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Oct. 3, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Of course I recognized it as a trick question.
Of course I recognize the trick.
Guy called me and wanted Well, do you look at liberals as a greater threat to American way of life than terrorists?
Because it was a trick, right?
Look, that's why I launched into an unassailable explanation of freedom, folks.
It's so, it's so simple.
You know, you hear the Democrats talk about pro-choice.
There's no such thing.
They don't believe in choice.
It's the exercise of choice that ticks them off.
By the way, great to have you.
It's a thrill and delight to be here.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882 in the email address Lrushbaugh at EIBNet.com.
But if you wanted me to take the question seriously, just as a uh responding to the trick, very simply, terrorism still remains the greater threat.
Terrorism, liberalism, despite similarities in ideology.
Similarities, ideology, not practice, but ideology.
There's no question that that terrorism is the greater threat of the two, because we could still defeat liberals without having to resort to violence.
We're never going to be able to beat the terrorists in a nonviolent way.
That just isn't going to happen.
But I look in in this vein, I just want to point out, folks, look at.
Our ambassador is dead.
Three Marines are dead in Benghazi, and who does Obama blame?
An American.
A guy who filmed a video that nobody saw, including the attackers.
And by the way, the truth of this is now well known.
We every day there's more information about who knew what when regarding that attack in Benghazi.
And now it's out that we we had numerous warnings prior to the attack on our consulate and the death of our ambassador.
We had numerous warnings.
And for eight days, Obama lied and sent his people out to lie, and the media propagandized the lie, trying to blame this Coptic Christian and his and his Looney Tunes video.
So given the opportunity to blame terrorism for something they did, terrorists for something they did versus an American, what did Obama do?
For eight days, he tried to make everybody think, us in this country and around the world, that an American using our First Amendment was responsible for that.
That is highly insulting and reprehensible.
But it's a sign of the times.
I have to sit here and tell people that Obama's presidency is a failed president.
That ought to be as obvious as the sun coming up.
But it isn't.
Apparently not, not to uh everybody.
I wonder if the politico is going to commend me for my prescience.
Well, back on Wednesday, September 26th, why are you laughing?
What?
Well, back on back on Wednesday, September 26th, they tweeted that I said that voters should ignore bogus swing state polls that show Obama pulling away from Romney.
And then that link to Rush Limbaugh, poll's attempt, voter suppression.
Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that voters should ignore bogus swing state polls that show President Obama pulling away from Romney, blaming pollsters for well, two days later they came out with their swing state poll.
That's uh, and there were three of them, and it had Obama up 10 or 11 in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida.
And then we learned the next week, which would be yesterday or the day before.
We learned that the Washington Post poll had a margin of error, plus or minus eight, and they polled 160 people to show Obama up 10 in Ohio.
Or maybe it was 12 in Pennsylvania.
It was CBS in Ohio.
So on Wednesday, I told you ignore the swing state polls, and I was right.
And the politico tweeted it all out there that I was telling people to ignore them.
I was you think I'm gonna get a commendation?
Ha!
You Think they're gonna recall their tweets?
Ha!
But I just wanted to point it out to you that it is out there.
President, Vice President Bite Me said the middle class has been buried the last four years at a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This happened uh yesterday.
In fact, we got a couple sound bites here.
We'll see uh I want to start with a Democrat convention.
I'm gonna go back to uh September 6th in Charlotte, actually.
This is President Obama during his acceptance speech.
And Joe Biden.
Thank you for being the very best vice president I could have ever hoped for.
And being a strong and loyal friend.
Yeah, right.
And this is what he gets for it.
This is deadly earnest, man.
This is deadly earnest.
How they can justify.
How they can justify.
Raising taxes on the middle class has been buried the last four years.
How in Lord's name.
So he just indicates his own administration.
He indicates Obama, he indicates the last four years of the regime as having buried the middle class, and then compounds it with a lie that Romney's gonna raise taxes on the middle class.
Romney is not gonna raise tax.
This is a huge lie, by the way, that Obama's getting away with.
If anybody's going to raise taxes on anybody, it's Obama, and he's telling everybody he's going to do it.
He's already done it with the mandate for health care.
You're either going to pay a fine or you're going to have insurance, no matter what your income level.
You don't get an exemption from that.
16,000 new IRS agents to make sure that you either have health insurance or you pay the fine on your tax return.
It's a tax to the Supreme Court, they tried to say it wasn't a tax.
It was a penalty, a fee.
What an uh unadulterated mess.
It's Obama raising taxes.
It isn't Romney.
So here Bite Me out there.
Whoa, this is deadly earnest, man.
The middle class, middle class has been buried the last four years.
That ought to sink them.
And here's Paul Ryan yesterday, Burlington, Iowa, had a reaction to it.
Vice President Biden just today said that the middle class over the last four years has been, quote, buried.
We agree.
That means we need to stop digging by electing Mitt Romney, the next president of the United States.
Of course the middle class has been buried.
They're being buried by regulations, they're being buried by taxes, they're being buried by borrowing.
They're being buried by the Obama administration's economic failures.
They're being buried by rising gasoline prices.
Somehow they don't associate with Obama.
Folks, I hate point it out, because it's not I'm not whining.
But when gas prices were going up with Bush, that's all anybody saw.
And when when troops are being killed in Iraq, that's all anybody saw.
In fact, the media was trying to tell the people of this country we were in a recession in 2007 when the unemployment rate was five percent.
So it did a pounded day and day and day, but the gas price going up, media doesn't talk about it.
In fact, one of the stories we get about the gas price.
You know, this is it's the new normal.
This is what we need to get used to.
They don't think it's gonna hurt Obama if they don't report it in a certain way.
Jay Leno last night wanted to get in on this Biden business.
I love this.
At a campaign rally in Charlotte, uh Vice President Joe Biden said, the middle class has been buried the past four years.
They're buried.
I'm sorry, which candidate is he campaigning for?
I'm confused.
Exactly.
They're being buried by Barry.
Middle class buried by Barry.
Here's Stephanie Cutter this morning on the Today Show.
She's the you know, big campaign operative for Obama.
And Savannah Guthrie said, Look, I want to ask you about uh Vice President Bite Me's remarks yesterday.
Conservatives have seized on them, said the middle class have been buried the last four years.
Your campaigns pointed out that he meant because of Republican policies.
That said, you you you wish the vice president had chosen different words.
No, absolutely not.
And in fact, we'll probably debate this tonight.
That the middle class has been pressed over the past four years because of the very same policies that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are promising to go back to.
Let's talk about that tax cut that Mitt Romney won't tell us how he's going to pay for it.
That's a tax cut geared towards the wealthy.
He wants to give a $250,000 tax cut to multimillionaires.
But in order to pay for that, even Mitt Romney's own economists say we're gonna have to raise taxes on middle class.
That's exactly what crashed the economy and punished the middle class in the first place.
This woman couldn't tell the truth, folks, if her life depended on it, and I'm not using a cliche there.
She literally is incapable of telling the truth.
Well, of course it didn't make sense.
Here we've had Obama with his stimulus package and his jobs councils and his job seminars and all his work on on jobs and and so forth, and somehow the economics of the last three and a half years are Bush's fault.
It seems like Obama's disqualifying himself.
If the mess really were created by Bush, hasn't Obama demonstrated he doesn't have the ability to fix it.
I don't care how you slice this.
Biden has just ended up disqualifying himself and Obama.
If either they are responsible for this mess, which they are, or Bush is, in which case they have proven they don't know how to fix it.
Either way, they gotta go.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I make another prediction to you?
Actually, another prediction of warning.
Uh much as last Wednesday I told you that the swing state polls that were coming up you should ignore.
Ignore the polls tomorrow after the debate tonight.
The odds are that the polls are gonna be well, I don't know, uh sampled in such a way that no matter how well Romney does, you're still gonna have polls that say in the swing states Obama carried the day.
You're gonna see it.
It's probably there's some Republican polsters who are warning uh people that the the Democrats already have the deck stacked in terms of their samples and so forth.
And I'm sure that that's true.
So this is just another warning, don't let them succeed getting you depressed.
Romney could kick butt tonight, and the the the polls are probably already in the can that Obama won it.
No matter and part and parcel of this too is the expectations game the Democrats have played.
The way it works is oh man, Obama have a chance.
And he really that's uh one weakness.
So we all acknowledge that Obama's got Romney.
We've seen him debate.
He's really good at this, and and we expect Romney to win the debate.
So they set that up, and then the debate happens, and however it happens, the swing state polls tomorrow and the next day will show that Obama was thought to have won the weight of the debate.
And wow, did he really exceed expectations?
It's all a game, folks.
It's all a game, and you and I are the pawns.
They want us committing ourselves to the insane asylum.
They want us getting depressed and in a funk, trying to suppress our vote.
That is their whole campaign.
Voter suppression.
Try to keep you just so down in the dumps and depressed that you think it's hopeless.
And that your vote doesn't count in any way.
You're just one vote, so why even show up?
Kevin, Northern Connecticut, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you doing, Russ?
It's a pleasure.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I I was going to call you a couple weeks because something odd happened to me last month during uh Hurricane Isaac or after the hurricane.
Um company I work for, which I won't name was uh doing work at Lake Poncentrain elementary school in a cleanup effort.
So as you can probably remember, the president made a stop at this particular school.
Which is okay.
Um the thing that struck me as odd was about an hour before he arrived, the flooring team was there.
And there was a bunch of individuals collecting money for his campaign, saying how that, you know, he would really appreciate it.
I kind of, you know, I brushed it off.
Whatever.
It was a stupid stunt on their part, as far as I'm concerned, there's people that are devastated and still are in bad shape today.
But then when uh you brought up how he was bashing Republicans or white people for Katrina not being cleaned up any faster.
It's appalling to me.
Yeah, it's an excellent point.
And how about all the flooding?
And how about all the droughts?
And how about all the natural disasters that have occurred during Obama's regime, and he hadn't given a diddly squat about it, and nobody's held him accountable.
And it doesn't matter what the race of the people, he hasn't made tracks to minority communities when they've been devastated by some kind of natural disaster.
But you go back, you're right, but this tape of 2007, yeah, Bush only cared about white people.
That's why he didn't go to New Orleans.
They wouldn't care.
You're exactly right.
It's just it's a it's another example in the never-ending list of examples of utter hypocrisy.
I hope they start to get pushed out into the open tonight when when Governor Romney debates them because as far as I'm concerned, the country is just it's at the tipping point where we're gonna lose it.
And, you know, that quote unquote 47%.
They don't care because they've already got what they want, and they will always have it as long as he's in power.
Well, uh and it a lot of them look at it that way.
As far as the as far as the debate's concerned.
Um again, I just want to no matter if you if you think Romney wins this thing big tonight, you're not gonna see that reflected anywhere.
Or you might see an occasional drive-by media person praise Romney tonight or no more.
If he does well, that'll that'll be part of the game.
Then the polls are gonna come out.
Polls are gonna come out, you're gonna wonder what country you live in.
You're gonna wonder what country uh uh watched it.
Turn the debate off after the or turn the TV off after the debate.
The spin rooms are biggest waste of time.
Why do you need to listen to a bunch of people tell you what you just saw?
Why do you need to listen to a bunch of people make excuses for the mistakes you just witnessed?
Why do you need to have somebody explain to you how somebody just blew it hit a home run?
Or verse visa.
And I don't know about you, I kinda like the fact that Obama is using the haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam as his uh debate rehearser.
It's Carrie who's pretending to be Romney.
And Kerry lost.
I mean, let's let's let's let's go to the bench that knows how to win, right?
You go to the haughty uh John Kerry.
Oh, we will see.
Uh a lot of people have a lot invested in.
You know, every call we've had about the debate, every caller has had a specific thing he wants Romney to talk about.
And there are a lot of those there are more things people want to hear than Romney can possibly mention tonight.
And that sets something else up.
Calls here tomorrow from P I really wanted Romney to talk about blah blah, and I didn't hear him talking about it, it's it over.
It's a blown opportunity.
It was sitting there in a silver platter and he didn't talk about what I wanted to hear.
Just trying to warn you, just trying to prepare you, sternly be on the lookout, but I'm telling you the the the uh the phones are gonna be swamped tomorrow.
The spin room will continue all day tomorrow.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm holding here my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A story on tax increases from the Associated Press, the AP, state controlled media, stenographers for Obama.
Now you've heard we played the audio soundbuster, uh Stephanie Cutter, uh any number of Democrats.
Biden claiming that Romney's gonna raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
I've been hearing it for 25 years.
I I and it's amazing that people still buy it, but but they do.
Longer than 25 years.
A typical middle class family, typical middle income family making between 40 and 64,000 a year, could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year.
Taxpayers across the income spectrum would be hit with large tax increases.
This according to the tax policy center.
They said it in a study with households in the top 1% income range seeing an average tax increase of more than $120,000.
The top 1% will see a tax increase of $120,000.
A family making between $11 and $140,000 will see a tax increase in the $6,000 range.
Taxpayers across the income spectrum will get slammed with increases totaling more than $500 billion, nine out of ten households being affected by the expiration of the Bush tax rates that were enacted under both Bush and Obama.
Obama extended them in 2010.
And he promised his people it was just he said it was during the lame duck of 2010, lame duck session December, and he argued that the Bush tax rates had to continue, or economic problems would happen.
The tax increase if the rates expired would slow down the economy.
But he promised his people, his voters, that that was it, that the Bush tax rates will then expire on schedule in 2012.
So here are massive tax increases on everybody scheduled for January 1, and Obama is not arguing against it.
Obama is not campaigning on doing anything about it.
Obama wants these tax increases.
Folks, it's all about it's all about destroying wealth.
It's all about doing great damage to the opportunity to create wealth.
Pure and simple.
And the herein again is the tie to liberty and freedom.
Liberty, freedom, opportunity to acquire wealth is a limit or an opportunity that Obama and the Democrats want to limit.
The more wealth you have, the more freedom you have.
More income you have, the more opportunity, the more choice you have.
I don't want that.
So that's why the tax increases that are scheduled.
You don't hear Obama talking about doing anything about it.
You do hear Romney and the Republicans talking about doing something about it.
Tax Amagedon is what it's called.
But the idea that Romney is going to raise tax.
I'll tell you what else is going to happen.
Obama's going to cut Medicare another 250 billion dollars.
And he's out there campaigning that Romney is the one that's going to do that, but Obama is the one who's going to do it.
And he has already admitted so in private conversations.
He's just telling people, look, on the campaign, I've got I gotta lay that off on Romney.
He's got nothing but lies in his arsenal.
He doesn't have his record to run on.
That's gonna be one of the interesting things to me in in watching this debate tonight is uh how he lies, how many lies he tells, I'm gonna keep count, and to see what Romney does with it.
Who's next?
Vic in uh in Binghamton, New York.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for having me on.
You bet, sir.
Yeah, I wanted to really uh elaborate on something you've been discussing earlier today as well as uh something a prior caller had called in on.
Um I guess to go along with something you said a moment ago, this is my wish list.
Um, really want Romney to focus on those fuel and gas prices.
I mean, may seem uh common sense to folks like you and myself, but uh I mean they have an effect on everything.
Your your home fuel costs, your auto fuel costs, you know, for folks who maybe haven't been homeowners, you know, the price of the case.
Let me ask you a question.
I need I need to jump here and ask you a question.
And I mean this.
I this is this question's gonna sound like I'm being a smart aleck, but I'm not.
I'm I'm genuinely curious.
You know the gas price is going up.
Why?
Because you're living it, you're paying it.
Certainly.
Everybody else does too.
Why do people need to be told gas prices are going up?
I agree with the the the prior caller.
I think if if you it'll hit home with some of the independence when they see just how dramatically do they not know their gas price?
What is it about independence?
They they become anesthetized to the fact that it's been so high for so long.
They they've they've grown accustomed to it.
They don't they don't they don't realize it was three and a half, four short years ago with a dollar sixty dollars.
Oh, this is about tying it to Obama.
Absolutely that they don't automatically do that.
Even Obama's been present for three and a half years.
The gas price has been going up three and a half years, but somehow they don't equate it or associate it with Obama.
They still blame Bush.
Well, I think in general they they have an attitude of, well, you know what, the president can't control that.
They don't blame Obama because the media hasn't blamed Obama.
Right.
His domestic policies affect it.
His foreign policies affect it.
Um if you want another example, um, the printing of all the extra money, all the dollars are printing, the devaluing of the dollar.
I mean, you got four dollar uh gasoline now being purchased by a dollar that's worth less than it was four years ago and was a dollar sixty.
Might it be six dollars a gallon based on that formula.
I mean, I don't think folks can ignore that.
Well, they're doing that to prevent economic collapse during the campaign.
So that it won't it won't have a detrimental effect on Obama.
I think I think I think Romney needs to somehow tie that.
I think he needs to make that point hammered home.
That's that's that's that's my wish list, if you would, on that.
But we're told, I'm playing devil's advocate with we're told here that any criticism of Obama, the independents don't want to hear that.
Independents don't want to hear poor Obama who they like and is really trying hard.
Bill Clinton said nobody else could fix it.
So here comes Romney blaming Obama for the gas prices.
This is gonna make the independence mad, isn't it?
Well, Bill Clinton also said that uh Obama's policies could cut the price of fuel in half.
Well, why didn't he do it?
He he chose to exploit his uh ideological advantage he had in Congress the first two years instead of going after the real the real issues.
Well, uh the media has told us for the for the past two years at least, that Obama has no control over gas prices.
They didn't say Obama said the president has no control over gas prices.
That's relatively new, by the way.
Um Bush, of course, had everything to do with gas prices.
He and Cheney, big oil boys, they wanted rising oil prices so they could profit from it.
But now presidents have no control over it.
Well, again, I think that's the connection that uh Romney has to have to make.
I think he I think it's very doable.
I think it's very plausible, very possible, and I think he needs to uh convey that to um to you know you you and you and myself watching uh watching the debate tonight.
Okay, well, we will see what happens.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
We will be right back.
It is true during the last two years, and maybe even uh maybe the last third, but certainly the last two years of the Bush administration when gasoline prices were were trending up, uh and maybe it wasn't whenever it happened.
I uh years run together.
You could count on multiple times a day.
Some drive by reporter hanging out at the gas pumps, asking people, can you make it to tomorrow?
What does the rising gas price mean to your business?
I might have to shut down, John.
I don't know.
I can't take much more of this.
And I cut to a picture of Bush smiling, looking like Alfred E. Newman, like he didn't care.
Uh and they do it every day, countless times a day.
They'd go talk to small business people, truck drivers, it didn't matter.
What does the rising fuel price mean to you?
Uh, it's gonna cost more to go get your vegetables, gasoline's gonna go up.
I don't I I uh I don't know how I can stay in business, truck drivers left and right.
Now you don't see any of it.
Not one reporter goes out and asked anybody to reflect on the effect of rising fuel prices on their business or anybody else's.
And so young, ignorant college kids think that this is just the way it's always been.
No big deal.
The new normal.
Gas is 350 a gallon.
It's always been that way.
In fact, they probably think Obama's trying to lower it.
When in fact, Obama's the guy who said when gasoline hit four bucks, that he didn't have any problem with the $4 limit.
It was how fast it got there that bothered him.
And he didn't, he wasn't bothered by how much it was.
Virginia Beach, Joanne, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I wanted to go ahead and just make a comment about that lovely clip you p played from um Bishop Jackson today.
The uh the preacher?
Yes, sir.
He happens to be my preacher.
Um he is the genuine article.
He's been a Reagan Republican since 1976.
And that message is not only for black Christians, it's for all Christians.
Let me go find it now.
Here it is.
Uh, Reverend E. W. Jackson.
Grab some bites eight and nine.
Here's what she's talking about.
The Reverend E. W. Jackson of the Chesapeake, Virginia, Exodus Faith Ministries, Chairman of Ministers Taking a Stand, released a video message specifically to black Christians.
We have a couple of sound bites from this video.
It is time to end the slavish devotion to the Democrat Party.
They have insulted us, used us, and manipulated us.
They have saturated the black community with ridiculous lies.
Unless we support the Democrat Party, we will be returned to slavery.
We will be robbed of voting rights.
The Martin Luther King holiday will be repealed.
They think we are stupid, and that these lies will hold us captive while they violate everything we believe as Christians.
Yeah, and then listen to this next one.
If I were African American, this would frost me.
The Democrat Party has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood, which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions.
The Democrat Party has equated homosexuality with being black, which is another outrageous lie.
Stop the take.
We as Christian That's amazing.
He's right about that.
And there are a lot of African Americans who are ticked off about it.
To compare gay marriage, the quest for gay marriage to slavery and civil rights.
And Reverend Jackson here is is sounding a warning.
How can you people be so stupid as to fall for this?
Does he sound like this every day when uh when he preaches?
Um actually he sounds better.
And with Reverend uh with Bishop Jackson, he's an American of African descent.
He will not use a hyphenated America, and uh he just he's glad that he's in this country.
He was born in this country, and he's an American.
He's also a a Marine, a Harvard graduate a Harvard educated lawyer.
Wow which didn't drink the Kool-Aid.
I mean, he is absolutely brilliant.
He ran for Senate in the primary against George Allen.
So he's he's quite accomplished.
You know, there are he's one of the best.
Uh a lot of guys like him that say this.
It doesn't ever seem to have any effect with black Americans.
Well, my email is blown up, my telephone's blown up today, so I think we're having an effect.
Well, good.
Good.
Okay, well, thanks very much, Joanne.
I appreciate it.
Again, that's the Reverend E. W. Jackson, Chesapeake, Virginia, Exodus Faith Ministries.
And that uh the two bites we played are from a uh video that he released yesterday.
Uh as as part of the campaign and so forth.
Brief time out here, we'll come back and wrap it up after this.
So I checked the email during the break.
Where did you hear Obama's gonna cut Medicare 250 billion?
Bob Woodward.
It's in his book.
Bob Woodward says that Obama has admitted, yeah, he's gonna have to cut Medicare 250 billion dollars.
It can't go on this way.
Except during the campaign, he's accusing Romney of doing it.
He's accusing Romney of gonna cut Bob Woodward is the source.
I never thought I would be quoting Bob Woodward this way.
But there it is.
See you tomorrow, my friends.
Have a wonderful evening.
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