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Oct. 18, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Just a little bit more on this binder stuff, and we're going to move on to Obama's lies, the White House lies about Benghazi.
You thought I'd forgotten about it, didn't you?
Well, not you, Snerdley.
talking to the audience.
You thought I'd forgotten it, but I just, you know, I wanted to talk about it when I care about it.
And when I'm interested in it, it's when I bring it up.
But I'm getting close now.
I just had other things out there.
Like this welfare numbers today, this still blows.
I could have done three hours on the importance of that.
A trillion dollars a year.
We spend enough on welfare every year to eliminate poverty.
And we haven't made a dent in it.
Anyway, been there, done that.
David Axelrod was on CNN, Piers Morgan tonight last night.
And Piers Morgan said, you know, there's very large wins there for Romney on every specific, this is the internals of the polls after the debate.
This is really curious.
Overall, people said, I think Obama won it by three or four points.
You go to the internals on issue after issue after issue.
Obama wasn't even close.
Romney skunked Obama on every issue, everything internal.
And that's what Piers Morgan is asking Axelrod about.
It doesn't really worry me, Piers, because I saw a whole bunch of data off of that debate, including other polls and focus groups and dial groups.
And most of those were of undecided voters, independent voters, people who are still making up their minds in this election.
When you take a large sample of voters that skew Republican, as your poll did, and many of whom have made up their minds already, you're going to get the kind of results you got.
So then Piers Morgan says, you know, binders for women.
I find it rather facile and silly, to be honest with you, Mr. Axelrod.
Here, here's the whole exchange.
Binders for women.
I find it rather facile and silly, to be honest with you, that the Democrats are trying to make fun of Mitt Romney for what seemed to me a perfectly reasonable thing to say.
In the same way the Big Bird thing looked a bit silly and facile.
Do you guys think that perhaps you should be focusing on more serious stuff than this?
The point the governor was making was that he couldn't find qualified women, and so he reached out.
It turns out that an organization gave him the particular binder with resumes of women.
But I'm not surprised that he needed the help because if you look at the business that he ran before he was governor, they had no women at a senior level.
They had no women partners.
Right.
And the women in your administration fly the coop.
Anyway, I got a fascinating little note here from my buddy Mark Levin.
Now, Levin, in addition to being an achieved, accomplished author, he was chief of staff to Ed Meese, who was attorney general for Ronaldus Magnus.
But I didn't know this.
He says, I was an associate director of presidential personnel for a little over a year in the Reagan administration.
And it says, we would gather resumes of individuals interested in non-career positions throughout the administration.
And we would computerize the information.
We would make the names available throughout the government.
We'd tell everybody throughout the government that we had people interested in work.
And we solicited resumes from prominent individuals who we wanted to recruit for positions in the administration, and we would process those as well.
Now, most often, when President Reagan wanted to fill a senior administration position, including cabinet and subcabinet positions or top agency posts, even judicial positions, we put together a binder filled with qualified candidates as well as recommendations from which the president would select a candidate.
So here's Levin who worked in the personnel office, associate director, Reagan administration.
And lo and behold, they put together binders of qualified people who either had applied or who they were making other agencies in the government aware that these people were qualified.
So his note to me says, I have a question.
How exactly did and does Obama decide who to appoint to over 3,000 non-career positions in his administration, including his senior positions?
How does his Office of Personnel recruit candidates?
How does his Office of Personnel process and collate resumes and present options to him for selecting candidates for top posts?
And if they don't use binders, qualified candidates, exactly how does Obama make his decisions?
Now, I think this is a fascinating question.
I hadn't thought of this.
But here's a guy who worked in the associate or in the presidential personnel office.
He was an associate director.
And they let Reagan know who was qualified.
And they let other departments of the government know because they put together binders of resumes.
And so it's a logical question.
Hey, Obama, how do you find out who to appoint?
How do your people tell you who's qualified?
Because there are 3,000 non-career, these are the political appointments in every administration.
How, for example, was Van Jones' name made available to Obama?
Well, maybe Obama knew Van Jones because they're fellow travelers.
But Obama doesn't know everybody intimately.
Take these ambassadors.
Now, ambassadors in some cases come from big donors, but not all.
So how is Obama informed that these people are qualified?
What method of media do they use to present?
Do they bring him an iPad, say, right, here you go, Mr. Brown, here on your iPad?
Here's a list of qualified candidates.
Or do they say, Mr. President, we're going to put it on your BlackBerry?
Or does somebody walk into the oval orifice with a binder?
What do you bet?
Obama's like everybody else and uses binders.
Now, when this comes out, and it will, when this question gets raised, what they'll do is they'll go back and focus on what Axelrod said, and that is, Romney didn't even know any.
That's what he told Piers Morgan, who was right.
He was right.
This is facile.
It's silly, to be honest.
Making fun of Romney for what seemed to be a perfectly reasonable thing to say and to do and a big bird thing too.
Well, actually, we have our focus groups and our call groups and our phone groups and our polls and everybody we talk to.
And what's interesting is that Romney didn't even know anybody.
He didn't even know anybody.
He needed help.
They're fine qualified women.
Right.
Okay, so Obama knows everybody.
Everybody in the binder, Obama, yes, he knows them personally.
Obama knows all.
He knows everybody.
It's a great point.
It's a great point.
Levin makes it because every one of these people, everybody uses binders or the digital equivalent.
Even if it is brought to him on an iPad, which I doubt, but you know that there's binders all over this regime and this administration.
So it's an excellent point.
But the bottom line is this remains a huge insult, I think, to the women of this country.
Huge insult.
I want to go back to something else, too.
We had the 18-year-old student from Gainesville, Florida, who wanted, she had observed that in the Frank Luntz focus group after the debate on Tuesday night, there was a woman who said that all the people in the Luntz group were undecided.
And for her, the decision was not vote or Romney.
That was the nature of her indecision.
And it kind of surprised me because I can't fathom people not voting, but I know there are people now that it's brought to my attention.
But a not vote, somebody sitting home and not voting, is essentially a vote for Obama.
And then I got a note, emailed somebody, said, You need to be surprised, Rush, at the number of people in this country who got suckered by Obama and they don't want to admit it to anybody.
They probably won't vote.
More people than you might believe.
I do not doubt one half of that.
I don't doubt, and Luntz Focus Group demoed it.
I don't doubt that there are millions of Americans who drank the Kool-Aid because their desire was so great that we end all of this bickering, end the war in Iraq, go back to everybody getting along and the rest of the world loving.
Buying into all that tripe, there no doubt were a lot of people who wanted all that to happen.
And they were bombarded with Obama being the guy, the Messiah.
Obama was presented as somebody as a blank canvas.
You could make him be whatever you wanted him to be.
He was a magical candidate in that regard.
Well, a lot of those people, the Luntz focus group proved it, they feel betrayed and they're mad.
This focus group that Luntz had there made up a lot of people who were angry and they're angry at Obama and they're angry at themselves for falling for it.
And some segment of that universe, it is theorized, just won't vote because they're so embarrassed, fed up, or what have you.
If any of you fit that description, I just want to caution you that not voting is the same as voting for Obama.
You're making the same mistake you made the first time.
And I don't want to call it a mistake.
I'm not trying to make you feel worse than you do.
But I'm just, if you don't vote, you're not accomplishing anything.
You're perpetuating status quo.
The reason is, if you look at what's happening, Obama is simply trying to shore up his base now.
This binder business and Big Bird, and the feistiness of the debate, and all this aggression from Biden and a certain degree, Obama.
This is all about remember the day after the Biden debate, I came in here and everybody was railing about how badly Biden had done and how offensive he was to people.
I said, he rallied dead base.
He rallied a depressed base.
And I have no doubt the Obama base is depressed.
Everything they believe in is bombed out.
And their guy has bombed out.
He isn't who they thought he was.
What they have now unifying them is their hatred of us.
That's all they've got.
They're not unified around Obama's greatness.
They're not unified around Obama doing magic anymore because that doesn't happen.
That doesn't exist.
It never was real.
The one thing that they've got that they can hold on to is their hatred for us.
And Biden gave them that.
And Obama gave them that.
That's all they've got now.
They're rallying that base.
And that's why the negative ads continue.
That's why all this other sort of behavior at the debates.
Meanwhile, what is Romney?
Romney is reaching out beyond his base now.
Romney's gaining in women, this dirty little secret.
All this is going on.
Romney's actually gaining in women nationally and in key battleground states.
Romney is now reaching out for that group of people who bought into the Obama myth, realize now that that's all it was.
Romney's making a B-line for them.
And his effort is to get them to vote as opposed to staying home.
Obama, the reach out's gone.
There's no hope.
Obama started writing off segments of the electorate last year.
White working class voters, the biggest one that he's written off.
But now, when you're in New Hampshire, in New Hampshire day after the debate, in Iowa and so forth, you're simply trying to secure your base.
You've got a whole different firewall now that you've erected.
Probably going to lose Virginia, Florida, North Carolina.
Those are huge.
In Florida, Palm Beach and Broward County, I gave you the numbers.
19 or 2008, Obama won over McCain 63-35 for the most part in both places.
Now he's only up four in both places and obviously trending in the wrong direction.
Now Colorado's in play.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
One point behind Wisconsin after, you know, Romney's picked up eight or nine points there.
Seven points up in the Daily Gallup tracking poll is Romney.
And what are they answering with?
Binders?
And Big Bird and trying to cover up the lies told about Benghazi and the death of the ambassador?
They're in a world of hurt right now.
And his binder business, that's another one that could blow up in their face because who doesn't use them throughout business, throughout academe, other administrations.
So what they're going to have to do.
Well, it's quite telling that Romney didn't even know any qualified women.
So you ladies, prepare yourselves because your intelligence is going to be perpetually insulted for the rest of the campaign.
All you want is an abortion after the birth control pills are denied you.
See, that's it.
The Republicans did not let you have birth control pills, and then you're going to get pregnant, and then they don't want you to have the abortion.
That's all you are to the Democrat Party.
You're just out there having sex like Minks, and you're having abortions like Minks, and that's what they want you to do, and the Republicans don't.
And so, if you want to keep having sex like Minks and having abortions like Minks, you've got to vote Obama.
And that's, they think, is a brilliant appeal to you.
And it is the height of an insult.
I'll be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Hi, are you?
Welcome back.
Joe Trippy, a Democrat consultant, is feeling better.
About 45 minutes ago, I told you he sent out a warning to the Democrats, very, very worried about the Gallup poll.
It shows Obama trailing Romney by seven points, 52-45.
But now Trippy has sent another note out, a tweet.
He's looked at the internals.
And he said, nothing to worry about because all of Romney's gains are in the South.
He's up 22 in the South.
He says that Romney could win Alabama 99 to 1, which means that's 100% irrelevant.
So in fact, all of Romney's gains are in the South, and it's irrelevant.
It doesn't matter.
Trippy is telling the Democrats they don't have to sweat this Gallup poll at all.
And that's right.
That's why Obama's going to Iowa and New Hampshire and all these battleground states because it's irrelevant.
Romney's leads are irrelevant.
It doesn't matter.
In fact, Mr. Trippy, why don't you just advise Obama, forget it all?
I mean, all of Romney's gains don't matter.
It's irrelevant.
The South, Alabama, 99 to 1, big whoop.
Who needs Alabama?
Not a bunch of hayseeds and Hicks there anyway, right?
Here's Bill Clinton.
This is Cuyahoga Community College this afternoon, Parma, Ohio.
I'm not sure, folks, what to make of this.
Some people think that this is Clinton sticking the knife in Obama.
By the way, speaking of that, Ed Klein, who wrote that book, amateur, amateur, says that the Clintons are not happy that Hillary has had to fall on the sword here.
I got to find this.
The Clintons are not happy planning something.
Keep that in mind as you hear this.
I'm not quite sure what to make of it myself because all I've done is read the transcript.
I've not heard this.
I'll be hearing it with you.
But the note accompanying it says Clinton sticks the knife in Obama.
You tell me after hearing this if that's what you think this is.
Governor Romney's argument is we're not fixed.
So fire him and put me in.
It is true, we're not fixed.
When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, I had so much hope four years ago, and I don't now, I thought he was going to cry because he knows that it's not fixed.
Okay, so Clinton, so Obama knows it isn't fixed, the economy.
And he was looking in that guy's eyes, that man's eyes at the debate, and he, Obama, Clinton thought Obama was going to cry.
Who knows he screwed up?
Oh, Obama knows he's screwed.
The economy or the answer in the debate.
I don't know what Clinton's doing here.
He knows it's not fixed.
He's got a lot of work to do.
He needs another four years to get this done.
He's very sensitive.
He's almost crying.
He's so desirous to everybody be doing well.
Is that what Clinton meant?
Or does Clinton mean this guy's so incompetent?
He knows it's not working.
He knows.
I'm going to stab him in the bill.
What is he saying here?
Snerdley, seriously, don't give me any jokes.
What do you think Clinton's doing here?
Is he undercutting Obama?
He's not.
My brother David says there's no way Clinton would undercut Obama after that convention speech.
He's not going to come out and contradict himself this much.
And I got somebody else.
Other people said he's really sticking it to Obama there.
He's really screwing Obama with this.
Well, let's listen to it again, shall we?
It's Bill Clinton.
He's at the Cuyahoga Community College in Parma, Ohio.
And he's talking about Obama and a question after debate earlier this week.
Governor Romney's argument is we're not fixed.
So fire him and put me in.
It is true, we're not fixed.
When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, I had so much hope four years ago, and I don't now, I thought he was going to cry because he knows that it's not fixed.
In the first place, Obama wasn't going to cry.
It didn't look like he was going to cry ever.
I've never seen Obama look like he cares enough about anything to cry, other than something that might be happening to him.
But I didn't see a guy on the verge of tears.
My guess is, wild guess is that Clinton is trying to tell everybody how much Obama cares.
And he's working hard on it.
Remember what Clinton said?
And nobody could have fixed this.
Not in four years.
I couldn't have.
Not one of my predecessors.
This problem was so much worse than anybody knew.
There's not a thing anybody could have done any better than Obama.
So I just think he's carrying on this whole meme here that Obama feels your pain.
He wants to cry with you.
And he wants to fix this.
So, folks, there's no fixing this with Obama.
There's none.
All we're going to get is cement poured on top of this.
We're in the grave.
We're in the grave.
Still alive in the grave.
And they haven't poured the dirt on, but that's what the second term is.
In fact, that might be a good graphic for the website.
Country in a casket.
We're still breathing.
They haven't put the dirt on us yet.
That's what the second term is.
Obama's second term, shovel, shovel-ready job, burying the American economy.
Yep, yep, there it is.
Michelle get to work on that for the website, Zeff.
That's a brilliant came up with that just now myself, right off the top of my fertile head.
I got a note from Zev Chaffetz, the author of a book on me, a biography, Army of One.
And he says in his note to me, he says, I just looked at the website of AKPAKPD.
That's the Chicago consulting firm David Axelrod founded, still listed on the site as the founder.
And there are three partners listed.
They're all men.
Axelrod's running.
Romney doesn't have any women in positions of power.
He never has had.
And Zev here found Axelrod's own company.
There are three partners listed, and they're all men.
These guys, you're not living here in a media monopoly any longer.
And here's Rachel, Kansas City, Missouri.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you?
I'm okay.
Good.
Thank you.
The comment or the post that was put on the Obiden O'Biden, Obama Biden's Twitter campaign site, this has been a few weeks ago, they put vote like your lady parts depend upon.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I remember that.
Made me so angry.
Well, you know what?
Can I just tell you something, Rachel?
Let me just tell you.
You know how they look at you?
You are a vagina.
A giant uterus.
You are a vagina and a uterus.
And as far as they're concerned, you use it every day.
And then the next day, you need to make sure you have an abortion if you don't have a birth control pill.
And the Republicans want to deny you both.
That's all you are today.
And don't vote your body parts.
Vote your vagina.
How can you not be insulted at that?
It's very insulting.
I plan on using my brain.
You don't see them running ads like that for men.
No, of course not.
Vote your body parts.
It was insulting.
And why the left doesn't see that is beyond me.
Totally beyond me.
Well, there's a number of explanations.
Number one, they are a condescending bunch.
They don't think very much of people in terms of intelligence.
They do have an arrogance and a condescension towards people, and they look, I think, at average people with contempt, actually.
Particularly average people that don't vote Democrat and don't need them.
But they don't have a lofty, high impression of you or people of you, people like you.
And they believe that you hate Republicans like they do, and that they're simply relating to you when they run ads like vote your body parts.
They really con themselves into believing that you think Republicans want you to live in the Stone Age, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
Yeah, that's not for me.
Well, it's the point is, it's not for you.
But why must women all behave the same way as far as these guys are concerned?
This is another reason that it's insulting.
It's not just insulting that they're ignoring your brain, as you say, but you're also, like every other woman, women in this country, monolithic.
You all think the same way.
And that way is exactly as they think.
You hate Republicans.
They hate Republicans.
You hate conservatives.
They hate conservatives.
It really is insulting on, I don't know how many levels, but the idea that you're all alike and that one appeal can reach all women.
I've always thought, I've always thought that the left's approach to women was insulting, including the soccer mom approach.
The soccer mom approach is insulting.
The soccer mom approach is, we know your husband is worthless.
We know your husband doesn't care about you.
We know your husband doesn't care about your kids.
We know your husband's making you do it all while he's out having fun.
Well, we do care about you and your kids.
Vote for us.
And the scary thing to me is the women to whom that does appeal.
And they have done a great job of victimizing a bunch of women or making a bunch of women think they're victims of predatory men and so forth, which is a good part of the movement of feminazis.
Well, that's not the way the feminazis don't have a lot of movement, except from behind.
Okay, I got to take a break.
All right, folks, I'm not going to have a chance to get to the Libya and Benghazi stuff, but all you need to know is Obama lied, and we've got audio of Jay Carney lying.
We've got the White House refusing to call it a terror attack two or three days afterwards in a gaggle.
I've just not got time to squeeze it in, but we all know Obama totally lied.
Candy Crowley was wrong.
He never called it a terror attack.
He blamed it on the video for two weeks, and everybody knows this.
And he lied through his teeth at that debate.
Candy Crowley helped him lie through his teeth.
And CNNs put an internal memo out to all their employees to congratulate Candy on a great job and to buck her up.
And I'm telling you, 25 years ago when I started, when the National Show started, in fact, when I started in this business in 1967, I'm just telling you, back then, she did what she pulled off in that debate and she's fired.
But the media now circles the wagons around all of its people since the new media has emerged.
And they'll protect, you know, Dan Rather.
Dan Rather goes out and totally makes up a story about Bush and the National Guard.
Totally fake documents.
And they gave him an awards dinner.
Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings arranged it.
So they circle the wagons now around their failures because they cannot allow the perception that they're dishonest or incompetent or that they have chosen sides.
But not that long ago, she's history because they cared about their reputations.
They don't care about that anymore.
They only care about beating us.
Okay, there's news here, real clear politics.
The poll of polls, it's called.
They take all the different polls and they average them and they come up with a single result.
Mitt Romney has now moved ahead for the first time of Obama in the Electoral College assignation 206 to 201.
Just yesterday and the day before, it was Obama at 201 and Romney at 191 or 195 or something.
I forget what it, but Romney is now up five in the electoral.
And guess what?
One of the changes that's taken place, New Jersey has been moved from likely Obama to leaning Obama.
New Jersey.
So it's very fluid.
There's some mittentum going on out there, momentum.
And it's not in Obama's direction.
And they all know it at the regime.
Dick Durbin, Daily Caller, has a story.
Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois, says that several areas of Obamacare could be improved.
Yeah, he acknowledged a bad result of the law is that companies are cutting workers' hours to avoid paying for their health insurance.
Yeah, Dick Durbin, after the fact, now admitting we've got a problem.
Darden Restaurants operates Olive Garden, Red Lobster, reportedly limiting employees' hours because of the healthcare law's regulations on business.
And Dick Durbin says, it's a bad result.
It's a bad result.
I've worked with them, Darden, on many issues.
I'd like to sit down with them and find out what it is.
So now he tells us.
Now he tells us.
Now they want to sit down and work with businesses.
After the fact, after they got their stupid bill, now they want to sit down and work with people and try to convince them to go ahead and hire full-timers anyway and pay the freight.
And in St. Louis, the gas can man, creation of a conservative lobbying group, Americans for Prosperity, is going to be at a service station on South Lindbergh Boulevard Friday, offering gasoline at $1.84 per gallon, 10-gallon limit, to the first 150 cars that arrive at 8 o'clock starting tomorrow morning.
A $1.84 is what it was when Obama took office.
This lobbying group is the Koch brothers.
The Koch brothers paying for $1.84 gallon gasoline in St. Louis, 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Hillary Clinton says that she can't stand whining by women who are unhappy with the work and family choices they've made in life and complain they have no options.
Hillary, in an interview, details tomorrow.
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