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Oct. 17, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 17, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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So I've got Fox on in here and and Carl Rove is on with uh with Megah Kelly, but the graphic.
New questions.
Get this now.
New questions on whether Obama presented compelling vision for next four years.
What vision, compelling or otherwise?
What who's asking?
Why are they asking?
There hasn't been Obama hasn't put forth any agenda for the next four.
He can't.
Oh, except his closing comment.
I take it a closing statement last night.
I believe in self-reliance.
And I believe in rugged individualism.
And I believe people working hard and getting paid good money for good work and good jobs.
And I don't believe a government creating every it was a lie from beginning to end.
Honestly, you go back and you look at Obama's closing statement, and it sounds he didn't say it nearly as well as I do, but it sounds like stuff that I say.
And that you say.
Anyway, great to have you back here, my friends, L. Rushbow, uh, talent on loan from a god here at the EIB network.
So Andrew Sullivan, who was despondent and suicidal after the first debate, is now elated.
He says, I am bloody elated.
Telling you people on the left are fooling yourselves, and I'm happy to see it, I'm In fact, I'm very content to let you have your little pity parade.
You go right ahead.
You guys, you want to live in your bubble of delusion.
You feel free.
But what you think you saw last night didn't happen.
And that is the bottom line.
Telephone number, folks, if you want to be on a program 800-28282 in the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
The audio sound bites.
Here's the uh segment from the Lunz Focus Group is uh with with Hannity on Fox after the debate last night.
These are the uh the the two Obama women in this focus group talking about how Obama's gonna save them from the Stone Age and a woman put these two women in their place.
He supports women's rights.
I'm very concerned about.
Wait, wait a minute, to stop this a minute.
I want you to take this back this is I forgot to mention.
These are the perfect cookie-cutter liberal women.
He supports women's rights and concerned about them being stripped away.
I mean, this this is this is your classic Feminazi liberal women.
It it just oh I know we shouldn't make fun.
I can't sometimes I here, listen.
This is He supports women's rights.
I'm very concerned about them being stripped away.
Fought so hard to get them, and I don't want to go backwards.
Barack Obama supports women's rights.
Women are a huge part of this country.
We are the breadwinners in a lot of homes.
We can't have a slick guy coming in to office who doesn't believe women should be work out.
Is Romney slick?
No.
Yes or no?
It's Romney slick.
No, it's Romney anti-woman.
No.
You're gonna have a final comment right there.
I can't think of any time or any place that I've ever seen Mitt Romney say we're going back to the Stone Ages.
And I don't know where this came from from the United States.
He did, yes.
Uh we don't need some slick guy coming into office who doesn't believe women should work outside the home.
Where does it come from?
You're asking where it comes from.
I guarantee you this woman is reading the bloodsucker's blogs over at Daily Cause Democrat Underground or typical, maybe just you know, who knows?
Time magazine's comment section.
Who knows?
The New York Times.
That's that's the Democrats message the war on women, Romney Republicans want to take women back to Stone Age, don't want to let them out of the kitchen.
Romney had just finished talking about how had a female chief of staff allowing her to have a flexible schedule so she can go home with her kids when they get home from school.
There's no reality.
There's uh I they they as I say they create this bubble that of of of an alternate universe and they believe the lies.
You're not supposed to ask that.
Well, how how would he do it, Rush?
If even if Romney didn't want women leaving home, how would he do it?
How would he actually do that?
They don't they don't ask themselves that.
They they see an Obama ad characterizing Romney as something, and this this is it it's look, I tell you be blunt here.
It's it's women like the people, people, it's not just women.
People like this, who we've always been afraid of, or the majority of the country.
When we talk about losing the country, it's the people like this who are not critical thinkers, not thinkers, period.
They don't they don't ask themselves, okay.
Well, how will Romney keep us in the house?
How will he keep us from getting jobs outside?
They don't ask themselves that.
They just they are told they live their lives in perpetual fear.
Uh and they are victims, and they want people protecting them and taking care of them.
And that's what Obama means to them.
And as a victim, that means everybody's out to get them.
But they believe the cliches.
There's there's no winning those people over.
I mean, these two women are the 47%.
I didn't say that, did I?
Did I say that?
We've got seconds.
Should I bleep that or should I let that go?
Tell me the truth.
Should I bleep that out?
Let it go.
Let it go.
Okay.
Because we got seconds left here.
We can still bleep it if you think I should bleep it out.
Because I did I say that?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
We'll stick with it.
We're not afraid of it here.
To the audio sound bites.
Here's the montage, just as I said yesterday.
All Obama had to show up, do was show up.
They say he won.
Here's a montage of excited media people or pity parade, all jazzed that Barry pulled it off.
Banner headline right now is Barack is back.
Barack is back.
Headline says it all.
Obama won one.
Romney won one.
Barack Obama did very well tonight.
Obama won this debate.
Obama won the debate.
President Obama came tonight to play ball.
He took the game to admit Romney.
Very clear, Victor.
President Obama gets the victory.
The president was a lot more forceful, a lot more aggressive, no question about it.
Related that he's back and he's got the momentum.
I'm thrilled.
I I don't want to go back and repeat the first hour, but I honestly I the the uniformity that I heard, and even from people in Fox, I did not see the same debate.
And by the way, I look at this stuff objectively.
I don't want to lie to myself.
If Romney really got smoked, I don't want to sit here and tell myself it didn't happen.
I don't do that.
But I don't live in false realities.
I I I did not see a stellar Barack Obama.
And I'm not even talking about the lies.
I'm just talking about he was not even fluent.
He was staccatoed, he was choppy, he was searching constantly for a thought.
It was not, he was working.
I mean, the guy was grinding.
We athletes, we have a term for the grinding.
That's when you're really having to work for it.
It's not coming naturally.
When you're out playing golf and you just you don't have it, you're grinding, trying to get it back.
That's what he was doing, Leb.
Poor old guy was grinding.
Folks, that these people, they saw what they wanted to see.
Well, let's keep going here.
Because Wolf Blitzer.
They had a poll, flash poll after the debate.
Here are the results.
Forty-six percent say uh President Obama won the debate.
39 percent say Governor Romney won the debate.
This poll shows it was basically a draw as far as those who actually watched the debate were concerned.
Well, what about those who weren't, Wolf?
What's the point?
It was a draw as far as those who actually watched the debate.
What do you have a poll of people who didn't watch the debate and who they think won?
No, I'm not nitpicking.
Why make why Specify that.
So 4639, that's a seven-point separation is a tie, because they're putting the margin of error in there.
Now a little bit later on CNN, Wolf came back with the details, and it ain't good for the BAMster.
When we dig deeper into the numbers, we're seeing Romney did score points with viewers tonight.
Look at this.
58%.
58% of debate watchers say Romney would better handle the economy.
40% say President Obama would.
That's issue number one.
Forty-nine percent say Romney would better handle health care compared to 46% for President Obama.
We also asked who would better handle the issue of taxes.
51% say Romney, 44% say President Obama.
59% say uh Romney would do a better job on the deficit, 36% say President Obama would do a better job on the deficit.
That doesn't even sound close, does it?
I mean, that's that's pretty devastating.
So my question is how do you get in the overall poll, 46 say Obama won the debate, 39 say Romney, and then you get those numbers.
Well, it's not even close.
It's 5840 on the economy.
It is 4946 on health care, it's 5144 taxes, and 5936 on the deficit.
All in favor of Romney in a CNN poll.
Wolf depressed.
Then they bring in John King, who used to have his own show at CNN.
Who did he get?
Did they did they get rid of John King for client number nine?
Was John King moved out for Elliott Spitzer or did Spitzer get moved out and King put in there?
If King is back to reporting on it, and he he says that if the numbers that Wolf just recited are true, then it's over.
If American voters out there, not just people who watch the debate who participated in our poll.
If other Americans think that Governor Romney won on the question of who would best handle the economy, who would best handle health care, and who would best handle taxes if they don't change their mind between now and election day, Governor Romney will win the election.
Yeah, if they don't change their mind.
Yeah, that would be true.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
That's right.
They don't change their mind.
So we at CNN have our work cut out for us to make sure that they change their mind.
So they're all excited.
See what we did here, they're all excited.
Obama wins.
Barack is back.
Headline says it all.
I'm elated.
Then the polling data, flash polling after comes in, not even close.
Here's Anthony Mason.
Last night's CBS special coverage of the presidential debate.
We asked those 500 uncommitted voters immediately after the debate.
Who do they think won?
37% said President Obama.
30% said Governor Romney.
About a third called the debate a tie in their eyes.
Here's where it gets interesting, though, is on the issue of the economy.
Who won the economy tonight?
Well, first of all, we asked which candidate would do a better job of handling the economy.
After the debate, 65% said Governor Romney, 34% said President Obama.
That's devastating.
CBS has their work cut out for them.
No, I do wonder.
I mean, I th they their poll was 3730, with 33 saying it's a tie.
CNN's was 4639, but then you get into the internals, it's not even close.
So I guess when you say who won the debate, these people are simply they're judging it in its own separate universe.
But then you get to the specifics of who's the better guy to deal with problems we got, it's Romney.
So that's that brief timeout.
Your telephone calls coming back here on the EIB network.
Don't go away, folks.
First question of the night, the debate last night was a guy, a college student.
Two years in, graduating in two years, uh, wanted to know about jobs.
What's happening with jobs?
He didn't get his question answered, but but Obama started off by saying he wants to bring back manufacturing jobs.
As a college student, he's not he's not in college to work in a factory.
Here is Crystal, Space Coast, Florida.
It's uh great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Great to speak with you, Ash.
Oh my goodness, I'm glad I waited.
Um I just wanted to know I remember in February 2009 there was an interview that Obama was involved with and he said, and I don't remember the exact quote, but I remember these words if I don't have this done in three years, then this is going to be a one term proposition.
That's right.
He did he did say that.
So why in the world is this not a bigger you know quote going around maybe Romney and Ryan can talk on this and elaborate a little more and how well because nobody believed that he meant he was going to quit and and and nobody even what he really meant was it'd be a one term present means he'll probably get defeated but nobody expects to just roll over and die.
That's that's not a statement that you really um I think you try to stick to somebody.
I I understand why you think it might be effective in an adjust have Obama saying that he even admitted if he didn't get it turned around he doesn't deserve a second and they could rephrase it that way.
But but believe me he wants to win his second term well who wouldn't want to keep that house no the ha and the airplane don't get the airplane and don't forget the parties.
Oh absolutely these people the Obamas are spending more money than than than they are budgeted for entertainment, travel, all that uh that kind of stuff.
They dig it.
Well he did come here um to speak to us the those of us who worked for the State Center and uh I remember his words then too we will save jobs and here we are you know laid off and uh yeah right why what do you how is he going to save jobs at NASA?
Exactly.
Exactly when he turns it over to Muslim outreach.
And by the way, how's that working out for him?
I appreciate the call Crystal thanks much who's next give me a green line with somebody Niles in Pineville, North Carolina.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey Russ, thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey listen I think what transpired last night regarding Benghazi's uh question is actually a huge silver platter campaign gift for Romney.
Last night the dreams of the Obama White House to bury the Benghazi story became their worst nightmare.
Benghazi's gonna be the lead story for the rest of the week it's gonna be the lead story on every Sunday morning show and during Monday night's foreign policy debate Mitt Romney's gonna unwrap that gift and he's gonna use the Benghazi's tragic failure and cover up to sum up Obama's entire foreign policy.
It is an excellent point.
I asked earlier because all the media and everybody and and even even people on our side folks that montage that I played you mere moments ago there are a lot of Fox people on that thing.
And oh yeah Romney wanted well a lot of conservative commentary Obama won it.
Yeah Obama went yeah Barack is back and so forth and I I don't understand this.
If if Romney lost and Obama won this then why all the talk today about Libya and how Obama gave a false answer on it and how Crowley made a fool of herself and how she had to walk it back.
She's saying Romney was right in the main he just used the wrong word whatever it is.
See this is another thing I don't understand liberal speak or or inside the beltway speak.
Everybody says Obama won and then all anybody's talking about today is this goof and his lie on Benghazi and they you're right they have tried to cover this up it's all been a cover they can't they didn't want to use the word by the way terrorism.
Do you recall not long after Obama was immaculated, the official word came down and it might have been from the State Department that terrorism would no longer be permitted in the official government lexicon Or terrorist would not be.
They had some other name that they were going to use, but terrorism was not permitted in official government lexicon.
And in this case, it wasn't allowed to be a terror attack because Obama was running around claiming he just took out Al Qaeda.
So you're right, it is.
It's a gift on a silver platter.
It's uh I I guess it's our version of the 47% comment.
Isaac, Cincinnati, great to have you, sir.
You're next on the program.
Hi.
Hi hi, Rosh.
Thank you so much.
Uh I know you're running up against time break here.
I hope I have time.
I'll try to make it brief.
I have a very important intelligence question that I think you can adequately explain.
That's why I'm calling you to ask you.
May I first throw in a very quick sidebar about last night's debate.
Go right ahead.
Thank you.
All that I think last night's debate did the people in the media experts, they don't realize the obvious simple things that you and everyday Americans recognize that a picture is worth more than 10,000 words.
And Obama's a facial expressions, agitated, mean, nasty looking at times.
Um it showed undecided voters that he is virtually impossible to reason or do business with.
That's what it told me.
Well, did did he look arrogant to you?
Or full of himself, like he thinks he's God's gift.
Allah's gift.
I think agitated.
Um he never had anyone confront him.
I only went to Romney had his back.
Very true.
And Isaac, hang on.
We got a break here, but don't go away.
Don't hang up the phone.
Okay, Isaac, we're back with you in Cincinnati, and I appreciate your holding on through the break.
Well, thank you, Rush.
I appreciate it.
Do you still want me to ask you the uh question on intelligence?
Your call screener was uh he did mention to me during the break, Isaac, please get to the point.
Do you want me to ask you the question?
Okay.
Um, no, that's really not necessary.
Uh if you I mean if if if you want to lead to take a couple of breaths or something before you get to it.
It's important to lead into it.
Uh I'm going to give you the question.
One quick point.
Eisenhower warned this of us sixty years ago.
No, he said in his book, I read it.
He was a he'd he never told the American people because he thought it would sound too racist.
He said Americans falsely assume that people in other parts of the world think the same way as we do, and they don't.
Uh Ike was a five-star general, supreme allied commander, and he knew he knew what he was talking about.
In his eight years, not one service member in the world was killed, not one inch of territory was lost to the company.
You know why Eisenhower was a great president?
I'm sure you could tell me more.
I'll tell you exactly what he figured out he couldn't shoot Congress like he could the Germans, he just said to hell with it and went and played golf.
He joined Augusta National, played golf there, played golf out in Palm Springs, and let the country go.
And it was great.
It was cool.
And he had this he had this magnificent aura of leadership that inspired confidence just by his presence.
Exactly.
The question is this for you.
So what's the intel question?
Okay, this is it.
Now, the Obama administration administration, the president and the vice president have re repeatedly said Obama's uh excuse me, Biden said four times during debate.
It's not our fault.
We got faulty intelligence on uh Benghazi.
It's not all he said that I know Biden said that at least four times in the debate.
And um if if that's true, you know, hey, it was just false intelligence.
It's not our fault.
But uh thirty minutes later in the vice presidential debate, uh Vice President Joe Biden would swear on uh a stack of Bibles and his grandchildren that Iran doesn't have a nuclear delivery capability that at least five years long.
That's exactly right.
He said they don't have a missile.
They don't have a missile.
They're nowhere near being able to deliver a nuclear.
BB talked about it talking for an hour and a half.
It's a conference call.
I was on it, I heard it.
And And during that whole debate, everybody watching the debate, have you ever heard of a suitcase?
Mr. Vice President, have you ever heard of the underwear bomber in Times Square?
They don't need a missile.
But your point is, if the intel was bad and we didn't know about Enghazica and blame the Intel, then how come he trusts the Intel on Iran?
It's a good question.
And by the same token, remember after weapons of mass destruction.
Well, the reason that we all believed it, because the intelligence agency, CIA, MI5, every Intel agency that we are allied with around the world assured everybody that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
It wasn't just us.
It wasn't just our intel agencies, it was all over the world.
And of course, back then, Bush was an idiot.
And Cheney was an idiot for believing the Intel.
And back then, Bush and Cheney were probably telling the Intel people what to say.
Back then, Bush and Cheney, these evil guys, these warmers.
They were corrupting the Intel.
But now, of course, Barack and me, Barack and me, we have total, total confidence.
Faith, the intel agencies.
Now they didn't tell us about what's going on in Benghazi.
They got that wrong, but we love them.
We tell them we love them every day.
Well, I mean the best intel, but they just they they blew this, they blew this, and Ryan didn't know what he's talking about.
So it's a it's a it's a great question.
Selective application of whatever they need to make their case or to make their excuse.
they are permitted to make.
If they want to blame Intel, they get away with it, media lets them.
If Intel is right on the money about Iran, that's the story because they get to say whatever they want to say.
They get to lie, is the point.
But they don't get away with it in these debates.
They do not get away with it.
There's no cover.
And Candy Crowley tried, and it and it's come back to bite them.
And it's going to come back to bite them in the next debate.
No question about it.
Here's Tom in Harris, Missouri.
I'm glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Yeah, I've been listening to you since 1986.
And I'm going to make this short and sweet.
Last night, that lady asked a question about what Obama was going to do about AK-47s.
Yeah.
Obama answered the question, said he wants to reinstitute the assault gun ban and he went into the education.
Romney answered the question, and he mentioned Fast and Furious.
Now the thought trail on there is that the answer to that woman's question was that he's going to send 2500 plus guns to Mexico.
Yep.
That's how I interpreted that.
And that has not been discussed on the news, and I think it should, because Obama sat back there and I looked at him, and he knew he invoked executive privilege to cover up Eric Holder.
Which Romney mentioned.
Yes.
But you're you're making another point.
This is another era.
There were so many things that came up last night that Obama is vulnerable on.
It's not possible for Romney to connect on all of them.
And yet people want to sit here and get mad at Romney for letting this go or that go or Benghazi go.
It's not possible.
This is why I maintain that you can't score these things in a vacuum and simply say Obama succeeded because he got away with a lie.
Exactly.
An unrefuted lie to my mind is not a point in your favor.
A lie is a lie in a debate that's going to hurt you.
And you can't dump on Romney for not catching them all because all Obama his whole four years they're trying to cover everything that's happened up with a lie.
Fast and furious.
This, I think, was it the AK-47 question where Romney also dovetailed into the importance of families and values and trying to reduce the cycle and culture of violence.
Yes, he did.
Yeah.
I mean, I thought that was a very comprehensive answer that he gave.
Yes, but I hope that people just realize of how bad Fast and Furious is.
I don't know outside this audience uh and and some of the conservative blogs, I don't know because they have covered up mainstream media, as far as they're concerned, it never happened.
That's true.
It has never, it did not happen.
Other than Fox News, they have discussed it.
That's right.
And to the extent to the extent that it's been discussed, uh Obama has gotten away with so it wasn't used.
Uh that was started under the Bush administration.
And we saw parts of it that we liked and and we got rid of stuff that wasn't working.
And the media goes, way to cover for it.
Barack gets right.
That's that's what they say.
All of it lies.
All of it lies.
But but let me tell you who didn't buy the lies, and that's the Univision audience.
And nobody is talking about this save for me and a woman named Molly Ball who wrote about it in the Atlantic.
Obama did that one hour Univision appearance, and they raked him over the Coles, and that's a huge Hispanic audience.
And they raked him over the calls over his his empty promise on immigration reform.
He hasn't done anything.
And Romney was right about that.
Obama hadn't filed anything, not proposed anything, nothing.
Fast and Furious, he was hit on that, and on that Univision show, the host of that show asked Obama point blank, shouldn't Eric Holder be fired.
They hit Obama point blank and he lied and he told him it was a Bush administration program.
The Bush administration program is called wide receiver.
It tracked the weapons.
It was a failure of a program and they shut it down.
Two years before Obama took office.
The Obama regime liked the program because they wanted to use it to curtail the second amendment.
That's what Fast and Furious is was.
It was an effort to create mayhem with American guns so the media could report in outrage deaths committed with easily acquired AK-47s that easily ended up in the hands of Mexican drug lords.
And the reason they easily ended up in the hands of drug lords is because that was the Obama policy.
The uh not making this up, folks.
The the Obama policy was to allow the guns to be walked from gun shops in Phoenix and other places in Arizona across the border to Meiko into the hands of drug cartels.
Those weapons then would be used.
They were used.
Three hundred people at least dead.
An American agent is dead, border patrol, uh, and uh a bunch of Mexican citizens, and it was those lives lost that Obama was asked and grilled about on Univision.
Now our alert drive-bys may be ignoring it, but Univision didn't, and their audience knows all about it.
And don't think for a minute that it's not having impact on these polls and Obama's real, because it is, because that's just another group of people betrayed.
Another group of people lied to.
And we saw them in the Luntz focus group.
All these Obama voters in 2008 who are livid, they are angry, they bought it, they drank the Kool-Aid, they f they they they they thought he was the second coming, that he was an instant cure for all of our ills, and all that's happened is it's gotten worse.
Every promise a failed promise, nothing's happened, and that's an unreported story.
So fast and furious, it may not be reported upon by the U.S. media, but our large Hispanic population that watches Univision knows all about it.
One thing before we get back to our last call.
I don't think Romney blew anything on Benghazi last night.
I think he set Obama up.
We have a foreign policy debate Monday night.
And I th the previous caller on this thing exactly right.
Romney served himself up a soft pitch for the next debate.
He said it at the time.
I want to get the president on the record here, R. E. Libya.
I want to get him on the record about this.
So I don't think it was a missed opportunity.
I think it was a a lawyer trapping a witness.
And we'll see on Monday night.
Here's Ken Lancaster, Ohio.
Forty-five maybe seconds a minute, I wanted to get to you, though.
Hello.
Rush.
Yeah.
Honor and a privilege to be speaking to you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Hey, uh, I just wanted to point out uh I'm I'm kind of like you.
I feel like I missed or uh I missed a debate last night, or I was watching a different debate.
Yep.
Spe specifically uh was when uh everybody says uh Obama is basically got a zinger in on uh Mr. Romney uh regarding his uh retirement plan uh have having investments in China, and how his you know planned or his retirement was much larger than Obama, so he didn't have to read through as much.
And everybody thought that was a great big zinger.
I have a different take on that.
It seemed to me that uh Governor Romney was trying to explain to uh Mr. Obama how a retirement plan works, i.e., he was probably invested in some of the same companies.
Exactly.
Well, he know he did zing Obama.
Obama was trying to get Romney on investments, and Obama has the same ones, is Romney's point.
I gotta run.
I'm really up against it on time here.
Well, it is, it's the fastest three hours in media, and they're done, they're gone, but we're not finished because we're back in twenty-one hours, and work on tomorrow's program begins in thirty minutes.
We'll see you then, folks.
Well, in twenty-one hours, not thirty minutes.
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