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Sept. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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El Rushbow at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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The Chicago teachers' strike.
CNN reporter says the last thing anybody wants is 400,000 Chicago kids on the streets.
Yeah, I can't have the kids on us.
Gangbangers, fine.
Kids on this, no way.
We need to get them back in school.
I'm very suspicious of this, as I said in the first hour.
Of course this can't be established and can't be proven.
But is this not a golden opportunity for Obama?
What are we dealing with here?
We're dealing with teachers unions.
We're dealing with avowed Democrat fundraisers, donors, bundlers, voters for Obama.
And they're on strike.
They earn more than any teachers anywhere in the country.
Their salaries are higher than any teachers.
They rejected a 16% wage increase.
The argument is over health care and pensions.
How the hell can that happen?
How in hell can you have a bunch of Democrats going on strike over health care after a Democrat president has given them Obamacare?
Would somebody explain all of these incongruities to me?
Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Democrat union, Democrat fundraisers, donors, bundlers, voters, teachers.
You have Obama, Democrat, loves the unions, does everything in the world for them, shuts down the oil industry for them, whatever they need, buys General Motors and Chrysler and gives them the companies, a majority stake.
And yet here they are walking out on strike in Chicago, the teachers?
Now, something's up here.
To me, it's made to order.
Have this thing go on a couple days.
Make sure it gets plenty of news coverage.
Have Rahm go out there and sound really, really tough on him.
He's the mayor.
Nobody's going to beat him.
He can do whatever he wants to do in Chicago.
He's never going to be vulnerable at election time.
So he can take whatever position he wants.
He could even threaten to fire him a PETCO if it's legal.
I don't know if it's legal.
Somebody to take a poll of the unemployed in Chicago, ask them what to do with the teachers.
If Kyle Smith is right, they'll say pay him.
People feel sorry for Obama, feel sorry for...
Apparently, according to the media, some conservative blogs, none of this is ever Obama's fault.
None of it's ever the fault of the Democrat Party.
They ought to be a poll to some small business people in Illinois, Chicago.
See who they support for president.
Poll the unemployed Chicago, see who they support for president.
Somebody ought to go out and poll homeowners who are underwater.
See who they support for president.
Instead of these usual polling samples that we get that show Obama at 50% and climbing.
It's absolute crock.
But our media people are falling for it, folks.
You go to the wrong places in our media, it's over.
Election's over.
It's done.
The bounce, we didn't get a bounce out of our convention.
Our convention was horrible.
Our convention bad in comparison anyway, but oh man, that Democrat convention was a disaster.
And they're trying to tell us that it had a real bounce and a bounce of substance, a bounce that's going to last.
Chicago teachers make on average $76,000.
That means there's some make more than that.
That's for nine months' work, God knows how many other days off.
Does not include their benefits.
Here's the graduation rate: barely half of Chicago's high school students earn a diploma in the unionized schools.
Over 90% of those studying in non-union charter schools do graduate.
And you can bet those non-union teachers are paid a good deal less.
Stop and think of that.
Barely half of the students, the high school students being taught by the teachers on strike, earn a diploma.
But folks, it's not all lost today.
The schools are open.
Did you know that?
For breakfast and lunch for the students.
The teachers aren't there.
But what difference does that make when barely half of the students graduate with a diploma that they can read?
And they're on strike.
Is this not made the order for Obama to come in and not solve it as president?
No, no, no, I mean, but go in and bring the two sides together and make them see eye to eye for the good of the country.
Maybe Obama can even go in and say, I think at this time when so many of your fellow citizens are out of work and when so many people's homes are underwater, so many small businesses are having trouble, when everybody's got to contribute, everybody has to pitch it, everybody has to sacrifice.
I think you teachers may want to look at this a little bit different way.
This school teacher strike, in some ways, maybe like the environmentalist wackos.
The environmentalist wackos sue the EPA, and the EPA settles with them.
It's an inside-outside game.
The EPA claims it had no choice but to settle on certain terms.
Here, the teachers strike.
Rahm Emmanuel eventually says he had to give them much of what they wanted, or the kids would still be out of school.
And that's what's going to happen.
And Obama, I'm not predicting it, but I wouldn't be surprised if Obama inserts himself in the mix here somehow to bring reason and compassion to the not to the point that Rahm is hurt.
It'll not happen in a way that makes Rahm look incompetent.
No, no, no.
They will do it working together.
A fundraising email from Michelle Obama.
Dear Biff, I know your life is full, work, school, family.
And yet you still find the time to help out when you can.
You may have a tight budget, but you give what you can afford.
A woman recently told us here at the campaign that her family skipped a pizza dinner at their favorite place so that they could make a difference in this election.
That is the commitment that drives this campaign.
If you can support Barack with a donation today, please know it makes a huge difference.
If we win, it'll be because of what you did at moments like this.
Thanks, Michelle.
P.S.
It meant a lot to me to speak with you and everyone else at the convention.
Thank you for everything you do.
So, Michelle Obama sent out a fundraising letter saying, you know what?
A family that really cares, unlike you, a family that really, really cared, skipped a pizza dinner at their favorite place so that they could make a difference in selection.
Of course, everybody knows that means rather than eat dinner that night, they sent that money to the campaign.
And here's Michelle Obama asking you to do the same.
This woman will do anything to make people give up pizza.
Okay, National Football League opening day yesterday.
Robert Griffin III.
Snerdley, do you have Sunday ticket?
Direct TV?
You have cable?
So you don't have direct Sunday ticket.
Direct TV Sunday Ticket.
You watch it on the Red Zone channel?
That means you saw everything that counted.
The Red Zone channel, do you know women hate it?
You know what the Red Zone channel is?
The Red Zone channel is every touchdown.
It's the equivalent of the lughead husband switching channels every five seconds with the remote control.
Women hate it.
They hate the red zone channel.
Really, a fumble, a turnover, a highlight that might last three seconds.
You see it.
Every time a team gets in the red zone, they stop and go there.
If there's a touchdown, if there's a field goal, if there's an injury, you see it.
You see everything that happens.
No commercials.
They never break for commercials.
It's only offered on direct a couple of other places, too.
And it rapidly is taking the place of watching full-fledged games because you see everything in every game.
The Sunday afternoon and late games.
Not the Sunday night games, not the Monday night, just Sunday.
Anyway, this RG3 against the Saints, this guy was fantastic, Snerdley.
This guy was composed.
He did it all.
He was able to throw.
He was able to run.
He was not a one-trick pony.
He was poised.
He was composed.
He was throwing on his back foot.
He looked like a five-year veteran.
RG3 did.
He really, really did.
And they're playing in the dome, in the Superdome, first game on the road.
This Redskins team is entirely different with this guy as the quarterback.
Now, Snerdley says, What happened with the Jets?
Why are you so surprised at the Jets?
Tell me the truth.
Why are you surprised at a Jet?
Why?
Why didn't you think they could score?
Okay, the press.
See, this proves my point.
Bo Snerdley, our official Obama criticizer, is supposedly as immune to media attempts at mind manipulation as anybody.
And yet, the sports media had him convinced the Jets were pathetic and horrible because they're doing cartoons of the Jets as clowns on the back page of the Post.
They didn't score a touchdown in the first three preseason games with the starting unit.
The starting unit didn't score in four games.
They have everybody believing that Sanchez is horrible and that Tebow is going to make the team even more confused.
And yet they came out yesterday and they had a blowout of the Buffalo Bulls.
As they say in Western Pennsylvania, the Buffalo Bulls.
Literally blew them out.
When are you going to learn to ignore what the media is?
When are you going to learn to ignore preseason?
See, this is, I'll tell you, this is really a worthwhile exercise.
No, no, it's not hard to ignore preseason.
All you have to do is listen to me or do you want anybody to tell you the score in preseason is irrelevant.
The coaches don't care.
In preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook.
They don't game plan.
They do nothing.
They don't give anything away for the regular season.
They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.
That often doesn't work.
You can't judge the regular season by the preseason in any way, shape, manner, or form.
Peyton Manning.
You know what, folks?
I'll just rename this the National Manning League and be done with it.
The NML.
That's just it.
And I'll tell you if Peyton Manning ever comes out for gay marriage, they're going to make him quarterback.
They're going to make him commissioner.
They're going to make him president or whatever he wants.
Well, no, that's because there's this local government official in Maryland, Emmett Burns, who sent an email or a letter to an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens and the ownership of the Ravens.
This guy is actively pro-gay marriage.
So Emmett Burns, a state elected official, sends a letter asking them to shut him up, asking him to not talk about it for moral and cultural reasons.
There's no place in football for this stuff.
And he sent a letter to the owner, Steve Bashati.
Would you please shut the guy up?
Well, all hell has broken loose against Emmett Burns.
Who are you to deny freedom of speech?
You ever read the Constitution, you idiot?
Is what the reaction to him is.
He's taking it on the chin every punter, the Minnesota Vikings, a guy named Chris Cluey, wrote a blog post that was so obscene it can't be quoted.
But everybody loves it because it excoriates Emmett Burns as being an absolute toad and an idiot.
He says things like, Mr. Burns, can you please explain to me how two gay people getting married is going to hurt you?
It isn't going to hurt you at all.
Not one thing, except it's going to make them more complete citizens.
So people around the world in the pro-gay movement, a marriage movement now love Chris Cluey of the Minnesota Vikings.
Because, I mean, his first letter, it is racked with profanities.
The CNN today said they couldn't quote it.
They wanted to read it.
They couldn't quote it.
Or maybe it was Fox.
I forget which.
I read it over the weekend.
It is profanity.
It's funny.
It's humorous.
The guy's got to wave with words.
But this poor, and this Emmett Burns guy's black.
And everybody's dumping on this guy.
So I'm just saying, if Peyton Manning, oh, it was CNN because it had Tiki Barber on.
Tiki Barber.
It's only a matter of time.
This new generation gets it.
Gay marriage.
We're going to have openly gay players in the NFL.
They're going to come out.
We're going to get with it.
This new generation is going to take care of it.
Everybody's going to get speed.
It's going to be fine.
Okay, that's it.
I knew this was going to happen, folks.
And then CNN's doing stories on paralysis and head injuries and football.
I knew it.
I knew all this is going to happen.
So anyway, if Peyton Manning comes out for gay marriage, then it's going to be the National Manning League.
Eli is vice president.
Archie is secretary of state, whatever he wants.
Their mother is going to be whatever she wants.
And Goodell is going to be waving from the train station.
I tell you, gay marriage is coming to the NFL.
That's no question, folks.
It's out there now.
I mean, players are supporting it.
It's coming to the culture.
Brad Pitt's out there saying next generation is going to get it right.
My mother doesn't know what she's talking about, supporting Romney.
That's Brad Pitt saying that.
Gay marriage coming to the NFL.
I'll tell you what, they can just call it Manning Up.
It's a national manning league anyway.
So just the gay marriage movement, the NFL's NFL mannings up.
Gay marriage.
I don't care.
Next up will be the transgendered players.
What to do with them?
That's fine.
Just do all the social experiments you want to the players.
Leave the cheerleaders alone, please.
Just make one request.
Just one request.
A former big-time fan.
Just leave the cheerleaders alone.
That's right.
The first female official.
I don't know what game she officiated, but that's right.
First female of him.
Laurie in Miami.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
This is a make-my-day moment.
Thank you very much.
It's real and an honor to talk to you.
Thank you.
Of all the good things that Obama's taking away from the American people, and he blames this one on the economy.
But Jimmy Carter had the same kind of recession economy, but during his administration, the banks gave double-digit interest.
And with Obama, we don't even get 1% on our savings.
And every worker, and even the people on the doll that get a welfare check, they always used to look forward to taking a few dollars out and socking it away in a little savings so that they'd have a little extra.
Wait a minute.
How do you know that?
I've never heard this is new.
Welfare recipients socked some away.
Well, maybe $2 or $3 or $5 or under, but it was just the thrill of having something in the bank, even though it wasn't their earned money.
But the workers always, I know my uncle's and dad, when they got their check, they'd turn it over to my aunt or mom, but we'd always put a few dollars away for, you know, the rainy day and having a savings account or now a CD or anything.
But not getting even 1%, you might as well just throw it in a jar or under the mattress.
And nobody's protesting this.
If a Republican was in office, they'd be marching on Washington and saying, we're not getting a penny.
What happened for years?
We're not getting a penny.
What good are banks?
Well, because now they're saying there's no inflation, see, which is which.
Well, they come up with something.
They blame it on inflation, the economy.
But Jimmy Carter, who he's often likened to, he had this same kind of situation, but he found at least to give the poor people of the land work and all, to give them a little something for their hard-earned money.
Yeah, that's so big of him.
Yeah, that 18% inflation at Jimmy Carter, he was really thinking the poor people there.
No, that was bad, but there's a happy medium somewhere that, you know, even I'm not saying you have to get rich, but even if they gave you like 2 or 3%, which is low, but not even, it keeps going lower, not even 1%.
And nobody's been talking about it except the people I talk to in my community and all.
They keep saying, my goodness, what's the sense of trying to get money in the bank or opening a CD?
It's a worthless piece of paper.
Well, I know what's shocking to a lot of people is that anybody has any money to save, period, regardless what the interest rate is.
That's one of the reasons he's, I think, getting away with it.
Yeah.
By the way, I'm told that Cortland Finnegan, used to play with the Tennessee Titans, now St. Louis Rams, staged a fake fight in the game with the Lions in order to suck the female referee into breaking it up.
She's a line judge in the game.
And apparently players got together and faked a fight.
She got tricked into breaking up a fake fight.
That's what I'm told.
I don't.
Everybody complaining, and I feel like joining in.
I can't go anywhere.
And everybody complains.
I can't escape it.
So you people in charge of the Kindle app for Mac, would you finally upgrade it for the Retina MacBook Pro so I can read the damn text?
And Apple, would you give us a new beta of iOS 6?
It's only been five weeks.
What else can I complain of?
Oh, Snerdly says, you know, Rush, you just can't win.
You had one of the funniest, greatest, most harmless lines ever.
Gay marriage in the NFL manning up.
In fact, it could be a show.
Manning up gay marriage in the NFL.
He's afraid, Snerdley, the reporters are going to go out to Peyton Manning.
He said, did you hear what Rush Limbus?
He's right.
I can't win.
A totally innocent, very clever, funny little thing.
Gay marriage in the NFL manning up.
And Peyton Manning will be forced into me.
Here's the story, and it's true.
Cortland Finnegan and Stephen Tulloch.
Tulloch is the Lions, Finnegan with the Rams.
They both used to play for the Tennessee Titans.
After the game, they faked a fight with smiles on their faces, and the first female riff is pictured running in to break it up.
Her name is Shannon Easton.
She was the, what was the line judge?
And there's a picture of it.
She's running to break these guys up.
They've got their hands on their throats, and they're laughing themselves silly.
It's obviously a fake fight, and she's running in to break it up.
Taunting, taunting.
One of the new riffs.
Here's Lynn in Garrison, New York.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Hey, Lynn, let me ask you a quick, do you have a nice view of West Point from where you live in Garrison?
Yeah, not too far.
We do have a lot of land, so you have to go a little bit before I can see West Point.
Yeah, it's a gorgeous place up there.
It's right across the Hudson from West Point.
And if you have to get up there in the hill, it's a great, great view.
It really is.
We love it here.
We want to keep everything nice.
And I have been very upset.
My husband was the mayor of Yonkers.
He is a Democrat.
By the way, I am going to be voting for Romney.
And I'm also going to give back.
I want to go to Ohio because I realize New York, you cannot do anything.
So I'm going to go and give some time.
And I urge all of your audience not just to listen, but to help.
We do need help in this campaign.
And I agree with everything you say, having been involved for many, many years.
My husband, like Mitt Romney, was smeared.
And so was I, by the way.
Very rarely does the wife get smeared.
I'm a fundraiser.
I'm very successful at what I do.
But they didn't want him to continue on.
They wanted the city to stay the way it was.
The press came after us.
I never realized.
I thought when you read the newspapers, you read the truth.
Oh, no.
I cannot tell you what I read about myself that nobody even asked me.
They didn't call me even.
I just couldn't believe how they smeared both my husband and I saying things, going to the opposition, but never coming to the other side.
But wait a second.
Wait a minute.
You said that your husband is a Democrat.
He was the mayor of Yonkers?
He was the mayor of Yonkers and a Democrat, yes.
Why'd they go after him?
Well, because the city is corrupt, that's why.
And they really wanted someone they control.
My husband's highly intelligent, and he's God-centered.
That's another thing.
You mean they wanted to keep it corrupt, and he wanted to clean it up?
Exactly.
And so we had to get out because I cannot tell you the threats.
And my husband's God-centered.
He grew up with values.
And, you know, everybody talks about values, but God forbid you actually carry out a policy of values.
Democrats and values are just something to talk about.
Well, they do.
But in this case, it was a matter of doing us in and getting rid of us, which they succeeded to do.
They did sabotage the election, which worries me for Mick.
Will they do the same for him?
You don't know.
What do you mean we don't know?
They're going to try.
What do you think No Voter ID is all about?
Yeah, I know.
No photo voter ID is all about sabotage.
Look, you just nailed something here, Lynn.
And you bring a lot of weight to this because of your experience.
And by the way, Yonkers is a liberal bash.
I mean, it's Upper West Side.
It's Sabars.
I mean, it's got it all.
It's got it all.
And the Rooney family has a racetrack up there.
I don't know how they do it.
But nevertheless, you hit on it.
And that is everybody who opposes Obama is going to have to hit the street and do something about it.
Every one of you is going to try.
If every one of you could just round up one other person who is ambivalent, doesn't care, may not plan on voting.
Just round up one person to join you in your opposition to Obama.
If every one of us just did that.
Now, of course, I don't have to do anything in addition to what I do because I reach millions here.
So I'm covered.
But the rest of you, you got to get out there and pound the pavement.
I do it too.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm just in a jocular mood here.
The fact of the matter is that this is going to require boots on the ground.
And Romney's going to disappoint you.
Romney is going to say some things during a campaign.
It's going to weaken your resolve for Romney.
You've got to understand something.
This election is not about Romney.
And there's nothing you can do about it anyway.
He is who he is.
You can try to nudge him to the right.
And we do as often as we can.
But the key to this election is drumming up an anti-Obama vote.
In fact, the key to the election is getting the anti-Obama sentiment to the polls.
We know there's plenty of anti-Obama sentiment.
We just have to get them to the polls.
They just have to get there and vote, and they have to get involved.
And everybody asks me what they can do besides vote.
That would be something that everybody could do.
Just one person.
You think of the geometric expansion of the numbers.
If every one of you could find one person who isn't planning on voting or is wishy-washy, maybe thinking of voting for Obama for guilt or other reasons, change them.
It's worth the effort.
The country's depending on it.
And that's not an exaggeration.
Oh, no.
I'm not.
I got to stay up.
I got to stay focused.
CNN just announced that Romney is going to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City later this month.
Obama is going to speak there, too.
But Clinton made it officially.
Clinton has announced, yeah, I got Romney.
I got Obama.
I got Villgarosa.
That guy comes in handy when I'm out.
Well, we go out to eat after the Clinton Global Initiative every night.
And Vilgarosa, Gray distracts people from what I've seen it happen.
So Romney will speak at the Clinton Global Initiative.
And folks, look, I was not making fun of the NFL referet, Shannon Easton.
I'm just reporting what I've got it right here.
She was a line judge for the Rams-Lions game yesterday.
And I'm just telling you, I got the picture.
We've got Cortland Finnegan and the Rams, Stephen Tulloch of the Lions.
They faked the post-game fight, and she's running in there to break it up.
They're laughing themselves silly while she's running in with a, you can't stop, stop, look on her face.
Here, hang on a minute.
I'm zooming.
I'm going to show you.
I'm zooming.
I've turned the camera off so you don't actually see the zoom.
Come on, keep zooming, keep zooming.
I think we're lowering better.
Okay, see if I got it here.
There again, can you see that?
That's still not close enough.
Here, let me see if I get tighter.
Still zooming.
That ought to do it.
I don't know about the focus, but okay, they're Cortland Finnegan there on the left, Stephen Tulloch on the right, and he's laughing.
And that's the referet, Shannon Easton, a line judge.
It's after the game, she's going in to break it up.
And that's from Dead Spin.com.
I frankly don't think the replacement refs did a bad job.
I mean, a couple of three errors that they made, but the real refs have got to be looking at this at a little different perspective because the replacement refs did not do too badly.
Leon in Cincinnati, I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing?
Very good.
Thank you.
Before I get to my point, I wanted to say something real quick.
Friday, you mentioned when discussing black people, you said you used the term black.
I appreciate that because I hate the term African-American.
And believe it a lot, a lot of people like me believe in the term we're Americans who just happen to be black.
But I wanted to thank you for that.
Okay.
But to get to my point is I disagree with you on the NFL.
I think the training camp is to get these guys up to speed, playing at NFL speed.
It's like with the college players.
You know, all those college players, they have the ability to be in the NFL, but can they play at that NFL speed?
Yeah.
And with the pros themselves, the guys that are already there after staying out for a few months.
I can see how you might have been confused by what I said because Mr. Snerdley was too.
He said during the break, how can you say that?
What I meant to say was that coaches don't care about the score in preseason games.
They, of course, care about how people play.
It's how they determine who ends up on the team.
Now, the starters don't play much in preseason games.
They try to keep them injury-free.
And it's largely to find out who among the new recruits has what it takes to make the final roster.
But it's the final score they don't worry about.
So when the Jets don't score a touchdown, don't score any points in the preseason.
That really is not that big a concern for the coaches.
Not scoring a touchdown probably was a concern.
But of course, the starters were not on the field that many times for an opportunity to score.
But all I meant to say was that it's the final score of preseason games is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter to the coaches.
You're exactly right.
Preseason is to find out who can play at that speed.
Every college play in first-round draft choices, the first thing every year that they say is they can't believe how much faster the game is and how good everybody is.
You know, there aren't any East Washburn you's on the schedule.
Off to a rousing start, ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks so much for being with us today.
Always a thrill and a delight.
And for me, too.
And we will see you tomorrow.
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