sole aspect of judgment.
The delivery of Michelle's speech is the only way it's being judged.
Content not even being looked at by very many people.
So tonight is Bill Clinton and Sandra Fluck night, all kicks off primetime 9 o'clock, but the NFL kicks off at about 8.30 with the New York Giants of the Dallas Cowboys.
So the question is, will more people watch Bill Clinton or the first football game of the season.
Given the fact that ratings for the first night were down an average of 35% from 2008.
I'd have to say most people probably going to be watching the football game tonight.
That would be my wild guess.
And guess, folks, this is a terrible thing.
Well terrible, it's a very unfortunate thing, since they've made the decision to move Obama's acceptance oration from outside to inside.
By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way, by the way, but away.
The revised National Weather Service Wild Guess for tomorrow in Charlotte, they have now reduced the chance of rain tomorrow night to 20%.
It was 30% when they made the decision to cancel it because of weather.
The new forecast is out, the chance of pre-sip now 20% tomorrow night in Charlotte.
It was not moved inside because of weather.
There's not a single event that would have taken place in that stadium with the same forecast that would have been canceled or postponed.
Not a football game, not a baseball game, not a soccer game, nothing.
Whatever was scheduled to happen in that stadium tomorrow night, other than Obama's speech would have gone on with this forecast.
They move people inside because they don't have the people to fill up that stadium.
It's just that simple.
As I mentioned in the opening hour, I think it was Alvin Combs.
It might have been somebody else, but they said, eh, you know, it's a big problem.
Yeah.
Don't have the hotel rooms in Charlotte to accommodate that many people overnight, which is why they had to bust them in.
And now you got the weather.
People don't want to risk lightning and so forth.
They sell out that stadium minimum ten times a year for Panthers football games.
What do you mean they don't have accommodations in Charlotte to fill the stadium?
They do it frequently there.
They just don't have the people.
You go back to Denver four years ago.
It wouldn't have mattered if it was a blizzard.
They wouldn't have canceled it, and people would have shown up.
And you know what Obama would have said?
People risk their lives, say me.
People will sit in a snowstorm.
See me.
They would have taken the fact that a big crowd showed up in inclement weather as another indication of how loved Obama was, how mesmerized he had people, all of it.
Now it's an excuse for people not showing up.
The bloom is off the rose.
The elevators not going to the top floor.
The party is an order of fries short of a happy meal.
It just ain't happening.
And now guess what?
I have the sad story right here, my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
The headline's a little misleading.
The headline says Obama likely to skip balloon drop after nomination speech.
What does that mean?
I mean, what does that mean?
I'm not playing a game.
I want to know what that headline really means to you, snurdly.
Obama likely to skip balloon drop after nomination speech.
The way, see, I live in Reaville.
I read that headline, and I think, okay, Obama is gonna get out of there right after he finishes.
He's not gonna wait for the balloon drop, he's just gonna leave.
That's not what the story is.
They don't have any balloons.
There isn't going to be a balloon drop because you can't have balloons outdoors.
They had fireworks and stuff planned, which you can't set off inside, not the kind they have.
So there aren't any balloons.
So the headline is well, Obama has decided that there won't be any balloon.
No, Obama hadn't decided anything.
This is this is this is it.
It's a Fox News story.
But they pointed out if you look at the ceiling inside the Time Warners, there are no balloons in there.
It's time for Bill O'Reilly's idea.
Condoms.
It's time for O'Reilly's idea to be put into action, a condom drop.
I guarantee you they've been giving those away at the convention, just like they give them away at the Olympics.
I'll bet they're in every gift pack in every hotel room.
I'll bet condoms are everywhere in that convention.
They've already passed them out.
They've already got them.
They don't have to go out and buy the condoms like the balloons.
They've already done that.
Just release them.
Don't even open the packets, just drop the packets.
Don't blow them up, just drop the packets.
Up, up and away.
Beautiful loving balloon.
Crystal blue persuasion to do do do.
Let me take a break, and we come back.
Uh we'll have your phone calls and Kathleen Sibelius.
Oh, yes.
Kathleen Sabilus, whose job last night was to go out and resell Obamacare.
Even though, as of now, it's the law of the land.
And we are back.
El Rush Bo and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Honest, honestly here, folks.
Uh I thought from much of the speech Michelle was talking about Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan grew up.
He had to work as a 16-year-old.
Remember his father died, his mother had to start a second business or a family business at age 50, totally restructuring the lives of everybody in the family.
He had to had to struggle with his brothers and sisters, is his widowed mother.
How he lived his life.
I thought she was talking about Paul Ryan last night.
And remember that she's not married to Paul Ryan.
You know, it was Barack who struggled through prep school, through Ivy League College, law school, struggled to work into a law firm, struggled their joint income of over $300,000 a year.
She had the no-show job at the hospital.
Obama struggled, state senator advocating for infanticide.
Yeah, that's when the aborted baby is alive, and you go ahead and finish the job outside the womb.
He um he voted for that.
He led the charge for that.
Hey, struggled.
Obama struggled for 92 days a U.S. Senator.
And he continues to struggle as president against the Republicans.
He struggles against big business at Wall Street, the banks, Bush family, the Millionaires and the Billionaires, a constant struggle for Obama.
Because everybody's out to get him.
He's had a struggle his entire life.
Obama's life is a never-ending struggle.
Needs to write a book called Time to Struggle.
Third autobiography, Barack Obama, Time to Struggle.
Back to the phones here in just a second, but here is Kathleen Sibelius.
And I'm watching this last night.
And I'm asking myself, do the morons really believe this?
Does does this stuff still work?
See what you think.
Here's the first week of three sound bites.
The president ensured women's free access to preventive services like breast cancer screenings.
So the good news is being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre existing condition.
Now that's what change looks like.
They applauded that, folks.
What?
When was mo when did people look at motherhood as a liability?
When was being a woman a pre existing condition?
A pre-existing condition is a disease.
Outside of Snerdly, I don't know people who think women are a disease.
Who thinks of themselves this way?
They applauded that.
Stupidity is a pre existing condition.
Being a woman is no longer a mother is no longer a liability.
You know, I knew they were reaching when they talked about pregnancy as a disease and as a sickness.
But being a woman is a pre existing condition.
Now I did.
I asked myself, who buys this?
They applauded that.
Who believes this stuff?
And there are people in that party who do.
Pregnancy is a preexisting disease to these people.
Pregnancy is a pre existing condition.
Here's the next soundbite.
Instead of the Medicare guarantee, Republicans would give seniors a voucher that limits what's covered.
Costing seniors as much as sixty, four hundred dollars more a year.
President Obama extended the program's life by eight years, while improving seniors' benefits and strengthening the Medicare Guarantee.
The president agrees there should be no vouchers.
That's the problem with that.
It's Obama that cut Medicare out of health care.
Obama cut Medicare $716 billion.
And if you're 55 or older, and Medicare reform happens as the Republicans have it planned, no change.
Literally no change.
You can if you want.
You can opt out of Medicare, but you don't have to.
Nothing will change.
They lied to their teeth about that.
Just...
They're not going to give all the seniors vouchers?
That's totally optional.
And here's the final bite from her.
Romney and Ryan will take away women's basic health services and turn a blind eye to insurance discrimination.
President Obama stands up for women, giving us control over our own health care.
Romney and Ryan would put insurance companies back in control.
I don't care about that.
But Romney and Ryan will take away women's basic health services.
That's treatment.
Romney and Ryan are going to take away women's health care.
Now that's more like it.
I was getting all jazzed.
That's what these people usually stand for.
That's the kind of stuff I was expecting the rest of the night.
This kind of pablum.
This kind of stuff that makes us all puke.
Republicans want to kill your dog, want to kill you, want to kick you out of your house, old folks.
You have a duty to die, get out of the way.
Oh, it's a Democrats who said that, sorry.
But that's what I was hoping to hear.
And I got it from Sibelius.
But that was it.
And then Dick Durbin.
This was great.
This is uh Brett Bear's show.
Uh the six o'clock show.
Special report with Brett Bear.
Formerly with Britt Hume.
Brett Bear has Dick Durbin on this did Democrats have just yesterday taken the taking God out of their platform.
And so why'd you do that?
Now this is hard to hear because the a lot of noise in the convention hall, and you gotta listen close here to hear Durbin.
But he's there because he knows.
Here's the thing.
Durbin knows.
The fact that that news has gotten out.
Democrats have taken God out of the platform.
That's not something insignificant.
That could really, really be a factor in the outcome of the election.
More so than Michelle's speech.
That's big, believe me.
He knows it.
And he's up there to do everything he can to deflect.
So Baer says, God was taken out of the platform.
Why do that?
If the narrative that is being presented on your station and through your channel and your network is that the Democrats are godless people, they ought to know better.
God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.
No, no.
Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
He didn't ask him, see.
He defended something that wasn't alleged.
Baer didn't say, how come you guys are godless?
How come you guys don't believe in God?
He didn't ask that.
Why'd you take God out of the platform?
If you're trying to say, if you're trying to say your network of Democrats are godless people, he knows that's what everybody's going to think.
He's worried they took God out of the platform.
Why do that?
Why the hell to what does it gain you to take God out of the platform?
Well, it must gain you something, and that's what Durbin's worried about.
Oh my God.
Oh, I can't say, oh my God, God's not on our platform.
So Bear says, look, I I don't think that's what's being said here, Senator Turbin.
We're reporting what's in the platform.
2008, God was mentioned once.
At least you guys squeezed it in there.
In 2004, God was mentioned seven times.
In 2000, you mentioned it four times.
Why take it out this time?
I'm not trying to democrats are godless.
I'm just present your evidence.
I'm just asking the question.
Why was the word taken out?
I'm just telling you, you are carping on a trifle.
We know that both parties are devoted to this country.
Both parties are God-fearing parties.
Let's get on with the agenda about creating jobs in America.
About justice in this country.
Yeah.
Bear wasn't a three chill.
Look, we're gonna talk about that in a second, Turbin.
I'm here talking about a platform right now.
I'm not drawing conclusions.
I'm just asking you why you made the change.
Why did you take God out of your platform?
Number sixteen, audio sound by 16.
To suggest that this document and the insertion of two words here and one word there's now define politics in America, suggest to me that you're not focusing on the real issues that Americans care about.
You know, Democrats in Tampa talked about the Republican platform and what was and what is not in there.
So when I'm asking you about these two changes, these two words, I'm just asking why.
I'm not drawing conclusions.
I'm not drawing conclusions.
I'm telling you your conclusions are wrong if you're drawing them.
Senator Turbin knows it's impossible not to draw conclusions.
See?
That's what he knows.
It's impossible not to draw conclusions.
You take God out of your platform.
You're trying to make somebody happy.
You take God out of your platform, you're trying to please somebody in your party.
Who?
Who?
Who is made happy?
Who benefits taking God out of the platform?
Turbin knows.
He knows how precarious that move is or dangerous.
And he tried to head it off at the pass.
And he sounded defensive as he could be.
Anyway, let's go to the phones of Massey, North Carolina.
Hi, Trudy.
I'm really glad you waited.
It's great to have you here.
Hello, Mr. Limba.
I just wanted to thank God that I finally get to talk to you after eight trials for Mr. Sterling so wonderful.
We love you up here in North Carolina.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
And I just I just wanted to say, you know, they talk about, you know, they have so many struggles.
Why would you buy five five thousand dollar tennis shoes to a food kitchen?
And eat all this costly beat this.
They just don't even know what the people on the street are going through with.
And tonight when they put Bill Clinton on, and he's going to just show everybody.
I'm afraid the Republicans, they have really got to fight if we're gonna win this thing, don't you think?
Uh yes, I do.
Uh now what would you tell me what you mean, though, when you say the Republicans are gonna have to fight if we're gonna win this?
But they they're just gonna have to let the people on the street you know that they're foreign, you know, the Republicans.
My father, bless it, so he always said that America fares better and the Republicans and they do Democrats and Democrats and especially taking God, you know, away from everything.
It's just and it's if we keep on having Obama for uh four years, we're all gonna be driving cars with no bottoms and common and such.
So right.
We're all gonna have rusted out car doors.
And they're all gonna be fifty-seven Chevies.
That's exactly right.
Trudy, thanks much for the call.
Uh it's the old branding thing.
Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are the poor.
Trudy thinks Republicans have to do something to make Republicans think uh the average people think the Republicans care about them.
Uh I think what the Republicans have to do is quite simple.
Just expose Obama.
There's there's not time and there's really not a way here.
You can't change the branding.
Republicans don't like average the the the way the Republicans have to do the Romney camp is going to have to expose Obama's record.
They can't pussyfoot about this.
I shouldn't be the only one pointing out it's 23 million people who don't have jobs.
I and Eastwood shouldn't be either.
I shouldn't be the only one pointing out that average family income is down four grand.
I shouldn't be the only one pointing out that we haven't had anything under eight percent unemployment in uh since since uh Obama took office.
I shouldn't be the one pointing out that there is no recovery.
It's the worst recovery since the recession.
What we need to do is point out that Obama, if he does care for average people, doesn't know what to do about them because he's destroying them.
Obama's record is the gold mine.
Obama's record is what it is.
Obama's record is what the Democrats are scared to death of.
Obama's record is what they're trying to deflect everything from.
Obama's record, four years of utter failure, four years of disaster, four years of unmitigated economic collapse.
The Democrats doing everything they can to keep that from being discussed.
The Republicans have to stop falling for all these deflection tricks and go after the record.
They're afraid that they go after Obama, they're gonna piss off the or tick off the independence, and they're gonna be seen as uh uh racist or whatever.
Get rid of that.
These are real people's lives that are being affected here.
The historical nature of Obama's presidency is done for.
I mean, the the that that that two days after he's uh immaculated, okay.
First black now he's the president, not the black president, not the male president, not the way he is the not the golfing priest, the president.
His policies are disastrous.
There's a record that demonstrates it.
And it needs to be exposed.
If I were the Republicans, my mindset would be win this in a landslide.
If I were the Republicans, my attitude would be go for everything, win this as big as possible, and give myself as big a mandate as possible after I win.
I'd shoot everything I got.
We're talking about saving the United States of America here, As it was founded.
That's what I think Republicans fighting means.
Here's another thing.
Why didn't they claim any credit for gutting welfare reform last night?
These are not the Democrats I've come to know and appreciate.
They would have taken credit for taking the work requirements out of welfare reform.
But they know that they don't have a whole lot of popular support, being who they are.
They know it, folks.
This convention was so eye-opening in that regard.
Anyway, I'm watching football.
I'm watching football, but I'm I I've got to watch Clinton.
I mean, I've see if the Republicans were serious.
There'd be an ad tonight featuring Juanita Broderick.
This is war on women night, right?
I'd had Kathleen Willie up there, I would find God get Jennifer Flowers, I'd I'd uh I'd get them all.
Yes, I'm gonna be going back and forth.
I multitask better than most.
Michelle Obama talked all about how Obama cares.
About Fast and Furious?
I didn't hear one Hispanic speaker last night mention Fast and Furious, where some Hispanics died.
Folks, Obama policy.
Didn't hear anything about that.
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