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Oct. 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 2, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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You remember what the narrative was on Friday?
Isn't it, by the way, interesting that we don't even call it news anymore?
Because there is no news reporting.
Media does not do a news report.
There is a narrative established every day.
Somewhere is decided in the bowels of the drive-by media, New York Times or where it's decided on, and it's the narrative for all of the pro-Obama media everywhere.
That's how you can get on CNN and every other network talking about, oh, no, oh, no, the race is tightening.
Last Friday, by the way, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network telephone number.
We will get to your calls in his hours, 800-822882.
The narrative last Friday, might be Thursday, but I think it was Friday.
Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard, was on Fox, and he said he had talked to some Republican pollsters.
And what was it that they had found?
When Bill Clinton at the Democrat convention said, you know, nobody could have fixed this economy.
This economy is worse than anything anybody knew.
Bush didn't tell Obama the truth about it when he got there, when he showed up.
And I'm just here to tell you there is not a single president could have done any better with this, including me.
If you can believe that, not even I could have done any better with this.
And so that was the Clinton bounce.
That was the Obama bounce that launched Obama.
That took all the incompetence off the table.
That took the poor economy off the table.
Clinton had done it.
Now it's gone.
Over a weekend, the narrative has suddenly changed.
The race is tightening.
Oh, no.
And now it might not even center on Obama's likability.
It might center on job performance.
And at CNN, they're in a mild form of panic.
Gloria Borger, also on CNN, last night on Wolf Blitzer's show, Blitzer said, look, if you take a look at these state polls, Gloria, as important as the national polls are, what's happening in this battleground states, it's a lot more important.
And the question is whether the difference between the national polling and the battleground state polling is sustainable and whether that will continue.
I think there are a bunch of things going on.
First of all, in some of these states, like Ohio and Virginia, for example, the unemployment rate is lower in those states than it is nationally.
And everybody I talk to says you're not sure whether battleground states are a leading indicator or are they a lagging indicator.
So if the national polls tighten, will the statewide polls tighten?
We're going to have to see and see whether these things tighten at the state level.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
It was just last Friday.
Clinton had spoken.
He had exonerated Obama.
Nobody could have fixed the economy.
We had the ABC Washington Post.
We had New York Times CBS in these three swing states.
Obama was up 10.
He was up 11.
And now in just two workdays, in just two business days.
Now, here's Gloria Borger.
Oh, you know what?
National numbers, if they move toward Romney, so will the swing states, Wolf.
Wolf, it's not intelligent to think that the national numbers switched to Romney, but somehow in those three swing states, Obama stays up 10.
It's going to work that way, Wolf.
And at CNN, they're going, oh, no.
Oh, no.
Now, what was in this poll?
What are they so worried about?
Well, the new CNN poll that was released yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock has Obama up three.
The sample was 37% Democrat, 29% Republican, 34% Independent, where Romney is up by eight.
So they had a sample of plus eight Democrats.
They're using the 2008 exit poll model.
With a Democrat sample of plus eight, Obama is up three.
Romney up eight with independents and better with his base and more enthusiasm on the Republican side.
So how do we get Obama plus three?
I'll tell you something else now.
With this poll, and now we learn, again, the Washington Post poll, they based those three state findings, Obama up 10 or 11 on a poll of 160 people with a margin of error of plus or minus eight.
That's unbelievable.
I've never seen a poll released with a margin of error, plus or minus eight, but 160 people.
It's like four people in every state that they polled.
What does all this mean?
Well, among other things, the polls are now back to where they were before Bill Clinton said, you know, there's not a soul out there who could have done any better than I did, any better than Brock did.
I couldn't have done it.
I mean, this was such a mess.
That economy was so bad.
I just want you to trust me.
I never worked harder in any time in my life looking at this.
I'm just here to tell you, there's not a soul out there who could live couldn't have done any better than this.
So after all of this, after $300 million Obama dollars spent defaming Romney, the untold billions of dollars in free media Obama gets haven't been able to move a needle at all.
It's still Obama plus two, Obama plus three, Obama plus one in the margin of error.
After all that money, after all those defamatory ads, after all the free media, after all the character insults and assaults on Romney, what'd they get for it?
Nothing.
Zip zero nada, as expressed by the polls.
You know what else is interesting?
If you go back and look at the Benghazi attack, Obama didn't say anything.
Romney did.
Romney came out, issued a statement.
What was the media reaction?
He shot before he aimed.
That was a gaff.
Who does this guy think he is?
You don't come out and talk about this before you know.
They are covering Romney.
The media is covering Romney as though he is the president and they are doing the job they're supposed to do in the sense that they are supposed to question authority.
They're supposed to not trust government.
But Romney hadn't done anything.
Romney's just a candidate.
He's being treated as though he's president and Obama is a challenger.
They've done a pure 180.
Back to the CNN poll.
52% of men have an unfavorable opinion of Obama.
47% of men have an unfavorable opinion of Romney.
54% of women have an unfavorable opinion of Romney.
40% unfavorable Obama.
43% of women like Ryan.
51% of women really like Biden.
That's the CNN poll.
And all of that, with Romney up eight in independence, with a plus eight Democrat advantage in the sample, Obama is up three.
And so now the narrative is that the polls are tightening as we draw closer to Election Day.
And this is going to be something that you will see throughout Drive-By Media.
Interesting story today, too, in a blog on the Politico called Under the Radar by Josh Gerstein.
When a pollster or a strategerist for a struggling political campaign presents what seems like a sugar-coated view of his candidate's chances, do you ever think, I wish I could give that advisor some truths here, maybe put him under oath?
Well, Truth Serum may be pushing it, but the put him under oath part actually has happened.
When a pollster is required to tell the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth under penalty of perjury, what emerges is quite a bit different than what you hear in the waning days of a presidential campaign.
Now, in May, the pollster for Al Gore's bid in 2000 and the Brett girl's bid in 2004, 2008.
Guy's name is Harrison Hickman.
He polled for Gore in 2000 and for John Edwards 2004, 2008.
He was called to testify in the federal criminal case against Edwards over alleged campaign finance violations.
He took the stand.
And under oath, the pollster for John Edwards admitted that in the final weeks of Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, he, Hickman, the pollster, cherry-picked public polls to make the candidate seem viable, promoted surveys that he considered unreliable, and sent emails to campaign aides and Edwards supporters and reporters, which argued that Edwards was still in the hunt, even though Hickman knew he was.
In other words, the guy under oath, a pollster, testified that he sent out flawed data when he knew at the time his candidate's chances were finished.
He was sending out flawed data to keep the donations coming in, to keep the media on board that Edwards' campaign was still viable when it was dead.
So here we have a pollster under oath admitting he put out false data.
Quick timeout.
Another holy profit break here at the EIB network.
And we are back.
El Rushbo meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
People sending me emails, folks.
I had a note from a guy who was just in Washington.
He said he couldn't find any evidence that there's a presidential campaign there.
He didn't find any Obama signs.
He didn't find any Obama bumper stickers and not much on Romney either.
I have a story here from the Raleigh News and Observer at UNC Chapel Hill.
Finding volunteers for Obama campaign is harder this time.
Four years ago, here in South Florida where we live, there were college kids all over the place carrying Obama signs and passing out Obama bumper stickers, and there's none of that.
You know, I'm pretty much a recluse, so I have to ask people what's going on.
Nobody's seeing.
There aren't any Obama signs out here.
I don't even see any Obama bumper stickers.
I see some old 2008 stuff, but there's nothing new.
The guy that wrote me from Washington said there's no indication whatsoever that there's a presidential campaign going on, even in the D.C. suburbs.
There are no Obama bumper stickers or paraphernalia in the upper west side of Manhattan, and that's the belly of the beast.
It really is weird.
There is no automatic, doesn't seem, and I don't know what to make of this, if anything, by the way, because this is all anecdotal.
Maybe it's been decided it's a waste of money, all these yard signs and bumper stickers, but it's a big difference from 2008.
There's no spontaneous combustion enthusiasm out there, certainly not for Obama.
Nothing like there was in 2004.
Here's Gallup, daily tracking poll: 47% approve of the job Obama's doing, 46% disapprove, and their daily tracking poll has got it a point.
Rasmussen has it a point.
Just like Clockworth, media narrative has shifted.
Race is now close.
You know, what does this mean?
You know what I think it means?
I don't think people change their minds like this.
I don't think a bunch of people who last week thought Obama was preferable to the tune of being up 10 or 11 points changed their minds over the weekend.
But at the same time, I don't believe this silly notion that Bill Clinton at the convention, hey, you know what?
There's nobody who could have fixed this.
This is such a bad mess.
It's in such bad shape.
It's going to take our good old boy Barack Harry a couple more, maybe three more years, fix this.
It's so bad, not even.
I don't, I just, we're told this cockamami BS that Obama's up 10, then he's up five, then he's up three, then he's up.
I just don't believe people change their minds like that.
So where are we after all of this, after all this money, after all the attempts to defame Romney, after 300 million spent, how many millions given away in free media coverage, and there's no difference now than there was in July.
Whatever bounce Obama had's gone, if it ever existed.
George Will says, well, American people don't like admitting they made a mistake.
So they really don't proclaim presidents' failures and then vote them out.
Well, they do.
Bill Clinton is the only Democrat since FDR to win a second term.
We do throw out our failures.
We do.
George H.W. Bush, a one-termer.
LBJ on his own, a one-termer.
He didn't even wait.
He quit before the disaster happened at the polls.
But George Will says that the difference this time is Obama is African American.
Is an affirmative action hire.
And the American people so goes that they're big-hearted and may want to give the first black president in history a second chance because we're really big-hearted.
See, I think you're right.
I don't see that working a second time.
Not when people balance four more years of this disaster and its impact on their kids and grandkids.
Anyway, to the phones we go.
We're going to start with Brent in Denver.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Brent, high.
Well, Mega Colorado Swing State, dittos to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to let you know, I was at the Romney event last night, and after the event was over, there was a group holding up a bunch of signs that said Democrats for Romney.
So curiosity got the best of me.
I decided to go ask them what made the change.
So I asked him two questions.
The first question I asked is, what made you choose Romney?
And the man I talked to, who was black, probably in his late 20s, early 30s, stated that he was disillusioned with Obama's promises.
And he began to reiterate what some of those things were.
But it made him and forced him to do research.
And he said he compared the candidates' claims together, compared them to the Constitution, looked into Reagan.
He said he wasn't even born when Reagan was president.
And he began to look into it, and he said he wanted to stick with something that was constitutional.
It upset him that Obama had been sworn in to protect the Constitution and now says it's an old outdated document.
Wait a minute.
How many people were in this group?
This group probably had eight people.
It wasn't really big, but they were getting a lot of attention.
They were right behind Romney, probably to, well, camera-wise, to his left.
Now, let me just say, how common do you think that guy's answer is if you extrapolate that across the country?
How many people are actually doing what that guy told you he did?
He wanted to research.
He didn't like Obama.
He's not constitutional.
Where does that come from?
That's what his claim was.
I don't know if it's that often, but I mean, if you take a look proportionally how big the group was, it wasn't very big, but it did get some attention there as to what the people were there for.
But he said that after the second question that I asked is, what's the biggest problem that you think liberals have?
And he says, it's ignorance.
They just don't look into anything.
And he says, that's the way I was.
And he says, but it bothered me.
And he wanted to look into it.
And he said that he began doing comparisons.
Something had to be the catalyst.
This guy, man, I would love to ask this guy.
There had to be an event.
Something happened one day to wake this guy up.
I would love to know what that was.
He stated the 2016 Obama movie shocked him and forced him to look deeper into it.
He said that was big for him.
Okay, there you go.
That's another thing.
If that movie were done by Michael Moore, it would have won the big award at Conn.
It would be in line for an epidemic award, and it'd be all over the news.
But nobody knows about it except those who've seen it.
Well, and he stated that he was a little reluctant to go at first, but some of his other friends said that they had seen it, and it caused them some worry.
So he decided to go see it.
And he wanted to first put it down.
And when he went there, he said he was just confronted with too much facts, and that made him do all of his research.
Interesting.
I've never heard of this group.
At first, I've heard that there were people showing up at Romney rallies, Democrats for Romney.
Well, you can't, look, it's an anecdotal story.
You can't make too much about this.
I don't think there are a whole lot of people doing that, but we'll take it.
We'll take it.
Just keep everything in perspective and in context as you think about that.
Now, don't misunderstand me out here, folks, when I was talking about the lack of Obama signage out there.
There isn't a whole lot of Romney signage either that anybody sees.
I mean, there's some, but it's odd.
It's a presidential campaign.
It's an election that many people feel is the most crucial and important in their lifetimes and maybe in the lifetime of the country because the future of the country is at stake.
What kind of country are we going to be?
And in certain states, you travel around, and there's no indication that anything is going on for either candidate.
You don't see a lot of Romney stuff out there.
You don't see a lot of Obama stuff.
So if you go into a state where it is assumed a slam-dunk Obama state, like New Jersey, and you don't see any signage, what would you think it means?
You probably think that Romney's not lighting any fires, right?
If you're in New Jersey, a definite Democrat state, and there's no Romney signage, maybe there's no prayer there or no energy, no enthusiasm.
I don't know.
It just is weird, given how crucially important to so many people this election is.
And yet, eyeball evidence is that there really isn't one going on.
Yet it is the only subject in the media for the most part.
It's fascinating.
Here's Bob in Columbus, Georgia.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, what a star just to speak with you.
Born again, Bible-believing Airborne Ranger Christian Didos from Georgia.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, I just got to tell you two of my biggest disappointments in my life.
The first was when you were flying into Bargram, Afghanistan.
I was on the ground waiting for your C-130 to land.
This was near the end of 2004, and you guys had to divert to Kabul because of weather.
And I cannot tell you how sad I was that I didn't see you.
Was it what it was?
It was weather.
We had two C-130 flights that were one where we're coming out of we had a mechanical and had to go back to Kandahar.
And I think, yeah, Bagram was weather.
You're exactly right.
We couldn't get there.
Well, anyway, that plane, that C-130, had a Texas Air National Guard crew, as you probably remember.
They came into Bargram.
I got on their plane, and they showed me the note you gave them thanking them for their service.
And I just tell you they were excited, and I was disappointed.
But, Rush, I appreciate you fighting a good fight to support and defend our Constitution.
I know it's lonely, and I appreciate what you're doing.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate it.
And the same to you.
Thank you, sir.
And my second disappointment is I did not meet my wonderful wife, Sally, earlier.
But that's the way life goes sometimes.
Well, you did meet her, though, right?
Yes, and it's been good ever since.
Well, that's good.
I mean, take it.
Take it.
A lot of people can't say what you just said.
Take it.
Well, my dad was State Department, so we've been around numerous embassies all over the world.
Mexico City, they had a contingent of Marines because you know how dangerous Mexico is.
Paris, France, a contingent of Marines guarding the embassy.
You know, Brussels, anywhere you go, at an American embassy, there'd be a contingent or a detachment of Marines guarding the embassy.
Now, why wasn't there any Marines guarding our ambassador in Libya?
Well, my theory, I believe, they wanted to be able to say that no troops were killed in the liberation of Libya.
The last thing we wanted was a U.S. military death in Libya.
So we can't risk that.
And that's my theory on that, Rush.
And it really saddens me to think we would let that happen.
Over.
So you, just so I understand, you don't think it's incompetence.
You think that there were no Marines in Libya at the consulate because the regime didn't want any casualties in the liberation of Libya.
They didn't want any news that Americans had died in that effort, right?
That's your theory.
That is exactly my theory.
Despite the fact that the mainstream media would do everything they could to cover it up, we barely narrow a word about the 2000 death in Afghanistan.
Oh, that's true.
There's no, if this were a Republican president running Afghanistan, a body count would be taking place every day or every week, and a review of the incompetent strategy, the lack of any chance at winning, everything that is happening that they're ignoring would be front page news.
Well, that's an interesting theory.
Did not want to put any Americans at risk so as not to hurt their optics.
And that is not to diminish the fact that the sacrifice of those SEALs and any other operations that are ongoing over there, but that's my belief in regard to that.
And that was pure incompetence, the fact that the security wasn't.
But, Bob, look what they ended up with.
They ended up with a dead ambassador and three Marines.
They've got four deaths now.
And they were trying to avoid it.
They didn't want any news of a body count.
They didn't want any photos of the dead.
All that's out the window now.
And so what they do, they blame a video for it.
Nobody saw it.
It was ridiculous, patently ridiculous.
300 hits.
At the time they were blaming that video for the uprising.
There was like 300 hits on YouTube on it, Rush.
Who were they?
You know, come on.
No way.
It's not even possible.
It's a fascinating theory because there were numerous requests for more security.
The ambassador himself, in his diary that CNN found four days later, indicated that he feared for his safety.
They had requested more security.
There had been at least 13 that we know of.
There had been at least 13 attacks on the Benghazi consulate in the six months prior to the attack, and yet there was no ramp up in security.
Huh.
Fascinating.
The only problem I have with it, well, the FBI is still not on the ground, and they won't be on the ground because not before the election, because the regime does not want an official explanation of what happened.
They can't stop the speculation, but their media, it's only in the last couple of days that CNN is starting to focus on this.
USA Today has an editorial, Shifting Libya attack story raises flags.
And this editorial talks about all of the unanswered questions.
And then you had, what is it, Eli Lake writing at Tina Brown's website, the Daily Beast.
It's Newsweek.
It's the usual left-wing media writing very critically of the regime and of Obama and of the administration.
So whatever they hoped to avoid didn't work.
Everything they hoped to avoid has happened.
But they did get eight to nine days of a cover-up in the media.
Their story was promulgated and their propaganda was put out exactly as they wanted.
You know, the ambassador's family, Chris Stevens' family, is now posting on social media sites trying to understand why there's no investigation.
The ambassador's family is getting frustrated.
Why isn't there an investigation?
Because what that means to them is, does anybody care what happened to our son?
Nobody cares what happened to our son.
And I think what they're starting to realize is it's all about the campaign.
And they're trying to keep whatever did happen squelched and unknown, or certainly unreported, so as not to have any kind of negative impact on Obama's campaign.
You would think an event like this would open millions of eyes.
But then again, we're back to the same old boring question, which is how many people actually are hearing about it with the degree of knowledge that we all have.
It's very frustrating.
Look, Bob, I appreciate your call.
I have profound respect and awe for everybody that wears the uniform.
But, Bob, I've been to Poandu Ho at Omaha Beach, that region.
I went over there.
I was there the 50th anniversary.
And I made a point to go to Poindu Ho, where Reagan delivered his great anniversary speech on D-Day.
Poin du Ho is where the Rangers, that's what Bob is, climbed those cliffs straight up with the Germans firing down on them.
And they kept climbing and they took that hill.
And when you go look at it, you stand where the Germans were with their machine guns picking these guys off, and you realize Rangers kept coming.
They just kept coming.
And they finally took that hill.
It looks like it's impossible to do.
So ever since, don't have to go there to appreciate it, but I've been there and I've seen it, and it's unbelievable to then read about how that operation happened.
Pointu Ho.
For those of you in Rio Linda, if you're going to look it up, Point Du Haque is how it's spelled.
Back after this.
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Happy to have you along, Rush Lindbaw, the EIB network.
Obama in Denver.
Well, I don't worry.
Yeah, no, he's in Vegas.
He's at a resort in Vegas.
He's preparing for the debate, and it's a drag.
He doesn't want to be doing this.
He's told everybody, right?
Wish, can I have a prompter?
No, you can't have a prompter.
He doesn't want to do it.
He doesn't want to prep it.
He just wants to ad lib it and hope the media will cover for him.
They're putting out the news that he's not a good debater.
They're setting everybody up for massive Obama failure, massive Obama embarrassment in the debate.
Romney's going to smoke him.
It's going to be, oh, it's a bloodletting.
It's going to be horrible.
Of course, this is all being done.
Now all Obama has to show up, and the media will praise his wonderful performance.
But our microphones are in the debate preparation room.
We now take you behind the scenes on the campaign trail with President Barack Obama today.
We listen in as John Kerry helps the president prepare for his debate.
And in conclusion, let me just say that Medicare parts B, C, and D are essential to Medicare Part A. How's that?
Still very substantive, but over the time limit.
By how much?
15 minutes, 32 seconds.
Oh, well, that's okay.
We've already told the media, I'm not a debater.
You can say that again.
We've already told the media.
I'm not a debater.
Not again.
Sorry, John.
You know I got to take this.
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Well, think on it, and get back with me.
We sure could use your $3.
You suck!
Why don't you just outsource your customer service?
And in election year, John, customer service is everything.
Join us next time.
Would our microphones take you behind the scenes on the campaign trail with President Barack Obama?
Obama has been to Vegas 16 times since telling us that we can't go there anymore back in 2009.
Have you heard the latest ad from the Obama campaign?
Vote like your lady parts depend on it.
Have you heard the latest Biden slogan out there?
Biden's out there saying the middle class has been buried the last four years.
Who's been running things the last four years?
I'm not kidding you.
Vote like your lady parts depend on it.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you aware?
Do you remember there was a controversy that erupted some weeks ago in the locker room of the Baltimore Ravens?
A player was on social media advocating for gay marriage.
A black state legislator in Maryland contacted the owner of the Ravens, Steve Bascioti, and asked him to tell the player to stop talking about things like, we don't need that.
It was a Democrat, a black legislator, call the Ravens.
That's not good.
You can't have sports people talk about stuff like that.
You ask this guy to shut up.
The punter for the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Cluey, wrote a long post making fun of the legislator.
And then the story went away.
Until recently, Matt Burke, center, Baltimore Ravens, wrote a column, Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which he says he is opposed to gay marriage and that most NFL players are opposed to gay marriage.
And he doesn't want people thinking that most of the players in the NFL are for gay marriage.
Kid you not, Burke used to play for Minnesota.
He's now the center for the Vikings, or for the Ravens.
Got to take a break on that note.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Matt Burke, the center for the Baltimore Ravens, formerly of the Minnesota Vikings, wrote in his op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, quote, I think it's important to set the record straight about what the marriage debate is and is not about and to clarify that not all NFL players think redefining marriage is a good thing.
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