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Sept. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Well, look what just happened out there, ladies and gentlemen.
Look what just happened.
The Obama campaign must be listening to program.
They just tweeted the following.
I'm putting forward a practical five-point plan to create jobs and rebuild the middle class.
So we're gonna get some specifics now.
We're not gonna get specifics.
How many years have we been hearing this?
How many promises has Obama made to create jobs and rebuild the middle class?
And this is the point.
While he makes these promises and while he claims to have these ideas and plans, it all continues to deteriorate.
Low wage workers in Chicago, better educated, older, and rely more on that income these days to meet basic needs than 10 years ago.
Low wage workforce has grown 30% as the number of jobs shrink.
Low wage workers in Chicago are better educated, because they're former middle class.
They're better educated, they're older.
And there's substantially more of them.
People are leaving the middle class, middle class, slipping downward.
There is no upward mobility.
There is no growth.
There is nobody improving.
Oh, the individual here and there.
But I'm talking about the whole country.
There's no growth.
Obama isn't doing anything for anybody.
Household incomes.
In August, fall, off 8.2% under Obama.
This is a story from investors business daily.
Another sign that the economic recovery under President Obama not producing gains for average Americans' median household incomes fell.
Another 1.1% in August.6,000.
We're all going the wrong direction.
Now, folks, the media today.
As you well know, media today will tell you that there's a recovery underway.
But there is no recovery underway.
There's no indication that there's a recovery underway.
The media have been saying for two years that we're in a recovery.
The same media that will not examine Obama's record.
Same media that instead covers for him.
The media is no longer about truth.
It's not about informing.
The media is now part of the propaganda machine.
They are part of the Democrat Party.
They are Democrats with bylines.
They're pretending to be objective.
They're pretending to be inquisitive and professional.
But they're not.
They have thrown in with one side.
They have thrown in with the Democrat Party.
They've thrown in all in with Obama.
And it's been the nature of the media for a long time now.
They can be overcome.
Ronaldus Magnus overcame the media.
And folks, we can too.
My point here is we already know this.
You and I know we can overcome the media.
This program's done it.
Any number of other so-called new media has overcome it.
And we win elections.
We don't lose every election.
We win more than we lose.
It's important.
It's important the free media support Obama gets, whether it's 60 minutes, The View, the Today Show, NBC, all that paid propaganda that Obama pays for.
It's important that your enthusiasm not be blunted.
This is a turnout election.
And I tell you, this these two polls that have been released today are designed to do so many things.
Dispirit you, depress you, and you know what else?
They're designed to get you to stop giving money to Romney.
Why fund a loser?
Why pay a loser?
Why give money?
Somebody has already lost.
They're all in.
It's all they are, as of today, they're trying to tell you this election's over.
That's what these two polls are about.
That's what they're saying as they report these polls on various TV networks.
It's essentially over.
Romney's task now is said to be impossible.
Too many people have made up their minds now.
If Romney's gonna win, he's got 50 some odd days or 40 of whatever it is to change Obama voters' minds.
That's what they're all out there saying now.
Nothing can stop Obama.
They want you to believe that there's nothing you can do, that there's nothing anybody else can do.
The truth of the matter is.
We're gonna have an election in November, and the reason we're gonna have an election is that this is not over.
It's not over by any stretch of the imagination.
They cannot stop us.
They cannot stop our turnout.
They're giving it everything they've got.
But this election, like few others, everybody says this is the most important election of my life.
It is a cliche that many people say during every campaign.
I'm gonna tell you, this election really is about how we wish to live as a people.
Do we wish to live free where we tell our representatives how we expect them to govern?
Or do we wish to live as politicians and bureaucrats tell us we have to live?
They govern us.
We have no say, because that's where we're headed.
That's what the Obama administration is all about.
We are told how to live.
We're told what we must do to get X, Y, or Z. We are going to be fined if we don't do certain things, such as have health insurance.
That's just one example.
This election is going to determine whether we want to be free and prosperous, or whether we're going to be bullied for the rest of our lives.
This election is going to determine whether your kids, I don't have any.
I have nephews and nieces, though.
Our kids and grandchildren, it's going to be about whether they will enjoy the freedom and opportunities of past generations that you and I have all had.
The objective has always been that the next generation lives better than the current generation.
That's out the window, as of this election.
It isn't going to be mathematically or economically possible.
Because we're headed to a certain economic collapse.
And when that economic collapse happens with Barack Obama and liberal Democrats in power, that's when they totally cement their control over government.
It's not when they're thrown out.
There won't be an opportunity to throw them out.
That's when they cement their control.
At the moment of collapse, the only place anybody's going to have to be able to get anything is going to be government.
They know it and they can't wait for it.
Just as they have salivated over health care all of these decades, and for that very reason, control, power.
It's not compassion that they have.
Is anything happening now the result of compassion?
Is the unemployment situation, did uh Democrats love and understanding and tolerance, compassion, everybody?
Is that what delivered us to this day?
Is that why your home values are plummeting, and is that why gasoline prices are skyrocketing?
Because of compassion.
I hear all the time.
I get I get so worn out, frustrated hearing all the time, Obama cares.
Romney doesn't care.
Romney's a Republican.
Republicans don't care.
And you know, it's just the exact opposite.
It's j it's it is precisely the exact opposite.
Where's the evidence of the compassion?
Where's the evidence of all this concern?
You hear somebody like Romney or any Republican or conservative talk about how they want your life to be better.
They really do.
They want you to make it better.
They want you to have circumstances, an opportunity to make your life better.
Nobody else can.
Your life, and you only get one.
You have to maximize it, but the one chance that you have, and waiting for somebody else is silly because there's nobody else who cares as much about your life as you do.
And it is not selfish to care about your life.
It's not selfish to be self-interested.
It's not selfish to want to do well, so that those that you support also do well.
It's not selfish that you want to teach others to do well.
We don't live in a zero sum game where if you get a raise, somebody has to lose some money.
We don't live in a zero sum economy where if you get hired, somebody lost a job.
We live in a country magically that grows and can grow, where everybody prospers in benefits based upon how much they want to put into it.
But that situation's not going to happen with Obama and the Democrats in power.
The opportunities aren't going to be there.
The growth isn't going to be there.
The opportunity for growth isn't going to be there.
The money, the pie, the pool is being taken away from everybody.
Little by little.
Tax increases, more regulations, Obamacare, all the money's going to government.
Redistribute wealth?
That sounds fair.
I want to remind you, you can only do that one time.
Redistribution cannot be an ongoing thing.
Because the people from whom you have to take the money are going to stop earning it once they figure out that most of what they earn gets taken away via taxes.
Why?
Why go to the trouble of earning it when it's going to be taken away and given to somebody else?
So you can do it once.
And then where are you?
Then there's nobody producing anything to take them from.
So all these things that sound so wonderful and filled with compassion and love and concern and so forth, I ask you, three and a half years, a little over three and a half years, where are you?
How's your life better?
What's Obama done for you?
He's got a five-point plan to rebuild the economy, five-point plan to create jobs, five-point plan to lower the deficit.
Three and a half years, where's it been?
Three and a half years has caused all of this that need such policies.
That's where we are.
So whether you're African American, Hispanic, female, male, white, Asian, black, don't care.
You ask the question, what's Obama done for you?
Another question is, are you better off now you were four years ago?
However, you want to ask the question.
You're not better off and he hasn't done anything for you.
And doesn't intend to.
I want you to think the opposite.
The fact is he can't.
No president can.
It's up to you.
But you have to have the opportunities on Fettered as much as possible.
And that's what's being taken away.
Okay, your phone calls are coming up after this brief obscene profit timeout, so don't go away.
Okay, where we start.
We're starting in uh Philadelphia, and we've got Jason.
Jason, I really appreciate your patience.
I'm glad you held on out there.
Hello.
Rush, it's an honor to carry the man on the first caller of the day.
In the third hour of the program.
Yes.
Hey, um, I want to take a crack at these polls because um uh apart from this New York Times poll, there's some there's some really good information for Romney voters uh within one of the polls that came out on Monday, which is the political uh George Washington University poll, which is not a conservative poll.
And in that poll, uh Obama's up 50 to 47 by three points, right?
Now that looks like a typical, you know, slight lead for Obama poll out there.
But then you dig into the numbers, and Romney's winning middle class voters in that poll by 14 points, 55 to 41.
Uh he's up by independence in that poll by two, married voters by 14, veterans by 20 when Bush only won them by 16.
Uh his Hispanic support is up to 40 percent, and he's actually winning Catholics by 51% majority.
Where is Obama ahead by three?
How does that happen?
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
I mean, if you take these numbers, uh, you know, you look at the underlying numbers in the poll.
Uh you take a look at the fact that you know Obama's crown achievements have been stimulus and Obamacare.
And in this poll, two thirds of the voters said that they're going to vote economy first, and fifty-seven percent of those people disapprove of Obama's handling the economy.
So I don't get it.
I mean, beyond just uh Well, but you see, in the in the New York Times poll today, is there fifty three percent, I think, say that Obama better suited to handle the economy, and he's up twenty-five points with women in in in the New York Times Quinnipiact poll uh in Ohio, who believes that?
We only won Ohio by what, two or three points in the 2008 election, and he only won Florida by a point and a half in two thousand eight.
So the the the polls are basically suggesting that Obama's going to quadruple his support in this election.
Which doesn't jibe.
I mean, two thousand ten's the most recent election, how'd Obama do there?
How'd the Democrats do in 2010?
What the hell has changed?
What's gotten better?
Where is the evidence to support these assertions in this poll or any of these polls?
I mean it's it's it's maddening.
I'm I'm I'm just gonna tell you this though, Jason.
If these two polls today, the Washington Post poll and New York Times poll, if they're right, it is over.
If if Romney's down ten points in uh in Ohio now, I don't know how you overcome if that's real.
It doesn't look like it possibly can be with their sample, but they're that that they're they're trying to make everybody conclude that it's over.
They're they're they're all in on this today.
It's it never seen anything like this in my life.
Hey, if I could just say something quick about my kids.
Uh, you were talking about how this isn't, you know, this is about our kids now.
Um I'm 36 years old.
I'm I'm a admitted rush baby.
I used to listen to you in college, and that's actually when I turned Republican.
And uh, you know, I used to look at issues differently then, and uh now that I'm 36, my wife and I, we have two kids.
Uh we adopted those kids from China, and it's a as if a a dad didn't love his kids enough.
Uh I have a a special um sense of protection of them right now, uh, because of where they come from.
And if if these are the polls right now, that's a real sad state of affairs.
And anyone who's a Romney voter out there, if they're just sitting on their butt not donating, not you know, donating their time, we gotta start getting this thing turned around because it's important.
I know.
You know, if it here's here's the deal.
I use my dad in this example again, because I've told you all how my father, up until nineteen ninety two was just a year before he died, he died at a seventy-two.
So up until age seventy-one, he thought he had failed as a father with me.
His sole objective, which is the case with every parent, you want your kids to do well.
You want them to make something of their lives.
It's it's something that's distinctly American, but I think people around the world have the same human desires in this regard.
But in this country, it's something that's been always possible to the point that it was expected.
My dad had his various philosophical beliefs because of the things that he endured when he was young.
And those were the formative events, Great Depression, World War II, so forth.
And there were certain things you had to do to succeed, and as far as he was concerned, he hadn't convinced me to do them.
And he was devastated.
He thought I was going to make a total mess of my life.
I was destined to to to fail, and it was not just failing, but he viewed it as that I was squandering one of the best opportunities a human being could have.
He simply didn't understand, you know, what I loved and how it worked and so forth.
But that's not the point.
The point is every parent's like him.
And I think every parent alive today, seeing what's happening To them.
Every mom and dad who see what's happening to them have to be asking themselves, what in the world is the future going to be like for my kids?
And that becomes one of the most important questions they ask themselves.
Parents today are equipped to take care of themselves and if they're lucky in this economy to be able to care for their kids, but at some point the kids have to strike out on their own.
And you look at circumstances today, you look at the unemployment, you look at the amount of money that is available for the jobs that do exist and the potential.
It's just not there.
It's not what it was, and it's happened almost overnight.
Nobody had these fears in 2008.
Nobody had these fears in 2004.
Not in mass, not like this.
You stop by thinking, three and a half years.
There have always been parents with a sense of foreboding.
But that's been largely because maybe they didn't have faith in their kids or like my dad didn't think I was doing the right thing.
They never thought the country was going to cease to provide opportunity.
And in three and a half years, that has that has what's become a reality for a lot of parents.
That the opportunity, no matter how well a kid prepares it, just isn't going to be there.
The future tax rates necessary to pay for all of this debt that's going to have to be dealt with at some point.
And knowing what I just I can't intellectually understand that a majority of these people think Obama's the answer to this fear they've got.
He's the cause of it.
I guess we'll find out.
Here's Michael in Columbia, South Carolina, and I'm really appreciate your patience too.
Thank you for holding.
Well, thank you.
The pleasure and honor to get the chance to speak with you.
Just tell everyone I was on a conference call with 30 or 40 million people.
All right, cool.
Or however many, but um Snerdley helped me to condense my question.
But I'm really curious what you what your thoughts are on just how many conservatives do you think are really gonna be persuaded to stay home or influenced by these polls.
I mean, I don't know but most of us out here are smarter or conservatives are smarter than that, you know?
I mean, we're the vast majority of the population.
I uh I don't think it's going to work.
I I think I think uh if I may use this phrase, our people, I think our people are so revved up that there's not one bit of media fraud that can make them sit at home.
Yep.
I I think I think we are beating him in early voting, I think we're beating him in absentee.
I think our people can't wait to show up.
And I'll tell you there's another segment out there that nobody will ever poll, at least not not the Gallups and the CNNs and the New York Times and all that.
There are a lot of people out there who are not happy at all over the encroachment on their religious freedom.
There are a lot of people who do not like Obama telling the Catholic church where to go and to get off doing it and so forth.
They do not like that.
They're never gonna be polled, but I will guarantee you call them the values voters.
They are sitting out there and they too are chomping at the bit waiting to get to the polls.
So I don't think the suppression effort is gonna work.
However, the reason I spent time today addressing it, and the reason I decided to is because there's genuine fear that others will sit home.
I I hear from people, friends of mine, oh gosh, Rush, you see this, oh, I'm just I I'm worried our people aren't gonna show up and we're gonna nobody's worried about themselves.
Nobody tells me I've had it, I'm fed up, screw Romney, screw Ryan, screw the I'm nobody's telling me that.
They're still saying, screw Obama, hell with Obama, uh, but they're worried that they people they don't know are gonna be affected by it and will sit home.
Yeah, the only people that I know that really qu ask me about what I think about the polls are people that are not necessarily conservative or or diet, you know, you know, conservative for the most part, and so they look at them and they kind of sort of wonder about them if they're believable or not.
And I tell them no, it's all BS.
And I think it's gonna be a landslide, and I look forward to it.
And they are they look at me like I'm a little crazy, but I'm thinking, hey, you just wait.
Well, they look at you like crazy because nobody's saying that.
The landslide is a I'm gonna tell you something.
Well, I say that just on the Obama side right now, there's nobody on the Obama side, although I'm gonna take that back up.
I was gonna say that I don't think the Obama people think they could possibly lose.
I think the truth of the matter is they're worried they're in Ohio.
They're spending all this time in Iowa.
If they've got this wrapped up, why are they there?
Why are they sending Obama out there?
Why are they having him go on the view and Letterman and Jay-Z blow off all these world leaders?
Um he's hit I'll tell you what the the base that's unsettled is his.
He's got the base turnout problem, not us.
Well, I at least have there's a w very dear friends of ours that are diehard Democrats, and even there, I mean, it's a good sign that they're pretty much not voting for Obama this time.
So I think there is some hope for even folks like that.
Well, that is that's interesting.
I hope there's a lot of that.
You know, people vote for all kinds of different reasons.
Democrats vote for Democrats just because they're Democrats.
They don't it's a lot of people, I don't know what percentage.
A lot of people don't look at this election the way I just described it.
I look at this election as ball game for America as founded.
Now, if Obama wins, the next day is not gonna be the gulags or anything like that.
But I know who I know the guy, I know what his plans are, I know what his intentions are.
I know liberals.
I know what what happens when they're in charge of things economically.
I can put I get uh New Orleans, Detroit, take a look.
Wherever they run things and there's no opposition, I just challenge you.
Moscow, Beijing, Havana, go anywhere.
You will not find the kind of prosperity that you are accustomed to in this country.
They just they're incapable of it.
And I just I think that the uh uh it's no, I don't think it's it's it's over forever if Obama wins.
I because at some point the the people of this country are resilient as they can be.
And I if if Obama wins, I guarantee you it isn't gonna be two years that a lot of people that vote for the guy are gonna wake up and they're gonna ask to start asking themselves what they have done.
I but I don't want to think about that in those terms uh down the road.
Now, not all of us, Nita Correct, not all of us are gonna end up in the gulags.
Uh there will be some who are targeted for the gulags uh shortly after the uh election.
Regime has plans, I'm sure.
But you're safe.
You're safe.
I appreciate the call very much, uh Michael.
This is Lou in Maplewood, Missouri.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
It's an honor to speak to the first famous personality who had their picture on the cover uh cigar aficionado.
You know that's true.
I was the first human being to be depicted on the cover, live in a picture, not a drawing on Cigar Fiji Nato.
It's absolutely true.
You're absolutely right.
How did you know that?
I got every issue from the first one dating back to 1992.
Wow.
It's such a great magazine.
It's still, it's still such a great cigar aficionado.
My buddy Marvin Shankin publishes that in the wine spectator.
It's still it's just a great lifestyle magazine.
It's just it's it's still the the epitome, the best of of of any in its field.
Yes.
And mine was the only issue that sold out for a while.
And they had Michael Jordan in there, and it was uh then I was tied.
I have some sad news about the passing of Andy Williams.
You do sound sad.
I did I was wondering about that.
Um Andy Williams did pass away.
He's a friend of this program, by the way.
He uh I I hope he lives on in the animal rights update.
Or well, tell you the story here, folks.
You know, we uh we've we've uh been vigilant on this program, uhpposing the animal rights movement, the climate change movement, all of these left wing movements, which are just disguises for the expansion of government.
Andy, very concerned.
Andy Williams, I give you a quote from Andy Williams in 2009.
He said Obama is following Marxist theory.
He said this to uh a British magazine called Radio Times.
He said Obama is following Marxist theory.
He's taken over the banks and the car industry.
He wants the country to fail.
That was Andy Williams in 2009.
And he did uh he passed away.
Great conservative.
A brief time out here, my friends.
The EIB network rolls on after this.
Mia Love.
We interviewed Mia Love.
Great speecher Republican convention.
She's a mayor of Saratoga Springs, uh, Utah.
She's running for Congress against an entrenched Democrat, and she has pulled ahead in the polls.
She's running against a guy named uh Jim Matheson.
And we interviewed her for an upcoming in fact they the issues in the mail, latest issue, Limbaugh Letter.
A packet of information was sent to her office.
City officials described as racist, and it's launched a police investigation.
The contents of the envelope are disturbing, pretty creepy stuff.
A picture of Mia Love and her husband Jason, a hooded Ku Klux Klan character, pictures of aborted fetuses.
She's a great, great candidate.
She's the mayor of Saratoga Springs, running for Congress.
She's African American, and she just fabulous.
And gosh, uh I hope the polls out there are right showing her here.
I hope she wins this thing.
We as I say, interviewed her for the limbo letter, and it's in the mail now.
The uh latest issue.
It's just great interview, too.
She's she is it.
She is exactly what is needed in every elected office in Washington.
That's it, folks.
Another exciting excursion into broadcast excellence in the can.
We have a 21 hour break, and uh we'll be back doing all over again, revved up and ready to go.
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