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Sept. 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 11, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
Rush Limbaugh, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, all-everything.
Maha Rushy.
Here behind the Golden EIB microphone, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the big program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Yes, it is an unsightly site.
Obama's biggest union supporters, the teachers' unions, in Chicago, on strike.
They don't want to be accountable.
Rahm Emmanuel wants them teaching more frequently.
What is he?
What does Rahm want?
Seven-hour school day.
This is one of the worst performing teacher systems in the country.
They're one of the highest paid.
Emmanuel wants a seven-hour workday, and they're on strike over that money and accountability.
And Obama lurks in the sidelines, waiting for the right opportune moment to move in.
And of course, it's been predicted by me, El Rushbo, that the whole thing's a setup.
You think Obama wants this dragon into his campaign?
You want him to become a factor in the election.
And already is perhaps becoming that with Ryan and Romney coming out in solidarity with the kids and with the mayor.
But that's going to tick them all off.
They may, Rahm and the teachers and Obama may unify.
They hate us.
They despise us.
You think Rah Emmanuel's happy to have Ryan and Romney on his side?
He doesn't want that.
They hate us.
They hate us more than they hate al-Qaeda.
They would let the militant Islamists have a mosque at ground zero faster than they'd let us build a church anywhere.
It's going to be fascinating to watch how this thing manifests itself.
I mentioned earlier that Bob Woodward's book is out and that it's got a lot of unflattering things about Obama in terms of leadership.
There isn't much.
Decision-making, there isn't much.
Oh, by the way, I just remembered to tell you this.
Paul Bedard last night in the Washington Examiner reported, get this now.
Pay attention here.
Department of Health and Human Services and the IRS have just released the regulations defining a full-time employee.
Now that's very significant.
What is a full-time employee is very important under Obamacare.
The regulations defining what is a full-time employee are 18 pages.
Kid you not.
18 pages just to define a full-time employee.
That is your federal government and IRS in action.
Speaking of regulations, did you hear this?
CyberCast News Service is reporting that over the past three years, the code of federal regulations has increased by 11,000 pages.
7.4% increase from January 1st of 2009 Through December 31st of last year.
11,327, to be precise, new pages of regulations.
Anyway, Woodward, he was on Good Morning America today.
George Stephanopoulos interviewed him.
He said, Price of politics.
That's Woodward's book.
Your bottom line, Bob, is that successful presidents like Reagan, Clinton largely work their will, but you reached the conclusion in this case, in this struggle, that Barack Obama did not work his will.
Yes, simply because our financial house is not in order.
This isn't a budget issue or a credit rating issue.
This is, is the government going to have its money to pay its bills?
And in the end, that's the president's job.
Yes, it's Congress's job too, but there is such a thing as presidential leadership.
Look, it's quite obvious that Obama has a distance from these people.
He doesn't spend the time.
He hasn't built the relationships.
And those human relationships matter.
This book is a warning document.
We are right back in the problem, and this can affect everyone in a very serious way.
He talked about the debt deal last year.
That's what he's talking about.
There was no Obama leadership.
He didn't even know how to get hold of Boehner after 2010 midterms.
Debt deal comes up.
Obama hasn't cared about these guys.
There's no bipartisanship.
There's no cooperation.
He doesn't even care who they are.
He doesn't care where they are.
He doesn't even care how to get hold of them.
Debt deal comes up, simply paying bills.
Woodward makes it clear here.
He's not talking about credit rating issue, the budget issue, just simply paying the bills.
That Obama was not showing any leadership on this at all.
And Stephanopoulos here is beside himself that Woodward is doing this 56 days before an election.
Stephanopoulos says, as you know, Bob, a lot of your critics have said the president was facing an implacable foe, the Republicans, on a crusade.
So what should voters take away?
We're only 56 days away here, Bob.
What the hell are you doing?
You studied this for a couple of years.
What should voters take away going to the polls now?
People have read it the other way and said, look, the Republicans are a brick wall, which they are, and it's really hard to get around them.
But, you know, World War II was hard to win, but President Roosevelt made sure that we won it.
And that's what presidents are there for.
And it depends on how you're going to raise the bar and what your level of expectation is.
And I think the public should have the highest expectation of their leaders.
Oh, man, this is not going over well at ABC.
Woodward is engaging here in racism.
There's no question about it.
That's right.
It's very clear.
FDR, white president, won World War II.
Obama, black president, can't pay the bills.
Racism.
Simple.
And here's Woodward, apparently unaware that this charge will be forthcoming.
He's just out there.
He's got his book coming out.
And it really, it's not favorable to Obama at all.
And these ABC guys can't believe that Woodward said they think he's on their team.
They can't understand why Woodward would put this book out now of 56 days to go, basically saying Obama phones it in.
Half the time.
Half time, he didn't even phone because he didn't know how to phone.
And they're beside themselves.
Diane Sawyer asked Woodward, you're delivering ammunition to the opposition.
Do you know what you're doing here?
Here's what she said.
Here in an election year, there are going to be people who say that you're delivering some ammunition to his opposition.
I am not delivering ammunition.
I am trying to describe what happened.
So these people, ABC can't figure this out.
As Diane Sawyer, Bob, you really know what you're doing.
You're supplying Republican's ammunition here against Obama.
What the hell are you doing?
Recycling.
And Woodward says, well, I'm not doing that.
I'm just trying to describe what happened out there.
Last night on World News tonight on ABC, during a report about Woodward's book, there's an interview.
And in this interview, Obama was talking about a speech that he delivered criticizing Ryan's budget plan.
I was not aware when I gave that speech that Jack Ryan is going to be sitting right there.
Now, explain this.
The point of contention, the bone of contention is, is that Obama's a mean guy, that he was going to rip Ryan's Medicare reform proposal budget plan to shreds, but lied and invited Ryan to come over to this big moment where Obama's making a speech about it, and they lured Ryan there, as I understand it,
with the idea that he was going to be treated as not an equal, but given some respect by Obama as somebody seriously engaged in trying to reform a problem, a situation, fix it.
And instead, what Obama did, what really happened, he tore into Ryan and tore into the plan with Ryan sitting in the front row.
So they asked Obama about that, and he said, no, no, no, I didn't know that Jack Ryan was going to be sitting there.
We made a mistake.
Now, Ryan's first name is not Jack.
Jack Ryan is a character in the Tom Clancy books, The Hunt for Red October.
This is Paul Ryan, vice presidential candidate with Mitt Romney's from Wisconsin.
So Obama's now done the double insult.
First, he invites him and then reams him and embarrasses him in the front row or calls him out.
Then when asked about, no, no, I didn't know Jack Ryan was going to be there.
And this is the nice guy.
The Romney camp says this is a nice guy.
Republican consultant.
He's a nice guy.
He's just over.
He's not a nice guy.
He is a cutthroat, vicious politician.
He's not a nice guy.
He's not cool, comical actor.
He's a very cold guy, actually.
So I, by the way, Ryan has doubled down on it now.
There's a tweet out there.
Paul Ryan said he stands with Rahm Emmanuel.
So they're doubling down on this, siding with the mayor and against the teachers, standing with Rahm Emmanuel.
I don't know why that's a sign that Rom's wrong, but anyway, they're doubling down on this bipartisan business, that they are cooperating, that they are showing that there are areas of common ground and commonality.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
Sit tight.
The fastest three hours and media rolls on right after this.
So what's happening is that Democrats are out there tweeting that Ryan's support of Emmanuel is proof that Emmanuel is wrong.
Wacko Democrats are tweeting.
Oh, this is working out well, folks.
Wacko Democrats are tweeting, and probably all over Democrat Underground.
They're bugged.
This is proof that Emmanuel is wrong and that the teachers are right.
So Democrat-based voters, Obama-based voters, lining up behind the teachers.
But a Jack Ryan, when Obama said he didn't know that Jack Ryan was in the audience, Jack Ryan was Obama's original Senate opponent whose divorce records Obama sneakily uncovered and released and made public.
Forcing Ryan out of the race, standard modus orendi for Obama.
Clear the playing field, not level it.
Just get rid of your opponent.
And that's what they've tried to do with Romney.
That's why all the character assassination ads against Romney.
Romney's squeaky clean.
He's Mr. Clean and Pure as the wind-driven snow.
Romney's a felon.
Romney killed a guy's wife.
Romney's this.
Romney's that.
Romney's a Mormon.
That's the standard modus operandi.
Obama clears the field.
He tries to eliminate any opposition, not beat them.
And Jack Ryan, in addition to being a Tom Clancy character, was actually the name of his Senate opponent in Illinois whose divorce records he unsealed.
That's why he had Jack Ryan on his mind.
All right, here's Wayne, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Wayne, I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network, High.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
Isn't it, though?
Thank you very much.
You are the George S. Patton of the airwaves.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, by the way, I hated Bologna as a kid, too, and I despised it.
I didn't like the bologna.
You know, mayonnaise didn't even help it.
The two things I wanted to bring up.
One was the pizza guy yesterday.
I find it very hard to believe that he wasn't tackled by the Secret Service.
How does somebody pick up the President of the United States, lift his feet off the ground, and give him a bear hug?
Well, I mean, if it's prearranged.
That's what, yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
I can tell you that if that happened, my security staff would stand there and do nothing too.
I doubt that.
No, you have a great point, though.
You have a great point.
Here's this guy.
And this guy was not tiny.
This pizza guy is pretty substantial.
And he's picking up the waif-like Obama, waving him around in there.
Could have body slammed him up against the wall for all anybody.
He's got a ragged doll.
It just, it had to be prearranged or at least set up.
Yeah, and now, what do you think about the pizza guy is being boycotted?
The pizza guy is busy being boycotted by people who don't like the fact that he hugged Obama.
So the pizza guy is asking people not to boycott his restaurant.
Honestly.
And yet this is the guy supposedly leading in the polls.
And yet this guy, where was this?
Was this in Fort Pierce?
It was in Florida.
Fort Pierce, Florida.
That's not all that close to Port St. Lucie.
It's close enough, but I mean, it's still, there's enough distance there that this is a self-contained incident in Fort Pierce.
I had a second question or point.
Fort Pierce is where I clear customs, by the way, now.
When I come back in the country from Europe, we're clear in Fort Pierce, not here.
And they're great there.
They're the greatest guys at customs.
They're fabulous.
Yeah, they got a foot airport at Fort Pierce.
Damn straight, they do.
How would I land if they didn't have an airport?
Yes, they do.
And they got a pizza shop, and this guy hugged, was it being boycotted?
People were not going to his restaurant after this show of affection and support for Obama.
I'm sorry, what else were you going to say, Wayne?
Well, actually, I have another point, and then I'd like if I could take a shot at why you did your prediction.
Yeah.
But the second point, I'm somewhat of a student of American history, and President Obama is comparing himself to some of the presidents, the great presidents, one being Abraham Lincoln.
And I have never, ever read where President Lincoln blamed his predecessor, President Buchanan, on the Civil War.
No, you're right.
And that certainly was a.
You know, Obama couldn't write a Lincoln-esque speech if he had to.
He couldn't.
Obama couldn't even conceive of the concepts of, say, the Gettysburg Address.
Right.
By the way, since you're a student, you said somewhat student of American history.
Yes, sir.
Pop quiz.
Okay.
Who was George Santayana?
George Santayana.
Who was George Santayana?
I'm going to take a guess shot here.
Wasn't he a union officer at Appomattox Courthouse wrote the help the surrender agreement?
No, you're very close.
George Santayana is a professor who said those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
He's often confused with Santa Ana, the Mexican Mexican, right?
At the Alamo, but George Santayana.
And I tell you what, we're right in the middle.
That is exactly what Obama's doing, ignoring history and destined to repeat it.
I don't know if history repeats itself.
Stupidity does.
And we're witnessing that too.
Wayne, thanks for the call.
This is Al in Alsup, Illinois.
You're next on the program.
Great to have you here.
Yeah, good to be with you, Rush.
Rush, my comment was about that Rick Warren canceling his civil forum.
Yeah.
I was wondering the way they dumped it on a Friday afternoon before the convention, the hurricane coming, it just had liberal footprints all over it.
I was wondering if it was that Rick Warren didn't want to talk about gay marriage or abortion.
And then I was wondering last week after they took out out of the platform and all of that, I was wondering if maybe he didn't cancel, maybe they canceled him.
Or maybe he agrees with Obama and he just doesn't want to come out and have to say that he agrees with marriage or abortion.
He did.
Last year when he asked Obama the question about abortion, Obama said it was above his pay grade.
And we knew that was a lie then.
Right.
I have no idea why Rick Warren canceled the thing.
I'm sorry?
I have no idea why he canceled it.
It just seems like it's got.
I'm told the candidates never agreed to show up.
Okay.
Yeah, and he said because it was discord between the campaigns.
Well, I mean, isn't that the reason you have a civil forum?
Is it because there's Discord and you try to add...
See, this is where I...
Civil forums...
Crock!
There was...
There's no such thing.
And in politics, there isn't ever going to be what the dreamers think of when they think of civility.
And particularly from the left?
Expecting civility from these guys?
The whole thing was Phony.
I'm glad that it didn't come off.
Hell, everything's above Obama's pay grade when you get right down to it.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Hold on to your hats here, folks.
According to Haretz, a daily Israeli newspaper, the White House has declined B.B. Netanyahu's request to meet with Obama during a UN conference in New York at the end of the month.
The request came today.
Netanyahu asked for a meeting with Obama.
The White House turned him down.
Now, let's go back to the Democrat Convention.
A lot of people focusing on the fact that the Democrats had a meltdown over the word God being reinserted in the party platform.
But there was also a second part of that, and that was Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
I'm going to tell you who blew up at that.
The Democrats have a sizable contingent of Islamists and Muslims, Palestinians, and so forth, and just plain liberals in their coalition.
The Democrat Party is as anti-Israel as I've ever seen it.
I think there is rampant anti-Semitism in elements of the Democrat Party.
And here is Netanyahu who has asked for a meeting with Obama during United Nations Conference Week, and the White House said no.
Would they try to tell us that taking God and Jerusalem out of the party platform is a clerical error or something?
Folks, this Democrat Party, if any of you in this audience are part of the precious, independent group of voters in this country, please be independent and open your eyes to the modern incarnation of the Democrat Party.
This is a really radical group of people all the way through.
This is not your grandfather's Democrat Party.
This is not your father's Democrat Party.
I mean, it is a strikingly radically left-leaning party.
And they are, I'll tell you what, they're getting by on branding.
The whole notion of Democrats care and Republicans don't is all that's sustaining them.
That, and everybody thinks Obama's a likable, nice guy, an historical figure, the first black president.
But I'm telling you, this party is made up of really, they're not nice.
I mean, not how else to say it.
They are not nice radical extremists.
How do you tell the prime minister of Israel?
Nat, don't have time for you, bud.
That's the strongest ally in the region.
It used to be.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, demonstrators have stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and have ripped down the American flag.
How's that Arab Spring working out for you?
How is the spread and the love of democracy in the Middle East working out for you?
The American flag was ripped down.
A black flag has been raised.
They are shouting and screaming, there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.
And Obama tells Netanyahu to take a hike.
You really, even those of you who are not independents, and even some of you, if you just undecided, you really don't take my word for it.
Open your minds and take a look at what's happening to our economy and listen as Obama promises a longer road and a harder path, meaning more of the same.
Ask yourself, is this really what you want and more of it?
Is this what you thought you were voting for?
At some point, you're going to have to conclude anything would be better.
We've never seen this kind of radical progressivism.
I don't even think, you know, Woodrow Wilson, it might be a competition, a little toss-up 100 years ago, but that was then, this is now FDR piker compared to what this guy's plans are.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
The Vice President Joe Bite me was in Shanksville, Pennsylvania today at the 9-11 Memorial there.
I want you to listen to the Vice President in this soundbite.
Like all of the families, we wish we weren't here.
We wish we didn't have to be here.
I wish we didn't have to commemorate any of this.
It is a bittersweet moment for the entire nation.
Bittersweet?
What is bittersweet about 9-11?
You know, Cliff Eastwood is right.
This guy is the intellect of the Democrat Party.
Is bittersweet about 9-11?
What did Joey's dad tell him about bittersweet?
I'm going, Joey, let me tell you about bittersweet.
What does he think it is?
9-11, it's all bitter.
What's bittersweet?
Oh, Rush, that's just Joe.
That's just Joe.
Networks will tell you.
Media was just Joe.
It's just Joe.
He's just his intentions.
He really means well.
He's got a big heart.
Really cares.
Okay.
Okay.
Fine.
Who's next?
LaDonna in New Windsor, New York.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
What an honor.
Thank you.
I wanted to say that I was one of the people that didn't vote last year.
And I'm a good conservative.
You mean 08?
Yes.
Okay.
And I listened to the media.
I listened to the polls.
And I just got depressed.
He's going to win anyway.
Why should I vote?
And I didn't go vote.
And I was not raised that way.
I was raised in a good patriotic family.
And I just want to stress to listeners how important, and I bet there are a bunch of us out there that sometimes we don't take the time to vote.
And you have to do it this year.
It's imperative.
Thank God you said.
What's changed your mind?
What changed my mind?
Well, I always knew it.
I live in New Windsor now, and I drive by the last encampment every day to go to the grocery store, Walmart, whatever.
It's always there.
And I've read about it in my screw books.
And it's just there.
And I said, one day I said, I'm going to stop here.
And I pulled over, and there was just a little sign.
It wasn't an amusement park.
It wasn't all this.
You know, you would think it'd be Disneyland or Virginia.
Yeah.
Nobody was there.
Nobody was there.
It was empty.
And I walked around that place.
It was just a couple of cabins.
And I tried to remember about the stories that I heard when they didn't have any shoes, when they were cold.
The people of 9-11.
Well, no politician ever had any shoes when he was born, did you?
Yeah, no politician.
Oh, that's right.
There isn't a politician alive that had shoes.
In fact, most politicians are born in some little shack that they built.
That's what Mobo Shar Obama said.
His shoes were too small, weren't they?
Well, I got an idea for you.
Since you didn't vote in 2008, then you should vote twice this time to make up for it.
You know what?
I could probably find a way to do it.
I'm sure you could.
If you tell them you're Democrat.
That's right.
Or you're an illegal immigrant.
Yeah.
That's the way to do it.
La Donna, thanks.
When you walk around that place, I encourage anybody, if you live up here, stop by there.
And remember, the people of 9-11 died innocently.
They didn't have a choice.
But there were people that picked up their arms.
They went to war.
They fought.
And Benjamin Franklin, I'll give you a republic if you can keep it.
These people died for us.
And you need to remember.
How in the hell did you not vote?
As fired up as you are.
I can't believe that you didn't vote.
I'm, well, I don't know how afraid I am.
There's some.
The point of the matter is: no matter how ticked off you are at politics in general, if you ticked off at Romney or ticked off at the Republican Party, it doesn't matter this time, folks.
This is not one of those times where you let them win so everybody can see how bad it is.
It's happening.
We don't need any more proof.
We don't need four more years to open people's eyes.
There's no reason not to vote this time around.
Thanks, LaDonna to Steve in Lewis, Delaware.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Yes, I'd like to take a crack at why you threw out that speculation regarding Obama and the Chicago teacher strike.
Okay.
I am guessing that, and you know that the Democrats monitor everything you say.
Oh, that's right.
The Democrats also know that you have a huge audience.
That's correct.
And that much of what you say ends up elsewhere on various networks.
I'm speculating, or I think you are saying, and why you're saying that, is because you're actually preventing them from carrying it out.
I'm saying that you are absolutely right.
I think they had that in mind.
But by your speculation and you're putting that out there, you're keeping them from doing it because what they would have to do then would be to admit that you were right.
There would be a feather in your cap.
I have to hand it to you.
You nailed it.
You nailed it.
It took us two hours and 45 minutes, but we got somebody who knows the game.
Rush, I have to tell you that as soon as you threw that out there and made that challenge, I knew exactly why you were doing it.
And it's because, and if you know the liberal mind, and it's not too hard to figure out, it's a pretty simple thing.
It was an easy answer.
That's exactly right.
By accusing Obama of interceding, by politicizing the strike, the teacher strike Chicago, my attempt to make it very difficult for him to do it because then it makes me look brilliant, makes me look, which they don't want to do.
Bingo.
The last thing they want is for people to say Limbaugh called it.
The last thing they want to be said is Limbaugh said you would do this, and so they don't do it.
Absolutely right.
You got it.
You got it.
But the media will never figure this out, even though I've just explained it, because they don't listen.
They'll get this from somewhere else, and this won't be reported.
Yep.
Okay.
Door number one, door number two, door number three.
Behind one's a new, well, soon-to-be-old iPhone 4s.
iPad 3, latest one engraved, or a MacBook Pro 15-inch retina display.
Door one, door number two, door number three.
Pick a door, and I'm going to give you whatever's behind the door.
Well, I'd like the door that has the iPad behind it.
Number two.
Number two?
Yes.
That happens to be the iPad.
I mentioned them in the order.
Door one, door two, door three.
Okay, so do you want black or white?
Black.
Black?
Yes.
We got black back there.
Okay.
I'm going to send Brian back.
I want to make sure we got black.
If we don't, you got no choice.
You got a white.
But the black one that's either going to be Verizon or ATT, and that's for the LTE, cellular.
And that's optional.
You don't have to hook that up with an iPad.
It's not a contract situation.
It's month-to-month that you can cancel anytime.
And that's totally up to you.
But it's Wi-Fi, and it's fully loaded otherwise.
Good.
So hang on, and Snerdley will get your FedEx address, and we'll get it out to you, and you'll have it tomorrow.
What happened?
What happened?
Obama went over and gave the Cairo speech.
He celebrated the Arab Spring.
It was an offshoot of his own campaign.
They're ripping down the American flag.
And there are pictures of this, by the way.
Pictures of the American flag being ripped down.
And Netanyahu wants to meet with Obama.
Obama says no.
So what's Netanyahu to do?
I got two ideas.
He can either buy a pizzeria and ask Obama to come in for a fundraiser, or he can just send a $3 donation to Anna Winter and maybe end up having dinner at Sarah, Jessica Parker's place where Obama will be.
Or Clooney, or wherever.
That's how you meet Obama.
You pay him.
It's 9-11.
Obama laid a wreath and left.
Obama laid a wreath and left.
Biden said it was bittersweet.
Romney addressed the nation on 9-11.
We don't have time, but we will play a couple soundbites of President Romney's address to the nation tomorrow, which is also iPhone 5 Day.
Christmas for a lot of people tomorrow.
We'll see you then.
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