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Sept. 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 27, 2012, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I just want to warn everybody, this may not be a good day.
My cigar is falling apart here, and that always ticks me off.
I mean, I got to go get a new one here in 10 minutes.
It just happened.
A lot of rappers coming off.
It just, you know, even though we keep the humidor wet in there, these things are dry as hell.
Like something's sucking the moist air out of it.
The second thing is they settled the NFL rep strike, and that ticks me off.
I was actually starting to enjoy football again with the replacement of reps, and now it's going to get back to this sterile, totally predictable.
But we have to deal with it, folks.
You have to deal with adversity.
It's what it's all about here, Rushland Boy, the E.I. Adversity, my cigar falling apart.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address LRushboy at EIBnet.com.
I'm not sure, but I think we were the first or among the first of all major media figures to begin to in-depth examine the makeup of samples in polls, the party breakdown.
And it's now everywhere.
Everybody's doing it.
In fact, I got in my audio soundbite roster here.
There must be 10 to 12 soundbites of me being discussed on television yesterday afternoon and last night and what I think about the polls.
It's great, folks.
Everybody's looking at this stuff now.
Everybody's focused on them in the way we want them focused on.
Not what they actually say, but how they are put together.
And we've got, let's see, what else we have out there?
It has been confirmed.
We were on this one yesterday, too.
We just spent a lot of time on this.
The first segment, we hit it pretty good, but it's been confirmed now that Obama lied about the cause of the attacks on our embassies in Benghazi.
Now, this is not news.
We've known this.
We here, and thus you, have known it for a while, but it's been confirmed over and over again.
While Obama continues to cite this video, it's been confirmed Obama lied about the cause of the attacks on our embassies.
Maybe now he can explain.
We've been chronicling this in our morning updates all week long.
Maybe now Obama can explain why CNN found the ambassador's diary and our government didn't.
CNN went over there after it was declared a crime scene, after Obama said nobody can answer any questions about this because the FBI is going to go over and look at it.
That makes it a crime scene, so nobody can answer questions because of the usual ongoing investigation, pap.
Well, CNN just trolls in there and finds a guy's diary.
And they start reporting what's in the guy, the dead ambassador's diary.
And he indicated there was security risk.
He thought something was up.
And so the regime called CNN.
How dare you publish a guy's diary?
Shut up.
You shouldn't tell anybody.
CNN is well, hell with you.
Where were you finding the diary?
We got the diary.
I think they're going to put it back together.
He'll be back in bed by tonight.
The regime and CNN.
But I mean, the bottom line here is that Obama knew the attacks on our embassies on the anniversary of 9-11 were planned and it had nothing to do with the video.
And he knew that within 24 hours, if not sooner, of the attack at Benghazi and upon the death of the ambassador.
So let's boil that down.
What was the theme of yesterday's program?
Obama knowingly lied to the American people.
Oh.
And the architect, Carl Roevin, has columned it all about how Obama lies.
Lying about the deficit.
He's lying.
But Rove has a piece all about, I mean, it's somewhat of a mirror of what we did yesterday.
It's all shaking.
Rush, you need to get out there.
You need to take your show on the road.
No, I don't.
You need to go do speeches.
No, no, I don't.
I can do it all from right here.
Past couple of days have proven that.
I'm not saying I'm not going to go out and do speeches.
I'm just saying I can handle it from right here.
The last two days are indicating that.
I don't have to write books.
I don't have to go on TV.
I can handle it from right here.
You know how that ticks them off, too?
These other guys to write books and they go on TV and all that and then hope they get noticed.
I come here exhale and it gets reported.
Anyway, enough about me.
Obama sends his surrogates out to lie about the cause and the nature of the attacks.
Now, let's boil this down.
Obama created a conspiracy theory and coordinated a campaign of deceit to distract from the truth that affects our national security.
This is not an insignificant thing that the president of the United States did.
Oh, speaking, it's Thursday, by the way.
It's Jobs Revisions Day.
And folks, it's so funny to watch the drive-bys report the economic news today.
It's not all that good, but there are hopeful signs.
Arian, what is it?
September the 27th.
It ain't that good, but there are hopeful signs.
I mean, the real number out there is GDP growth of 1.3%.
Folks, that's a gnat's eyelash above a recession.
1.3% GDP economic growth.
There's nothing to sing about here.
Nothing.
Nothing whatsoever.
So, Obama and his conspiracy theory coordinating a campaign of deceit to distract from the truth that affects our national security.
And by the way, this was a truth that revealed reckless incompetence in planning for the security and safety of the people that worked for him.
The State Department, five days, you know this, five days before, put a notice up on one of their websites that there was no credible information of any threat.
And 9-11's coming up, but we don't have any credible information of it.
That has now been scrubbed.
The gateway pundit is reporting it.
That warning, or that was not a warning, that that little memo from the State Department to employees that worked there, that's been scrubbed from their site.
You can't go find the posting on the State Department website, which told everybody over there was no problem.
They've taken it down.
This is not the kind of thing.
This is the most transparent regime in history, they promised.
So this campaign of deceit was deployed, was put out there because Obama has a re-election campaign, and the truth would make him a one-term president.
And so we can't have the truth.
We can't have the truth about anything.
We can't have the truth about the failure of his economic policies.
We can't have the truth about the failure of his foreign policy.
We can't have the truth about his overall failure as a president in anything.
So we have to focus on what a reprobate Romney is.
We have to focus on Romney.
Oh, guess what the drive-bys are saying is the reason that Romney's lost the election.
Did you know that the election, Romney lost, by the way?
If you haven't been, well, the election isn't for 49 days, but he's already over.
In fact, National Review is reporting as a pollout today that Obama's 76, Romney 23, with 1% undersided.
It's a satire piece.
Satire, and they went and talked to the Obama camp and said, well, wait a minute.
No, we don't think Romney's that bad.
Might be at 30, but it's over it's it's, it's literally oh, and you know why.
You know what caused Romney to plunge is that 47 percent video, that 47 percent.
Now i've got some audio coming up.
We're gonna go back to the archives for some Detroit Michigan audio from early in the regime's tenure and we got some audio from yesterday And I ask you, after you hear it, if you think any significant numbers of Obama supporters has any idea what's going on in this country or cares.
Obama's going for the moron vote for you people in the drive-bys to tell us that Romney is plummeting because of the 47% video.
And that has prompted, by the way, Obama to go out there and say, I don't see any victims out there.
Romney, 47%.
Mr. President, if you don't see any victims, then there's no reason for liberalism.
If you don't see any victims, there's no reason for socialism.
If you don't see any victims, there's no reason for big government.
If you don't see any victims out there, there's no reason for you.
It's time for our first obscene prophets.
I'm out.
You sit tight.
We're coming back with that audio with an addition.
You remember the Detroit audio?
If you don't, I'm not going to remind you.
You'll hear it.
We've got a new chapter, a new phase, a new addition to it coming right up.
GDP rate, GDP rate, 1.3%.
What's the inflation rate?
Inflation rate has to be 2%, right?
I mean, the real inflation, I don't mean what they're reporting.
The real inflation rate, the prices going up in the stores, has to be higher than 1.3%.
How is that not a recession?
If the GDP can't even keep up with inflation, that's not good, folks.
It just isn't good.
Okay, let's go back to the group of you already forgotten favorites, the archives.
Ken Rogulski, our man in Detroit, WJR, a Blowtarch affiliate there.
October 2009, people were in line for money from Obama's stimulus.
And Ken Rogulski went out and talked to him.
Why are you here?
To get some money.
What kind of money?
Obama money.
Where's it coming from?
Obama.
And where did Obama get it?
I don't know.
His fast.
I don't know.
I don't know where he got it from.
But he's giving it to us to help us.
We love him.
That's what we voted for.
Obama!
This is really a sad, sad day.
Thousands of people lined up for vouchers for something that were not available in any sort of plentiful supply.
Most of these people ended up getting nothing, but they thought they were there to get money from Obama for Obama's fair.
I'd be embarrassed if I were president of this kind of stuff.
But point is, do you think these people even know that Mitt Romney spoke to a bunch of fundraisers and talked about 47%?
Do you think they even know this?
And that's being cited as the reason why Romney lost the election.
The polls have plunged.
It's all over.
So Rogolski kept talking to these people in Detroit, hoping to get some money from Obama's stimulus.
It's October 2009.
Did you get an application to fill out your?
I sure did.
I filled it out, and I am waiting to see what the results are going to be.
Will you know today how much money you're getting?
No, I won't, but I'm waiting for a phone call.
Where's the money coming from?
I believe it's coming from the city of Detroit or the state.
Where did they get it from?
Some funds that was forgiven by Obama.
And where did Obama get the funds?
Obama might have gotten the phones from.
I have no idea.
Tell you the truth, he's the president.
In downtown Detroit, Ken Rogulski, WJR News.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we move to Cleveland, Ohio.
Yesterday in Bedford, I think it's near Cleveland, outside a Romney campaign event.
An unidentified reporter and a woman have this little exchange about why she's protesting Romney and supporting Obama.
Obama!
You got Obama phone?
Yes, everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president, you know?
He gave us a phone.
He gave you a phone.
How'd he give you a phone?
You sign up if you're in your full stamps, you want Social Security.
You got low income, you disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks.
Behave.
So these are the people that they don't like Romney because what he said about 47% are on some sort of.
No, these are the 47%.
Yeah, play it again.
These are the 47%.
Notice this guy, is it a guy?
It's a woman.
It's my hearing.
I'm sorry.
She knows.
She knows how to get this free Obama phone.
She knows everything about it.
She may not know who George Washington is or Abraham Lincoln, but she knows how to get an Obama phone and she knows that Romney sucks.
And she ends up at a Romney rally.
How did she get there?
Here it is again.
Obama.
You got Obama phone?
Yes.
Everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president, you know?
He gave us a phone.
He gave you a phone.
How do he give you a phone?
You sign up if you're in.
You on full stamps, you want Social Security.
You got low income.
You disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks.
Behave.
You want to hear one more time?
Okay, here it is.
One more time.
Obama.
You got Obama phones?
Yes, everybody in Cleveland, low minority, got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president, you know?
He gave us a phone.
He gave you a phone.
How'd he give you a phone?
You sign up if you're in.
You on full stamps, you want Social Security.
You got low income.
You disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks.
Behave.
And there you have it, ladies.
Oh, by the way, Obama himself in Bowling Green, Ohio yesterday, Bowling Green University, a campaign event.
And listen to this from President Bumping the Road.
I don't believe we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.
And I've got to tell you, as I travel around Ohio and as I look out on this crowd, I don't see a lot of victims.
I see hard-working Ohioans.
That's what I see.
How the hell are you missing the idiots?
He's traveling around Ohio.
How in the world are you missing the idiots?
You see, Obama thinks he's got a great campaign issue, folks.
He's running around.
He's saying it 47% of the people are not victims.
He's putting words in Romney's mouth.
He's misrepresenting what Romney was saying.
He's taking it out of context.
Romney never talked about him being victims, but it's good to know that there are no victims in this country because that means Obama has reversed course completely.
If Obama believes there are no victims, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout the federal government, starting with the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice.
If there are no victims, all affirmative action laws immediately be repealed.
Same thing for equity in pay.
If there are no victims, then there are no need to redistribute wealth, right?
So that needs to be repealed.
If there's no victims, there's no need to confer legal status on 1.2 million immigrants.
If there are no victims, then the entire justification for liberalism ceases to exist.
This is how far he's willing to go.
Undercut, nobody else but me is going to think of this, but he's undercutting his own philosophical beliefs in order to put words in Romney's mouth.
Obama!
You got Obama phone?
Yes, everybody in Cleveland, no minority, got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president, you know?
He gave us a phone.
He gave you a phone.
How did he give you a phone?
You sign up if you're a fool stamp.
You want Social Security.
You got low income.
You disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks.
That's not Saturday Night Live.
That is a real Obama voter.
That's not a comedy skid.
That happened.
That happened yesterday in Bedford, Ohio.
Your average Obama voter.
Folks, I can't win pointing this out.
But it's the truth.
That's the group of people Obama believes are a majority of voters.
If you add these people to the professors' academia and the Hollywood types, entertainment crowd, these bastions of elite liberals and media, and the morons, that's the coalition he's putting together.
He's counting on that.
Now, it wasn't until this past summer that I knew that this was actually true.
There is a website called Obama PhoneNet.
ObamaPhone.net.
We had a caller call here at Ixland, and I thought I was being set up.
I thought the caller was telling me something.
It was absurd that the president of the United States was giving away cell phones.
And then people called, oh, no, no, it's really true.
So we looked it up.
And June 22nd, I'll read you a transcript for my award-winning program.
Here are the details.
There's a website, ObamaPhone.net, the Obama phone program.
What exactly is the free Obama phone?
The Free Obama phone is a program meant to help the financially unstable who can't afford access to a cell phone.
And here are some frequently asked questions from the Obama phone website.
How do I get an Obama phone?
What is the Obama phone?
Who qualifies for an Obama phone?
Who pays for the Obama phone?
Is the Obama phone real?
There's a website that tells these people, and this woman that you just heard figured it out.
You low income, you Social Security, you food stamps, you get an Obama phone.
And the website's called ObamaPhone.net.
So that's the constituent.
Now, Obama is in Virginia.
He just, he's got a campaign appearance going on.
He just told a whopper.
Grab Soundbite 5, by the way.
Just told a whopper to the crowd.
He said, and by the way, it's all, let's play Soundbite 5.
This is what has caused this big change.
The Romney video, where he claimed that 47% of the voters just beyond his reach, they don't pay taxes or whatever.
You remember the video from May at a fundraiser?
Obama has latched onto that to now try to talk about the people of this country as great, hard-working, stick-to-it, self-reliant, rugged individuals.
Obama has done a 180.
I'm here to tell you that what this campaign is doing is not representative of a campaign that thinks this election is over and that they have it locked up.
He is in states that the polls tell us he's leading by 10 to 12 points.
He is now making campaign statements, trying to put words in Romney's mouth that Romney has denigrated people as a bunch of victims, and Obama is now becoming the champion of entrepreneurs and rugged individuals.
And this isn't going to fly anywhere because nobody believes that.
But that's what he's out there saying.
And the applause, I didn't see much of this.
But when he talked about we need a new economic patriotism, and economic patriotism is where we have a growing economy that's led by the middle class.
And I'm sure I had to come back to the program.
He continued with raising taxes on the rich as patriotism.
But this business of talking about we want people.
He said that we want a country that rewards hard work.
That isn't out and out lie.
Obama's entire library of policies is oriented toward targeting successful people.
They are the problem.
Up until yesterday or maybe today, but certainly the last two days, the rich and the successful have been the enemies as Obama has attempted to coalesce his moron voters.
He has used class interviews.
I'm not telling you anything you don't know.
And now he's done a 180.
I think this is significant.
Not significant in the sense that how it's going to be reacted to by voters.
I think it's significant if you look at it, the context of the Obama campaign and what they're doing.
Like this is grasping at straws now.
How long has the Romney video been out there?
This audio 47% a week?
A little longer?
And just now has Obama and the media coordinated the idea that Romney was attacking a bunch of victims.
And so they've decided at the Obama campaign to defend the hardworking people that Romney is attacking.
This is a campaign that does not have a core message that it's locked into.
It is hopscotching all over the place.
And now they think this one might work.
I'm telling you to me, and feel free to disagree with me.
I guess I could be wrong about this, but this strikes me as a campaign in disarray.
I know that's what they're saying about the Romney campaign, but I think it's the Obama campaign that's not well-oiled, is not a smooth running machine.
And the very idea that it takes them a week to gin up a coordinated response with the media on this 47%, and then they have to make up what Romney meant, put words in his mouth.
And now here's Obama, whose existence is based on victims.
Obama's reason for existing as a politician is to help victims and make even more of them.
That's what a community organizer does.
A community organizer makes people feel like they're victims.
He tells them they're victims.
A community organizer tells people are getting dumped on, that they're getting a shaft, that they're getting a screw by the man, by the elite, by the rich.
And now all of a sudden, Obama's out.
Now are any victims?
Hardworking people.
The way you get ahead in this country, hard work.
No, it's not.
If you work hard and you become successful, you are a target of this administration.
You're going to be paying higher taxes.
You're the reason that there's poverty.
You're the reason that there's despair.
You are the reason, you small business owners that are perceived to have loads and loads of money.
You know it as well as I do.
In Obama's world, you're the reason we have this bad economy.
You and Bush, you're not hiring people.
You're hoarding all of your money.
You've got it.
You're just not hiring.
You're greedy.
This has been Obama's whole message.
And now all of a sudden, here, we got a media montage yesterday, last night, and this morning of a bunch of media people, state-controlled media, tying this 47% video of Romney to these polls and trying to explain why this is why Romney's plunging.
New polls show Ohio slipping away.
After Romney talking disparagingly about the 47% Romney described 47% of Americans as victims.
Romney is still shadowed by It's Not My Job to Worry A 47% Fiasco and response to that 47% video.
The potency of the 47% video.
Mitt Romney's 47% remark so absolutely devastating for him.
He is denigrating the 47% of the American electorate.
Those controversial 47% comments repair the damage from that 47% comment.
Since Romney's 47% comments, Obama's gotten a second win.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Why does Obama need a second wind?
I thought Obama was burying Romney.
Up 10 in Ohio, 12 in Pennsylvania, what in Florida?
It's 9 or whatever.
I thought he was burying.
What is his second wind business?
Folks, do not doubt me.
We are on to something here.
By the way, you know it didn't take long to coordinate this.
That is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 different media people there in a 41-second montage, all on the same theme, that Romney's plummeting in the polls because of a videotape.
He mentions 47% of the voters.
That has been out there for a week or 10 days.
So you got a coordinated attack, White House to the media, this to explain why the polls are showing Obama running away with it.
And now Obama out saying, there aren't any victims.
I don't want to run a country with a bunch of victims.
That's what Romney's talking about.
Romney's never said that.
Obama doesn't believe it.
His whole political existence is predicated not only on the fact that there are victims, but that you need more.
We need a permanent underclass.
The Democrat Party can't get by without people who don't think they're victims.
I mean, what do you think the war on women is all about?
Women are victims of something.
The Catholic Church or patriarchal men or troglodytes who don't want him to have birth control pills.
Well, everybody's a victim in Obama's world.
African Americans are victims.
Hispanics are victims.
Women are victims.
Hell, everybody's a victim.
And all of a sudden, they're not.
Don't misunderstand.
I don't think, I don't think the average voter is going to be as sophisticated.
No, that's the wrong word.
I don't think they're going to, the average voter is not going to analyze this the way I just did and have this mean differences in vote turnout or preference.
I think what this indicates is a campaign that's in disarray.
I think this indicates a campaign that is the exact opposite of how it's being portrayed.
It's not a well-oiled machine.
It does not have great, tremendous organization with a game plan that is being executed flawlessly after being conceived brilliantly.
I don't think any of that's going on.
I think they're hopscotching all over the place and they're grasping at straws.
And this last comment was from Nate Silver, whoever he is.
Obama's gotten a second win.
Doesn't that kind of fly in the face of Obama's trouncing Romney?
When do you get a second wind?
You're about to fall asleep, right?
You're tired, you're worn out.
All of a sudden, you get a second win.
Hey, you're revived.
You're ready to go.
Second wind does not happen if somebody's about to bury an opponent.
So, Mr. Silver, I think, has betrayed something here.
Then maybe in the Obama camp, they know they're not up 10 points anywhere, much less Ohio or Florida.
Because you see, ladies and gentlemen, liberalism is built around the idea that America is unfair, immoral, unjust, unworthy of maintaining superpower status.
America was founded in an unjust way.
Everybody's been victimized for 200-plus years by the 1%.
And now there are no victims.
In 24 hours, there are no victims.
If there's no victims, there's no unfairness.
If there are no victims, then we have equality and justice for all.
And then what's the point of liberalism?
Now, I don't, no, I'm not telling you how I think most people are going to end up thinking Obama has no credibility.
They're not going to analyze it this way.
I'm just telling you, a presidential campaign after three and a half years that is forced or willing to literally turn upside down everything it believes, with just under two months to go in an election, is a sign of a campaign that is in disarray and does not have a message.
And they don't.
They don't have a record to run on, they don't have anything positive and they think now Romney's given them one here or given them something.
Let's take a break because I have to.
We'll be back and continue in a minute.
Obama.
You got Obama phone.
Yes, everybody in Cleveland low minority got Obama phone.
Keep Obama in president.
You know he gave us a phone.
How'd he give you a phone?
You sign up if you're ain't you a fool?
Snapshot Social Security.
You got low income, you disability okay.
What's wrong with Romney?
Again Romney, he sucks on me.
I don't believe we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.
And I've got to tell you, as I travel around Ohio and as I look out on this crowd, I don't see a lot of victims.
I see hardworking Ohioans.
That's what I see.
A lot of people scratching their heads over that.
What is he talking about?
Hardworking people?
It's not what this is about.
Voting for Obama is not about hard work.
Go talk to the cell phone lady.
Voting for Obama is not about hard work.
It's about just the opposite.
Liberalism and people who are liberals are oriented around the fact that everybody is a victim, except conservatives.
They are the ones who victimize everybody.
But every liberal is a victim of something, discrimination racism sexism bigotry homophobia, you name it.
Liberalism is built around it and here he is throwing all of that under the bus and telling his voters he expects them to work.
His voters have heard what out of his mouth for three and a half years, that the problem in this country is the people have a lot of money And they're going to be targeted.
And we're going to go get that money and we're going to redistribute it.
Well, how do you get money?
You work, unless you're a Kennedy and inherited.
You work for it.
No, folks, I'm not endorsing the lies around which liberalism is built.
I'm pointing them out.
I'm exposing them.
I'm exposing Obama.
I'm exposing.
I'm trying to do is illustrate here a campaign that I think is floundering, if you want to know the truth.
And I'm not lost in false optimism or being falsely positive.
I'm not lying to myself or to you.
We know, we know that Obama not only believes that this is a nation of victims, that's why he race baits, it's why he runs on class warfare, it's why he runs on gender warfare, it's why he's dividing this country in every way he can.
He's dividing it, the victims against the oppressors.
And we, conservative Republicans, are the oppressors.
My gosh, if there aren't any victims, we're not oppressors, and we're all of a sudden good people.
He can't have that.
Obama needs as many people as possible believing they are victims.
This message he's sending is bound to be confusing to some of them.
Why all the spending?
Why all the deficits?
Why all the taxes?
Why all the government bureaucrats?
Why all of this to level the playing field?
Why have to engage in all of this to make sure everybody has a fair shot if there aren't any victims?
Schizophrenia is what we're watching here, folks, and don't doubt me.
Starting today, ladies and gentlemen, Mitt Romney and his campaign should say that there are millions of victims in this country, and they are victims due to Obama.
Victims of his policies, millions out of work, millions on food stamps, millions losing their homes, millions losing their savings and their pensions and their health care.
We do have victims in this country, and they are victims of Barack Obama.
Okay, Romney campaign, it's yours now.
Run with it.
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