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Oct. 4, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, how are you?
Greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have here at the Distinguished and Prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A telephone number if you want to be excuse me on the program at 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
So let's see.
Libya, ambassador's death, three other deaths.
Whose fault was L Yeah, that was the video's fault.
That was the filmmakers' fault.
And then it was the CIA's fault.
As they didn't realize how serious it was.
They didn't tell our precious president in uh in time.
The economy, it was Bush's fault.
That's right.
And of course, last night, that was the moderator's fault.
It was Romney's fault, because Romney was too aggressive.
Romney didn't behave with a due amount of respect that a challenger should show an incumbent.
It's always somebody else's fault.
Great to have you here, folks.
L Rushball at 800 282-2882 if you want to be on the program email address.
Lrushbaugh at EIB net.com.
By the way, there could be uh, ladies and gentlemen, another reason Obama didn't break up uh Romney's 47% quote.
And it it could be that they might think somebody in the Obama camp might think that that 47% figure might actually hurt Obama more than Romney when more and more people learn how many people don't pay income tax.
I mean, what is that 47%?
When you get right down, 47% is the number of people who aren't paying any income tax.
There's there's my my point is that there's any number of reasons why Obama didn't use it.
But believe me, folks, the the primary reason is that somebody there knows that it's a lie, that the whole thing is manufactured for a campaign and for a campaign ad.
But these doofuses like like on CNN or MSNBC.
Do you remember when the whole fluck business came in the war on women?
Remember how that all started?
George Stephanopoulos, in I think it was January of this year, in a Republican debate, out of the blue, asked Romney if he believed in uh being able to ban contraception.
And Romney, what where the hell's this going?
What no, no, but what but you think state should have the right?
Well, uh out of nowhere came this question on whether or not Romney, he didn't ask anybody else, asked Romney about banning contraceptives for and so it allowed them to say Romney said X about banning contraception for women.
And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere came this manufactured issue, war on women.
What did it mean?
The war on women means that Republicans do not respect women, some cases don't like them, and do not want to provide birth control pills to them.
They want if a woman misbehaves and gets pregnant, then by God, she should suffer the consequences.
And we don't want people paying for other women's birth.
Totally manufactured.
Now here's the point though.
The point is that Democrat, I mean, real activist, liberal, leftist democrat activists, media people believe it's true.
You may think that's not possible.
You you think that they're smart and wise and crafty and shifty and they come up with all these things that they think they can make other people believe.
But they know they believe it.
They may folks, this is the key to understanding them.
They manufacture these alternative realities that they believe are True about us.
We are a bunch of cliches and lies that they make up.
That's why when Romney shows up last night, they're shocked.
They they even if Romney, if they'd heard Romney behave that way for years, that's not who Romney is.
Romney is what they've said about him.
Romney is, you heard Savannah Guthrie's question.
Why didn't you use a 47%?
Why didn't you use Bain Capitol?
Why didn't you use outsourcing?
Why didn't you use uh Cayman Islands?
They've constructed this reality.
That either they believe or they they're convinced they've made others believe it.
I maintain to you that they believe this stuff to a certain degree, a large number of them do, and that then becomes their problem.
They themselves believe their own lies.
They believe their own creations of caricature and characterization.
They never deal in in reality.
They can't afford to, given, I mean, they can't be honest, for example, about what they uh believe.
So Romney shows up and it turns into a debate on substance and ideas, and they've got nowhere to go.
They don't debate in the arena of ideas.
They don't dare.
What they do is try to discredit or impugn or something destroy the reputation, life, career of their opponents.
They're not in this to win the debate of ideas.
They don't even want to get anywhere near that.
And yet that's what happened last night.
And as such, they're ill-equipped, totally unprepared, because they have concocted and manufactured lies, caricatures, distortions that become their reality.
So when Savannah Guthrie says, why do you use the 47%?
She really believes that Romney can be taken out with that.
She really believes that one of two things.
Either Romney really doesn't care about 47%, or that she and her buddies have succeeded in making other people think that Romney doesn't care about the 47%.
But either way, they believe that they can make other people think it's true, or they themselves do, or a combination of the two.
They're not hard to understand at all.
Very easy to understand them.
They do not understand us.
They have never ever taken the effort, and they never will.
Conservatism to them is That's why they don't think they're biased.
How can you be biased to what's normal?
Which is them.
Uh liberalism.
Big government.
What do you mean?
It the cook conservatives, this little ragtag bunch of some pro-lifers and nuts and cooks and wackos over there.
We're just insects.
And as such, all this means they're just ill-equipped and unprepared to deal with the substance of ideas.
Here's Wolf Blitzer.
The damn has broken.
They can't spin it anymore.
Wolf Blitzer, heartbreak.
Viewers, CNN viewers overwhelmingly think that Romney won.
Oh no!
Registered voters who actually watched the debate tonight.
We asked them who won the debate.
Look at this.
67% say it was Mitt Romney.
25% say it was President Obama.
A very, very decisive verdict from this poll that we just took, a scientific poll.
Registered voters who actually watched the debate, 67% say uh it was an excellent night for Mitt Romney.
He won the debate 25% for the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Very consistent, Anderson, with uh all of the various reactions we're getting from the left and the right so far.
A very good night for Mitt Romney, not so good for the President of the United States.
And it got even worse for Wolfe and the President of the United States.
We also asked who seemed to be the stronger leader.
Look at this.
58% said Governor Romney.
37% said President Obama.
And debate watchers were also asked, who was more likable?
Likeable, 46% said Romney.
45% said President Obama.
Oh no, first the damn broken, then they stuck the dagger in.
Poor Wolf.
Everything blew up on him last night.
And the PS did stunts Romney, the mean spirited, cold hearted, unfeeling, only cares about the rich, outsources jobs, doesn't care that people are starving, was more likable than Obama.
Oh no!
How did it happen?
And then you throw on top of that that Obama didn't even care, or even act like he cared, didn't even show up.
And these people in the media are saying to themselves today, what the hell are we doing this for?
And by the way, even in this poll, I should tell you.
That you just heard Wolf site, that CNN poll was oversampled by Democrats by four percent.
Yes, it was, ladies and gentlemen.
That poll was uh had a had a Democrat sample of plus four.
I think you know what last night after that debate, if you ask them which candidate would you rather see on Dancing with the Stars, Romney would have won that one too.
I'm looking for it here.
I thought I had it in here, and maybe I do in a montage.
I don't know.
I don't need it, but I thought I had it.
I'm looking here.
Tom Brokaw was on NBC, MSNBC last night or today, I don't know when it was.
He said uh he said that if Romney had performed last night like Obama did, a race would be over today.
It would be over.
If Romney had been that bad, then it'd be over.
And of course, Tom and the boys would be celebrating.
Rather than rather panicking.
Fairfield California, it's Mike, and I'm glad you have a waited, Mike.
Uh welcome to the EIB network.
Greetings and mega big bird California kudos to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
Uh, first let me give you my heartfelt thanks and appreciation for all that you do, Mr. Limbach.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um, it's been quite entertaining this morning watching the reactions to the big bird that uh Mr. Romney flipped to the uh liberals and the media last night.
Um Mimic, quick comment on last night, and I have a question for you.
Yeah.
Um I kind of liken uh uh Obama's reactions and demeanor last night to a predator drone, if you can uh follow this.
Uh they're built and and programmed to perform a mission, but if they run into a situation that doesn't meet their computer program, it just kind of defaults back to flying in circles.
Um my question to you is it you touched on something last week that's been a concern of mine, and with all the uh the polls being manipulated and and uh uh showing this huge lead for for Obama, particularly in the in the uh uh battleground states.
Yeah.
If and when um Romney is elected, what do you think the reaction on the streets would be, particularly in the large urban areas?
Well, depends on what the final week polls are.
The final week poll has Obama winning by ten in Ohio and Romney wins it.
Um you could have riots.
If the polls tighten and they get real close, then I don't I uh it was a legitimate question somebody asked, because these people, if they're told these rabid leftists, if they are told it's a slam dunk and it's over, and Romney wins this thing, uh that it it it could get bloody out there.
But if the polls are tight in the last week, then um the I think there's there's less likelihood of of any kind of uh uh what we say uh violent reaction.
I I I tend to Well you worried about that?
Are you worried about riots and fires and uh mayhem and so forth?
I I'm I am concerned that there would be some sort of civil unrest as as to the size of it.
Uh I I that's that's you know, unanswerable at this point, of course.
Well, it's uh it's good to be prepared.
Good to be prepared.
And I I think I think if there if there happen to be, let's just pretend here.
Let's say that the polls are not slam dunk, I mean, and they're not landslide, but they're pretty solid that Obama wins.
But Romney wins.
Well, who's gonna be responsible for this?
Who will be for who would be responsible for any uh outbreak uh in what you called civil unrest.
For example, in Libya, it was a video tape.
In California.
Videotape in California caused the civil unrest in Libya.
Well, what would obviously be the polsters?
You have to blame the pollsters.
They would be the ones responsible for this.
I wonder how they would feel about that.
That that happened.
We don't want to contemplate such things.
But it is uh it's simply a question born of an acknowledgement of the Occupy Wall Street is not exactly a nonviolent bunch.
Occupy Wall Street, not a bunch of pacifists out there.
Here's uh uh Gil in Palm Harbor, Florida.
Hey Gil, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the open line.
No, tomorrow's open line Friday.
I'm a day ahead.
Still great to have you here.
Good to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
And uh yeah, I was just uh as far as at the uh the final remarks of the um the Obama and uh Romney.
And Obama, it seemed like uh he right away he made it um partisan and divisive remark about the um uh you you're not gonna be able to You're gonna have a busy day because your uh opinion on Obamacare is gonna be very unpopular.
Wait, who who do Obama was saying?
Well, the first thing he said to Romney, he said you're gonna have a busy first day.
Oh, oh, oh yeah, they're gonna be uh Yeah, you're gonna be repealing Obamacare and it's gonna be very unpopular with the Democrats.
Right.
But all along, you know, he's been saying that the Republicans Well let me tell that's another thing.
This that's another set of lies.
I gave up counting the lies that Obama told last night.
But Romney was talking about how he had worked with uh Democrats and all that stuff in in Massachusetts to his health care.
And uh Obama's well, you know, we worked with Republicans here and it did uh a lot of things and what Obama did, you know, when he says that repealing Obamacare is not gonna be very popular with the Democrats, that doesn't matter.
The American people by sixty-five percent do not want Obamacare.
Oh, yeah, and I I I think that was basically um at that point I figured he really knew he lost the debate and he was taking a jab.
That's what I took it.
Well, interesting, it you know, to debate the point at which he lost it.
I'm just I think it was obvious in the first five minutes who owned that room.
It was obvious the first five minutes who had the energy.
It was obvious in the first five minutes who was ready to go.
Romney's first answer when he started hammering those economic statistics and and and and just throwing them right at Obama.
I that was to me.
That was that was it.
That defined the whole rest of the night.
There were a couple of lulls in there while I had a fight of uh being distracted or bored or whatever, and that was when Obama was talking.
But I rallied and I got it back, and I made it through the whole thing.
I even watched some of the post-debate commentary.
Did you snerdily did you watch any post-debate commentary?
Because you told me yesterday you weren't going to.
You did.
Okay.
Uh Kelly in Winston, Salem, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, sir.
And I'm a first-time caller, and I deeply appreciate your concern for this country and wanting to enlighten your listeners.
Um Obama on keeping his head down during debate the debate, I thought that was Pretty ridiculous.
I mean, I know that he was being defeated and didn't know what to come back with Romney and doesn't like to be challenged, but I was just wondering, maybe was he doing that also to kind of maybe play the victim role.
Maybe he was some of his supporters out there, or maybe likely supporters would look at that and think, well, poor Obama.
Look how Romney's beaten up on him.
Isn't that just sad how he's just hanging his poor head down?
I wouldn't, I wouldn't put it past him.
I mean these people love being victims, playing victims, assigning victims.
If that was one of the strategies didn't work.
Nobody ended up feeling sorry for him.
His his uh supporters are all angry as heck.
Nobody feels sorry for him.
Well, that's true.
And I know he doesn't have much to go on, so he probably grabs for anything he can get.
Why do you think he was putting his head down so often?
I uh I don't know if he was reading the notes and just thinking, oh my goodness.
I mean, I saw he was writing, but I don't know if he was just thinking, I don't know what to do.
Um I'm sunk.
Um I wish I could just crawl out of here right now.
But um my husband and I also wished that Romney would have brought up that that clip from a few years ago where um Obama said, I would like to see single payer health care.
That's what I would like to see.
Well, there was a there's a couple of things.
Um I but I didn't I've made it a point, I'm not gonna come in and quibble about about a couple of things that I wish Romney would have said, because I don't I don't want to in any way take away from what was just an outstanding performance.
I don't even want to call it a performance, because this was a substantive debate of ideas, and Romney's clearly dominated.
And that was that was plenty for me.
You know, Romney last night was so much more presidential than Obama that when the debate was over, the White House press corps mistakenly got in Romney's motorcade.
Mark Noller of CBS News tweeted last night, press mishap of the evening.
The White House press fool mistakenly got in a press van for Romney motorcade, discovered uh mistake in nick of time.
You know, was another great there were two great um I want to go to zinger's put downs last night.
One of them was when Romney said to Obama, you know, you keep talking about this five trillion dollar tax cut for the rich.
There isn't one.
I'm not cutting taxes five trillion dollars.
You know, I've got five boys.
I'm I'm used to this.
I'm used to people trying to tell me things over and over again that aren't true, hoping that I'll just eventually believe it.
But that's not the case.
In in this instance, Romney telling Obama, look, I've dealt with children like you.
I've dealt with kids like you who try to lie and try to tell everybody things over and over again enough that they'll believe it.
But ain't gonna work with me, because I'm used to the trick.
The other thing that Romney said.
Now Obama's there harping on on the the so-called tax break that big oil gets.
This was another, by the way, that that that that was that was a pathetic uh throwback to a Democrat playbook page from 10, 15, 20 years ago.
Gasoline prices are rising.
I don't I don't think Obama really wanted to go there.
You know, in California right now, what I got here.
Um gas prices in California have hit a record high, and there are now supply shortages.
Well, if if that happens, that that that's happening while Obama's presence.
Obama's out there talking about we're gonna get rid of the tax break for big O. Well, four four billion a year.
And Romney looked at it, you know, four billion a year, you gave away ninety billion dollars to green energy.
It hadn't amounted to anything.
You threw ninety billion dollars away, a lot of it to your donors.
And that's when Obama kind of smiled sheepishly and looked down.
By the way, when somebody looks down, I'm just gonna answer they can't face the truth.
It's no more complicated than that.
Your kid does it, you do it, you look down, you're avoiding the truth.
You're hiding from the truth.
Yeah, Romney's pounding him on that 90 billion dollars.
They mentioned Cylindra.
And he said, you don't just get to pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers.
You know, I'm standing, I'm sitting in my sofa and I'm just on pounding my fist in the air like just I'm not saying anything because I want to keep hearing what's going on.
I'm just pounding the tabletop.
Keep going, keep going.
You pick the losers.
Ninety, you want to talk about four billion dollars to be how about you throw away ninety billion dollars on a bunch of algae.
It was awesome.
That was a gut punch, and that Obama looked tiny.
He looked tiny and willowy, and that's when he looked down there, started making notes feverishly, or uh, or what have you.
That was one of my one of my favorite points in the debate.
Woodenville, Washington, this is Fred.
I'm glad you called, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Rush, thank you very much.
I'm a proud member of Rush 24-7 and a deeply state of Washington.
Well, I th I appreciate that.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it as well.
Uh my take on this from start to finish is that uh Barack Obama did everything in his power to avoid exposing more of his core ideology.
Which is why all the deflection, which is why at one point in the debates, and I'm not sure if it wasn't during the role of government, after one of Romney's statements, he said, I don't believe that.
You know, I'm pretty sure it was in the role of government, but it's it's core and fundamental.
Well, you look at you you're exactly right.
The reason another reason why Obama is hamstrung in there is because he can't tell a truth about what he believes.
He can't reveal what a second term will be.
He cannot be honest.
And when Romney is is setting the table with his ideas and his agenda and what he's going to do and why.
Obama can't refute it without sealing his defeat.
I don't care what people think, we have not become a socialist country.
This is you talk about have we lost the country, have we lost the culture, uh, all the people on welfare.
We have not, I'm convinced, we have not reached the point where somebody campaigning forthrightly and honestly on the agenda of growing government, shrinking the private sector, taking from people, and redistributing the money and all that.
I mean, point blank saying that, and explaining the reason I did health care and steps is because I know you won't accept a total federal takeover in one year, so I'm gonna have to fool you and do it in over 10 or 15 years, take away all of your options so that all's left is government.
Somebody runs and campaigns than that, he doesn't win.
We've not reached the point where a candidate can tell somebody how he's going to pull a trick on getting national health care on the country, on the people, and get elected.
Which is a heartening thing.
So you're right.
Obama, in addition to acting like he didn't care.
You people on the left, you sympathetic media people, you gotta understand he can't be honest about what you all want.
He cannot tell the truth.
He has to come out and either ignore, deflect, or lie or what have you.
I'll tell you there was another great line.
And I've got these sound bites, but I figure you all watch the debate.
I don't need to relive all that.
Besides, you care what I think about it now that you've seen it, and that's what we're doing here.
Uh there was this blatant lie by Obama.
Here's the guy who's the author of the shutdown of drilling for oil in and war.
The shutdown of drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
The guy who's got a drilling moratorium on both coasts in this country, the man single-handedly responsible for increasing energy dependence in this country.
A man single-handedly responsible for shutting down the production of oil and natural gas.
Barack Obama last night said, and my administration, uh production of oil and natural gas at all time high.
And Romney jumped in there and said, Mr. President, the gas boom and the oil boom are happening on private land, where you don't have anything to say about it.
Government land, there is no boom in oil.
We are not as issuing any leases.
There are moratoriums.
Just shot him down with one remark.
John just nailed him.
Just shut it down instantly.
Just exposed Obama as a full-fledged misleading liar.
And then Obama said, I like coal.
I look clean burning coal.
Oh, Romney was saying I like coal.
I like coal.
I like clean burning.
Just throw it right back in in Obama's face.
I like coal.
I like fossil fuels.
It's cheap energy.
And he talked about how important energy was.
That's that's why Obama did not bring up redistribution until his final statement.
And he didn't even he didn't use the word.
He used the word everybody needs a fair share.
Most of the night, Obama was trying to sound like a deficit hawk.
The guy who's added five and a half trillion in national debt was trying to sound like number one deficit killer that we've ever had.
Talk about it.
Every time he talked about how much he'd reduced the deficit, I just improved schools.
It was it was laughably pathetic.
Really wasn't.
The precious independence.
The precious independent.
I'm telling you, the press independents saw Mitt Romney that they had not seen before.
All they've seen is Romney and Obama commercials.
They're sitting there going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what uh this doesn't compute.
This doesn't look like a guy who had let a wife's a guy's wife die.
This doesn't look like a I I guarantee it.
It's it was not a good night for Obama anyway, shape, manner, or form.
Okay, Edwardsville, Illinois.
Hi, Kent.
It's great to have you on the most listened to radio talk show of the country.
A lot of Democrats today, too, I'm sure listening, trying to make sense of what happened last night.
And they've come to right place.
How are you, sir?
Very good yourself.
Very well.
Very, very, very well.
Almost never better.
Metro East.
Pardon me?
I say Ditto is from the Metro East.
Metro East.
It's great to have you here.
Yes.
Anyway, uh, to make a long story short, uh, for weeks leading up to uh these debates, I'd been somewhat apprehensive about some things and really never even told anyone about my apprehensiveness, but I uh I was worried that the media being in the pocket of Obama may give the uh questions, you know, to Obama.
Therefore, an advantage uh would be had.
But uh, you know, after watching last night and listening, they could give him the answers, the questions, and whatever they want.
And and to be honest, Mitt would just blow him out of the way.
They could have had a secret earpiece telling him what to do.
It wouldn't have mattered.
This is my whole point.
Their ideas don't cut it.
They that there was no answer to what Romney was saying.
Not that Obama can be honest about this is look at why I opened the program today, and I'm not exaggerating.
If this was the Republican, that debate last night was the Republican Party every day.
If what happened last night was how the Republican Party is known, there wouldn't be any concern about the Hispanic vote.
There wouldn't be any concern about the Jewish vote, there wouldn't be any concern about the elderly vote.
That was it last night.
It wasn't so much it was just conservatism, it was facts, it was the truth.
I give you an example.
Uh Jim Lara asked, uh, what is the role of government to you?
And Obama said, Well, what I'd do, uh, I'd hire more teachers.
And Romney said, Well, look behind me, it's the Constitution right here.
The role of government, defend and protect the Constitution.
Right to life, explain that, right to liberty, explain that, pursuit to happiness, explain that.
That's role of government.
I mean, it's no contest.
Well, I'd hire I'd hire more teachers.
And you know what?
I'd also make sure the extremists can't make videos.
Gonna upset Muslim.
Well, it's not even a contest, folks.
It's it was such a teachable moment last night.
It really, really was.
You're exactly right.
By the way, even if Obama would what questions were there?
Do you disagree with him on Social Security?
I really need to prep that one.
Boy, that would have really helped if I knew that one in advance.
Hey, the politico is all excited.
They're all fired up.
Politico says that Obama fired up on the campaign trail today.
Obama's throwing the punches on the campaign trail that he pulled last night against Romney.
Isn't that what cowards do, folks?
They say things about you behind your back when they have a teleprompter and a crowd of college kids behind them, and they don't have the nerve to say it to your face.
Isn't that what cowards do?
It is.
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