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Sept. 28, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
It's Rush Limbaugh and EIB Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, LRushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
I fully intended to get to your phone calls in the last hour.
I really did.
It didn't happen.
I feel badly about that.
So I will get to your calls in this hour.
What we're doing here today, folks, I just, we've got a, we've got a theme that has been established for the day, and that is the race is over.
It's, you know, Romney gave it a pretty pathetic shot, but it's over.
All the economic news is good.
Obama's a net job creator now.
AP says so.
It's coming up.
Obama a net job creator now.
That's how good the economy is.
Besides, it is said the reason for Obama pulling ahead in these polls is the Clinton bump for the Democrat Convention.
That he made sure everybody understood that Obama cares.
He really, really cares about people, and he's working really hard.
And there's nobody who could have done any better.
Not any former president, including Clinton himself.
Nobody could have done any better.
I've had some emails.
I haven't heard that.
Rush, what are you just making this up trying to tick us?
No, no.
Here it is.
This was on Fox News channel at about, I don't know, so it's the 11 o'clock hour this morning.
Steve Hayes from the Weekly Standard was a guest.
He's talking to fill-in host Greg Jarrett.
There's no question that President Obama came out of the conventions with a little bit of momentum.
And you talk, you know, it's not only showing up in the public polling that we're talking about here today, but you talk to Republican pollsters who are polling on Senate and House races, and they will talk about what they call the Clinton bump.
They've seen it across polling in various parts of the country that voters who are asked the question about is the country on the right track, is the country on the wrong track, which most pollsters believe is the single best determinant of who will win in November.
There was a jump in the right track number on the general question of whether we're on the right track.
They think we are.
And it's because I think in part Democrats have successfully pressed this message that nobody could have done better than President Obama's done.
So that's Steve Hayes in the Weekly Standard citing Republican pollsters in House and Senate races.
This is a Clinton bump.
And on the right track number, the country's not heading on the right track.
That's what the polling always is.
Republican polling.
So we're heading on the right track.
It's because of the Clinton bump.
It's because nobody could have done better than Obama.
Nobody could have done better than Obama did.
It was that bad.
It was that big a mess.
I haven't been making this up.
I'm not trying to stir things up.
I'm telling you, this is the operative narrative out there.
It's on the Fox News channel this morning.
AP has a story.
I'm going top of the stack, so I'm not going to jump in here and find it.
But Obama can now call himself a job creator.
The latest bunch of revisions in the job numbers claim that Obama created 380,000 jobs more than were originally thought last year.
They've revised it.
And there were 380,000 jobs that were not discovered until this week that were created last year.
And so when you add those 380,000 jobs to the overall 4.5 million at Obama's side, we got net job creation.
That's what the AP's got out there.
Now, I don't know this necessarily Clinton bump as it is a media bump.
If there's a bump, it's probably a media bump.
And what's really being bumped is the amount of oversampling of Democrats in these polls.
So Obama cannot call himself a job creator.
There are now, this is what they're saying, is what AP is preparing a story on.
They tweeted it.
Story's coming just in time for the Sunday shows.
There are now more U.S. jobs than when he took office.
Not by much, but they've moved out of negative territory.
The revision showing employers added 386,000 more jobs than had previously been estimated in the 12 months ended in March.
Clearly good news for the White House as Obama heads into a crucial week.
So, and that AP story is out now.
So, not only did the people of this country report to Republican pollsters they think the country's heading in the right direction, little did they know how right they were, because now it has just been revealed that there was almost 400,000 jobs created that nobody knew about until today.
Shazam!
Interesting how this works.
Okay, let's go from the stack, just pulling off the top here.
Let's see, this is the Washington Times.
Obama focuses on campaigning and fundraising.
Official presidential duties are few and far between.
If not for sports champions and terrorists, President Obama's public schedule for September would be nearly empty of official events as he devoted most of his time to campaigning for reelection.
Well, of course, he has to.
He cares so much, and he's working so hard.
He has got, he said, folks, he didn't do a good enough job telling a story.
That's what he told Univision.
He didn't do a good enough job telling the American people a story.
And that's what he's been doing.
And it's paying off.
Clinton bump.
Republican pollsters say that right-track Raw and crack is moving in Obama's favor.
He's out there not governing.
He's campaigning.
That's what Americans appreciate about him.
They like his story.
It's over.
Tom Brokhar says it's going to take a UFO for Romney to win.
Here's the next one.
Record preference for one-party rule.
This is a Gallup poll.
No, no, folks.
You haven't heard anything yet.
Get this.
And this is quite disturbing.
You know, we're told, what have we been told the past, well, all of my life, but let's focus on the last eight years.
Take it back now.
Let's add Obama's three and a half.
What have we been told the last 12 years?
Bipartisanship.
We've been told that the American people want cooperation.
We've been told the American people want people of the different parties to work together.
We've been told that we need people who will cross the aisle and work with the other side to get things done for the people of this country.
Have we not?
We have been.
We're drowning in this.
We've been hit every which way possible with the notion that bipartisanship and cooperation, that's what people want.
Until today, from Gallup, a record number of people now claim they prefer to be ruled by one party.
Question, do you think it's better for the country to have a president who comes from the same political party that controls Congress?
Does it make no difference either way, or do you think it's better to have a president from one party and a Congress controlled by the other?
38%, same party.
33%, no difference.
23%, different parties.
So we're not at 50% here.
But we're suddenly told here, ladies and gentlemen, and this is a record high, this 38% number.
We're suddenly told at a record high, 38% of Americans want the same party to control the presidency in Congress, while a record low, 23%, say divided government would be better.
And that's the biggest gap that Gallup has ever found.
In fact, Gallup claims that many Americans are experiencing divided government fatigue.
And yet, as I said, we are constantly told by the news media voters want more compromise, more bipartisanship, more reaching across the aisle, but only from the Republicans, of course.
We don't, see, if the Democrats can be as partisan as they want, the Democrats can be as mean-spirited and extremist, and the Independents don't care about that.
Republicans, though, if they criticize our president, the independents don't want any part of that.
The independents want people like McCain.
The American people want candidates like McCain.
They're going to work with people who cross the aisle, compromise, and get along.
According to Gallup, when you get further into the numbers, the Democrats favor one-party rule far more than Republicans, 49% to 36%.
And yet we're always told it's the Republicans who want to govern with an iron fist.
We're told that it's Republicans who hate compromising.
Of course, historically, Democrats have always had a thing for third-world strongman-style government, like Stalin, Castro, Hugo Chavez as a Democrats that admire those guys.
It's the media.
They go all groupy when they sit down and interview dictators.
So isn't it amazing?
AP says today that Obama can now call himself a job creator, the right track, wrong track, firmly now in support of Obama.
The Clinton bump, the American people think Obama's the best guy to do the economy.
Nobody could have done better because he really cares about it.
But you see, Romney doesn't.
Romney didn't care.
Romney's a Republican.
Romney, he wants to take away every safety.
He wants to take away all the assistance of people.
Romney wants people to starve and go thirsty and so forth.
His campaign's a wet noodle.
His campaign's uninspiring.
Nobody's excited about it.
Romney's ex, he's not a conservative.
Everything exists.
It's horrible.
And now, in addition to all that, magically, the American people want all-Democrat rule all the time from Gallup.
Isn't it amazing?
Gallup was number 17 or 18 in terms of accuracy in predicting the 08 presidential race.
Gallup was number 18.
Rasmussen was number one.
So Americans' preference shifts toward one-party government.
Yep.
And of course, what party would that be?
Democrats.
So it's amazing what can happen here in a rotten economy.
It's unprecedented.
Americans are losing household income, losing jobs, going further in debt, more in debt with student loans.
Kids can't find work.
And man, we've never had anybody better running the show.
And we've never had anybody better qualified, according to Bill Clinton.
And there's nobody could have done any better.
And there's nobody that cares anymore.
And besides, the Romney campaign's horrible.
And Romney, it's not inspiring anybody.
And so now the American people want one-party rule.
And only a UFO can save Romney, who, by the way, is in Pennsylvania today.
Why would Romney be in Pennsylvania?
In fact, why is Romney still campaigning?
But why is he in Pennsylvania?
I mean, that's supposed to be hopeless for Romney, right?
He says there's no chance whatsoever in Pennsylvania.
What's he doing?
Wasting time and money in Pennsylvania.
I don't know, folks.
We've got to take a quick timeout.
And your phone calls are coming up, I promise.
Don't go away.
I have a question.
Before we get to the phones, and it's not going to be very long.
I have a quick question.
This Gallup poll that shows that a majority of America, well, no, it's a plurality.
It's not 50% yet, but the largest percentage of people ever say they want one-party rule.
Right?
Now, from 2009 through 2010, we had one-party rule.
We had the Democrats owning the House of Representatives.
Democrats owned the United States Senate.
And, of course, Barack Hussein Obama was in the White House.
We had one-party control.
And then what happened in 2010?
There was an historic landslide defeat for that one party in control.
The Democrats lost 63 seats in the House of Representatives.
So we had two years of one-party rule.
And this is what Gallup says the American people now prefer.
And 49% of Democrats know that prefer that.
And yet, just two years ago, the American people overwhelmingly, in a landslide, rejected one-party rule.
Hmm.
Wonder how that kind of thing happens.
And don't forget that Clinton bump.
Yeah, at the Democrat convention, Clinton said that nobody could have done any better than Obama fixing the economy, not even himself.
Nobody.
And there's nobody that cares about people and wanting to fix this any more than Barack Obama.
And Michelle Obama told us how much he cares, how hard he works, and that's all he thinks about.
And the Romney campaign is just a wet noodle.
Yeah, that's okay.
Tom, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
You're first on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Funny.
Tom, are you there?
Yes, I am here.
It's your turn, sir.
You're on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hi.
You're one of my heroes.
And just to address one thing, I make a lot of observations.
And I just hope the American people aren't as stupid as they're made out to be because everything that comes out of these people are lies.
But on the issue of Obama couldn't have done anything about this economy, am I right in thinking that when we were attacked on 9-11, they decimated our financial system and really put us into a back-to-zero at the starting gate.
And Bush, he brought us back, and it's four years he brought the economy back and got us going forward.
Him saying again that he couldn't do anything about it is just he's an empty suit and he's absent on the job.
No, it's that his policies will never work because he's a socialist.
His policies won't work.
That's why he can work as hard as anybody ever has.
And as long as he implements his policies, it ain't going to work.
But I saw something the other day that I think Reagan inherited an actual, in certain statistical ways, worse economy than Obama did.
And Reagan fixed it.
Reagan inherited a much worse economy than Obama inherited from Bush.
This is all, it's all just poppycock, but that's why I'm trying to make a big point of it here.
You asked, I hope the American people aren't stupid.
We are being told that they are.
That's what all this adds up to.
The American people are stupid.
There is no other way the American people can think what they think.
If what the Republican pollsters are telling us is right, if this Clinton bump exists, if the American people think that while their lives are falling apart, while their country's economy disintegrates in front of their face, and while the national debt mounts and mounts, and while Obamacare is about to be implemented full bore and cause even more tax increases and a further deterioration of personal wealth, while all this is happening, the American people say we're on the right track now.
And nobody could do this any better.
And Bill Clinton is the reason because Clinton told him that there's nobody that could have done any better.
And Michelle told us that there's nobody that cares any more than Obama cares about us.
And a Romney campaign, nothing to write home about.
What other explanation is there for this other than the American people are stupid?
That's exactly what they're telling us.
What we're looking at here, we are looking at a Democrat campaign that is built.
What I've tried to document this today in my own inimitable way.
A Democrat campaign is built on lies and manipulation piled on top of lies and manipulation.
And these so-called conservatives on television and stuff out there seem to be throwing in the towel.
Don't seem to be fighting any of these lies or this manipulation, but simply analyzing it for what they think it is.
And I don't know, folks, I just, none of it makes any common logical sense.
I don't think there are enough people on our side who know how to deal with leftists.
It's just that simple.
I want to remind everybody, Barack Hussein Obama, campaigned for president.
He ran as the man who could fix our economy.
That was the whole point of his campaign.
Has anybody forgotten this?
In 2007, 2008, Barack Obama ran on the basis he could fix the economy.
Now three and a half years in, and I don't need to detail you the decay, the destruction, the deterioration, the plummeting aspects of our economy.
You all know that.
Now what are we told?
Nobody could have.
And he needs another three or four years to do it.
And no matter how hard he worked and how much he cares, there's nobody else who could have done it either.
And we're told that that explanation has convinced a majority of Americans to support Obama because there's nobody else that could do it.
And there's nobody else that cares as much.
And there's nobody else who'll work as hard, I guess, while playing golf and basketball and bowling and campaigning.
It's amazing.
You know, Castro, he's been working on his economy for 50 plus years now.
Fidel Castro was never able to fix Cuba's economy.
And you know what he blames it on?
He calls it the blockade.
But it's the embargo.
Fidel Castro hasn't been able to fix his economy.
And his economic policies mirror Obama's or well, Castro's older, I should say.
Obama's mirror Castro's.
I'm sure the Cubans think, but this guy just needs a little bit more time.
You know, he really cares about us, this Castro guy does.
He fought a revolution for us.
Why, he risked death for us here in Cuba.
And he really, there's nobody could have.
Batista could have done any better.
Marti couldn't have done any better.
Hell no, Castro's the only guy could have done it.
But they say in 50 plus years, Castro haven't been able to fix it.
You know that Barack Obama is going to inherit a worse economy than he inherited the first time around?
And then what is he going to do?
Here we got the entire media and the Democrat Party.
Well, you know, he didn't inherit this mess.
I mean, it was worse than anybody knew, and nobody told the truth about it.
And he's worked hard, and he really cares.
Clinton bumped, Clinton bumped.
That's where Clinton told everybody that nobody else could have done any better either.
And there's nobody that cares any more than Barack Obama.
Nobody works any harder.
Michelle told us that.
No, no.
Barack, that's all.
He reads letters from the starving every night.
He reads letters from the thirsty every night.
He said, Michelle, look at what's happening to people.
We can't let this go on.
We've got to figure after three years in office.
Michelle, look at what are you, look at what this person is still hungry.
Michelle, we got to do something.
That's what she said in a sentence in her speech at a convention.
And people, oohed and odd.
But it turns out now that Barack Obama is going to inherit an even worse economy the second time around.
And what is the excuse for that going to be?
Let's say he wins and we're at 2014.
What's the excuse going to be?
Well, they didn't tell me in 2009 how bad it was.
It's going to take a few more years.
At what point, never mind.
I'm through asking questions about it.
I just think it's, here, let's get a stack of stuff.
Stack of stuff.
What I'm doing here, I'm just peeling off the top.
I haven't put anything in order.
Just random news.
For the heck of this.
NBC News.
President Obama leads Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney now in New Hampshire.
And the two are locked in tight contests in Nevada and North Carolina, according to a new series of NBC News polls.
Obama is ahead of Romney, 51 to 44 in New Hampshire.
He edges Romney in Nevada and North Carolina, but within the margin of error there.
As usual, by the way, I should point out, all three of these polls oversampled Democrats, even among likely voters.
The oversampling generally takes place in a registered voter poll, but in a likely poller, that's a voter poll.
It doesn't have, but they did.
In New Hampshire, they oversampled Democrats by 5%.
In Nevada, also by 5%.
In North Carolina, they oversampled Democrats by 6%.
But there's a hidden in this story, there's a hidden second story that the headline doesn't really headline, Obama leads in New Hampshire tighter in Nevada, North Carolina.
Now, hidden in this story, actually, it's not hidden in this story.
I made a note, but it's a separate story, but it's Fox News is reporting that voter registration in Ohio is down by 490,000 people from four years ago.
44% of that 490,000 people is Cleveland.
Now, who lives in Cleveland?
Democrats.
And this woman who wanted a phone from Obama and got one.
Obama!
You got Obama phone?
Yes, everybody in Cleveland is a 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 a full step.
You on Social Security.
You got low income.
You disability.
Okay, what's wrong with Romney again?
Romney, he sucks on me.
Hey!
Right.
Okay, so Obama phone.
I got an Obama phone.
Obama, I got an Obama phone.
I'm one of 12.5 million with an Obama phone in 253 minutes.
So voter registration in Ohio down by 490,000 people, 44% of that in Cleveland, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two to one.
The left-leaning think tank Third Way says the Democrat voter registration drop in eight key states, swing states, outnumbered the Republican decline by a 10 to 1 ratio.
In Florida, Democrat registration down 5%.
In Iowa, Democrat voter registration down 9.5%.
And get this, in New Hampshire, where this NBC poll says Obama's pulling away now.
Democrat voter registration in New Hampshire is down 19.7%.
Though Mithril, what does that have to do with it?
I'll tell you what has to do with it, Mr. New Castrati.
It means that oversampling of Democrats in these polls is ridiculous.
500,000 people fewer registered in Ohio and half and half from Cleveland?
And you're oversampling Democrats by 10 in polls in that state.
Here's the Fox News headline.
Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Democrat strongholds, mirrors nationwide trend.
There are eight swing states in which Democrat voter registration is plummeting at a rate of 10 to 1 over Republican registrations falling.
But Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because the Clinton bump and the American people like Obama and he really is working hard and nobody cares about people more than Obama does and nobody could have done any and including Bill Clinton.
Plus the Romney campaign is dull, dead, and uninspiring.
I heard that on Fox today.
The theme of the day.
Okay, back to the phones.
It's David, Raleigh, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
It's a pleasure, sir.
Thank you.
You know, the first video, I was very scared by the words coming out of the fact that this filmmaker is now in prison.
If the administration really believes the video caused this, are we now encouraging the terrorists to perform more violence?
They want to quell free speech.
They're getting exactly what they want.
It would seem to me that we are.
If we're blaming the well, we're giving them an excuse.
We're simply giving them an out.
We're legitimizing their action.
We're saying they got a reason to.
Is that your point?
That's my point.
And my concern is that liberals are going to take this.
If this ever happens on our shores, and we now have a reason to put more American citizens in jail for prompting this kind of action, now liberals have their excuse for even more free speech.
Look, it is a sobering thought.
But this guy, this guy is in prison without bail.
The filmmaker is in prison without bail, supposedly on a parole violation on bank fraud or some such thing.
But that's an excellent point.
We blame the filmmaker.
We do two things.
We tell the terrorists, you know what?
We understand why you're doing it.
We got this rabid, stupid, right-wing American making movies you don't like.
You're justified.
I know Obama is saying that no violence justifies what they did, but he's not doing anything to stop it.
He's not condemning them to anybody paying half attention, scant attention.
This administration's focusing on the filmmaker.
Brief timeout, my friends, Open Line Friday.
We got more when we come back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're dealing from the top of the deck today, folks.
I have not organized my stack of stuff.
I'm just grabbing things as they come.
And here's the next one.
It's from the New York Times.
United States economy is still weak, but more feel secure.
Don't tell me to stop it.
Is that not the theme of the day?
Did I not tell you?
Grab Soundbite 27.
Stephen Hayes is on Fox this morning, and they're talking on Fox about the Clinton bump.
They're trying to explain why Obama's way ahead in these polls.
Now, tell you what this illustrates, and nothing against Stephen Hayes.
People are going to call him say, I'm ripping Stephen Hayes.
I'm not ripping Stephen Hayes.
But this is so-called conservative media.
What do we have?
We have a Democrat-orchestrated and a media-orchestrated narrative today.
And you're probably mad at me for repeating it so often.
It is the Clinton bump.
Clinton got a big bump for Obama coming out of that convention because he told people that Obama cares, and Michelle told people Obama cares.
And everybody knows that Romney doesn't care, but Obama really cares.
He cares about us.
He loves us.
He wants all of us to know that he really loves you, and nobody's working any harder, and nobody could have done any better.
And you couple that with the fact that the Romney campaign's a wet noodle, and it's over.
It's over.
Now, that's the narrative that's put rather than fight the narrative.
I'm not throwing in a towel on this stuff, not buying into this.
Rather than fight the narrative, we're going to sit here and we're going to analyze it and explain it.
And the only way any of this can be true is if the American people are at a record level of stupidity.
The only way this narrative today can be true is if we have lost the country and everybody in it or a big enough majority to vote Democrat.
It's just plain dumb, just ignorant and stupid.
And so when you see a headline, United States economy still weak, but more people feel secure, the economy's falling apart in front of everybody's eyes, and yet we're on the right track.
Obama's the answer.
Well, how stupid do you have to be?
Do you think this would be the narrative if Bush, the economy under Bush, was three times as healthy as this?
Obama was campaigning on the idea that he could fix it.
The economy was three times this strong, and they were telling us that Bush was responsible for a horrible economy, how rotten it was.
You think we'd have ever gotten a news narrative?
People love Bush.
He really cares about people.
He's working hard.
There's nobody could do anybody.
It's asinine.
It is an insult to my intelligence.
But here it is.
This is the operative narrative of the day.
There's no question that President Obama came out of the conventions with a little bit of momentum.
And you talk, you know, it's not only showing up in the public polling that we're talking about here today, but you talk to Republican pollsters who are polling on Senate and House races, and they will talk about what they call the Clinton bump.
They've seen it across polling in various parts of the country that voters who are asked the question about is the country on the right track, is the country on the wrong track, which most pollsters believe is the single best determinant of who will win in November.
There was a jump in the right track number on the general question of whether we're in the right track.
They think we are.
And it's because I think in part Democrats have successfully pressed this message that nobody could have done better than President Obama's done.
There you have it.
See?
It's on Fox.
That's not NBC.
That's not MSNBC.
It's not CNN, ABC, CBS, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today.
It's on Fox.
And the Clinton bump.
And it's Republican pollsters who are providing this information to Stephen Hayes.
Not him.
He's probably being bombarded with people saying I'm ripping him.
He's just telling us what he's hearing from Republican pollsters on the House and Senate races.
Yep.
You know, our GDP, gross domestic product under Bush was 3.3%, and the media called it a recession, trying to create a recession in everybody's minds.
Our gross domestic product is 1.3% right now, revised down from 1.7, and we are on the right track.
3.3% GDP under Bush, a recession.
And we had to get rid of him.
And Obama was the guy to fix it.
1.3% GDP after three years of Obamaomics.
And not only are we on the right track, the American people like this track.
The American people feel good about where we're going.
And AP tells us that now Obama's a net job creator because guess what they found?
An additional 400,000 jobs created last year that they missed.
They just found it today.
It's amazing.
They found 400,000 jobs that were created that nobody counted.
And you know what that means?
It means now that Obama's a net job creator.
So employment's fixed.
The economy's on a great rebound.
We're heading in the right direction.
Nobody could do any better than Obama.
Bill Clinton says so.
Nobody cares anymore than Obama.
So all of this economic reality that you're facing each and every day, it's not happening.
We're really, I mean, everybody's getting cell phones out there in Cleveland and food stamps all over the place.
I mean, you realize how many happy people are out there?
We're on the right track here, folks.
That's what the media is telling us.
1.3% GDP right track.
More people feel secure, even though the economy is still weak.
That's in the New York Times.
Yep.
There you have it.
Here it is, folks.
The Washington Post.
U.S. revises hiring numbers.
453,000 more jobs added in the third year of the recovery than previously knew.
And Obama's now gotten back every job lost since he took office.
Washington Post.
That was next to the top of the stack.
Clinton bump.
I know, I know.
That's what led to the stain on the dress, but that's what they're calling it.
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