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Oct. 12, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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I'm not believing this.
Folks, I haven't mentioned this to you because I didn't know if it meant anything.
It's up for grabs.
Crowd sizes at Romney and Ryan rallies have been overwhelming the last three weeks to a month.
But particularly the last three weeks, the Romney, they're expecting 3,000, 11,000 to 15,000 are showing up.
I've seen the pictures.
Romney is drawing Obama-like crowds in 2008.
And finally, the Politico is reporting this now.
Everybody's been ignoring this since it's been happening.
Here's a political, Mitt Romney drawing larger crowds.
They're starting to report the polling data shifting now.
Big time, 51% Romney, some of these big states.
There is momentum out there.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
That's right.
Open Line Friday, a big broadcast hour remains.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
This is unbelievable.
The Associated Press, Secretary Clinton, still no clear picture of Benghazi.
She says things are still not clear.
We're really not clear on the security needs.
We're not clear on what's really happened.
What all that means is we are still making up stuff hoping to fool you.
As Republicans heap criticism on Vice President Biden for claiming we weren't told about requests for extra security in Benghazi, Secretary Clinton said today, the precise details of the deadly September 11th attack on the compound of Libya still remain unclear.
They do not, folks.
Eli Lake, daily caller, Coco linked to this at rushlimbaugh.com.
Link, there's a video.
There is a video of the attack.
There is a video of the stages.
There is no question it was a terror attack.
We have it on videotape.
It is not unclear.
It is entirely clear what happened.
I hate having to sit here and be repetitive things I've mentioned the first two hours and all day yesterday, but they're still desperately trying to hold on to this video story is what this means.
They are desperate to hold on to that because anything else is their failure.
Anything else is an abject Obama policy failure, and that's exactly what did happen.
And for Biden to go on television last night in the debate, say, well, we didn't know.
I didn't get a request.
Barack didn't know.
As though that's acceptable.
Now, Mrs. Clinton says, it's still unclear, really, what happened.
There's a video, folks.
It's clear as a bill.
Have you heard, we've got the audio coming up.
You heard this television commercial of the immigrant former from a socialist country who's become a wealthy man here to run his own ad warning Americans about socialism.
You heard about that?
His name is Thomas Petterfee, and he is a billionaire, interactive brokers founder and CEO.
And he produced his own ad called Freedom to Succeed.
CNN has a headline on this.
Rich, worried and buying ad time.
That's not what the message is here.
This is a message from an American who was born into communism and using his own money to warn of socialism.
An American born to communism, trying to inform the rest of the American people what people at CNN believe in and how it's a dangerous thing.
So CNN's headline is, rich worried in buying time.
He's not running for office.
He's not part of a super PAC.
He's not lobbying for or against any ballot measures.
But billionaire Thomas Peterfee is spending millions on TV ads this election with one message, avoid socialism.
Okay, fine.
How do you get a headline that says rich worried in buying ad time out of that?
Here is Mr. Peterfee's ad.
I grew up in a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people.
There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement.
The nation became poorer and poorer, and that's what I see happening here.
As a young boy, I was fantasizing about one day going to America, making a success of myself, the American dream.
America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success.
Take away their incentive with bad mouthing success, and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
Yes, in socialism, the rich will be poorer, but the poor will also be poorer.
People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
I think this is a very slippery slope.
It seems like people don't learn from the past.
That's why I'm voting Republican and putting this ad on television.
You know what another title for this ad is?
Private citizen buys airtime to do job mainstream media refuses to do.
They're going to keep this ad.
We're going to run it occasionally here.
I grew up in a socialist country.
I've seen what that does to people.
There's no hope.
There's no freedom.
No pride in achievement.
America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success, not from Barack Obama caring about you.
Not from Barack Obama growing government and giving you health care.
And of course the media is offended by this.
Their way of life is under assault here in this ad.
So an American citizen has to spend millions of dollars of his own money to get his message out because he doesn't find it reflected in the mainstream media of his own country.
Now, last night in the debate, Paul Ryan made reference to the fact that his tax plan is no different than Ronaldo's Magnus and no different than JFK.
At which point Joey said, oh, so, so now you're Jack Kennedy, too, huh, kid?
And Ryan said, I'm closer to him than you are.
Well, we, I think, doesn't matter, but I think we were the first popular major media outlet to dredge up a speech made by President Kennedy 1962, December 14th, in New York City at the New York Economic Club.
It was JFK making the case for tax cuts as a means of growing the economy.
1962.
There is no Democrat alive today who would make this speech.
If JFK were alive today and hadn't changed, he wouldn't find room for himself in the Democrat Party.
The things that JFK says in this speech are daily mocked, laughed at, impugned, made fun of, and the people who believe in these things are targeted for personal destruction.
I think, well, I don't know.
We got them from somewhere, is my point.
We dredged them up from some archives.
But we were the first major media outlet to find these in the archives and play them.
And here they are.
It's old and scratchy.
No doubt it comes from 1962.
This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.
I'm not talking about a quickie or a temporary tax cut, which would be more appropriate if a recession were imminent, nor am I talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm to ease some temporary complaint.
The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.
This speech was given two years before Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, two years before the Civil Rights Act, two years before the war on poverty, two years before welfare, well, not welfare, but two years before Medicare was created, two years before all these entitlements other than Social Security.
It was two years before the war on poverty, 1962.
The economy's in a slowdown after the 50s boom post-war.
And JFK, a Democrat popularly elected president, is advocating tax cuts in the same sense that Arthur Laffer always has, or Ronald Reagan, or Jack Kemp, or me, or anybody else with a brain.
Jack Kennedy, for a time, the most popular Democrat alive or dead, martyred.
I wonder how many Democrats alive hearing this today have never heard it before and are having trouble believing it.
JFK, there's not a Democrat alive who would make this speech today, and this speech is exactly what is needed today.
The philosophies, the policies in the JFK speech is exactly what is needed today, and everything JFK advocates is opposed top to bottom by today's Democrat Party.
When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity.
Men are hired instead of laid off.
Investment increases and profits are high.
Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.
The government has already taken major steps this year to reduce business tax liability and to stimulate the modernization, replacement, and expansion of our productive plan and equipment.
My gosh, folks, a Democrat president talking positively about profit.
A Democrat president talking positively about business expansion and incentivizing business by lowering taxes.
Investment increases.
Profits high.
Corporate tax rates must be cut.
A Democrat president suggesting this.
That's right.
A rich Democrat president.
1962.
Six 50 years ago, right?
50 years ago.
Here's the next bite.
Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other.
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions.
And any new recession would break all deficit records.
In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low.
And the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1962, December 14th, advocating tax cuts.
Today, the Democrat president is saying the exact opposite.
Where Kennedy says here that we need to raise revenue and lower tax rates, Barack Obama wants to continue to raise taxes, not to raise revenue.
He wants to raise taxes to punish achievers.
The only people paying taxes are the achievers for the most part.
He wants to take what they earn and redistribute it and give it away.
The government gets less money, fewer people become independently productive, and fewer people acquire wealth.
More people become dependent on Obama.
More people become dependent on government.
So you have Barack Obama asking people to treat him essentially as government, him as provider, him as protector, rather than themselves.
But I think last night, Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, cited this speech, cited JFK as saying, This is what we, Mitt Romney and I, believe in.
And it was poo-pooed, laughed at, and discarded very sarcastically and cynically by the Democrat Vice President Joe Biden.
But you heard it.
JFK's own words.
We must take a brief time out.
We'll be back after this and continue.
Do not.
That's from 1962, by the way.
Don't go away.
The official program observer, Mr. Snerdley, reminds me the first time we aired those JFK tax cut soundbites, that somebody in the media went to Ted Kennedy and asked him about it.
He was furious.
He was livid.
Trying to hijack his brother's memory.
I was trying to hijack and distort his brother's memory.
I had no business doing it.
It was what?
It was uncouth and vulgar to go back and dredge up these words of his assassinated brother.
He is furious about it.
And I'm telling there isn't a Democrat, there's not a popular elected Democrat today, and I forget popular, not an elected Democrat today, who would say what you heard President JFK say in 1960.
I mean, folks, the point of the illustration is to show you how far left the Democrat Party has become, and it is not your father's or your grandfather's Democrat Party.
Democrat Party is what you saw out of Joe Biden last night.
And this is Linda in Bergen County in New Jersey.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Linda.
Oh, hi, Rush.
Mike, I'm so excited to talk to you.
Really?
My cell phone is ready to blow up.
Well, the other day, you had a caller call in and ask you, what did you fear more, liberalism or terrorism?
Well, after these two debates, it's liberalism for me.
Because if we keep these liberals in here, terrorists are definitely going to get us.
You know.
I'm telling you.
Let me tell you what she's talking about.
I made the statement, I have made it frequently, that the American left considers us, conservatives, a greater threat to them and their security than they do al-Qaeda or terrorism.
So a snarky guy called, well, do you think liberals are a greater threat to America than terrorists?
And I said, well, I have to say terrorists because liberals aren't shooting us yet.
But what Linda here is saying here, it's got to be liberals because if you don't deal with them, the terrorists are going to have their way.
That's your point, right?
Absolutely.
I mean, Joe Biden, did you see him last night?
He was a disgrace.
He looked like he was a dummy that should have been sitting on somebody's lap with his laughing and his big teeth smiling.
He's an embarrassment.
He's an embarrassment.
He and Obama, what they've done to the Oval Office.
Oh, my God, it should be revered.
But it's a disgrace.
It's a disgrace.
I hear you.
Every year have a serious discussion on terrorism.
He's laughing at Paul Ryan.
You have a serious discussion on the economy and taxes.
And it was split screen, and there's old Joey laughing and in a condescending way.
So, what am I doing?
You know, Clint Eastwood, he's on TV right.
Clint East was right.
Biden is the intellect of the Democrat Party, a smile with a body behind it.
Oh, bravo to you for playing the JFK tapes.
I've never heard that.
Oh, my God.
It just unbelievable.
Is that not powerful?
Well, here's Michelle and Barry and also sayer.
They think they're Camelot.
It's more like Crapawat.
This is ridiculous.
Exactly right.
They think they are Camelot.
So she hadn't heard it.
You know, they're probably, we haven't played those JFK bites in years.
I'm sure a lot of you in this audience are probably hearing those for the first time.
1962, JFK advocating for tax cuts the same way that Ronald Reagan did later, and I did, and anybody else that knows what they're talking about.
In the last couple days, I've been talking about books that I think you should get.
Steve Moore's got a great new book on taxes.
Megan Kelly's husband, Doug Brunt, with his new novel, Ghost of Manhattan, and Called Her Mugged.
My good friend Andy McCarthy, this book called Spring Fever, The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.
Andy was on the prosecutorial team, the lead with Patrick Fitzgerald, by the way, prosecuted a blind sheikh for the first World Trade Center bombing and other assorted acts.
Omar Abdelrahman.
Andy's book is called Spring Fever, The Illusion of Islamic Democracy.
And he's reticent about promoting it because it's so relevant to what's going on, and he feels it's unseemly to be hyping a book which could be accused of taking advantage of what's going on.
So let me tell you about this book.
We've been talking about this the past two weeks, and especially this week intensely as it relates to Benghazi and our policy there and why it's a debacle and a disaster.
What this book is about, Spring Fever, the premise is the Arab Spring is not an outbreak of democracy.
It is instead the ascendancy of Islamic supremacism, meaning freedom's cold, dark winter.
This is not an outbreak of wonderfully flowering democracy in the Middle East.
This is the rise to power.
The Muslim Brotherhood, whatever else is going on, is the rise to Benghazi, Libya.
What's happening is the rise to power of America's enemies, who are Islamic supremacists, Sharia law believers who want to enact it everywhere they can.
See, what's happening in the Middle East is causing real pain for a number of our fellow Americans, their families, real pain.
We've got four Americans dead.
You've heard the tape of one mother we played yesterday.
She can't get a straight story from the regime about how her son died and why.
Andy makes the case in the book that we're in the midst here of a web of deceit, governmental recklessness and dishonesty that is resulting in average Americans and their families paying the personal price for the embarrassing incompetence of Obama policy.
And he's reticent to go out and do appearances and try to say, see, I told you so.
But the book is, it's an accurate portrayal of exactly what's happening in the Middle East and why and why our policy, why Obama's policy is in no way effective and it doesn't have a chance of being.
Because Obama's policy totally misunderstands what is happening.
In fact, Obama is largely responsible for what is happening.
That's what makes this so outrageous.
So I wanted to mention Andy's book along with all the others.
It's called Spring Fever, the Illusion of Islamic Democracy.
And this is important because Obama and the Democrats are trying to tell us that there's a new breed of Islam now, and it's the Muslim Brotherhood, and they're our buddies.
And you had Jim Clapper, James Clapper, the security guy in the White House.
Hey, Muslim Brotherhood, they're no different than the guys at the corner barbershop.
They're our buddies.
They're a bunch of secularists.
No way is that true.
So I wanted to mention it to you.
Here is Sheila.
Sheila in Pittsburgh, it's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
You've been my professor for so long.
My 18-year-old son is now a student of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Learning.
Well, thanks very much.
It's great to have you with us here.
Thank you.
I watched the debate last night, and Joe Biden, if I can use your name for him.
Yeah.
Bite me, showed America what a despicable, obnoxious, dishonest, rude little creep that he really is.
Did you think this of him before you saw the debate last night?
Yes.
I cannot tell a lie.
So you just, you had it confirmed.
Yes.
But he really made me sick.
It was just, it was very unprofessional.
And Paul Ryan, he was just the epitome of class.
I mean, he was cool, collected.
He showed incredible strength while being respectful to bore of a man.
Did anything about Ryan bother you in the face of all this?
Did you wish Ryan had behaved differently?
Me personally, I would have punched the guy out, but no, he was what we need for this country, someone to restore honor and respect to the presidency.
Well, your story is being told all over this country, and I'm telling you, the fact that your story is, I think, the majority story is evidenced by the AP dropping this now.
AP's latest story is, okay, nothing to see here.
Attention now is refocused on the next debate with Romney and Obama.
And if Biden had cleaned up last night, they wouldn't drop this.
They would still be hyping it and focusing on it.
And I mentioned at the beginning of the program a possibility that people in their 20s and 30s might have seen this thing in a totally different way than you and I.
They might have seen a guy that looked like an out-of-control, borish, dominating father who doesn't know what he's talking about.
And a son being respectful, trying to tell his dad that he's wrong, but it's his dad, and he's not going to be disrespectful, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I think there's a possibility that people might interpret it that way.
And lo and behold, an hour ago, CNN, I saw at the top of the hour break right as the show was starting, so I didn't have time to listen to it.
But apparently there is that reaction to it somewhere, enough places that they're studying it via polling data.
But it turns out it was a disaster for Joe Bitney.
Even in the aftermath of the debate, I've got this long, the GOP put together this long list of comments from Democrat media people, mainstream media people, and it was universal.
They were worried.
Bitene had overstepped that he had behaved obnoxiously, disrespectfully.
And as a result, even if he had won on substance, nobody knew or remembered that because all they saw was how borish he had behaved.
Sheila, thanks to the call, this Jenny in Summit, New Jersey.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's so great to talk to you.
I'm actually in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but I'm from some New Jersey, and I'd like to say that.
I wanted to tell you what I think Democrats are just like.
They're just like Canada geese.
They are loud, rude, odd, full of crap, want everything for free, and nearly impossible to get rid of.
Now, they talked of grape Kool-Aid to kill off the Canada geese, but I'm thinking they drank the Kool-Aid.
Boy, I have never heard Canadian geese so put down in my life.
I can't stand them.
Democrats or Canada geese.
What separates a Canadian goose from a duck?
I have no idea, but I can't stand them.
They're disgusting, and they just, they're pigs.
Worthless pigs, both of them.
And why can't you do anything about a Canadian goose?
Well, my husband told me they can do some sort of light thing that vibrates.
I don't know.
What?
Are they protected?
No, no, they're just menaces to society, just like liberals.
Just like liberals.
I'll tell you, I took a class called Governing a State with former Governor Tom Kaine at Durham University.
And we had to debate and write a paper over the 1993 Florio versus Whitman outmancum.
And I was one of two Republicans in the whole political science department.
Can you imagine that?
And one of the girls wrote her paper on Whitman would take it, and she did.
And I keep telling everyone down in this liberal, crazy Fayetteville that we're going to take it.
We're taking it, Rush.
We are.
And those Canada geese, we're going to get rid of them.
Well, from your mouth to the polling place, a lot of people are starting to get this sensation of a blowout.
I didn't say that.
Some people are thinking it.
I want to be very, very guarded here.
But I appreciate your call, Jenny.
Thanks very much.
I'm just, City, I'm wondering about Obamacare and if Obamacare covers BS.
Like, for example, can Joey get treated for his BS?
Democrat leadership is filled with it.
It's a disease.
And I wonder if Obamacare covers that.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
I can be accurate to remind you that of the mainstream media people that commented on the debate, most of them think Biden lost the Chris Alyssa, Washington Post, thought Biden lost the first 75 minutes of it, and there were only 90 minutes of it.
You had Susan Page in USA Today and Karen Tummelty of, well, she used to be at Time.
It doesn't matter.
Hell, they're just there all the same.
She thought that Biden looked desperate.
It's only the blood-sucking Democrat voting base that was happy last.
Chris Matthews of the bunch.
The MSNBC type posts.
And it's really a small number of Americans.
They're not by any means a majority.
They're the ones who are happy and ecstatic.
And everybody's thinking, okay, what does this mean for Obama's next performance?
I mean, does he have to out Biden-Biden?
And can he?
Meaning, in terms of being aggressive, assertive, because that's not who Obama is.
If Obama can't dispatch with somebody, he doesn't engage them.
Obama does not get into arguments.
He doesn't like confrontation.
Obama wins by making sure every he's talking to has to shut up or be sent away when a meeting's over or whatever.
Power the presidency just to shut him down.
I don't know.
It's going to be fascinating.
Fascinating.
Mitt Romney is all over the regime and Libya.
Here he is this afternoon in Richmond, Virginia.
The vice president directly contradicted the sworn testimony of State Department officials.
He's doubling down on denial.
And we need to understand exactly what happened as opposed to just have people brush this aside.
When the vice president of the United States directly contradicts the testimony, sworn testimony of State Department officials, American citizens have a right to know just what's going on.
Like I said three days ago, this scandal dwarfs Watergate.
And like I said three days ago, nobody died in Watergate.
Like I said three days ago, if Watergate happened today and it was a Democrat president, it would be applauded as great tactics.
That was in my riff on how Bill Clinton's really responsible for so much of the deterioration that's taking place in our culture today and our politics.
And I'll be glad to repeat that next week.
I want you to hear Stephanie Cutter.
Stephanie Cutter was on Brett Baer.
She doubled down on how it's Romney and Ryan's fault that Benghazi is even being discussed.
She had a long drawn out with Brett Baer last night.
Brett Baer said Benghazi might be an issue for Americans murdered by militants and you think it's Romney's fault?
Well, mostly people associated with the Romney campaign.
No, I mean, this person is from Mother Jones, and that's not exactly the right way to do it.
Asked why it became such a political circus and who was the first person to respond to the Libya attacks.
It was Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney was criticized for that response, because it was political, by national news organizations and was asked to apologize by national news organizations and Brett Baer.
So so the question is, you would have to ask others was not our conclusion?
In other words, the State Department did not conclude that Benghazi was tied to the video.
That's because it was an intelligence conclusion and the intelligence let's back up for a second what are you suggesting here?
Are you suggesting that we're playing politics with this?
I'm not suggesting anything.
You have to confess the entire reason.
This has become the political topic right, four people are dead absolutely, and this administration let me just get my sentence out this administration has treated this entire tragedy with the utmost seriousness, to get to the bottom of the attacks, hold the perpetrators accountable and make sure that it never happens again.
That's why we are being responsible and diligent about our investigation now.
At the same time that we're doing that, we have two people campaigning around the country accusing us of covering something up.
Just yesterday, Mitt Romney accused us of covering this up, the clueless and blind lying hack, Stephanie Cutter.
She was scared.
She sounds nervous.
She's not well.
I don't know how smart she is, I really don't.
I mean she's a hack, so she's gonna defend Obama and Biden, no matter what.
I don't know how smart she is, but if she really believes this stuff, she's too far gone for help.
Now they're really thinking that Ryan and Romney are the reason there's a controversy in Benghazi, because what Romney said the next it's, it's just, we got children folks children literal young, naive children in positions of leadership.
We deserve better.
So, Jay Carney?
Jay Carney says that Biden's laughter was just a sign of passion and joy.
That's all was a sign of passion.
I wondered, Does Jay Carney ever regret leaving TIME Magazine?
Does he realize what a fool he's been asked to become to defend this bunch?
It's just amazing.
Yep, have a great weekend, folks.
We'll see you Monday.
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