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Sept. 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 27, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Benjamin Netanyahu, who may be the closest thing we have to a Ronald Reager to Margaret Thatcher today.
Benjamin Netanyahu is at the United Nations.
He's giving a great speech, and he's now using a visual aid.
He's got a picture of a bomb.
A circular bomb with a fuse coming out of the top, and he's explaining where Iran is.
No interpreter needed for this.
He is explaining to the dictators at the UN how it all worked.
It's fabulous.
It is great.
I've never seen this.
I've never seen a visual aid at a United Nations General Assembly major address like this.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I'll tell you what this reminds me of.
When I moved to San Sacramento, 1984, I flew out there a bunch of times for interviews and just to see if if I wanted to live there and liked it there.
And I noticed when leaving, I was getting on the airplane in Sacramento at the airport.
You go up the air, well, I don't know if escalators, I can't remember, but there were all these signs, things that you can't take with you beyond this point, and was a picture of a bomb.
At a picture of a bomb, just like Netanyahu's bomb.
It looked just like that.
And I I stopped dead in my tracks.
I looked as a who in the world if they had a bomb would be deterred by the sign that says you can't take that with you.
Oh gosh, I can't take the bomb.
I have the bomb in my luggage.
Oh, there's a sign that says no bomb.
I have to go to back to hotel and drop bomb off.
I cannot dig bomb.
I just I actually started laughing standing there.
And I said, what liberal put this sign up here?
As though it's actually going to be a deterrent.
He's not using his sign as a deterrent.
He's using it as a visual aid.
Uh yeah, here's a tweet from a uh a journalist about Chris Hayes.
BB veering into self-parody with a drawing of a bomb with a lit fuse.
So the media is making fun of Netanyahu for his visual aid of the bomb.
That he's veering into self-parody.
And actually he's just trying to explain to the essence of a bunch of second graders in this room what he's talking about.
Anyway, I'm not teasing you any further.
I wasn't teasing you to begin with.
I'd have enough time to give you the answer.
There's a reason, folks, I'm sure you've heard it.
You might have read if you read blogs, or if you watch television, you might have heard conservatives, in some cases, say something along the lines of this.
Well, I don't think Obama's up 10 or 12 points anywhere, but I do think he's winning.
I don't think there's any question.
I think Obama's uh leading this race.
I don't think there's any question about it.
And you sit there, you watch this, and you either tend to agree with it or ask yourself, why do you think that?
You're asking the TV, why do you think that?
And nobody ever answers.
It's a fascinating thing to me.
People will disavow the poll that says Obama's up 10, 12, whatever in this swing state or that.
No, that can't be right.
He's not up 10 or 12, but I think he is winning.
He was winning Bob.
He is winning Dana.
Yeah, Greg, I gotta say, Angela Taranto, he's winning.
Why do they think that?
I think they really do believe it.
I think people say it and believe it, and I don't think it necessarily believes they're fatalists.
You know why they believe it?
It's real simple.
They think the Romney campaign is a dud.
The Romney campaign not exciting them, so they don't think the Romney campaign's exciting anybody.
They think Romney's not going after Obama nearly enough.
They don't think Romney's doing anything memorable in the campaign.
There's not a day goes by that people say, wow,'d you heard what Mitt said today?
That hasn't happened.
There's no apparent real energy coming out of the Romney campaign, despite all the crowds he's drawing.
So I think people, Honestly, in their own minds, legitimately thinking Obama's winning because they think the Obama the Romney campaign's so dull.
And in normal circumstances, I would tend to agree with that.
But it's a big butt.
I don't think it matters.
I don't think the election is about Romney.
It was yesterday on this program that I made a point.
I get calls from you, and I talk to friends of mine.
And every time a poll hits that shows Obama way up, I hear from people, oh God, Russia, oh jeez.
This is bad.
I said, why?
Well, it's just it's just going to depress everybody.
Well, is it how about you?
Are you inclined now not to vote?
Oh no!
Hell no, you're not gonna keep me away.
But it's interesting.
They think, these people that tell me that the polling news depresses them.
They think it's gonna make other people less uh energized to vote for Romney.
It's interesting.
It's it's like in a good economy, and the media is out there telling everybody it's a bad economy.
And people who are not experiencing a bad economy will nevertheless be led to believe that it's bad because they're here it's bad for other people.
It's the same phenomenon.
I folks, I told you I I we had some friends over to my house.
Oh, I don't know, three or four years ago.
And a couple of them started in on me about how dumb Sarah Pela is.
And how we had to get rid of her.
She was she's an albatross on everybody's neck.
I said, A, I know she's not an idiot.
I know she's not dumb.
So I mean, why do you guys think this?
These are staunch conservatives.
Why do you think this?
New York Times Rush.
New York Times.
I mean, we we can't have the media making fun of our candidates like this.
We just gotta get rid of them.
She's she is she is a she's hurting us.
And I blew up.
I literally walked away from my own dinner party.
I got up from the table and I stormed it and I screamed first.
I lost my composure.
I started yelling at my guy.
I honestly I will never forget this.
And I was saying things to them like, so it's that easy, huh?
Whatever New York Times says about our candidate, you'll throw them away.
You're gonna wait around until the Times approves of some of our candidates before you'll get behind them.
Whatever the media says about our candidate will determine whether or not you'll support him.
Is that what you're telling me?
Russia just dumb and stupid.
We gotta go to this prayer.
I said, Where's your sense of fight?
Where's your sense of opposing this kind of thing?
Don't you understand what's going on?
I literally lost it.
And I got in a car and I went to the airport early because I had to leave for a trip anyway.
So I just left.
Because I was so ticked off.
And it's amazing how this stuff there's still conservatives to this day, I hear from who I just this week, some emailing me in the fits of depression because of the New York Times poll that we cited yesterday.
And it's not, I I made up are you not gonna vote?
Oh no, oh, I'll be right in there.
But they think that other people on our side will be successfully turned away.
They think that the stuff is gonna work on weaker-minded people than they are.
And my point is this we can't let the other side call the shots on this.
The reason why anybody thinks that Obama is ahead.
If they say, well, he's not up by eight or ten, that's still winning, it's because they're disappointed in the Romney campaign.
And they think that the Romney campaign's so dull that nobody would support it.
They think other outside of them.
They think that there's nothing memorable, they think there's no Energy.
And so since the Romney campaign is so bleak in their minds that Obama has to be ahead.
And they remind them, do you remember 2010?
Yeah, well, what happened in 2010?
Well, it was a landslide defeat for the Democrats.
Yeah, there wasn't a Romney.
That's my point.
My point to all of it doesn't matter.
This election's about stopping Barack Obama.
That is the animating aspect of this election.
And there's not one person, and don't doubt me on this.
There's not one person on our side who will not vote because of the Romney campaign.
People are going to be showing up to stop Barack Obama.
They might wish there were some other nominee, but there's nothing we can do about that.
Romney's not a bad guy.
It's not infinitely preferable.
Without it's silly comparison.
There's no way that I would not want Romney to be president given these options here.
I'm just convinced that more people are going to be voting to stop this candidate than any poll will ever show.
It's just that you don't have the confidence of that.
You look at things in your universe and you think, oh, the Romney campaign's a dull.
It can't possibly be jazzing anybody.
How can there be any excitement on our side?
The Romney campaign's not thrilling anybody.
Obama's taking care of that.
Three and a half years of Obama have taken care of that.
The idea of four more years of Obama and a future that's bleak for people's children has taken care of that.
Now, the Romney campaign could juvenate, rejuvenate, could if if it got some life and if it started uh doing memorable things, memberable things.
Well, I think it ought to really make a beeline here on Obama's claim now that he doesn't see any victims.
Hell, we're all Obama victims.
My only point here of Sorry if it seems I'm beating around the bush.
Just don't get depressed.
You're not the only one who sees the truth, and you're not the only one who's gonna react the way you react to the polls.
The polls are not depressing anybody.
They're not making people mad.
If anything's going on out there, people are gonna show up for two reasons.
To beat Obama and to show up the media with these polls.
I'm convinced that's why people will say, well, he can't be up by eight or ten.
No, no, no.
But he's winning.
There's no question.
And it's strictly, it's solely because people are not satisfied with Romney's campaign, and they're projecting.
They're thinking, my gosh, there's nothing exciting about that campaign, because everybody thinks you vote for things, ideas, and candidates in elections.
And get scared when you have to win based almost entirely on a protest vote, which is what this is going to be.
We'll see.
We'll see.
I could be all wet.
I could be dead wrong.
We'll find out soon enough.
In the meantime, a brief obscene profits I'm out.
Don't go away.
I don't think the media would ever portray Romney as exciting anyway, even if he was.
If Romney had an exciting campaign, I'll bet you I could find people that have been to Romney campaign events who think they were.
I'll bet you I could get calls from people on the phone, been in Ohio who heard Romney say something that was memorable.
They're just not going to report it.
It's so hard.
It is so hard to fight the media bubble every day.
It's so I I am not exaggerating.
People as conservative as I am were ready to throw in a towel last night because that New York Times poll, because they think everybody believes the New York Times.
They think the New York Times is it's like these people that came to my house.
The New York Times thought Sarah Penn was an idiot.
That was it.
We had to get rid of her.
And I it's hard for me to hold on to my composure in the face of all that.
Why we let other people on the other side call the shots?
You just need to rely on one thing.
If you see it, everybody else sees it.
And be confident in that.
Here is uh Matthew, Jacksonville, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Mega good as Rush.
How are you today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
I'm a long time listener.
Other than this, I've discovered you uh because of your television show.
And uh I've been listening since I used to drive in to work at KDKA.
I mean, listen to you on KDKA and record your program and on the radio and then uh listen to it again while I was at work.
But that's my thoughts.
Is devotion.
That is devotion.
Thank you very much, sir.
Uh it occurred to me, you were just talking about uh income taxes and how oppressive they are.
It occurred to me that I I think I've heard that the top five percent of the income earners are paying more than half of the taxes that are collected.
Oh, that's true.
Okay, now if you couple that with the millions of people that are out of work, I have to wonder are there more people out of work because of Obama's policies than are actually paying the taxes.
Now, wait, wait a minute.
Are there more people out of work because of Obama's policies than are actually paying taxes?
Yes, sir.
Um, I'm confused because we've got what the number either forty-seven or forty-nine percent of Americans already don't pay income tax before Obama came along.
Maybe two or three percent has been added to that.
But tax policy leading up to Obama, it's it's you know politicians have pandered to the middle class forever.
And uh uh there's a whole boatload of Americans not paying income tax right now.
And I think the numbers, depending on who you talk to, it's 47, 49 percent.
The top five percent, the number that goes on what you talk about, it's 59% of all tax revenue is paid by the top five percent.
Yes, sir, those are the numbers that I remember.
Yes, thank you.
Um so here's my comment, and this is not mine, I got it from my wife.
She says that those are nameless and faceless people.
You know, 50 60 million people are out of work, but there are four people that we can put names and faces to who are victims of Obama's policies.
Our ambassador to Marines and another.
Yes.
I didn't mean to laugh.
No, I understand.
That's exactly right.
I'm still uh I'm trying I'm still confused what your point about the unemployed and paying taxes and the number.
What what was the point you're trying to make?
I don't want you to go away here uh uh dissatisfied because I didn't understand what you meant.
Try again.
My point was that there are more people out of work because of Obama than are paying the taxes.
You're right.
I I understand now there are more people paying the taxes than um are not paying anything.
Well, it's it's there are we've lost two and a half million jobs from the jobs universe since Obama took office.
The I went to the numbers yesterday.
They're four and a half million.
He keeps he claims he's created four and a half million jobs.
The actual net number is one point three million, but that's after that that's before you factor in the jobs lost on all of the newly unemployed.
Uh there isn't any job creation taking place.
We are not in a job growth uh situation.
And by definition, those people are not paying any income taxes.
So the burden of paying income taxes is falling on an increasingly smaller group of people.
Now, if that's your point, you are exactly right.
An increasingly smaller group of people is paying a larger and larger share of the income tax burden because there are fewer of them working.
But tax receipts are also down.
That's one of the reasons why the deficit's going.
It's a mess.
And we're back, you'll rush both serving humanities.
The net loss, uh 1.3 million Jobs.
Now, when you consider when you when you uh you consider growth in population, then it's just a staggering number.
Now let me give you some IRS numbers since we're talking about them.
The IRS reports for the most recent year that we have, which is always a couple years behind, maybe last year, 140 million income tax returns were filed.
140 million income tax returns filed.
Therefore, we've got some of those you're gonna have uh uh small businesses, some are going to be a husband and wife filing joint.
So let's say, let's let's be fair here.
140 million income tax returns filed is how many earners do you think?
Let's just go with 140 million, just for the hell of it.
I know there's some husbands and wives filing jointly and uh others, but let's go with 140 million earners.
That's how many tax returns, that's how many people reported taxable income.
So at 140 million.
The bottom 50% essentially paid nothing.
This is income tax.
This is not Social Security or payroll or any of that.
It's strictly income tax.
You have 140 million income tax returns filed.
The bottom 50% essentially didn't pay anything.
That leaves the top 50% who did pay for everything.
That means 70 million people out of 300 plus million are paying for everything in this country.
That is what that means.
70 million people are paying, and those people are the enemy of Barack Obama.
Those people are the ones he claims aren't paying their fair share.
Those are the people he claims need a tax increase.
Those are the people he claims up until yesterday when he said there weren't any victims, up until yesterday when he said that we have a country that rewards hard work.
We have a president who wants to punish it.
We have a president who looks at people earning a lot of money and finds something wrong with them.
They're earning too much.
So 70 million people are paying for everything, income tax-wise, including the 12 and a half million iPhones or phones out there that Obama has given away.
More people have Obama phones than have Obama jobs.
But I think this is a staggering number.
70 million people out of 310 million are paying for everything.
And they are the focus of Obama's policies.
Not helping them, not encouraging them, but targeting them.
He's telling us that 70 million Americans aren't paying their fair share.
And that 70 million is not just the rich, that's everybody else.
That's the top 50%.
With a bottom 50, we know are not paying any income tax.
Everybody agrees with that.
Okay, 47, 40, 40, whatever it is, but we know that they're not.
That leaves statistically half of those 140 million earners at 70 million.
You think maybe it would be wise to have that number increase?
You think maybe we could be raising a little bit more revenue to run the government, reduce the deficit if we had more people working?
You think maybe if that 70 million became 90 million?
And then even more.
That's the whole point of supply side or whatever trickle now.
The whole point of conservatism is you have as many people working as possible, paying taxes, spread the burden around, but you increase with lower taxes, employment, and the number of people paying taxes.
240 million people out of 310 are not paying for anything income tax-wise.
Now they are paying their Social Security and their Medicare and all that, but terms of the income tax share.
Wouldn't it be better if that number was going up instead of going down?
The numbers going down.
And the fact that those people are Obama's targets.
What's the result of it?
Well, here you go.
Demand for long-lasting manufactured goods plunged in August because of a huge drop in volatile commercial aircraft orders.
But in a hopeful sign, orders that reflect business investment plans rose solidly.
So media doing everything it can in a hopeful sign.
There's nothing hopeful going on out there other than Obama's potential defeat.
The most hopeful thing for most people in this country is a new president with new policies, new ideas.
U.S. unemployment aid applications at two-month low.
Oh, whoopee-doo.
That'll get revised next week to the point that the number today is not accurate or true.
Right now.
Snerdley, you'll remember this.
Twenty four years ago, twenty-three years ago, on this program, we started talking as a means of explaining and illustrating the Social Security burden.
And at the time, twenty-three, twenty-four years ago, it took the income or the taxes of two workers to provide the benefit for one retiree or one recipient.
And we then projected that out and what it would be when it when it took the taxes of three workers to pay the benefits, or four workers.
No, it um it's the other way around.
It was four workers for every retiree.
And we say, what would happen when that starts shrinking and the burden is spread over fewer people?
What happens when that burden gets down to two to one?
You're gonna have people stop working.
Well, right now, with the numbers I just gave you on the income tax.
One tax earner is paying for three and a half people who aren't.
That's the ratio of how these numbers work out.
For every person paying income taxes, three and a half people aren't.
But they've got their Obama phones.
Speaking of which, let's go back to Cleveland, Ohio.
This is from yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.
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!
It gave you a phone for how do you give you a phone?
You sign up to you, you all full steps, you ought social security, you got low income, you disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks!
Romney sucks.
She knows exactly how to qualify for a phone, but not to get a job.
And we gotta take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends.
We're coming back.
Much more remains here on the EIB network.
Here is Tony in Northwest Indiana.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Megadiddles from Northwest Indiana Rush.
It's such an honor to speak with you.
I've been such a longtime fan.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
I'm a Vietnam veteran.
My daughter served in the first Gulf War in the Air Force.
We've had a member of our family in the military going all the way back from the World War One, World War II, Civil War to the War of 1812.
And I do a lot of uh Holy cow.
Yeah, we've That is amazing.
Yeah, we follow, I've done my genealogy, and it's amazing we've had someone in every conflict back to the War of 1812.
That's unbelievable.
Yeah.
And I do a lot of veterans.
Well, we've never lost a war with you in it.
Evidently not.
So the what I find is heartening right now is that Obama continue continues to uh excuse me for I'm shortness of breath.
I have uh emphysema that's uh service related, but um try cigars.
Yeah, really.
Um that he talks about what he's gonna do for you know, the unemployment, and yet I I get the Air Force Times, and there's this they are cutting back so much.
There are men and women that are in the middle of their careers that will lose everything because they are cutting back on the military.
Plus they've gutted NASA.
I'm surprised the drive-by media isn't you know picking this up.
They didn't gut NASA, they just turned it to Muslim outreach.
Exactly.
And the the recent article in the Air Force Times said that the military could be the swing vote for this next election because of the people that they are basically that is why in a couple of states, I don't remember which one's off top of my head,
but that is why Tony, the Obama administration in in two states is trying to somehow make it harder for military people to vote, either with absentees or early voting or or I I forget specifically, but they they're worried about that.
They know they comes to the military vote, they're not gonna get a majority of that.
Al also, you know, where I live here in in uh Lake County, Indiana, that I don't know if you recall, but the the net it was all over the network news that Lake County, Indiana had one of the highest voter frauds in in the entire I think Lake County and What year d during for the last election.
I think di Lake County and is that border uh Illinois.
We we we are we are thirty miles southeast of Chicago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember that.
That was a central county in operation chaos, too.
The the the mayor or something in the I do, I remember that.
They delayed the vote count way, way, way late into the night.
I'll never forget it.
Tony, great to have you in the audience and on the program.
Thank you so much for the call.
Well, we got the real referees in football back enforcing the real rules starting tonight.
How about we have real rules for voting, Mr. President?
How about voter ID?
If you're gonna be so concerned about the NFL, how about rules for voting being done right now?
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