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Oct. 16, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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There's a fascinating piece today, ladies and gentlemen, in the Atlantic, popularly known as the Atlantic Monthly.
It is by a reporter it by the name of Molly Ball.
And the title of the piece is why we shouldn't be surprised Obama is falling behind.
And it is, folks, I'm in a mood.
I want to toot my own horn today.
I very seldom do that, and nobody else ever does.
But I got to tell you, do you remember the Univision appearance and the 60-minute appearance?
I told you both of those things, particularly that Univision interview where nothing went right, where they harped on Obama on not following through on immigration, and Obama didn't do anything, the Fast and Furious, or what really happened, and should Holder resign.
And we played some highlights of the questions that Obama got.
I said the first time in four years he's gotten real questions.
And I said, that interview, that Univision appearance is going to have an impact that nobody will tell us about, but it's going to have a deleterious impact on Obama with Hispanic voters.
And that 60 Minutes appearance where it was the Afghanistan 60 Minutes episode, Lara Logan talking to the general there, not happy about our policy and how things are working out there, and when Obama's trying to claim credit for winning in Iraq and now winning in Afghanistan.
Those two shows, I said, under the radar, they're going to have an impact on voters.
Nobody's going to say so because nobody noticed them.
And this woman did.
This woman, Obama had two prominent public outings prior to the debate in Denver.
That was my point at the beginning of the program.
I think I said this maybe directly or in passing, but I think this shift to Romney started long before the debate.
I don't believe the debate by itself is responsible for this so-called shift that's taking place.
I don't think there's much of a shift.
I think Obama has been losing and losing big for months.
It's the only common sense thing that makes any sense.
If you think the American people just have a modicum of average intelligence, which I do.
And so Molly Ball makes that point.
There's another thing, too, about if I were Romney tonight and Obama once talked about the economy he inherited.
And so he didn't inherit anything.
Did he run for president?
He did.
He wanted this job.
He's been allowed to hide too long behind this sorry excuse that he inherited something.
He knew what he was getting into.
He ran for office.
The idea that any candidate inherits a mess that he didn't know existed is absolute BS.
Go back and listen to Obama talk about the mess.
His whole campaign was predicated on the fact that there's a mess, that Bush made a mess.
He gets into office and acts like he had no clue how bad it was.
Sorry.
Doesn't wash.
It's not manly either.
And neither is dumping on Hillary.
That's not manly.
And there's a sad shortage of manliness in a Democrat Party, and it shows.
So I just wanted to call attention to this Molly Ball piece because this is, she right.
Why we shouldn't be surprised Obama's falling behind.
That Univision, that was a disaster for Obama.
The media didn't want to report that because I don't even think it registered with them.
They just, they believe Obama, Hispanic vote, buddy buddy, 100% in the cards, no problem.
They don't believe he could screw up the Hispanic vote, just like they don't believe he could screw up the Jewish vote or the black vote or what have you.
He could screw it all up.
He screwed enough else up.
Why not that?
Oh, there's another thing on the tip of my tongue I wanted to mention.
It'll come to me.
Let's go to the sound bites.
I know that's, ah, there's one thing on the top of my, tip of my tongue here.
Another brilliant, brilliant point.
Darn, I hate when this happens.
Anyway, it'll come to me.
They always do.
This morning, CNN starting point, Soledad O'Brien speaking with former ABC News anchor Carol Timpton about tonight's second presidential debate.
And she said, Carol, Soledad O'Brien said, you've been critical.
You say that women are having the opportunity only do the debate where they really don't get to ask any questions.
The Candy Crowley tonight's doing the moderator, the town hall, where voters, by the way, these are undecided voters, ostensibly found by Gallup, which is being pressured by Axelrod.
But that's supposedly how we're going to get the audience tonight.
Undecided voters that Gallup finds via their polling.
And Carol Timpton, so the moderator cannot rephrase a question, cannot expand on it.
Candy Crowley says she's going to.
She's not just some potted planter.
What does she say?
She's not, she's not a fly on the wall.
And so both teams yesterday, both campaigns, said, wait a second, she's openly stating here she's going to break the rules.
She's a news babe.
Why be afraid of that?
I mean, whoever gets elected here is going to have to deal with people like Achie Nizad and Vladimir Putin to be afraid of Candy Crowley.
Hand me the violins.
Anyway, Candy Crowley wants to be able to expand on it.
Carol Simpson's point is it's a put-down to women to give them this moderator role when basically all they do is call somebody's name and shove a microphone in their face.
Here's what she said.
I don't want to think it's sexism, but it sure does seem like it, that women are only given the vice presidential debate and given the town hall meeting where basically we hold the microphone for other people to ask questions.
Yet Jim Lair and Bob Schieffer got to go one-on-one with the candidates and ask their own questions.
So it looks like women have been pigeonholed into the women slot, which is not the big slot, which I think is one-on-one with the candidates.
I have to be honest here.
I don't even think this way.
So this is foreign to me.
I don't look for discrimination.
I don't look for, I mean, news media bias, of course, but my world is not made up of, oh, there's a person with black skin, must be X.
I just don't.
But so she run it around.
This is a big affront to all women.
I don't want to say it's sexism, but it is.
Because they're making us do the dumb stuff.
We can't even participate.
We just shove a microphone into somebody's mouth.
Can I admit that she has a point?
Do I admit that she has a point?
Meaning that there is discrimination at the Commission on Presidential Debates, that there is an active bias that says women are only capable of shoving microphones in people's mouths other than Clinton and it changes.
And they're not capable of anything else.
They're not capable of any more than that.
We're going to save the real substantive debates where candidates talk to the moderator for men.
Do I think she's got a point?
Hell, I don't know.
It's a bunch of libs.
It's supposedly a bipartisan commission.
Hell, I don't know.
I don't even think this way.
I don't.
Maybe she's got a point.
Hell, I don't know.
Here, move on.
Soledad O'Brien said, well, who do you think gets the advantage, Carol Simpson, in a town hall debate?
Do you think Romney gets the advantage?
You think Obama gets the advantage?
I think it's a people person.
And I think that's President Obama.
He was a community organizer.
He's used to dealing with people.
He's comfortable with them.
He's a touchy-feely person.
He's not afraid to touch people.
And it looks genuine.
What?
And I watched Romney campaign in Iowa, and he tries to do it, but that's been a criticism of his that he doesn't relate to ordinary people.
So I think tonight, Obama has the advantage in that I think he'll be warmer and, you know, closer to the people.
Okay, you just heard it.
Carol Timton, ex-ABC News, Obama, hands down, he's a people person, touchy-feely, not afraid to touch people, community organizer, used to dealing with people, loves people, looks genuine.
Romney hates ordinary people.
Everybody knows it.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the Weekly Standard today.
Let me just read this to you.
Neera Tandon, N-E-E-R-A, person's name, Neera Tandon, a former aide to both Clinton and Obama, had this to say about the relationship of the two presidents.
Clinton, being Clinton, had plenty of advice in mind, was desperate to impart it.
But for the first two years of Obama's term, the phone calls that Clinton kept expecting rarely came.
People say the reason Obama wouldn't call Clinton is because he doesn't like him, observes Tandon.
The truth is, Obama doesn't call anybody.
He's not close to almost anyone.
It's stunning that he's in politics.
He really doesn't like people.
My analogy is that it's like becoming Bill Gates without liking computers.
Now, this statement made by Neera Tandon.
She served as a senior advisor for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services.
She advised Kathleen Sebelius, and she's working on Obama's health reform team in the White House passed through.
She knows him.
So you just are Carol Simpson.
Well, community organizer, used to dealing with people.
He's comfortable with them.
This woman who knows him, he hates people.
He doesn't like people.
He doesn't call anybody.
He really doesn't like.
I've heard three or four people say that in the past week, that Obama doesn't like people.
People are stunned because it's all part of the story that the job's beneath him.
He's just, he's too big for this.
He needs to run the world.
He doesn't like politics.
He doesn't have to talk to people and make nice and negotiate with them.
He's an autocrat, you know, like the Carol Simpson thinks he's a hands down winner.
I don't know what she's smoking, but that's not the Obama ice.
He's not a warm, cuddly guy.
The first observation about Obama early on 2008, cool, calm, collect.
This is a cold guy when you get right now to brass tags.
He's a cold guy.
Oh, I remember.
Guess where Obama is going to campaign after the debate?
He's going to New Hampshire.
You know how many electoral votes are in New Hampshire?
Four.
Do you think Axelrod and Fluff and the boys ever envisioned going to New Hampshire in mid-October to campaign for four electoral votes?
I don't think so.
That's right.
Cookie, Cookie Archives, grab me Evan Thomas and whoever else it was reviewing Obama, Grant Park, election night, 2008.
He's creepy.
We've never seen a guy go out without his wife and kids or send them packing.
It's like he's observing us, observe him.
He's above everything.
Find that bite for me, Cook.
It's in the archives.
And we've aired it a number of times.
And then we'll go back and we'll play Carolyn Thinton, ABC News, with her interpretation of Obama.
And we'll just see what you think.
Let me take a brief time out of it.
We'll do that.
We'll come back.
El Rushbaugh at the Limbaugh Institute with much more right after this.
By the way, this Neera Tendon babe quoted in the Weekly Standard as saying it's stunning he's in politics.
He doesn't really like people.
She's been taken to Woodsid.
She has apologized, said that she took herself out of context.
So what she meant to say was he's a deeply private person.
She deeply regrets how she said what she said.
She didn't really mean when she said that he doesn't really like people.
It's just that he's really private.
So they took her to the woodshed and they gave her to Corey Booker spanking.
And now she's back.
I have a campaign ad.
Mr. Jay-Z has just posted a campaign ad for Obama.
It's at the Obama campaign website, barackobama.com.
Listen to this.
For so long, there was a voice that was silenced out there, you know, as far as exercising the right to vote.
I think it was a voice that was silent because people had lost hope.
They didn't believe that their voice mattered or counted.
He made it mean something for the first time for a lot of people, having someone in office who understands how powerful our voice can be.
Man, that's going to make me run out and vote in it.
What the heck is that?
Mr. Z, you can't talk about Obama's great performance, his great record in office.
We got to re-elect Obama because he gave people a voice who didn't have a voice before?
You seen the unemployment rate in the black community?
Seen the illegitimacy rate in the black community?
Have you seen the illiteracy rate for crying out loud?
It's skyrocketing.
I don't think Mr. Z has seen it.
I think Mr. Z knows it.
He's partying on a different level.
Yeah, he and Obama at the 40-40 Club, Mr. Z's sports bar, where they got that pyramid of champagne at 300 bucks a bottle.
Okay, Diana, Bloomington, Indiana, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Nice to be here.
I have a couple comments that I wanted to make about the 47% and why I think President Obama knows that he needs to tread lightly here.
But first, I wanted to thank you for all the times you have stood firm in the face of public criticism and attack over the years.
On more than one occasion, my teenage sons have taken note of it.
And in a day and age where there are so few strong public male role models for our sons, I just want you to know that I appreciate you for that.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate that more than you know.
Oh, good, good.
Well, I just wanted to say that I think regarding the 47%, when Governor Romney made the statement, he resonated very strongly with the Tea Party.
And because what I understood him to say when he said that was that there are a certain percentage of Americans that do not make decisions using guiding principles of liberty, but based upon self-interest and immediate gratification.
And he needed to say something like this to energize those of us on the far right.
And I think President Obama knows this.
And if he brings it up in a debate, I think, I think you had mentioned it one day this week on the show that he can't.
He opens up the opportunity for Governor Romney to then educate all of the people.
You're exactly right.
The bloodsuckers on the left want him to mention that 47% because they think it's a nail in Romney's coffin.
And it's not anywhere near that.
So we'll hang on, Diana.
Don't go anywhere.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limboss serving humanity, executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zip Zero Nada mistakes.
Back now to Diana in Bloomington.
Diana, before you went away, I wanted to thank you again.
You're still there, right?
I'm actually Heather in Kansas City.
Oh, you're Heather in Kansas City.
Well, hi, Heather.
I thought we were going back to Diana, but as you never mind, what's going on?
How are you?
One thing that I'd really like to see addressed in the debate is Medicare.
I'd like to see that come up because cuts are already happening.
I've seen Medicare personally in my field, I've seen letters go out to seniors already that their Medicare Part B services are not being reimbursed and that they may have no more benefits for the rest of the year.
I think you can count on it.
I think you count on the fact that Romney will keep harping tonight on the fact that Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare.
He's mentioned it in the previous debate.
It's part of their campaign ad series.
And I think you can count on it.
Something else that I hope comes up tonight.
A123 Systems Incorporated, A123, maker of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, filed for bankruptcy after failing to make a debt payment that was due yesterday.
The company listed $459.8 million in assets debt of $376 million.
A123 didn't expect to be on time with an interest payment.
This is an electric car battery outfit that Obama hailed as the future in the Rose Garden in 2010.
This is part of Obama's green energy initiative.
The future of America.
All these green jobs, all these jobs, the green jobs he's promised.
The new technologies, renewable this, renewable that.
The Chevy Volt is on the sidelines.
The battery manufacturer has gone bankrupt.
It's symbolic.
And I hope Romney brings this up, but you can count on the fact Medicare will come up.
So when he brings up Medicare, will he also, I hope he also brings up not just the effect on seniors, but on jobs, healthcare jobs.
Well, I know.
It's a serious problem.
Obamacare in general is not just Medicare.
Obamacare in general is already costing people jobs.
It's raising people's health care premiums.
It's already in the early stages of implementation here, causing all kinds of problems for people.
Your rights, not just seasoned citizens.
Anyway, I think you can count on the fact that Medicare will come up, and it'll come up on both sides.
Obama will try to trumpet it.
Obama will talk about how great it is and how wonderful it is, how he's the only guy saving it.
And Romney will talk about how Obama's cutting it and taking $716 billion out of it to pay for Obamacare and then counting it again as though it wasn't taken out of Medicare.
So it will come up.
Here, we've got these two sound bites.
This is somebody 28-29.
This is November 5th, Charlie Rose talking to Evan Thomas and John Meekum of Newsweek.
And this was Obama's already elected.
And before the election, they think Obama is the next greatest thing since sliced bread.
They can't wait to get on a bandwagon.
And after he's elected, they can see that there's something creepy and deeply manipulative about Obama.
He is very elusive, Obama, which is fascinating for a man who's written two memoirs.
In Grant Park, he walks out with the family, and then they go away.
Biden's back, you know, locked in the bar or something.
You know, they don't let him out.
And have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else on stage?
No adoring wife, no cute kid?
He is the message.
There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this.
I mean, he's such an absolute.
Slightly creepy cult of personality.
Yes.
What's slightly creepy about it?
It just makes me a little uneasy that he's so singular.
He's clearly managing his own spectacle.
He's a deeply manipulative guy.
Now, I'm playing these soundbites for you because Carol Thimpton has just said on CNN that Obama's going to win this thing hands down tonight because he's the people guy.
He does well one-on-one.
He's a great guy, meet and greet.
He empathizes with people.
He's the community organizer.
Romney, he didn't even like ordinary people, according to Carol Simpson.
But we've got this babe, Nina Tandon, who said Obama doesn't even like people, really doesn't like people.
It's really hard to believe he's in politics.
She's now been taken to Woodshed, took that back.
And now these guys.
And here's the next bite from the same appearance, Charlie Rose.
This is November 5th in 2008, by the way.
Watching him last night in that speech, he finishes, and he's sort of, it's almost like he then ascends to look at this circumstance.
He watches us watching him.
Exactly.
He does amazing.
It is amazing.
He writes about this metaphor being a screen upon which Americans will project.
He said they want Barack Obama.
I'm not sure I am Barack Obama.
He has the self-awareness to know that this creature he's designed isn't necessarily a real person.
And he's self-aware enough.
Boy, this is all stunning.
Before the election, we had Brokaw and Charlie Rose talking about how we don't know this guy.
We don't know who his mentors of him.
We don't know what books he's read.
We don't know anything about this guy.
I don't know about his foreign policy, Charlie.
We don't know about his.
I don't know, Charlie.
I don't know what he stands for.
These guys were telling everybody in the world we had to elect this guy.
Then after the election, we got this on the same show.
He's creepy.
He has the self-awareness to know that this creature he's designed isn't necessarily a real person.
He's above all of us.
He's amused watching us watch him.
Grant Park.
creepy So who do we to believe here?
We believe these guys and, and uh, Neer Tandon or Carol Timpton I just let you hear this about all of these various people here that supposedly know everything there is to know about Obama such as wonderful guy.
By the way, there's a couple other news items here that global warmings.
We knew that there's a big story out there that global warming ended 16 years ago.
Now you know that.
You know there never was any.
You know the whole thing's a hoax, but it's now showing up.
This was the UK Daily MAIL and according to the UK Meteorological Office, global warming ended 16 years ago and they've got a graph.
They've got a graph that that that proves it.
And of course, the battery outfit is out of business.
And oh, get this.
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said the impending expiration of a U.S. Tax credit had exacerbated a fall in orders next year, forcing it to make more than 800 job cuts in the U.S.
And Canada so far.
There's another story about some giant wind farm somewhere out in the Great West that is responsible for killing more bald eagles than anything else.
Folks.
There is so much fraud and deceit on the left.
It's all a bunch of made-up BS.
It's all about green energy.
There's no such thing.
Renewable energy, no real such thing.
The electric car, the savior of the planet, there isn't any global warming.
The climate's not being destroyed.
All of these things are nothing more than vehicles to grow government, to expand the power of governments over individual citizens.
These are all vehicles to take liberty and freedom away from the individual, pure and simple.
And that's exactly what the electric car is.
That's exactly what green energy is all about.
It's exactly what, putting the coal business out of bed.
But a bunch of miners in Ohio have had it with Obama.
The miners have asked Obama to stop their.
Stop his absolute lies.
Coal miners, the American Energy Corporation Century MINE, said they want Obama to stop what they term the war on coal and to stop spreading mistruths about them.
And so the, the Democrats say, well the, the mine owner, made these guys go out and do that and they're denying that.
No, we're doing this on our own and they aren't doing it on their own.
Obama has targeted the coal industry.
He lives in the world of liberal theory.
It's it's, it's mind-bunk.
Imagine yourself, you're Steve Wynn and Steve Wynn has built casinos and hotels all over the world, primarily in Las Vegas.
A couple in Uh In in near Hong Kong.
He knows about profit.
He knows about creating jobs, and he's got to sit there and listen to some little neophyte who wouldn't know a payroll if he saw it, tell him that he poses a threat economically.
Imagine all of these ceos.
Imagine all these business people.
Listen to Obama and his his, his faculty lounge lizards tell them they don't know what they're doing, that only Obama knows how to run a business.
Only Obama knows how to stimulate an economy.
Only Obama knows how to create jobs.
It's, he doesn't know diddly squat about any of this.
He has no experience at anything.
He is not an expert in healthcare, For example, all he's done is destroy job creation.
I got to take a brief time out.
Sit tight, my friends L. Rushball, back with much more after this.
Do not go away.
I mentioned earlier, I'll mention it again because I keep getting them.
I'm going to email some people very worried about the debate tonight.
Really trepidatious, really worried, because they think Obama is going to rebound.
Well, okay, what can Obama do?
One thing he's being urged to do, I just saw it on CNN.
They got a couple guys.
It's like if you watch a pregame show for an NFL game, you get the experts, the commentators.
Well, the one thing the 49ers have to do is score.
Oh, really?
Yep.
They got to score and they got to score often.
Really?
Yeah.
And they got to keep the other, they got to keep their defense off the field.
Really?
These guys, these two guys are the Obama has got to find a way to get women's issues in the debate tonight.
Really?
These guys are living, these people, I'm telling you, they live in a bubble in their alternative universe.
They still obviously believe that they can sell this war on women stuff.
They obviously, these people in CNN advising Obama, and probably the campaign thinks the same thing.
They probably think there's a big score awaiting them if they could just revive the war on women.
This revive bid.
And then there's the pressure to do what Biden did.
Obama can't pull that off.
If he tries to do what Biden did, that's fraught with danger.
He can't recapture 2008.
Have you ever thrown a spontaneous great party happens on a Saturday night?
It's not planned.
Maybe it was.
Maybe you sent invitations to people.
It's a great, great time.
So great, you try to do it the next Saturday night.
Never works, does it?
If he tries to recreate the magic of 2008 with all the lofty, flowery nothings, sorry, folks, there's a record of four years now.
He can't do that.
He's sort of reduced here to making Romney look like a creep.
I have no idea how it's going to turn out.
I don't see the future, but I don't know what he can do.
He's lost the big ingredient.
He was an unknown.
And anybody could make him what they wanted him to be.
Can't do that anymore.
UK, what is this?
The UK, it's a British paper.
I don't know what it is.
Guardian, UK Guardian, Barack Obama's presidency has not helped the cause of black people in the U.S.
This story is a review of two new books looking at black progress or the lack thereof in America since 1980.
But an even more rapid decline under the last four years of Obama has taken place.
So that's another thing.
You look at the status of the economy, gasoline prices.
Folks, there's nothing Obama can point to that's happened in the last four years and say, we want more of this.
What can he say?
We didn't need more time.
It was worse than I thought it was.
My policies are starting to work.
We need more time.
We'll see.
It's just the first of two more debates to go.
And it'll be fascinating, regardless.
And I just want to remind you: whatever happens here tonight, prepare yourself.
The media has already got the story written.
Obama, comeback, kid.
Big victory.
Big victory.
It's already written.
Can't wait to write it.
Can't wait to get their analysts on TV after the debate saying so.
So just prepare yourself for that.
I've got to take a brief time out.
We'll come back and wrap it up after this.
Remember one other thing.
They think Obama, the Democrats think that the Romney that showed up in the last debate is not the real Romney.
The real Romney is the guy they put in their ads.
I wouldn't be surprised if Obama makes some reference to the fake Romney in the previous debate.
Man, it really changed.
I didn't know who you were.
I was so shocked.
I'd never seen that Mitt Romney before.
Something like that.
Wouldn't be surprised.
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